Titles starting with C from marilyn braiterman rare books

Paris. 1909. S Color Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Paris 1909. Oblong 4to, pretty color pictorial wrappers with images of dancers surrounded by elaborate border incorporating masks of Comedy and Tragedy, insects and flowers. Fine. Publicity album for Les Grands Magasins de Pygmalion, a Paris department store, with offerings of silks and women’s clothing and accessories. Cover, color vignettes and black and white or tinted decorations by Louis Popineau. Each page with small photographic portrait of an actre... more information

Paris: Le Portique. 1930. 4to. H Printed Wrappers... Fine.. Paris: Le Portique (1930). 4to, printed wrappers. Few light spots else very nice. One of 344 numbered copies on vélin d’Arches (total of 375 copies). First and only edition, with text by Vollard of the bibliography of books published by the art dealer in Paris who presented the great artists of the first third of the 20th century and commissioned and published livres d’artiste by many of them: Bonnard, Denis, Rodin, Bernard, Cezann... more information

Ditchling: St. DOMINIC'S PRESS. 1926. H Linen And Boards.. Very Good.. Ditchling 1926. 12mo, linen spine and gray paper-covered boards (no lettering, as issued, a variant binding). Moderate soil to spine and boards; internally clean. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Collected, printed & published by me HDC Pepler". One of 225 copies printed on handmade paper. Small woodcut illustrations to 34 carols in Latin and a few in English with plainsong notation. Gill 391 and Sewell 72, each in di... more information

New York: VINCENT FITZ GERALD AND COMPANY. 1985. H Cloth.. Fine.. New York: Vincent Fitz Gerald and Company, 1985. 4to, yellow cloth with black lettering within red triangle on front cover. Fine in black cloth folding box. One of 119 copies signed by author and artist. Beard has crossed out the printed 125 on the colophon and pencilled in 119 , which was the number of copies actually printed before the breakdown of the printing plates. Letterpress printed at the Wild Carrot Press on RIVES BFK paper in Janso... more information

Boston: Laurens Maynard. 1897. 12mo. H Cloth. Very Good Plus. Literature Boston: Laurens Maynard, 1897. 12mo, green cloth. Very good copy of the first issue of the trade edition with spine imprint Maynard and title page Laurens Maynard (later Small, Maynard). Fr ontispiece portrait of the two men. BAL21446. ... more information

Paris: L'Art Nouveau. 1895. Very Narrow Folio. S Gilt-Decorated Wrappers. Fine. Very narrow folio. Original black wrapprs decorated in gilt. Conserved in a modern binding of transparent plexiglass panels with black leather spine titled in gilt. Slipcase. Published in an edition of 777 copies, mimicking the Christian calendar in charting the year of magic in 1896. The publisher, Siegfried Bing, was an art dealer and collector whose shop gave its name to the Art Nouveau movement. Printed in red and black ... more information

Paris: Officina Bodoni. 1926. Small 4to. H Quarter Vellum.. Fine.. Fine. Book Arts Paris: Privately printed for Frederic Warde, 1926. Small 4to, ¼ vellum with red paste-paper sides; spine a little age-darkened; very slight rubbing to boards. Near fine copy. One of 30 0 copies on hand made paper; the first of several facsimile editions of Renaissance writing books printed by the Officina Bodoni and one of only two books produced with Warde. Warde, an American typog rapher admired by Mardersteig, colla... more information

Byron Harmon, Copyright. Oblong 4to. S Stiff Wrappers. Fine.. Circa 1920s. Oblong 4to, stiff textured wrappers, string tie, photographic cover vignette. 24 handcolored photogravures. ... more information

Jerusalem: Song of Songs Publishing Co.. 1930. 4to. H Decorated Boards.. Fine.. Fine. Jerusalem: "Song of Songs" Publishing Co., 1930. Small folio, brown boards with silver and gilt doves and lettering within a rondel. Silver and blue pictorial endpapers. Fine in original decorated sli pcase (lacking bottom strip). Fine copy of a romantic and exotic version of the Song of Songs. With 26 tipped-in color plates with illustrated glassine guards. Text in English within de corative border s. Illustrate... more information

Prague. 1928. 12mo. S Printed Stiff Wrappers. Fine.. Fine. Illustrated books & children's books Prague: Kamilla Neumannová, 1928. 12mo, printed stiff wrappers; stitching starting to loosen else immaculate. One of 500 copies printed in red and black of a fairy tale by Pushkin with four full page pochoir illustrations.. ... more information

Paris: A l'Enseigne Du Pegase, 1927. 1927. Folio. H Wrappers Over Boards. Fine.. Very Nice. Book Arts Paris: A lEnseigne du Pégase, 1927. Folio, hand- painted paper wrappers over boards. An extremely nice copy of this very fragile book, unusual thus. One of 500 copies of an essay on calligrap hic typefa ces. ... more information

London: C. W. Beaumont. 1918. Small 4to. S Pictorial Stiff Wrappers. Very Good.. Small 4to, color pictorial stiff wrappers. Fine. In series "Impressions of the Russian Ballet". Decorated by A.P. Allinson , hand-colored in pochoir process, after designs for costume and scenery by Leon Bakst. An introduction to the ballet for children. ... more information

Paris: Librarie Rouam,. 1899. H Portfolio Box.. Fine.. Fine. Oblong folio, publisher's portfolio box with folding flaps and ties; cloth spine and decorated boards, cover with Art Nouveau architectural design in gilt. Portfolio a little rubbed; the most negligible foxing to contents of a book always found foxed. Color printed title page with lettering within decorative cartouche. 65 plates in black/white and color reproducing every detail of the house: plans, drawings and interior and exterior decoration... more information

Paris Le Portique .. 1930. 4to. S Wrappers. Very Nice. very nice. Book Arts Paris: Le Portique (1930). 4to, lettered wrappers; few light spots else very nice. One of 344 copies on vélin d'Arches (of a total edition of 375) of the first and only edition of the bibliiography of books published by Vollard, who set the standard for the modern livre d'artiste. Text by Vollard. Etched frontispiece portrait by Raoul Dufy and one plate after a Renoir lithogra ph. Limited. ... more information

Paris Lalique & Cie .. 1932. Oblong 4to. S Wrappers. Fine.. Oblong 4to, wrappers with tasselled tie at spine. Fine. 1980's exact facsimile of the 1932 edition . Fully illustrated catalogue of hundreds of Art Deco glass objects by Lalique. Excellent reference. Reprint edition. ... more information

New York.. Oblong 16mo. S Printed Wrappers. Fine. Fine. Horses .Oblong 16mo, printed wrappers. Circa 1890s. Eighty illustrations. ... more information

NEW YORK & LONDON: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1925. 4to. H Boards.. Near Fine.. 4to, black paper-covered spine with lettering in silver and blue paper- covered boards. Snag at upper rear board else fine. One of 400 copies, this is #262. The frontispiece is an original etching by Childe Hassam, "Cos Cob Harbor View", signed in pencil with his monogram. "Printed by Peter J. Platt, the best known and one of the last of the old copper plate printers." 283 works are catalogued; many are... more information

Antwerp: Studio Novio. 1928. 12mo. S Wrappers.. Fine.. Book Arts 12mo, black wrappers with pasted-down device in black and orange. Fine. Exhibition catalogue of a printing atelier in Antwerp, printed in French and Flemish. Belgian Art Deco printing; the d esigner an d printer of Studio Novio were Joseph Leonard and Willy Godenne. ... more information

1918. Thin Narrow 4to. S Decorated Wrappers. Fine.. Fine. Thin narrow 4to, gray wrappers with decorative border in blue, green and gilt; gilt lettering. A promotional piece for the Woolworth Building, NYC, the important Gothic skyscraper designed by Cass Gilbert and finished in 1913. Fine in original mailing envelope (torn at top corners). With 32 pages, many illustrations in color and black and white. Binding is Decorated Wrappers. ... more information

Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1961. 4to. H Cloth. Fine. Travel & Exploration Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961. 4to, black cloth. Fine. With 235 pages, including bibliography and index and 127 photographs and plans. Created in 1528 by Diego de Si loe, one of Spains gr eatest architects, it is the first attempt by a Spanish architect to build a Renaissance style cathedral. ... more information