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

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: 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

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

Paris: Librarie Rouam,. 1899. Oblong Folio. 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 exter... 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

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

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

Paris: Berger-Levrault,. 1915. Small 4to. S Wrappers... Fine.. Fine. Illustrated books & children's books Paris-Nancy: Berger-Levrault (1915). Small 4to, white wrappers with circular cover portraits in pochoir color of the boy and girl of the story; over this is a wrapper with title and cut-outs through w hich the children are seen. The name of the artist/author is not given, and I cannot decipher the monogram. Fine.An exquisite children's book with eight ful l page pochoir illustrations facing ... more information

Paris: Henri Jonquières et Cie.. 1926. 4to. H Morocco and Batik Boards. Fine. 4to, original color pictorial wrappers bound into lovely binding of orange morocco and batik-covered boards. Fine. One of 540 copies of a delightful collection of old chants and counting rhymes for children, collected and illustrated by the author and painter. With 45 hand-colored illustrations in pochoir for French, English and Spanish rhymes used by children in play to choose up teams or pick a leader or sometimes, more m... more information

New York: E. P. Dutton. 1939. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. H Cloth. Fine. 4to, blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine and cover with the WPA emblem in gilt. Text by Elizabeth McCausland. With 97 full page reproductions of Abbott's photo-essay on New York. Documentation of changes in the architecture and social nature of the city, its beauty and decay. A project of the Works Progress Administration and deposited in the Museum of the City of New York. ... more information

Paris: Au Menestrel Henri Heugel. 4to. H Morocco and Marbled Boards. Very Good. Circa 1890. 4to, contemporary brown morocco and marbled boards; gilt- lettered spine with gilt lyre ornaments. Bit rubbed but very nice. Original color wrappers bound in: a sexy half-nude woman smokes a pipe and plays the accordion while the black cat rushes by. Wrappers and illustrated printed title by Bac. Songs illustrated by H. Gerbault. Mac- Nab was a chansonnier in the macabre style popular at the Chat Noir cabaret. He die... more information