Titles starting with S from marilyn braiterman rare books

Paris: Floury. 1922. 4to. H Printed Wrappers... Fine.. Paris: Floury, 1922. 4to, original printed wrappers bound into later blue buckram with leather spine label; felt-lined slipcase. Nickel-sized spot at top of half-title else fine copy. Uncut and unopened; page sizes vary, as issued. One of 125 copies of the deluxe edition with an original etching by Redon. Frontispiece portrait of the artist; 179 pages. ... more information

Paris: Editions Rieder. 1929. 4to. H Board Portfolio. Near Fine.. Paris: Éditions Rieder, 1928. 4to, cloth and pink paper-covered board portfolio with paper cover label. Minor wear to portfolio, lacking lower ties. One of 469 copies on Lafuma (total edition of 500). With 72 full page plates, some in color, reproducing gouaches and sketches by José Clará of Duncan’s live performances, published a year after her death. Unconventional in art and in her private life, she was an iconic ... more information

On a sheet approximately 5 ½ inches by 6 inches is a hand colored tulip in fuchsia, orange, white and green with lettering on bottom and side edges. Possibly by Julius Zimpl. Sketches of clothes in pencil on verso. ... more information

Paris: René Kieffer. 8vo. S Paper Portfolio.. Fine.. Paris: René Kieffer (circa 1920). 8vo, paper wrap-around portfolio with vignette and title information. One of 100 copies with 26 exquisite plates in pochoir-color heightened with gilt, illustrating Baudelaire’s poem. A subtle, stylized interpretation showing the influence of Beardsley and Klimt. André Domin, along with Marcel Genevrière, founded the decorating house "Dominique". They exhibited at the 1925 Art De... more information

New York: Random House,. 1930. Folio. H Boards. Fine.. Fine. New York: Random House, 1930. Folio, cream boards lettered in purple and decorated in orange. Fine in slipcase, which is a little worn and soiled. First in the New Fine Book Series published by Random House. One of 390 copies signed by Vojtech Preissig, the illustrator, printed in his new type on Zanders handmade paper at the State Printing Office in Prague. Three original linoleum cuts in orange, purple and black with page decorations in orange. ... more information

Bielefeld & Leipzig: Velgagen & Klafing. 1897. Small 4to. H Cloth. Fine. Architecture & Landscape Design Bielefeld & Leipzig: Velhagen & Klafing, 1897. In series: Kunstlermonographien 28. Small 4to, white cloth with swirling gilt art nouveau decoration. Fine. Monograph wit h 127 photographs, drawings and plans on a major German architect and painter (1781-1841) who adapted classical forms in his structures. Hitchcock, Architecture 19th and 20th Centuries, deems Schinkel the only architec... more information

Berlin: Berthold,. 1924. 4to. H Cloth and Batik Boards. Fine. Fine. in Fine dj. Berlin: H. Berthold, 1924. 4to, cloth and batik paper- covered boards with large label in colors and gilt on both covers, spelling "Berthold" in German and Hebrew. Fine copy, rebacked in compatible clo th.The first catalogue of Hebrew and Jewish types, according to the Preface, containing also numerous specimens that might be used for books and fine printing. Tscherkassky was the own er of an eponymo us type foundry in... more information

Chicago: Bredemeier. Folio. H Linen... Fine.. (Chicago: E. W. Bredemeier & Co. Sample Books, circa 1955. Folio, tan and orange decorated and lettered linen. Fine copy of a scarce salesman's sample book for a line of wallpapers designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. With 26 wallpaper samples (four designs in six or seven colorways) and six pages of photographic plates. The wallpaper sold for $5.95 to $7.45 a roll, matched a line of fabric s also produced by Schumacher and coordinated with Wright's furni... more information

London: R. Ackermann .. 1816. 4to. H Full Morocco.. Fine.. 4to, later 19th century full scarlet morocco by Riviere; triple fillet panels, marbled endpapers with inner dentelles gilt, spine with raised bands and gilt-ornamented compartments, all edges gilt. Expert hinge repair with custom-dyed Japanese paper. Mild offsetting of plates onto text. Plates bright and clean. With 76 hand-colored aquatint plates including five folding panoramas. Abbey, Scenery 217 notes two issues: no priority but copies with Papw... more information

London: R. Ackermann. 1816. 4to. H Full Morocco. Fine. 4to, later 19th century full scarlet morocco by Rivière with triple gilt fillet panels, marbled endpapers with inner dentelles gilt, spine with raised bands and gilt-ornamented compartments, all edges gilt. Expert hinge repair with custom-dyed Japanese paper. Mild offsetting of plates onto text. Plates clean and bright. With 76 hand colored aquatint plates including five folding panoramas. Abbey, Scenery 217notes two issues; no priority but copie... more information

Square 8vo. S Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Publicity & Trade Catalogs 1901 Catalogue for Batchelder and Lincoln Company. Boston, Mass. Boots, Shoes. Square 8vo magenta wrappers with splendid front cover by Maxfield Parrish of a shoe salesman o ffering a pair of boots or rubbers, in black and gilt. Floral design on back cover. Fine. The design of the shoe salesman is probably not by Parrish but inspired by his title page for "Mother Goose in Prose". ... more information

Jerusalem. Judaica Jerusalem circa 1925. Complete set of ten postcards in original pictorial envelope. Israel Museum catalogue, Bezalel, #1409-1418. ... more information

London: (Frederic Warde) The Pleiad,. 1927. Thin Narrow 4to. H Cloth.. Fine.. Fine. Press Books and Fine Printing The Pleiad 1927. Thin narrow 4to, green cloth. Slight wear to spine tips; unopened. One of 550 numbered copies printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen at Haarlem for the Pleia d, Wardes own imprint, under h is typographic direction. The type used is described as probably the oldest type in the Collection Typographique; it is a fifteenth century roman letter of Peter Schoeff er (Gutenbergs son-i... more information

London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1923. Thick 4to. H Cloth.. Near Fine.. Thick 4to, blue cloth with gilt rules and device. Faded, else a fine, tight copy. Sixteen articles compiled by the Royal Institute of British Architects on the 200th anniversary of Wren's death. With 13 color plates and 91 illustrations in the text. ... more information

Petersburg and Berlin: Z.I. Grzhebina, 1922. 1922. 4to. H Color Pictorial Boards. Very Good. Very Good. Petersburg/Berlin: Z.I. Grzhebina, 1922. 4to, color pictorial boards; spine splitting. Sixteen pages with chromolithograph illustrations of the popular Pushkin tale by Konashevich, who illustrated children’s books as well as classical Russian and western European authors. Cotsen 21092; Cotsen Catalogue II: 9048. Illustrated by Vladimir Konashevich. ... more information

Petersburg. 1913. 4to. H Printed Wrappers... Fine.. Petersburg 1913. 4to, printed blue wrappers. Some spine wear else fine. Dedicated to the heros of the 1812-1814 war with Napoleon. Animal fables with full page and large vignette illustrations interpreting Russia's victory. Similar to the Narbut/ Krylov (Year 1812 in the Poems of Krylov), which is advertised on the last page. ... more information

Petersburg. 1913. Folio. Printed Wrappers.. Near Fine.. Petersburg 1913. 4to, printed blue wrappers. Some spine wear else fine. Dedicated to the heros of the 1812-1814 war with Napoleon. Animal fables with full pa ge and large vignette illustrations interpr eting Russia's victory over Napoleon. Similar to the Narbut/Krylov (Year 1812 in the Poems of Krylov), which is advertised on the last page. Illustrated by Narbut. ... more information

Darmstadt: ALEXANDER KOCH. 1928. 4to. H Pictorial Cloth.. Very Good.. Decorative & Applied Arts & Design Darmstadt: Alexander Koch, (1928). 4to, pictorial white cloth; somewhat age-darkened else an excellent copy. Attractive and sophisticated designs in Art Deco taste b y German and Austrian craftswomen f or many types of needlework: embroidered childrens and womens clothing, lace, and decorations for the home. Profusely illustrated, including color plates and two la rge, folding tissue patterns. Ko... more information

Chicago: STONE. 12mo. H Decorated Cloth. Fine. Literature Chicago: Stone, 1896. New Stories from the Chap-Book. Chicago: Stone, 1898. Two Two volumes. Fine. 12mo, pictorial cloth. Both with poster- like binding designs illustrated by lithography, unusu al at this period: the first with design on both covers by E.A. Borie of a woman reading while she walks down the street; the second volume reproduces on both covers Claude Bragdon's Chap-Book poster of The Sand wich Man. Kramer 120 and 168. ... more information

London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin,. 1878. Folio. H Decorated Boards.. Very Good. Very Good. folio, original publisher's binding of taupe boards, the front cover decorated in black and gilt, the motif repeated in blind on the back cover; gilt-lettered spine and cover. Spine neatly repaired, preserving the original spine and replacing a few missing elements with appropriate matching cloth. Plate margins lightly toned; images bright. A handsome book with 52 plates of ornaments and designs based on natur... more information