Titles starting with W from marilyn braiterman rare books

Paris: G. Cres,. 1931. 12mo. S Stiff Wrappers. Fine. Fine. In series "Collection Les Artistes Nouveaux". Good early study with 16 pages and 32 heliogravure plates. 12mo, stiff photographic wrappers. ... more information

Square 4to. S Pictorial Boards.. Fine.. Architecture & Landscape Design December 1920. Number devoted to H.P. Berlage, the Dutch Expressionist architect. Square 4to, striking pictorial boards. Text loose as issued on 26 double-fold pages. T ypography by Wijdeveld. Illustra ted. Pevsner calls Berlage the Dutch counterpart of Voysey, inspired by the Middle Ages and a faith in craftsmanship. ... more information

London & Chicago: Jon Lane/The Bodley Head and Way & Williams. 1896. 8vo. F 1st Edition.. H Cloth. Near Fine. Fine. London & Chicago: John Lane/The Bodley Head and Way & Williams, 1896. 8vo, patterned brown muslin cloth, gilt-lettered. Slightly faded, else fine. First edition of the author's first book. The tale of supernatural terror is illustrated by her brother with six tissue-guarded plates. Double opening frontispiece with title page lettering and design in yellow-ochre. ... more information

New Haven: S. Babcock. 1840. 32mo. S Illustrated Wrappers. Very Good.. New Haven: Printed and Published by S. Babcock, 1840. 32mo, printed and illustrated blue wrappers. Very good. Sixteen pages of text with six full page woodcuts plus two on the inside covers, borders of typographic ornaments. Front cover vignette repeated on title page; two text vignettes of harpoons. Rear cover advertisement for Babcock’s Toy Books. ... more information

New York. 1959. Folio. H Raspberry-colored Boards. Near Fine. Folio, original raspberry boards, rather pleasantly faded to ombré pinks. Spine replaced with pink linen and edges consolidated with dyed Japanese tissue. A spoof on elaborate French cuisine and a take off on Ingmar Bergman's film, Wild Strawberries. The cooking terms are antiquated and the recipes are parodies of classical French cuisine. They are written in Andy's mother's handwriting. Three of the five illustrations are colo... more information

Offenbach. 1925. 4to. H Printed Wrappers... Near Fine. Offenbach 1925. 4to, printed wrappers. Some wear to spine and edges. Number 205 of unspecified limitation. Bibliography of the Rudolfinischen Press of Gerstung and Rudolf Koch as well as bibliographies of other presses with which Gerstung was associated. The text is adapted from Rodenberg’s Deutschen Pressen. Tipped-in specimen pages, some in color, and other black and white full page illustrations: thirteen in all. ... more information

12mo. S Wrappers. Fine. Press Books and Fine Printing Ditchling (1918) Wood engraving, The Judgement, by Eric Gill. Gill 371. ... more information

Dusseldorf & New York: Kaldewey Press. 1982. Oblong Folio. H Aluminum. Fine. Oblong folio, aluminum binding with steel hinges , contained in a gray silk folding box. Fine. One of 30 copies in German of an edition of 60. Laid in is a folding sheet of clear parchment titled "The Cloud Performance" published in New York in 1987 which gives an English translation of the work and is signed by Kaldewey and the composer bun- Ching Lam. Fourteen leaves printed on aluminum with variously colored paint... more information

Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press. 1928. 4to. H Linen And Boards.. Fine.. Fine. Stratford-upon-Avon: Basil Blackwell Oxford for the Press, 1928- 1929. Edited by A.W. Pollard and others. Eight volumes. 4to, tan linen spines and blue paper-covered boards, printed paper spine labels. Spine labels very slightly age-darkened; a fine set with a bit of wear to a few corners. One of 375 sets with text printed in red and black on untrimmed hand made Batchelor paper. Delightful hand colored woodcut vignette... more information

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art,. 1966. 4to. H Cloth... Fine.. Fine. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966-1973. Complete set in five volumes. 4to, red cloth. Fine in dust jackets with minor wear (small split at spine of one jacket) and very good, intact boxes. Vo lume I: Furniture. Volume II: Furniture, Gilt Bronzes, Carpets. Volume III: Furniture, Snuff Boxes, Silver. Volume IV: Porcelain. Volume V: Pain tings, Drawings, Sculpture.Catalogue raisonée of a spect acular collection of 18th ce... more information