L'Art de la reliure
by BRUEL, André
Paris: Guilde des Artistes Angevins, 1924. First edition. A good copy of this fragile pamphlet, soft vertical fold crease, toning to the paper. 4to (18.2 x 14.2 cm). 25 pages. Two full-page illustrations. Original printed wrappers (chipped, partly split along spine). Includes two full-page black-and-white illustrations of bindings executed by Paul Géraldy and Marc Leclerc.
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Notes from Underground I.
by BRYAN, John (editor)
San Francisco, 1964. Some pale browning and light wear to front wrapper, but a generally clean copy. 4to. 73, [1] pages. Stapled as issued in stiff card wrappers, with black cloth spine cover. A who's who of underground writers: Contributions by Kirby Doyle, Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, John Rechy, Ron Boise, Alan Watts, Kenneth Patchen, Lenore Kandel, Charles Bukowski, David Meltzer, Bob Kaufman, Grover Lewis, and Anselm Hollo. John Bryan was the first to publish the poems of... Read More
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Earth Chant
by BRYANT, Linda
np, 1982. First edition. Pamphlet. 8vo. Mounted black-and-white illustrations. Wrappers. Inscribed by Bryant.
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Autograph letter signed ("W. C. Bryant") to Philip Snyder; New York, 8 August 1862
by BRYANT, William Cullen
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo. Regarding a proposed contribution on travel in Egypt for the 'Evening Post', of which Bryant was editor and part owner. (BA).
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World Glass Now '82
by BUECHNER, Thomas S; Helmut RICKE; Jorgen SCHAU-CHRISTENSEN; Paul J SMITH; Atsushi TAKEDA
Japan: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 1982. Softcover. Some light spotting to end leaves, light wear to wrappers, crease on spine. 9.5 x 8.25 inches. 274 pages. Wrappers. In Japanese and English. "140 glossy full-color plates depicting about 200 artworks.
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Hand-Bound Books. A Guide for Amateur Bookbinders
by BUFFUM, Clara
Providence, RI: The Author, 1935. First edition, number 307 of 500 copies signed by the author. Light wear and one small stain to the covers, but fine. 8vo (24 x 15.5 cm). 68, [4] pages. Original printed boards. Issue in boards, using the same paper as on the regular issue in wrappers (described on the "details of production" as "Edges uncut, covered with Bay Path Cover, brown ripple finish, overprinted with Garamont ornaments"). Buffum learned her craft from... Read More
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Hand-Bound Books. A Guide for Amateur Bookbinders
by BUFFUM, Clara
Providence, RI: The Author, 1935. First edition, number 84 of 500 copies signed by the author. Light wear to the overlapping wrappers, but fine. 8vo (24 x 15.5 cm). 68, [4] pages. Original printed wrappers. Buffum learned her craft from F. P. Hathaway, binder at the Boston Athenaeum and later at the John Carter Brown Library; and Charles McLeish of London, who one time worked for Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery.
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![Ikat, Batik, Plangi [3 volumes complete]. Reservemusterungen auf Garn und Stoff aus Vorderasien, Zentralasien, Südosteuropa und Nordafrika](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/063/712/1189712063.0.l.jpg)
Ikat, Batik, Plangi [3 volumes complete]. Reservemusterungen auf Garn und Stoff aus Vorderasien, Zentralasien, Südosteuropa und Nordafrika
by BÜHLER, Alfred
Basel: Pharos, 1972. Near-fine with slightest wear at extremities, slipcase with several split joints and some soiling. Text in German. Three volumes, 4to: 1) 347 pages with 59 line drawings in the text. 2) 88 pages with 21 tables and 4 foldout maps. 3) Approximately 450 unnumbered pages, with 24 color plates and 506 black-and-white illustrations. Batik covered cloth; slipcase. FIRST EDITION of this monumental study of patterns of yarn and dyed fabric from the Near East, Central... Read More
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Early Books and Manuscripts. Forty Years of Research
by BÜHLER, Curt F.
New York: The Grolier Club & The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973. A near-fine copy. 8vo (9 x 6 inches). 655 pages. Original blue cloth. First edition, one of 510 copies, inscribed by the author.
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All the Assholes in the World and Mine
by BUKOWSKI, Charles
Bensenville, IL: Open Skull Press, 1966. A near-fine copy with slightest pale toning along spine and top front wrapper, otherwise fresh, the spine unbroken and staples clean, the whole exhibiting negligible handling. A clean copy of a dirty book. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Mimeographed. [28] pages. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers reproducing a drawing by Bukowski, pale yellow plain endleaves. FIRST EDITION, one of "no more than 400 copies." One of Bukowski's earliest prose works. Krumhansl 23.... Read More
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Cold Dogs in the Courtyard
by BUKOWSKI, Charles
Chicago: The Literary Times and Cyfoeth Publications, 1965. A fine copy with nearly imperceptible toning along wrapper edges. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 23 pages, with an extra copy of the sheet containing pages 5/6 and 19/20 laid in. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers reproducing a sketch by Betsy Milam, photo portrait of Bukowski on rear wrapper. FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies of this early collection of Bukowski verse. Includes Buk's "foreward" and thirteen poems he felt... Read More
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Around the Sacred Sea: Mongolia and Lake Baikal on Horseback [Signed and inscribed]
by BULL, Bartle
Edinburgh: Canongate, 1999. First edition. A fine copy. 26 x 19 cm. 212 pages. Profusely illustrated with photographs by John Boit and Kerim Yalman. Grey cloth. In the pictorial dust jacket (rear flap clipped at foot). Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title: "April 20 '01 / For Chuck, With thanks for looking after my father. Bartle Bull." The book describes the author's journey made around Russia's Lake Baikal on horseback.
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The Show is Over
by BULL, Malcolm
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2013. First edition. A clean copy with no internal markings. 11.5 x 10 inches. 170 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original wrappers; pictorial dust jacket. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery in 2013.
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The Pilgrims of the Rhine
by [BULWER-LYTTON, Edward]
London: Saunders and Otley, 1834. Large-paper copy of the first edition. Tall 8vo (10 5/8 x 7 1/8 inches). 341 pp. 27 engraved plates. Contemporary red morocco, covers with quadruple-fillet gilt border surrounding a wide gilt-floral-tooled border, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in one, a richly gilt panel repeated in the remaining, board edges and turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt. Inner hinges cracked but binding tight, light wear at extremities and a few small stains,... Read More
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The Wind and the Rain
by BURKE, Thomas
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1924. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Some wear. 8vo. Original wrappers, with large typed note pasted to front cover. Advance proof copy of the first edition, "Corrected copy for Mr. Doran" (the American publisher) – corrections most likely in the hand of an editor at Butterworth. (BA).
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{Friend} {to Sea} and {Soil}
by BURKHART, Ryan
Orlando, Florida: H2O Graphics, 2004. A fine copy, well-preserved and without flaws. 23.5 x 18 cm. 21 leaves. Color archival inkjet prints made after original paintings, drawings and photographs from the artist's sketchbooks. Bound in grey linen, with a color print inset on front cover, by Larry Cooper of Gardyloo Handmade Books. Number 7 of 200 copies signed by the artist (there were also 2 artist's proofs, 2 exhibition copies, and one binder's proof). Laid-in is a small... Read More
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Michelangeli
by BURLI, Benedetto
Berna: Werner Muhlemann, 1983. A near-fine copy. 12 x 10 inches. 60 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original pictorial boards. First edition.
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Piccino
by BURNETT, Frances Hodgson
Haarlem: Erven Loosjes, 1895. A very good plus copy, light fraying at ends of spine, last leaf browned (from adjacent endpaper), intermittent pale spotting, one plate sprung. 8vo. [8], 180 pages. Frontispiece and four plates. Publisher's decorated cloth. Provenance: Gouda bookseller's ticket of J. de Ven on pastedown. A charming Dutch edition of four of Burnett's stories for children, in a very attractive decorated cloth binding.
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Tarzan the Invincible
by BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc, 1948. 1948 reprint. A few chips along top of jacket, rear panel lightly rubbed. 8vo. 318pp. Illustrations by Studley O. Burroughs. Original grey cloth, blue lettering; pictorial dust jacket.
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The Ticket that Exploded
by BURROUGHS, William S.
London: Calder and Boyars, 1968. A fine, well-preserved copy with some minor wear at the extremities and a few small soilmarks. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. First UK edition, simultaneous paperback issue, signed by Burroughs on the title-page. This was Burrough's fourth novel, and the last of the trilogy originally published by Olympia in Paris. The British edition, like Grove Press's 1967 US edition, was an extensively revised text.
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Naked Lunch [Chapter 2]. In: Chicago Review, Autumn 1958
by BURROUGHS, William S.; Irving ROSENTHAL (editor)
Chicago: Chicago Review, 1958. Some light wear and toning at extremities, a few spots on cover, but a very good copy. 8vo. 88 pages. Printed wrappers. Containing chapter two of 'Naked Lunch.' This was the second appearance of any section of the novel in print, following the Spring issue of the journal. For those keeping track, the headline above the text contains the misprint "William C. Burroughs." "The 1958 appearance of a Naked Lunch excerpt in... Read More
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Tom Burr: Moods
by BURR, Tom; Anke Kempkes (text by)
Koln: Walther Konig Verlag, 2008. A near-fine copy. 10 x 7.75 inches. 64 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. First edition. "This witty exhibition catalogue collects Burr's recent installation at the Vienna Secession. Sculptural and collaged works create an assemblage that oscillates between interior architectural elements, catwalk and abstract form. The titles of the works and the objects themselves refer to personalities like Jean Cocteau and Truman Capote" (the publisher).
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Salt Pans. Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India
by BURTYNSKY, Edward
Göttingen: Steidl, 2016. A fine copy. Oblong folio (36 x 29 cm) 31 color photographs. Cloth; slipcase. Additional photograph in cloth chemise. DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, number 25 of 50 copies signed by Burtynsky with an original photograph, from an edition of 150 (three sets of 50 copies, each with one of three images) plus 15 artists proofs. The additional image is that found of p. 4 of the book. "The images in this book are not... Read More
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Philobiblion. Excellent traité sur l'amour des livres
by BURY, Richard de; Hippolyte COCHERIS
Paris: A. Aubry, 1856. Fine. 8vo. xlvii, 287, [1] pages. Later cloth, original printed wrappers bound in. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, and the first edition to furnish adequate critical apparatus and explanatory notes. Limited to 500 copies.
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The Percy Anecdotes, Revised Edition. To Which is Added, a Valuable Collection of American Anecdotes. Original and Select
by [BYERLEY, Thomas and Joseph C. ROBERTSON]
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. Front joint broken but threads intact, spine label partly perished, some pale foxing. Two volumes in one, 8vo. Two engraved frontispieces and engraved titles. Contemporary calf.
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