Georges Braque: His Graphic Work
by Braque, Georges
New York: Abrams, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated black cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper. Braque, Georges. Approx. 120 pages. 31 x 27 cm. Introduction by Werner Hofmann. 174 reproductions, including nine in full-color. Bibliography. List of Reproductions. Catalogue of Braque's Graphic Work. FREITAG 1037.
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Nouvelles Sculptures Et Plaques Gravees presentees par Christian Zervos
by Braque, Georges (Illustrator)
Paris: Albert Morance, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. loose as issued text laid-in brown cloth portfolio, front cover lettered in gilt. Near fine. Braque, Georges. Text pages unopened. 38.5 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 24 of 50 with a colored aquatint numbered and signed by Braque in pencil -- "Tete en profil et l'etoile" printed on Rives. VALLIER 152. Title page printed in red and black with additional 32 full page plates of which eight are in... Read More
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Brassai
by Brassai
Paris: Editions Neuf, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Orig.gilt lettered red cloth with mounted front cover photograph of Brassai. Near fine. Unpaginated. Approx. 72 pages. 27 1/2 x 21 1/2 cm. Illustrated with a host of reproductions of Brassai photographs -- including drawings and sculptures. French text: by Henry Miller and an autobiographical essay by Brassai on his early years. Rubbing to back cover at center fore-edge, otherwise, a bright and fresh copy.
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Cubism The Leonard A. Lauder Collection
by Braun, Emily & Rebecca Rabinow
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth backstrip lettered in black. Fine in fine dust wrapper in clear mylar protective cover. 381 pages. 31 x 26 cm. Eighty works featured herein. Provenance Index and Index. As new copy.
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L.V. Sheffel's Trompeter Von Sakkingen.; Launige Lesart von Max Braun Autograph Ausgabe
by Braun, Max
Newark: Np, 1891. Hardcover. Orig. brown pebble grained cloth, front cover lettered in gilt. All edges red. Fine. Braun, Max. 2 preliminary leaves, 110 pages illustrations (including music). 30.5 x 23 cm. Hand written text interspersed with drawings by Braun create a comic visual artifice. OCLC: 5109191. Interior contents very clean, fresh and bright. Text in German.
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The Three Penny Opera
by Brecht, Bertolt
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Hardcover. Orig. black linen cloth illustrated in gilt. Fine in fine matching black slipcase. Levine, Jack. 155 pages. 29 x 22 cm. Illustrations by Jack Levine with an original color lithograph by Levine. In the English Version by Desmond Fesey. With the English Lyrics and a new introduction by Eric Bentley. Limited edition, copy 203 of 2000. Signed by Levine and Bentley. NEWMAN & WICHE 529. Bright, very fresh copy.
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The Decisive Moment
by Bresson, Henri Cartier
New York: Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Editions Verve of Paris, 1952. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. pictorial boards. Very good. Unpaginated. Folio, 37 x 27.5. 126 full-page photographs with cover designed and executed by Henri Matisse. This the American edition from the French edition by Verve, "Images a La Sauvette." Engraving and printing by Draeger Freres, Paris. " The Decisive Moment" Captions laid-in. Considered the father of modern photojournalism, he used a 35 mm Leica camera,... Read More
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Souvenirs De La Basse Bretagne
by Paris. Souvenirs De La Basse Bretagne
Paris: Np, 1860. Hardcover. Red cloth portfolio lettered in gilt, backstrip renewed. Near fine in fine marbled slipcase. 14 x 10.5 cm. 25 hand-coiored lithographed plates in accordion (leperello) format. Plates bright and sharp.
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Architecture In A Crowded World Vision And Reality In Planning
by Brett, Lionel
New York: Schocken, 1971. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Near fine in near fine dust wrapper. 181 pages. Index. The author proposes that modern architecture has failed us; diagnoses the causes of the failure, and prescribes the cure.
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Gold: Legal Regulations For The Standard Of Gold & Silver Wares In Different Countries Of The World; Translated and Abridged From "Die Gesetzliche Regelung Des Fringehaltes Von Gold Und-Silber-Waaren Von Arthur Von Studnitz
by Mrs. Brewer [Emma Brewer]
London: Chapman & Hall, 1878. Seventh Edition, Revised and Enlarged. leather_bound. Contemporary full tree calf with matching endpapers and edges. Fine. 140 (18) pages. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. With Notes and Additions By Edwin W. Streeter, F.R.G.S. Illustrated with colored plates, map and tables. Map and plates are color lithographs. Appendix and extensive Index. Interior almost as new. Raised bands, spine panels decorated with gilt arabesques, black leather spine label. Slight nick to spine head.
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A Travers Nos Vignes by Heron De Villefosse
by Brianchon, Maurice (Illustrator)
Paris: Bernard Klein, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Contents loose as issued in wrappers with engraving on cover; publisher's board chemise (white spine lettered in gilt and brown boards) with matching brown slipcase. Fine. Brianchon, Maurice. 49 pages in text. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 31 from a total of 300, and one of only 30 copies on Japon with an additional etching of the cover and a suite on chine. The extra suite on chine:... Read More
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Peter Harrison First American Architect
by Bridenbaugh, Carl
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in slightly nicked dust wrapper. 195 pages. 23 1/2 x 16 cm. Forty-one black and white illustrations. Appendices. Index. Being a Loyalist, Harrison was neglected, his papers and drawings destroyed by a New Haven mob. His buildings happily, survived. FREITAG 4139. ROOS 4217.
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The Growth of Love
by Bridges, Robert
Oxford: Daniel Press, 1890. Second edition. Hardcover. Three quarter vellum, marbled boards and endpapers. Teg. Very good. 79 pages. 22 x 17.5 cm. Limited edition one of 100 copies, the first book of the Daniel Press to be printed in black letter in Dr. Fall's type. and the only second edition ever printed by the Press. By profession Bridges was a medical doctor. He befriended Richard Manly Hopkins and arranged Hopkins' posthumous publications. He was appointed Poet Laureate... Read More
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Puritan Architecture and its future
by Briggs, Martin S.
London: Lutterworth Press, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good. 91 pages. Small 8vo,twenty-two plates and twenty-one line drawings in the text. Index. A plea for the rebuilding of bombed Puritan churches.
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Bungalows And Country Residences; A Series of Designs and Examples of Recently Executed Works
by Briggs, R.A.
London: B.T. Batsford, 1897. Fourth edition with six additional plates. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth with beveled edges, front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Near fine. (xii) text. 28 x 22 cm. Total of XLV plates printed recto only. Latter very clean and bright. Owner inscription on half title. Each plate with plan to scale. The first edition published in 1891 had 29 plates with this copy containing 45 plates. Bump to lower corner front cover.
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Bibliography of American Editions of Robinson Crusoe to 1830
by Brigham, Clarence S.
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1935. Reprint. Paperback. Orig. blue/gray printed wrappers. Fine. 47 pages. American Antiquarian Society. Proceedings. October, 1957.
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Drawings and Digressions [LARRY RIVERS]
by Brightman, Larry & Carol Brightman
New York: Clarkson N.Potter, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. Rivers, Larry. 263 pages.Seventy color and 215 duotone illustrations. Edited by Carol Southern. Foreword by John Ashbury. A pictorial, autobiographical study of Larry Rivers with a notable prose foreword by poet Ashbury. Owner inscription. FREITAG 8238.
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MEMOIRS OF THE BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP MUSEUM OF POLYNESIAN ETHNOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY -- Hawaiian Feather Work & Ancient Hawaiian Stone Implements & Additional Notes on Hawaiian Feather Work & An Index to the Islands of the Pacific Ocean; Vol 1. Nos. 1-2, 4-5
by Brigham, William Tufts
Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Green buckram, red leather spine label printed in gilt. 4 Nos., bound in one. Very good. Respectively, as per above titles: 81 (2) pages, 17 pages, 100 pages, 170 pages. A plethora of black and white plates most with multiple images, illustrations in the text, maps and two color lithographs. With Index of Vol. I, 1899-1903 containing a List of Plates, Illustrations in the Text, and Alphabetical Index. Original wrappers bound-in.... Read More
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Charles Knight R.W.S., R.O.I.; with Preface by Sir William Russell Flint, R.A.
by Brockway, Michael
Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in nicked dust wrapper. Knight, Charles. 116 pages in text. 29 x 22 cm. Limited edition, copy 225 of 300. Four tipped-in color plates and 52 in black and white. List of Subscribers. English water color painter. Flint called him" a good and important influence," in carrying out a fine tradition and sense of style in his art. Bookplate.
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The Travels Of Bertrandon De La Brocquiere, Counsellor & First Esquire-Carver To Philippe Le Bon, Duke Of Burgundy, To Palestine, And His Return From Jerusalem Overland To France During The Years 1432 & 1433.; Extracted and put into modern French from a Manuscript in the National Library at Paris,...
by Brocquiere, Bertrandon De La
London: Hafod Press, 1807. First English language edition. leather_bound. Contemporary paneled calf, professionally rebacked, center panel decorations in gilt and dark brown. Very good.. 336 pages. 24 x 15 cm. Folding map of Tartar. Translated by Thomas Johns, proprietor of the Hafted Press, James Henderson, printer. La Brocquiere offers considerable encouragement in support of a campaign against the Turks, and concludes a force composed of French, English and Germans if in sufficient numbers could liberate Europe from the... Read More
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Checklist Stone House Press Books & Ephemera 1978-1988
by Brody, Catherine Tyler (Compiler)
New York: New York Public Library, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. patterned boards and maroon cloth spine. Fine in fine glassine protective overwrapper. 113 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Illustrated in color and black and white. Introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle. Limited edition, copy 57 of 200 signed by Morris Gelfand (printer) and Catherine Tyler Brody. Laid-in the pre-publication announcement printed in red and black.
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The Professor, A Tale
by [Bronte, Charlotte] Bell, Currier
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown publisher cloth decorated in blind, nicked at backstrip foot. Very good. 330 pages. 19 x 14 cm. Bronte's first novel, an intensely autobiographical story, and ironically published after her death. It was initially rejected by several publishers. Charlotte Bronte reworked this novel into a similar tale entitled, "Villette," published 1853. PARRISH p.96. SADLIER 347. Front and back endpapers excised. Intermittent scattering foxing throughout, heaviest from few... Read More
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There's Pippins and Cheese To Come
by Brooks, Charles S.
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1918. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. boards and cloth chipped at backstrip head. Very good. 139 pages. Illustrated by Theodore Diedricksen, Jr. Illustrated. A few leaves at end dampstained at lower margin not affecting text.
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Eudora Welty: A Tribute 13 April 1984
by Brooks, Cleanth et al.
[Winston-Salem, N.C.]: Printed for Stuart Wright, 1984. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Plain gray boards in marbled dust wrapper, front cover paper label printed in black. Fine. 37 unnumbered pages. 24 x 15.2 cm. Limited edition, copy 3 of 75 signed at the foot of each entry by all the contributors: Cleanth Booth, Bernard Malamud, William Maxwell, Reynolds Price, William jay Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, Peter Taylor, Anne Tyler, Robert Penn Warren and Richard Wilbur. Text printed in red and... Read More
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Writings on Wright Selected Comment on Frank Lloyd Wright
by Brooks, H. Allen (Editor)
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper. Wright, Frank Lloyd. 229 pages. Thirty text illustrations. Bibliographic Note. Index. An anthology of Wrightiana, and a valuable addition to source material for studies on Frank Lloyd Wright.
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