Modern Book-Illustration in Great Britain & America
by Darton, F. J. Harvey
New York: The Studio 1931. Wrappers, lightly worn otherwise a fine copy. First edition.
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French Provincial Cooking. Illustrated by Juliet Renny
by David, Elizabeth
London: Michael Joseph, 1960. First edition. Original green cloth, a fine copy, price-clipped dust jacket with a few edge nicks.
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Godfrida. A play in four acts
by Davidson, John
London: John Lane, 1898. First edition. Inscribed by Davidson to the editor H.W. Massingham. Original dark green cloth, gilt, a good copy, slight wear, backstrip joint splitting.
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Carthage and Her Remains: Being an account of the excavations and researches on the site of the Phoenician metropolis in Africa...
by Davis, N.
New York: Harper, 1861. First American edition. Early half brown leather, extremities rubbed; ink spots on fore edge, one map with repaired tears.
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Tres Dibujos, el Superviviente de Navarin, el Hijo del Ingeniero y Épodo.; Traduccion de Amparo Albajar
by De Chirico, Giorgio
Buenos Aires: Botella al Mar, 1947. First Argentine edition. Printed wrappers, 32 pp, three drawings by de Chirico. This is an h.c. copy (ejemplar fuera de comercio); the edition contained also 100 numbered copies. Wrappers, a bit darkened, contents fine; ownership stamp.
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders. Illustrated by Reginald Marsh
by Defoe, Daniel. ; Reginald Marsh
London: The Limited Editions Club. Marsh, Reginald. Fine, boxed. One of 1500 numbered copies, printed by Peter Beilenson, signed by the artist. Illustrations hand colored (pochoir) in the studio of Martha Berrian.
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Father of Radio. The autobiography of Lee de Forest
by de Forest, Lee
Chicago: Wilcox and Follett, 1950. First edition. Blue cloth, fine in dust jacket. Signed by the author, inventor of the first triode vacuum tube, the Audion tube, in 1906. "As both of these modern wonders [radio and television] were made possible by the thermionic tube it is perhaps fitting that I have been called 'Grandfather of Television'!
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Laissez-moi tranquille
by Deharme,Lise
Paris: Julliard, 1959. First edition, s.p. copy. 218 pp; 19 x12 cm; Wrappers, spine worn, rear wrapper detached. Inscribed by author to Raymond Queneau.
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Oh! Violette ou La Politesse des Végétaux. Illustrations de Léonor Fini
by Deharme,Lise ; Fini, Léonore
Paris: E. Losfeld, 1969. First edition. Fini, Léonor. 247 p. Plain grey cloth, pink dust jacket., very slightly rubbed. 8 illustrations printed on pink paper. Inscribed and signed by the author.
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Le téléphone est mort
by Deharme, Lise
[Paris]: Eric Losfeld, 1973. First edition. 191 p. 21 cm. Wrappers. One of 50 copies printed on ingres MBM rose. This is copy number 33. Very fine.
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La Femme, Le Mari et L'Amant. Lithographies originales de Ferdinand Fargeot
by De Kock, Paul
Paris: L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza, 1929. Fargeot, Ferdinand. 4to, wrappers, 348, (4) pp. Spine very slightly browned but a near fine copy. Limited, numbered edition.
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Le coeur a gaz. Costumes de Sonia Delaunay
by (Delaunay, Sonia); Tzara,Tristan
Paris: Jacques Damase, 1977. First edition. Delaunay, Sonia. Original wrappers, 30 x 45 cm., usual slight tanning to wrapper, some offsetting from plates to the text pages, else nedar-fine. The book reproduces in 12 lithographs the models for theatre costumes created by Sonia Delaunay for Tzara's play in 1923. One of an edition of 200, all on Arches paper and signed by the artist.
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Sonia Delaunay : dessins noirs et blancs
by Delaunay, Sonia ;Germain Viatte
Paris: J. Damase, 1978. First edition. Printed boards, fine, not issued in dust jacket. 191 p. French; préf. de Germain Viatte. chiefly ill. ; 29 cm. On cover and spine : Noirs et blancs. Includes bibliographical references.
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Lettres à Emile sur la mythologie.; Edition ornée de soixante-deux gravures en taille-douce
by Demoustier, C.A.
Paris: Nicolle, Dabot, Corbet, 1816. Six volumes in three. Contemporary speckled calt, gilt, gilt edges.Hinges cracked, and extremities worn, but internally a very good copy of this attractive edition, illustrated with 72 engravings.
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Making the Movies
by Dench, Ernest
New York: Macmillan, 1915. First edition. Cloth, very good. Advance review copy with perforated title page.
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13 Tattoos
by Dennerline, Thorsten
Bird Press, 2011. First edition. Dennerline, Thorsten. Block-printed wrappers, in chemise. 15 x 5 inches (90 x 130 mm.) Edition of 25 copies, woodblock prints and polymer letterpress details printed in black and red on Richard de Bas handmade paper by the artist. Artist Statement: Some time ago I suddenly got the urge to make a book about tattoos. I decided to think about tattoos not just as pictures or designs, but to consider them more broadly (scars,... Read More
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The Trudge of Insects. Text by Brendan Jones
by Dennerline, Thorsten; Jones, Brendan
The Bird Press, 2012. First edition. Dennerline, Thorsten. Edition of 15 copies with two artists’ proofs. The exquisite binding by Barry Spence cuts no corners, with details like two-color hand sewn end bands and hand worked wooden board covers of quarter sawn oak. The pages are sewn onto hemp cords two of which are inset into the text block to create an unexpected asymmetrical detail in the spine. The hemp cords are exposed on the covers to reveal the... Read More
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Intranquilo / On Edge. Translated by Jonathan Pitcher
by (Dennerline, Thorsten) Accame, Jorge
Bird Press, 2010. First edition. Dennerline, Thorsten. Small folio, 14-3/4 x 11 inches, publisher's cloth with a small inset illustration, in slipcase, blindstamped with the publisher's mark. 25 pp., Letterpress, and 11 mixed-media images by Thorsten Dennerline. One of forty copies, signed by the artist. The digital printing was by Derek Cracco at Ink to Paper in Birmingham, Alabama on Kitakata paper. The drawings were printed from lithographic stones at the Frans Masereel Center in Belgium (Thorsten Dennerline), at... Read More
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Teach Me Star, of Night! Laer Mig, Nattens Stjerne!; With eight etchings by Thorsten Dennerline. Translated by Susanne Jorn
by Dennerline, Thorsten ; Laugesen, Peter;
Hadley, Mass: Bird Press, 2000. First edition. Dennerline, Thorsten. One of 55 copies (including 15 special bindings or artist proofs). Cloth with vellum spine, the binding designed by Thorsten Dennerline, and executed by Peter Verheyen. Eight poems written by the Danish poet in 1999, typeset by Michael Bixler, letterpress printed by Daniel Keleher. The etchings were hand printed by Thorsten Dennerline.
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The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and other Essays
by DeQuincey, Thomas
London: Macmillan, 1924. Blue polished calf, gilt, by Riviere, spine faded, few scuffs; very good.
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Droit de regards
by Marie-Françoise Plissart; Benoît Peeters; Jacques Derrida
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1985. First edition. 99, xxxvi p. ; photographie, Marie-Françoise Plissart ; scénario et montage, Benoît Peeters [et] Marie-Françoise Plissart. Suivi d'une lecture de Jacques Derrida. chiefly ill. ; 31 cm. Illus. boards. Fine.
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Quatrains pour crier avec les hiboux
by Desnoues, Lucienne
Montigny-sur-Canne: Gérard Oberlé, 1984. First edition. Original wrappers, fine. One of 50 on Hollande (total edition of 250).
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Choix de poèmes
by Robert Desnos
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1946. 116 p. 19 cm. poetry. wrappers, fine/.
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Les écarts majeurs
by Detambel, Régine
Paris: Julliard, 1993. First edition. Wrappers, fine. Copy I of nine roman numeralled hors-commerce copies (one of 39 copies printed on Arjomari chiffon Rivoli paper, the tête de tirage). Cloth case.
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Le Jour
by Devers, Olivier (text); Guy, Claude (photographs)
Marseille: Du Rouleau Libre, 1997. First edition. Guy, Claude. Wrappers, sewn Japanese style, as new. One of 32 copies, signed by author and photographer. Illustrated with two original photographs, one a carbon print on Vinci paper, the other on baryté paper.
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