Leonor Fini Signed Lithograph
Single sheet. Near Fine. A lovely signed, untitled lithograph by Leonor Fini (1907-1996), the great Argentine-Italian surrealist painter, designer and illustrator. The lithograph, which measures 28 3/4" wide x 20 3/4" tall, is bright, crisp and easily Near Fine, printed on a thick white card stock. With vivid purple, orange and green coming together in a delectable eroticism. #126 of 250 copies printed.
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American Prints in the Library of Congress: a Catalogue of the Collection
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Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1970 1st edition. Near Fine in a VG+ dustjacket with a bit of fading to the spine and minor offsetting along the creases of the front panel. Thick quarto, 568 pgs. A perfectly presentable copy.
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The Royal Shakespeare (complete in 3 Vols.)
London: Cassell and Co, Ltd, 1905. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Fine. A very handsome example of this 3 volume set, "the poet's works in chronological order". All volumes clean and bright and Near Fine in their original decorative cloth, with elaborate gilt-design and lettering to front panels and spines. Thick quartos, over 1,500 pgs all told. Elegant steel and wood illustrations thruout, tissue-guards. All edges gilt as well.
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Apple Pie Alphabet and Other Stories
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Chicago: W.B. Conkey. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. First Edition. A handsome copy of this children's alphabet book, c. 1880s. Beautiful chromolithographed frontispiece, all other illustrations line-drawn black and white. A clean, VG copy. Hinges lightly shaken but book is still relatively sturdy and tight. Octavo, unpaginated.
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Catalogue of American Car ID Numbers 1960-69
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Sidney, Ohio: Amos Press Inc, 1994. Original Wraps. Collectible; Fine. Compiled by Cars & Parts Magazine, this is the April 1994 revised edition. Bright and Near Fine in its original pictorial wrappers. Thick quarto, unpaginated. Internally immaculate, with no writing or markings of any kind.
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Sex, Performance, and the 80's: The Flue--Vol. 2, Number 3--special summer Issue
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New York: Franklin Furnace Archive, 1982. Original Wraps. Collectible; Fine. Uncommon double (or "flip") issue of The Flue, with "Sex, Performance, and the 80's"on one side and "L.A. London Catalogue" on the flip side. 1982 1st edition. Clean, bright and Near Fine in its original pictorial wraps. Quarto, 55 pgs.
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Mother Goose: A Comprehensive Collection of the Rhymes Made By Wiliam Rose Benet
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New York: The Heritage Press, 1943. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. 1943 1st thus. Clean and VG in a bright, price-clipped, VG dustjacket, with light chipping at the spine crown and light creasing and chipping to the front panel's top-edge. Quarto, 112 pgs., nicely illustrated by Roger Duvoisin.
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The Malthus Library Catalogue: The Personal Collection of Thomas Robert Malthus at Jesus College, Cambridge
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New York: Pergamon Press, 1983. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Fine. First Edition. 1983 catalogue of the Malthus holdings at Jesus College, Cambridge. Bright and Near Fine in its pictorial cloth. Octavo, 232 pgs.
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The Curtis Babcock Milk Test
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Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin: Cornish, Curtis & Greene Mfg. Co, 1894. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. Wonderful farm machinery catalogue, with engraved illustrations thruout. "For Determining the Butter Value of Milk. Hand, Belt and Steam Power Machines for the Farm, Creamery and Cheese Factory". 1894 1st edition. VG in its original decorative wrappers, with very light soiling along the front panel's spine fold. Octavo, 51 pgs. A nice piece of 19th century Americana.
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Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Philosophical Society of Texas-- Austin Decemeber 5th, 1941
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Dallas: The Philosophical Society of Texas, 1942. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. First Thus. The Philosophical Society of Texas Proceedings, December 5th, 1941. Clean and VG+ in its original green wrappers. Octavo, 67 pgs.
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Der Junge Goethe: Neu Bearbeitete Ausgabe in Funf Banden
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Berlin: Walter De Gruyter & Co, 1963. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. 1963 1st thus. Clean and VG+ in a bright, VG+ dustjacket. Thick octavo, 519 pgs.
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Plants: United States and Mexican Boundary
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Three-Quarter Leather. Collectible; Very Good. Beautiful collection of botanical engravings, circa 1880s. 47 detailed renderings of plant life at the US-Mexican border. Handsomely rebound in 3/4 leather over bevelled boards. 5 raised bands, gilt-bordered and gilt-decorated compartments along the spine. Quarto, lavish marbled endpapers, all edges bright gilt. 37 of the plates profile plant life of the "Cactacaea" genus and are magnificently illustrated by P. Roetter and W.H. Dougal. The other 10 comprise miscellaneous genera and illustrators. With... Read More
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Saw Mill River Kennel Club Catalogue for the 3rd Annual Dog Show
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White Plains, NY, 1942. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. First Edition. The catalogue of the 3rd Annual Saw Mill River Kennel Club Dog Show. Sunday March 22, 1942, at the County Center Building, White Plains, NY. Solid and VG in it light-blue wrappers, with very light foxing at the panels. Octavo, 112 pgs.
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The System Works!: The Etchings and Random Notes of Hank Virgona
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New York: Da Capo Press, 1977. Cloth. Collectible; Fine. INSCRIBED BY HANK VIRGONA in year-of-publication on the front free endpaper. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1977 1st edition. Solid and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket. Quarto, Introduction by Pete Hamill. Signed by Author.
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The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Biographical): Vol. IV
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New York: The American Historical Society, Inc, 1920. 1st. Three-Quarter Leather. Collectible; Very Good. The 1920 1st edition of the final volume --the "Biographical" volume-- in the "History of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations". Tight and VG+ in its 3/4 dark leather over black boards. Bright gilt-lettering along the spine and, other than very, very light scuffing at the front panel, clean as could be. Thick quarto, 475 pgs., gravure portraits thruout.
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Sepp Dietrich: Kommandeur Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler Und Seine Manner
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Rosenheim, Germany: Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1995. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A crsip, sharp copy of the 1995 1st edition. Solid and Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket, with very light creasing at the top-edge of the front panel. Tall quarto, 248 pgs. Text exclusively in German.
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A Little Prayer
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New York: Hastings House, 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A handsome copy of the 1967 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, price-clipped, Near Fine dustjacket. 64mo, beautifully ilustrated thruout by Caldecott-winner Barbara Cooney.
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Bradley Thompson: The Art of Graphic Design
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Yale University Press, 1988. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A crisp, very sharp copy of the 1988 1st edition. Fine in a bright, Fine dustjacket. Folio, 218 pgs., hundreds of color illustrations thruout.
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Edizioni Ampersand: Libri in Edizione Limitata
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Verona, Italy: Edizioni Ampersand, 1996. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A prsitine copy of the 1996 catalogue of Edizioni Ampersand's most recent publications up to date, the series "Le Carte Del Cielo, a collection of 20th century Italian authors. Tight and Fine in its original wrappers. And in a bright, Fine dustjacket. Octavo, text in Italian. Features write-ups and illustrations of the first 7 books in this wonderful series. Also includes a 1 pg. TLS from the publisher... Read More
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Anselm Kiefer: Biennale Sao Paulo
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XIX Bienal De Sao Paulo, 1987. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. A solid copy of the 1987 catalogue of the exhibition at the XIX Bienal de Sao Paulo. Tight and VG in its original dark-gray wrappers, with very light scuffing at the front panel. Text in both German and Portuguese.
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Posthumous Memoirs of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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Boston: Jos. M. Wade, 1896. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. The 1896 1st edition of this very uncommon, posthumously-published treatise by Madame Blavatsky on spirit-writing. "Dictated from the spirit world, upon the typewriter, independent of all human contact, under the supervision of G.W.N. Vost, to bring to light the things of truth, and affirm the continuity of life and the eternal activity of the soul immortal". And also on the title page: "Given to my Astral friend... Read More
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Soto
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Madrid: Theospacio, 1990. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Fine. The catalogue based on the March-May 1990 exhibition at Madrid's Theospacio. Solid and Near Fine in its pictorial wrappers.
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Beauty Which Inspires
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Boston: Bruce Humphries Publishers. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Lovely nude portrait photography, c. 1960. Very tastefully rendered, sumptuous photogravure. The 2nd volume in a series called "Beauty Which Inspires". Clean and VG+ in a bright, VG+ dustjacket with very light, subtle rubbing to the front panel. Tall quarto, unpaginated.
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The Artistic Garden of Japan (Complete in 3 Vols.)
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Tokyo: Rikotosho Co, 1957. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. A handsome example of the 1957 1st edition, complete in 3 volumes. All 3 volumes tight and VG+ or better in their oatmeal cloth, with decorative blindstamping and crisp, unflecked lettering at the front panels and spines. Tall quartos, detailed black-and-white photography thruout charting the growth and development of the Japanese garden up thru the eras. This set has the bookplate in each volume --and came from library... Read More
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Wallace Nutting Catalogue--Seventh Edition
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Framingham, MA: Wallace Nutting, 1928. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. Wonderful 1928 Wallace Nutting furniture catalogue, with hundreds of crisp, black-and-white photos of the offerings of the day. A VG- copy in its orignal wraps. Light soiling and staining to the panels, light fraying along the stapled spine and small former owner signature at top of front panel. General wear to this fragile item but still tight and presentable. Tall octavo, 80 pgs.
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