Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and The Drama
by [ART] COBHAM BREWER, The Reverend Ebenezer [EDITOR: HARLAND, Marion]
New York: Selmar Hess, 1902. First Edition. Two Volumes [8 vols bound in 2, bound from parts]. Large Quarto. 30cm. Later institutional pebble green cloth with leather title labels. Light wear to the cloth, some chipping to title labels, bright, strong and handsome; internally clean, private library stamp to flyleaves, cosmetic cracking to innner front joint of Vol I, each plate with a captioned tissue guard, and with general contents and title pages for the respective volumes bound in... Read More
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The R. Crumb Sketchbook; November 1974 to January 1978
by [ART] CRUMB, Robert
Frankfurt: Zweitausendeins, 1978. First Edition. Quarto. 26cm. Publisher's maroon cloth spine over black cloth boards, titled in gilt to spine. Slipcase. 310pp. + 36pp. laid in staple bound text pamphlet, in German. Very minor wear to extremities, strong and handsome, some very slight dulling of the gilt; internally clean, sky blue stain to page edges, red silk page marker; in a clean, strong example of the card slipcase with a printed title label to spine. A very good, distinguished... Read More
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Black Art, Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African-American Art
by DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART
Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, [1989]. First Edition. Folio (31cm.); original cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; [2],305pp.; color photographs throughout. Some edge wear to jacket extremities, else Fine/Very Good. Massive exhibition catalog.
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Cent Dessins Érotiques
by [ART][EROTICA] HAYASHI, Yoshifumi
Paris: Club du Livre Secret, 1982. First Trade Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's black faux leather titled in gilt to spine and front board. 115pp.; [1]. Some very minor bumping to the extremities, strong and tight; internally clean, text in French, German, English and Japanese. A very good, bright copy. Hayashi has been described as one of the few masters of contemporary erotic art, his depictions of the female body, which sometimes verge on fetishized caricature, absolutely overshadow any... Read More
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A Study of The Illuminated Books of William Blake, Poet, Printer, Prophet
by [ART][ESOTERICA] KEYNES, Geoffrey
New York: The Orion Press, with The Trianon Press of Paris, 1964. First Edition. Quarto. 31cm. Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 104pp. 59 plates. A little light wear to the extremities of the cloth, strong and solid; internally clean and fresh; in a clean, bright pictorial dustjacket with some light soiling to the white portions, toning to the spine, and some shallow wear to the edges, the original price on the inside front flap has... Read More
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Galeries Historiques de Versailles. Collection de Gravures Réduites D'Aprés Les Dessins Originaux Du Grand Ouvrage In-Folio Sur Versailles
by [ART] GAVARD, Charles
Paris: Chez L'Editeur, Rue Du Marché St. Honoré, 1838. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Half black morocco over glossy black cloth, titled in gilt to spine. 173pp; [5pp] plus 115 plates with 140 engravings. A little worn and scuffed to the corners, very strong and handsome; internally clean, marbled endpapers, and some very occasional light spotting. A very good copy indeed. Intended as a companion volume to a 13 volume set of all the artworks present in the... Read More
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Hokusai
by [ART] HILLIER,J
London: Phaidon, 1955. First U.K. Edition. Quarto. 31cm. Publisher's black cloth titled and decorated in white to spine and boards with a flower and bird foot design. Dustjacket. 134pp. Light wear and scuffing to edges and spine ends, a little soiling to the white portions; internally clean and fresh, illustrated throughout with 130 in text illustrations, and 17 full color tipped in plates; in a strong, handsome dustjacket with some light thumbing and soiling, a little wear to the... Read More
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Utamaro
by [ART] HILLIER,J
London: Phaidon, 1961. First U.K. Edition. Quarto. 31cm. Publisher's brown cloth titled and decorated in cream to spine and boards with a cherry blossom design. 161pp. Light wear and scuffing to extremities and spine ends; internally clean and fresh, with 110 illustrations and 17 tipped in color plates; in a bright, clean example of the dustjacket, with some shallow cosmetic chipping at the spine ends and some light edgewear. A very good clean copy indeed. A lavishly produced... Read More
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The Remaking of the English Navy by Admiral St. Vincent - Key to the Victory Over Napoleon. The Great Unclaimed Naval Revolution (1795-1805)
by ARTHUR, Charles B.
Lanham: University Press of America, 1986. First Edition. Octavo. Printed card wrappers (softcover); 265pp. Lengthy authorial inscription inside front cover to "Jim," undated. Mild external fading and wear; text tight, clean and unmarked. There was no clothbound edition.
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American Traditions: Art from the Collections of Culver Alumni
by Indianapolis Museum of Art
Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1993. First Edition. Quarto (31cm x 26cm). Red cloth boards (hardcover) with titling blind-stamped on cover and spine; pictorial dustjacket; 356pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to upper corner tips; else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight shelf wear to extremities. Published in conjunction with a three-part exhibition of painting and sculpture from the collections of Culver Academies alumni, spanning 150 years of American art, held at the Indianapolis... Read More
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Galois Theory: Lectures Delivered at the University of Notre Dame
by ARTIN, Emil; Arthur N. Milgram, ed
Notre Dame, IN: [University of Notre Dame], 1953. Second Edition with Additions and Revisions. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's black cloth tape-backed printed card wrappers; [4],81pp.; text printed from typescript. Wrapper extremities a bit toned and slightly worn from handling, small loss at spine crown, bookseller's sticker and ownership signature inside upper cover, else Very Good. "Notre Dame Mathematical Lectures Number 2." The Austrian-born mathematician's lectures first delivered at Notre Dame in 1942, where he was given a position after... Read More
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Himalayan Art; Wall-Painting and Sculpture in Ladakh, Lahaul and Spitit, The Siwalik Ranges, Nepal, Skkim, and Bhutan
by [ART] [INDIA] SINGH, Madanjeet
Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1968. First American Edition. Folio. 33.5cm. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket and Slipcase. 295pp. Very light wear to extremities and spine ends, tight and bright; internally clean and fresh, lavishly illustrated throughout; in a clean, sharp pictorial dustjacket with a little fraying to the head of the spine; and a grey card publisher's slipcase with a little wear and toning to the edges and corners. A... Read More
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L'Assiette au Beurre - No.151: Japonaise Dessins de Adaramakaro (20 Fevrier, 1904)
by ADARAMAKARO (artist)
Paris: L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904. First Edition. Slim quarto (32cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; [16]pp; illus.; text is entirely in French. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, subtle toning to text edges; contents clean, complete, Very Good+. A well-preserved issue of this illustrated French satirical magazine with anarchist and anti-colonialist sensibilities, which ran from 1901-1936. This issue was published at the onset of the Russo-Japanese War, with the entirety of the contents dedicated to vivid political cartoons caricaturizing... Read More
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![The Platforms: 22 Drawings of America Selecting a President [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/179/965/743965179.0.l.jpg)
The Platforms: 22 Drawings of America Selecting a President [Inscribed]
by [ARTIST'S BOOKS] ROSENBLATT, Adolph
[New York: N.P., 1960]. First Edition. Oblong quarto (33.5 x 25cm); 23 sheets of hand-made paper, printed on rectos only and spiral-bound on left side. Inscribed on inside of front cover: "To John and Jean / Good luck on your Buffalo Bill Wild West Show / Love Adolph and Suzanne." Light dusting and subtle, even toning to covers, with shallow, moderate stain to lower right edge of rear cover and terminal leaves; Very Good+ Extremely early and uncommon... Read More
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![Things of Iron and Things of Green [Title from cover: A Nucleonic Narrative About Love and War]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/992/697/1687697992.0.l.jpg)
Things of Iron and Things of Green [Title from cover: A Nucleonic Narrative About Love and War]
by [ARTIST'S BOOKS] [NUKES] MILLETT, Bill
[Auckland: Sagittarius Press, 1980]. First, Limited Edition. No. 851 of 1000 signed copies. Small quarto; die-cut, decorated paper over boards (hardcover); 64pp. Fine. An inventively designed book, combining Millett's text - a melange of poetry and prose pieces against nuclear proliferation - with illustrations by Sylvia Siddell, Denys Watkins, Dennis Frizzell, and others. Uncommon.
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If I Should Die: Children Murdered in Wisconsin in 1993
by [ARTIST'S BOOKS] [HEFT, Caren]
Racine, WI: Arcadian Press, 1993. First Edition. One of 18 copies (plus an additional 6 artist's proofs). Oblong octavo (15.5cm x 23cm); folded and gathered sheets of handmade paper in various shades of beige and grey, sewn together at spine; text is letterpress printed in black and silver inks on a Vandercook 4 press; [44]pp. Fine. An elegant and truly harrowing volume produced by letterpress printer, papermaker, and book artist Caren Heft, part of the Children Don't... Read More
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Les Gueules Noires
by [ARTIST'S BOOKS] MOREL, Émile; Paul Adam, préf.; Steinlen, illus
Paris: Bibliothèque Internationale d'Édition, E. Sansot & Cie, 1907. First Trade Edition. Quarto (24.5cm.); original grey pictorial wrappers; 207pp.; frontispiece & 14 tissue guarded plates; numerous text illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit worn, especially at spine edges; preliminaries foxed, else Very Good and sound overall. Bleak collection of stories following in the footsteps of Zola's naturalistic novel Germinal. Mostly set in the mines of northern France; beautifully, albeit lugubriously, illustrated by the Art Nouveau painter and printmaker... Read More
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![Italy [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/598/394/1770394598.0.l.jpg)
Italy [Limited Edition]
by [ARTIST'S BOOKS] DRUCKER, Johanna
Berkeley: The Figures, 1980. First Edition. Limited issue, no.7 of 7 copies, signed on colophon with an original pencil drawing in glassine envelope laid in; from a total edition of 500 copies. 12mo; pictorial card wrappers; 51,(1)pp; illus. A fairly early publication by Drucker, and given the limitation surely one of the most difficult of her limited editions for the collector to obtain. Italy was written in 1979, after Drucker's return home following six months of travel... Read More
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Notre Combat
by [ARTIST'S BOOKS] ELLIA, Lind; Simone Veil (pref)
Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2007. First Edition. First printing. Large octavo (26cm); pictorial wrappers, 398pp. As new in the publisher's folding card slipcase. Documentation of a remarkable artistic collaboration in which Ellia, a Tunisian Sephardic Jew living in Paris, invited hundreds of individuals, artists and non-artists alike, to alter pages from an original edition of Hitler's Mein Kampf. The remarkable results are gathered here in book form; an exhibition of the original works took place at the Contemporary Jewish... Read More
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Codex Seraphinianus
by [ARTIST'S BOOK] SERAFINI, Luigi; Italo Calvino (foreword)
New York: Rizzoli, 2013. First printing of the Rizzoli trade edition (there was a simultaneous signed, limited issue). Folio (35cm). Pictorial cloth hardcover; unpaginated; illus. Fine, with supplemental pamphlet in rear pocket as issued. Reprint of Serafini's landmark artist's book, an illustrated encyclopedia of imaginary things, written in an invented language (or, rather, script) which Serafini himself has stated possesses no lexicographical or syntactical meaning. This edition includes a new Preface by Serafini, contained in a multi-lingual pamphlet... Read More
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Codex Seraphinianus
by [ARTIST'S BOOK] SERAFINI, Luigi; Italo Calvino (foreword)
New York: Rizzoli, 2014. Fifth Printing of the Rizzoli trade edition (first published in Italy, 1981), with supplemental pamphlet in rear pocket as issued. Folio (35cm); pictorial cloth hardcover; unpaginated; illus. Light shelf-wear, with trace shelf-soil to rear cover; Very Good+. Reprint of Serafini's landmark artist's book, an illustrated encyclopedia of imaginary things, written in an invented language (or, rather, script) which Serafini himself has stated possesses no lexicographical or syntactical meaning. This edition includes a new... Read More
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Pulcinellopaedia Seraphiniana
by [ARTIST'S BOOK] SERAFINI, Luigi; Michael Sullivan (translation)
New York: Rizzoli International Publicaions, Inc, 2016. First American Edition. First Printing (following First Edition published in Milan 1984, and Rizzoli's 2016 Italian publication). Folio (35cm); pictorial cloth hardcover; unpaginated; illus. From the library of noted zoologist and marine biologist James Glen Mead, with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Trace shelf-wear and -soil; Very Good+. Similar to Serafini's previous artist book Codex Seraphinianus, with this text including the Neapolian character Pulcinella and comic illustrations. [88568].
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Le Grand Rêve Americain
by [ARTIST'S BOOKS] HUGER, Philippe, illus.; Yannick Bourg, text
Paris: Souvenirs du Futur, [1988]. First Edition. Oversize folio (46cm.); white paper-covered clamshell box, embossed thermoformed plastic plate mounted to upper cover, six leaves laid in as issued, to which are mounted thermoformed plates on rectos and versos with the exception of the last leaf, on whose verso is printed the colophon. Clamshell box a bit dust-soiled, else Near Fine. Lacking the cardboard shipping box. Quite possibly the only "comic book" in its class, Le Grand Rêve Americain... Read More
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![Banje I Ljecilista - Bosne I Hercegovine [The Spas and Sanatoria of Bosnia-Herzegovina]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/681/667/1267667681.0.l.jpg)
Banje I Ljecilista - Bosne I Hercegovine [The Spas and Sanatoria of Bosnia-Herzegovina]
by [BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA] Anonymous artist
Np:nd [Sarajevo?, ca 1940s]. Original machine-lithographed poster in colors, 38" x 27". Horizontal fold at center. On thin paper, toned and slightly weak a centerfold and margins; B. A dramatic and handsome post-war Bosnian poster promoting the health-resorts of the newly-formed state, along with the treatments associated with each. Among the place-names listed are some that would become infamous during the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s, such as Srebenice and Sarajevo.
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Que Levante la Mano la Guitarra
by [LATIN AMERICA - CUBA] CONI (artist)
[Havana]: S.i., 1983. Original illustrated poster, with text and pictorial elements silkscreened in four colors on white stock, measuring 51cm x 76.25cm (20 1/8" x 30"). Mild handling to extremities, ele a bright, Fine copy (unbacked). Striking poster designed by Concepción Robinson Mendoza (aka. "Coni") for Victor Cassaus's 1983 documentary Que Levante la Mano la Guitarra, centered around Cuban musician and folk singer Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez. 83069.
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