N.p. [North Brookfield, MA]: Boston Public Library, 1996. Limited edition (1 of 600 copies). Unbound sheet. "In honor of David McCord on his ninety-ninth birthday, November 15, 1996, the Boston Public Library reprints as a broadside his poem from One at a Time, published by Little, Brown. Six hundred copies..... More
San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2003. Gorey, Edward; McDermott, Kevin. First edition. Hardcover. "Documents in rich duotone and full-color photographs [Gorey's] chockablock house, room by room, just as Gorey left it when he died in April 2000." Accompanied by McDermott's reminiscences and descriptions of the house. Several previously unpublished Gorey drawings and..... More
Berkeley: Arts & Crafts Press, 1999. Dow, Arthur Wesley. Limited edition. Sewn soft cover in self wrappers. Two pamphlets, laid in tri-fold cloth portfolio, which is lined with blue paper and closed with a ribbon and wood button. 26, 30p, each with many ills., a few color plates tipped in..... More
London: Thomas and Hudson, 1993. Meehan, Aidan. First edition. Soft cover. 160p, over 400 line ills. by the author. Comprehensive guide to analyzing and constructing the spirals and related motifs of Celtic design,by a well-known student and practitioner of it. The text is in very readable calligraphy. Can be sent..... More
New York: John W. Lovell, 1890. No stated edition. Soft cover. 171p + 15p of publisher's ads. Line ills. on front and back covers. No. 7 in the monthly Lovell's Detective Series. Covers age browned and a little stained; pages are browned but very clean. Binding is tight. Tales of..... More
Stuttgart: Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, 1992. First edition. Soft cover. 190p, many color ills. Color-packed survey of advertising posters made for the German savings bank, from the late 1920s through 1992, along with historical texts. Many well-known artists, and a wide variety of styles, are here. The title, "He who doesn't honor..... More
![Item #30186 "What They Said"--Postscript to Art Criticism [MoMA benefit]. Jerome Mellquist, ed](/pictures/thumb/30186.jpg?v=1633973523)
New York: Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1949. First edition. Stapled soft cover. [24]p, several ills. Covers lightly age soiled. Laid in: list of MoMA patrons. Catalogue of an exhibition of 18 MoMA treasures held for the benefit of the Museum of Modern Art's 20th anniversary. Collects comments by contemporaneous art critics, writers..... More
Baarn, Netherlands: Menno Hertzberger, n.d. [ca. 1952-53]. First edition. Soft cover. 28p, several line ills. 98 items, some described in detail. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
![Item #30742 Reproductions on Sale of Objects in the Collections (2 editions) [and] Publications...](/pictures/thumb/30742.jpg?v=1644153903)
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press, Boston, 1925-1930. First edition. Soft cover; postcards. Two brochures of art reproductions for sale (1927, 1930); one pamphlet of publications for sale (1925); and Postcard Series 4.1 (no date, but at least before 1927). The catalogues..... More
London: G. Michelmore & Co., n.d. [April 1921 from receipt date]. First edition. Soft cover (yapped). 191p (251 iems) + several pls. of bindings, a few in color and/or folding. Bookseller catalogue, with occasional pencil checkmarks. One large folding color plate shows an elaborate embroidered 18th-century Italian binding made for..... More
Windham, CT: Elizabeth Moody, 1982. First edition. Soft cover. 52p, several line ills. Showcases winners of author and illustrator awards for children's books; also a few other awards, such as the National Book Award. Chiefly books published before 1976. No other copies online at the time of this listing. Can..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1996. Sargent, Margarett. First edition. Hardcover. 371p + 20p of ills. (8 in color). Ink presentation from Moore on the title page. Jacket shelf-smudged. Evocative life of the exuberant, troubled modernist painter (1891-1978). The colorful figurative work of her short career is now newly studied and..... More
Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1998. Morell, Abelardo. First edition. Soft cover. 63p, many large photos. Evocative photographs made while Morell was artist in residence at the Gardener, "revealing the extraordinary in the ordinary." Texts by poet Simic and Gardner curator Jennifer R. Gross. More
Philadelphia: Wm. D. Morley, 1941. First edition. Soft cover. 126p, several ills. Covers torn at top and bottom. Unpriced. 332 items: "superlative Washington, Lincon & Grant autographs, books, and relics; manuscripts including 'Star-Spangled Banner' ,'Dixie'--'Home, Sweet Home'--'Hail Columbia'; association books, fine bindings, etc." Includes desk and chair used by Lincoln..... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society for Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 260p, 314 duotone photos printed by Rapoport Printing Co. Jacket spine faded. With an essay by Therese Thau Heyman. Seminal survey of the nature of western landscape and many aspects of its..... More
Boston: Goodspeed's, 1935. Nason, Thomas. First edition. Unbound. Small card, 1 ill. Age wear and soil, old tack hole at top. Announcement / invitation card for this exhbition, which was held December 2-31, 1935. A scarce piece of Goodspeed's bookstore ephemera. Can be sent outside the US for less than..... More
![Item #26574 Instructions concerning Erecting of a Library [etc.]; Presented to My Lord The...](/pictures/thumb/26574.jpg?v=1633973482)
Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin at the Riverside Press, 1903. Limited edition (first thus). Hardcover (marbled boards, leather spine). xxxii, 160p, no ills. Large armorial bookplate of Peperi. Lacks the slipcase. No. 356 of 419 copies. Designed by Bruce Rogers, with his device at the end. Printed in red and black..... More
![Item #31114 [Silhouette Made at Century of Progress World's Fair, Chicago]. Nemo, silhouette artist](/pictures/thumb/31114.jpg?v=1663678899)
N.d. [1933]. Unique. Unbound card stock. Original cut-paper profile silhouette mounted within border on card, ca. 4 x 7 inches. This souvenir silhouette was made at the Moroccan Village.. The subject is a long-lashed lady in a flowered cloche hat. Can be sent outside the US for less than the..... More
New York: Collection J.B. Neumann, n.d. [ca. 1936]. First edition. Soft cover. N.p. [15 pls.]. Text by Neumann on the inside covers. Catalogue issued from Neumann's gallery at 509 Madison Avenue, offering chiefly northern European and Italian old master paintings. Includes works by an unknown 15th-century Austrian master, Bosch, Zurbaran..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1945. Strand, Paul. Second [revised] edition. Hardcover. 32p,. 23 plates. No d.j. The first monograph on Strand, and MOMA's first monograph on a photographer. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, copyright 1983, 1984. No stated edition. Accordion folded within laminated metal covers. "Stamps" and "Restaurants by City." Both mounted within magnetic covers produced by Magnaform Corp., New York. Each 3 inches high. "Stamps" contains 12 acetate pockets to hold stamps.. "Restaurants by City" contains..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Cooperative Society; printed by The Albertype Company, Brooklyn, n.d. [early 1930s]. No stated edition. Soft cover, bound with original cord. N.p., 24 large gravure plates + cover. No text except for identifying captions. Owner's ink name on cover. Lovely views of an empty, tranquil Harvard Yard and..... More
Philadelphia: Budd Company, February 1950. Privately printed. Stapled soft cover. 12p, 3 ills. A memorial tribute published by Ledwinka's longtime employer. Ledwinka was the pioneering automotive engineer who developed "the first four-wheel brakes, the first indivdual wheel drive, the first car with gas-electric power...That he was the real father of..... More
New York: Metropolitan Life, n.d. [ca. 1932]. No stated edition. Soft cover. [12]p, many color ills. Ca. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. Describes and illustrates in color 36 hygiene and health pamphlets (many relating to children) that were available free from Metropolitan Life. Cancer (A Message of Hope), Diphtheria and..... More
![Item #31098 Michael Graves Draws Gatsby [cover title]. No named author, Andrew Hoyem?](/pictures/thumb/31098.jpg?v=1662420843)
San Francisco: Arion Press, [1984]. Graves, Michael. First edition. Stapled soft cover. [8]p, a few line drawings in brown by Michael Graves; photo of Graves on cover. Publisher's prospectus: "The Arion Press announces its fifteenth book to be published December 1, 1984: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrated..... More
