New York: Cooper Union, 1928-1951. Mostly first editions. Hardcover (buckram, spine gilt-stamped). Variously paged and illustrated (chiefly text). From the library of E. Maurice Bloch, with his bookplate. Typed contents page glued in. The museum is now the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Contents: "Proposed Plan of the Cooper Union Museum..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967-1969. Various editions. Hardcover. Hundreds of pages, some ills. Light shelfwear and soil; overall clean and sturdy). No d.j. (if issued?). From Henry Adams to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Vol. 5 is the 1969 first printing; vols. 1-4 are 3rd or 4th printings of 1967 and..... More
![Das Tier in der Antike [The Animal in Antiquity]. Hansjorg Bloesch](/pictures/thumb/30411.jpg?v=1633973579)
Zurich: Archaeologisches Institut der Universitat Zurich, 1974. First edition. Soft cover. 71p + hundreds of small ills. on 64 pls. In German. An enormous loan exhibition of 400 works depicting animals in ancient art--Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Chiefly small and large sculptures, vase paintings, and metalwork. Birds, cats, sea..... More
Minneapolis: Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 1958. First edition. Soft cover. 28p, 21 ills. One of 1000 copies designed by Rob Roy Kelly. Back cover and last few pages dampstained along spine. Covers age soiled. Catalogue for a loan exhibition that aimed to assemble all the major Poussin paintings in..... More
Rennes: Compagnons du Sagittaire [printer], 2007. Limited edition. Soft cover. 264p, many black-and-white photos. In French. One of 700 copies. Very informative exhibition catalogue of more than 50 artist magazines from the US, Britain, and Europe that were published from 1962 on. The exhibition was held at three sites in..... More
No place: No stated publisher, n.d. [1986?]. First edition. Paperbound. 16p, 18 large color ills. Light handling soil to covers. The text is titled "Hand-Werk zu Arbeiten von Peter Reichenberger." The oils on canvas or paper have a resemblance to color field painting. Can be sent outside the US for..... More
Frankfurt: Societats-Verlag, 1930. First edition. Soft cover. 16p, several ills. + 200 ills., mostly full-page plates. They are numbered to 199; the 200th is the half-title photo. Half-title page detached. Original covers chipped. Text in German; captions in German, French, and English. Short survey of the first 30 years of..... More
![Third Annual Dinner [menu printed on silk]. Boston Marketmen's Republican Club](/pictures/thumb/26593.jpg?v=1633973484)
Boston: Elwell French (printer), 1891. First edition. Unbound folded sheet. The menu is printed on one piece of unhemmed yellow silk, originally tied with thread within stiff covers; the covers have now detached.. The sewing is still intact on the silk. The lettering on the cover, which surrounds an image..... More
Clermont: Typographie de Paul Hubler, 1861. First edition. Soft cover. 212p, no ills. Institutional library discard, minimally marked. Housed in card-stock folder. First edition of this catalogue and visitor's guide to the recently established provincial museum in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Short introduction, list of donors and subscribers, over 500 entries for..... More
New York: Jaap Rietman, 1976. Andre, Carl. First edition. Soft cover. 88p, many black-and-white ills. Covers lightly soiled overall, foxed. Published on the occasion of a traveling exhibition. More
New York: Rosa Esman Gallery, 1978. First edition. Soft cover. [16]p, several ills. Outer pages foxed; covers soiled. Catalogue of 42 works on paper and books by Malevich, Exter, Goncharova, Larionov, El Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, and others. Published on the centenary of Malevich's birth. Can be sent outside the US..... More
New York: Princeton Architectural Press for New York Chapter/American Institute of Architects, 1987. Rodchenko, Alexander. First edition. Soft cover. [32]p, many black-and-and white ills. Exhibition catalogue. Texts by Bowlt, Alexander Lavrentjev, and Vieri Quilici on Rodchenko's photographs and graphic design, architectural language, and constructivist theory. Can be sent outside the..... More
![The Lorsch Gospels [1 of 1000]. Wolfgang Braunfels, introd](/pictures/thumb/30615.jpg?v=1638988297)
New York: George Braziller, 1967. Limited edition. Hardcover (quarter vellum) in slipcase. One of 1000 copies, this one from the publisher's office and unnumbered. Bit of front cover cloth has pulled away from vellum, else fine in good to very good slipcase. This sumptuous facsimile reassembles the two volumes of..... More
London: Routledge, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 654p,many tables, + many ills. Over 20 essays by specialists on 17th- and 18th-century material culture in Britain, Europe, and America. Their interpretations help shape "a new historical landscape based on the consumption of goods and services." The parts are: Problems, Methods and Concepts;..... More
Cambridge, MA: Privately printed (Harvard University), June 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 176p, no ills. Photo-duplicated typescript, printed on rectos. Tipped in: "This report is confidential and not for distribution or publication until permission has been granted by the Present of Harvard University." Covers lightly shelf-rubbed. A mid-century needs and opportunities..... More
New York: Bruce R. Lewin Gallery, 1995. Anton, Peter. First edition. seed packet. Unopened seed packet purportedly containing assorted cantaloupe seeds to be opened under zero gravity and sowed during a lunar eclipse. Issued as an invitation to a private preview of Peter Anton: Recent Sculptures. Stained (probably artist's linseed..... More
![The Story of the Mosaics [Moars Cafeteria]. Benjamin Bufano](/pictures/thumb/30401.jpg?v=1633973576)
San Francisco: Moars Cafeteria, n.d. [1950s]. No stated edition. one sheet, folded into thirds. One sheet, printed in green. Folded, 4 x 6 inches. For many years Moars Cafeteria on Powell Street in San Francisco was home to three large mosaics by Italian-born sculptor and mosaic artist Benjamin (Benny) Bufano. ..... More
Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1987. Burke, Bill. Limited edition. Hardcover. N.p., many duotone photos by Burke and other ills., some in color. Plasticized pictorial boards; no jacket, as issued. One of 1000 copies (unstated). The first edition of this remarkable artist’s book. Via photographs, diary entries, and collaged ephemera, Burke documented..... More
![Cygnea Cantio: Swan Song [no. 2 of 50, signed]. Tracey Bush](/pictures/thumb/25738.jpg?v=1633973461)
England: Tracey Bush, 1999. Bush, Tracey. Limited Edition. One folded sheet. Artist's book consisting of one stiff leaf of tan paper, folded in thirds, within blue cloth covers with ties. Very faint ghost of an old small label on back cover, which could easily be removed. Folded, 6 x 9..... More
Geneva: Christian Braillard (printer), 1983. First edition. Soft cover. [48]p, many color ills. Poetic text by Butor and an explanation of the series and its production by Pretre. One of 1500 trade copies. In French. Catalogue for two exhibitions of Jean-Claude Pretre's Offenbach series held in Basel, 1983 (including..... More
West Glover, VT: Something Else Press, 1967. First edition. Soft cover. A Great Bear Pamphlet. 14p, 1 small ill. on cover. Ruminations, printed in various tones of blue, red, and black ink. Original price of $1.50 printed on back. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default..... More
![The Way I See It [Broadway columnist Earl Wilson's copy]. Eddie Cantor](/pictures/thumb/30660.jpg?v=1641235983)
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1959. No stated edition. Hardcover. Ed. by Phyllis Rosenteur. 204p, no ills. Line on copyright page reads 94611. With ink stamp, "From The Library of Earl Wilson The New York Post." Jacket torn, as shown. Breezy memoir, full of inspirational life lessons learned by the singer/comedian..... More
Paris: Rodolphe Chamonal, 1997. First edition. Soft cover. 68p, many ills., some in color. In French. Handsome antiquarian bookseller's catalogue offering over 400 books on games and pastimes, plus some children's books. Includes entertainment and performing arts, gymnastics and boxing, fireworks, billiards, playing cards, chess, hunting, mountaineering, bullfighting, golf, etc...... More
![The Photograph and the Book V [Catalogue 105]; 19th Century Photographically Illustrated Books, a...](/pictures/thumb/30459.jpg?v=1633973593)
Cambridge, MA: Charles B. Wood III, n.d. [2000]. First edition. Soft cover. 79p, many ills. 203 entries, all scrupulously described. Bookseller catalogue, continuing Wood's pioneering series of books about and containing photographs. 79p, many ills. 203 entries, all scrupulously described. Can be sent outside the US for less than the..... More
Cambridge, MA: Charles Wood, n.d. [2003]. First edition. Soft cover. 83p, many photos. Offers 221 illustrated books, albums, catalogues, and technical manuals, all described in scrupulous detail. More
