Bayside, NY, and Rochester, NY: Ear-Say Books and Visual Studies Workshop, 1983. Lehrer, Warren. Limited Edition. Printed boards in slipcase. 152p, many typographic ills. Written and designed by Lehrer. Printed by offset lithography. "All photo-typesetting was set by the author on a compugraphic editwriter 7500 an itek quadritek 1200 and..... More

Worcester, MA: Davis Press for the School Arts Magazine, 1920. Third edition. Soft cover. Portfolio of many line and halftone ills. on 16 loose pls. Four-page text. Plates are very good (a few marginal tack holes) within poor paper covers. Small ink stamp of former owner(?) on versos. Study examples..... More

Nanjing: Yilin Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover (plasticized boards). 176p, dozens of color photos and short captions. No jacket, as issued. Photographic survey of dark red pottery teapots, a specialty of Yixing in China's Jiangsu Province. Includes traditional examples from the 16th-century Ming Dynasty on, and many contemporary examples. Heavy;..... More

Caligari: Paolo Pisano, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 174p, many photos and line ills., several in color. Monograph on the pre-Christian grotto-crypt of the church of Santa Restituta in Caligari, Sardinia, and its excavation. Chapters on its history, some reproductions and transcriptions of documents relating to the later church, inscriptions found..... More

Paris: Prisma, 1943. First edition. Hardcover (original boards). 30p + 49 pls. followed by fold-out captions. No. 715 of 1590 copies. Ink name of previous owner, a Boston-area photographer. No d.j. (as issued?). The first book on Hippolyte Bayard, the early French photographer of the 1840s. Reproduces his portraits (including..... More

Utrecht: A. Oosthoek's Uitgeversmaatschappij for the International Union of Crystallography, 1965. Escher, M.C. First edition. Hardcover. 84p, 41 pls., many in color. A few light stains to front cover, two tiny spots to one inside margin. No jacket. Description and analysis of Escher's patterns using classical symmetry, black-and-white symmetry, and..... More

London: Maggs Bros. 1927. First edition. Soft cover. 208p (311 items), many large pls., 1 in color. Bookseller catalogue of several categories of bindings: Books from the Libraries of Kings, Queens and Famous Men and Women; Chained and Stamped Bindings; Decorative Bindings from various countries and eras; and Books about..... More

London: Maggs Bros. May 1935. First edition. Soft cover. Over 220p, several text ills. + 36 pls. Light edge wear to covers; fore-edges foxed. 684 items relating to royalty over the centuries in Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. "Issued to commemorate the silver jubilee of H.M...... More

London: The Verona Press, printed in 1939 but issued in 1947. Laurencin, Marie. Limited illustrated edition. Hardcover in good numbered slipcase (sturdy but soiled; light edge wear). 316p + 16 color lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Designed by Hans Mardersteig and printed at the Officina Bodoni, Verona. World War II delayed..... More

Leeds: Peregrine Books, 1999. Corrected second printing, with additions. Hardcover (plasticized boards). 194p, 80 small photos and 9 plates in color. No jacket (as issued?). The first printing was 2000 copies, and this one was 1000 copies. Very thorough collector's guide to the popular series of Observer's Books published by..... More

New York: Metroplitan Museum of Art, 1997. First edition. Soft cover. [28]p, many color photos, mostly full page. Exhibition catalogue of the many uses of words and language on clothing and accessories, chiefly from the 1890s on--the "reconciliation of textile and text." Can be sent outside the US for less..... More

Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1958. First edition. Soft cover. [16]p, a few ills. Exhibition checklist of little magazines and literary reviews from the collection of Dr. Marvin Sukov, with their addresses at the time. Some "are not strictly speaking little magazines, but like little magazines are not easy to find..... More

Baltimore: 1907. First edition. Stapled paperbound. Catalogue of dozens of framed pictures, mirrors, frames, hat racks, screens, display easels, and commodes.  All described and priced.  The back cover lists the firm's other home furnishing lines, and their warehouses in Baltimore, New York, Kobe (Japan), and Canton (China).   The firm's factories..... More