Barcelona and New York: Ediciones Poligrafa and Galeria Joan Prats, 1986. First edition. Soft cover (shelf rubbed). 45p, 19 large color ills., chiefly of prints. With "The Cobra Movement" by Willemijn Stokvis. Catalogue of many illustrated books and catalogues, periodicals, and graphics, including a few pre-Cobra works. Designed by Arnold..... More
![Item #30853 Desiderio da Settignano: St. Cecilia [signed]. Clarence Kennedy, Toldeo Museum of...](/pictures/thumb/30853.jpg?v=1648467842)
Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art, n.d. [ca. 1938-39]. Kennedy, Clarence. First edition. Unbound sheets. Gelatin silver photograph printed on semi-glossy paper and mounted on light card stock, laid within 4-page letterpress folder. No date, but ca. 1938-39, as the portfolio was probably issued in commemoration of the work's acquisition in..... More
Moscow: Detgiz [State Publishing House for Children's Literature], 1958-59. Unstated editions. Soft cover; hardcover. Most are 16-20p. All soft cover except Cat's House, which is 48p and in boards. Cat's House is a play; the others are verse about animals (About Everything in the World is also an ABC book)..... More
Boston: C. Kimball, n.d. [ca. 1890-1900?]. Kimball (photographer). No stated edition. Mounted albumen print. With the photographer's monogram CK on back. Kimball, "Instantaneous Photographs," was located at 140 Court Street, Boston. Studio portrait of a young lady in her finest finery--elaborate lace collar, fitted jacket, embroidered diamond-shaped lappets, box-pleated skirt..... More
Folkestone, UK, and Hamden, CT: Dawson & Son and Archon Books, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 204p, 103 black-and-white ills. Lacks jacket. Sticker removed from front endpaper. Good informative survey. The purpose and techniques of zoological illustration, zoological works up to Linnaeus, "the great age of illustrated works," and the modern..... More
Bethlehem, CT: June 1 Gallery, 1980. Arms, Pennell, Eby, Lewis, Chamberlain. First edition. Stapled paperbound. 32p, many ills. Sale catalogue of 116 prints by Arms, Pennell, Eby, Lewis, Chamberlain, and many other portrayers of buildings as they "actually look." Grouped by Italy, France, Spain, England, Other European Places, Small Town..... More
New York: H.P. Kraus, n.d. [1950]. First edition. 36p (73 items), several large black-and-white pls. Occasional pencil marks. Features manuscript herbals, colorplate flower books, fish, and birds, etc., all meticulously described. Buffon, Merian, Redoute, etc. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate... More
![Item #26219 Margarethe Krieger: Holzschnitte zu Brecht [signed]. Karl Krolow, fwd](/pictures/thumb/26219.jpg?v=1633973471)
1966. Krolow, Karl, fwd. Margarethe Krieger: Holzschnitte zu Brecht. Ludwigshafen: Galerie Lore Dauer, n.d. [1966]. [36]p, 16 large pls. Very good paperbound (front cover chipped, lightly stained). Signed by Krieger. ** Powerful expressionistic woodcuts illustrating works by Brecht. One of Krieger's early publications. Can be sent outside the U.S. for..... More
New York: Nancy Hoffman Gallery, 1994. Frey, Viola. First edition. Soft cover. 40p, 69 color ills. including cover. Photo here is cropped on the sides. Traveling exhibition catalogue of 69 of Frey's expressionistic plates, which Kuspit describes as both funk and hallucinatory. Large; shipping/handling may be extra. Please keep this..... More
![Item #30102 News [1 of 60 signed copies]. Rosa Lachenmeier](/pictures/thumb/30102.jpg?v=1633973508)
Basel: BookART, 1993. Lachenmeier, Rosa. Limited Edition. Bolt-bound boards. N.p., many color ills., printed by photo-offset. No text except the front and back matter and month part-titles. No. 8 of 60 signed copies. The artist presents a monthly chronicle of world and other events via news photos collaged within global..... More
Boston: Lame Duck Books, n.d. [ca. 1999]. First edition. Soft cover. 88p + 1 color ill. on cover (an e.e. cummings painting). 356 detailed items. Fwd. by proprietor John Wronoski. "We would like to think...[that this catalogue] suggests a shadowy, and often tragic, narrative of the romantic individualism at the..... More
Paris: CNRS Editions, 2004. Bosse, Abraham. First edition. Soft cover. 317p + 38 ills. Detailed study of the influential French etcher-illustrator and his times--his life, the world of printmaking and illustration, the Academy and his difficulties with it, his study of perspective and theory, etc. Scarce in the U.S.... More
Paris: Le Courrier Graphique, 1956. First edition. Soft cover. 108p, many ills. and ads (some in flat color). Issue 86 of this French trade journal devoted to book design and the printing and publishing industries. Surveys a decade of French typography, fine press books, photography books, pocket books ("un probleme..... More
N.p. No stated publisher, n.d. [1880s-90s]. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. One newsprint broadsheet, folded once to make 4 pages. Large advertising flyer for Lee's "monster aggregation of living marvels. The most successful exhibition traveling of features that cannot be duplicated in America." Advertises educated horses, donkeys, and dogs; reed..... More
![Item #30294 I Mean You Know [1 of 300, signed]. Warren Lehrer](/pictures/thumb/30294.jpg?v=1633973546)
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
Florence: Leo S. Olschki, March 1948. First edition. Soft cover. 32p, 1 cover ill. "Piccolo Catalogo 3." Dozens of primary and secondary works, both antiquarian and more recent. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Beverly Hills, CA: Harry A. Levinson, n.d. [mid-1960s?]. First edition. Soft cover. 87p + 90 large pls., including cover. Over 340 annotated entries in many fields of the humanties and sciences; subject index. More
Newton Abbot, UK: David & Charles, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 151p, 115 ills., 33 in color. Jacket lightly sunned. From the sumptuous to the quirky--a valuable survey of the fine binding craft in the 20th century and its artists, from Cobden-Sanderson and Cockerell to Smith and Glaister, and many in..... 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
Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1933. First edition. Soft cover. 70p + 48 large plates, some folding. The sale was held on September 7-8 in Lausanne. In original glassine jacket (stained, torn). Large auction catalogue of 200 lots, all described in detail. The plates show many bindings, also woodcut illustrations and miniatures..... More
Bordeaux: Librairie Joseph Vincent, n.d. [ca. 1890-1900]. First edition. Soft cover. 16p (self wrs.), color ills. on covers and each page. Bookseller's catalogue of French children's picture books illustrated by Mars, Boutet de Monvel, Crafty, and Caran d'Ache, all published by Plon. Each page reproduces a page from one of..... More
Paris: Robert de Jonghe and Agnes Vienot, September 2011. First edition. Soft cover. 60p, several large ills. Bookseller catalogue offering 404 books in all fields of food, drink, and the culinary arts. Emphasis on France and French books. A joint enterprise of Robert de Jonghe (Librairie Le Festin de Babette..... More
Paris: Salet, n.d. [ca. 1959-60]. First edition. Soft cover. 90p, many ills. including a number of bindings. Bookseller catalogue with 273 entries--incunabula and other early works, illustrated books, fine bindings, etc., including history, literature, religious texts, belles lettres, etc. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default..... More
Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms, 1993. Light, Michael. First edition. Hardcover. N.p., many black-and-white photos printed in sheet-fed gravure on black pages. Evocative photos, sometimes deliberately grainy, of details of ranch life, gear, animals, buildings, etc., that are visceral, ordinary, and often unnoticed. 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
