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

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

1929. Macbeth Gallery. Exhibitions from the Summer Colonies: No. 3 Mystic. NY, Dec. 24, 1929-Jan. 6, 1930. One sheet, folded twice to make 4 panels, printed on one side; 1 ill. Panel size 4 x 8 inches. Good (handling soil, one-inch closed tear to bottom margins). ** Reprises part of..... More

Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum [Catalogus 202], 1959. First edition. Soft cover. [8]p, 3 flat-color plates, including a double-page spread and a spread running across both inside covers and underneath the text. Another plate wraps around the covers. Printed on heavy tan stock. No deaccession stamp, but a legitimate museum discard (bookplate..... More

No place (printed in San Mateo, CA): San Carlos Villagers, n.d. [1967-68]. First edition. Hardcover. 117p, several photos and line ills.  Covers are splayed due to cross-grain binding.  No jacket, as issued. . San Carlos lies between San Francisco and San Jose, in San Mateo County on the San Francisco Peninsula. ..... 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

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 361p + 68 photos. Slightly skewed from storage but never read. An "out-of-series volume in Bollingen series." Jacket chipped. Detailed publishing history of the Bollingen Foundation and its scholarship and publications "in an astonishing number of fields--anthropology, archaeology, art, psychology, literature..... 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

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