![Item #30116 Fra Filippo Lippi [1406-1469] [presentation copy]. F. Gray Griswold](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30116.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973510)
New York: Duttons, 1934. First edition. Hardcover (imitation vellum). 35p + 1 plate. No limitation notice, but many of Griswold's books were published in editions of a few hundred. A partly imagined biography, based on Vasari. Signed in ink on title page, also an ink presentation "Gay from Frank." Can..... More
Nashville, TN: The Fine Arts Center, Cheekwood, 1981. Grooms, Red. First edition. Soft cover. 31p, many ills., a few plates in color. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Red Grooms: Prints of the Seventies. Over 60 works are catalogued and illustrated. Can be sent outside the US for less than..... More
[New York]: Guild of Book Workers, 1959. First edition. Stapled soft cover. [28]p, 24 black-and-white ills. Checklist of dozens of items by 28 artists shown at the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences. Catalogue designed by Paul N. Banks; exhibition directed by Polly Lada-Mocarski. Uncommon. Can be sent outside..... More
London: Feisenberger, 1947-1951. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated. Cat. 16 issued by Feisenberger & Gurney. Cat. 1 offers 186 annotated "fine books and manuscripts," some with corrected entries pasted in. The others each offer several hundred old and rare books, manuscripts, incunabula, illustrated books, bindings, and works..... More
New York: H.P. Kraus, n.d. [1968]. First edition. Hardcover. 148p + color frontispiece and 115 ills. of woodcuts in the text, mostly the same size as the original. Covers stamped in gold; a little smudged and dusty. Catalogue of 97 books in many fields, all described in scholarly detail. Beautifully..... More
New York: H.P. Kraus, n.d. [1958]. First edition. Soft cover. 174p, several line ills. 283 rare books, almost all under $100: Americana, voyages, geography, art and architecture, bibliography, bindings, classics, English books, graphic arts and typography, historical source works, illustrated books, incunabula and post-incunabula, Italian books, Judaica, manuscripts, letters, documents..... 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
New York: H.P. Kraus, n.d. [1960]. First edition. Soft cover. Fifty "manuscripts and documents, many unpublished and unrecorded, early printed and illustrated books including important first editions, charts and atlases," all described in meticulous detail. Includes the Amoretti Codex of Vespucci, which Kraus later donated to The Library of Congress..... More
New York: H.P. Kraus, 1950s-ca. 1971. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated. All fully indexed. 89: History and Art of the Printed Book, n.d. [1950s]. 587 items, many line ills. Includes works from the library of the Prince of Liechtenstein. 91: The Sixteenth Century, Part 1: German Speaking..... More
New York: H.P. Kraus, 1972. First edition. Soft cover (slightly age browned). 65p, no ills. 206 items, with detailed descriptions. Index of subjects, persons, and places of publication. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
New York: H.P. Kraus, [1940s], 1947. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated; no indexes. 21: Fifty Rare & Important Books, n.d. [1940s]. 50 items, 50 plates. 42: Bibliographies and Reference Works, 1947. 2176 items briefly described, no ills. "Basic reference material for libraries comprising periodicals, special bibliographies, typography..... More
Munich: J. Halle, n.d. [1925]. First edition. Soft cover. 32p, no ills. except two 16th-century woodcut ills. on covers. In German. Over 560 items about music and musicians: books, sheet music, and portraits of composers and performers, including many women. Order postcard laid in. Can be sent outside the U.S...... More
![Item #30612 Samuel Chapman Armstrong, Founder of the Southern Workman [postcard]. Hampton Institute](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30612.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1638988296)
N.p. [Hampton, VA?]: [Hampton Institute], n.d. [ca. 1900-1915]. No stated edition. The silhouetted photo shows Armstrong on horseback. Fair: stained and with some shallow punctures. Unposted. The date range comes from the postal rates printed on the card. Private postal card portraying Samuel Chapman Armstrong. Armstrong commanded a regiment of..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970. First edition. Soft cover. 38p. Running across the top margins are photos of the spines of 833 HUP books, "a number that represents 35 percent of our books in print." Booklet for authors describing the stages of publishing at HUP--from submission and preparation of..... More
Hamburg: Hauswedell & Nolte, 2000. First edition. Soft cover. 94p, many black-and-white ills. In German. Auction held on November 14, 2000. Auction catalogue of over 500 European and American artist's books and periodicals in traditional and mixed media, from the estate of Rolf Dittmar. Chiefly postwar publications. With printed estimated..... More
Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1978. First edition. Soft cover. 208p, over 200 ills. of over 200 thoroughly described works. Compiled with the assistance of advanced graduate students at Yale and elsewhere; the first in a projected series of three catalogues of the Wadsworth Atheneum's European paintings. Classically designed by Nathan Garland..... More
Pasadena: Art Center College of Design, 1985. First edition. Soft cover. N.p. (285 items), several ills., several in color. Owner's blind stamp on first page. Exhibition catalogue, surprisingly uncommon. Hays's text recalls hanging out with Glaser in 1960s New York. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the..... More
El Cajon, CA: Grossmont College Gallery, 1980. Levitt, Helen. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 25 color plates. Levitt's photos of New York street life, without identifying captions. The short text relates her photos to the work of Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans. Can be sent outside the US for less than..... More
London: Henry Sotheran, 1929. First edition. Soft cover. 80p + many ills. Base of spine chipped, mended. Covers soiled. "Sotheran's Price Current of Literature, No. 815 is dedicated to the memory of Henry Cecil Sotheran, who died in St. George's Hospital on October 15th, 1928, as the result of a...... More
New York: Sinden Galleries, 1995. Perlis, Don. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 8 color pls. Laid in: opening reception announcement. Inspired by the writings of Georges Bataille, these bordello paintings show a "general aura of decadence made halcyon, of forbidden romance made plain." Figurative realism. Can be sent outside the..... More
![Item #25708 Les Pensees [serigraph artist's book, presentation copy, 1 of 50]. Heraclite...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25708.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973461)
Princeton, NJ: "Collection Contraste" Editions Lipton, 1949. Girard, Andre. Limited edition. Soft cover. 32 loose unnumbered bifolia plus illustrated rear endpaper (all according with OCLC record), in softcover chemise which is within translucent vellum wrappers printed with a design by Girard (rather torn). Base of spine irregularly worn away. The..... More
Zurich: Graphis Press (Walter Herdeg), 1970/71. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. 109-194, many photos and other ills., many in color. Published as part of volume 26. Cover design by Fritz Gottschalk. In English, German, and French. Feature articles on designers Armin Hofmann, Gottschalk + Ash, and Hans-Ulrich + Ute Osterwalder..... More
Zurich: Graphis Press (Walter Herdeg), 1974/75. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. 279-368, many photos and other ills., many in color. Published as part of volume 30. Cover design by Les Mason. In English, German, and French. Photo is cropped on the right. Long feature article on "Diagrams: The Graphic Visualization..... More
Zurich: Amstutz & Herdeg, Graphis Press, 1950-1952. First edition. Sewn soft cover. Lot of 14 issues: numbers 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, and 40 through 44 of this "International Journal [later Bimonthly] for Graphic and Applied Art," all from volumes 6-8. Variously paged (each ca. 100p)..... More
Zeeland, MI: Herman Miller, 1991. No stated edition. Soft cover, spiral bound. [24]p (several folding), many light-hearted watercolor ills. Several blank pages for notes at the end. Ca. 9 x 11 inches. Sales brochure promoting the Miller line of office furniture and how it helps diverse users to be "comfortable..... More
