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
Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1911. First edition. Soft cover. 335 items, several ills. In German. "Besonders alte Original-Manuscripte, seltene Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts, eine Abteilung spanische Musik, Original-Tonwerke von Beethoven und Wagner, Etc." Partly from the collection of Burgos musicologist Don. Federico Olmeda, who died in 1909.. Can be sent outside the..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 160p, 116 ills., including 32 large color plates. Described as the first book in English "to focus on the changing perception of light in early Italian painting" (ca. 1250-1430). Examines contemporary attitudes to light, the fresco and panel painting techniques that..... More
Southborough, MA: Yankee Colour Corporation [printer], 1978. No stated edition. Stapled soft cover. 16p, many color photos. Self-mailing booklet advertising the carnivorous joys of Frank Giuffrida's late lamented Hilltop Steak House, Route 1, Saugus, MA. The photos show the dining rooms, exterior, butcher shop, 1000-car parking lot, and, yes, the..... More
Prague: Zdenek Musil, 1967. Hlavaty, Vratislav. No stated edition. Stiff boards, accordion folded. 12p, many color ills. The first volume about the adventures of little Philip. In this wordless comic book he goes traveling--by bus, which he saves after a breakdown, into a dragon's lair to rescue a blonde damsel..... More
Santa Cruz, CA: Hobos from Hell, n.d. [ca. 1996]. First edition. Soft cover. 99p, many ills. (photos, cartoons, drawings, etc.). Dated from internal evidence. Zine anthology of accounts by various hobo writers on hobo lifestyle, travels, encounters, etc. Sometimes raunchy and violent. Includes a few ads for similar publications. Scarce..... More
Munich: Eigenthum und Verlag von Jos. Albert, n.d. [1866?]. Schnorr von Karolsfeld, Jos. Albert. First edition. Portfolio. 16p + 20 loose plates (mounted photographs). Scattered foxing and spotting, but the photos are overall clean, very crisp, and richly printed. Cover wear (front cover is detached). Ex-library (long ago), with title..... More
New York: Holly Solomon Gallery; Pace/MacGill Gallery, 1992. Wegman, William. First edition. Soft cover. [24]p, 12 pls., many in color. In fair original mailing envelope, with postmark and address label. Catalogue for 2 shows: "New Paintings, Polaroids, and Drawings" at Holly Solomon, and "Early Black & White Photographs" at Pace/MacGill..... More
San Francisco: Hotel Mark Hopkins, n.d. [late 1950s-early 1960s]. No stated edition. Unbound folded sheet. Self-mailer, ca. 4 1/2 inches square. Printed in pink and blue. Short descriptions of the history and amenities of this storied hotel atop Nob Hill (now one of the National Trust Historic Hotels of America). ..... More
![Item #30055 [Menu]. Monterey Hotel San Carlos](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30055.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973499)
No place [Monterey?]: No stated publisher, n.d. [1950s?]. Unbound sheet. One sheet of orange card stock, folded once. Hole punched in upper left. Faded at fold, chipped at upper left. A wide selection of canapes, soups, salads and cold plates, from the grill, sandwiches, steaks and chops, potatoes, vegetables, drinks. ..... More
Westborough, MA: House of Whittemore, n.d. [mailed with 2-cent stamp; ca. 1940s-50s]. First edition. Soft cover. 42p, 7 ills. on covers. Old handling soil; handwritten mailing address. Laid in: 4-page typed list of about 100 "hard-to-find titles, good to fine condition") with several ills. Hundreds of items, chiefly 19th-century American..... More
![Item #25293 Quantities [first edition of author's first book, presentation copy]. Richard Howard](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25293.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973457)
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1962. Stated first edition. Soft cover. 80p. Warm presentation "For June & Jacques," dated 10/62. Howard's first book. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate. More
Paris: Galerie Louise Leiris; printed by Draeger Freres, Montrouges, 1959. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 36 pls. (5 of them tipped-in color). In French. Catalogue of 36 illustrated books published by Kahnweiler from 1909 to 1959, with summary details. Contributors include Stein, Picasso, Tzara, Satie, Braque, Masson, Apollinaire, and many..... More
![Item #30402 [Photograph of A. Monroe, Fine Groceries, Fruits & Produce, ca. 1900]. Instantaneous...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30402.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1685227982)
New York: Instantaneous Photo View Co., n.d. [ca. 1900]. Photograph. Ca. 6 x 4 inches on mount that is ca. 8 1/2 x 6 inches. The mount is poor quality cardboard; two corners have broken off, and a crease is developing across the photo. Sepia-toned photograph showing the storefront and..... More
Paris: Musee Jacquemart-Andre; printed by Busson, 1963. First edition. Paperbound. 56p + many pls., several in color. In French. Erratum slip laid in. Large exhibition of this fashionable Paris-based Italian painter (checklist of 270 items). Texts by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer and others. Dashing society portraits, landscapes in the Macchiaioli tradition, Venice..... More
Amsterdam: Internationaal Antiquariaat, n.d. [ca. 1958?]. First edition. Soft cover. 45p, ca. 20 line ills., a few printed in red. Covers faded; corners bumped throughout. 70 items. With indexes of countries, towns, printers, publishers, and some subjects. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate..... More
New York: James F. Drake, 1934. First edition. Soft cover. 44p, no ills. Printed by The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, ME. Lists 346 fiction and non-fiction books by contemporary and earlier writers. James F. Drake Inc., then located at 24 West 40 Street, was established in 1905. "During the 1920s he..... More
Princeton, MA; New York; Montague, MA; Smithtown, NY: the various firms, 2019; 1953; [1992]; [1987?]. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated. (1) James Gray. Short Catalogue One: Incunabula & Post (new series), 2019. 27 items, a few ills., a few in color. (2) Lathrop P. Harper. Catalogue No..... More
Chicago: Chicago University of Commerce, 1913. No stated edition. Hardcover. 293p, many photos and line ills. Some offsetting from the plates. No jacket (as issued?). Textbook, with test questions at the end. Chapters by Thomas A. Bird, Homer J. Buckley, Henry S. Bunting, E.N. Ferdon, and Samuel C. Dobbs. On..... More
New York: Bonanza Books, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 90p, many ills., some in color. Jacket is age soiled with some closed tears. Based on the exhibition assembled by the Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Craftsman's Council. Traditional and contemporary baking, with an emphasis on molded and figurative shapes;..... More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1970. Hidy, Lance. Limited edition. Sewn softcover. [16]p, 1 wood-engraved ill. by Lance Hidy. One of 3000 copies. Originally published in 1758. Illustrated in Godine at Fifty, where Godine describes this letterpress pamphlet as "probably as subversive as anything we issued. In 1970, we were all..... More
N.p. No stated publisher, n.d. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. One sheet of card stock, 1 ill. printed in brown. Tongue-twister verse, featuring the letter F. One of the alliterative rhymes first published in Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation by Willard Johnson (Philadelphia, 1836). Perhaps printed..... More
