No place [San Francisco?]: Privately printed, 1978. Adams, Ansel. First edition. Unbound folded sheet. 9 x 12 inches, folded. Edges worn and soiled. Not yellowed as the photo seems to show. The reproduction is fine. Printed on coated stock by Pacific Lithograph Company, supervised by George Waters (Adams's longtime printer)..... More
Paris: Albert Besombes, n.d. [1930s?]. First edition. Soft cover. 79p, several pls., 1 in color. Bookseller catalogue of 310 items, with many bindings. The color plate is an 18th-century mosaic binding. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Buffalo: Hallwells Contemporary Arts Center, 1991. First edition. Soft cover. 28p + 13 plates, bound dos-a-dos. Designed by Buzz Spector. Exhibition catalogue of ca. 40 books by "emerging and mid-career" artists: Nayland Blake, John Boskovich, David Carrino, Andrew Masullo, Tim Maul, Maria Porges, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Cindy Smith, Buzz..... More
Valley Cottage, NY: Aleph-Bet Books, n.d. [1984]. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 22 ills. (somewhat faintly reproduced). A wide variety of titles from this leading specialist, 258 items in all. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
![Item #31542 Eikoh Hosoe [Untitled 42]. James Alinder, ed., Ronald J. Hill](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31542.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1684786984)
Carmel, CA: The Friends of Photography, 1986. Eikoh Hosoe. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 31 plates and 3 small photos. The photos, from 1959 on, are grouped by theme: Man and Woman, Barakei, Kamaitachi, Embrace, Shifukei (Simon: A Private Landscape), Portraits and Workshops, and Architecture by Antonio Gaudi. Published as..... More
New York: R.R. Bowker, 1964. First edition. Soft cover. 224p, several ills. in publishers' ads. Pages age yellowed. A very few lightly dogeared corners. Covers lightly age soiled. With the imprint of Hathaway House Bookshop, Wellesley, MA. Arranged by grade and subject, with indexes to authors, titles, series, and illustrators..... More
London: Arts Council, 1965. Roberts, William. First edition. Soft cover. 30p + 23 plates. Catalogue of 212 works, shown at several locations in London, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Manchester. One painting recreates "The Vorticists at the Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel: Spring 1915," with Frederick Etchells holding the first issue..... More
Kyoto: Hoshino Publishing, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 332p, ca. 300 black-and-white photos + 2 color plates of decorative patterns. Slightly shaken, first gathering detached, guardsheets over color plates torn, pencil scribbling on endpapers and in some margins, ink stamp of former owner. Covers rubbed. No jacket, if issued. Photographic survey..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1919. First (only) edition. Paperbound. Auction catalogue, March 20-27, 1919. N.p. (2409 lots), a few pls. Covers soiled overall, tear to head of spine. Internally nice and clean. No prices realized. Large dispersal sale of hundreds of reproductions of works of art as well as..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1915. First edition. Soft cover. Auction catalogue, May 7, 1915. 483 lots, several plates. Covers age-smudged. Chiefly 19th-century works, with some early books and rarities, such as 16th-18th-century manuscripts and Fr. Colonel's 1620 grammar of the Maya language of Yucatan. The original edition. No prices..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 118p, no ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 540 lots: books and manuscripts chiefly of the 18th-20th centuries from America, Britain, and Europe. Lots 154-171 are "beautiful books printed at the Doves Press." Can be sent outside..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1938. First edition. Soft cover. 108p, a few line ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 608 lots. Besides the Dunbar "Tamarlane," they include "Civil War autographs & letters by Lincoln, Grant, Lee, & others, property of the Estate of John Wanamaker, Philadelphia..... More
![Item #31020 Sales 4221 and 4242: The Library of Abel Cary Thomas [cover title]. American Art...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31020.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1658836809)
New York: American Art Association, 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 2 parts, complete: 132, 121p, a few line ills. Unused bid sheets bound in. Auction catalogues of over 1100 lots: "first editions and autograph letters and manuscripts," including Washington's signed copy of Jeffries on two aeronautical voyages, and an "apparently..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1920. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., several plates. Auction catalogue of 132 lots, held on February 17, 1920; unpriced. Books, manuscripts, and association copies by or relating to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Byron, Clemens, Dickens, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, Swift, Thoreau, etc. Foley was a longtime Boston..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1916. First edition. Soft cover (stiff wrappers, in rubbed but sturdy slipcase). [Ca. 200]p, many ills. From the library of painter Stanley Marc Wright, with his bold ink stamp on both sides of the slipcase. Auction catalogue of 259 American, German, French, Danish, and other..... More
New York: Anderson Auction Co., 1906. First edition. Stapled soft cover. 73p (706 lots), no ills. The auction was held on February 15, 1906. Lightly creased; light cover wear. Contains 137 lots of bookplates with short identifications, 145 lots of Washingtoniana, 83 lots on the War of 1812, and 24..... More
New York: Anderson Galleries, 1924. First edition. Soft cover. 38p, 3 ills. of title pages. Covers worn and soiled; internally clean and complete. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 266 lots: "source books: books by and about Shakespeare, English literature of the Elizabethan period, etchings, engravings, etc. pertinent..... More
New York: Anderson Galleries, 1928. First edition. Soft cover. 34p, a few line ills. Laid in: Anderson Galleries sale catalogue 2233 offering the "Manuscript Horae together with the only perfect copy in America of Nicolaus de Lyra's 'Postillae super Bibliam' [Strassburg, ca. 1472], the property of Professor Paul Soubeiran de..... More
![Item #30485 [Two 1930s French Billheads for Nestle Chocolates]. Anonymous designer](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30485.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973598)
Paris: J. Simon (printer), n.d. [ca. 1933]. No stated edition. Two unbound sheets. Two unused French billheads for Nestle chocolates. One is headed by a bucolic illustration of a milkmaid and dairy cow, printed in red and green. Its verso promotes the health advantages of sugar in the diet of..... More
![Item #30487 Bartlett Sisters [1932]. Anonymous Photographer](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30487.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973599)
N.p. [probably U.S.]: Unpublished, 1932. Original photographs. Unbound photographs. Two sepia-toned photographs showing nine women posing in 19th-century dress in a formal parlor. They are grouped differently in each photo. One is costumed as a man. "Bartlett Sisters 1932" is written in ink in the lower right of each photo..... More
![Item #30484 Northampton Street, Easton, Pa. [windowed souvenir mail card]. Anonymous Photographer](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30484.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973598)
New York: Rotograph Co., 1905. No stated edition. Postcard. Souvenir mail card featuring a windowed set of smaller views. Here the metal clasp holds an accordion-folded strip with 12 photos of sites in and around Easton--The Circle, Delaware River Bridge, Court House, Library, and Lafayette College (several). The main scene..... More
New York: Viking Penguin, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 216p, many ills. + 8 color pls. Pioneering survey of prominent women artists and designers in many fields, "ranging over the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, the Glasgow School of Art, the Russian Constructivists, the Bauhaus, the Wiener Werkstatte, the great..... More
Utrecht: Antiquariaat Forum, 1998. First edition. Soft cover. 197p, many ills., many in color. Bookseller's large handsome catalogue of 752 manuscripts, books, and globes relating to travels, voyages, discoveries, atlases, natural history, architecture and gardens, navigation and related fields. Fully indexed. More
Utrecht: Antiquariaat Forum, 2002. First edition. Soft cover. 463p, many ills., many in color. Bookseller's large handsome catalogue of over 500 "rare books, prints, manuscripts, drawings and a painting, ca. 1600-1850," all with detailed descriptions. The topics include "history of the book, bibliography, (occult) sciences, astronomy, travel, atlases, medicine, dentistry..... More
Manchester, UK: Manchester City Art Gallery, 1975. Wood, Edgar; Sellers, James Henry. First edition. Soft cover. 96p, ca. 30 photos and line ills. Covers rather soiled from handling; internally nice and clean. From the library of architect James Stirling, with his bookplate. Exhibition catalogue of the buildings and furnishings by..... More
