London and New York: Heinemann and Comet Books, 1939 and 1949. Brown, Paul. UK edition is probably first; US edition is stated first paperback printing. Hardcover and soft cover. UK edition: 273p, many line ills. US edition: 243p, many line ills., now with green overlays. All ills. by Paul Brown..... 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
New York: Wm. E. Rudge's Sons, 1945. Armitage, Merle. Trade edition. Hardcover in slipcase. 74p, many ills., some with a second flat color (a sort of rust-coral). Cover stamped in silver. One of 3000 hardcover copies in slipcase (which is very good). No d.j., as issued. Armitage's thoughts on book..... More
Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 286p, several photos. Slight wear to jacket. History of the innovative curriculum at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University from 1900 on, through a study of the administrations of the first six art directors (Charles F. Binns, Charles..... More
London: Thomas and Hudson, 1993. Meehan, Aidan. First edition. Soft cover. 160p, over 400 line ills. by the author. Comprehensive guide to analyzing and constructing the spirals and related motifs of Celtic design,by a well-known student and practitioner of it. The text is in very readable calligraphy. Can be sent..... More
![I Mean You Know [1 of 300, signed]. Warren Lehrer](/pictures/thumb/30294.jpg?v=1626900968)
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
Waltham, MA: Watch City Poetry Series, 1981. Sagalyn, Avital. First edition. Indivdual sheets, accordion folded. Ed. by Jennifer Rose and Laraine Pinnone. Pamphlet Nos. 1 through 4 in this series (all published?). Each offers a few poems, printed by offset on both sides of one sheet, folded into thirds. Ill..... More
![Possibilities 1; An Occasional Review [Problems of Contemporary Art]. Robert Motherwell, eds](/pictures/thumb/30292.jpg?v=1626900966)
New York: Wittenborn, Schulz, 1947. First edition. Soft cover. 111p, many black-and-white ills. Typographic cover by Paul Rand. Handling soil to covers; small scrape to front cover. Publisher's binding glue stains to joints. Overall internally very good. Motherwell was the editor for art. The other editors were Harold Rosenberg (writing)..... More
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1951. First edition. Soft cover. Auction Catalogue 1283, November 14 and 17, 1951. 348 lots, many black-and-white ills. Cover soil; internally very good. Museum de-accession, with label on front cover and small ink stamp on first page and back cover. The 88 paintings are priced in..... More
Boston: Ginn, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. 162p, no ills. Covers lightly rubbed, paper label browned. From the library of a professor Cross, with his pencil name and with a gift card laid in. Perhaps a later printing? (copyright line reads 66.12). No jacket (as issued?). Originally published in the scientific..... More
New York: Bruce R. Lewin Gallery, 1995. Anton, Peter. First edition. seed packet. Unopened seed packet purportedly containing assorted cantaloupe seeds to be opened under zero gravity and sowed during a lunar eclipse. Issued as an invitation to a private preview of Peter Anton: Recent Sculptures. Stained (probably artist's linseed..... More
![Les Pensees [serigraph artist's book, presentation copy, 1 of 50]. Heraclite d'Ephese, Andre...](/pictures/thumb/25708.jpg?v=1626632701)
1949. Heraclite [Heraclitus]. Les Pensees. Princeton, NJ: "Collection Contraste" Editions Lipton 1949. 32 loose unnunmbered 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 plates..... More
![Phillipps Manuscript 8336 [Catalogue 79]; The Famous Fourteenth Century Composite Volume...](/pictures/thumb/30266.jpg?v=1625748639)
London: William H. Robinson, n.d. [1949 ]. First edition. Sewn paperbound. The subtitle continues: "Including the autograph manuscript of the lyrics of an otherwise unknown early fourteenth century English poet, the earliest manuscript of the first treatise on hunting written by an Englishman, etc. etc. The volume as a whole..... More
![The Paintings of Eduard Steichen [with 2 menus]. Anne Cohen DePietro, Mary Steichen Calderone](/pictures/thumb/30265.jpg?v=1625748638)
Huntington, NY: Heckscher Museum, 1985. Steichen. First edition. Stapled paperbound. 48p, many ills., some in color. Laid in: erratum sheet; also 2 copies of the menu for The Lenders Dinner, June 28, 1985, catered by Frank Allison, Northport, NY. The menus are tried with lavender ribbon. Text by DePietro, and..... More
New York (?): unstated, n.d. [1983]. First edition. Soft cover. 40p (including covers), many photos and line ills. Published as the catalogue for the "Preparing for War" section in the pioneering Terminal New York exhibition, which was held in the Brooklyn Army Terminal in 1983. Opening with an epigraph from..... More
Darmstadt: Alexander Koch, n.d. [1910-11]. First edition. Hardcover (limp boards). 30 plates with captions, printed on rectos. A wonderful collection of 600 monograms, initials, and signets designed by leading German and Austrian typographers, designers, architects, etc., of the turn of the 20th century. Includes many prize-winners, Wiener Werkstaette artists, and..... More
London: Anthony d'Offay, 1989. Richter, Gerhard. Privately printed. Hardcover (paper-covered boards) in original corrugated cardboard mailing enclosure, with address label. N.p., 12 color ills. Desk calendar featuring 12 works based on landscapes or buildings: "all works are acrylic on original photographs reproduced actual size." Laid in: New Year's greeting slip..... More
N.p. [Leipzig]: Archiv fur Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchsgraphik (Wiener Heft), N.d. [1922]. Offprint. Soft cover. 23p, several text ills. + many ills. on 14 pls., a few in flat color. Ca. 9 x 12 inches. Covers poor (torn across, chipped). Outer pages dogeared. A few neat ink or pencil notes. Presentation..... More
London: Sotheby, 1932. First edition. Soft cover. viii, 61p + 51 fine collotype pls. (many folding out to 15 inches), 5 in color. One plate has added areas of black and gold, making it three-dimensional. Wth introductory text. The first of several sales of the fabulous Beatty collection of medieval..... More
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1968. First edition. Soft cover. 462 lots + many black-and-white ills. (chiefly of the automobiles, also some clocks and furniture). Lots 351-462 comprise a wide variety of automobiles, bicycles, and parts, ca. 1902-1920. Unpriced. Knight was a member of the wealthy textile family who originated the..... More
New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1959. First edition. Stapled soft cover. 12p, 10 black-and-white ills. Covers scuffed with handling wear; light handling soil to outer pages. Short closed tears around die-cut opening that reveals the number 8 of the title. One painting each by Albers, de Kooning, Gorky, Guston, Kline..... More
New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1973. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., chiefly 181 ills., 22 in color. Twenty-fifth anniversary loan exhibition of 54 works sold by Janis over the years, plus illustrations of others not included in the show. "With this exhibition the gallery marks its 201st presentation," and there..... More
Utrecht: A. Oosthoek's Uitgeversmaatschappij for the International Union of Crystallography, 1965. Escher, M.C. First edition. Hardcover. 84p, 41 pls., many in color. A few light stains to front cover, two tiny spots to one inside margin. No jacket. Description and analysis of Escher's patterns using classical symmetry, black-and-white symmetry, and..... More
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1950. Weiler, M.C. Reprint. Hardcover. 243 pp., line ills. plus color jacket by M.C. Weiler. . Lively vernacular horse racing stories, first published in magazines 1915-1921, and in book form in 1923. Not a scarce book, but of interest to book or reading historians because of the child's..... More
London: Badminton Magazine, 1904. First edition. Soft cover. Pp. [501]-507, 1 photo. Removed from the Badminton Magazine, volume 28, 1904, and stapled within paper covers. Tears to inside margins but still soundly stapled. A humorous account of a lady's (mis)adventures with wagering. Presented in the guise of an amateur letter..... More
