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
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
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, 1920. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., many plates (fine bindings). Auction catalogue of 175 lots: "the complete writings of distinguished American, English and French authors in finely bound library editions." Ruppert was a brewing magnate, US Congressman, and owner of the New York Yankees (1915-1939)..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1921. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., several title-page illustrations. No prices realized. With an appreciation of Trumbull by Annie E. Trumbull and a long introduction to the collection. Auction catalogue of 1133 items "comprising a notable collection of books, tracts and broadsides of Connecticut and..... 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: 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, 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
New York: Murder Ink, n.d. [early 1970s]. Unbound card stock. Ca. 7 x 4 inches. Original die-cut bookmark from the late great mystery bookstore, Murder Ink. It dates from the store's early days on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, ca. 1972-73. Can be sent outside the US for less..... More
No place: Unpublished, n.d. [19th century?]. Unbound sheet. One leaf, folded once to make four panels. On the first panel is a hand-colored woodcut or wood engraving of two mules in conversation. Beneath them is the verse headed When Shall We Three Meet Again? The other three panels are blank. ..... 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
London: B. Weinreb Architectural Books, 1975. First edition. Sewn soft cover. 319p, many ills. Catalogue of 1,979 books and other sources on furniture, interior design, murals, mosaics, ceilings, exhibitions, ceramics, metalwork, jewelry, textiles, vases, ornament, and some original drawings and watercolors. Chiefly British and European titles of the 18th-20th centuries..... More
Frankfurt: Joseph Baer & Co., 1929. First edition. Soft cover. 28p, many ills. Prospectus for the "most important private collection of 15th century books formed in Germany since the Klemm Collection has been sold in 1886." Illustrations of woodcuts and text pages from a selection of the 850 books to..... More
New York: New York Public Library, 1933. First edition. Soft cover. 60p, no ills. Reprinted from the library's June-August 1933 Bulletin. Over 1000 entries, chosen largely for their illustrations. Grouped into Bibliographies, Periodicals, Plant Forms as Motives and Pattern, Plant Forms in the Applied Arts, Plant Forms in the Fine..... More
Tunbridge Wells: P.M. Barnard, n.d. [ca. 1910-12]. First edition. Soft cover. 74p, several ills. Bookseller catalogue with 162 items, often described and documented in detail. The "facsimiles" are reproductions of woodcut illustrations. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
N.p. [Redding, CA?]: Colleen Barry, 1996. Barry, Colleen. Three-dimensional object. Unique mixed-media book object. Ca. 10 inches high, 7 inches wide, and 5 inches deep including the door knob. Signed and dated. Purchased from the artist in the year of its creation, 1996. Photos are too light; colors are..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1865, 1875, 1882, 1898. Various editions. Hardcover. Each variously paged (from 480p to over 1100p), no ills. Occasional toning from material laid in. The 1865 edition is rebound in old half leather and marbled boards; the others are all in their original cloth bindings. (1) ..... More
London: B.T. Batsford, 1944 (1st pub. 1943). Whistler, Rex. "Second Impression, with corrections, Spring 1944" Hardcover. 148p, several line ills. + 42 ills., 1 in color. Jacket by Rex Whistler is torn and soiled. Inscribed "To Miss Eileen Trans with friendly regards from Harry Batsford Opening Day, N.Y. 1948." Chiefly..... More
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New York: Terry Belanger, 1977. First edition. Stapled sheets. Issues for March 1977 and April 1977. Each 8p, a few ills. Duplicated typescript, stapled in one corner. Vol. V, nos. 3 and 4, of this informative newsletter, whose news and reflections are still missed by many. Can be sent outside..... More
London: Phaidon, 1957. Advance blads. Soft cover. These are not the books, but publicity materials for volumes 1 and 2 of Venetian School. Each: many ills. on 32 pages + tipped-in color frontispieces., bound up from the printed sheets. Vol. 1 includes Berenson's prefaces to the 1957 and 1932 editions;..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967-1969. Various editions. Hardcover. Hundreds of pages, some ills. Light shelfwear and soil; overall clean and sturdy). No d.j. (if issued?). From Henry Adams to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Vol. 5 is the 1969 first printing; vols. 1-4 are 3rd or 4th printings of 1967 and..... More
Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, n.d. [1992-93]. First edition. Unbound sheets. Folded card plus 2 loose sheets. Printed by offset in two colors. Ca. 4 x 5 1/2 inches. Publisher's prospectus. One sheet reads, "A gentle reminder to let friends, collectors, and book lovers everywhere know that Carol's nifty new alphabet..... More
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1966. Limited edition. Soft cover. 66p + ca. 32p of reproductions of books and ephemera. One of 1500 soft cover copies; there were also 400 clothbound copies. Exhibition catalogue of 60 Spiral Press books and ephemera from 1926 through 1966, with a long history by..... More
Rennes: Compagnons du Sagittaire [printer], 2007. Limited edition. Soft cover. 264p, many black-and-white photos. In French. One of 700 copies. Very informative exhibition catalogue of more than 50 artist magazines from the US, Britain, and Europe that were published from 1962 on. The exhibition was held at three sites in..... More
