![Item #30102 News [1 of 60 signed copies]. Rosa Lachenmeier](/pictures/thumb/30102.jpg?v=1633973508)
Basel: BookART, 1993. Lachenmeier, Rosa. Limited Edition. Bolt-bound boards. N.p., many color ills., printed by photo-offset. No text except the front and back matter and month part-titles. No. 8 of 60 signed copies. The artist presents a monthly chronicle of world and other events via news photos collaged within global..... More
Boston: Lame Duck Books, n.d. [ca. 1999]. First edition. Soft cover. 88p + 1 color ill. on cover (an e.e. cummings painting). 356 detailed items. Fwd. by proprietor John Wronoski. "We would like to think...[that this catalogue] suggests a shadowy, and often tragic, narrative of the romantic individualism at the..... More
Paris: CNRS Editions, 2004. Bosse, Abraham. First edition. Soft cover. 317p + 38 ills. Detailed study of the influential French etcher-illustrator and his times--his life, the world of printmaking and illustration, the Academy and his difficulties with it, his study of perspective and theory, etc. Scarce in the U.S.... More
Paris: Le Courrier Graphique, 1956. First edition. Soft cover. 108p, many ills. and ads (some in flat color). Issue 86 of this French trade journal devoted to book design and the printing and publishing industries. Surveys a decade of French typography, fine press books, photography books, pocket books ("un probleme..... More
Tokyo, New York, San Francisco: Kodansha, 1975. Hamada. First edition. Hardcover. 305p, 88 ills., many in color. Laid in: a slip describing the binding, which was used only on this first edition--silkscreen designs on hand-laid paper over boards. In original clear plastic jacket. The first extensive English-language study of the..... More
N.p. No stated publisher, n.d. [1880s-90s]. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. One newsprint broadsheet, folded once to make 4 pages. Large advertising flyer for Lee's "monster aggregation of living marvels. The most successful exhibition traveling of features that cannot be duplicated in America." Advertises educated horses, donkeys, and dogs; reed..... More
![Item #30294 I Mean You Know [1 of 300, signed]. Warren Lehrer](/pictures/thumb/30294.jpg?v=1633973546)
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
Beverly Hills, CA: Harry A. Levinson, n.d. [mid-1960s?]. First edition. Soft cover. 87p + 90 large pls., including cover. Over 340 annotated entries in many fields of the humanties and sciences; subject index. More
Newton Abbot, UK: David & Charles, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 151p, 115 ills., 33 in color. Jacket lightly sunned. From the sumptuous to the quirky--a valuable survey of the fine binding craft in the 20th century and its artists, from Cobden-Sanderson and Cockerell to Smith and Glaister, and many in..... More
Nanjing: Yilin Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover (plasticized boards). 176p, dozens of color photos and short captions. No jacket, as issued. Photographic survey of dark red pottery teapots, a specialty of Yixing in China's Jiangsu Province. Includes traditional examples from the 16th-century Ming Dynasty on, and many contemporary examples. Heavy;..... More
Bordeaux: Librairie Joseph Vincent, n.d. [ca. 1890-1900]. First edition. Soft cover. 16p (self wrs.), color ills. on covers and each page. Bookseller's catalogue of French children's picture books illustrated by Mars, Boutet de Monvel, Crafty, and Caran d'Ache, all published by Plon. Each page reproduces a page from one of..... More
Paris: Robert de Jonghe and Agnes Vienot, September 2011. First edition. Soft cover. 60p, several large ills. Bookseller catalogue offering 404 books in all fields of food, drink, and the culinary arts. Emphasis on France and French books. A joint enterprise of Robert de Jonghe (Librairie Le Festin de Babette..... More
Paris: Salet, n.d. [ca. 1959-60]. First edition. Soft cover. 90p, many ills. including a number of bindings. Bookseller catalogue with 273 entries--incunabula and other early works, illustrated books, fine bindings, etc., including history, literature, religious texts, belles lettres, etc. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default..... More
Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms, 1993. Light, Michael. First edition. Hardcover. N.p., many black-and-white photos printed in sheet-fed gravure on black pages. Evocative photos, sometimes deliberately grainy, of details of ranch life, gear, animals, buildings, etc., that are visceral, ordinary, and often unnoticed. More
Caligari: Paolo Pisano, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 174p, many photos and line ills., several in color. Monograph on the pre-Christian grotto-crypt of the church of Santa Restituta in Caligari, Sardinia, and its excavation. Chapters on its history, some reproductions and transcriptions of documents relating to the later church, inscriptions found..... More
Springfield, MA: Copyrighted by Julia Munson Sherman, 1944. First edition. Soft cover. Vol. 32, no. 4. Pp. 147-244 + several pls., many ads. Articles by various museum directors and others on the histories, status, and policies of the National Gallery of Art (Walker), Walters Art Gallery (Hill), Princeton (Mather), Cone..... More
![Item #25240 Bayard [1 of 1590 copies]. Lo Duca](/pictures/thumb/25240.jpg?v=1633973457)
Paris: Prisma, 1943. First edition. Hardcover (original boards). 30p + 49 pls. followed by fold-out captions. No. 715 of 1590 copies. Ink name of previous owner, a Boston-area photographer. No d.j. (as issued?). The first book on Hippolyte Bayard, the early French photographer of the 1840s. Reproduces his portraits (including..... More
Andover, MA: Addison Gallery of American Art, 2007. First edition. Soft cover. [20]p, several small color ills. Exhibition publication. Lorenz describes in detail her mixed-media works on display: objects based on The Pilgrim's Progress, A Novel History, The Fettered Lettered, The Strength of Denham, Binding Ties, Chewing Tzu-The Rumination Book..... More
New York: Lori Bookstein Fine Art, 1997. First edition. No binding. One sheet of glossy card stock, folded to make 6 panels, 2 ills. Ca. 8 x 10 inches, folded. Announcement of an exhibition of recent gridded paintings by this abstract and color field artist. With Wilkins's text on 3..... More
Munich: Rosenthal, n.d. [ca. 1940]. First edition. Soft cover. 146p, 1 plate printed in red and black + cover ill. Over 1800 short entries of books, manuscripts, autographs, documents, and other material relating to Bavaria, from the 16th century on. Issued as a supplement to Katalog 133. Can be sent..... More
![Item #26540 Exhibitions from the Summer Colonies: No. 3 Mystic [1929-30]. Macbeth Gallery](/pictures/thumb/26540.jpg?v=1633973480)
1929. Macbeth Gallery. Exhibitions from the Summer Colonies: No. 3 Mystic. NY, Dec. 24, 1929-Jan. 6, 1930. One sheet, folded twice to make 4 panels, printed on one side; 1 ill. Panel size 4 x 8 inches. Good (handling soil, one-inch closed tear to bottom margins). ** Reprises part of..... 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--how they use classical symmetry, black-and-white symmetry..... 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
London: Maggs Bros. Summer 1932. First edition. Soft cover. 120p, a few plates. Bookseller catalogue of more than 400 annotated items handwritten by royal and noble women, actresses, novelists and dramatists, artists, women in religious orders, and others from throughout Britain and Europe, of the 16th-19th centuries. The item numbering..... More
London: Maggs Bros. June 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 90p, several line ills. Back cover dusty. Fwd. by Philip Gosse, author of "History of Piracy." Bookseller catalogue of 363 items: books and ephemera of the 17th-20th centuries dealing with "highwaymen, murderers, pirates, plotters, robbers, smugglers, witches, etc." Chiefly non-fiction. Indexed..... More
