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
Ecouen: Office de Tourisme d'Ecouen, 2012. Limited edition (1 of 1000 copies). Soft cover. 152p, many ills., many in color. In French. Trace of old price sticker on front cover. Very comprehensive survey of the French, British, and American painters and printmakers who frequented this lesser-known artists' colony just north..... 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
![Item #25738 Cygnea Cantio: Swan Song [no. 2 of 50, signed]. Tracey Bush](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25738.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973461)
N.p. [England]: Tracey Bush, 1999. Bush, Tracey. Limited edition. One folded sheet. Artist's book consisting of one stiff leaf of tan paper, folded in thirds, within blue cloth covers with ties. Very faint ghost of an old small label on back cover, which could easily be removed. Folded, 6 x...... More
![Item #30660 The Way I See It [Broadway columnist Earl Wilson's copy]. Eddie Cantor](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30660.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1641235983)
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1959. No stated edition. Hardcover. Ed. by Phyllis Rosenteur. 204p, no ills. Line on copyright page reads 94611. With ink stamp, "From The Library of Earl Wilson The New York Post." Jacket torn, as shown. Breezy memoir, full of inspirational life lessons learned by the singer/comedian..... More
Edinburgh: Morning Star, et al. 1977. LeWitt,Sol. Limited edition. Soft cover. [20]p, no ills.; printed on rectos. Afterword by Pierre Joris. Front and back covers designed by Sol LeWitt. One of 500 copies. Prints Celan's poem "Irisch" in German, followed by five translations in English (by Pierre Joris, Harry Gilonis..... More
![Item #30802 Aphorisms [1 of 50, signed]. William Cole, Damon Lehrer](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30802.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1645993893)
Cambridge: The Bow & Arrow Press / Cole & Contreras, 1992. Lehrer, Damon. Limited edition. Limp boards. Loose sheets and folded gatherings, with guardsheets. Partly printed in brown. No. 32 of this edition, signed by Cole (one of 50 thus, from a total edition of 89). Eight aphorisms written by..... More
![Item #26173 Raoul Dufy [1 of 375]. Pierre Courthion](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26173.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695127082)
Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1929. Dufy, Raoul. Limited edition. Hardcover. [36]p. many line ills. + 40 pls., 2 in color pochoir (Leda and the Swan, "Carnaval"). In original glassine jacket. Within poor original board covers (spine gone, much of original silver foil covering is scraped away). No. 216 of 375..... More
Millau, France: L'Entre Deux, 1968. Braeken, Bernard. Limited edition. Soft cover. 45p + 16 original linocuts (4 in color) + color linocut on cover, all by Braeken. No. 132 of 300 copies (after 50 signed copies). Transparent jacket is chipped with small tears. Short presentation by Daveluy. Poems of memory..... More
![Item #31343 The View from the Horizon [1 of 1000 copies]. Timothy Drever, constructions, texts...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31343.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1683577093)
London: Coracle, 1997. Drever, Timothy. Limited edition. Soft cover. 60p, several tipped-in color photos, 2 maps. "The first attempt to link the work of the artist Timothy Drever with the writings of his alter ego Tim Robinson . . . dating from just before [Drever/Robinson] disappeared from the London art..... More
Westmoreland, NH: Bridge Press, 2016. Cohen, Brian D. Limited edition (200 signed copies). Soft cover. N.p., 25 pls. "Reproduces the first twenty-five etchings of the Emblem series," accompanying an exhibition in Brattleboro, VT. Inspired by Renaissance emblem books, Cohen depicts "mostly things I like, encounter, or dream of. They are..... More
Paris: Goupil, 1911. Brun, Louis Auguste. Limited edition. Hardcover (buckram with leather label, original wrappers bound in). 150p, many ills. No. 73 of 1000 copies. Focuses on Brun's early career--portraits, landscapes, and a chapter of interesting studies of horsemen and horsewomen astride and aside. More
Madrid: 1965. Maniquant, Sooky. Limited edition. Paperbound. [16]p, 7 large pls. + 2 mounted color pls. + 2 cover ills. Additional text by Carlos-Antonio Arean. Covers soiled, handling wear; ex-lib. with label on front cover; no internal marks. In Spanish. One of 1000 copies. Catalogue of an exhibition by this..... More
Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1998. First paperback edition (1st pub. 1997). Soft cover. 112p, no ills. "Signed by the author" label on front cover; bookstore price sticker on back cover. Boldly signed by Graham on title page. Graham had recently won the Pulitzer Prize; this was her seventh book of..... More
![Item #30116 Fra Filippo Lippi [1406-1469] [presentation copy]. F. Gray Griswold](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30116.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973510)
New York: Duttons, 1934. First edition. Hardcover (imitation vellum). 35p + 1 plate. No limitation notice, but many of Griswold's books were published in editions of a few hundred. A partly imagined biography, based on Vasari. Signed in ink on title page, also an ink presentation "Gay from Frank." Can..... 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
Ludwigshafen: Galerie Lore Dauer, n.d. [1966]. Krieger, Margarethe. First edition. Soft cover. [36]p, 16 large pls. Signed by Krieger. Exhibition catalogue of powerful expressionistic woodcuts illustrating works by Berthold Brecht. One of Krieger's early publications. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate... More
Athens: Institut Francais d'Athenes, 1981. de Stael, Nicolas. Limited edition. Soft cover. 32p, several ills. by Nicolas de Stael and others. Cover ill. from a collage by de Stael. No. 249 of 300 copies on papier d'Arches. Exhibition catalogue of 26 books, plus much documentation on Lecuire's career. Includes a...... More
![Item #25240 Bayard [1 of 1590 copies]. Lo Duca](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25240.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
![Item #31454 Three Poems Written in Ireland [acquired the day of Robert Lowell's funeral]. Margot...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31454.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1680553925)
Cambridge, MA: Menhaden Press; distributed by Stationarius, 1977. Lockwood, Jim. Limited edition. Sewn soft cover. [20]p, 1 color woodcut by Jim Lockwood. Typeset and printed by N.K. Kelley and F.W. Hegeman. No. 46 of numbered copies (80 for sale). A special association copy. Laid in: publisher's sheet announcing this title..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1974. First edition. Hardcover (boards). 133p + 8p of photos. Lacks original glassine jacket. Presentation from art historian Carl Nordenfalk. On the surface, was there ever a less likely pair of correspondents than the plainspoken Midwestern novelist and the erudite German emigre art historian? "What..... More
N.p. [North Brookfield, MA]: Boston Public Library, 1996. Limited edition (1 of 600 copies). Unbound sheet. "In honor of David McCord on his ninety-ninth birthday, November 15, 1996, the Boston Public Library reprints as a broadside his poem from One at a Time, published by Little, Brown. Six hundred copies..... More
Berkeley: Arts & Crafts Press, 1999. Dow, Arthur Wesley. Limited edition. Sewn soft cover in self wrappers. Two pamphlets, laid in tri-fold cloth portfolio, which is lined with blue paper and closed with a ribbon and wood button. 26, 30p, each with many ills., a few color plates tipped in..... More
Stuttgart: Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, 1992. First edition. Soft cover. 190p, many color ills. Color-packed survey of advertising posters made for the German savings bank, from the late 1920s through 1992, along with historical texts. Many well-known artists, and a wide variety of styles, are here. The title, "He who doesn't honor..... More
