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

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 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

Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1987. Burke, Bill. Limited edition. Hardcover. N.p., many duotone photos by Burke and other ills., some in color. Plasticized pictorial boards; no jacket, as issued. One of 1000 copies (unstated). The first edition of this remarkable artist’s book. Via photographs, diary entries, and collaged ephemera, Burke documented..... More

Cambridge, MA: Charles B. Wood III, n.d. [2000]. First edition. Soft cover. 79p, many ills. 203 entries, all scrupulously described. Bookseller catalogue, continuing Wood's pioneering series of books about and containing photographs.  79p, many ills.  203 entries, all scrupulously described.  Can be sent outside the US for less than the..... More

Paris: Maeght for Bibliotheque Aragon, Choisy-le-Roi, 1995. Cortot, Jean. First edition. Soft cover, self wrappers. [96]p, many color ills. Exhibition catalogue of dozens of books and manuscripts written and/or illustrated by poet-painter-printmaker Jean Cortot (1925-2018).  Poems and statements by Cortot; also texts by Pierre Beres, Michel Butor, and several others..... More

Paris: Magnard, n.d. [1960s]. No stated edition. Sewn soft cover. 24p, several line ills. and many handwriting examples. Printed in grey. Covers and pages age-browned. French elementary student's exercise book for learning to write cursive lowercase letters in the "sloping English" style.  Sixth and last in the series.  Each spread..... More

Chicago: Ernest Dressel North, 1923. First edition. Paperbound. N.p. (429 items), a few plates of fine bindings. Covers soiled, creased; outer upper rear corners torn. Chiefly literature. The plates show bindings by Cobden-Sanderson, Sauty, Bradstreet's, Riviere and Son, and two embroidered bindings (one from the 17th century by the Nuns..... More

New York: Lyle Stuart, 1958. Limited Edition. Soft cover. [16]p, several black-and-white line ills. by Fingesten.  Cover wear and fading; staples rusted; first pages lightly stained at bottom.  Die-cut front cover revealing the word "private." A send-up of artistic terms and concepts by the German-born artist and educator Peter Fingesten..... More

1992. Freeman, Brad, and Johanna Drucker. Otherspace: Martian Ty/opography. [Atlanta] Nexus Press and [NY] Interplanetary Productions 1992. N.p., many varied ills. printed in black and red. Fine hardcover; no d.j., as issued. ** Adventures of astrophysicist Jane as she explores the surface of Mars. The long colophon describes the computerized..... More

1983. Galerie J.H. Bauer. Katalog 23: ExLibris [cover reads: ExLibris aus 6 Jahrhunderten]. Hannover, 1983. 526p, over 1500 small black-and-white ills. Very good hardcover (covers smudged) in acetate d.j. (original?). Errata slip for one entry laid in. In German. ** Priced sale catalogue of over 10,000 bookplates from 6 centuries..... More

San Francisco: [Grabhorn Press for M.H. de Young Memorial Museum], 1963. Angelo, Valenti; Frederic Goudy. First edition. Sewn softcover. Title continues: "and printed on the occasion of the exhibition of 'One Hundred Books from the Grabhorn Press' held at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum San Francisco, May 17th to..... More

Munich: J. Halle, n.d. [1925]. First edition. Soft cover. 32p, no ills. except two 16th-century woodcut ills. on covers. In German. Over 560 items about music and musicians: books, sheet music, and portraits of composers and performers, including many women. Order postcard laid in. Can be sent outside the U.S...... More