Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. First edition. Paperbound. 272p, many ills., some in color. The first major survey of the Surrealist magazine Documents (1929-30), edited by Bataille. It "combined an eclectic mixture of art, archaeology, ethnography, and popular cultue." Published in conjunction with the Hayward Gallery exhibition "Undercover Surrealism: Picasso..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1919. box 15, not 7. 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..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1916. box 15. First edition. Paperbound. N.p. [1037 lots] + over 20 ills. on 8 pls. Covers sunned, minor penciling, tips of backstrip chipped. Covers may loosen. Pages age browned, else internally very good. Important auction catalogue of over a thousand American, English, French, German..... 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
1929. Baer, Joseph & Co., Frankfurt. Will Sell by Auction Oktober 1926 Part I of a Collection of Incunabula the Property of Herr Kurt Wolff. 28p, many ills. Poor paperbound: front cover detached, rear cover missing. ** Prospectus for the "most important private collection of 15th century books formed in..... 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
![Hoen Ho: Kyuseikyu Reisenmei Rinsho Shugakucho [calligraphy manual]. Chuo School of Art Press](/pictures/thumb/26577.jpg?v=1615216394)
1987. Chuo School of Art Press. Hoen Ho: Kyuseikyu Reisenmei Rinsho Shugakucho [The Square and Circle Method: Penmanship etc.]. Tokyo: Chu Bijyutsu Gakuen Shuppankyoku [Chuo School of Art Press], 1987. 83 loose sheets total, housed in a folding cardboard case with ties. The sheets are ca. 9 1/2 x 13..... More
Vienna: Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, 1986. First edition. N.p., 30 black-and-white ills. mostly full-page pls. Cover handling soil. In German. Exhibition catalogue of 88 Baroque sumptuous book bindings and book illustrations from the museum's library. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate... More
Chicago: Ernest Dressel North, 1923. First edition. Paperbound. N.p. (429 items), a few plates of fine bindings. Covers soiled, creased. 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 of Little Gidding). Can be..... More
Chicago: F.H. Revell, 1882 or 1883. First edition. Unbound folded sheet. The outside advertises Revell's book and stationery departments (printing and binding was also offered). The inside presents the year's weekly lessons for Bible study: Studies in the Acts of the Apostles and Studies in the Old Testament. The firm..... More
![Private Dictionary of the Arts [1 of 500, inscribed]. Peter Fingesten](/pictures/thumb/30181.jpg?v=1622053333)
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
No place: Privately printed by David R. Godine, 1967. First edition. Sewn paperbound. [8]p. A selection of seven poems by Graves, Housman, Durrell, Dylan Thomas, Eliot, Jeffers, and Lindsay. No other text or colophon. Printed in letterpress, with decorations in red on the cover. A scarce early example of David..... More
New York: H.P. Kraus, n.d. [1968]. First edition. Hardcover. 148p + color frontispiece and 115 ills. of woodcuts in the text, mostly the same size as the original. One long folding genealogical chart (shown in fourth photo). Covers stamped in gold; a little smudged and dusty. Catalogue of 97 books..... More
1936. Jaloux, Edmond, introd. Texts by Andre Jaulme and Henri Moncel. Cinquantenaire du Symbolisme [title page]. [Front cover reads: Le Mouvement symboliste: Etude bibliographique et iconographique.] Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale 1936. xix, 253p + several pls. Fair paperbound (covers firmly taped on but poor because they are torn). In French. **..... 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
![News [1 of 60 signed copies]. Rosa Lachenmeier](/pictures/thumb/30102.jpg?v=1619009272)
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
1956. Le Courrier Graphique. Conception et Graphisme du Livre 1945-1955. Paris, 1956. 108p, many ills. and ads (some in flat color). Good paperbound (covers stained). ** Issue 86 of this French trade journal devoted to book design and the printing and publishing industries. Surveys a decade of French typography, fine..... 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
Librairie Joseph Vincent. Albums pour la Jeunesse (Collection Plon). Bordeaux, n.d. [ca. 1890-1900]. 16p (self wrs.), color ills. on covers and each page. Fair paperbound (heavily foxed, small chip out of front cover). ** Bookseller's catalogue of French children's picture books illustrated by Mars, Boutet de Monvel, Crafty, and Caran..... More
London: Maggs Bros. 1927. First edition. Soft cover. 208p (311 items), many large pls., 1 in color. Bookseller catalogue of several categories of bindings: Books from the Libraries of Kings, Queens and Famous Men and Women; Chained and Stamped Bindings; Decorative Bindings from various countries and eras; and Books about..... More
Paris: Promodis, 1985. First edition. Original cloth. 539p, many ills. + many color ills. on 38 plates. Masterful history of the 19th-century French book, with chapters by various experts. Covers book production, publishing and bookselling, the illustrated press, genres and reading audiences, etc. Large and heavy; shipping/handling will be extra..... More
1958. May, James Boyer. Little Magazines. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center 1958. [16]p, a few ills. Good paperbound (margins foxed). ** Exhibition checklist of little magazines and literary reviews from the collection of Dr. Marvin Sukov, with their addresses at the time. Some "are not strictly speaking little magazines, but like..... More
