New York: Anderson Galleries, 1919. First edition. Soft cover (parts of backstrip chipped away). 1020 lots + many pls. New York Times account of the sale laid in, browning the neighboring pages. The sale totaled $104,269. A well-handled copy, with many pencil prices and some notes by a bidder who..... More
Winnipeg: Plug In Inc., 1991. First edition. Soft cover. 64p, many ills., several in color. Catalogue of an "exhibition of printed textile multiples published by Editions Conz, Verona-Milan." Chiefly silkscreens on cloth. Chapters by Henry Martin, Dick Higgins, and Emmett Williams. Notes on the artists and editions by Wayne Baerwaldt;..... 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
London: Routledge, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 654p,many tables, + many ills. Over 20 essays by specialists on 17th- and 18th-century material culture in Britain, Europe, and America. Their interpretations help shape "a new historical landscape based on the consumption of goods and services." The parts are: Problems, Methods and Concepts;..... More
West Glover, VT: Something Else Press, 1967. First edition. Soft cover. A Great Bear Pamphlet. 14p, 1 small ill. on cover. Ruminations, printed in various tones of blue, red, and black ink. Original price of $1.50 printed on back. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default..... More
![Item #30802 Aphorisms [1 of 50, signed]. William Cole, Damon Lehrer](/pictures/thumb/30802.jpg?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
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
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
Paris: Delestre & Coutanceau, 1903. First edition. Unbound sheets. 56 large plates, loose within soft covers, as issued. Covers worn and detached; plates are little edge-worn but generally very good. Plate album only of this sale of "livres modernes en editions de grand luxe [and] reliures d'art par les principaux..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Library, 1990. Meteyard. First edition. Soft cover. Harvard Library Bulletin, new series, vol. 1, no. 2 (Summer 1990). Pp. 50-66, 11 black-and-white ills. Good introduction to Meteyard's book illustrations and woodcuts. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. [Arts and..... More
Zurich: Zufthaus zur Meise, 1939. First edition. Soft cover. 86p + 103 mostly full-page pls. One printed with red. Covers soiled and sunned; upper corners bumped throughout. Pages age-browned. Part 1 of the 6-part Essling auction. Auction of 300 illustrated books from Italy, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Holland, and Belgium. Chiefly..... More
New Haven: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 1989. First edition. Soft cover. 48p, a few ills. Designed by Greer Allen, printed by Meriden-Stinehour Press. Annotated catalogue of 346 books and periodicals by and about Ernst, or inscribed to him, or simply owned by him, which were donated..... More
Minneapolis: Granary Books, February 1987. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., several ills. Laid in: errata slip for a Hermetic Press item, and an offprint of an article about Granary Books from Small Press, January-February 1987. Fully describes and prices 743 recent books and broadsides distributed by Granary Books. Short statement..... More
![Item #30612 Samuel Chapman Armstrong, Founder of the Southern Workman [postcard]. Hampton Institute](/pictures/thumb/30612.jpg?v=1638988296)
N.p. [Hampton, VA?]: [Hampton Institute], n.d. [ca. 1900-1915]. No stated edition. The silhouetted photo shows Armstrong on horseback. Fair: stained and with some shallow punctures. Unposted. The date range comes from the postal rates printed on the card. Private postal card portraying Samuel Chapman Armstrong. Armstrong commanded a regiment of..... More
London: Henry Sotheran, 1929. First edition. Soft cover. 80p + many ills. Base of spine chipped, mended. Covers soiled. "Sotheran's Price Current of Literature, No. 815 is dedicated to the memory of Henry Cecil Sotheran, who died in St. George's Hospital on October 15th, 1928, as the result of a...... More
Paris: Galerie Louise Leiris; printed by Draeger Freres, Montrouges, 1959. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 36 pls. (5 of them tipped-in color). In French. Catalogue of 36 illustrated books published by Kahnweiler from 1909 to 1959, with summary details. Contributors include Stein, Picasso, Tzara, Satie, Braque, Masson, Apollinaire, and many..... More
Amsterdam: Internationaal Antiquariaat, n.d. [ca. 1958?]. First edition. Soft cover. 45p, ca. 20 line ills., a few printed in red. Covers faded; corners bumped throughout. 70 items. With indexes of countries, towns, printers, publishers, and some subjects. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate..... More
Barcelona and New York: Ediciones Poligrafa and Galeria Joan Prats, 1986. First edition. Soft cover (shelf rubbed). 45p, 19 large color ills., chiefly of prints. With "The Cobra Movement" by Willemijn Stokvis. Catalogue of many illustrated books and catalogues, periodicals, and graphics, including a few pre-Cobra works. Designed by Arnold..... More
Folkestone, UK, and Hamden, CT: Dawson & Son and Archon Books, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 204p, 103 black-and-white ills. Lacks jacket. Sticker removed from front endpaper. Good informative survey. The purpose and techniques of zoological illustration, zoological works up to Linnaeus, "the great age of illustrated works," and the modern..... 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
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
![Item #30321 A Royal Catalogue [Catalogue 606]; Comprising Books, Bindings, Autograph Letters,...](/pictures/thumb/30321.jpg?v=1633973553)
London: Maggs Bros. May 1935. First edition. Soft cover. Over 220p, several text ills. + 36 pls. Light edge wear to covers; fore-edges foxed. 684 items relating to royalty over the centuries in Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. "Issued to commemorate the silver jubilee of H.M...... More
![Item #30742 Reproductions on Sale of Objects in the Collections (2 editions) [and] Publications...](/pictures/thumb/30742.jpg?v=1644153903)
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press, Boston, 1925-1930. First edition. Soft cover; postcards. Two brochures of art reproductions for sale (1927, 1930); one pamphlet of publications for sale (1925); and Postcard Series 4.1 (no date, but at least before 1927). The catalogues..... More
![Item #30887 Announcing Tristram Shandy from the Arion Press [cover title]. No stated author,...](/pictures/thumb/30887.jpg?v=1650317343)
San Francisco: Arion Press, n.d. [1988]. Baldessari, John. First edition. Soft cover. [12]p, 4 ills. (2 by John Baldessari). Prospectus for the 3-volume edition of The Life and Opinons of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne, with an essay on the author and his novel by Melvyn New, and with..... More
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1943. First edition. Soft cover. 54p + 1 pl. Unpriced. Wtih bid sheet and return envelope. 357 lots. Also includes the George Barr McCutcheon collection of first editions of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper. One lot, an edition of Jacobus de Voragine, contains "one of..... More
