WEE GILLIS
NY: Viking, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Second printing. An apparently unread copy in near fine unclipped dustjacket. Neat contemporary (i.e. at time of publication) gift inscription top of pictorial front endpaper. More
NY: Viking, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Second printing. An apparently unread copy in near fine unclipped dustjacket. Neat contemporary (i.e. at time of publication) gift inscription top of pictorial front endpaper. More
Paris: Le Soleil Noir, 1976. Erro (signed, original serigraphs). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition, this # 60 of 250 copies. A striking production, the book in stiff wrappers with black, printed dustjacket, in pink, cloth-covered slipcase which is magnetized to inset of quarter leather, black cloth-covered folio, which opens to..... More
Wesr Cornwall CT: Locust Hill Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Anthology of literary criticism from peers like Robert Creeley and scholars. Fine, unused copy. Publication #28 in the Locust Hill Literary Studies Series. More
NY: Viking, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The renowned artist, sculpture and photographer visits classical Greece, its mythology and its art. Book near fine, dustjacket tanned a bit around edges as is often seen, with a few closed tears and small wedge missing top edge rear panel. Inscribed by Liberman on..... More
London: Euromoney Books, 1997. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Edges and corners sharp, gilt title at spine, faint water stain at front cover, ffe and inside front panel of dj (invisible at outside). Dj with a few minor rubs to top panel edges. Text clean, binding tight. Graphs and tables throughout..... More
New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. More
Boston: Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An unused copy. More
NY: Viking, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of two-time Caldecott medalist McCloskey's fifth book that he both wrote and illustrated. Inscribed to another Caldecott medalist Marc Simont and his wife on the illustrated half-title: "For Marc and Bee from Bob" Solid book. Dustjacket toned (more so rear panel), folds..... More
Great Neck, NY: GR Minkoff, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscription and Sig by author ffe. More
NY: Stanley Bradlet Publishing, 1890. Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Hillen, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane (illustrations from sketches by). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Edition de Grand de Luxe, 100 copies, this #98. Full leather- half brown pebbled to spine with gilt, rest red pebbled with gilt stamped as follows: "Presented to Owen H...... More
West Cornwall CT: (Robert Andrew Parker), 2004. Limited Edition. Soft cover. Robert Andrew Parker (1927-2023). Portfolio of 26 etchings, with two additional etchings on title and colophon pages, lacking the title plate. (Labeled Alphabet II", curiously, as Parker's "Amazons to Zapata: An Alphabet" was issued in 2009.) Limited to 15..... More
West Cornwall CT: (Robert Andrew Parker). Limited Edition. Soft cover. Portfolio of 11 of 12 etchings housed loosely in a commercially produced black clamshell box with Parker's handmade label. Subjects include fictionalize patrons and real musicians at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem in 1938, including Edgar Sampson, Teddy Hill and..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1904. Operti, Albert. First American edition. Decorative Cloth. slightly scuffed at edges, front panel decorated with purple and white stamped pictorial as well as pastedown photographs, ex-lib but in great shape, plentiful b&w drawings and photographs. More
NY: Gagosian Gallery, 1991. Soft cover. Large oblong, stiff French-style covers, 64 page gallery catalog, 13 full page color plates with the reproduced notebook for Grove Group plus transcription. The slightest wear to corners, else fine. 2000 copies. More
Lenexsa KS: Joan Cowley Gallery, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by artist Rivera on the half title. More
New York: The American Printer, Inc, 1926. Presumed First Edition. Cloth Boards, Gilt Title Spine. xii + 229p. Index. Illustrated throughout. Book plate pastedown. Slight stain top edge last signature. Scarce. More
NY: Viking, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition lacking dustjacket. First signature pulling a tad. Overall, nice, used copy. Scarce in first edition. More
London: William Heinemann, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Anti-Hitler play performed in Washington DC in 1935, as Hitler occupied the Rhineland. This, the English edition, follows the London premiere of the play in 1938 as Hitler occupied Austria and bombed Spain. Signed by 27 members of the cast, including leads Raymond..... More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. Ownership copy of stage designer Jo Mielziner, with his signature upper right corner dated 1938 of the ffe. ABE LINCOLN was the first production of The Playwrights' Company formed in 1938 by Sherwood along with fellow playwrights Maxwell Anderson, Elmer Rice, and Kurt Weill..... More
London: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1879. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, 8vo, mustard-color cloth stamped in gilt, 8vo, 287 (4), 3-panel foldout map frontispiece, 4-page pub list in rear. Covers a wee soiled, more so at spine, solid clean copy, very nicely preserved. More
Lincoln MA: Penmaen Press. Golahny, Berta (woodcuts). McCurdy, Michael (book design). First Edition -. Hardcover. Two copies; one the special edition, the other the regular edition, both uniform 8vo. The deluxe edition is cloth over decorated boards. one of three hundred numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author..... More
NY (and) NY: Rizzoli (and) Monacelli, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two copies about or by American architect Stern presented by him to Argentinian-born Pelli, the work of both having transformed the look of cities in the US and worldwide and how we see and use urban space. Both copies, as..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A finely preserved copy, charcoal, polished linen, beveled edges, gte, sides untrimmed, 8vo, vi (2) 137 (2). Trace spotting to endpapers, else clean interiors throughout. Solid, very attractive copy. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. Pyle, Howard et al. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Volumes 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 19, 24. Uniformly bound red cloth, gilt spine titles. Spines dulled/soiled, internals fine, sturdily bound. More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. 1st US Edition Thus. Hardcover. Limited edition, this #86 of 1030 copies. Blue cloth, sides uncut, paper spine labels variously tanned. Pictures are of only two exemplary volumes but set is complete. Extra shipping charges will apply. More