Baxter Colour Prints
London: Maggs Bros, 1919. First Edition. Cloth. Significant toning. Pieces missing spine and corners. More
London: Maggs Bros, 1919. First Edition. Cloth. Significant toning. Pieces missing spine and corners. More
Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Coockerel Press, 1925. 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. #340 of 450 copies. Covers an cloth spine moderately soiled, paper spine label toned, corners worn. Internals near fine. Lovely Gill decorations and vignettes. More
Boston: Field, Osgood & Co, 1869. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's mauive pebbled cloth, blind double ruled, with stamped engraved vignette of cattle-drawn buggy with driver and two passengers, likely attributable to engraver John Feely. Covers a tad spotted, leaves toned, gilt titles to spine faded, rear hinge revealed, still soundbinding..... More
Philadelphia: Perry and Erety, 1855. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Unusual botanic treatise, illustrated. In original publisher's binding, elaborately blind-stamped bright blue cloth front and back, gilt titles and decoration to spine, yellow-colored endpapers, 180 pages, owner name front pastedown. Internals fine, covers a tad rubbed. THE collectible copy. More
NY: Henry Holt, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 1000 copies. SIGNED BY COX on limitation page. Printed by Joseph Blumenthal's Spiral Press. A lovely copy. More
NY: Oxford University Press, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED BY BRUCE ROGERS under the half title "alias Bruce Rogers" Dustjacket has a tanned spine and some internal tape repairs. Solid, clean book with bookplate front pasetdown. More
NY: Grossman Publishers, 1969. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large, three-volume set housed in paper-backed slipcase with title label. The slipcase is dusty and slightly worn about edges. The spines of the books are gently toned, but the covers and internals are as new. SIGNED BY BASKIN and dated 1988 by..... More
NY: The Grenfell Press, 1983. 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. 4to, 34pp, quarter green morocco spine gilt, with pictorial paper-covered boards. Illustrated by Guy Davenport and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. The slightest abrasion to the leather spine with the slightest wear on one corner and top of spine. Internals as new. #104 of..... More
Boston: Little Brown, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon English to French translation of Mother Goose rhymes, with an introductory essay by de Kay, book designed by Chwast, Glaser and Zaid of Push Pin Studios, cutting edge, Manhattan graphic design firm of the 60s/70s. Signed by translator de Kay on the..... More
London: Westminster Press, 1930. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. The large paper edition, 185 copies, this #152 and signed by woodcut artist Derrick on the limitation page, with a signed woodcut print laid-in. Faux vellum, gilt titles front and spine, gte, ribbon-marker, 4to, sides untriimmed, 100p. The text, edited by Rhys..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Solid clean copy, 4to, buckram binding. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. BOOK ARTS. More
NY: McGraw Hill, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. PRESENTATION COPY with small sketch from author and renowned designer Henry Dreyfuss to his publisher Richard Grossman on the half title: "For Dick Grossman/ Your bookshleves looked/ empty without a copy / of Symbol Sourcebook. A (toast - Dreyfuss has drwan and colored..... More
London: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First English translation and typographic interpretation of Marcel Duchamp's famous work, Green Box, assembled by Duchamp between 1915 and 1923, by artist Richard Hamilton (1922-2011), regarded by many art scholars as the father of Pop Art. SIGNED by Hamilton "+..... More
London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1823. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scare first edition in original boards and paper lab. Broken binding. xl, unpaginated (entries from "abbess" to "zounds"), (4). Engraved vignettes in preface. Fabulous Cubist/Exprssionist bookplate for an unidentified previous owner last name Markowitz. More
NY: Pynson Printers, 1929. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine copy, 4to, single sheet, single fold, with mailing envelope. Fine condition. Undated, announcing the first issue for Feb 1930, so we assume this was printed latter part of 1929. More
Ridgewood NY: Press of the Alwil Shop, 1902. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Scarce publication printed in the Arts&Crafts studio located in the Palisades NY of the Anwil Shop (per colophon). Cream paper over boards (toned and rubbed), gilt title front, green cloth spine, unpaginated (some leaves uncut), every page decorated..... More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1953. Rogers, Bruce and Booth, Franklin. First Edition. Cloth Spine/Paper Boards. One of 1550 copies. Red binding bright with gilt title at spine. Decorative flowers at front and rear cover. Edges and corners sharp. Text clean, binding tight. Small bookshop sticker at ffe, lower left corner..... More
London: W. And G. Foyle, 1932. Limited. Cloth. presentation copy with a Fabes' "Change and Decay" inscribed to Charles Barhurst laid in, number 149 of 750, inscribed: "To Charles Barhurst/With kind regards and/best wishes for a successful/career in the book world/from Gilbert H. Fabes/ Feb. 1932" More
NY: Family of Kurt Volk, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Privately published memorial album, unknown limited edition, distributed as keepsake to family and friends. Large 4to, rough cream-colored cloth, gilt cover titles, sides untrimmed w/ full page mounted b&w photo of typographer and publisher Volk, 18pp. Internals as new, cloth tad..... More
NY: Indian Mountain Press, 1999. Limited Edition. Decorated Cloth. Only 26 copies, this #11. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on the colophon A charming alphabet book, dealing with all aspects of book collecting and book-making. Housed in purple cloth slipcase, orange cloth with stamped titles iin yellow and blue, endpapers of..... More
Isaac Oelgart, 1984. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Limited to 1000 copies, this #46. Printed by Darrell Hyder. Hnadswen binding into Farbriano covers, with title label. The essay was initially read as a paper at the New England Game Conference in Boston in 1930. More
Pawlet VT: Claude Fredericks, 1953. First Edition (Limited). Hardcover. 180 copies, hand-set and printed by Fredericks as a Christmas greeting with a handwritten Christmas note laid-in. Single sheet, 4to size, in decorated, handmade paper folder, which is chipped here and there about its gently toned edges. More
Pawlet VT: Claude Fredericks, 1955. First Edition (Limited). Hardcover. 180copies, hand-set and printed by Fredericks as a Christmas greeting. 8vo, one folded leaf string tied to double paper folder. Missing the front top cover of the double folder. More
Pawlet VT: Claude Fredericks, 1954. First Edition (Limited). Hardcover. 160 copies, hand-set and printed by Fredericks as a Christmas greeting. 6 folded sheets, 8vo size, in handmade double paper folders. Fine. More
Pawlet VT: Claude Fredericks, 1960. First Edition (Limited). Hardcover. 120 copies, 8vo, four folded sheets, laid-in printed folder. Near fine save gentle crease traversing the pamphlet on the vertical. More