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MIRROR OF VENUS
NY: The Ridge Press, 1970. 3rd Edition. Soft cover. Erotic photographs of sexy women. Way 70s! More
I AM ALSO A YOU
NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1971. Soft cover. Second printing before publication. Better than very good copy. Way seventies! More
HOMAGE TO CAVAFY
Danbury NH: Addison House, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy, lacking slipcase, in dustjacket with a few small chips at extremities. An unnumbered copy. Photographer Michals matches 10 of his mostly homoerotic images with 10 of Cavafy's poems. More
WORLDS IN A SMALL ROOM
NY: Grossman Publishers, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Unclipped dustjacket is a bit soiled and there is some spotting top edge. No names, bookplates. A thoroughly presentable copy. More
Kling-Klang Gloria. Deutsche volks und kinderleider
Vienna & Leipzig: Tempsk & Freytag, 1921. Later Edition. Hardcover. Later printing of 1921 after the first of 1907. Nicely preserved copy, some slight wear to bottom edge and corner, internals fine, no names or bookplates and desirable thus. More
STUDENT LIFE AT HARVARD
Boston: Lockwood, Brooks and Company, 1876. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Publishers decorated rust cloth stamped in black on front, gilt to spine. 8vo, 518p. Edges worn, threading to spine edges and some loss to cloth at ends. Sound binding, clean internals. Uncommon Harvard fiction. More
WORK: A STORY OF EXPERIENCE
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1873. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of one of Alcott's lesser known and more uncommon titles. Publisher's decorated cloth, spine faded, edges worn, cocked binding, original endpapers, no names or bookplates. One signature near back of book partly springing. Custom rebinding candidate. More
REMINISCENCES OF A MUSICIAN
Cambridge: Washburn & Thomas, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Memoir of a Eurocentric American musician who rubbed elbows with all the Continental and expat swells whose lives traversed teh turn of the 19th/20thC. 8vo, dark blue half cloth over light blue paper-baked boards with title label front cover, gilt title to..... More
Liederfibel - Kinderlieder in Bildernoten dargestellt. dargestellt von Heribert Grügner, gemalt von Johannes Grügner.
Breslau, Ostdeutsche Verlangsanstalt, 1927. Hardcover. German songbook. Very nice copy, corners bumped, internals fine in uncommon - and fragile - dustjacket, printed in red and black, whihc has a few chips here and there about edges. More
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt. from His First Entrance Upon the Stage of Action, Under the Lord Piercy, Till His Decease. . to Which Is Added, a Succinct Account of His Will and Testament,
London: Printed for J. Sackfield ...and sold by J. Roberts, 1717. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Leaves trimmed and rebound in early 19thC red leather with elaborate blind tooling and gilt, gilt edges all arouynd. viii, 104. With three bookplates of various periods, one of which is of James Hews Bransby (1783..... More
114 SONGS
Redding CT: C. E. Ives, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The rare first edition, first printing of 114 SONGS, 4to green cloth spine over green paper-backed boards, with title in black. (1) (4) 259 (5). Paper label on spine slightly chipped around edges. Internals fine. With the bookplate of famous bibliophiles..... More
Institute of Contemporary Arts, University of Pennsylvania. October 8th to November 21st, 1965. (Andy Warhol)
Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Catalog of Warhol's first museum show, with the compliments card of Sam Green, who curated it. 8vo, illustrated stiff covers, black cloth backstrip, perfect bound, 27 full page illustrations. Housed in a phase box with an enameled medallion..... More
Archive of printed materials relating to Pierre Le Tan
privatelty assembled. No Binding. Private collector's assemblage of printed material relating to Pierre Le Tan and his work. 26 items are invitations, articles, magazine highlights, and advertisements by and/or about Pierre Le-Tan, including his York Times obituary of 10 October 2019. Pierre Le-Tan (1950 - 2019) was a French illustrator..... More
Neo-Romantic & Surrealist Art from the Collection of Pierre Le-Tan (Sotheby's Auction Catalog
London: Sotheby's, 1995. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Auction catalog for the sale of Pierre Le Tan's collection on October25, 1995. Fine condition. More
The Book of Kells: Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. An apparently unused copy, near fine in slipcase. Spine and edge of slipcase a wee faded. More
Jewish Antiquities: or A Course of Lectures on the Three First Books of Godwin's Moses and Aaron to which is annexed, a Dissertation on the Hebrew Language
London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington et al, 1823. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Stated New Edition on title page, after the first of 1808. Two volumes, full polished calf, gilt spine, leather labels, marbleized edges, 8vo. xii,381, (3); iv,294,(48]. Front hinge, Volume I front hinge is tender, some light foxing..... More
OBJETS TROUVES. Photographies de Ivan Terestchenko.
La Pionnière, 1998. 1st Edition. Soft cover. More
Carlo Scarpa
Toto, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. More
AT 33
NY: Longmans, Green, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Later printing, signed by the author on the title page. covers lightly soiled, internals fine, in a very nice, price-clipped replacement dustjacket. PON of a student at Skidmore College on ffe. Eva Le Gallienne (1899 - 1991) was a British-born American stage actress..... More
THE TRAGEDY OF MAN AND OTHER PLAYS
London: Grant Richards, 1909. Hardcover. Inscribed by Masefield to fellow author Galsworthy, in Masefield's tiny elegant script top right ffe: "John Galsworthy/ from John Masefield / Sept 13th 1909. With Galsworthy's bookplate pasted to the verso mffe. Salmon-colored linen slightly faded about the edges, and more noticeably to spine. Lacking..... More
S. HUROK PRESENTS
NY: Hermitage House, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED BY S. HUROK (1888 - 1974) on the ffe. Autobiography of impresario of the classical performing arts - ballet, opera, and musicians. Apparently unread book is dustjacket with a sunned spine a small chip top edge front panel and narrow strip spine..... More
HARRIET AND HER COUSIN; OR, PREJUDICE OVERCOME
Salem (MA): Whipple and Lawrence, 1827. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Second American from the 4th Edinburgh edition. Original printed paper over boards, quarter leather. Leather over spine partly half perished, still firmly bound, internals quite nice despite soem foxing here and there. 166, (1). Woodcut frontispiece of Glenvarlow. More