NY: A-D Publishing Company, 1941. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Featured insert is a "typographic keepsake", Ballet of the ABCs, layout by Hebert Matter and illustrated by Emory Condor. Also includes an insert on the work of Philip Reisman and a portfolio of the drawings of Hubert Davis. 54p + Strathmore..... More
NY: PM Publishing Company, 1938. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Covers designed by Paul Rand. Main feature of this issue is a 16 page insert on Rand's work published by Kenilworth Press. Also featured is an insert on the Merrymount Press and the American Artists Group on Christmas cards. 83p +..... More
NY: The Hroswitha Club, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Authored by well-known biblophile and one of the founding members of the Hroswitha Club, dedicated to the study of women in the book arts. Unused copy, as new. Red cloth, issued without dustjacket. More
Venice: Altobello Salicato, 1582. 1st Edition. Hardcover. HISTORIA UNIVERSALE dell'origine et imperio de' Turchi. Raccolta & in diversi luoghi di nuovo ampliata da Et riformata in molte sue parti per ordine della Santa Inquisitione. Nella quale si contengono le leggi, gli offici, i costumi & la militia di quella natione..... More
NY: R.R. Bowker. 1970. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Third edition 1970 (after the first of 1955), this edition issued without dustjacket, as new in publisher's cardboard shipping box. More
Venice: (Aldus), 1655. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo, contemporary full vellum, blue-stained edges, original spine labels, 399p + blank. Free front endpaper with some loss from indelicate erasure on the verso of some of the notations in Latin. Very nice copy indeed. More
Newcastle: Printed by E. Walker, for T. Bewick and Son, 1818. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, with receipt leaf with Bewick's thumbmark, facsimiles of signatures, and seaweed stamped on engraved nighttime scene. This receipt page is inscribed at the top to "The Rev. H. D. Griffith". A very nice copy..... More
London: John Murray, 18953. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Volume 2 only in distinctive original binding of brown cloth, "flecked" in yellow with gilt decorations and title front and spine, deep orange-rust colored endpapers, 8vo, 298p + 32p pub list in rear, double title page, one in typographic pictorial red across from..... More
Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1565. 1st Edition. Hardcover. When seen this Plantin is typically the 1566 printing, this copy being the rare first edition printed in 1565. Small 8vo, 149, (3) each page with woodcut border, and with 58 square shaped emblems by A Nicoli and Van Kampen. Bound in red..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1898. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A sound, unsophisticated copy of one of the most sought after alphabet books of all time. Large 4to, cloth-backed pictorial paper boards, black titled spine, all edges red, with ad "An Almanac of Twelve Sports for1898"tipped in at rear. Pictorial covers are darkened..... More
NY: William Rudge, 1929. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. A near fine, reprint, de-luxe edition, #8 of 100 copies, printed by William Rudge with a signed, hand-colored plate by Gordon Ross. Some light foxing in front and rear otherwise as new, brown, full leather, in publisher's wrapper and slipcase covered in..... More
Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ownership copy of Argentinian-born, American architect Cesar Pelli (1926-2019) with his signatrure and dated Aug 3 in red pencil upper right fly. An as new copy, apparently unused. An important ownership association: Pelli worked for Saarinen in the early days of his..... More
NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy from architect Hardy to Argentinian-born, American architect Cesar Pelli (1926-2019), both signed by Hardy on the title page and inscribed to Pelli on the half title: "Ceasar Can you believe what's happened since we first met? Bravo! Hugh" More