THE SPHINX
Portland ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1911. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. Decorated paper covers with title pastdown font cover. Loss to paper at spine foot. Light foxing. Good reference copy. More
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OUR LADY'S TUMBLER. A TWELFTH CENTURY LEGEND TRANSLATED BY PHILIP H. WICKSTEED
Portland ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1906. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. A beautifully preserved copy. Fine all over. No names, inscriptions, etc. More
THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS; OR ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS (6 volumes complete)
London/ Philadelphia. Gibbings & Company Ltd/ J. B. Lippincott, 1896. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. Printed in England for both US and U K distribution. Beautifully preserved Art& Crafts-designed production of the Arabian tales. Small 8vo, light green cloth, boldly-stamped titles in darker green and blue front covers w/ more..... More
KIKI SMITH NEW WORK
NY: Pace Wildenstein Gallery, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Distinctive catalog for exhibition at the Pace Wildenstein Gallery in Sept - Oct 1995. Three inter-bound rectangular booklets of different dimensions laid into carboard covers with glitter/rainbow-colored titles in front and marbleized blue recto lining. More
Claes Oldenburg Coosje Van Bruggen
NY: Pace Wildenstein Gallery, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Catalog for May- June 2002 Oldenburg exhibition. 4to, pictorial covers, 40 pp, with poster in front pastedown sleeve, folded (as issued). More
Lucas Samara PHOTO-TRANSFORMATIONS 1973-1976
NY: Pace Wildenstein Gallery, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Distinctive catalog for exhibition at the Pace Wildenstein Gallery in Nov - Dec 1996. Elaborately produced catalog, double panel front cover opening to reveal single panel cover and leaves, then to reveal two spiral bound mini-books. An amazing catalog for an amazing..... More
Jean Dubuffet The Radiant Earth
NY: Pace Wildenstein Gallery, 1996. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Distinctive catalog for exhibition at the Pace Wildenstein Gallery in Feb-March 1996 that newly explores Dubuffet's fascination with the natural world. Oblong, rough-surfaced handmade paper covers, double rivet bound. More
A Toute Epreuve
NY: George Braziller, 1984. Facsimile Edition and First Thus. Hardcover. A fascimile edition of one of the finest arts books of the 20thC originally published in limited edition by Patrick Cramer in 1958, reproduced from copy 75. Laid-in is a 22 page booklet with text by art historian Greet. In..... More
BOOKSELLERS MARKS
Minneapolis: Dinkytown Antiquarian Bookstore, 1986. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. 447 copies, this #255 signed and dated 1/2/88 by author Dingman on the title page. A fine copy. BOOKSELLING BOOKMARKS BOOK COLLECTING BOOK ARTS. More
ROBERT FROST 100
Boston: David R Godine, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Centennial publication honoring Robert Frost listing, with commentary, 100 of Frost's publications that made up the exhibition on the anniversary of Frost's birth. Book designed by Joe Blumenthal, who designed many of Frost's books, including his earliest, and Frost's annual Christmas cards..... More
TYPOGRAPHIC YEARS A printer's journey through a half century, 1925-1975
NY: Frederic C. Biel, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in near fine dustjacket, inscribed by typographer and book designer Joe Blumenthal to Mike McCabe, owner of the former Lion's Head Books in Salisbury CT, the premises of which are now Johnnycake Books: "for Mike best of country neighbors. Joe..... More
THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS A Centenary Keepsake
Bridgewater CT: Daniel Berkeley Bianchi/ Stinehour Press, 1993. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. As new copy, #41 of 200 copies, in fitted clear acetate wrapper (and in shrinkwrap before we opened it to confirm all four tipped-in items, including the sample pigskin were present, and they are). Signed by author Bianchi..... More
Typographic Variations designed by Hermann Zapf on themes in contemporary book design and typography in 78 book-and-title-pages
Frankfurt: Georg Kurt Schauer, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unused copy, fine in near fine dustjacket wrapped in clear acetate. More
ABOUT ALPHABETS: SOME MARGINAL NOTES ON TYPE DESIGN
Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1970. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. A fine copy in fine dustjacket of the 1970 edition by MIT Press after the firts of 1960 with a new introduction by typographer and type designer Zapf. Neatly signed by him on the title page in pencil. A lovely copy..... More
LALLA ROOKH, AN ORIENTAL ROMANCE
Philadelphia: Published by Thomas Desilver, 1821. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Stated Fourth American Edition on title page. Small 8vo, full leather, blind-tooled and gilt-stamped front and back. 324p. With 6 full page engravings, drawn by R. Westall R.A., various engravers. Moderate foxing throughout. Boards detached and half of spine perished. We..... More
THE LIFE WORK OF DARD HUNTER, A PROGRESSIVE ILLUSTRATED ASSEMBLAGE OF HIS WORKS AS ARTIST, CRAFTSMAN, AUTHOR, PAPERMAKER, AND PRINTER VOLUME II
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1983. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Folio, one of 50 special copies containing extra paper specimens bound in (not found in the edition of 150 copies ), this copy handsomely bound by Gary Parrotin russet, full morocco, single-ruled covers with device in gilt after a Hunter design..... More
THE MARK J. MILLARD COLLECTION (4 volume set, complete)
Washington / NY: National Gallery of Art / George Braziiller, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Volume 1 FRENCH BOOKS Sixteenth century through Nineteenth Centuries Volume 2 BRITISH BOOKS Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries Volume 3 NORTHERN EUROPEAN BOOKS Sixteen to early Nineteenth Centuries Volume 4 ITALIAN and SPANISH BOOKS Fifteenth through Nineteenth..... More
WORKS OF WASHINGTON IRVING
NY: G. P. Putnam, 1901. 1st Edition Thus, Limited. Hardcover. Joseph Jefferson Edition, limited to 250 copies, THIS NO. 1 OF 5 "specially prepared and extra-illustrated" (from the limitation), 40 numbered volumes. Volume 1 has an inserted leaf with chromolithographed portraits of Irving and Jefferson, signed at the bottom of..... More
The Noble and Joyous Boke Entytled Le Morte D'Arthur....
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1934. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Two volumes, publisher's full brick red pigskin with bold grain, gilt titles to spine, cockerell marbled endpapers.#252 of 370 copies on handmade paper, top edges gilt, rest untrimmed. Printed in red and black throughout in Caslon type with 22 woodcut illustrations..... More
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