8vo. Eight pages total, approximately 750 words, in part: "Were I not already engaged ... I should most certainly accept your invitation, assured as I am that it would bring with it the [comradeship] that belongs to an exchange of ideas among smokers of the weed ... composition and chiar-oscuro..... More

Boston, (MA): Little, Brown, (c1963). First edition. 8vo. xiv, 2398 pp. Illustrated from photographs, portraits, plates. "Rich in anecdote and vignettes of the immortals of expatriate Paris" by "one of the living legends of the Twenties - pioneer Dadaist, Surrealist, unreconstructed expatriate, and bohemian par excellence." Very good. Black cloth..... More

(London and New York): Phaidon, (c1971). First edition in English (published the same year in Italian). Large 4to. 456 pp. Profusely illustrated, plates. Complete edition of the etchings of Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770) and his sons Giandomenico and Lorenzo. Fine. Gilt-stamped charcoal cloth, illustrated dust jacket. (#5218). More

[Washington, DC]: nd [ca.1870]. Original watercolor, charcoal and chalk drawing on canvas, 24.5 x 29.5 in., glazed and framed. Signed by the artist. The young boy is well dressed in a double-breasted suit and bow tie, with button-up boots. He stands on a tiled terrace, one hand one a balustrade..... More

Cincinnati, Ohio: Printed by Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co., 1862. First edition. Folio. 20 lithograph plates, each 16 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches, picturing army life and operations in the campaign in western Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1861. Caption titles for the 20 black & white plates are as follows..... More

New Haven and London: Yale U. Press, in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (c1997). First edition. Small 4to. 232 pp. Illustrations from photographs, wood engravings, reliefs, and other works of art, portraits, some illustrations in color. The story of Sir Henry Layard's treasures, taken by him..... More

West Hartford, VT: Countryman Press, (c1945). Large 4to. 117 pp. Illustrated, color plates. Silver-stamped cloth; bookplate, else very good in worn slipcase. First edition, 1/1275 copies. Consummate painter of animals in their habitats, insightfully profiled by a fellow artist. More

New York: Vanguard Press, (c1927). First edition. 12mo. xxii, (2), 89 pp. Plates from Lynd Ward woodcuts, title page vignette, illustrated endpapers. Scribner (1882-1922), largely self educated, had a meteoric career in social services, starting as a stenographer for a small local newspaper in 1908, eventually rising to assistant secretary..... More

Italy: Arti Grafiche Giorgi & Gambi, n.d. 4to. (66) pp. With an inscription and self-portrait drawing by Sheppard on title page. Very good in original stiff wraps. More

New York: Macmillan, 1931. First edition, 1/400 copies signed by each of the 16 contributors. 4to. x, (2), 326, (4) pp. Plates, some in color, double-page color map of the South Carolina low country. The South Carolina low country as portrayed by the leading writers, poets, and artists of the..... More

New York: The editor, 1912. First edition of this issue, No. 37. Small 4to (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches). 48 pp. 9 portrait photogravures; 12 pages of ads for business related to photography. This issue devoted to the work of the 19th-century British photographer David O. Hill (1802-1870), whose..... More

(Boston, MA): Boston Public Library in co-operation with Barre Publishers, (c1974). First edition, 1/100 specially bound copies that include a signed original lithograph by Wengenroth. 4to. 295 pp. Marginal vignettes, 344 illustrations for the lithographs made by Wengenroth from 1931 through 1972, illustrated endpapers. Wengenroth (1906-1908), a native New Yorker..... More

New York: Museum of Modern Art, (c1984). First edition. 4to. 216 pp. Mostly illustrations, plates. "Published in conjunction with he first comprehensive retrospective of Penn's work … identified by its great refinement of craft, by the wit and grace of its formal invention, and by its unequaled sensitivity to the..... More