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
London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1923. First edition. Large thick 4to. xxii, 288, (4, ads) pp. Profusely illustrated, plates, some in color. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Walton bibliographer Bernard Horne's copy, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Very good. Original gilt-stamped blue buckram (spine sunned). (8763). More
Romae: np, 1627. Green vellum, rebacked in green leather with gilt stamped title, and the last coat of arms of J.A. de Thou (7 quarterings), bearing the motto "Mane Nobiscum Domine," on the front and rear boards. 22 cm. Engraved title page and 45 engraved plates, printed on rectos only... 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
[Washington, DC?]: 1961. Artist's sketchbook containing six original drawings for cartoons depicting political topics of note in 1961: a split amongst the Teamsters (1), the newly inaugurated D.C. Stadium (2), The Common Market (1), the Berlin Wall (1), and Nuclear Bomb Tests by Russia (1). Three of the drawings, 8... 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
Original pen-and-ink drawing, 12 x 9 3/4 inches, signed by the illustrator in the lower left corner, "H. Thomson 07," with various shades of blue, brown, yellow, and flesh-tone wash coloring. Pictured as a full-color plate (as in this drawing, but not as vibrant) opposite page 238 in "Silas Marner"... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949. 4to. xiii. 285pp. 168pp unpagenated with 413 illustrations, including one foldout. Hardback with black cloth boards. Title in gold lettering on spine. This is an odd volume in very good condition. More
Berlin: Rembrandt Verlag, 1968. Quarto. Limited to 200 copies. This being number 168. Original black cloth with artist's name and book title in black on pink label on front cover. Six color and six black & white original screenprints on arches paper. Text in German. Bright copy. Trökes was a.... More
Paris: Berggruen & Cie, (1956). Narrow 8vo.; (2)pp. 15 color plates with captions. Original color pictorial stiff wrappers, glassine dust jacket. A fine copy. First edition, #4 of fifteen copies signed by Tzara and the artist. Issued for the first Paris exhibition of Bonnet's work and illustrating ten paintings in pochoir. More
New York: Brentano's, 1928. 1 of 2500 copies. 8vo.; xv, 269 pp. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts by the author. Illustrated endpapers [previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown]. Brown stamped mustard yellow cloth; small illustration of a cat on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket (spine darkened; small chips to corners, spine... More
1975. Oil painting on canvas, 17 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches, the palate bright but carefully modulated. In a two-inch wide oak frame. Fine condition but for one tiny chip from a patch of impasto (in a distant highrise). Walker (1921-1993) was a self-taught African-American artist, born in Kentucky but... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1972). First edition. Folio. 230 pp. Profusely illustrated from Bearden's artwork, plates, some folding, many in color, portrait frontispiece. "[Bearden's] visual idiom involves montage and collage elements in combination with forms and styles that echo those of African sculpture, and is orchestrated by a deft... More
[June - August, 1974]. Sixteen well executed sketches, 14 x 17 in., on plain drawing paper, removed from an artist's sketchpad, depicting various phases of the cases brought in 1974,related to Watergate, including United States v. Nixon. Most of the drawings are signed and dated by Davies, and she has... More
NP: 1972. Original signed watercolor, 6 1/2 x 5 inches, matted (7 1/2 x 6 inches), glazed and framed; additionally inscribed by the artist below the portrait "To Eve and Pete / With love! / Milt." With the artist's note of presentation, "Eve &Pete / At long last - /... More
nd (ca.1859). "Drawn on the spot and in colors by C.H. Wells. Printed in oil colors by F. Collins." A wood engraving, colored, of George Washington's home Mount Vernon, shown from its river side, approx. 19.5 x 21.5 in., matted, glazed and framed. Upper corners of the image are curved... More
(Salisbury, England): Harpvale, (c1984). First edition. 4to. 216 pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs of Frink sculptures, color plates. Front endpaper inscribed by Frink in 1985; Christmas card featuring an illustration of a Frink sculpture, inscribed by her, laid in. Very good. Tan cloth, color illustrated dust jacket, publisher's cloth slipcase. (#5130). More
Boston, (MA): Little, Brown, 1931. First edition, 1/425 copies. 4to. xxii, 243 pp. Profusely illustrated, plates. Describes 621 lithographs. Fine copy in a worn box. Original quarter-calf and cloth, gilt spine title, t.e.g., dust jacket, publisher's two-part box, with printed paper label (stained) on upper part (corners cracked, sides repaired). (#5222). More
Pasadena, CA: Trail's End Publishing Co. (c1948). 8vo. 218, (1) pp. Illustrated, plates, title page facsimiles. Burgundy cloth, gilt spine title. Very good copy. First edition, 1/500 copies. Descriptive bibliography of books illustrated by Russell. More
