Sigmar Polke. Photoworks: When Pictures Vanish.
Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, [1996]. First edition. With 263 four-color and duotone reproductions. Bookplate of A&M Records. Fine. Pictorial boards. Quarto.
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Studies in Philosophy and Psychology: By Former Students of Charles Edward Garman.; [Ed. by James Hayden Tufts et al.].
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. First edition. Minor shelfwear. A remarkably fine, bright copy. Cloth. Octavo.
Taste in Decor: an Italian Experience.
[Rome:[: Gambero Rosso, [2005]. First edition. Color illustrations throughout. Fine in fine d.j. Cloth. Folio. A look at great Italian hotels through the year. Includes Christmas eveents and themed parties.
Theodore Low De Vinne Printer.
New York: Privately Printed, 1915. First edition. Mounted photogravure portrait, signed by De Vinne. Very good. Clothbacked boards. Large octavo. 111 pp.
These Eventful Years: The Twentieth Century in the Making. As told by many of its makers. Being the dramatic story of all that has happened throughout the world during the most momentous period in all history. With 160 Full-Page Illustrations and Numerous Maps.
London: The Encyclopaedia Britanica Company, Ltd., [1924]. First edition. A very good, clean set, in dust jackets. Top of dust jacket to Volume I has a half inch chip. Scarce in dust jackets. Also with the scarce 'These Eventful Years' bookmark laid in. Green cloth, stamped in black. Two volumes.....
The Three Kittens.
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Designed in England, Printed in Germany, [n.d., ca. 1895]. First printing? The present item was probably part of the Panorama Toy Booklets series published by Raphael Tuck & Sons. The title-page indicates that it is “No. 25.” A set of twelve of the Panorama Toy.....
Tomas Taveira: Architectural Works and Designs. Introduction by Geoffrey Broadbent.
[London:]: Academy Editions/St. Martin's Press, [1990]. First edition. Over 440 illustrations, mostly in color. Fine in fine d.j. Cloth. Quarto. 272 pp.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: A Manuscript in the British Library.; Introduction and Commentaries on the Plates by Josef Krasa. Translated from the Czech by Peter Kussi.
New York: Braziller, [1983]. First edition. Twenty-eight full-page color illustrations. Fine in publisher's slipcase. Boards. Octavo.
Typographic Design Production.
[New York:]: Madison Square Press, [1993]. First edition. Color illustrations. Fine in fine d.j. Boards. Quarto. [192] pp.
Ushijima Noriyuki ten =sono seihitsuna fukei-- jojo = Exhibition of Noriyuki Ushijima .
[Tokyo:]: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 1978. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Fine. Pictorial wrappers. Oblong quarto. Catalog of an exhibition hekd at Kanazawa Kenritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, Apr. 15-May 28, 1978; and Gunma Kenritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, June 13-July 23, 1978.
Vision of a Collector: The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Divison.
Washington: Library of Congress, 1991. First edition. Fine. Cloth. Quarto.
West meets East. California Tokyo. Graphic Design Annual.
[n.p.:]: JCA Press, Inc., [1988]. First edition. Color illustrations of advertising art in Japan and California. Light shelfwear. Very good+ in like jacket. Pictorial boards. Quarto.
William Morris & the Art of the Book. With essays on William Morris as Book Collector by Paul Needham, as Calligrapher by Joseph Dunlap, and as Typographer by John Dreyfus.
New York: Piwepont Morgan Library, [1976]. Plates. Spine a bit faded. A very good copy. Decorative wrappers. Quarto.
Wisdom in Miniature: or, the Youth’s Pleasing Instructor, Being a Collection of Sentences, Divine, Moral, and Historical, Selected from the Writings of Many Pious and Learned Authors, Both Ancient and Modern. Intended not only for the use of schools, but as a pocket companion for the youth of both sexes in America.
New York: Printed and Sold by Mahlon Day, 1822. First edition. Binding extremities lightly rubbed with some wear. Marbled paper and pastedowns very slightly curling at the edges and corners. Light foxing and intermittent light toning. Minor creasing to lower gutter margins and two small holes to pp. 203-206 with.....
With Respect...to RFD: An Appreciation of Raymond Franklin Daboll and His Contribution to the Letter Arts.
Freeport, Maine: Published by TBW Books, 1978. First edition. Heavily illustrated. One light spot on spine. Very good, without dust jacket, as issued. Cloth. Quarto. Contributions byu Warren Chappell, Hermann Zapf, Edward M. Catich, Lloyd J. Reynolds, et al.
Woman’s Year Book. Containing for each day a quotation about woman…The whole collected and arranged by two Wells College Girls.
Toledo, Ohio: The Merrill Press, [n.d., ca. 1900]. All versos blank. Alternating leaves are half-leaves that, when lifted, reveal a blank space for the reader’s notes. Decorative floral borders on every leaf and text ornaments on most leaves. Final leaf is printed with decorative borders but otherwise blank for the.....
The World of M.C. Escher.
New York: Abrams, [1971]. With 300 illustrations, including eight in color. One tiny spot on front pastedown. Else fine in very good d.j. with light crease near top. Cloth. Quarto.
Zamorano Club Programs 1928- 1991.
Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 1992. First edition, one of 200 copies printed for the 21st Joint Meeting of the Roxburgh and Zamorano Clubs. Designed and set by Old Mill Graphics, South Pasadena. A fine copy. Laid in is a keepsake meant as a companion piece to the book, with an.....
The Theory of Universals.
Oxford: Athe University Press, 1952. First edition. Very good in price-clipped d.j. Jacket has small gash in spine. Cloth. Octavo.
The Theory of Universals.
Oxford: At the University Press, 1952. First edition. Fine in price-clipped d.j. Cloth. Octavo.
Pacific Slope Railroads. From 1854 to 1900.
Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, [1959]. First edition. Very good in dust jacket with a couple of short tears and one crease. Cloth.
Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers and the Investiation of Truth. From the second Edinburgh Edition.
New-York: printed and Published by J. & J. Harper, 1832. First American edition. Harper's Family Library No. XXXVII. Spine darkened. A very good copy, clean and tight. Original tan printed muslin. Twelvemo. 349, [1, blank], [6, ads] pp. [4] pp. ads tipped in at front. Abercrombie (1780-1844) was a celebrated.....
Poesie, Raccolte e publicate per la prima volta da un Accademio Fiorentino con una Dissertazione sopra poesia dramatica etmMusica del teatro.
Florence: Nella Stamp Imp. 1755. First edition. Copper-engraved title-page vignette on title-page, copper-engraved armorial headpiece. Dedication to the poet Giuseppe Bonechi (ca.1715-ca.1795), who wrote librettos, including one for Josef Myslivecek's Bellorofonte. A very good copy. Contemporary vellum with title in manuscript on spine. Octavo. viii, [2], 128 pp. Anton-Filippo Adami.....
Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. Ink donor's inscription. Edges of boards faded. Very good in fine d.j. Gray cloth with red cloth backstrip. Oblong quarto.
An Which have appeared in the World from the beginning of the Christian Aera to the present Day. With an Appendix, Containing a brief Account of the different Schemes of Religion Now embraced among Mankind. The whole collected From the best Authors, ancient and modern...
Boston: Printed by B. Edes & Sons, 1784. First edition. Joints cracking, but sound. Lower corner of title-page chipped, shaving a couple of letters in the imprint, lightly foxed throughout, as usual. Contemporary ink signature on title-page, early ownership marks on front endpapers. A very good copy. Contemporary sheep, lightly.....