New York: Crown, 1986. First American edition. Hardcover. Folio (13 X 9 3/4"). 224, [2]pp. Original acetate over illustrated dust-jacket and tan cloth, with black lettering to spine and front cover. Frontispiece color portrait of Marc Chagall. Book housed in its publisher's cardboard slipcase. Translated from the French by John Ottoway..... More
New York: Harper Collins, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 64pp. Illustrated paper covered boards with white, yellow, black and red lettering on covers and spine. Front and rear end papers with illustrated games. This wondrous book, full of imaginative reimagined fairy tales, is uniquely illustrated throughout. Each fairy tale has its..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1987. First edition thus. Softcover. Folio. (14" X 10-1/2"). 91pp. Illustrated paper covers. Illustrated end papers. With the bound-in color comic book insert by Art Spiegelman: "Two -Fisted Painters;" and the five colored "bubble gum trading cards." Minor rubbing at head & foot of spine, otherwise..... More
Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Academies, 1974-1980-1984. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/2 x 6"). XVIII, 576, [2]pp (Vol. 1); XVII, [1], 690, [4]pp (Vol. 2); XIII, [1], 159, [1]pp (Vol. 3). Original green cloth with gold lettering to spines and front covers. "A comprehensive corpus of texts..... More
Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1980. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/450. Folio. 256pp. Original grey cloth, with white and black lettering on spine and front cover. Book housed in its matching slipcase. Strand's classic book on the landscape and people of New England, originally published in 1950, but printed with better detail in..... More
Basel: Rippon Boswell and Co., 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 112pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over gilt-stamped black cloth. Pictorial endpapers. This striking work was published in conjunction with the auction of the Te-Chun Wang collection at the Baur Au Lac Hotel, Zurich, on November 16th, 1978. It features exceptionally fine..... More
Cologne: W. Konig, 2002. Hardcover. Large quarto. 118pp. Bibliography and text in German. Black cloth lettered in gray. Illustrated throughout with impressionistic photos and plans of modern architectural icons, (and a few seascapes and historical wax figures). A fine, as new copy, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. This catalog was published..... More
Lyublinah (Ljubljana, Slovenia): Judovska skupnost Slovenije (The Jewish Community of Slovenia), 5762 / 2002. Limited Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Folio. 36, 137, [1]pp. Original golden decorative paper covered boards, with blind-stamped lettering on both covers. All edges gilt. Ribbon marker. Published in a limited edition by the small Jewish community of..... More
Lyublinah (Ljubljana, Slovenia): Judovska skupnost Slovenije (The Jewish Community of Slovenia), 5762 / 2002. Limited Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Folio. 36, 137, [1]pp. Original golden decorative paper covered boards, with blind-stamped lettering on both covers. All edges gilt. Ribbon marker. Published in a limited edition by the small Jewish community of..... More
Philadelphia: Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 1978. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. [397]-568pp. Original decorative wrappers. Remarkable issue of the J.E.S. being a dialogue among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scholars on Jesus in the form of comments on a book about Jesus. In addition, there is a dialogue article between a rabbi..... More
Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. LVII, [1], 333, [1]pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original gilt-, and blind-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece. Transcripts of several surviving records of the voyage for Cathay sponsored by the Privy Council..... More
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1970. First edition. Softcover. Small quarto. [6], 122pp. Original printed wrappers. Captivating monograph on Boston architecture. The illustrations in this book direct attention to what is visually remarkable in Boston, be it the excellent, the appaling, or the unique. The accompanying text provides background. But..... More
London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt, University College; Bernard Quaritch, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 1/4 x 10"). xxxix, [3], 70pp (Text), [43] leaves (Plates). Original 3/4 burgundy cloth over printed paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. Discovered in 1923 about 27 miles south of Asyut..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999. Hardcover. Small folio. (xii), 596pp. Illustrated green dust jacket, white lettering on front cover and spine. Grey cloth boards with blue lettering on spine. "This volume unites groundbreaking texts by eminent American and European scholars with the most complete visual presentation ever of Ingres's..... More
Lipsiae (Leipzig): Giesecke et Derient, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (11 1/2 x 9"). l (50), 284pp. Contemporary full calf, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Title page in red and black lettering. Constantin von Tischendorf's celebrated edition of the renowned Greek manuscript of the New Testament..... More
Melbourne: The Lee-Pratt Press, 1939. First edition. Softcover. Quarto (10 1/8 x 7 1/2"). [16]pp (Text), [12]pp (Plates). Original decorative wrappers. Photo-illustrated title. Official catalogue of the International Camera Pictures exhibition held in Melbourne, Australia, in August 1939. This catalogue features the b/w photographic reproductions of 12 of the 351..... More
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1906. First UK edition. Hardcover. Quarto. LXI, [1], 416, 564pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spines. Top edges gilt. This remarkable work is a masterpiece of Protestant theology, both in form and contents. The author's arguments gathered in this book are a powerful..... More
Berlin-Schöneberg: Meisenbach Riffarth & Co., 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto (9 1/2 x 13 1/2"). [2] leaves (Title and Dedication); [1] leaf (Photogravure portrait of German field marshal Alfred Ludwig Heinrich Karl Graf von Waldersee, after a photograph by J. C. Schaarwächter); 70pp (Photogravures); 1 folding map of Beijing..... More
London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XVII, [2], 176pp. Original blue cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover. Remarkable transcription of Doctor William Brownrigg's casebook containing a variety of cases, observations and letters dating from 1737 to 1742. It also contains..... More
Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1949. First American edition. Softcover. Octavo. XVII, [1], 188pp. Original printed wrappers over green cloth with gold lettering on spine. The three essays here translated reveal an aspect of Max Weber's thought which has not yet been presented at first hand to the English-speaking public..... More
Oxford, Rutgers and Jerusalem: Oxford University Press; Rutgers University; Israel Universities Press, 1968-1984. First edition. 8vo. Series A. 20 volumes (of 23, lacking vols. 14, 15 & 17). Series B. 2 volumes (complete). Each volume of Series A approximately 400 pp., each with an index and frontispiece of Chaim Weizmann..... More
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto. XXI, [1], 632, [2], 287, [3]pp. Original illustrated dust-jackets over turquoise cloth with gold lettering on spines. Half-title of first volume inscribed and signed by Robert L. Welsch. Photo-illustrated title pages. This two-volume work, based around the field diaries and..... More
Edinburgh: G. D. Robinson, 1932-1933. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 245, [3], [2], 262pp. Contemporary olive cloth, with gold lettering on spines. Paul Burnford's Ex Libris on inside of each front cover. Complete collection of the first eight issues (two years) of "Cinema Quarterly" a film magazine published in Edinburgh..... More
Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. LXIV, [2], 445, [1]pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers over burgundy cloth with gold lettering and borders on spine and blind-stamped lettering on front cover. Although several translations of Simmel's articles have appeared in the United States, the present volume is..... More
Nendeln (Liechtenstein): Kraus Reprint Limited, 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. XCIII, [1], 314pp. Original blue cloth, with gold lettering and blind ruling on spine. Frontispiece. Collection of translated Spanish official documents pertaining to English voyages to Spanish America in the late 16th century. This volume is complete with all its plates..... More