Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. VIII, 428pp. Uncut. Top edge gilt. Original pictorial cloth. Decorative endpapers. Color frontispiece protected with a tissue-guard. Decorative title-page with printer's device. Fascinating work compiling stories of Jewish life, some relating to the religious persecution of the Jews..... More
New York: New Directions, [ca.1946]. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. xix, 306pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over light green cloth with black lettering on cover. Translated by Françoise Delisle; introduction by Havelock Ellis; cover design by Alvin Lustig. Reprint of the first American edition, originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1928. No printed..... More
New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1962. First edition for this translation. Softcover. Octavo. XI, [1], 158pp. Original illustrated wrappers over black cloth with silver lettering on spine and medallion in silver on front cover. Alfarabi (ca. 870-950), the great Arab philosopher and founder of the Islamic philosophic tradition..... More
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1942. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 1/500. Small folio. 20pp. + 42 plates. Illustrated light brown dust jacket with black lettering on the front cover and spine. Light brown buckram boards with black lettering on the front cover and spine. Pages uncut. This is #325..... More
Lausanne; Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1980. First French-language edition. Hardcover. Folio. 216pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over white leatherette with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Pictorial endpapers. This remarkable photography book follows the journey of hundreds of thousands of Muslims arriving in the holy city of Mecca for..... More
London / New York: Heinemann / Dodd, Mead & Company, 1901. Hardcover. Folio (15 1/4 x 12"). ix, [1], 121, [1]pp (Text Vol.); [66] leaves (Plates) (Plates Vol.). Original 3/4 morocco over burgundy cloth, with gold lettering and ruling to spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Title in..... More
Saint Thomas, Ontario: Published by the author, [1895]. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (11 3/4 x 8 3/4"). vii, [1], 144pp (Part 1); 187, [1]pp. Modern brick cloth with gold lettering to spine. Edited by Benjamin Fish Austin, a nineteenth-century Canadian educator, Methodist minister, and spiritualist, this work is a...... More
Tokyo: Kodansha international Ltd., 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 166 (1)pp. Original textured blue cloth with silver lettering on spine, housed in illustrated slipcase with black lettering on spine. Tan endpapers. "The museum: The creation of the Iran Bastan Museum as a modern scientific institution was one of earliest wishes..... More
Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth A.-G. (1927). First edition. 176/330. 41 (1)pp., 42 plates with printed tissue guards. Original quarter vellum over brown paper-covered boards with gilt vignette on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Title page with publisher's device and black double frame. Cover design by Lucian Zabel. With an introduction on..... More
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London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Square quarto. Unpaginated. (120)pp. Original white glossy boards with gray lettering on cover and spine, in original dustjacket with the same lettering. Black endpapers. Signed "Roger Ballen" on title page. Illustrated with sixty-one full-page duotone photos of mainly white South Africans on..... More
Romae (Rome): Apud Iacobum Lunam. Impensis Leonardi Parasoli & Sociorum. 1595 [i.e. 1596]. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (15 1/4 x 10 3/4"). [8], 705, [1]pp. Contemporary gilt-stamped calf, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Dentelles. Striking floral design painting to paper edges, with head of Christ on..... More
London: Printed for The Hakluyt Society, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. LVI, 210pp. Uncut and partly unopened copy! Original gilt-, and blind-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece. Transcript of Roger Barlow's manuscript dedicated to Henry VIII (Royal mss. 18 B. XXVIII), and being the earliest account in..... More
New York: New York Graphic Society, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXVI, 414pp. Original decorative dustjecket, blue lettering on spine, over blue cloth with blind-stamped museum logo on coverm gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Cream endpapers. Color and b/w photographic frontispieces. Museum device on title page. The Jewish Museum..... More
New York: New York Graphic Society, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXVI, 414pp. Blue buckram boards with gilt lettering on spine, blind-stamped motif on front cover. Cream endpapers. Color and b/w photographic frontispieces, the first of which is protected by a tissue guard. Museum device on title page. The Jewish..... More
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Tucson: Nazraeli Press in association with JGS, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 1/500. Signed by Luke Batton and Jonathan Sadler on double title page. With one color print, 24/50, of the edition of 500 laid in with tissue guard. Folio. Unpaginated. Original photo-illustrated boards in color with white lettering on spine..... More
Los Angeles: Advertisers Composition Company, 1965-66-67. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/1200 (first volume); 1/1500 (the next two volumes). [12], 120, [10], 121-269, [8], 270-439pp. Original full cloth with gold lettering on spines. Books housed in original decorative paper covered slipcases. Illustrated title-pages. Each volume contains the original printed bookmark issued by..... More
Milan: F. M. Ricci, 1989. Bella, Gabriel. First edition. Hardcover. Square quarto (12"). 220, (6)pp. Indices. Text in English and Italian. Black cloth lettered in gilt, mounted color plates on covers. Housed in publisher's patterned black cloth clamshelll case with paper spine label. Illustrated throughout with approximately 67 tipped-in color..... More
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1956. First American edition. Hardcover. Complete in 2 volumes. Quarto. (3) 335, (3) 290pp. Original blue cloth with silver lettering on black labels of spines. Top edges blue. Frontispiece portrait of the author in volume I. Printer's device on each title page. A...... More
Leningrad: Editions d'art Aurore, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 217, [3]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over tan cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. This monograph on nineteenth-century French Painting contains 98 color and b/w photographic reproductions of French paintings from the collection of the Hermitage Museum, in Saint..... More
Bruxelles: Editions Tekhné, 1921. First book edition. Softcover. Large quarto (11 1/4 x 8"). 44, [2]pp. Original printed wrappers. Tipped in frontispiece portrait of the author. Originally published in 1909 as a journal article, Berlage's essay "Art and Society" proposes a new age of culture focused on socialist principles of..... More
Mexico City: 1988. First edition. Paperback. 1/1000. Quarto. 55, [1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with numerous color and b/w photographic reproductions, this remarkable volume looks at the Navajo culture and the sources, techniques, and history of Navajo blanket weaving and the blankets' links with Navajo beliefs, traditions, and experience. One..... More
London: John Tiranti and Company, 1923. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/500. Folio. 11, [1]pp (text), LXXXIV leaves (plates). Original cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover. This remarkable historical survey of English chairs is splendidly illustrated illustrated throughout with 84 b/w photographic reproductions and illustrations depicting various English..... More
New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 192pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over orange cloth with blue lettering on spine and white lettering on front cover. Endlessly experimenting with design, composition, and color, Hiroshige captured in these paintings, as no where else in his work, his poetic and..... More
Warsaw: Galeria Wspólczesna/ Biuro Wydawnicze "Ruch" 1967. First edition. Softcover. Small quarto. Unpaginated. Illustrated red, white and black wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover. This publication is a catalog for the exhibition of the same name held at the Galeria Wspólczesna in Warsaw, November- December 1967. The head..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1937, 1944. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. XIX, [1], 394, [6]pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and medallion in gilt on front cover. Frontispiece. Captivating study of European economic development as a whole during the Middle Ages. This work is illustrated..... More