San Francisco: Trinity Properties, 2016. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/500. Folio. 609 (1)pp. Original textured blue cloth with three color photographic inlays immersed into columns shape as a Roman three, with blind-stamped lettering on cover and spine. Housed in a matching slipcase with same photographic inlays. Ted endpapers with white printing..... More
Tel-Aviv: Hedim, 1925. Limited First edition. Softcover. Baruch Agadati, oman ha-rikud ha-ivri (artist of Hebrew dance): 1/100. Folio. Original blue cloth gilt-lettered boards with Cubist-inspired front paste-down. Illustrated title page. Calligraphic Hebrew introductory text in black and red. The major work on the legendary Russian-born Israeli dancer, illustrated with a...... More
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Udine, Italy: Art& srl, 1990. First Italian edition. Hardcover. Signed "Gabriele Basilico 7-IX-96" on half-title. Large Quarto. 118 (1)pp. Original anthracite cloth with white lettering on cover and spine, in photo-illustrated dustjacket, gray and black lettering on spine. Black endpapers. Design by Maurizio Zanuso. Texts by Aldo Rossi and Roberta..... More
Paris: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie. Librairie Internationale, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (3 leaves), 71 (4)pp. 22 plates with full page Albumen prints, including frontispiece, 2 in-text prints, 1 on title page, 1 b/w map. Original pebbled blue cloth with gilt-framed, gilt-illustrated cover and spine, both with gilt lettering..... More
Netherlands: Uitgeverij Terra, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Square quarto (10"). Unpaginated (approx. 180 pages). Title and text in English, French, German and Dutch. Photographic dust jacket with dark green spine lettered in white, over black cloth lettered in silver. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs (most full-page). Hint of..... More
Taos, NM: Webb Design Studio, 1984. Softcover. Square quarto (9"). 148pp. Yellow photographic wrappers lettered in black, some old soiling at fore-edge. Illustrated throughout with color and black & white photos, and diagrams. Inscribed and signed on the title page by Larry Bell, dated 1985. "Chess, poker and Monopoly all..... More
Zaandam, Holland: Bruynzeel, (1947). First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 126pp. Gray quarter cloth over gray paper-covered boards with gilt- and blind-stamped title on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Photographic endpapers. Published on the 50th anniversary of the Dutch timber factory Bruynzeel. The company was founded in 1897 by Cornelis Bruynzeel Sr..... 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
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957. First edition Ex-Library. Hardcover. Quarto. xvii, (2) 224pp., 174 plates, 14 in color, 36 unnumbered plates with analysis of patterns. Original burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Title page with publisher's device. "The excavation was carried out in 1933 and 1935 by two former..... More
Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. Gray boards, lettered in black, photo mounted on front cover. Note: boards are lightly printed with stains to make them look antique. Illustrated throughout with photographs. "This remarkable album is a collaboration between Rudy Burckhardt, one of the great..... More
Paris: Flammarion, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11-1/2" x 10") 215, (1)pp. Index and bibliography. Photographic dust jacket, black spine lettered in silver, over glossy, blind stamped black boards. Profusely illustrated with photographs and design drawings (most in color), including several portraits of Cardin. A fine, as new copy. "Pierre..... More
Singapore: Work, 2012. First edition. Softcover. 1/1000.Small folio. Unpaginated (approx. 300 pages). Printed beige wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. Orange spine. Front and back wrappers intentionally "individually and uniquely aged" and torn for the publication, by the creators. The 20th issue of the scarce Singaporean avant-garde art..... More
New York: Time Inc. Home Entertainment, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Signed "Ali" on front free endpaper at a Book Soup event with his photographer Howard L. Bingham in 1993, Hollywood. Due to the effects Parkinsons Disease had taken on Ali's health he signed the book with just "Ali." Quarto. 192pp. Original..... More
Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin International, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. Unpaginated. Clear foil photo-illustrated boards with black lettering on cover and spine. Gray-brown endpapers. Forty-four b/w photographs, most of them full page, three double page and eight in groups of four per page, depicting the photographer in front of monuments..... More
Stockholm: Journal, Stockholm. First edition. Hardcover. 1/1500. Quarto. Unpaginated, 63 plates. Original gray cloth with red and black lettering on cover and spine and and color photograph laid into debossed frame on cover. Photographs of people from Claren's immediate surroundings. Parr/Badger, vol. 3 page 269, describes the photographs as "portraits..... More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company, 1923-1925. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio. Separated hardboard (MDF) covers housing three loose string-tied softcover volumes and and total of loose plates. As originally issued, the set contains a total of 75 plates of finely-produced b/w photographic reproductions of images of English domestic..... More
Hamburg: Kruse Verlag, 2000. First limited edition. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto. 60 (7)pp. Original photo-illustrated, padded boards with brown lettering on cover and spine, housed in white, glossy slipcase. Aubergine endpapers. Frontispiece color photograph. 2/30 hand-numbered and signed on title page and verso of original c-print. Illustrated with sixty color photographs..... More
New York: St. Ann's Press, 2002. First trade edition. Hardcover. Large square quarto (11-1/2" x 12"). 144pp. Original publisher's mylar dust jacket. Black cloth with embossed black lettering and a black & white photo mounted on front cover. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. A fine, as new, copy..... More
Jerusalem: Rubin Mass, 1983. Second revised. Hardcover. Large 4to. 71pp. (1). Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed green dust jacket. Frontispiece photographs of a ketubbah document. A guide to buying Jewish antiques. Chapters are divided according to ritual objects and geographic regions. An earlier edition of..... More
Chicago: Art Photography Magazine, n.d. [ca. 1951?]. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 64pp. Spiral-bound, glossy photo-illustrated sepia-toned wrappers, with white lettering on the front cover. This is volume two of the Figure Photography Annual special issue, published by Art Photography Magazine. Profusely illustrated throughout with the gorgeous b/w nude photography of..... More
Prague: Nakladatelstvi E. Beaufort A. S., 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (14)pp., (1) 46 (1) plates. Original orange cloth with printed paper label affixed to cover, in facsimile yellow photo-illustrated dustjacket. Textured endpapers. Title page printed in brown. Rights reserved and printed by E. Beaufort A. S. This work is..... More
Prague: Nakladatelstvi E. Beaufort A. S., 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (14)pp., (1) 46 (1) plates. Original orange cloth with printed paper label affixed to cover, protected by modern mylar. Textured endpapers. Title page printed in brown. Book block pages light yellow. Rights reserved and printed by E. Beaufort A...... More
Prague: Svet Publishing House, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 171/300. Oblong Octavo (8 x 12 3/4"). Unpaginated. Original brown paper-covered boards in Japanese stab binding with black, silver and blind-stamped lettering on cover, black and silver on spine; housed in plain cardboard slipcase with blind-stamped lettering. Small printed white hand-numbered paper..... More
Wien und Leipzig: Verlag Dr. Hans Epstein, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 18 (1)pp., 96 plates. Original light blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Photographs of Dresden by Franz Fiedler with a brief historical sketch of Dresden, in particular its history under the emperors Friedrich August I...... More
New York: Theatre Arts, Inc., 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 21 (1)pp., 40 plates. Original black paper-covered boards with black lettering in cream paper label of cover. This work documents the visualization by Bel Geddes for his hoped for production of the devine comedy. After creating models for each scene..... More