Berkeley: Last Gasp of San Francisco, 1983. First edition, first printing. Softcover. Quarto. 47pp. (1). Glossy white illustrated wrappers, with orange and black lettering on the front cover and spine. The work is the first collection of Vaughn Bode's "Deadbone Erotica" printed in full color (it was originally in b/w)..... More
Berlin: Photographische Gesellschaft, 1914. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/200. Elephant Folio. 46 (2), 95 plates, 50pp., 99 plates. Rebound in red library buckram with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge and initials. Four photogravure reproductions in text of volume one: Frans Hals' son Harmen's "Portrait of a Man," Johan Woutersz'..... More
Basel Boston Berlin: Birkhäuser, 2006. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto. Eight Volumes in original off-white cloth with red lettering, in original design dustjacket, black lettering; housed in a white linen on cardboard slipcase, with original design and black lettering. Reprint of the original edition: Oeuvre Complète 1910–1969. Comprehensive architectural survey of Corbusier..... More
Cheadle, Cheshire; Liverpool; London: Architectural Students Association, 1943–1950. Softcover. Octavos, various formats, app. 30-40pp. each. Original gray wraps and red and blue lettering, 1943, glossy white two color illustrated wraps, some with b/w photographs, two color lettering, 1944–1945, and spiral-bound illustrated wraps with varying lettering, 1948–1950. Issues 1943 through 1945..... More
London: Country Life, (1919). Revised, enlarged edition. Hardcover. Sm. elephant folio. viii,396pp. Gold-stamped maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine. All gilt edges. Mounted color frontispiece after a drawing by Charles Gascoyne. Illustrated title-page with lettering in red and black. 418 fine b/w reproductions of photographs, engravings, drawings, and plans..... More
Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. 16pp., 30 plates with tissue guards. Original light brown cloth with stamped brown decor and lettering on cover and laid down halftone photograph. Decorative floral endpapers. Rare textbook for character actors. The portrait photographs demonstrate various facial expressions which are arranged..... More
Berlin: J. Bork; Druck Fredebeul & Koenen, 1932. Loose leaf. Folio (18 1/2 x 12 1/2"). Broadside. Original color-illustrated tan paper with black and red lettering, protected by modern mylar. Well rendered Anti-Nazi lithographic broadside preceding the election for the Prussian State Parliament on April 24th, 1932. Depicting a raging..... More
Reus: Agrupació Fotogràfica Reus, 1993. Limited first edition. Box. 1/250. Elephant folio. 16x12". [11], [10 page booklet] + 10 photographs. Black cardboard box, with green, white and purple decorative paper label on the front cover. Green text on the label. The work is a finely produced collection of 10 photographic..... More
Warszawa: Centralna Zydowska Komisia Historyczna, 1947. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 288pp., 10 plates. Original illustrated wrapper with red lettering on cover and spine. Anthology of poems about Jews under German occupation by some of the leading poets. Illustrated with 10 b/w plates of artwork and b/w photographs. Text in Polish..... More
Waszawa: Centralna Zydowska Komisia Historyczna, 1946. First edition. Sofcover. Octavo. xxiv; 213 (2)pp. Original wrapper with black lettering on cover. Underground actions in ghettos and concentration camps. Documentation of holocaust from various sources. In good condition. More
Krakow: Centralny Komitet Zydow Polskich, 1946. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 73 (2)pp. Original illustrated wraps with gray lettering on cover. Memoirs of Janina written in 3 notebooks at the age of 12 and reviewed by her at the age of 15. In good condition. More
Krakov: Centralny Komitet Zydow Polskich, 1946. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 197 (7)pp. Original illustrated wrapper with black lettering on cover and spine. Collection of essays and poetry; various photos and drawings. An illustrated chronology. Text in Polish. Wraps and block with some age-toning. Wraps and interior in overall good condition..... More
Seengen: Verlag der Historischen Vereinigung Seetal, 1937. Softcover. 8vo. 67pp. Wrappers. Work on the historical monuments of a certain German region. With fold-out map and combined appendix and errata ["Nachträge und Berichtigungen zum Heimatführer (von 937 bis Febr. 1939)"] laid-in at end. Discoloration, some creasing to wrappers. Browning to pages..... More
NP, 1997. Softcover. Lg. 8vo. xvii,327pp. Pictorial wraps. Tipped-in frontispiece reproduction of graphic on orange paper. Illustrated with black and white reproductions of photographs and documents. Contributors like Nicoletta Misler, Boris Mikhailov, Fedor Pogodin, Vasilii Kandinsky, Published for the Institute of Modern Russian Culture, Los Angeles by Charles Schlacks, Jr...... More
Breslau: Schles. Verlags-Anstalt v. S. Schottlaender, 1900. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth. Hebrew and German title pages. A collection of scholarly articles in German and Hebrew published in memory of R. David Kaufmann, one of the main teachers and the librarian of the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest, who passed away the..... More
Paris: Art et Médecine, 1939. First edition. Softcover. Folio (12 1/4 x 9 1/2"). Unpaginated. [32]pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers, with blue lettering to front cover, and black, white and blue lettering to back cover. This March 1939 issue of the avant-garde magazine "Art et Médecine" is splendidly illustrated throughout with..... More
Birmingham, AL: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1984. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. XXIV, 596pp (Text), 8 leaves of plates. Original gilt-stamped green leather with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. Publisher's booklet laid in. Exquisite edition of this Ancient Egyptian medical text which is also the..... More
Wilton Park, England: NP, 1946. First edition. Softcover. Collection of two German POW Camp Newspapers providing a first-hand account of the feelings and emotions of the men, as well as their day-to-day activities during their internment in Great Britain. The monthly newspapers were produced by prisoners in Berechurch Hall (Camp..... More
Poona: Published by Members of the Faculty of the Schools of Linguistics Deccan College, Poona; Linguistic Society of India, 1958. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. VIII, 75, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Previous owner's name (Herbert H. Paper*) on upper front cover and dated July 1959. Publisher's logo on title page. Scholarly..... More
Laubach and Berlin: Triton Verlag, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 1/2000. Folio. 391 (3)pp., and portfolio with 20 facsimile enclosures. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on spine, gilt publisher's device on cover of portfolio, housed in matching blue paper-covered slipcase. Blue endpapers. Two title pages printed in red..... More
Rome: Quasar, 1977. First American edition. Hardcover. Folio. 424 (4)pp. Original color illustrated dust jacket over illustrated brown cloth cover with with lettering on spine. Important catalog of the prehistoric and ethnographic collections of the Pigorini Museum in Rome. Established in 1876 the museum covers Africa, Australia, Indonesia, Oceania, and..... More
Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1905. Hardcover. 8vo. x. 218 (1) pp.3/4 leather over marbled boards, with spine rebacked in blue cloth. Repair in crude tape to inside of both boards alongside spine Work of Hebrew Poetry, with Poems by Shelomo Ibn Givrol, Baha ibn Pakudah, Yehuda al-Harizi, etc. With indeces..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. XV, [1], 313, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers over black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece portrait of Brother Elias. Printer's device on title page. Remarkable work in which the author contends that a thorough knowledge of the personality and accomplishments..... More
London: Williams and Norgate, 1902, 1904. Ex-Library First edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. ix, 259 (1), vii, 261-530pp. Original blue cloth with blind-stamped border and gilt lettering on spine. Published for The Text and Translation Society. "The letters of Severus of Antioch, lost except for a few fragments in Greek, are..... More
London: Printed by Richard Field [and Gabriel Simson], for William Young, 1596. First edition. Softcover. Small quarto. [asterisk]4, A-K4, (2nd) H4, L-P4, 68 leaves. [136]pp., 3 (of 4) engraved plates. Woodcut anchor device at title; printed marginalia; woodcut lettrines. English text in black letter, italic, and roman type, some Hebrew..... More