Elberfeld: Rudolf Acker, ND (ca 1905-1910). First edition. Hardcover. Folio (18 1/4 x 14 1/4"). [1] leaf (Foreword and Price List), 12 loose leaves, as issued. Original decorative burgundy cloth portfolio. Splendid collection of twelve early 20th-century chromolithographic plates of Art Nouveau designs and motifs for decorative painting. The plates contain..... More
Santa Fe, New Mexico: Twin Palms Publishers, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 1/4000. Quarto. 209 (1)pp. Original brown cloth with black lettering on spine in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, white lettering on spine. Photo-illustrated endpapers. Photo-illustrated half-title. Frontispiece. In original publisher's shrinkwrap. The photographs reproduced in this volume are part of the..... More
London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 2012. New edition. Hardcover. Square Quarto. Unpaginated. Original boards featuring Kusama art, housed in gold paper-covered slipcase with blind-stamped lettering on cover. Yellow and red endpapers. Originally published by Victoria Miro in 2008, new edition 2012 on the occasion of the exhibition from February 7 –..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., ND (ca 1944). First edition. Softcover. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. [48]pp. Original illustrated wrappers and title page. "Those Three" (Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo) is a splendid collection of 44 anti-Axis cartoons by Catalan artist Mario Hubert Armengol (1909-1995), published with a foreword by Catalan..... More
Tubingen: L. Fr. Fues, 1847. Hardcover. 8vo. xxxii. 698 (1) pp. Original paper covered boards. Analysis of the philosophy of German theosophist Friedrich Christoph Oetinger (1702 - 1782). With reviews and newspaper clips loosely laid in at front endpapers. Age wear to binding. Owners' signatures (from 19th century) at free..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. xii, (2), 49, (1)pp. Tan dust jacket lettered in black. Red cloth spine lettered in gilt, over black boards with Baruch's gilt facsimile signature. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait. A presentation copy inscribed to Samuel Frey, dated August 19th..... More
Berlin: Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [6], 116, [2]pp. Original gray cloth with brown lettering on spine and front cover. This scarce work considers theatre architecture in Hitler's Germany, and is profusely illustrated with numerous photographic reproductions and floor plans. Some of the buildings depicted in..... More
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1968. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over pink wrappers. Frontispiece portrait of Cecil Beaton. Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) is one of the most celebrated British portrait photographers of the 20th Century and is renowned for his images of elegance, glamour and style. His..... More
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [4], 157pp. Original printed wrappers over cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece portrait of Lilian Friedlander. Fascinating biography of a woman who played a pioneering and creative part in building the Jewish national home, and particularly its musical..... More
San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 2012. First edition thus. Large folio (17-1/2" x 12-3/4"). (8)pp. + 11 leaves of color facsimiles + 58pp. Index. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt. Some faint scratch marks on front cover, otherwise a fine copy. William Blake drew inspiration from the Bible throughout his..... More
Münsterschwarzach. o. J. Vier-Türme GmbH, Benedict Press, [1995]. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Unpaginated. Original printed acetate over photo-illustrated paper covered boards. This is the third and final volume in Dieter Blum's impressive Ecstasy trilogy; a series of dance photographs which not only present classical, modern, and erotic dance, but also..... More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto ((10-1/2" x 12-1/2") 129, (3)pp. Photo illustrated dust jacket, black spine lettered in white and orange, over blind stamped black cloth. Illustrated with 67 monochrome photographs of East African wildlife. Signed on the half-title by Nick Brandt. A fine, as..... More
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2014. First edition. Fine. Square quarto (12" x 11-1/2"). Unpaginated. Photographic dust jacket, with white spine lettered in black, over black cloth lettered in white. illustrated throughout with full-page black & white photographs, each with a printed description and wave height & frequency diagram..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XVIII, 297, [1]pp. Original black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Free front endpaper inscribed and signed by Goetz A. Briefs. In the present work, Professor Briefs describes and analyzes a wide range of detailed considerations which bear upon..... More
Weimar: Thüringer Volksverlag GmbH, 1945. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. (4) 174pp. Original illustrated orange wraps with black lettering on cover. Report of the International Camp Committee Buchenwald. The foreword by Ernst Busse, one of the important members of the illegal camp committee in Buchenwald, is a bold accusation of the..... More
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London: Tony Butcher, 2002. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/100. Large quarto. 134pp. Original black cloth, with silver lettering on spine. Book housed in its matching publisher's slipcase. An original 9 1/2 x 7 1/2" silver gelatin print resting at pocket on inside of front cover. Half-title blind-stamped and hand-signed by..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Signed "Ali" on title page 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 marine blue..... More
New York: Assouline, 2016. Second printing. Hardcover. Small folio (13" x 10"). 223, (1)pp. Color photograph dust jacket with white spine lettered in black, over beige cloth stamped in black. Profusely illustrated with over 100 color photographs, some double-page. A fine, as new copy. "Leading art collector Chara Schreyer's forty-year..... More
Houston, TX: Rice University Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Square quarto (12-1/4"). 143, (1)pp. Black dust jacket lettered in white, over blind stamped navy blue cloth. Illustrated with 72 duotone images, nearly all full-page. Signed on the half-title by Keith Carter. A fine, as new copy. Keith Carter presents a...... More
Norfolk, Virginia: Donning Company, 1987. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 110, [2]pp. Original illustrated wraps. Frontispiece. Title-page signed in gilt by David Cherry. Fascinating work containing not only a collection of some of Cherry's best science fiction and fantasy book covers and works of his own fancy, but also an entire..... More
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1979. First deluxe edition. Hardcover. Signed Donald Roller Wilson on colophon, hand-numbered 205/500. Laid in signed color print. Oblong Octavo. 127 (1)pp. Original beige cloth with blind-stamped lettering on cover, gilt on spine. Housed in plain gray cardboard slipcase. Pidgeon blue endpapers. Designed by Emilio..... More
London: The Soncino Press, (1965). First edition. Large octavo. 2 volumes. xv, (1), ix, (1), 400; vi, vi, (401)-845, (1)pp. Index. Housed in brown slipcase lettered in white. Light tan dust jackets lettered in maroon, over deep red cloth, title blind-stamped on front board, gold lettering on spines. Joints of..... More
Lyon: 1945. Limited First edition. Softcover. 1/1000. Small folio (12 x 9 1/2"). [16], 185, [3]pp (Text), xxxii (32)pp (Plates). Original printed wrappers, with yellow and white lettering to front cover. Laid in is a typed and handsigned letter from Noël Monod, treasurer of the United Nations from 1946 to..... More
Paris: Les Editions G. Van Oest, 1929. Softcover. Folio (13-3/4" x 10-1/2"). 111,(5)pp. Indices. Text in French. Publisher's glassine dust wrapper. Pictorial stiff printed wrappers. Illustrated with 88 heliotype plates containing 157 examples. Minor foxing at fore-edge of wrappers and on the fore-edge of the text block. "Ars Asiatica. Etudes et..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978. Third printing. Hardcover. Folio. XX, 373, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over red cloth with gold and black lettering on spine. This remarkable work approaches the study of Indian costumes in two ways. First it examines the general history of the costume, the tools and..... More