New York: A Del Rey Book / Ballantine Books, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. [12 [1] 328 [2]pp. Original black cloth with glossy sticker lettered in red and white laid to cover, whit and reverse black lettering on spine. In original color-illustrated dustjacket, white, silver and black lettering on..... More
Berlin: Fischer, 1910. Jubilaumsausgabe. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Small 8vo. 499pp. 477pp. Gilt decorated full-maroon leather with embossed gilt lettering to spines. Top edges gilt. Ribbon markers to both volumes. Title vignette. A classic of German literature (see below). This copy is the anniversary issue celebrating the fiftieth edition of the..... More
Jerusalem-Vienna: Palestine Art Publishing Co., 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Unpaginated. Original powder blue cloth with gilt-stamped and dark blue, circular vignette printed to cover. Twenty-four facsimile prints in color after pastels by Abel Pann, signed in prints. Beautifully produced artwork featuring high-quality color offset reproductions of Pann's biblical works..... More
Paris: Éditions Fonmare, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. 319 [1]pp. Original anthracite cloth with silver-stamped illustration on cover, silver lettering on spine.; in original color-illustrated dustjacket with white lettering on spine. Endpapers with modern design in silver shades. Comprehensive, beautifully illustrated account of the decorative aspects aboard French ocean..... More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto. 287 [3]pp., CD in plastic pouch. Original gilt paper-covered boards with white lettering and publisher's device on spine, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket with tan, blue and white lettering and publisher's device on spine. Art endpapers. Double-frontispiece, one of them an overlay with classical..... More
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1949. Hardcover. Duodecimo. lxiv [i], 255, 292, 271pp. Blue cloth with gilt initials in blind-stamped ruling on covers, gilt lettering and decorative ruling on spine. Top edges gilt. Bilingual Hebrew - English text. C. Purple ribbon markers. "...critical edition, in three volumes, of..... More
Frankfurt: Englert und Schlosser, 1926-1929. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. Original photo-illustrated white wraps with three-color lettering on covers. The magazine changed its subtitle to "International Monthly for Modern Design" and added Fritz Wichert as editor with the first issue of 1928. 1926-27: issues 1, 2, 5, 6, 7. 1928: issues..... More
Weimar: Staatliche Bauhaus Weimar / Panses Verlag GMBH, 1924. Original document. Softcover. Large Octavo. pp. 105-143 [1] as issued. Original tan wraps with black abstract design and lettering on cover. Letterpress. Rare Bauhaus document issued at the height of political crisis surrounding the Bauhaus in its Weimar phase. This third..... More
Munich: Festspielbühne im Ausstellungspark / Dr. C. Wolf & Sohn, 1930. Original document. Softcover. Quarto. 21pp. Original tan wraps with black lettering on cover, with collector card "The artistic Dance," Group 1, Dancers with International Reputation: Mary Wigman, and a printed response card for the attending audiences laid in, requesting..... More
Roma: A. de Singlaviis (Achille MacKenzie de Sanglau), 1870. Original photograph(s). Hardcover. Small Oblong Folio. [1] 22 [1] plates. Original blue pebbled cloth with gilt lettering and blind-stamped decor on covers, gilt ruling on spine, protected by modern mylar. Title page with original albumen medallion of Pope Pius IX laid..... More
Chicago: Contemporary Books, Inc., 1978. Softcover. Oblong Octavo. Unpaginated (110pp). Stiff wraps photo-illustrated in color with white lettering in red circle on cover. Photo-illustrated endpapers. Designed by Carl Barile. Inscribed to "Ben, my best girl. Love, Michael Emory 9-21-78" on illustrated front free endpaper. "Just a few years ago this..... More
Tokyo: Shueisha, 1971. First edition. Softcover. Large Quarto. Unpaginated. Original stiff red glossy paper wraps with blue and b/w lettering on cover, back cover with color photograph. Some 300 pages with color photographs of the Carnival in Rio, five plates printed to glossy paper, one of the folding. Predating Bruce..... More
New York: William H. Graham & De Witt & Davenport, 1848-1856. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Ten issues bound in modern three quarter light brown pigskin over green silk cloth with black silk framing and black lettering on grass green paper labels on cover and spine. Faux marbled endpapers. Holding two..... More
Stockholm: Nationalmuseum. Hardcover. Large Quarto. 319pp. Original brown cloth in illustrated dustjacket with brown and black lettering on spine. Substantial compendium of Renaissance, Baroque and Mannerist architectural drawings and the first comprehensive study of the Italian architectural drawings in the Constedt collection illustrated with 350 color reproductions of architectural drawings..... More
San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, 1987. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 96pp. Original color-illustrated stiff cream wraps with brown lettering on cover. Cream endpapers. Frontispiece photograph in b/w. illustrated with sixteen high-quality offset reproductions of Soba's work in color and seventeen in b/w, plus frontispiece photograph. Exhibition catalog..... More
Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 1982. Second Revised Edition. Softcover. Quarto. xii, (1), 184 leaves. Original spiral-bound red paper wrappers with black lettering on cover. Aramaic language textbook focusing on the biblical Aramaic in Ezra and Daniel. Text in English, Hebrew and Aramaic. Binding with light wear long..... More
London / New York: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. / Bloch Publishing Company, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. lx, 490pp. Original burgundy pebbled cloth with blind-stamped frame on cover, gilt lettering and ruling on spine. "The Chapters of Rabbi Eliezer the Great, according to the text of the manuscript..... More
Kharkiv (Харків): Tsentrfarlag/ Kultura (Всеукраїнська філія Центрального Видавництва Народів СРСР), n.d. [ca. 1928]. First edition. Softcover. Duodecimo. 12 un-numbered pages (including wrappers). Illustrated wrappers, with black and red lettering on the covers. An extremely scarce and engaging children's work in Yiddish, on the subject of domestic animals. The text throughout..... More
Buenos Aires: Biblioteca Oriente, 1941. Softcover. Octavo. 200 [1]pp. Original tan stiff wraps in original dustjacket design in three colors, red, black and white, back cover with Biblioteca Oriente logo in color. Title page with publisher's device. First Spanish translation of Jabotinsky's "The War and The Jew," also published as..... More
Besançon: Syndicat des Instituteurs et Institutrices du Doubs, 1945. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 76pp. Original string-bound tan wraps with black lettering on cover. Cover and both title pages with publisher's device. Lectures given at the Franco-Swiss Synod of Porrentruy on July 28, 1945, at the Montbéliard Theatre. Dedicated to Henri..... More
London: Martin Lawrence Limited, 1934. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 43 [4]pp. Original illustrated brown and cream wraps with cream and brown lettering on cover. Publisher's device on title page. Cover design and illustration by John Heartfield. Detailed account of the 1934 "Austrian Civil War," or the Vienna Uprising, by one..... More
Luxembourg: Bourg-Bourger (Printer), 1945. First edition. Softcover. 48mo. 31 [1]pp. Original color-illustrated tan wraps with black lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. Cover illustration lithograph in in three colors. Experienced by Karl Schnog. No. 1 of the series "Stimmen aus dem KZ" (Voices from the KZ). Copyrighted in Washington..... More
Leipzig: Johann Melchior Süstermann; Fried. Lanckischens Erben, 1709, 1705, 1705. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [46] 1456pp. [48], 88, 186 [10], 8 plates, [30] 360 [24]pp. Bound in vellum of the time with handwritten lettering on spine. Red edges. 3 frontispieces. Title pages printed in red and black. Decorative headpieces and..... More
London: Allen & Co., 1880. New Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xiii (i), (2) 202 (2)pp., 29 [1] plates. Bound in dark blue leather with gilt framing on covers, gilt lettering, ruling and tooling and raised bands on spine. Gilt dentelles and textured decorative endpapers. Japanese and English lettering on title page..... More
Hamden, CT; Ventura, CA: Joe Cordella, 1988. Limited Editions. Softcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Each 1/200. Volume 8: Numbers 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, & 11. Volume 9: Numbers 1, 2, & 4. Black strip binding with clear plastic jacket on all issues. The original Limited Edition Monthly, blind-stamped and numbered..... More