A collection of works being exhibited at our booth G57 at FIRSTS London's Rare Book Fair with an emphasis on Rare Books, Judaica and the Arts.
Download PDF of London Rare Book Fair Catalog September 2022 online![Item #46917 Samet (Velvet) [Kleine Bibliotek 'Lyric']. Lipe Reznik, Joseph Chaikov](/pictures/thumb/46917.jpg?v=1591131315)
Kiev: Kultur-Lige, 1922. First edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 39pp. [1]. Illustrated black and white wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. Wrappers protected by white tissue paper covers. Illustrated publisher's device on the back cover. Modernist cover design featuring a snake, by artist and graphic designer Joseph Chaikov (1888..... More
Berlin: Hermann Reckendorf, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 125 (3)pp. Original bright red cloth with blue lettering on cover and spine, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, protected by modern mylar. Black endpapers. Publication to coincide with the Werkbund-Exhibition "Film and Foto" in Stuttgart, 1929. A programatic appeal for new esthetics in..... More
Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1921. First Limited Edition. Hardcover. 9/440. Inscribed to producer and agent Paul Kohner "Dear Paul Merry Xmas 1964 from Lisl and Walter" on blank preceeding title page. Quarto. (6) 105 (5)pp. Original gilt-stamped cream leather with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Gilt fillets and top edge..... More
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 63 (1)pp. Original marbled boards with gilt lettering on debossed green label of cover, protected by modern mylar. Inspired by the death of Wera Ouckama Knoop, playmate of Rilke's daughter, the Sonnets to Orpheus were written in February of 1922 at the Chateau..... More
Bordeaux: Chez Racle, 1814. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 234pp. (2). Brown leather, with gilt tooling and gilt stamped floral design on spine. Signed author's attestation of printing at verso of title page. The publication is considered to be the first work to incorporate Hebrew printing in Bordeaux. The work, is..... More
![Item #43601 Dutch Details [SIGNED]. Edward Ruscha](/pictures/thumb/43601.jpg?v=1600912286)
Arnhem: Octopus Foundation, 1971. Limited first edition. Unpaginated. 4 1/2" x 15" white wraps with title printed to cover in black, protected by modern mylar. Signed by Ed Ruscha on inside front cover. The most scarce of Ed Ruscha's conceptual art books, "Dutch Details" is a photographic documentation of bridges..... More
Los Angeles: Edward Ruscha, 1966 [1970]. First edition, Second printing. Softcover. 1/5000. Octavo. Unpaginated. (53), (1)pp. Original white wraps with gray lettering on spine, in its original silver paper-covered slipcase. Signed "Edward Ruscha" in blue pen on the top edge of the slipcase. Iconic accordion folded artist's book containing offset..... More
![Item #49679 おおさか 1975: 佐伯紘一写真集 (Osaka 1975) [SIGNED]. Koichi Saeki](/pictures/thumb/49679.jpg?v=1644281881)
[Osaka]: Self-published, 1975. First edition. Softcover. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated (68 pages). Original photo-illustrated wraps with white lettering on covers and spine. Signed on front free endpaper in black marker by photographer Koichi Saeki. Self-published by the photographer, this work is Saeki's atmospheric photographic survey of the urban landscape of Osaka..... More
Stuttgart: J. Engelhorns Nachf. 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 104pp. Gilt-stamped blue cloth with gilt and blue lettering to cover in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, protected in modern mylar. Images of politicians and other famous persons in unposed moments captured by Salomon, whose historic work inspired London's Graphic to coin the..... More
![Item #49613 Steichen The Photographer [SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER]. Carl Sandburg, Edward...](/pictures/thumb/49613.jpg?v=1646073195)
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. 648/925 signed by Sandberg and Steichen on colophon. Folio. 70pp. Unpaginated part with photogravure plates. Original black cloth with gilt ruling and lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece photogravure. First major monograph devoted to Steichen with fourty-nine photogravures, incl. frontispiece..... More
München: Transmare Verlag, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 60pp. Original dustjacket over yellow cloth with small illustration stamped in black to front cover, housed in a modern black cloth clamshell box with gray edges, gilt lettering and ruling on black leather label of spine. Illustrated with full-page reproductions of b/w..... More
New York: Morris Gest, 1925. First edition. Softcover. Large 4to. Soft paper wrappers illustrated in chromolithography. Put out by Morris Gest- an important Broadway theatrical producer and director- this is a touring programme for the Moscow Art Theatre's Musical Studio's first US tour in 1925-26. The Musical Studio originated as..... More
München: Julius Schröder Verlag, 1921. Limited Deluxe Edition (Vorzugsausgabe). Hardcover. 1/205 copies, signed in pencil on limitation page by German painter & graphic artist, Adolph Schinnerer. Large 4to. 98pp. Decorative gold-stamped Japan vellum with vellum stitching on spine and beveled gilt-stamped dentelles. Hand bound by Buchbinderei Knorr & Hirth, München..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 443pp. Original illustrated black dust jacket, with yellow lettering on the front cover and spine. Back cover of jacket with authors bio and photo-portrait. Green cloth boards. Dark blue lettering on a paper label pasted on the spine. Pages uncut..... More
![Item #48865 French Translation of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus [AND] A Miscellany of...](/pictures/thumb/48865.jpg?v=1652741412)
[False locations] / Brussels: [False publishers] / F. Foppens, 1678. First French Edition / Later editions. Two works (the latter in five parts), in two volumes, the first published in 1678, the latter in 1731, duodecimo. [34], 531, [29, table], [1, fautes], [1, blank], 30 (remarques); [10], 158, 483, [2..... More
Berlin: Dietz Verlag, 1952. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8/30. 91 (4)pp. Full red hand bound morocco with staggered gilt borders encasing gilt-stamped frame of laurel and stars, with gilt lettering on front cover. Same framing without lettering on back cover. The spine also with staggered gilt-stamped ruling and stars at top..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. First American edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. xiv, 522, ix, 566pp., 32 plates, 8 maps bound in, two of them folding, plus 2 folding maps in color in pocket at rear. Original burgundy pebbled leather over marbled boards with gilt ruling on covers, gilt lettering..... More
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (vi) [1] 296pp. 32pp. (publisher's ads). Housed in a custom maroon pebbled leather pull-off case, with gilt lettering and raised band on the spine. Period orange cloth boards with decorative motifs and ruling in black running along the top..... More
Berlin: Vereinigte Verlagsgesellschaften Franke & Co. KG, 1940. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 8pp. Original photo-illustrated wraps with white lettering on cover. Illustrated promotional supplement of the periodical Illustrierter Film-Kurier in gravure. The 1940 film "Der ewige Jude" is a propaganda documentary about the world Jewry after an idea by Eberhard..... More
Tokyo: The Sanseido Co. Ltd., 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 3 leaves, 2, xiii, 318pp. Original light brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, protected by modern mylar. Japan endpapers. Frontispiece color woodcut by Tokuyuki Katsuhira,with tissue guard. An account of Bruno Taut's three year residence in Japan describing Japanese..... More
![Item #41431 Maud, and Other Poems [WITH SIGNED LETTER BY THE AUTHOR TO JOHN RASHDALL]. Alfred...](/pictures/thumb/41431.jpg?v=1473805763)
London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1859. New edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [8], 168pp. Contemporary gilt-stamped red morocco, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Dentelles. All paper edges gilt. Mounted on inside of front cover is an original handwritten letter by Alfred Tennyson to his lifelong friend, Reverend John..... More
![Item #45721 Enoch Arden [WITH A STRIKING FORE-EDGE PAINTING BY MARTIN FROST] [SIGNED BY THE...](/pictures/thumb/45721.jpg?v=1562370440)
London: Strahan and Co., 1869. Reprint. Hardcover. 12mo (6 1/2 x 4"). [6], 178pp. Contemporary full red morocco stamped in gilt and black on covers and spine, and gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. Dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Stricking fore-edge painting by Martin Frost depicting Buckingham Palace. The painting can be..... More
London: Hogarth Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 80pp. Brown marbled paper covered boards, cream labels printed in black (spine label a bit darkened). Hinges lightly rubbed and minor wear at tips. Tiny chips at extremities of spine, but still a very good + copy. A presentation copy inscribed on the..... More
![Item #44696 Haus der Deutschen Kunst, 1933 [WITH 20 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS]. Paul Ludwig Troost,...](/pictures/thumb/44696.jpg?v=1547766005)
NP: NP, [1937]. Hardcover. Oblong quarto (9 1/2 x 11 3/4"). [3] leaves (blank), [20] leaves (Photographs), [3] leaves (blank). Original gilt-stamped brown morocco presentation binding with circular designs and gold lettring to front cover. Raised bands. In twenty striking photographs by Heinrich Hoffmann (Adolf Hitler's personal photographer), this photo..... More
Budapest: Hechaluc (Hehalutz), 1946. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 32pp. Original wrappers with title pasted on front cover. Catalogue of the first post-WWII Holocaust exhibition that was held in Budapest in 1946. This work is profusely illustrated throughout with 9 photomontages by Szõts Jenõ, 8 by Lõrincz Gyula, as well as..... More