New York: Gemor Press, 1944. First Edition, one of 300 copies originally printed. Association copy, signed by Anais Nin on the first blank sheet and inscribed to Sarah Newmeyer, an author and publicity director of the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) form 1934-1948, at the time of the publication..... More
[no place]: [no publisher]. [19th Century]. 9.5" x 11.5 Black leather album ornately decorated in blind and stamped in gilt, with beautiful endsheets and all page edges gilt, containing 94 specimens of dried seaweed of various sizes, neatly labeled, mounted on specimen paper and album, with uniform line borders drawn..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. First edition. Unpaginated, rectos only. Original cloth lettered in black. Very Good+ with some fading to cloth, light wear, in About Very Good dust jacket with chipped extremities, small interior chip to spine panel, price-clipped. Uncommon in jacket. An early graphic novel in leadcut..... More
Milledgeville, GA: Georgia State College for Women, 1943,1944,1945. Three rare yearbooks documenting the creative college years of acclaimed Southern writer Flannery O'Connor. Her linocut illustrations (which received renewed attention with a Fantagraphics collection in 2012) are very prominent in the 1944 & 1945 volumes, making up the endpapers of the..... More
Philadelphia: Depot of the Quartermaster's Department, 1888. First edition. Large 4to. Original pebbled brown morocco with gilt lettering, floral endpapers. Very Good with bumped corners, slight corner crease to pages, slightly soiled and rubbed cloth, stamps of "Quartermasters Department, U.S. Army, Fort McDowell, A.G." on endpapers. Repaired tear to first..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. First thus. No. 494 of 1050 copies printed for England and America. Signed by artist on one color plate. 68 pp. Original cloth with gilt tooled title, cover floral decoration stamped in brown; publisher's cardboard slipcase with printed paper label. Very Good, cloth..... More
Lawndale: SST Publications, 1978. First edition. Unpaginated. Stapled wraps. Contents a little toned with age, else Fine. An excellent copy of the self-taught artist's first zine. More
[Los Angeles]: SST Pubs. / Superflux Pubs / STP Pubs. 1982-1996. 21 artist's books, 16 of which are hand numbered by the artist. Staplebound wraps. Near Fine overall with light wear, staples a bit oxidized. These photocopied 'zines trace the LA music scene from its early hardcore days to the..... More
London: Enitharmon Editions, 2002. De luxe edition. Includes color print "Violet Interior" signed in pencil by Tony Bevan, #35 of 75 in wallet. Book #31 of 75. Signed by Pinter and Bevan on rear limitation page. First edition. Fine in Fine original slipcase. Poetry by the Nobel-winning playwright, director, and..... More
London: Clarke, Beeton, & Co., 1852, 1853. [ca 1852, 1853]. The first combined English illustrated edition. The first and second series, bound together in one volume. Bound in contemporary half leather over diced grain cloth, featuring 26 wood engravings throughout the first series, and 16 throughout the second. These two..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1913. Limited edition. One of 1,130 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. In Good+ condition. Fourteen plates with captioned tissue guards. Two tissue guards are torn out, a few plates show creasing. Foxing and toning to pages heaviest at prelims and terminals, and sporadically throughout. Cloth shows marking..... More
London: Heinemann, 1919. First Rackham illustrated edition. One of 850 in the limited edition signed by Rackham, #518 of 525 of those printed on English handmade paper. 110, (1)pp. Green boards with tan cloth back, in folding chemise housed in custom slipcase. Very Good+ with bumped corners and light wear..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1916. Copy number 259 of a limited 500, signed by Arthur Rackham. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt on the upper board and spine. Very Good+ with light rubbing to cloth at corners and spine ends, toning to spine and to a square area of browning around..... More
London: George G. Harrap, 1932. First thus. 48pp. with four color plates. Publisher's limp vellum lettered in gilt. Copy #537 of 550 copies in the limited edition signed by Arthur Rackham. Fine in Very Good original slipcase with small split along bottom edge, light wear. A very nice copy. Haskell..... More
Paris: Hachette et Cie, 1913. Deluxe French limited edition; copy #223 of 460 signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. Publisher's full vellum binding, stamped in gilt. Very Good. Boards faintly bowed, foxing to vellum, darkening and a patch of rubbing to spine. Tissue guard for plate 25 incorrectly..... More
London: George G. Harrap, 1934. Copy number 173 of a limited 410, signed by Arthur Rackham. In original full limp vellum stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light toning, rippling to pastedowns. In a Very Good publisher's slipcase with title label and matching limitation number on spine; a bit toned..... More
Paris: Christian Dior, 1966. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies, this being #417. Buff cloth covered boards with titles printed on marbled paper onlay. Near Fine, light foxing, light toning, previous owner bookplate to front paste down, small stray ink mark to rear paste down. An illustrated hunting journal/checklist for..... More
London: R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1800. First Edition. 14 leaves. Illustrated with engraved dedication leaf with hand-colored vignette and 24 hand-colored aquatint plates, colored by hand, interleaved with the text. Oblong folio (10¼x13¼"). Early green half morocco and cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges speckled red. Near Fine with..... More
New York: The Experimenter Publications, 1930. First edition. 94 pp. Paper covered boards with black cloth backstrip. About Very Good with rubbing to boards, chipping along edges, interior has a few small stains and closed tears. An uncommon illustrated Prohibition-era book of cocktailiana and humorous verse. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. 63 pp. First edition thus. Bound in publisher's green cloth, beautifully stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, in dust jacket repeating the design. Fine, with light bruising to cloth at spine ends, offsetting to endsheets. Dust jacket with a small chip at the head, else..... More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942. First edition, first printing. Number 216 of a limited 500 copies, signed by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and the illustrator, Bernard Lamotte. Bound in publisher's blue leather backed linen boards, in slipcase. Near Fine with light scuffing and light fading to leather spine, in a...... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1928. First illustrated edition, signed limited issue. Copy #58 of a limited 300, signed by Siegfried Sassoon and illustrator William Nicholson. Bound in publisher's decorated vellum, in publisher's glassine and dust jacket. Light bowing to boards, light dust-soiling to top edge, else Fine. In Near Fine..... More
Milan: Sergio Bonelli Editore, 1995. Signed by Dylan Dog creator Tiziano Sclavi on the first page. From the collection of a former Dark Horse Comics executive. 106 pp. Illustrated wraps. In Italian. Very Good+ (graded as a book) with wear at extremities, small tear near foot, hint of sunning to..... More
[No place]: Essomarine Oils/ Penola Inc., 1934. First edition, first printing dated 1934 on inside of rear cover (Younger & Hirsch). Very Good. Light edge wear, toning and light foxing to wraps, with a small erased price to the top corner of the front cover. Contents lightly toned. A very..... More
Oxford: Printed at the Theatre, 1743-1744. Quarto. First edition of Hanmer's six volume set; first edition thus. Bound in contemporary speckled boards ruled in gilt, spines very neatly rebacked. Binding lightly rubbed and worn, though solid; corners softened and instances of leather lifting from boards. Previous ownership bookplates and notations..... More