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1988022353Concord NH: New Hampshire Historical Society 1988 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine. Color Illustrated Wraps. NA. 1st. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. SCARCE: Near Fine in color Illustrated wrap-around covers 1 light spine crease Large trade-size. Many B&W and color Illustrations 228 pages. Signed in flat script by both authors on the 1/2 title page preceeding the title page. Also includes an ephemeric piece; Order blank/advertising brochure for this book 1 page folding. <br/> <br/> Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1988 hardcover
196950314London: Trigram Press Ltd 1969. First edition. Softcover. Very good. Small square quarto 10". 451pp. Lettered cream wrappers head & foot of front hinge rubbed. Illustrated with photographs some nudity on rectos and mostly erotic etchings on rectos. Trigram Press Ltd unknown
192939332Paris: Editions du Scarabée 1929. A livre d'artiste with FOUR LOVELY FULL-PAGE HORS-TEXTE ORIGINAL ETCHINGS BY GUIDO COLUCCI. In this copy exceptionally TWO OF THE ETCHINGS ARE SIGNED IN PENCIL BY THE ARTIST. From a total edition of 115 numbered copies this is one of 110 copies on fine Arches wove paper. Folio. Loose as issued in original wraps. Wraps a bit dusty and poorly repaired at spine. Internally FINE AND BRIGHT. The four etchings are all in perfect condition. <br/><br/> Editions du Scarabée paperback
1905005958Paris: Calmann-Lévy 1905. FIrst Limited Edition. Half Morocco. Marbled boards. Original wraps bound in. Very Good. A special copy given to Mary Jacobson who was France's fiancee at the time and thus outside the limitation of 300 with qualities straddling two of the limitation tranches. With an original pencil sketch of Jacobson by Chahine. Also all 28 illustrations are rendered hors-texte in two states one being the cancel. 4to. 28.5 by 21.5 cm. 186 pp. Followed by two states of plates. Calmann-Lévy unknown
197771157Chatham NY: Sagarin Press 1977. Limited edition signed and hand-numbered #155 of 200 copies. Hardcover. Near Fine. Signed by the author and the illustrator in ink on the colophon. 48 pp. Quarto 27 cm; full tan colored cloth with title blind stamped on the front board and printed in brown on the spine. Forest green endpapers. No dust jacket as issued. Only hints of shelfwear and the boards are very subtly bowed at their fore-edges. A nice copy. With the signed and numbered etching by Brauer titled "Offering" and tissue guard laid-in at the front. Four etchings printed and bound within the text by Bauer alongside the twenty-four poems by Fox.<br /> <br /> The colophon reads: "This is the special limited edition of The Juggler by Siv Cedering Fox. It is printed on 70 lb. Mohawk Soft White Superfine text paper and set in Optima type. Printed at the Studley Press and bound by hand at the Bridgeport National Bindery. This edition is limited to 200 copies of which this is #155 hand-numbered Siv Cedering Fox signed Bill Brauer signed. Sagarin Press hardcover
1889319711Troy NY: Nims and Knight 1889. Paperback. Fair. Oversize paperback book in FAIR condition - with nine original engraved portraits. Covers and spine are extremely chipped but now protected in a clear plastic wrapper. The first main page biography of Jane Hading has a 1.5" closed tear. Otherpages have light edge wear due to years of page-flipping. Some spotting foxing and other age-related blemishes on the edges of the portraits. The portrait of Mary Anderson is nearly detached from the cardstock. Some dampstaining along the very edges most visibly on the last text page. Otherwise text clean and pages tightly bound despite external damage. Portraits of eminent stage actresses of the late 19th century each with a brief biographical profile. The tissue portraits are mounted on cardstock. Includes Jane Hading Julia Marlowe Lillie Langtry Helena Modjeska Fanny Davenport Ada Rehan Sarah Bernhardt Ellen Terry and Mary Anderson. Measures approx. 14" x 11.25 Nims and Knight paperback
1988007027New York: The Limited Editions Club 1988. Limited Edition. Quarter Morocco. Cloth buckram boards and slipcase. Fine. No. 411 of 850 copies signed by Welliver on limitation page. 4to. 33.5 by 24 cm. xiii 93 3 pp. Two color plates with many blank leaves beginning by plates rear. A beautiful production by LEC with text paper made at Cartiere Enrico Magnani in Pescia Italy and the etchings printed on Arches paper by Peter Pettengill and by Paul and Clary Taylor in Hinsdale New Hampshire. Other than the subtlest hint of sunning to the green leather of the spine the copy is pristine. The Limited Editions Club unknown
2T-7QNB-5NR6Hardcover. Good. Jacket has some wear nicks and scratches. Book has some wear and bumps foxing to textblock edges and endpapers otherwise clean pages firm binding. hardcover
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DADAX1119232198Wiley 2017-01-10. 1. hardcover. New. 7.20x1.80x10.10. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Wiley hardcover
198328520The Strange Company: USA 1983. First edition. Oversize pictorial wrappers. No 2. Large octavo single issue pictorial wrappers perfect bound. Weird magazine: 116 pages including covers. Ten issues published in total the first issue in 1973 then a gap of ten years when a further nine issues were published by The Strange Company 1983-1987. ''of special interest in no 2 is an interview with the leading Weird Tales cover artist of the 1930s Margaret Brundage'' plus ''The Room Of Fear'' a previously unpublished short story by William Hope Hodgson'' see Ashley/Tymn: Science Fiction Fantasy And Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 205/206. Fine unread copy. The Strange Company: USA unknown
198728527The Strange Company: USA 1987. First edition & 1st printing. Oversize pictorial wrappers. Tenth and final issue. Large octavo single issue pictorial wrappers perfect bound. Weird magazine: 116 pages including covers. Ten issues published in total the first issue in 1973 then a gap of ten years when a further nine issues were published by The Strange Company 1983-1987. This issue has a mscellany of fiction poetry and essays by Thomas Ligotti ''The Spectacles In The Drawer'' Brian Lumley and others. The emphasis of this issue is on the work of WEIRD TALES author Amelia Reynolds Long and includes two of her short stories and an essay about her work by Chet Williamson. 1000 copies printed. Fine unread copy but for a touch of edge wear. The Strange Company: USA unknown
198520052The Strange Company: USA 1985. Oversize pictorial wrappers. Seventh issue. Large octavo single issue pictorial wrappers perfect bound. 96 pages including covers. Weird magazine: ten issues published in total the first issue in 1973 then a gap of ten years when a further nine issues were published by The Strange Company 1983-1987. This issue has fourteen pieces of fiction including Brian Lumley illustrated throughout plus lots of poetry plus an interview with Joseph Payne Brennan a short piece listing ''The Thirteen Best Obscure Stories From Weird Tales'' and ''Landscapes of Intertextuality'' by Philip E. Kaveny. See Ashley/Tymn: Science Fiction Fantasy And Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 205/206. Near fine NF copy. The Strange Company: USA unknown
1923ferry06249Tillinger 1923 Berlin: Hans Heinrich Tillgner Verlag 1923. Very good/no dust jacket as issued. A tight clean copy. 300 copies only were printed. 1-20 were bound in parchment and printed on Imperial Japan paper. With signed etchings. This is copy #14. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Tillinger hardcover
058622Berkeley Ca: Pacific Editions / Arif Press 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Box. 36 Pp. #143 Of A Limited Edition Of 165 Copies Of Which 130 Were For Sale. Unique Rag Papers In Two Colors Commissioned From Twinrocker Paper Mill And Hand Bound In Gold Stamped Leater Gray Boards In A Custom Made Box Covered In Gold-Stamped Van Heel Cloth From Holland With A Printed Spine Label. Signed By Thomas And Goldyne On The Limitation Page. Fine. Also With The Prospectus 8 Pp Covers Also Fine. Box Fine But Small Bump To Lower Front Tip. With The Printed Folder Enclosed A Signed Color Print By Goldyne Apparently Issued Only With The 35 Copies Not For Sale. <br/> <br/> Pacific Editions / Arif Press hardcover
1946B7264New York: Heritage Press. 1946. Light wear to slipcases interiors clean and crisp. . Binding: Pictorial paper boards backed in brown cloth. Spines with gilt lettering and decoration. Top edges purple. Housed in brown paper slipcases. <br><br> Notes: A very good example of this set illustrated with reproductions of Piranesi’s renown etchings of Rome. <br><br>Giovanni Battista or Giambattista Piranesi 1720 – 1778 was an Italian classical archaeologist architect and artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" Carceri d'invenzione. He was the father of Francesco Piranesi Laura Piranesi and Pietro Piranesi.<br><br> Size: 8vo. 240 x 160 mm Volume: 3 volumes. Category: Book Classics; Heritage Press. hardcover
6294Minneapolis: Red Egypt Press 1994. Limited Edition. One of 20 copies plus three Artist's Proofs specially bound and signed by Rathman this being copy no.20. Quarto 33.5cm; text is letterpress printed on Rives BFK wire-bound into grey cloth-covered boards with pictorial label inset on front cover; publisher's matching cloth slipcase; 26pp; illustrated with 9 three-color engravings from relief prints and etchings by David Rathman. Fine in a Fine slipcase. An elaborate production pairing the poetry of Russell Edson 1935-2014 with the artwork of Minneapolis-based visual artist David Rathman. Edson a Guggenheim Fellow has been called the "godfather of the prose poem in America." Uncommon evidently sold out prior to publication; OCLC notes 8 holdings. Red Egypt Press unknown
96510<p>Paris circa 1805 through 1814. . Very good. - A suite of 18 plates by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux engraved on creamy white stock measuring between 10-1/2 inches by 8 inches and 11 inches by 8-1/2 inches with large margins there is one smaller exception. The images depict the various cries of Paris merchants. All but three are signed "JDB" in the plate. Most of the images are identified and titled in French in pencil by a previous owner. The collection is as follows:</p><p>"Marchand de gravures etalagiste" portrays street vendors of engravings offering their merchandise to customers some of whom are handling the prints. Several prints hang from a wire stretched between poles in the background and a large blank canvas hangs from the center of the pole. In some editions what is here a blank canvas bears the printed title "Suite de Marchands ambulants de Paris par J.D. Bertaux" and serves as frontispiece to the work. The image measures 3-1/4 inch high by 2-1/4 inch wide within 4 inch high by 3-1/4 inch wide plate marks. The edges are very slightly creased with two tiny tears to the left edge and a couple of tiny stains or spotting to the bottom margin of the page.</p><p>"Decrotteur et ramoneur" portrays a man shining the shoes of an officer as chimney sweeps and other shoe-shiners are pictured in the background. A small dog stands at the side of the officer. The image measures 2-1/4 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/4 inch high by 4 inch wide plate marks. There is some minor faint foxing.</p><p>"Parade de comediens ambulants" portrays traveling actors performing and parading on the porch of a house with spectators in the foreground. The image measures 2-3/8 inch high by 3-3/8 inches wide within 3-1/2 inch high by 4-1/4 inch wide plate marks. There is light foxing throughout.</p><p>"Colleur d'affiches" portrays a bill-poster perched on a ladder pasting a poster or bill to the corner wall of a building. Another worker stands around the corner and a family looks on with their dog. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-3/8 inches wide within 3 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. There are some minor faint stains and minor foxing to the margins.</p><p>"Gagne petit" portrays a knife grinder or sharpener carrying his grinding wheel on his back with a dog at his side. Another knife grinder wheels his equipment in a wheelbarrow. A house and people are pictured in the background. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. There is minor foxing to the margins.</p><p>"Remouleur" although the title differs the image is identical to the prior one. "Gagne petit" and "remouleur" both translate to knife grinder or sharpener. There is some scattered foxing and the paper is lightly darkened.</p><p>"Titre" possibly the title page to the work. The image portrays men filling water containers from a city's monument fountain with water pouring from the mouth of a troll. The image measures 2-1/2 inches high by 3-3/8 inches wide within 3-1/8 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. The edges of the plate are darkened with a short tear to the top edge and just a hint of foxing to the margins.</p><p>"Serrurier" portrays a locksmith grinding keys near the open gate leading to a mansion. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-3/8 inches wide within 3-1/8 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. There is a minor crease to the bottom right corner with just a hint of foxing to the margins.</p><p>"Cardeuses de matelats" portrays mattress carders. 3 women are seated with their carding tools and sections of stuffed fabric. The image measures 3-3/8 inches high by 2-3/8 inches wide within 4-1/4 inch high by 3-1/4 inch wide plate marks. There are minor creases to the corners with a couple of faint specks to the margins.</p><p>"Menuisiers" portrays carpenters working on furniture at their work table. The image measures 2-1/4 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/8 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. There is light scattered foxing mostly to the margins.</p><p>"Marchands de parapluies et de soufflets" portrays an umbrella merchant carrying several on his back and a bellows merchant with several fireplace bellows attached to this clothing. The image measures 3-1/4 inches high by 2-3/8 inches wide within 4 inch high by 3-1/4 inch wide plate marks.</p><p>"Batteurs de platre" portrays plaster beaters. A man is beating away at plaster spread out upon the ground as another carries a basket of plaster to spread over it. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-3/8 inches wide within 3-1/4 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. There is some minor foxing to the margins.</p><p>"Charrons" portrays wheel builders constructing wooden carriage wheels. The image measures 2-1/4 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/8 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. There is some minor faint foxing throughout.</p><p>"Scieurs de bois" portrays sawyers at work as an empty horse-drawn cart rides away and another stacks wood upon a ramp leading to a barn's loft. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/8 inch high by 4 inch wide plate marks. There are some minor sports of foxing or browning to the print.</p><p>"Lingere au petit crochet" portrays an elderly woman cloth merchant carrying her linens in a basket on her back. Several dogs are near her and another cloth merchant can be seen speaking to a man in the background. The image measures 3-3/8 inches high by 2-3/8 inches wide within 4-1/8 inch high by 3-1/4 inch wide plate marks. There are minor creases to the edges.</p><p>"Porteur d'eau" portrays a water carrier and his wife pulling a large barrel of water on a cart. Another water cart and houses are depicted in the background at left. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/4 inches high by 3-7/8 inches wide plate marks. There is creasing to the bottom right corner and some foxing to the margins.</p><p>"Tomeliers" portrays coopers at work constructing wooden barrels to which they affix metal rings. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/8 inch high by 3-3/4 inch wide plate marks. There is some minor foxing throughout.</p><p>An untitled image portrays barbers working on customers hair and beards and a wigmaker at her loom. Several wigs hang from the wall. The image measures 2-1/4 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/2 inch high by 4-7/8 inch wide plate marks. This print is engraved on a sheet which is slightly smaller than the others measuring 7-3/8 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide. There is a piece chipped from the bottom left corner with some foxing and darkening to the margins. The artist's name here spelled "Duplessis-Berteaux" by an early owner is penned on the verso.</p><p>The engravings are in overall very good condition with a paper tab mounted along one edge of the verso of each print.</p><p>The French painter and draughtsman Jean Duplessis-Bertaux 1747-1819 produced etchings and burin engravings. Having taken part in the French Revolution Duplessis-Bertaux produced a series of prints entitled "Scenes de la Revolution" followed by "Campagnes de Napoleon" which illustrated scenes from Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian campaigns engraved after paintings by Carle Vernet. He also produced a series of engravings portraying the street cries of Paris "Cris de Paris". Duplessis-Bertaux also collaborated on some prints with Jean-Louis Delignon and produced several pornographic prints many of which were printed anonymously but were later re-attributed to him. The work entitled "Recueil de cent sujets de divers genres" published in 1814 gathered together in one volume 100 of Duplessis-Bertaux' engravings from eight of the suites including military scenes and those from his Cries of Paris which had previously been distributed seperately.</p> Paris, circa 1805 through 1814. hardcover
1930042244Paris: G. Cres 1930. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Slipcase. 201 Ii Pp. Full Black Niger Gilt And Blind-Stamped In An Art Deco Design Top Edge Gilt Black Gilt And Blindstamped Turns With Blue Silk Doublures And Additional Blue Marbled Endpapers Matching Leather And Marbled Paper On Slipcase. Front Board Neatly Detached Long Ago Reattached With Nearly Invisible Silk Now Again Detached But Can Be Invisibly Reattached Using New Cords Without Any Rebinding. Slipcase With Wear At Corners Split Along One Top Edge. Tipped In Is A Calling Card Of Emile Rossignol With Handwritten Message "Avec Tous Les Voeux De Bonheur Pour L'an Qui Vient" Rossignol." Very Faded Abbreviated Signature At End Of Contents Page. Roland Dorgelès 1885 - 1973 Was A French Novelist And A Member Of The Académie Goncourt. Born In Amiens Somme Under The Name Roland Lecavelé He Adopted The Pen Name Dorgelès To Commemorate Visits To The Spa Town Of Argelès He Spent His Childhood In Paris. A Prolific Author He Is Most Renowned For The Prix Femina-Winning Wooden Crosses Les Croix De Bois A Moving Study Of World War I In Which He Served. It Was Published In 1919 In English By William Heinemann In 1920. Dorgelès Served As A Juror With Florence Meyer Blumenthal In Awarding The Prix Blumenthal A Grant Given Between 1919 And 1954 To Painters Sculptors Decorators Engravers Writers And Musicians. <br/> <br/> G. Cres hardcover
1974000652Land's End Press 1974. Hardcover. Good/Good. Scarce edition. From dust Jacket: "Here in one volume are facsimiles of three rare and valuable works of fencing by the noted eighteenth century fencing masters Domenico and Henry Angelo." Hard back binding in publisher's original crimson cloth covers gilt title and author lettering to the spine. Landscape 6½'' x 9¼''. Contains printed pages of text with full-page monochrome etchings and engravings throughout.Very Good condition book with minor rubbing of the cloth along the spine. Good condition dust jacket with some damage. Not price clipped.Names stamped on First page. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. <br/> <br/> Land's End Press hardcover
1895H4417New York: Dodd Mead 1895. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Two volumes 'new edition revised and enlarged' no. 11 of 50 copies with various original pencil signatures of author and illustrators; with etchings in two states signed in pencil by artists and one frontispiece also signed by Austin Dobson. Frontispieces in Vol. I by William Strang both signed in two states; plus several etchings by Adolphe Lalauze also in two states the first of each of which is signed by Lalauze who also supplied the frontispiece which is signed for the second volume. Cloth-backed boards in rare original dust jackets books very good bindings a little soiled especially to edges and spine ends with some foxing to deckled fore edges contents fine with decorated endpapers text printed on thick cream japanese vellum paper some pages unopened uncut; dust jackets show slight soil and toning darkening to spines light wear to spine ends one volume with chip to spine and both dust jackets a good half inch shorter than the books — probably made that way one of the fashions of that early period in modern dust jacket production. A distinctly uncommon set in the limited signed edition with no recent copies at auction. Dobson was a modernist and a pioneer in adapting French verse forms -- the villanelle rondel rondeau ballade etc. -- for use in the English language. Dodd, Mead hardcover
198318613West Islip NY: Universal Limited Art Editions ULAE 1983. First Edition First printing. Hard Cover. Inscribed on title page by Jim Dine to fellow artist R.B. Kitaj. FINE BOOK IN VERY GOOD DUST JACKET WITH SLIGHT EDGEWEAR AND TINY CHIPS. Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) unknown
15566Ulae 1983. First edition. Fine and bright in near fine illustrated dustjacket with crisp text throughout very attractive Ulae, 1983 unknown
1982165391Sydney: Ansay 1982. 1st edition. As New. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket 63pp. sepia illusts. Presentation copy inscribed & signed by Paul Deprat on the title-page Ansay hardcover
