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19969011526New York: Penguin Studio 1996. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. <br/><br/> Penguin Studio hardcover books
197219614Providence: Burning Deck Press 1972. First Edition. Wraps. Near fine. 8vo. Side-stapled printed wraps. Near fine. Trace toning to several pages. Otherwise bright and clean throughout. Good and sound. 42pp. Pamphlet insert by Ron Silliman laid in; 4 pp. <br/><br/>Third issue of this magazine from the esteemed poetry press. Featuring work from David Antin Carlos Reyes Carolyn Stoloff Barbara Baracks and Ron Silliman a 4-page pamphlet titled "4 short and untitled things". Clay and Phillips 272. (Burning Deck Press) paperback books
199221737Japan: Kajima Institute 1992. First edition. Cloth. Very Good /very good . Wide nearly square quarto. 201 pp. Text in English and Japanese. Profusely illustrated volume. Minor corner bumb else a near fine clothbound copy in glossy photo-illustrated dustwrapper. A beautiful and interesting book featuring the history and foundation of the Bauhaus influence and in particular Walter Gropius in Japan. A large and heavy volume. <br/><br/> Kajima Institute hardcover books
199043437New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc 1990. First American Edition. Quarto 35.5cm x 27cm. Gray cloth boards hardcover with titling embossed in silver on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 320pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slighly bumped edge of lower back board else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight slight shelf wear to extremities. A photographic journey through the landscapes and cultures of the Horn of Africa by photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher supported by an informative text by Graham Hancock and line-drawings of the artifacts and architecture of the region. 328 illustrations including 244 color plates 75 line drawings and 9 maps. Harry N. Abrams, Inc unknown books
1938129218New York: Studio 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 127 pages. Interesting look at marketing. Includes numerous black and white images. An about very good copy in green cloth boards and with the front flap of the dust jacket present but the rest of the jacket is missing. A good reference copy. Studio unknown books
1970265869San Francisco: Tran/Cory Sound Co 1970. Audio LP. Single 33 1/3rpm vinyl LP in original sleeve mild scent else very good condition. Zebedy Colt was an actor/director who performed on Broadway and the RSC under the name Edward Earl and had another career as a gay pornstar and director he also appeared in the straight porn "Story of Joanna" The orchestra for the recording was the London Philharmonic! uncredited. Tran/Cory Sound Co unknown books
1974WRCLIT73908Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum 1974. Octavo 20.5 x 13 cm. Stiff card printed wrappers rivet-bound in middle to create two distinct flip-images at the fore-edges. Very minor use at tips otherwise near fine. An innovative flip-book designed by Crouwel to accompany the 4 October - 10 November 1974 museum program devoted to Dutch film animators. The printed flip animations were created by Jacques Verbeek Karin Wiertz and Niek Reus and counterpoint text and a catalogue of the films. Stedelijk Museum unknown books
199819678San Francisco: Chronicle Books 1998. Third printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Small 4to. Pictorial boards in illustrated dust jacket. About fine in a very near fine DJ. INSCRIBED by Kidd to FFEP with a speech bubble added to Superman's face. Mild hint of edgewear to jacket at top of spine. Book and contents crisp bright and clean. Binding tight. 192pp. <br/><br/>Illustrated history of Superman. An impressive production. With a nice inscription from the renowned book-cover designer. Chronicle Books hardcover books
197321023New York: Vantage Press 1973. Hardcover. 352p. very good first edition stated in yellow cloth boards and unclipped bright yellow dj. Young 911. A "year in the life of Pete Clayburn an attractive homosexual cowboy from Amarillo Texas who searches determinedly for a permanent and meaningful relationship amidst the instability and superficiality of modern gay life." - dj. Vantage Press hardcover books
198328093Detroit and New York: The Detroit Institute of Arts and The metropolitan Museum of Art 1983. First edition. Cloth. Very Good /very good . 4to. 352 pp. With 265 illustrations including 62 plates in full color. A monumental monograph concerning the Cranbrook school a still vital community in Bloomfield Hills Michigan. Essays by Mary Riordan Joan Marter and many others. A close to near fine copy in black cloth binding in lightly used photo-illustrated dustwrapper. Light spotting to edges. Please note that this is a large and heavy volume. Additional postage will apply for international buyers. The Detroit Institute of Arts and The metropolitan Museum of Art unknown books
200626772New York: Abrams 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Small hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. A 430 pp illustrated history of chairs. A must-read for furniture lovers. Fine condition in fine unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A large and heavy book. Abrams hardcover books
199120974Koln: Benedikt Taschen. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 3822805459 . Color plates and black and white illustrations throughout Translated from the German by Charles Madsen. Edited by Robert Bartlett Haas. 532 pages. First edition thus. About fine in a fine dust jacket. . Benedikt Taschen hardcover books
1930012100NY: Doubleday Doran 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good -/Fair . Scarce first edition with wonderful pictorial dustjacket by Chapman. Inscribed on the ffe to author and bibliophile Anne Lyon Haight: "To Anne Haight with the affectionate regards of Walton Green Dec 1930" Blue cloth covers are rubbed and dustjacket is well worn missing some chunks along the spine. Doubleday Doran hardcover books
189328913.1Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1893. 1st edition thus 2nd issue BAL 9042; Blanck American First Editions 4th p. 261; Currier & Tilton pp. 241-242; Davis I pp. 146 - 149; Wilson II p. 642. Original publisher's grey cloth stamped in silver a distinctive Sarah Wyman Whitman design. Silver top edge. Green eps. Cocked a bit. Gleaming silver. Pos on preliminary blank. A VG copy. 131 1 pp. Over 50 full-page drawings by Pyle as well as decorative half-titles head & tailpieces etc. for a total of 95 images. 12mo in 6s. 7-7/8" x 5" <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin and Company hardcover books
199926421Haslemere U.K.: Watermark Publications UK Ltd. Fine in Near Fine dj. c.1999. First Edition. Hardcover. very nice copy book essentially as-new with no discernible wear; the jacket has a bit of wear at edges and upper spine corners some light surface-rubbing. Color and B&W photographs renderings "This book has been published in a limited edition of 2400 copies available only to those companies involved in the project's design and construction." But this one evidently escaped into the wild! NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this heavy book; if this concerns you please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order. . Watermark Publications (UK) Ltd. hardcover books
195932204New York: Roving Eye Press 1959. First Limited Edition. Small octavo. Rust cloth hardcover; 63pp. Limited to 1000 copies. A clean and unmarked copy in a moderately dusted spotted dustjacket about VG. Jacket illustration by Rockwell Kent. Inscribed on front endpaper: "This advance copy for Mike / who knows I have never lost confidence in her and I hope it is vice versa / Walter" datemarked Weymonk 1958. The inscribee is possibly Michal Lowenfels the poet's oldest daughter who was married to American bookseller Norman Kane from whose estate the current volume was obtained. Lowenfels 1897-1976 was a key figure in the Paris avant-garde during the 1930s where he was a close friend of Henry Miller and Anais Nin and was in fact the model for the character Jabberwhorl Kronstadt in Miller's Tropic of Cancer . Returning to the US he became a central Communist Party organizer and an editor of the Philadelphia Daily Worker. He was arrested tried and convicted under the Smith Act in 1953 but later exhonerated for lack of evidence. Roving Eye Press unknown books
195545619Cambridge: The Society of Printers 1955. 1st edition. Quarter-bound teal illustrated paper wrapped boards gilt lettering to dark green cloth spine. Orange and white illustrated DJ lettering to white printed title box on spine and cover. Grey slipcase. Light sunning to spine some wear to slipcase. Booklabel. Withal a VG book in a VG dj & slipcase. xii 141 65 pp of plates pp. Bruce Rogers responsible for typographic arrangement & design. Text inside red rule border b/w illustrations and photographic images at rear. 9-5/8" x 6-7/8" <br/><br/> The Society of Printers hardcover books
1837674New York 1837. 8vo. 230 x 140 mm. 9 x 5 ½ inches. 20 pp. Removed from pamphlet volume. Title-page soiled corners folded with some minor loss. The pamphlet begins with a list of officers and members of the Academy followed by a list of pictures organized by room Large Saloon or Small Saloon and finally a list of all the exhibitors arranged in alphabetical order. Over 100 artists are listed most with their addresses following their names. unknown books
2001RNORBRE00tmRed Butte Press 2001. Fine. Nordan Lewis. Breakdown. Makov design and illustration Susan; Eddington design and illustrator Patrick. Salt Lake City: Red Butte Press 2001. #50 of 50 signed. 3pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Brown 1/4 cloth with marbled paper. Signed by author. Book condition: Fine in protective plastic cover. Contains three illustrations with story. Red Butte Press hardcover books
2001RNORBRE01tmRed Butte Press 2001. Fine. Nordan Lewis. Breakdown. Makov design and illustration Susan; Eddington design and illustration Patrick. Salt Lake City: Red Butte Press 2001. #27 of 50 signed. 3pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Brown 1/4 cloth with marbled paper. Signed by author. Book condition: Fine in protective plastic cover. Contains three illustrations with story. Red Butte Press hardcover books
190913331909. Softbound. Good some wear tiny pieces gone off cover corners covers loose and fragile. Wraps. xvii 68 viii pp. 17 two-tone repros. Catalogue lists 306 works. paperback books
199538289Woodside CA: Occasional Works 1995. Small narrow 4to 27 cm; 10.5". 54 pp. <br><br>Sunday collection was edited designed & published by Ann Rosener at Occasional Works Woodside California. The edition is limited to 100 numbered copies. Composed in monotype Bembo at M & H Type San Francisco and handset Bembo at Occasional Works. Title set in Adobe Trajan designed by Carol Twombly. Printed letterpress on Rives paper at Okeanos Press Berkeley. Handbound with printed paper over boards at Foolscap Press Berkeley. This is copy number 11"colophon.<br>Â Â Â Â Contents: Foreword -- The Sabbath / W.H. Auden -- Sunday 4 a.m. / Elizabeth Bishop -- Sunday / Laura Riding -- The sense of the sleight-of-hand man / Wallace Stevens -- Mr. Eliot's Sunday morning service / T.S. Eliot -- Easter service / W.S. DiPiero -- Palm Sunday / Edgar Bowers -- Palm Sunday / Amy Clampitt -- Easter morn / Diane Glancy -- A Sunday drive / Margaret Atwood -- The silent Sunday / William Plomer -- For me at Sunday sermons the serpent / Lynn Emanuel -- Sunday afternoon / Denise Levertov -- Sunday morning through binoculars / Eamon Grennan -- An April Sunday brings the snow / Philip Larkin -- Sunday night in the city / Sharon Olds -- Sonnets to Chris / John Berryman -- A lesson for this Sunday / Derek Walcott -- Picnic / Adrienne Rich -- The visit / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- Song : Come enjoy your Sunday! / Robert Graves -- Sunday outing / Brian Jones -- Sunday at the end of summer / Howard Nemerov -- The Sunday news / Dana Gioia -- A walk / Gary Snyder -- Sunday afternoon in Buffalo Texas / Donald Justice -- Sunday illumination / Al Young -- Sunday Tarzan in his hammock / Lewis Buzbee -- Monday morning / J.V. Cunningham. Publisher's green papercovered boards illustrated with designs incorporating time-telling devices. Very good condition. Occasional Works hardcover books
198221714New York: RAE Publishing Co. Royal Composing Room Finch Pruyn & Co. A. Horowitz & Sons 1982. Hardcover. Very good . Square 8vo. Full black cloth with gilt titles in cloth slipcase. Very good plus overall. Poet Carl Rakoski's copy with presentation note from book designer Daniel Haberman glued to FFEP and Rakuski's ownership signature behind. Moderate touches of soiling and rubbing to slipcase. Interior bright clean throughout. Unpaginated. <br/><br/>Charming edition of this unfinished Shakespeare play "the sixteenth in a series of annual Shakespearean keepsakes prepared for friends of the publishers." With an interesting short note from the designer to Objectivist poet Carl Rakoski. RAE Publishing Co., Royal Composing Room, Finch, Pruyn & Co., A. Horowitz & Sons hardcover books
1990190791n.p.: Self-published by the author 1990. 14p. 6x9 inches handmade chapbook illustrated with decorative endpapers photos first edition #23/500 copies in sewn black paper wraps with color photo affixed front cover signed by the author dated NYC 1990 mild wear. The only date available is the author's signature date of 1990. Her first novel "Up Through Water" was published in 1989. This short-short story was officially published in 1993 as part of the anthology"That's what I like about the South and other new southern stories for the nineties" Hornburg is an author who wrote "The Curse of Downer's Grove" and "Bongwater" both filmed. I say 1990 but more likely this predates the publication of her first book in 1989. Self-published by the author unknown books
192740282Praha: Knihovna Kosmopolis 1927. First Thus. Slim 12mo 18cm.; publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers printed in red and black; 106pp.; pictorial ads in rear. Tiny split at bottom spine edge of upper cover early signature including title page disbound at time of publication else Very Good and sound. Czech translation of Stendhal's 1832 novella "The Abbess of Castro" attractive avant-garde cover art by Otakar Mrkvicka. Knihovna Kosmopolis unknown books
