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1967VBF32<p><b>SENDAK</b> Maurice:</p><p><i><b>Poems from William Blake's Songs of Innocence</b></i>.</p><p>London: The Stellar Press for The Bodley Head 1967. Eight illustrations by Maurice Sendak including one repeat: title/p.11 each printed in sanguine. 12mo.19 pp. 1 colophon; semi-stiff covers with wrap-around pictorial paper dust-jacket spine stitched as issued spine ends lightly rubbed.</p><p>PRESENTATION COPY Inscribed in ink on front free-endpaper: "Dear Sylvia – Mit Liebe! Maurice & Gene". The recipient Sylvia Milgram was Teacher-Coordinator for the Bureau of Art New York City Board of Education and a Lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art New York d. 2000. Gene is Eugene Glynn 1926-2007 psychoanalyst and Maurice Sendak's partner for more than fifty years.</p><p>First and only printing limited to 275 copies issued as a Christmas keepsake for presentation to friends of the publisher and of the artist. While on a promotional tour for the British publication of <i>Where the Wild Things Are</i> in northern England May 1967 Maurice Sendak suffered a major heart attack and he attributes his survival to the quick thinking of his editor Judy Taylor in getting him to hospital. In appreciation he prepared the drawings for this volume which was privately printed and distributed by The Bodley Head. Hanrahan A69.</p> The Bodley Head paperback books
1892133672Cambridge MA: The Riverside Press 1892. Hardcover. Good wear and soiling to cloth. ex-library with expected markings including bookplates circulation cards accession stamps and call labels on spine. Green cloth with gilt embossing. Top egde gilt. 216 pp. The Riverside Press hardcover books
198029314Buffalo: White Pine Press 1980. First edition. Loose Sheets. Fine. Small folder 4 1/2 x 6 1/2" tall containing two pockets inside. All told twelve poetry postcards held in the two pockets. Published as Pinecone 7 by the White Pine Press. Notable for the inclusion of "poem for / from Lew" by Gary Snyder as well as "Inflation: by Lew Welch. All elements in fine condition. Scarce. White Pine Press unknown books
1968WRCLIT19429San Francisco: Two Windows Press Folio IV 1968. Wrappers. First edition. One of 35 numbered copies illustrated with an original photograph signed by the author/photographer. Fine. Two Windows Press Folio IV unknown books
196414814New York: Harper & Row 1964. Hardcover. Very Good /Near Fine. Maurice Sendak. A very nice Association copy: INSCRIBED BY JAN WAHL TO THE HIGHLY-REGARDED RUSSIAN EMIGRE CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATOR FEODOR ROJANKOVSKY on the front free endpaper. Also includes part of an envelope addressed from Wahl to Rojankovsky glued onto the front pastedown. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1964 correct 1st edition Hanrahan A-62. Tight and VG in an unusually crisp price-intact $2.95 Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo wonderfully illustrated thruout by the great Maurice Sendak. <br/><br/> Harper & Row hardcover books
1964216558New York: Harper 1964. First. hardcover. near fine/very good. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. 66 pages colored pictorial boards d.w. New York: Harper & Row 1964. First Edition.<br/><br/> The first issue dust wrapper is rubbed at the edges chipped at the top of the spine and has an ownership signature on the front panel. Different ownership signature on the front flyleaf.<br/><br/> Harper unknown books
195539972Monaco: Editions du Rocher 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. color ills by Rolf Durig map on endpapers 146p. Gray cloth. dj. 27cm. Jacket chipped and worn. Covers edges faded and showing some wear. Folded 6-page leaflet from Durig's first U.S. exhibition Sagittarius Gallery laid in. French text. An account of the author's travels in Mexico. <br/><br/> Editions du Rocher hardcover books
1971182358Paris: Impr. Tournon 1971. Paperback. VG- light shelfwear to wraps pages are otherwise clean and clear. Blue and tan wraps with green lettering; 221 pp 7 pp bw illustrations and plans throughout. Text in French. Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Union centrale des arts décoratifs and held at the Musée des arts décoratifs 10 Mar.-31 May 1971. Includes bibliographical references 224-225. Impr. Tournon paperback books
197150335New York: Harper & Row 1971. First edition # 440 of an edition limited to 500 numbered copies each copy containing a reproduction of a previously unpublished drawing of the Ò Higglety Pigglety PopÓ terrier. Softcover. Very good/Very good. A portfolio of loose illustrations from some of SendakÕs books. New York: Harper & Row 1971. First edition # 440 of an edition limited to 500 numbered copies each copy containing a reproduction of a previously unpublished drawing of the Ò Higglety Pigglety PopÓ terrier. Signed by the illustrator. Illustrated with 20 loose reproductions of various sizes from SendakÕs books. They are divided by book title into folders. This includes the signed Ò Higglety Pigglety Pop Ò drawing. Unpaginated. Softcover. Large folio. Dark blue cloth backed paper covered boards. Interior very good; one inch split in cloth at the head and heel of front hinge of portfolio along with a bumped corner at the bottom of the back board. Very good/Very good. Insurance required to ship this item. Harper & Row paperback books
1971236454New York: Harper & Row 1971. First. unbound. very good. 20 reproductions of various sizes from some of Maurice Sendak's favorite books. Loose plates as issued grouped by title in plain paper folders plus an introductory folder; all housed together in an elephant folio clamshell box with floral decorations and printed label. New York: Harper & Row 1971. Limited First Edition.<br/><br/> Special edition limited to 500 copies of which this is No. 85. Each contains a reproduction of a previously unpublished drawing of the terrier who posed for "Higglety Pigglety Pop" which is hand-signed by Sendak. The box is lightly edgeworn and the spine has been neatly recovered in blue cloth; the prints are in fine condition.<br/><br/> Harper & Row unknown books
1982293378Paris: Centre Culturel du Marais 1982. hardcover. very good. Pablo Picasso. Trilingual French English and Gernan. Illustrated color and b/w. 369 pages. Square 8vo glossy pictorial boards a touch scuffed and lightly toned along backstrip; lengthy gift inscription on endpaper. Paris: Centre Culturel du Marais. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Centre Culturel du Marais unknown books
1921D1255Munchen: Delphin-Verlag 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated paper over boards. Some very light rubbing and chipping and spine tips and corners. <br/><br/> Delphin-Verlag hardcover books
19727317Geneva: Skira 1972. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Cloth dust jacket lightly sunned with minor wear. Very good. <br/><br/> Skira hardcover books
196964316New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good. 1969. Hardcover. First Printing. 141 pages tan cloth with red printing. Spine and edges are a bit scuffed otherwise this is a clean nice copy. Very Good. . Simon and Schuster hardcover books
196921657New York: Simon & Schuster 1969. First edition 4to pp. 141; profusely illustrated; gift inscription to front pastedown else fine in dust-jacket with some edge wear and a circular stain to front panel. <br/><br/> Simon & Schuster unknown books
1971173670Arles: Musee Reattu 1971. Softcover. VG- portfolio show general wear and aging bw plates are in VG condition. Red illustrated paper portfolio 20 pp booklet and 70 unnumbered leaves black and white plates. Written in French. Preface by Jean-Maurice Rouquette. 70 total bw plates issued in portfolio. 20 pp booklet lists the works pictured in the loose leaves. Musee Reattu paperback books
19211315879Munchen: Delphin-Verlag 1921. Hardcover. Octavo; G-/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine cream with gold print; Boards in cream cloth with gold print mild wear to corners and spine caps smudging; Text block has blue-tinted edges peripheral tanning to endpapers endpapers torn at hinges shaken binding age-toning to paper; Text in German; variously paged frontispiece illustrated b&w plates. Shelf: Modern art. 1315879. FP New Rockville Stock. Delphin-Verlag hardcover books
1922277607Paris: Cres 1922. hardcover. good. Picasso. 100 illustrations. 117 pages of text in French. Square 8vo pictorial linen spine and edges are darkened and covers somewhat bowed; paper toned. Paris: Cres 1922. First Edition. A good only copy.<br/><br/> Cres unknown books
195311584Laussane: Skira 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth. Near fine in near fine dust wrapper. PicassoPablo. 135 pp. More than fifty tipped-incolor plates. Translated by James Emmons. Bibliography. Index. The 4th volume "Taste of Our Time" Series. FREITAG 7489. Skira hardcover books
1840401753Paris: Aubert 1840. From the Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow. 12mo 140 x 89 mm. Numerous illustrations in text by Daumier and Janet-Lange. Original printed wrappers. Tear to spine. FIRST EDITION. Vicaire VI:621. <br/><br/> Aubert unknown books
1951403316London: Nature 1951. 8vo. 7pp. Original printed wrappers. Lightly age-darkened. FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT ISSUE SIGNED by Gosling on the front wrapper. This important paper is illustrated with electron microscope photographs of fibers of sodium thymonucleate 4 copies of two side-by-side prints. Wilkins' studies of sodium thymonucleate led him to Raymond Gosling a graduate student working with outdated x-ray equipment. Despite the limitations of the technology they were able to produce several landmark pictures of proteins in crystalline forms. <br/><br/> Nature unknown books
1898307181Caucasus mountains 1898. 38 vintage platinum print photographs printed circa 1900 mounted on card captioned in pencil and signed and dated beneath the image by the photographer. Sizes vary all approximately 7 x 5 inches. Generally fine images not faded heavy spotting to one mount slight warping to mounts. In a custom black half morocco slipcase and chemise. 38 vintage platinum print photographs printed circa 1900 mounted on card captioned in pencil and signed and dated beneath the image by the photographer. Sizes vary all approximately 7 x 5 inches. A fine group of ethnographic and mountaineering scenes from the Causasus Mountains by the Hungarian photographer and mountaineer Maurice de Déchy 1851-1917. A wide-ranging selection of views encompasing scenes from Chechnya Dagastan Georgia and the breadth of the Caucasus Mountains. Images include Mount Elbrus several views Mount Adyr Mount Chikhildi Mount Kasbek and numerous passes valleys glaciers and gorges; ethnographic scenes including Tatar Digor Karachai Daghestani and Khevsuri people and villages; mountaineering scenes including camping beneath Katchou pass with a note that the guide Maser of Tyrol died in 1900 and "en route pour la découverte du col Djiper 1885" with de Déchy identified as one of the mountaineers.<br/><br/>Douglas Freshfield in his classic Exploration of the Caucasus 1896 summarizes de Déchy's activities in the Caucasus: <br/><br/>". M. de Déchy a Hungarian gentleman took up the task of exploration. In 1884 1885 and 1886 he made three extensive journeys in the range. In 1884 . he climbed Elbruz and a fine peak near the Mamison Pass. In the course of his wanderings he made the first passage by travellers of several native glacier passes and collected a considerable amount of scientific information with regard to the glaciers and the snow region. He also took a very large number of most valuable photographs of the scenery and people thus making himself the pioneer in Caucasian photography. I am indebted to him for some of the most interesting illustrations in these volumes" Freshfield p. 19. <br/><br/>De Déchy returned to the Caucasus again in 1887 this time with Freshfield. Fourteen of De Déchy's photographs were reproduced in Freshfield's Exploration of the Caucasus including "Ice-Lake at Klukhor Pass" one of the images in the present group. He also contributed an entire chapter "The Sources of the Kuban" vol. II chapter XXI. <br/><br/>These beautifully printed platinum prints are in a fine state of preservation and exhibit the wide tonal range and delicate shading characteristic of the process. unknown books
19663590Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1966. Second Printing. 151pp. Octavo 24 cm Dark blue cloth with the title on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Gentle rubbing to the extremities of price clipped jacket. "This interesting biography together with more than one hundred of Barthelmess' fine photographs makes an important contribution to western history in the last half of the nineteenth century." - from the jacket. University of Oklahoma Press unknown books
19653156Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1965 First edition. xxiv 151pp. Illustrated with 116 photographs; notes bibliography and index. Gilt-lettered cloth. In a 2nd printing dust jacket. The book is stated first edition the jacket is from a later edition Overall a fine copy. Story of Christian Barthelmess army photographer at Fort Keogh Montana. Barthelmess photographed the Western Plains in the late 19th century and thanks to the preservation of many of his photographs this work is extremely well illustrated with period photos of Indians Indian scouts infantry and cavalry officers and enlisted men military wives military posts and forts etc. etc. University of Oklahoma Press hardcover books
19659018678Norman: University of Oklahoma 1965. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/very good . Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth covered boards spine stamped in blue and gilt. Shelf wear to extremities of dust jacket particularly at the head & heel. Illustrated throughout. <br/><br/> University of Oklahoma hardcover books