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PARRINGTON, Vernon Louis. AMERICAN DREAMS. A Study of American Utopias.
New York: Russell & Russell, 1975. 8vo, 246pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettered, fine.
Second Edition, enlarged and with a postscript. This pioneer work, first published in 1947, remains the most comprehensive book-length study of American literary utopias. Includes chapters on Edw. Everett Hale and Mark Twain; Bellamy, California utopia of Thomas Lake Harris, etc.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 1709   details     inquire
offered by: William Dailey Rare Books Ltd   (USA)
WHARTON, Anne Hollingsworth. HEIRLOOMS IN MINIATURE. With a Chapter on Miniature Painting by Emily Drayton Taylor. With Numerous Reproductions of the Best Examples of Colonial, Revolutionary, and Modern Miniatures Painters.
Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott, 1898. 8vo, 259pp, frontispiece, 87 illus. Publisher’s original yellow cloth, gilt lettered and decorated, teg, untrimmed, bookplate, somewhat soiled, overall a very attractive, tight, very good+ copy.
Scarce survey of American Miniaturists and the miniaturist’s art. Second edition, originally published in 1897.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 1732   details     inquire
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BLAKE, William - E.J. Ellis & W.B. Yeats. THE WORKS OF WILLIAM BLAKE, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical. Edited with Lithographs of the Illustrated “Prophetic Books,” and a Memoir and Interpretation by...
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893. 3 vols, royal 8vo, xiv, 420; viii, 436; x, 100, 2, approx 312 (reproductions from the illuminated books), 176pp, 3 portraits, 2 folding charts. Original green cloth elaborately blocked in gilt with designs after Blake, top edges gilt. A nearly fine set.
First Edition, limited to 500 copies. There was a large paper edition bound in leather but the regular edition, as here, is more desirable on account of the lavish gilt publisher’s binding. Bentley 369: “The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance...” Wade, Yeats Bibliography, 218, quoting a letter from Yeats: “The writing of this book is mainly Ellis’s, the thinking is as much mine as his. The biography is by him. He re-wrote and trebled in size a biography of mine. The greater part of the ‘symbolic system’ is my writing; the rest of the book was written by Ellis working over short accounts of the books by me, except in the case of the ‘literary period’ the account of the minor poems, & the account of Blake’s art theories which are all his own except in so far as we discussed everything together.”
Price: USD 3,000.00 other currencies   order no. 1734   details     inquire
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JANUS PRESS (Claire Van Vliet) - Kaufman, Margaret. AUNT SALLIE’S LAMENT.
Janus Press, 1988. 4to, in publisher’s cloth covered clam-shell box (sun struck).
One of 150 copies signed by the author and the printer; with the original prospectus and an envelope of off-cuts of colored papers laid in. Aunt Sallie’s Lament is a poetic autobiography of a “spinster quilter stitched with mutterings that accumulate as the cut pages are turned becoming a dimand quilt square. The binding is an accordian that can stretch to 105 inches revealing all the stanzas.”
Price: USD 650.00 other currencies   order no. 1764   details     inquire
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NORMAN, Philip. LONDON SIGNS AND INSCRIPTIONS. With an Introduction by Henry B. Wheatley.
London: Elliot Stock, 1897. 8vo, xx, 237pp, frontispiece, 24 b&w illus., head and tail pieces. Publisher’s original brown cloth, gilt lettered spine, blindstamped floral decoration, bookplate, mild sunning to spine, front hinge starting, sm tear at spine foot, otherwise unusually very good.
The history of London’s sculptured signs from the 16th century forward is the subject of this unusual volume that discusses and catalogues the human, astronomical, animal (real or imaginary), bird signs, and symbols that decorate and ornament the London cityscape. Second edition.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 1767   details     inquire
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[LOUISY, P. and P. L. Jacob]. LE THEATRE. Mystéres - Tragédie - Comédie et LA MUSIQUE Instruments - Ballet - Opéra Jusqu’en 1789. Ouvrage Illustré de 228 Gravures et d’une Chromolithographie.
Paris: Firmin- Didot, 1887. Sm 4to, 304pp, chromolithograph frontispiece, 228 b&w text illus. Contemporary half tan morocco over patterned boards, gilt lettering to maroon morocco spine label, some wear to extremities, otherwise very good.
First Edition. From Firmin-Didot’s L’Ancienne France series, this comprehensive survey and history of theater, music and dance in France from the 10th century through the 18th. Scarce.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 1768   details     inquire
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BROWNING, Robert. PACCIAROTTO And How He Worked in Distemper: With Other Poems.
London: Smith, Elder, 1876. 8vo, viii, 241, (colophon), (2 as adv.)pp. Publisher’s original slate cloth, gilt lettered and ornamented spine, triple black ornamental rules, beveled edges, some toning to spine, wear at extremities, otherwise very good.
First Edition. Quite scarce. Broughton A105. NCBEL III, p.444.
Price: USD 85.00 other currencies   order no. 1774   details     inquire
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PAULHAN, Fr. LA VOLONTE.
Paris: Octave Doin, 1903. 8vo, (4, ads), (4), 323pp. Orig. wrappers, very good but for sewing coming nearly undone.
First Edition. Discusses the role of the will in suggestion, psychic ability, the evolution of personal power and how it may be directed influentially of defensely. Caillet 8381. Not in Crabtree.
Price: USD 45.00 other currencies   order no. 1840   details     inquire
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BALDWIN, Faith. BLUE HORIZONS.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. 8vo, 278pp. Orange cloth, blue lettered, dustjacket, fine in very good dj with small chip.
First Edition of this Miami Beach romance, in an amusing illustrated dustjacket; originally issued by Farrar & Rinehart in 1941.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 1920   details     inquire
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ADAMS, Charles F. Jr. and Henry Adams CHAPTERS OF ERIE and Other Essays.
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1871. 8vo, 429pp. Publisher’s original green cloth, gilt lettered, beveled edges, bookplate, wear to spine extemes, some lt scuffing, otherwise nearly very good.
First Edition of Henry Adams’ first book, written with his brother features important essays relating to early British and American economic matters, the 'Erie Raid', the New York Gold Conspiracy, Captaine John Smith, the early US Railroad System, etc. BAL 2; Howes A-47.
Price: USD 120.00 other currencies   order no. 1933   details     inquire
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(Haden, Seymour). HARRINGTON, H. Nazeby. THE ENGRAVED WORK OF SIR FRANCIS SEYMOUR HADEN. An Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue.
Liverpool: Henry Young, 1910. Folio, 120pp, 109 plates. Original quarter calf, cloth. Very good.
Edition limited to 75 copies signed by the author. Excessively rare.
Price: USD 850.00 other currencies   order no. 1991   details     inquire
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(Morris, William). COLEBROOK, Frank. WILLIAM MORRIS: Master-Printer. A Lecture Given on the Evening of November 27, 1896 to Students of the Printing School. St. Bride Foundation Institute in London. Edited with a New Introduction by William S. Peterson. Wood Engravings by John Depol.
Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, (1989). 8vo, 43, (1 as colophon)pp. Printed boards, fine.
Special Edition, limited to 1400 copies, an offset of the original letterpress issue from Blackwell North America as a holiday gift.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 2008   details     inquire
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RENDU, M. Le Chanoine. THEORY OF THE GLACIERS OF SAVOY. Translated by Alfred Wills. To Which Are Added the Original Memoir; and Supplementary Articles by P. G. Tait and John Ruskin. Edited, With Introductory Notes by George Forbes.
London: Macmillan, 1874. 8vo, 216pp. Publisher’s original brown pebbled cloth, gilt lettering, black rules and vignette, bookplates, very nice copy indeed.
First Edition in English. Canon Rendu, afterwards Bishop of Annecy, was the first to describe the ductility of glacier ice which enables it to plastically mould to its surroundings in spite of its brittle character. Publication of this work was prompted by the controversy in which John Tyndall accused James Forbes, author of Norway and its Glaciers, of failing to acknowledge Rendu’s contributions. To this end, Forbes Jr. reprinted articles by Tait and Ruskin on the controversy. Bibliography of John Ruskin 312. Neate R22.
Price: USD 220.00 other currencies   order no. 2030   details     inquire
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(Berlin Catalogue). SCHMITZ, Hermann. KATALOG DER ORNAMENTSTICHSAMMLUNG DER STAATLICHEN KUNSTBIBLIOTHEK BERLIN.
Utrecht: Hes Publishers, 1986. 2 vols, 8vo, green cloth. Very good.
A reprint of the indispensable and much-sought-after “Berlin Catalog,” giving detailed descriptions of over 5400 works on art, architecture and the decorative arts, including sections on handicrafts, interior decoration, symbolical works and calligraphy and the typographic arts. Arntzen & Rainwater P63.
Price: USD 65.00 other currencies   order no. 2062   details     inquire
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DINET, Etienne and Sliman Ben Ibrahim. TABLEAUX DE LA VIE ARABE. Compositions de E. Dinet. Comentées par Sliman Ben Ibrahim.
Paris: L’Edition D’Art, [n.d., 1928]. 8vo, 143pp, 24 plates. Contemporary full grained leather, gilt lettered spine, blindstamped ababesque central figure within dual blindstamped borders, teg, original wrappers preserved, bookplate, some rubbing, occasional foxing to plate margins, otherwise very good.
Second edition, originally issued in 1904. Features striking black and white illustrations, many of the Ouled Nail, by Dinet, the French Orientalist painter who spent many years in Morocco and converted to Islam. (See “Art et Orient, L’Oeuvre d’Etienne Dinet” in Art & Docration, Vol; XI, 1903.
Price: USD 35.00 other currencies   order no. 2068   details     inquire
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D’ANNUNZIO, Gabriele. L’INTRUS. Les Romans de la Rose. Traduit de L’Italien par G. Hérelle.
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1922. 8vo, 388pp. Contemporary red roan over marbled boards,gilt lettering, raised bands, gilt orn. compartments, teg, minor wear otherwise near fine.
An attractively bound edition, one of 1600 numbered copies on vélin du marais.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 2071   details     inquire
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STOWE, Harriet Beecher. UNCLE TOM’S CABIN; Or, Life Among The Lowly. Illustrated Edition. Complete in One Volume. Original Designs by Billings; Engraved by Baker and Smith.
Boston: John P. Jewett..., 1853. 4to, 560pp, frontispiece, engraved t-p, head and tailpieces, illus. throughout. Half pebbled calf over brown cloth, gilt lettered, marbled edges, good or better.
First American Illustrated Edition. Holes from former stab-stitching could indicate this was bound up from parts. BAL 19527.
Price: USD 500.00 other currencies   order no. 2078   details     inquire
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(Poltroon Press). BUTLER, Frances OCCULT PSYCHOGENIC MISFEASANCE. Approx. 36 x 31 cm. Color photocopies of letters, photographs, collaged colored papers, gummed labels, all laminated in plastic & cut into irregular shapes with pinking shears. Sheets bound together with 2 O-rings. One sheet creased, otherwise fine.
[Berkeley]: Poltroon Press, 1981.
One of approx. 5 examples of this artist’s book, this example labeled the “Dailey Edition.” “The work is a literal documentation of Butler’s brief involvement with a perpetually jilted man she met in the public library who pursued the acquaintance by mail. It testifies to feminism, not only as a successful work of art by a woman, but as a straightforward demonstration of the tactics men use to gain (or attempt to gain) power over women” (LaVoie 1981, 1).
Price: USD 250.00 other currencies   order no. 2095   details     inquire
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HAYTER, Alethea. OPIUM AND THE ROMANTIC IMAGINATION.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. 8vo, 388pp, 5 leaves of photographic plates. Red cloth, gilt lettered, dust jacket, very good but for some high-lighting.
First American edition of what is probably the most important treatise to date on the role of opium in 19th-century English literature. Phantastica 90.
Price: USD 45.00 other currencies   order no. 2097   details     inquire
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COBDEN-SANDERSON, T.J. THE CLOSING OF THE DOVES PRESS. A Letter from T.J. Cobden-Sanderson with a Preface by David Magee. A Keepsake to commemorate the opening of an exhibit at Stanford Univ. Libraries, of Cobden-Sanderson bindings, books from the Doves Press and the Doves Bindery.
Stanford University Libraries, April 1969. 8vo, (16)pp. Wrappers. Fine.
102 copies for the Roxburghe Club, printed in red and black by Grabhorn-Hoyem,
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 2101   details     inquire
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(Overbrook Press). JAMES HARVEY ROGERS 1886-1939. In Memoriam.
Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1940. 8vo, (8), 34 (2)pp, engraved frontis. portrait. Cloth. Fine.
One of 450 copies. From the collection of Ward Ritchie (without indication). Rogers was Sterling Professory of Economics at Yale; a memorial service program is laid in
Price: USD 15.00 other currencies   order no. 2102   details     inquire
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KHNOPFF, Fernand. A TRAVERS LES AGES. Chromolithograph, 18 x 12.5 cm. from The Studio,
1894.
Delevoy et al., Fernand Khnopff, no. 243. Legrand, Le Symbolisme en Belgique p.74. Milner, Symbolists and Decadents, p.86.
Price: USD 450.00 other currencies   order no. 2105   details     inquire
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EASSON, John B. GRAND REPRESENTATIONS. Being an Essay on Designing Printing in Victorian Styles. Illustrated with Numerous Examples of Reproductions Devised by the Author & Printed From the Original Types.
London: Quarto Press, 1981. 8vo, unpaginated. Printed wrappers, fine.
Limited Edition of 100 numbered copies.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 2117   details     inquire
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AMAN JEAN, Edmond (1860-1936). TETE DE FEMME AUX FLEURS. Lithograph, 1890, 17 by 21 inches, in decorative frame.

Aman-Jean, a friend of the symbolist poets and admirer of the pre-raphaelite painters, showed at the first two Salons de la Rose+Croix in 1892-93. His most characteristic pictures are of women, usually pensive, mysterious, and withdrawn. Roger-Marx wrote that he drew his models “with the all-embracing tenderness of a Baudelaire or a Maeterlinck...the unfathomable mystery of their gaze and their distant smiles betray troubled thoughts taking wing.”
Price: USD 600.00 other currencies   order no. 2128   details     inquire
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FEURE, Georges de. JEAN D’ARC. Color lithographic poster from Maitres de l’Affiche. Image 13 by 4-1/2 in. Framed.
Paris, 1896.
Commissioned by the variety store Astre et Soux a Carcassonne, De Feure transformed the saint into a femme fatale for this 1896 poster. Millman p.78.
Price: USD 200.00 other currencies   order no. 2138   details     inquire
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CARTER, John & Michael Sadleir. VICTORIAN FICTION, An Exhibition of Original Editions at 7 Albemarle Street, London, January to February 1947.
London: National Book League, 1947. 8vo, xiii, 50pp. Orig. wrappers. Very good.
Landmark catalogue of this exhibition, the first serious appreciation of 19th century English book production.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 2139   details     inquire
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SEDGWICK, Mrs. William T. ACOMA, THE SKY CITY. A Study in Pueblo-Indian History and Civilization.
Chicago: Rio Grande Press, (1963). 8vo, x, 318pp. Cloth, fine.
Photo-reprint of the 1927 first edition.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 2164   details     inquire
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KANE, Paul. WANDERINGS OF AN ARTIST Among the Indians of North America from Canada to Vancouver’s Island and Oregon Through the Hudson’s Bay Company Territory and Back Again.
Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle, (1968). 8vo, lxiv, 329pp, foldout frontispiece, 20 b&w illus. Cloth, dust jacket, fine.inm very good dj.
Reprint of the 1859 first edition.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 2176   details     inquire
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KINGSTON, W.H.G. BLUE JACKETS; Or, Chips Off the Old Block. A Narrative of the Gallant Exploits of British Seamen, and of the Principal Events in the Naval Service, During the Reign of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria.
London: Grant and Griffith, 1854. 8vo, xiv, 434pp. Publisher’s original blue blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering and dec. to spine, wear to edges and extremities, hinges starting, lacks half-title, otherwise a good copy.
First Edition. With over ninety pages devoted to the Opium War of 1839-42. Quite scarce.
Price: USD 135.00 other currencies   order no. 2187   details     inquire
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JEFFERS, Robinson. ALL THE CORN IN ONE BARN. [in] Lights and Shadows from the Lantern, Vol. I., no.7,
November, 1926. 8vo, 4pp leaflet printed in green on tan paper.
First First, one of 250 copies. This one-page prose-piece was published as a leaflet by Gelber, Lilienthal, the San Francisco booksellers and distributed free to their clients. It is the only article, prose or poetry, that Jeffers contributed to any periodical of this nature. It made its first appearance in book form when reprinted in An Introduction to Robinson Jeffers. Albers 31.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 2194   details     inquire
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BINET, Paul. L’HISTOIRE SURHUMAINE.
[Paris?]: n.p., 1932. Tall 8vo, 185pp. Printed wrappers, some loss at spine extremes, sunning to spine and wrapper upper margins, inscrpt. at half-title, calling card laid-in, oxidation from paper clip at top margin first three leaves and calling card, otherwise internally fine in good wrappers.
First Edition, limited to 300 copies, with the author’s gift dedication to Baron d’Erlanger at the half-title, and his printed calling card laid in. Scarce; not in OCLC, British Library or Bibliotheque Nationale.
Price: USD 60.00 other currencies   order no. 2197   details     inquire
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DAVIS, R.G. THE SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE: The First Ten Years. INtroduction by Robert Scheer.
Palo Alto: Ramparts Press, 1975. Sq 8vo, 220pp, frontispiece, b&w illus. throughout. Red cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, owner’s sig., fine in near fine dj.
First Edition. The story of the 60s counterculture agit-prop theater group by its founder.
Price: USD 50.00 other currencies   order no. 2208   details     inquire
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MALEVICH, Kasimir THE NON-OBJECTIVE WORLD.
Chicago: Paul Theobald and Company, (1959), 4vo, 102pp, 92 b&w illus. Printed wrappers, creased corners, lt soiling, otherwise very good.
First Edition in English. The Russian Suprematist painter’s thesis, originally published in German (from the original Russian) in 1927 as Die Gegenstandslose Welt.
Price: USD 30.00 other currencies   order no. 2249   details     inquire
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(Magritte). SOBY, James Thrall. RENE MAGRITTE
New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1967). 8vo, 80pp,frontispiece, color& b&w plates & photo-illust. throughout. Photo-illus. wrappers, mild soiling to rear wrapper, sm inked initials to front wrapper otherwise fine.
Catalogue of the 1965 MOMA Magritte retrospective. Third printing.
Price: USD 15.00 other currencies   order no. 2268   details     inquire
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[CONTAMINE, Cousin de]. ELOGE HISTORIQUE DE M. COUSTOU L’Aine Sculpteur Ordinaire du Roy, et Recteur de L’Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Auquel on a Joint des Descriptions Raisonnées de Quelques Ouvrages de Peinture & de Sculpture. [With] THESEE VAINQUEUR DU TAUREAU DE MARATHON. Tableau de M. Carle Vanloo pour les Tapisseries du Roy, 1745. Paris: P.G. Le Mercier, 1745.
Paris: Huart, 1737. 8vo, (18), 180, (4), 14, (2), 17-20 as ms in author’s hand pp. Contemp. full mottled calf, crimson spine label, gilt lettered, gilt dec. compartments, gilt tooled edges, sprinkled, bookplate, upper joint somewhat tender, light rubbing, otherwise near very good.
First Edition, a Presentation Copy, with a lengthy inscription to Monsieur d’Argouges de Heury, and four pages of neatly handwritten notes at the conclusion of the text to the Thésée… that continue Contamine’s commentary upon it with thoughts subsequent to its initial publication. The first work is Contamine’s biographical elegy to the great French sculptor Nicolas Cousou, who had died in 1733. In the second, Contamine discusses Vanloo’s painting Theseus’ Conquering of the Minataur, which hangs in the museum at Besançon. Only three copies of Eloge Historique in OCLC; no copies of Thésée Vainqueur…, which is not found in the standard references; we presume Contamine’s authorship of it secondary to his ms additions to the text with continuous pagination in his hand. Barbier II, 68.
Price: USD 750.00 other currencies   order no. 2290   details     inquire
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BUTLER, Captain Alban B. “HAPPY DAYS!” A Humorous Narrative in Drawings of the Progress of American Arms 1917-1919.
Washington, D.C.: Society of the First Division, A.E.F., 1928. 4to, 94, (1)pp, frontispiece, profusely illus. in b&w. Quarter black over gray cloth, gilt and black lettered, gilt vignette, illus. endpapers, owner’s stamps, front hinge hints at starting, some wear, an occasional stain, otherwise good.
First Edition, Association Copy, of Butler’s captioned cartoons and caricatures of World War I events and personages. The copy of Adolph Newton Sutro, 3d Machine Gun Battalion, 1st Div., A.E.F., mining expert and son of the California pioneer and former mayor of San Francisco. Sutro, Jr. was the vice-president of the national Society of the First Division, and first president of the Society’s California branch. With a Foreword by Maj. Gen. Charles Summerall.
Price: USD 35.00 other currencies   order no. 2306   details     inquire
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JAMES, Henry. THE AWKWARD AGE.
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. 8vo, 456, (1), (2 adv.)pp. Brown cloth, gilt lettered, owner’s label, very good.
First American Edition, printing A, primary issue with publisher’s spine imprint stamped in upper and lower case roman. BAL 10636. Edel & Laurence A53b.
Price: USD 85.00 other currencies   order no. 2336   details     inquire
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MULL, Martin. MARTIN MULL 20/20. Essay by Thomas W. Styron.
Greenville: Greenville County Museum of Art, 1998. 4to, xxii, (4)pp, 40 plates (1 folding), frontisp. Decorative printed wrappers. Nearly fine.
Catalogue of a retrospective exhibition scheduled for 1998. Limited to 1500 copies, designed by Victoria Dailey.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 2341   details     inquire
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JEAN-MEYAN, Maurice and Jean Socouet LE DESSUS DU PANIER. lllustrations de M. & Z. Borelli Vranska, G. De Colomes.
Paris: Louis-Michaud, 1914. Sm 4to, 91pp, 22 color pochoir plates. Original wrappers, fine.
Edition limited to 850 copies. The exquisite pochoir plates show fashionable women and luxury articles. This is one of the loveliest of pre-War pochoir books. Colas 1542. Mahé p.26
Price: USD 650.00 other currencies   order no. 2345   details     inquire
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FROST, Lowell. WISDOM & MADNESS & FOLLY.
Los Angeles: [Ward Ritchie Press], 1945. 8vo, viii, 53pp. Linen, dust jacket. Very good.
Only edition of a privately printed collection of poems selected as one of the Western Books of the War Years. Frost was the father-in-law of poet Kingsley Tufts. The Ward Ritchie Press p.92.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 2346   details     inquire
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HOFFBAUER, M.F. PARIS A TRAVERS LES AGES. Edition Annotee par Pascal Payen-Appenzeller, comprtant 30 photos originales de Roland Liot.
Paris: Tchou, (1982). 2 vols, quarto, illustrated throughout. Full red morocco-grained cloth with onlays, gilt titles. Fine set.
Annotated reprint of this classic work, organized into chapters on the most significant and famous historical monuments of Paris: Pont-Neuf, Hôtel de Ville, La Cité, Notre Dame, Louvre, Chatelet, Les Halles, Temple, Bastille, Saint-Germain-des-Près, Tuileries, Palais Royal, etc. Each chapter is illustrated with plates showing the alterations to the buildings through the centuries. The accompanying texts are by the most competent scholars of the day, including Paul Lacroix, Bonnardot, Cousin, Drumont, Jourdain, Tisserand, Hoffbauer, and others. Hoffbauer, an architect, was known for his renovations of ancient buildings. In the preface, Jules Cousin called this work “the most beautiful and at the same time the most serious book which has been published on the history of Paris.” The first edition appeared in 1875-82.
Price: USD 100.00 other currencies   order no. 2354   details     inquire
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DUMAS, Alexandre (pere), with Arnould, Fournier, Fiorenti... CRIMES CELEBRES.
Paris: Administration de Librairie, 1842-41. 8 vols in 4, plates. Contemp. brown calf, gilt, marbled boards, endpapers, & edges. Light foxing and occasional staining overall very good.
“In this lengthy work Dumas was assisted by some of his friends. The following unsigned articles are usually considered as being from his pen: Les Cenci, La Marquis de Brinvilliers, Karl Ludwig Sand, Marie Stuart, La Marquise de Ganges, Murat, Les Borgia, Urbain Grandier, Vaninka, Massacres du Midi, La Comtesse de Saint-Geran, and Jeanne de Naples (Reed pp.119-20). Cf. Talvart & Place 36.
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JAMES, Henry. TRAVELLING COMPANIONS.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. 8vo, ix, 309pp. Green cloth, gilt lettered, some wear to extremities, spine darkened, otherwise very good.
First Collected Edition, A binding. Seven early James short stories previously unpublished in book form. BAL 10703.
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LORRAIN, Jean. LE SANG DES DIEUX... Avec un Dessin d’apres Gustave Moreau.
Paris: Alphonse Lemrre, 1882. 8vo, 153pp. Orig. wrappers. The left quarter of the front wrapper andthe spine are sun darkened, otherwise very good.
First Edition of the ether-drinker’s first book, warmly inscribed to Marcel Schwob: “A Marcel Schwob a Coeur double ces cers enige sains d’un coeur pas ...” 525 copies were printed. Talvart & Place 1A.
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan THE CASE FOR SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. 8vo, 132pp + photo plates. Tan cloth stamped in brown, photo onlay on front; front endpapers browned from relevant clippings laid in, small crack to front hinge, otherwise a very good copy from the library of Hereward Carrington (without indication).
First American Edition. The Case for Spirit Photography “was written in defence of William Hope of the Crewe Circle whose psychic photography was exposed as fraud by Harry Price at a sitting in January 1922...” Green & Gibson B31b.
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STEVENS, Wallace. IDEAS OF ORDER.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. 8vo, viii, 61 (1)pp. Cloth striped in color, dust jacket. Very nice copy.
First Trade Edition, one of 500 copies in the first issue binding. The author’s second book, adding three poems to the Alcestis Press text that appeared the year before. Edelstein A2b.
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[FrEchette, Annie T. Howells and Eduardo Miranda y Ramíre... POPULAR SAYINGS FROM OLD IBERIA.
Quebec: Dawson, 1877. 8vo, 70, xx pp. Publisher’s original blindstamped green cloth, gilt lettered,very good.
Second Edition, a Presentation Copy (“With Compliments of the Author” card laid in), with 20pp of reviews at rear. Witticisms, adages, maxims, popular saws and proverbs of Spain. No copies of the first edition are found in OCLC; only five copies of the second edition. Scarce in publisher’s binding.
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WESTCOTT, Thompson. CENTENNIAL PORTFOLIO: A Souvenir of the Internatonal Exhibition at Philadelphia.
Philadelphia: Thomas Hunter, 1876. Oblong 4to, 52 tinted lithographs each with letterpress descriptions. Brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and black, beveled edges. Spine ends slight worn, split in top joint unprofessionally glued, otherwise very good.
First Edition. Cf. Hitchcock 1365.
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BUELL, Augustus C. PAUL JONES. Founder of the American Navy. A History by… With a Supplementary Chapter by General Horace Porter.
New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1906. 2 vols, 8vo, xiv, 328, frontispiece, 2 plates, 1 map, vii, 439,(2 catalogue)pp, frontispiece, 9 plates. Later half black morocco over blue cloth, gilt lettered, gilt dec. compartments, teg, tight, bright, a fine copy of this set.
The Commemoration Edition, in a particularly handsome binding by Rowfant. Seitz p.288.
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SOLLID, Roberta Beed. CALAMITY JANE. A Study in Historical Criticism.
[Helena]: Western Press/Historical Society of Montana, 1958. 8vo, xiv, 147pp, 26 b&w photoplates. Tan cloth, red lettered, dust jacket, fine in spine sunned dj with lt wear to spine head.
First Edition, limited to 2000 numbered copies of which this is number 90. Dispels the myths surrounding Martha Cannary aka “Calamity Jane.” In unusually fine condition.
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WOOLF, Virginia. THE CAPTAIN’S DEATH BED and Other Essays.
London: Hogarth Press, 1950. 8vo, 223, (1)pp. Plum cloth, gilt lettered, dustjacket, fine in very good price clipped dj with small stain on front. With a long owner’s inscription to a children’s book author, noting the jacket design by Vanessa Bell.
First Edition. Kirkpatrick A30b.
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PROCLUS. Johnson, Thomas M. (trans.). PROCLUS’ METAPHYSICAL ELEMENTS... Translated from the Original Greek by Thos. M. Johnson, Editor of the Platonist.
Osceola, Missouri, 1909. 8vo, (4), xvi, 201pp. Later black cloth, some slight stains and tears, overall very good.
The midwestern neo-platonist Johnson edited The Platonist from St Louis in the 1880’s.
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BOSE, Jagadis Chunder. PLANT AUTOGRAPHS AND THEIR REVELATIONS. From the Smithsonian Report for 1914, pages 421-443.
Washington: GPO, 1915. 8vo, illus. throughout, chip from back wrapper, otherwise very good.
Offprint of Bose’s account of the researches that were carried out at the Bose Institute. Bose (1858-1937), the first great scientist of modern India and the first Indian to be elected F.R.S., invented the improved form of the wireless coherer, an instrument for indicating the refraction of electric waves; he also invented the crescograph, an instrument sensitive to extremely slight movements in plants. He used this instrument to do his pioneering studies on plant responses to mechanical stimuli, responses he showed were very similar to those of animal tissue, an idea “that may even be taken as foreshadowing Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics” (DNB). His belief in vitalistic forces behind plant life aroused much controversy.
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ROTHERY, Guy Cadogan. CURIOSITIES OF COLLECTING.
[London]: n.d., [ca. 1920s?]. 2 vols, tall 8vo, 385pp continuously paginated typed mss with corrections in the author’s hand. Contemporary black binders, autograph title labels, very good.
Unpublished manuscript devoting forty-six chapters to the pleasures of collecting in general and to specific areas of collecting in particular with important points to consider when acquiring examples of: sporting prints; Japanese color prints; miniatures, ivory; jade; marquetry; shell ornaments; candlesticks; tea caddies; various ceramic and pottery genres; pewter; needlework; snuffboxes, enamels, and much more. Rothery (b. 1863) was the author of Amazons in Antiquity and Modern Times; The ABC of Heraldry, The Concise Encyclopaedia of Heraldry; Decorators’ Symbols, Emblems and Devices; English Chimney-Pieces; and Chimneypieces and Ingle Nooks: Their Design and Ornamentation. Unique.
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Elphinstone, Sir Howard. ROAD TO SWAHILI.
Nairobi: Highway Press, (1948). Sm 8vo, 94pp. Illus. wrappers, some creasing, mild rubbing, toning,otherwise very good.
Phrase book sponsored by the East African [Kenya] Women’s League highlights colonialism at its worst, concentrating primarily on basic grammar and pronunciation the better to give orders to and chide one’s African servants, i.e. Unacheloewa kila mara - “You are always late;” and a somewhat related phrase: Nimefunga choo siku mbili - “My bowels have not moved for two days.” Second edition, as rare as the first of 1946 is scarce.
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MASON, William. TO A GRAVEL WALK.
(Seattle): Holburne Press, (1998). Sm 8vo, accordian ff. Printed boards, publisher’s envelope, veryfine in fine envelope.
Limited to 75 copies, this mo. 17. With publication notice and an ALs from publisher Margery Hellman to James Davis, curator UCLA Special Collections, laid in.
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MASON, John H. POEMS BY …
Putney: Privately Printed, 1938. 8vo, 114pp, printed in fine blue tinted paper. Green cloth, very good.
First Edition, of unknown limitation but most certainly small. With a tipped-in sheet bearing the author’s presentation to Miss Margery Frey, July, 1946.
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JERICKE, Alfred & Dieter Dolgner. DER KLASSIZISMUS IN DER BAUGESCHICHTE WEIMARS.
Weimar: Hermann Bohlaus Nachfolger, 1975. 8vo, 412pp, 190 b/w photo plates, drawings & plans. Pale yellow cloth, brown lettered, dust jacket, occasional penciled marginalia, very good in nearso dj.
First Edition, a Review Copy. Study of neo-classical design in the architecture of Weimar from the late 18th to mid 19th centuries.
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KEANE, Marc P. JAPANESE GARDEN DESIGN.
Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle, (1998). Oblong 4to, xiii, (1), 184pp, color photo-illus., b&w text textillus. Dec. cloth, white lettered, dust jacket, fine in like dj.
Historical introduction to the philosophy and techniques of traditional Japanese garden design. Reprint of the 1996 first edition.
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(Secret Court Memoirs). SECRET COURT MEMOIRS. The Court of Berlin. The Court of Empress Josephine. The Court of Louis XIV. The Court of St. Cloud. The Court of Louis XV & XVI.
Paris - Boston: The Grolier Society, [n.d., ca. 1910]. 10 vols, 8vo, frontispieces, illustrated with original b&w etchings and mezzotints throughout, each plate in two states, printed on Japanese vellum and handmade rag. Contemporary full crimson levant morocco, gilt lettered, raised bands, dentelles, teg, partially unopened, bookplates, owner’s neat sig., lt wear, spines somewhat shelf-toned, otherwise a handsome, not quite near fine set.
The beautiful Edition de Amateurs limited to 100 numbered copies of which this is no. 26. Titles printed on Japanese vellum. The copy of Harriet Lee Hammond.
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(Bradley, Will). [RUSSELL, George W.]. THE EARTH BREATH and Other Poems by A.E.
New York & London: John Lane, Sign of the Bodley Head, (1897). Sm. 8vo, 94pp. Orig. illustrated boards, linen spine. A very good copy.
First Edition. Printed by Will Bradley at the Wayside Press; the title page, ornaments and binding are his design. The author’s second regularly published book, American issue. Bambace A15. Denson 5.
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LOGAN, Anne-Marie. FLEMISH DRAWINGS IN THE AGE OF RUBENS. Selected Works from American Collections.
Wellesley, Mass.: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, (1993). Folio, 251pp, 76 full-page b&w and color plates. Quarter red cloth over printed boards, faint stain to bottom edge of upper board, otherwise a fine copy.
First Edition. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Davis Museum at Wellesley in 1993.
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(FRIEDLANDER, Max J.). MAX J. FRIEDLANDER. Ter Ere Van Zijn Negentigste 5 Juni MCMLVII.
(Amsterdam): 1957. 4to, 54, (1)pp, frontispiece, 2 b&w photo plates, 1 foldout facsimile. Light brown cloth, gilt lettered, mild soiling, slight wear to spine ends, bottom corners bumped, otherwise a very good copy.
First Edition, a Presentation Copy to J. Rosenberg, one of the contributors to the work. One of 500 copies of a series of essays in tribute to Friedlander on the occasion of his 90th birthday.
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WOLFE, Elsie de (Lady Mendl). ELSIE DE WOLFE’S RECIPES FOR SUCCESSFUL DINING.
New York: William-Frederick Press, 1947. 8vo, green cloth, panels of dust jacket laid in. Very good.
Signed “Elsie de Wolfe 1948” on the endpaper and signed again “Elsie de Wolfe Mendl” on the dedication page. This copy also bears a rubber stamp “For the Children of France, Elsie de Wolfe Foundation, Inc, Fourth Printing” on the endpaper. Bitting p.124.
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JAMES, Edward. THE GARDENER WHO SAW GOD.
New York: Scribner’s, 1937. 8vo, (8), 378pp. Orig. cloth, dust jacket. Light wear to spine ends. Very good.
First American Edition. James’ first novel, hailed upon publication as brilliant, was based on an hallucination that he underwent at his magnificent estate West Dean in Sussex, where he saw the creation of the world to the music of Beethoven. His interest in mysticism (encouraged, if not created, by this incident) later led him to California and Vedanta, and eventually to Mexico and magic mushrooms. Purser, Edward James, chapters 11 and 12.
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BAILEY, Wilson G. NO, NOT DEAD; THEY LIVE! A Study of Personal Immortality from the Standpoint of a Physician and Surgeon.
Camden, New Jersey: I. F. Huntzinger, (1923). 8vo, (4), xi, (1), 254pp, frontisportrait, with index. Red cloth, gilt, spine faded, minor wear to spine ends, corners bumped, otherwise a very good copy.
First Edition, inscribed by the author, Feb. 26th 1928: “To Prof. Hereward Carrington, with sincere best wishes. W. G. Bailey M.D. The Author.”
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CHAMBERS, Arthur. OUR LIFE AFTER DEATH, or the Teaching of the Bible Concerning the Unseen World.
London: Charles Taylor, 1912. 8vo, (3), 273, (ads 10)pp, with frontisportrait of the author. Blue cloth, minor wear to head and tail of spine, otherwise very good.
“Revised Edition with Appendix, 114th edition.”
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SHERIFF, J. Ed. THE HARMONIC PRESUMPTION, A Brief.
Stamford, Conn.: The Gillespie Brothers, 1921. 8vo, 32pp, including 3 pages of diagrams. Brown paper wrappers, 1 inch chip at lower front corner, several printed text corrections pasted in, pencil notations, otherwise good.
“In this: the harmonic, intrinsic entities, conception of existence, is proposed new definitions or explanations of energy; ether; mater [sic]; mass; static and dynamic electricity; permanent magnetism; the curved path of light in space; the physical working of gravitation; counter-gravitational-force; cohesion; the major states of existence; the jumping of the electrical spark; basic fundamental law and life; universal conservation; and the absolute reality of intermediate and negative entities” (from the introduction). With author’s note written in pencil at the top of page 1, “Please forget the bad printing and remember the ideas - J Ed.” From the library of Hereward Carrington (without indication).
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SNART, John. THE THESAURUS OF HORROR; OR, THE CHARNEL HOUSE EXPLORED!! Being an Historical and Philanthropic Inquisition Made for the Quondam-Blood of its Inhabitants!... With the Surest Methods of Escaping the Ineffable Horrors of Premature Interment!!...
London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1817. 8vo, 175, (1 ad)pp, incl. appendix & list of errata, 2 charts in text. Mod. half brown calf over antique-style patterned boards, with charming onlay of a coffin on spine with spirits rising from it, gilt and blind-stamped lettering at spine. Intermittent foxing, occasional light pencil annotations. A good copy, in a handsome custom binding with fitting ornamentation.
First Edition of a fascinating work on the problem of burying people alive. According recent scholarship, Poe was inspired to write his “Premature Burial” after reading a review of Snart’s work. Snart was also the author of An Historical Inquiry Concering apparent Death and Premature Interment (London, 1824).
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[DISTURNELL, J.]. SPRINGS, WATER-FALLS, SEA-BATHING RESORTS, and Mountain Scenery of the United States and Canada; Giving an Analysis of the Principal Mineral Springs, with a Brief Description of the Most Fashionable Watering-Places, Mountain Resorts, &c. with Illustrations.
New York: J. Disturnell, 1855. 12mo, 227, (13 hotel ads)pp, eng. frontispiece & 3 plates, 4 maps (3foldinlacking front free endpaper, otherwise very good.
First Edition. Includes mention of mineral springs in California (Soda Springs in San Diego county), Utah (Warm spring in Salt Lake City), Oregon and Texas. Sabin 89905. Not in Howes
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(PESNE, Antoine). POENSGEN, Georg, et al. ANTOINE PESNE. Mit Beitragen von Ekhart Berckenhagen, Pierre du Colombier, Margarete Kuhn, Georg Poensgen. Eingeleitet von Georg Poensgen.
Berlin: Deutscher Verein fur Kunstwissenschaft, 1958. 4to, 230, frontispiece, b/w illus. throughout, 251 b/w plates. Grey cloth, lettered in gilt, mildly stained, a few discreet library marks, otherwise near fine
First Edition. Catalogue raisonne of portraitist and historical painter Antoine Pesne (1683-1757).
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BARTLETT, Frederick Orin. THE WALL STREET GIRL. With Illustrations by George Ellis Wolfe.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. 8vo, (8), 533pp, frontispiece, plus 6 numbered b/w illustrations. Lt. brown pictorial cloth, lower board lightly soiled, mild wear to extremities, owner sig., a bright, very good copy.
First Edition, scarce in this condition. Bartlett (1876- ?), the author of three other novels and a frequent contributor of short stories to The Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeping and Red Book during the 1920s, here limns the story of a young woman working for a stock brokerage company who aids an impoverished scion of wealth forced to work on Wall Street.
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(Medieval art). L’ART MEDIEVAL YOUGOSLAVE. Preface de Vercors.
(Paris: Art et Style), (1950). Sm Folio, unpaginated, ca. 60pp, b/w plates, with 2 add’l color plates laid in. Pictorial wrappers, lettered in black, mildly soiled, bookplate, very good.
Art et Style 15. 50 fine full-page plates of Medieval Yug0slavian monuments, sculpture and painting.
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(French Porcelain). RAVEL D’ESCLAPON, Alix de. LA PORCELAINE DE BOISSETTES. Pres Melun. Preface Pierre Ennes. Conservateur au Department des Objets d’Art du Musee du Louvre.
Paris: Editions Amatteis, (1991). 8vo, 126pp, b/w and color illus. throughout. Photo illus. wrappers, lettered in red and black, very mild soiling, otherwise nearly fine.
First Edition, scarce. Detailed historical treatment of Boissettes porcelaine produced between 1775 and 1781. with notes on many individual pieces.
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ARETINO, Pietro. THE WORKS OF ARETINO. Translated into English from the Original Italian, with a Critical Essay and Biographical Essay by Samuel Putnam. Illustrations by Marquis Von Byros.
Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1926. 2 vols, 8vo, 280; 302pp, tipped-in plates by Von Bayros. Quarter linen, paper boards, paper title labels, moderate wear and soiling, corner of vol.1 broken, front hinge vol. 2 starting, otherwise good.
First Edition, limited to 1250 numbered copies, of Samuel Putnam’s magnificent English translation of Aretino’s Ragionamenti, Sonnets, Courtezans, Letters, and of the de Sanctis biography of Aretino, together with Putnam’s critical and biographical essays.
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BRETON, André. ROJAS, Armando (trans). EL AIRE DEL AGUA. Traducción de Armando Rojas.
N.p.: Ediciones de la Clepsidra, (1975). 8vo, (16)pp, frontispiece portrait of Breton by Man Ray. Plain wrappers, dust jacket, internally fine in very good wrappers and dj.
Limited edition of 300 numbered copies, this is copy 171.
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