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2007ref. 28653Philadelphia: Blue Flower Books 2007. First Edition. Square quarto 24.75cm; photo-illustrated boards; i-iv 1-50 v-xivpp; chiefly illus; text in English and Spanish. Fine unread copy. Book of photographs and paintings of Cuban youth culture. "The black-and-white photographs by Laurence Salzmann depict the training of wrestlers in the city of Santiago de Cuba. The group is composed of young men from 8 to 18 years old preparing to become professional athletes" from introduction. Salzmann's photographs are complemented by paintings by Cuban artist Luis el Estudiante. Blue Flower Books unknown books
1868ref. 12840London: Longmans Green and Co 1868. First Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. Decorated with two fore-edge paintings first edition of A Memoir of Baron Bunsen as collected by his wife Frances Baroness Bunsen. Octavo two volumes 8 1-637pp; 8 1-616pp. Three-quarter dark green leather with marbled paper boards and matching endpapers. Silk bookmarks. All edges gilt. Gilt-ruled trim on covers title within a double gilt-ruled border on spines. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text blocks light rubbing to corners joints and marbled boards. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf of Volume I. Complete with three lithographs and two woodcuts in Volume I five lithographs and three woodcuts in Volume II. Each volume with frontispiece portrait and tissue guard. Volume I has fore-edge painting of Strand-on-the-Green Volume II of Kew Bridge. Strand-on-the-Green is a medieval village in Chiswick England that still stands today previously used as a trading location for businesses due to its access to the River Thames. Kew Bridge crosses the Thames and connects the districts of Kew and Chiswick. The bridge depicted in the fore-edge of Volume II is the second of three bridges at this location. This one being opened in 1789 and demolished in 1899. Longmans, Green, and Co unknown books
2017ref. 627672London: Unicorn 2017. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 128pp. Fine in modestly sunned and lightly rubbed very good dust jacket with very light evidence of two labels removed from the cover panel. Signed by artist Max Ferguson on the title page. A collaboration in which Power wrote 500-word short stories based on paintings by Ferguson. Unicorn hardcover books
1967ref. 1416823New York: The Viking Press 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 270 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine pale green with white and black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price uncut: "$22.50." Heavy rubbing creasing and various open and closed tears along edges of dust jacket. Large open tear at head of spine. Light scuffing and soiling to dust jacket. General shelf wear and foxing to edges of boards. Foxing to edges of textblock. Age toning throughout interior. Signed by Matthiessen on title page. Shelved in Oversized Art. 1416823. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Viking Press hardcover books
1968ref. 1416540New York: The Viking Press 1968. Second printing. Hardcover. Quarto 270 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine is grey with black and white print. Dust jacket in mylar; slight edge wear. Price unclipped: "$22.50". Boards in tan cloth; spotting to cloth. Text block has spotting to edges. Illustrated: color plates. Signed in ink by the author on the title page. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. NOTE: NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area Netdesk Column QB ND-QB. 1416540. FP New Rockville Stock. The Viking Press hardcover books
1874ref. 54483New York: Stroefer and Kirchner 1874. First English edition. Hardcover. vg- to vg. Folio. 148 1pp. Brown-burgundy illustrated cloth boards over leather spine. The front cover and spine are lavishly tooled and ruled in gilt with landscape imagery and period floral designs. Glossy textured endpapers. This is the English version of the original German work Rhododendron: Bilder aus den Schweizer Alpen Pictures from the Swiss Alps first published in 1872. The text of the original work was written by German political activist writer and publisher Hermann Alexander von Berlepsch 1813-1883. Here the English text is written by British geologist and mountaineer Thomas George Bonney 1833-1923 who doesn't so much translate from the original German text but rather uses it solely for reference. As stated in the preface Bonney mainly used his own notes and recollections from his experiences in these locations as the basis to create a mostly original text. Like the German edition accompanying and inspiring the text are a total 24 plates of mounted albumen photographs reproducing original paintings of various locations and landscapes of the Swiss Alps by Gustav Paul Closs 1840 - 1870 and Otto Frölicher 1840-1890. Also included are numerous smaller in-text engraved images including historiated initials and tailpieces by artist Gustave Roux 1828-1885. Table of contents at the back. Binding with minor rubbing to corners. Spine lightly rubbed with minor cracking to the front hinge. Minor scratches to the back cover. Book block tight overall with starting at p.33. Interior mostly clean with only minor age toning to the very edges of pages as well as a few sporadic instances of minor to light water staining and/or smudges. Images all clean throughout. Period inscription to a previous owner in pen at the top of the front free endpaper. Binding in very good- interior in very good condition overall. Stroefer and Kirchner hardcover books
1984ref. 22626Washington D.C.: United States Postal Service 1984. First edition. Hardcover. g. Oblong 4to. 762pp. Half leather over gold-stamped blue cloth in original illustrated dust jacket. "Paintings and 1984 Olympic postage designs by Robert Peak." Profusely illustrated with double- and full-page color reproductions of drawings by Robert Peak 1983-84 Olympic commemorative issues of stamps & postal cards all in color. Foreword by James A. Michener. Minor rubbing to parts of edges. Tiny stain on back board. Minor creasing scuffing and staining on dj. Dust jacket in good book in very good condition. United States Postal Service hardcover books
1840ref. ST20481-06Paris: Chez L. Hachette 1840. 224 x 131 mm. 8 1/2 x 5 1/4". 2 p.l. 822 pp. 1 leaf title 1-259 1 pp. Attractive contemporary scarlet morocco covers ruled in blind central panel with an elaborate gilt-tooled cross surrounded by a scrolling frame raised bands spine gilt in compartments tooled with small fleurons turn-ins tooled in gilt all edges gilt.features a well-executed and historically important fore-edge painting that depicts a famous tribute to one of the most celebrated figures in French Catholicism. The fresh richly painted scene here shows the Place de la Pucelle in Rouen with the fountain of Joan of Arc featured prominently in the foreground. This view inspired works from a number of artists and writers such as watercolorist Samuel Prout and American poet Maria White Lowell whose poem "Rouen Place de la Pucelle" was published ca. 1858. Visual records like this of the square and fountain are historically important because they were destroyed in the Red Week bombings of 1944. WITH AN EXCELLENT FORE-EDGE PAINTING DEPICTING LA PLACE DE LA PUCELLE ROUEN. Occasional early pencil marginalia. Corners a bit bumped edges and joints with a little rubbing but this well disguised with dye spine very slightly sunned and dried. Occasional scattered spots mostly marginal other trivial defects but generally fine internally very fresh and quite bright. An attractive binding with a very lovely painting. This attractive French-language Bible features a well-executed and historically important fore-edge painting that depicts a famous tribute to one of the most celebrated figures in French Catholicism. The fresh richly painted scene here shows the Place de la Pucelle in Rouen with the fountain of Joan of Arc featured prominently in the foreground. This view inspired works from a number of artists and writers such as watercolorist Samuel Prout and American poet Maria White Lowell whose poem "Rouen Place de la Pucelle" was published ca. 1858. Visual records like this of the square and fountain are historically important because they were destroyed in the Red Week bombings of 1944. Chez L. Hachette unknown books
1843ref. ST20616London: Tilt and Bogue 1843. 207 x 135 mm. 8 1/8 x 5 5/8". Two volumes. With a memoir and critical remarks by James Montgomery. Pleasing contemporary burgundy pebble-grain morocco gilt covers with graceful frame of cresting roll accented with lancets large lyre centerpiece with leafy flourishes and small birds raised bands spine compartments densely gilt gilt lettering gilt turn-ins all edges gilt. WITH LOVELY FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS BY THE "DOVER PAINTER" one of Milton's cottage at Chalfont and the other of St. Giles Church Cripplegate. With decorative engraved initials and 95 engraved vignettes after drawings by William Harvey. Weber "Annotated Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting Artists & Binders" pp. 98-103. Muir "Victorian Illustrated Books" p. 28. Spines gently and evenly sunned joints and extremities a little rubbed one margin with faint paint trail from fore-edge painter's brush other trivial imperfections but A VERY APPEALING COPY internally clean and fresh in solid bindings with bright gilt and the fore-edge paintings especially well preserved. This copy of Milton's collected poems is very attractively illustrated inside and out with an extremely skillful painting by a famous artist adorning each of the fore edges. Designed by William Harvey 1796-1866 who Muir tells us was "the longest lived and most important of Bewick's pupils" the engravings here range from charming figural initials to writhing residents of Hell in their smoky abyss to gentle-faced angels bathed in beams of light. The fore-edge paintings are recognizable as the work of the so-called "Dover Painter" the name given by Jeff Weber to the artist who produced very high quality painted fore edges in the 1920s and 1930s for the famous London bookseller Marks & Company. These two depict Milton's cottage and his final resting place St. Giles' Church in London. The cottage is depicted in an idyllic scene of Milton's time with aproned peasants milling about the ivy-covered building under the shade of the trees that frame the scene. The other painting shows a lively urban street: the church's venerable structure is flanked by bustling shops visited by gentlemen with fashionable canes while the smoke from the chimneys trails upward into the cloudy sky. These clouds and the trees surrounding the cottage are particularly demonstrative of our artist's distinctive style of applying dabs of paint a technique that almost suggests a quasi-pointillism. Taken together the substantial content lovely contemporary red morocco bindings and finely executed and well-preserved fore-edge paintings combine to make up a set of considerably seductive appeal. Tilt and Bogue unknown books
1995ref. 44087New York: The Blue Sky Press 1995. Hardcover. 36p. profusely illus. with Cooper's paintings 11x8.5 inches first printing very good condition in like dj. Children's book by the African American author. The Blue Sky Press hardcover books
1981ref. 156018New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1981. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Second edition. Second Printing. Lightly browned and worn cover edges worn spine ends owners inscription on back of front fly else fine in a good price clipped dust jacket with some tearing and chipping on edges lightly browned with some staining. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
1989ref. 70972Seattle Washington: Broken Moon Press 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. DOUBLE SIGNED and warmly inscribed by both poet and artist in black ink on the half-title page. The inscriptions are addressed to a noted Pacific Northwest poet and collector. 43pp. Quarto 29cm; sewn in full black cloth covered boards with small design blind stamped on the front board and title stamped in gold on the spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Some light shelf- and edge-wear to the dust jacket. A nice poetry/art book with a neat association. At the end of the poet's inscription and next to Sam Hamill's signature the signature of editor/publisher/calligrapher Tree Swenson is also present "& Tree" is in her hand: "To ______ Happy 40th! with love from Sam & Tree." Hamill and Swenson were co-founders of the influential Copper Canyon Press a nonprofit independent poetry publisher that "believes poetry is vital to language and living." Copper Canyon was founded in 1972 in Denver CO and moved to Port Townsend WA in 1974. Tree Swenson was also the Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets from 2002 to 2012. American poet and translator Sam Hamill 1943–2018 published poetry collections taught in prisons and founded Poets Against the War a movement to protest the 2003 Iraq invasion. The artist's inscription reads: "To ______ with Great Regards love Galen." Galen Garwood is known for his paintings monoprints and collages. His works have been widely exhibited and collected https://galengarwood.com/. Broken Moon Press hardcover books
ref. 8653218. CHINESE PITH PAINTINGS. ALBUM OF 30 FISH ON 12 SHEETS. Album of 12 sheets of pith approximately 19 x 26 cm each mounted onto pages within covers approx. 24.7 x 34.3 cm covered in brocade with ties. A wonderful mid-19th century example of this realistic genre which uses the three dimensionality afforded by the surface of the inner plant pith of the Tetrapanax papyriferum a ginseng relative that grow to the size of a small tree shaved as here into thin sheets and painted with opaque colors. The fish sparkle and the colors glow the fish accuraely depicted in form and color. Pith by its very nature is extremely fragile and larger sheets such as those employed here even more than usually frangible. Thus the completeness of the sheets with almost no lost pigmeted sections is most unusual. The covers are a bit worn though as usual the paintings show occasional cracking and repair but a worthy example of its kind. unknown books
1945ref. 209566New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation 1945. Hardcover. G-: The cover is torn off and missing sections along its margins. Peeling to the spine. Small tears and creases in the back cover. Slight tanning to the pages. Majority clean body pages and solid binding. Tan wraps. 118 pp. 1 color 53 bw/2 tone plate. Quite a rare catalogue. Begins with 45 bw plates of works arranged chronologically. This is followed by selections from Kandinsky's writings which have been translated. Also includes writings and essays by V. Agrarych Hilla R and a list of paintings reproduced in this catalogue. This is followed by a list of works which were exhibited in the Memorial Exhibition which includes 227 works. A mighty catalogue considering we were still at war. The works included in the exhibition extended up to 1938 six years before the artist's death in Paris in 1944. A scarce catalogue published during the war in what must have been a limited quantity. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation hardcover books
1945ref. 193951New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation 1945. Hardcover. Good Boards have shelf/edgewear and light foxing; EX-Library indicated by only two stamps -- one on the ifc the other on ffep; one smudge on title page; interior is very very clean and binding is solid. Wraps. 118 pp. 1 color 53 bw/2 tone plate. Quite a rare catalogue. Begins with 45 bw plates of works arranged chronologically. This is followed by selections from Kandinsky's writings which have been translated. Also includes writings and essays by V. Agrarych Hilla R and a list of paintings reproduced in this catalogue. This is followed by a list of works which were exhibited in the Memorial Exhibition which includes 227 works. A mighty catalogue considering we were still at war. The works included in the exhibition extended up to 1938 six years before the artist's death in Paris in 1944. A scarce catalogue published during the war in what must have been a limited quantity. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation hardcover books
1988ref. 129672Marietta Georgia: Longstreet Press 1988. Signed by both Harrison and Sams on the half-title page. Hardcover. VG / VG mylar cover scuffed. DJ has stamp "autographed copy" on it. Blue-gray cloth boards color illustrated dj mylar covering. 144 pp. 60 lovely large color reproductions of paintings. From the dj: The rural American landscape is fading like old lumber on the side of a barn victim of urban sprawl and modernization. Sams a masterful storyteller writes 16 vignettes each marked with power and grace about America's countryside. Harrison one of the country's premier artists of rural American demonstrates an unerring eye and unmatched style. The quality of his work archival yet artistic reduces the magnitude of our common loss. Longstreet Press hardcover books
1991ref. 101685College Station Texas: Texas A & M University Press 1991. Hardbound. VG/VG. Green cloth with greenish illustrated dustjacket. 128 pp. 12 large color plates other bw pictures. Texas A & M University Press hardcover books
1993ref. 108528NY:: HarperCollins The Museum of Modern Art. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0060230371 . With a poem of appreciation by Walter Dean Myers. First printing. Oblong. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . HarperCollins (The Museum of Modern Art), hardcover books
2005ref. 1404177New York: Distributed Arts Publishers 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 235 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good dust jacket. Pictorial dust jacket with red lettering on cover and spine. Book is in full gray cloth binding with same red lettering on cover and spine. Jacket is wrapped in a new archival mylar sleeve and shows mild shelf and edge wear with a small closed tear in the bottom fore corner. Price unclipped: "$75.00". Boards show negligible shelf and edge wear; faint water damage on front board. Text block clean. Inscribed in blue ink by Vincent Desiderio on half title page: "For my dear friends June and Julie / Thank you for all of your support. I love you. Vincent / New York 2005". Shelved in Room A Oversized. 1404177. Special Collections. Distributed Arts Publishers hardcover books
1830ref. ST20481-05London: John Murray 1830. FIRST EDITION. 220 x 130 mm. 8 5/8 x 5 1/8". 2 p.l. ii v-xix 1 411 1 pp. Agreeable contemporary black morocco covers with an elaborate border in gilt and blind of numerous straight and decorative rules and scrolling foliate cornerpieces raised bands gilt in compartments with a central ornament in blind turn-ins tooled in gilt all edges gilt. Carefully rebacked retaining original spine hinges neatly reinforced with buckram. WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING DEPICTING A LANDSCAPE WITH A VERY LARGE CASTLE AND LAKE. With 13 pages of charts. Corners bumped and exposed a handful of scratches to the front cover; occasional spots and soiling internally other trivial defects but still quite a good copy the bulk of the text extremely clean and fresh with a well-preserved fore-edge painting. This is a pleasing copy with an attractive fore-edge painting of the final work of Scottish mathematician and economist Robert Hamilton 1743-1829. A professor at the University of Aberdeen and one of the founders of Edinburgh's Royal Society Hamilton wrote this work of political economy shortly before his passing and it was published posthumously. It treats of the relationship between economic principles and the development of social life and is considered perhaps second in importance only to his "Essay on the National Debt" issued in 1813. The fore-edge painting depicts a serene landscape with sailboat gliding across a smooth lake in front of a castle and tree-studded hills. The artist has rendered the details with subtlety for example the castle is faintly reflected in the lake and the scene as a whole is brigher and richer in color than might be expected. John Murray unknown books
2001ref. 292457Vienna: Christian Brandstatter 2001. First. hardcover. fine/very good-. David Rankin. 76 color plates. 112 pages. Slim square 4to black boards d.w. Vienna: Christian Brandstatter 2001. First Edition. Fine in a very good- dust wrapper intact but mis-aligned. Text in English & German. This book focuses on Rankin's debts to Lilly Brett his wife and her intense occupation with Judaism and the Nazi's Holocaust. Christian Brandstatter unknown books
2009ref. 432277Kelly-Winterton Press 2009. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Quarto. 48pp. Ten color plates by Adam Van Doren. Terra-cotta cloth with paper label mounted on front board and spine. Fine housed in a fine papercovered slipcase with label on one panel. One of five hundred copies Signed by Adam Van Doren on the colophon. Kelly-Winterton Press hardcover books
1797ref. ST19344London: Printed by T. Gillet for Longman et al. 1797. 265 x 163 mm. 10 3/8 x 6 3/8". Two volumes. Contemporary green straight-grain morocco covers with double gilt fillet border raised bands gilt titling turn-ins with decorative gilt roll marbled endpapers all edge gilt inexpert older repairs to joints. EACH VOLUME WITH RICHLY DETAILED FORE-EDGE PAINTING that on volume I depicting the old Tabard Inn Southwark and that on volume II showing Furnival's Inn Holborn. Housed in a fleece-lined double-compartment slipcase. Title pages with engraved vignette. Front flyleaf of each volume with ink ownership inscription of Mary Erskine dated 1803 noting it was a wedding gift from her cousin Lord Wodehouse and with later ink presentation inscription to "Walter and Katherine" on their 13th wedding anniversary 17 February 1931 from "their mother Kate Goodrich." Spines faded to brown as usual with green morocco and with half a dozen minor abrasions joints somewhat worn front joint of vol. II with four-inch crack at head but the bindings entirely solid the contents clean and fresh with only insignificant imperfections and the fore-edge paintings very well-preserved. This is a charming pair of large fore-edge paintings depicting two historic London inns each full of detail and painted on text blocks that fan out beautifully with very little effort. The text here is a late 18th century edition of a controversial and short-lived periodical known as "The Guardian" spearheaded by writer and politician Richard Steele who also founded "The Tatler" and "The Spectator". "The Guardian" as DNB relates ran from 12 March to 1 October 1713 and "is chiefly remembered for the quality of the contributors on whom Steele drew including Edward Young George Berkeley Alexander Pope and of course Joseph Addison." The two inns depicted in the fore-edge paintings here also have literary credentials: the Tabard Inn in Southwark was chosen by Chaucer as the starting point for the "Canterbury Tales" and Furnival's Inn in Holborn will be known to Dickens enthusiasts as the place where he began writing "The Pickwick Papers." The original Tabard Inn burned down in the Great Fire but was immediately rebuilt and became a popular stopping point for stagecoaches as depicted in the present painting. The dirt road in front of the inn is dominated by a large covered wagon and team of horses with a pair of men gesturing in the foreground and others idling nearby; Furnival's Inn by contrast was an Inn of the Chancery and enjoyed much tidier surroundings: the streets in the fore-edge painting here are cobbled the ladies and gentlemen are well dressed and even the rubbish has been neatly piled to one side. Both paintings date from the late 19th century and are based on engravings found in "Old and New London" by George Walter Thornbury ca. 1880. Though unsigned they are extremely well done and offer wonderful views of London haunts from both sides of the Thames. Printed by T. Gillet for Longman et al. unknown books
1805ref. ST19580London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington et al. 1805. 238 x 145 mm. 9 3/8 x 5 3/4". 10 volumes. Edited by George Steevens and Alexander Chalmers. EXTREMELY PRETTY CONTEMPORARY DEEP PURPLE STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO VERY ELABORATELY DECORATED IN GILT AND BLIND covers with frame featuring heavy gilt stippling and tooling spine compartments densely gilt gilt-rolled turn-ins leather hinges all edges gilt. EACH VOLUME WITH AN ATTRACTIVE FORE-EDGE PAINTING featuring scenic views of waterways bridges cottages and castles and one figurative scene. With frontispiece portrait engraved ornament pasted down on title page apparently to cover up the mention of the engravings which this set was evidently issued without. A Large Paper Copy. Jaggard p. 510; Lowndes IV 2264. Just a hint of wear to joints and extremities and this expertly refurbished a small gouge on rear board of volume I internally with occasional mild browning scattered foxing and stains but the bindings lustrous and glittering with gold the fore-edge paintings well preserved and the interiors clean and fresh. AN EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE COPY OF QUITE A SPECIAL ITEM. Enriched with learned essays and commentary this handsome printing of Steevens' acclaimed edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works comes in a lovely contemporary binding with later--but impressive--fore-edge paintings. Our set is the 10-volume version of Steevens printed on royal octavo paper a slightly less desirable nine-volume set on thinner octavo paper was also available. While the set was offered with plates the professionally printed and applied engraved ornaments covering the title page reference to engravings suggests that the publisher also sold sets without them auction records bear out this theory. The original owner may have chosen to save money on plates so he could splash out on the present richly gilt full morocco bindings that make an impressive appearance on the shelf. Then that owner or more likely a somewhat later one commissioned the paintings of the 10 fore edges. These are richly detailed crispy executed compositions mainly showing exterior scenes featuring castles or old city buildings. Although they do not necessarily have a clear connection with any individual play in any specific volume they do communicate the feeling of the period of Shakespeare's life. And most important they are skillfully done by an unusually deft painter. Steevens 1736-1800 had originally published his revision of Johnson's edition of Shakespeare in 1773 the revision being praised by Lowndes as combining "the native powers of Dr. Johnson with the activity sagacity and antiquarian learning of . . . Steevens." Volume I contains prefaces by Pope Johnson and Chalmers a sketch of Shakespeare's life by Chalmers Shakespeare's will and a history of the stage by Malone. Considered in all its aspects--as an esteemed edition of the bard's works as a gloriously decorated set on the shelf and as 10 expert fore-edge paintings--this item has much to recommend it. Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington et al. unknown books
1963ref. 1075SIGNED by author on the front free end paper. Hardcover. Red cloth with gilt on black spine label. Octavo. xv 223pp. Small historical society ink stamps to lower margins of two pages otherwise very good. Intact dust jacket shows some shelf wear and evidence of a sticker removed from lower spine Now protected in an archival quality mylar sleeve. Campa was the first folklorist to challenge the notorious Hispanophile narrative an Anglo initiated discourse whose broad acceptance was an ideological thread of the strategy to advance New Mexico statehood prior to 1912. The tales collected here told in a effortless and informative style and reflect the author's deep knowledge of the area and its people. University of Oklahoma Press hardcover books
