1967réf. 165255London: Hamish Hamilton 1967. First UK Edition. Contemporary bookplate on the front endpaper see image else Fine in a Fine price-clipped dust jacket. A superb copy of a very elusive title in dust jacket or this condition. Hamish Hamilton unknown books
1975réf. 39171Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun Co 1975. Very Good. Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun Co. 1975. First Edition. Folio 34cm; unpaginated. Black and white photographs of various U.S. locales throughout. Light blue boards stamped in white and bronze with black cloth spine lettered in silver; housed in publisher's black slipcase. Comes with publisher's original shipping box. Boards scuffed and smudged; binding sound; stain to top edge of text block; interior unmarked. Dust-soiling to slipcase with brief biopredation to a few edges; staining and wear to box; Very Good. Asahi Shimbun Co unknown books
1897réf. 3382Frederick A. Stokes Co. New York 1897 IN THE ORIGINAL LINEN DUST WRAPPER WITH LETTERING AND DECORATION BY BRADLEY An octavo bound in the original rust colored cloth with a beautiful heavily gilt cover design by Bradley. The book is fine with no wear and the gilt clean bright and unworn. New endleaves with appropriate paper done at some point in the past. The paper backed linen dust-wrapper has wear and tear internally at the folds and is soiled with some darkening to the spine. Gilt titling and decoration by Bradley on the dustwrapper is bright and unworn. Very scarce and a nice example of the early cloth dust wrapper. Illustrated by Madeleine Lemaire. Frederick A. Stokes, Co. hardcover books
1961réf. 83849New York: Random House 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.5cm; black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt and purple on spine; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 273pp. Light wear else a Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper designed by Ellen Raskin unclipped priced $3.95 with ring stain to front panel light rubbing to extremities and faint tanning and creases to flaps; Very Good. This novel focuses on an unlikely cross-country traveling duo as a man flees an unhappy marriage and a grieving high-school boy leaves home. Thomas Savage and his wife Elizabeth Savage published many novels with his later publications having queer elements. 83849. Random House unknown books
1953réf. 50129New York: Stinson Records 1953. Later repressing. Vinyl album. vg-. Square Quarto 11 1/4". Original illustrated album cover with white lettering on cover. Protected by modern mylar. Striking modernist cover design with photomontage of bayonette. Cover design credited to "Nils" possibly Nils Borg. 10" vinyl record album 33 1/2 RPM Long Play containing the Stinson Records repressing of the album original issued as "Songs of the Lincoln and International Brigade" in a three record album released in 1944. The original album was produced by Moses Asch for his Asch record label and contained songs performed mostly in Spanish a few in English by members of the Almanac Singers including Pete Seeger Bess Lomax Baldwin Hawes and Tom Glazer. These were tunes sung by the antifascist volunteers during the Spanish Civil War. The original record set consisted of three 78 records and a total of 6 songs. This single 10" album reissue combines 4 of those tracks and adds an additional 6 tracks originally comprising the 1940 record "Six Songs for Democracy" Keynote Records July 1940 performed by German singer and actor Ernest Busch 1900-1980 along with a chorus of members of the International Brigades during the Spanish civil war in 1938. The Busch recordings comprise the A side of this record and the first song on the B side. The final four tracks on the B side are the Seeger recordings. 10 Tracks: Side A: - Band 1: The Peat-Bog Soldiers - Band 2: Hans Beimler - Band 3: Song of the International Brigades - Band 4: Freedom - Band 5: Song of the United Front. Side B: - Band 1: The Four Insurgent Generals - Band 2: Cook House - Band 3: Spanish Marching Song - Band 4: Quinte Brigada - Band 5: Quinte Regimento. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade was an international brigade of volunteers for the Republican cause during the Spanish civil war with the album containing "the songs of the men who left home and safety behind them in 1937 to fight Fascism" in Spain. The record label originally had an association with Moses's Asch's Asch and then Folkways label's. Stinson was initially known for its release of recordings made in the Soviet Union. It issued recordings by folk and blues music including recordings by Woody Guthrie and Josh White and was known for an association with leftist politics. Back cover with listing of folk music recordings released by Stinson Records. A scarce pressing of a historically important record. Album cover wear along edges with minor scuffing and lightly rubbing. Bottom edge mostly split. Vinyl with some light scratches. The record is somewhat noisey with some pops but is still listenable overall. Missing original inner record sleeve. Cover and record in vg- condition overall. Cover protected in modern mylar. Stinson Records unknown books
1947réf. 19881Philadelphia and Toronto: The John C. Winston Company 1947. First Edition. Cloth. Slipcase with same cloth. Fine. 4to. 25.5 by 19.5 cm. Unpaginated 14 folded sheets of glossy paper not counting prelim and final blank leaves. Leaves folded Japanese-style. Szyk illustrations are half-title title first leaf quoting bible as to origin of 10 commandments then an illustration on every recto. Facing versos have commentary. Following tenth commandment two pages of further commentary and final page with content is a colophon crediting those responsible for different aspects of the book including some not mentioned in this description such as the typographers. Light wear on the slipcase with a modest corner bump. Overall Fine. The John C. Winston Company unknown books
1945réf. 54643Amsterdam: Van Holkema & Warendof N.V. 1945. First edition. Spiral_bound. g to vg. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. 30 pages. Spiral binding. Black heavy stock cardboard with white lettering on the front cover. The work contains harrowing and powerful photo-documantation of Nazi atrocities carried out in the concentration camps of "Grossdeutschland" "Greater Germany". There are a total of 26 striking b/w images in collotype each captioned underneath. The photos were taken by various unnamed Allied war photographer unders the auspices of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force after the liberation of the camps Bergen-Belsen Buchenwalde Langestein Mauthausen Dachau and Schwabmuenchen. The images were then collected and assembled here by acclaimed Dutch photographer Willem van de Poll 1895-1970. The second page contains a b/w map showing the location of the larger camps in "Grossdeutschland" of the time. Text in Dutch throughout. Binding with light wear along edges. White lettering on front cover lightly borwned so is white back cover and here two light water stains along top of cover. Inside cover with inked name and date of previous owner. Block somewhat age-toned due to paper quality. Alternate title: Nazi Hel SS. Van Holkema & Warendof N.V. unknown books
1941réf. 167030New York: Kurt H. Volk Inc 1941. First edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies. A collection of 27 loose typographic samples. The first is a statement about this production that includes publication information and an illustration of the letters K H V. The remaining 26 folded sheets each feature one letter. All of the sheets are in very near fine condition and are in an about fair folding box that has some soiling wear and splitting along the spine. Still a solid copy of this very attractive production. Kurt H. Volk, Inc unknown books
1904réf. 832901904. DESIGN ISOZAKI Kosaburo. KINKAN'EN SHINISHO YOHON NEW SAMPLES OF COLORED MATTING - "KIN KAN EN." Okayama Meiji 37 1904. Cord bound Japanese style title printed on front cover. 34.2 X 22.6 CM. 34 full-page color woodcuts of flat-weave matting designs. The matting is still made today in Okayama from the igusa plant. Very simple and delicate designs. A sample book for the Isozaki line. unknown books
1935réf. 152262Moscow 1935. Hardcover. 306p. xvi a now-handleable copy following much restoration commissioned by ourselves: original illustrated boards are a bit worn expect minor internal dampstaining and a small envelope irritatingly affixed to the illustrated pastedown; a bound-in cell celluloid leaf with profile of Stalin now mended with reversable filmoplast; head and tail of spine professionally restored outer joints repaired. A reading copy for English-speakers. hardcover books
1935réf. 54208Berlin: Gemeinnützige Berliner Ausstellungs- Messe- und Fremdenverkahrs-G.m.b.H. 1935. First edition. Softcover. Good- to very good condition. Octavo. 160 viii 32pp. Original wraps with cover design by Herbert Bayer protected by modern mylar. Official guide for the exhibition "The Miracle of Life." An important work by Bayer who designed both the exhibition "The Miracle of Life" and the exhibition catalog. Illustrated throughout with photographs and diagrams. Text in German. Some wear along edges of wraps chips and creasing rubbed and very small stains on back cover. Wraps in overall good- interior in very good condition. Gemeinnützige Berliner Ausstellungs-, Messe- und Fremdenverkahrs-G.m.b.H. unknown books
1967réf. 45404Warsaw: Galeria Wspólczesna/ Biuro Wydawnicze "Ruch 1967. First edition. Softcover. vg- to near fine. Small quarto. Unpaginated. Illustrated red white and black wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. This publication is a catalog for the exhibition of the same name held at the Galeria Wspólczesna in Warsaw November- December 1967. The head of the gallery Janusz Bogucki conceived the exhibition to introduce or reintroduce the current generation of Poles to the avant-garde and political art graphic design photography and propaganda work of many of the leading modern artists of the of the early Soviet era. The show opening coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of the October Revolution and displayed numerous works from Alexander Rodchenko David Buliuk El Lizztsky and Kazimir Malevich among many others. Includes 23 pages of captioned b/w photographic reproductions of works shown at the exhibition. Text in Polish. Wrappers with some light rubbing to extremities and some creasing along the edge of the front cover near the spine. Minor smudges on the back cover. Wrappers in very good- interior in near fine condition overall. Protected by modern mylar. Quite scarce. Galeria Wspólczesna/ Biuro Wydawnicze "Ruch unknown books
réf. 7356Colorado Springs: Dentan Printing Co. 1927. 8vo 8.75" x 6.5" printed gray wrappers. 14 leaves 9 tipped-in halftone plates. Inscribed in ink by photographer "Laura Gilpin Colorado Springs Colorado" on tipped-in flyleaf at front. CONDITION: Very good interior fine wrappers with some wear at edges. An account of St. Martins an Anglican chapel in Denver Colorado with illustrations after photographs by Laura Gilpin taken early in her career. Inscribed by Gilpin on a leaf preceding the title page. Colorado Springs: Dentan Printing Co., 1927 unknown books
1945réf. 48078Jaromer: Printed by Vaclav Vara 1945. First edition. Softcover. Very good condition. 1/500. Duodecimo 6 1/8 x 4 5/8". 35 2pp. Original lithograph on cream string-bound stiff wraps with red lettering on cover. Frontispiece lithograph. Privately printed from the upcoming collection Nova Europa. Publication mocking the "Teutonic Sprawl." Dedicated to all compassionate fellow citizens. Collection of twenty-six acrid epigrams depicting the German invaders their traits their cruelty and the loathing of the Czech people towards them including a good pinch of sarcasm. Includes quotes from German poets Erich Kästner and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and a few passages in German. "Self-Praise Stinks If the truth of this proverb did not fall into disrepair The Germans would choke in a terrible stench." "Exemplary District Mustergau; in German Do you know the land where envy and stupidity blossoms You don't know it - It's called Sudetenland." Laid in a printed obituary 8 1/2 x 6" with black border featuring a swastika at the top with Czech caption "Each balloon burst at some time. It floats and then bursts" followed by a stinging text oozing of sarcasm: "We are announcing to the general public all over the world and the surrounding villages that due to an act of providence in real time our dear beloved irreplaceable and unforgettable "Her Generosity" has left us." The flyer is signed Herrenvolk Traitor-Collaborator NSDAP. funeral institution of the Third Reich. Text in Czech. Sting lightly frayed at bottom with minor wear to pamphlet. Laid in obituary with quarter inch closed tear and minor chips along edges. Printed by Vaclav Vara unknown books
1960réf. D3346New York: Duell Sloan & Pierce 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Black cloth lettering stamped in white on spine; illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the FFEP: "Bob -- You might know some of the people after all Bill." Spine tips the tiniest bit frayed otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket chipped and creased along the edges. "The permanent residents of Saloon Society live three martinis closer to the moon than the rest of us" begins the dust jacket. Cheers. Duell, Sloan, & Pierce hardcover books
1940réf. 2563801940. c 26 watercolor designs. 4to. VG. c 26 watercolor designs. 4to. unknown books
1932réf. 63000Bologna: Laboratorio-Scuola Del Commune di Bologna 1932. First Limited Edition. No. 40 of 150 numbered copies. Octavo 20cm. Original pictorial parchment-covered boards; 254 unnumbered leaves; designs printed in colors recto-only. Exterior staining and wear to binding with darkening to spine; internally quite fresh free of markings and solidly bound; Very Good overall. A finely-printed compendium of designed ex-libris by Fascist-era Italian artists; contributors include Giovanni Marchetti Adolfo Magrini Carlo Canavari Vittorio Grassi many others. Uncommon. Laboratorio-Scuola Del Commune di Bologna unknown books
1930réf. 89754Paris: Hours Press 1930. First Edition. No. 107 of 200 signed copies the entire edition. Small octavo; quarter morocco over illustrated paper-covered boards; 501pp. Text slightly over-opened at tipped-in "Dear Gertrude" leaf; faint evidence of a removed bookplate inside front cover still a pleasing Very Good to Near Fine copy in the original unprinted glassine dustwrapper. In her memoir These Were the Hours Nancy Cunard writes fondly of this book noting that though Riding was at this time much under the influence of Gertrude Stein ".no stutter is there whatever in the thoughts and observations of Laura Riding as expressed here in her vision of how life should be and of how it is often conducted." A beautifully designed book with photomontage cover art by the New Zealand-born avant garde sculptor and filmmaker Len Lye. CUNARD These Were the Hours p.107ff. Hours Press unknown books
1962réf. 366740Stockholm: Raben & Sjogren 1962. First edition text in English. Oblong 4to. A fine copy with binding bright text and illustrations fresh and clean in very good dust jacket; the pictorial dust jacket reproducing a photograph of Stig Lindberg on front panel has moderate wear and foxing with a few nicks and short creased tears else complete. First edition text in English. Oblong 4to. Stig Lindberg 1916-1982 Swedish artist and industrial designer noted for his innovative designs in various mediums including ceramics won a Gold Medal at the First International Ceramics Festival in 1962 in Prague glass and textiles. He won numerous awards internationally including in Milan Madrid and Cannes and his work is displayed at the Swedish National Museum in Stockholm. OCLC lists 28 worldwide holdings including Williams Yale MoMA Cornell Philadelphia Museum of Art RIT Maryland LC Smithsonian Royal Ontario Carnegie Mellon Cleveland Institute of Art Saint Louis Art Museum California Berkeley National Library of Sweden National Art Library London British Library and University of London Raben & Sjogren unknown books
1937réf. 49428New York: Lee Furman Inc 1937. Very Good/Good-. New York: Lee Furman Inc. 1937. First Edition. Octavo; rust-colored textured cloth with applied paper labels; dark topstain; illustrated dust jacket featuring an Aaron Douglas design and with $3.00 price intact; 354pp. Light wear to boards; corners bumped; binding sound. Heavy chipping to dust jacket with heaviest loss to top portion of front panel; long split to bottom half of rear joint but remains intact; dampstaining; a Very Good copy in a Fair to Good only dust jacket. Lee Furman Inc unknown books
1978réf. 24945St Paul MN: Truck Press 1978. A lovely copy of the 1978 1st edition limited to 70 copies each signed by Philip Gallo and each "printed on Arches and printed and bound by hand at the Hermetic Press in Miineapolis". Tight and Fine in its cloth-backed mocha boards. Square 16mo wonderful letterpress alphabet designs. Truck Press unknown books
1982réf. 90278London: Waddington Galleries 1982. First Limited Edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author and artist this being copy no.65. Original pictorial broadside offset printed on thick white stock measuring 43.5cm x 56cm 17.25" x 22 1/8". A few faint stress creases most evident in the blue portion with a few faint tiny spatter marks; Very Good. 90278. Waddington Galleries unknown books
2007réf. 25371GUN 2007. Photograph. Fine. Very creative 2007 Martin Parr vehicle SIGNED BY HIM AS WELL on the verso of the outer case. 27 photographic cards plus instructional booklet and decorative chemise. All in prisitne condition all contained within a laminate bright-orange slipcase. The photos were taken "one rainy Manchester afternoon in 1972" the idea being to match the couples from the 18 photographed people to test one's skills against the often mysterious agents of love. The photographs each measures a square 7 3/4" x 7 3/4" and the 3-dimensional box measures 8" x 8" x 2 1/3 GUN unknown books
1935réf. 012858NY: Harcourt Brace 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition in first state dustjacket. Ownership copy of attorney Arthur Leonard Ross d. 1975 who was a friend of Emma Goldman and represented the literary estates of Fred Harris and the like. With Ross' printed bookplate drawn by German artist Otto Ubbelohde and engraved by Botho Schmidt. SIGNED BY KENT in the inset at bottom of bookplate. Unclipped dustjacket $3.75 toned more darkly at spine and edges. Blue cloth with silver pressed spine near fine with internals quite nice. A solid copy with interesting provenance. Harcourt Brace hardcover books
1973réf. 389005Atlantic City: Grand Central Resort 1973. Unbound. Very Good. Flexible aluminum illustrated lithographic plate. Approximately 15.75" x 20.5". A couple of small punctures some small micro-scratches about very good. The central photographic image is of a group of people in costumed disco dress: roller skater construction worker hippie tuxedo etc. The half-tone screened picture also lists make-up and hair credit as well as printing and photography credits. The flexible plate was meant to fit over a drum-like cylinder from which the image was pressed onto paper or cardboard. The aluminum plates were often recycled or re-inked and subsequently reused. Their survival is uncommon. Grand Central Resort unknown books
