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1984réf. 24990New York: The Stone Street Press 1984. Wrappers. Fine. Malachi McCourt. A lovely copy of this 1984 fine press poetry offering. SIGNED BY MALACHI MCCOURT who translated designed and illustrated this volume. Clean and Near Fine to Fine in its light-green hand-sewn wrappers. The Stone Street Press unknown books
1986réf. 24991New York: The Stone Street Press 1986. Wrappers. Fine. A lovely copy of this 1986 fine press poetry offering. #428 OF 495 COPIES OF THIS STATED 1ST EDITION SIGNED BY MALACHI MCCOURT who translated designed and illustrated this volume. Clean and Near Fine to Fine in its hand-sewn beige wrappers. The Stone Street Press unknown books
1974réf. 13406Providence Rhode Island: Burning Deck Press 1974. Original wraps. Fine. Linda Lutes. A pristine copy of this 1974 poetry portfolio issued in a tiny edition of 75 copies by Burning Deck Press of Providence. This is a Proof copy INSCRIBED BY THE DESIGNER AND ILLUSTRATOR LINDA LUTES TO NEW YORK PERFORMANCE ARTIST AND POET CARL MORSE. 8 loose signatures as issued laid into a printed off-white chemise. Both the chemise and the plates are in immaculate condition. The 7 poets featured are: Michael Benedikt William Bronk Michel S. Harper Edwin Honig Rochelle Owens Diane Wakoski and Rosemarie Waldrop. Burning Deck Press unknown books
1999réf. 50142Zurich Switzerland: Galerie Hauser & Wirth 1999. Fine/Fine. Zurich Switzerland: Galerie Hauser & Wirth 1999. First Edition. Quarto 30.5cm; publisher's card wrappers in glossy pictorial dust jacket; 147pp.; color illus. throughout. Fine condition. Bilingual text in German and English. Collection of autobiographical stories accompanied by the paintings by the late American artist Mary Heilmann 1940-2026. Galerie Hauser & Wirth unknown books
1975réf. UB-17888Cincinnatti: Cal Kowal 1975. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition. Photographic essay documenting Joseph "Mr. Spoons" Jones the Cincinnati street and bar performer who spent over three decades playing spoons in the bars of Over-the-Rhine - including Aunt Maudie's - while supplementing his income selling handmade paper corsages. Kowal's black-and-white photographs capture Jones performing including a striking image of him posed at a pool table with spoons arranged to spell out "SPOONS." Text includes biographical and anecdotal matter under headings "Bar Hopping · Spoon Flopping · Street Troubadour" and "Livelihood" along with a Shakespeare epigraph from A Midsummer Night's Dream "Wilt thou heare some musicke.let us have the tongs and the bones" IV.i.33 printed against a black page with a white photogram-style fern/leaf motif echoed from the covers. Rear free endpaper carries contact information stamped in black "TO RENT MR. SPOONS / CONTACT LOU / AT: JIMMY SKINNERS MUSIC CENTER / ON VINE ST." with a phone number added by hand in blue ink. The same leaf bears a printed dedication to "Joe's amicable family" special thanks to Noel Martin and the Cincinnati Art Museum and the production credits above. Signed: Inscribed in ink by the subject Joseph Jones: "With luck from Mr Spoon Joseph Jones." Additionally inscribed below by Dick Robbins: "With the wish that you always get what you want and want what you get" signed with a small hand-drawn spoon beneath his signature. Robbins' identity/relationship to the subject or production has not been established through outside sources - he does not appear in the book's own credits or in available secondary accounts of Jones/Aunt Maudie's; the inscription itself is the only evidence of his connection to this copy. Bound in at rear is a sleeve containing a 45 rpm single. Vetco Records 5825 Vine Street Cincinnati Ohio 45202 ℗ 1975 catalog/matrix no. 741278. Labels credit "Jimmie Skinner Music. Pub." Side 1 / "Jimmie Skinner Music Pub." Side 2 and bear the artist name "MR. SPOONS." Side 1: "Spoon Rag" 2:04 / "Spinning Spoons" 1:50 Side 2: "Spoon Tapping" / "Dueling Spoons" - label scuffed/worn on this side obscuring the catalog number and partially obscuring both track titles; readings above are my best guess from what's legible and should be confirmed by ear or under raking light before going to print. Vinyl Condition: Vinyl/playing surface clean and bright on both sides with light handling marks only; appears playable. Side 2 label scuffed and abraded in an arc near the spindle hole affecting legibility of two track titles and the catalog number; Side 1 label clean and fully legible. Record is taped into a die-cut pocket at the rear of the book. Book Condition: mild wear and rubbing to extremities with chipping/bumping at the corners of the front panel; scattered brown foxing/spotting to the rear free endpaper and adjoining leaves. Spiral binding remains tight and intact. . Cal Kowal unknown books
1901réf. 1717801901. NAKAMURA Gyokushu. Miyama no shiori. 2 volumes. 250 x 160 mm. Kyoto: Honda Unkido 1901. An exquisite collection of designs probably created as patterns for kimonos. In fine condition and extremely rare. Some of the plates have a distinctly modernist feel. There is some soiling but the stunning plates are immaculate. OCLC lists The National Diet Library and the Wolfsonian. unknown books
1888réf. 221661888. Original patent documentation for Edmond Verstraete's innovative 1888 railway car design an uncommon surviving artifact from the era of rapid industrial expansion and technological advancement in American rail transport. Verstraete Edmond. Railway Car. Washington D.C.: U.S. Patent Office July 24 1888. Patent No. 386512. First edition. 2 printed lithograph sheets measuring 9" x 7". Signed by inventor and witnesses. Includes two detailed mechanical drawings by Verstraete with formal submission details signed by the inventor and his attorney. This patent filed during a period when the U.S. railroad network was transforming American commerce and mobility documents Verstraete's reconfiguration of the passenger car interior and structural layout. The diagrams show side and overhead views of a self-contained passenger railcar marked by articulated platform entries segmented internal seating and a defined vestibule region. Of note are the annotated elements marked "x" in red ink labeled as "Lower entries" and "Passengers" likely indicating areas of operational focus or examiner queries. The first sheet offers a longitudinal cross-section while the second presents a plan and elevation revealing design emphasis on safety comfort and structural balance. The late 19th century witnessed a proliferation of railway car patents as inventors sought to enhance efficiency passenger experience and operational safety in the context of growing urban transit systems and long-haul travel routes. Verstraete's work fits within this inventive surge paralleling the emergence of Pullman cars electric trolleys and elevated rail networks. As cities like New York Chicago and San Francisco expanded rail-based infrastructure designs such as this laid the groundwork for more integrated mass transit and intercity rail travel. Light toning minor smudge at lower margin of first sheet archival notations in red and pencil at margin; "EXAMINER" hand-stamped at top. Overall very good condition. A scarce and compelling primary document reflecting the ingenuity and regulatory mechanics of the Gilded Age railroad boom ideal for researchers in industrial history transportation technology and the evolution of public transit. unknown books
1967réf. 40294New York: Daylark Press / Doubleday and Company 1967. Good. New York: Daylark Press Distributed by Doubleday and Company 1967. Second Edition see note. Narrow oblong octavo; publisher's blue staplebound card wrappers; 7ll. featuring eighty-four 84 slogan stickers. Wrappers rather worn with small pinhole to upper cover some light foxing and soil to contents. Good and complete overall. Humorous and often quite tasteless collection of joke slogan stickers: "Nasser Had His Nose Bobbed" "Rape Is Inconsiderate" "I Can't Relate to Trees" "Feed Twiggy" etc. Though the copyright states "Second Edition" we find no examples of a first in retail or OCLC which lists just three examples as of April 2026 at Cornell Harvard and U. Washington. Daylark Press / Doubleday and Company unknown books
1928réf. 1723681928. SOVIET PROPAGANDA DESIGN. Za oboronu SSSR For Defence of the USSR. 48 pp. illustrated with 32 full page plates printed in red and black. Small folio 275 x 200 mm. bound in publisher's wrappers illustrated by Czech artist P. Skala. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo AKHRR: Shkola FZU pri 1-i Obraztsovoi tipografii 1928. A remarkable collection of Soviet imagery intended as instruction for decorating workers' clubs reading huts and use during rallies. The illustrations include fully decorated interiors concepts for 'hands-on' attractions such as a 'rayok' or Russian peep show shooting galleries and quiz shows. Most of the imagery is in the constructivist style but also includes numerous caricatures of western fat cats fascists and even a Ku Klux Klan member which would have been inspiration for costume design. Rare OCLC finds just one copy at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. The leaves with illustrations have an even toning from the printing process else a fine copy with the errata slip and unusually printed on fine thick paper. unknown books
1934réf. 1653411934. JAPANESE DESIGN. Juraku Cho. 3 volumes illustrated with a total of 90 colour and monochrome woodblock plates. Oblong folio 270 x 390 mm. bound in publisher's silk over boards in a new chitsu case. Kyoto: Unsodo 1934. A spectacular series of designs with superb colour woodblock plates with each volume devoted to a different motif. Volume 1 is Ryu no maki the dragon. Volume 2 is Hoo no maki the phoenix and Volume 3 is Shishi no maki the lion. Both the full colour plates and the monochrome plates facing them are masterpieces of the woodblock maker's art. Unsodo is the name of a large Japanese publishing company with branches in both Tokyo and Kyoto. Founded in 1891 this company is still in existence today. From the 1890s through the 1930s the Unsodo publishing house was involved in printing high quality pattern books for various crafts including textiles and lacquer.Some wear to the boards but otherwise a fine set. Rare with no listing on OCLC. 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
réf. 2068London: T. Fisher Unwin 1904. An octavo of 267 pages bound in the original pictorial cloth of a gardener in a white shirt and hat tending a garden bed with his rake. The spine features a large bay standard with twisted twin trunks set in a large pot. This exceptional publisher's trade binding is executed in white olive and chartreuse green set against navy blue. Colored frontispiece of sweet peas. Written by the author of Recipe For The Million it contains a wealth of practical information for garden lovers. The text can be readily had in various internet formats and reproductions.but the satisfaction of the boldly handsome binding representing the best elements of the Arts and Crafts period of design cannot be captured in modern commercial endeavors. A bit of light foxing and rubbing as well as a little wear to the spine extremities. Overall a very good copy indeed of this scarce title in its original binding. hardcover books
1958réf. 4465New York: Lester Rossin Associates 1958. Very good. 4to 295 x 230 mm. Original 4-flap portfolio of brown pictorial paper containing three folders of bifolium sample illustrations designs and photographs loose as issued collated complete. Portfolio margins and folds with a little wear and creasing contents in excellent state. "MAD MEN" ERA GRAPHIC DESIGN BEING A PROMOTIONAL PORTFOLIO FOR A NOTED NYC ADVERTISING AND MARKETING AGENCY. THE PORTFOLIO IS ITSELF INGENIOUSLY DESIGNED AND THE CONTENTS PRESENT A "STABLE" OF INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED ILLUSTRATORS DESIGNERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS INCLUDING RAY PROHASKA AND D. STONE MARTIN. Lester Rossin is recognized as being one of the original "Mad Men" an elevated advertising art and marketing firm that thrived in the 1950s and 1960s. Offered here is an original portfolio of design work that was no doubt distributed to potential clients. The portfolio was designed by Clifford Condak and contains three color-coded folders with samples from the firm's three divisions. The folders are: Illustrators blue folder with a circle: 13 samples; Photographers green / square: 4 samples; and Designers red / triangle: 6 samples. Each folder bears the names of the individuals whose work was contained therein. On the front of the portfolio is an extraordinary "raison d'etre" by the firm which bears reprinting: "Design is the basis of a creative illustration. Whatever the medium message or technique only a heightened sense of design will raise the work from craftsmanship to the level of art. This is our belief. It is the basis of our achievement the discipline of our daily work and the guarantee of our future." On the back of the portfolio is a long list of the company's "Distinctions" including "Bests" at the 1957 International Poster Annual and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Here the potential client is informed that "In the past 12 months we have designed and produced art for 2198 advertisers 1561 mailing pieces and 932 point-of-sale units." On the upper cover is the statement that this "First in a series"; no other subsequent portfolio has been located by us and not even this one is listed in WorldCat. Lester Rossin Associates unknown books
1990réf. 8972Logan UT: Herald Printing 1990. Poster 68 cm x 54 cm / 26.75" x 21.5" printed in color and in a plain black frame 70 cm x 57 cm /27.5" x 22.5" 'A' condition. Colors are bright. This has not been examined out of the frame. Bob Bissland designed poster featuring a map of Utah with portraits of twelve notable Utah writers superimposed over. Printed to the left and right of the map is a list of 118 local authors arranged alphabetically by place. At each margin are quotes from Edward Abbey Wallace Stegner Juanita Brooks and Maurine Whipple. Produced for the Utah Council of Teachers of English Utah Endowment for the Humanities and Utah State University. Printed by Herald Printing. A very cool thing. "Literary Utah reflects a surprising diversity and number of poets dramatists novelists and essayist. The terrain includes writers who were born in the state raised here or set their work here. [Herald Printing] unknown books
1950réf. 21571Atlanta 1950. Very Good. Atlanta GA: n.d. ca. 1950s. Three watercolor interior design maquettes ca. 25x29.5 to 24x36cm. Stock toned and rather dust-soiled small loss at corner of two of the pieces else Very Good. Designs for three rooms commissed for a Mrs. Leon Jones of Atlanta Georgia possibly the wife of the Athletic Director and lead pitcher of the city's softball team the Capitol Homes. Each piece provides the general scheme for three unfurnished rooms all adorned with quite elaborate and vibrant curtain schemes and dark carpeting. One room prominently features two facing walls of murals while the other two rooms are shaded in what one would today call "millennial pink. unknown books
1947réf. 49632New York: The Sylvan Press 1947. Very Good. New York: The Sylvan Press 1947. Limited Edition of 1499 numbered copies this being #328. Small quarto; black cloth stamped in green; pale red endpapers; 150pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. No dust jacket presumably as issued. Rubbing and dust soiling to boards; binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy. The Sylvan Press unknown books
réf. 2199Chicago: Walbrunn Kling & Co. 1922. First edition Oblong 4to. bound in original tan cloth withexceptional Arts and Crafts cover design executed in primary green yellow and red. A stunning copy of this rare design book containing 64 full page plates and 110 pages of text. Heberling was the head of the graphic arts department at the Mooseheart Vocational Training School. The book is considered one of the best books of the period for preparing students interested in the graphic arts of posters signs and other forms of advertising. Scarce in any condition and virtually impossible to locate in the state of remarkable preservation of this copy of the First Edition. hardcover books
1946réf. 14698New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1946. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1946. Second Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in decorative price-clipped dust jacket brown topstain; 2xi1344xxpp.; photographic portrait frontispiece seven 7 leaves of illus. Some moderate wear to jacket extremities including a few short closed tears and small chips spine panel a shade toned later 1990 ownership signature to front free endpaper else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Front jacket panel subtitle: "The Autobiography of a Conductor. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1931réf. 11601First edition so stated. Small 4to. 45 illustrations. Index. Dust jacket clipped; light soiling; few nicks. Very good. 178 pages. Geoffrey Bles hardcover books
1895réf. 11454Octavo. 54 illustrations. Original pictorial light blue patterned cloth stamped in gilt and dark blue t.e.g. uncut. No dust jacket. Very good short tear head and spine. 290 pages. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper by noted Hollywood hairdresser Sydney Guilaroff: "To George - With very best wishes - Sydney Guilaroff." HARPER hardcover 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
1977réf. 33967New York: International Center of Photography 1977. Very Good. New York: International Center of Photography 1977. First Edition. Two oversized photo-illustrated posters 148x107cm folded down 37x27cm loose as issued. Rubbing along spine edges margins toned and rather dust-soiled with occasional short closed tears; overall Very Good. Rare exhibition "catalog" issued to coincide with Beard's installation "The End of the Game" at the ICP a series of photographs documenting African wildlife slaughter. OCLC locates just four examples as of August 2025 misdescribed as just one folding poster at the Universities of Arizona Florida Pittsburgh and Texas-Austin. International Center of Photography unknown books
1986réf. 40183New York: United Artist Books 1986. Very Good. New York: United Artists Books 1986. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's pictorial card wrappers designed by Bernadette Mayer; 682pp. Light shelf wear brief soil at bottom edge of front free endpaper else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on title page "3/18/90 / Dear Gerard - To have met you is to love you / Bill Kushner." Together with short autograph note by Kushner in original mailing envelope providing Kushner's autobiography for an author event noting that his poems have appeared in The Gay & Lesbian Anthology that his poetry collections are published by 4 Walls 8 Windows and that a forthcoming collection Love Uncut is due later in the year. Note ends "Plse call let me know how long you want me to read. United Artist Books unknown books
1998réf. 14240Dharamsala: Tibetan Medical & Astro. College 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Good. First Edition. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/2". 117pp. Rubbing creasing and light toning to covers corners and edges of paper wraps. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Faint toning to endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A clean solid copy of this yearly magazine from the Tibetan Medical & Astro. College. The articles are written by the students and aim to highlight their knowledge of Tibetan medicine and astro. science. Tibetan Medical & Astro. College paperback books
réf. 11222Santa Monica & Minneapolis: Danger! Books & Indulgence Press 2004. Deluxe/Limited Editions. Various. Fine. Deluxe/Limited Editions. Various. Moody's short story Surplus Value Books #13 is a comic parody of a bookseller's modern rare book catalogue. The story unfolds as the galley proofs of the involved book catalogue where the prices accorded the items for sale are contrasted with the personal and idiosyncratic values assigned to them by the bookseller. "This intricate collaboration is an expanded treatment of a text originally published by Rick Moody and David Ford as an artist's book in 1999. Taking the form of a bookseller's catalogue Moody's novella which is also reprinted in his 2000 collection Demonology lays bare the fragile psyche of its narrator whose fractured and overwrought book descriptions often veer into personal territory returning particularly to his obsession with a college classmate Anna Feldman. The deluxe edition includes corrected page proofs of the text complete with "hand corrections" by the author reproduced typographically by Wilbur "Chip" Schilling and sections that appear to have been manually "whited out." Each item in the portfolio supports the text of the story-from the straightjacket that holds the book and the narrator's "release papers" from a private mental hospital to the a collection of objects that relate directly to the entries including a Star Wars action figure Scrabble tiles and a baseball card. The text is aptly described by Hadley-based bookseller Ken Lopez: "Moody has created a hilarious and touching self-contained world where the values accorded to the items for sale dollars and the values inherent in them significance artistry passion are in running comic contrast." Exhibition statement Smith College The overall design and printing was undertaken by Wilbur "Chip" Schilling Daniel Kelm and David Ford Kelm with assistance from "other mechanics" at the Wide Awake Garage. In creating the OCD-adjacent box Kelm created a void filled with a blank because "any obsessive would want to have the regular edition too." He then noted laughing that would leave no place for the blank and wondered what would be done with that. While not called for a standard issue of the limited first edition one of 700 copies is included. Tight bright and unmarred. Folio resin coated cloth box mixed media including vinyl plastic cloth metal paper wood leather etc. fo 49x23x10cm. Numbered limited editions. Danger! Books & Indulgence Press unknown books
