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1959rif. 9565Maplewood: Hammond & Co 1959. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 12" X 9 1/2". Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing toning and creasing to covers corners and edges. Inked scribbles and penciled price mark to front cover. A spot of soiling to top corner of front cover. Moveable sky chart is present and functional. Spots of toning to insides of covers. Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this 1959 star chart and planetarium. Hammond & Co paperback books
2001rif. 7980Bradford: Christoper Hunt 2001. Paperback. Good . Paperback. 8" X 8 1/4". 48pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light rubbing to covers and edges. Faint dust-spotting to top edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Produced as a private memorial for Dawn Aronson's 1953-1999 family and friends by her husband Christopher Hunt. Christoper Hunt paperback books
1894rif. 49452London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane 1894. Very Good. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane 1894. First English Language Edition. Octavo 20cm; publisher's yellow pictorial cloth blocked in black from a design by Aubrey Beardsley; xx191115pp. Cloth a bit dust-soiled and toned at margins especially spine corners bumped textblock a bit brittle due to inferior paper quality contemporary ex libris and bookseller ticket to front pastedown. Very Good bright and sound overall. The first English language translation of Dostoevsky's first novel originally published in Russian in 1846. The work is told through a series of letters between two impoverished distant cousins and is today deemed Russia's first "social novel." According to legend Dostoevsky's friend Dmitri Grigorovich read the manuscript in one sitting "then rushed out into the middle of the night to proclaim to the world the advent of a new Gogol" Carol A. Flath "Dostoevsky's Secrets" 2009 pp. 3 13. Elkin Mathews and John Lane unknown books
1965rif. 122002N.p.: N.p. 1965. A dazzling collection of ten original pressbooks designed by Saul Bass documenting the majority of the famed title and ad designer's work with director Otto Preminger in the 1950s 60s and 70s. Several of the pressbooks defy the conventions of pressbook design with custom shapes to represent items in keeping with the films for which they were made: "Advise and Consent" resembles a briefcase "In Harm's Way" is designed as a dossier with a string tie "The Cardinal" as a parcel and "Bunny Lake is Missing" as a newspaper. Other key titles in the collection include "Anatomy of a Murder" "Bonjour Tristesse" "Exodus" and "The Man with the Golden Arm." For most of the pressbooks in this collection we have never seen another example. A fascinating example of the advertising work done by the premiere title and ad designer of the twentieth century. Various sizes ranging from Very Good to Near Fine condition. Complete details available on request. N.p. unknown books
1927rif. 004758Detroit: Fisher Body Corporation Fleetwood Body Corporation General Motors 1927. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. An extraordinarily beautiful sales catalogue organized around vivid colors as the title suggests. Folio 33 by 25 cm. xxx 30 2 pp. plus wraps. The colors are "Bird of Paradise" "Midnight Blue" "Angel Fish" "Morpho Menelans" emerald curite "Forest Green" "Th Grand Canyon" "Rose Coral" "Italian Waters" "Orchid" "Autumn" and the cars are all Cadillacs. All the cars have in fact two colors both of which are suggested by the color designation and each color and car receives a luxuriant two-page spread with three color illustrations: one for the inspiration for the particular color one of the car interior and one for the outer body. Accompanying the illustrations are fluid intoxicating descriptions that conjure up the imagery the sensate experience the fantasy with only passing mentions of some of the design specifics. The cars include Cabriolets a Roadster a Phaeton Imperials a Brougham a Town Sedan and a Convertible Coupe. One can see designs that both reach back to the fine coaches of a quickly receding era and the more comfortable sleeker cars to come. The brochure was released in conjunction with a road show showcase of the vehicles staged at fine hotels in New York Chicago Los Angeles and San Francisco the Commodore the Drake the Biltmore and the Palace respectively. Wear to the edges of the dust jacket the decorative paper covering the bound card-stock wrap0 with a few scratch lines on front soiling on rear and a few minor closed tears along edges. A hole to the white front fold-in of this jacket. Other than some light pencilled lettering a child's hand clean and bright within. Fisher Body Corporation, Fleetwood Body Corporation, General Motors unknown books
1992rif. TB33128Norwalk Conn.: Norwalk Seaport Association 1992. no edition stated. Fine in heavy printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding with a 1/4 blue cloth spine covering. A small quarto of 11 by 8 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 88 pages of typed text illustrated with a map and line drawings. Norwalk Seaport Association paperback books
rif. 62991NY: 1973. Offset-printed promotional flyer. 11" x 8-1/2" printed in black and white on a single sheet of white wove stock. Fine. Original show flyer for a reading/performance at Barnard College 1973. Designed by noted Irish-American conceptual artist Les Levine. unknown books
1963rif. 50401Park Forest Illinois: W. R. Hasbrouck 1963. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Very good- to fine condition. Folio. 1 54 1pp. unpaginated. Original brown faux half-leather over green cloth with gilt-framed lettering gilt lettering on spine. Two brown handmade endpapers at front and back. A folio of twelve photographic plates 13 1/2 x 5 1/4" with brown gilt-printed cover is sewn to the first front endpaper. Double-title page with Wright designs in black framing red lettering. Gannett's name is misspelled here. The elaborate designs are printed in black and red. With original limitation page in facsimile stating "One" of 90 copies including signatures of William Herman Winslow and Frank Lloyd Wright. Facsimile reprint of the 1896 edition designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and originally printed by hand during the Winter months of of the year eighteen hundred ninety six and seven at the Auvergne Press in River Forest by William Herman Winslow and Frank Lloyd Wright. The so-called Winslow House was built in 1893-94 and for Wright it was the very first commission as an independent architect. It is said to anticipate what became known as Wright's Prairie Houses. Binding with very light scuffing at hinges and tail of spine. Light staining at lower foredge corner of front cover with traces running up along front foredge. Interior in fine condition. W. R. Hasbrouck hardcover books
1897rif. 009118New York: Dodd Mead & Co. 1897. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition Thus. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Near Fine light soiling at end pages slight spine lean SCARCE in dust jacket Very Good Minus 2" chip at base of spine smaller chips old tape mends the number "9" in blue ink front of jacket. The jacket and cover designs initialed A.M. reportedly for the American Art Nouveau designer Alice Morse. Illustrated by Frederick C. Gordon. Dated 1895 copyright page 1897 title page. A well-regarded novel about a Scottish doctor. Dodd Mead & Co. Hardcover books
1967rif. 008323New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1967. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Tall 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. RARE Review Copy of this groundbreaking behind-the-scenes look into the New York art scene of the 1960s. With four 8" x 10" B&W glossy photos from the book laid in; George Segal's "Couple at the Stairs"; Andy Warhol in his studio; Marcel Duchamp in his Manhattan apartment; and Lee Bontecon relaxing in her studio first 3 photos Fine last photo small faint spot bottom margin and faint bottom corner crease. The book is Near Fine small prior owner name 2nd front end page slight bowing to boards. In a Very Good dust jacket 1/4" chip across head and 1 1/2" chip base of spine narrow chip at top edge front flap fold several small closed edge tears. Original photographs from this New York collection are uncommon at auction.RBH. While these four are not originals they would be striking framed as a set. Holt, Rinehart and Winston Hardcover books
rif. 007380No Place: Theatre Communications Group Poster. Near Fine. Poster. First Printing. 11" w x 16 1/2" h. Publisher's promotional poster featuring a Barry Moser illustration printed in limited numbers for TCG's "Plays Are Literature" campaign and distributed at an ABA trade show. Near Fine 11" w x 16 1/2" h a few faint creases. A SCARCE poster well suited for framing. Will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. Theatre Communications Group unknown books
1937rif. 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
1936rif. 51694Prague: Ústřední knihovna lavního města Prahy Prague Central Library/ Printed by V. Neubert and Sons 1936. First edition. Softcover. Large quarto. Unpaginated. Black paper wrappers. Main title page and additional exhibition title page both illustrated with striking photo-montage in b/w. Title page signed in pen by Karel Hajek. This finely printed photo-illustrated work was published to coincide with the the exhibition of photography by acclaimed Czech photographer and photo-journalist Karel Hajek 1900-1978 held in January 1936 at the Prague Central Library. Images throughout the publication are all gorgeous examples of vibrant b/w photogravure printing. The layout design and typography of the work was created by Hajek in collaboration with the acclaimed Czech illustrator puppeteer and animator Jiří Trnka 1912-1969. Following the title page with a playful photomontage showing the photographer in a newsprint suit is a page of introductory text for the exhibition from writer playwright and filmmaker Vladislav VanÄura 1891-1942 art critic Bohumil Markalous 1882-1952 and finally Hajek himself. This is followed by a beautiful full-page photomontage of images by Hajek which serves as an introduction to the exhibition. A selection of 7 captioned images from the exhibition is then followed by a text page of technical information concerning the photography and a full list of the 181 photos included in the exhibition along with their respective film stocks. The final pages are comprised of numerous finely photo-illustrated period advertisements all also printed very nicely in photogravure. A now very scarce document of the early career of this important figure of Czech photo-journalism. Minor scratches and abrasions to the front wrappers. Light chipping with tiny stains along the bottom edge of the back wrapper. Lightly rubbed at the head and tail of the spine. Starting at the gutter of the interior front cover. All images throughout very clean and nice. Wrappers in very good interior in very good condition overall. 5 OCLC copies worldwide. Not found in 'Czech and Slovak Photo Publications 1918-1989' Manfred Heiting ed. [Ústřední knihovna lavního města Prahy] (Prague Central Library)/ Printed by V. Neubert and Sons unknown books
1974rif. 85136New York: Delacorte Press / Eleanor Friede Book 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Folio 34cm; marbled blue paper-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in metallic blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; n.p.; black-and-white photographic halftones and colorful illustrations throughout. A Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper unclipped tanned 2" tear to lower front spine fold two 0.5" tears to front wrapper and tiny chips and tears to extremities; Very Good. Most of text printed in facsimile handwriting this collection explores the first Europe trip of two sisters. 85136. Delacorte Press / Eleanor Friede Book unknown books
2009rif. 85191Cedar Rapids Iowa: Sam's Dot Publishing 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo 21.5cm; orange pictorial paper wrappers; 89-693pp; illustrated frontispiece. A Fine copy. Collection of verse includes "Beyond the Clouds of Paradise" "Interstellar Tract" "Star Wars Report" and "The Amnesia Addict". 85191. Sam's Dot Publishing unknown books
1933rif. 54109Moscow: The State Publishing House of Graphic Arts 1933. First Edition. Folio 42cm; printed wrappers saddle-stitched; 32pp; illus. Light wear to extremities some faint dust-soil and foxing to wrappers with a few tiny nicks and tears; Very Good or better. Well-preserved issue of this landmark Soviet art magazine issued from 1930 to 1941 to celebrate the achievements of the first two Five Year Plans and through various foreign-language editions to propagandize the stark contrast between the vibrant Soviet economy during this period and the stagnation of Western economies under capitalism. "All the visual strategies of the propaganda photobooks designed by Lissitsky Rodchenko and others.were developed in USSR in Construction one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century" Parr-Badger The Photobook I:148. The present issue is entirely devoted to the socialistic development of the White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic. The State Publishing House of Graphic Arts unknown books
1960rif. 169927N.p.: N.p. 1960. An archive of 43 photographs 3 large format color slide transparencies and a set illustration reproduction totaling 47 items all belonging to art director and production designer John Robert Lloyd. Shot and struck between 1954 and early 1960s. The archive includes 26 set design photographs 8 on-the-set photographs 3 reference photographs and 6 vernacular color photographs. 32 of these are borderless single-weight photographs and 2 are double weight satin-finish photographs. The remainder are bordered photographs. Detailed inventory available upon request. Renowned art director and production designer John Robert Lloyd began his career in television in the early 1950s working as set designer and art director on noted television anthology series such as "Lux Video Theatre" 1950 "The Adventures of Ellery Queen" 1952 and 1954 "Schlitz Playhouse" 1958 and most notably "General Electric Theater" 1954-1959 with examples from eight "General Electric Theater" episodes found in the archive here. By the late 1960s Lloyd began working as a production designer in film most notably "Midnight Cowboy" 1969 "The Boys in the Band" 1970 "The Owl and the Pussycat" 1970 "The Exorcist" 1973 uncredited art director and "Clue" 1985 among many others. The majority of the archive is grouped by production with a half-sheet title page for eight of the nine identified productions with six of the photographs and the three large format color slide transparencies from unidentified productions. Eighteen of the photographs have hand-written labels affixed to the versos identifying the production the set depicted a photograph ID number and the photograph size. The identified productions include: Three set design photographs for "General Electric Theater: The Long Way 'Round" season 3 episode 5 which aired on CBS on October 10 1954. Six set design photographs for "General Electric Theater: I'm A Fool" season 3 episode 8 which aired on CBS on November 14 1954. Two set design photographs for "General Electric Theater: D.P." season 3 episode 16 which aired on CBS on January 9 1955. One set design photograph for "General Electric Theater: Love Is Eternal" season 3 episode 21 which aired on CBS on February 13 1955. Three set design photographs and six vernacular color on-the-set photographs for "General Electric Theater: Mr. Blue Ocean" here under the working title "The Courtship of Mr. Blue Ocean" season 3 episode 31 which aired on CBS on May 1 1955. The vernacular photographs depict the actors in the production Boris Karloff Susan Strasberg and Anthony Perkins though not clearly focusing on the set design. Five on-the-set photographs for "General Electric Theater: Second Stranger" season 5 episode 7 which aired on CBS on October 28 1956 four featuring actor Burl Ives. Three set design photographs and one on-the-set photograph for "General Electric Theater: The Breach" here under the working title "The Letter" season 5 episode 12 which aired on CBS December 9 1956. The on-the-set photograph depicts actors Betty Field and Marian Seldes though not clearly focusing on the set design. One set design photograph and one set illustration reproduction for "General Electric Theater: A Child Is Born" season 5 episode 14 which aired on CBS on December 23 1956. The set design illustration is affixed to the verso of and folds behind the title card. And six set design photographs for "Suspicion: Diagnosis: Death" season 1 episode 25 which aired on NBC March 31 1958. The remaining six photographs are from unidentified productions and include three reference photographs two on-the-set photographs and one set design photograph all circa late 1950s and early 1960s. The three large format color slide transparencies circa late 1950s are all reference images from unidentified productions likely beer commercials for the anthology television series "Schlitz Playhouse" as two of the slide transparencies and one of the six unidentified photographs whose actors and setting match the third slide transparency prominently feature the beverage in the image. 37 set design on-the-set and reference photographs 7 x 6.5 inches to 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with cello tape residue to the far left edges. Six vernacular color photographs 3.25 x 3.25 inches. Very Good plus with small patches cello tape residue to one or more of the corners. Three large format color slide transparencies 5 x 4 inches. Near Fine. Set illustration reproduction 16 x 8.5 inches. Very Good plus with two vertical folds and cello tape residue to the left edge. N.p. unknown books
1927rif. 626063Chicago: Pascal Covici 1927. Hardcover. Good. Reprint first published by Covici-McGee in 1922. Vernacular binding of handsome patterned cloth with new plain pastedowns over Hecht's illustrated ones. Cloth worn and stained sound but good only and still attractive. Possibly attributable to "V and W M Sutton" of Plainfield New Jersey whose joint owner name is penned on the verso of the front fly along with a 1927 date. Pascal Covici hardcover books
1913rif. D7495Paris 1913-1918. Hardcover. Very Good. Morocco backed original cloth; oblong 380 x 305 mm; contains over 100 drawings of dresses hats jackets and more done primarily in pen and ink and colored in pencil or gouache; and highlighted by 5 mounted photographs of a woman modeling different gowns. From the Parisian fashion house Detrois et Cie. Women's garments shown from the front and back and professionally presented -- drawings are polished and nicely detailed and colored. Scuffing along spine and edges of boards; binding a bit shaken. hardcover books
1974rif. 1102Norwich Connecticut: The Stone Press 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 7 inches. 28 pp. Original pictorial wrappers with French flaps.Inscribed and signed by the author on title page. Wrappers lightly worn and dust-soiled. Near fine. Inscribed "January '75 For Wm Witherup Because you write such fine poetry and render such fine translations. I equally admire both. Douglas Blazek." On the copyright page Blazek thanks 21 mimeo presses little magazines and related journals and publishers FROM Baby John to Vagabond THE BUDDHIST THIRD CLASS JUNKMAIL ORACLE to THE WORMWOOD REVIEW as "mills where some of these poems were first stone-ground sometimes made into bicuits where now they're bread." Approximately 300 copies printed by the Ashram Press. DenBoer A28. The Stone Press paperback books
rif. TK0360no place: no date. 9.5 x 12.75 inches. 40 pages. 145 numbered photographic tinted illustrations each with numerous figures. Original plain black wrappers. With apologies but there is no manufacturer name on this trade catalogue of hand-crafted ornamental 'finishing' pieces such as decorative brasses for a piece of furniture. Many are with motifs from nature leaves flowers. Other ornaments: lions lizards angel wings wheat eagle-heads sun-faces etc. Each figure is numbered with the highest number showing is 3836 ornaments are shown. [no date]. unknown books
1901rif. 11370New York: McClure Phillips & Company Publishers 1901. Very Good. New York: McClure Phillips & Company Publishers 1901. First Edition Second State with four pages of pictures before "Humpty Dumpty." Quarto. 96 pp. Bright and highly amusing color illustrations by Denslow throughout with verses hand-lettered by the esteemed type designer Frederic W. Goudy. Paper-covered boards with color illustration to front and back stamped in black. Illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with exposure and some fraying at spine ends. Spine lettering and colophon notably sharp and binding is sound. Touch of off-setting to pages but overall pages unmarked. Greene & Hearn 24. McClure, Phillips & Company Publishers unknown books
1972rif. 235910San Francisco: Lawrence Fleming Assoc/Todd Trexler 1972. Handbill. Single 8.5x11 inch handbill photo of Rothermel & Arden in 1920s drag Held Over handwritten with red and black markers on diagonal very slight wear at corners otherwise very good on orange stock. The tickets at the door of 56 Gold Street were $200. Rothermel was a member of the Cockettes. Trexler who died in 2014 was the main designer of Rothermel's Divine's and the Cockettes' posters and cards. Lawrence Fleming Assoc/Todd Trexler unknown books
1980rif. 349637Los Angeles: The Zeus Collection 1980. 48p includes covers 8.5x10.75 inches explicit nude male action photos in b&w and in color very good magazine in stapled black pictorial wraps. Kentuckian Paducah meets up with Californians for a video shoot. Many of these photos of Paducah were reproduced over the years in other magazines. Also with Mickey Squires Mitch Machotti & Thad Butler. The Zeus Collection unknown books
1918rif. 25017April 1918. Unique. As accomplished; tacked into a frame easily removed. Very good; some buckling. Excellent color. 17 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches painted surface. Gouache on paper board. The original art for the Year of the Child poster. Signed by Mora. The "year of the child" was declared by Woodrow Wilson to be 1918. This the result of the failure rate of recruits to the armed services in their medical examinations. Wilson's declaration was the first step in efforts to improve the health of the public and especially young men. The execution fell to the US Children's Bureau and Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense. The Bureau was established in 1912 to " . investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people and shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality the birth rate orphanage juvenile courts desertion dangerous occupations accidents and diseases of children ." It became a center for public health initiatives. The Council was established in 1916 to coordinate resources and industries for the war effort. Numerous subordinate agencies and committees were formed. Evolving out of the National American Woman Suffrage Association the Woman's Committee - in structure and resource - was almost pre-formed. As a result it was very effective in marshalling the clubs and associations of women across the nation to further Wilson's purpose. Pursuant to this Francis Luis Mora designed this poster to advertise the bureau the poster was issued with modified text well into the 1930s - see LC website for the entry as well as poster work for the bond campaigns for the Liberty Loan boards under the direction of the Committee for Public Information. He was a well established artist and illustrator before and after WWI with numerous public and private commissions. unknown books
