1973ref. 196988Dobbs Ferry NY: Morgan & Morgan 1973. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 159 pages. An early monograph on this important African American photographer. Edited by Liliane De Cook and Reginald McGhee. Introduction by Reginia A. Perry. Includes over 100 black and white images. A clean near fine copy in cloth boards with some very faint scattered foxing to the page edges and in a near fine dust jacket with some slight color shift along the top edge. Morgan & Morgan unknown books
1984ref. 151603Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1984. Vintage press kit for the 1984 film. Black and white pocketed folder containing 14 black and white photographs housed in a brown paper envelope and 9 gatherings of promotional reading material. Based on the 1947 semi-autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry. A former British consul in a small Mexican town reunites with his wife after her yearlong absence due to his alcoholism. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Actor for Albert Finney as well as the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Set in 1938 Quauhnahuac Mexico and shot on location throughout Morelos Mexico. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Criterion Collection 410. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1960ref. 157082New York: Manhattan Films International 1960. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1960 film showing actress Delilah Lee posing in her dressing room. Stamp of Manhattan Films International on the verso. A magician's assistants begin dying off in increasingly violent ways. Set and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with moderate edgewear and pinholes at the corners. Manhattan Films International unknown books
1984ref. 150425Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1984. Vintage black and white portrait photograph of director John Huston from the 1984 film. With a newspaper clipping affixed to the verso along with a mimeo snipe and a date stamp reading "RECEIVED FEB 16 1983." Based on the 1947 semi-autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry. A former British consul in a small Mexican town reunites with his wife after her yearlong absence due to his alcoholism. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Actor for Albert Finney as well as the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Set in 1938 Quauhnahuac Mexico and shot on location throughout Morelos Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 410. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1972ref. 179079Hastings-on-Hudson NY: Morgan & Morgan 1972. Second printing. Hardcover. A collection of 117 black and white images by Adams edited by Lilian De Cock. Foreword by Minor White. A clean near fine copy with some minor wear in near fine price clipped dust jacket that has some minor wear. Signed and inscribed by Adams on the half title page. A nicely printed retrospective collection that includes many of Adam's iconic images. Morgan & Morgan unknown books
1984ref. 150267Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1984. Vintage studio portrait photograph of director John Huston from the 1984 film. Based on the 1947 semi-autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry. A brilliant performance by Albert Finney as Geoffrey Firmin an alcoholic British consul in a small Mexican town on the Day of the Dead. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Actor for Finney as well as the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Set in 1938 Quauhnahuac Mexico and shot on location throughout Morelos Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 410. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1987ref. 165411Venice CA: L.A. Louver 1987. First edition. Exhibition brochure for a show that ran June 25 through July 25 1987. Features a small folder that includes information on the three artists and with three loose laid in sheets that each feature a single color illustration along with a checklist of works in the show. All components in fine condition. Scarce with only 3 copies listed in OCLC. L.A. Louver unknown books
1980ref. 153716Port Townsend WA: Copper Canyon Press 1980. First edition. Broadside that measures 5.625" x 11.5" and printed in an edition of 205 copies. A very near fine copy. Uncommon. Please note that broadsides can not ship with media mail and will require additonal shipping charges. Copper Canyon Press unknown books
1980ref. 123296Boston MA: New York Graphic Society 1980. Third printing. Hardcover. Foreword by Minor White. Includes 117 duotone illustrations that feature a wide range of Adam's images. A very near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with a small crease to the front flap. New York Graphic Society unknown books
1981ref. 121980Minneapolis MN: Bookslinger Editions - Toothpaste Press - Walker Art Center 1981. First edition. Broadside printed in two color that measures 9.5" x 13" with two deckle edges. Copy 28 from an edition of only 85 numbered copies. Signed by Gallo. Uncommon. Please note that broadsides can not ship with media mail and will require additonal shipping charges. Bookslinger Editions - Toothpaste Press - Walker Art Center unknown books
1980ref. 54464Santurce Puerto Rico: Cristino Gallo 1980. First printing. Very good. First edition of this scarce self-published slang dictionary. Dual Spanish-English and English-Spanish dictionary which according to HOMOSEXUALITY: A Research Guide 1987 contains a particularly strong selection of gay slang. Gallo in the introduction writes: "Every language has its street vocabulary and Puerto Rico's is especially rich. Like all it reflects its geography native foods derogatory terms taboos dirty words and illegal pasttimes but also unlike most its macho sensuality." 7'' x 4.5''. Original photographic wrappers. x 220 pages. Spine lightly sunned. Sticker residue to both front and rear covers. Small closed tear at edge of front cover. Else sound. (Cristino Gallo) unknown books
1754ref. 40749London: Printed for I. Walsh in Catharine Street in the Strand 1754. Folio. Contemporary light blue wrappers. Engraved throughout. Uncut. Violino primo: 1f. recto title verso blank 12 pp. Violino secondo: 1f. recto title i blank 2-11 i blank pp. Alto viola: 1f. recto title i blank 2-9 i blank pp. Cembalo e violoncello: 1f. recto title verso blank i blank 2-10 pp. "Numb. XXVIII." printed at head of titles. With brief publisher's catalogue to foot of titles listing works "Just Publish'd for two Violins and a Bass" by Nussen Porpora Solniz Handel St. Martini Boyce St. Germain Humphries Geminiani Morigi Lampugnani Albinoni Alberti Ceruetto Torelli Purcell Mascitti Brioschi Fritz Bononcini Schickard Tibaldi Valentine Valentini Bomporti and Finger. Wrappers somewhat worn and creased with small stains spines and edges frayed and chipped with minor loss. Occasional minor soiling and small stains mainly to blank lower margins; some creasing to blank margins; lower wrapper of cembalo part detached. First Edition. Smith & Humphries 666 p. 149. BUC p. 359. RISM G260 no copies in the U.S. Little seems to be known about Alberto Gallo other than that he was a Venetian composer active in the mid-18th century. Printed for I. Walsh in Catharine Street in the Strand unknown books
1991ref. 52982New York: New Republic 1991. First printing. Fine in about fine jacket. Inscribed first edition of this personal account of the events leading up to and following the discovery of the AIDS virus by its co-discoverer. A multifaceted book - part memoir part science-writing - by the cofounder and director of the Institute of Human Virology and the most cited scientist in the world between 1980 and 1990. Gallo was the head of the Labratory of Tumor Cell Biology at NIH's National Cancer Institute when he published the set of journal papers that identified the retrovirus that would eventually be known as HIV. His papers correctly identified the virus as the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome AIDS. He and his team also pioneered the development of the HIV blood test that would allow healthcare professionals to conduct screenings for the virus. Some controversy followed the publication of the Gallo papers when DNA tests showed that the same strain of retrovirus was discovered by French virologists a year prior to the discovery by Gallo and his team. A lawsuit over the patent over the development of the HIV-antibody test would follow ending in an agreement to "divide the scientific credit and patent royalties from all HIV work and the blood test that detected it" Markel. VIRUS HUNTING contains Gallo's side of the story in what was his first time speaking out about the controversy. A clean copy warmly inscribed. 9.25'' x 6''. Original quarter purple cloth grey paper boards gilt-stamped spine. In original unclipped $22.95 color pictorial jacket. Pictorial endpapers. x 352 pages. Inscribed by Gallo on title page: "To Fernando / with my compliments / and my best wishes / Robert 'Bob' Gallo / 9/91". Jacket with touch of edgewear. Fresh clean. New Republic unknown books
ref. 400643 volumes. Folio. 18th century quarter mid-tan calf with marbled boards with dark red leather title labels gilt to uppers. CORELLI Opera Prima Secunda Terza Quarta. XII Sonatas of three parts for two Violins and a Bass with A Thorough Bass for ye Organ Harpsichord or Arch Lute Engrav'd from ye Score and Carefully Corrected by ye best Italian Masters . No. 364 365 366 367. London: Printed for I. Walsh servt. to his Matie. at ye Harp & Hoboy in Katherine Street near Somerset House in ye Strand ca. 1740. Violino primo: 1f. recto blank verso frontispiece portrait engraving of Corelli by Van de Gucht after H. Howard 1f. recto title verso blank i blank 24; 1f. recto title verso blank i blank 18; 1f.recto title verso blank i blank 25; 1f.recto title verso blank i blank 16 pp. Violino secondo: 1f.title iblank 24 1f.title iblank 18; 1f. title iblank 25; 1f.title iblank 16pp. Violoncello: 1f. recto title verso blank i blank 24; 1f. recto title verso blank i blank 18; 1f. recto title verso blank i blank 25; 1f. recto title verso blank i blank 16 pp. The separately printed organ/harpsichord part lacking in all four sets; in the second and fourth books the bass parts are however described as "Violone o cimbalo" and include figured bass lines for each sonata. Early pencil markings to violin parts. A total of 48 sonatas comprising Opp. 1-4. Smith & Humphries 413 416 420 and 424. Hirsch III 160. BUC pp. 217 218 219 and 220. RISM the 1735 printings: C3673 C3711 C3755 and C3788. Together with: GALLO Alberto fl. 1730-40 Op. 2 Twelve Sinfonie or Sonatas in 4 Parts for Two Violins a Tenor with a Bass for the Violoncello & Harpsichord. Compos'd in an easy and pleasing Stile . Opera 2da. London: Printed for I. Walsh in Catharine Street in the Strand 1754. With "Numb. XXVIII." printed at head of title. Violino primo: 1f. recto title verso blank 12 pp. Violino secondo: 1f. recto title 1 blank 2-11 pp. Cembalo/Violoncello: 1f. recto title verso blank 1 blank 2-10 pp. Lacking the tenor viola part Marx p. 93 nos. 116 137 and 159. Smith & Humphries 666. BUC p. 359. RISM G260 no copies in the U.S. Little seems to be known about Alberto Gallo other than that he was a Venetian composer active in the 18th century. Together with: FRITZ Gasparo Gaspard Kasper 1716-1783 Op. 1 Sei Sonate a Quatro Stromenti a Violino Primo Secondo Alta Viola Cembalo o Violoncello. Dedicate A.S.E. Francesco Grevile Baron di Brooke . Opera Prima. London: Printed for John Johnson in Cheapside ca. 1742 Violino primo: 1f. recto title verso blank 1 dedication 2-9 1 blank 11-16 pp. Violino secondo: 1f. recto title verso blank 1 blank 2-14 pp. Basso: 1f. recto title verso blank 1 blank 2-11 pp. Lacking the alto viola part First Edition. Rare. Not in BUC. RISM F2010 two copies only at the Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Genève and the Universitetsbiblioteket Uppsala. Fritz was a Swiss composer and violinist. "Some of his published works had considerable success and were subsequently reprinted. The three-movement sonatas of op. 1 which Handel judged favourably exhibit sectional contrasts characteristic of the ripieno concerto. In the op. 2 sonatas also in three movements Fritz approached the style of the Turin school with a richly decorated solo line supported by a thematically unrelated bass; some of the final movements are sets of chaconne variations." Jürg Stenzl in Grove Music Online Together with: SAMMARTINI Giovanni Battista 1700-1775 Op. 1 Six Sonatas for two Violins and a Thorough Bass . Opera Prima. London: Printed for and sold by John Cox at the Bass Viol and Flute in Sweetings Alley opposite the East Door of the Royal Exchange ca. 1750. Violino primo: 1f. recto title verso blank 12 pp. Violino secondo: 1f. recto title verso blank 10 pp. Basso: 1f. recto title verso blank 10 pp. BUC p. 919. RISM S676. "Sammartini was primarily an instrumental composer and one of the leading writers of concertos and sonatas in England between 1730 and 1750. His printed collections include 24 sonatas for flute and bass 30 trios for flutes or violins 24 concerti grossi four keyboard concertos an oboe concerto 16 overtures and some flute duets and cello sonatas. The tuneful Recorder Concerto in F found in only one source S-Skma has become his best-known work. Hawkins classed Sammartini's instrumental music with that of Corelli and Geminiani. Though his music is rooted in the late Baroque style it also reflects some later trends. There is considerable variety in the number succession and type of movements. . His music played a fundamental role in the formation of the Classical style. He was one of the most advanced and experimental composers of the early Classical period and the first great master of the symphony preserving his individuality despite the rise of the Viennese and Mannheim schools. Though the extent of Sammartini's influence is still not fully measured the high quality of his music places him among the leading creative spirits of the 18th century." Bathia Churgin in Grove Music Online Together with: SAMMARTINI Giuseppe 1695-1750 Op. 3 XII Sonate A due Violini e Violoncello e Cembalo se piace Opera Terza Dedicata all'Altezza Reale di Augusta Principessa di Vallia. London: Printed for and Sold by I. Walsh Musick Printer & Instrument maker to his Majesty in Catharine Street in the Strand ca. 1747. Violino primo: 1f. recto title verso blank 1 dedication within a fine decorative border engraved by H. Roberts 2-36 pp. Violino secondo: 1f. recto title verso blank i blank 36 pp. Violoncello: 1f. recto title verso blank i blank 34 pp. The violoncello part with figurings Smith & Humphries 1330. BUC p. 920. RISM S722. Together with: SAMMARTINI Giovanni Battista Op. 4 Six Sonatas for two Violins with a Thorough Bass for the Harpsicord! or Violoncello . Opera Quinta. London: Printed for I. Walsh in Catharine Street in the Strand 1756 Violino primo: 1f. recto title verso blank 1 blank 2-12 pp. Violino secondo: 1f. recto title verso blank 1 2-6 iblank 8-10 pp. Basso: 1f. recto title verso blank 8 pp. Bass part with figurings Smith & Humphries 1308. BUC p. 919. RISM S678. Together with: SAMMARTINI Giuseppe Op. 6 Six Sonatas For two German Flutes or two Violins with a Thorough Bass for the Harpsicord! or Violoncello . Opera Sexta. London: Printed for I. Walsh in Catharine Street in the Strand ca. 1750 Violino primo: 1f. recto title verso blank 1 2-15 pp. Violino secondo: 1f. recto title verso blank 1 2-13 pp. Basso: 1f. recto title verso blank 1 blank 2-14 pp. Bass part with figurings Smith & Humphries 1327. BUC p. 920 with the date of ca. 1745. RISM S719. Early manuscript numberings to margins. Bindings somewhat worn and rubbed. Minor internal wear and imperfections. In a very good state of preservation overall. unknown books
ref. 71216Saint Paul: Phil Gallo at the Hermetic Press 2025. Edition limited to 35 copies on Rives BFK signed by Gallo with his initial P; 8vo pp. 56; printed in a variety of colors and in a variety of fonts; portrait of the printer by B. Kreft; original stiff cherry wrappers printed in silver; fine in original plexiglas slipcase. A retrospective of sorts of Gallo's work over 60 years. "A number of these poems were printed on 5x7-inch cards and sent to friends of the press. The Printer however being of a dilatory nature sent out so few he feels it not unwarranted to call them new 'Qfwfq' notwithstanding and to include them in this new book." Twenty or so separate items for lack of a better word composed designed illustrated and printed by one of the finest printers alive today. Phil Gallo at the Hermetic Press unknown books
2023ref. 72147Milano: Prometheus 2023. 8vo pp. xv 1 533 3; text in Italian English and German; red pictorial paper wrappers; fine. "Maria Elena Ruggerini ha ricoperto il ruolo di professore ordinario di Filologia germanica presso l'Universita degli Studi di Cagliari dove ha insegnato per oltre un ventennio. La sua carriera accademica si e svolta anche presso l'Universita di Roma "La Sapienza" l'Alma Mater di Bologna e l'Universita di Sassari." Biblioteca Universitaria Italiana 27. Prometheus unknown books
ref. 69733Saint Paul: The Hermetic Press 2019. Edition limited to 31 copies this being one of 26 lettered copies on 125 gsm Stardream paper there are also 5 on 110 gsm Plike paper 8vo approx. 9¾" x 5½"; 22 leaves; printed in color throughout handset foundry type used includes Eurostyle Normal & Extended; Aurora Condensed & Bold Condensed; Permanent; Headline & Headline Open; Impact Open; Anzeigen & Inserat Grotesk; Folio Extra Bold; Huxley Vertical; Bauer Bodoni Italic & Bold Roman; Libra; Sapphire; Prisma; Boulevard and Fry's Ornamented card covers in an orange chemise of RFID/NFC Faraday fabric. The covers are susceptible to soiling and this copy shows evidence of that. Quite a book pushing the limits of color type design and poetry found or otherwise "like a slurry full of swarth. The Hermetic Press unknown books
1928ref. 95481London: Allen & Unwin 1928. 1st ed. in English. Hardcover. Very Good. maps photos index 180p. Original blue cloth. 24 cm. No Jacket. Modest chipping and wear along top of backstrip. Light foxing on front endpapers and a few of text pages. Ends of backstrip and corners slightly rubbed Spine a little faded. Translated by Anna Barwell from the German "Auf Hellas Spuren in Osttturkistan." published in Leipzig in 1926. Signature on front free endpaper by former owner "K. S. Latourette". No jacket Le Coq a wealthy German brewer and wine merchant became strongly interested in archeology. He actually led the second and third German Turfan expeditions. They discovered and removed to Germany many artifacts while carelessly destroying others. Le Coq thought he had found evidence of Aryan culture in what they found in China. Some of the material taken back to Germany was destroyed by Allied bombing during World War II. Online sources state that China regards Le Coq's actions pn these expeditions as comparable to the looting of the Elgin marbles by the British. This book's original owner Kenneth Scott Latourette 1884-1968 was a scholar and historian who taught for many years at the Yale Divinity School. He is probably most remembered for his much admired volumes surveying world Christianity. Allen & Unwin hardcover books
1928ref. 67792London: George Allen & Unwin 1928. First edition in English 8vo pp. 5 8-180; 92 illustrations on 52 plates plus illustrations in the text; near fine copy in original blue cloth gilt-stamped spine. "Popular account of the German Turfan expeditions in the years 1904-05 and 1905-07. The first expedition was carried out by A. Grünwedel in the years 1902-03" Yakushi. Yakushi L127b. George Allen & Unwin unknown books
ref. 63023Saint Paul: Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press 2023. Edition limited to 31 copies signed by Gallo press numbered 1-26 and 5 lettered A-E; 8vo pp. 34; frontispiece printed in silver "from Bric-A-Brac J Swift and first appearance of Hermetic Press imprint :: 1966" the whole printed in red blue green and black in roman and cyrillic type on Johannot with extracts from Montaigne William Massey John Ruskin Laurence Sterne Ralph Ellison and Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Lewis Carroll's Alice Adventures in Wonderland; stiff card wrappers with black dust jacket stamped in silver in a plexiglas slipcase. An overtly political book on the "limitations if not the failings of Cancel Culture. Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press unknown books
ref. 55800Minneapolis: Hermetic Press 1975. Edition limited to 25 copies signed by Gallo; folding brown printed box with the colophon incorporated into the back panel loose in this copy the box containing 11 printed leaves 8 of them with color initials plus another leaf with the red herring wood engraving by Dean Lindblad. The six-color tint blocks for the head of the red herring sheet 3 and the initial "I" sheet 11 were done by overprinting translucent Day-Glo inks by silk screen. An early Minneapolis production by Phil Gallo at the Hermetic Press. This is was Phil's personal copy and he has no more. Hermetic Press unknown books
ref. 55799Minneapolis & Saint Paul: Hermetic Press 2016. The complete series in 3 volumes edition limited to 30 copies 8vo pp. 18; 18; 56; illustrated throughout; original cream printed wrappers. Fine. On Typographica Broodthaers excerpta: "This book started out as an installation but devolved into conceptual art and lay dormant until now. But my first idea was to set it in a kind of poison pen letter fashion and as I had a complete run of Eurostile Extended-which I felt quite suited to it-I went ahead and printed it on a half sheet of Strathmore. It was not long before I decided that the copy was irrelevant-that the idea was simply an idea-or more to the point-joke-that the piece did not need to be produced and that a written description would suffice: The idea of the thing being better than the thing itself. I still have the press and the type still standing after 25 years and for the book I reprinted the form photographed the original drawing and sheet of Strathmore; along with the press and the type piled up and into it." On Word Bags: "Graffiti on a bank building. A suite of seven cibachromes showing individually the letters of the word PROTEST. Building maintenance went over the letters with lacquer thinner and then covered the entire word in clear plastic to protect passers-by. The red spray paint spread and ran down the side of the building imparting a blood & tear-like aspect to the letterforms under the billowing shroud of plastic. Hence body bag viz. word bags." On Palabra Found poems in lowercase Peignot - by way of its modified ascenders and dotted i - if handled as a unicameral may be seen as a democratization of type; or as a kind of gentrified graffiti. Hermetic Press unknown books
1985ref. 53979Minneapolis: Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press 1985. Broadside invitation approx. 6¼" x 8¾" printed in red and black. Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press] unknown books
1978ref. 54040St. Paul: Truck Press 1978. Edition limited to 70 copies printed and bound by hand at the Hermetic Press in Minneapolis by Philip Gallo; 32 leaves printed on rectos only in a multitude of colors; original quarter black niger over red cloth-covered boards. The dedication reads: "For Frederic W. Goudy whose Types these are." A collection of initial letters from the three named typefaces beginning with W X Y Z and then A B C up to V. Only the G is uncolored. Truck Press unknown books
2006ref. 52116Minneapolis: Phil Gallo at the Hermetic Press 2006. A Phil Gallo sampler: 15 letterpress invitations greeting cards and announcements 16mo to 8vo; plus Advice to Bibliophiles by Umberto Saba N.Y.: Barnes & Noble 2000 pp. 3-17 1 original black paper wrappers lettered in silver. All fine. Phil Gallo at the Hermetic Press] unknown books
