Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1949. 23.5x16.5cm: viii, 104pp. Black wrappers with three decorative title panels. Lettering in black and red. Wrappers worn along edges, corners, and spine. Corners creased. Internally clean with the occasional spot of soiling. Very...
New York City: The Friends of Central Park, May 17, 1968. Original The Friends of Central Park envelope with an illustration of a penny-farthing bicycle addressed to Judith De Maria Hearn. Contains 8 pieces of ephemera, including two beautiful maps...
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Block measures 15x10x2cm. Partially finished design for a family bookplate. Ex Libris along top of block and THE SCHREIS along bottom of block, all in reverse. Sailing ship on water carved to center of block. Ship carving is mostly complete...
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London: The Folio Society, 2011. 28x22.5cm: lxxxvii, 1546pp. + 8pp., in Three Volumes. Limited Facsimile Edition of which 1,000 were printed, this being No. 600. Illustrated throughout in black and white by Walter Crane. Beautifully bound in cream-colored full Nigerian...
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London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1887. 19x13cm: [xii], 96, [4]pp. First Edition, Second Issue [First Published], after the very rare private issue. Publisher’s bright red cloth-covered boards with gilt titling to front and spine, accompanied with the publisher-issued...
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1952, [c. 1980s reprint]. 21x14cm: 184pp. Junior Deluxe Editions. Illustrated by Garth Williams. Tan paper boards with red lettering stamped to spine. Front cover features a red stamped illustration of Fern feeding Wilbur...
New York: Totem Press in association with Corinth Books, 1960. 20.2x14cm: unpaginated [18pp.]. First Edition, First Printing. White card wrappers, staplebound, with design by Jesse Sorrentino printed in purple to front cover and 95¢ price to rear. Trivial wear to...
Moscow: Soviet Artist Publishing House, 1963. 29x29cm: 144pp. First Edition. Text in Russian, profusely illustrated. Tan cloth-covered boards with illustration stamped in red and black to front. Black lettering along spine. Spotting to cloth, with edges and spine darkened. Cloth...
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. 22x14.5cm: 131pp. Later printing, described as a ‘reissue’ on the dust jacket flap, with price of $2.75. Black cloth boards with gold titling to spine. Black dust jacket with white lettering. A straight...
New York: Skarstedt Gallery, 2015. 17.7x17.7cm. Set of two announcement cards for an exhibition of work by Keith Haring at the Skarstedt Gallery in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. The announcement is printed on both sides on what...
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Boston: Beacon Press, 1995. 23.5x16cm: 272pp. First Edition, First Printing. Introduction by August Wilson, and featuring contributions by prominent African American writers such as Amiri Baraka, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Derrick Bell, and Walter Mosley, among many others. Black paper-covered...
New York: Dix, Edwards & Co., 1857. 18.5x13cm: 214pp. Bound in three-quarter brown leather over marbled boards. Gilt decorations and titling to spine with four raised bands. Wear along spine joints and edges with some exposure to boards. Rear hinge...
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1966. 30.5x18.5cm: xxxiv, [2]-215pp. Full red linen with an emblem of two eagles stamped in gilt on front cover. Decorative titling on spine in black and gilt. Mustard yellow endpapers. Book retains the original...
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Boston: Alden & Hazen, 1882. 30.5x26cm: iv, 532pp. Publisher’s three-quarter brown morocco over large-grained cloth. Gilt titling and ruling to front cover. Gilt titling to spine in two of the six compartments, with the other four having a stamped decorative...
New York: Bloomsbury, 2004. 24.2x16.8cm: 782, [6]pp. First US Edition. Illustrated by Portia Rosenberg. Signed on half-title page by author. Black paper-covered boards with gilt titling to spine. Red endpapers. Black dust jacket with white tilting to front and spine...
No Place: No Publisher, 1967. 57x44.3cm: Poster, unbacked. Offset printed on textured paper. Signed in plate by the artist. Minor handling wear with corners lightly creased. Toning along edges. Better than Very Good. A scarce and unusual poster...
Athens: ΑΝΑΞΙΜΑΝΔΡΟΣ [Anaximandros Publications], 1954 - 1972. 21.3x15cm: Four Books in Six Volumes (Vol. I: [104pp.], 1-480pp.; Vol. IA: 481-848pp., + 214pp. of notes, tables, and indexes; Vol. II: [30pp.], 1-559pp., + 24pp. of interpretive notes; VIII: [32pp.], 1-608pp.; VIIIA...
Great Lakes, IL: [U.S. Navy], 1945. Two panoramic black-and-white photographs, 49x25.5cm and 46.4x20.3cm. Light handling creases with minor wear to corners, although lower left corner of larger image partially stripped. Faint toning with minor dust soiling. Spotting to verso of...
London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. 21x17cm: 118pp., including 10 illustrations. Flexible paper-covered boards printed in black, with an illustration on front and advertisements on rear. Moderate soiling and rubbing to boards. Spine darkened, with brief exposure along joints. Light...
Germany: undated (c. 1913). 20.8x17cm: unpaginated [326pp. of which 292pp. are used]. Manuscript notebook profusely illustrated with pen and ink drawings, most with color, along with 14 inserted hand drawn illustrations / graphs. Brown marbled paper-covered boards quarter-bound in brown...
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New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1969. 17.5xc10.5m: 324pp. Paperback. First Evergreen Black Cat Edition, First Printing. Black pictorial wrappers with yellow and red titling to front and spine. Black stained text block edges. Minor wear to wrapper corners. Front wrapper...
London: Printed For Lackington, Allen, and Co., et al. 1811. 16x10.5cm: Four Volumes. Vol.1: [i-v], vi-xx, [xxi-xxiv], [1], 2-308pp.; Vol. 2: [i-vi], [1], 2-335pp.; Vol. 3: [i-vi], [1], 2-312pp.; Vol. 4: [i-vi], [1], 2-367, [368]pp. Frontis portrait of Cervantes in...
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San Francisco: Intersection for the Arts, [February 1977]. 35.5x21.5cm: Broadside SIGNED by Jack Hirschman. Printed on thick off-white colored paper with a geometric design illustration in red at the top. A hint of toning along edges. A few smoothed out...
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New York: Riverhead Books, 2015. 23.5x16cm: 323pp. First Edition, First Printing. Blue paper-covered boards quarter-bound with gray paper. Some wear and discoloration along board edges. Spine ends bumped. Dampstaining to lower part of front board which has caused some staining...
