[New York]: (1980). First Edition. Softcover. Illustrated program (8-1/2" x 11") with pictorial cover for the Silver Anniversary of the festival held then in New York City and Saratoga. Articles by Nat Hentoff, Ira Gitler, and others. Illustrated with photographs from past festivals as well as an Al Hirschfeld portfolio.....
[New York]: (1980). First Edition. Softcover. Illustrated program (8-1/2" x 11") with pictorial cover for the festival held then in New York City and Saratoga. Articles by Ishmael Reed, Leonard Feather, Stanley Crouch, Gary Giddins, and others. Cover art by Leroy Neiman.
Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Everett Gee Jackson. Hardcover. Nearly square octavo (8-1/4" x 9-1/4") bound in natural wood veneer over boards with an undyed fawnskin leather spine. Selected, edited, and with an introduction by Allan A. MacFarlan. With 37 illustrations by Everett Gee Jackson, 27 of them printed.....
Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Everett Gee Jackson. Hardcover. Nearly square octavo (8-1/4" x 9-1/4") bound in natural wood veneer over boards with an undyed fawnskin leather spine. Selected, edited, and with an introduction by Allan A. MacFarlan. With 37 illustrations by Everett Gee Jackson, 27 of them printed.....
Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Everett Gee Jackson. Hardcover. Nearly square octavo (8-1/4" x 9-1/4") bound in natural wood veneer over boards with an undyed fawnskin leather spine. Selected, edited, and with an introduction by Allan A. MacFarlan. With 37 illustrations by Everett Gee Jackson, 27 of them printed.....
London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1822-1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in 13 octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/2") volumes bound in later polished calf leather with gilt rules and heavily gilt-decorated spines with five raised bands and contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Without the rare.....
(Binghamton, NY): Binghamton University Art Museum, 1997. Aubrey Schwartz. First Edition. Softcover. Stapled wraps, 8-1/2" x 11": 36 pages. Contents consist primarily of black-and-white and color reproductions of the artist's work. Laid in is a four-page brochure for the artist's reception.
London: R. H. Porter; later West, Newman, & Co., 1903 - 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Twelve octavo (5-1/2" x 8-1/2") volumes bound in early 3/4 maroon morocco leather and marbled boards with a gilt bird and lettering on the spines. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white reproductions and 85 color plates of.....
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1977. David Gentleman. Hardcover. Tall octavo (6-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound with a green buckram spine stamped in gold with a design created by David Gentleman who has also drawn a design of foliage printed on the paper covering the boards; 232 pages. Edited with an introduction.....
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1977. David Gentleman. Hardcover. Tall octavo (6-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound with a green buckram spine stamped in gold with a design created by David Gentleman who has also drawn a design of foliage printed on the paper covering the boards; 232 pages. Edited with an introduction.....
(Milan): (Giorgio Mondadori), (1996). First Edition. Softcover. Pictorial wraps, 9-1/2" x 11-1/4", edited by Giorgio Mondadori. Uncommon book about the Beat Generation and its history in film, published for La Biennale di Venezia, 1996, with many illustrations. Covers films from a 1939 Harry Smith production to 1996 and includes work.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Lynd Ward. Hardcover. Tall quarto (8-1/2" x 12") bound in blue linen and a richly decorative patterned paper hand-made by Ingeborg Borjeson in Stockholm. Modern verse translation of this Anglo-Saxon epic by William Ellery Leonard. Text is printed in three colors with color auto-lithographs.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Lynd Ward. Hardcover. Tall quarto (8-1/2" x 12") bound in blue linen and a richly decorative patterned paper hand-made by Ingeborg Borjeson in Stockholm. Modern verse translation of this Anglo-Saxon epic by William Ellery Leonard. Text is printed in three colors with color auto-lithographs.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Uncorrected Proof in orange wraps. Selected from U.S. and Canadian Magazines by Gail Godwin with Shannon Ravenel. SIGNED on the title page by one contributor, Sharon Sheehe Stark, and by Charles Baxter who is not a contributor.
New York: Limited Editions Club, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (9-1/2" by 13-3/4") bound in half Nigerian Oasis Goatskin leather and boards of hand-marbled paper by Faith Harrison, 182 pages. This bibliography contains a paragraph about each book in the series plus a cross-index by titles, authors, artists, designers.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Fritz Kredel. Hardcover. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter blue buckram and decorated boards, 240 pages. A collection of 87 classic ballads from all over the world, but primarily from England and America, selected and edited by MacEdward Leach. Illustrated with 36.....
Albany: Charles Van Benthuysen, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in contemporary 1/2 black morocco leather with morocco tips; 143 pages. Scarce early American catalogue on the subject.
[Philadelphia]: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania [J. B. Lippincott Company], 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Pebbled black cloth. Quarto; 298 pages. Contains a biography of Tower as well as a detailed catalog of American Laws. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Tower on the front endpaper and scarce as such: "To/D. Mc N......
(Köln): Taschen, (1996). First Editions. Softcover. Wraps with pictorial self-dustwrappers; 3-3/16" x 4". Includes the following 10 illustrated (mostly photographs or drawings) books with erotic subject matter, ranging from nudity to explicit action. Includes 1) Elmer Batters -THE CARUSKA SITTINGS. 2) Elmer Batters - ELMER BATTERS. 3) EROTICA UNIVERSALIS. 4).....
Vienna: Helm, [1868]. First Edition. Photograph. Six 8-1/8" x 5-1/2" albumen photographs on 12-3/4" x 9-3/4" mounts of various towns in Austria and Germany: Spitz, Persenbeug, Strudel, Passau, Weiteneck, and Grein, all from DONAU-ALBUM by Helm of scenes along the Danube. The complete album contained anywhere between 20 and 35.....
New York: Sotheby's, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Includes 308 lots, every item with color or B&W photographic illustrations, many full-page. List of sale results is loosely inserted. A magnificent collection that brought magnificent prices.
Akron, OH: The Saalfield Pub. Co., 1942. Softcover. Stiff pictorial wraps; 12 pages including covers, all in color. Stand-up punch-outs of cowboys and wranglers.
Boston: J. M. Whittemore, (1847). First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's brown blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. For some reason, the first issue is not included, which seems to be rather common with this publication. Despite the title, this has nothing to do with photography.....
New York. First Edition. Hardcover. Original cloth.
London: J. Dodsley, 1779. Second Edition. Hardcover. Bound in contemporary calf-backed boards. Though not a First Edition, still an early eighteenth-century printing of one of the most desirable volumes of this prestigious series as this year contains two of the most important documents in American history. Where the text states.....
