27th Annual 1980 Newport Jazz Festival Program
[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.
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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS. THE STORY OF HOW MANY THOUSANDS OF MEN AND WOMEN HAVE RECOVERED FROM ALCOHOLISM
New York: Works Publishing Inc., 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. The Ninth Printing of the First Edition. The early printings were not large and the books tended to be well used--after all, many copies were not simply read but lived.
AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS
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.....
AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS
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.....
AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS
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.....
AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS
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.....
THE ANNALS OF SPORTING AND FANCY GAZETTE; A MAGAZINE, ENTIRELY APPROPRIATED TO SPORTING SUBJECTS AND FANCY PURSUITS; Containing Every Thing Worthy of Remark on Hunting, Shooting, Coursing, Racing, Fishing, Cocking, Pugilism, Wrestling, Singlestick, Pedestrianism, Cricket, Billiards, Rowing, Sailing, Etc. Etc. Accompanied with Striking Representations of the Various Subjects
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.....
AUBREY SCHWARTZ. A RETROSPECTIVE
(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.
THE AVICULTURAL MAGAZINE, BEING THE JOURNAL OF THE AVICULTURAL SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF FOREIGN AND BRITISH BIRDS IN FREEDOM AND CAPTIVITY
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.....
THE BALLADS OF ROBIN HOOD
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.....
THE BALLADS OF ROBIN HOOD
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.....
THE BEAT GOES. ON 50 ANNI DI CONTROCULTURA
(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.....
BEOWULF
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.....
BEOWULF
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.....
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1985
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.
BHAGAVAD GITA: THE SONG CELESTIAL. From the Mahabharata being a discourse between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being under the form of Krishna
Bombay: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Y. G. Srimati. Hardcover. Large octavo (7" x 10") bound in Indian silk hand-woven in a multicolor lotus-and-mango pattern,154 pages. Ancient collection of Indian animal fables and folklore in the original Sanskrit with an English translation by Edwin Arnold. Copy #192 of 1500 copies illustrated.....
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE FINE BOOKS PUBLISHED BY THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB 1929-1985
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.....
THE BOOK OF BALLADS
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.....
THE BOOK OF PSALMS FROM THE AUTHORIZED KING JAMES VERSION
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Valenti Angelo. Hardcover. Duodecimo (4-1/8" x 6-1/4") bound in full orange morocco leather with gilt lettering on the spine and an elaborate design of King David and his harp blindstamped on both covers. Preface by Mark Van Doren. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. Copy #323.....
CATALOGUE OF THE BOOKS ON BIBLIOGRAPHY, TYPOGRAPHY AND ENGRAVING, IN THE NEW-YORK STATE LIBRARY
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.
THE CHARLEMAGNE TOWER COLLECTION OF AMERICAN COLONIAL LAWS
[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......
COLLECTION OF 10 TASCHEN BOOKS with Erotic Subjects
(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).....
COLLECTION OF 6 VANITY FAIR "SPY" CHROMOLITHOGRAPH CARICATURE PORTRAITS
[London]: Day & Son, Ltd., 1874 - 1900. First Edition. Disbound. A collection of 6 chromolithographed plates (10-1/2" x 15" including margins) of various public figures published as prints by VANITY FAIR with descriptive text either on the verso or on a separate sheet. Included are "The Safe Man," British.....
THE COLLECTION OF THE GARDEN LTD. MAGNIFICENT BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
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.
THE DAGUERREOTYPE: A MAGAZINE OF FOREIGN LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. Volume I, Issues 2 - 12
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.....