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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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 AMERICAN MUSEUM: OR REPOSITORY OF ANCIENT AND MODERN FUGITIVE PIECES, &C PROSE AND POETICAL. VOLUME IV
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1788. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (5" x 8-3/8") bound in contemporary tree calf with a gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine label. Includes the July - December 1788 issues of this, one of the most important miscellaneous magazines of the eighteenth century. The subscriber's list includes George Washington and.....
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.....
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.
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 COMMON PRAYER And Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church
New York: Oxford University Press, (1908). Reprint. Hardcover. Small sextodecimo (3-3/8" x 5-1/2") bound in full green morocco leather by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for E. P. Dutton & Company with a large blindstamped cross on the front cover, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt.
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.....
THE BOOK OF RUTH
New York: Heritage Press, (1947). Arthur Szyk. Hardcover. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") in pictorial cloth. Illustrated with 8 full-page color plates by Arthur Szyk.
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.
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).....
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.....
DAGUERROETYPE MAGAZINE. Volume I, #2-12. 1847
New York. First Edition. Hardcover. Original cloth.
THE DAILY OGDEN JUNCTION
Ogden: Aug. 21, 1879. Engraved ads. 4 pages. News includes an Indian attack on a Washington ranch and a barbarous attack by Ogden boys on a robin's nest, "the kind of material of which robbers and assassins are made." Wonderful & early piece of Western Americana.
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE & THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION as published in THE ANNUAL REGISTER ... FOR THE YEAR 1776
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.....