San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute, 2014. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 120pp. Color reproductions throughout. As New. More
Spokane: Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, 1974. B/w Illustrations. First Edition. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A very good copy with light creasing to one corner of cover; faint staining to rear wrap. Catalogue to the exhibition at the Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, December 13, 1973 to January 13, 1974. Scarce. More
New York: Art Handicraft Association; Permanent Exposition of Danish Art Handicraft and Industrial Art, 1939. B/w Illustrations. First Edition. Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Exceptionally rare catalog of the exhibition of modern Danish industrial art (furniture, textiles, ceramics & porcelain, silver, etc.) at the New York World's... More
NP: NP, 1960. Howard, Bob (photographer); 20 b/w Photographs (including Upper wrapper). First Edition. Hardcover. Tall 4to. [20] pages (including covers). Otherwise uncredited and undated "portfolio" of sculptural works, viewed in both assembled and disassembled states. Includes 2 extra b/w photographs of Bennett's sculptures, printed on similar heavy stock cardboard... More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963. 8 b/w photos; 15 text figs. First Edition. Full Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG in lthr (some sunning/rubbing to covers). 8vo xviii+253+plts Historical and technical overview, written by the former president of the National Pap er Trade Association. Bound in full... More
Sarawak Literary Society, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 234 pages, color photos throughout, drawings, bibliography, glossary of local and technical terms, index, illustrated card cover. Very light warping to top corners. Interior is clean and spine is tight. More
London, England: H.G. Bohn, 1857. Hand-colored Plates. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A fair+ copy in cloth (covers/few leaves detached; spine wear). 12mo 504+plts Auction catalogue (4,294 lots in all), plus engraved list of marks/monograms. Notable for the hand colored plates. Series: Bohn's Illustrated Library..... More
Geneva/Paris: Editions des Trois Collines, 1946. 1 Color plate & 56 Sepia Illustrations. First Edition. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Artist Jan Stussy's copy with a somewhat abstracted reddish watercolor sketch of a plant of tree in a pot on inner jacket flap, signed two pages later... More
Los Angeles: Southern California Institute of Architecture / SCI ARC / Public Access Press, 1994. Tipped-in Original Photographs By Gertrude Cohen. First Edition. Cloth-backed Stiff Covers. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 8.5 x 11" 16pp. An exceptionally scarce artist's book (exploring the nature of "home") featuring 9 hand-mounted... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Clean, tight copy in Very Good condition. Some minor shelf wear to edges of DJ, previous owner's signature in ink on top corner of front free end piece, otherwise unmarked. More
Italy: Treves-Treccani-Tumminelli Editori, 1932. Color, b/w Illustrations. First Edition. Hard Cover. Folio - between 12" - 15" Tall. The rare complete first year of this impressive Italian theatrical review (also including dance, music, etc.). Profusely illustrated. The inaugural number was issued in February, so Volume I is complete with 11... More
New York: Abrams, 1973. 65 color & 161 b/w illus. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12" - 15" Tall (oblong). Solid copy in jacket of one of the more celebrated art monographs of the Postwar era. (slight fading to extremities of binding; text edges a trifle browned; rear panel... More
Washington, DC: Published by the Author, 1938. 80 Color & b/w Illustrations / Plates (including Folding Plate at rear). First Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. xiv, 275, [2] pages + plates. Excellent pictorial as well as historical survey of the subject; notable particularly for the reproductions... More
Lausanne: Clairefontaine, 1964. Color & b/w Illustrations. First Edition. Hard Cover. Folio - between 12" - 15" Tall. INCLUDES AN ORIGINAL DRAWING. With a superb original, full page, ink drawing of male & female nudes. Inscribed to Yetive Moss, March, 1965. Includes numerous tipped-in color plates. See Freitag #2723 for... More
London: Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, 1879. b/w Illustrations By John Flaxman. First Edition. Boxed Set. Folio - over 12" - 15" Tall (oblong). A nice matched set of Flaxman's three classic works: Aeschylus in four parts; Homer in one; and Hesiod in two (seven parts in all). All housed in... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. 110 b/w photographs; b/w Decorative Borders. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Wear to spine and covers (cloth; chiefly to head and foot of spine, edges and other extremities); sunning, rubbing, browning and fading to spine and covers (chiefly to... More
NP: Frank Kelly Freas, 1971. B/w Illustrations. First Edition. Spiral-bound Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Presentation copy, signed with two drawings by Freas. This is copy #132 of 500, signed and numbered with limiotation statement in Freas' own hand inside front cover. Just beneath, there is a.... More
Paris: Editions Des Quatre Chemins, 1924. Color, b/w Illustrations. First Edition. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. This rare two volume work is a tribute to the creative collaborations that came together to form Serge Diaghilev's celebrated Ballet Russes production of "Les Facheux" with costumes by Braque. The... More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1895. B/w Illustrations. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Exceptional copy in original dark red cloth stamped in gilt and blind, patterned endpapers (slightest hints of wear to cloth; tiny flaw to endpaper). A truly remarkable copy of the scarce 1895... More
Tokyo, Japan: G. I. P., 1991. Gottlieb, Willam P. (photographer); Leloir, Jean-Pierre (photographer); Over 115 b/w Photographs (chiefly portraits). First Edition. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. EXCEPTIONALLY RARE photographic work of jazz portraits by two prominent photographers of the scene. Good copy of the paperback first edition... More
NP: Rigby Graham, 1990. Original Artwork. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. These seven Rigby Graham blocks were part of an intended book on Leicestershire Quarries that the artist seems to have begun about 1981, and later for some unknown reason abandoned after taking the work all the way... More
New York: E. & H.T. Anthony & Co, 1890. B/w Illustrations. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xix + 489pp.; 156pp. ads at the back, and 21 leaves of plates. Original green cloth stamped in gilt, Front cover elaborately decorated in gilt with photographic motifs. One... More
London: Kasmin Limited, 1965. First Edition. Single Sheet. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Single folded and glued card sheet with die-cut frame to upper panel revealing b/w plate behind. Documentation. Includes magazine clippings with 4 color illustrations from Hockney's paintings, including a still life ("More Realistic Still Life"). Hockney... More
London: R. Scholey, 1810. 2 Engraved Plates. First Edition Thus. Leather Binding. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xxiii + 154pp., with two engraved plates. Binding and text block shaken, and boards detatched, spine is gone; interior foxing throughout affecting the plates. Engraved armorial bookplate of Sherwin on dfront... More
