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Munich: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth, gold spine label printed in red. Near fine. 266 pages. 19.5 x 11.5 cm. Max Brod, Kafka's friend and literary executor was instructed by Kafka to destroy his unpublished work. Fortunately, Brod ignored the request, published the novels and collected works between 1925 and 1935. Brod edited a collection of prose and unpublished stories as "Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer" (The Great Wall of China), including the story of the same name, as he did with "Amerika," and "Das Schloss." All three are now considered to be the Definitive Editions. Text in German. Epilogue by Max Brod and Hans Joachim Schoeps. Owner inscription second free endpaper dated 1934, three leaves of adverts at rear, clean and fresh copy, spine sunned.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1984. Boards. Quarter gray Niger goatskin, and gray striped boards. Fine in fine matching slipcase. Cuevas, Jose Luis. 76 pages. 27 x 21 cm. Illustrated with pen and ink drawings (intaglio techniques and lithographsby) by Jose Luis Cuevas. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 1500, signed by Cuevas, bound at the Gray Parrot bindery. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir; introduction by Robert Coles. LEC Newsletter laid-in. NEWMAN & WICHE 7529. As new copy.

Munich: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1924. First editions. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth spine, Art Deco decorated cloth with blue spine label printed in gilt. Fine. 189, 69, 86 pages respectively. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. The first two works published in a Limited edition, one of 1000 copies. Only a few of Kafka's works were published during his lifetime: Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor) is one, He prepared Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist) for print, but it was not published until after his death, thanks to Max Brod, Kafka's friend and literary executor who ignored Kafka's request to destroy his unpublished work. Text in German. Bright, clean and very fresh copy.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth lettered in gilt. Fine. 219 pages. 23.5 x 18.5 cm. Twenty-seven black and white illustrations. Introduction by Leon Deshairs. Art deco and traditional designs with roots in the turn of the century designs of Galle, Grasset, Plumet and Gaillard.

New York: Praeger, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Very good. 111 pages. 20 x 22 cm. 80 plates, some in color. Owner stamps. Bibliography.

Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter blue cloth and illustrated boards. Fine. 320 pages. 27 x 21.5 cm. 76 color plates by Kahlo with descriptive text, and a multitude of additional black and white and color plates. Selected Bibliography. Lenders to the Exhibition and Index.

Karachi: Elite Publishers, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Near fine in fine dust wrapper in publisher's shipping case. 151 pages. 29 x 22 cm. 262 illustrations, 145 in color. The author a renown scholar, Director of Archaeology, Government of Pakistan casts a new interpretation of the origin and development of the Gandahara art deviating completely from the traditional point of view. A fresh, bright copy, front cover gilt lettering faded.

Paris: Gallimard, 1946. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. printed wrappers. Fine in fine original glassine overwrapper. Gris, Juan. 334 pages. 23.5 x 185 cm. Limited edition, one of 550.copies. Forty eight numbered plates, some with more than one illustration, plus unnumbered text illustrations. Bibliography. Chronological Table. General Index. Text in French. Bibliographical record for the English translation: FREITAG 3956. LUCAS p.152. RIGGS p.326. Remarkably fresh, bright copy.

New York: Crown, 1966. 1st English edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige linen cloth. Near fine in publisher's slipcase. Schiele, Egon. 561 pages. 29 x 23 cm. First edition published 1930, Vienna. 245 plates in color and black and white with the former tipped-in, plus a host of black and white illustrations in the text. Text in English and German. Backstrip slightly darkened, interior contents clean and fresh. LUCAS p.190.

Tokyo: Togo Gensui Publishing Society, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's gray patterned cloth decorated in gilt. Teg. Very good. 347 pages. 30.2 x 23 cm. Illustrated with 22 color plates with tissue guards and black and white illustrations. A tribute in the laudatory style of contemporary Japanese imperial culture; the encomiums for Togo who died in 1934 never cease. His exploits in the Russo-Japanese war won him national renown, some modest extremity rubbing, solid binding, internally clean.

Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth with color photographic inset front cover. Fine. Unpaginated. 27.5 x 34.5 cm. Forty-eight color photographs of devastation in the USSR -- images of Kurchatov, Moscow 10 (a secret military base), The Aral Sea. Biography. English texts by Will Self and Nadav Kandar.

Paris: Maeght, 1969. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. Kandinsky, Wassily. 18 [8] pages. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. With 5 original lithographs after Kandinsky, including the back and front covers and 2 double-page lithographs; plus 3 other color repoductions. Text in French by Gaeton Picon. Fresh, crisp copy.

Paris: Maeght, 1951. Second edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. Kandinsky, Wassily. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. Comprising six woodcuts, three printed in colours, with title-page, text and justification, on wove paper, the full sheets loose as published in the original color lithographed covers. Text in French, translated by Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia. Fresh, clean copy.

Paris: Miauhaus Publication, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth front cover lettered in blind. Fine. Approx. 75 pages. 30 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 338 of 1000 singed by Kantor. 10 color illustrations by various artists including Edward Ruscha. As new copy.

New York: Donna Karan, 2000. First edition. Cloth. Orig. crimson cloth, front cover lettered in blind. Fine. One page seductive note by Donna Karan. 32 x 25 cm. Twenty-seven full page color photographs. Handsome, over the top fashion show without the walkway, and scarce. Lovely copy.

Toronto: Thomas Allen Ltd, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Karsh, Yousef. 165 pages. Black and white and colorphotographs by Karsh with text by John Fisher. Photographs were taken in every Canadian Province.

New York: Abrams, 1988. First edition. Cloth. Orig. decorated white cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 127 pages. 28 x 22 cm. 45 plates in full coor, 54 duotone photographs. Introduction by Roger Tory Peterson, with commentaries by Miriam T. Gross.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1926. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth with beveled edges, spine a hint faded. Near fine. Kauffer, E. McKnight. 123 pages. 30.5 x 20.5 cm. Illustrated with pochior plates by E. McKnight Kauffer. Limited edition, copy 126 of 1650. This edition reproduced from that of the first (1856) edition of 'Piazza Tales'. Printed in the Walbaum type on Van Gelder paper with the pictures hand-coloured through stencils at the Curwen Press. Bookplate.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth spine and dark brown boards with front cover paper label. Near fine. Kauffer, E. McKnight. 190 pages. 31 x 23.5 cm. Voluminously illustrated in black and white and color, most are full-paged, many printed recto only. Kauffer points out "the modern Poster is still in its adolescence," and he also notes with examples, bad painters design bad posters, and good painters have always produced good posters. Bibliography. Index. Interior contents clean.

London: S. Watts, 1793. Stiff Wraps. Good. Kauffman, Angelica. Sepia stipple engraved mounted on board. 27.5 x 20 cm. Margins 5 x 4 cm. Sir Joshua Reynolds was one of her staunchest allies. As a woman and history painter, an unusual designation for a woman artist in the 18th century considering history painting was the elite and most lucrative category dominated by men. The genre required extensive learning in biblical and classical literature, a background in which most women were denied access. Engraved by T. Ryder who also maintained and sold prints. Anne Seymor Damer was a sculptor (1748-1828), cousin to Horace Walpole, and encouraged in her craft by David Hume. Right margin stained, bleed through from backing at image center.