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Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth and boards. Fine in cracked, good slipcase. 2 vols. More than 400 illustrations. Foreword by Perry T. Rathbone. Introduction by Henry T. Rossiter. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER L79. "Contains useful information for the study of 19th century American draughtsmen and watercolorists. Both volumes contain appendixes listing known artists represented, known sitters, places represented, and subjectsre presented. KARPEL I106. "These two handsome, faultlessly researched volumes complete the cataloguing of the three impressive Karolik collections....corresponds roughly in time period to the paintings catalog, but while including many of the same artists is even more diverse and comprehensive. Of the 3000 items in the collection, 1465 are represented in the catalog at hand.

Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Green buckram, red leather spine label printed in gilt. 4 Nos., bound in one. Very good. Respectively, as per above titles: 81 (2) pages, 17 pages, 100 pages, 170 pages. A plethora of black and white plates most with multiple images, illustrations in the text, maps and two color lithographs. With Index of Vol. I, 1899-1903 containing a List of Plates, Illustrations in the Text, and Alphabetical Index. Original wrappers bound-in. Clean and fresh internally, bookplate and label front paste-down only ex-library marking, modest extremity rubbing.

Paris: Aux Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated stiff boards. Very good. Legrand, Edy. Unpaginated -- approx. 28 leaves -- each leaf illustrated. 34 x 33 cm. Born Edward Louis Warschawsky Leon, this his first book completed when he was eighteen years old, and the first children's book for the publisher NRF, with pochoir illustrations colored by hand by Jean Saude, and this work considered a milestone in the history of children's book illustration -- the vibrant art deco plates enchanting, and in today's terms, probably considered more an avanat-garde brake-through in the book arts. Calligraphic text. Text block reinforced with tengu-jo tissue, resewn on tapes backed with nishi-kaji paper, few small tears in text mended with paste tengu-jo, interior contents overall bright and fresh, extremity rubbing, lower front cover corners worn.

Paris: Aux Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated stiff boards. Very good. Legrand, Edy. Unpaginated -- approx. 28 leaves -- each leaf illustrated. 34 x 33 cm. Born Edward Louis Warschawsky Leon, this his first book completed when he was eighteen years old, and the first children's book for the publisher NRF, with pochoir illustrations colored by hand by Jean Saude, and this work considered a milestone in the history of children's book illustration -- the vibrant art deco plates enchanting, and in today's terms, probably considered more an avanat-garde brake-through in the book arts. Calligraphic text. Text block reinforced with tengu-jo tissue, resewn on tapes backed with nishi-kaji paper, few small tears in text mended with paste tengu-jo, interior contents overall bright, covers darkened, corners worn.

London: Charles Harper & John Amery, 1674. The Second Edition much corrected & amended. leather_bound. Contemporary dark brown calf. Very good. (24) 686 pages (2). Engraved frontispiece. English translation by Edward Dacres. First published in 1640, this new edition, a readable and vigorous translation with a lively introduction, adumbrating the concept of "Machiavellian," a perceptive treatise on political leadership via criminal conduct. The final content leaf, "The Table of the Chapters of the Prince." Two owner inscriptions of William de Grey dated December 13, 1673 and August 17, 1677. Interior contents very clean and fresh in solid, tight binding. Raised bands, spine panels decorated in blind, all edges marbled. cover edges decorated in gilt.

Orig. drawings and printed mater in fine condition. Original drawings and related ephemera of Bob Clarke, a mainstay illustrator at Mad Magazine who had the most cartoon-like style through the late 1950's and early 1960's, and also designed the label of Cutty Sark scotch. Clarke arrived after the original editor Harvey Kurtzman left MAD. Included here are eight images (some original drawings), and a seven page signed contract between Tom Koch and Robert Clarke with the Swedish Bonnier Magazine group to publish a paperback edition of the "Mad Worry Book" in Swedish.Signed by William M. Gaines and Ebbe Zetterstand for their respective magazines, and dated September 15, 1980. Print material include sheets of Clarke's stationary and business cards, a mechanical for the The Mad Worry Book, and a printer's proof for "The Mad Worry Book." Original drawings: (1) Man with a fish, approx. 35 x 21 cm. (2) Bluegrass Iggy, 24 x 16 cm. (3) Gloria in Excelsis Deo, 38 x 15.5 cm. (4) Drawing in pencil of a pelican,… Read More

London & New York: Frederick Warne And Co. Ltd, 1976. Hardcover. Orig. beige boards, paper color inset front cover. Fine in fine dust wrapper replicating front cover design. In fine velvet lined half navy calf folding box with matching blue cloth, again replicating in gilt the original front cover illustration. Box bound by Asprey, raised bands, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt. 35 pages. 14.5 x 11 cm. Translated from the English by Patrice Charvet Et Annie Thiriout. Colour frontispiece decorated endpapers, and 14 color plates. As new copy.

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated black boards with clean, intact paper spine label. Fine in slightly nicked dust wrapper.. Unpaginated. 21 x 15 cm. Ward's second woodcut novel, a tale told in 120 woodcuts. Bright, fresh copy with $3.00 price inside front cover of dust wrapper, and critical reviews of the book inside back cover.

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated black boards with illustrated spine paper label. Near fine. Unpaginated. 21 x 15 cm. Bright, crisp copy, Ward's second woodcut novel of a total of six. The 118 wood engraved images portray a slave trader who steals a demon-faced drum from an African he murders, and the consequences that evolve for him and his family.

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1997. First edition thus. Hardcover. Orig. tan lettered cloth. Fine. Dine, Jim. 67 pages. 32 x 22.5 cm. With an introduction by Arthur C. Danto and a photogravure by Jim Dine. Limited edition, copy 111 of 125 signed by Jim Dine. Laid-in, an accordion fold announcement of the book by Arion Press explicating the genesis of the tale. James had not yet published a novel, this story appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in the spring of 1873.

Chicago: Richard Gray Gallery, 1990. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. 32 pages. 26.5 x 21.5 cm. Forward by Barbara Rose. Essay by Mary Jane Jacob. Illustrated in sepia and black and white.

Avon, Connecticut: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Hardcover. Quarter black goatskin and decorated gray cloth boards. Fine in fine black slipcase. Sigmund Abeles. 124 pages. 27 x 19.5 cm. With an original signed copper etching by Sigmund Abeles laid-in, "A Portrait of Maggie," which appears in the book as the frontispiece. Introduction by Shirley Ann Grau, printed at the Press of A. Colish. Limited edition copy 1267 of 2000 signed by Abeles, containing etchings reproduced by gravure (a type of intaglio printing ) but with no dots as in offset lithography. Laid-in the LEC 8 page letter and original Abeles etching. NEWMAN & WICHE 479.

London: William Heinemann, 1896. First English edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Teg. Very good. 148 pages. 16.5 x 11 cm. Crane self published the first edition in 1893. To his great dismay it sold so poorly, he was forced to give copies away. Today, he is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. His writing in the realist tradition presents early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism, to end unceremoniously in an early death at the age twenty nine. This English edition carries the sterling reviews of his successful "The Red Badge of Courage," as a frontispiece. Interior contents clean and fresh, front cover decorated and letter in gilt, spine faded.

West Branch: Cummington Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth. Near fine in near fine handmade paper dust wrapper.. Burford, Bryan. 119 pages. 21 x 17.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 100 of 300 printed on Rives paper, the illustrations by Bryan Burford, through silk screens by the artist; text Cloister Old Style and Joanna Italic types.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1984. Hardcover. Quarter Nigerian blue goatskin and beige Irish linen. Fine in matching gray slipcase. Larry Rivers. 236 pages. 31 x 23.5 cm. Translated by Elaine Gottlieb and Joseph Singer with a prefatory note by the author. Illustrated with three full page lithographs by Rivers printed on paper from Cartiere Enrico Magnani. Designed by Ben Shiff, printed by the Anthoensen Press, bound by Gray Parrot. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 1500, signed by Rivers and Singer. Laid-in the LEC Monthly Letter. NEWMAN & WICHE 538. Bright, very fresh copy.

Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. Magritte, Rene. 208 pages. 25 x 19 cm. 216 illustrations, twenty-one in color. Index. FREITAG 5873.

New York: Little, Brown & Co, 1965. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. lime green cloth, spine head and foot slightly toned. Very good in very good dust wrapper housed in clear plastic over wrapper. 582 pages. 24 x 16 cm. The first novel written (but second published) by British author John Fowles which is centered on a small Greek Island.

London: Hyperion, 1939. First edition. Orig. beige cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. Maillol, Aristide. 167 pages. 31 x 24 cm, more than 130 plates, a handful in color, plus illustrations int the text. Bibliography. FREITAG 5906.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 259 pages. 26.5 x 22 cm. 252 black and white illustrations and 17 in color. A definitive history of of the twentieth century roadside marketplace with rare archival images.

Camden: Colby Museum ofArt, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 362 pages. 28 x 22 cm. Foreword by James M. Carpenter and Hugh J. Gourley III. 132 figures. Notes. Glossary. Selected Bibliography. Index. Published under the auspices of The Colby Museum of Art. Throughout the book the authors are careful to call attention to climatic, historical and social features that are distinctive to Maine, and that underlie a regional approach to architectural history.