Search Results: Titles starting with O from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

London: The Harvill Press, 1954. First edition. Beige cloth, fine in price-clipped, dust jacket, designed by Duncan Grant. Spine of jacket slightly tanned, faint wear to corners, small rub on front, but in very good condition.

1972. Poster on card stock, one of 100 numbered and signed. Pinholes at corners.

New York: Knopf, 1932. First edition, trade issue. Original green cloth with cover and spine labels. Fine, jacket spine very slightly darkened. Variant dust jacket printed in red and blue on yellow paper, price-clipped as always. Crane A19.a.i.

London: Cassell, 1932. First English edition. Original green cloth. Dust jacket printed in red and green on yellow paper, unseen by Crane. Crane A19.a.i.(e).

Dublin: Printed for P. Byrne, J. Moore, A. Greuber, W. Jones and R. White, 1791. Second (i.e. first Dublin) edition. 8vo, xiii, 118 pp. 125 mm x 214 mm. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, lightly rubbed. 118 pages. Half title and free endpaper bound after the dedication page. Ownership inscription of Samuel Lowden, Jr., 1818 on rear flyleaf. The rare Dublin piracy of one of the most obscure Pacific voyages. The Mercury visited Tahiti and Hawaii in the summer of 1789. A very rare account of a mysterious voyage, originally published by the author in a lavish quarto edition. "This voyage has long puzzled Pacific historians, Although the introduction states that the voyage was undertaken by Mr. Cox 'from motives of curiosity, [and that] the fur trade on the North West Coast of America was its ultimate object,' it is now known that the brig Mercury was in fact the Gustaf III, an armed privateer sailing under the Swedish flag and sent by the king of Sweden to attack Russian fur-trade settlements in… Read More

New York: Gould and Newman, 1838. First edition. Stitched, not bound. Mild browning and foxing. Illustrated. 96 pp.

London: Heinemann, 1926. First edition. Beerbohm, Max. Original green cloth, binding dampmarked, otherwise a very good copy. One of 280 signed copies, containing, in a pocket on the rear endpaper, an additional signed print.

Glens Falls, N.Y., 1955. Wrappers, slightly tanned, else fine.

Reprinted, with corrections, from The Sewanee Review, 1952. First edition. An offprint, stapled, fine.

Reprinted, with corrections, from The Sewanee Review, 1952. Offprint, stapled, spot on back.

[Paris: Fontaine, 1947. First edition. Kiesler,Frederick J.. 41 p. illus. 28 cm. Collection "L'Age d'or." Original wrappers, tanning at the edges, but a fine copy. Copy 223 of 750 numbered copies on vélin paper. Designed and illustrated by Frederick Kiesler, the Romanian emigre, whose architectural projects, including the "Endless House" and the "Shrine of the Book", built in Jerusalem to house the Dead Sea Scrolls, and surrealist works became well-known through major one-artist exhibitions in America at the Guggenheim Museum in 1964 and at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1989. "[An] extraordinarily abstruse volume whose idiosyncratic typography and illustrations prefigure later word poetry and the publications of the Fluxus movement," Robert Flynn Johnson, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000, #126.

Paris: [s. n.], 1974. [70] p. ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.; Cover title. Very good.

Génève: Cercle du Bibliophile, 1969. First edition. Original blue leather, gilt, gilt top, slight lean, else fine. 20 cm; 396 pp;.

San Francisco and Fort Worth: Friends of Photography and The Amon Carter Museum, 1990. First edition. Cloth, 88 pages with 26 black and white photos and 28 color photos. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by Christenberry.

Paris: E. Losfeld, 1969. First edition. Fini, Léonor. 247 p. Plain grey cloth, pink dust jacket., very slightly rubbed. 8 illustrations printed on pink paper. Inscribed and signed by the author.

Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1963. First edition. 89 p. 18 cm. Translation of: Happy Days. One of 412 copies on bouffant for the Librairie des Editions de Minuit (second paper).

New York: World House Galleries, 1964. 16 x 24 cm, wrappers, 4 pp.

New York: Knopf, 1948. First edition. Brown cloth, fine in slightly faded dust jacket. Crane A23.a.i.

New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. Second and best edition. Original black cloth, lightly worn; very good. This edition contains twice as many photographs as the first, and the gravure reproductions are much better.

New York: Scribner's, 1952. First edition. 8vo, light blue boards. A fine copy, in first printing dust jacket, with the flaps printed in brown and no mention of the Nobel or Pulitzer prize. Tiny chip from jacket crown, else fine.