New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1984. Limited Edition. Leatherbound. 1/2 dark grey leather, grey cloth over boards, 412pp, slipcase. Limited to 1000 copies, signed by the author on first free endpaper. Special 10th anniversary edition with a new introduction by the author. A summer motorcycle odyssey for a......
New York: Golden Press, 1957. Illustrations by Adrienne Segur. First Edition. Hardcover. 10x12", glossy pictorial paper over boards, 156pp, 12 full color single-page plates, 2 full color double-page spreads, 16 full page illustrations in black on pink background, 12 half-page illustrations in black on pink background, decorative initials, black and.....
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, (1995). First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto, navy blue cloth, xii, 285pp, apps., notes, glossary, index, illus. An authoritative and comprehensive study of Spruance DD 963 class destroyers first introduced in 1975, including coverage of Kidd-class guided-missile destroyers, Ticonderoga-class Aegis cruisers, and never-built variants. Also described are the.....
London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, bright green cloth, 407pp, plum top edge, deckled bottom-edge. First Edition, A series of essays dealing with the development of European literature from the Troubadours to Henry James. Mild foxing to edges, cloth bright, crackling to front endpaper at hinge.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, blue cloth, 230pp. First American Edition, First Printing. First volume in Powell's 12-volume epic "Dance to the Music of Time" chronicling life in twentieth-century England. The novels follow narrator Nicholas Jenkins (Powell himself) and a host of characters, some.....
Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1984. Softcover. Octavo, stiff pictorial wrappers, xiv, 670pp, notes, biblio., index, 34 illus. The life and works of novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (1981-1940). His works were largely suppressed, censored, and unread in Soviet Russia during his lifetime. In her preface, the author acknowledges the challenge.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999. Illustrated by Ted Rand. First Edition. Hardover. Small square quarto, 9-3/8 x 9-3/8", glossy pictorial paper over boards, red endpapers, fully illus. in color. First Edition, Presentation copy, inscribed by author and illustrator and dated in year of publication on the first free.....
Burlington, VT: Lund Humphries, 2007. First Edition. Quarto, orange cloth, 160pp, timeline, postscript, eulogy by Saul Bass, notes, biblio., 109 illustrations. The life and work of Will Burtin who fled Nazi Germany 1938 with his Jewish wife and promptly won a contract to design the WPA exhibit at the 1939.....
Koln: Walther Konig, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio, 10-3/8 x 12-1/2", one-half grey cloth, thick white boards, fully illustrated in brilliant color on high gloss paper. First Edition. From a series of 98 works painted on 12 x 10" panes of glass in 2008. Silkscreens of all 98 of the.....
(San Francisco): Kagyu Droden Kunchab Dharma Center, 1977. Pamphlet. Octavo, 5-1/2 x 8-3/8", gilt decorated white glossy wrappers, 32pp, illus. A Tantric Invocation program. Kalu Rinpoche established Kagyu Droden Kunchab, a Kaguy Dharma Center "For the All-Pervasive Benefit of Beings" in San Francisco in 1974. Pamphlet includes an essay on.....
London: Laurence King Publishing, 2015. Softcover. Quarto, stiff pictorial wrappers, 312pp, index, 340 illustrations. The personal stories and most significant works of 75 world graphic designers, including masters of typographic, magazine, poster and film design. Arranged in chronological order, from the earliest innovators like Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954) to modernists.....
Walnut Creek, California: Fradema Press, (1993). Softcover. Quarto, 9x12", stiff pictorial wrappers with folding flaps, 208pp, biblio., list of artists, fully illus. in color and black and white. The author, herself a watercolorist and art instructor, identifies and describes the design structure of painted works of art: the elements of.....
New York: The Gallery of Modern Art, 1967. Quarto, 8-1/2 x 11", pictorial wrapper, folded and stapled 8pp, fully illustrated with black & white photographs of the brothers in action, interview, filmography. Program compiled by Raymond Rohauer, Film Curator and Program Director, The Gallery of Modern Art, including interviews with.....
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, viii, rebound in 19th century, red cloth, 115pp, index, 19 hand-colored engraved plates. First Edition. The author's hand-colored etchings feature both the natural and artificial fly "to enable him (the Tyro) to imitate the natural fly correctly".....
Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 1/2 burgundy leather, raised bands, pcitorial paper over boards, top-edge gilt, deckled fore and bottom-edges, lix, 354pp, index of authors and titles, index of printers and publishers, list of printers, publishers and booksellers, biblio., erratum, 104 illus. #350 of a......
New York: Abrams, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, black cloth, 192pp, 200 illustrations, 24 in color. Signed by the author on bookplate affixed to verso of first free endpaper.The World of Edward Gorey is the first major book on the American artist, illustrator, writer, and theater designer, perhaps best.....
Tokyo: Shinnipon Calendar Co., 1987. Photographs by Sanford Roth. Softcover. Small square quarto, 8-3/4 x 9-1/2", stiff pictorial wrappers with folding flaps, unpaginated, fully illustrated with photographs on every page. 145 remarkable black & white photographs of James Dean (1931-1955) taken in the year of his death. Limited text in.....
London: Bedford House Gallery, 1975. Softcover. 8x9", stiff white/red wrappers, black & white frontis. portrait of the artist, 7 full-page color plates, one monochrome, of 19 works in the gallery show. Bedford House Gallery exhibition catalogue for a show of the work of painter Marek Zulawski (1908-1985) in October 1975.....
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover in slip-case. Folio, 10 x 12-1/4", light grey/dark grey paper over boards catalogue raisonne entries, concordance, exhibition history, bibliography, index, fully illus., flapless dust wrapper and slip-case. First Edition. Two volume set in slip-case. Volume 1: Prints, Books, Misc.; Volume 2: Essays.....
Brookline, Massachusetts: Concept Publishing Company, 2001. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, light grey cloth, xiv, 252pp, apps., folding Lydian chart laid in. Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept, first described in a self-published pamphlet in 1953, marks a radical expansion of the harmonic language for both composition and analysis, and has contributed to.....
Loveland, Colorado: Interweave Press, 1989. Hardcover. Large octavo, 7-5/8 x 10-1/8", olive green cloth, 248pp, apps., glossary, biblio., index, 14 color photographs, 95 black & white photographs, 70 diagrams and charted designs. A history of hand knitting drawn from literary evidence with a nod to social aspects of the craft.....
Japan: Commitee for the Commemoration of the Inscription, 1996. Softcover. Tall quarto, printed wrapper with flaps over stiff green wrappers, 82pp+ 46pp charts & maps, nearly 50 color photographs, line drawings illustrating design of Gassho style houses. Ogimachi, Shirakawa-mura, Ainokura, Taira-mura, Suganuma, Kamitaira-mura. Inscribed as a World Heritage site in.....
La Grande, Oregon: Otis W. Palmer, n.d. Limited Edition. Folding portfolio. Quarto, 8-7/8 x 11-3/4", stiff printed folding portfolio, 9 loose pages, 4 brilliant prints. Limited to 24 numbered copies, signed by author and artist. This is copy #7. Hand set in Parsons 1819 type by Otis W. Palmer and.....
London: Unit Editions, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 7 x 9-3/4" silver titled grey paper over boards, 207pp, VNIITE biographies, afterword by Paul Scher, copiously illustrated in color and black and white. First Edition. Story of the VNIITE - the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics formed in Soviet.....
(New York): HarperCollins, (1999). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, black paper over boards, xxii, 328pp, appendices, glossary notes, bibliography., index, illus. The author links secret societies, such as the Iluminati and the Freemasons, to the onset of the American Revolution. Fine in dust wrapper and protective mylar.
