München: Stadtisch Galerie, 1959. Folio, pp. 74; illustrated throughout including 18 mounted color plates; original pictorial red wrappers, spiral-bound; last leaf partially detached; light spotting of covers; all else very good. The "Painters of the Bridge" include founding members Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl as..... More
London: Unicorn Press, 1897-98. Original series, volumes 1-5 [all published], small square 4to, illustrated throughout, original printed paper-covered boards; a very good set. Includes sections on art, architecture, music, and literature, with contributions by Laurence Binyon, Laurence Housman, Lucas Cranach, D. G. Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Charles Meryon, and William Nicholson..... More
[Oslo]: Gyldendal Norsk, [1963]. 4to, pp. [8], 78, [2]; text in Norwegian; three color plates and grayscale text illustrations throughout; orange paper wrappers with self-portrait laid on to upper cover; partially unopened; edges sunned, text clean and sound, very good. From the Kunst og Kultures Series. More
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1963. 8vo, pp. [10], 94; 205 illustrations; printed gray paper wrappers; wrappers lightly sunned and bumped, text clean, very good. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. More
v.p., v.d. [mostly 1990s]. Large quarto clamshell box containing approx. 60 items, including California Flora, Book Club of California, 1995 with 12 wood engravings by DePol; eight 8½" x 11" wood engravings by DePol, all but one numbered, signed and titled by him; two 9" x 5¾" wood engravings, each..... More
[Chicago]: The Society of Typographic Arts, 1948. Facsimile of a two-page quarto resolution, blue paper covers, text in blue, gold and black; near fine with a laid-in sheet describing the circumstances of the resolution. The original was composed by R. Hunter Middleton and Pierce Butler, and given calligraphic form by..... More
Cambridge and London: MIT Press, [2016]. First edition, thick 8vo, pp. 351, [1]; color illustrations throughout, movable element in the form of a string as part of a double-page illustration; black boards, fine. "Experience convenes a conversation with artists, musicians, philosophers, anthropologists, historians, and neuroscientists, each of whom explores aspects..... More
New York: Pitman Publishing, 1951. First edition, 8vo, pp. [xiv], 140, [50], 1-52, [2]; frontis.; heavily illus.; fine in jacket. Includes articles by Beatrice Ward, Harry Cater, and others. More
New York: Pelligrini and Cudahy, 1953. First edition, 4to, pp. [16], 140, [57], 1-52, [2]; frontis., heavily illus. throughout in many forms; jacket, some chipping at head and tail of spine; else near fine and remarkably bright. Published in the year of Elizabeth II's coronation, this edition contains "The House..... More
London: Lund Humphries, 1956. First edition, 4to, pp. [16], 154, [77], 54, [2]; frontis.; many illus. throughout featuring a variety of reproductions; jacket, only slightly worn, some brown spotting on half-title, bookplate pasted to front paste-down, library pocket pasted to rear paste-down; very good or better. This golden anniversary volume..... More
New York: Hastings House, 1955. First edition, 8vo, pp. [16], 131, [81], 1-58, [2]; frontis.; heavily illus. throughout; original gray cloth, spine faded; else near fine. This volume contains "Buring Engraving on Metal and Wood," by John Buckland-Wright and "Monotype Spectrum," by Will Carter. More
New York: Hastings House, 1957. First edition, 4to, pp. [24], 164, [76], 1-54, [2]; frontis.; extensively illus. throughout incl. photographs, photogravures, and other reproduction examples; jacket, slightly nicked and worn; else very good or better. This volume contains "The Influence of Reproductive Techniques on Book Illustration," by David Bland and..... More
n.p. 1994. An octavo hand-made portfolio (likely by DePol) with a title on the front in pencil (as above) by DePol, containing a set of 8 proofs (of 10 which appeared in Heyen's book With Me Far Away: A Memoir, each one signed, numbered, and dated by DePol. More
Woodside, California: Sven H. A. Bruntjen Fine Arts, 1981. Slim 8vo, pp. 18; 50 black & white facsimile illustrations of drawings; about fine in original grey printed wrappers. More
London: Percy Lund, Humphries, & Co., 1916. First edition, 4to, pp. i-iii, 112, [69], 1-43, [1]; frontis.; heavily illustrated; original brown cloth, gilt stamped cover and spine, joints cracked and spine beginning to separate, corners bumped, some soiling, rubbed and worn; else good. Contains "India Paper Prints," by Harry Gow..... More
London: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., 1913-14. First edition, large 8vo, pp. iii, [6], i-xiv, 224, [4], 1-48, [6], 1-79, [1], iv-vi; frontis.; many types of illus.; original brown cloth, hinges very slightly cracked; else near fine. This edition contains articles by A. E. Astington and Major-General J. Waterhouse discussing..... More
Paris: edition Nilsson, [ca. 1922-1923]. Folio, in ten parts, pp. 80; 120 stencilled colored plates; ex-library copy in original blue cloth covered portfolio with ties, worn and scuffed, the hinges cracking and frayed; most individual part folders with spines torn, chipping and tearing at fore edge margins of plates, only..... More
[Cambridge, MA]: Harvard University Press, 1949. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 128, 40 plates; bottom corners bumped, without dust jacket, else fine in two-toned black & gray cloth, gilt-lettered spine. A collection of illustrated essays on Function, Form, Style, and Prospect by Dwiggins, Rollins, Paul Rand, Lynd Ward, and Merle..... More
Tokyo: Sunrise, Movik, 2000. First edition, 4to, pp. 159, [1]; text in Japanese; color illustrations throughout; printed paper wrappers; fine in fine dust jacket. An annotated bibliography of Gundam publications over two decades, with a color image of the cover of each entry. More
Edinburgh: Hay, Gall [et al.], 1821. Second edition, 8vo, pp. 118; engraved frontis and title-p., 7 engraved plates (1 folding); orig. morocco-backed printed paper-covered boards, boards very soiled, front cover loose, text and plates slightly browned; ex-MHS. More
Kyoto Orimono Co. Ltd., n.d., early 1900s. Woven textile illustration of two people navigating the Hozu Rapids, a popular destination near Kyoto, Japan. Approx 13.5" x 17"; grayscale, a novel piece of advertising for the Kyoto Orimono Co., a local textile company; fine. More
London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1972. First edition, large 8vo, pp. 59, [56]; exhibition catalog illustrated with 49 full color plates; green cloth boards with gilt lettering in front and spine; some discoloration to edges of dust jacket, otherwise fine. More
Milan: Edizioni l'Archivolto, 1996. Limited to 1500 copies, this is no. 1175, oblong 4to (129 x 269 mm.); grey and purple paper portfolio containing 13 folded loose leaves of photographic plates. Text in English and Italian. No. 2 of the Wunderkammer series. Portfolio has large tear at top right-hand fold..... More
[Japan]: [19th c.]. Horizontal scroll, 14 inches by approximately 14.5 feet; 10 handpainted panels measuring 14" x "19; headed by brocade; brocade lightly soiled, otherwise quite fine. Housed in a lightly worn cardbord box. The ten colorful and masterfully produced ox-herding images contain a series of short stanzas which serve..... More
[San Francisco, California]: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, [1992]. Square 4to, pp. 132; with 80 illustrations in color; publication was issued to accompany touring exhibition (Dec. 1992 - Oct. 1993); fine in pictorial wrappers. More
