Catalogue of an exhibition of watercolour drawings [parts I and II]
London: for sale by Frank T. Sanin, 1952-54. 2 vols., small 8vo, pp. [4], 18, plus 21 plates; 11, [1] plus 12 plates; near fine in original pictorial wrappers. More
London: for sale by Frank T. Sanin, 1952-54. 2 vols., small 8vo, pp. [4], 18, plus 21 plates; 11, [1] plus 12 plates; near fine in original pictorial wrappers. More
Tokyo: Gihido, 1962. 8vo, pp. 7, [3], 50, [2], 198, [2], 31, [3]; preliminaries in Japanese with English translation laid in, hundreds of illustrations, including plans, layouts, landscapes, and details, most photographic, a few in color, with captions in Japanese and English; blue and white cloth boards with details in..... More
Tokyo: Siekou Shoin, 1948. 8vo, pp. 144; text in Japanese; full blue cloth, pictorial endpapers; spine sunned, boards bowed, a couple manuscript corrections in text, very good. An annotated bibliography, including some large excerpts. More
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1972. First American edition, small folio, pp. xvi, [2], 51, [1], plus 70 plates and a map; very good in original blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. More
[Washington, D.C. Southwest Art Publishing, 1982]. First edition; 4to, pp. 608; profusely illustrated mostly in color; fine in original cream cloth, lettered in gilt; dust jacket with small chips and closed tears at the edges. More
New York: Oxford University Press, n.d. First edition, American issue; 8vo, pp. [12], 100; 100 photographic illustrations; fine copy in a fine dust jacket, with a photographic pastedown. Issued as no. 4 in the publisher's series Life & Art in Photograph. More
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1926. 2100 copies printed at the Merrymount Press, 8vo, pp. xxiii-[xxiv], 14; 72 b/w reproductions of Sargent works; orig. blue wrappers printed in black, somewhat tattered and soiled, a small portion of the upper spine end chipped away, the sewing loosened, with spine..... More
n.p. Kyouiku Zasshi, 1949. Broadside, 14.75" x 20.5"; Sugoroku, or dice game, depicting a 20 questions type guessing game between children, printed in offset and dot matrix; old folds, else fine. Likely a supplement to 教育雑誌 (Kyouiku Zasshi) vol. 4, no. 1, a childhood education magazine. Sugoroku is a popular..... More
Vicence: Jean Rossi, 1796. Volume 1 only (of 4), small 4to, pp. 100, [52] leaves of plates, some folding, one additional plate, and portrait frontispiece; modern three quarter black calf over marble boards, gilt stamped spine; some signs of shelf wear; interior very good, only slightly foxed. Bookplate of R.A...... More
New York: Beatrice Schafroth, [1985]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [20]; illustrated throughout with tip-ins, found objects, drawings, etc., including a plastic zip-lock envelope attached to p. [3] with a piece of black insulating tape, containing metal bottle top and cigarette butt, and half a matchstick attached by a strip of..... More
[Minneapolis: Espresso Editions, Coffee House Press, 1991.]. 11¼" x 6¾", suite of 5 color wood-engravings originally to accompany Kinsella's The First & Last Annual Six Towns Area Old Timers' Baseball Game as an extra suite. See Quarter to Midnight A.107. More
Saint Paul, Minnesota & Stockholm, Wisconsin: 2022. Edition limited to 13 copies, only 10 of which are for sale*. This composite and multi-faceted artwork, printed in blue, red, yellow, and black, consists of three scrolls, the first (approx. 18 inches by 8 feet) consisting of Schanilec's poem, "Man Before a...... More
New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, [1990]. First edition, 4to, pp. xiii, [1], 354; color illustrations throughout; full black cloth, gilt title on spine; fine in fine pictorial dust jacket; signed by Schattschneider on title page. Schattschneider is a retired mathematician and an expert in geometry and tiling patterns..... More
London: Fountain Press, [1970]. Revised edition, square 8vo, pp. 210; with numerous black & white photographic illustrations (9 in color); outer margins lightly tones, else very good in original blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine, pictorial dust jacket. More
Austin: University of Texas Press, [1993]. 4to, pp. xiii, [1], 295; plain and color illustrations throughout; original black pictorial wrappers; about fine. Catalogue of the Gustavus A. Eisen Collection, 1902. More
Tokyo: Deutsche gesellschaft fur natur- und volkerkunde ostasiens, 1963. 8vo, pp. [6], 94; 2 plates; text in German; printed paper boards backed in brown cloth, gilt title on spine; boards a little bowed, underlining and annotations, particularly in the final chapter, very good. Band XLIV, 1. in Mitteilungen der Deutschen..... More
New York: Crown, [1963]. Later edition, 4to, pp. 318; illustrated in color and black & white, map; fine in original red cloth stamped in blind, lightly rubbed jacket with some edge wear. A guide to the history, techniques of manufacture and the designs of fine Oriental or Oriental-type rugs. More
London: Oxford University Press, 1965. Ninth edition, reprint and revised; 8vo, pp. lx, 1195; color portrait frontis., illustrations, portraits, music, and facsimiles throughout; blue buckram with gilt stamped spine in water damaged dust jacket in protective glassine cover. More
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1954. 8vo, pp. viii, vi, [4], [129]-180, [3]; introduction printed from typescript; original tan printed wrappers, pencil ownership on front cover, else near fine. Facsimile reprint from "Dissertations, Essays, and Parallels," London, 1804. Augustan Reprint Society Publication no. 45. More
New York: Braziller, 1960. First edition, 8vo, pp. 125; frontispiece; illus.; original gray cloth, library numerals on upper left on cover, library stamp of title and last page, library pocket pasted to rear free endpaper; else fine. More
New York: D. Appleton, [1895]. First edition in the original 27 parts, folio; 25 mounted illustrations in color, 4 mounted illustrations in b&w, 25 photogravure plates, and illustrations after photographs and paintings throughout; a very good set in the original tan wrappers printed in red and black, scattered minor chipping..... More
Paris: Librairie Renouard, H. Laurens, 1913. First edition, 3 volumes, large 8vo; plain photographic text illustrations throughout; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, burgundy gilt spine labels, t.e.g., marbled endpapers; original wrappers bound in; leather a touch shelf worn, else about fine. A very nice set. Forms part of the series Anthologies..... More
N.p. [Iowa City, Iowa?]: 1978. Edition limited to 29 copies (this, no. 22), broadside (approx. 12¾" x 20"), the poem Restricted printed letterpress within a colored lithograph 11" x 10"; a few small wrinkles at the extremities else near fine. Signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil by Sexauer at..... More