Small octavo. Gray-brown thick paper wrappers, printed in gold on spine and front cover; 92pp. Scattered foxing to text, else a straight, sound copy, well preserved in the original wrappers.
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Broadside, 44cm x 57cm. Printed offset in black on white uncoated lithograhic paper; text in two columns beneath headline in Gothic type. Minor wrinkling at margins, else Fine.
One of 525 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the illustrator. Quarto (28.75cm); bluish-gray and vellum paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [ii],viii,228pp, with black & white vignettes throughout the text, and frontispiece + 11 color illustrations by Thomas MacKenzie. Light wear to spine ends, mild.....
One of 3,200 copies. Octavo (18cm); dark teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [4],5-305,[3]pp. Gentle sunning to spine and upper board edges, adhesive residue from bookplate removal to front pastedown, some offsetting from jacket flaps onto endpapers, with faint foxing to text edges; Very Good+. In.....
Octavo (25.25cm.); publisher's reddish-pink pictorial staplebound wrappers; xiii-xvipp. Just About Fine. Signed by the author on first page. Extracted from the Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. XXXV, nos. 1 & 2. Brief essay on the 19th-century British illustrator George Cruikshank.
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Octavo (19.25cm.); original blue gilt-lettered wrappers; 45pp. Wrappers quite fragile with long shallow loss along upper wrapper fore-edge not affecting text, upper wrapper starting to separate, spine toned; interior about fine. About Very Good. The author's first book, comprised of two short pieces inspired by the London aesthetes and the.....
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Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.121. Quarto (26cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and red cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [10],11-24,[4]pp. Tiny indentation to upper rear board edge, else very Near Fine in.....
First Impression. Octavo (19cm); original printed wrappers; [7],8-384,[4]pp. Light wear to extremities and base of spine, with a tiny tear and attendant crease at right edge of front wrapper; page untrimmed; Near Fine, lacking the scarce pictorial dustjacket.
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); olive green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; brown topstain; dustjacket; 372pp. Some hand-soil and light wear to covers, thin split to gutter at half-title; a solid, Very Good+ copy, with the pages unopened. Dustjacket is lightly soiled, with a few.....
First Printing. Octavo (19cm); black cloth covered boards with orange paper title labels on the cover and spine; orange decorated endpapers; dustjacket; 196pp.; erasure on half-title and the last page; light rubbing; spine ends are pushed; a few nicks to the spine label; scratches inside front cover; Very Good+. The.....
Square octavo (19cm). Staple-bound card wrappers; unpaginated; [74+4]pp; illus. Minor external wear and soil, else Near Fine. A fascinating, hand-produced photobook comprising a wide-ranging photoessay of Roma culture. According to the afterword the photographs were taken between 1968-72 "while traveling in the United States, Western Europe, and North Africa." Privately.....
Oblong quarto (23cm x 29cm); cloth boards; dustjacket; 294p. Inscribed by the artist on front endpaper to artist Bernarda Bryson Shahn: "Dear Bernarda / Congratulations on your retrospective! this book is the result of my retrospective last year / with love Leah Dubin Schwartz," undated but obviously contemporary. Fine copy.....
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Royal octavo (23cm). Publisher's blue ribbed cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; xx, 429pp; 82 inserted leaves of half-tone plates (incl. frontis); text illustrations. A firm, unfaded copy with just a hint of roughness to cloth at base of spine; easily Very Good and uncommon thus.
16mo (17cm). Brown cloth, titled in gilt; plain endpapers; 140pp. Straight and tight, corners bumped, cloth rubbed over spine: Very Good. "The text of Warren's 1846 Physical education and the preservation of health is reproduced in full, with twenty-two pages of new matter" (Hoolihan). Warren argued that the American educational.......
First Printing. Octavo; half yellow paper over navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in blue foil on spine and blindstamped illustration in dark yellow on front panel; dustjacket; 365pp, [1]. Bookplate signed by Irving is loosely laid in. Light rubbed to along lower board edges, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket.....
Small quarto (21.75cm.); original reddish-brown gilt-embossed cloth; [14],132,14[ads]pp. Straight and tight, with the boards slightly faded at margins as is typical, and a few spots where cloth has begun to lift. The text is slightly tanned, but foxing is contained to endpapers. In all, a pleasing and well-preserved copy of.....
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Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in grey decorative dust jacket printed in red; [2],vii,[1],101pp. Dust jacket expertly restored; faint uneven toning to extremities; front free endpaper cockled from previously removed bookplate, else textblock fine. About Very Good overall.
Generally accepted second printing (lacking the dot over the "i" in the copyright notice and with the broken running head on p.9). 12mo (15.5cm). In original brown publisher's cloth (BAL binding A), stamped in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; [1-3] 4-483pp. A desirable copy in the original binding, with a......
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Original gelatin-silver photograph, 10" x 8" with narrow borders. Unattributed, without backstamp, ca. 1900. Mild edge-creasing; hint of soil verso; Very Good. A completely anonymous image, in keeping with the taboo subject matter. Such photographs were widely distributed sub rosa prior to WW1.
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Ten original weekly issues in pictorial paper wrappers, including: Nos 6,7,10,16-22. Varying degrees of wear and soil to pictorial wrappers; texts uniformly age-toned, but not brittle with occasional small marginal losses. Complete, Good or better overall, with nos. 18,19, and 20 at the better end of that range. Each issue.....
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Octavo (21cm). Black cloth boards, lettered in white; dustjacket; 327pp. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper to artists Ben and Bernarda Shahn: "for Ben and Bernarda with love / Erich," dated in March, 1957. A Very Good copy in rubbed and edgeworn dustwrapper. From the library of Ben and.....
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Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 179pp; illus. Warm and lengthy author's presentation to Ben Shahn on front endpaper, dated 1960. Mild foxing to upper edge of text block, else Fine in lightly soiled and edge-rubbed jacket. First printing of the Revised Edition.
Thirteen quarto issues (27-28.5cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 16-28pp per issue; illus. Publication sequence runs as follows: Vol.1, Nos.1-8; Vol.2, Nos.1-5. Trivial wear to extremities, else Fine and uniformly well-preserved.
Second Impression. Octavo (21.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; viii,194,[2]pp. Lower rear board corner gently tapped (though still sharp), else Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced 25s net), with some trivial wear to extremities and corresponding bump to lower left corner of.....
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