Washington DC: SITES/University of Washington Press, 1990. First Edition. Quarto (30cm); red cloth in color pictorial dustwrapper; 281pp. Like New copy, still sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap; shrinkwrap is split along spine, with pinhole dent to dustwrapper in exposed section; small bumps to rear board. A lush showcase of Moscow's enduring..... More

Philadelphia: William Smith, [1844]. A poignant image, depicting the first casualty of the 1844 Philadelphia Anti-Catholic riots, which roiled the city in both May and July of that year leaving dozens dead and hundreds wounded. As was the case in many other large cities on the Eastern seaboard, Anti-Catholic sentiment..... More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. Reprint. Large octavo (24.5cm); dark blue decorative cloth, stamped in gilt; TEG; xi, 310pp, frontis., 30 plates. Spine sunned, gilt faded; boards gently worn and soiled, with rubbing along extremities; chipping w/ material loss at heel/crown of spine and leading corners. Bindings shaken; deckled..... More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1991. First Edition. First printing. Oblong octavo (24 x 28cm); foil-stamped grey publisher's cloth, in pictorial dustwrapper; 159pp. Light dust-soiling and shelf wear; sunning and edge rolling along inner wrapper extremities. Near Fine. Charles, Prince of Wales, reveals his artistic side in this book, which..... More

Mexico City: Ediciones Era, 1965. First Edition. Inscribed on an interior page: "March 15 1965 / to Mr and Mrs Bill Noble with unconditioned friendship," signed, with an original sketched self portrait. First printing. Small octavo; black cloth hardcover, dustjacket, 223pp. About fine. In original dustwrapper, slightly faded at spine..... More

London: Tauris-Parke, 1992. First English Language Edition. First English language printing; originally published as "Images de Femmes" (Plon, 1992). Quarto (28.5cm.); black publisher's cloth boards with color pictorial dust jacket detailing "The Red Fish" by Klimt (1901-02); 189pp. Text block has yellowed along margins, otherwise clear and sound; Near Fine..... More

[Original Manuscript: 1930]. Glintenkamp, along with his friend and contemporary Stuart Davis, was among the foremost disciples of Robert Henri, and inherited some of his mentor's Ashcan mannerisms; but he is perhaps best remembered as one of the original artists of the New York socialist/bohemian magazine The Masses, where his..... More

New York: Jaffé Heliochrome Company, N.d. [ca 1940s]. Twenty four postcards, each 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" or the reverse. Printed in colors on uncoated ivory cardstock; versos captioned at upper left, with publisher's imprint lower left. Uniformly fine, postally unused, free of soiling with corners square and sharp. An attractive series..... More

ca 1930-35. A chilling image of a pistol-wielding African-American man fleeing the scene of a crime, leaving two white bodies lying in the street. It is unclear whether the scene is intended as a commentary on growing racial tensions in Harlem in the 1930s (possibly a direct reference to the..... More

ca 1930-35. An evocative New York street scene, typical of Groth's social-realist work of the Depression era. Though best remembered as a wartime sketch-artist and book illustrator (he produced a number of titles for The Limited Editions Club, including the widely-praised LEC edition of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on..... More

Berlin: Fritz Gurlitt, 1920. First, Limited Edition. The very uncommon deluxe issue of this illustrated edition of short stories by noted Polish author and playwright, translated from the original Yiddish by Alexander Eliasberg. Includes the stories "Zwei Wege," "Der Glasscherben," "Der Kolonist," "Die vierfarbige Laterne aund die vier kleinen Hunde,"..... More

San Francisco: Chronicle, 1998. First Edition. Quarto (31cm); light brown publisher's cloth stamped in dark brown, in brown pictorial dustwrapper; 256pp. Dustwrapper has mild shelf wear, soiling and scratches; minor rolling and creasing to extremities; sticker residue on rear panel; interior pages faintly yellowing at margins, else clean and unmarked;..... More

Hangzhou, China: [National Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art], 1993. First Edition. First printing. Square octavo (25 x 26cm); pictorial paper wrappers; unpaginated, 55 plates. Wrappers have handling wear, light rubbing and scratches; interiors creased in places, else clean and sound, Very Good or better. Showcases the works of calligrapher and..... More