Philadelphia: Ledger Job Printing, N.d. (ca 1860s). First Edition. An exceedingly uncommon early portrait of the celebrated African-American musical savant, apparently based on the 1865 photographic portrait by W.E. Germon. The image depicts a young Tom Wiggins (ca. 17 years old) seated beside an ornate piano in his customary costume..... More

Wien: Galerie Phoenix, [1979]. First Edition. First printing. Oblong quarto (27.5 x 31cm.); printed flexible boards, natural tan color; [46pp]. A gallery book for Austrain painter Eduard Angeli; contains introductory text and biographical information (in German), and 17 color illustrated plates (unpaginated). Institutional stickers remain on first and final pages..... More

London: T. Cook, 1806. Later Edition. The complete series, plates I-X uncut as issued. These are the Thomas Cook re-engravings, ca. 1806. Plate marks 21-1/4" x 14" on 24" x 17" sheets; printed on heavy wove paper. Occasional shallow chipping, soiling, & foxing to extremities; images fresh and unfoxed; Very..... More

New York: George Braziller, 1967. First Revised Edition. Quarto (27cm); red publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt on spine, in white pictorial dustwrapper; xix,111pp. Boards and dustwrapper have mild shelf wear, with some soiling and rubbing (especially to extremities); top edge creased and slightly rolled, inner flap price-clipped; textblock clean and..... More

London: [Corporation of London Art Gallery], 1895. Edition not stated. A directory of loaned artworks on exhibition at the Corporation of London Art Gallery, from April 23 to July 21, 1895. While the book does not contain pictures, each piece (and artist) is described to detail, along with the identity..... More

New Britain, CT: New Britain Museum of American Art, 1971. First Edition. Oblong octavo (15x22.75cm.); original pictorial staplebound wrappers; unpaged; chiefly color and black-and-white illus. Rear wrapper lightly foxed with some minor dust-soil, else Very Good or better. Exhibition catalog of the works of Ken Davies, known for his highly..... More

New York: Ives Washburn, 1930. First Thus. One of 150 hand-numbered copies on rag, with 12 mounted original wood engravings on rice paper by Ilse Bischoff, including frontispiece pencil-signed by the artist. Octavo. Vellum-backed blue cloth boards; paper spine label; 253pp. Vellum portion of binding browned and discolored; bit of..... More

[Bologna]: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, [1990]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; lx,237pp.; color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, else Very Good and sound. Essays in English and Italian, the painting descriptions in Italian only. 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

[St. Petersburg?]: Palace Editions, 2005. First English Language Edition. Folio (30.5cm.); publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards; 151pp.; illus. throughout. Just About Fine. Exhibition catalog issued by the State Russian Museum. 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

Philadelphia: Oser Press / Arthur Williams, 1973. First, Limited Edition. A highly attractive artist's book, notable especially for the quality of the artworks chosen to illustrate the text. Contributing artists include Edna Andrade (original silkscreen on reflective mylar); Jean Reist Stark (hand-colored etching); Elaine Kurtz (silkscreen on lithograph); Robert Keyser..... More