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 artistic..... More

New York: Franklin H. Williams Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute, 1998. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28cm.); matte color pictorial paper wrappers; 177pp.; photo-illustrations throughout in color and b/w. Text block displays light handling wear and yellowing to margins, otherwise firm and sound, Fine. Wrappers also have light shelf wear..... 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 showcases..... 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

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

[Istanbul?]: Maarif Vekilligi, 1939. First Edition. Folio (36cm.); original cream decorative wrappers lettered in black and gilt, yapp edges; 123pp.; nine color plates mounted to brown stock, additional text illus. and photographs throughout. Wrapper extremities quite chipped and worn with some small paper flaws not approaching text; contents fine. About..... More