New York: Advertising Composition, n.d., ca. 1940s. First Edition. Large quarto (29.5cm.); two spiral bound interlocked volumes, black unadorned wrappers; unpaged. Upper wrapper quite worn and separated, rear cover with several white paint ring stains (made by Shahn?). Still, interior Very Good, albeit in Fair to Good only binding. Massive..... More

[Parma]: Franco Maria Ricci, 1980. First Thus. Limited to 3000 copies of which this is no. 1956. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's brown gilt-lettered cloth, color plate mounted to upper cover, in original celluloid dust jacket; 233pp.; 52 color plates tipped into text. Cloth extremities a hint sunned, gift inscription by Bernarda..... More

New York: Random House, 1958. First Edition. A hard-boiled novel of the New York waterfront, in the vein of Appel's 1930s proletarian crime novels such as Brain Guy and Powerhouse. Like the Shahns, Appel and his wife were charter residents of Jersey Homesteads (later Roosevelt), New Jersey and the four..... More

[Paris]: Gallimard, [1950]. 32e Édition. Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's white card wrappers printed in red and black; 264pp. Wrapper extremities toned and red spine lettering faded, textblock uniformly browned from poor paper quality, else a Very Good, partly unopened copy. From the Library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate..... More

Washington DC: New Merrymount Press, 1965. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in pale tan pictorial dust jacket; [10],98pp.; illus. Jacket quite brittle with small loss to spine foot, 2-inch closed tear along bottom spine edge of upper panel, some minor soil spots. Fine in Good or better dust jacket..... More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. Ben Shahn provided the text illustrations as well as the jacket and board designs. This is Shahn's file copy, unsigned but with his private catalogue number ("69") neatly inked at base of jacket's front panel, and with his estate label on..... More

New York: Pantheon Books / Bollingen Series IX, 1947. First Edition. Broch, an Austrian, escaped Nazi Germany in 1938, going first to England and then to the United States, where he eventually settled in Princeton, just a few miles from the Shahns' home town of Roosevelt, New Jersey. His novel..... More

Paris: Gibert Jeune / Librairie d'Amateurs, [1944]. First Thus. Limited to 2000 copies of which this is no. 669. Slim octavo (20cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers; [8],43pp.; color frontispiece, text illus. throughout. About Fine. The late 17th-century poetic satire, here illustrated with Dubout's typically raunchy and vibrantly colorful cartoons..... More

New York: American Book Company, [1953]. First Thus. Octavo (19.25cm.); original grey cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine lettered in white; x,[2],270pp.; illus. Boards rather rubbed and a bit dust-soiled, contemporary pencil notes throughout (not in either Shahn's hand), else Near Very Good and sound. From the library of Ben and Bernarda..... More

Paris: Emery, Fils [et al.], 1725. First Separate Edition. The Book of Matthew with substantial commentary. Uncommon edition, OCLC noting two copies in North America as of December, 2019, at the Newberry and Brown. See Brunet I 887 for other editions. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1871. Reprint. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's sheep, maroon morocco gilt spine label, all edges marbled; vii,[3],349pp. Boards quite rubbed and worn with brief peeling of leather to upper cover and spine ends, upper cover starting to separate; contemporary student's ownership bookplate to front pastedown and pencil..... More

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1960. Revised Edition. A terrific inscription from Dahlberg, whose "Sorrows of Priapus" had been illustrated by Shahn a few years earlier: "For Ben Shahn / with deep appreciation of his own brilliant drawings done for The Sorrows of Priapus & for suggesting that Kearns do the..... More

Cantabrigiæ, Nov-Ang. [Cambridge, MA]: J.A. Cummings et W. Hilliard, 1813. Editio Tertia Americana. Octavo (21.5cm.); full contemporary sheep, red morocco gilt spine label; xii,126,[2],103,[1],87pp. Leather a bit rubbed, preliminaries foxed, last few leaves dampstained, else Very Good and sound. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 28269. From the library of Ben and Bernarda..... More