[ADVERTISING - 20TH CENTURY MATCHBOX COVERS]. [Rinpyō 燐票]. A COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 1300 MATCHBOX COVERS, LABELS AND ADVERTISING CARDS DEPICTING A VARIETY OF PRODUCTS, BUSINESSES, AND PASTIMES. A collection of carefully preserved matchbox covers, labels and advertising cards tipped-in to 2 commercially manufactured scrapbook albums. The albums are bound in..... More
1939. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KOKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16, number 1. Tokyo, Seibundo, Showa 14 [1939]. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kokokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. Ken Do^mon..... More
1939. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KOKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16, number 6. Tokyo, Seibundo, Showa 14 [1939]. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kokokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. Ken Domon..... More
1939. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KOKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16, number 8. Tokyo, Seibundo, Showa 14 [1939]. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kokokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. Ken Domon..... More
1939. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KOKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16, number 9. Tokyo, Seibundo, Showa 14 [1939]. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kokokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. The issues..... More
1939. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KOKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16, number 9. Tokyo, Seibundo, Showa 14 [1939]. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kokokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. Ken Domon..... More
[ADVERTISING] SUZUKI Nagai, editor. Shiroto ni mo Kantan ni mo dekiru KAKUSHU KANBAN SOSHOKU NO TSUKURIKATA PRACTICAL METHODS OF BUILDING UP VARIOUS SIGNS AND DISPLAYS. Tokyo: Seibundo Shinkosha, Showa 13 [1938]. Oblong printed wrappers. 18.8 x 26 pp. 32pp+. Sign design for the amateur. Good condition. More
1817. AESOP. FABULAE AESOPI SELECTAE, or, Select Fables of Aesop: With AN English translation, more literal than any yet extant, designed for the reader instruction of beginners in the Latin tongue. By H. Clarke. Baltimore: Published by J. & T. Vance; J. Robinson, Printer, 1817. Parallel texts in Latin and..... More
1917. (AFRICAN STUDIES). VARIA AFRICANA. Edited by Oric Bates Cambridge: The African Dept. of the Peabody Museum of Harvard Univ., 1917-1918. 2 vols. 4to., vol. 1: paper-covered boards backed in cloth. Vol. 2: cloth-covered boards. Illustrated throughout. A near fine set. More
1977. AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER OF UCLA. AFRICAN ARTS 1967-1977. Los Angeles, CA: University of Calfornia, (1977). Wrappers. Very good plus. Art index. More
1801. (AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES). A TRUE ACCOUNT OF A PIOUS NEGRO; to which is added, The Story of Poor Joseph. Dublin: Alex. Stewart, 1801. No. 6 in a series of Evangelical tracts. 8pp + 9pp; bound with "Some Observations on Neglecting the Sabbath Day", Tract #21, 12pp. 16mo., pamphlet, as issued..... More
1888. TEXT AGASSIZ, Alexander. THREE CRUISES OF THE UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY STEAMER "BLAKE" in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, From 1877 to 1880. Two volumes. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1888. xxii..... More
1934. AGEE, James. PERMIT ME VOYAGE. With a foreword by Archibald MacLeish. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. Volume 33 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, edited by Stephen Vincent Benet. First edition of Agee's first book. Slim octavo. 59 pp. Green cloth, lettered in dark green at spine..... More
1934. AGEE, James. PERMIT ME VOYAGE. With a foreword by Archibald MacLeish. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. Volume 33 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, edited by Stephen Vincent Benet. First edition of Agee's first book. Slim octavo. 59 pp. Green cloth, lettered in dark green at spine..... More
1881. [AGRICULTURE] Miyazaki Ryujo. Koeki NOKO ZENSHO 5 vols. Tokyo, n.d.[1881]. Bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. Original covers and title labels. 22.7 x 15.5 cm. An extensive guide to the practice of agriculture in the early modern era of Meiji Japan. Largely text, but illustrated throughout in woodcut, some of which in..... More
1818. Aikawa MINWA 合川珉和, artist... 『光琳画式』 KŌRIN GASHIKI Zen. Ōsaka & Kyôto, Bunka 15 [1818]...26.1 x 18.5 cm. A wonderful compilation of Rimpa-inspired designs was created by Minwa, a very talented artist of the time who was capable of almost any style. Here he has created a wonderful compendium of..... More
1971. AIKEN, Conrad. THE CLERK'S JOURNAL. Being the diary of a queer man. An undergraduate poem, together with a brief memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs and T.S. Eliot. New York: The Eakins Press, 1971. First edition. An out of series copy of three hundred numbered copies signed by the author..... More
1953. AIKEN, Conrad. COLLECTED POEMS. New York: Oxford University Press, 1953. 895 pp. B/w photo frontispiece. 8vo., brown cloth. Fine in Very Good dust jacket with a few nicks to edges, closed 1 inch tear at top of spine, 1/8 inch chip to bottom of spine. Pulitzer winner. More
1914. AIKEN, Conrad. EARTH TRIUMPHANT. And Other Tales in Verse. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First edition, review copy, of Aiken's first book. Cloth is worn a little wear at crown and heel, but still a pleasing copy, very good in all. (Bonnell A1)... More
FEFB. AIKEN, Conrad. EARTH TRIUMPHANT and Other Tales In Verse. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First edition of the author's first book; complimentary copy from publisher; Dorothy Lathrop's copy with her signature on the front flyleaf. The spine is slightly darkened with shelfwear to the heel and crown, else..... More
FE. AIKEN, Conrad. THE JIG OF FORSLIN. A Symphony. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1916. First edition, Dorothy Lathrop's (designer of the dust jacket) copy with her card laid in. The fore-edge and endpapers show light foxing, else a fine copy in bright boards with minimal edgewear, in a dust..... More
1936. AIKEN, Conrad. TIME IN THE ROCK. Preludes to Definition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. First edition, review copy, with publisher's solicitation laid in. 8vo., burgundy cloth, gilt. Just a hint of sun and rubbing to boards, foxing to endpapers. Near fine, in a sunned dust jacket with moderate..... More
1916. AIKEN, Conrad. TURNS AND MOVIES and other Tales in Verse. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. First edition, second book. 8vo., olive wrapper over limp boards. As is, with front wrap, first three leaves detached; rear wrap detached, chipping to all at edges. Lacking some of the spine, remaining portion darkened..... More
1796. AIKIN, J. LETTERS FROM A FATHER TO HIS SON, on Various Topics, Relative to Literature and the Conduct of Life. Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey by James Carey, 1796. 12mo., marbled calf, gilt title to red leather spine label. Owner's label to front pastedown. Mild worming to upper rear..... More
1841. AINSWORTH, William Harrison. GUY FAWKES; OR, THE GUNPOWDER TREASON, AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Illustrated by Cruikshank. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1841. First American edition. 205 pp. 4to., quarter caramel-colored cloth with paper spine label and green paper covered boards. Boards edgeworn, slightly chipped at corners. Spine staring at top of..... More