1928. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KÔKOKKAI. THE PUBLICITY WORLD. Volume 5, number 1. Tokyo, Shotenkai-sha, Showa 3 [1928]. Decorated paper wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 84 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
2012. ESKENAZI. QING PORCELAIN FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION. London: Eskenazi, 2012. 4to, 106pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt to front and spine. Fine, in fine dustjacket. More
1960. [KATAZOME] OKAMURA Kichiemon. NARADA NO TAFU. Shôwa 35 [1960]. String-bound Japanese-style, privately printed in 50 copies. 31.1 x 19.7 cm., Okamura (1916-2002) was a student of Serizawa Keisuke and embraced his interest in traditional Japanese folk arts, papermaking and stencil printing (katazome). This lovely monograph on Japanese bark-cloth from... More
192. [DESIGN] MATSUZAKAYA DEPARTMENT STORE. MEIKA MOYÔ. Tôkyô, Hakurinsha (n.d. - c. late 1920s) 15 1/2 X 11 1/2 Inches. A deluxe folio of 15 large color woodblock printed designs done for the department store as a keepsake in 100 copies (of which this is number 75) presumably for their... More
1918. [EMA] Tanaka SHUNJI, editor. EMA KAGAMI Isshû, Nishû. Printed by by Bankadô in Kyôto, Taishô 7 [1918]. Two large tassel-bound volumes of designs and explanatory text regarding the ubiquitous ema tablets used as offerings at shrines. Originally "pictures of horses" "e-ma" were used as a substitute for the horse..... More
1885. HAWTHORNE, Julian. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE AND HIS WIFE. A Biography. London: Chatto ans Windus, 1885. First British Edition. Two volumes. 8vo. 505pp., 465pp. B/w illustrations. Contemporary full red morrocco, stamped in gilt to front back and spine with gilt leather turn-ins. Edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate presentation to front pastedown... More
1948. ELIOT, T.S. ODERMARKEN OG ANDRE DIGTE (THE WASTELAND). Kobenhavn: Westermann, 1948. First Danish Edition. Small 8vo. 86pp. #XLVIII of 235 copies signed by author and translators (Kai Friis Moller and Tom Kristensen). Blue paper covered portfolio with white paper title label lettered and ruled in black and blue. Spine... More
1950. ELIOT, T.S. THE COCKTAIL PARTY. London: Faber and Faber, [1950]. First revised edition, being the fourth impression. "In addition to some minor corrections, certain alterations in Act III, based on the experience of the play's production, were made in the fourth impression of the text." This copy is inscribed... More
1960. ELIOT, T. S. FOUR QUARTETS. London: Faber & Faber, 1960. Limited edition, number 207 of 290, signed by Eliot on colophon. 4to., 2 blank leaves, 53 pp., [1], [2], 2 blank leaves. Quarter parchment stamped in gilt over green marbled paper boards, t.e.g., edges untrimmed, with green marbled paper... More
1940. .ELIOT, T. S. OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS. London: Faber & Faber, [1940]. First Illustrated Edition. 8vo. 50pp. Color illustrations by Nicholas Bentley. Cream cloth boards stamped with colored design to front and lettered in red to spine. Bottom edge trimmed. Small stain to rear board. Very Good... More
1993. Pound, Ezra. CATHAY: POEMS AFTER LI PO. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1993. Large 8vo. 34pp. Blue linen covered boards, blindstamped to front. Seven color woodcuts by Francesco Clemente. #78 of 300 copies printed by Arthur Lawson at Horton TAnk Graphics, Hadley Massachusetts on handmade Japanese Ogawashi paper. Sigend... More
1935. Pound, Ezra. DRAFT OF CANTOS XXXI-XLI. London: Faber & Faber, 1935. First British Edition. 8vo. 62pp. Black cloth boards lettered in gilt to spine. Front and bottom edges untrimmed. Cloth a bit worn. light wear to extremeties. Dust jacket moderately worn and chipped with a two inch split along spine. More
1950. POUND, Ezra. PATRIA MIA: A DISCUSSION OF THE ARTS, THEIR USE AND FUTURE IN AMERICA. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, (1950). Inscribed First Edition. 8vo. 97pp. Light Brown cloth, lettered with dark brown background to front and spine and lettered in dark brown to back. Inscribed in ink by Pound... More
1981. POUND, Ezra. FROM SYRIA: THE WORKSHEETS, PROOFS, AND TEXT. [Port Townsend, WA]: Copper Canyon Press, 1981. First Separate Edition. 8vo. 8pp. 28 fascsimiles on 14 plates. Black cloth with tan paper paper label printed in black to spine. Issued without dust jacket. Fine. (Gallup A106.). More
1911. POUND, Ezra. CANZONI OF EZRA POUND. London: Elkin Mathews, 1911. First Edition, second issue (without the author's name on the spine) . 8vo. 51pp. + 4pp. ads. Brown paper covered boards stamped in gilt to front and spine. Front and bottom edges untrimmed. No dust jacket, as issued. Bookplate... More
1930. [ELIOT, T. S., translator]. PERSE, Saint-John. ANABASIS. A poem by St.-J. Perse with a Translation into English by T.S. Eliot. London: Faber & Faber, 1930. Signed, limited edition: 350 numbered copies printed on English hand-made paper and signed by Eliot. This is number 350. Tall, slim 4to. 10 x.... More
1932. ELIOT, T. S. SELECTED ESSAYS 1917-1932. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1932). First American edition with a typed letter, addressed to Louis Untermeyer and signed by Eliot, laid into the original mailing envelope, which is mounted on the ffep. The letter, nineteen typed lines on Eliot's letterhead (B-11... More
1932. ELIOT, T. S. SELECTED ESSAYS 1917-1932. London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1932). Signed, limited edition: 115 numbered copies printed on English hand-made paper and signed by Eliot, of which only 100 were offered for sale. This is number 67. 454 pp. 8vo. Original edition binding of flexible blue vellum... More
1930. [ELIOT, T. S., introduction]. JOHNSON, Samuel. LONDON: A POEM AND THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. With an Introductory Essay by T. S. Eliot. London: Fredreick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1930. One of the Haslewood Books series. From a total edition of 450 numbered copies printed at the Chiswick Press... More
1922. ELIOT, T. S. THE WASTE LAND. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First edition, first state. [2], [6], 9-64 pp. 8vo., flexible black cloth boards stamped in gilt. Edges untrimmed. Stamped number 394 (of 1,000) on verso of title page. First state, "mountain" spelled correctly with an "a" in... More
1945. SIGNED BY ELIOT ELIOT, T. S. USE OF POETRY AND THE USE OF CRITICISM. London: Faber & Faber, [1945]. Later printing. 8vo. 156pp. Signed by Eliot on title page. Lilac cloth, stamped in gilt to spine. Front and bottom edges untrimmed. Spine and rear board lightly sunned. Prior ownership... More
1969. POUND, Ezra. DRAFTS & FRAGMENTS OF CANTOS CX- CXVII. [New York]: New Directions & The Stonewall Press, [1969]. First Deluxe Edition. #159 of a total of 310 copies printed by Kim Merker in Romanee type on handmade paper, all signed by author. Red cloth with white paper label to... More
1988. STRAND, Mark. FAMOUS SCENE. n.p. The Logan Press & Papermill, [1988]. 4to. #72 of 100 printed, signed by the author. Four color reduction woodcut portrait of the author signed by the artist, Sidney Chafetz. One folded leaf in decorated paper wrappers with cutout window showing author's name. Untrimmed. Fine. More
1928. JOYCE, James. ULYSSES. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1928. 10th printing. 735pp. 8vo., Rebound in grey/blue bords and maroon cloth spine, Original blue wrappers not present. Leaves browned as usual. The final leaf is chipped (with lose of one letter) and has been "silked"- laid down on fine light paper... More
