1955. POUND, Ezra. SECTION: ROCK-DRILL 85-95 de los cantares.Milano: All'Insegna del Pesce d'oro, 1955. 8vo. 107pp. First Edition. Grey paper covered boards. #434 of 500 copies designed and printed by Stamperia Valdonega in Verona. In publisher's blank acetate dust jacket. Fine. More
1978. SARTRE, Jean-Paul. FIVE PLAYS. Frankin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1978. First Edition. 8vo. 484pp. Red Leather stamped in gilt to front, back and spine. Limited edition collection of plays, sigend by the author. More
1982. SIMIC, Charles. SHAVING AT NIGHT. San Francisco: Meadow Press, 1982. First Edition. 8vo. 29pp. Pictorial boards backed with blue cloth. Woodcuts by Helen Siegl. #189 of 200 copies. Signed by the poet and illustrator. Fine in protective mylar jacket. More
1990. STRAND, Mark. THE CONTINUOUS LIFE. Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1990. Limited First Edition. Folio. Unpaginated. Stitched, heavy grey cloth wraps with bone clasp closures. Letter 'E' of 26 lettered copies on Umbria (there were also 225 numbered trade copies on Windhover). Signed by author and by the artist, Neil... More
1932. [BAUMANN, Gustave] ed. Elmer ADLER & John T. WINTERICH. THE COLOPHON, VOL. III, PART TWELVE. (New York: The Colophon Ltd., 1932) unpaginated. 4to., pictorial paper covered boards. Some light soil and rubbing to boards. Number Three of The Colophon Crier (one folded sheet, printed on one side) laid in... More
1964. STRAND, Mark. SLEEPING WITH ONE EYE OPEN. Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1964. Limited First Edition. 8vo. 53pp. Red cloth stamped in gilt to spine.Author's first book #40 of limited edtion of 225. Inscribed by athor on ffep. "For Gary/with both eyes open/-Mark Strand/July 28, 1966, Small split to... More
1993. STRAND, Mark. DARK HARBOR: A POEM. New York: Knopf, 1993. Signed First Edition. 8vo. 49pp. Dark blue cloth, stamped in gilt to front and spine. Inscribed by the author on title page."To ____ from MArk Strand". Fine in fine dustjacket. More
1968. STRAND, Mark. REASONS FOR MOVING. New York: Atheneum. 1968. Signed First Edition. 8vo. 47pp. Dark blue cloth, blindstamped to fromt and lettered in gilt to spine. This copy belonged to the poet John Frederick Nims with his signature on the flyleaf. It is also signed by the author on... More
1944. GORGES, Raymond. THE STORY OF A FAMILY THROUGH ELEVEN CENTURIES. Illustrated by Portraits and Pedigrees. Being a History of the Family of Gorges. Based on material prepared by the Rev. Frederick Brown. Boston: Privately Printed, 1944. 4to., rose-coloured cloth with spine in gilt. Fine. More
1971. (LEGER, Fernand) FERNAND LEGER: SA VIE, SON OEUVRE, SON REVE. Milan: Edizioni Apollinaire, 1971. Folio. Unpaginated. Stiff paper wrappers in protective glassine wrapper, printed in black on front and spine. Pages untrimmed and unopened. A collection of photographs, documents, letters and documents in facsimile. Number 343 of 1150 printed... More
FE. FROST, Robert. IN THE CLEARING. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1962). First edition. Ink ownership on flyleaf, else a fine copy in a dust jacket mildly scuffed at spine and perimeters. More
1890. (BING, S.) LE JAPON ARTISTIQUE: DOCUMENTS D'ART ET D'INDUSTRIE. REUNIS PAR S. BING. Paris: Marpon et Flammarion, 1890-1891. Folio. 117 plates. Portfolio, three-quarter leather over cloth boards. Stamped in gilt to front. The last twelve issues of 36 (No. 25, Mai 1890 through No.36, Avril 1891) of this journal... More
1888. (BING, S.) ARTISTIC JAPAN: A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF ARTS AND INDUSTRIES. Compiled by S. Bing. London: Sampson Low, (1888)-1891. Folio. Six volumes bound in Five.Three-quarter green cloth over pictorial boards. Stamped and ruled in gilt to spine. All 36 issues of this journal, bound without pictorial covers. With... More
1935. ONCHI Koshirô, editor. A set of SHOSÔ Magazine. Tokyo, Showa 10-19 [1935-44] Aoi Shobo. [700cc?]. A large collection of the premier journal dedicated to the book arts and graphics of its day, edited by the foremost artist and book designer, Onchi Koshirô, and filled with graphic and textual contributions... More
[PHOTOGRAPHS]. 141 HAND-COLORED & BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS OF 19TH CENTURY JAPAN AND ASIA. Archive consists of six groups of photographs. Most are mounted and are disbound from albums, four have ink and watercolor illustrations on the mounts, and 19 are loose b/w prints, probably early 20th century. A few... More
1844. TRAVERS, Benjamin. THE PHYSIOLOGY OF INFLAMMATION, AND THE HEALING PROCESS. London: Samuel Highley, 1844. Small 8vo. 226pp. + 8pp. advertisements at front and 2pp at rear. Ex-library, bookplate to front pastedown and stamp to title page. Brown cloth, blindstamped front, back and spine and stamped in gilt to spine... More
1931. JOSEPH, J.(Jacques). NASENPLASTIK UND SONSTIGE GESICHTSPLASTIK NEBST EINEM ANHANG UBER MAMMAPLASTIK UND EINEGE WEITERE OPERATIONEN AUS DEM GEBIETEDER AUSSEREN KORPERPLASTIK. (Facsimile Reprint of 1931 edition). Leipzig: Curt Kabitzsch, 1931. (Facsimile reprint by Willem A. Meeuws). 8vo. 842pp. Light brown cloth backed with green cloth. Ruled and lettered in gilt... More
1926. HUNT, H. Lyons. PLASTIC SURGERY OF THE HEAD, FACE AND NECK. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1926. 8vo. 404pp. B/w illustrations throughout. Green cloth. Blindstamped to front and back, stamped in gilt to spine. Ownership stamp in ink to front pastedown. Fine. More
1898. [FUJI] TANAKA Shigetaro. SHINSHA FUJI HYAKUZU Tôhoku no bu. Tôkyô, Kyoto and Ôsaka. Meiji 31 [1898] Though this group of 24 single page and 8 double page grey scale woodblock images (with occasional light coloring) is subtitled "northest section", there were no later parts. Thus complete. Bound orihon style... More
1838. DICKINSON, S. N. BOSTON ALMANAC FOR THE YEAR 1838. VOL. I. Boston: S. N. Dickinson, 1838. Double-page frontispiece map (undated) of Boston. 103 pp. + [5] adv. pp. 5 1/8 in. Brown cloth with gilt vignette to upper board. Moderate shelfwear, corners bumped. Map has some light foxing but... More
1923. [ARCHITECTURE] MORIGUCHI Tari, editor. HYÔGENSHUGI KENCHIKU ZUSHÛ. Tôkyô: Kyôyôsha, Taisho 12 [1923] 25.4 x 18.8 cm. A portfolio, tied, of some 60 plates, on the topic of "EXPRESSIONIST ARCHITECTURE". Wonderful modernist designs, real and proposed, from the cutting edge of the architectural design of the period. The covers are... More
1933. [DESIGN] FUJII Tatsukichi, designer. SÔSAKU SENSHOKU ZUANSHÛ. [A Collection of Designs for Dyework] Tokyo & Osaka: Bungado, Showa 8 [1933]. Large portfolio, 41 x 31 cm., decorative cloth covered clasped chitsu case with a printed decorative label, all enclosed in the publisher's folding cardboard outer box. A 4 page... More
1967. RAN Shigeyuki. SHI TO SHASHINSHÛ: MOSUKUWA NO YUKI. Hirosaki: Midori no Fue Mamehon no Kai, Shôwa 42 (1967). Limited edition. Signed by Ran. 18.1 x 14.8 cm. Western-style boards, fukurô toji binding, in original folding case. Ran Shigeyuki (1920-2008), born in Hirosaki, dedicated his life to the production... More
1955. SARASHINA Genzô ; KAWAKAMI Sumio, artist. HOKKAIDÔ EHON. Sapporo: Sarorun Shobô, Shôwa 30 (1955). 21.2 x 15.2 cm. Western-style binding. Sarashina Genzô (1904-1985) was a Japanese anarchist, activist, and poet active in the Shôwa period. Born in Hokkaidô to first-generation settlers, he attended school in Tôkyô but dropped out... More