Search Results: Titles starting with I from Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts

Memmingen (Bavaria): Edition Curt Visel, 1973     ¶ AN ORIGINAL LINOCUT SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, depicting a man imprisoned in a tower or pergola surmounted by a giant octopus, set in a volcanic wasteland relieved only by a peacock lower right. The accompanying text, interestingly, omits Rimbaud's last line -- "Ce n'est rien! j'y suis! j'y suis toujours" (It's nothing! I'm here! I'm still here) -- which is perhaps to be understood from the illustration itself. This print was originally issued as a supplement (Beilage) to the German graphic-arts periodical Illustration 63: Zeitschrift für die Buchillustration (1964-    ).   ||| Collation: In 2 (260 x 200 mm): Two leaves, paginated [1-4] (ie, not paginated).  A bifolium of machine-made wove paper, unmarked, loose as issued.  Contents: [1] linocut (202 x 156 mm) printed in black, signed "Strauchmann" in pencil lower right;… Read More

Shipston-on-Stour (Warks): Peter Finer, 1999     ¶ A typically lavish catalogue prepared by the leading dealers in the field; presenting forty-four exceptional helmets, swords, shields, maces, armors, pistols, daggers, guns, axes, walking-staffs, rapiers, rifles, cannon, etc, -- and even an iron prosthetic hand --, chiefly Continental, chiefly ca 1450 - ca 1800.   ||| Collation: In 8s (298 x 209 mm): Seventy-eight leaves, paginated [1-156] (ie, not paginated).  Illustration: Numerous full-page and smaller color illustrations throughout.  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers lettered in gilt.  Condition: Fine.  Reference: MMA. .

Shipston-on-Stour (Warks): Peter Finer, 1997     ¶ A typically lavish catalogue prepared by the leading dealers in the field; presenting sixty-four exceptional swords, helmets, shields, crossbows, quivers, armors, maces, cannon, pistols, powder-flasks, daggers, knives, rifles, rapiers, fowling-pieces, saddles, bayonets, mortars, etc, chiefly Continental, chiefly ca 1300 - ca 1860; including an important large "Still life of arms and armour from the collection of Sir Richard Wallace" by Desgoffe 1883 (pages [11-18]).   ||| Collation: In 8s (297 x 210 mm): Eighty-four leaves, paginated [1-168] (ie, not paginated). Pages [1-2] and [167-168] are pasted down, as issued.  Illustration: Numerous full-page and smaller color illustrations throughout.  Binding: Publisher's black linen lettered in gilt. Color-pictorial dust-jacket.  Condition: Fine.  Reference: MMA. .

Vienna: Verlag Brüder Hollinek, 1959 ¶ ONLY EDITION. Out of print. ||| Collation: In 8s (242 x 172 mm). Pp. xliv, 290. Binding: Publisher's blue cloth, dust-jacket. Provenance: William P. Wreden, bookseller, of Palo Alto, California, with his "Bibliographical Library" bookplate; his sale, Swann, 26-27 September 1990, lot 423, $121. Condition: A fine copy. .

New York: Pantheon Books Inc, distributed by Jacques Schiffrin & Co publishers, 1943     ¶ FIRST EDITION, and the first book published under the Schiffrin imprint in New York; AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY from the library of the publisher's friends Fernand & Beatrice Leval.   ||| Collation: In 8s (198 x 132 mm): 128 leaves, paginated [i-iv], [1-2] 3-242 [243-252]. Pages [i-ii] and [248-252] are blank as issued.  Illustration: Halftone frontispiece (photograph of Gide) signed [ ]eirens lower left.  Binding: Printed wrappers, Schiffrin imprint, top- and tail-edges untrimmed as issued.  Condition: Fine, largely unopened.  Provenance: Beatrice Reiter Leval (1911-2004), of New York, picture-collector.   ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below.  Pour plus de détails, veuillez contacter Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, comme ci-dessous..

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1955     ¶ First edition, scarce in America.   ||| Collation: In 8s (196 x 136 mm), paginated [i-iv] v-xiii [xiv], 1-254.  Illustration: Halftone frontispiece and 15 plates (24 halftone views on 15 leaves).  Binding: Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cartographic endpapers.  Condition: Good, spine sunned.  References: LCCN 55036626; OCLC 3819214..

Kempten (Bavaria): Verlag fuer Heimatpflege, 1983 *** FIRST EDITION; comprising sixty-one poems in Allgaeu dialect, with ten tinted illustrations after Otto Sieber. Out of print and evidently very scarce: KVK has only a revised edition 1984 (SuStB Augsburg only). -- Provenance: Sonnenalp (Ofterschwang, Bavaria), stamp on endpaper. . First edition of the author's first book. Pictorial boards. 190 x 120 mm. Pp [1-4] 5-86 [87-92].