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North Hills, PA & Boston: Bird & Bull Press / Boston Medical Library, 1979.. Small quarto. Half morocco and decorated paper over boards. Two inserted plates, one hand-colored. Fine. First edition. Copy #313 of "approximately 300 copies" printed at the Bird & Bull Press, bound by E.G. Parrot II, with a title-page decoration by Fritz Eberhardt. As per the subtitle: "An examination of the origin, printing, binding and distribution of America's first color plate book. With special emphasis on the manner of making and printing its colored plates." TAYLOR & MORRIS A21.

[London]: Faber & Faber, 1931.. Boards. Illustrated with drawings by R.A. Davies. Upper board somewhat dust-darkened toward edges, otherwise very good or better. First edition, limited issue. An unnumbered copy, in addition to two hundred fifty numbered copies, specially printed on large handmade paper, and specially bound, signed by the author. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author: "To Siegfried Sassoon from Edith Sitwell." The wrapper issues of the Ariel Poems often preceded the limited issues; Fifoot, however, was unable to confirm that in the case of this title. Sitwell also inscribed a copy of the wrapper issue to Sassoon, which sold long ago from our catalogue 125. Sassoon and Edith Sitwell connected as early as 1917, when through Robert Ross, she wrote to him at Craiglockhart to commend him on his anti-war statement. There ensued a long acquaintance, made difficult by Sassoon's animosity toward Osbert. In 1930, she wrote him in the wake of a lapse in their friendship: "...you were one… Read More

Chicago: The Ralph Fletcher Seymour Co., 1912.. Tan Japanese paper over boards, lettered in dark blue, with abstract Crane device stamped in olive green. Fibrous Japanese paper endsheets. Neatly rebacked in tan paper board. Boards slightly smudged and lightly edgeworn, attractive period bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a good copy, in oversize folding clamshell box. First published printing of the first edition, preceded by another printing which Wright disliked and destroyed (but for an alleged 'few'). This is one of the copies printed Japan vellum, of which, depending on the reference, there were either thirty-five or fifty copies. Inscribed by Wright in 1915 at the lower edge of the first blank, and signed with initials. This was Wright's first book for which he was the sole author of the text, and is the most substantive of his publications devoted to his pioneering passion for this subject. SWEENEY 109.

Monte Carlo: André Sauret, [1962].. 210,[4]pp. Small folio (33 x 26 cm). Cloth. Plates, photographs. Fine in dust jacket with tiny nicks toward lower fore-tip. Card slipcase. First English language edition, translated from the French by Elaine Desautels. Illustrated with two full-page original color lithographs executed by Chagall for this work and printed by Mourlot, as well as 36 multi- color preparatory color designs transferred to stones under Chagall's supervision and printed by Charles Sorlier. The text was printed at the Imprimerie Nationale. A splendid overview of the various stages of Chagall's twelve stained glass window designs for the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centre in Jerusalem.

New York: Published by David Longworth, 1808.. 56pp. 12mo (14.5 x 9cm). Extracted. Modest occasional foxing, a few tiny marginal nicks or small tears; very good. First US printing, published the same year as the first London printing. OCLC: 15291549. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 14898.

New York: Leon Amiel Publisher, [1975].. Quarto. Cloth. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white. Fine in color lithographed pictorial dust jacket after a design by Miro and printed bellyband. Card slipcase. First US edition. One of 5000 numbered copies. The translation of Queneau's essay from the French is not attributed. Including the dust jacket, illustrated with twelve original color lithographs by Miro, printed by Mourlot.

New York: Tudor Publishing Company, [1972].. Quarto. Cloth. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white. Fine in color lithographed pictorial dust jacket after a design by Mir0. Card slipcase. First US edition. One of 5000 numbered copies. With the two essays by Leiris and the catalogue by Mourlot translated from the French by Peninah Neimark and E.J. W. Including the dust jacket, illustrated with twelve original color lithographs by Miro, printed by Mourlot.

New York: Viking Press, [1965].. Cloth and boards. Spine very slightly cocked, otherwise very good or better in spine sunned dust jacket. First edition, incorporating the text of the earlier PROFESSOR SEA GULL. The sourcework for the 2000 film adaptation, starring Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, et al, based on a script by Howard Rodman. In the end, it is as much Mitchell's story as it is Gould's. Reese, NARRATIVES OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 68.

[Council Bluffs, IA & Madison, NJ]: Yellow Barn Press and Florham-Madison Campus Library, Fairleigh Dickinson University, [1994].. x,[2],76,[1]pp. Quarto (30 x 21.5 cm). Tan linen, gilt leather label. Frontis portrait, color illustrations and facsimiles. Fine in cloth and board slipcase, with the prospectus laid in. First edition. Edited, with an Introduction, by James Fraser. The Bibliography spans 1947 through 1987 and was prepared by Anderson, Fraser and Eleanor Friedl. Copy #53 from an edition of 150 numbered copies printed on Rives, with the illustrations printed at the Barnhart Press.

London: Heinemann, [1963].. Large octavo. Cloth. Portrait, plates, folding tables. Some mild discoloration to sizing at extreme edges of boards and toe of spine, otherwise a very good copy in near fine dust jacket. "New and Revised Edition." Inscribed by Powell to poet / biographer John Malcolm Brinnin in September of the year of publication. LILLEY A7b.

New York: An American Place, 1938.. Broadside on stiff card (22.2 x 10.2 cm.). First edition of this promotional display card/flyer for an exhibition, held 22 February - 27 March 1938 at Stieglitz's gallery. About fine. Lowe's list dates the opening "2/14?."

New York: An American Place, 1935.. Octavo broadsheet (24.5 x 21cm), folded to four panels. First edition of this catalogue(consisting of the title and list) for an exhibition comprised of twelve watercolors and six oils. Additionally, an "An Extract from a Letter from Marin, Cape Split, Maine, August 18, 1935" occupies one of the panels. About fine.

New York: An American Place, 1946.. [2]pp. Large octavo broadsheet. About fine. First edition of this handlist (consisting solely of the title and list) for an exhibition comprised of twenty-one watercolors and nine oils helf at Stieglitz's gallery 30 November 1945 - 17 January 1946.

New York: An American Place, November 7 - December 27, 1938.. Oblong folio sheet, folded to 6 panels. First edition of this catalogue for an exhibition comprised of twenty-four watercolors and oils. In addition to the list, the catalogue reprints essays on Marin by McBride, Thomas Craven, Duncan Phillips, et al. Published as IT HAS BEEN SAID II:1. Fine.

New York: An American Place, 1937.. Quarto sheet, folded to four panels. Near fine. First edition of this handlist issued to accompany this exhibition held at Stieglitz's gallery, 5 January - 3 February 1937. Six oils, five drawings and sixteen watercolors were on exhibit. The rear panel announces the forthcoming O'Keeffe show.

New York: An American Place, 1942.. [4]pp. Large octavo. Folded leaflet. About fine. First edition of this catalogue (consisting solely of the title and list) for an exhibition comprised of twelve watercolors and sixteen oils, held at Stieglitz's gallery 17 November 1942 - 11 January 1943.

New York: The Intimate Gallery, 1925.. [4]pp. Large octavo, folded leaflet. Text printed in double columns. Very good to near fine. First edition of this promotional brochure issued in the course of the first exhibition held at Stieglitz's Intimate Gallery, then housed in room 303 of the Anderson Gallery Building, 7 December 1925 through 11 January 1926. The leaflet reprints reviews by Henry McBride from THE SUN, Forbes Watson from THE WORLD, Gou Eglinton from AMERICAN ART NEWS, Ralph Flint from the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, and Murdock Pemberton from THE NEW YORKER. Several of the notes are as much about Stieglitz and the new gallery as they are about Marin. LOWE, p. 434.

New York: An American Place, 1945.. [2]pp. Large octavo broadsheet. About fine. First edition of this handlist (consisting solely of the title and list) for an exhibition held at Stieglitz's gallery (27 November 1944 - 10 January 1945), comprised of thirteen watercolors and eleven oils.

New York: An American Place, November 5, 1943 - January 9, 1944.. [4]pp. Large octavo. Folded leaflet. First edition of this catalogue for an exhibition comprised of nine watercolors, six drawings and five oils. In addition to the list, the catalogue prints "A Letter from John Marin" to Stieglitz, dated 29 Sept. 1943. About fine.

Rochester: Rochester Institute of Technology, 1998.. 36,[4]pp. Octavo. Quarter gilt cloth and marbled paper over boards. Portrait frontis. Tipped-in wood- engravings and facsimiles. A fine copy. First edition, deluxe issue. Published under the auspices of the Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection. One of only 100 copies printed at the Stinehour Press after a design by Jerry Kelly. With essays by Jackson Burke and Eugene M. Ettenberg, a Foreword by Aveve Cohen, and a Check List of the press compiled by Herman Cohen. Some of the wood engravings are by John De Pol, and were printed by David Pankow. A fascicle of extra illustrations is enclosed within flaps mounted on the rear pastedown. A trade printing was published by David Godine. This limited issue is uncommon.