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Paris: Maeght, 1969. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. Kandinsky, Wassily. 18 [8] pages. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. With 5 original lithographs after Kandinsky, including the back and front covers and 2 double-page lithographs; plus 3 other color repoductions. Text in French by Gaeton Picon. Fresh, crisp copy.

Paris: Pierre Terrail, 1992. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth. Fine. Kandinsky, Wassily. 223 pages. Voluminously illustrated with a plethora of full color reproductions. Bibliography. Translated by Judith Hayward. Color plates of excellent fidelity.

Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1922. Hardcover. Orig. boards and yellow cloth spine. Very good. 68 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. One of 1375 copies in Caslon O.F. type. CHANTICLEER 5. "It seems doubtful whether the 25 signed copies announced were ever issued..." Spine extremities nicked, paper spine label rubbed, corners bumped, owner inscription, Selfridge's book label.

New York: Rathenau, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated tan cloth. Fine. Hofer, Karl. Unpaginated. 30 x 23.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 156 of 600. Catalogue raisonne of prints. Important German expressionist. German text.

London: Frederick Warne, 1926. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's boards. Very good. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations are from the actual first printing of the 1891 almanack with text for the year 1927. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me." [see: GORDON N. RAY, p.157]. Bright, very clean copy. Gold paper spine, front and back covers illustrated in different formats-- front cover depicts young lady with three children against leaf motif border.

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1905. Three quarter green calf and light blue cloth. Teg. Very good. Greenaway, Kate. 301 pages. 21.5 x 16 cm. Fifty-three full-color and ninety black and white illustrations. Bound by Zahnsforf. Extensive Index. FREITAG 3926. Raised bands, spine panels lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, backstrip faded to brown.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1822. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white decorated and illustrated boards. Very good. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me. GORDON N. RAY, p.157. Bright, clean copy. Front cover, little ladies holding hands. Rubbing to front cover and spine, front cover flecking.

London: George Routledge, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. imitation white morocco lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers. Aeg. Fine. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 cm. Illustrated and printed by Edmund Evans with illustrations for each month. With an additional four full page plates. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me." [see: GORDON N. RAY, p.157]. Tiny bookseller label of D.B. Friend, Brighton.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white decorated and illustrated boards. Very good. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me. GORDON N. RAY, p.157. Bright, clean copy. Front cover depicts young lady holding an infant in her arms with two young children at either side within a floral leaf border.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1890. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. white leather lettered and decorated in gilt. Aeg. Near fine. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me. GORDON N. RAY, p.157. Bright, clean copy. Front cover depicts young lady holding an infant in her arms with two young children at either side within a floral leaf border.

Washington,DC: National Gallery of Art, 1990. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 230 pages. 11 x 9". More than 200 plates, many in color. Bibliography. Index.

Edinburgh & London: Archibald Constantable Cadell and Co., and John Ballantyne And Hurst Robinson, And Co, 1821. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary flat spine, three quarter brown morocco and green boards with marbled endpapers. Near fine. 3 Vols. 320, 369, 348 pages. 18.5 x 11.5 cm. Half titles. First state, mixed state with printer's on the verso of the titles, Vol. 1-2. p.119 in first state in Volume two and p. 338 in second state. TODD & BOWDEN 149AA-B. WORTHINGTON 11. Two pages of adverts end of Vol. III. Clean, fresh set.

London: R. Baldwin, 1788. Third edition. leather_bound. Modern full brown calf. Fine. 387 pages. 21 x 13 cm. Two engraved folding plates of circular staircases and components. Originally published 1774. COLVIN p.739. "advertised himself in "Aris's Birmingham Gazette" as a Surveyor and Builder from London, who proposes drawing Plans, Elevations and Sections.....He was a carpenter and joiner by trade." This work presents a detailed discussion of the methods and practices of measuring materials and estimating jobs. Moderate age-toning, portion of second plate professionally repaired and restored in facsimile on old paper, raised bands, spine label printed in gilt, cover border panels decorated in blind.

London: W.H. Allen, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth. Very good in rubbed dust wrapper. 446 pages. Signed by the author on title page. Price clipped dust wrapper.

New York: Abrams, 1989. First edition. Cloth. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 264 pages. 30 x 25 cm. More than 700 illustrations, including 12 maps. Bright, fresh copy.

Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Partly unopened. Orig. illustrated grey cloth. Near fine. 92 pages. Profusely illustrated with the original cartoons by Herb Roth from "The Bulletins". Features biographical and background material by Dolores Waldorf Bryant. This integrative volume reprints Waldorf's original stories from the San Francisco Bulletin of the early1900's. Waldorf's works are supplemented with a wealth of background information culled from other historical records and newspapers of the time. Number 16in the series of Keepsakes issued by the Bancroft Library.

New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine in near fine dust wrapper with small nicks at front cover lower corner and spine. Sendak, Maurice. Unpaginated. 22.5 x 15 cm. Signed presentation copy on free front endpaper in blue ink, "To David Greeve - Maurice Sendak Jan. 74." A tale from the Brothers Grimm illustrated with color plates on each page.

London: J.M. Dent, 1935. Hardcover. Orig. decorated, crimson cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 165 pages. Edited by M.R. Ridley. The New Temple Shakespeare. With title-page, half-title binding, and jacket designs by Eric Gill. Teg.

New York: Random House, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. striated red cloth, front cover with silver and white initials, backstrip decorated in black with gilt lettering. Teg. Fine in very good brown publisher slipcase with spine lettering. 348 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 768 of 1050 signed by Sinclair Lewis in black ink, printed on Laid paper. The first American awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. H.L. Mencken called him "a red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds." Bright, very fresh copy. Title page printed in red and black.

New York: Brentano's, 1925. Hardcover. Orig. half white cloth and decorated gray boards. Teg. Very good in nicked dust wrapper. 151 pages. 29 x 24 cm. Ten full-color, tipped-in, full-page illustrations mounted on white art paper, framed with tin and wider grey-green lines, covered with tissue guards printed at top with black letterpress. Limited edition, copy 451 of 625. The London Times Literary critic praised this work, "at his best" and "fantastically Persian," but it was not a commercial success. The American edition also received wide acclaim, "he used the conventional Persian style with perspective, rich in decorative forms and jewel-like colours, bringing out the beauty of minute things by the use of colour and graceful line." [see: HUGHEY 54e]. Lovely, bright and fresh copy, front cover board decorated in silver motifs with paper spine label, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, slight crinkle to spine foot, lower front cover corner.