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Concord, CA: Heron House, 2010.. Large quarto. Cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper board decorated in blind. Frontis, illustrations and facsimiles (including a majority in color). A fine copy. First edition. From a total edition of 250 copies, this is copy #18 of 25 with an extra leaf inserted in front signed by many of the contributors. An intimate portrait of Angelo by way of contributions and reminiscences by 32 friends, librarians, printers, booksellers and collectors.

Boston: From J. Bumstead's Printing Office, 1798.. xxiv,[25]-264pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, rebacked, with slightly too flashy spine label. Scattered and significant browning and foxing, occasional marginal nicks and chips, a few scattered light stains, 1802 gift inscription on somewhat stained blank prelim, private name stamp in upper margin of title; just a good, sound copy. Denoted the "Third American Edition" of an English translation of SECRETS CONCERNANT LES ARTS ET METIERS, published originally in London in 1775. ESTC records a Norwich, CT printing in 1795, but no other North American printing that would serve as the other precedent. The usual substantial collection of recipes for edibles and drinkables, formulae for painting, etching, cleaning, dying and other household needs, along with modes of preserving fruits. ESTC locates 14 copies. ESTC W28501. EVANS 34913. RINK 157.

London: Duckworth, 1932.. Gray cloth, lettered in gilt. Endsheets slightly tanned, light foxing to top edge, crown of spine a bit rubbed, else a very good copy, without dust jacket. First edition of the author's second book, likely published, according to the author's recollection, in an edition of less than three thousand copies. This copy bears his early presentation inscription: "For Hans Martin, from the author Anthony Powell June 8th 1933 In memory of a delightful visit to Holland and in admiration of the K.L.M. - and its chief." LILLEY A2a.

[Paris: Michèle Broutta Éditeur, 1983].. Large quarto (13.75 x 11"; 35 x 28.5 cm). Loose bifolia laid into folding cloth clamshell box. Illustrated. Internally fine; the box is a bit sunned and nicked. First edition. Illustrated with 14 linogravures by Leppien, printed from blocks cut originally in 1948-50. One of 70 numbered copies, signed by the author and artist, from a total edition of 100 copies (30 APs and HCs). Additionally, two of the linogravures are signed in the margin by Leppien.

Athens: Kaufmann, Publishers, 1928.. 85,[3]pp. Large octavo (24 x 16 cm). Printed tan wrapper. Some chipping and tears at spine ends, otherwise a very good, largely unopened copy. First and only edition, ordinary issue. Copy #215 of 202 copies on ordinary paper, from a total edition of 300 (including 5 on Japan, 46 on Hollande, and 47 on Ingres). The copyright is taken in the name of H.F. Kaufmann, who might also be the author as well as publisher of this collection of verse dedicated to the author's wife. OCLC locates a single copy, at the University of Cincinnati, and a few attempts at tracking the existence of the "1st series" have been fruitless. To a disinterested eye, domestic affection appears to be the sole justification for the poet's efforts. OCLC :36730034.

Paris, January - March 1939.. Folio. Pictorial wrapper (after Rouault). Plates, photographs and illustrations. Properly deaccessioned institutional duplicate with tiny release stamp on verso of title, pencil literary ownership signature in corner of title, small chip from upper forecorner of front wrapper, several repaired tears in spine covering, internally very good or better, without slipcase. Illustarted with original color lithographs by Matisse (including the double-spread "The Dance)" and Andre Derain (accompanying Mardrus's "In the Garden of Allah"), along with photos by Brassai and others, and text (translated by Robert Sage) by Valery, Reverdy, Garcia Lorca, Sartre, Bataille, and many others.

Paris, March - June 1938.. Whole number two. Folio. Pictorial wrapper (after Georges Braque). Plates, photographs and illustrations. Properly deaccessioned institutional duplicate with tiny release stamp on verso of title, small chips at spine ends, otherwise very good or better. Lacking the slipcase. Illustrated with original color lithographs by Wassily Kandinsky and André Masson, accompanying text by Braque, Valery, Reverdy, Gide, Malraux, Joyce ("A Phoenix Park Nocturne," from WIP), Hemingway ("The Heat and the Cold"), Bataille, Michaux, et al. SLOCUM & CAHOON C93. GRISSOM C382.

Paris, July - October 1939.. Special double number produced on the occasion of the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York. Folio. Pictorial wrapper (after Maillol). Plates, photographs and illustrations. Properly deaccessioned institutional duplicate with two tiny release stamps, old external tape mends at spine ends, near minor splash mark in upper fore-quarter of the upper wrapper, internally very good. Slipcase not present. A substantial double number, including original lithographs by Braque, Rouault, Deraon, Leger, Bonnard, Matisse, Kl;ee, et al. Translations by Robert Sage of texts by Valery, Gide, Paulhan, Supervielle, Sartre, Reverdy, Jarry, Michaux, Monnier, Freund, et al, and photos by Brassai, and others.

London: Elliot Stock, 1885.. Two volumes. Small octavo. Contemporary three-quarter calf. Binding quite worn, but internally sound, upper joint of second volume split, spine stamping obliterated. Small gilt morocco bookplate (a hunting horn within a gilt circle, without text) in each volume. Internally very good. A facsimile of the first edition, with a Preface by Austin Dobson. A lovely association copy, inscribed in the first volume in ink: "Margaret Burne-Jones from her father Dec. 1885." The recipient's name is embellished with two branches with leaves and a small drawing of a bird. On the next blank page appears an inscription in another hand, in ink: "Laura Tennant. married. May 21 1885 [/] Laura Lyttleton. S. April 24 1886." Laura Tennant (later Lyttleton) was an intimate friend of the Burne-Jones family. She sat for a pencil portrait by Edward, ca. 1885, and she served as a model for a mermaid in "The Depths of the Sea." (1886). She owned a number of works by him, and was a prominent member of… Read More

Boston: David Godine, [1978], and Lexington: The Anvil Press, 1981.. Two volumes. Quarto. Quarter publisher's leather and cloth. Plates (some in color), illustrations and facsimiles. Spine stamping on one volume a bit tarnished, otherwise about fine. First editions, limited issues, of these two complementary works, limited to fifty sets press-numbered in Roman, specially bound, from editions of 500 and 550 copies respectively, elegantly printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. A tribute to one of the multi-gaited masters of the 20th century, including a bibliography of the four presses with which Hammer and heirs were associated. This set is not accompanied by the envelope of ephemera that was issued with the deluxe sets.

Paris: Guilhot, Editeur, 1946.. Quarto. Loose, untrimmed signatures laid into printed wrapper. Illustrated with 65 original full and partial-page color lithographs. Light foxing to the wrapper and blank endleaves otherwise very good or better in broken slipcase. First edition in this format of Duhamel's fine fictional account of action in the Great War, based in part on his own experiences, with a new Preface by the author, and illustrated with original lithographs, in color, by Edmond Lajoux. One of 830 numbered copies on vélin de Rives pur fil, from a total of 890 copies. "The Verdun episode ... is in particular a wonderful piece of writing, standing high among the fiction of the War" - Falls. FALLS, p.272. MONOD 4052.

[Paris]: Éditions de la Revue Fontaine, [1946].. 63,[5]pp. Octavo. Original printed wrapper, bound up in gilt lettered cloth. Frontis and plates. Neatly deaccessioned special collections duplicate, with release stamp at lower edge of rear wrapper, a bookplate on the pastedown with deaccession stamp, and shelf label on upper boards. Second edition, adding one poem to the original selection in the 1918 original edition. Copy # 243 of 600 numbered copies "sur surglacé d'édition," from a total of 776 copies.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1920.. Paper boards, printed spine label. Properly deaccessioned special collections duplicate, with bookplate bearing withdrawal stamp on pastedown. Spine label tanned, otherwise a very good copy of a fragile book. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies printed by John Henry Nash. A relatively early work by the radical poet, with a expansive 1921 presentation inscription from her on the half-title.

[New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 1990].. Aluminum and paper construction, contained in 16mm film canister (24 cm diameter), with printed labels on and inside the upper lid. Fine. Copy #35 of an edition planned to consist of 74 copies. Signed by Bartalos, and by Dikko Faust and Esther K. Smith, principals of the press. The construction contains four accordion-fold booklets, letterpress printed on handmade, Khadi jute paper. Each is bound between aluminum covers, which are die-cut into the profile shapes of a cat, duck, crocodile and man's head. They're attached with nuts and bolts to a circular, revolving disk, hinged to a die-cut figure, in an allusion to multi-headed conceptions of Hindu deities. The whole, when folded, is then inserted into the felt-lined film canister, calculated as an ode to Bollywood. "I was in India on this trip with my college roommate, and I was really struck by the industrialization and the modernization of India, juxtaposed with the traditional aspects of it ... It's such an… Read More

Los Angeles: Privately Printed [at the Private Press of Muir Dawson], 1948.. [16]pp. plus endsheets. 12mo. (15.5 x 11.5 cm). Plain stiff wrapper, printed label. About fine. First edition, the special issue of 30 copies for members of the Rounce & Coffin Club. There were also 120 copies for regular distribution. An anecdotal account of a visit to Rosenbach at his grandiloquent prime by the founder of Dawson's Book Shop. There were at least two subsequent editions formatted as miniatures. Uncommon.

Bruxellis: Apud Ant. Collaer Bibliopolam, 1778.. 32pp. plus engraved title and 30 engraved plates. Quarto (28 x 19.5 cm). Full grayish tan crushed levant, upper board decorated in blind with cathedral-style motif, with twin inlaid lighter morocco circular window panes, signed by William Anthony on rear pastedown. Fine in half-morocco clamshell case. Second edition, being a faithful recreation of the work first published in Antwerp in 1610. Otto van Veen (c. 1556 - 1629) ran a large studio in Antwerp, and included among his students P. Paul Reubens. He produced a number of important emblem books, as well as this series of thirty "Effigies D. Thomae Aquvinatis," with engravings of historical and apocryphal scenes in Aquinas's life executed after Veen's designs and those of others by Boel, Swanenberg, Galle, van Paenderen, et al. The restrained and thematically appropriate binding was executed by the Irish-born binder and conservator William Anthony (1926-1989). Anthony trained in Dublin and worked in… Read More

[Düsseldorf: The Artist], November 1990.. 26 pictorial cards, plus interleaves and manuscript title. (125 x 175 mm). Collage and hand-painting. Contained in handpainted box, with manuscript title and date repeated inside the lid. Slight crack to one joint of the lid, otherwise about fine. A unique assemblage by the collagist and installation artist, comprised of an alphabet of 26 collaged cards, made up of found images with text captions, chiefly on subjects of armaments and conflict, each overpainted in blood red and gunmetal gray. Both the manuscript title and the inside of the upper lid are signed by Rungenhagen (1949-). The implication of the caption title is that this is likely one of a series of artist's alphabets.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1957.. [21]pp. Oblong small quarto. String-tied wrapper, with printed label. Illustrated. About fine in very good slipcase with moderate sunning along spine and edges. First printing in this format, illustrated with six wood-engravings and one woodcut by the printer, Leonard Baskin. From a total of one thousand copies printed at the Gehenna Press, this is one of 975 numbered copies, signed by Baskin. The second of the series of illustrated limited editions published by MOMA under the direction of Monroe Wheeler. SCHWARTZ & SCHWEIK A8. BROOK 11. BASKIN 11. ARTIST & THE BOOK 13.

[Chalon-sur-Saône, France: Phototypie Bourgeois & Fils, nd. but no earlier than 1895].. [ca. 40 leaves, printed on rectos only]. Oblong quarto. Stiff decorated upper wrapper. Photographs and facsimiles. Upper wrapper quite soiled, some shallow chipping at edges, text printed on very cheap paper, hence rather tanned and delicate. Intact and almost good. Approximately 18 leaves are occupied by scenes around the winery and the remainder reproduce labels, jury awards and certificates of merit awarded to their production, the earliest dated 1873. Uncommon, no copies are located in WorldCat/OCLC.