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Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1850. leather_bound. Contermporary full brown calf, black leather spine label printed in gilt. Near fine. 83 pages. 27 x 22 1/2 cm. One of the early and important Pattern Books, and the author's first in that genre. This is the fifth: preceded by The American Builder; The Rudiments of Architecture; The Practical House Carpenter… Read more about this item

London & New York: John Lane & Dodd, Mead, 1928. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth rebacked. Very good. Alastair. 197 pages. 32 x 26 cm. Limited edition, copy 1120 of 1850. The 11 full-page illustrations are color lithographs with lettered tissue guards. Illustrated endpapers are also color lithographs, but with separate designs. Title page in red and black. Covers… Read more about this item

Paris & London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Hardcover. Both copies fine in worn publisher slipcase. 71 & 106 pages. 29 x 20 cm. Five full-page pochoir plates illustrated by Derain on black paper (gouache drawings). Type designed by A.M. Cassandre, a new face, called Peignot and set by hand. Limited edition, copies 691 of 1500 signed by Derain.… Read more about this item

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1985. Hardcover. Orig. dark green Nigerian goat spine and Irish linen cloth. Fine in fine slipcase lined with ultrasuede. Ballagh, Robert. 289 pages. 26 x 19 cm. Six photogravures by Robert Ballagh, each with tissue guard. Introduction by Thomas Flanagan. Limited edition, copy 752 of 1000, signed by Thomas Flanagan and Robert Ballagh,… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown publisher's cloth embossed in blind and lettered in gilt. Very good. 189 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Additional vignette title and twenty-three plates. Each design with plans. The latter were available for a modest fee; marketed to "the small farmer, and the laboring man generally." HITCHCOCK 272. KARPEL… Read more about this item

Paris: Verve, 1948. First edition. Orig. colored wrappers over stiff boards with the original glassine overwrapper lacking small pieces at backstrip head. Very good. Picasso, Pablo. Unpaginated. 35 x 27 cm. Dedicated to Picasso and his work at Antibes. Abundantly illustrated: eighteen tipped-in full-color plates and 21 black and white plates. Text in French. VERVE, p.182 ".... one… Read more about this item

Bonxville: Meriden Gravure Co, Nd. First edition. Wraps. Orig. dark gray decorated wrappers. Fine. Angelo, Valenti. Unpaginated. 25 x 16 cm. Title page printed in red and black, a career in his own words he calls "a most wonderful adventure.

Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. printed stiff wrappers. Fine in original glassine nicked with some minor loss. Brancusi, Constantin. 55 pages. 21 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 325 of 500 on Holland Van Gelder Zonen. Preface by C.K. Ogden. Portrait of the author by C. Brancusi. Title printed in red and black: The… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated beige cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 619 pages. 21 x14 cm. With dust wrapper noting "First Edition," and noting the $2.75 price at publication. Dust wrapper designed by Elmer Hader. Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Perhaps the most influential, and best remembered book to come out… Read more about this item

Lunenburg: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Hardcover. Patterned multicolored cloth in Colonial pattern, leather spine label printed in gilt. Fine in fine brown slipcase. Ward, Lynd. 328 pages. 26 x 16 cm. Illustrated by Lynd Ward, two color wood engravings, twelve full pages, six roundels and eight scutiform tailpiece decorations. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Limited edition, copy 1267… Read more about this item

Westport: Limited Editions Club, 1977. Hardcover. Olive green cowhide spine lettered in gilt, cover in French hand-made marbled paper. Teg. Fine in fine olive cloth slipcase. Deouard Detaille. 120 French leaved pages. 27.5 x 21.5 cm. Illustrations are reproduced from engravings by Edouard Detaille, printed at Meriden Gravure Company. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 1600. Laid-in the LEC… Read more about this item

Paris: Rene Kieffer, 1923. leather_bound. Orig. full two-toned brown leather, covers decorated in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Teg. Fine. 54 pages. 24 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 95 of 500 on velin la forme with 45 vignettes in pochoir by Joseph Hemard. An exquisite copy bound by Kieffer with his label on verso of… Read more about this item

Paris: Verve, 1948. First edition. Stiff Boards. Orig. colored wrappers over stiff boards. Picasso, Pablo. Unpaginated. 35 x 27 cm. Dedicated to Picasso and his work at Antibes. Abundantly illustrated: eighteen tipped-in full-color plates and 21 black and white plates. Text in French. VERVE, p.182 ".... one of the unique qualities of "Verve" Nos. 19/20: a unity of… Read more about this item

London: Charles Tilt / Tilt & Bogue / David Bogue, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Housed in custom slotted board box with lid. Very good. Cruikshank, George. In the original parts. 17 x 11 cm., and 14 x 9 cm (1848-1849). 195 etched plates by Cruikshank, plus five fold-out plates, four in color. Thackeray contributed to the 1839-1840 issues. Contains practically… Read more about this item

London: B. T. Batsford, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Near fine. 191 pages. 25 x 19.5 cm. Photographs and plans to scale -- 149 in total, Contemporary design of the mid-century in England, USA, and Europe. Glossary. Index. Owner inscription.

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… Read more about this item

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated brick cloth. Very good. Wright, Frank Lloyd. 561 pages. 22 x 22 cm. Illustrations within the text, and a series of family photographs after the text. KARPEL B1338. "First edition of a classic in the literature of American architecture. The second edition (1943) is incorrectly designated… Read more about this item

Esslingen bei Suttgart: J.F. Schreiber, 1891. First edition. Stiff Boards. Orig. flexible stiff cream wrappers, illustrated and decorated in colors. Near fine. 104 pages. 29 x 21 cm. Satiric and humorous hand colored and monochrome wood-cuts, This publication published in 57 issues starting 1888, Meggedorfer being influential in content and appearance, some stories in pictorial form a la… Read more about this item

Paris: Maeght, 1955. Hardcover. Orig. boards with illustrated wrapper in three colors. Near fine. Braque, Georges. 117 pages. 31 x 23 cm. More than 100 pen and ink illustrations in black and white by Georges Braque, together with text by him. This is the expanded edition which contains the separate supplement of sketches and drawings for the years… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817. leather_bound. Full maroon morocco.Aeg. Very good. 96 pages. 26.5 x 19 cm. First published 1711. Limited ediiton, Large Paper Copy [Imperial Edition], one of 200. With three ALS laid-in -- two from James Rimell & Son Ltd, a London Bookseller to Edgar H. Wells, rare book dealer in New York from… Read more about this item