Josef Albers: His Work as Contribution to Visual Articulation in the Twentieth Century
New York: George Wittenborn Inc., 1968. More
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The Paper Snake
New York: Something Else Press, 1965. Cloth. A solid, presentable copy of the 1965 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with a number of closed tears inconspicuously re-inforced by white masking tape along the inside of the dustjacket. Oblong quarto, highlighting amomng other things..... More
Hitting the Big 5-0 SIGNED
New York: Catchword Papers, 1983. Original wraps. The 1983 1st edition, "limited to 26 copies lettered A to Z and one hundred numbered copies signed by the author". This is #99 of the 100 numbered, signed copies. Crisp and Near Fine in its stapled wrappers, with just a touch of..... More
Inside the Trojan Horse SIGNED
San Francisco: Don't Call It Frisco Press, 1988. Original wraps. SIGNED BY LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI on the front free endpaper. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1988 1st edition. Crisp and Near Fine in its pictorial wrappers. More
Toshinobu Onosato
Tokyo: Minami Gallery, 1964. Boards. Uncommon monograph on Japanese printmaker Toshinobu Onosato (1912-1986). Solid and Fine in its boards. And in a bright, light-blue, Near Fine dustjacket, with very light offsetting along the bottom-edges. Tall quarto, crisp color and black-and-white reproductions thruout. Text in both Japanese and English. More
Helena Hernmarck: Tapestry Artist
Stockholm: Byggforlager Kultur, 1999. Cloth. A nice Association copy: INSCRIBED BY THE TAPESTRY ARTIST HELENA HERNMARCK TO DIANNE PILGRIM, FORMER DIRECTOR OF NEW YORK'S COOPER-HEWITT MUSEUM. A near-pristine copy to boot of the 1999 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of..... More
Cameo Glass: Masterpieces from 2000 Years of Glassmaking SIGNED
Corning, NY: The Corning Museum of Glass, 1982. Original wraps. A nice Association copy: INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHORS LEONARD AND JULIETTE RAKOW TO DIANNE PILGRIM, FORMER DIRECTOR OF NEW YORK'S COOPER-HEWITT MUSEUM. (Also includes a laid-in 1 pg. TLS from the Rakows to Dianne Pilgrim). A pristine copy to boot..... More
Cast-Iron Architecture in America: The Significance of James Bogardus SIGNED
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998. Cloth. SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS MARGOT AND CAROL GAYLE on the title page. A prIstine copy to boot of the 1998 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a crisp, Fine dustjacket. ALSO INCLUDES A WARM LETTER (laid-in) FROM THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF NEW..... More
A'ndare of Sri Lanka SIGNED
Cremora, Italy: Cartobina, 1981. Tilak Samarawickrema. Cloth. A nice Association copy: INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR/ARTIST TILAK SAMARAWICKREMA TO DIANNE PILGRIM, FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE COOPER-HEWITT MUSEUM IN NEW YORK. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1981 1st edition. Clean and Fine in its orange cloth. And including a...... More
The Making of an American (With a 3 Pg. Jacob Riis Letter) SIGNED
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. Cloth. An impressive Association copy. The May 1904 reprint of Jacob Riis's autobiography, WITH A 3 PG. 1905 HANDWRITTEN LETTER BY RIIS TO RABBI JAMES WATERMAN WISE (THE SON OF RENOWNED RABBI STEPHEN WISE) TIPPED-IN at the front. ADDITIONALLY, INSCRIBED IN PENCIL BY RIIS..... More
The Ultra-Fashionable Peerage of America: An Official List of Those People Who Can Properly Be Called Ultra-Fashionable in the United States SIGNED
New York: George Harjes, Publisher, 1904. Cloth. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR CHARLES WILBUR DE LYON NICHOLS along the margins of his frontispiece portrait. A solid, very presentable copy to boot of the 1904 1st edition of this uncommon look at the elite of America's gilded age . Bright and..... More
A Vietnamese View of Human Nature
Santa Monica, CA: Indochina Peace Campaign, 1973. Original wraps. Uncommon 1973 1st edition of this impassioned booklet extolling the peaceful ways of the North Vietnamese, authored by political activist (and future Mayor of Santa Monica) Tom Hayden. Clean and Near Fine in its stapled wrappers, with dozens of photos thruout..... More
Jim Thompson: The Killers Inside Him
Cedar rapids, Iowa: Fedora Press, 1983. Original wraps. A very sharp copy of the 1983 1st edition, limited to 425 copies (this one unnumbered). Crisp and Near Fine in its pictorial wrappers. Octavo, featuring the previously unpublished Thompson novella, "This World, Then the Firworks" More
Aristotle's Prior and Posterior Analytics
Oxford University Press (The Clarendon Press), 1949. Cloth. A handsome copy of the 1949 1st thus, the 1st appearance of the "revised text with Introduction and Commentary by W.D. Ross". Solid and VG+ (light offsetting at the endsheets and pastedowns) in a crisp, price-clipped, VG+ dustjacket, with a bit of..... More
Historiae (2 Vols.)
Oxford: Oxford University Press (The Clarendon Press). Cloth. The 1967 and 1966 reprints respectively, in 2 volumes and part of Oxford University Press's formidable "Oxford Classical Texts" series. Both volumes clean and Near Fine in crisp, Near Fine dustjackets. Thick 12mos, edited and with critical notes by Carolus Hude. Books..... More
Documents in Mycenaean Greek: Three Hundred Selected Tablets from Knossos, Pylos and Mycenae with Commentary and Vocabulary
Cambridge University Press, 1959. Cloth. A very presentable copy of this early, 1959 reprint. Solid and VG+ (tasteful former owner bookplate at the front pastedown) in a crisp, price-clipped, VG+ dustjacket, with very light chipping along the spine crown and the front panel's top-edge. Thick octavo, "with Introduction commentary &..... More
Bones: His Gags and Stump Speeches; Nigger and Dutch Stories and Dialogues, "Broken China" Dialect Pieces
New York: Wehman Bros. 1879. Original wraps. 1879 booklet of gags, stump speeches and dialects by the raconteur "Bones". Clean and VG- in its light-brown, pictorial wrappers, with light chipping and several very small closed tears along the panel edges. 12mo, publisher's quaint ads preceding and following the text. More
Comoediae (2 Vols.)
Oxford: Oxford University Press (The Clarendon Press), 1963. Cloth. The 1963 and 1965 reprints respectively, in 2 volumes and part of Oxford University Press's formidable "Oxford Classical Texts" series. Both volumes clean and Near Fine in crisp, Near Fine dustjackets. Thick 12mos, edited and with a Preface by W.M. Lindsay..... More
Satyricon
Munich: Ernst Heimeran Verlag, 1961. Cloth. The 1961 1st edition of this German-produced edition of Petronius's "Satyricon", with the full text in Latin exclusively. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, VG dustjacket, with light soiling (mostly age-spotting) along the panels. Octavo, edited by Konrad Muller. More
A La Recherche du Temps Perdu (3 Vols.)
Paris: Bibliotheque de la Pleiade (Edition Gallimard), 1954. Leather bound. The elegant 1954 Pleiade edition of Proust's "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu", complete in 3 volumes. All 3 volumes solid and VG+ in their chocolate-brown leatherette. Former owner blindstamp at each volume's second front endpaper, small ink notes to..... More
San Francisco Giants 1959 Schedule Calendar
San Francsisco: Wakefield Castrol Motor Oil (Mack Newman/Jack Nadel, Inc.), 1958. A nice piece of San Francisco Giant and baseball ephemera, an all-but-pristine example of this schedule/calendar from the 1959 season. Handsomely matted and framed (in a decorative soft gold) as well. The schedule/calendar measures 14" wide x 17" tall..... More
Signed Mid 1960s Orlando Cepeda Poster Promoting Milk ("Drink milk and improve your Batting Average")
c. 1965. Scarce public health poster promoting milk and featuring baseball hall-of-famer Orlando Cepeda as its spokesman. Cepeda, the great San Francisco Giant first baseman (thru 1966) is donning bat, glove, the Giants uniform and a nice smile in the front-and-center photo of him. HE HAS NEATLY SIGNED HIS NAME..... More
Original 1952 R&B Promotional Poster of B.B. King & Bill Harvey
Houston: Buffalo Booking Agency, 1952. Scarce 1952 promotional poster for 27 year old R&B singer and guiatrist B.B. King and his bandleader and saxophonist Bill Harvey. Crisp and bright in its pictorial yellow and red, with clear, offsetting black titling. Very light creasing and thumb tack-sized holes at each corner..... More
1885 Watercolor of Harvard's Original Boathouse
Lovely, evocative 1885 watercolor of Harvard's original boathouse, proudly situated on the Cambridge side of the banks of the Charles River. Painted by E.M. Fairchild and signed, titled and dated in his hand at the lower left corner. Crisp, clean and very sharp, with several of Harvard's buildings (including Memorial..... More
Bijou Funnies (Nos. #1-8)
Chicago: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1968-1973. Robert Crumb, Jay Kinney, Skip Williamson, Jayzey Lynch et al. Original wraps. An impressive run of the first 8 issues of the "Bijou Funnies", published between 1968-1973 and including Robert Crumb, Jay Kinney, Skip Williamson and Jayzey Lynch as frequent contributors and illustrators. All 8..... More