New York: The Colophon Ltd, (1932). Baumann, Gustave. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 3000 copies, print: 6.25" by 6.25" printed on 10.5" by 8.5" paper, book: quarto size, [97] pp. Gustave Baumann (1881-1971) was a German-American printmaker and painter, one of the leading figures in the revival of colour woodcuts;... More
London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press / Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1949. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall. 60 p. Provides details of the lives and works of over two hundred engravers, including Scottish engravers and Englishmen or others who worked in Scotland up to the early years of... More
Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo, 1980. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall Inscribed by Author(s). This volume an expanded version, printed in 1980, of an original work done by J. Collins published in 1973. "There is, of course, more to 'Women Artists in America' than the convenience of a biographical... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, printed at the Tuscan Press, 2001. DePol, John. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies, folio size, [163] pp., signed by John DePol. John DePol (1913-2004) is an American wood engraver out of New York; throughout his prolific career he has collaborated with... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, (1974). Picasso, Pablo. Hardcover. Folio size, 300 pp., signed by David Douglas Duncan. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish painter, printmaker, sculptor, and poet, is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century; his vision led him to deconstruct the conventions of perspective that... More
[New York]: The Black Sun Press [printed at the Gemor Press], 1943. Ernst, Max. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited trade edition, one of 610 copies, quarto size, 54 pp., inscribed by Max Ernst. "Misfortunes of the Immortals" is a collaboration between two of the great surrealist artists, painter and sculptor Max... More
Cannes, France: Devaye Imprimeurs, 1960. Picasso, Pablo. Broadside. Broadside 22" x 17 3/8", printed in color. An exhibition poster from the Galerie De Cannes, text letterpress and featuring a reproduction of the lithographic L'Atelier, by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), painted in Cannes in 1956; likely one of the lithographs on display... More
Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1998. Kent, Rockwell; Muniak, Susan (Photography). 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 96 p. Inscribed by Author. ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED by co-author and Kent specialist Scott R. Ferris to Riette Kahn, who with her husband, Albert, is mentioned on page 86... More
Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. First English edition, quarto size, [93] pp. Gehard Demetz (b. 1972) rose to international fame by applying his skill as a traditional woodcarver to contemporary subjects. His sculptures are mostly of children, and are composed by taking small woodblocks and puzzling them together... More
Paris / New York: Goupil & Co., Jean Boussoud, Manzi, Joyant & Co., Successor, 1900. Lawrence, Thomas. Limited Edition. Leather. Number 66 of 200 copies, elephant folio size, 191 pp. Limited edition of 200 copies, this no. 66, specially bound in full leather by Bickers & Son, London. Sir Thomas... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. Blake, William. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), folio size, approx. 600 total pp. After the publication of Edward Young's (1683-1765) acclaimed poem "The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality", written in nine parts, or "nights", and containing ruminations on death and human frailty... More
London: Chapman & Hall, LD. 1902. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), octavo size, 544 pp. William Giuseppe Gulland (d. 1906) spent most of his life as a merchant in the East where he developed an interest in Chinese porcelain. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London contains over 700 pieces of... More
New York: [Printed by the De Vinne Press], 1904. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 350 copies, unnumbered. Presentation copy, inscribed in 1923 by the author. Elephant Folio - over 15" to 23" tall. Archer M[ilton] Huntington (1870-1955) was a lifelong friend of the arts and philanthropist; known for... More
Basauri: (Grafilur, Impresion y Encuadernacion (Printing and Binding), 1990. Ibarrola, Agustin. Hardcover. Quarto size, 118 pp., inscribed by Agustin Ibarrola, in Spanish and Basque. INSCRIBED by artist "A Suzanne mi abrago (?) / Ibarrola" in blue ink on the copyright page. A catalogue of an exhibit of the work of Spanish... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., [1980]. Klimt, Gustav. Hardcover. Elephant folio size, [92] pp., illustrated, in clamshell box with original shipping carton. A selection of erotic drawings by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), published from a private collection focused on the nude female form, most in frankly erotic poses. Klimt began... More
Peking - China: Lotus Court Publications (printed by the Imprimerie des Lazaristes), 1937. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 429 of 500, signed by author, original wood-block prints, oblong quarto, unpaginated. First and limited edition of this book, printed in Peking and replete with lovely, full-colour original wood-block prints. A.... More
Berkeley / Hong Kong: SLG Books, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 128 pp., signed by Stanley Mouse, Joel Selvin, and Mickey Hart. The sudden explosion of a new and vital form of poster expression (in San Francisco) was one of the most interesting and important graphic developments of the... More
New York: Random House / Maecenas Press, [1970]. Pablo Picasso. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes complete, oblong folio size, approx. 347 pp. First edition, as stated. A collection of 347 gravures executed by Pablo Picasso (1881-1972) in intaglio, beginning in 1904. The subjects change from page to page, ranging from... More
New York: The Viking Press, (1981). Hardcover. Quarto size, 800 pp. Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) was a German-Jewish artist; born in Berlin, she fled Nazi Germany to live in the south of France, where she produced the 769 gouaches in "Life or Theater?". The book is a somewhat fictionalized account of... More
London: Harrap Limited, (1987). Steadman, Ralph. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, approx. [225] unnumbered pp., signed by Ralph Steadman in the year of publication. In "Scar Strangled Banger", Ralph Steadman focuses his attention on the United States of America in a grotesque and sharply witty collection of drawings in both... More
San Francisco: Printed by The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1959-1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Vols.1 and 3 limited to 400 copies; 2 and 4 limited to 450 copies, four volumes, folio size, all with original prospectus' slipped in. Edwin Grabhorn (1889-1968), along with his brother, Robert, founded... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1965. Utamaro, Kitagawa. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 450 copies, folio size, [36] pp., with prospectus. The Book Club of California's publication for Christmas 1965. Presents the pictures of Kitagawa Utamaro (1783-1806), an eighteenth-century Japanese artist that dealt with the process of silk... More
[New York], Printed in Verona: The Limited Editions Club, Printed at Stamperia Valdonega, 1966. Kredel, Fritz; Vasari, Giorgio. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, quarto size, 750 p., signed by book designer Giovanni Mardersteig. Giorgio Vasari (1511 – 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer, and historian, most famous... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2013. Wagener, Richard. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 145 of 308 copies, folio size, [61] pp., signed by Richard Wagener, with prospectus and cover letter. Richard Wagener (b. 1944) is an American wood engraver who creates gorgeous and detailed landscape scenes as well as... More
New York: Machmadim Art Editions, Inc., 1946. Walkowitz, Abraham. Hardcover. Quarto size, 63 pp., inscribed by Abraham Walkowitz, entirely in Hebrew. Abraham Walkowitz (1878-1965) was a figure immersed in the American Modernist movement, best known for his series of drawings of the dancer Isadora Duncan; "Ghetto Motifs" is a collection... More
![An Eagle Ceremony at Tesuque Pueblo [contained within the December, 1932 issue of The Colophon, A Book Collector's Quarterly, Volume III, Part Twelve]. Gustave Baumann.](/pictures/thumb/18082788_1.JPG?v=1539825879)
![Figure Prints of Old Japan [with] Landscape Prints of Old Japan [with] Ukiyo-e "The Floating World" [with] Twelve Wood-Block Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro; A Pictorial Pageant of Actors & Courtesans; From the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century; Illustrated by twenty-eight rare examples of Japanese woodblock prints by seventeen great masters of the art; Illustrating the Process of Silk Culture. Introduction, Descriptive Text, Harold P. Stern, Jack Hiller, Kitagawa Utamaro.](/pictures/thumb/CNBR032_1.JPG?v=1522112577)
