Portland, OR: Parasol Press, 2014. Limited Edition. Loose Sheets. A collection of 10 aquatints on Rives Paper. Leon Battista Alberti, renaissance scholar, artist and architect, coined the term Concinnitas to connote the beauty found in the confluence of perfect uses of number, position and outline. In 2012, Parasol commissioned ten.....
Price: $12,500.00
Edinburgh: King Penguin Books, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes 16 full page color plates (each of a different species of duck). Increasingly hard to find in presentable condition. Ownership signature at the ffep, hint of sun at spine, else tight, bright, and unmarred. DJ priceclipped, light sun at the spine.....
Price: $45.00
Mt. Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper, 1965. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Penciled bookseller notation on ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Glassine dustjacket has several small tears and chips on spine. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt initials and gilt lettering on spine. Original glassine dustjacket. 12mo. 68pp. Red ink frontispiece. Limited edition of.....
Price: $75.00
Philadelphia, PA: Distaff Side, 1939. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Eight images of Goudy at the rear documenting various stages of his life. Minor shelf/edge wear, minor toning to spine, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue paper spine, paper labels, red ink lettering, frontispiece. 8vo. 58pp plus plates. Illus. (b/w plates). Limited.....
Price: $75.00
Ovando, MT: Peter Bowen. First Edition. Broadside. A pristine copy of this very scarce broadside (only other publicly available copy appears to be located in the Special Collections of a Western university). Bright and unmarred. 12"x20". Illus. (pen sketch). Inscribed by author to noted Hollywood producer, Monty Montgomery.
Price: $125.00
London: Charles Knight And Co., 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Previously owned by Oliver Sacks. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific.....
Price: $200.00
Melbourne: Masterthief, 2013. Limited Edition. Stiff Wraps. "[O]ccasioned by BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, August 20, 2010, which also refers in red-printed wood type to the locations and dates of other environmental disasters associated with extractive industries. An epigraph by Lillian Hellman refers to the people who.....
Price: $1,500.00
New York: Peter Dayton, 2009. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Exhibition catalogue. "Dayton’s White Chick paintings isolate the sexism inherent to surf culture (and Minimalism) and turns it on its head by using as his centerfold an artist who has successfully controlled her body imagery" [Carolee Schneeman]. [Salon 94 Exhibition description].....
Price: $125.00
Peter Paul Draewing, 1876-1940, as a German artist and teacher was mostly recognized for his French Impressionist style landscape paintings. Bookplate depicts an alchemist or a wizard with a long white beard formulating a potion or some chemical concoction in a laboratory with alchemical symbols, hourglass, skull, book, mortar and.....
Price: $100.00
Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders, 1984. Second Edition. Hardcover. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In.....
Price: $200.00
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989. New Edition. Original Wraps. Underlined by Oliver Sacks in red. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to.....
Price: $100.00
Nürnberg, Germany: Johann Eberhard Zeh Wwe. bzw. Zeh sche Buchhandlung, 1815-1816. First Edition (Parts1-3). Paper over boards. Translation of title: General experimental chemistry arranged, according to a useful and easy method, for the comprehension of every one; or: General practical house and art book for homebuilders, artists, economists, manufacturers and.....
Price: $400.00
Lockerbie, Scottland: Hesten Isle Press, 1990. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. Catalog of miniature letterpress books. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Burgundy paper boards. 52x72mm. 51pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
Price: $25.00
East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press, 1996. First Edition. Original Wraps. Annotations and underlining by Oliver Sacks on pp. 271-275. Dr. Sacks often made comments in the margins or had conversations with the author in the text. Signed by Sacks on title page. Posthumously designed book plate by a friend of.....
Price: $200.00
Melbourne: Masterthief, 2013. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Maps are made, directions given and GPS readings issued in order to clarify. Can there be a city without a map? Some way down the road there are those instructions which map out the ways we can improve our ordinary lives. And, on a......
Price: $1,750.00
Unity, Maine: North Country Press, 1988. First Edition. Original Wraps. Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern coast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism.....
Price: $20.00
London: Peter Lawrence/Signal Books, 2023. Limited Edition [Deluxe]. Original Wraps. There were two special issues, one of 50 copies with a bonus plate at the rear and signed and the other, a boxed set with with a copy of the book signed by both illustrator and author, each with a......
Price: $950.00
Melbourne: Masterthief, 2014. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Peter Lyssiotis is a photographer/photomonteur, filmmaker, writer and book artist who has worked in the field of bookarts for over 25 years." Tight, bright, and unmarred. Red cloth boards, printed endpages; laid in bookmark. Small 8vo. np. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this.....
Price: $750.00
Melbourne, Australia: Masterthief, 2010. Limited Edition. Hardcover. With texts by Bernie Rackham, Monica Oppen and Wayne Stock. In the words of the artist 'This is the most personal book I've made. I use a reading of Federico Garcia Lorca as a crutch to hobble through the dark corridors of a......
Price: $4,500.00
Melbourne: Masterthief, 2011. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "62,400 repetitions make one truth." "The book has been photocopied using three different papers...using only the most basic functions of the photocopier and has taken on the design follies of the commercial cargo which arrives daily in my letter box. The quote which is.....
Price: $1,750.00
Melbourne, Australia: Masterthief, 2009. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Bound by master binder Friedrich Pohlmann. "One Way Home takes the form of a private devotional codex–an intimate book for personal use much like a medieval book of hours. However, it becomes immediately apparent after a few pages that this is not a......
Price: $1,500.00
Melbourne: Masterthief, 2011. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Peter Lyssiotis is a photographer/photomonteur, filmmaker, writer and book artist who has worked in the field of bookarts for over 25 years." Tight, bright, and unmarred. Red cloth boards, printed endpages; laid in bookmark. Small 8vo. np. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this.....
Price: $750.00
Prahran, Australia: Champion, 1985. First Edition/Limited Edition. Original Wraps. One-volume collection of four photo-narratives by Lyssiotis. The Great Wall of Australia, The Betrayal, The Fall, and Three Cheers for Civilization. "Peter Lyssiotis is a photographer/photomonteur, filmmaker, writer and book artist who has worked in the field of bookarts for over.....
Price: $25.00
Melbourne: Masterthief, 2013. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "[D]edicated to Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb, a 13 year old Syrian boy who was arrested on April 29, 2011. A month after his arrest his body was returned to his family. While in custody he ha been burned, beaten, lacerated, and electrocuted. his jaw and.....
Price: $750.00
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Melbourne, Australia: Lyssiotis/Cavalieri, nd. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "1316 is a trilogy, the sequence based upon Dante's The Divine Comedy (most likely the year he completed the work). This work is a response to Dante's imaginary world. The first book explores the Inferno, Book 2 travels through Purgatory, and Book 3.....
Price: $9,500.00