New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1971. First Edition. Portfolio. This is the innovatively designed publication was produced in conjunction with a 1971 Museum of Modern Art retrospective of the prints and multiples issued by Los Angeles-based Gemini G.E.L. It features a complete catalogue raisonné to date of works by.....
Price: $350.00
London/Loket, Czech Republic: Broadstreet King, 1973/2005. Facsimile/Art Binding. Hardcover. Facsimile of the original book published by the Leadenhall Press in 1891 in London. 200 illustrations. Hand “hammered” iron face of a sailor on the front wooden cover made by blacksmith artist Petr Baloun. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Leather spine, wooden.....
Price: $4,500.00
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "450 copies of this book were printed on various interesting papers during the autumn of 1976. The pressman was Harold McGrath." Bound by Gray Parrot. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Marbled paper boards, black leather spine label, gilt lettering. 4to. np. Illus. (b/w.....
Price: $650.00
London: John Murray, 1816. First Edition. Hardcover. First issue, p61 blank with list of poems on [p62]. A very handsome copy in fine, unsigned, contemporary binding. Minimal shelf/edge wear, touch of toning a preliminaries, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Full brown calf leather binding, gilt lettering and decorative elements, dentelles.....
Price: $950.00
London: Anthony D'Offay Gallery, 1986. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Thee eighty-five pastels were drawn in the spring of 1980, in Ponchicherry, a former French colony on the Eastern Coast of India. They are reproduced here in the original size. The book was made at the Kalakshetra Press, under the direction of.....
Price: $550.00
New York: Academic Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Underlined and annotations by Oliver Sacks. Signed by Oliver Sacks. Posthumously designed book plate by a friend of Oliver’s, incorporating his long-standing love of cephalopods. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his.....
Price: $275.00
c.1940s. First printing. Features a classic pin-up nude model resting on a crescent moon. Billy DeVorss (1908 – 1985) was an entirely self-taught illustration artist who first started his commercial career in 1933. He was well known throughout his career for his voluptuous figures and attractive faces of his images.....
Price: $250.00
![Item #12325 A Few Questions [Artist Book]. Donald Glaister](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/12325_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727804346)
Vashon Island, WA: Foolsgold Studio, 2009. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. “The book is a progression of sanded polyester encapsulations which envelop paintings, drawings, and type on paper and transparent film, layered to produce an effect of depth and space within each page. ... An informal exploration of the nature of.....
Price: $4,500.00
Worcester, MA: St. Onge, 1966/2019. Limited Edition. Hardcover. The original book was produced in honor of the fortieth anniversary of the launching of the first liquid-propellant rocket in 1926. This unique iteration is bound in a Muonionalusta meteorite binding with engraved lettering and an engraved portrait of Goddard on the.....
Price: $7,000.00
![Item #10968 A Song In Favour of Bundling. Traditional American Ballad. [Design Binding]. Rigby...](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10968.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1790882917)
Leicester, UK: Orpheus Press for Twelve By Eight Press, 1961 [2013]. Limited Edition/Design Binding. Hardcover. "A traditional American ballad on the joys of the bedroom with its companion poem "In Disapproval of Bundling". The publisher writes "Old bed sheets of several colours gave raw material for the paper, but the.....
Price: $1,750.00
Exeter, UK: Sunstone Press, 1987. First Edition. Cased broadsides. A series of 28 separate broadside poems by Ted Hughes, each with an offset printed color illustration of animals by R.J. Lloyd. All 28 broadsides are present and in fine condition. The first publication by the Sunstone Press, founded by Ted.....
Price: $12,000.00
Boston: Little, Brown, And Company, 1972 - 1979. First Edition(s). Hardcover. Vol. I: Beginnings Of Education, 1900-1941. Vol. II: Washington To Springfield, 1941-1948. Vol. III: Governor Of Illinois, 1949-1953. Vol IV: "Let's Talk Sense To The American People", 1952-1955. Vol. V: Visit To Asia, The Middle East, And Europe, March-August.....
Price: $275.00
London: G. Cox, 1853 // 1851 // 1846. First 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......
Price: $450.00
Vivekanand Nagar, Delhi: B.R. Publishing Corporation, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes the following essays: Dogmatics: Questions and Answers - On the Phurpa Cult / Tibetan Texts: Layout of the Dagger Doctrine, The Destructive Ritual, The Most Secret Peerless Quintessence, The Root Tantra. Dagger Blessings is first time it describes the.....
Price: $525.00
Paris: Maurice Schlesinger, [1820-1822]. First Edition. Half Calf. Translation to English: (The Clemency of Titus), K. 621, is an opera seria in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Pietro Metastasio. It was started after most of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute).....
Price: $1,000.00
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. First Edition. Original Wraps. First edition of this early Nabokov novel, which tells the tragic story of a man destroyed by his own genius and of the hopeless efforts of the wife who loves him to save him from himself. From the library of.....
Price: $250.00
Tavarnuzze - Firenze: Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. The Testamentum, attributed to Raymond Lull, was probably composed in England around 1330 by an author of Catalan origin and medical training. The work is one of the first alchemical texts to convey the idea of the elixir.....
Price: $300.00
New York: Limited Editions Club/Anthoensen Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. This wonderful copy of Poe's classic tale was printed by the Anthoensen Press on mould-made paper, designed by Ben Shiff and hand-set by Michael and Winifred Bixler and bound by John Isakovics in hand-marbled paper by Faith Harrison. Alice Neel.....
Price: $1,250.00
Braunschweig: Verlage Fürstl. Waisenhaus-Buchhandlung, 1770-1771. First German Language Edition. Quarter calf. Translation to English: History of the Reign of Emperor Charles V. Translated from the English. William Robertson, (born Sept. 19, 1721, Borthwick, Midlothian, Scot.—died June 11, 1793, Edinburgh), Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister. He is regarded, along with David.....
Price: $500.00
London: Omnibus Press, 1989. First Edition. Original Wraps. From the Collection of Jenny Lens. Winston Smith is the quintessential Punk Surrealist, montage artist, designer, and prolific collage artist of the underground art movement. Signed by Winston Smith to Jenny Lens: "For Jenny Lens, Love Winston Smith..." Light shelfwear around edges.....
Price: $250.00
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890. First American Edition. Hardcover. Includes approx. 44 full-page engravings (including frontispieces), approx 100 illustrations, and three color folded maps in pockets (two large, one small). “Henry Morton Stanley was a Welsh-American journalist and explorer who had made his name after ‘finding’ Dr David Livingstone.....
Price: $750.00
Norway: 2019. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Some of the books in the series were made into a film, and the film becoming an artwork unto itself. The film of an alternative version was awarded the Critic’s Prize on the juried regional exhibition in Trondheim 2017. “The paper is translucent, soft, airy.....
Price: $1,500.00
London: Parvenu Press, 2011. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Three dimensional workblock print work with a scalpel cuttings and paper engineering by Carolyn Trant; printed in 3-5 blocks. One of only 6 copies. Bright and unmarred. Grey cloth boards, accordion-fold, cut-work and moveable, woodblock printed. Small fl. np. Illus. (color plates).
Price: $5,500.00
![Item #10494 Brief Interviews With Hideous Men [Uncorrected Advance Proof]. David Foster Wallace](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10494.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1637114846)
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1999. Proof. Original Wraps. This was Wallace's second collection of short stories. Though best known for Infinite Jest, his short fiction is extrodinary. Uncommon generally and scarce in as nice condition as found here. Minor shelf/edge wear, front upper corner shows slight crease, spine lightly.....
Price: $325.00
Philadelphia, PA: Luminice Press. Hardcover. The story blends an original illustrated story for young readers with factual information about spiders and the curious way they travel long distances to tell the tale of an adventerous arachnid. "Thomas Parker Williams lives and works in Philadelphia, PA, USA. His work includes hand-made.....
Price: $2,500.00