London; New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1958. Revised. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Bound in red cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, 316 pages + glossary and index, illustrated with 28 colour plates and 446 text illustrations. Wear to boards and extremities, evidence of paper clips, tear on.....
Price: $45.00
[London]: Printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery, Jr., [1777]. Third Edition, corrected. Hardcover. Mark Anthony Porny was the pseudonym of Antoine Pyron du Martre. He apparently was a French language teacher in 18th century England. This is the dictionary volume for the Part I text that includes over 500.....
Price: $125.00
Iowa City, IA: Naughty Dog Press, 2018. Limited Edition. "Five puppets in a boxed set, four of the puppets have quotations from our 45th and current president. The 2016 election results turned my thoughts to the character of King Lear and from there they descended to King Leer. If Hillary.....
Price: $850.00
New York: Crown Archetype, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. An unusual art binding by S. Richards, who loves food nearly as much as binding. In this case, the result is a wonderful portrait of the author as a roasted chicken. Signed by the author, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Green leather.....
Price: $2,500.00
Wenatchee, WA: Mystical Places Press, 2003. Limited Edition. Hardcover (the hardest). Includes approximately 20 color photos of the Peter Iredale, a sailing ship that wrecked on an Oregon beach in 1906. Winner of the 2004 MBS Distinguished Book Award. Rusted cover, else tight. Steel boards, gilt lettering, pictorial endpapers, protective.....
Price: $250.00
San Francisco, CA: Cuba, 2018. Unique. Hardcover. Acrylic paint marker drawings on paper. Artist' shop-book, used to test/design work and color schemes. A unique books of acrylic paint marker drawings of graffiti murals, most of which have been executed on walls throughout the San Francisco Bay area from 2009– 2012. This.....
Price: $5,000.00
Washington, D.C. Jennaway Pearson, 2017. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Artist Jennaway Pearson plays with the meaning of “champion” in connecting figure skater Tonya Harding with the goddess Juno, protector of women. Despite being a record-breaking skater, Harding was a victim of her family, a demanding sporting organization, a tragic marriage, and.....
Price: $1,900.00
New York: Nancy Loeber, 2017. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Used by arrangement with Random House a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Text set in Joanna Nova; cover and title page set in Din. [Deluxe making copy includes print of an edited fourth image, the final woodblock of that image.....
Price: $650.00
Northampton, MA: Dan Kelm, 1994 [2018]. Limited Edition. The creation of Templum Elementorum (Sanctuary of the Elements) was initiated by an invitation in 1995 to produce a book for the Smithsonian Institution Library exhibition Science and the Artist’s Book. Inspired by Biringuccio’s De la pirotechnia (On working with fire), first.....
Price: $17,500.00
Toronto: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2008. Second English Language Edition. Hardcover. Black pages with white text, illustrations and some braille text in raised glossy black ink. The book is designed as an empathy tool to give a sighted person a sense of the world to the blind. "Living with the.....
Price: $25.00
San Jose, CA; La Mesa, CA: Slave Labor Graphics; Neko Press, 2001-2008. First Edition. Original Wraps. Foo Swee Chin (Fsc) is a Singapore based comic artist and illustrator. She is the creator of several alternative comic books, including "A Lost Stock of Children" and "Mince," published by Neko Press, as.....
Price: $200.00
Boston, MA: Foster Brothers, [1916]. First Edition. Original Wraps. An ad in "The Nation" newspaper, June 29, 1916: Messrs. Foster Brothers of Boston have secured the publishers' rights to a large number of photographic negatives taked from life by T.R. Kimball and H.P. Kimball in their journeys through India, Japan.....
Price: $875.00
Chicago, IL: 1916. Unique. Frigid Fluid Company is a manufacturer of embalmers', undertakers' and cemetery supplies since 1892. The invoice includes ads and images for casket lowering devices, morgue table, viewing couch, ambulance baskets, and more notably, the Hill vice grip chin support for embalming processes. Single double-sided invoice and.....
Price: $100.00
Starke, FL: 1979. Unique. Loose Sheets. Original art from a well known courtroom illustrator of Florida's first execution after reinstatement of the death penalty. While Robe worked for a Tampa paper, these were done for television (WFLA/NBC). "John Arthur Spenkelink (1949–1979) was a convicted American murderer. He was executed under.....
Price: $2,500.00
Weiler im Allgau, W. Germany: Editions Medicina Rara, 1535 [1985]. Limited Edition. Slipcased. Colophon: "Twenty-eight hundred copies of the "Herbarum Imagines Vivae" were printed for the members of Editions Medicina Rara Ltd. at the presses of the Druckerei Holzer, Weiler im Allgau, West Germany, on a rag paper manufactered especially.....
Price: $375.00
Morgan Hill, CA: Midnight Moon Press, 2017. Limited Edition. Earth Clock is meant as both an educational tool and a call to action. To create both a sense of urgency and the beginning of understanding. To present both facts and a sense of the long history of our avoidance and.....
Price: $3,000.00
New York: Braziller, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Pristine copy of this work in original printed cardboard box. Bird and flower prints from the renowned Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Collection. Tight, bright, and unmarred; bright and clean DJ. Peach cloth boards, blue and white link lettering; color printed DJ. fo. 192pp. Illus.....
Price: $125.00
1946-2014. Collection of Sherlock Holmes enthusiast related and miscellaneous “Sherlockiana” materials, 1946-2014. The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia website describes “Sherlockiana” as: People interested in Sherlock Holmes and who enjoy sharing their interest with others are baptized sherlockians or holmesians. Their purpose is to keep green the memory of the detective.....
Price: $950.00
New York: St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1991-1992. First Edition. Original Wraps. "A series of experiments based on Gertrude Stein's essay "Poetry & Grammar." Written and published by the members of B. (Bernadette) Mayer's poetry and prose workshop at the Saint Mark's Church Poetry Project 1991-1992." Extremely scarce, OCLC lists one.....
Price: $200.00
Dorchester, Mass. Self-published, 1975-1976. First Edition. Original Wraps. Alan Davies is an American poet and author, commonly associated with the Language poets. This is one of his early published works and self-published in a "zine" style method. Extremely scarce. In very good condition, unmarred and bright, evidence of bent/torn corner.....
Price: $150.00
New York: Visionaire, 1991-2016. Limited Edition(s). 57 of 65 works (plus two duplicates and two in both states). See related list for specifics and images. Missing 1, 4, 11, 13, 20, 49, 57, 59, most of which could be relatively easily secured. There are also a handful of issues that.....
Price: $35,000.00
New York: Masquerade Books, 1992. First Edition. Original Wraps. Short-lived erotic and BDSM literary newsletter based out of New York City, includes editorials and book reviews. In excellent condition, staple bound, in original wrappers. Black and white with illustrations and photographs. Two issues (May/June) and (September/October), 1992.
Price: $60.00
New York: Boke Press, 1972. First Edition. Original Wraps. Kenward Elmslie is a known New York School poet, along with Joe Brainard and Ron Padgett. This is an original typed dramatic work. Some light wear on original wraps, else a clean very good example. This is letter L of 26.....
Price: $85.00
Boston, MA: Self-published, 1988. First Edition. Original Wraps. Another weird and eccentric 1980s self-produced zine, this publication having a theme of "cars and crime." Part punk and political, with several contributors, including Robert Carr of "Smurfs in Hell." Collages by D. Kossy, Laura Poll, Michael Shores, Jesse Merrick, Chris Magson.....
Price: $200.00
Boise, ID: Freeloader Press, 1987. First Edition. Original Wraps. Like many of his peers during the Reagan years, Robert Carr appears to a post-punk DIY zine-maker, producing self-made political and satire zines during the 1980s. Carr was also an early adopter tech wizard creating underground video games, as the PowerMac.....
Price: $300.00