El Paso, TX: El Paso Museum of Art, 1963. Softcover. Square Octavo. Unpaginated. Staple-bound . Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated in b&w. Exhibition catalogue from a show of Lea's work at the El Paso Museum of Art. Light soil to cover.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 9" x 11". 228pp. Profusely Illustrated in b&w. Orange cloth boards. Neat ownership signature on ffep. Very k light soil and light edge wear to white dust jacket.
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Abrams. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 196pp inc. index. Profusely illustrated. Fine color illustrations with text on opposite pages.
Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art/ Delmonico Books / Prestel, 2013. Hardcover. Quarto. 131 pp. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Oak Knoll Press, 2000. Hardcover. Quarto. 126,pp. Illustrated. Appendices. & Checklist. With a Foreword by Dr Marianne Tidcombe.
London. 1914. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 192pp. Profusely illustarated mostly b&w, but some color. Works of 50 illustrators are presented including Harry Clarke, Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham and many others. Paper covered boards with cloth spine. Boards are a little rubbed on edges and worn on corners. Spine.....
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. Limited edition. Hardcover. Tall octavo. 71pp. Illustrated. LIMITED EDITION, #578 of 950 copies. A complete bibliography of the books and prints published including the privately printed items. Red cloth with Gold seal on front. Glassine dust jacket has some cracks and a tear- a......
London. The British Museum Press, 2003. Hardcover. Quarto. 256pp. Over 570 examples are discussed and reproduced. Among the bookplates are works by Albrecht Durer, Hans Burgkmair and Lukas Cranach. Preface is in English, but the rest of the text and descriptions are in German.
Palo Alto, CA: Communications Arts Magazine, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Sq. quarto. Unpaginated. 451 items illustrated, some in color, but mostly b&w. Catalogue for exhibition at Musee Des Arts Decoratifs du Louvre. Decorated cloth has very light wear. In black decorative slipcase, lined with bright yellow paper, printed in silver.....
Art-Paper 87 Foundation, 1987. Softcover. Quarto.153pp. Art-Paper is an international workshop and this publication "is compiled for the exhibition showing the paper sculptures of artists using this natural material in a non-traditional way and from different points of view." Dual language text, Dutch and English. One corner and spine corner.....
Boston, MA: Four Seas Company & Elkin Mathews, 1921. First edition. Softcover. Octavo.126pp.; photographic frontispiece, tissue guard. Green decorative side-stitched card wrappers bound Japanese style, text printed on double leaves in pictorial grey paper-covered slipcase. A few little fingernail marks where the book has been pulled out of the slipcase.....
Pomona, CA: Progress-Bulletin, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 246pp. A few illustrations from old photographs. This copy SIGNED, "My Compliments," and NUMBERED, " Book number 201" by hand by Garner on half-title. Small ownership signature also on half-title. Three original photographic postcards of the Palomares Adobe, circa 1939, laid-in. Tan.....
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 87pp.This is a special limited signed and hand numbered printing of 50 copies of which this is #16. Published in a smaller format than the larger edition of 350. Fine copy in original acetate dust jacket which has a folded.....
Bethesda, Maryland: Adler & Adler, 1987. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 264pp. The author's first book featuring DCI Barnaby and the basis for the highly successful TV series, "Midsomer Murders." Hint of rubbing to spine tips.
Boston, MA: Crocker and Brewster, 1840. Hardcover. Thick octavo. 508pp; 208pp. Twelve issues for the year 1840 of the Missionary Herald, bound-up with a few illustrations, followed by the Report. Quarter leather with marbled boards. External front hinge is broken in several places, but sewn binding very solid. Rubbing to.....
West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo.506pp. INSCRIBED BY BRIN, "Good Luck Rick..."One of 3000 copies. A couple spots to blue cloth (Silverfish maybe?); top edge has a blemish or two.
Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Tall octavo. 140pp. Limited to 2500 copies. "... a book of frightening concepts..." -stephen e. fabian.
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 309pp. Tiny spot on ffep. Novel, set in the New England about a young woman whose mother is a fake psychic, while she is a real clairvoyant.
Houston: Stagecoach Press, 1962. First edition. Softcover. 6 3/4" x 5 1/4". 30pp. Limited to 800 copies. Nicely printed heavy white paper wrappers with pictorial dust jacket (cover art by Jose Cisneros). This is an account of the one of the most famous gunfights in the history of the west.....
London. John Murray, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo.146pp. Incl. index. neat ownership signature and small bookseller sticker on ffep. Blue cloth has very light fading to spine, light fading to spine of dust jacket.
Chicago, IL: Field Museum of Natural History, 1915. First edition. Softcover. Tall octavo. Perfect bound. 75pp. Grey laid-paper wrapper. Toned at edges, tears to spine folds. Crease and edge tear to rear cover. ownership signature on front of C.S. Goodrich, Department chair of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies in.....
St. Louis, MO. Patches Publications, 1994. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 119pp. General INSCRIPTION by Ries, " Hope You Enjoy Reading This..." White heavy paper wrappers. About fine. "O’Kelley was a former lawman with a reputation for a bad attitude. He was quarrelsome and surly and someone to avoid.....
London. Jonathan Cape, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 351pp. SIGNED BY O'FLAHERTY. Blue-grey cloth has darkening to edges. Bump to edges of both covers. Dark offsetting from dustjacket to endpapers. A couple spots of foxing to first and last few pages. Dust jacket is darkened on edges and spine and.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated with Petty's brand of graphic humor. A few color illustrations, but mostly b&w. Salmon colored cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Tape repair to verso of dust jacket.
Boston, Ma: Roberts Brothers, Publishers, 1871. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 376pp. Plus 4pp. unnumbered ads at beginning. With first printing issue point of "Pink and White Tyranny" being announced as "Nearly Ready" and with "now" the first word of line 5 on p. 146 (later changed to "Nan"), No signature.....