Rare Books

Survey of trends in modern architecture, furniture, and decorative arts, principally from Britain, Europe, the U.S., Latin America, and Japan, covering the years 1959-1960. Contains ...

Original exhibition catalog accompanying An Exhibition of “Unpopular” Art, held November 7 to December 29, 1940 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN and issued under the late ...

London: Printed by William Stansby for Walter Burre, 1614. FIRST EDITION Folio; 12 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches (317 x 212 mm). Collation: 40, ode, title page, Preface; 40, Contents of the Cha...

Hardback book with dust jacket, text is in French, 206 pages full of photographs, illustrations and drawings which showcase much of his amazing talent both as an interior designer an...

Amazing collection of 5 extremely weathered vellum books, Spain/Italy 18th/ 19th century. Weathered and small losses and old repairs. More photo's available on request, please ask. ...

A First Edition 'Goodbye Picasso' coffee table or library book, by author David Douglas Duncan, 1974, New York. An amazing book covering an intimate look at the relationship between ...

Collection of 20 nearly all 19th century books, mostly leather or leather spine. Some noteworthy books are: General Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol xviii, 1813 with folded map...

Verve Volume One Numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 bound into one volume; An Artistic and Literary Quarterly directed by E. Teriade Paris: Verve / Skira, 1937-1939. FIRST EDITION Large 4to,...

First edition, second printing of a foundational text of the women's liberation movement, radical both in its political messaging and because it was written “by women for women.” Ari...

First American edition of a survey of contemporary Italian interiors, published in 1975 by Studio Vista/Whitney Library of Design following its original publication in Italy in 1974. Edited by Franco Magnani and translated into English by Bobbi Mitchell. 4to (8.75” x 11.5”), hardcover with dust jacket, 156 pages, profusely illustrated with color reproductions. Showcases a range of interiors by Italian interior designers and architects, many lesser-known, including: De Rossi Coretti studio, Guido Veneziani, Puccinelli, Fabrizio Cocchia and Gianfranco Fini, Enrico Buzzi, Luigi Massoni, Piero Castellini...

De Doorluchtige Weereld – S. de Vries, François Halma, Amsterdam, 1700 Magnificent and complete three-volume set of De Doorluchtige Weereld (The Illustrious World), written by S. de...

First American edition of this increasingly elusive and visually compelling document of late-1960s experimental design pedagogy, limning the intersection of architecture, mathematics...

New York: George H Doran Company, (1922). First American Edition. 8vo, 9 x 6 1/2 inches 230 x 160 mm); 204 pp. 25 tipped-in color plates, including the frontispiece; illustrations ...

Paint Finishes by Charles Hemming. How to rag-roll, marble, stipple, wood grain and create other special paint effects. Hardcover book with dustjacket. Published in 1993 by Chartwell...

Special edition in Bruno Munari’s “unreadable book” series designed for the Museum of Modern Art, and published by MoMA in 1967 in an edition of 2000, of which this example is hand-n...

AUTHOR: MILNE, A. A. TITLE: When We Were Very Young - Winnie The Pooh - House At Pooh Corner - Now We Are Six. PUBLISHER: London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1960-1. DESCRIPTION: 4 vols....

Nice collection of six extremely weathered vellum books, Spain 18th/19th century. Weathered and small losses. H:20,5-22cm W:2,5-5cm D:15cm . More photo's are available on request.

The complete works of George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), bound in 25 brown morocco leather volumes, published by Houghton Mifflin & Company Boston and New York...

A rare, collectable, first edition, Salvador Dali art and recipe cookbook, 'Les Diners de Gala', 1971, Paris, France. (Copy/text is in English language.) A great piece to add to a co...

First edition of the iconic monograph published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by Philip Johnson and held in 1938 at the Museum of Modern Art New York marking the tenth ...

Six Fairy Tales by David Hockney David Hockney This exquisite, highly collectable volume was printed in 1970 by Petersburg Press. Inscribed "Xmas to you from the Grouse" perhaps by Hockney himself. The book features extraordinary etchings by David Hockney which re-imagine the stories of the Brothers Grimm...

Milne, A.A. (Alan Alexander): Winnie-the-Pooh An Exceptionally rare copy of the FIRST TRADE EDITION of Winnie-the-Pooh signed by both the Author and the Illustrator, with Original dust-jacket. London: Methuen, 1926.; First Trade Edition. Crown 8vo, 7 5/8 x 5 in (194 x 127 mm), pp. 158, full-page and text illustrations, illustrated endpapers with map of "100 Aker Wood... Drawn by me and Mr. Shepar Helpd (sic.)" Green cloth, gilt stamping on the front board with an illustration of Christopher Robin...

Exceptional and visually commanding 45 Volume Waverly Novels set by Sir Walter Scott, Finely Bound, circa 1860s. A magnificent and nearly complete collection of The Waverly Novels by...

A striking and substantial 1929 printing of Webster’s New International Dictionary, First Edition, presented here in its classic unabridged format with beautifully preserved thumb in...

Kevin McCloud's Complete Book of Paint and Decorative Techniques. Hardcover book with dustjacket. Published in 1996 by Simon & Schuster of New York. Printed in Italy. Illustrated, 27...

Jean-Michel Basquiat The Paris Review: 1982 The Paris Review book, featuring an interior spread of Jean-Michel Basquiat's "Tuxedo" (1982). Imagery features 8 detailed segments of thi...

AUTHOR: DICKENS, Charles. TITLE: A Christmas Carol In Prose Being A Ghost Story of Christmas. PUBLISHER: London: Chapman and Hall, 1843. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION SECOND ISSUE. ...

First Edition, third issue of Dr. Seuss' most famous book, accompanied by a card bearing the AUTHOR's SIGNATURE and a quick SKETCH of his famous "green egg." Seuss, Dr. (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904 – 1991) The Cat in the Hat New York: Random House, 1957. First edition, First Printing, Third Issue. Dust jacket. 8vo, 9 x 6 1/2" (230 x 165 mm), (2) + 61 + (1) pp; pictorial end papers, verso of free end paper blank, pictorial title page, copyright page. Binding with glazed pictorial paper cover over boards and title on spine, very light signs of wear at corners and spine ends, binding stitched at 1 inch intervals; upper cover illustrated and lettered with addition of "For beginner readers"; back cover with excerpts from reviews printed in letterpress below illustration of chalkboard reading Educators hail The Cat in the Hat. Printed in red, black, salmon, dark blue and light blue on wove paper, with bold illustrations on every spread; pages a touch yellowed on edges. On the back of the last page of text is a note on the book enclosed within a large outline in blue of Cat in the Hat. The ORIGINAL DUST WRAPPER in near fine condition, with just slight wear on corners and a chip on the bottom of the spine, reproduces the book's cover; front flap bears price on upper right corner, 195/195, indicating this is the second state of the dust jacket. Accompanied by a small drawing of a "green egg" with "Dr. Seuss" autograph in black ink with on a light green index card, 3 x 5 in. (76 x 127 mm). [Younger & Hirsch 7; Greenaway 95] Dr. Seuss was challenged by Houghton Mifflin's Education Division director, William Ellsworth Spaulding, to create a book for young children using the 225 essential words for beginning readers, a book they would not want to put down. Seuss used 223 of the words from the list, plus 13 others. Seuss tricked kids into enjoying learning with his destructive and charismatic house guest. Inspired in part by Krazy Kat and Felix the Cat, but with a wily mind all his own, the Cat in the Hat's humor and naughtiness are engaged in the noble cause of literacy. "Parents," notes biographer Brian Jay Jones, "were more than happy to join Dr. Seuss as fellow revolutionaries. Even if parents didn't necessarily understand the pedagogy, it was easy to see the difference between the staid DICK AND JANE...

Nice collection of five extremely weathered vellum books, Spain 18th/ 19th century. Weathered ,small losses and old repairs. More photo's available on request. H:20-21cm W:2,5-4,5cm...

A collection of 24 antique & vintage books that includes many from 19th century, nearly all English publications. See photos for details of titles. Condition: Please see detail phot...

A rare and complete first English edition of this seminal work. Pliny, Gaius Secundus / Plinius, Gaius Secundus (23­-79 AD) / Translated by Philemon Holland. The Historie of the Wor...

Three Centuries of Furniture in color by J. A. Kenworthy-Browne and H. D. Molesworth. Published by Viking a Studio Book, New York, 1972. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Beautiful photos of European and American furniture from the 17th century through the Art Nouveau period, to the present. From a Philadelphia mahogany...

Amazing collection of 8 extremely weathered vellum books, Spain/Italy 17th/ 19th century. Weathered and small losses and several old repairs. More photo's available on request, plea...

Patti Smith Punk Magazine 1976: Rare vintage original 1976 Punk magazine that is well suited for framing. Interior features Patti Smith, Television & Talking Heads. A rare, well-...

Gallerie Willy Huybrechts. Exhibition dated 15th November to 15 December 2005. Fifteen years after his first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Madrid, devoted mainly to ...

Alberto Pinto was one of the most celebrated interior designers at work in the late 20th century and the early years of the 21st century. In this book he looks to the wonders of the ...

1 vol. Herman Melville, Moby Dick or the Whale. First Trade Edition. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Bound in full midnight blue Morocco leather with gilt border on covers and spine pa...

Brilliantly illustrated comic work in exquisite full morocco, gilt. Egan, Pierce; Isaac Robert Cruikshank & George Cruikshank, illustrators Life in London; Or, The Day and Night Sce...

Twelve issues 1965 Year of Bo Bedre (Live Better) Danish language vintage magazines of Scandinavian Home Style and Design. First published in March 1961. The magazines are in the Da...

This is an antique copy of Deeds That Won the Empire by W. H. Fitchett - an engaging bound and illustrated military history book presented in its intact, original order with only lig...

This is a superb antique edition of 'The Fables' by Jean de La Fontaine, translated into English verse by Walter Thornbury and illustrated throughout by Gustave Doré. A fine, intact ...

John Hedgecoe's Nude Photography, A Complete and Practical Guide to Taking Superb Photographs. New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1984. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 224...

Monet, or the Triumph of impressionism: Catalog Raisonné, 4-Volume Set by Daniel Wildenstein. Köln: Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH, 1996. Slipcased 1st ...

AUTHOR: DICKENS, Charles. TITLE: The Complete Works Of Charles Dickens. PUBLISHER: NY: Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1902. DESCRIPTION: 36 vols., 8-1/4" x 6", all illustrations after th...

Nice collection of three extremely weathered vellum books, Spain 18th century. Weathered and small losses. H:20-30cm W:3-5,5cm D:14-21cm . More photo's are available on request.

The Man Who Was Vogue: The Life and Times of Conde Nast, by Caroline Seebohm. Published by The Viking Press, NY, 1982. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Em...

Persian Manuscript Page depicting a garden scene. Circa 18th century. Hand painted scene depicts a hilly outdoor landscape where people are congre...

Beeton, Isabella. Beeton’s Every-Day Cookery and Housekeeping Book: A Practical and Useful Guide for All Mistresses and Servants. London: Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co., 1893. New Edition,...

Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. Limited Edition Octavo, 8 1/4 x 5.5 in (206 x 140 mm) 392 pp. Edited by F.S. Ellis. One of 300 copies on Flower paper, printed in red and black i...

This is a beautiful and historic fabric sample book dated from 1835 (as can be seen on the front cover), which was produced by Dollfus Mieg and Comp...

New Orleans architecture vol. VII Jefferson City. Gretna: Pelican publishing company. First edition hardcover with dust jacket, 1989. 192 pp. ...

The Société des artistes decorateurs, founded in 1901, was the first professional association of artists, artisans, designers and architects to emerge in France after the abolition o...

AUTHOR: CHURCHILL, Winston. TITLE: The World Crisis. 1911-1918 / The Aftermath / The Eastern Front. PUBLISHER: London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1923-1931. DESCRIPTION: ALL FIR...

This is an antique mythology book, Days of King Arthur by Charles Henry Hanson. An English language, hard bound fictional work with illustrations by Gus...

Wonders of the Stereoscope, by John Jones. Afred A. Knopf, New York, 1976. 1st Edition hardcover with original slip-case containing two Volumes with Stereoscopic Viewer...

Paintings of Paul Cezanne: A Catalogue Raisonne by John Rewald, a 2 Volume set. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. The two 1st Ed hardcover volumes are slipcased. This encyclopedic, lo...

More Is More, the exquisite second volume about Tony Duquette, delves into the creative process and personal life of this great American designer renowned for his fantastical artwork...

The full title of this volume is as follows: "Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive POrtraiture of the One Hundred Great and Memorable Events of Perpetual Interest In the Hi...

Antique Furniture Guidebooks - Set of 7. American Furniture by Helen Comstock, hardcover, 336 pages, 1962. Cabinet Makers and Furniture designers by Hugh Honour, hardcover, 320 page...

AUTHOR: DICKENS, Charles. TITLE: A Christmas Carol In Prose Being A Ghost Story of Christmas. PUBLISHER: London: Chapman and Hall, 1843. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE. 1...