Rare Books

Landmark catalog for the exhibition widely regarded as the public introduction of Minimalist sculpture in America, held at the Jewish Museum in New York City from April 27-June 12, 1...

Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1878. First Edition. 8vo, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (220 x 146 mm); 605 pp. Profusely illustrated, with a rear folding map in color, which has a 2-inch t...

Jazz Manies et Collections (Jazz Mania and Collections), French Book by Frédéric Marchand, 1997. Preface by Francis Hofstein and Bernard Lion. The author has collected 180 objects re...

Sotheby's Important American Furniture from the Collection of the Late Thomas Mellon and Betty Evans New York 6/19/98. Softcover auction catalogue with results. Thomas Mellon Evans u...

Freeman, Douglas Southall. R. E. Lee: A Biography. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1936. Four volumes, Octavo. Early edition. Rebound in ¼ leather and cloth, with raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to spine, new endpapers, and a matching archival slipcase to house all four volumes. Presented is a beautiful, four volume set of R. E. Lee: A Biography, by author and historian Douglas Southall Freeman...

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT THE NATURAL HOUSE First Edition 1954 HORIZON Hardcover book nice original condition beautiful patina and pictures.

A set of thirteen hardcover, boxed art books. The set includes The World of Picasso, Cezanne, Winslow Homer, Delacroix, Watteau, Vermeer, Titian, Rubens, Bruegel, Michelangelo, Durer...

This is an antique novel The Snow Ship by Percy St. John. An English language fiction book with secondary title Merchant of Yakoutsk, dating to the Vict...

An uncommon, first edition copy of Anthony Burgess' celebrated novel, his jeu d'espirit, 'A Clockwork Orange'. A first edition, first issue of this canoni...

Julia Child MASTERING THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING VOL. ONE New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First Publishing 1961; Sixth Printing 1964. Hardcover. Autographed fro...

Loose leaf folio, patterned boards with fabric spine, fabric ties. Thirty eight colour plates (missing 6) on dark grey stock paper depicting wallpaper and fabric designs from Japan reproducing Japanese silk fabrics...

King Jr., Martin Luther, Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. New York: Harper & Brothers: 1958. First edition. Presented in the publisher's original boards and dust jacket. ...

Quiet Beauty: The Japanese Gardens of North America by Kendall H. Brown, author & David M. Cobb, photographer This extraordinary, award winning 176 page soft cover book details hist...

Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1976. Limited Edition. Crown 4to, 9 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches (250 x 185 mm); 63 pp. Hand-set in 12-point SB Caslon and printed on white Basingwerk Pa...

AUTHOR: POLIDORI, John William. TITLE: The Vampyre; A Tale. PUBLISHER: London: for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION SECOND SHERWOOD ISSUE IN ORIGINAL ...

London: MacMillan & Company, 1920. Arthur Rackham (1867 – 1939). First Rackham Edition. Large 4to, 11 x 9 inches, (278 x 225 mm). x, 318 pp. printed on Holbein watermarked paper...

Publisher: Daniel Vervliet and Hendrik Swingen for Jan I Moretus & Jan I van Keerberghen Place / Date: Antwerp, 1599 Biblia sacra. Dat is de geheele heylighe schrifture...

AUTHOR: POPE, Alexander. TITLE: The Works of Alexander Pope. PUBLISHER: London: by J. F. Dove for Richard Priestley, 1822. DESCRIPTION: NEW EDITION. 9 vols., 8-5/8" X 5-1/2", not...

Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Publisher’s beige cloth boards, first issue dust jacket. P...

McClure, Alexander Kelly. Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times: Some Personal Recollection of War And Politics During the Lincoln Administration. Philadelphia: The Times Publishing C...

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. ...

Travels Through the Western Country in the Summer of 1816 by David Thomas. Auburn, NY, Printed by David Rumsey, 1819. Dimensions: 4.25" x 1" x 6.75" (W x D x H)

AUTHOR: JOHNSON, Samuel. TITLE: The Works Of Samuel Johnson. PUBLISHER: Oxford: by Talboys And Wheeler; and W. Pickering, 1825. DESCRIPTION: OXFORD ENGLISH CLASSICS. 11 vols., 8-...

Cyrano's nose got in the way of his heart. A must-have for collectors of French classics. Rostand, Edmond (1868 – 1918). Cyrano de Bergerac. Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasq...

A fine, limited edition set of Pope's translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey with excellent provenance. Limited edition, With Homer numbered 1051 and The Iliad numbered 1196. With text in both Latin and Greek. The Nonesuch Press specialised in limited edition and private press. They were founded by Francis Meynell, his second wife Vera Mendel and their friend David Garnett. Their aspiration was for their publications to be aligned with the same aesthetic standards as the private press movement. They were unusual as they used a small Albion press...

AUTHOR: AUSTEN, Jane. TITLE: The Novels (Works) of Jane Austen. PUBLISHER: Edinburgh: John Grant, 1906. DESCRIPTION: THE WINCHESTER EDITION. 10 vo...

A collection of 15 sets of 10 large tall-size decorative Swedish leather-bound books from the 1950s.

Treasury of American Design - Two Volume Set by Clarence P. Hornung. Hardcover books, published in 1972 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. of New York. Printed and bound in Japan. Illustrated,...

Stevenson, Robert Louis; Gordon Browne and W. Hatherell [Illustrators] Island Nights' Entertainments; consisting of The Beach of Falesá, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices London: C...

Artemus Ward, His Travels, published in 1865, by American humorist Charles Farrar Browne (under his pen name Artemus Ward) featuring humorous accounts of his lecture tours, particula...

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by Julie Lane. Hardcover with dust jacket. Published by Equity Publishing 1979. Nicholas the orphan becomes Nicholas the woodcarver, whose job ...

Presenting a rare first edition hardback copy of The Wandering Jew by Eugene Sue, Complete Edition IN ONE VOLUME with Illustrations by GAVARNI and GIRARDET, published by George Routl...

Charles Dickens. The Works, in 18 volumes, London: Chapman and Hall, Limited. octavo 3/4 dark blue leather with marbled covers and end sheets, bound by Bayntun, Bath. Spine with rais...

A rare group of books from the famous collection of J.C. Peasley. James C. Peasley (James Carr Peasley) was a prominent banker and railroad executive in Chicago, Illinois, during the...

The Poetical Works of George Lord Lyttelton & The Poetical Works of James Hammond, The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, The Poetical Works of William Collins Glasgow: Andrew Fouli...

AUTHOR: TACITUS, Cornelius, (MURPHY, Arthur). TITLE: The Works of Cornelius Tacitus; with An Essay On His Life and Genius, Notes, Supplements, &c. A New Edition, with the Author's ...

Italy: The New Domestic Landscape - MoMA - 1972 some water damage / damage to the dust cover book in general very good condition.

First edition, second printing of J.D. Salinger’s iconic American bildungsroman, first published by Little, Brown, and Company on July 16, 1951. The second printing followed in the s...

by Sandra Dachs, Patricia De Muga & Laura Garcia Hintzo Focuses on Eileen Gray, a breakaway designer in a world dominated by male-centric style schools Besides an introductory essay, each title in the By Architects series is compiled by key modern architects through sketches, drawings, photos of the original productions, and ambient shootings A design-orientated book for a design-orientated series, Eileen Gray boasts an innovative layout and a special binding Neglected for most of her career, Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is now regarded as one of the most important furniture designers and architects of the early twentieth century and the most influential woman in those fields. Her work inspired both modernism and Art Deco. Eileen Gray was to stand alone throughout her career, first as a lacquer artist, then a furniture designer, and finally as an architect. At a time when other leading designers were almost all male and mostly members of one movement or another - whether a loose grouping like De Stijl in the Netherlands, or a formal one such as the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne - Gray remained staunchly independent. Her design style was as distinctive as her way of working. Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on the geometric forms and industrially produced materials used by the International Style designers, such as Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Mies van der Rohe, who shared much of her ideology. Her voluptuous leather and tubular steel Bibendum Chair and clinically chic E-1027 glass and tubular steel table...

Fundacion Joan MitchellGuide book with illustrations.

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...

Greene, Ward. Lady and the Tramp. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1953]. First edition, first printing. Foreword by Walt Disney. Illustrated by Joe G. Rinaldi. Octavo. In the original...

High-quality French design and decoration book about the legendary Maison Leleu and designers Jules and André Leleu. The work shows the development of their style from the beginnings...

Author: POTTER, Beatrix. Title: The Tailor of Gloucester. Publisher: London: Privately Printed by Strangeways & Sons, 1902. PRIVATELY PRINTED BY THE AUTHOR, LIMITED TO 500...

Presenting a gloriously rare book …. Tarzan and The Lost Empire First Edition by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Metropolitan 1929 1st Edition. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-313 [314: blank], i...

A collection of 23 Danish decorative antique leather-bound library books. The books are wrapped in leather-bound covers and are comprised of a selection of warm tones and gold leaf p...

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1909. FIRST, LIMITED EDITION 4to, 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (268 x 215 mm); xii, 185, (2) pp., plus 75 full-page color illustrations, from works by Mortimer...

First edition in English of Esbjorn Hiort’s biography of modern design master Finn Juhl, published in 1990 by The Danish Architectural Press, with translation by Martha Gaber Abraham...

Set of Three 18th Century Vellum Sunday Sermon Books. 1.) Sermoni Per Tutte Le Domeniche Dell' Anno (Sermons for all the Sundays in a Year) by Monsignore Alfonso Maria De Liguori. Na...

Essays by Pierre Berge, Peter Marino and Reed Krakoff A stated first edition of a very scarce book on the husband and wife sculptors Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne. Beautifully p...

Roberts, W. Pictures in the Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan at the Princes Gate and Dover House, London. London: Privately Printed, 1907. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes. Atlas folio...

AUTHOR: MILNE, A. A. TITLE: The House At Pooh Corner. London: Methuen Children's Books, 1978. DESCRIPTION: LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY CHRISTOPHER MILNE. 1 vol, 7-1/2" x 5-1/4", limi...

Bible,, Biblia Sacra, dat is, de H. Schriftuer van het Oude, en het Nieuwe Testament, Naar de laetste Roomsche Keure der gemeine Latijnsche Overzettinge, in nederduitsch Vertaeld, me...

“This book reveals everything about me. It’s been a 60-year contract. Photography is love and death—that’ll be my epitaph.” —Araki The first title in our new TASCHEN limited seri...

The Case of the Negligent Nymph A Perry Mason Story Erle Stanley Gardner 1950. Hard cover with original dust jacket.

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher, [n.d]. Illustrated by E.H. Wehnert. “McKay’s Colored Classics” edition. Octavo. In the publisher'...

AUTHOR: TWAIN, Mark (Samuel Clemens). TITLE: The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Ages. PUBLISHER: Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION ...

Out of the Studio by Tom Bianchi. Published by St.Martin's Press, 1991. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. The unself-conscious and affectionate con...

Our Stock # 24247 This is an antique book, Massacre of Glencoe by George W M Reynolds. An English language, bound novel, dating to the Victorian period, circa 1860. A prolific writer, George William MacArthur Reynolds (1814 - 1879) released over 40 novels and numerous shorter stories. Almost forgotten compared to contemporaries Dickens and Thackeray, in his lifetime he was said to be the most read author of the day. Pleasing example of this appealing illustrated edition Displays a desirable aged patina, lightly time-worn and intact Bound with cloth on board, with leather dressed spine and gold titling Superb illustrations throughout by Edward Corbould (1815 - 1905) Printed across 339+ pages by John Dicks on behalf of George Reynolds Originally serialised between 1852 and 1853, this compendium first published in 1860 This is a fascinating antique novel...

Poems; To which are now added Poems by Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd Bristol & London: Cottle & Robinsons, 1797. Second Edition. Small 8vo., 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches (158 x 94 mm); xx...