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Tipperary, Ireland: Coracle Press, 2008.

Limited Edition. Octavo. 36pp. Illustrated with fifteen tipped-in samples. Red cloth lettered in blue. Fine. One 175 numbered copies (this #48). A fascinating look at selections from the author's collection of envelope interiors. ... more

Price: $75.00

New York: A/C Editions, 1998.

Limited Edition. Large quarto. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with more than twenty relief prints and lithographs, plus nine photographs and a silkscreen by Yoko Ono. Printed on Somerset Velvet rag paper, with endpaper art work by William S. Burroughs. Bound by Claudia Cohen in white cloth over boards, with designs printed... more

Price: $4,500.00

San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1980.

Limited Edition. Small quarto. xv, 150pp. Bibliography, index. With a foreword by William Everson. Blue cloth over paper covered boards featuring a typographic design; printed paper spine label. Text printed in two colors. A Fine copy, in the original first-issue typographic dust jacket (slightly darkened at the spine, one small... more

Price: $200.00

Berkeley, California: Editions Koch, 2005.

Limited Edition. Tall octavo. 43pp. Stiff off-white paper wrappers, letterpress printed in deep red & black and housed in the publisher's slipcase. A Fine copy. From an edition of 226 copies, this is one of twenty-six lettered specially bound copies which are printed on vintage Robert Serpa handmade paper, with... more

Price: $350.00

Miscellany

Boston, Massachusetts: The Stratford Company, 1927.

One of an unspecified number of copies issued in the 'Special Autographed Edition.' Two volumes, hardcover. Small quarto. xxix, 248; ix, 276pp. Index. Map endpapers, top edges gilt. Green decorative cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Volume one with a tipped-in leaf signed by Wilson, 'Keeper of the Arnold Arboretum of... more

Price: $375.00

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926.

First Edition. Large octavos. xxxii, 608; xiv, 629pp. Extensive index. Large map of Morocco at the end of volume two. More than one hundred thirty illustrations in the text throughout both volumes. Many signatures unopened; publisher's olive green cloth, the upper covers and spines stamped in guilt; top edges gilt;... more

Price: $250.00

Philadelphia: Samuel F. Bradford, and Murray, Fairman and Co., et al,

ca. 1818-1820. First American Edition, Revised, Corrected, Enlarged, and Adapted to This Country, by several literary and scientific characters. In forty-one volumes, and complete with an additional six volumes of plates and maps. Large quartos, bound uniformly in three-quarter calf and marbled paper over boards, with contrasting marbled paper endsheets.... more

Price: $4,000.00

New Books

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2011.

First Printing. Quarto. 247pp. More than two hundred color illustrations. Pictorial paper covered boards, a Fine copy; as New. // "Over the past five years, Seattle-based Kundig has continued his meteoric rise, collecting numerous awards, including the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture Design. Tom Kundig: Houses 2 features... more

Price: $55.00

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2011.

First Printing. Quarto. 368pp. More than five hundred thirty illustrations, 350 of them in color. Paper-covered boards; a Fine copy, as New. // "Typography is an obsession for most designers. It's at the heart of all visual communication and is one of the purest forms of design, one that can... more

Price: $55.00

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2011.

Second Edition, First Printing. 208pp. Indexes. nearly two hundred illustrations, almost entirely in color. Pictorial wrappers, a Fine copy, as New. // "Our landmark survey of women artists' books is now available in paperback. The Book as Art presents more than one hundred of the most exquisite limited-edition volumes held... more

Price: $34.95

Travel & Exploration

New York: The Polar Publishing Co., 1911.

First Edition. Quarto. xx + 604pp. Index. Frontisportrait of the author and more than fifty illustrations throughout from steel-engravings and half-tone photographs. Original brown cloth with pictorial vignette printed in black and white; gilt stamped titles. Light soiling to page edges, minor edgewear; new endsheets. A Very Good+ copy. ARCTIC... more

Price: $225.00

New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1901.

The First American Edition, with the English sheets and a cancel title page bearing the New York imprint. Stout 8vo, xvi, 420pp. Frontis portrait of the author, and more than seventy other illustrations. With glossary, & an index. Original green cloth stamped in gilt, illustration set into front cover; top... more

Price: $600.00

Boston: Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1839.

Second Edition. Two volumes in one. 272; 321pp. Glossary, index. Lithographed frontispieces opposite each title-page; more than sixty engraved vignette illustrations placed within the text throughout both volumes. Large folding engraved map of south-eastern Asia placed in volume one. Original publisher's dark green cloth stamped decoratively in blind, the spine... more

Price: $275.00

Chicago, Ill.: A.B. Kuhlman, 1900.

First American Edition. Quarto. 490pp. More than forty full-page illustrations. Original red cloth, the spine and front cover stamped pictorially in black and white (the white flaking off quite a bit at the spine, less so on the front cover); some fraying to the cloth at the extremities, front hinge... more

Price: $250.00

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, Publishers, 1906.

First American Edition. Large stout octavo. xii, 356pp. Bibliography, index. With more than thirty illustrations including a frontispiece and a large folding map inside the rear cover. Original publisher's yellow cloth, the upper cover stamped decoratively in black, green and gilt; the spine gilt largely faded and rubbed away; top... more

Price: $125.00

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