1856. Carlsruhe : J. Veith, 12 parts in 1 volume containing 144 lithograph plates (12 in color) of city and country homes for the gentry and their retainers, schoolhouses, cottages, etc., with ground plans. Orig. blind-stamped cloth. Spine chipped. Carlsruhe (J. Veith) (1856). Some foxing. 2 pages repaired. Small obl..... More

Prague: Präsidium der k. k. Polizeidirektion Prag, [1916 or 1917]. Large quarto (33 × 24 cm). Attractively bound in recent gray boards; [1], 198 leaves of text to rectos only. Pink rubber stamp “Vertraulich” (“Confidential”) to first leaf. Introductory text followed by German-language wanted briefs and photographs. Very good. This..... More

A sizeable collection of supplements to Rouge and other associated serials and publications, dating primarily from the 1970s. - Supplements to Rouge: 40, 56, 63, 105, 132, 133, 140, 143, 154, 156, 177, 185, 188 (3 different), 189 (3 different), 190 (2 different), 192, 197, 204 (4 different 204s), 206..... More

[Berlin]: Evangelische Jungendarbeit, Stadtjugendpfarramt, [1989]. 43 leaves of A4 paper (various contributions with separate pagination), fastened with three staples to left margin; original and reproduced typescript and computer-printed text; compiled from various sources, as evidenced by the different quality of the paper stock. The first leaf lightly worn; else very..... More

Collection of American home building trade catalogs from the first half of the twentieth century, including examples of catalogs focused on kit and readi-cut houses, stucco house plans, California Colonial house plans, small or modestly priced homes, wood and steel portable garages and other buildings, complete garage sets, lock-joint columns..... More

19th century lotto and checkers game comprised of: a folding lithographed gameboard with checkerboard center and printed rules in two flanking columns of text; 24 individual bingo-style lotto boards in four colored sets of six boards each, the blank spaces having been hand-colored; 19 black painted wooden checker-style discs and..... More

Mid-to-late 19th century magnetic divination game consisting of two loose magnetic dials printed with various questions, a glass tray with chromolithographed ground and central chromolithographed floral roundel where the question dial is to be placed, the roundel surrounded by alternating answers to questions corresponding to one dial, and eight small..... More

1931. 2 vols in one., 224, 191 pp., comprising the only two volumes published of the German avant-garde annual with text in German, French, and English, 1931 edited by René Cravel, Martel Schwichtenberg, and Curt Valentin, and 1932 edited by Schwichtenberg and Valentin, featuring the work of groundbreaking writers, artists..... More

Collection of original photographs and related ephemera chronicling the vaudeville and circus career of "The Darings" and, later, "Jim Daring's Chimps", comprised of 77 original photographs, 8 photo postcards, and 6 additional pieces of assorted ephemera including flyers for the RKO Palace in New York and the former Rocky Point..... More

A complete run in 6 unpaginated issues of the journal put out by the eponymous socialist Danish artist's and musician's collective, forming a sort of catalogue of the group's activities through comics, photos of happenings and concerts, reproductions of posters, songs, and other works. 8vo. Original saddle-stapled cardstock wrpps., each..... More

[Germany, 1968]. Original silk-screened poster, printed in black and red, measuring 84 × 59 cm. Very good or better. A remarkably drastic anti-war poster, issued as a fake poster for the fourth Documenta in Kassel, held in 1968. The fourth installment of the famous contemporary art fair – considered the..... More

Paris: YMCA-Press, 1968. Octavo (30.2 × 22.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 219, [1] pp. With the author's portrait on page 15. Very good; spine sun-tanned. A near fine copy of the first edition in book form of Mikhail Bulgakov’s multi-layered satire of Soviet society, set in ancient Jerusalem and Moscow..... More

Vienna: Gedruckt und in Commission der Mechitaristen-Congregations-Buchhandlung, 1836. Quarto (25.8 × 19.7 cm). Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards; spine gilt-tooled, with black spine label; engraved frontis portrait, xxi, [1], 441, [3] pp. abd 72 [i.e. 71] leaves of plates (two double-folded and double-numbered). Boards and spine rubbed; corners somewhat scuffed;..... More