Various cities, mostly the Netherlands: various makers, circa 1960s. Assorted sizes, lengths of labels range from approximately 5 to 10 cm. Labels housed in a 4to album, 14 pp., each page with 11 strips of tissue paper to hold the labels without glue. Overall excellent condition. Collection of over 500..... More
Original walnut and glass case housing two separate mechanical moving scrolls, each one 30 ft. in length and printed with a continuously joined chromolithographic panorama of the coastline from Providence to Block Island, RI and back again. The first one presenting the Eastern Shore starting at Fox Point in Providence..... More
A complete run in five issues, 40, 56, 56, 92, 96 pp., of editor and designer George Petros' "outlaw Liberal Fascist Sci Fi Pop Art magazine," with articles, poems, lyrics, and manifestoes by David Paul, Boyd Rice, Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo), Henry Rollins (Black Flag), Lydia Lunch, J.G. Thirwell, Cop Shoot..... More
A significant group of approximately 113 unique flyers (including a few variants) from the mid-1980s punk scene in the California Bay Area, all collected by a single person, photomechanicaly produced on various colors of paper stock. Various sizes, most 11" x 8.5". Overall very good condition, minor edgewear, a few..... More
Various cities including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Boston: various publishers, primarily circa 1890's to 1920s. Various sized quartos (most measuring approximately 31 x 23.5 cm or 35 x 26.5 cm). Original publisher's colorful wrappers; most circa 4-8 pp. Wrappers worn, many with detached covers, some with tape repairs..... More
18 parts (all published), illustrated throughout, with papers by Julien Maigret, André Warnod, Raymond Escholier, André Blum, Robert Brun, et al., coverage of book sales and new publications. 4to. Original covers with wood-engraved illustrations by Clément Serveau. Paris 1945-1947. Limited edition. More
Year 35, No. 1 (January 1923) through Year 35, No. 12 (December 1923), 12 issues bound in 1, 228 pp. serial devoted to numerous aspects of the Hungarian printing industry, including advertising posters, book cover design, print ads, etc., heavily illustrated throughout, many images in excellent color, some tipped-in. 4to..... More
![Book ID: 51224 Myszy bez Kota [Mice without a Cat]. Political pamphlet with woodcut...](/pictures/thumb/51224_1.jpg?v=1628712645)
[Warsaw]: self-published, [ca. 1928]. Small folio (17.5 × 22.5 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; 4 pp. Very good. A political caricature by an unknow artist promoting the rule of Jozef Pilsudski (1867-1935), the political leader of Poland in 1918-1922 and again as a de facto military dictator in 1926-1935. The pamphlet..... More
Kiev: Kievskoe muzykal'noe predpriiatie, ca. 1920? Folio (33.5 × 26 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [2] pp. Light soil to bottom left hand corner of wrapper and some toning as expected; price stamp on reverse of wrapper; overall very good. This volume of sheet music contains music and lyrics for the..... More
478 pp. compendium of 28 papers (in English, French, and German) by numerous noted scholars and edited by S. van der Woude, most on various aspects of 16th-century bibliography, culture, letters, and science, with some on 15th- and 17th-century topics, extensive notes, num. text illus., 72 fine plates. Sm. 4to..... More
Tallinn: ["Aktsiooni" Kirjastus], 1927-1933. Octavos (16.3 x 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Peet Aren, Märt Laarman and Jaan Vahtra; 28, [4]; 60, [4]; and 63, [I] pp. Very good or better. Antson (1899-1945) was an Estonian teacher, journalist, and writer who participated in the "Aktsioon" ("Action") literary group and..... More
The first of a set of four volumes (68 pp., pp. 26-67 printed and numbered to rectos only) of the Catalan albums produced as source books for Trochut typefaces, displaying advancements in modern typography and typographical design, comprised of brief introductory text in Spanish and French, followed by examples of..... More
![Book ID: 52338 Strófák [Strophes]. György Bálint, Vera Csillag, author, artist](/pictures/thumb/52338_001.jpg?v=1677256684)
Budapest: Együtt, 1929. Octavo (24.4 × 16.2 cm). Original wrappers with typographic linocut print to cover by Vera Csillag; 45, [3] pp. Wrappers somewhat dust-soiled and foxed; sections uncut and unopened; else very good. First edititon of this collection of poems by György Bálint, who was a writer, publicist, and..... More
Harbin: N. P. Kobtsev; tip. "Zaria", 1934. Quarto (26 × 18.5 cm). Staple-stitched pamphlet with paper spine strip; 23 pp. Rust to staples; last page discolored; else very good, printed on better paper. A short, but highly informative Russian-language description of the history and present makeup of the State Public..... More
6 pp. introductory text on the life and work of Wit Stwosz (c. 1445 - 1533), the Polish-born sculptor active in Germany, scholarly notes, and critical list, and 13 excellent gravure plates showing the etchings, a few with side-by-side views of different states. Sm. folio. Cloth-backed boards. Berlin (Bruno Cassirer)..... More
272, XXXVIII pp. facsimile of the text originally printed in 1497 by Johann Grüninger in Strasbourg, with commentary by Gustav Klein discussing the printing methods, 16 plates showing titles pages and illustrations from works by Hieronymus Brunschwig and others. Small 4to. Wrpps., covers faded, original title-wrapper shredding. Munich (Carl Kuhn)..... More
12 vols., altogether over 7000 pp. catalogue, by J. van den Gheyn, Fréderic Lyna, Emile Wagemans, et al., of the collection of over 8500 illuminated and otherwise rare or unusual mss. in the Royal library, each item described, many with extensive annotations and cross-references. 4to. Orig. wrpps., some vols. sl..... More
Unpaginated (circa 9 pp.) introduction to a presentation of 15 title pages and opening pages of Virgil's works published between 1469 and 1789 (some plates in color). Folio. Plates loose as issued in cloth portfolio, cover rubbed, small note in pencil and stamp inside front cover. Berlin (Reichsdruckerei) 1930... More
Exquisite turn-of-the-century French shadow theater, comprised of a chromolithographed box illustrated with a central scene depicting the Revue du 14 Juillet à Paris and two smaller scenes from the 1893 Fêtes Franco-Russes, Dunkerque-Cronstadt and the Réceptions au Palais Catherine, the box containing within: an elaborate wooden framed theater stage with..... More
2 vols. in 1, XVI, 196, 144 pp. catalogue of the library of Albert Bélinac, focused on both old and modern books, with notes, and 1228-item catalogue. 4to. New cloth, orig. wrpps. bound in. Paris (A. Durel) 1909. More
![Book ID: P4607 Várovní znamení [Warngedichte; Warning signs]. Erich Fried, designer...](/pictures/thumb/P4607_1.jpg?v=1591722733)
Prague: Nakladatelství Svoboda, 1969. Slim octavo (24 × 10 cm). Original pictorial dust-wrappers designed by Milan Grygar, over blind wrappers; 78, [1] pp. Light wear and toning to edges of dust-wrappers, else about very good. First editon of these translations into Czech by Jiří Gruša of poems by Erich Fried..... More
Moscow–Berlin: Mezhrabpom, 1924. Octavo (17 × 11.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with a photomontage design by Petr Galadzhev; XXV, 117 pp. With one map. About very good; light wear to wrapper edges and spine extremities. Early Soviet fascination with Western industrialization is captured in the unattributed Constructivist wrapper design of..... More
15 pp. text on the works of Gutenberg and the Schoffers, 8 facsimiles of pages from the Holy Bible, the Mainzer Catholicon,the Psalter of 1457, the Missal of 1458, Durandus, the Latin Bible of 1462 and the Special Missal. Folio. Wrpps. portfolio. Berlin (the author) 1918. More
Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1899. Octavo (21.7 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 48 pp. Edges red. Wrappers lightly dust-soiled; still about very good. Scarce catalog of the firm of Karl W. Hiersemann, seller of new and antiquarian books in Leipzig, which presents the library of privy councillor Dmitrii Petrovich..... More
![Book ID: P4983 Bibliograficheskoe delo: sbornik [Bibliography: an anthology]. N. F. Ianitskii](/pictures/thumb/P4983_1.jpg?v=1590179207)
Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1927. Octavo (23.5 × 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 163 pp. Light wear to wrappers; about very good. Uncommon volume reflecting the shift of bibliography from the sphere of personal collecting to a matter of key importance for the young Soviet state and its libraries, trade union..... More