Joilet, Illinois: P.F. Volland Company, 1929. First Edition. Oblong Quarto. (23.5 x 30 cm) Unpaginated. Half-cloth, pictorial paper boards with titles in script in yellow and blue. Green buckram spine. Pictorial endpapers. Some wear and loss of paper to corners and edges, unaffecting illustrations. Very slight soiling to boards but..... More
San Francisco: Alternative Tentacles. One Sheet. (21.5 x 28 cm.) Promotional Newsletter. Black, typewriter-style, photo-mechanically printed type on Halloween-Orange colored paper. Top corners with record label logo and contact information center with star border. Dead Kennedys logo bottom right. Thick, black border separates text from reproduced, now iconic image of..... More
Newark: Newark NOW, 2006. Small Broadside. (20.5 x 25.5 cm.) Heavy, raw, unbleached cardstock. All lettering and art in solid black ink. Framed. Fine. In 2003, fresh from his unsuccessful run for Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, the year before, community organizer, Cory Booker, founded the nonprofit organization, Newark NOW..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First Edition. Octavo. (24cm x 17 cm.) 184 pp. ills. Half green cloth, blue cloth spine. Titles in white on front boards and spine. Photo-illustrated wrappers. Inscribed by the subject on front free endpaper. Very mild edgewear to dust jacket. Near Fine. If King..... More
London: Century, 2001. First Edition. Thick Octavo (24 cm.), 672 pp. Full pitch-black cloth, spine with silver titles. Pictorial dust jacket with black and white, classic Vegas Strip scene. Non-acid free pages are showing signs of yellowing but this is typical of this particular book printed by this publisher. James Ellroy writes..... More
Vancouver: Fairburn Publications Limited, 1974. First Edition. Spiral bound, photo pictorial goldenrod colored vinyl boards. (37 cm all.) Set 1 (Three books total) Book 1 Male-Full Figure. 103 pps. Some slight scuffing, small transparent splotches of dried glue residue to front board. Book 2 Female-Full Figure. 103 pps. Faint, minor..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. First Edition. Octavo (23.5 cm.) 401 pp. Half grey cloth. Initials of author in silver gilt on front board, titles in silver gilt on spine. Photo pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed by author. When John Hope Franklin was 6, in 1921, he was forcibly..... More
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1975. First Edition. Octavo (28 cm.) Original pictorial wraps. 64 pp. Green, blue, yellow and red striping with white lettering to front and spine. Some modest scuffing to spine and edges. Very Good. In 1975, Mildred S. Friedman curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 1997. First American Edition. Octavo. (23.5 cm.) 371 pp. Eggplant colored half-cloth paper boards with black cloth spine. Titles and artwork on front board and spine in aubergine. Silver foil dust jacket with photo-illustrated reflective artwork. Light edgewear to jacket and top of boards. Slight, very..... More
London, New York: Atheneum, Macmillan, 1979-1982. Goodall. Small Oblong Octavos. (14 x 19 cm.) Three volumes. Deep Maroon, Botanical Green, Smokey Green boards, respectively. Pictorial dust jackets. Very slight cocking to one volume. All in all, a Fine set. Created for young people, this set of bright, colorful and lively..... More
Loughborough: Willis & Hepworth, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. (18 cm.) 54 pp. Pictorial orange paper boards with text in black and white and Ladybird logo on front and verso, like text on spine. Very minor foxing to edges of text block. Book exceptionally bright and clean. A Near Fine example..... More
New York: Celluloid, 1982. Vinyl LP. 12" One song per side. Black vinyl, metallic-silver paper center. Graffitti-style titles in black. Plain white paper record jacket. Photo-pictorial album cover depicts the Grand Mixer himself. Verso artwork is by subway and graffitti artist, Futura 2000. Vinyl record is fine and fresh. Album..... More
2005. Portfolio. (48 x 33cm) Nine (9) Archival photographic color prints. Decorative japanese paper wrappers. Printed color label. Nine plates signed with plate number on verso. Very Fine. In 1958, Dave Heath, had his first solo photography show in a beatnik hangout frequented by Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Young..... More
Tokyo: Rockin' On, 1994. First Edition. Octavo (21 x 28 cm.) 160 pp. (unpaginated) Photo-printed, machine-stapled, softcover paper boards fold-out to show all four bandmembers. Six (6) original, loose, 8 x 10 color photo cards inserted. Some mild foxing to edges of a few photo cards.Text in Japanese. Lyrics in..... More
New York: Harper Collins, 2009. First Edition. Quarto (26 cm.), half-cloth, periwinkle blue boards, outline of cat blindstamped on front board, titles in silver-green gilt on spine, pictorial dust jacket with an intrepid Coraline and her cat companion out for a spooky walk. 229 pp. Fine overall. "Coraline", was made into..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1973. First Edition. Small Folio. (28.5 cm.), 255 pp. Half cloth, deco-metallic silver boards and dusty rose colored cloth. Titles in silver on spine. Very small white spot to top left of front board. Modest edgewear to dust jacket with a closed tear to head of..... More
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1990. First Edition. Small Folio. (37 cm.) 140 pp. Stiff photographic paper wrappers. Photo-pictorial gatefold dust jacket. Presentation copy with "The University Club" luncheon menu pastedown to blank verso of front wrapper and invitation to same 1992 luncheon honoring museum curator, Richard Martin, attached..... More
New York: Signet, 1958. First Paperback Edition. Small Octavo. (18 cm.) 288 pps. Pictorial paper wrappers. Minor creasing and edgewear. Near Fine. The story of a prostitute falling in love with an artist has been used, ceaselessly, since the invention of the narrative form. "The World of Suzie Wong" did..... More
Chicago: Curtom Records, 1973. Oblong Broadside. (61 x 30.5 cm.) Promotional poster advertising "Back To The World" album. Some foxing to top of sheet, front and verso with some additional mild foxing along one verso fold. Three folds with very slight wear to center fold. Poster remains bright and colorful..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1996. First Edition. Octavo. (23.5 cm.) 424 pp. xxiv ills. Full black cloth. Electric red titles on spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Some mild creasing to edges and very mild soiling. Near Fine. After more than twenty years in print and translated into dozens of languages, it..... More
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946. Robert C. Osborn. First Edition. Octavo (26 cm.) 96 pp. Burnt-Orange paper boards with titles in white and black, titles in black on spine. Dust jacket in likewise colors and lettering with advertisements on rear boards in black lettering. Two short closed..... More
New York: Jump At The Sun/Hyperion, 2008. First Edition. Small Folio. (29 cm) 88 pp. Full, baseball-mitt-colored vinyl. Black-stamped pictorial with titles in black on spine. Pictorial dust jacket with front jacket illustration of Josh Gibson. Fine. The subject of Kadir Nelson's, "We Are The Ship", is Negro League Baseball..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1976. First Paperback Edition. Small Octavo. (8 cm.) 148 pp. xvi ills. Pictorial mass market paperback. Minor color stain to verso otherwise exceptionally bright and fresh. Near Fine. Your fate is in the palm of your hand. 1976, America's Bicentennial year. The ceaseless fireworks set the stage..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1998. First Edition. Octavo (24 cm). 298 pp. Half-cloth, leather-brown boards with company insignia blind-stamped on front board, with white titles on black spine. Small, light stains to first free endpaper which may be from the paper stock, else a great copy. Power. This is the..... More
Paris: Editions Nilsson, ?? Square Octavos. More