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Crusinallo: Press Grafica, 1980. Hard Cover. Used; Like New/Fair. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. DJ has some rips but is all there; slight water damage to cover. Very large book in Italian; appears to contain 2 separate but related photo essays; brown boards with silver titles on front and spine; pictorial DJ; over 100 pages of beatiful color photographs of the Italian countryside.

Parma: Franco Maria Ricci, 1972. First Edition, Numbered/Limited. SILK. Used; Like New. Very light fraying to boards near top of spine; binding a little loose but strong; final digit of copy number is rubbed off (appears to be 139 but the first 500 were leather bound, the next 1500 silk). About 75 color prints tipped in; text from noted art critic Barthes is supplemented with excerpts from Erte's own memoirs; elegant book with pages of handmade paper, boards of silk with a color pastedown and gilt lettering.

Whitman, 1954. Staple-bound Paperback. Used; Acceptable. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Tape along spine, some tears, marks and cuts, but this still jumps out and says "Here I Am--Take me home!" 12 pp. including wraps; extra-heavy paper with scalloped edges; red felt on front cover for Santa's costume.

New York: Virtue and Yorston, 1869. First Edition. Full-Leather. Used; Acceptable. This large volume has considerable damage, but it is 130+ years old. Front cover detached; wear to boards especially hinges; significant foxing throughout which in most cases has not affected the steel engravings; some browning throughout. Highly detailed gilt decorations and elaborate lettering on front, back and spine of the brown leather boards; all edges gilt; colorful decorated endpapers; over 70 full-page steel engravings, each with an accompanying page of text. This compilation of 19th century work is mostly from the English School with a few examples of Belgian and French art. T. Addison Richards has come into some fame recently for his own work. THIS IS A VERY RARE BOOK.

New York: Raw Books and Graphics, 1986. Magazine. Used; Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Minor wrinkling and a couple of small tears and edgewear. 78 pp. of b/w cartoon-style illustrated stories; the smaller (8v0) 25pp. chapter 7 of MAUS is bound in between pages 36 and 37. Includes "Birth of the Bomb: the beginning of the end" by Paul Boyer, "Jimbo" by Gary Panter, and "Raw Gagz", among fifty artists, ninety-nine laffs, and and much more.