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Paris: Maeght, 1951. Second edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. Kandinsky, Wassily. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. Comprising six woodcuts, three printed in colours, with title-page, text and justification, on wove paper, the full sheets loose as published in the original color lithographed covers. Text in French, translated by Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia. Fresh, clean copy.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1930. First edition. Stif wraps. Orig. decorated covers. Very good. 29 pages. 14.5x 9 cm. One of 250 copies printed in Janson type on Chinese tinsel paper. Essays and poems by Alice Meynell. Clean, fresh copy, slight cover rubbing.

New York: Rizzoli, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 314 pages. 28 x 25 cm. 398 illustrations, ninety in color. Written by his son, this monograph presents Cassandre's manipulation of typography and image -- including work for the theater, the great typsetters of the time, as well as the posters.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1873. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Very good. 24.5 x 19 cm. Each with eight color plates signed in the plate with the artist's monogram and engraved on wood by Edmund Evans. Originally published anonymously, these pamphlets proved so popular the public demanded to know the artist. Routledge eventually capitulated in 1873 and issued them as Walter Crane's Toy Books with a crane and flock of baby birds designed by Crane No. 96. Light spine wear.

Paris: Berggruen & Cie, 1953. Hardcover. Both in fine condition in very good, nicked publisher's gray slipcase with front cover paper label. Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de. 6 text pages. 14.5 x 22.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 108 of 500, the facsimile album printed by Daniel Jacomet, containing 17 fine screen watercolors and 27 designs in crayon and black and white. A French text tribute to Toulouse-Lautrec by Dortu. Most of the illustrations printed recto only. A two part set: text in light brown printed stiff wrappers, and beige cloth bound illustrated volume with front and back cover illustrations.

Berlin: Ukrainske Slowo, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth lettered in English and Russian. Very good. Archipenko, Alexander. 65 pages. 30.5 x 23.5 cm. Signed presentation copy to Mrs. Irina Stoloff, dated 1947. One color plate. Text in English and Russian. Book label of Central Book Trading Company, New York. Portrait of Archipenko chipped at center fore-edge with one centimeter loss. List of Illustrations. A better than average copy with the two gold front cover bands clean. FREITAG 218.

Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth. Very good in lightly soiled dust wrapper. 312 black and white illustrations. Index. Large sections of the book are devoted to product design -- lights, cookers, food-mixers, clocks -- and another large section isdevoted to tools, instruments, office equipment and transport. Ex-library.

San Francisco: Roy Vernon Sowers, 1942. First edition. Boards. Orig. illustrated boards. Near fine in worn glassine overwrapper. 76 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Illustrated.

London & New York: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1895. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff wrappers, front cover in decorated frame illustrated in red and black against a delft blue background. Fine. 27 x 23.5 cm. Walter Crane's Picture Books, Large Series: six eight color plates engraved on wood by Edmund Evans, and printed verso or recto with blank backing. Originally published anonymously, these pamphlets proved so popular the public demanded to know the artist. Routledge eventually capitulated in 1873 and issued them as Walter Crane's Picture Books. Fresh, very bright copy.

Cleveland: World, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. ruby cloth. Near fine in rubbed dust wrapper. 256 pp. More than 750 illustrations of ornamental art of the past 500 years; some pages printed in black and red. Bibliography. Included are fleurons and borders,letters and alphabets, headpieces and vignettes, silhouettes and shadow figures, scripts and scrolls, applied ornaments and pattern books, heraldic ornaments and more. Armorial bookplate.

New York: Rizzoli, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. mauve cloth decorated in blind. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 225 pages. 29 x 23.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color plates printed on high gloss stock. List of Public Gardens represented. Public Garden Source List. Index.

New York: Rizzoli, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. laminated blue cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 254 pages. 30.5 x 24 cm. Feature 24 of the best examples of work by this firm located in Connecticut, New York, Virginia and Florida, and restoration of six New York town houses. Profusely illustrated with color photographs.

New York: Watson-Guptill, 1975. First edition. Cloth. Orig. yellow cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 224 pages. 31 x 24 cm. Forty-eight full-color plates and 175 black and white illustrations. Biographies of prominent illustrators. Bibliography. Index. For the first time, American poster artists and their work are brought together in a single lavishly illustrated monograph.

Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 228 pages. 31 x 24 cm. 118 black and white plates and 9 color plates. Index. An historical review of 20th century American lithography by the director of the Tamarind Institute.

Princeton: D. Van Nostrand, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Near fine. 132 pages. More than seventy illustrations [drawings by the author and photographs by Hilda Borcherding]. The five main techniques, namely, Country Painting, Freehand Bronze, Stenciling, Floating Color and Gold Leaf are described.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1837. Hardcover. Three quarter dark green cloth and brown morocco rebacked. Near fine. 74 pages & Alphabetical Index & Chronological Index, Folio, 50 x 33 cm. Etched frontispiece by and after Carter, and 106 etched plates. Originally issued in 27 parts, 'this is Carter's most important book... It was probably the first [work] to analyze the morphological development of English Gothic (or, as Carter insisted, ''the Pointed Arch style'') on a systematic comparative basis - something acknowledged by Britton in a tribute to Carter as ''the first to point out to the public the right way of delineating the component and detached parts of the old buildings of England'' Two volumes in one. AVERY p.172. RIBA I 569.A.

London: John Murray, 1841. New Edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth front cover lavishly illustrated in gilt borders and arabesques. Teg. Near fine. Jones, Owen. Unpaginated, approx. 200 pages in text. Four full-page chromolithograph illustrations with borders, colored titles, and ornamental vignettes [all are color lithographs] designed by Owen Jones. Numerous text illustrations from drawings by William Allan, David Roberts, William Simson, Henry Warren, C.E. Aubrey, and William Harvey. A new edition, revised: first published 1823. One of the earliest and most attractive of Victorian color plate gift books. A work of true scholarship with the author best known for his biography of his father-in-law Sir Walter Scott. Slight rubbing to corners.

Vienna: Munk, 1911. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. cream decorated stiff wrappers. Very good. 24 unnumbered pages. 31 x 26 cm. Twelve Jugendstil full page color designs by the brother-in-laws, Heinrich Lefler and Josef Urban, each plate surrounded by wide decorative borders of flowers, animals, crests and other motifs relating to the image -- enhanced by platinum gray and gilt colors, each border in different designs. Front cover and title page are also gilt decorated with latter a chromolithograph heightened in gold. Text in German. Repair to front cover upper corner head, interior contents clean, bookplate.

San Francisco: Grace Hoper Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter beige cloth and decorated boards. Near fine. 32 pages. 33 x 23 cm. Limited edition one of 75 copies. Title page printed in red and black, remainder of text printed in a variety of colors and type faces. Backstrip label chipped.

NY: Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light brown cloth. Fine. 64 pages. 11 1/2 x 9". Color plates.