Search Results: Titles starting with C from Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts

Paris: La Nouvelle Édition, 1949     ¶ FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, notable for its striking art-naïf wrappers after Delacroix (1883-1990).   ||| Collation: In 8s (192 x 143 mm untrimmed): 48 leaves, paginated [1-8] 9-94 [95-96].  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine, UNOPENED.  Provenance: Beatrice Reiter Leval (1911-2004), of New York, picture-collector.   ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below.  Pour plus de détails, veuillez contacter Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, comme ci-dessous..

Amsterdam: John Benjamins b.v., 1976 ¶ BEST EDITION; including Niederehe's supplement (pages [151]-240). (Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, series iii: Studies in the history of linguisitcs, volume 8.) ||| Collation: In 8s (220 x 148 mm): Pp. vii [viii-ix], 240. Binding: Publisher's cloth. References: ISBN 907270891; LCCN 77555263. ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below. .

First edition (only edition) of this important bibliography, giving not just the authors and titles of all 212 individual volumes and parts 1855-1913, but also descriptions of their contents and some hints at their importance. It also identifies the authors of a number of works published anonymously. (Series: Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College [1855- ], volume 75, part 2.) The present copy is lightly annotated in pencil on pages 210-14, perhaps at Harvard, perhaps about 1920, updating the checklist slightly, and noting that this Contents itself is now "Out of print".

London &c, 2000 ¶ Only edition; including a three-page description of the Charles de Valois (duc d'Angouêlme) copy of Don Quixote 1605, £223,250 ($321,976). (Sale no. L00210, 7 December 2000.) ||| Collation: 270 x 212 mm: Pp [1-10] 11-136. Illustration: Numerous color and monochrome facsimiles and illustrations. Binding: Pictorial wrappers. Condition: Fine. .

New York, 1991     ¶ Only edition of this important catalogue, lavishly illustrated throughout; presenting "an incomparable portrait of America's national pastime from its earliest days in the mid-nineteenth century through the 1980s. What distinguishes this collection, apart from its scope, is the superb condition and quality of every item." (Page [11].)  873 lots, printed estimates. Price-list laid in.  (Sotheby's sale 6145, 22-23 March 1991.)   ||| Collation: 270 x 210 mm. Not paginated.  Illustration: Numerous color and black-and-white illustrations throughout.  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine.  .

New York: Random House, 1959 ¶ First American edition. The dust-jacket prints a short blurb by Graham Greene. ||| Collation: In 16s (184 x 124 mm): Pp. 256. Binding: Black cloth, dust-jacket (upper flap imperfect). Reference: LCCN 59010812. ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts. .

New York, 1986     ¶ Only ediiton of this important catalogue. The Neuhoff collection was assembled over some fifty years, from the 1920s into the 1970s: Objects from the collection are now preserved in the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Colonial Williamburg, and the White House. 251 lots, printed estimates, six lots priced.  (Sotheby's sale 5427, 25 January 1986.)   ||| Cover title: Important English furniture and decorations: The Jerome C. Neuhoff collection.  Collation: In 8s (270 x 210 mm): Eighty-four leaves, paginated [1-168] (ie, not paginated).  Illustration: Numerous color and black-and-white illustrations throughout.  Binding: Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Color-pictorial dust-jacket lettered in gilt.  Condition: Fine.  .