THE SURVIVING WORKS OF SHARAKU
E. Weyhe: NY, 1939. Hardcover. Plates, 12 x 9", cloth, 337pp, edges spotted else good in tattered dustjacket. The categories include, in part: "The Manager", "The Plays And The Actors", "Fans". FIRST EDITION. More
E. Weyhe: NY, 1939. Hardcover. Plates, 12 x 9", cloth, 337pp, edges spotted else good in tattered dustjacket. The categories include, in part: "The Manager", "The Plays And The Actors", "Fans". FIRST EDITION. More
Pigeon Press: Oakland, CA, 2015. Paperback. Illus., 12.5 x 9.75", pict stapled wraps, unpaginated, very minor edge wear else a beautifully well-preserved copy in the original clear plastic sleeve. FIRST AND ONLY DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a sticker affixed to clear..... More
Nisbet: London, 1865. Hardcover. Fore-edge painting, text illus., 8 x 6", full black leather with decorative blindstamping, raised bands, gilt gauffered edges, marbled endpapers, 256pp. Covers have light wear and rubbing, spine repaired including a small area of cover next to spine, inner hinges cracked, ink inscription from 1869, scattered..... More
Bell & Daldy: London, 1857. Hardcover. Engraved frontispiece, 6.75 x 4.5", full crimson crushed morocco prize binding, with gilt seal on front cover, aeg, 350pp, bookplates (including the presentation one), inner front hinge cracked, rear one starting, ends foxed, spine faded to brown, corners worn. WITH FOREDGE PAINTING OF THE..... More
John Murray: London, 1815. Hardcover. 8.5 x 5.5", highly gilt dec red leather, raised bands, 299pp + ads. Covers scuffed/scraped, spine sunned and worn, edgeworn, corners bumped, page edges rubbed, inner hinges cracked, scattered light foxing else good. WITH ORIGINAL FOREDGE PAINTING OF A VILLAGE CENTER WITH VARIOUS STYLES OF..... More
John Murray: London, 1815. Hardcover. 8.5 x 5.5", full straight grained goatskin, with nice gilt ruling and decorated spine, aeg, bookplates (George Cornwall Legh), 299pp + ads; errata, ink inscription, extremities rubbed and foxed. FIRST EDITION. NICE COLORFUL FOREDGE PAINTING OF CHURCH AND OTHER BUILDINGS HIDDEN UNDER GILT. More
Nims and Knight: Troy, NY, 1887. 10 full page color plates by Isaac Sprague, 12.75 x 10", gilt-lettered pict cloth, unpaginated, covers quite worn/stained, soiled and darkened, extremities bumped and fraying, hinges loose, inner hinges cracking, pp toned but complete and intact with the ten lovely, bright botanical prints (Arethusa..... More
Detroit, 1976. Paperback. 11.5 x 17", screened for printing, good condition. BOLDLY SIGNED PLUS PERSONAL INSCRIPTION SIGNED ON DEC. 26, 1976. Shows President Jimmy Carter grabbed by a King Kong hand labeled "unemployment" hovering over city. Carter says "Now watch carefully folks, as beauty kills the beast" More
Draper Hill: Detroit News, 1995. Hardcover. Cartoon approx. 11 x 14" (not examined out of frame), black metal frame 12 x 14.5". Very good condition. Shown are a man and woman in a car that is following a pickup truck whose bed is full of fertilizer bags. Comes with the..... More
Detroit, 1995. 24 x 17.5, black lettering and black and tan coloring against a white background. Fold crease, soiling on reverse else very good. Divided into four sections, front and back and interior. Thomas "Tommy" Schlientz had Draper Hill do his annual Christmas card which was always moose-themed. In this..... More
Art Gallery of Windsor: Windsor, ON, 1985. Oblong 8 x 9, wraps, 96 pp, covers unevenly toned, a bit worn but still a nice copy, showing dozens of Draper Hill's political cartoons from The Detroit News. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY DRAPER HILL (1990), WITH AN ORIGINAL SELF PORTRAIT. More
Applause: NY, (1999). Hardcover. Illustrations by Al Hirschfeld, 12 x 9.5", cloth backed red gilt-pict boards, 343pp with index, some shelf wear, little bits of white paint stuck to bottom of spine else a nice copy in a nice dustjacket. FIRST EDITION (NAP). With unused, glossy picture postcard of Hirschfeld's..... More
Charles Scribner's Sons: NY (1991). Illus, oblong 10 x 12", cloth backed boards, 306 w/index, good in price-clipped dw. SIGNED & DATED BY HIRSCHFELD ON TITLE. More
Prestel/Neue Galerie: Germany and NY, (2008). Hardcover. Illus., 11.5 x 8.25", red cloth, 230pp, front inner hinge a little tender but still a nice, clean copy in a lightly edge-worn dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. Ships from the USA. More
NY (1984). 10 x 9 1/2", cloth, 102pp, spine a trifle sunned, in faded slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 250 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY MURICE SENDAK WHOSE NUMEROUS COLOR DRAWINGS ADORN THIS VOLUME, INCLUDES ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH. THE ORIGINAL NUMBERED LITHOGRAPF HAS BEEN MATTED AND FRAMED. More
Middletown, Conn (1970). 15 x 11", cloth, 150pp, vg in slightly worn, soiled, scratched slipcase. NUMEROUS EXAMPLES OF HOGARTH'S ART. More
W.W. Norton & Co.: NY, (1963). Illus. by Tomi Ungerer. 12.25 x 9.25", dec cloth-like boards, unpaginated, covers a little rubbed, extremities a bit bumped, hinges loose, some toning to edges of text block, and minor spotting to preliminaries, in a rubbed, extremity-worn, edge-torn and spotted, price-clipped dustjacket. FIRST EDITION..... More
Illustrissimi quondam Hugenii deductiones novissime collectum & exhibitum, nd (c. 1710). Paperback. 20 x 11.5", expands to 20 x 23", hand colored, removed, minor foxing , archivally restored at bottom centerfold, two repaired marginal tears, upper fold tear, scattered foxing else good to very good condition. In 1702, Homann founded..... More
Norimbergae, nd (c 1730). 21 x 23 map, hand colored, showing North and South America, with California as a peninsula but without the "cum privlegio" in the lower cartouche, folds, soiling, edge wear, ink number "5" at top, formerly cello-taped at vertical center fold on reverse but tape browning,has seeped..... More
John and Gillis Janssons: Waesberge, 1799. Extra engraved title page, 61 double page or folding maps (all called for in index), 20 x 13, leather backed boards, 36 pp of text + maps, binding very worn and chipped, front cover detached, title page darkened and creased, first few pp chipped..... More
Charles Scribner's Sons: NY, (1907). Hardcover. 50 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac, 9.5 x 7", gilt-dec cloth, 133pp + illustrations, covers very worn, extremities bumped and fraying, frontis and half-title detached (but present), pp toned and used with scattered finger soiling, textblock cracking, but illustrations appear to be nice..... More
Hodder and Stoughton: NY, 1911. 8 x 6, hardcover, unpag, 24 color plates, blue cloth with red, white and blue titles and decorations, small chip to edgeworn jacket, mild bumping to edges, a nice, clean copy. FIRST ED. More
Hodder and Stoughton: London, 1911. 8 x 6, hardcover, unpag, color illustr, terra cotta cloth with gilt titles and decorations, hinges cracked, insect damage to cloth sizing, corners and spine ends worn, fair FIRST ED. More
Frederick A. Stokes: NY, 1903. Illustr, 15 x 14, cloth backed pict boards, (44)pp printed on rectos only, front cover and spine detached but present, covers very heavily worn, scratched, chipped, stained, extremities bumped, pp well used with some creased corners, tears, spotting, finger soil, etc. FRONT COVER ILLUSTR AND..... More
Frederick A. Stokes: NY, 1897. WITH SIX FULL PAGE COLOR PLATES BY MAUD HUMPHERY; additional illus. by Elizabeth S. Tucker, 11.25 x 9", cloth backed pict boards (illus. by Maud Humphrey), unpaginated, covers worn and soiled with extremities chipping and fraying, hinges loose, front inner hinge cracking, large ink splot..... More