- [LIB-2830.2021] Raymond Radiguet. Vers libres / [Illustrés par Rojan]. — Champigny: Au Panier Fleuri [i.e. Paris, René Bonnel, c. 1935].
- [LIB-2827.2021] Raymond Radiguet. Vers libres / Illustrés par Rojan. — Nogent: Au Panier Fleuri [i.e. Paris, c. 1937].
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Portfolio of 14 original watercolour illustrations for Vers Libres by Raymond Radiguet. Painted on wove paper of different sizes, each mounted in a passe-partout 39,5 x 33 cm and enclosed in a flapped portfolio with a white label to front cover lettered "14 études originales | pour | VERS LIBRES | de | Raymond Radiguet | par | ROJAN". For published versions, see: -
Hardcover volume, 33 x 25.5 cm, bound in grey cloth, vignette and Vertès signature fac-simile to front cover, unclipped ($ 17.50) pictorial dust jacket with black lettering, polyester jacket cover, pp.: [2] [1-4] 5-150 [2], 77 leaves total, ils. Title-page: VARIATIONS | Drawings, water colors, etchings and lithographs | by | VERTÈS | Text by | CLAUDE ROGER-MARX | { publisher’s device} | NEW YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY | GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT || Limitation: edition of 1,000 copies, of which 5 copies (A-E) were enriched with one original drawing; 100 copies (1-100) were enriched with one original signed lithograph; and 895 copies (101-1000). This is copy № 984. Contributors: Roger-Marx, Claude (Jewish-French, 1888 – 1977) – author. Vertès, Marcel [Vértes, Marcell] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist -
Publisher's flapped portfolio 32.8 x 26.8 cm, gilt-ruled and gilt-lettered quarter faux-parchment waxed paper over brown paper boards with pasted illustration after von Bayros within gilt arabesque frame. Possibly published in Vienna by Heinrich Conrad in 1905 or 1908. The portfolio contains the title page with a vignette and 15 loose wove paper sheets 32 x 26.2 cm of collotype reproductions after drawings by Franz von Bayros. Cover gilt lettering: Choisÿ | le Conin | Erzählungen | am | Toiletten- | tische || Title-page: Erzählungen | am Toilettentische | von | CHOISY LE CONIN | {vignette} || Title-page verso: Inhalt: | 1. Die Tabaksdose | 2. Viola de Gamba | 3. Der Bote | 4. Nicht drängeln, Kinder! | 5. Die blaue Feder | 6. O what a pretty like-place! | 7. Die Sonnenuhr |8. Der Temel der der Cotÿs | 9. Der Fetischist | 10. Jupiter und Europa | 11. Die Witwe | 12. Paroxÿsme-erotique | 13. Der Rivale | 14. Die rote Lehrerin | 15. Tantalus | Nicht im Handel. || Catalogue raisonné: The amorous drawings of the Marquis von Bayros / Part I and II. — NY: Cythera Press, 1968; pp. 95-111 [LIB-2246.2019] -
Description: 4to, 26 x 21 cm, hardcover ¾ brown percaline over marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, publisher’s original wrappers preserved (bound-in), engraved bookplate “EX LIBRIS | Rodolfo …“ to verso of the 1st blank leaf. Printed in 1905 by Imprimerie Humbert Allegretti (Milan). Collation: 4to; front wrapper, π3 (blank, h.t., t.p.), 1-684, back wrapper; total 275 leaves within the wrappers. Pagination: [6] [1] 2-542 [2], total 550 pages. Contributors: Alessandro Baudi di Vesme [Alexandre de Vesme] (Italian, 1854 – 1923) Adam Bartsch (Austrian, 1757 – 1821) Ulrico Hoepli [Johannes Ulrich Höpli] (Swiss-Italian, 1846 – 1935) U. Hoepli (Milan) -
Description: One volume, collated 4to, 26.2 x 18.5 x 8 cm, ¾ calf over marbled boards, gilt decorated flat spine with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, publisher’s wrappers preserved. Title-page (red and black): LE TRÉSOR | DU | BIBLIOPHILE | ÉPOQUE ROMANTIQUE | 1801–1875 | PAR | L. CARTERET | Libraire de plusieurs Sociétés de Bibliophiles | LIVRES ILLUSTRÉS DU XIXe SIÈCLE | PARIS | L. CARTERET, ÉDITEUR | ANCIENNE LIBRAIRIE CONQUET | 5, RUE DROUOT, 5 | Novembre 1927 || Publisher's wrapper similar, in a frame Collation: front wrapper, π4 (2 blanks, h.t./limit., t.p./copyright], [1] – 894, χ2 (colophon, 1 blank), back wrapper, orig. spine, ils. within collation; total 362 leaves within wrappers; 2 leaves of modern inset bound-in between pp. 106 and 107. Pagination: [8][1-3] 4-712 [4], total 724 pages plus 4 pp inset, ils. Content: pp. 1-25 – propos; 29-600 – bibliographie; 601-603 – table ills; 605-639 – table des ouvrages cités; 641-712 – table des artistes. Printed by Imp. Lahure on November 30, 1927. Contributors: Léopold Carteret (French, 1873 – 1948) Imprimerie Générale de A. Lahure (Paris) Alexis Lahure (French, 1849 – 1928) -
Description: Hardcover, 22.2 x 17.2 cm, in green buckram with gilt lettering to front cover and spine, pp.: [1-4] 5-638 [2], 640 pages total. Incl.: Ф.-Р. де Шатобриан. Из «гения христианства». Title-page: ЛИТЕРАТУРНЫЕ | МАНИФЕСТЫ | ЗАПАДНОЕВРОПЕЙСКИХ | РОМАНТИКОВ | Собрание текстов, | вступительная статья и общая редакция | проф. А. С. Дмитриева | Издательство Московского университета | 1980 || Contributors: Дмитриев, Александр Сергеевич (Russian, 1919 – 2001) François-René de Chateaubriand (French, 1768 – 1848) -
Description: Hardcover, 20.8 x 13.3 cm, green buckram with gilt lettering to spine, gilt serial design and lettering to front cover, pp.: [1-6] 7-479 [480]. Incl. Ф.-Р. де Шатобриан. «Гений христианства», пер. О. Э. Гринберг. Title-page : | — | ЭСТЕТИКА РАННЕГО ФРАНЦУЗСКОГО РОМАНТИЗМА |— | {publisher’s device} | МОСКВА | ИСКУССТВО | 1982 | 3 || François-René de Chateaubriand (French, 1768 – 1848) – author Ольга Эммануиловна Гринберг (Russian, 1950 – 2008) – translator Вера Аркадьевна Мильчина [Vera Miltchina] (Russian, b. 1953) – foreword, translator -
Title-page: VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM | KUNIYOSHI | BY B. W. ROBINSON | SPACE | LONDON: HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE | 1961 || Description: hardcover, 25.3 x 19 cm, bound in red cloth with embossed vignette to front cover and gilt lettering over the black label to spine, pictorial endpapers, pictorial olive/cyan dust jacket; pp. [i-vi] vii-xv [xvi blank] 1-71 [72 blank] plus frontispiece in colour and 50 leaves of plates (98 pages of b/w ils.) between pp. 64 and 65. Contributor: Robinson, Basil William (British, 1912 – 2005). -
Title-page: KUNIYOSHI | The Warrior-Prints | B. W. Robinson | [space] | PHAIDON | OXFORD || Description: hardcover, 31.7 x 25 cm, bound in olive green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, white endpapers, pictorial olive dust jacket; pp.: [1-6] 7-208 incl. frontispiece, 64 plates, and 30 figs. in the text (total 104 leaves, 205 illustrations, including 32 in colour); catalogue with the list of illustrations, and index of characters portrayed. Inset: A.L.s. on Phaidon letterhead by Sue Moulton; ISBN 0714822272. Edition: 1st edition,1st printing (a review copy). Contributor: Robinson, Basil William (British, 1912 – 2005). -
Title-page: Heroes & Ghosts | Japanese prints | by | Kuniyoshi | 1797-1861 | [space] | Robert Schaap | introduction by | Amy Reigle Newland | essays by | Timothy T. Clark | Matthi Forrer | Inagaki Shin'ichi | {publisher’s device} | Hotei Publishing, Leiden | Society for Japanese Arts || Description: Square hardcover volume, 29.3 x 29 cm, bound in black cloth with blind vignette to front cover and blind lettering to spine, black pictorial endpapers, pictorial dust jacket; pp.: [1-4] 5-280, incl. 279 plates and 31 figures in the text; based on exhibit in Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam) 30 Jan – 5 Apr 1998 and Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia) 24 Apr – 29 Jun 1998. -
Two volumes, each bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine, black endpapers, TEG, and matching red cloth slipcases with black lettering to front. Vol. 1: The Clarence Buckingham collection of Japanese prints: The Primitives / Catalogue by Helen C. Gunsaulus. — [Chicago]: Art Institute of Chicago, 1955. Pagination: 1st leaf blank, 2nd leaf half-title, verso blank, [i, ii] – t.p. in red and black, copyright to verso, iii-vi, [vii] faux-title “The catalogue”, 1-284 [285] colophon, limitation: 500 numbered copies, this is № 476. Title-page: THE CLARENCE BUCKINGHAM | COLLECTION OF | JAPANESE PRINTS | The Primitives | CATALOGUE BY HELEN C. GUNSAULUS | THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO || Vol. 2: The Clarence Buckingham collection of Japanese prints: Volume 2 / Catalogue by Margaret O. Gentles. — [Chicago]: Art Institute of Chicago, 1965. Pagination: 1st leaf blank, 2nd leaf half-title, verso blank, [i, ii] – t.p. in red and black, copyright to verso, iii-vi, [vii] faux-title “The catalogue”,1-307 [2] blank/ colophon, limitation: 1000 copies (unnumbered). Title-page: VOLUME II | THE CLARENCE BUCKINGHAM | COLLECTION OF | JAPANESE PRINTS | Harunobu, Koryūsai, Shigemasa, their followers and contemporaries | Catalogue by Margaret O. Gentles | THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO 1965 || Contributors: Clarence Buckingham (American, 1854 – 1913) Helen C. Gunsaulus (American, 1886 – 1954) Margaret O. Gentles (American, 1905 – 1969) -
Book title: Kabuki fan-prints from Edo: Genroku to Enkyō periods (1688-1748) [江戸歌舞伎団扇絵] (Edo kabuki uchiwa-e: Genroku - Enkyō hen). Author: Shigeo Miyao [宮尾しげを] (Japanese, 1902 – 1982). Comments by: Sutezō Kimura [木村仙集] (Japanese, 20th century). Publisher: Inoue Shobō [井上書房] (Tokyo). Oblong volume bound in black washi paper with silver kabuki face design to front and silver lettering to spine and silver publisher’s name to back; three-colour title, folding frontispiece, second frontispiece, pp.: [6] foreword, contents, [2] f.t.p./blank, 3-134 [2], 43 full-page black & white illustrations, colophon slip pasted, bookstore label to back pastedown, in a pink slipcase with black lettering. Primitive fan prints from the Kaga collection, from 1691 to 1747. Edition: 1st edition, limited to 500 copies. -
Description: Hardcover volume bound in red cloth with black lettering to front cover and spine, in a red dustjacket with black lettered, bookplate to front pastedown “ from the library of | DAVID. D. LEVINE | Militaria” in triple fillet frame, bookseller’s label to front fep “CHAS. E. LAURIAT CO. | IMPORTERS & BOOKSELLERS | 385 Wash’n St. Boston”. Title-page in red and black: MY DAYS OF ADVENTURE | THE FALL OF FRANCE, 1870-71 | BY ERNEST ALFRED VIZETELLY | LE PETIT HOMME ROUGE | AUTHOR OF “THE COURT OF THE TUILERIES 1852-70” ETC. | {publisher’s device} | WITH A FRONTISPIECE | LONDON | CHATTO & WINDUS | 1914 || Pagination: [2] advert., [i-vii] viii-xi [xii] [2] contents/blank, [1] 2-337 [338] [2], 340 pages total plus photo frontis. Collation: [A8] B-Y8 Z2, 170 leaves total plus one leaf of plates. Provenance: David D. Levine Contributors: Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (British, 1853 – 1922) – author. Charles E. Lauriat Company, Booksellers and Importers, Boston, Massachusetts. Charles Emelius Lauriat, Jr. (American, 1874 – 1937) – collector of rare books and prints Chatto & Windus (London) – publisher. David Daniel Levine (Australian, 1944 – 2020) – Australian judge and book collector -
Title-page: JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE | DAS TAGEBUCH | Mit handkolorierten Zeichnungen von Max Schwimmer || Description: Oblong cardboard binding 24.5 x 17.5 cm, with sanguine vignette to front cover, 28 unpaginated leaves, 24 hand-coloured etchings on verso of each leaf with text on recto, numbered edition, this is № 549, signed by the artist (pencil). Contributors: Max Schwimmer (German, 1895 – 1960) – atrist. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German, 1749 – 1832) – author. -
DJ: Graham Greene | THE COMEDIANS || Title page: THE COMEDIANS | Graham Greene | {four lines citation from Thomas Hardy} | {publisher’s device} | THE BODLEY HEAD| LONDON || Edition: 1st edition, 1st printing. Binding: bound in green cloth, 20.5 x 13.5 cm, with gilt lettering to spine, in green pictorial dust jacket with white lettering, price clipped; gift autograph to fep: “To. | Richard | From: gig | Xmas 1964.” (sic., the book was published in 1966!) Pagination: [1-4] 5-313 [314 blank] [6] blanks (total 320 pages). Collation: 16mo; [A]4 B-K16 L12 (total 160 leaves). -
Description: bound in light yellow cloth with red and orange geometrical design to front cover and black lettering to spine, in pictorial DJ “An dem kleinen Himmel | meiner Liebe | {colour vignette} | Heiter-amouröse Dichtung | Mit 24 farbigen Zeichnungen von | Max Schwimmer”; pp.: [1-6] 7-95 [96], total 48 leaves, with 22 offset colour full-page illustrations, DJ and title-page vignettes by Max Schwimmer; plates with pagination. Anthology of German love poetry from Caspar Stieler (1632 – 1707) to Wolfgang Tilgner (1932 – 2011). Title-page: An dem kleinen Himmel | meiner Liebe | Heiter-amouröse Dichtung | Mit 24 farbigen Zeichnungen | von Max Schwimmer | {vignette} | Verlag der Nation | Berlin || Contributors: Bruno Brandl (German, fl. c. 1969 – 1991)– editor. Max Schwimmer (German, 1895 – 1960) – artist. VEB Druckhaus “Maxim Gorki” (Altenburg) – printer. Verlag der Nation (Berlin) – publisher. -
Description: In-8vo volume, 19.4 x 14 cm, bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine, in a pictorial dust jacket with a photo portrait of the author by Kay Bell to the rear, DJ and in-text illustrations by Maurice Sendak; pp. [i-x] xi-xvii [xviii] [2] 3-190, total 208 pages. Dust Jacket front: You Can't | Get There | From Here | {vignette} | OGDEN NASH || Title-page: OGDEN NASH | You Can't Get There | From Here | {vignettes} | DRAWINGS BY MAURICE SENDAK | Boston • LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY • Toronto || Edition: 1957, 8th printing; (1st edition in 1953) Contributors: Ogden Nash (American, 1902 – 1971) – author. Maurice Sendak (Jewish-American, 1928 – 2012) – artist. Kay Bell Reynal (American, 1905 – 1977) – photographer. -
Description: exhibition catalogue, softcover terra-cotta paper with lettered black label to front and black lettering to spine, black endpapers; pp.: [1-6] 7-131 [132] plus colour frontispiece and 5 colour plates outside pagination, 190 entries with b/w in-text illustrations. Front cover (in the octagonal black label): UKIYO-E | PRINTS AND PAINTINGS | THE PRIMITIVE PERIOD | 1680–1745 | THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO || Title-page: THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | UKIYO-E PRINTS AND PAINTINGS | THE PRIMITIVE PERIOD, 1680–1745 | An Exhibition in Memory of Margaret O. Gentles | November 6th–December 26th, 1971 | Catalogue by DONALD JENKINS || Foreword by Charles C. Cunningham, Tribute to Margaret O. Gentles by Jack V. Sewell. Contributors: Margaret O. Gentles (American, 1905 – 1969) Donald John Jenkins (American, b. 1931) Charles Crehore Cunningham (American, 1910 – 1979) Jack V. Sewell (American, 1923 – 2010)
