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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) -
Title-page (text in frame): FRANCIS CARCO | RIEN QU'UNE | FEMME | {vignette} | EAUX-FORTES DE | CHAS LABORDE | — | PARIS — M.CM.XXV || Description: 4to, 24.5 x 20 cm, owner’s red cloth, yellow leather label with gilt lettering to spine, original wrappers bound in, woodcut bookplate “ИЗ КНИГ Ф.РОЖАНКОВСКАГО” to front pastedown; chapter titles and initials printed in pink. Collation: fep, 2 blanks before front wrapper, front wrapper with a black lettered pink label, 2 blanks, h.t., t.p., dedication, 1-204 212,2 blanks, rear wrapper, 2 blanks, rep; total 89 leaves within wrappers, plus 15 plates with tissue guards, incl. frontispiece – hand-coloured etchings by Chas [Charles] Laborde, extraneous to collation. In some copies, there are two additional plates. Pagination: [10] [1] 2-162 [2 colophon/blank] [4], total 178 pages. Limitation: Date of printing: September 15, 1925. Printer: Imprimeur Coulouma (Argenteuil) Print run: 267 copies of which 1 copy on Japon Ancien (№1), 15 on Japon Impérial (№№ 2-16), 60 on Hollande (№№ 17-76), and 200 copies on Vélin de Rives (№№ 77-276) ; this is copy № 82. Etchings printed on BFK Rives paper (embossed). Provenance: Rojankovsky, Feodor [Rojan; Рожанковский, Фёдор Степанович] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970). Contributors: Francis Carco [François Carcopino-Tusoli] (French, 1886 – 1958) – author. Chas Laborde [Charles Laborde] (French, 1886 – 1941) – artist. Roger Lacourière (French, 1892 – 1966) – engraver. -
Description: 16mo, 20.2 x 13.5 cm, bound in blue buckram with gilt lettering to spine, in dust jacket lettered to front, spine, back, and flaps, price 13s6d net uncut; front has red letters “BGS” in the bottom right (probably stands for Book Grading Service); 1st edition. Title-page: THE | QUIET AMERICAN | by | GRAHAM GREENE | {publisher’s device} |—| WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD | MELBOURNE :: LONDON :: TORONTO || T.p. verso: FIRST PUBLISHED 1955 | PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN | AT THE WINDMILL PRESS | KINGSWOOD, SURREY || Collation: [A]-H16; total 128 leaves. Pagination: [8] [2] 3-247 [248]; total 256 pages. Contributors: Graham Greene (British, 1904 – 1991) William Henry Heinemann (Jewish-British, 1863 – 1920) -
A book about the history and collections of The Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg during the October revolution of 1917. Paperback, 20 x 12.5 cm, 16mo, serial pictorial wrappers, blurb to rear; [1]-716 88( plates, not paginated) 9-1016; pp.: [2] 3-260 [4]: 264 pages + 16 pages of plates, not paginated, 152 leaves, incl. plates. Library pocket and card to front wrapper verso. Ink stamp of the Hermitage museum library. Title-page: «БМР» device // библиотека | молодого | рабочего | — | С. ВАРШАВСКИЙ | Б. РЕСТ | БИЛЕТ | НА ВСЮ | ВЕЧНОСТЬ | ПОВЕСТЬ ОБ ЭРМИТАЖЕ | В ТРЕХ ЧАСТЯХ | ЧАСТИ ПЕРВАЯ И ВТОРАЯ | ЛЕНИЗДАТ • 1986 || Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980). B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980). Preface: Boris Piotrovsky [Борис Борисович Пиотровский] (Russian, 1908 – 1990). -
A book about the history and collections of The Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg during the October revolution of 1917. Paperback, 20 x 12.5 cm, 16mo, serial pictorial wrappers, blurb to rear; [1]-516 68( plates, not paginated) 7-816; pp.: [2] 3-204 [4]: 208 pages + 16 pages of plates, not paginated, 120 leaves, incl. plates. Title-page: «БМР» device // библиотека | молодого | рабочего | — | С. ВАРШАВСКИЙ | Б. РЕСТ | БИЛЕТ | НА ВСЮ | ВЕЧНОСТЬ | ПОВЕСТЬ ОБ ЭРМИТАЖЕ | В ТРЕХ ЧАСТЯХ | ЧАСТЬ ТРЕТЬЯ | ЛЕНИЗДАТ • 1986 || Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980). B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980). -
A book about the history and collections of The Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg during the October revolution of 1917. Hardcover, collated 16mo, 20,7 x 13.5 cm, grey cloth, black and blue lettering to front, blue lettering to spine, blue endpapers; collation: [1]8 2-1616 (total 248 leaves); pp.: [2] 3-493 [3] (total 496 pages) plus frontispiece. 1st edition (lifetime). Title-page: С. ВАРШАВСКИЙ | Б. РЕСТ | БИЛЕТ | НА ВСЮ | ВЕЧНОСТЬ | ПОВЕСТЬ | ОБ ЭРМИТАЖЕ | ЛЕНИЗДАТ • 1978 || Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980). B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980). Борис Борисович Пиотровский (Russian, 1908 – 1990). -
An essay by Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980) about a poem Жди меня (Wait for Me, Zhdi menia) written by Konstantin Simonov [Константин Михайлович Симонов] (Russian, 1915 – 1979) in August 1941. Magazine, softcover, publisher’s wrappers, 20 x 12.5 cm, collated 16mo: [1]-916 (total 144 leaves), pp.: [2] 3-286 [2] (total 288 pages). Bimonthly (6 times a year) magazine "Вопросы литературы" (Questions of Literature, Voprosy literatury) published from 1957; circulation of 15,640 copies. Editor-in-Chief (1979-87): Мстислав Борисович Козьмин (Russian, 1920 – 1992). -
Softcover, 21.5 x 17 cm, glossy pictorial wrappers, pp.: [2] 3-[52] [53-88] 89-90 [2]; total 92 pages, incl. 18 leaves of plates within collation, not paginated.
