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Title-page: TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE | CHARLES AND MARY LAMB | — | With an Introduction by | MARTIN ARMSTRONG | {space} | {publisher’s device} | COLLINS | LONDON AND GLASGOW || Pagination: [1-4] 5-256, frontispiece: reproduction of portrait of Charles Lamb. Edition: reprint of 1953 edition (WorldCat); in Collins Classics series. Binding: 18.5 x 11 cm, semi-soft, crimson faux morocco, blind-stamped fillet border, gilt lettering to spine, TEG, slipcase. Contributors: William Shakespeare (English, 1564 – 1616) Mary Ann Lamb (British, 1764 – 1847) – author. Charles Lamb (British, 1775 – 1834) – author. Collins Clear-Type Press & Publisher (London; Glasgow) – printer and publisher. Note: “On the writing desk were two books – identical copies of Lamb’s Tales From Shakespeare. […] — Why did you choose Lamb? — It was the only book I could find in duplicate except Uncle Tom’s Cabin…” Graham Greene. Our Man in Havana. -
Description: 17.4 x 11 cm, blue publisher’s cloth, blind device to front board, gilt lettering to spine, no DJ, pink abstract diaper endpapers, owner’s ink inscription to ffep, dated June 28, 1945. Serial t.p.: Everyman, I will go with thee, and be thy guide, | In thy most need to go by the side. | — | EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY | EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS | No. 8 | FOR YOUNG PEOPLE | TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE | BY CHARLES AND MARY LAMB | ILLUSTRATIONS BY ARTHUR | RACKHAM || Title-page: TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE | {device} | CHARLES AND MARY LAMB | LONDON: J. M. DENT & SONS LTD. | NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. INC. || T.p verso: All rights reserved | Made in Great Britain | at The Temple Press Letchworth | for | J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. | Aldine House Bedford St. London | First published 1807 | First published in this edition 1906 | Last reprint (reset) 1944 | [blank] | THIS BOOK IS PRODUCED IN COM- | PLETE CONFORMITY WITH THE | AUTHORIZED ECONOMY STANDARDS || Collation: 16mo; [A]-K16; total 160 leaves, 9 full-page illustrations after Arthur Rackham, within collation (text on the other side). Pagination: [i-iv] v-viii, 1-312, total 320 pages, ils. Contributors: William Shakespeare (English, 1564 – 1616) Mary Ann Lamb (British, 1764 – 1847) – author. Charles Lamb (British, 1775 – 1834) – author. Ernest Percival Rhys (British, 1859 – 1946) – editor. Arthur Rackham (British, 1867 – 1939) – artist.Temple Press, Letchworth, England – printer.
Joseph Malaby Dent (British, 1849 – 1926) – publisher. Note: “On the writing desk were two books – identical copies of Lamb’s Tales From Shakespeare. […] — Why did you choose Lamb? — It was the only book I could find in duplicate except Uncle Tom’s Cabin…” Graham Greene. Our Man in Havana. -
Title-page: CHANSONS | DE | SALLES DE GARDE | {vignette} || Description: 27.5 x 18.5 cm, in pictorial French flapped wrapper and in a green cloth folder, vertically lettered to spine “CHANSONS” in black letters, a flute benith. Pagination: [1-3] 4-140 [4] plus 52 plates extraneous to collation (Dutel provides for 142 pp.) Illustrations: plates, headbands, vignettes to front wrapper, title-page and limitation page, as well as the vignette at the end, reproduced after drawings by Morvan (according to J.-P. Dutel) and hand-coloured with crayons (the question remains, is it Hervé Morvan, French, 1917 – 1980?) Limitation: 950 copies of which 25 marked A to Z; 25 copies consist of an additional suite and one original drawing (№ 1-25); 25 copies have an original drawing (№ 26-50), and 875 copies numbered 51 to 950. This copy is № 697. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (1920-1970): № 1186. -
Title: Chansons | de Salles de Garde | {vignette} | Internat { À l’Enseigne des Trois Orfèvres } Quartier Latin || Collation: 21 leaves folded in half (84 pages), unpaginated, unbound, plus 40 plates (two-tone lithography) for 40 songs, in a flapped paper folder, in a green cardstock folder (slipcase without top and bottom?) with gilt diaper ornament. Text, music score, and drawings printed in brick red. Size: 28 x 22.5 cm. Edition: limited to 700 copies of which 100 (№ 1-100) on Vélin Arches, 650 (№ 101-650) on Vélin Spécial, and 50 without numbering marked “Exemplaire d’interne” on Vélin Supérieur. This copy is № 27. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel 1920 – 1970: 1192. -
One volume in-4o, 26.5 x 21 x 4 cm, bound by Durvand (signed) in tan quarter morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, top margin gilt, marbled endpapers, publisher’s wrappers preserved; enriched with 39 original prints after Félicien Rops. Collation: 2 blanks, π5 (original front wrapper ‘Canicule’/blank, 2 blanks, h.t./justification, t.p/blank), 1-294 301 (paginated 1-233 [234]) χ1 (advert.) plus frontispiece (photographic seated portrait of Félicien Rops, collotype, artist unknown) and 39 leaves of bound-in original prints by various printers on different papers, with tissue guards; back wrapper and original spine, 2 blanks; loosely inset a marriage invitation for Dr Robert Fasquelle and Mlle Suzanne Luneau with a partial list of prints, incl. page numbers. Title-page (red and black): Études sur quelques Artistes originaux | — | FÉLICIEN ROPS | par | CAMILLE LEMONNIER | {fleuron} | PARIS | H. FLOURY, ÉDITEUR | 1, Boulevard des Capucines, 1 | – | 1908 || Limitation: 125 copies with two original plates «Canicule» and «Seule» numbered 1-125, of which 100 copies on Japon à la forme, 25 copies on papier de Chine; plus 50 copies on papier vélin with one coloured plate «Canicule», numbered 126-175, printed by Edmond Deman in Brussels. Our copy is on dense wove paper (vélin), without a number. Photographs here represent the original prints only. Camille Lemonnier (Belgian, 1844 – 1913) – author. Félicien Rops (Belgian, 1833 – 1898) – artist. Henri Floury (French, 1862 –1961) – publisher. Edmond Deman (Belgian, 1857–1918) – printer. Lucien Durvand (French, 1852 – 1924) – bookbinder. -
Title-page (in red on pictorial background): ПОДВИГ | ЭРМИТАЖА | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «АВРОРА» • ЛЕНИНГРАД || Illustrated album in hardcover, 33 x 25 cm, bound in black cloth with gilt and red to front cover and spine, brown endpapers, pictorial dust jacket; pp.: [1-6] 7-273 [274] [30], total 304 pages with 388 b/w and colour illustrations. Text: 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). Layout by Liubov Rakhmilevich [Л. Рахмилевич]. Photography by Viktor Savik [В. Савик] and Leonid Bogdanov [Л. Богданов]. Design by Valery Ivanov [В. Иванов]. Russian twin edition to [LIB-3043.2022] S. Varshavsky, B. Rest. Saved for humanity: the Hermitage during the siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944. — Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1985 and [LIB-3042.2022] The ordeal of the Hermitage: The siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944 — Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1985. The text extracted from [LIB-3035.2022] С. Варшавский, Б. Рест. Подвиг Эрмитажа: Государственный Эрмитаж в годы Великой отечественной войны. — М.-Л.: Советский художник, 1965. -
Title-page: DORAT | LES BAISERS | PRÉCÉDÉS | DU MOIS DE MAI | POÈME | COMPOSITIONS ORIGINALES | DE | BRUNELLESCHI | EDDIS | 1947 || Description: 23.3 x 19 cm, French slapped wrappers, sunned and heavy foxed, without a slipcase; [1-6] (h.t. with owner’s inscription / limitation with № 18, t.p., d.t.p.), 7-137 [138] [6] (colophon) plus 23 stencil-coloured (au pochoir) photogravure plates after Umberto Brunelleschi, his head- and tailpieces (total 60 designs). Printed by Gaston Maillet & Cie in Saint-Ouen on April 15, 1947. Photogravure by Deberni and Peignot under direction of R. Perrot. Limitation: 3,000 copies numbered 1 to 3,000 of which 500 copies on Vélin de Luxe (1–500) enriched with two suites of plates, one in colour and one toned, before letters; 2,500 on Vélin de Fabrication Spéciale of which copies numbered 500–1,000 enriched with one suite before letters, and 2,000 copies numbered 1,001–3,000. Besides, there are 200 additional copies numbered with Roman numbers reserved for foreign bibliophiles. This particular copy bears number 18, however, I don’t think it is printed on Vélin de Luxe, whatever it is, and does not have an extra suite of plates. Owner’s inscription pasted to h.t.: A Denise ce livre audacieux | mais qui par son art sait | tout faire pardonner — | Jane Darboy. Provenance: Jane Darboy (French, fl. 1932 – 1948) – a French writer. -
A pictorial photographic album, 19.5 x 15.3 cm, hardcover, paper pictorial covers, pictorial endpapers, pp. [2] 3-39 [40]; total 20 leaves; text by Susan Jacobasch, photographs by Josef Breitenbach. Published in connection with the exhibition "Josef Breitenbach" on October, 10 – November 28, 1998, at Galerie Bodo Niemann in Berlin. Josef Breitenbach (Jewish-German-American, 1896 – 1984). -
Bertrand Russell. A history of western philosophy. A Touchstone Book. Published by Symon & Schuster, 2007. [Reprint 1945].
ISBN-10: 1-4165-5477-7
ISBN-13: 978-4165-5477-6.
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Paperback reprint on demand, 28 x 22 cm, in green malachite wrappers with yellow lettering to both covers; pp. [i-ii] iii-v[vi] 1-122 [4]. Title-page: Okhrana | The Paris Operations of | the Russian Imperial Police | Ben B. Fischer | History Staff | Center for the Study | of Intelligence | Central Intelligence Agency | 1997 || ISBN-10: 1907521992 Benjamin B. Fischer Contents. Foreword. Preface. Okhrana: The Paris Operations of the Russian Imperial Police. From Paris to Palo Alto. CIA Interest in the Okhrana Files. Origins of the Okhrana and Its Paris Office. Foreign Operations. Change and Continuity Dramatis Personae Conclusions Rita T. Kronenbitter Paris Okhrana 1885-1905. The Illustrious Career of Arkadiy Harting. The Sherlock Holmes of the Revolution. Okhrana Agent Dolin. The Okhrana's Female Agents: Part I: Russian Women. The Okhrana's Female Agents: Part II: Indigenous Recruits. Review of Edward Ellis Smith, The Young Stalin, by Harry Gelman. Commentary by Rita T. Kronenbitter. -
An album 45 of 50 prints, 31 photogravures and 14 in raster chromotype after drawings and paintings by Franz von Bayros; most with tissue guards, some in passepartout; colour prints mounted on the same paper that is used for photogravures. Title-page: BAYROS | MAPPE | MIT VORWORT VON | RUDOLF HANS BARTSCH | VERLAG ED. STRACHE / WIEN • PRAG • LEIPZIG || Limited edition of 500 copies. This is copy № 286. Lacking 5 prints: (1) Abschied vom Paradies, (2) Weihnacht, and (3) Harmonie from Symphonie von der Gūte, die Schönheit ist; (4) Divina commedia from Florentiner Phantasien; and (5) Mozart from Varia. Contributors: Franz von Bayros (Austrian, 1866 – 1924) Rudolf Hans Bartsch (Austrian, 1873 – 1952) -
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: 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). -
Audrey Hepburn [Audrey Kathleen Ruston] (British, 1929 – 1993) black and white head-shot in profile to right, pre-production photo testing hairstyle. "War and Peace", a 1956 epic historical drama film based on Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel of the same name. Stamp on verso: Blue ink, in oval, "AUDREY | HEPBURN | The Personal Collection Part III | May 2018 | CHRISTIE'S || Size: 12.0 x 17.5 cm sheet; 12.0 x 16.7 cm image. Condition: small abrasion to cheek and rough lower edge. Certificate of authenticity from John Reznikoff, University Archives. -
Title: A HISTORY OF | ENGRAVING & ETCHING | FROM THE 15TH CENTURY TO THE YEAR 1914 | BEING THE THIRD AND FULLY REVISED EDITION OF | “A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGRAVING AND ETCHING” | BY | ARTHUR M. HIND | OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM | SLADE PROFESSOR OF FINE ART IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD | WITH FRONTISPIECE IN PHOTOGRAVURE | AND 110 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT | {publisher’s device} | BOSTON AND NEW YORK | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY | 1923 || Pagination: [i-iv] v-xiii. [2] – blank / abbrev., [2] 3-487 [488], frontis. w/tissue guard, ills.; Appendices: I. Classified list of engravers (p. 343-392); II. General bibliography (p. 393-419); III. Index of engravers and individual bibliography (p. 420-487). Collation: π10 B-2H8 2I4, frontispiece (extr.), 110 in-text illustrations. Binding: 25.8 x 20 cm, crimson cloth, blind triple-fillet to top and bottom of the front board, same in gilt to spine, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed. Contributors: Arthur Mayger Hind (British, 1880 – 1957) – author. Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, 1864) – publisher. R & R. Clark, Ltd. (Edinburgh, 1846) – printer. Note: It is marked as the 3rd edition of A short history of engraving and etching. Indeed, A short history of engraving & etching for the use of collectors and students with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers was published by Constable in London and Houghton Mifflin Co. in Boston, in 1908 and then in 1911. However, it is hard to consider an almost completely new book "a 3rd edition". -
Title: Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé • Christine Lahaussois | Le grand livre de la | faïence française | Office du livre || Dedication (to imprint): A Jeanne Giacomotti (author of French Faience, Oldbourne Press, London, 1963) Pagination: [1-6] 7-242 [2], 300 illustrations, incl. 150 in colour. Binding: 29 x 25.5 cm, grey paper, blind-stamped to front cover, white lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Contributors: Antoinette Faÿ- Hallé (French, 20th century) – Chargée du Musée national de céramique de Sèvres Christine Lahaussois (French, 20th century) – Chargée de conservation, Musée national de céramique, Sèvres -
Hardcover volume, 31 x 23.5 cm, peach cloth, with peach lettering to the green label on front board, green lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket, price unclipped ($4.95); text to flaps; pp.: [1-6] 7-154 [155 plate] [5 blanks], ils. (photomechanical reproductions); magazine clipping laid in. Title-page: Drawing | THE HEAD AND HANDS | BY | ANDREW LOOMIS | {vignette} | NEW YORK • THE VIKING PRESS || Imprint: COPYRIGHT © 1956 BY ANDREW LOOMIS | FIRST PUBLISHED BY THE VIKING PRESS IN JANUARY 1956 | PUBLISHED ON THE SAME DAY IN THE DOMINION OF CANADA | BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED | SECOND PRINTING 1958 | {two paragraphs of copyright statement} | LITHOGRAPHED IN U.S.A, BY W. S. KONECKY ASSOCIATES || Edition: 1st edition, 2nd printing. Andrew Loomis (American, 1892 – 1959) -
Cardboard box 32 x 23.7 cm with lettering and vignette to front, lettering to spine, and Loomis facsimile and Titan publisher's barcode label to back.- Title-page: Drawing | THE HEAD AND HANDS | BY | ANDREW LOOMIS | {vignette} ||
- Title-page: FIGURE DRAWING | FOR ALL IT'S WORTH | ANDREW LOOMIS ||
