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Very rare 1930's matchbook covers. NEW LOWER PRICE

Collection of approx. 340 Japanese matchbox front covers from the 1930's., advertisements for hotels, bars, restaurants, etc., with numerous Art Deco motifs

$495

A fascination collection of European Ephemera.

New listing

Curation & Design: Fabien Barral (Mr. Cup)

Ephemera - a collection in 3 volumes (2022), a collection of letterheads, invoices, business cards, envelopes, identity papers, ferrotypes, Tax stamps, bearer bonds, staged photos, cabinet cards, product catalogs and much more

$275

Scarce Prospectus for a Classic Art Book, Signed

New listing

Charlot, Jean.

Original Prospectus for Picture Book: 32 Original Lithographs By Jean Charlot

$75 $100 or less

Famed Impressionist Artist Camille Pissarro

New listing

Pissarro, Camille

Postal Card from Artist Camille Pissarro to R. Pissarro of Brixton House, Jersey--1900

$500

Red Butte Press

New listing

Strand, Mark

A POET'S ALPHABET OF INFLUENCES, Drawings by Bonnie Sucec.

$1,400

Arion Press

New listing

Todd, Glenn (editor)

SHAPED POETRY, A Suite of Typographic Prints Chronicling This Literary Form from 300 BC to the Present.

$1,500

New listing

Father Tuck's Toy Rockers Modeling Book

$500

New listing

(WINDOW DECORATING)

Lessons in Modern Window Decorating

$150

A pair of Japanese finely painted falcons/ hawks.

New listing

As yet unread Japanese artist's seal

Japanese sumi-e ink and watercolor paintings on paper, A quintessential theme of Japanese painting

$450

Yosemite Architectural Watercolors

New listing

Art Zendarski

Yosemite Lodge proposed renovation watercolor renderings 2004

$350

1920s Artist Signed Bookplate

New listing

Henry Brewerton Quinan

Bookplate for R.H. Purdue, with original sketch

$125

Anthropomorphic Caricature

Daelli, G.

A Relic of the Italian Revolution of 1849., With Frans Masereel Bookplate

SOLD

Limited to 500 copies

Ronald Searle

Le Theatre a Paris (1954-1962)

$65 $100 or less

MID-CENTURY FABRIC SWIMWEAR SAMPLES

64739 [FASHION -- JANTZEN KNITWEAR FABRIC SAMPLES].

Calico-knit; Jersey Knit; Gay Daisy Print on rich Satin (Acetate Lastex); Reversible Double Dots; Jantzen-exclusive Lady Bug print on fine Sanforized Cotton; Sunny lions; A suggestion of the Southland, in “New Orleans Grill” stripe; Carefree butterflies on Cotton; Far Eastern fantasy in rich Sari print; Applique floral design; Exotic “Persian Gold” print; Good-looking “Mosaic” print on cotton;

$475

VARGA JANTZEN PIN-UP COUNTER DISPLAY

64743 [FASHION -- JANTZEN SUNTAN PIN-UP]. VARGA. [VARGAS, Alberto (Artist).]

Here’s Jan: Jantzen’s wonderful new year-round cream. Soothes, smooths, softens. Protects the skin in sun -- wind -- snow. Promotes a healthy outdoor look. Its greaseless. [Original large pin-up, counter display for Jantzen suntan lotion.

$400

PRINTING & TYPOGRAPHY SPECIMEN BOOK

64757 [PRINTING & TYPOGRAPHY -- PACIFIC NORTHWEST]. [SNEDDON, John Raymond “Ray”].

Type styles available at Portland Linotyping Company typographers. . . Linotype, Monotype, Hand Type, Ludlow.

$350

PRINTING & PAPER SAMPLES

64782 [PRINTING & PAPER SAMPLES].

From stone to halftone. No. three-five; seven-nine of a series. [Six paper and printer’s specimens on Dill & Collins paper stock].

$200

Student Artwork

Set of Two Student Journals on Printing

$150

Visionaire 33 Touch, Fendi limited edition

Berthoud, François

Tactile Fashion Art: Visionaire 33 Touch (Limited Edition Fendi & François Berthoud Portfolio), The Fall/Winter 2000–2001 Collections

$700

Leaf Book - With Two Original Chaucer Leaves

Muscatine, Charles (1920-2010)

THE BOOK OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER, AN ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLICATION OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER'S WORKS FROM THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY TO MODERN TIMES

Center for Book Arts

Center for Book Arts

Center for Book Arts

FILM HISTORY AS TRAIN WRECK

Center for Book Arts

Center for Book Arts

Robert McGinnis

Scott, Art & Wallace Maynard (compilers)

THE PAPERBACK COVERS OF ROBERT MCGINNIS, A Complete Listing of the 1,068 Titles and 1,432 Editions of the Paperback Cover Illustrations of Robert McGinnis

$100 $100 or less

Weingart, Wolfgang

THE TEN SECTIONS: MY WAY TO TYPOGRAPHY

$100 $100 or less

Deluxe Edition - Press of The Nightowl

Lawson, Alexander

THE COMPOSITOR AS ARTIST, CRAFTSMAN, AND TRADESMAN

$100 $100 or less

Hermann Zapf

Rosarivo, Raul M.

DIVINA PROPORTIO TYPOGRAPHICA

ORIGINAL ARTIST'S RENDERING UP STREAMLINER DEPOT

64694 [RAILROAD -- ART DECO STREAMLINE ARCHITECTURE].

Union Pacific passenger and freight station, Nyassa, Oregon [Original watercolour architectural elevation rendering of the proposed famed stationary streamliner brick clad Art Deco depot designed by, the UPRR Engineering Department to be their most modern depot with styling mimicking the shape of the latest streamliner Diesel-electric express trains such as the City of Portland].

$650

Young, Doyald

LOGOTYPES & LETTERFORMS, HANDLETTERED LOGOTYPES AND TYPOGRAPHIC CONSIDERATIONS

$100 $100 or less

FOOD & DRINK -- WHEAT MILLING POSTERS

64634 [FOOD & DRINK -- PURE FOOD EDUCATION].

Flour mill: simplified model, use Gold Medal Flour. . . ; A kernel of wheat: Washburn-Crosby’s Gold Medal Flour. . . [Two large colour lithograph linen-backed posters].

SCHATZKAMMER DER SCHREIBKUNST, MEISTERWERKE DER KALLIGRAPHIE AUS VIER JAHRUNDERTEN AUF ZWEIHUNDERT TAFELIN

$100 $100 or less

LAVISH ODD FELLOWS REGALIA & SUPPLIES CATALOGUE

64707 [FASHION -- ODD FELLOWS COSTUMES]. [WARD, Clyde E. & STILSON, Ed].

I.O.O.F. Catalogue of regalia, costumes, paraphernalia, books, blanks and miscellaneous supplies. Number forty-six.

$250

Baskerville, John

Gaskell, Philip

BASKERVILLE'S PUNCHES

$150

Type Specimens

Enschedé

SPECIMEN OF DUTCH BLACK-LETTERS AND GOTHIC INITIALS OF THE XVTH CENTURY

$100 $100 or less

Ehlert, Wilhelm

DIE FARBEN UND IHRE TÖNE, Technische Anleitung zum Anlegen, Mischen und Drucken von Tonfarben.

$1,250

Presentation from the Author

De Vinne, Theodore Low

HISTORIC PRINTING TYPES, A LECTURE READ BEFORE THE GROLIER CLUB OF NEW YORK, JANUARY 25, 1885, WITH ADDITIONS AND NEW ILLUSTRATIONS

$175

Bookbinding

Craig, Maurice

IRISH BOOKBINDINGS, 1600-1800

$125

Cornog, D.Y. [with] F.C. Rose

LEGIBILITY OF ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTERS AND OTHER SYMBOLS, II. A REFERENCE HANDBOOK.

$150

Auerhahn Press

Brother Antoninus (Everson, William)

THE POET IS DEAD, A memorial for Robinson Jeffers by Brother Antoninus (William Everson).

$1,500

Mixolydian Editions

Bringhurst, Robert

IN THE BEGINNING, Poem by Robert Bringhurst. Wood Engravings by Richard Wagener.

$600

1896 poster

Pierre Artigue

The Christmas Number of the Land Of Sunshine, The Magazine of California and the Southwest

Lynd Ward print

Trade Catalog for Western painter Robert Lindneux

Lindneux, Robt.

Pictures of the Great West, Catalogue of the Lindneux Art Publishing Co.

SOLD

Artist of Portrait of Eleanor & Franklin Roosevelt

Moran, H. Marcus

Portfolio/Scrapbook for Artist Henry Marcus Moran

SOLD

THE DARK SIDE OF DESIRE

Henry, Barbara

Love & Violence [Signed — No. 3 of 10 Copies], TWELVE ORIGINAL LINOCUTS TELL A WORDLESS STORY OF INTIMACY AND CONFRONTATION—SIGNED, NUMBERED 3 OF ONLY 10 COPIES, AND BOUND BY BARBARA MAURIELLO.

$1,850

THE LEIPZIG MEDAL WINNER — Circle Press

Smith, Ken (1938–2003) ; Poet — Screenprints by John Christie

Between The Dancers — Artist Edition, A MASTERPIECE OF COLLABORATIVE BOOK ART, THIS AWARD-WINNING VOLUME PAIRS THE VISCERAL POETRY OF KEN SMITH WITH SIX ORIGINAL SCREENPRINTS BY JOHN CHRISTIE.

$425

SIGNED by MANN • JAPAN VELLUM • HARRISON OF PARIS

Mann, Thomas (1875–1955)

A Sketch of My Life [Limited to 75 Copies on Imperial Japanese Vellum], Published by Monroe Wheeler's Harrison of Paris shortly after Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1929), this memoir captures the author at the summit of his international fame.

$1,800

A RUSSIAN SOUL IN FINE PRESS

Dostoevsky, Fyodor (1821–1881); Translated by Garnett, Constance (1861–1946)

A Gentle Spirit: A Fantastic Story. [Harrison of Paris] [Limited Edition of 50], ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES PRINTED ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE VELLUM, BRINGING DOSTOEVSKY TO LIFE THROUGH THE ART OF HARRISON OF PARIS.

$1,600

Folded Paper, Unfolding Ideas

Indiana University Graphic Design Program

Indiana University Graphic Design Press Archive 2001–2010 Letterpress Artist Books Collection [9 Keepsakes], A cohesive archive of experimental letterpress books [9] from Indiana University, 2001–2010, issued as keepsakes for the Fine Arts Library Benefit Dinner.

$600

PRA-KO-KU — German Confectionery Art — 1926

Weber, J. M. Erich (Dresden)

PRAKTISCHE KONDITOREI-KUNST: 'PRA-KO-KU' — Practical Pastry Arts: The World's Great Pastry and Confectionery Handbook., Engineered for the international 'Grand Hotel' circuit, featuring parallel text in four languages; This 'Pra-Ko-Ku' system volume was the standard Art Deco Dresden Confectionery

$275

Picasso & Éluard Landmark Surrealist Collaboration

Paul Éluard (Illustrations by Pablo Picasso)

Les Yeux fertiles [The Fertile Eyes], First edition Featuring 5 Picasso illustrations. A 'book-as-object' masterpiece from the G.L.M. press, pairing Surrealist lyricism with modernist graphic design on the eve of Guernica.

$650

1850s Counterfeit Bank Note Currency Detector Numismatic Mailers

$1,000

Hip-hop meets family album and Internet chat-room.

Essay David A. M. Goldberg. Foreword Georgianna Lagoria. Introduction James Jensen

Boys in the Band: Geoffrey Chadsey Drawings 1998-2006, Catalog for the first solo museum exhibition of the drawings of New York artist Geoffrey Chadsey

$99 $100 or less

Alternative Japanese visual culture, Manga

Suehiro Maruo

3-volume collection by Suehiro Maruo: MIDORI (Midori / Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show) - DDT - INUGAMI HAKASE (1988-2011), Suehiro Maruo is one of the most distinctive artists of Japanese underground manga and a major figure associated with the modern ero-guro aesthetic.

$175

Spectacular chromolithographs of Hawaiian flowers

Isabella SINCLAIR (Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr.)

Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands: Forty-Four Plates Painted in Water-Colours and Described by Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr. (1885), "one of the most prized of Hawaiian books among collectors" (Forbes) and the first book dedicated to Hawaiian flora to be illustrated in color.

$4,450

THE POEM AS OBJECT

Price, Jonathan; Simon Brett, illustrator

Private View [Signed by Simon Brett — Rocket Press — One of 230 Copies], POETRY, HANDMADE PAPER AND WOOD ENGRAVING MEET IN A ROCKET PRESS EDITION OF 230.

$65 $100 or less

Signed by the Authors

Bosch, Gulnar, John Carswell, Guy Petherbridge

ISLAMIC BINDINGS & BOOKMAKING

$175

Calligraphy

Bickham, George

THE UNIVERSAL PENMAN, Foreword: The Importance of The Universal Penman in Relation to Modern Calligraphy by Philip Hofer.

$150

Caliban Press

Berrigan, Daniel

LOST & FOUND, Hand-colored illustrations by Timothy Ely.

$250

Type Specimens

Bastien, Alfred J.

ENCYCLOPAEDIA TYPOGRAPHICA. PART ONE., Decor and Classification of Type.

$175

Paper Specimens

THE AVANT GARDE LETTERHEAD

Palaemon Press

Harrison of Paris

A TYPOGRAPHICAL COMMONPLACE BOOK

$150

Grabhorn Press

NINETEENTH CENTURY TYPE DISPLAYED IN 18 FONTS CAST BY UNITED STATES FOUNDERS, NOW IN THE CASES OF THE GRABHORN PRESS

$125

FROM KOSTABI WORLD TO KIM ALEXIS

Kostabi, Kalev Mark (1960– ); Basil Chattington

Kostabi: The Early Years [Presentation Copy Inscribed to Kim Alexis — First Edition]

$245

THE ART OF A NEW NATION — Indonesia

Lee Man Fong, compiler

Paintings and Statues from the Collection of President Sukarno of the Republic of Indonesia [Lukisan dan Patung Kolleksi Presiden Sukarno dari Republik Indonesia], THE MONUMENTAL CATALOGUE OF PRESIDENT SUKARNO'S ART COLLECTION — 567 COLOR REPRODUCTIONS IN FIVE FOLIO VOLUMES

$795

A MODERNIST VISION OF SHAKESPEARE

Shakespeare, William; Robert Graves, preface; Clarke Hutton, illustrations; Edward Burrett, design.

The Sonnets, SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS IN A FINELY PRODUCED SIGNED EDITION.

$875

WITH ARTIST'S ORIGINAL PROOF — COPY #1 of 10

Barnwell, Ysaye M.; Curlee Raven Holton, illustrator

We Are... Words and Music by Ysaye M. Barnwell., WITH ORIGINAL ARTWORK PROOF AND THE ARTIST'S LETTER DOCUMENTING THE BOOK'S CREATION.

$475

Nick Relph

Eclipse Body & Soul Syntax - digital street scans of New York City construction posters, A collection of scans, using a library wand scanner, clandestinely collected from building sites' public postings, all over New York City.

$185

The Typography of US Fire Protection Maps

Curation & Design: Fabien Barral (Mr. Cup)

The Alphabet Cities Collection - from the Type Art Archives, Great Typography from US Fire Protection Maps, created back in the 1860s to assess buildings and homes.

$79 $100 or less

Prints of the Spanish Revolution July 1936 (31)

Jose Luis Vila Rey (Sim)

Estampas de la Revolucion Española 19 Julio de 1936 [Prints of the Spanish Revolution 19 July 1936]

$200

Three wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg.

Fritz Eichenberg

Lincoln portrait - WW II - Season's Greetings, An interesting provenance

$450

Texts in Italian, English, French, and German.

Various Authors

Maso Finiguerra. (Journal of Engraved Prints and Illustrated Books) 2 vols: 1939, 1940, multi-lingual

$89 $100 or less

VICTORIAN COTTAGE DESIGNS

Palliser, George and Charles

Palliser's American Cottage Homes

$150

Rare graphic arts / book printing press trifecta.

Three printing press manufacturers

R. W. Hoe & Co. hand-letterpress - Fuchs & Lang stone lithography press - Rembrandt Graphic Arts intaglio press., Near complete book arts / graphic arts printing studio.

$20,000

1966 Wes Wilson / Bill Graham Fillmore handbills.

Wes Wilson for Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium

Five original 1966 Concert Handbills, Iconic psychedelic graphic design

$950

Two Attractive Fore-edge Paintings

(FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS) BROWNING, Robert

The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. With Portraits. In Two Volumes..

$750

CA volumes from 1969-1991 available on my website

various

CA, THE JOURNAL OF THE COMMUNICATION ARTS - vol. X, nos. 1 - 6 (1968), volumes from 1969 - 1991 also available on my website

$119

Rare Dutch modernist asymmetrical typography.

Willem Sandberg (1897-1984) for the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

"Nederlandse Goblins door...ontworpen voor Gehéniau” (Dutch Tapestries...designed for Gehéniau), Stedelijk Museum Poster

$400

Exhibition poster, French book history & Matisse.

Paul Hilber, artist and illustrator

Ten Centuries of French Books / Henri Matisse, Musée des Beaux-Arts (Museum of Fine Arts) Lucerne in Switzerland

$450

1922 Private Press Keepsake

Henry Collins Brown

Listing subscribers to Book of Old New-York, published in 1913

$25 $100 or less

Art Deco masterwork of advertising with art.

Paul Iribe

Bleu Blanc Rouge - Rose et Noir - Blanc et Rouge. (1930-1932) All three famous Iribe works for Établissements Nicolas complete., Établissements Nicolas and Draeger Freres, at the border between the artist’s book, luxury advertising album and the Art Deco graphic manifesto. See more Nicolas publications on my website.

$375

Wholesale price for FIVE Ciardi / Gorey Books

John Ciardi, Edward Gorey (illustrator)

5 (!) John Ciardi books illustrated by Edward Gorey, publ. by Lippincott (1961 - 1970), all with dust jackets - The Man Who Sang the Sillies, You read to me, I'll read to you, You Know Who, The Monster Den, Someone Could Win a Polar Bear

$100 $100 or less

Frank O'Hara; Bill Berkson (editor)

In Memory Of My Feelings - (1967), A selection of Poems by Frank O'Hara, paired with artwork from 30 different artists.

$395

Lithograph Die-cut sheet

Lithograph Die-cut Embellishment Sheet

$50 $100 or less

Asian Artists in Crystal on Steuben Glass1956

Asian Artists in Crystal - Designs by Contemporary Asian Artists Engraved on Steuben Crystal 1956

$50 $100 or less

10 Disney Snow White Color Movie Stills 1952

Disney Studios

Wonderful Lot of 10 Color-Glo Movie Stills from Snow White & Seven Dwarfs 1952 Movie Re-Release

$300

Fascinating European Archtecture in the Caribbean

M. D. Ozinga

De monumenten van Curaçao in woord en beeld (The monuments of Curacao in text and photos, 1959), Standard work on Dutch colonial architecture on Curaçao; richly illustrated with drawings and photographs;

$85 $100 or less

Great early 20th century designs and ornaments

C.J. Strong

Strong's Book of Designs (1917), - Comprising new ideas and designs of every conceivable sort of interest to the Sign Painter, Card Writer and Commercial Artist.

$85 $100 or less

A fine copy, free of foxing.

François RABELAIS, Gustave DORÉ (illustr.)

Oeuvres de François Rabelais. Contenant la vie de Gargantua et celle de Pantagruel. - Illus. Gustave DORÉ (1854), Doré’s first major work as an illustrator of literary masterpieces. comprising: a frontispiece, 14 separate plates, 89 vignettes

$525

Gustave DORÉ

La Ménagerie Parisienne (n.d. but 1854), scarce first edition of this superb satirical album created by Gustave Doré, then twenty-two years old. One of the artist’s earliest published works, whose plates were subsequently sold individually.

$895

Express Mail Stamp FD

$9.35 Special Stamp First Day on USPS Souvenir Page

$50 $100 or less

Prince Valiant Newspaper Comic Page

Harold R. Foster

Prince Valiant Comics

$30 $100 or less

Parallel text in English, French, and Arabic

Sabiha Al Khemir

From Cordoba to Samarqand: Masterpieces from the Museum of Islamic art in Doha - De Cordoue à Samarcande (2008), a selection of masterpieces, spanning the art of the entire Islamic world, “from Córdoba to Samarkand”

$85 $100 or less

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