THE HISTORY OF THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB
First Edition. Cloth. Thick 8vo, original publisher's green cloth with black lettering, More
First Edition. Cloth. Thick 8vo, original publisher's green cloth with black lettering, More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005. Amidi, Amid, William Joyce & Chris Wedge. First Edition, First Printing. Glossy pictorial boards. SIGNED by ILLUSTRATOR-ARTISTS who have added ORIGINAL ROBOT SKETCHES, oblong quarto (9 1/4" x 11 1/4" x 1"), glossy silver boards with blue-black lettering on spine and large round Robot head..... More
Austria: by the artist, ca.1920. Carl Angerer. original. Prepared paper. Drawing using scratch technique on prepared paper by Carl Angerer of "King Wotan" on his throne flanked by ravens with wolves at his feet; unframed: 6.6" x 4.3" / 16.8 x 10.8 cm. In Germanic mythology, W tan (in Old..... More
Old Saybrook, Connecticut: William S. Konecky Associates Inc., 1998. Leonardo da Vinci. First Edition. Cloth. Folio (13" x 10"), brown cloth, dust jacket (unclipped), profusely illustrated, 543 pages + [2]. 5# 6 oz. Excellent study of the Florentine genius.Solid copy: bright and tight. Somewhat rubbed at corners and with a...... More
Randolph-Macon College: Dr. John Temple, 1974. Dr. John Temple Witt. Original. Framed in plastic. Association Copy of a Portrait of W.H. Auden once cherished by Dr. William Gray, Chairman of the department of English at Randolph-Macon College, executed in pen-and-ink (approximately 12" by 10") by Dr. John Temple Witt, the..... More
New York: J. Bien, c.1860. John James Audubon. First Bien Edition. Double-elephant Folio (39 9/16" x 27 1/16"; image: 37 1/8" x 25 1/2"), "White headed Eagle Falco Leucocephalus. Linn. Male. Yellow Cat-fish" (numbered in upper right "Plate 14") from The Birds of America, unwaterrmarked as issued, first-run chromolithograph with..... More
Italy: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. John James Audubon. Limited Edition Reproduction. Color printing. Folio (13 1/2" x 20 1/2"), "Wild Turkey" printed in color on quality medium-weight paper with original date of 1858 reproduced in plate. It has been carefully removed (by another party) from the outstanding, limited..... More
New York / Avenel, New Jersey: Crescent Books, 1992. Sarah Buckley. First American Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Quarto (11 1/4" x 8 3/4"); green cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), profusely illustrated in color; 144 pages. Practical step-by-step guide to creating watercolors plus trouble-shooting..... More
France likely - perhaps near Versailles or Provence: Original by artist, 9/7?/81 [September 1st or 7th?, 1881]. Eugene Burnand. Ink on Paper Sketch. Framed, matted, & glazed. Dated Ink on Paper Drawing: "9/7/1881." Titled by the artist below the image: "Le Charette du Dieu" and Signed "E. Burnand" [Eugène Burnand]..... More
New Jersey or New York? Al Capp, ca.1930's. Al Capp. UNIQUE. Framed. Oil painting framed (15 1/2" H by 18 5/8" W; image: 13 7/16" x 16 7/16") signed by Al Capp with facial caricature of a man with bulbous eyes & two teeth plus initials; with the Edgar Allen..... More
Talence, France: Akileos, 2009. Peter de Sève. First Edition. Boards. SIGNED & EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with an ORIGINAL DRAWING of "SCRAT" chasing an acorn (from ICE AGE) on the half title, folio (12 1/4" x 11"), orange boards with white lettering on spine, Introduction by Amid Amidi, Foreword by Chris Wedge, profusely..... More
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1948. Alexander Dobkin. First Edition. Cloth. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY with a NUDE & SKETCH of the Dedicatee, 4to, maroon buckram, profusely illustrated--mainly by the author-artist--with a color frontispiece reproducing Degas' "La Sortie du Bain," a few sepia-colored sketches, and around 500 drawings;..... More
1853. C. Le Comte. Leaf. Large folio,(25 x 42.5 cm) watercolor over pencil sketch. C. Le Comte appears to have been a monk at La Grange monastery, France. Large and delicately sketched and hand-colored flower.[Note: we grade conservatively and endeavor to identify any defects that might affect overall quality and..... More
New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company / A Crossroad Herder Book, 1997. Photographs. First Edition. Cloth. Folio (13 1/4" x 10"), blue cloth with gold spine lettering, profusely illustrated with color and B&W photographs, translated from the German by Peter Heinegg, 272 pages. 4# 14 oz. Magnificient study in Exceptional..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Caricatures. First American Edition. Cloth. Quarto (11" x 8 3/4"), brown buckram with gold lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with two caricatures, Introduction and commentary by William Feaver, profusely illustrated in B&W and color with hundreds of splendid caricatures by..... More
England: by the artist, c.1915. E. Francis. original. Unframed. Lovely silhouette of two children (an older sister and her little sister) feeding a doe and fawn with background skywashes of blue, pink, & yellow (10 1/2" x 7 1/4"; silhouette: 4 1/8" W x 2 1/4" H); two small white..... More
Herrsching / Munchen [Munich]: Manfred Pawlak Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, [c.1974]. Caspar David Friedrich. Reprint: Text in GERMAN. Cloth. Thick 8vo, olive drab boards with brown lettering on spine, profusely illustrated with B&W illustrations by Caspar David Friedrich Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a landscape by the artist Friedrich, Afterword by..... More
Oklahoma City: Seabourn Studio, 1982. Bert D. Seabourn. Second Edition. Decorated cloth. Presentation Copy SIGNED and with a DRAWING by the author-artist. Oblong tall 8vo, gray decorated cloth, profusely illustrated/catalog raisonné, 94 pages. Volume is distinguished by the striking DRAWING SIGNED & Presented by the Artist. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1974. Chaim Gross. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. PRESENTATION Copy SIGNED by the Artist with a SKETCH of a Woman, Oblong 4to, maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine and filagree gold medallion on front cover, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting three..... More
Krems, Austria: by the artist, 1919. Gertrud Hozatko-Mediz. unframed drawing. Unframed. Charcoal and color chalks on paper, laid on mount, (unframed: (14.7" x 9.1" / 37.3 x 23.2 cm); dated in the lower left margin "27 [January] 1919 Krems"; SIGNED by the artist in the lower right as "Trude Mediz."..... More
London: Thames & Hudson, 2006. First Edition. Cloth. Small square 4to (10 1/8" x 8 7/8"), gray cloth with silver lettering on spine & blind-stamped double-dolphin logo of Thames & Hudson on front cover, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket of a female nude beside a marble sculpture by Rodin (unclipped) designed..... More
New York: Beechhurst Press / A Bittner Art Bool, 1956. Chaim Gross. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. PRESENTATION Copy SIGNED by the Artist with an ORIGINAL SIGNED SKETCH of a large Woman holding a man in her hand, 4to, black cloth with gold lettering on spine and gold circular..... More
China: Beaux Arts Editions, 1995. Photos of art. First Edition. Cloth. Folio (13 3/8" x 10" x 1 3/8"), navy blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, profusely illustrated with color photographs of magnificent Jewish art, religious objects, paintings, books, and artifacts; pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with..... More
Kansas City Sydney London: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, 2009. James Gurney. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. SIGNED & EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the ARTIST-AUTHOR with a dinosaur painting at an easel, small 4to (10 1/2" x 9"), lavishly illustrated with 400 illustrations by Gurney--the creator of DINOTOPIA--most in full color with a...... More
Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre / University of Washington Press, 1984. Photos & Sketches. First Edition. Cloth. Square 4to (9 3/4"W x 10 3/4"H), black cloth with silver lettering on spine and front cover also displaying a silver-embossed sailing ship, profusely illustrated with glossy B&W plates of early artistry, individual photos..... More