Resultados de búsqueda: Bibliography from Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts

Paris, 1996   ¶ Only edition. 76 lots; including works on architecture, perspective, physics. (Drouot-Richelieu, 27 November 1996. Pierre Berès, expert; PIASA, commissaires-priseurs.)   ||| Collation: 279 x 219 mm: Pp [1-48].  Illustration: Eighteen facsimiles.  Binding: Pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine. .

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1968 -- ONLY EDITION. Portrait, facsimile, views.. Red cloth, blank dust-jacket. Near fine.. In 6s (233 x 153 mm). Pp. xlv, 429.

In: East Bay express (Emeryville, California, 2001-  ), vol. 26, no. 3 (29 October 2003, offered complete), pages 14-21     ¶ Perhaps the longest and most detailed press account--amounting to some 4700 words in all--of the discovery (1990) and implications of the long-lost manuscript (1876-80) of the first half (chapters 1-21) of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.   ||| Collation: 34½ x 29 cm: 52 leaves, paginated [1] 2-92, [B1] B2-12.  Illustration: Numerous halftone illustrations (including eight relating to Clemens, after E. W. Kemble [7] or Justin Page [1]).  Binding: Pictorial self-wrappers.  Condition: Very good. .

London &c, 2002   ¶ Only edition. 212 lots, including the autograph manuscripts of Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder 1858 £534,650 ($841,470) and the autograph libretto for Tristan und Isolde 1857 £204,650 ($322,092). (Sotheby's sale no. L02306, 6 December 2002.)   ||| Collation: 270 x 210 mm: Pp [1-8] 9-182 [183-184].  Illustration: Numerous color and monochrome illustrations and facsimiles.  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine. Price-list laid in. .

Berkeley (California), 1989     ¶ Only edition of this useful compendium, comprising some 430 facsimiles of the signatures of 334 composers etc, often dated. Scarce.   ||| Collation: In 16 (279 x 214 mm): Sixteen leaves, paginated [1-32] (ie, not paginated). Photo-offset from typescript original.  Illustration: Facsimiles.  Binding: Pictorial wrappers.  Condition: As new.  Reference: OCLC 21853340. .

Hadley (Massachusetts), 1994     ¶ Only edition of this pioneering catalogue, annotated and priced. Contents: Native American literature: Fiction, poetry, art, items 1-415; Literature with Native American themes by non-native authors, 416-472; Nonfiction, primarily by Native American authors, 473-635.   ||| Collation: 229 x 153 mm: Forty leaves, paginated [1-80] (ie, not paginated). Text continues on lower wrapper recto.  Binding: Pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine.  .

Hamburg, 1999     ¶ Illustrations of twenty-nine manuscripts and miniatures ca 800 - 1560, together with nine printed books 1454/5 - 1552 and three arctic gouaches 1804; including an unrecorded bifolium from one of the oldest extant French manuscripts ca 800, an Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César ca 1370-80, a magnificent Italian Pliny 1446 with zoomorphic initials, an illuminated Gaston Phébus ca 1475, the Rendsburg fragment (130 leaves) of the Gutenberg Bible, and a colored Theurdank 1519; ex Ashburnham, Murray, Holford, Perrins, Beatty, Abbey, Esmerian, Ludwig, Schøyen, etc.   ||| Collation: 335 x 240 mm: Twenty-two leaves, paginated [1-44] (ie, not paginated).  Illustration: Forty full-page color facsimiles, eight smaller.  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine. .

¶ Only edition of the only work of its kind; comprising descriptions of eighteen books and pamphlets 1972-94 and two forthcoming books, together with a full-page facsimile of an early price-list of Patti Smith publications (New York: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery Inc, 1978?). Date inferred from text, leaf [7]. A modest production, very scarce: This work was unknown to Patti Smith herself until she saw this copy in Princeton on 28 May 2005, and SIGNED it in black ink on page [1] lower left. --Collation: 280 x 216 mm: Ten leaves, foliated [1-10] (ie, not foliated). Xerographed from typescript. Illustration: Vignettes (horsehead), portrait, facsimile. Binding: Loose leaves wire-stitched (stapled) top left as issued. Condition: Fine. Reference: OCLC 855799514 (Berkeley only). Not in Byler-Mills.

New York, 2001   ¶ Only edition. 522 lots; including property from the late Sir Rex and Lady Harrison, Walter J. Johnson Inc, Francis Lewis Randolph, and the Estate of Andrée Beauchamp Stearns. (Christie's East sale no. 8619, 11 December 2001.)   ||| Collation: 267 x 211 mm: Pp [1-1] 3-107 [108].  Illustration: Color and monochrome illustrations and facsimiles.  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine. .

Millerton (New York): Stamperia Valdonega (Martino Mardersteig, Verona), for SADEV (The Garden Ltd, Millerton), distributed by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York), 1987 ¶ First edition, trade issue (600 copies), of the author's first published book, "a handsome production, flush with revealing, if rather disturbing, poetic sentiments" (Basbanes). The text consists of a Preface dated 23/24 February 1986, seventeen poems, and a prose Coda; the whole is dedicated in dubious Greek to the author's wife Lorea (d. 1997). The present copy is warmly INSCRIBED "in appreciation for . . . the Catalogue of the Collection of The Garden Ltd. and a record-breaking auction. H O'More March 16, 1990". ||| Collation: In 4s (245 x 166 mm): Thirty leaves, paginated [1-60] (ie, not paginated). Title in red and black, pages [1-4] and [57-60] blank as issued, erratum-slip laid in. Binding: Publisher's black linen lettered in red with white, white wove endpapers, red headbands, top-edges trimmed, others untrimmed.… Leer más

St Petersburg: izdatel'stvo "Nauka", leningradskoe otdelenie, 1968 ¶ ONLY EDITION. ||| Collation: In 8s (215 x 170 mm): Pp. 156. Facsimiles, tables. Binding: Publisher's white cloth. Provenance: New York Public Library (stamps, release-stamps). Condition: A very good copy..

London &c, 2005     ¶ Boethius ca 1000 ex Cockerell, the only complete Anglo-Saxon manuscript in private hands; Jerome and Bede ca 1100 ex Drury; and Virgil 1459 ex Phillipps, "Probably the finest Renaissance manuscript of any classical text in private hands, and one of the finest manuscripts of Virgil ever made". (Sale 5240, lots 80-82.)   ||| Collation: 270 x 210 mm: Twenty-eight leaves, paginated [1-5] 6-54 [55-56].  Illustration: Ten full-page and thirteen smaller color illustrations.  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers lettered in gilt. Color-pictorial dust-jacket.  Condition : As new.  .

New York, 1997     ¶ Only edition; presenting fifty-two rare books 1469-1955 generously annotated, in four sections, viz: Philosophy and literature; Religious works; History, geography, & cosmography; School-books and dictionaries. Indexes, pages [85-86]; References cited, [87-90].  (H. P. Kraus, Inc. Catalogue 206.)   ||| Collation: 272 x 200 mm: Fifty leaves, paginated [i-iv] v-x, 1-84 [85-90].  Illustration: Full-page color facsimile (page [ii]), 22 full-page facsimiles, 26 smaller.  Binding: Pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine.  Reference: NYPL.  .

New York: Longman, 2003   ¶ ONLY EDITION, first printing; comprising some forty-one readings from Johannes Trithemius, Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, S. L. Clemens, Jorge Luis Borges, Malcolm X, Nicholson Baker, E. D. Hirsch, and others. This copy is SIGNED by the editors.   ||| Collation: 234 x 179 mm: Pp [i-ii] iii-xv [xvi blank], 1-544.  Illustration: Illustrations after Jean-Michel Lengrand (b. 1955) and others, facsimiles.  Binding: Pictorial wrappers.  Condition: As new. .

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, inc, 1969 -- First printing (with code "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9" on the title verso). Numerous illustrations and facsimiles.. First Edition. Gray cloth, dust-jacket. Near fine./Sunned at the spine. In 16s (265 x 234 mm). Pp. ix, 358.

White Plains, N.Y.: Kraus International Publications, 1984 ¶ ONLY EDITION. An annotated bibliography of 2,527 items; with indexes of authors, languages, and subjects. Einar Haugen was the foremost North-Germanic philologist in America; and his introduction here is an outstanding general history and survey of Scandinavian dictionaries 1510–1980 (pages 1–52), with a bibliography of the subject (53–61). Out of print. ||| Collation: In 16s (229 × 150 mm): Pp. xxii, 387. Nine full-page facsimiles. Binding: Publisher's blue buckram gilt. Reference: Balay Guide to reference books (1996) AC190. Provenance: Gift inscription from T. A. O. Hamilton (Kraus International Publications), December 1990. Condition: A fine copy..

Hilversum (The Netherlands): The Paper Publications Society, 1962     ¶ ONLY EDITION, published -- happily -- in English at the behest of E. J. Labarre. VERY SCARCE: The subscribers' list accounts for 247 copies, which were taken mostly by institutional libraries.   ||| Collation: In 8s (310 x 230 mm): 361 leaves, paginated [i-ii blank] [iii-vi] vii-xxix [xxx], [1-2] 3-196, (chi)[1-388], 197-297 [298] [299 addenda] [300-304 blank]. Title printed in red and black. Pages (chi)[3-383] are paginated as 'plates' 1-381.  Illustration: Ten halftone plates (fifteen figures on five leaves printed recto and verso), five inserted maps (on three leaves printed recto and verso), folding color map, integral frontispiece (facsimile), nine text illustrations (watermarks), and 815 reproductions of watermarks (on 'plates' 1-381).  Binding: Publisher's blue buckram lettered and decorated in gilt, pale-yellow laid endpapers, blue-and-white headbands, all… Leer más

New York, 2001 ¶ Only edition of this landmark catalogue: "[In] a charged salesroom, the Medical Library of Dr. Meyer Friedman brought an outstanding $5.8 million, double its high estimate of $2.9 million. The combination of provenance, quality and rarity resulted in frenzied bidding on numerous occasions, driving many prices to multiples of their high estimates. The sale was 100% sold, with all of the top ten lots soaring above their high estimates, and all but one shattering their previous record[s] at auction. Highlighting the sale was . . . Harvey's 1628 Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis, which announced the discovery of the circulation of blood and sold for $748,250, far surpassing a high estimate of $400,000, and establishing a record for this work at auction." (Sotheby's.) Dr Friedman was responsible for the theory of 'type A' behavior and its links to heart disease. 176 lots. (Sale no. 7732.) ||| Collation: 270 x 211 mm: Pp [1-7] 8-154. Illustration: Numerous color and… Leer más