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NY: Hastings House, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Rivera, Covarrubias, Oroozco, et al (art of). Comprehensive mid-20thC review of Latin American artists in woodcut, etchings, lithis, aquatint, etc. 26 pages text and glossary, then 37 -186 pages of reproductions by artist and country. An apparently unused copy, internals as new, in almost fine dw.

NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, as stated on copyright page. In unlcipped pictorial dustjacket of ocean travelers promenading on oceanliner's deck, drawn in Art-Deco style. Collectible dustjacket, spine slightly tanned. Laid-in is trade bookmark for Boston travel agent Raymond & Whitcomb promoting its 1927 Mediterranean spring cruises.

Canoga Park CA: Orirana Press, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. 2000 copies, this as new. Laid is a USPS postcard stamped June 5, 1967, typed and signed by Matthiessen to Harold Corbin - poet, antique collector, devotee of Frost - at Lake Forest Academy in Illinois where Corbin at the time was head of school. Matthiessen, in a five line note, thanks "Mr Corbin. for your kind letter and poems. I'm happy to have them, especially (your) wind bird poem, which I like from a literary point of view as well as because of my ornithological prejudice." Stapled to the postcard is a scrap card on which Corbin notes Matthiessen's address and the titles of the poems he sent him. Also laid-in is Orirana Press' prospectus for this title.

Chicago: The Bookfellows. Printed at the Torch Press, 1920. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Private edition, 12mo, paper over boards, title label front cover, in plain dustjacket of same paper as used over covers. With a distinctive double page photogravure frontispiece by eccentric photographer, Lejaren a' Hiller (1880 - 1969). Hiller (born John Hiller in Milwaukee) was an artist and photographer, noted for his highly stylized tableaus, often featuring nubile women and androgynous young men. The frontispiece here depicts nude and semi-nude young men and women, some with laurel headwreaths in the Greco classic style, frollicking at a swimming hole. It is captioned "Once on a Time, Once on a Time." Printed at the Torch Press for The Orer of Bookfellows, a Chicago, private bibliophillic club, with the Bookfellow bookplate of Walter Burton, "who is Bookfellow No. 228" on the front pastedown. An unused copy, fine all around, including the paper dustjacket.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. One of Morley's lesser-known titles, in striking black-and orange striped cover design and rare matching dustjacket. Top edge moderately soiled, and some light wear to bottom edge. The dustjacket has a short cosed tear bottom front panel, and the spine is chipped top and rolled at bottom. A collectible for book and jacket design, which is uncredited.

Sobreitero de Cuandernos Americanos, 1967. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. A finely preserved, inscribed copy of anti-war paper by Risieri Frondizi, Argentian philosopher, anthropologist and one of that country's pre-eminent intellectuals. Frondizi (1910 - 1983) spent his early career in academe at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, where he served from its founding in 1937 as its' director of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters through 1946, when he was dismissed when Juan Peron's came to power. In the late 1950s Frondizi became rector of the University of Buenos Aires. In 1958, his brother Arturo Frondizi became president of a civilian government but was overthrown in 1962 by a military coup that supported the return of Perón. Another military coup in June 1966 led to the forcible clearing of facilities of the University of Buenos Aires - an event known as La Noche de los Bastones Largos ("The Night of the Long Batons") - and over 300 university professors, including Frondizi, were exiled.… Leer más

San Fransciso: City Lights Book, 1968. 1st American Edition. Soft cover. Very Good +. First American edition. Covers a wee dusty; spine a wee sunned, else better than very good. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. Number 23 in the Pocket Poets Series.

London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1803. Later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes. Uncommon 1803 edition "A New Edition" on title page printed for J. Johnson, with a preceeding leaf, half title of sorts, denoting T. Bentley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street as actual printer. In original mottled calf, with red spine label. A solid, handsome unsophisticated copy.

NY: The Review of Reviews Co, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Ten volumes complete, blue cloth, gilt to spine. Title page dated 1912, copyright date is 1911. The slightest wear spine tip, internals fine - no names, inscriptions or bookplates. A monumental work.

NY: Wiley & Halsted, 1858. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First US edition, 8vo, ix, 125, 4 (addenda, publisher's ads) brown, water-grain clloth, gilt decoration front, blind-stampoed surround front and back, gilt to spine. Shallow loss spine tips, else presentable unsophisticated copy.

NY: Watson-Guptil, 2001. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Edited by Angus Hyland of Pentagram Design, with dozens of contributors. Fine copy.

NY: Powerhouse Books / Thea Westreich, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Self portraits, in drawings, paintings and photographs. Fine copy.

Bologna: Fondazione FMR Marilena Ferrar, 2008. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. As New. An as new copy, showing no signs of us. Luxuriously executed in the FMR format. OPERA.

Los Angeles: Japanese American National Museum, 2013. 1st Edition. Soft cover. As New. As new copy. TATTOO ART.

NY: Knopf, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The penultimate 1990s coffee-table book from the spouse of fashion designer Calvin Klein, Kelly Kline, plainly signed by her on the title page.

London: Edward Moxon, 1829. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First collected edition of Shelley's works, with Queen Mab bound in at rear of volume 1. Bound by Bayntun in polished blue half leather, gilt to spine, over light blue linen, teg. Some wear to spine tips and edges. Trace spotting confined to prelims, titles.

Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson, 1758. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 2 volumes recently rebound, quarter leather over marbleized boards, sides stained yellow. Faint waterstain no more than 1/4" deep top margin for a few signatures in Lost, otherwise internals quite bright and nice.

NY: PM Publishing Company, 1938. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Covers designed by Paul Rand. Main feature of this issue is a 16 page insert on Rand's work published by Kenilworth Press. Also featured is an insert on the Merrymount Press and the American Artists Group on Christmas cards. 83p + advertisements. Fine copy.

Silvermine CT: Random House, 1929. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Paul Johnson. 12 pamphlets each with a new poem in its first appearance by leading poets and authors of the day. Books are fine, in yellow printed wrapper, which is missing spine and flap, in moderately worn decorated box, designed by Paul Johnson, which is tape-repaired along bottom edge.

London: Published by the Editor, 1909. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. The second printing - printed paper covers dated 909, but title page dated 1902. xvi, 12, (4), iv, 22, viii, (2), sides untrimmed, owner name on half-title. Near fine condition,