Paris: Chez Jules Renouard, 1834. xvi,582,[6],lxviii,[4]pp. Large, thick octavo. Original drab wrappers, printed spine label, edges untrimmed. Two portraits. Three plates (one folding) and five folding facsimiles. Upper wrapper detached, with chipping along joints, single closed crack in spine, wrappers a bit darkened, offset from first portrait to title, otherwise.....
Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1772. [2],200,221-372pp. Large quarto. Full contemporary russia, spine gilt extra. Fore-tips and spine extremities have shallow chips, hinges cracking (but cords sound), early ink name on verso of binder's endsheet, light foxing early and late, otherwise internally very good and crisp. First Baskerville edition, in quarto. The.....
Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1772. [2],200,221-372pp. Large quarto. Full mottled calf, rebacked, with later binder's endsheets. Some chipping to extremities and cracks to outer joints, light old mold incursion in the area around the top margin toward inner gutter early and late and sporadically in the center, with top marginal repairs.....
[Crest]: La Sétérée / Jacques Clerc, [1992]. Folio (40 x 33cm). Folded signatures laid into printed wrappers. Fine, in near fine cloth slipcase with some shelf rubs on one side panel. First edition. Illustrated with seven original monochrome lithographs by Cartier- Bresson. One of 125 numbered copies (in addition to.....
Milano: Coi Tippi Dell'Isituto Grafico Bertieri, 1934 [XII E.F.]. [6],329,[1]pp. plus plates. Quarto. Modern cloth and fabriano over boards, original labels preserved. Spine label rubbed, otherwise near fine in custom cloth and marbled board slipcase. First edition. A collection of essays on a number of aspects of book making, publishing.....
![Item #WRCLIT88161 ISAAK I AVRAAM [text in Russian]. Joseph Brodsky, Mikhail Karasik](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT88161.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1677872286)
[St. Petersburg: Izd-vo. M.K., 1994]. Narrow quarto (29 x 15.2cm). Forest-green paper over boards, printed paper label. Printed on one side only of accordion fold- out leporello text block Unfortunately, this copy evidently fell into the hands of an unappreciative (or more likely very, very young) handler who decorated many.....
[Nice]: Editions Unes, [1984]. Oblong small octavo. Loose gatherings laid into stiff printed wrappers. Fine. First edition. Two poems by the artists, Camille's dated 1947 ("Tête à coq") and Réquichot's dated 1957 ("Kullbull' le coq"). In addition to 19 numbered copies printed on Chiffon vieux rose and some out of.....
[Paris: Éditions du Rouleau Libre, 1991]. Small octavo. Stitched accordion sheets, sewn into printed wrapper with pictorial onlay. Fine. First edition. Illustrated with original etchings by Palayer. One of 45 numbered copies, from an edition of fifty.
[Rome: The Artist, 1985]. [1],10 leaves. Quarto (25 x 19 cm). Loose sheets, laid into specially crafted blindstamped folder with ribbon tie. Fine. First edition. Copy #3 of 40 numbered copies (and 10 EAs), signed by the artist. A sequence of ten fine blindstamped images within 9 cm circular frames.....
Leiodii [ie. Liége]: Ex Officina Typographica Clementis Plomteux ... 1772. [12],380,cxxxix,[1]pp. Folio (signed in 4s - 38 x 24cm). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. Printed in black and red, with staves, headlines and some initials in red, other initials historiated and in black. Pictorial title vignette, with title within ornamented border.....
Monte Carlo: André Sauret, [1962]. 210,[4]pp Small folio (33 x 26 cm). Cloth. Plates, photographs. Fine in dust jacket with tiny nicks toward lower fore-tip. Card slipcase. First English language edition, translated from the French by Elaine Desautels. Illustrated with two full-page original color lithographs executed by Chagall for this.....
Boston: Boston Book and Art Shop, [1969]. Large quarto. Cloth. Illustrated throughout (largely in color). Fine in lithographed pictorial dust jacket, plastic wrapper and card slipcase. First US edition of the third volume in the series. Translation into English by George Lawrence. Illustrated with two original color lithographs (including the.....
[Np]: Editions de l'Eau, 1989. Oblong small quarto (25.5 x 29 cm). Folded gatherings and plates laid into printed wrappers. Fine in lightly marked silk covered slipcase. First edition in this format, illustrated with six original engravings ("burins et manières noires") by Albert Woda, and six calligraphic interleaves by Lalou.....
[Np: Gallery 303, nd], [11,[1]pp, Quarto. Printed self wrappers. Facsimiles and illus. Slightest tanning, slight bump to crown of spine, otherwise about fine. A translation by John Dreyfus and Heide Gekeler of a 1931 essay and bibliography to that date. "This keepsake has been prepared for the participants in the.....
Milan: Peri Fratelli Treves, 1902. [12],289,[2]pp. Small quarto. Publisher's limp gilt parchment over boards, silk ties, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Decorative title and ornaments. Printed in red and black. Light pencil annotations in text, parchment inevitably edgeworn, otherwise a very good copy, with the tasteful bookplates of two collectors.....
Paris: Jacques Beltrand, 1919. Folio (31.5 x 23 cm). Loose gatherings, laid into decorated wrapper. Illustrated throughout. Wrappers laminated by a previous owner, scattered foxing, offsetting to a few margins from now absent ribbon ties, just a good reference copy enclosed in pictorial board chemise (also laminated), with remnants of.....
![Item #WRCLIT87241 DEPERO FUTURISTA [Facsimile Edition]. Fortunato Depero](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT87241.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1649876640)
[Brooklyn: Designers & Books, 2017]. Two volumes. Oblong quarto (24.5 x 32 cm), bolt-bound stiff typographically decorated boards, and oblong quarto (24 x 27 cm) stiff typographically decorated wrapper. Both very fine, enclosed in original shipping box with conveyance letter. The beautiful and faithful facsimile printing of the original edition.....
[Paris: Aux dépens des 30, 1995]. Oblong octavo (4 1/2 x 6 3/4"; 115 x 167mm). Folded signatures, laid into printed wrappers. Fine, in faintly smudged printed cloth and board clamshell box. First edition in this format of these translations into French, presented in company with red, white and blue.....
[Paris]: Editions Vaudevire, 1983. Oblong accordion style foldout, in printed wrappers (11.5 x 25.3 cm). Fine in printed acetate jacket. First edition. Copy #18 of 100 copies, signed by the author/artist, with the text printed via serigraphy on mat black stock with glossy black imagery as background.
Hamburg: Adolf Harms Verlag, [1921]. Small folio. Quarter gilt vellum and batik paper over boards. Three plates. Boards a bit sunned and rubbed at edges, small manuscript number in extreme corner of endsheet and blank, but a very good copy. First edition. One of two hundred numbered copies (of 250).....
Hannover: Fischersträssner Presschen, 1967. [7] leaves, plus six sheets of etchings. Oblong folio (45.5 x 34cm). Loose sheets, laid into slightly larger folding cloth folder with inset. Fine. First edition. One of an edition of twenty- five numbered copies, illustrated with six original etchings (including two with color and one.....
A la Haye, et se trouve à Paris: Chez Lambert...et Delalain... 1770. 119;47pp. Large octavo. Somewhat later full crimson morocco, spine elaborately gilt extra, gilt center and corner devices and borders on boards, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endsheets, a.e.g. Engraved extra-title, plate and 44 engraved head and tail-pieces. Title printed.....
[Leiden]: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1634. [6],7-330,[2]pp. 16mo. Contemporary unlettered calf, raised bands, blindstamped corner pieces. Engraved title. 1679 ownership inscription ("Guilielmi de Grey") on pastedown and abbreviated in upper margin of title, joints cracked a bit toward toes, bit of surface erosion to upper corner of lower board; still, a......
A Leide: Chez les Elzeviers, 1648. [24],765,[19]pp. Engraved title. 12mo. 13.6 x 7.8cm. Sturdily bound in full 19th century claret morocco, raised bands, marbled endsheets, a.e.g. Spine darkened a bit, occasional marginal foxing, but a very good copy. First Elzevier edition of the celebrated memoirs of the foremost French Renaissance.....
[Paris]. 1751. [6],xxiv,222,[2]pp. Quarto. Full deep plum straight-grain morocco, elaborately stamped in blind, lettered and ruled in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, gilt borders on endsheets, a.e.g. Title in red and black. Frontis and fourteen engraved plates, engraved head- and tail- pieces. Extremities a bit worn, narrow scrapes at fore-tips of.....
