London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1953. xxi,427,[1]pp. Color frontispiece plus thirty- two fine collotype plates. Large, thick quarto. Polished buckram, t.e.g., gilt label. A few patches of light flecking to sizing along edges of boards, ink name on endsheet (see below), otherwise a very good copy, without dust.....
London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1952. xx,399,[1]pp. Color frontispiece plus thirty- three fine collotype plates. Large, thick quarto. Polished buckram, t.e.g., gilt label. A few patches of light flecking to sizing along edges of boards, ink name on endsheet (see below), otherwise a very good copy, without dust.....
New York: The Print Club, 1979. Folio (46.5 x 33cm). Loose sheets, laid into printed folder, the whole enclosed in folding cloth portfolio with ribbon ties. Small spot of faint dulling to cloth on upper portfolio board, otherwise fine. One of two hundred suites of eight original woodcuts, each printed.....
Amsterdam: Johannem Janssonium à Waesberge & viduam Elizei Weyerstraet, 1667. [62],462,[204]pp. Octavo (18.5 x 12 cm). Contemporary vellum, short-title in manuscript on spine. Engraved frontis by Christopher Ganes, and 103 engraved half-page illustrations in text. Vellum somewhat handsoiled and darkened, bookplate, frontis trimmed close along fore- edge, short marginal tear.....
![Item #WRCLIT77769 [Autograph Letter, Signed "Dover," to Alaric A. Watts]. George James Welbore...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT77769.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593712662)
Dover House, Whitehill, 29 September 1831. 1 1/2 pp. on recto and verso of one panel of a folded lettersheet. Blank verso of conjugate tipped to mounting sheet otherwise very good. Baron Dover (1797-1833), British art patron, collector and editor of Walpole's letters, writes to British poet and anthologist Alaric.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. Quarto. Cloth-backed decorated boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Color frontis and 49 collotype plates (some in color) with printed tissue interleaves. Edges shelfworn, spine dull, inner hinges cracking, slightly shaken, a few marginal smudges, but a good, internally very good copy. First edition. Introduction by.....
New Haven & London: Yale University Press with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, [2009]. Two volumes. xiv,[2],118pp text plus second volume of color plates, with inserts and overlays. Small folio (34 x 28 cm). Cloth. An excellent set, enclosed in a lightly rubbed example of the cloth slipcase. "New.....
New York: Lefebre Gallery, 1970. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrations. First edition of this exhibition catalogue. Profusely illustrated, and with text, by the artist. Enclosed in an envelope postally addressed to Monroe Wheeler, and with Wheeler's further presentation inscription. Fine.
[Paris]: Yves Rivière, [1974]. Small folio. Folded sheets, laid into chemise and decorated board slipcase. Illustrations in color by Alechinsky. Slipcase a bit smudged and edgeworn, contents fine. First edition. A facsimile of Caillois's corrected typescript, accompanied by color full-page and in/over text illustrations by Alechinsky. One of a total.....
Torino & Paris: Edizione d'Art Fratelli Pozzo / Chez Guy la Prat, [ca. 1961]. Oblong quarto. Cloth, with pictorial onlay. Plates and decorations. Tips a bit worn, otherwise about fine. First edition, trade issue, of this translation by Christiane Rochefort. Illustrated with lithographs and drawings by Alechinsky. One of a......
New York: Scribner, 1895. Large octavo. Cloth, pictorial onlay, t.e.g. Frontis and illustrations. Cloth a bit sunned, some flecking to cloth sizing at edges, crown and toe of spine frayed; internally very good. First edition. Frontis and cover illustrations by Will Bradley. One of 750 ordinary copies, from a total.....
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875. xxi,[3],230pp. plus frontis, pictorial extra- title, and eleven chromolithographed plates. Three quarter red morocco, raised bands, gilt extra, t.e.g., by Morrell. First edition. Illustrations chromolithographed by Hanhart after designs by Henry Alken. In spite of tissue guards, the plates have offset to facing leaves.....
[London: The Author/Artist, ca. 1997]. [1],10,[1]pp. Octavo (21 x 14.5 cm). Loose sheets, printed on rectos only. Enclosed in plastic zip-top bag. Fine. First edition. Here the prominent designer and educator undertakes an unconventional analysis of objects, features and events in a London neighborhood, ranging from "Phone Box Calling Cards,".....
![Item #WRCLIT45662 OUTSIDE... [caption title]. An American Place, Cary Ross](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT45662.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593712222)
[New York: An American Place, December 1932]. [4]pp. Large octavo folded leaflet. First edition, issued as IT MUST BE SAID I:2. About fine.
Paris: Galerie Lutetia, [N.d., but early c. 20th]. Early twentieth century pochoir. Signed in the plate, and numbered No. 8 in pencil on lower right corner. 30.5 x 49.5 cm. About fine, the colors vivid and fresh. Not matted. Charles Ancelin (1863-1940), flourished around 1910-1930, specializing in horse racing, military.....
New York & London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]. Large, thick quarto. Gilt decorated pictorial cloth. Illustrated with tipped in color plates by Dulac. First edition, trade issue. Spine foxed, with light foxing at endsheets and edges, otherwise very good and bright.
[Italy: The Artist], 1991. Stiff board folder (13 x 8 cm) with manuscript label. Fine. Copy #1 of 7 seven similar but unique copies of this artist's book, consisting of an inner nested "butterfly" effect of violin-shaped pages of delicate tissue with a pattern of hand-drawn marks.
[La Spezioa, Italy: The Artist, ca. 1990]. Eight postal-size cards of images and text, enclosed in printed stiff card folder. About fine. Includes a bio and essay, as well as color reproductions of Andolcetti's music/text based artworks/designs.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. xiii,[1],[4]-117pp. Small octavo. Gilt decorated stiff card over boards, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Frontis and 26 plates (many in color). Large bookplate of Judge John Wesley Warrington, slight dusting along top edge, minute tear at toe of lower wrapper spine fold, otherwise very.....
![Item #WRCLIT86475 THE NEW COLOSSUS [caption title]. artist, printer](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT86475.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1638906223)
[N.p.]: 1949. Small folio broadside (32 x 23.5 cm). Printed in red, black and shades of blue. Paper clip impression in lower edge a few corner creases, very good. First printing in this format, illustrated and printed by Angelo in an edition of 500 copies for distribution as a holiday.....
New York: The Golden Cross Press, 1935. Small octavo (19.5 x 12 cm). Full tan morocco, ruled, decorated and lettered in blind. Spine a trifle darkened, as usual, some tan offsetting to the endsheets from the binding turn-ins, otherwise about fine, in good slipcase with partial splits and a bit.....
Bronxville, NY: [ Printed by Meriden Gravure, nd]. Decorated wrappers. First edition. About fine.
[ Np: The Artist, nd]. Block print holiday greeting (24.2 x 18.7 cm). In medium brown ink. Some slight creasing and dust tanning at margins, else very good. A characteristic image of Madonna and child, inscribed in pencil in the bottom margin: "Greetings from Maxine & Valenti Angelo."
[ Np: The Artist, nd]. Lithographed holiday greeting (image size 7.5 x 9.5 cm, on 19.5 x 13.5 cm card), in medium brown ink. Folded across middle, not approaching image, minor crease, else very good. Functionally a greeting card, with signed by Angelo and titled in pencil below the image.....
Concord, CA: Heron House, 2010. Large quarto. Cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper board decorated in blind. Frontis, illustrations and facsimiles (including a majority in color). A fine copy. First edition. From a total edition of 250 copies, this is copy #18 of 25 with an extra leaf inserted in.....
