Mineola, NY: Calla Editions (Dover), 2013. N.C. Wyeth. Reprint. Hardcover. 86 pp. [24 cm]; full red cloth with gold stamped designs and titles on front cover and spine. Full color illustration pasted down on front cover. No dust jacket as issued. This charming hardcover collectible will appeal to both admirers..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: Utah State Historical Society, 1979. Paperback. 31pp. Very slim quarto. Pictorial wraps. More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Associates. Original printing. 184pp. Quarto. Magazine wraps. With the article, "John Held jr., inventor of the Jazz Age," by Dorothy and John Tarrant. Illustrations from the collection of Mrs. John Held Jr. More
New York: Macaulay Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 186pp. Small quarto [22 cm] Light green cloth over boards with black ink lettering and pictorial stamping on the backstrip and front board. The covers and spine are a bit faded and bumped at the edges, and there is a small moisture..... More
New York: Macaulay Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 186pp. Small quarto [22 cm] Light green cloth. Fading to the backstrip and sections of the rear board. Covers slightly cocked. No dust jacket. Illustrated endsheets and pastedowns and nineteen full page illustrations by John Held, Jr. The Utah artist, John Held..... More
New York: Other Press, 2020. Arroyo, Eduardo. Hardcover. 709pp. Quarto [32cm]. "This strikingly illustrated edition presents Joyce’s epic novel in a new, more accessible light, while showcasing the incredible talent of a leading Spanish artist. The neo-figurative artist Eduardo Arroyo (1937–2018), regarded today as one of the greatest Spanish painters..... More
New York: Literary Guild, 1930. Rockwell Kent. Trade edition. Hardcover. 281pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Tan cloth covered boards with blue ink stamped titles and designs on the spine and front cover. Very good. The ink stamping on the spine has faded, and there are several small, but prominent markings in..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. 336pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Blue cloth over boards with decorative stamping and lettering in silver on the backstrip. Publisher's brown top stain. The spine ends and edges of the covers are moderately bumped and rubbed, the front hinge is a...... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Willy Pogany. Hardcover. Quarto [26 cm] Pale green cloth lettered and decoratively stamped in gilt (the gilt on the spine has faded). Publisher's red top stain. Good only. The extremities are mildly bumped, rubbed and darkened. The front cover has a prominent abraded area..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, No date, but circa 1930. Willy Pogany. Hardcover. 171pp. Octavo [23 cm] Orange cloth over boards, decorated and lettered in gilt on the spine, and with an illustrated paper label and gilt stamped title on the front cover. Top edge gilt. Fore and bottom..... More
[London]: Hodder and Stoughton, [1913]. Rene Bull. First trade edition. Hardcover. Quarto [27 cm] Light brown cloth over boards with elaborate stamping in gilt, red, brown and blue on the backstrip and front board. Foxing to the preliminary and terminal leaves, and fore and bottom edges of the text block..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co, 1886. Elihu Vedder. Early printing with illustrations by Vedder. Hardcover. Quarto [32 cm] Light gray cloth over boards with elaborate decorative stamping on the backstrip and front board. Top edge gilt. Beveled edges. The cloth at the edges of the spine and boards is a...... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, Publishers, 1915. Maxfield Parrish. Special Knickerbocker Edition. Hardcover. 298pp. Quarto [29.5 cm] 1/4 white cloth with peach colored paper over boards, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a pictorial paper title label on the front board. Underlying boards exposed at the corners..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1877. Hardcover. Unpaginated; [14 pp.] Original green cloth with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a gilt and black ink stamped title and design on the front cover. All edges gilt. Mild rubbing to the extremities. There is a small stain on the..... More
Garden City, New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1941. Lynd Ward. Reprint. Hardcover. 486pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Bright light green cloth over boards with the title stamped in yellow on the backstrip. Endpapers heavily darkened; two inscriptions on the front free endpaper, one of which is a contemporary gift inscription. In..... More
Adelaide: The Wakefield Press, 1944. Limited Edition. Paperback. Slim octavo [22 cm ] Plain thin card wraps with adhered printed dust wrapper. Bookplates tipped-in. Light soiling and toning to wraps. Bookseller's ticket on the verso of the front wrap. Number 370 in an edition limited to 375. Contains quite a...... More
[Paris]: Adrien Maeght Editeur, 1968. First Edition. Sextodecimo [15.5 cm]. Accordion-folding artist's book composed of matte pictorial boards and folding color lithographic interior. Lacks slipcase. A bright and colorful symbolic reinterpretation by the noted Swiss artist, 'La Fable du Hasard' combines elements of 'The Poor Man and the Rich Man'..... More
[Paris]: Adrien Maeght Editeur, 1968. First Edition. Sextodecimo [15.5 cm]. Accordion-folding artist's book composed of matte pictorial boards and folding color lithographic interior. Lacks lucite slipcase. A bright and colorful symbolic reinterpretation by the noted Swiss artist, 'La Fable du Hasard' combines elements of "The Poor Man and the Rich..... More
Paris: Adrien Maeght Editeur, 1994. First edition. Octavo [21.5 cm] Accordion-folding artist's book composed of illustrated thin card boards. Housed in a matching thin card folder. The text is in English, French, and German. With a charming fold-out key to interpret the stories at the front. The noted Swiss artist's..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. Clare Leighton. First edition. Hardcover. 159pp. Quarto [27 cm] Red cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. There are large splotchy areas of fading on the spine, and the top edge of the front cover has a strip of fading..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1937. Clare Leighton. First edition. Hardcover. 159pp. Quarto [27 cm] Red cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. The book is in very good condition. A small square has been cut from the jacket's spine, and there is a corresponding faded patch..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1945. Clare Leighton. Twentieth anniversary edition, and first illustrated edition. Hardcover. 397pp. Octavo [23 cm] Tan cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on a brown blocked spine label, and a wood engraving by the artist within double ruled brown borders on the front..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 79pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Red and black pictorial paper over boards. The spine and boards show light edge wear, and the endpapers are discolored. In a heavily worn, price-clipped dust jacket, which is torn in half. Dust jacket art by..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 79pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] White and black pictorial paper over boards. Light wear at the spine ends and corners of the covers. No dust jacket. Newman Levy's verse illustrated by John Held Jr. The Utah artist, John Held Jr., was one..... More
London: The Fanfrolico Press. Hardcover. 188pp. Large octavo [25 cm] Black cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a gilt stamped vignette on the front board. Top edge gilt. The extremities are gently bumped and rubbed. Mild spine roll. The text block edges and the..... More