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
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Large quarto [32 cm] Original brown cloth with woodcut illustration mounted on the front board. The binding is in lovely clean and bright condition. Illustrated with a total of 41 mono tipped in woodcuts, printed on fine paper and mounted..... 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
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First and Second Printing before Publication. Hardcover. 79pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Orange and black pictorial paper over boards. Light wear at the spine ends and corners of the covers. Top quarter of the rear board discolored. Text block just begining to crack at p...... 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
Santa Cruz, CA: Flesk Publications, 2021. Gary Gianni. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 108pp. Octavo [24cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Over a hundred finished pencil drawings with color pieces enhance and bring to life the work of two visionaries Lovecraft and Gianni in an extraordinary feat of storytelling and art." More
Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher, 1919. Jessie Willcox Smith. First edition with illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. Hardcover. 342pp. Small quarto [24.5 cm] Beige cloth covered boards with gilt and blue ink stamped titles and decorative borders on the spine and front cover, and an illustrated paper label mounted to the..... More
Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1909. Maria L. Kirk. First Maria Kirk Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. 352pp. Octavo [21 cm] Red cloth over boards with gilt lettering and pictorial stamping in black ink on the front board. Illustrated endpapers. "Holiday Editions of Juvenile Classics" advertisement at the front. Decorated..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay Company Publishers, 1920. Jessie Willcox Smith. First edition with illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. Hardcover. 203pp. Quarto [24 cm] Tan cloth with gilt and blue ink stamped titles and borders on the spine and front cover, and an illustrated paper label mounted to the front cover. Top..... More
Lyon: Les Escrivains Reunis, [1950]. First edition. Paperback. Unpaginated. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Tan illustrated wrappers. There is a darkened patch on the limitation page which extends to the title page (the result of a piece of paper having been laid in at one time). With the publisher's glassine wrapper- hardly..... More
Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1928. Third edition. Hardcover. Square octavo [22.5 cm] White and black printed paper over boards. Title, half title, 25 plates, colophon, 1 leaf of ads. There is a contemporary ink inscription on the front free endpaper. In the dust jacket, with one 1 3/4" tear backed with..... More
Paris: Chez les Écrivains Réunis, 1926. First edition. Paperback. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Printed french fold wrappers in the publisher's glassine wrapper. The glassine wrapper has some sunning to the backstrip and edges. With 60 individual woodcuts. Copy 356 of 400 printed on vélin, after XV printed on japon impérial. A...... More
Hanau: Verlag Karl Schustek, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 104pp. Small quarto [26 cm] Natural beige cloth over boards with a black ink stamped design by Masereel on the front cover. German text. In a dust jacket, with a bit of toning to the spine and front panel, and several pieces..... More
Paris: Pierre Vorms, Editeur; Galerie Billiet, 1928. Limited Edition. Paperback. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] Plain white wraps with a French-fold dustwrapper. The hinges have been neatly glued. Illustrated with 60 woodcuts by Frans Masereel. Number 281 in an edition limited to 500. More
Zurich: Limmat Verlag, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto [28 cm] Gray cloth over thin boards, with very light warping to the front board. In a dust jacket illustrated by Masereel, with subtle toning (more so at the spine), and very sporadic small chips and closed tears to the edges, one..... More
![Item #50941 Original Wood Cut [River Scene with Windmill]. Frans Masereel](https://kensandersbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50941.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1506990026)
Original wood cut by renowned artist Frans Masereel. Image measures 15.5 cm by 11.5 cm. Image is within a white border. Leaf measures 24 cm by 18.5 cm Masereel has signed the leaf below the image in pencil. Minor professional restoration on right edge, otherwise fine. Original work by one..... More
München (Munich): Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1923. First German edition. Hardcover. 257pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] 1/4 tan cloth with tan paper over boards. Publisher's black topstain. The boards are very slightly toned and warped, and the underlying boards are peeking through at the top fore-edge corner of the rear cover. Mit..... More
München: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1928. Deutsche Volksausgabe. Hardcover. Sextodecimo [15.5 cm] White and black paper over thin card boards. In the printed black and white dust wrapper. The wrapper shows light edge wear and is a bit darkened at the spine. With the publisher's glassine wrapper as well, with light..... More
Paris: Editions Georges Crès & Cie, 1917. Limited Edition. Paperback. Quarto [27 cm] French fold wraps with the publisher's glassine wrapper. Deckled fore-edges. Text block fragile in places, but still sturdy. Pages a bit age-toned. French text. Ritter C a) Nr. 4. Suivis d'un souvenir a Verhaeren par Octave Uzanne..... More
Zurich: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1951. First German edition. Paperback. 140pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] in wraps with glassine jacket and original belly-band. Very light edgewear to jacket and wraps, 1" tear to belly-band at top front; interior is clean and tight. Thomas' first novel, originally published in English as "The Dark Philosophers"..... More
Paris: Éditions Pierre Tisné, 1942. Limited Edition. Paperback. Oblong quarto [22 cm x 28 cm] Plain wraps with a white folded wrapper printed in red and black, and a glassine wrapper. The glassine wrapper is darkened and torn, with a number of small losses from the edges and folds. The..... More