Recent Arrivals from Dark and Stormy Night Books

London: The Journeyman Press, 1978 Reprint. Soft cover print portfolio, with silk ribbon ties, 4to (12 x 17 inches) the illustrated wraps in brown on brown craft paper, featuring a facsimile of the original 1896 publication, repeated as frontispiece on cream colored stock. Printed in black and red, with black and white poster-sized illustrations. The removable enclosures are tied together… Read more about this item

North Attleboro, MA: The Commercial Press , 1927 Hard cover 8vo, in red cloth covered boards, with title design blocked in gold to the front, 78 pp, First Edition. Illustrated with halftone photo reproductions from the author's camera. CONDITION: Very Good Quite a bit of exterior rubbing to boards. Text is moderately toned. Otherwise sound. Includes presentation inscription dated… Read more about this item

New York: Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1933 Hard cover 8vo, in electric blue plasticized cloth, the titles in black to front board and spine. Original dust jacket is illustrated by a portrait by the Author, notable Cape Ann, Massachusetts portraitist and art educator, Margaret Fitzhugh Browne (1884-1972). The portrait is repeated as the color frontispiece, tipped in, on… Read more about this item

New York: John Lane/ The Bodley Head, 1897 Hard cover, 8vo, in plain tan paper-covered boards with the title to an applied paper spine label. This is the author-signed, Limited Edition, No. 1148 of 1250 copies done on handmade paper. (An additional 50 copies were issued on Japon.) Rubricated title page, edges untrimmed, 107 pp. CONDITION: Very Good. There is… Read more about this item

Portland, Maine: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1938 Second Edition, revised and enlarged, limited to 1500 copies. Hard cover, 8vo., in green publisher's cloth blocked in gold, top edge gilt, xxiv, 368pp., with plates, facsimiles and diagrams. **CONDITION: Near Fine. Some very minor rubbing at front joint, and at head and foot of the spine. Lacking slipcase and d/j.** A definitive work… Read more about this item

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1908 Second (corrected) Edition. Hard cover, 8vo, in maroon cloth, titles blocked in gold to the spines, text with sidenotes, 605 and 685pp. CONDITION: Very Good Plus with some light edge wear along joint, and light toning. Otherwise, very clean. CONTENTS: VOL.1. Introduction. The Old Sacred Drama, The Morality and the Earlier… Read more about this item

New York: Braziller, George, 1973 Hard cover, 4to in red cloth, blocked in gold with a logo to front board, title and further decoration to the spine. In original slipcase with black paper covered boards, the applied label in black, red and gold to the front and spine, with the title in gothic lettering. CONTENTS: Introductory notes pp. 1- 29,… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Julius Hoffman Verlag, 1929 Hard cover, 4to, in green cloth blocked with black and gold label to front board with title and same to spine, viii, plus 100 numbered plates In the original slipcase. German language. *CONDITION: Near Fine. Very minor wear to the spine gilt in one place. One very gently bumped corner. The hinges are… Read more about this item

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1977 Hard cover, 4to, The Collector's Edition," "bound in genuine [black] leather," blocked in gold with pictorial design and title to boards and spine. The spine with raised bands, all edges gilt, blue ribbon marker, blue silk-like moire endpapers, color frontispiece portrait of the author taken from a painting by the Canadian-born artist Boardman Robinson, (d.… Read more about this item

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927 Reprint. In English. Hard cover, 8vo, in black cloth elaborately blocked in gold to the spine, with title and decoration, illustrated endpapers in the style of early Italian woodcuts, top edge trimmed, others untrimmed, printed on watermarked, heavy laid paper, rubricated title page, xxxviii plus 269 pp. Reprint of the "Essay on Petronius"… Read more about this item

New York: Opificio delle Pietre Dure e Laboratori di Restauro di Firenze; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992 Soft cover, square 4to, Printed in Milan Nov. 1992, First Edition catalogue for art exhibitions at Florence's Palazzo Vecchio (1992-93) and later at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, summer of 1993. In English, 125 pp. **CONDITION: Very Good Plus. One notation… Read more about this item

Köln: Taschen GmbH, 2016 Reprint. Hard cover, 4to, in color printed illustrated boards, with dust jacket, 95pp. with many color illustrations and art historical text. Chapters include: In Quest of Pure Colour 1869-1905, Realism and Decoration 1906-1916, The Intimacy of the Nice Period 1917-1929, Beyond Spatial Limits 1930-1940, Matisse's Second Life: An Art of Grace 1941-1954 and Henri Matisse 1869-1954… Read more about this item

Köln: Taschen GmbH, 2021 Reprint. Hard cover, 4to, with color printed illustrated cover, 95 pp., with many color and black and white art reproductions, first issued 1991. CONDITION: Fine. Like New. Now in mylar. Art historical coffee table reference book on the fabled American Modernist Edward Hopper, born in Nyack, New York, 1882, whose new realist paintings and prints largely… Read more about this item

Hanover, Paris, Hanover: Typis Wechelianis, apud Claudium Marnium & haeredes Joan. Aubrii.; Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Hadrianum Perier in Via Iacobaea, 1605 Sammelband of THREE SCARCE EARLY MEDICAL WORKS from 1605. Hardcover, 12mo (3 ¼ x 5 ¼ inches) in vellum binding, pp [24] 258 [6]; [2] 66 [4]; [12] 348 [8]. Collation: [12] A-K12, L10 [2]; A-C12; A18, B-O12,… Read more about this item

Fiorenza: Nella Stamperia di Giorgio Marescotti, 1580 Hard cover 4to (measuring 6 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches,) in the original full vellum case, which appears to have been "updated," perhaps in the eighteenth century, with an onlaid additional layer of vein-painted parchment to resemble tree calf. (Perhaps made to match a collector's library.) An old calligraphic red… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913 First Edition Thus of the Meynell "Definitive Edition." Three Volumes complete, in a contemporary fine binding. Hard cover, in three-quarter crushed green morocco gilt over marbled paper covered boards, the spine with five raised bands, titles in gilt to the second and fourth compartment, ruled in gilt as are the bands. Printed on laid… Read more about this item

London: Various, 1909 This collection of Nevill's works was assembled by collector W.A. Foyle, and rebound uniformly in contemporary fine bindings of three-quarter blue morocco over blue cloth gilt, the spine with five raised bands, with titles and dates gilt, t.e.g. Bindings are not signed. CONDITION: Very Good Plus. All volumes show very minor wear to front joints, board… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1887 Hard cover, quarto, in brown buckram with a banded triple-thistle vignette in gilt to the center of the top board, the titles and volume numbers to spine. First Editions, published 1887- 1892. Printed by Thomas and Archibald Constable, Edinburgh University Press. Illustrated with many black and white drawings such as measured floor plans, elevations, and details… Read more about this item

Torino: Vedova Pomba e Figli, 1818 Hard cover, 24mo, in what seems to be a contemporary rebinding, in three quarter vellum over marbled paper-covered boards, the titles to the spine in in gilt with an onlaid morocco label with additional gilt decoration banding in imitation of raised bands, and gilt floral vignettes to the faux compartments. Page edges are… Read more about this item

Köln: Taschen GmbH, 2021 In English. Hardcover Folio in pictorial printed paper covered fold-open portfolio with imitation bone and ribbon closures, enclosing a hand-sewn Japanese-style soft bound book, 272 pp., designed with uncut fore edges, numerous color illustrations, plates, descriptions, bibliography, Chronology of Japanese historical periods and Notes. Color woodcut illustrations of old Tokyo by master printmaker Hiroshige (1797-1858.) CONDITION:… Read more about this item