ILLUSTRATED BOOKS from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

Madras: Kalakshetra Publications Press, 1983. First edition. Folio, green cloth, hand bound in India from hand woven cloth. Copy 11 of 1111, fine, without dust jacket. Text reproduced from Ginsberg's handwriting, illustrated by Francesco Clemente. Published on the occasion of Clemente's exhibition at the Kunsthalle, Basel in May of 1984.

Paris: Le Livre", 1923. Schmied, Francois-Louis. 7-3/4 in. x 5-1/2 in; 200 mm x 140 mm. (8), 416 pp. Six full-page color plates engraved and printed by F.-L. Schmied, woodcut ornaments designed by Schmied printed with the text by Frazier-Soye. No. 682 of 1000 copies (one of 850 on vélin de pur chiffon). Millimeter binding with brown goatskin spine… Read more about this item

New York: Appleton, 1867. 302 pages, [48] leaves of steel-engraved plates ; 29 cm. Publisher's full leather, gilt, a.e.g., joints and corners rubbed.

London: London Printing and Publishing Co. Quarto, two volumes, 32 x 22, cm. Publisher's three-quarter leather with cloth sides, a.e.g. extremities rubbed and worn. Steel engravings, Moderate foxing mostly to text. Front cover of volume 1 detached. Additional shipping required.

London: Fisher, 1832. First edition. Quarto, 218 pages, 215 plates. 27 cm. Contemporary black calf, gilt roll on sides, spine gilt in compartments with contrasting labels, light wear and scuffing to extremities. Very good.

[San Francisco?]: OOP Press, 2008. First edition. (Miyazake, Hayao) ; Daisuke Tsutsumi; Yukino Pang; Enrico Casarosa; Ronnie Del Carmen. Wrappers, fine. 223 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm. Original watercolor bookplate signed by Daisuke Tsutsumi inside front wrapper. Signed additionally by artists Jay Shuster, Craig Foster, Tim Evatt, Louis Clichy, and Scott Morse. "Totoro's Forest" in Hayao Miyazaki's… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, (n.d.). Smith, Jessie Willcox. Orange cloth, stamped in blue and black, spine slightly faded. 305 pages. 12 tipped-in color plates; light foxing affecting the edges.

Berlin: Welt-Verlag, 1922. W.N. Massjutin. Boards, cloth back. 8 original woodcuts by Massjutin. 61 pp. 30 x 24 cm. Very good with some little wear to the board edges.

Lausanne: La Guilde du Livre. First edition. Avigdor Arikha. Illustrated cloth, fine, 22 x 15 cm; 235 pp. Frontispiece and ten full-page illustrations by Arikha; Inscribed to Raymond and Janine Queneau and signed by Arikha.

Paris: Duchartre & Van Buggenhoudt, 1927. 45 p. .39 cm.; Illustrations produced by the pochoir (stencil and hand-coloring) method. "Il a été tiré ... des exemplaires sur papier à dessin Olin. Ex. no. 3481." Extract from chapter 3 of the author's Le médecin de campagne. Illustrated boards with discoloration and wear along edges.

1980. Black and white print 11-3/8 x 14-3/8 inches, folio removed from "Boiled Owl" #3, 1981. Inscribed by Wilson "find the picture in this mistake," signed and dated. Some minor edge wear.

Paris: A. Fayard, 1948. Hermann-Paul. 16 illustrations by Hermann-Paul. "16 bois originaux de Hermann-Paul." Softbound in orange paper with woodcut illustrations, 94 pp. with bw illustrations. Very good. 24 X 19 cm.

Paris: Editions de l'oeil, 1956. New edition, one of 1000 numbered copies. Ernst, Max. Original wappers and glassine. Fine condition, without the original collage.

Dresden: Carl Reissner Verlag, 1925. First edition. Grosz, George. 14, 2 pp., 60 full-page illustrations by George Grosz printed on rectos only, 15 x 18.5 cm. Original red cloth, gilt, fine copy. Foreword by Grosz, and "Der Spiesserbiologe" by Walter Mehring.

Paris: René Kieffer, 1923. First edition. Vettiner, J.-B.. Full brown morocco, signed by René Kieffer, with narrow inlays in darker brown, and a wide gilt band, tooled with a pattern of triangles, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers. Spine slightly darkened, otherwise fine. Matching slipcase. Printed on vélin teinté, this is one of 50 copies with a suite… Read more about this item

Mexico City: Talleres Graficos Del Departmento de Divulgacion de la Secretaria de Educacion Publica, 1951. First edition. Ledesma, Gabriel Fernandez;. 333 p., [2] fold. leaves of plates, ill. ;. Illustrated with woodcuts by Gabriel Fernández Ledesma and Francisco Moreno Capdevila. 32x 23 cm. Original wrappers, slight edge wear; thin marginal dampstain on a few leaves.

[Berlin-Charlottenburg]: Petropolis [Verlag], 1924. First edition. Grigorieff,Boris. 61 p., [28] leaves of plates 37 cm. Printed on heavy paper 37 x 29 cm. Original wrappers, with a closed tear at the head spine. Very good condition. 125 copies of the French language edition, this one unnumbered.

London: John Lane, 1904. Parrish, Maxfield. Two volumes, matching bindings of original olive-green pictorial cloth, gilt, first gathering of The Golden Age slightly loose. Bright copies, with slight rubbing to extremities. 252 pp., 2 leaves of adverts. Endpapers, frontispieces, title pages, and 25 additional full-page photogravures after Parrish, (eight in Dream Days, 17 in The Golden Age) with printed… Read more about this item

Paris: L'Édition d'art, H. Piazza, 1910. First edition. Henri Cassiers. One of 250 copies on vélin (total edition of 300). Handsomely bound by G. Mercier, full brown levant (jansenist style), wide turn-ins gilt and inlaid, brocade endsheets, marbled paper flyleaves, gilt edges, original wrappers preserved, matching slipcase. Fine condition.

Paris: Lapina, 1922. Hémard, Joseph. 4°, XXIV + 407 p., Illustrated with 19 hors-texte color plates and 120 illustrations in the text, colored by the pochoir (stencil) process. Copy number 126 signed by Hemard, from a total edition of 521. Parchment covers, top edge gilt, others uncut, in fine condition, in lightly worn slipcase, original wrappers and prospectus bound… Read more about this item