Fine illustrated books including first editions of well known children's books both American and British, color plates books and photobooks.
New York: May 13, 1955. Variant of the print published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten... Read More about Portrait photograph of Ben Gazzara as "Brick" in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, seated in robe clutching...
Price: $1,250
New York: George H. Doran, [1923]. First American Edition. Inscribed on the half-title: "Not that I assume to select your reading- Merely a thought that you would enjoy these delightful stories, and the quaint form of their telling. Cordially Will Bradley July '23"... Read More about Kai Lung's Golden Hours
Price: $350
New York: R.H. Russell, 1902. The Wayside Series. Read More about Flowers From Persian Gardens: Selections From the Poems of Saadi, Hafiz, Omar Khayy*m, and...
Price: $200
[Concord, Mass: The Sign of the Vine, 1904]. First thus. Read More about A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig
Price: $100
Chicago: George Matthew Adams, 1910. First Edition. Dust Jacket and Cover by Will Bradley. Bradley's cover and jacket features the portrait of the author, a popular homespun newspaper poet, among whose output were some sporting verses (football, p. 40, baseball p. 102). Read More about Uncle Walt
Price: $250
New York: The Typophiles, July 7. 1948. Signed by Will Bradley, Paul Bennett and David Silve with Silve's handwritten directions to the printer in pencil on a seperate sheet. Read More about Broadside: WILL BRADLEY DEAN OF American Typographers. On Your Eightieth Birthday... The Typophiles
Price: $400
New York: nd. An interesting sheet, with Bradley's address ("Fifth National Bank Building, 131 East 23rd Street, New York") printed on recto, and 'some of the more important of the magazine and commercial commissions handled by Will Bradley" listed on the verso. Some of these included: the typographical make-up and..... Read More about Printed Resumé listing some of the more important commissions handled by Will Bradley
Price: $150
New York: Published by The American Type Founders Co, 1905. First edition. Read More about The Delectable Art of Printing: Called Also, The Printer Man's Joy: Treating of the Origination...
Price: $650
Pasadena: The Castle Press, Grant Dahlstrom, 1949. First Edition, one of 300 copies printed for The Typophiles. Delightful recollections, enhanced by a photographic frontispiece of the youthful Bradley, with luxuriant sideburns, under which he has written the date 1885 and signed his name. Read More about Memories 1875-1895: Happenings here and there along the Trail, or “The World went very Well...
Price: $125
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1906. First Edition. A CLASSIC. Read More about Peter Poodle Toy Maker to the King
Price: $850
London: John Lane, 1922. Brangwyn, Frank. One of 75 copies. Brangwyn’s Venice, with Signed Print. Read More about The Pageant of Venice
Price: $225
London: Marlborough Gallery Inc, 1979. INSCRIBED. Inscribed: "Pour Penny Ottor – amicalement Brassaï New York le 5 Octobre 1979." Read More about Brassaï: Artist and Studios
Price: $300
Munich: Braun & Schneider, nd. Coliierte Ausgabe. Read More about Zur Geschichte der Costüme
Price: $500
Washington, D.C: 26 October 1956. Short note following a photo session in early October for Life Magazine. Brennan, appointed to the Supreme Court by Eisenhower, was famed for his dissent from many of the majority decisions of the court. Reading in part “I certainly did not idly record ‘great artist’..... Read More about Typed Letter, Signed, to LIFE photographer ALFRED EISENSTAEDT
Price: $200
Paris: Éditions du Moustié, [1947]. One of a few copies reserved for the artist, with his initials. Read More about Mes Amours à Vingt Ans
Price: $225
n.p: 1882. Four Original Bridgeman Watercolors of John Jorrocks, Esq., 1882. Four original Bridgeman watercolors of John Jorrocks, Esq., Surtees's colorful fox-hunting hero of Handley Cross and other sporting novels. Of Bridgeman, Mitchell notes, “Little can be traced of this caricaturist whose figures all have delightful smiling faces with rosy..... Read More about John Jorrocks, Esq
Price: $2,000
London: Ackermann and Co, 1839. Read More about The Book of Royalty. Characteristics of British Palaces
Price: $400
London: Macmillan, 1908. Brock, Charles. First Edition with these illustrations. Read More about Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver. With a Preface by Sir Henry...
Price: $60
Cincinnati, Ohio: Zebra Press, 1951. "a virtual museum between covers" (Heller). Vol. 3, the last published, includes features on Ben Shahn, Stereoscopy (w/ 3D glasses), Henri Cartier-Bresson, and calligraphy and French marbled paper (w/ tipped-in examples of each). Read More about Portfolio: The Annual of the Graphic Arts. Vol. I, no. 3
Price: $750
New York: November 2, 1933. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Read More about Portrait photograph of Louis Bromfield
Price: $1,000
London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd and New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, [1923]. First edition, 24 of 75 with etching signed by artist Thomas Mackenzie. ETCHING SIGNED BY THOMAS MACKENZIE, ONE OF 75. Read More about Brontë Moors & Villages from Thornton to Haworth
Price: $300
ca. 1910s. A ?previously unknown photo-montage of Rupert Brooke. Read More about Montage photograph of Rupert Brooke
Price: $2,500
n.p: [1916]. The drawing depicts an allegorical figure of Manhattan, in colonial garb, tipping his hat and bowing in homage to his neighbor across the Brooklyn Bridge: a rotund figure in a Brooklyn baseball uniform, bat in one hand, pennant in the other, standing in a field with "Brooklyn B.B...... Read More about Fine original pen-and-ink drawing, probably for a newspaper illustration, commemorating the 1916...
Price: $1,500
London: Turner & Hadley for Thomas McLean, 1819. Second edition. Pirages: Brookshaw (ca. 1751-1823) was a successful London cabinet-maker whose painted Neoclassical furniture attracted such titled enthusiasts as the Duke of Devonshire and the Prince of Wales, but he suddenly abandoned this livelihood in the 1790s. Art historian Lucy Wood..... Read More about Groups of Flowers (Groups of Fruit, Six Birds) drawn and accurately coloured after nature, with...
Price: $5,500
London: David Bogue, 1852. First edition. Read More about A Cracker Bon-Bon for Christmas Parties: Consisting of Christmas Pieces, for Private...
Price: $600
San Francisco: Friends of the Earth, 1976. First edition, one of 800 copies, signed by the author and photographer. The type is Centaur and Arrighi by Mackenzie-Harris, printed on Warren's Cameo Dull Coated stock. Wonderful color photographs of Big Sur. Read More about Headlands. Foreword and Selections from Robinson Jeffers by David R. Brower
Price: $250