Food: A Love Story [Design Binding] por Gaffigan, Jim; Richards, Sean [binder] - 2014

1736. A Paris, chez A. Jombert, 1736. 4to. (page size 215 x 270 mm, most plates about 170 x 125 mm). 30 leaves of numbered engraved plates (22 plates of cupids - including engraved title, 8 plates of masks). Plus, bound as preliminaries, are the engraved titlepage and the second plate of Abraham Bosse's Differents Manières de Dessiner et Peindre. Later 3/4 buckram with marbled boards. Buckram a bit soiled. Plate 13 cut a bit short and plate 18 with a stain in the upper margin, not affecting the plate. Re-issue of this appealing series of engravings by Abraham Bosse after designs by the Italian artist and draughtsman Paolo Farinato (1524 - 1606). Farinati's chiaroscuro drawings were often used as 'modelli'. The first edition was published in 1644. The highly decorative images were intended to be copied as wall decoration, door headings, etc. They show cupids and angels with swags of flowers, bows and arrows, cornucopiae, grape vines, etc. On this work Join-Lambert & Préaud say: "Bosse avait commencé… Ler mais

Parma: Ex Regio Typographeo, 1798 First Bodoni edition. Bodoni also produced a large paper issue. Contemporary full stiff vellum with gilt-ruled and gilt-lettered red and brown morocco spine labels. . Quarto. Boards lightly soiled and spine labels slightly faded. Very minor foxing and the occassional small chip or tear. Bottom corners torn on pp. ;xxxi-ii and 65-6, not affecting text. Engraved bookplate of Charles Holte Bracerbridge (1799-1872), English man of letters and friend of Florence Nightingale, on front pastedown. A very good copy.

Paris: NRF (Nouvelle Revue Française), 1925. First edition. Hardcover. g. 1/370. Quarto. 238, [4]pp. Contemporary 3/4 morocco over decorative paper covered boards. Original wrappers bound in. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Book housed in a decorative paper covered slipcase. Fermé la nuit (Closed All Night), considered to be a male counterpart to Ouvert la nuit, portrays the chaotic lives of four colorful men: a German, an Irishman, a Frenchman, and an Asian refugee in London. Morand's stories are marked by eccentric characters, fast-paced narration, disorderly descriptions, and unexpected, humorous imagery. This work is delightfully illustrated throughout with 5 etchings and 36 drawings by Jules Pascin (Julius Mordecai Pincas). One of 370 copies printed on Vélin pur fil paper, of which this is No.158. Moderate rubbing along edges of slipcase. Age wear on binding with front board detached (but present) and leather missing on spine. Very minor age-toning along paper margin. Text in French. Slipcase… Ler mais

Sonderabdruck aus dem Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 1930. First edition. With 12 full-page and numerous other illustrations of Lajos Kozma's works. In publisher's half-cloth binding. Rear cover slightly scratched. In fine condition.. First edition. With 12 full-page and numerous other illustrations of Lajos Kozma's works. In publisher's half-cloth binding. 32 p. Scarce publication of Kozma's work by Kner Press. With Kozma's bookplate and book cover designs and book illustrations. Lajos Kozma (1884-1948) besides being one of the chief Hungarian architects and interior designers of the first half of the 20th century was also a graphic artist and book illustrator. His architectural early works were created in Art Nouveau style but later, through Art Deco, he found his way to the International Modernism..

The Hague: The Servire Press; New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1934. FIRST EDITION. No. 631 OF 1,000 COPIES on Old Antique Dutch (and 29 special signed copies on Japon.). 241 x 162 mm. (9 1/2 x 6 3/8"). 4 p.l. (first blank), 77, [3] pp. Plain paper wrappers in white dust jacket, front cover with design by Lucia Joyce printed in blue and silver, blue titling on front cover and spine, ENTIRELY UNOPENED. With the very rare original glassine and housed in a (slightly worn) brown cardboard slipcase. With opening initial and tailpiece designed by Lucia Joyce. Slocum & Cahoon A-43. ◆Glassine a little wrinkled, one corner just lightly bumped, otherwise A PRISTINE COPY. This is a fragment from "Finnegans Wake," beautifully printed in Holland on thick paper using an unusually large, round, and vaguely Medieval typeface. Our copy could hardly be in better condition--as close to mint as one could hope to find, and with all original components. Joyce's daughter Lucia (1907-82) was diagnosed with schizophrenia when… Ler mais

[4]-570+[2 blank]+[28] pages with woodcut device on title, woodcut historiated initials and decorations. Folio (12 1/2" x 8 1/4") bound in contemporary vellum. (European Americana 588/57; Palau 146976; Sabin 146976, Western Travellers in China 11) First edition of Maffei's great history of India.Ten Latin editions, two in Italian and two in French appeared before 1621. Based on primary material, it still remains a valuable account today. The work is divided into 16 books. Most of it deals with the Portuguese conquests and Jesuit missionary work in the East Indies and India up to about 1557 Borba de Moraes page 508 "a classic work on the subject ... writes extensively about Brazil, describing it very accurately"; Maffie was the firs author to use Jesuit letters extensively, as well as many secular sources including Fernando Mendes Pinto.Condition:Contemporary velum, with moderate wear, re-backed in vellum with original spine label laid down; minor worming and foxing, intermittent moderate damp… Ler mais

1755. 2 vols. 1st ed, London, 1755. 2 vols. 1st ed, London, 1755. A First Edition of the Most Popular Work on Justices of the Peace with Contemporary Annotations Burn, Richard [1709-1785]. The Justice of the Peace, And Parish Officer. [London]: Printed by Henry Lintot, 1755. Two volumes. xxvii, [1], 541, [3]; [iii], 573, [11] pp. Three-page publisher advertisement at end of Volume I, another one-page advertisement facing title page of Volume II. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5"). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, blind fillets along joints, blind tooling to board edges, raised bands and black-stamped volume numbers to spines, hinges mended. Light rubbing and a few minor stains to boards, moderate rubbing to board edges, corners bumped and somewhat worn, contemporary armorial bookplate (of Henry Reveley, above small contemporary signature "Ja. Coles") to each pastedown. Light toning to text, occasional annotations, underlining and other markings in an early hand to both volumes. $2,000. * First edition. A… Ler mais

The Hague: The Servire Press; New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1934. FIRST EDITION. No. 631 OF 1,000 COPIES on Old Antique Dutch (and 29 special signed copies on Japon.). 241 x 162 mm. (9 1/2 x 6 3/8"). 4 p.l. (first blank), 77, [3] pp. Plain paper wrappers in white dust jacket, front cover with design by Lucia Joyce printed in blue and silver, blue titling on front cover and spine, ENTIRELY UNOPENED. With the very rare original glassine and housed in a (slightly worn) brown cardboard slipcase. With opening initial and tailpiece designed by Lucia Joyce. Slocum & Cahoon A-43. ◆Glassine a little wrinkled, one corner just lightly bumped, otherwise A PRISTINE COPY. This is a fragment from "Finnegans Wake," beautifully printed in Holland on thick paper using an unusually large, round, and vaguely Medieval typeface. Our copy could hardly be in better condition--as close to mint as one could hope to find, and with all original components. Joyce's daughter Lucia (1907-82) was diagnosed with schizophrenia when… Ler mais

München: Albert Langen Verlag, 1924. First edition. Softcover. g+ to vg. Quarto. 84 (4)pp. Original stiff white illustrated wraps with black lettering on cover and spine. Publisher's device on half-title. Title and facing page in Bauhaus typography and design. The book was compiled in Spring of 1924 but due to technical problems the publication was delayed (with reference to the move of the Bauhaus from Weimar to Dessau). Title illustration by Oskar Schlemmer. Typography by Moholy-Nagy. Contains extensive contribution by Oskar Schlemmer "Human and Art Figure" with in-text illustrations and eighteen full page b/w reproductions of photographs and sketches, many of the from the famous "Triadisches Ballet." Moholy-Nagy's contributions "Theater, Circus, Cabaret," elaborates of the history of theatre, contemporary theatre design and the future of theatre: the theatre of totality, including suggestions for the realization and the necessary tools, featuring the three-fold color illustration, a sketch of a… Ler mais

London: The Corvinus Press, 1936. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Finely printed on Barcham Green "Medway" handmade paper. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe cloth spine, gilt title, handmade paper over boards with the Corvinus device block in gilt on the upper board. A fine copy. In the original strange glassine cover with paper flaps and in the publisher's nondescript slipcase. The book is in fine condition. The glassine has some splits and is a bit shorter than the book, its paper flaps with some foxing. The card slipcase is worn, especially at the top and bottom ends. One of 70 copies from a total edition of 128 copies. This is number 98 and is signed by both authors. Prints the authors' speeches made at a luncheon in memory of Lawrence about a month after his death. O'Brien E101. .