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Portland, Oregon: Powell's Books, 1996. 35 pp. Some creases in wraps, else fine. Contents: A Brief and Informal Narrative History of Powell's Books; Twenty Good Questions and Twenty Matching Answers; The Store's Services and Departments; Room by Room: A Walking Tour of the City of Books; A Final Note. ''Q: How many square feet do you have in this store? A: 43,000 retail--give or take an odd sqaure foot or two.''. Fifth Edition. Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Sotheby's, 2001. 378 pp., 418 lots, Addendum, 8 pp. Some tiny imperfections, some creasing and soiling to fore edge of addendum. Includes 8 pp. insert Addendum lot 223A, the letters of J. D. Salinger to his Daughter Peggy, estimated at $250-350,000, which did not sell. The letters are described at length with several illustrations. Some highlights: lot 60, The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 8 May 1896, one of 425 copies on paper, $46,750; lot 107, Austen, Jane, Sense and Sensibility: A Novel. By a Lady. London: T. Egerton, 1811, Jerome Kern's copy, $81,250; lot 159, Hemingway, Ernest, Typescript of The Dangerous Summer, 1960, $52,500; lot 385, M'Kenney, Thomas L., and James Hall, History of the Indian Tribes of North America, 3 vols., 1837, 1842-44, $58,250; letters from Jack Kerouac to Neal Cassidy, Carl Solomon, and Lois Sorrells, nicely reproduced here.. Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: The Grolier Club, 1972. 56 pp. Soiling and wear to wraps, inside fine. Four illustrations of pencil drawings of The Apochrypha by Burnes-Jones. Self-charicatures of Beerbohm on front and rear wraps. Contents: Editor's Note; Max Beerbohm by Robert Taylor; An Analysis of Queen Victoria by Robert F. Metzdorf; American Literature and Americana: A Checklist of the Exhibition from the Collection of Henry Bradley Martin; The Burnes-Jonesiness of Burnes-Jones: A Collector's Discovery of an Artist's Life and Works by Kenneth A. Lohf; Closing Notes. . Wraps. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Charles B. Wood, III, 1997. 86 pp. 210 items. Small chips at top and bottom of spine, probably from folding machine. A small smudge on front wraps, else fine. Illustrated with 16 pages of hors-text black and white plates. Fascinating detailed descriptions. . Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Leipzig: Hermann Seemann Nachfolger, 1901. 4 volumes bound together: Kunstgewerbliches Sendschreiben 1901 (24 pp.); Die Kunst und die Schönheit der Erde 1901 (31 pp.); Ein paar Winke über das Musterzeichnen 1902 (50 pp.); Wahre und falsche Gesellschaft 1902 (46 pp.); Letterpress printed on paper of Berthold Siegismund, Leipzig, and composed and printed by E. Haberland, Leipzig. Bound throughout in their original places are the colophons and original advertising. Green Cloth with gilt lettering, Corners bumped, rubbing on extremities. Price sticker damage to ffep. Some foxing to the initial leaves of the first 1901 imprint, the 1902 imprints have age toning that the 1901 imprints do not have. M. Schwabe, Julius Zeitler, translators. . Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943. 271 pp. Appendix, Index. Some fraying to corners and top and bottom of spine. Inscribed and signed by the author, Christmas, 1943. Jennie Flexner joined the staff of the New York Public Library in 1928 as reader's advisor. Chapters: Where you begin; The book; How the catalogue is made--part one; How the catalogue is made--Part two; The catalogue--How it is filed and meant to be used; Reference books; More reference books; Bibliography for the general reader; The library's special services; The use of the library in wartime; Books for your own library; . Inscribed By Author. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Christie's, 1998. 49 pp. 221 lots. Illustrated in BW. Excellent full-page frontis reproduction of engraved frontis of Sir Isaac Newton, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, London, Innys, 1726. . Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall.

New York: Parke-Bernet, 1939. 202 pp. 618 lots. Rubbing and soiling to stiff wraps, a pencil annotation to cover. Wraps with small tears, notably at top and bottom of spine. Inside fine. Spoor's bookplate mounted into stamped impression on cover. First editions of English XVIII-XIX century and American XIX Century Authors; Autograph Letters and Manuscripts including the Famous Emma Isola Album. . Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

1–175 pp. Quarto [10 x 7¾], about 100 illustrations including 16 color plates on unnumbered pages, frontis, DJ, and endpapers. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, decorative endpapers, Fine book in Fine DJ. Contents: Preface; 1. The 1920s and 1930s: an introduction; 2. Writers and Designers: new partnerships; 3. Medium and Message: design, technique and content; 4. Theatre: a revolution in design; 5. Utopian Ideas in Art and Architecture; Notes; Select bibliography; index of illustrations; and index. Beautifully illustrated.
"Of all Soviet plays which Meyerhold produced The Bed Bug [клоп, here shown] has been revived most often. The plot, which was based on a filmscript written by Mayakovsky in 1927, required two styles of design. The first, for scenes set in the present, was carried out by the young cartoonists, . . . who chose most of the costumes and props from what was on sale in Moscow shops. The second, for an imaginary future world, was carried out by Rodchenko in what today would be called… Read More