Search Results: Titles starting with F from Cole & Contreras

Paris: Editions Hansma, 2013. The tenth and final volume of the catalogue raisonné. 216 pp. 127 color plates; 9 b&w plates. Large 4to. Publisher's cloth. NEW.

Paris: Mercure de France, 1926. First edition of this collection of modern fables. From a total large-paper edition of 99 copies, this is one of 66 on fine Holland laid paper. 4to. Original wraps. Uncut. Minimal wear to wraps. Else fine.

Iowa City: The Windhover Press of the University of Iowa, 1970. A beautiful edition of this imaginative stream-of-consciousness text written in homage to the surrealist poet. Illustrated with numerous original silkscreen prints by Carolyn Anderson and Michael Nushawg. Printed by hand on fine wove paper. One of 320 copies printed. 4to, original wraps. Uncut. Fine.

Barcelona: Stampa de Fidel Giró, 1910. First and only edition. ONE OF ONLY 12 COMPLETE COPIES PRINTED OF THIS EXTREMELY RARE (and finely-printed) EXAMPLE OF CATALAN EROTICA. 96 pp. + a few woodcuts printed in color hors-texte. The entire edition was limited to 112 copies, but only the 12 copies on Japanese paper (like this one) include a fine reproduction of an extremely unusual erotic woodcut. 24mo. Original wraps. Uncut and unopened. Minor traces of wear to wraps, else FINE AND BRIGHT. Catalan erotica printed before the death of Franco (1975) is very rare; this example especially so.

Paris: Pierre Delalu, c. 1964. Clandestine pornographic novel, with 30 mounted (hmm!) and extremely explicit photographs. 91 pp. Complete. Printed on good wove paper. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Wraps a bit worn, else FINE AND BRIGHT. Dutel 1545. Rare.

Paris: Fasquelle, 1932. A LARGE-PAPER COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. 215 pp. ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES PRINTED ON FINE DUTCH LAID PAPER, WITH LARGE MARGINS. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Entirely uncut. FINE AND BRIGHT.

Blois: printed for the author by the Grande Imprimerie de Blois, 1909. First and only edition of this privately-printed collection of verse. 91 pp. EDITION LIMITED TO ONLY 26 COPIES (one on Japanese paper and 25 on Madagascar), EACH NUMBERED AND INITIALED BY THE AUTHOR (this is copy number 16 on Madagascar). Attractively bound in contemporary half morocco and marbled boards. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Original lavender printed wraps preserved. Light wear to extremities of binding, else FINE AND BRIGHT.

New York: Bittner / Beechhurst Press, 1956. First edition. Illustrated with 152 full-page plates reproducing surrealist drawings by Gross. This is ONE OF 100 COPIES OF THE DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, WITH A SIGNED SURREALIST WATERCOLOR BY GROSS ON FINE, THICK WOVE PAPER LAID IN (28 x 20.5 cm). 4to. Publisher's cloth. Dustjacket. FINE AND BRIGHT, LIKE NEW.

Geneve (Geneva): Musee d'Art et d'Histoire / Editions du Tricorne, 1980. An exhibition catalogue which includes a complete reprint of Hediard's 1906 catalogue raisonne of Fantin-Latour's prints, with each print reproduced (the original edition is unillustrated, and thus very difficult to use). 193 lithographs and 2 etchings described and reproduced, as well as 8 additional lithographs not included in the 1906 edition. Square 4to. Original wraps. FINE AND BRIGHT.

Zurich, 1952. A complete suite of six color woodcuts by Oskar Dalvit, printed on fine Japanese paper. Edition limited to 210 sets. EACH WOODCUT SIGNED IN PENCIL BY THE ARTIST. Folio. Perfect condition.

Muenchen (Munich): C.H. Beck, 1982. A standard critical edition of this classic. 8vo, publisher's cloth. Fine in a fine dj.

Santander: Sur Galería de Arte, 1964. ONE OF ONLY FIVE COPIES PRINTED. A portfolio with title-page, the printed text of the poem, a justification/colophon, and 25 SIGNED LARGE FOLIO LINOLEUM CUTS BY MARIA P. HERRERO, WITH THE CORRESPONDING STANZA FROM HER POEM IN MANUSCRIPT BELOW EACH IMAGE. Copy number 3/5, from an edition of only five copies on extremely fine Guarro laid paper. Large folio (62 x 37 cm). Loose as issued in the original linen folding case. FINE AND BRIGHT. Of the utmost rarity.

Barcelona: Joventut, 1905. First edition of this collection of stories, a highspot of modern Catalan literature. One of 15 large-paper copies on fine, thick wove paper. The regular copies were printed on cheap wood-pulp paper, and are now crumbling into dust. This copy signed and inscribed by the author to Catalan publisher and intellectual Ramon Miquel y Planas. 8vo. Original Japan paper wraps, decorated with a beautiful modernist design by Anfos Monegal on the front cover. Light wear to wraps and fading to spine. Uncut and mostly unopened. Internally bright and fine. Exceedingly rare.

New York: Acatos, 2000. The catalogue raisonné. 510 pp. 1300 illustrations, including 300 color plates. Folio. Cloth. Dustjacket. Laminated board slipcase. FINE AND BRIGHT. New.

Barcelona: Destino, 1969. 8vo, publisher's boards. Fine in a near fine dj.

New York: Greenwich Gallery, 1957. A scarce exhibition catalogue devoted to fifty living American artists (many of who were Jewish, and many of whom were originally from Europe), almost all of whom were born between 1880 and 1910. There are two pages for each artist: on the first page is a small photograph and a biography, and on the second is a full-page reproduction of a painting or sculpture. 4to. Original wraps. Wraps lightly worn. Internally clean.

New York: Berard Danenberg Galleries, 1969. An exhibition catalogue illustrated with dozens of black and white plates. 4to. Original wraps. Minimal wear to covers, else fine and bright. An invitation to the opening, printed on fine bluish wove paper, is laid in.

Hertford: St. Austin & Sons, 1835. FIRST EDITION of this important translation, printed for students of the East India College. iv, 147 pp. Printed on good wove paper. 8vo. Recent wraps. Internally clean. Very good. Rare.

Boston: William D. Ticknor (privately printed), 1843. JOHN NEAL'S COPY, with his lightly-penciled annotations, OF THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF ANY PART OF DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY. 83 pp. + an engraved portrait frontispiece of Dante by David Claypool Johnston. The translator, Thomas William Parsons (1819-1892), was a leading Boston dentist (!), poet, and intellectual. A contemporary (and acquaintance) of Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Emerson, Thoreau, and James Russell Lowell, this is his first published work. Although he was only in his early 20s when he composed this translation, he demonstrates a highly-developed poetic sensibility and the work has considerable literary merit (and doubtless played a role in encouraging Parsons' friend Longfellow to translate the entire Comedy a few decades later). Still, Dante was relatively unknown in America during the early 19th century, and so very few copies of this privately-printed edition were issued. This is AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY, with… Read More

Sitges: Cole & Contreras, 2005. The first bibliography in the field. An extremely precise, detailed account of publications in Old French. Begins with Levesque de la Ravalliere's edition of the songs of Thibaut de Navarre, the first text ever printed in Old French, and continues until 1874, the year before the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais commenced operations. Scholarly introduction. Includes the first editions of the Chanson de Roland, Aliscans, Raoul de Cambrai, the works of Marie de France, Baudoin and Jean de Conde, Wace, Raoul de Houdenc, Gautier d'Arras, Adam de la Halle, Chretien de Troyes, Joinville, Gautier de Coincy, the fabliaux, fables, hagiographies, verse chronicles, bestiaries, and hundreds of others. Includes precise transcription of title-pages, collation with detailed account of contents, information about the number of copies printed (kinds of paper, formats), cross-references to relevant bibliographies, scholarly notes. Entries average about 500 words in length, but… Read More