Promotional folding parlor game from the famous British chocolate company. Folds to 8 3/8 x 3 5/8 inches, opens to 8 3/8 x 7 1/4 inches. Printed and illustrated self-wrappers, loose as issued. Small split along central fold, very light toning, overall very good. Bournville [Birmingham]: Cadbury, n.d. (circa 1910-1925)..... More
A complete collection in 22 issues of the 1960s Libertarian journal, scattered illustrations. Quarto (11 x 8 3/8 inches). Original printed wrappers, some illustrated, with covers designs by famed American graphic designer Herb Lubalin (1918-1981). Light scattered soiling and general handling wear, some light foxing, overall excellent. New York: Fact..... More
Various cities including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Boston: various publishers, primarily circa 1890's to 1920s. Various sized quartos (most measuring approximately 31 x 23.5 cm or 35 x 26.5 cm). Original publisher's colorful wrappers; most circa 4-8 pp. Wrappers worn, many with detached covers, some with tape repairs..... More
Portfolio of 10 linocuts printed in black and orange on cotton rag paper. Small folio (12 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches). Original yellow decorated wrappers with text printed in black and underlined in green. Extremely light dust-staining to top right corner of wrappers, linocuts bright and clean, excellent condition overall..... More
Year 35, No. 1 (January 1923) through Year 35, No. 12 (December 1923), 12 issues bound in 1, 228 pp. serial devoted to numerous aspects of the Hungarian printing industry, including advertising posters, book cover design, print ads, etc., heavily illustrated throughout, many images in excellent color, some tipped-in. 4to..... More
(Various subtitles include: "The Newsletter Journal for Event Posters and the Arts of Happenings"; “The Newsletter/Journal About Events Posters & The Arts of Happenings"; "The Newsjournal about Posters, Poetry, Ideas & The Arts of Happenings"; "The Foremost Journal of Rock Art/Posters/Poetry/Ideas & Happenings"; and "The Rock Art Journal".) Nine issues..... More
Various cities: various publishers, circa 1924. Various sizes, mostly octavo 18 to 24 cm high, some fold out to larger sheets. Original printed wrappers and self-wrappers; pagination ranges from single sheets to a 14-pp. catalog. Some light handling wear, chipping, minor soiling, overall very good. An assortment of seven 1920's..... More
Single cardstock sheet of prefatory text, printed to both sides, followed by 24 color palette plates meant to serve as aids for composing color harmonies. Octavo (6 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches). Loose as issued in printed publisher's heavy paper portfolio cover, accompanied by cloth slipcase. Some light wear to..... More
13 vols., altogether over 7000 pp. catalogue, by J. van den Gheyn, Fréderic Lyna, Emile Wagemans, et al., of the collection of over 8500 illuminated and otherwise rare or unusual mss. in the Royal library, each item described, many with extensive annotations and cross-references. 4to. Orig. wrpps., some vols. sl..... More
2 vols. in 1, 365 pp. commentary on ten works from late 15th century France, including translations of some, bibliographies, index, text illustrations; 309 pp. facsimiles of the ten works, including Molinet, Temple de Mars, Pfettisheim, Guerres de Bourgogne, Traité d'Arras and De La Marche, Le Chevalier Délibéré, illustrations from..... More
Kampf. (IV) pp. introductory text and biographical material on the German artist who headed the School of Visual Arts in Berlin from 1915 to 1924, list of plates, and 20 fine etched plates showing scenes from Shakespeare plays. Large folio. 3/4 cloth and boards portfolio. Berlin (Wegweiser) n.d. (ca. 1925)..... More
41 pp. introduction and detailed descriptions of plates by the director of the library, notes with bibliographic material, 2 text illus., 100 superb plates (many in color or tint) showing bookbindings from 5 centuries in the library's collection. Folio. Gilt-decorated cloth, raised spine, d.j. Leipzig (Karl Hiersemann) 1921. A lavish..... More
![Book ID: 53668 Sotei zuanshu. [A Collection of Book Designs.]. Keisuke Serizawa](https://bernettrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/53668_0009.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1774884602)
A complete set in three volumes of Serizawa's rare compendium of stencil designs, volume 1 containing full-color designs, volume 2 black-and-white, and volume 3 a mix of color and black-and-white. Quarto (10 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches). Printed on high-quality traditional paper and bound in handmade paper or cloth covers..... More
Three Serizawa kataezome calendar folios, for the years 1957, 1958, and 1959, each calendar with a separate sheet for each month. Folio. Individual calendar leaves measure 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. Calendar pages printed on handmade mulberry paper, housed in original mulberry paper sleeves with illustrated title block affixed..... More
4 vols., catalogue by Isak Collijn of the incunabulae in the Royal Library, Stockholm, including 1122 entries, an essay on Johann Snell and a supplement covering 360 additions from 1915-1939, 150 plates of facsimiles of pages of the works. Texts: Sm. 4to. (vol.1, boards; vol. 2 and suppl. wrpps.); Plates..... More
Portfolio with 8 original color woodcut prints (each approx. 15" x 22") by Vennekamp, in his own original Pop style with Surrealist undertones, showing erotic imagery in bold, densely colored and compositionally striking formats, including stylized abstractions of genitalia, playfully seductive vignettes, the integration of numbers and letters into the..... More
7 vols. bound in 15 parts, comprising a complete set of the monumental catalogue of manuscripts in the Austrian National Library, copiously annotated, with bibliographic references throughout, each volume containing its own registers and indexes, profusely illustrated with collotype reproductions of manuscript texts and illuminations, some in color. Large 4to..... More
2 vols., VIII, 403, XII, 432 pp. inventory of over 8000 Swiss bookplates from the late medieval period to around 1900, brief introductory material, indices of artists, initials, monograms, mottos, heraldry, etc., bibliography, glossary, 135 photographic plates, 38 plates showing heraldric outlines. 4to. Cloth. Zurich (Schweizer Bibliophilen Gesellschaft) 1933-1937. One..... More
Unpag. (8 pp.) booklet with title, introductory text, and descriptions, accompanying 11 woodcuts printed from original old woodblocks in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett, the Germanische Museum in Nuremberg, and the Maihingen Collection, mounted on 9 leaves with passepartouts. Folio. Boards portfolio, front cover damaged. Munich (Munchner Drucke) 1925. One of only..... More
2 continuously paginated vols., 359 pp., providing an annotated scholarly account of the political career of John III, "the Pitiless," bishop of Liège from 1389 to 1418 and duke of Bavaria-Straubing and count of Holland and Hainaut from 1418 until his assassination by poisoning in 1425, including bibliographic notes, an..... More