![Gravure Print:] Christ in Gethsemane, circa 1895. Heinrich HOFFMANN](/pictures/thumb/331670.jpg?v=1563851527)
[circa 1895]. Photogravure print (19 ½” x 25”). Modest overall toning with slightly darker horizontal band of toning, about very good. An early original gravure print after the classic painting by Hoffmann, depicting the opening scene of Jesus Christ’s atonement from Matthew 26:36-44, Mark 14:32-41, and Luke 22:39-46. More about Gravure Print:] Christ in Gethsemane, circa 1895
![Original Painting:] Winter Landscape at Sunrise](/pictures/thumb/331468.jpg?v=1563851527)
Original gouache painting. In a wood frame, matted and glazed. The painted area measures about 10” x 6 1/4” to the inside edges of the matt frame; and the wood frame measures about 14 ¾” x 11”. Near fine. An attractive color gouache or pastel painting of an unidentified winter... More about Original Painting:] Winter Landscape at Sunrise
Unbound. Reproduction of a woodblock print of well-known German type designer and calligrapher Rudolf Koch (1876-1934), by New York City artist Bernard Brussel-Smith (1914-1989), most likely a plate from a book or a keepsake. Portrait of Koch measures 4.25" x 6", on a 7.5" x 9" piece of glossy paper... More about Rudolf Koch
![Framed Print]: Wine Making at Pola, in Istria](/pictures/thumb/331782.JPG?v=1562685219)
[circa 1861]. Hand-colored wood engraving (about 6” x 5”). In a wood frame (11” x 9”), matted and glazed. Some toning and rubbing to the frame, very good, not examined out of the frame. This image of wine making at Pola was published on the cover of the *The Penny... More about Framed Print]: Wine Making at Pola, in Istria
![Color Painting]: Tristan and Isolde, Act III](/pictures/thumb/331777.jpg?v=1561432403)
[Germany: circa 1890?]. An original gouache painting (about 11” x 7”), In very good wood frame, glazed (about 13” x 9”). Though unsigned and not dated, there is a contemporary pencil caption on the back written in German: “Tristan u. Isolde, III Akt” that identifies the scene depicted in painting..... More about Color Painting]: Tristan and Isolde, Act III
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Hardcover. First American edition. Offsetting from clippings on endpapers, near very good in good only dustwrapper with a sizeable chip on the rear panel. A play. More about The Condemned of Altona: A Play in Five Acts
New York: Henry Holt, (1993). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 224pp. Textblock edges lightly foxed, light wear at spine ends, else near fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with modest rubbing and edgewear. More about The New Middle East
Milan: Arnoldo Editore, 1973. Hardcover. First edition thus. Small octavo. 418pp. Edited and translated by Fernanda Pivano. Text in English and Italian. Spine ends lightly bumped, else fine in a very good dustwrapper with modest age-toning and edgewear. Translations of Ginsberg's "Reality Sandwiches" and "Planet News," along with an interview... More about Mantra del Re di Maggio
(London): Museum Press, (1961). Hardcover. First edition. Some foxing, stain on front board, about very good lacking the dustwrapper. Ownership signature of Tony Award-winning actress Marian Seldes. More about Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1937. Hardcover. First edition. Modest rubbing on the spine, very good or better lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed to legendary producer and director Cheryl Crawford: "To Cheryl Crawford, I hope you enjoy reading this as I did your book. Vahan Tashjian." We are not sure... More about To a Lonely Boy
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 167pp. Translated from the Spanish by Miguel Acoca. Textblock edges foxed, else near fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with modest wear and a few tiny tears on the lower panel. History of the conflict by the Ukrainian-by-way-of-Argentina... More about The Longest War: Israel in Lebanon
Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg, Incorporated, 1957. Hardcover. First edition thus. Tall octavo. 270pp. Endpapers lightly foxed, minor wear at the extremities, near fine in an about very good dustwrapper with a sunned spine and general moderate wear. Still a presentable copy in mylar. More about Journal & Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian, 1773-1774: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. Hardcover. Limited edition. Tall octavo. 223pp. Illustrated by Fletcher Martin, and with an introduction by Oscar Lewis. Fine in original glassine jacket in a very good or better, gold clamshell box with the usual rubbing. One of 1200 copies Signed by the illustrator... More about Tales of the Gold Rush
New York: Grove Press, (1970). Hardcover. First American edition. Octavo. 88pp. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with modest age-toning. More about Cascando and Other Short Dramatic Pieces
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1997). Hardcover. First edition, The Everyman's Library. Octavo. 476pp. Introduction by Gabriel Josipovici. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. More about Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, (1973). Hardcover. Presumed first edition. Octavo. 251pp. Edited by Marie Syrkin. Charming bookplate on front pastedown, textblock edges lightly foxed, else near fine in a lightly spine-sunned, very good dustwrapper with some wear and a few small chips. More about A Land of Our Own
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1977). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Very faint offsetting on front fly else fine in fine dustwrapper. Autobiography of the director, producer, and co-founder of The Group Theatre, the American Repertory Theatre, and The Actor's Studio. Inscribed by the author to fellow... More about One Naked Individual: My Fifty Years in the Theatre
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1975). Hardcover. First edition. A little rubbed, else near fine lacking the acetate dustwrapper. Signed by the author. More about The Privilege of His Company, Noel Coward Remembered
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 440pp. Translated from the French by W.E. van Heyningen. Textblock edges lightly foxed, else fine in a lightly rubbed and lightly spine-sunned, near fine dustwrapper. Scarce. More about The Water of the Hills. Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs: Two Novels
New York: United Publishing Corporation, (1969, 1970). Hardcover. Facsimile reprint. 55 annual volumes + one volume of Index. Reddish-brown buckram titled in gilt. Purchased by us from a collector who had a second set, this set was unused and very fine. As new. Massive compilation of this very important African-American... More about The Journal of Negro History. Founded by Carter G. Woodson. 56 Volumes
London: Elkin Mathews, 1905. Softcover. First edition. Printed wrappers. 16mo. 128pp. Frontispiece by Jack. B. Yeats. Wrappers separating, cover stained, a good only copy with the interior bright. Housed in a custom quarter red morocco slipcase with a gilt spine and folding chemise, signed "Jas. MacDonald Co. N.Y." A collection... More about A Mainsail Haul
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, (1986). Softcover. First edition, wrappered issue. Wrappers lightly worn, a couple of spots of foxing on the top edge, a near fine copy. A nice copy of a fairly scarce Tate title. More about Reckoner
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1960. Softcover. First edition. Paper toned, and covers showing some wear, a very good copy with what appears to be the wrappers expertly reattached at some point. Poetry. More about The Drunk in the Furnace
(New York): New Directions, (1957). Hardcover. First American edition. Edited and with an Introduction by Vernon Watkins. Textblock edges lightly foxed, offsetting on the endpapers, very good in an about very good dustwrapper with sunning, edgwear, and some staining on the verso. More about Letters to Vernon Watkins
New York: Ecco, 1979. Hardcover. First edition, wrappered issue. Ecco press sticker on lower, lightly toned, wrapper, top edge with a few spots of foxing, a very good or better copy. More about Riven Doggeries