Memphis, Tennessee: n.d. Card Covers. Mid-Century tobacco advertising booklet. Foolscap 8vo (138 x 76mm): note pad shaped as a can of snuff, 24 blank ruled pages, excepting advertising text at center and inside covers. Original illustrated card covers. Provenance: Fred Board, collector of odd and unusual books, with his neat..... more

Vienna: Wiener Staatsoper, 1961-1962. A fascinating, remarkably complete collection of programs, playbills, and ticket stubs for performances during the 1961 and 1962 spring season at the Staatsoper in Vienna, then under the direction of Herbert von Karajan. For each of 25 performances, the archive retains the 4- or 6-page playbill..... more

A Paris: Treuttel & Würtz, rue de Lille, No. 17, c. 1807. Uncommon early nineteenth-century map (700 x 975mm), with contemporary hand coloring, of Poland and adjoining territories during the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Original copperplate engraving printed from 9 plates, then segment and laid down on blue linen..... more

Washington, D. C. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1977. Limited Edition. Stiff Wrappers. From an edition of 2,000, with photographs by William Eggleston, preface by Lloyd Fonvielle, and essay by Jane Livingston. Also includes an exhibition checklist, full-page map of Sumter County, Ga., showing locations where photographs were taken, and..... more

London: The Gallery, [1917]. String-Bound Wrappers. Scarce catalogue of an exhibition, held November, 1917, at the Grosvenor Gallery, 51A New Bond Street, London, featuring works by Corot, Degas, Augustus John, Monet, Pissarro, Rodin, Rossetti, Sargent, Sickert, and Whistler, among others. Foolscap 8vo (151 x 125mm): 48pp. Original blue string-bound wrappers printed..... more

[Moscow]: [Intourist / Moscow / Hotel Metropol], [1932, from "Itineraries for 1931-32," on p. 28]. Pictorial Wrappers. Early tourist booklet, in English, featuring Leningrad and Moscow. Crown 8vo (201 x 148mm): 30pp, with two large folding maps in color (273 x 389mm), profusely illustrated with partial page images from photographs..... more

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1937. First Printing. Card Covers. One of 2,750 copies printed by the Spiral Press, with notes by Kauffer on technique and foreword by Aldous Huxley, of this catalog for an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art from February 10 to March..... more

London: Ernest Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, Leicester Square, February 5-21st, 1927. First Edition. Card Covers. A superb copy of the rare First Printing of this catalog of art works (later printings are noted at top of front wrapper) accompanying Lawrence's account of his legendary part in the Arab..... more

Houston: Institute for the Arts: Rice University, 1970. Stapled Wrappers. Introduced by inmate Billy McCune, whose drawings were exhibited alongside Lyon's gritty black-and-white images of daily life within the Texas Prison system. Slim demy 8vo (225 x 154mm) [8]pp, including four full-page plates (two in color). Photographic stapled wrappers in..... more

London: James Reynolds & Sons, 174 Strand, 1885. Decorative Cloth. A beautifully preserved later issue of this multi-folding strip map, showing settlements along the river, from above Cricklade down to London Bridge, with locks, bridges, and rail lines, and including details of toll charges, angling laws, weirs, bathing spots, towpaths..... more

New York / Boston: Anderson Galleries / Merrymount Press, 1921. Limited Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. One of 125 copies printed on heavy cream (handmade?) paper by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Demy 8vo (221 x 160mm): 14,[1]pp, with color title-page vignette, full-page wood engraving in black and two colors..... more

Essen: Museum Folkwang, 1963. Stiff Wrappers. Catalog for this exhibition of 214 works at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, March 16-April 14, 1963. Essay in German by photographer Otto Steinert and Marlis Steinert, with footnotes and checklist. Royal 8vo (270 x 187mm): [48]pp, including 41 sepia-toned black and white images..... more

[London]: Printed and published by B. Pollock, 73, Hoxton Street, N., [1895?]. Wrappers. A rare, complete nineteenth-century Benjamin Pollock toy theater. Foolscap 8vo (168 x 108 mm): 16pp, with nine hand-colored plates (219 x 173 mm), as called for on title page ("4 Plates Characters, 3 Scenes, 2 Wings [Nos..... more