A small, charming, and well-executed handmade papercut memento enclosing locks of hair, possible from two sisters, dated 1874 and 1875. The enclosure is in the form of a paper lantern made from two pieces of lined paper. The lower piece is trimmed with a delicately scalloped edge. The upper piece.....

582 pages. A very technical book on watchmaking, in French. Part of the Encyclopèdie de Mecanique Appliquée. Andrade published several related books in the early 20th century; this appears to be a combination of several earlier titles into one text. Pages tanned; very good in a later green pebbled cloth.....

First Edition. [12] pages. Quarto (7.25" x 10") pamphlet with the single sheet, "Defensa de la Mandragora" laid in. A key document in the Chilean surrealist movement and of Latin American poetry. The three main Latin American surrealist writers—el grupo de la Mandragora—lay out their positions on poetry and politics.....

87 pages. 8-1/4 by 12 inches. Illustrated with 50 black-and-white and two color photographs. A detailed monograph on a single clock on a very decorative base. Limited to 300 copies. A fine copy in red cloth, no dust jacket. While the limitation is stated as 300 copies, this example has.....

First Edition. Color reproductions of about 170 art pieces commissioned by Playboy, with an introduction and commentary on some of the pieces by Bradbury. 184 pages. 9-1/4 by 11-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a like jacket. Inscribed by Bradbury on the title page, "David!.....

4 pages. 6-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches. Edition size not stated. A short essay on a landscape painting by Tarasco published as an information pamphlet when the work was a featured object at the Museo Municipal in Matanzas. A small black-and-white reproduction of the painting is mounted on the front cover. The.....

First Edition. xvi, 640 pages. With more than 250 illustrations and diagrams in the text. A watch repair and servicing handbook. Text in German. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a contemporary cloth and marbled paper binding. Spine somewhat faded.

Woodcut of a fist, an image which became one of the iconic symbols of 1960s and 1970s activism. According to the New York Times obituary of Cieciorka (1939–2008), his "woodcut rendering of a clenched-fist salute was a model for the New Left's most ubiquitous emblem." It was used, often with.....

First Edition. An exhibition catalog of a multimedia project by the South African artist, published in an edition of 100 signed, numbered copies. Her first book and her first major exhibition. "Handwork for Keeping the Home is an exhibition about curating an archive. The keeper/curator is the artist herself, the archive.....

An 18-by-12-inch image (on 20 by 16 paper) of the artist R. B. Kitaj, probably taken in 1990 (based on another photograph Felver took of Kitaj at that time). Felver is best-known for his portraits of writers. A fine example. This is copy 3 of an edition of 5, signed.....

An 18-by-12-inch image (on 20 by 16 paper) of the artist R. B. Kitaj, his wife, Sandra Fisher, and their son, Max, in their London home in 1990. They are surrounded by books and art, Kitaj's two great passions. Kitaj was an American painter who primarily worked in London. Felver.....

A high-quality facsimile of these detailed Frank Lloyd Wright decorative designs with Gannett's short text. From the title page: "The House Beautiful, in a setting designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and printed by hand at the Auvergne Press in River Forest by William Herman Winslow and Frank Lloyd Wright during.....