[Mexico D.F.; S Jeronimo], Bacardi y Compania, S.A.; Continental Grafica, [1951]. Stapled booklet in wrappers (14 x 9 cm.), 24 pages (including wrappers). Illustrated. Printed in black and red throughout. Text in Spanish. Date from invoice. Evident FIRST EDITION. A promotional cocktail recipe book from the Bacardi Company, produced Mexico. With sixty drink recipes – including the famous Cuba Libre – each featuring a Bacardi product. Laid-in is an original.....

[San Pedro, California: Trade Winds Publishing Co. Inc.; Schindler Printing Company, Inc., 1948. Quarto, stapled in wrappers (26 x 20 cm.), [32] pages. Illustrated. Frontispiece portrait of author. FIRST EDITION. A guide to reading leaves in a tea cup. Illustrated with fifteen images of tea leaves, photographed from above, surrounded by text with the author's interpretation. Includes a glossary of images with interpretations. Some light soiling, and a light tideline.....

[Los Angeles; San Francisco, California: Lucca, circa 1938]. Six items in all: 1. Photo album, “Photographs”, bound with cord (18 x 26 cm.), [8] pages. Nine original black & white photographs, mounted to album leaves. The photographs depict the exterior of the San Francisco Lucca’s decked out in its grand opening finery; the bakery with staff; the dining room with full from to house staff (and perhaps the owners?); wedding.....

London: Mayor Gallery, 1936. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (22 x cm.), [8] pages (including wrappers). Bibliography. FIRST EDITION. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Mayor Gallery, London, November, 1936. The Mayor Gallery, founded in 1925 and still operating today, was a ground breaking gallery for Modernists in London, exhibiting or representing European artists like Gris, Braque, Ernst, Miro, Picasso, and Klee, but also representing English Modernists including Paul Nash.....

Bari: Gius, Laterza & Fig, 1909. Octavo xix, 418 pages. Index, bibliographic notes. FIRST EDITION. One of the most important Italian speculative texts of the twentieth century, the third volume of the author’s Philosophy of the Spirit. "Alcuni capitoli della terza parte erano stati anticipati nella memoria: Riduzione della filosofia del diritto alla filosofia dell'economia, letta all'Accademia Pontaniana di Napoli … 1907” In salmon colored wrappers; small chip from lower.....

Venezia; Firenza: Palazzo Strozzi; La Cenacolo, 1949. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (17.5 x 12 cm.), xxxviii pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. The catalogue of the landmark first exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim’s Palazzo Strozzi in Venice. Although the exhibition was scheduled to begin February 19th, the opening was delayed until February 24th. Near fine in yellow printed wrappers. [OCLC locates six copies].

Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1965. Octavo ( x cm.), 236 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. The first volume of the five volume history of the Jews in Babylonia. Very near fine in publisher's blue cloth, gilt-titled on the front board and spine. Inscribed by Neusner on the free front endpaper, "For Professor and Mrs. R.B.Y. Scott, With good wishes, Jack - Suzanne - Samuel Neusner"

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 137 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. One of only four works published by Palmer Brown, all of which are scarce. Internally clean; in publisher's pale green cloth, titled on spine and front board. Dust jacket is present but heavily worn and chipped at spine. Bookplate of former owner, "Ruth Cope Dellinger" to free front endpaper. Signed and with a......

Praha: Druzstevní práce [Orbis], 1931. Octavo (19 x 14 cm.), 355, [4] pages. Stated fourth printing, "Ctvrté vydání”, one of five hundred copies printed. The colophon states there were cloth and leather binding issues, but does not state the number of each. Originally published in 1919, Sup was one of the first works (and I believe the first novel) of Emil Vachek, journalist, playwright and novelist, and inventor of the.....

Paris: Maeght, 1964. Folio, loose as issued in illustrated wrappers. Four original lithographs in color, by Miro, Tal-Coat, Ubac and Pallut; one original black and white double-page litho by Picasso. One engraving l'eau-forte by Georges Braque after “Les trois oiseaux sur fond violet". With illustrated wrappers and eight other illustrations after Braque including etched frontispiece "Trois oiseaux sur fond violet"; plates by additional artists including Man Ray, Marc Chagall, and.....

[Chicago, Il. Container Corporation of Americ, 1953. Thick folio (40 x 28.5 cm.), 368 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated with maps, charts, other illustrations. FIRST EDITION. Large hardcover. 368 pages. Never commercially available, this atlas was published for the 25th anniversary of Container Corporation and was given to their customers and friends. It took Bayer and his team over four years to produce and includes maps of the United States and.....

[Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified, 1774. Octavo (21 x 14 cm.), 259, pages. Illustrated with woodcut vignettes. Stated “Seconde edition”. Not to be confused with the publication of the same year, also styled “Seconde edition”, but issued in an entirely different setting by l’Imprimerie Royale, with different pagination and with eight plates of engravings. This current edition has no identified place of publication or publisher. While both.....

New York: The Viking Press, 1961. Octavo (20.5 x 14 cm.), 186 pages. FIRST EDITION. A grand hotel novel by the editor, critic and biographer. Kronenberger depicts Serenity House, where "the tarriff is $1500 per week, the chef is French, the hairdresser understanding, and the waiting list long. A bit of spotting to top edge and to a few leaves, otherwise very good in publisher's cloth, in a near fine.....