Purchase; Rochester: Ear/Say; Visual Studies Workshop, 1984. Quarto (27.5 x 21 cm.), 104 pages. Three colors on acid-free Mohawk Superfine. Color separation by Phil Zimmermann. Subtitle from second title page following copyright page. ~ FIRST EDITION; number 470 of 700 signed and numbered copies, with the signature of Warren Lehrer. An artist’s book rightfully considered to be a masterpiece of offset color lithography. Described by Johanna Drucker in The Century.....

London: Published by the author... and Sold by James Gilbert, 1851. Small quarto (24 x 16 cm.), 63 pages. Illustrated with forty-two woodcuts in the text. Title printed within decorated woodcut border in red. FIRST EDITION. Thoms (1814-51) was a British book printer and sinologist living in Canton and Macau from 1814 to 1825. He is mainly known for the printing of Robert Morrison's Chinese Dictionary (1815-23). During his time.....

London: The Architectural Press, 1952. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), 154 pages. Illustrated. Bibliography. FIRST EDITION. A handsomely designed and illustrated guide to indoor plants, with instructions for planting and care. The core of the book is a botanical listing of indoor plants, from Aechmae and Aloe to Zebrina and Tradescantia. The final, photographically illustrated, section suggests design ideas for integrating the plants into a modern space. Edited by Patience.....

Rochester: Humpy Press / Light Impressions, 1979. Square duodecimo, unpaginated. Illustrated with twenty-eight black and white photographs. FIRST EDITION. An artist's book from Les Krims, in which the artist's mother demonstrates the step-by-step method for preparing her chicken soup. The book also includes Mrs. Krims' recipes for kreplach and matzo balls. Fine in photographically illustrated wrappers. A scarce photographic artist’s book and doubly so in that it is signed and.....

Bremen & Koln: Westfalisches Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte & Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 1999. Quarto-sized book, stapled in wrappers (29.5 x 21 cm.), 48 pages. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Text in English and German. FIRST EDITION. This is the informative, well-illustrated catalogue for a 1999 exhibition on the "Food" project, curated by Catherine Morris for White Columns in New York and shown at Bremen's Westfalisches Landesmuseum fur Kunst.....

n.p. Raymond Oliver, [circa 1950]. Small folio, 16 unbound leaves, with letterpress text, or engraved illustration, "celebres au burin par Gautier-Constant". FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Number seventy-four of one hundred numbered copies. A guide to appropriate behaviors for those involved in active flirtation and seduction, from the chef/owner of Le Grand Vefour, one of the greatest of French restaurants of its day. The virtues include "tact", "discretion", "la pudeur", "la.....

London: Atlas Press, 1995. Near-square octavo (23.5 x 21 cm.), unpaginated. Housed in publisher's two-chamber slipcase together with the separately printed fold-out photo-collage "Cubist View of My Room," here in the form of a six-color screenprint by Uldry Serigraphie printed on 105g Tyvek, in printed and embossed chemise and wraparound band. Number 48 of 100 copies, published in the series Atlas Arkhive, documents of the avant-garde. Signed on the embossed.....

[the artist], 2000. Plastic comb-bound book (15 x 10 cm.), 16, [1] pages. Illustrated in black and white and with color ink jet prints pasted down onto blank leaves; a yellow Post-it with handwritten note, "vomit", and a short handwritten text, "other side of the hole" with a pinhole by the artist in the final leaf (note the copy reproduced in Bessire's monograph has no modifications). Signed by the artist.....