Tokyo: Kasuga Boeki K.K. [1953]. Reprint. Small octavo (18.25cm.); publisher's yellow pictorial card wrappers; 127pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear, textblock uniformly toned, else Very Good and sound. Raunchy full-page illustrations following the exploits of "Babysan," "A carefree and charming girl...[who] decided, in fact, to devote herself to the cause of...

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Paris: Masson et Cie. 1905. First Edition. Paperback. Large 8vo; pp. [4], xv, [1], 454pp.; original buff printed wrappers (a bit a faint dampstaining along top edge and some soil spots); cracking to spine paper at crown without loss, else a very good, sound copy. Presumably the author's copy with...

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Paris? ca. 1860. Large oblong 4to, lithographic title page and 25 hand-colored engraved plates; contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf, red gilt morocco spine label, a.e.g., marbled endpapers; edges and spine quite rubbed, leather dry with cracking; title page rather foxed; plates fine. A very nice copy of a common collection of...

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Londres: 1781. Octavo; publisher's drab card wrappers, manuscript spine title; 204pp. Some worming to upper cover with small loss at top fore-edge corner, a few small chips to spine, inoffensive 19th-century shelf labels to title page, else a Very Good, untrimmed copy in the original binding. This edition issued a....

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Paris: Librairie Commerciale, Aristide Quillet, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to; pp. [6], 71; three color plates depicting six moveable models with overlaying flaps on stiff boards; additional text illustrations, many photographic, throughout; original olive pictorial cloth embossed in white, green, gilt, and brown. Endpapers foxed, spine ends a touch rubbed...

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Greenwood Mt., Maine: 1942. Slim octavo (26cm.); black cloth-backed paper-covered boards; [12] mimeographed leaves, ten original tipped in photographs. Boards rubbed with some biopredation to fore-edge paper of upper cover, foxing and dampstaining, textblock uniformly toned, else interior fine. Near Very Good overall. Presumably the only copy ever produced as...

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Barcelona: Establecimiento Tipográfico la Academia de Evaristo Ullastres, 1880. First Edition. Thick octavo (22.75cm.); contemporary full tree calf, black gilt spine labels, marbled endpapers; [2],xii,[2],838pp. & 20 leaves of plates of which three are comprised of mounted original photographs and 12 are color chromolithographs. Leathera bit rubbed along extremities with...

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Paris: Librairie Techener, 1894. First edition, slim 8vo, pp. 21; black and white photographic folding plate; contemporary three quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, marbled endpapers; original brown printed wrappers bound in; extremities a bit rubbed, else about fine. Woodcut bookplate on front pastedown; from the Zaehnsdorf Company...

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Montauban: Victor Bertuot [...] A Roc-Amadour au Magasin de Marie, [1862]. First Edition. 8vo; pp. [2], ix, [1], 89; sepia-tinted frontispiece, 8 plates, 3 tinted; additional text illustrations throughout; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine in six compartments, black gilt-lettered morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. Extremities and spine bands rubbed, leather...

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New York: 1954. Collection of 36 pieces, including correspondence, original art work, and published examples of Galinsky's advertising work. Some minor wear, glue of one maquette perished, else a Very Good or better collection. The presence of a letter of recommendation, Galinsky's résumé, and an advertising maquette in which Galinsky...

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Paris: Chez l'auteur, 1939. Paperback. Edition limited to 500 copies printed on Rives, of which this is no. 369, 4to, pp. 105; self-portrait frontispiece of Jean Lebedeff [Ivan Lebedev], illustrations by the artist throughout; original white pictorial wrappers printed in black and red, foxing along edges, else a fine, uncut...

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Pontarlier: Typographie Alexandre Faivre Fils, 1843. First Edition. Paperback. Small octavo; [2],36pp.; recent grey wrappers; fine. Signed and inscribed by the author "Souvenirs d'affection" on title page. Apparently unrecorded personal account of a journey begun in September, 1842, to Italy by way of Switzerland, published to be distributed amongst the...

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