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New York: Bernhardt Wall, 1921. Hardcover. Near Fine. Third state. Quarto. Illustrated with full page etchings. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards with applied etching on paper. Three pages of etched preliminaries plus 21 original etchings with tissue guards. Stain and paper remnant on rear board, hinges a little started, thus very good; internally about fine. Copy number 3 of 50 numbered copies in the third state, Signed by the artist. Additionally this copy is Inscribed by Wall "from a fellow sojourner in old Greenwich Village" and dated in 1921. Reportedly only 26 copies were produced.

New York: Self-Published, 1930. Limited to 26 copies. Hardbound. Internally VG, covers are weakly attached and spine cloth getting weaker due to weight of covers with embedded zinc etching plates (one in each). Paper-covered thick cardboard covers with a thin and deteriorating cloth spine. Front cover upper right has an etching which represents the title of the book. No printing along spine. Four preliminary sheets, each an etching, followed by 22 signed etchings, and finishing up with an unsigned etching as the endsheet. The Limitation page (etched) has written in ink that this is copy 25 of a total of 26. A laid-in typed sheet (dated Lime Rock, Ct. in 1937) states that the original intent was to print 50 copies of this, the third state of the book. However, it goes on to say the zinc plates began to deteriorate and the edition was halted at 26. Each inside cover has a plate embedded into it. The front cover has an architectural scene, and the rear cover has a dancing scene. All 22 of the artist… Read More

New York: Bernhardt Wall, 1920. Third State. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth and brown boards with watercolored title label (possibly from the original wrapper). Near fine. Unpaginated. 28 x 21 cm. Twenty-one etched plates with tissue guards. Signed by wall and numbered "copy no. 12" in his hand on title page. The half title states "Limited to 50 copies," and Bernhardt's introduction notes, "Big business is fast butting in on the outskirts of the Village. Soon the Montmarte of America will be a mere memory." Pencil note 'Etched Printed Bound by Bernhardt Wall Dec 31 1921" and signed by him. This third state printed 1921. The etchings depict Greenwich Village buildings, characters, and street life. "An interesting pictorial presentation of 'the Monmartre of America' an area in Manhattan long frequented by authors, artists, and students"-- WEBER p.31. Nick to backstrip head.

New York: Privately Printed. hardcover. very good(+). Bernhardt Wall. 22 original etchings of various sizes and in various colors, green, gray and sepia, printed on zinc plates, all with tissue guards. + 3 pages of etched preliminaries, title, index and colophon. Slim small 4to, brown cloth blacked boards (lightly rubbed), etched vignette on front cover, text block is delicately stitched, internally fine. New York, Privately Printed, ca. 1920. Third State. Scarce. Very good (+).<br/><br/> Number 13 of what was supposed to be 50 copies, signed and numbered in pencil on the title page. Due to the fragility of the zinc plates only 26 were actually made.<br/><br/>