Illustrated Books from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Paris: Robert-J. Godet, 1943. Number 366 of 500 numbered copies on Lafuma from an edition of 531. Some light soiling to wrappers, offsetting at end from bookmark. 4to (282 x 222mm). Six plates by Pablo Picasso. With the Paul Eluard inserted leaf. Printed wrappers. With the very rare wrap-around band with printed text: "Une jour la Chèvre-Feuille me… Read more about this item

London: Robert Jennings, 1824. First edition. Hinges tender, and some light wear to bindings, some intermittent spotting, but generally a very handsome and well-preserved set. Three volumes, 4to (373 x 268 mm). 80 engraved plates, of which 70 are hand-colored, with historiated hand-colored initials for each chapter throughout. Contemporary grey calf, blind-tooled borders, spines with gilt bands and… Read more about this item

Leyden: Andries Dyckhuysen, 1707. 8vo (153 x 97 mm). Engraved allegorical title and four engraved plates. (Some soiling and wear at sheet edges.) Contemporary vellum (worn). The Edward Tufte copy, with his book label. First Dutch edition, after the original French edition of 1658. Bourgeois was a French Royal midwife to Maria de Medici and authored several works… Read more about this item

Paris: Jean Hugues, 1961. Internally fine and very well preserved; the slipcase and chemise stained. Folio (330 x 254 mm). [18 bifolia: 58, [2], [1] pages]. Half-title, original etched frontispiece portrait of Leiris by Giacometti, printed title and Leiris' verse illustrated with 12 original etchings by Giacometti, final leaf with justification; sheet size: 325 x 250 mm. Text… Read more about this item

London: E. and C. M'Lean, 1824. Lower right corners with some irregular losses, light soft creasing, some marginal spotting not affecting the images which are fresh and bright. Oblong broadsheets (15 1/4 x 11 1/8 inches; 387 x 282 mm). Seven hand-colored aquatints by and after Henry Alken, one sheet letterpress text at end; on wove paper without… Read more about this item

Coloniae: Prostant apud Iacobum à Meurs Amstelodami, 1655. Binding with wear at extremites; pale dampstain throughout the text. Volume 1 only: 12mo (15 x 8.8 cm). [8], 683, [29] pages. Text in double-columns. Engraved title signed I.v. Meaurs and 52 engraved emblems in text. COntemporary mottled calf, spine gilt. Provenance: early shelfmark of S. Maurity in manuscript on… Read more about this item

Paris: Editions Jeanne Walter, 1929. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A very good copy. 4to. Original beige wrappers, lettered in black and green, untrimmed; tissue dust wrapper (a trifle soiled on rear); in publisher's colorful board chemise and slipcase with leather spine label (slight wear at edges). One of 280 copies on vélin d'Arches (this copy unnumbered but… Read more about this item

Paris: nrf, 1948. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A fine copy. Small folio. Original pictorial tan wrappers, lettered in black, untrimmed, glassine dust wrapper and publisher's yellow board slipcase. Copy no. 212 of 380 copies. Illustrated with 113 woodcuts by Jean Hugo. (BA).

New York: Random House / Maecenas Press, 1970. In fine condition save some light wear to the folding case. Two large oblong folios (12 x 16 inches). 22 pp. 347 plates. Original linen-backed gilt-decorated cloth in original purple velvet lined folding case. FIRST EDITION. The title refers to the 347 engravings that Picasso made at Mougins from March… Read more about this item

[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. In unusually fresh condition, the wrappers with slightest of toning and a few tiny spots, the staples lightly rusted. 5.25.x 4.25 inches. 32 pages. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. A SCARCE EARLY WORK BY DR. SEUSS. First edition, first inner rear wrapper variant reading "U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943 - 543637". This copy,… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Dorbon-Ainee, 1916. Broadsheets (12 x 9 3/4 inches and smaller). 52 hand-colored lithographs on 50 sheets, each tipped to mount, bound into a cream cloth portfolio, lithograph lists of plates on inner front and back covers, original strap enclosure, with the artist's decorative titling and signature on front cover. Indistinctly numbered, one of 50 colored copies from… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1978. A fine, complete, unused copy. 11.75 x 8.5 inches. [32] pages. Complete with all color cut outs preserved in unused pages. Stapled as issued in pictorial wrappers. The book allows readers to cut out and make: Rs-D2, C-3P0, X-Wing Plane, Landspeeder, Energy Pistol, Lightsaber, TIE Fighter, and Sandcrawler. Designed by Ib Penick, illustrated… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Mason d'editions "De Spieghel, 1946. A very-good plus copy, the front cover with fading and pale tidemark at bottom, some intermittent and unobtrusive foxing. 8vo. 43, [1] pages. Black silhouettes by Nelly Bodenheim. Original quarter black cloth, pink pictorial boards. A charming series of songs, illustrated with silhouettes. Bodenheim was born in Amsterdam where she was trained… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1925. Some light soiling to spine, generally in fine, bright condition. Without the slipcase. Folio (30 x 22.5 cm). 153, [1] pages. Original double-page color lithograph by Wilson signed in pencil (tissue guard preserved) and full-page color illustrations by Wilson throughout. Quarter vellum paper, brown boards, gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. First edition,… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Cohen Zonen, 1900. Some light soiling to title leaf, generally colors fresh and sheets bright. 8vo (19 x 26 cm). [28] pages, each a full-color lithograph. Bound in plain, quarter cloth. A fine work by the caricaturist Chris Kras, critical of English involvement in the Boer War.

Frankfurt: van Dùren, 1749. Some wear to binding, small areas of worming along spine, light browning of text, one plate with short tear at one fold and some browning along another, otherwise a clean copy, the plates in generally fine condition. Volume one (of 34) only, 4to (24.5 x 20 cm). Title printed in red and black. Engraved… Read more about this item

[New York]: Columbia Broadcasting System, 1946. Wrapper lightly chipped, boards worn at ends of spine. Oblong 4to. Original pictorial boards; original plain cream dust wrapper. FIRST EDITION, with CBS's promotional card laid-in. The two "glimps" - singular creatures whose varying perceptions (glimpses...) of their worlds provide them their name - each have a television set. One has color,… Read more about this item

Newcastle: E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son, 1818. A very good copy, internally clean and fresh, joints restored and with some light wear to binding. 8vo. xxiv, 376 pages. 188 fable cuts and 136 tailpieces in text. Contemporary English polished calf, the sides and spines decorated in blind and gilt, marbled edges, by Whitehead and Sons, Leeds… Read more about this item

Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1862. Inkstamp on title, plate 34 separated from guard, some light wear at sheet edges, somehat shaken and leaned, but overall a clean copy in original condition. Large folio (580 x 410 mm; 22.5 x 16 inches). vii, [2], [2]-127 pages. 96 lithographs mounted on guards, of which 12 double-page, and two tri-fold. Publisher's cloth-backed… Read more about this item

Paris: Éditions d'Art les Heures Claires, 1974. Minor shelfwear to slipcase, but a fine, bright copy. 4to. 6 original lithographs, 2 double-page. Printed wrappers; cloth chemise; slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 186 of 250 copies.