Materials used at the Embalming of King Tut'Ankh-Amun
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1941. One of only 500 copies printed by the Plantin Press. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Papers No. 10. More
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1941. One of only 500 copies printed by the Plantin Press. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Papers No. 10. More
Berkeley, University of California, 2003. Number 8 in the University of California Publications in Egyptian Archaeology series, and Number 58 in the Contributions of the University of California, Archaeological Reseach Facility series. More
Chicago, Frederick J. Drake & Company, 1915 [second edition]/ 1909. The balance of the lengthy title is 'contains Ninety Six Designs or Layouts & Accompanying Color Notes - Seventy Five Alphabets embracing All Standard Styles, their Modifications & Alternates - comprehensive Text covering All Practical Phases of the Art -..... More
New York, The Eakins Press, 1966. Twelve 'interiors', ranging from sharecropping in Louisiana and Alabama during the Great Depression to New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts during the 1950s and 1960s. More
New York, Haywire Press, 1970. 'These self portraits span a period of six years and were not done as a specific preoccupation, but rather, they happened as a peripheral extension of my work. They began as straight portraits but soon I was finding myself at times in the landscape of..... More
New York, Morgan & Morgan, Inc., March 1975 (second impression)/ April 1974. The half-title is signed in ink by Ansel Adams. The text is contributed by Edwin Land, David H. McAlpin, Jon Holmes and Ansel Adams. More
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1976. The book accompanied an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (the first one-man exhibition that featured colour photography). The ten-page foreword is by John Szarkowski, the curator of the exhibition. More
Dana Point, California, John Severson Publications, 1961 to 1963. The run commences with three of the quarterly issues: Volume 2, Number 1, Spring (March 1961); Volume 2, Number 4, Winter (1961); and Volume 3, Number 1, Spring (1962). The name was then changed to 'The Surfer Bi-Monthly. The International Surfing..... More
Portland, Timber Press, 2004 (ninth impression)/ 1997. Winner of the American Horticultural Society Book Award. More
Portland, Timber Press, 2019. More
Portland, Timber Press, 2017/ 2006. More
London, The Folio Society, 2003 (seventh printing)/ 1996. Introduction by Albert French. More
London, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1913. George Santayana, 'late Professor of Philosophy in Harvard University', here critiques the work of M. Henri Bergson and Bertrand Russell, among others. More
Pasadena, Magical Publications, 1993. Number 781 of 1000 copies: 'the fifth in a series of Magical Pro-Files'. More
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1939. Provenance: the anthropologist Dr Peter Sutton, with his ownership signature (June, 2004) on the front free endpaper. More
London, Andre Deutsch, 1966 (first UK edition). 'Begun in the mid-50s, completed in 1961, and thereafter passed from hand to hand in the American literary underground until the tattered manuscript reached the American publisher in 1964, this book has already acquired a reputation as a candid account of the key..... More
San Francisco, Sierra Club, 1963. Number 7 in the Sierra Club Exhibit Format series. More
London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1937. Seventeen essays, including 'James Joyce et Pécuchet' (in French) and 'Mr. Eliot's Solid Merit'. Gallup A42a: 'Published 11 February 1937 at 7s. 6d.; 2000 copies printed ... 700 sets of sheets with reprinted title-leaf and conjugate were imported by New Directions and specially bound..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2000 (third impression, with new illustrations)/ 1989 [first thus]. Introduction by Frank MacShane. [7 items]. More
Houston, Allison Press, 1971. The very scarce cloth-bound issue of Winningham's photographic essay on Houston's professional wrestling scene. 'Wetmore & Company of Houston printed 1500 copies. 1400 were sewn and bound with a soft cover; 100 copies were sewn and bound with a hardcover' (the photographer's website). More
Rochester, Humpy Press, 1972. An unusual little book that defies easy categorisation. On one hand, it is a Jewish recipe book containing just three recipes: a chicken broth, 'kreplach' (dumplings), and matzo balls. It is also a photobook, featuring a matronly chef demonstrating the cooking steps, topless. Only later does..... More
Melbourne, Sun Books, 1972 (first edition). Both authors have signed their respective title pages (Ginsberg's signature doubles as the beard of his small self-portrait). Both authors were participants in Writers' Week at the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Adelaide in March 1972. More
London, The Folio Society, 2008 (first thus). More
[London], Printed by Hullmandel & Walton [for John Gould, 1861]. Plate 254 from Volume IV of John Gould's ' Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds' (1849-1861). This species is now known as the Collared Inca. More
Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 2011. Papers from a seminar held in 2008 at the Amerind Foundation; in the Amerind Studies in Archaeology series. More