New Arrivals

Kansas City: Alfred Fowler, 1921. First edition. 4to. The scarce 1921 Annual, the first in the series and by far the rarest, full of reproductions of famous bookplates in woodcut, half-tones and colored, including those by Frank Brangwyn, Fisher, Harrison, Junge and others. 53pp. Very good. (Item #6055)

Scarce autograph letter signed, 2pp, by Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941), Boston book designer and printer, possibly to Thomas Niles, a partner in the famed press of Roberts Brothers. Written on Updike personal stationary with printed header, ìD.B. Updike, Decorative Printing and Book-Making, 6 Beacon St. Boston,î and dated Aug 29..... (Item #5880)

Ca. 1895. Excellent early letter by Louis John Rhead (1857-1926), renowned English-born American artist, illustrator, and author known especially in the early 1890s, for his expert Rhead poster art, and was heavily influenced by the work of Swiss artist EugËne Grasset. Rhead's letter is to Frank Chouteau Brown, (1876ñ1947), American..... (Item #5874)

A wonderful large lithographic poster (21 x 11 inches) color lithograph poster by Elisha Brown, renowned and celebrated poster artist of the early 20th Century. This comical image depicts two jesters in patriot clothing giving homage to the title, ìTechnique, out, April 20, 1903,î with a jester head grimacing at..... (Item #5871)

Luasanne: Editions Centrales, 1933. First edition. Quarto (10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches). Superbly bound by the master Portuguese bookbinder, Victor Santos in full black morocco with striking star design consisting of a center four-sided stylized star, with gilt "rays" emanating in all directions, continuing through the spine and then..... (Item #5866)

London: Chapman & Hall, ca. 1910. Bound in black textured calf with striking gitl-stamped diamond shaped leaf and petal motif on both covers, gilt spine. With 24 color plates by Sybil Tawse. Margins of spine slightly worn, overall very good. (Item #5864)

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1903. 4to. Superbly bound by Cedric Chivers (signed in gilt pallet rear dentelle, "Cedric Chivers Bath) in full crushed brown morocco, with tan morocco heart onlays, and with a magnificent vellucent landscape capturing a running brook, in watercolor, with part of the brook inlaid in..... (Item #5858)

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. Green cloth with cover design and lettering stamped in white by Margaret Armstrong, spine stamped in gilt. Very good copy of a scarce Armstrong title. (Item #5848)

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1907. First printing. Brown cloth with superb cover and spine design by Armstrong stamped in cilver and black, bold gilt lettering. Hinges cracked and partially separating, covers very good with some loss of ink to mostly to moon portion. (Item #5846)

New York: Scribners, 1928. First edition. Blue cloth with gilt ruling and lettering on cover and spine. In original color pictorial dust wrapper with color illustration of two travellers on a donkey crossing a river, by N. C. Wyeth. Frontispiece color plate (same as cover wrapper) by Wyeth. Book is..... (Item #5843)

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. First edition. Blue-gray cloth with wonderful design of cupid holding a heart with cat, teapot and cup stamped in bold silver, lettering in gilt on cover and spine. A scarce Armstrong title. A very good copy, with slight rubbing to margins of inner spine..... (Item #5841)

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1903. First edition. Olive cloth with cover medallion design in salmon, white and gold, and lettering in bold gilt by Armstrong. Covers show wear, but good and tight copy. With full-page illustrations by Thomas Mitchell Peirce. (Item #5839)

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901. First edition. Light green fine wove cloth with superb cover design in darker greens by Margaret Armstrong, spine with similar motif. Illustrated with six full-page plates by Louis Loeb. A near fine copy of a scarce Armstrong title. (Item #5837)