Typographic Variations - designed by Hermann Zapf on themes in contemporary book design and typography in 78 book- and title-pages
by ZAPF, Hermann; Paul Standard, Charles Peignot and Georg Kurt Schauer (introd)
New Rochelle: Myriade Press, 1977. First Myriade Press printing. Octavo (23cm). Printed card wrappers; [176]pp; illus. Mild external wear, principally to wrapper edges and corner extremities; internally clean, tight and unmarked - Near Fine. Reissue, in slightly smaller format, of the 1963 edition (which was limited to 725 copies). Review copy, with publisher's press release and review slip laid... Read More
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Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance: Fourth Edition
by ZARCHAN, Paul
Reston, VA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2002. Fourth Edition. Octavo. Pictorial paper-covered boards; xxviii, 743pp. Accompanying software compact disc mounted to rear pastedown. Ownership signature to front pastedown. Front board and rear bottom corners mildly bumped, small closed tear to front bottom corner. Trivial external wear to boards, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Near Fine. Volume... Read More
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THE SWORDFISH TOOTH
by Zarin, Cynthia
New York: Knopf, 1989. First edition. Lavender cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. The poet's first book published simultaneously in trade paper and hardcover. This is the hardcover in the lovely purple cloth covered boards in very fine condition. An internal review copy slip is laid in. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket.
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THE SWORDFISH TOOTH
by Zarin, Cynthia
New York: Knopf, 1989. First edition. Lavender cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. Her first collection; warmly inscribed by author on the half-title page. Spine of jacket sunned (light blue). Near fine in a very good jacket. Inscribed by Author(s).
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THE SWORDFISH TOOTH
by Zarin, Cynthia
New York: Knopf, 1989. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in beige printed wrappers. Near fine.
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The Possessed
by Zastrow, Erika
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1933. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); yellow cloth, with titles stamped in red on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; [6], 314pp. Faint damp mark to lower half of spine and lower edges of front and rear covers, touch of dustiness to upper board edges and right edge of textblock; Very... Read More
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The Aging Ballerina [Signed]
by ZAWADIWSKY, Christine; Steve Miller, printer; David Martinelli, illus
N.p.: Red Ozier Press, 1977. First Edition. 12mo (15cm.); single leaf folded into 10-panelled pamphlet; illus. printed in brown. Fine condition. Poetry keepsake, signed by the author.
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Death in the Forest: The Story of the Katyn Forest Massacre
by ZAWODNY, J.K.
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1962. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.25cm); sage green cloth, titled in black on spine; green topstain; dustjacket; xviii,[2],3-235,[3]pp; illus. Subtle offsetting from flaps onto endpapers, some fading to topstain, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $6.50), gently spine-sunned, with light wear to extremities; Near Fine. An... Read More
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Windows on the War: Soviet Tass Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945
by ZEGERS, Peter Kort and Douglas Druick, eds
Chicago: Art Institute of Chicag, [2011]. First Edition. Folio (32.75cm.); original white illustrated boards; [2],400pp.; chiefly illus. A touch dust-soiled, else Fine. Lavishly produced catalogue to accompany the exhibit of the same name.
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Windows on the War: Soviet Tass Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945
by ZEGERS, Peter Kort and Douglas Druick, eds
Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago / Yale, 2011. First Edition. Folio (32.5cm x 25.5cm). Pictorial paper boards (hardcover); [2],400pp.; chiefly illus. Near Fine copy, slight shelf wear to extremities. Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011.
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Unicorn Variations
by ZELAZNY, Roger
New York: Timescape Books, 1983. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black paper-covered boards and red cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-252,[4]pp. Small gift inscription to front endpaper, faint foxing to upper edge of textblock, with a remainder stamp to lower edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $14.95), with light wear... Read More
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France 1848-1945: Ambition, Love and Politics [With] Intellect, Taste and Anxiety [Two Volume Set]
by ZELDIN, Theodore
Oxford: Oxford at The Clarendon Press, 1973-1977. First Editions. First Printings. Two octavo volumes (22.25cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spines; dustjackets; [viii],823,[1]; [viii],[3],4-1202,[2]pp. Pictorial bookplates of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024) mounted to front pastedown of Vol.I and front endpaper of Vol.II. Small sticker shadow to front endpaper on Vol.I, else both... Read More
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House of Coates
by ZELLAR, Brad (text); MORRISON, Lester B. and Alex Soth (photos)
St. Paul, MN: Little Brown Mushroom, 2012. First Edition. One of 1,000 copies. Octavo (22.25cm); hole-punched sheets, coil-bound into flexible sage green covers, with titling and decorations stamped in black and white on spine and covers; unpaged; illus. Two tiny indentations to right board edges, else a Fine copy. An exploration, in text and photographs, of the life of... Read More
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A Pathography in Twelve Parts: The Nixon Saga
by ZEPEZAUER, Mark
Santa Cruz: Press of Time, 1989. First Edition. Oblong Quarto (24cm x 31.5cm). Dark blue cloth boards (hardcover); [30pp]; illus. Near Fine copy; slight shelf wear to corner tips, else clean and tight. An imaginative and critical re-examination of Richard Nixon's biography. Text and illustrations by Mark Zepezauer. Number 143 of 400 copies. Signed by the author.
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The Life and Labors of the Rev. Jeremiah Haak Good, D.D., Professor of Dogmatic and Practical Theology in the Heidelberg Theological Seminary (1868-1888)
by ZERBE, Alvin Sylvester
Tiffin, OH: Commercial Printing Co, 1925. First Edition. Slim octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's grey printed card wrappers; v,6-72pp.; three photographic portrait plates. Light shelf wear, else Fine. Errata slip tipped to p. 15.
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LOVE MINUS ZERO/NO LIMITS
by Zero, Frank
Cape Elizabeth, ME: Io Books, 1972. First Edition. Photographic wrappers; small 8vo. 94 pp. Hippie culture poetry with accompanying artwork and photographs. References to small press guru Richard Grossinger and major press guru Ram Dass on dedication page. Very good.
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Männer von Hinten 3 / Male Rearview - Vol. 3
by ZETT, Leonard
Simon's Town, South Africa: Janssen Publishers CC, 1998. First Edition. Quarto (28cm x 22cm). Pictorial wrappers (softcover); [112pp]; photo illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to extremities; lightly soiled bottom text block corner; else clean and tight. The third volume in the Männer von Hinten series of photographs of "rearviews" of male models taken by photographer Leonard... Read More
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The Chinese
by ZHENG, Liu (photographs); Christopher Phillips (introduction; editor); Gu Zheng (contributor); Meg Maggio (interview)
New York and Göttingen: International Center of Photography and Steidl, [2004]. First Edition. Small quarto (27.5cm); gray paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 141pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout. Faint sunning to board margins with light shelf-soil to spine; Very Good+. Dustwrapper has trivial surface wear, else Near Fine. Collection of Zheng's photographs with an... Read More
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The Appeal of Prints
by ZIGROSSER, Carl
Kennett Square PA: Leary's Book Co, 1970. First Edition. Quarto (21.5cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 151pp. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To the memory of Ben / cordially, Carl Zigrosser." Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly rubbed jacket. The inscription is to Bernarda Bryson Shahn, and refers to her husband, the painter and printmaker Ben Shahn, who had died the previous... Read More
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Multum in Parvo: An Essay in Poetic Imagination (Ben Shahn's copy)
by ZIGROSSER, Carl
New York: George Braziller, 1965. First Edition. Small Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 54pp; illus. Inscribed to artist Ben Shahn, "from Lessing [Rosenwald]," dated 9/22/65. Fine copy in dustwrapper with a small chip to rear panel, else Near Fine. From the library of artists Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with their estate label inside front cover.
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Fra Spazio e Tempo: Studi in Onore di Luigi de Rosa [Vol. 1: Dal Medioevo al Seicento; Vol. 2: Settecento e Ottocento; Vol. 3: Il Novecento]
by ZILLI, Ilaria, ed
[Napoli]: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, [1995]. First Edition. Three volumes; thick octavos (24cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers printed in black and green; illus. throughout. Light shelf wear and dust-soil, else a Very Good to Near Fine set. Includes papers on a myriad of historical topics, in Italian, English, French.
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Origin and Development of the Lymphatic System in the Opossum (Didelphys marsupialis L. var. virginiana Kerr)
by ZIMMERMANN, Arnold A.
Urbana: University of Illinois, 1940. Quarto (27cm). Black buckram, titled in gilt; 197pp; color and black and white illustrations. Bookplate of D. Dwight Davis, curator of zoology at the Chicago Natural History Museum; ownership inscriptions of Davis and James G. Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian. Sound, lightly rubbed, front board bowed, edges spotted, internally clean:... Read More
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Lubchek #6
by ['ZINE] LIBERTUS, Roj [aka Roj Quigland, aka
Los Angeles: Studio Q., 1997. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 30pp. Complete, clean and unmarked; Very Good or better. Single issue of this hand-produced comic art zine.
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[Cover title] Hippee Bible
by [ZINES] DEES, Tommie Ray
[Hayward, CA: Haywierd Spiritual Press, 2005]. Forth" Edition. 32mo (12cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; [16],31,[7]pp.; illus. throughout. Fine condition. At head of title: "Filthy Version, contains nasty cuss words & pictures." From copyright page: "Edited and copyrighted 1972 by tommie ray dees / High Priest of the Church of Penises & Pussies." Small hand-made 'zine to be distributed for free with... Read More
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The Wallcreeper" [excerpt in] N+1 Number 20
by Zink, Nell
Brooklyn: N+1, Fall 2014. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; large 8to. 180 pp. Signed by Nell Zink at her contribution pp 23-29. An excerpt from her then forthcoming first novel which was a NYTBR notable book; she followed up with MISLAID, the first by a major publisher, which was nominated for an NBA. Light wear, but near fine.
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