Berenice Abbott. Muriel Rukeyser, foreword. David Vestal, introduction. Berenice Abbott: Photographs. New York: Horizon Press, 1970. First edition. Quarto. 175pp. Fully illustrated with b/w photos by Abbott. Publisher’s grey cloth, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $20.00.
Henry Alken. Illustrations for Landscape Scenery. London: S. & J. Fuller, 1821. First edition. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. Illustrated with twenty-four hand-colored plates by the author. Original brown hardcover paper boards; pastedown title to front cover. Abbey, Life, 89
J. W. Alston. Hints to Young Practitioners in the Study of Landscape Painting. Illustrated by Ten Engravings, Intended to Show the Different Stages of the Neutral Tint. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, [1805]. First edition. Octavo. 67pp. Illustrated. Original hardcover paper boards. Manuscript titles to spine.
[Boston] Archive of Clipped Boston-Area Theatre Programs and Playbills c.1893 – 1911 Pair of Meticulously Archived Scrapbooks Comprising Clipped Theatre Programs from the Boston-Area, Circa 1893 – 1911. Approximately 75 original theatre programs and playbills, mostly from the Boston area, with photos of stage actors, entertainers, minstrel singers, opera and.....
Anonymous. Early 19th Century (?) Handmade Crocheted Lace Sample Book. Crocheted cotton lace sewn to five red leather leaves, 23 separate samples in all. Measures approx. 3 x 2.75 inches. From the collection of Edward Hoyenski.
Dorothy Noyes Arms and John Taylor Arms. Churches of France. New York: MacMillian Company. 1929. Limited edition, No. 151 of 200 numbered copies. Signed by Dorothy Noyes Arms to limitation page, with an original tipped-in frontispiece etching, pencil signed by John Taylor Arms. Folio (approx. 13.5 x 10.5 inches). Illustrated with fifty-one.....
Richard Avedon. In the American West. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985. First edition. Inscribed by Richard Avedon. Folio (14 x 11 inches). [174]pp. Illustrated with 120 b/w photos by Avedon, including one folding plate. Publisher’s brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black, photo pastedown to front cover, original acetate.....
![Item #3088 Deutschland Ermacht [First Edition]. Wilfred Bade](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3088.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1778875682)
Wilfred Bade, editor. Deutschland Ermacht: Werdern, Kampf und Sieg der NSDAP (Germany Awakens: Becoming, Struggle, and Victory of the NSDAP). Berlin: Cigaretten/Bilderdienst, 1933. First edition. Publisher's brown pictorial cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt. Illustrated with numerous color and black and white mounted photos, occasional line drawings. Text.....
A. L. Baldry. Drawings of John M. Swan R. A. (Modern Master Draughtsmen Series). London: George Newnes Limited, [No date, circa 1910]. Reprint edition. Quarto. 11pp + 50 illustrated full-page plates, some tipped-in with color. Publisher’s green quarter cloth over blue hardcover paper boards, stamped in gilt to spine, front cover in blue.....
Nicolas Barker. Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script & Type in the Fifteenth Century. Sandy Hook, CT: 1985. First edition, one of 200 copies. Quarto. [123]pp (indexed). With original leaves from the first Aldine editions of Aristotle, 1497; Crastonus’ Dictionarium Graaecum, 1497; Euripides, 1503; and the Septuagint, 1518. Publisher’s.....
J. M. Barrie. Hugh Thomson, illustrator. Quality Street: A Comedy in Four Acts. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [No date, circa 1913]. Early reprint edition. Octavo. [198]pp. Illustrated with color plates by Hugh Thomson. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt.
Stephen Vincent Benét. They Burned the Books. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. First edition. Octavo. 25pp. Publisher’s red paper boards, front cover lettered in black. First edition of Benét’s hard to find Anti-Nazi radio play, written in protest of the Gestapo book burnings of May, 1933.
Joel Benton. Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum. [Philadelphia:] Edgewood Publishing Company, 1891. First edition. Octavo. 621pp. Illustrated. Publisher's terra cotta pictorial cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in black and gilt.
[Costume Design] Lucien Besché, artist. Group of Ten Watercolor Drawings for Stage Production “Nadgy”, circa 1886. Lucien Besché, French artist (1851 – 1901). Ten original watercolor drawings depicting various costume designs for French stage production Nadgy, circa 1886. Each SIGNED by Lucien Besché. Ink and watercolor on.....
Don Hampton Biggers. A. C. Greene, introduction. Seymour V. Connor, biography. Buffalo Guns and Barbed Wire: Two Frontier Accounts by Don Hampton Biggers (A Combined Reissue of Pictures of the Past and History That will Never Be Repeated). Lubbock, TX: The Book Club of Texas, 1991. Special limited edition, one of 260 unnumbered copies. Signed.....
![Item #2716 Printing Arts in Texas [Signed]. Bill Wittliff Collection, Al Lowman](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2716.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1769111819)
Al Lowman. Stanley Marcus, foreword. Barabara Holman, illustrator. Printing Arts in Texas. [Austin:] Roger Beachum, 1975. Limited edition, No. 40 of 50 numbered copies. Signed by Al Lowman, Barbara L. Holman, David Holman, and William R. Holman. Quarto. 107pp (indexed). Illustrated with b/w photos; drawings by Barbara Holman. Publisher's black quarter cloth over marbled.....
Barabara Bullock-Wilson. Liliane De Cock, editor. Wynn Bullock. Photography: A Way of Life. Dobbs Ferry: Morgan & Morgan, 1973. First edition. Quarto. 160pp. Fully illustrated with b/w photos by Wynn Bullock. Publisher's gray cloth, spine and front cover lettered in silver, endleaves in gray, original unclipped dust jacket. From the collection of Bill Wittliff.....
Bill Wittliff. Joe B. Frantz, introduction. Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy. San Antonio, TX: University of Texas INSTITUTE OF TEXAN CULTURES at San Antonio, 1972. First edition, one of 200 copies printed. Scarce. Signed by Bill Wittliff and Joe B. Frantz. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. Illustrated with b/w photos by Bill Wittliff. Publisher's patterned.....
Bruce Davidson. Portraits. New York: Aperture, 1999. First edition. Oblong quarto. 69pp. Fully illustrated with b/w photos by Bruce Davidson. Publisher's charcoal gray cloth, spine lettered in silver, original unclipped dust jacket. From the collection of Bill Wittliff, highly regarded book designer, typographer, photographer and screenwriter from Austin Texas, founder of the Encino.....
![Item #2714 Humbert the Lion [Signed by Carl Hertzog]. Bill Wittliff Collection, Bubi Jessen](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2714.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1769108108)
Bubi Jessen. Humbert the Lion. El Paso, TX: Carl Hertzog, 1959. First edition. Signed by Carl Hertzog and additionally gift inscribed to Sally and Bill Wittliff by Willie and Bob Sparkman. Quarto. 18pp. Illustrated with drawings by Bubi Jessen. Publisher's card wraps, staplebound. With original publisher's mailing envelope. From the collection of Bill Wittliff.....
Cristina Pacheco, Dave Hickey, and Keith Carter. Bill Wittliff, afterword. Boystown: La Zona de Tolerencia. New York: Aperture (in Association with The Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern Photography at Southwest Texas State University). First edition. Obling quarto. 108pp. Fully illustrated with b/w photos by Keith Carter. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in silver.....
Danny Lyon. The Bikeriders. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1968. First printing. Octavo. 94pp. Illustrated with b/w photos by Danny Lyon. Publisher's card wraps, perfect bound. From the collection of Bill Wittliff, highly regarded book designer, typographer, photographer and screenwriter from Austin Texas, founder of the Encino Press.
![Item #2809 Russell Lee Photographer [Inscribed]. Bill Wittliff Collection, F. Jack Hurley](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2809.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771019449)
F. Jack Hurley. Robert Coles, introduction. Russell Lee Photographer. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1978. First edition. Inscribed to Bill Wittliff by Russell Lee: "For Bill Wittliff - / I appreciate and value your advice, / encouragement and friendship / Russell Lee - Sept. 27 - 1978."Oblong quarto. 207pp. Fully illustrated with.....
George P. Elliott, essay. Dorothea Lange. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966. First edition. Octavo. [112]pp. Fully illustrated with b/w photos by Dorothea Lange. Publisher's paper-covered boards, original unclipped dust jacket. From the collection of Bill Wittliff, highly regarded book designer, typographer, photographer and screenwriter from Austin Texas, founder of the.....
![Item #2813 Callahan [Signed by Bill Wittliff]. Bill Wittliff Collection, Harry Callahan, John...](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2813.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771278156)
Harry Callahan and John Szarkowski. Callahan. New York: Aperture, 1976. First edition. With Bill Wittliff ink ownership stamp and signature. Quarto. 202pp. Fully illustrated with b/w photos by Harry Callahan. Publisher's black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in green, original unclipped dust jacket. From the collection of Bill Wittliff, highly regarded book designer, typographer.....