![Item #3977 [TRANSGENDER MOVIE POSTER 1972]. "I Don't Want to Live the Rest of My Life as a Man......](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3977.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681219772)
1972. Theatrical release movie poster (36" x 14"), printed in color, with a large illustration of a shirtless man gazing into a standing mirror in which he sees reflected a women wearing a bra and panties. Some horizontal creasing from having been rolled for some time (NB: this item must..... More
![Item #4572 [WOMAN BOOKBINDER]. Le Roi Dagobert. Illustrations et gravures a l'eau-forte par Leon...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4572.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781282863)
Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, F. Ferroud, 1911. 8vo. [iv], 25, [3] pp., engraved color-printed frontispiece, 6 color-printed vignettes, and 5 color-printed "insular" initials in the text. Contemporary red niger morocco, lower turn-in with gilt pallet-stamp "M. Marshall" (binding refurbished), upper cover with the monogram, crest and motto of the first..... More
![Item #3604 [BLIND MASSEUR, ACCUPUNCTURIST, HIGHWAY ROBBER - ORIGINAL JAPANESE WOODBLOCK 1867]....](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3604.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1636921618)
Omiya Kyusuke, 1867 (censor seal indicates year of the snake). Broadsheet (354 x 235 mm) with contemporary hand-coloring (several wormholes in the face of the robber and one above his head; portion of the paper on upper right defective, just touching text), affixed at upper corners to a sheet of..... More
![Item #3213 [BOUND BY SIMIER, RELIEUR DU ROI]. Fables de la Fontaine, collationnees et...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3213.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600274131)
Paris: Lefevre, 1836. Large 8vo. (243 x 155 mm). With 5 full-page steel-engraved plates printed on India paper and mounted on thick paper (tissue guards foxed as commonly, with offsetting on plates and text opposite). Contemporary French dark red polished calf, covers scuffed spine darkened and a little worn at..... More
![Item #4575 [RUSSIAN FUTURIST SPACE FANTASIES 1972]. Kosmicheskie Dali ("Space in the Future" or...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4575.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781282863)
Moscow: Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo, 1972. Folio (380 x 285 mm). Complete with 34 plates (of which 16 are double page), each of which has descriptive text in Russian on verso. TOGETHER WITH: 36-page booklet in Russian (cover with light brown offsetting from cardboard inside portfolio pocket). Original publisher's blue vinyl portfolio..... More
Paris: Chez la vefve Claude de Monstr'oeil, 1616. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. 1 f., [6], 96 pp. Collation: A4 A-M8, COMPLETE. Title-page cropped on upper margin affecting the first and largest word “Plaidoyer.” Recent sympathetic wrappers in the antique style. The "Affaire Baron," brilliantly argued by Julien Peleus, one of..... More
![Item #2697 [ANTIQUARIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY]. Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti magno cum studio...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2697.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1589774340)
Venice: Carolo Palese (sold by Lorenzo Basilio), 1787. First Edition. 8vo. 6 volumes. 54, 377 pp., 1 blank f., engraved frontispiece portrait of Pinelli ("F. Bartolozzi del. et sculp."); 4, 468 pp.; 4, 367 pp., 1 large folding plate ('Specimen scripturae in papyro') with small stain; 56, 471 pp.; 8..... More
![Item #4243 [JAPANESE SAMURAI / HOMOSEXUAL DEVOTION]. Hosokawa Chidaruma Jikki ["Blood-stained...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4243.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733175272)
Tokyo (Asakusa): Kinjudo, 1889 (Meiji 22). First Edition thus. One four-hole-bound (yotsumetoji) volume (179 x 118 mm) bound in the traditional Japanese style (fukurotiji). Complete with 24 engraved pages on 10 leaves (two of are double-page and folding). Original wrappers, lightly stained and creased, with small marks. Small tear to..... More
![Item #4092 [ALEXANDER ANDERSON WOODCUTS]. The Seasons. James . Anderson Thomson, Alexander, author](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4092.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696975871)
New York: S. & D.A. Forbes, Printers, 1830. 12mo. 192 pp. + [4] full-page woodcuts. Original publishers glazed boards (soiled but perfectly square and sound), edges sprinkled red (intermittent foxing throughout, most prominently opposite the rectos and versos of the engraved plates and on pastedowns and endpapers, final blank leaf..... More
![Item #4383 [WOMEN AND INDUSTRIALIZATION IN JAPAN / "WESTERN" JAPANESE BOOK ARTS]. Seiyo keito...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4383.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1745985256)
Osaka: Nakagawa Seijiro, 1887 (Meiji 20). First Edition. 8vo (180 x 125 mm). [44] pp. Illustrated with 36 woodcuts ranging from small diagrams to full-page plates. Printed on double-leaves, stab-stitched and bound in a traditional western case-binding, original publisher's boards backed in cloth, marbled edges (!). The Japanese leaves are..... More
![Item #3614 [CHILDREN'S BOOK]. Little Slam Bang (i.e. Slambang the Elephant). Helen . Ransom...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3614.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1636924909)
Chicago: P.F. Volland Co., 1928. First Edition. Square 8vo. 39 pp. (small tears in lower margins of pp. 29-32). Original illustrated boards (insignificant smudging on back cover), green cloth spine. NEAR FINE CONDITION. Original illustrated box, reproducing front cover of the book (slight soiling on top and botton, edges a...... More
![Item #4209 [HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR NARRATIVE]. I Cannot Forgive. Rudolf . Bestic Vrba, Alan,...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4209.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718036417)
London: Sidgwick & Jackson and Anthony Gibbs & Phillips, 1963 (copyright 1964). First Edition. 8vo. 278 pp. Original cloth, dust-jacket with 1/4" tear at top of front panel which is lightly faded, slight wear to dust-jacket at head and tail. In mylar sleeve. HAUNTING AND UNIMAGINABLY HARROWING AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF..... More
![Item #3817 [BOOK COLLECTORS]. On Collecting John P. Marquand (original typescript). William ....](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3817.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1666623798)
1951. Typescript (3 pp.) with substantive and editorial corrections throughout. Two pronounced horizontal folds, 1" tear to p. 3. ADDED: cloth chemise in which the folded typescript was contained for many years, accompanied by a note from the editor of "The Amateur Book Collector" (see below). This is the corrected..... More
