Recent arrivals and highlights

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Listed below are some of our recent arrivals and featured books. Check back regularly for updates.

If you do not see what you are looking for, please inquire: gerald@gwcbooks.com

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First-hand reports during the French Revolution by one of Paris’s greatest observers, bound in stunning contemporary parchment and paste-paper boards

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The valuable ensemble offered here documents the breadth of Futurist ideology across the arts: literature, painting, sculpture, music, etc.

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Written entirely without the use of the letter "A": very rare first issue of the first edition of this celebrated if brief lipogram

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184 entries of celebrated figures, a description of Giovio’s famous Museo with 60 woodcut portraits

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A bibliophile's copy: 24 original watercolors and a deluxe binding by Ruban

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Publicity leaflet and invitation for the department store Deux Magots, namesake for the celebrated Left Bank café

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7 SEAS OF CAPT ACID

Author:

Didier Mutel

Book Artist:

Atelier Didier Mutel

This atlas comprises 48 plates, representing globe gores intended to form a terrestrial globe.

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A complete portfolio of Marot’s magnificent engravings of the Chateau de Richelieu

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A contemporary hand strictly restores the text and architectural drawings