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 find what you are looking for, please inquire: gerald@gwcbooks.com

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One of Mutel's most delicate works, illustrated with abstract anthropomorphic figures reminiscent of the surrealists so admired by Ponge.

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R217A reproduces the text of the United Nations Resolution 217A, the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man, made December 10, 1948, which was ratified by the UN General Assembly in Paris by 58 member states.

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Mutel's defense and celebration of etching

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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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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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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 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