Recent arrivals and highlights
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
Didier Mutel's homage to John J. Audubon’s extraordinary Birds of America
One of Mutel's most delicate works, illustrated with abstract anthropomorphic figures reminiscent of the surrealists so admired by Ponge.
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.
Philippe Grandjean’s Romain du Roi typeface, from the original plates
Mutel's defense and celebration of etching
The valuable ensemble offered here documents the breadth of Futurist ideology across the arts: literature, painting, sculpture, music, etc.
A perfectly preserved and stunningly original copy: Chateaubriand's Grand Tour
First-hand reports during the French Revolution by one of Paris’s greatest observers, bound in stunning contemporary parchment and paste-paper boards
Written entirely without the use of the letter "A": very rare first issue of the first edition of this celebrated if brief lipogram
A bibliophile's copy: 24 original watercolors and a deluxe binding by Ruban
