Bodily Harm
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. 8vo. 266, [1] pp. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. Near-fine with slightest shelfwear. FIRST EDITION.
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City Without Walls and Other Poems
New York: Random House, [1969]. 8vo. 124, [1] pages. Original two-toned cloth; printed dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, first printing. Bloomfield & Mendelson A63 (first edition).
Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems
London: Faber and Faber, [1972]. 8vo. 72 pages. Original grey printed wrappers. Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the last collection of poetry published by Auden before his death in 1973. Not in Bloomfield & Mendelson.
The Old Man's Road
New York: Voyages, [1956]. 8vo. [24] pp. Original light-grey printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 24 of 50 copies signed by Auden. Bloomfield & Mendelson A36.
The Platonic Blow
New York: The Fuck You Press, 1965. Square 8vo. [12] pp. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. One of 300 copies of the "Trade edition" (there was also the "Rough Trade Edition" of 5 copies; an edition of 3 unnumbered copies; and the "Turkey Edition" of two copies). "According to persistent.....
Wystan Hugh Auden 1907-1973 Memorial Service
New York: The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, 1973. Bifolium. 4 pages. FIRST EDITION. The program for Auden's memorial service, held 3 October 1973 at New York's Church of St. John the Divine. The service included readings by Robert Penn Warren, Galway Kinnell, Muriel Rukeyser, Richard Wilbur, William.....
The Poetic Art of W. H. Auden
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965. 8vo. 210 pp. Original printed wrappers. Near-fine with only minor shelfwear. FIRST EDITION, paperback issue.
Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems
New York: Random House, 1972. 8vo. 77 pp. Original green cloth-backed boards. A very good copy in a clipped jacket, front and back panels with two small stains, slightly leaned. FIRST EDITION.
Joseph Stashkevetch, Drawings
Colorado: Baldwin Gallery, 2014. 4to. 96 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. One of 500 copies.
The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1994. 8vo. 464, [3]pp. Original red cloth; dust jacket designed by Katie Messborn. A fine copy. FIRST AMERICAN COLLECTED EDITION, DELUXE LIMITED ISSUE, one of 200 copies signed by Auster; designed by Guy Bennett. These important meta-detective novels were originally published in 1985 and.....
Avedon Photographs 1947-1977
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. Folio (14 x 10.5 inches). 162 black-and-white photographs. Pictorial boards; printed acetate jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Avedon on the title-page. A lavish retrospective of Avedon's portraiture, beautifully designed by Elizabeth Paul to accompany the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum. With an essay.....
The Sixties
New York: Random House, 1999. First edition. Folio. 235pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, the result of a thirty-year collaboration between Avedon and Doon Arbus.
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Aghani al-Darwish [Songs of the Dervish]
New York: Syrian-American Press, [1928]. 8vo. Frontispiece by Kahlil Gibran. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front flyleaf in Arabic: "Ila Akhiy Jawaad ‘Arid [To my brother Jawaad ‘Arid] Rashid Ayyub." This is the second of the three volumes of verse published by the Lebanese-born poet Rashid.....
Encyclopedia of Flowers
Zurich: Lars Müller, 2012. 8vo. 512 pages. 203 color photographs of Azuma's floral arrangements by Shunsuke Shiinoki. Original printed wrappers; transparent slipcase. FIRST EDITION. "Over the past few years, Makoto Azuma has created a furor in the art world with his floral installations, in which he creates unusual new shapes.....
Smile of the Buddha: Eastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet to Today
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. 294 pages. Illustrated in color. Original grey cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
Roy Lichtenstein: Pop Remix
National Gallery of Australia, 2012. 30 x 30 cm. Original printed wrappers. Traces Lichtenstein's print projects from the 1950s to the 1990s, exploring how he appropriated, transformed, and remixed numerous art historical sources.
The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art 966-1066
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1984. First edition. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, issued simultaneously in cloth. Two hundred treasures of pre-Norman art are described and illustrated, including the Alfred Jewel, the Benedictionals of St. Aethelwold and Archbishop Robert, the Exeter Book, and.....
Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné
London: Heni Publishing and The Estate of Francis Bacon, 2016. Five volumes, 1584 pages in total with 900 color illustrations. 4to. Cloth; slipcase. Underwritten by the Estate of Francis Bacon and ten years in the making, this catalogue raisonné will be the definitive reference for the paintings of Francis Bacon.....
De praxi medica ad priscam observanci rationem revocanda, libri duo
Lyons: Anisson and Posuel, 1699. Second edition. 8vo. 407 pp. One engraved plate. Contemporary calf. Provenance: contemporary ink inscription on title. "Baglivi, Professor of Anatomy at Rome, had a short but brilliant career. He wrote Praxis medica and De fibra motrice, and originated the so-called 'solidar' pathology; he also devoted.....
Skyscrapers of New York
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928. Folio (42 x 27 cm; 16½ x 10¾ inches). 5 pages text, 24 full-page plates including frontispiece. Original quarter white patterned muslin, blue boards, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine; portions of dust jacket preserved. Provenance: Charles R. Lamb (1860-1942), American sculptor and architect.....
Richfield Springs Illustrated. Historical and Descriptive
Richmond Springs NY: Mercury Office, F. E. Mungor, proprietor, 1886. 8vo. 106 pp. 12 plates, illustrations in text, map at end. Original cloth-backed decorated pebbled boards. Binding worn, laks front free endpaper; one plate sprung loose and chipped at edges. FIRST EDITION of this guide to the Richfield Springs in.....
Municipal Government of the City of New York
Boston: Ginn & Company, 1906. 8vo. 350 pages. Double-page bird's-eye view of the five boroughs and illustrations in text, all in duotone. Original decorated cloth, the front cover blocked with a panel centering a silhouette of the Brooklyn Bridge. Early owner's name on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION. The text.....
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The Albert N'yanza: Great Basin of the Nile, and Exploration of the Nile Sources [Two Volumes]
J.B. Lippincott and Co, 1868. Two volumes, 8vo. Folding map. Original cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
"Erythema serpens".; In: Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Reports. Edited by Dr. Edwards and Mr. Callender. Vol. IX
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1873. First edition. 8vo. Baker's paper is on pp. 198-211. Entire volume: 257 pp., 81 pp. tables at end. Contemporary half cloth, marbled boards. "First description of erythema serpens, usually called 'erysipeloid of Rosenbach', following the latter’s paper in Arch. klin. Chir., 1887, 36, 346".....
"On the formation of synovial cysts in the leg in connection with disease of the knee joint". And: "The Formation of abnormal synovial cysts in connection with the joints".; In: Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Reports. Vol. XIII and Vol. XXI.
London: Smith, Elder, 1877, 1885. First edition. Together two volumes. 8vo. Baker's paper is on pp. 245-61 in the first and pp. 177-90 in the second. Entire volumes: 354; Statistical tables at end; 312 pp, tables at end. Plates. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Plates. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered.....