Botero Abu Ghraib
Munich: Prestel, 2006. 11 x 9.5 inches. 110 pages. Profusely illustrated. Printed wrappers.
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La Casa Rotonda
Italy: Edizioni L'Erba Voglio, 1982. 8.25 x 8.25 inches. 111 pages. Wrappers. In Italian and English.
The Book: Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, from Gutenberg to the Present Time
London: Grevel, 1890. First of this expanded version. 4to. 383 pages, including 172 illustrations. Brown blind-tooled leather, morocco spine labels.
Arman
Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou / Service Commercial, 2010. 13 x 9 inches. 365 pages. Profusely illustrated. Glazed pictorial boards. In French.
Escultura de Louise Bourgeois: La elegancia de la Ironía: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Junio de 1995
Mexico: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, 1995. 96 pages. Wrappers. In Spanish. First edition.
Louise Bourgeois: La Famille
New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2006. 9.5 x 6.75 inches. 223 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. First edition. "The fear of being born into the world an unwanted girl; the fear of becoming a pawn in the lives of her parents; the fear of failing as a......
Works
London: Phaidon, 2012. Folio. Original printed boards. Signed by the Bouroullec's on the dedication leaf (verso of title).
Blind Man's Offering
Boston: Published by the author, 1847. 8vo. 432 pages. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION.
The Pacific Railroad––Open. How to Go: What to See. Guide for Travel to and through Western America
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869. 12mo. 122 pp., [4] advertisements at end. Original plum gilt-lettered cloth. Spine sunned, pale stain on front cover, pale dampstain in second half of volume. FIRST EDITION. A scarce and early guidebook published on the occasion of the opening of the Transcontinental Railroad, which.....
Philip Pearlstein: The Complete Paintings
New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, Ltd, 1984. 11.75 x 1.5 inches. 361 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. "Gathers nudes, portraits, and landscapes by the American painter and assesses his place in modern art."
The Journals of the Lives and Travels of Samuel Bownas and John Richardson
Philadelphia: William Dunlap, 1759. 8vo. viii + 242; iv + 220 pages. 20th-century brown half morocco. Provenance: John Martin (early inscripttion on front flyleaf). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. "Richardson visited America in 1701, and traveled through Virginia, Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and New England. He spent some time with.....
A Journey through Kansas; with Sketches of Nebraska: Describing the Country, Climate, Soil, Mineral, Manufacturing, and Other Resources. The Results of a Tour Made in the Autumn on 1854
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 1855. 8vo. 216 pp. Lithographed folding frontispiece map. Modern green gilt-lettered cloth. Map a bit worn at edges, otherwise very good internally. FIRST EDITION of the second book on the Kansas Territory, and the first made from first-hand observation. The work includes a voyage.....
Beyond 1984: Remembrance of Things Future
New York: Targ Editions, 1979. 8vo. Original cloth, with Bradbury's portrait by V. Tony Hauser on front cover; plain paper wrapper. FIRST EDITION, one of 350 copies signed by Bradbury. This is the third of the Targ Editions, designed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press and printed at The.....
Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Georges Braque
Paris: Maeght, 1959-62. 4 volumes (of 7, without Peintures 1924-1927, Peintures 1916-1923, and Le cubisme, fin 1907-1914), 4to. Photographic frontispiece of Braque in each volume, numerous black and white and color illustrations throughout. Original decorated buckram ring binders. Some slight darkening to spines, joints starting on a few volumes. Volumes.....
William Blackmore: Early Financing of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway and Ancillary Land Companies 1871-1878
Denver: Bradford Robinson, 1949. 8vo. Original cloth. Ex-library copy, with tape on spine and markings. Internally clean. FIRST EDITION.
William Blackmore: Early Financing of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway and Ancillary Land Companies: 1871-1878
Denver: Bradford Robinson, 1949. 9.25 x 6.5 inches. 333 pages. Boards. First edition.
Autograph quotation signed, undated
One page, 12mo. Adhesion along blank rear right side, where removed from an album. In fine condition. A signed quotation from Frederika Bremer: “’The shadow of God wanders through nature’” but in the noble heart, in the happy home his spirit loves to dwell. Fredrika Bremer” The quotation comes from the Swedish botanist.....
Angel (The Work of one night in the dark/solitary confinement, New Jersey State Prison, Trenton)
New York: Tompkins Square Press, 1967. 12mo. 62 pages. Portrait frontispiece by Bob Ellison. Original cloth, cover design by Renie Perkins. FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies, this out-of-series. Introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on the limitation leaf: "For Sam, w/ best love Ray Bremser." this was the.....
A Snake-Lover's Diary
New York: Harper Collins, 1985. 8.5 x 7.25 inches. 89, [7] pages. Black-and-white photographs by George Ancona. Glazed pictorial boards. Inscribed by Brenner on the half-title: "To Steven – Another snakelover! Barbara Brenner." The first edition was published in 1970 by Addison-Wesley. Both are suprisingly uncommon.
A Treatise on Verminous Diseases.; Translated by J. Bartoli and Calvet
Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1817. 8vo. Contemporary half leather.
Abstract Vaudeville: The Work of Rose English
London: Ridinghouse, 2014. 10.75 x 8 inches. 432 pages. Illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. First edition. "Rose English emerged from the Conceptual art, dance and feminist scenes of 1970s Britain to become one of the most internationally influential performance artists working today. This comprehensive exhibition catalog documents her 40-year.....
Marco Breuer: Tremors, Ephemera
New York: Roth / Horowitz, 2000. 4to. Color plates. Cloth; French-fold printed wrapper; board slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies of the trade issue.
Breughel
Phaidon, 1966. 206 pp. 4to. Cloth; dust jacket.
In the Buffalo Country
Ashland: Lewis Osborne, 1970. Introduction by David Lavender. Tall 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; plain dust wrapper. A fine copy. LIMITED EDITION, number 317 of 1400 copies.
A Ride with Kit Carson across the Great American Desert and Through the Rocky Mountains
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1969. Tall 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; plain dust wrapper. A fine copy. LIMITED EDITION, number 418 of 1500 copies.