Udine: Art&, 1990. Folio (11 x 11.5 inches). 120 pages. 76 black & white photographs and numerous archival photos. Black cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition of Basilico's early project, made for an exhibition at the Musée de l'Eysée in Lausanne in 1990. Basilico relies on wide, topographical views, but.....
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, [1980]. 8vo. 87, [5] pp. Original white printed wrappers, entirely unopened; original glassine. Front panel of glassine with tear at head, otherwise fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 87 of 99 copies from an edition of 106 (there were 7 hors commerce) on Alfamousse, publisher's.....
Milan: Irma Blank and Felice Nava, 1987. Oblong Title and 19 color plates. Printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies (of which 100 were numbered and signed), inscribed in 1996 by the artist on the title. Scarce: OCLC/Worldcat lists only four copies in international libraries.
Paris: Cabinet d'Art Graphique / Centre Georges Pompidou, 1995. 4to (9.5 x 8 inches). 94 pages. Color and black-and-white illustrations. Stiff wrappers. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED on the half-title: "Best wishes Louise Bourgeois." Published to accompany the exhibition held 1 February to 10 April 1995.
Bensenville, IL: Open Skull Press, 1966. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Mimeographed. [28] pages. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers reproducing a drawing by Bukowski, pale yellow plain endleaves. FIRST EDITION, one of "no more than 400 copies." One of Bukowski's earliest prose works. Krumhansl 23.
London: LCB in association with Thea Westreich [printed by Steidl], 1993. 4to. 175 pages with 110 four-color and 48 duotone plates. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Scarce Clark photobook, not distributed in the US. An unusually fine copy.
Venice: Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. Folio (29.1 x 19.4 cm). Roman type, occasional Greek and Hebrew type. 170 fine woodcuts (9 full-page), printer's device on title, repeated on verso of final leaf. 5- to 9-line initial spaces with guide-letters. Later vellum preserving earlier morocco spine label. Provenance: some occasional.....
London: B. Crosby & Co., 1811. 12mo (178 x 110 mm). vi, 56 pages. Engraved frontispiece and 47 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Provenance: Robert Frederick Green (bookplate); Donald Wandrei, author and co-founder of Arkham House Publishers (bookplate). A finely-printed English-language edition of Holbein's Dance of Death engravings.....
Paris: Michael Woolworth Publications, 2010. 4to (9 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches). 24 original lithographs, printed by Michael Woolworth and Julien Torhy in Paris. Original marbled wrappers, printed paper label on front cover, by Atelier Houdart; slipcase by CPMC Gilles Vercel, Paris. LIMITED EDITION, number 18 of 35 copies signed.....
Elmwood, CT: Raven Editions, 1987. 8vo. 32, [2]pp. Original decorated-paper boards; acetate. Fine. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 36 of 60 copies signed by Dubus from an edition of 70. With printed prospectus laid-in.
New York: MIT Press for the Museum of Modern Art, 1976. 4to. 110 pp. 48 color photographs and one black-and-white portrait of Eggleston. Original black bonded leather with gilt-stamped spine and cover onlay. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION (no date on the title-page; copyright page dated only 1976). Issued as.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876. First edition in book form. Eight parts in four volumes, 8vo. Lacking half-titles. 19th-century half calf, gilt-lettered green morocco lettering-pieces, marbled boards. Without the Contents Leaf (Sadlier's presumed first state). The novel was also published in parts, and is less common in.....
Museum Ludwig / Serpentine Gallery / Koenig Books, 2008. 10 x 8.5 inches. 255 pages. Color and black-and-white photographs. Printed wrappers. First edition. "The definitive book on filmmaker, writer, founder of Anthology Film Archive and all-round cinema avatar Jonas Mekas, this compendium of materials is essential for all fans of.....
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. 8vo. 315pp. Original pictorial wrappers made from the dust jacket. Slight wear at extremities with a few small losses, remnants of an adhesion on the rear wrapper, slightly soiled. FIRST EDITION, THE SCARCE PUBLISHER'S ADVANCE IN WRAPPERS OF THE TRADE ISSUE. Petersen.....
Paris: Jacques-François Chereau, circa 1780. The complete set of six engravings by A. Colinet, plates 265 x 195 mm, sheets 320 x 250 mm, fine impressions, with margins. Plate 6 with paper losses to the left sheet edge, otherwise in good condition. Bound with three other works, as detailed below.....
Worcester, MA: Colin Press, 1988. 8vo. Four etchings and one vignette on colophon by Judith Eldridge; with an extra suite of five etchings in color on chine collé. Text and plates laid loose as issued in Rugg Road handmade paper wrappers with a printed paper label on front cover; linen.....
Augsburg: Johann Schultes and Mathias Rembold, 1641. Folio (300 x 203 mm). Letterpress title printed in red and black (torn and repaired), 15 double-page or folding engraved plates or plans by Matthäus Rembold (1629–1657), on guards. Contemporary vellum. Some plates trimmed closely. Provenance: purchased from Ars Libri, 1990. FIRST EDITION.....
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Rome: Francesco Gonzaga, 1707. Two parts in one volume, 4to (236 x 171 mm). Roman and Hebrew types. Half-title. xvi, 61, [1]; 131 pp. Two woodcut initials, woodcut device on title. 18th-century Italian vellum over pasteboard. Some pale spotting, first few leaves with marginal dampstain and a few small marginal.....
Madrid: Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1991. 2 volumes, 11.5 x 8.5 inches. In Spanish. Vol. 1: 696 pages. with 313 color illustrations. Vol. 2: 148 pages with black-and-white photobiography. Printed wrappers; slipcase. Monumental survey of Giacometti's work. Includes documentary photography of Giacometti and his studio.
San Francisco: City Lights, 1963. Single leaf, removed from the book. 6½ x 5 inches. A FINE NOTE MENTIONING MAYAKOVSKY AND FRANK O'HARA, WITH A DRAWING, presented to the British actor, author and filmmaker Herbert Marshall (1906-1991). Beneath the title Ginsberg draws the figure of Buddha's footprint: "Three fish with.....
Robert Grayson, 1990. Accordion form, 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in., printed on translucent paper, 32 panels, printed on rectos only. Second edition, number 5 of 250 copies signed by Grayson from an edition of 276 (there were 26 lettered proofs). Grayson had first published his collection of aphorisms as.....
Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841. 16mo (12.4 x 7.8 cm). vii, 140 pages. Original bluish plum basket-weave embossed cloth, black paper label on front cover (gilt lettering oxidized to invisibility); green cloth chemise; green morocco pull of case by Bradstreet's (one joint split). FIRST EDITION of the first of three.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. 8vo (18 x 11 cm). [viii], 344 pages. 4-page advertisements inserted between front endpapers. Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Christmas 1853 gift ink inscription from B. Frost to his niece Mary B. S. Fuller on front flyleaf. FIRST EDITION, fifth printing.....
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[Budapest?]: [198?]. Oblong (9 x 19 cm). In Hungarian and English. [1], vii, 40 pages (the last on the inner rear wrapper). Printed wrappers. First edition of Háy's second artists book, which was published underground as samizdat. The introduction by the Hungarian psychologist Ferenc Mérei is translated by Hay's partner.....
New York & Philadelphia: [Plon Brothers of Paris for] Appleton, 1851. Folio (542 x 425 mm). 12 lithographed plates by Bayot after drawings by Carl Nebel, each finely hand-colored and finished with touches of gum arabic, by Lemercier of Paris. Modern red half morocco spine gilt, contemporary printed boards mounted.....
