Torero
Zurich / New York: Editions Stemmle, 2001. Folio. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Introduction by Héctor Abad Faciolince with poems by Gloria María Pardo Vargas.
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Epistolarum ad Atticum, ad Brutum, ad Quintum Fratrem, Libri XX
Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresani, 1521. Aldine 8vo (161 x 94 mm; 63/8 x 33/4 in.). Collation: aa-bb^8 a-ss^8 tt^4. 3- and 4-line printed guide letters. 18th-century red roan-backed marbled boards, smooth spine gilt-lettered and -ruled, all edges gilt. Some rubbing to joints and extremities, lower margin of ss8.....
A Collection of Etchings
London: H. R. Young, 1818. Folio (368 x 267 mm). Etched frontispiece and 179 etchings on 96 sheets. Contemporary citron straight-grained morocco gilt. Some wear to binding; some minor marginal browning and foxing. Provenance: purchased from Francis Edwards, 1958. FIRST EDITION. Series of posthumous restrikes from the original copper plates.....
Southern Colorado. Historical and Descriptive of Fremont and Custer Counties with their Principal Towns ... With a Description of the Immense Mineral Regions of Fremont and Custer Counties
Cañon City: Binckley & Hartwell, 1879. 8vo. 134 pp., including illustrations and advertisements. Wood-engravings in text, some double-page. Original cloth-backed printed boards. Boards a bit soiled, some minor pale intermittent dampstaining. Provenance: Everett D. Graff (small booklabel; sold Parke-Bernet, Newberry Library sale of duplicates, 4 May 1966, lot 346). THE.....
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Are Plants People? [With original photograph]
Paris: L'Esprit Frappeur / Purple Books, 1999. 6 x 4.25 inches. 64 pages. Black-and-white photographs. Printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, with an original color Polaroid laid-in (4.25 x 3.5 inches), signed by Borthwick on the back. Borthwick spent the early 1990s in Paris, where he owned a nightclub and photographed for.....
Louise Bourgeois: Pensees-Plumes
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.
Be Hive UK Pavilion Milan Expo 2015
London: Wolfgang Buttress Studios, 2015. Square 4to (12 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches). 127 pages. Original wrappers. In original gilt-decorated wooden slipcase with: Three LP-sleeves, each signed by the artist in pencil and containing 1) debossed monochromatic print, signed and numbered 5/1000 in pencil. 2) LP on transparent vinyl. 3).....
Diverse vedute designate in Fiorenza
[Paris: Israël Henriet, circa 1618]. Complete set of ten etchings, plus the frontispiece by Collignon, sheets 118 x 254 mm and similar, second states (of two or three), very good impressions, on fine laid paper, several with Triple Fleur-de-Lys in a shield watermarks (see Lieure watermarks 50). Trimmed close to.....
The Works
London: Biggs and Cottle for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803. 3 volumes, 8vo. Engraved frontispieces, folding plate in volume 3. 20th-century quarter morocco, marbled boards, spines gilt-decorated and -lettered, all edges gilt. FIRST EDITION, edited by Robert Southey and Joseph Cottle, and containing a life of the poet.....
Life is Paradise. The Portraits of Francesco Clemente
New York: powerHouse Books, 1999. Folio (15 x 9.5 inches). 183 pages. Color reproductions. Pictorial boards; pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Clemente and Katz on the title-page. A bold, graphic signature, in this lavish catalogue. The subjects of the portraits include Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Lauren Hutton, Brian.....
Official Information. Colorado. A statement of Facts prepared and published by authority of the Territorial Board of Immigration
Denver: Rocky Mountain News Steam Printing House for the Territorial Board of Immigration, 1872. 8vo. 35 pp. Original violet printed wrappers. Light wear. Contemporary manuscript docket on title, business card of Thayer & Stubbs real Estate, Loan and Collection Agency mounted on inner rear wrapper. FIRST EDITION of the first.....
7 & 6
Albuquerque, NM: Hoshour Gallery, 1988. Folio (280 x 242 mm; 11 x 9 1/2 in.). Text and plates loose as issued in chemise and slipcase. One of 1500 copies, printed by the Meriden-Stinehour Press.
The Temple of Flora. Twenty-eight drypoint-engravings...with Botanical notes compiled and poetry selected by Glenn Todd & Nancy Dine.
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1984. Folio (20 1/2 x 14 inches). 28 drypoint etchings, combining engraving and drypoint, using hand and electric tools, by Jim Dine, plus an additional print on chine colle from the second state of the frontispiece (entitled "Details from Nancy's Garden"), signed by Dine, laid.....
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Ape & Cat [and] The Madonna of the Future
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1997. Introduction by Arthur Danto. 2 volumes. 8vo (12 x 9 inches) text volume containing one photogravure and a tipped-in photographic plate. 67, [1] pp. Separate accordion-folded album (16 x 12 1/2 inches) containing 18 mounted photogravure prints, all by Jim Dine. Both laid into.....
Sheila Hicks: 50 Years
Yale University Press, 2010. Folio. 246 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HICKS to the dealer, collector, designer William Lipton on the half-title. With postcard announcements and advertisements for the exhibition laid-in. The show was held at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover.....
Architectura privata: das ist: Gründtliche Beschreibung ... inn was Form ... ein ... Bürgerliches Wohnhauss ... erbawet ... worden
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.....
Commerce of the Prairies: or the Journal of a Santa Fe Trader, during Eight Expeditions across the Great Western Prairies, and a Residence of Nearly Nine Years in Northern Mexico
New York: Henry G. Langley (vol. 1); vol. 2 with addition of London: Wiley and Putnam, 1844. Two volumes, 8vo. Two engraved maps, one folding, 2 engraved frontispieces after E. Didier by A.L. Dick, 4 wood-engraved plates by Lossing, 3 wood-engraved text vignettes. Original brown cloth, the first with pictorial.....
Le Corps Clairvoyant
Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1963. Large 4to (13.25 x 10 inches; 336 x 254 mm). 12 double-page gauffraged (embossed without inking) prints. Loose as issued in original soft red morocco portfolio, upper cover with embossed design after Hajdu; original cloth folding case, lettered on spine. LIMITED EDITION, an unnumbered copy from.....
The Resources and Attractions of Utah
Salt Lake City: Tribune Printing and Publishing Co. for A. Zeehandelaar, 1882. 8vo. 93, [3] pp., advertisements at beginning and end. Folding map by Rand, McNally after E. St. John, "New and Correct Map of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Ry. Popularly known as the Great Rock Island Route,".....
Fables nouvelles
Paris: Grégoire Dupuis, 1719. 8vo (261 x 195mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title, and 101 engravings in the text by Cochin, Gillot, Edelinck, Picart, Simoneau and Tardieu after Coypel, Gillot, Edelinck, Picart and Ranc. 18th-century gilt-panelled sprinkled calf. Rebacked; P4 with small tear with loss in corner not affecting.....
Exhortatio S. Augustini... ad patientia exemplo passionis Christi
Southern Europe: 18th century. 83 x 57 mm. ILLUMINATED MINIATURE MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. 70 leaves (with an additional 18 blank leaves at end), manuscript in black and gold, ruled in red. 19th-century morocco gilt (some light wear to joints and edges). Provenance: Cornelius J. Hauck, Cincinatti Museum Center (their sale.....
Les Minutes de Sable Memorial
Paris: Edition du Mercure de France, 1894. 12mo (139 x 115 mm). 236 pages, woodcut head-piece to preface, 9 original woodcuts by the author printed in blue-green, brown and black, final leaf with printer's woodcut device, original dark green printed wrappers bound in at rear. Near-contemporary dark green cloth, spine lettered.....
Poems
Hammersmith, London: Kelmscott Press, 1896. 8vo. Double-page title with Morris-designed strapwork woodcut. Original limp vellum, with original copper-colored silk ties in fine condition; cloth clamshell case. A fine copy, unusually clean and fresh, appearing unread. First edition, one of 300 copies. Peterson A38.
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Autograph letter signed ("Rudyard Kipling"), to French politician and economist Monsieur [Yves] Guyot. Burwash, Sussex, 30 December 1921
Together two pages, 12mo (193 x 67; 6 x 4 in.), on Kipling’s Bateman’s Burwash letterhead. Kipling met the French politician and economist Yves Guyot in 1905 through Louis Fabulet, one of the author’s earliest and most productive French translators. Kipling thanks Guyot for translating a piece (“my little absurdity”) published.....
Sister Carrie
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1939. Tall octavo. Illustrated by Reginald Marsh. Original linen-backed brown boards, gilt-lettered leather letting-piece (spine slightly sunned, a few small scuffs on label); publisher's board slipcase (one bottom joint split). LIMITED EDITION, number 1,238 of 1,500 copies printed by Joseph Blumenthal at The Spiral.....