Germany: Steidl, 2002. 11.75 9.75 inches. 63 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original pictorial wrappers. First edition. "Torqued Spirals, Toruses and Spheres inaugurates Richard Serra's recent experimentations with new sculptural shapes and forms. His single- and double-torqued ellipses, with their endlessly spiraling interior corridors, give the impression that your body.....
New York: Gagosian Gallary, 2006. 11 x 10 inches. 75 pages. Cloth; printed dust jacket. "In this volume, four distinct works by the important American sculptor Richard Serra are linked by a common theme: each is based on the relationship between the viewer and a horizontal or planar elevation on.....
London: Phaidon Press, 2000. 10.15 x 10.25 inches. 536 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. "By taking the temperature of the world's political and social climate, the photographers of "magnumdegree" offer a vision of the contemporary world as the new millennium begins. "magnumdegree" is a book about history.....
London: Thames and Hudson, 2001. 11.25 x 9.25 inches. 340 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white and color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, with 356 illustrations included.
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016. Folio. The complete set of items in the limited edition: cloth-bound edition of the book (black cloth), paperback pamphlet of interviews; and folded poster. Together in the original laser cut, high-density polyethylene box, outer black paper sleeve, and in the original folding cardboard.....
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1903. Small 4to. vii, 323 pages. Original half black morocco, marbled boards, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, red silk page markers.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. 8vo. [12], 340 pages. Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Presentation copy, with a lengthy inscription by Jong across the span of the title: "June '74 / For RIch / My old pal from worser days – the die was cast.....
Coloniae: Prostant apud Iacobum à Meurs Amstelodami, 1655. Volume 1 only: 12mo (15 x 8.8 cm). [8], 683, [29] pages. Text in double-columns. Engraved title signed I.v. Meaurs and 52 engraved emblems in text. COntemporary mottled calf, spine gilt. Provenance: early shelfmark of S. Maurity in manuscript on upper sheet.....
New York: Privately Printed for Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach [by Boston: The Bibliophile Society], 1921. 4to (23 x 17.5 cm). Frontispiece portrait, folding facsimile plates of the manuscript. Original gilt-lettered parchment-backed boards; fragment of plain original dust wrapper. One of 450 copies of this "Small Complimentary Edition," issued by.....
Vatican City: The Apostolic Vatican Library, 1947. 4to (28 x 21 cm). LIV, 183, [4] pages. 6 plates including frontispiece and 8 illustrations in text. Original brown half morocco. First edition, inscribed by Dom Anselmo M. Albareda, prefect of the Vatican Library, and Fray Sylvester Brielmaier, librarian of Collegio San.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934. 8vo. 310 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Toklas by Man Ray, photographic plates. Original blue cloth, lettered in silver on front cover and spine, top edges stained blue; acetate dust wrapper. Third printing. Signed by Gertrude Stein on the front free endpaper. This was.....
Mexico: Fidencio S. Soria, nd. 4to. 30 pages. 63 plates, with two large folding plates. Brown cloth, original printed wrappers bound in.
Yomirui Shimbum, 1992. 12 x 9 inches. 236 pages. Wrappers. "Kenneth E. Tyler, AO (born December 13, 1931) is a master printer, publisher, arts educator and a prominent figure in the American post-war revival of fine art, limited edition printmaking. Tyler established leading print workshops and publishing houses on both.....
New York: Monacelli Press, 2008. Folio. 160 pages. Boards; translucent printed wrapper. FIRST EDITION. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
Paris: Société de Mercure, 1903. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Bound with: 'L'immoraliste'. Paris: Société de Mercure, 1902. Together two volumes in one, small 8vo. In a contemporary designer binding by René Kieffer in full tan pigskin, with a leather bas-relief sculpture [cuir ciselé] by R. Prath set into each.....
Manuscript title as above and 21 pen-and-ink and wash drawings, each mounted onto a page within an album, most with manuscript captions and ink borders, most signed with initials within the image. 4to. Canada, New York and elsewhere: July 1892. Contemporary half morocco and cloth boards, marbled endpapers, Boston stationery.....
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. 8vo. 315 pages. Original pictorial wrappers made from the dust jacket. Provenance: Alvin Grauer (signature on front free endpaper). First edition, the scarce publisher's advance in wrappers of the trade issue. Petersen A16; Massey 173.
Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1930. 8vo (22 x 17.5cm). 46 pages. Original unbound sheets. One of 375 signed and numbered copies printed on Pannekoek Holland of an edition of 394 (this is no. 16). The author's copy, unbound and in a manila envelope with Westcott's manuscript notes, giving Monroe Wheeler's.....
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901. 4to. 191 pages. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine. First edition. From the collection of NYC gallerist Marjorie Neikrug. A landmark at its time of publication, Caffin's book is still one of the most informative and authoritative appraisals of the.....
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1940. 8vo. 382 pages. Original blue cloth, silver lettering on spine; printed dust jacket, designed by James Laughlin. First edition, first printing, one of about 1500 copies printed. Signed by Williams on the front free endpaper. A much finer than usual copy of this novel, the.....
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1936. 4to. Original cloth. Lacks jacket. Signed by Walker Evans on the front free endpaper, with some underlinings in introduction, and a few page references on rear pastedown. "This groundbreaking exhibition was key to establishing the pedigree for modern art proposed by Museum of.....
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966. 14 x 8.5 inches. 68 pages. Tall wrappers, silkscreen print laid down to front wrap (duplicate within contents), various sized and colored papers, collage elements. First edition, one of 108 copies. Taylor & Horvath P-110.
New York: J. Sabin & Sons, 1876. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. List of prices bound in after title. Original printed wrappers, paper spine with title in manuscript (presumably done by Goelet when the price list was added). 2239 lots, priced in pencil. Ogden Goelet's copy, with his name.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Comprising: Mrs. Brown Up the Nile. [1869]. – Mrs. Brown on "Dizzy". [1874]. – Mrs. Brown at the Skating Rink. [1875]. – Mrs. Brown at Cleopatra's Needle. [1878]. – Mrs. Brown and King Cetewayo. [1882]. All published London: George Routledge and Sons. Original "yellow back".....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 1) "Le Tour des Morts." 11 pages on 9 sheets, 4to, graph paper, the first nine 9 pages in ink on rectos, 2 pages in pencil on versos of last two sheets, signed in ink "Jean Lorrain" at end. Extensive working manuscript, corrected throughout. 2).....
