Nonobject
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010. 8vo. 224 pages. Color photographs and illustrations. Printed boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "In 'NONOBJECT,' product design meets philosophy, poetry, and the theater of the imagination" (the publisher).
New Arrivals
American Luxury: Jewels from the House of Tiffany
New York: ACC Distribution, 2008. Folio. 207 pages. Color photographs and illustrations. Printed cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "Recounts the history of America's premier jewellery firm" (the publisher).
Bruce McCall's Zany Afternoons
New York City: Barnes and Noble, 1999. 4to. 125 pages. Color illustrations. Pictorial boards. "Zany Afternoons is a book containing a collection of some of illustrator Bruce McCall's best comic paintings to 1982. It was published by Knopf in that year and featured works that originally appeared mainly in National Lampoon" (the publisher).
Radio-anatomie générale de la tête
Paris: Masson & Cie, 1955. Square 4to. 152 pages. 74 plates, complete, divided between three sections, each in its own inner printed wrapper. Outer printed wrapper. FIRST EDITION. The plates comprise 36 roentgenograms and 38 schematic drawings. Aubaniac was professor of anatomy, and Porot an assistant radiologist at the Hôpitaux...
Happy Hunting-Grounds. A Tribute to the Woods and Fields
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1888. 4to. 202 pages. Frontispiece and illustrations in text by the author. Original decorated cloth, all edges gilt. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Gibson was a popular American writer and lecturer on natural history, and illustrated much of his own work, as here.
Lyrics of Lowly Life
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1898. 8vo. 208 pages. Portrait frontispiece. Original gilt-lettered and -decorated cloth, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Early edition. Introduction by William Dean Howells.
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"Wholly absorbed / into my own conduits..." [Broadside poem]
Buffalo: The Institute of Further Studies, 1968. 8vo. Single sheet. Folding into original printed envelope. Fine small broadside poem by Charles Olson.
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Naked Lunch [Chapter 2]. In: Chicago Review, Autumn 1958
Chicago: Chicago Review, 1958. 8vo. 88 pages. Printed wrappers. Containing chapter two of 'Naked Lunch.' This was the second appearance of any section of the novel in print, following the Spring issue of the journal. For those keeping track, the headline above the text contains the misprint "William C. Burroughs."...
Fêtes. Mémorables Bals Costumés 1922-1972
Paris: Editions Herscher, 1986. In French. Folio. 126 pages. Lavish color illustrations. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of this excellent history of custume balls held between 1922 and 1972, including events held by legendary hosts such as Carlos de Beistegui - who had a party in Venice at his Palais...
Bejewelled by Tiffany: 1837-1987
London: Yale University Press, 2007. Oblong 4to. 310 pages. Illustrations and photographs. Boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "This catalogue covers around 200 pieces of jewellery dating from the 1850s to the 1980s, products of the American company Tiffany & Co. The essays chart the early years of the store, its...
Maximus, From Dogtown - I
San Francisco: The Auerhahn Press, 1961. 4to. [16] pages. Sewn as issued in printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies printed by Andrew Hoyem and Dave Haselwood at The Auerhahn Press. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Olson to the poet Gerrit Lansing on the front wrapper: "For Gerrit with love...
Brand New
London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 2002. 4to. 240 pages. Color photographs. Pictorial wrappers. "Originally published to coincide with a major V&A exhibition, Brand New takes a look at contemporary consumer culture and the proliferation of brand identities which affect all our daily lives at the beginning of the 21st century...
Design Parade 11
France: Archibooks, 2016. In French. 8vo. 118 pages. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION.
Wooden Wonders
Pasadena: Serindia Publications, 2004. 4to. 304 pages. Color illustrations and photographs. Printed cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Published for the exhibition at the Pacific Asia Museum from 13 November 2004 to 13 February 2005. "This book is the eponymous catalogue of an exhibition opening in November 2004 at the Pacific...
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Origin: A Quarterly for the Creative [Issue I]
Dorchester, MA: Origin, Spring 1951. 8vo. 62 pages. Printed green wrappers. The first issue of Corman's landmark literary journal 'Origin', featuring the work of Charles Olson, and with contributions by William Bronk, William Carlos Williams (a letter to Robert Creeley), and Robert Creeley.
China: The New Generation
Italy: Skira Editore, 2015. 4to. 256 pages. Color photographs. Boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "The first book to focus on Chinese artists born in the 1980s, exploring the advent of a new generation appearing on the national and international scenes" (the publisher).
The Stylemakers: Minimalism and Classic-Modernism 1915-45
London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2011. Folio. 253 pages. Illustrations and photographs. Pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "In Paris in the 1920's a new style was born, rejecting the embellishments of Art Nouveau and Art Deco, it allied the linear proportions of late eighteenth-century furniture to a twentieth-century perception, paring...
Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010. 4to. 256 pages. Photographs and illustrations. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. Inscribed by the author on the title-page. "Prior to 1966, if artists wanted to create works larger than their studios or metalworking abilities allowed, they had to turn to industrial manufacturers, usually steel fabricators...
Georg Dobler: Schmuck Jewellery 1980-2010
Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2010. 4to. 200 pages. Color illustrations and photographs. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "Spans the oeuvre of the Berlin jewelry artist from the early 1980s to the present. A breath-taking journey from geometrical forms to casts from nature, from stone to his current work, which unite the entire creative...
Flatness Folded: A Collection of 23 Contemporary Chinese Garments
Hong Kong: MCCM Creations, 2008. 8vo. 191 pages. Black-and-white illustraions and photographs. Printed cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. A collection of Chinese garments, with illustrations of their construction.
Markus Linnenbrink: Alles Ekstase
Germany: DruckVerlag Kettler, 2006. In German. Folio. 165 pages. Color photographs. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. Monograph on the work of Markus Linnenbrink. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held in 2006-2007.
Victorian Jewelry, Identity, and the Novel: Prisms of Culture
UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2016. 8vo. 182 pages. Black-and-white illustrations and photographs. Cloth; dust jacket. "In this study of Victorian jewels and their representation, Jean Arnold explores the role material objects play in the cultural cohesion of the West" (the publisher).
Mona Hatoum
Germany: Holzwarth Publications, 2015. 8vo. 120 pages. Color photographs. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "This catalogue accompanies a vast survey of the work of Mona Hatoum (born 1952) at Kunst-haus St.Gallen in Switzerland. The pieces range from the artist's body-centered early performances of the 1980s, through large sculptures of threatening household...
Studio Talks: Thinking Through Painting
Stockholm: Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing, 2015. 8vo. 413 pages. Color illustrations. Printed cloth. FIRST EDITION. One of 500 copies. "Collects over 400 pages of commissioned texts and transcribed conversations gathered during numerous artist studio visits on the uneasy relationship between painting and the contemporary institutional and theoretical art scene" (the publisher).
Pavel Opocensky
Prague: Jako Svou Privni Publikaci, 2000. In Czech. 4to. 95 pages. Illustrations and photographs. Printed boards with mounted tile on front cover. FIRST EDITION. A monograph detailing Opocensky's sculptures.