Dirk Stewen: While You Were Out
New York: Walther Konig, 2009. 11 x 9 inches. 136 pages. Original boards; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
New Arrivals
Llyn Foulkes
London: Prestel Publishing, 2013. 11.5 x 9.5 inches. 199 pages. Profusely illustrated. Original white boards; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. "This exhibition catalog accompanies the first comprehensive retrospective of the Los Angeles-based multimedia painter. Throughout his career, Llyn Foulkes has been working on the fringes of the art establishment, rebelling.....
Fredrik Værslev
London: Mousse Publishing, 2013. 9.25 x 8 inches. 18 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. First edition, one of 100 copies.
An Old Dirt Trail, A Dead Oak Tree, A Big Rock on a Hill
Winterthur, Switzerland: Kunstmuseum Winterthur & Nieves, 2008. 10 x 7.75 inches. Profusely illustrated in color. Original printed wrappers. First edition.
The Gainsborough Packet, &C.
London: Zabludowicz Art Projects, 2009. First edition, one of 1000 copies. Published in conjunction with the exhibition presented from February 26 to June 28, 2009.
Telephone Paintings
Brussels: Almine Rech Gallery, 2012. 9.25 x 9.25 inches. 168 pages. First edition, one of 500 copies. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, held at the Almine Rech Gallery from July 14 to 17, 2012.
Michael Dean: Selected Writing
London: Mousse Publishing; The Henry Moore Foundation, 2012. 9 x 6.25 inches. 80 pages. Illustrated in color. Hardcover, with a velour-like covering; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, published to accompany the exhibition "Michael Dean: Government.
Imperial Rescript of the Declaration of War on the United States and Great Britain. Dated December 8th, 1941 (but later, printed for Military Academy Use circa 1942-1944).
Lithographic document in Japanese,accordion form, 14 x 4 inches (350 x 105 mm). The formal announcement of a state of war delivered to the Japanese people, comprising title panel and 8 pages. Purple boards, upper cover with Imperial chrysanthemum device, and titled, edges lightly rubbed; matching original blue/green card slipcase.....
Nick van Woert: Breaking and Entering
Paris, New York: Yvon Lambert, 2011. 8.75 x 6.5 inches. 80 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original gray wrappers. First edition, one of 1200 copies. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Yvon Lambert, New York, from February 26 to April 6, 2011.
Pictures: Josh Tonsfeldt
2011. 8 x 5.5 inches. 75 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original brown wrappers. First edition, one of 100 copies.
The Critical Review: or, Annals of Literature. Volume the Nineteenth. -The Twenty-Eighth
London: A. Hamilton, 1765, 1769. Together two volumes, 8vo (8 x 5 1/4 inches). Contemporary quarter sheep, marbled boards, black morocco lettering-pieces on spines (wear at extremities, but in generally fine, original condition). Provenance: R. Michel, Esq. (engraved armorial bookplates). The Critical Review ran from 1756 to 1817, and was.....
Bacon's Essays: With Annotations
New York: James Miller, 1863. 8vo. Original green cloth. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Provenance: Edgar Conkling (1812-1881), financier from Cincinnati, presentation inscription on front free endpaper to "His Namesake C. Edgar Kinne of Ovid, Seneca Co. New York. May 8 1863. Remember that Abraham Lincoln was once a poor.....
Poor Richard's Almanack. Being the Almanacks of 1733, 1749, 1756, 1758, first written under the name of Richard Saunders
New York: Rimington & Hooper, 1928. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches). Facsimile edition with a foreword by Phillips Russell. Original tan buckram; black buckram slipcase with printed paper label. Provenance: May H.C. Rimington, presumably a relative of the publisher (signature on pastedown within Ex Libris, inscription gifting it.....
Seth Price: Folklore U.S.
New York: Walther Konig Verlag, 2015. 9 x 6.5 inches. 240 pages. Profusely illustrated. Original green wrappers. First edition. "Based on a project at Documenta 13, this publication presents new multimedia works by New York artist Seth Price (born 1973) that meditate on today's material (fabric) culture. Folklore U.S. includes.....
John Armlender
Paris: Flammarion, 2006. 11.25 x 8.25 inches. 207 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pink, die-cut boards. First edition. "Internationally acclaimed Swiss artist John Armleder fuses genres and media; he borrows influences from modernist art, modern design, constructivism, art deco, minimalism, op art, music, and film. The resulting images, sculptures.....
Prinz Gholam
Frankfurt: Revolver, 2007. 13 x 9.25 inches. 104 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. First edition.
Spezial Fotografie: Portfolio No. 36
Germany: Te Neues Publishing Company, 2004. 14 x 10.5 inches. 93 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. First edition. "Collected in this portfolio are provocative color images from a British photographer who has become the most successful of his generation. Martin Parr has best expressed himself through books.....
Holly Roberts: Works 2000 to 2009
Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2011. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. 79 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original brown cloth, with a plate laid-in on the front cover. First edition.
Tobias Pils
Cologne, Zurich: Galerie Gisela Capitain; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, 2016. 10.5 x 8.5 inches. 112 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original printed boards. First edition, one of 1000 copies.
Sketches Abroad with Pen and Pencil
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868. 8vo (199 x 142mm). 191 pages. Plates and illustrations in text. Publisher's presentation gift binding of full black morocco, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt (hinges tender, light wear to joints and extremities). First edition of the first book both written and illustrated by Darley.....
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Stat Nominus Umbra [Letters of Junius]
London: T. Bensley, 1799. Two volumes, 8vo (212 x 125mm). 21 engraved portraits, vignettes in text. Contemporary full green straight-grained morocco gilt, all edges gilt (sympathetically rebacked to style, some rubbing to joints and extremities, light wear along fore-edges, mottling to leather). First complete Bensley illustrated edition.
An Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King John: To Which is Added, the Great Charter in Latin and English; the Charters of Liberties and Confirmations, Granted by Henry III. and Edward I. The Original Charter of the Forests; and Various Authentic Instruments Connected with them...
London: John Major, 1829. Large-paper copy. Large 8vo (240 x 148mm). xxxii, 612 pages, index. Added engraved title on India paper (stained). Each page set within finely engraved architectural border. Full gilt-tooled morocco by F. Bedford, spine richly gilt, all edges gilt (spine extremities and raised bands a bit chipped.....
The Second Jungle Book
London: Macmillan and Co, 1895. 8vo (182x119mm). [8]], 238 pages, [2]-page ads. Includes initial blank and half-title. With decorations by J. Lockwood Kipling. Full speckled calf by Anthony Wessely, Windsor (stamped on front free endpaper verso), original blue cloth cover bound in at end, red and black morocco lettering-pieces on.....
An Essay of the Art of Tormenting; with Proper Rules for the Exercise of that Amusing Study
London: Printed for Andrew Millar; reprinted for William Miller by W. Bulmer and Co. 12mo (6 1/8 x 3 3/4 inches). 229 pages, 2-pages ads. Engraved frontispiece by James Gillray of a cat tormenting a mouse. Contemporary mottled calf (front cover detached, rebacked). Third edition (first Bulmer). Provenance: 1804 gift.....
How to Hunt and Trap containing full instructions for hunting the Buffalo, Elk, Moose, Deer, Antelope, Bear, Fox, Grouse, Quail, Geese, Ducks, Woodcock, Snipe, etc. Also the Localities where Game Abounds
New York: Orange Judd Company, 1878. 12mo (7.5 x 5 inches). 220, [3, index] pages. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's gilt-stamped pictorial cloth (minor spotting). Early edition Phillips, p.36 records two 1878 editions (New York and Philadelphia) but not this. A practical guide to American hunting and trapping, with ample information on.....