Port Mungo
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. 8vo. 241, [6] pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition, signed by McGrath on the title, and additionally inscribed by him on the title.
New Arrivals
The Hunting Book of Gaston Phebus
Hackberry Press, 2002. Oblong (10 x 11.5 inches). Color reproductions. Printed wrappers. English language edition translated by Ian Monk. A beautifully printed reproduction of this important manuscript.
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Short Stories [cover title is "On Short Stories"]
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1949. 8vo. Original boards; plain glassine copy. FIRST EDITION, one of 1500 copies. Laid-in: season's greetings card from the publishers, signed by six editors, including Bob Giroux.
The Nobel Prize Speech
New York: Spiral Press, 1951. 8vo. [8] pages. Printed wrappers. One of 1500 copies printed at The Spiral Press for the friends of Random House and The Spiral Press.
A complete, fine, consecutive run of Classics Illustrated comics, Nos. 1-169
4to. Original wrappers, later issues, with the full (or nearly full) series listed on the rear wrappers. A complete consecutive run of this celebrated series of comic re-tellings of classics of literature. Later issues, but a fine representation of the great covers and art found throughout the full run. This.....
Exercitium
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.
Jim Dine: Boy in the World
Göttingen: Steidl, 2009. 8.5 x 11.75 inches. 160 pages. Glazed pictorial boards. First edition of Steidl's third volume to stem from Dine's Pinocchio series, featuring works that exploit and improvise on the allegory, satire and wit of this classic tale. The exhibition was held at the Boras Museum of Modern.....
From the Corners of the Earth. Contemporary photographs of the Jewish World
Philadelphia, New York, Jerusalem: The Jewish Publication Society, 1985. 12 x 12 inches. 144 pages. Black-and-white photographs. Cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The hardcover issue is much less common than the paperback.
Lensman, Photographs 1932-52: Humphrey Spender
London: Chatto & Windus, 1987. 10.5 x 8.5 inches. 126 pages. Black-and-white photographs. Printed wrappers. First edition. Humphrey Spender was one of the first photographers in the UK to use the 35mm camera for documentary journalism, recording ordinary people and their activities with tact, empathy and objectivity.
Keyboard Instruments. Studies in Keyboard Organology
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971. 8vo. 84 pages. 62 black-and-white plates. Cloth; pictorial dust jacket.
Collected Poems
Orono: The National Poetry Foundation / University of Maine, 1986. 8vo. 220 pages. Printed wrappers. First edition, inscribed by Menashe on the half-title. Issued simultaneously in paperback and cloth. "Although Menashe published only a few volumes, he was considered a unique and significant poet by critics such as Donald Davie.....
"The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot", in: Detroit Free Press Christmas Number
London: Unwin Brothers, [1890]. Folio (14 x 9.75 inches). [3], 4-30, [2] pages. Stapled as issued in self wrappers; green cloth chemise and slipcase. First edition of Kipling's only story of the slums. Based on the author's observations of the lower classes, it is set in the East End, telling.....
Justice
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918. 8vo. [8] pages. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers; green cloth chemise and slipcase. First edition of this poem, printed for copyright purposes. Ricvhardson A312; Stewart 461.
The Scholars
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919. 8vo. [8] pages. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers; green cloth chemise and slipcase. First edition of this poem, printed for copyright purposes in an edition of 70 copies. Richardson A318; Stewart 528.
Works of the Jenney Archive
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2013. 11 postcards and envelopes in metal clamshell box. Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at Gagosian 7 March to 27 April 2013.
Ethnobotany of the Hopi
Flagstaff, AZ: Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art, July 1950. 8vo. 120 pages. Yellow printed wrappers. This is Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 15. Second printing. In the 1930s, A.F. Whiting did extensive field research on the Hopi language and culture. His Ethnobotany of the Hopi was first published.....
Enigma & Desire: Man Ray Paintings
Di Donna, 2019. Folio (12 x 9 inches). 208 pages. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial boards.
Catalogues des Tableaux Modernes Aquarelles, Gouaches, Dessins
Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1926. 4to. [84] pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Printed white wrappers. With a preface by Jean Cocteau. The auction catalogue of the important collection of paintings amassed by John Quinn, including works by: Cézanne, Derain, Dufy, Fresnaye, Gris, Laurencin, Matisse, Pissarro, Redon, Rouault, Rousseau, and Segonzac. The sale was.....
John Quinn, 1870-1925: Collection of Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings & Sculpture
Huntington, NY: Pudgeon Hill Press, 1926. 4to. 200 pages. 28 black-and-white illustrations. Printed brown wrappers.
Poems For Painters Duchamp, Fini, Frances, Tanguy, Tchelitchew
New York: View Editions, 1945. Folio (12 x 9 inches). [12] pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Printed yellow wrappers, stapled. One of 1000 unsigned copies from an edition of 1500.
George Braque: His Graphic Work
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1961. Folio (125 x 10.5 inches). 86 pages. 64 full-page plates, 9 of them in color, and one of those a two-page spread. Also two full-page photographs of the artist, and a catalogue illustrated by 35 small reproductions in black & white. Cloth; dust jacket.....
Perfect Acts Of Architecture
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2002. 10.5 x 8.8 inches. 180 pages. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial boards. Essays by Jeffrey Kipnis, Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis. Foreword by Sherri Geldin. Foreword by Terence Riley. Introduction by Terence Riley. The publisher: "Perfect Acts of Architecture collects six sets of highly inventive.....
Matthew Ritchie: Incomplete Projects 01-07
Wild Card Crew, 2006. 8.6 x 6.25 inches. Profusely illustrated. Red printed buckram. The works included in this volume were originally published from 2000 to 2006 as seven separate volumes to record a diverse group of projects. Institutional acknowledgements and credits accompanied each volume. Half of the print run was.....
Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. 11.25 x 9.5 inches. 370 pages. Profusely illustrated. Boards; dust jacket. First edition. Works spanning the legendary and prolific artist's twenty-year career, including many of his self-portraits, paintings, sculptures, works on paper, installations, and exhibition posters. Issued in conjunction with a 2008-2009 exhibition, with four.....
Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2006. 10.75 x 9 inches. 104 pages. 98 color reproductions. Pictorial boards. Essays by Homi Bhabha and Orhan Pamuk. "The attention currently directed from the West to the Islamic world has profound ramifications for the art made by those who come from the region.....