Scranton: International Textbook Company, 1966. Oblong 4to. 293 pages. Illustrations and photographs. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "This book attempts to demonstrate an integrity of form and content which is essential to communicative closure. But realization of the potentials of communication the technological age will depend largely upon the creative coalition...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. 8vo. 365 pages. Cloth-backed printed boards. FIRST EDITION. Signed by the author on front flyleaf. The dancer's autobiography.
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2014. 4to. 223 pages. Color photographs. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "An exquisitely illustrated celebration of this influential style that is now at the forefront of interior design" (the publisher).
London: Merrell, 2014. Folio. 104 pages. Color photographs and illustrations. Pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) was one of the twentieth century's master photographers. A revered figure in the world of fashion image making, he charted sixty years of style for Vogue and House and Garden...
South Africa: David Krut Publishing, 2009. 4to. 279 pages. Color illustrations and photographs. Printed boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "The first comprehensive survey of Handspring's work in adult puppet theater" (the publisher).
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 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).
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).
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...
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.
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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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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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."...
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...
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...
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...
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...
France: Archibooks, 2016. In French. 8vo. 118 pages. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION.
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...
Black Mountain, NC: Black Mountain College, Summer 1954. 8vo. 64 pages. 8 black-and-white photographs illustrating Charles Olson's piece on Mayan heads. Printed wrappers with design by Katsué Kitasono. The second issue of Robert Creeley's seminal journal from Black Mountain College. Among the important contributions to this issue are Paul Blackburn's...
![Origin: A Quarterly for the Creative [Issue I]. Charles OLSON, Cod CORMAN](/pictures/thumb/405279.jpg?v=1559330097)
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.
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).
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...
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...
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...