New York: Merloyd Lawrence Book / Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1982. 8vo. xiii, 225 pages. Illustrated by Jacques Hnizdovsky. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, first printing. INSCRIBED by Smith on the front free endpaper and with a two-page note by Smith on folded card, to a correspondent who.....
Marseille: Sud poésie, 1990. Text in French translated from the English by Sonja Haussmann. 8vo. 93, [1] pages. Illustrated by Sonja Haussmann. Printed wrappers. French translation, INSCRIBED by Smith and Haussmann on the title-page.
New York: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1976. 8vo (8x 8 inches). 172 pages. Printed on various paper stocks, including translucent. Printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. The scarce catalogue of Hans Hollein's international exhibition on aspects of design for the opening of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, in October 1976.....
Brooklyn: Nimbus Books, 1987. Folded sheet (8.5 x 5.5 inches). FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies, signed at the foot of each poem by the authors: "Goofy's Brush with Despair" (Wieder) and "Goofy Plays Second Fiddle in the Family Quartet" (Shapiro). Designed by Andrea Korotky.
New York: The Poets Press, 1965. 8vo. [16] pages. Printed wrappers with a cover drawing by Brett Rohmer. FIRST EDITION.
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. 8vo (8.5 x 5.5 inches). 4 pages. Two illustrations by David Jones. Sewn as issued in printed wrappers; publisher's envelope. FIRST EDITION, published in the new series of Ariel Poems. Gallup A66a.
Osaka: Petit Grand Publishing, 1999. 8vo (8.5 x 6 inches). [160] pages. Color photographs. Faux leather; publisher's slipcase. FIRST EDITION. Gallo's beautifully illustrated scrapbook-style autobiography, with images from his childhood, New York City days, his films Buffalo '66, Arizona Dream and The Funeral, and private shots with Jean-Michel Basquiat, William.....
Boston, New York, London: Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown, [1999]. Folio (12 x 11 in.). Color photographs. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Introduction by Mark Holborn.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959. Folded sheet (35 x 7.5 inches; folding to 7.5 x 6 inches). FIRST EDITION of Kaufman's first "book": a folded sheet containing the text of 'The Abomunist Manifesto,' which was first published serially in John Kelly's magazine 'Beatitude.'.
Eugene, OR: Toad Press, [1969]. 8vo (8.5 x 5.5 inches). 55, [1] pages. Stapled in original pictorial wrappers with a photo of Snyder, his wife Masa Uehara, and the Japanese poet Nanao Sakaki. FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies. Snyder edited this special issue that includes his own work, as.....
Ultramarine Press, 1987. 8vo. 310 pages. 7 illustrations by Gregory W. Frux [the Arbor House edition is not illustrated]. Specially bound in morocco-backed marbled boards by Denis Gouey. FIRST EDITION, limited issue, number 12 of 50 copies signed by Delany.
Venice and Santa Monica, CA: WET, 1977-1981. 22 issues of the seminal Southern California style magazine. Folio and 4to. All stapled in original pictorial wrappers, as issued. A large run of this revered California lifestyle magazine, that ran to a total of 34 issues between 1976 and 1981 WET was.....
London: Self-published [printed by Datum Digital Limited], 1995. 8vo (7.25 x 9 inches). [16] leaves. 14 photographs. Stapled in wrappers, with title hand-written in pencil by Shafran, as issued. FIRST EDITION ON SHAFRAN'S FIRST BOOK, self-published with support from Focal+Point Gallery, in an edition of 600 copies, all of which.....
London: Atlas Press and Bookartbookshop / The London Institute of 'Pataphysics, 2002. 8vo (7 x 5.75 inches). 83 pages. Original printed wrappers, sheets unopened. FIRST EDITION, number 191 of 111 numbered copies from an edition of 222. The British comics author Adam Dant created the figure of Donald Parsnips, and.....
New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1993. 8vo (9.5 x 6.75 inches). 102, [2] pages. Color and black-and-white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. The Osmosis series was presented as an alternative to the Guggenheim's more traditional programming of one-person or thematic exhibitions. The series consisted of four exhibitions held over three years.....
New York: I. Rice Pereira, 1969. 8vo (9.25 x 6 inches). 82, [2] pages. Printed wrappers. Second edition, taking the sheets of the first edition with the colophon crossed out by hand and with manuscript note "second edition." A major figure in the development of modernism in the United States.....
New York: Aperture / Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006. Oblong (10 x 12 inches). 203, [1] pages. Color and black-and-white photographs. Boards; pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by Christenberry on the half-title: "For Irwin with Pleasure - William Christenberry Sept 7, 2006." Additionally inscribed on an inserted flyer for.....
New York: The Currier Gallery of Art [by Taplinger Publishing Company], 1986. 4to (11 x 10 inches). 122 pages. Color reproductions. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Freilicher on the half-title. This was the first comprehensive book on Freilicher's work. With ssays by John Ashbery, Linda L. Cathcart and.....
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1974. 4to (11 x 8.5 inches). 29 pages. Black-and-white photographs. Pictorial wrappers. SIGNED by the photographer on the front flyleaf. This exhibition was held from 18 September to 20 October 1974. The majority of Teske's images are of buildings designed by Frank Lloyd.....
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982. Oblong (10.75 x 11.5 inches). 296 pages. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth. Deluxe revised edition, one of 150 copies signed by Francis, this copy marked "sample." With essays on Francis' prints by Susan Einstein and Jan Butterfield.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, n.d. Oblong (8 x 8.75 inches). 102 pages. 56 illustrations, of which 28 in color. Cloth; dust jacket. SIGNED by Larry Rivers on the title-page. An authoritative account of Rivers' life and work by Sam Hunter, Professor of Art History at Princeton. An undated edition.....
Boston: Godine, 1971. Tall 8vo. Decorated paper boards. Number 919 of 1250 copies printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem. Typography by Bram de Does.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1872. 4to. xxiv, 36 pages. Original burgundy morocco-backed boards. Provenance: Milton W. Smith (bookplate). Third edition of Fitzgerald's celebrated translation of the Rubaiyat, first published by Quaritch in 1859. This edition codified Fitzgerald's translation with its 101 quatrains (the first contained 75 and the second 110).
Dublin and London: Maurice Fridberg, [1946]. 8vo. 83 pages. Illustrations by Francis Rose. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Wilson A37c.
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, [1938]. Small 8vo. 238 pages. Cloth; Dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, translated by Lloyd Alexander. One of Lustig's classic designs for New Directions' New Classics Series.