New York: George P. Putnam & Co., 1853. 8vo (7.25 x 5 inches). viii, 179 pages. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION, BAL printing C with cancel title-page dated 1853. BAL 7597; Clark A14.1.c(1). See Hill 183 for the first British edition.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864. 8vo (7.75 x 5.25 inches). vii, 436 pages. Engravings in text, many full-page. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION, "a long description of Juan Fernandez Island, which Browne visited in 1849, is given; it mentions Robinson Crusoe's cave, etc. The section on.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. 8vo (7.75 x 5 inches). xii, 421 pages, 6-page ads at end. Engravings in text. Original cloth, blocked in gilt on front cover and in blind on the back, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: early ownership signatures on endleaves. FIRST EDITION by John Ross Browne.....
9 May 1865. Oblong 8vo (5 x 8.25 inches), on yellow paper tipped at upper corners to old mount. An amusing rhymed note from the poet John Pierpont (1785-1866), the maternal grandfather of the financier J. Pierpont Morgan: "You ask for my name 'written under a note' But I'm sure.....
London: John Murray, 1836. 2 volumes, 8vo (7.25 x 4.5 inches). viii, 326; [6], 341 pages. Contemporary English cross-grained brown calf, spines in five compartments with five raised bands, two lettering-pieces, a repeated gilt block in the remaining, marbled edges and endleaves. Provenance: Isabella Payne (contemporary signature on verso of.....
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860. Two volumes bound in one, small 8vo (6 x 4 inches). xii, 292; vi, 280, [1] pages. Contemporary vellum, smooth spine richly gilt, red and black morocco lettering-pieces, marbled endleaves, silk page marker, binder's note in manuscript on slip bound in after title. Copyright edition of.....
Germantown: Chr. Sower, 1763. 8vo (6.5 x 4 inches). 16 pages. 20th-century cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered and decorated black morocco lettering-piece on front cover; cloth chemise and slipcase. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, an abridgement of Defoe's 'Journal of the plague year': "This book is an account of one man's experiences in.....
Garden City: Doubleday, 1970. 8vo. 201 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. A novel "as fascinating (and frustrating) as three dimensional chess" (NY Times review 7 September 1970). An amazingly inventive experimental novel, using an African American form of the dream-language of James Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake.'.
New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1973. 4to (11 x 8.5 inches). 22 color and and 161 black-and-white illustrations. Black printed wrappers. A loan-exhibition to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Sidney Janis Gallery. 54 paintings and sculptures were shown, all of which had passed through the hands of the gallery.....
Paris: Centre Pompidou / ARPAP, 1993. Text in French and English. 8vo (8.25 x 6.5 inches). 311 pages. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Morley on the front free endpaper and dated April 5th 1994. The show was curated by Klaus Kertess.
London: Haunch of Venison, 2009. 4to (10 x 8.5 inches). 96 pages. Color illustrations. Silver wrappers, embossed on front cover. FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held 10 September to 31 October 2009. With an extensive essay on the artists by Adachiara Zevi.....
New York: powerHouse Books, 1999. Folio (15 x 9.5 inches). 183 pages. Color reproductions. Pictorial boards; pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Clemente and Katz on the title-page. A bold, graphic signature, in this lavish catalogue. The subjects of the portraits include Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Lauren Hutton, Brian.....
New York: Lustrum Press, 1974. 4to (12 x 9 inches). [54] pages. 94 black-and-white photographs. White printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S FIRST BOOK, INSCRIBED on the half-title: "To Emily with love from Mary Ellen Mark June 78 Yosemite." Lustrum Press was the imprint of the photographer Ralph Gibson.....
Boston, Toronto, London: Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1990. Folio (12 x 10 inches). Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. A fine collection of some of Mapplethorpe's final works, all in color. With a foreword by Patti Smith.
Santa Fe: Arena Editions, 2001. Folio (11 x 11.5 inches).288 pages. 172 duotone plates; 26 four-color plates. Original cloth-backed printed boards. FIRST EDITION, first printing of this first major retrospective of the photographer's works.
[Atlanta]: Nexus Press, 1997. 6 x 4 inches. Narrow trimmed photographs alternating with gatefold photographs; 12 textual slips laid in. Black cloth. Bellavance has worked in a variety of media throughout her career, including photography, drawing, and painting. This is her only artist's book.
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New Zealand: Dent-de-Leone, 2015, 2016. Together three volumes, 4to (10 x 7 inches). Consecutively paged. 127 pages; 39 pages, newspaper print. Color and black-and-white photographs. Stapled in self-wrappers. Plastic cover on the first. Lamb's exhibition at the Garage San Remo in Milan showcased 40 of his creations – from elemental.....
London: Tate Publishing, 2017. 8vo (9.6 x 6.5 inches). 320 pages. Pictrorial wrappers. Published to accompany the exhibition at the Tate, 14 February to 11 June 2017. The show focues not only on Tillman's photography, but also his video, digital slide projections, publications and recorded music.
Paris: the(M) éditions, 2016. 4to (12 x 9 inches). 25 black-and-white photographs. Pictorial wrappers. Number 39 of 40 copies signed by Morillon, with an original signed and numbered photograph. And with: folded newspaper supplement. All in pictorial wraparound band with image of Morillon circa 1979 and in original clear plastic.....
Paris: M/M, 2013. Text by Jo-Ann Furniss. 4to (10 x 10 inches). Color and black-and-white photographs. Wrappers; pictorial outer wrapper that unfolds to be a poster; publisher's plastic sleeve with sticker. FIRST EDITION, number 618 of 200 copies. Designed by art directors Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag M/M (PARIS). A......
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Springfield, MA: [Wayside Press], 1896[-97]. Tall 8vo (10 x 5 inches. Profusely illustrated with lithographs and woodcuts, printed in colors, on varying paper stocks. Contemporary red half morocco, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: William Livermore Kingman (engraved bookplate designed by David McNeeley Stauffer). FIRST EDITION. The prosectus is bound in at.....
[North Hatfield, MA]: Pennyroyal Press, 1976. 8vo. Eight wood engravings by Barry Moser. Original marbled boards, longitudinal morocco spine label. One of 300 copies. Prints obituaries of William Morris, Cobden-Sanderson, Emery Walker, Eric Gill, St. John Hornby, Frederic W. Goudy, John Henry Nash, and Bruce Rogers, each with a wood.....
Yellow Springs: Kahoe & Spieth, 1927. 8vo. 50 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the poet on the front free endpaper and dated Oct. 11, 1927. The publisher Walter Kahoe's copy, with his bookplate.
Williamstown, MA: Williams College, 1979. 4to. Printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by the author Hiram Carruthers Butler. Other compilers were Stephen Eisenman, Laura Giles, Franklin W. Kelly, Thomas S. Michie, Mitchell Portnoy, and Kim Verzyl. Among the artists included in the exhibition wereLee Bontecou, John Chamberlain, Christo, Chuck Close, Joseph.....
Chicago: Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography / Columbia College, 1980. Edited and with an introduction by Steven Klindt; essay by Jim Enyeart. 4to. 75, [2] pages. Pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Uelsmann on the title-page. This exhibition was held from 18 January to 1 March 1980. Illustrates 75 of.....