Japan: The Beauty of Food
New York: Rizzoli, 1987. Square 4to. Glazed pictorial boards; slipcase. FIRST EDITION.
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Six Domino Puzzles
London, New York, San Francisco: Pentagram Design, [1987?, postmark on envelope]. 12mo. Stapled as issued in original printed wrappers, with original mailing envelope. A scarce promotional mailing from Pentagram, with pictorial representations of domino puzzles.
A Voyage to Cythera. Charles Baudelaire Reads and Glosses Seventeen Poems
Omaha: The Cummington Press, 1987. 4to. 46, [2] pages. Intaglio print by Priscilla Steele, signed and numbered 248/250. Plum cloth, printed paper spine label. One of 250 copies printed by Harry Duncan, on Mohawk Superfine Text. Priscilla Steele wiped, pulled, signed, and numbered her copperplate. Beautifully designed and printed.
Traveling Images and Observations / Immagini e Annotazioni
Verona: Grafiche AZ, 1987. Oblong (6 x 8.5 inches). 63 pages. Color reproductions of Testa's drawings. Printed wrappers; matching printed dust jacket. One of 1000 copies, signed by Testa on the front free endpaper. Foreword by Dana Gioia. Timpanelli's notes are fragments of a full travel diary written in November.....
Thomas Wolfe: A Descriptive Bibliography (Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography)
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. 295 pages. Blue cloth. A bibliography with various writings from Thomas Wolfe.
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook
New York: George Braziller / Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. 14.5 x 11.5. Color facsimile reproductions. Quarter cloth; pictorial slipcase.
Pour Ne Pas Mourir / To Not To Die
Éditions de la Différence, 1987. 9 x 6 inches. In English and French. 123 pages. Wrappers. First edition.
Roy Lichtenstein: Mural with Blue Brushstroke
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. 9 x 9 inches. 128 pages. Wrappers. "When one of the world's most important contemporary artists, Roy Lichtenstein painted his largest painting ever - a five-storey high mural in New York City - photographer Bob Adelman was there with his camera and tape recorder.....
Degas: The Complete Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes
New Jersey: Book Sales, 1987. 13 x 9.5 inches. 290 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition. "Comprehensive descriptive catalogue of the sixty-eight etchings and lithographs and two hundred one monotypes executed by the prolific French artist between 1856 and 1893."
Friedel Dzubas: New Paintings
New York: Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1987. 9 x 10.25 inches. Wrappers. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition from March 5th - 28th 1987.
George Segal: Portraits 1987
New York: 2RC/Sidney Janis Gallery, 1987. 11.75 x 8.25 inches. Wrappers.
Orologi Watches Montres Uhren
Italy: Cleto Munari, 1987. 12 x 8.5 inches. 33 pages. Boards.
David Salle
New York: Vintage Books USA, 1987. 9.25 x 6 inches. 101 pages. Wrappers. First edition.
Alex Katz: From the Early 60s
New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1987. 10.5 x 10.5 inches. Wrappers. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition from October 6th - 31st 1987.
Where I'm Calling From
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1988. 8vo. Original gilt-decorated red leather, edges gilt. As-new in original shrinkwrap with publisher's prospectus. FIRST EDITION, one of an undesignated number of copies signed by Carver.
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[Doctoral Address in:] University of Hartford Commencement May 15, 1988
Hartford, CT: University of Hartford, 1988. Tall 8vo. 60pp. Original red printed wrappers. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION of the University of Hartford's commencement program, awarding Carver a doctorate in 1988. Includes a portrait and biography on p.23 and Carver's address on pp.24-5.
Raymond Carver Remembered: Three Early Stories
[Newberry, SC]: 1988. 8vo. Pp. [461]-477. Plastic slide-on binding bar as issued. A fine copy. Signed by Stull. Offprint from 'Studies in Short Fiction,' XXV, 4, Fall 1988. Apparently one of about 25 copies.
Selections from Aesop's Fables Illustrated with Reproductions of Fifteen Century Woodcuts
[Mount Vernon, NY]: A. Colish, 1988. Introduction by Kit Currie. 8vo. 52, [2]pp. Printed in red and black. Original patterned paper boards. A fine copy. One of 1500 copies designed by Jerry Kelly.
Il canto dell'impresa di Igor'
Verona: Alessandro Zanella for Verba Edizioni, 1988. Folio (13 x 8 inches). Text in Russian and Italian. 40, [1] pp. Three fine etchings by Neil Moore. Original wrappers with an etching by Moore mounted on front cover; slipcase. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, number 50 of 90 copies signed by.....
Warm and Cold
New York: Grove Press, 1988. Folio (12 x 9 in.). [22] pages. Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, first printing, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Mamet on the half-title, and with his inkstamp.
The World at My Fingertips
New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 1988. 4to (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.). 20 leaves including decorated endleaves. Original boards; printed dust wrapper. FIRST EDITION, Signed in pencil at end by designer E. K. Smith and printer Dikko Faust.
Miwaku no M buru P pa (Fascinating Marble Paper)
Tokyo: Atelier Miura, 1988. In Japanese. 4to. 155 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. Illustrated with 75 brilliant color photographs which are accompanied by brief captions in English, French and German. FIRST EDITION. Detailed and beautifully presented illustration of marble paper making process. Miura, a book binder and marble paper maker, has.....
Red Grooms Ruckus Rodeo
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988. 12 x 7.75 inches. Moveable book, opening into six panoramic panels, each with pop-up scene recreating in book form the artist's "sculpto-pictoramas," the panels depicting the cowboys, cowgirls, Brahma bulls, bucking broncos, and rowdy excitement of the American rodeo. In glazed pictorial boards. First.....
Sadness Because the Video Rental Store was Closed & Other Stories
New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. 8.5 x 6.75 inches. 176 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original violet cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
Willem de Kooning (Library of American Art)
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988. 12.5 x 9.5 inches. 156 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. "Traces the life of the Dutch-born artist, shows paintings from each part of his career, and discusses the evolution of his style."