Fort Worth, TX: The Fort Worth Art Museum, 1977. Oblong: 8.5 x 10.75 inches. 99 pages. Original printed wrappers. Published on the occasion of the traveling exhibition to The Fort Worth Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Art Museum, Berkeley, CA. With essays by Jay.....
Moylan, PA: The Rose Valley Press, 1969-1977. A good selection of books produced by Walter Kahoe (with occasional assistance from his wife Mildred) under his Rose Valley Press imprint. After moving to Philadelphia in 1940 and joining the medical department of J.B. Lippincott Co., Kahoe began The Rose Valley Press.....
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1978. Folio. viii, 104pp. 16 color reproductions. Original cloth-backed marbled boards. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies.
Liverpool: University of Liverpool, [1978]. 8vo. 18 pages. Green wrappers. FIRST EDITION of the first Kenneth Allott lecture.
London: The British Library, 1978. Folded sheet (240 x 165). Portrait of Mardersteig. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, printing Mardersteig's dictum: "A book consists of five elements: the text, the type, the ink, the paper, and the binding. To create a unity from these five elements in such a way.....
London: The British Library, 1978. Four pages on one folded sheet (240 x 165 mm). Photographic portrait of Mardersteig. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, Brooke Crutchley's copy, signed by him on title. Printing Mardersteig's dictum: "A book consists of five elements: the text, the type, the ink, the paper, and.....
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1978. 8vo. 21, [1] p. Printed in red and black. Original quarter red cloth, marbled boards; acetate. Fine, acetate with some wear. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, number 36 of 300 copies signed by Updike from an edition of 326.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1978. 11.5 x 7.5 inches. 415 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. Original blue cloth, top edges gilt. Printed for presentation to the Roxburghe Club.
Boston: David R. Godine, 1978. 11.5 x 8.5 inches. 88 pages. Fully illustrated in black-and-white. Original green cloth; pictorial dust jacket. Second edition.
London: Michael White, 1978. 9 x 12 inches. [4], 31 pages. Original printed wrappers, stapled. This two-part play featured Lucinda Childs, with music by Alan Lloyd. The play premiered at Eastern Michigan University, 5 April 1977; this was published on the occasion of its UK performance at the Royal Court.....
Verona: Stamperia Valdonega, 1979. 8vo. 15pp. Original printed wrappers. Near-fine. FIRST EDITION, printed on occasion of the celebration of Mardersteig's life and work at the Biblioteca Trivulziana.
Toronto: Aya Press, 1979. 8vo. 23 illustrations in text, being full-page line drawings or engravings with text superimposed on images. Original morocco-backed boards; slipcase. FIRST EDITION, DELUXE LIMITED ISSUE, letter "u" of 26 lettered copies signed by the authors and containing a leaf of original manuscript in three ink colors;.....
Bloomington, IN: The Raintree Press, 1979. 8vo. Illustrated by Helle Tzalopoulou Barnstone. Cloth-backed boards; printed dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, number 184 of 200 copies, signed by Barnstone on the half-title.
New York: Targ Editions, 1979. 8vo. 18, [1] pp. Original tan cloth-backed marbled boards; plain paper wrapper. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, number 307 of 350 copies signed by Updike. This is Number Two of the Targ Editions. Designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press, on Gutenberg.....
Paris: Editions Seesam, 1979. 4to. [60] pages. Original pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION of this very scarce photobook by Dominique Lauga, a relatively obscure photographer who documented Le Palace and the club's clientele. Includes stunning images of Karl Lagerfeld, Amanda Lear, Andy Warhol, Kenzo, Paloma Picasso, Paco Rabanne, Yves Saint Laurent.....
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979. 11 x 11.5 inches. 222 inches. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition. "Clyfford Still, master of negative space and abstract artist extraordinaire, was re-introduced to the public this year as part of the U.S. Postal Service paeon to American Abstractionists."
Germany: Edition Volker Huber, 1979. 14 x 11.5 inches. 127 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. In German.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1979. 10.5 x 8.5 inches. 120 pages. Pictorial wrappers. "Representative selection of works by the British artist with subjects executed in various media, ranging from still lifes, showers, pools, curtains, and portraits."
Fondation Maeght, 1979. 8.5 x 8.5 inches. 142 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. In French. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition from May - June 1979.
New York: Brooke Alexander, 1979. 6.5 x 5.25 inches. Wrappers. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition held from May - June 1979.
Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, 1979. 8vo. [11] pages. Sewn in original wrappers, printed paper label on cover. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 200 signed copies, printed by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press, from Garamond type on Fabriano papers. Bertholf A53a.
Privately Printed, 1979. 8vo. Marbled wrappers, printed paper label on front cover. One of only fifteen copies, printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press. A scarce Gordon title.
Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1980. 8vo. Original cloth. Fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 196 of 300 copies signed by Price from an edition of 330.
New York: Bird & Bull Press for Targ Editions, 1980. 8vo. [24] pp. Original tan cloth-backed decorated-paper boards; plain paper dust wrapper. Fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, one of 350 copies signed by Updike. Designed and printed by Henry Morris and the Bird & Bull Press. This is Number.....
Worcester: Metacom Press, [1980]. 8vo. 16, [1] pp. Sewn in original blue marbled wrappers, printed paper label on front cover. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 132 of 300 copies signed by Updike from an edition of 326. This is Metacom Limited Editions Series, no. 1. With publisher's slip laid-in explaining.....
