Authors starting with R from Ars Libri Ltd

Roma, 1625.. Engraved dec. title and 28 through-numbered engraved plates, with scale indications at foot; plates 27 and 28 after Jacques Francquart. Folio. Modern vellum over boards, with early antiphonal leaves on both covers; ties. Designs for tabernacles and tombs by Bernardino Radi (1581-1643), first published, according to Guilmard, in Rome in 1618. This 1625 edition was also reissued as a supplement to the 1642 Amsterdam multilingual edition of Vignola, probably from the original plates. Radi was th... more information

New York (The Century Co.), 1917.. (10), 219, (1)pp. 108 plates. Lrg. 4to. Cloth (inner hinges broken). ... more information

New York (The Century Co.), 1918.. (6), 207, (1)pp. 204 plates. Lrg. 4to. Cloth. “Each cartoon faced with a page of comment by a distinguished American, the text forming an anthology of patriotic opinion.” ... more information

N.p. (Edition Jürgen Schweinebraden), n.d.. 18 plates, loose in portfolio, as issued. Boards ... more information

Wien, 1959.. Illustrated broadside, offset printed in black. 423 x 1174 mm. (16 5/8 x 36 inches), printed on 2 conjoint sheets (verso blank). Portions reproduced from printed text, others from the artists’ manuscripts, with marginal drawings and embellishments; a large-format composition in black by Rainer is incorporated. Oblong lrg. folio. Folded in eight sections. Manifestos to announce the founding of the Pintorarium, an ‘anti-academy’ for young painters--in Rainer’s words, a ‘... more information

Basel (Panderma-Verlag Carl Laszlo), 1960.. (10)pp. (including 1 loosely inserted leaf), 1 double-page folding original lithograph, 17 halftone plates. 3 tipped-in plates in text (1 a photograph of the artist, 1 in color). Text printed in red and purple on chartreuse wove stock, and in black on red wove stock. The lithograph measures 273 x 400 mm. (ca. 10 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches). Sm. folio. Dec. wraps. (lightly rubbed). Ausgabe C: one of 800 copies, hand-numbered in blue crayon in the colophon, from the editi... more information

Paris (Édition du Mercure de France), 1896.. 123, (3)pp. 63 illus. and vignettes by Armand Rassenfosse, in olive green. Printed on uncut fine laid paper. Sq. sm. 8vo. Dec. wraps., designed by Rassenfosse, printed in brown. Texts by Gustave Kahn, Stuart Merrill, Francis Jammes, Francis Viélé-Griffin, Albert Mockel, Henri de Régnier, Robert de Souza, A.-Ferdinand Herold, André Fontinas, Camille Mauclair, Émile Verhaeren, and André Gide. A handsome fin-de-si&eg... more information

Santa Monica, CA (Smart Art Press), 1995.. 48pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Wraps. ... more information

New York/London (Macmillan /Collier Macmillan), 1975.. (5)pp., 65 plates. Lrg. 4to. Cloth. ... more information

Paris (A. Durand & Fils, Éditeurs), 1914.. (4), 13, (3)pp. Title in red and black. Folio. Heavy cream wove wraps., printed in black and red (with Ravel’s monogram). Contents loose, as issued. (D. & F. 8976.) First edition (Imprimerie Mounot-Nicolas) of the piano vocal score. Three songs by Ravel to texts by Mallarmé; written in 1913, the cycle was first performed by Jane Bathori on January 14, 1914 for the Société Musicale Indépendante in Paris. I. Soupir (&#... more information

Paris (A. Durand & Fils, Éditeurs/ Durand & Cie.), 1911.. (2), 24pp. Folio. Heavy cream wove wraps., printed in black and green (with Ravel’s monogram), stitched with red thread, as issued. (D. & F. 8061.) First edition (Imprimerie Chaimbaud) of the piano four-hands score. Ravel began work on the score in 1909, on commission from Serge Diaghilev. The work was premiered on June 8, 1912 at the Théâtre du Châtelet by the Ballets Russes, with choreography by Michel F... more information

Paris (Éditions Jeanne Bucher), 1937.. 176 (30)pp. Lrg. 4to. Dec. wraps., designed by Man Ray. One of 650 numbered copies on Chester vergé, from the edition of 675 in all.  “Though Man Ray had occasionally provided graphic work for books and magazines produced in Surrealist circles after 1921, it was in the 1930s that drawings began to form a significant part of his work. Many of those in ‘Les mains libres’ were later the basis of paintings or reliefs, and a number origina... more information

Paris (G.L.M.), 1937.. (10)pp., 12 fine halftone plates on yellow coated stock. Sm. 4to. Publisher’s printed blue folder, within die-cut black outer folder. “This remarkable little book, a return to Man Ray’s dada roots, presages the postmodern artist’s photobook in terms of its self-reflexive attitude and complex referential twists and turns. It can be taken as a summation of his experiments in photography, and might be said to be his photographic swansong. The year the book was publis... more information

Paris (Librairie José Corti), 1961.. 188, (2)pp. 4to. Wraps. A few annotations in pen. ... more information

San Francisco, 1992.. (16)pp. 8 illus. Oblong 8vo. Self-wraps. Artist’s book, with a poem by Carlos Basualdo, published in conjunction with Reed’s exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute, July-August 1992. Portions in parallel Spanish and English. ... more information

Lübeck (Otto Quitzow), n.d.. 8ff., entirely etched, including 3 full-page compositions and 5 pages of text. Dec. handmade paper wraps. Published in an unspecified small edition, signed in the colophon by the artist. ... more information

New York (Out of London Press), 1975.. 160pp. 24 plates in text. Sm. 4to. Wraps. ... more information

Ingelheim am Rhein (C.H. Boehringer Sohn), 1961.. 47, (3)pp., 95 plates with facing commentary. Lrg. 4to. Boards, 1/4 cloth. ... more information

München (Kurt Wolff), 1928.. 21, (5)pp., 100 halftone plates. Lrg. 4to. Cloth, stamped in silver. Backstrip lightly faded, otherwise a very fine copy. ... more information

Ingelheim am Rhein (C.H. Boehringer Sohn), 1966.. 33, (3)pp., 62 full-page plates with facing commentary. Folio. Cloth. Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, with text on wove paper from the Fratelli Magnani in Pescia; bound at the Legatoria Toriana in Milano. ... more information