Titles starting with S from William Dailey Rare Books Ltd ABAA

[Venice, CA:], 2001.. 8vo, 32pp, color photos of 26 old books on which Ruscha has painted an 'S.' Wrappers. Fine.. 2000 copies produced in conjunction with exhibition at the James Kelly Gallery in Santa Fe. ... more information

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books,, (1979).. 8vo, 252pp, illus. Cloth, dust jacket, fine in near fine dj... First Edition. ... more information

Portland: Dioscorides Press,, 1990.. 4to, 283pp, frontispiece, 20 color plates, illus throughout. Orig. cloth, fine in fine dust jacket.. First Edition, includes contributions by Albert Hofman, Alexander Shulgin, Michael Horowitz, Michael Aldrich, William Emboden, and others. ... more information

N.p.[Los Angeles]: Private Copy, [n.d., ca., 194?].. 4to, 172pp. Leatherette cloth, gilt lettered, some rubbing to joints and edges, soiling, owner's labels, otherwise internally clean, very good.. Personal Copy of Louis B. Mayer, MGM's founder and president, of a treament for a movie apparently not produced by MGM but later filmed by Warner Bros. in 1979 from a screenplay by novelist Thomas McGuane. With Mayer's name gilt-stamped to cover. ... more information

Boston: The Stratford Co.,, (1930).. 8vo, 106pp, illustrated. Brown cloth. Very good copy.. First Edition, inscribed 'With the regards of the Author, John James Thornber.' Includes an Introduction by Harold Bell Wright. ... more information

Paris: Le Goupy,, 1928.. 4to, 219pp, frontispiece, 23 hors texte monochrome plates, Gray wrappers over binder-board, lettered in red and black, vignette, faint marginal embrowning, otherwise a fine copy in original cellophane.. First Edition, limited to 975 numbered copies. Many of the previously unpublished etchings and aquatints of Richard Saint-Non (1727-1791) here presented are after designs by Fragonard. Includes a biography and catalogue raisonne of Saint-Non's work. ... more information

Lausanne: Payot,, 1943.. 8vo, 231, (1)pp. Orig. printed wrappers, lightly soiled & chipped. Minor marginalia throughout text. Very good.. ... more information

Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou,, 1980.. 4to, 414pp with 342 illus., most in color. Original limp cloth binding (with slight fraying at edges as usual). Very good. Second edition, revised and corrected, of the catalogue of the retrospective held at the Pompidou 18 December 1979 through 21 April 1980. ... more information

Los Angeles: Felix Landau Gallery,, (1969).. 12mo, 28pp, 26 b&w illus. Printed wrappers, staple bound, mild wear at spine, otherwise fine.. First Edition. Catalogue of December 1, 1969-January 3, 1970 Sam Francis exhibit at Los Angeles's Felix Landau Gallery. ... more information

Saint-Paul: Fondation Maeght,, 1983.. Sq 8vo, (84)pp, b/w and color plates throughout. White wrappers, lettered in black, illus. vignette, very mild rubbing and soiling, near fine.. First Edition of this exhibition catalogue. ... more information

Denver: Denver Art Museum,, 1981.. 4to, 112pp, 95 full color plates. Illus. wrappers (detaching at spine), otherwise very good.. Exhibition catalogue to the pastel works of Lucas Samaras. ... more information

New York: MOMA Film Library,, (1956).. Tall 8vo, 48pp, misc. b&w photo-illus. Photo-illus. wrappers, edgewear, rubbing, very good.. First Edition of Griffith's monograph on the famed producer. ... more information

Glendale: Trans-Anglo,, (1984).. 4to, 224pp, frontispiece, b&w photo-illus. throughout. Wood-grained cloth, gilt lettered, dust jacket, wee nick at spine foot, otherwise fine in very good dj.. First Edition. ... more information

Palo Alto: Ramparts Press,, 1975.. Sq 8vo, 220pp, frontispiece, b&w illus. throughout. Red cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, owner's sig., fine in near fine dj.. First Edition. The story of the 60s counterculture agit-prop theater group by its founder. ... more information

San Marino: Golden West Books,, (1986).. 4to, 214pp, with over 340 illus & maps. Cloth, dust jacket. Long owner's inscription, otherwise very good copy.. First Edition, fourth printing (first issued in 1977). ... more information

Arequipa:, 1956.. 8vo, 74, cxlii pp. Orig. printed wrappers, very good.. The first part is the printing of the verse legend of San Gil; the second part is commentary, history, background and notes etc. Griffin (see 5470) describes Mostajo as 'a vastly influential philosopher and professor.' ... more information

Fullbrook: The Weather Bird Press,, 1986.. 8vo, (xii) 27, (3)pp, 8 photo plates. Biige linen with printed paper spine and top cover labels, dust-jacket. Fine.. One of 150 copies printed, signed by Vance Gerry. Includes a foreword by Ward Ritchie, with a history and checklist of the press. ... more information

Paris: C. Morelli,, 1630.. 2 vols, folio, (64), 916, (40 index), (70 appendix)pp; (4), 308, (8 index), (772, paginated as 1544 col.), (34 indices)pp, title in red and black with engr. vignette, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials. Contemp. mottled calf (rebacked), gilt-ruled edges and dentelles, black morocco labels, lettered in gilt, joints worn but cords strong, some sections of leather at old boards vol. II stripped away, wear at foot title vol. I, repair to half-title vol. II, mild, mostly margina... more information

New York: Stokes, , 1914.. 12mo, 71pp, 4 color photograph plates, 3 monotone plates, 2 half-page monotone plates, 7 initial letter photographic vignettes. Orig. cloth, gilt, photo pasted down to upper cover, light wear, a very good copy of a rare work.. First edition thus; the text had appeared the year before without illustrations. The play was written for the dedication of the bird sanctuary in Meriden, New Hampshire, and Genthe took the photos during the first performance there on September 12, 1913... more information

Twentynine Palms: Calico Press,, (1978).. 8vo, xviii, 268pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Publ. beige cloth, lettered in brown, dust jacket. Name stamp on endpaper, two inch loss to lower spine panel of dj, otherwise very good.. First Edition. The Bagleys began their fifty-five year sojourn at the oasis in Twentynine Palms in 1927. ... more information