Gego: Line as Object
by GEGO (artist); Eva FROITZHEIM (text by)
Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2014. First edition. Wrappers with a very minor scratch; generally a clean copy. 9.75 x 7.5 inches. 248 pages. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Original pictorial wrappers. "Many of the works of Gego (1912-1994) can be turned around, walked around or walked through, so that their composition seems to be constantly changing. Filigreed and minimal, so light that they almost seem to dance, her grid sculptures can be hung like reliefs in front of... Read More
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Gutai: Splendid Playground
by GUTAI (artist); Alexandra MUNROE (author); Ming TIAMPO (text by); Yoshihara JIRO (text by); Hirai SHOICHI (text by)
New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2013. First edition. Generally a fine copy, with one small scratch on spine. 11 x 9 inches. 316 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original padded boards. "The Gutai Art Association was founded by Yoshihara Jiro in 1954 in the cosmopolite town of Ashiya, near Osaka. The group spanned two generations, totaling 59 artists and is one of the most radical movements in postwar Japanese art history. Published in conjunction with the first United States... Read More
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Picasso and Drawing
by PICASSO (artist); Bernice ROSE (essay by)
New York: Pace Wildenstein, 1995. Softcover. Shadow on front wrapper, internally fine. 11.5 x 9.5 inches. 119 pages. Pictorial wrappers. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition from April - June 1995.
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Back in the USSA
by BYRNE, Eugene and Kim NEWMAN
Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing Books, 1997. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Fine. 8vo. Original red cloth; pictorial dust jacket; publisher's slipcase. First edition, limited issue no. 105 of 300 copies signed by the authors.
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Old Creole Days
by CABLE, George Washington
New York: Scribner's, 1879. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original pictorial brown cloth, decorated in black, lettered in gilt; in an open-faced slipcase. First edition, first printing, and a fine copy, of Cable's first and best book, comprised of six stories of antebellum New Orleans. Bookplate of [J. F. Pecker?]. BAL 2330.
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Debbie Fleming Caffery
by CAFFERY, Debbie Fleming
New Orleans: Arthur Roger Gallery, 1998. First edition, signed by the author on the title- page. A near-fine copy with some light wear at the edges of the wrappers. 12 x 12 inches. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original pictorial boards. Published in conjection with the exhibition held at Arthur Roger Gallery, 1998.
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Photography as a Fine Art. The Achievements and Possibilities of Photographic Art in America
by CAFFIN, Charles H.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901. A near-fine copy with some light wear to binding at extremities, internally fine. 4to. 191 pages. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine. First edition. From the collection of NYC gallerist Marjorie Neikrug. A landmark at its time of publication, Caffin's book is still one of the most informative and authoritative appraisals of the American photographers who later became the Photo Secession. Singling out Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Gertrude... Read More
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Dentro lo Spazio
by CAGLIO, Luciana; Nag ARNOLDI
Lugano: Banca della Svizzera Italiana, 1985. Jacket with a few small tears at edges but generally bright and clean, internally clean and unblemished. Text in Italian and English. Folio (12.5 x 11 inches). Illustrated in black-and-white and color. Cloth; dust jacket. Limited edition, number 84 of 198 numbered copies from an edition of 1200. A monograph on the architect Claudio F. Pellegrini's work in Lugano, lavishly printed and illustrated. WITH: Nag Arnoldi. [Untitled]. Etching, 7.5 x 6.25... Read More
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The Bondman. A New Saga
by CAINE, Hall
London: Heinemann, 1890. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spines faded, an inch tear at top of rear outer joint of vol. 3, small water-stain on front covers of vols. 2 and 3). 3 volumes, 8vo. Original scarlet cloth, spines gilt-lettered. First edition. Presentation copy from Caine to his wife, inscribed by him on the dedication page on his own behalf and also on behalf of their son, the dedicatee of this three-decker: "To my dear wife with my... Read More
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Pedras & Rochas, em fotografia / Rocks & Stones in Photography
by CALADO, Jorge
Lisbon: IST Press, 2002. Fine save some moderate shelfwear to the covers, internally clean. 11.75 x 10.5 inches. Text in English and Portuguese. 67 pages. Color and black-and-white photographs. Hardcover with image printed on front cover. First edition, published to accompany the exhibition held at Eugenio de Almeida Forum in Evora 10 January to 30 March 2003 and the Photographic Archives of the City of Lisbon, 10 April to 23 May 2003.
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Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations
by CALDER, Alexander; Jean-Paul SARTRE, and James Johnson SWEENEY
Paris: Galerie Louis Carre, 1946. A clean, near-fine copy in wrappers with some very minute wear and pale offsetting. An attractive and finely printed catalog. 12mo (15.6 x 12 cm). 35, [17] pages. Frontispiece photograph of Calder in his studio in Roxbury, 7 plates, of which four in color (and two of these double-page), and one color heapiece of a mobile. Printed wrappers, the front wrapper with a photographic image of one of his mobiles in motion. First... Read More
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You Have Seen Their Faces
by CALDWELL, Erskine and Margaret BOURKE-WHITE
New York: Viking, 1937. First softcover edition. A fine copy in a good jacket that has some splitting along the joints, creasing, and other edgewear. 28.5 x 21 cm. Pictorial wrappers; with the pictorial dust jacket.
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Three typed letters signed ("Erskine") to Barnaby Conrad in Carpinteria, California; Scottsdale, April 12-June 24, 1979
by CALDWELL, Erskine
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One letter a bit wrinkled and with a few faint stains. 2 pages, large 8vo (or small 4to) and a half-page 8vo, all single-spaced, with two envelopes. With a glossy photograph of Caldwell and a TLS and a signed card from his wife Virginia to the Conrads. The first two letters concern Caldwell's presence at the Conrad-run Seventh Annual Santa Barbara Writers Conference which he attended at the latter's invitation: "... The most... Read More
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The Cambridge Directory for 1857: Embracing a List of the City Officers, a General Directory of the Citizens, and a Business Directory
by [CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSSETTS]. FORD, John, publisher
Cambridge MA: John Ford at the Chronicle Office, 1857. First edition of the ninth in the series. Hardcover. 8vo. Engraved folding "Map of the City of Cambridge, Mass." after W.A. Mason, engineer and surveyor. Original blind-decorated brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Robert O. Fuller (pencil inscription on front flyleaf, he is listed on p.115). FIRST EDITION of this ninth Cambridge Directory, which opens with a calendar and then provides a complete listing of commercial, religious, governmental, and individual... Read More
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Autograph letter in the third person to a Mr. Duckett; [London], "Foreign Office," 6 August 1826
by CANNING, George
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 4 pages, 4to, integral second leaf neatly inlaid, front portion of envelope (signed "Geo Canning") attached, with engraved portrait of Canning. Canning (1770-1882), British statesman, writes (at the time he was Foreign Secretary), giving reasons for declining a proposed interview. (BA).
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Cornell Capa Photographs
by CAPA, Cornell
Boston; Toronto; London: Bulfinch Press, 1992. First edition. Front jacket with small area of damage, otherwise fine. 9.75 x 11 inches. 216 pages. Original black cloth in pictorial dust jacket. "In this collection of photographs, photojournalist Cornell Capa has assembled a group of his most powerful images, taken between the 1940s and 1970s. This book features 166 photographs, including images of political upheaval, war, famine, religious rites and the world-famous" (The Publisher).
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The Voice of the Print
by CAPONIGRO, Paul
[Rockport]: Paul Caponigro, 1990. A fine copy. 10.25 x 7.25 inches. 8 black-and-white reproductions, text and plates loose as issued in folded grey wrappers. Inscribed by Caponigro on the inner wrapper, Rockport, 1992.
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The Life of Hernando Cortes
by [CARLYLE, Thomas] – Arthur HELPS
London: Bell and Daldy [Printed at the Chiswick Press], 1871. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spines a touch darkened, some very slight wear. Small hole in the front free endpaper of vol. 2, probably the result of moving Carlyle's bookplate from that spot, where it was mistakenly placed, to the inside front cover; nevertheless, an agreeable copy. 2 volumes, 8vo. Original dark brown cloth, blocked in black and gilt. First edition. The dedication copy to Carlyle, with his... Read More
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Anthony Caro: New Sculpture
by CARO, Anthony
New York: Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1989. Softcover. A fine copy. 9.5 x 9.5 inches. Wrappers. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition from May - June 1989.
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Aspects of Anthony Caro: Recent Sculpture 1981-89
by CARO, Anthony
London: Annely Juda Fine Art, 1989. A fine copy. 8vo. 96 pages. Ilustrated in color. Pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION.
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Two Spirits [signed]
by CARTER, Keith and Mauro FIORESE
Milan: Leonardo Arte, 2002. New edition, signed. A near-fine copy with light soiling to the wrappers and a pale stain at lower edge of first few leaves. 9.5 x 8.75 inches. Black-and-white reproductions. Printed wrappers. Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition of the work of Keith Carter and Mauro Fiorese at Centro Internazionale di Fotografia Scavi Scaligeri, Milan, Italy, 2001-2002.
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Where I'm Calling From
by CARVER, Raymond (1938-1988)
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
by CARVER, Raymond (1938-1988)
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.
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Raymond Carver Remembered: Three Early Stories
by [CARVER, Raymond (1938-1988)] William L. STULL
[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.
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The Estivation of Two Mao Tzu. Being an informal and occasionally frivolous account of our vacation in China during the Summer of 1934. Set down by Melbert B. Cary, Jr.
by CARY, Melbert B., Jr.
New York: The Press of the Wooly Whale, 1935. Number 231 of an edition of "less than [sic] 250 copies on Kawara and 4 special copies on Inomachi Vellum. Soft bump to upper corners, some slightly age-toning to the covers, generally fine. 203 x 160mm. 124 pages, plus colophon. Two full-page maps, printed in colors. Title-page in red and black with dragon designs by Warren Chappell. Japanese-style binding, blue cloth with yellow-trimmed spine. With the Carys' compliments slip... Read More
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