A New Method of teaching the Italian Tongue to Ladies and Gentlemen. Wherein all the Difficulties are explain'd, in such a Manner, that every one, by it, may attain the Italian Tongue to Perfection, with a marvellous Facility, and in a very short Time
by CASOTTI, [Laurentio]
London: Printed by E. Everingham at the Author's Expences, and sold by James Round, Joseph Archez, and by the Bookseller in St Tames's Street, 1709. Slightly browned, marginal wormtrack at the end, touching a few words; several lines scratched out on p. 69, perhaps where the content ('Expressions of Kindness') was deemed inappropriate; else a very good copy, the binding rubbed, joints cracked. 8vo. [2], iv, [2], 102 pages. Contemporary panelled calf. Provenance: ownership inscription of Edw. Chamberlayne.... Read More
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Speech to the Women, January 15 1963
by CASTRO, Fidel
N.p.: s.n., 1963. Some light soiling, but fine. 5 x 8 inches. 33 mimeographed pages. Printed orange wrappers, stapled as issued. It would appear that this was printed in Toronto by Workers Vanguard Publishing, but it presents itself without attribution.
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Graphic Design and Visual Communication
by CATALDO, John W.
Scranton: International Textbook Company, 1966. A very good copy with some light darkening around the pages, as well as some wear and two small tape adhesions on the front cover. Oblong 4to. 293 pages. Illustrations and photographs. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "This book attempts to demonstrate an integrity of form and content which is essential to communicative closure. But realization of the potentials of communication the technological age will depend largely upon the creative coalition of the educator,... Read More
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Specimens: A Stevens-Nelson Paper Catalogue
by STEVENS-NELSON PAPER CATALOGUE
New York: Stevens-Nelson, 1953. First edition. A fine copy. Folio (29.9 x 24.6 cm). 107 specimen sheets, some with illustrations. Original quarter blue morocco, marbled boards, gilt-lettered on spine. In the publisher's plain board slipcase (light wear). With presentation leaf to Sidney Cockerell. According to notes left by the binder Laura S. Young, the book was a gift from Peggy Loos in 1954 when it was being discarded (her husband Melvin Loos was the manager of the Columbia... Read More
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Ileana Sonnabend and Arte Povera
by CELANT, Germano (editor); Michelangelo PISTOLETTO (text by); Gilberto ZORIO (text by)
New York: Levy Gorvy, 2017. First edition. Rear cardboard lightly creased; generally a clean copy. 12.5 x 9 inches. 348 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cardboard covers; cloth spine. "This two-volume publication accompanies the exhibition Ileana Sonnabend and Arte Povera held at Hauser & Wirth New York in 2017. The larger of the two books includes a comprehensive chronology, including every exhibition presented by the Sonnabend galleries between 1962 and 2014, with expanded sections on Arte Povera... Read More
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Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966
by CELMINS, Vija (artist); Franklin SIRMANS (author); Michelle WHITE (author)
Houston: Menlil Foundation. First edition. A clean copy with no internal markings. 9 x 6 inches. 64 pages. Orignal cloth with photographic plate laid-in. "American artist Vija Celmins (b. 1938) is widely admired and respected for her sublime images of night skies and ocean waves. Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966 looks closely at Celmins's early work, which is deeply engaged with the Pop Art scene of 1960s Los Angeles. The authors argue convincingly for a better understanding... Read More
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The Green Lake is Awake
by CERAVOLO, Joseph
San Francisco: Coffee House Press, 1994. 8vo. 131, [3] pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION.
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Spring in this World of Poor Mutts
by CERAVOLO, Joseph
New York & London: Columbia University Press, 1968. 8vo. Original cloth; original printed dust jacket. Small tear to upper front joint of jacket, a few small areas of rubbing, otherwise fresh and clean. FIRST EDITION. This was a Frank O'Hara Award winner, and was the first book granted that prestigious title. The award was "specifically intended to encourage the writing of good new experimental poetry and to aid in its publication" (Jacket copy). Ceravolo was 34 at the time... Read More
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Lynn Chadwick: December 1-December 22
by CHADWICK, Lynn (artist); Peter OSBORNE (introduction by)
London: Osborne Samuel, 2005. Softcover. Tiny bump along upper edge of wrapper, otherwise fine. 10.5 x 7.5 inches. Wrappers.
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Lynn Chadwick: New Work
by CHADWICK, Lynn (artist)
New York: Marlborough Gallery, Inc, 1991. Softcover. A fine copy. 11.75 x 9.75 inches. Wrappers.
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The Story of Wu-Kut & Pren-ting. A true account gathered from contemporary sources & illustrated by Sidney Chafetz
by CHAFETZ, Sidney
[Columbus, Ohio]: The Logan Elm Press at The Ohio State University, 1979. Light toning to edges of slipcase and covers, generally fine and well preserved. Accordion form (each panel 6.5 x 5 inches), 8 panels. Printed in red and black, one full-page woodcut and three small vignettes (including on title). Mounted in grey board covers, title printed on front; printed slipcase. One of 75 copies signed by Sidney Chafetz. This satirical history of printing was the first Logan... Read More
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Chagall: Lithographs V 1974-1979
by CHAGALL, Marc; Charles SORLIER; Robert MARTEAU
New York: Crown Publishing Group, 1984. First American edition. Hardcover. 13 x 9.75 inches. 249 pages. Cloth; pictorial dust jacket; acetate; publisher's plain slipcase. "Gathers more than two hundred lithographs, including book illustrations, by the Russian-born artist, and discusses the role of the engraver in the production of prints.
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Food Chain: Encounters Between Mates, Predators and Prey
by CHALMERS, Catherine; Michael L. SAND (editor)
New York: Aperture, 2000. A near fine copy. 7.75 x 11.5 inches. 140 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original red cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
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Gogmagog: Morris Cox & the Gogmagog Press
by CHAMBERS, David; Colin FRANKLIN; and Alan TUCKER
Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1991. 4to. Color and black-and-white plates. Original orange cloth. As new. FIRST EDITION. Published on the occasion of Cox's 88th birthday "as a tribute to the brilliance of his work at the Gogmagog Press - as author, artist, and printer, creator of some of the most original hand-printed books in this latter part of the century" (Introduction).
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John Chamberlain: Masks
by CHAMBERLAIN, Jhn (artist); Nancy RUBINS (contributor); Thomas E. CROW (contributor)
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2017. First edition. A clean copy. 12 x 9.5 inches. 100 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery in 2017. "Gagosian is pleased to present rarely seen sculptures by John Chamberlain. Following the New York showings of 'New Sculpture' at Gagosian in 2011, as well as 'Choices', his 2012 retrospective at the Guggenheim, this exhibition highlights a series of steel masks, the majority of... Read More
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War Paint and Rouge
by CHAMBERS, Robert W.
New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1931. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine slightly faded, front hinge tender, a very good copy.. 8vo. Original red cloth. First edition. With an ALS by the dedicatee Sir Gilbert Parker laid-in thanking Chambers for dedicating the book to him, one page, London, 6 December 1931: "... I am touched by your kind act. You are a writer who commands the attention of the whole world. May it long continue..."... Read More
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Ben Brace, The Last of Nelson's Agamemnons
by CHAMIER, Captain, R.N.; George CRUIKSHANK
London: Richard Bentley, 1836. A very good set with light wear to extremities, adhesion on pastedown of vol. 3. 3 volumes, 8vo. 302; 319 & 334 pages. Three frontispieces by George Cruikshank. 19th-century green half morocco, marbled boards, all edges gilt, by Tout and Sons. The first illustrated edition, with Criuikshank's etchings, the second edition of the text. Cohn 129.
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The High Window
by CHANDLER, Raymond
New York: The World Publishing Company, 1946. First edition, second printing. Ownership inscription in ink on pastedown, some light wear and ends of spine. Octavo. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket.
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Greenwich Village
by CHAPIN, Anna Alice
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1920. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Hinges cracked but holding, some light wear at extremities. 8vo. Illustrated by Allan Gilbert Cram. Original decorated cloth. Later printing (the first was 1917). Signed by the dedicatee Vincent C. Pepe beneath the printed dedication.
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The Chinese Deer
by CHAPIN, Katherine Garrison
New York: Aloe Editions, 1975. Softcover. A fine copy. 4to. 12 pages (including blanks). Original yellow printed wrappers, sewn. One of 75 copies, designed and printed at The Oliphant Press. This copy unnumbered and unsigned, out-of-series, and from the printer's personal collection.
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Le Livre des Livres de Rouault/The Illustrated Books of Rouault
by CHAPON, François
Trinckvel, 1992. Hardcover. A fine copy. 13 x 10.5 inches. 247 pages. Cloth; dust jacket; plain board slipcase. In English and French. First edition.
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Evocations
by CHARLENZA, Carl
Tucson AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2002. Pale shadow on front cover, a few scuffs, otherwise fine. 12.75 x 12.5 inches. 99 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original black cloth, with a plate laid in on the front cover. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the half-title.
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The White Rider
by CHARTERIS, Leslie (pseud. of Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin
London: Ward, Lock, 1928. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original pale green cloth; in a dark morocco slipcase with red morocco spine labels. First edition of this crime novel and the author's second book. The dedication copy to his mother, inscribed by Charteris incorporating the printed dedication: "With love [to my Mother] from Leslie. Twenty second February 1928." Charteris' first book, 'X Esquire,' was issued by Ward, Lock in 1927; his third – in which The Saint... Read More
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The Rowley Poems
by CHATTERTON, Thomas
London: Hacon & Ricketts, Vale Press, 1898. One of 210 copies. Generally a near-fine set, well preserved. 2 volumes, tall 8vo. Wood-engraved wild briony border on the first page of text in each volume, and ornamental initials by Charles Ricketts. Early 20th-century brown half morocco, spines paneled and gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed (light wear to bindings).
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The Attractions of France
by CHATWIN, Bruce (1940-1989)
London: The Colophon Press, 1993. 8vo. 17, [1]pp. Original wrappers, printed paper label on cover. Slight shadow at edges of wrapper. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 6 of 175 copies from an edition of 211. With a lengthy presentation inscription from the publisher on the second leaf beneath the introductory text.
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