Selections from His Writings and Including a Portion of an Hitherto Unpublished Notebook; Edited and Prefaced by Gerald M. Stevenson, Jr.
by COBDEN-SANDERSON, Thomas James
Iowa City: Qara Press, 1961. First edition, number 16 of 190 copies on Curtis Rag. A near-fine copy. 4to (25.5 x 18.8 cm). 33, [1] pages. Two small mounted portraits of Cobden-Sanderson in text. Original grey paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label, binder's ticket of Boxwood Bindery, Lexington, Kentucky on rear pastedown (spine and board edges toned). Hand set and printed by Gerald McMonies Stevenson, Jr. as a part of Special Projects in Typography in the School of... Read More
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London. A Paper read at a Meeting of the Art Workers Guild
by COBDEN-SANDERSON, T. J.
London: Doves Press, 1906. Vellum slightly cockled and with some pale spotting. 8vo. 8 pages. Text printed in red and black. Original limp vellum, stamped signed by the Doves Bindery on rear turn-in. One of 300 copies. "Three words in italic, possibly the first use of italic at the Doves Press" (Marianne Tidcombe).
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Homeward: Selections from the Wieland Collection
by COCHRAN DIMLING, Rebecca
Atlanta, GA: The Wieland Collection, 2016. Fine save a few small marks on covers. 11 x 10.75 inches. Profusely illustrated. 359 pages. Original cloth.
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The Avant-Garde in Print 5
by COHEN, Arthur A.
New York: AGP Matthews Inc, 1981. First edition. Some dampstaining along top margins, some toning and wear to wrappers. One tri-folded sheet text and 10 color plates. Loose as issued in original black paper portfolio with mounted title label on front. The fourth volume in the series Typography/Master Designers in Print 2, documenting Twentieth Century design and typography. The ten plates reproduce masterpieces by Guillaume Apollinaire, Joost Schmidt, Jan Tschichold, Lajos Kassak, El Lissitzky, Karel Teige, John Heartfield,... Read More
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The Avant-Garde in Print 4
by COHEN, Arthur A.
New York: AGP Matthews Inc, 1981. First edition. Some dampstaining along top margins, some toning and wear to wrappers. One tri-folded sheet text and 10 color plates. Loose as issued in original black paper portfolio with mounted title label on front. The fourth volume in the series Typography/Master Designers in Print 1, documenting Twentieth Century design and typography. The ten plates reproduce masterpieces by F.T. Marinetti, Herbert Bayer, Alexander Rodchenko, Piet Zwart, Kurt Schwitters, Henryk Berlewi, Max Burchartz... Read More
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All the World's a Pun [Broadside]
by COHEN, Marvin
New York: Moon Dragon Press, 1975. Near-fine with a few soft creases at corners. 11 x 8.5 inches. Printed in red and black. On Blue Water Script 25% Rag paper. Inscribed in red felt-tip pen by the poet, April 15, 1976. This is Moon Dragon Press Broadside No. 1.
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All the World's a Pun [Broadside]
by COHEN, Marvin
New York: Moon Dragon Press, 1975. Near-fine with a few soft creases at corners. 11 x 8.5 inches. Printed in red and black. On Blue Water Script 25% Rag paper. This is Moon Dragon Press Broadside No. 1.
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Mark Cohen: Italian Riviera [Signed with a print]
by COHEN, Mark (photographer); Franceso ZANOT (text by)
Rome: Edizioni Punctum, 2008. First edition, with a print inscribed to a curator laid in. 8.75 x 6.5 inches. 95 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original grey boards.
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Vaterland
by COLBERG, Jörg
Kerber, 2020. First edition. New. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 96 pages. Softcover. "Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, far-right extremists are entering the German parliamentary system again. Here, photographer and writer Jörg Colberg (born 1968) attempts to understand the changing political climate in Germany and grapple with the atrocities not adequately dealt with in the nation’s recent history" (the publisher).
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Rift
by GRENFELL PRESS; Peter COLE
New York: The Grenfell Press, 1986. A fine copy with slightest of toning to edges of wrappers. 8vo. Sewn in wrappers; dust wrapper with woodcut by Joel Shapiro. FIRST EDITION, number 13 of 150 copies signed by Cole and Shapiro.
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Dan Colen: Mailorder Mother Purgatory
by COLEN, Dan (artist); Adrianna CAMPBELL (contributor); Douglas FOGLE (editor); Jeff KOONS (interviewee)
New York: Levy Gorvy, 2018. A near-fine copy. 14.5 x 10.5 inches. 76 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original illustrated boards. First edition. "This fully illustrated volume features three bodies of work, Mailorder, Mother and Purgatory, which were included in Lévy Gorvy's first exhibition with Dan Colen (born 1979). The volume includes an essay by Andrianna Campbell placing Colen within the historical tradition of painting, and a conversation between Colen and Jeff Koons, moderated and edited by Douglas... Read More
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Golden Apple of the Sun [Signed]
by COLE, Teju
MACK, 2021. First edition, signed (he signed edition includes a slip signed by the artist and bound into the inside back cover). 25 x 19 cm. 136 pages. Color photographic reproductions. Hardcover. In the period leading up to the November 3, 2020 elections in the United States, Teju Cole began to photograph his kitchen counter in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Working in the still life tradition of Chardin, Cezanne, and the Dutch masters, as well as such contemporary photographers as Laura... Read More
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Pharmakon
by COLE, Teju
London: Mack, 2024. First edition. 28 x 21.5 cm. 200 pages. Buckram paperback. "Bringing together a sequence of subtle and disquieting photographs with a dozen compact short stories, Pharmakon is a surprising new work from the singular mind of Teju Cole. The photographs were taken across the globe and extend the oblique point of view he developed in Fernweh (2020). Interspersed among the images are texts that emerge like intimate signals from our age of crisis, mining further the... Read More
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An Essay of the Art of Tormenting; with Proper Rules for the Exercise of that Amusing Study
by [COLLIER, Jane]
London: Printed for Andrew Millar; reprinted for William Miller by W. Bulmer and Co. Some minor spotting, generally clean and crisp. 12mo (6 1/8 x 3 3/4 inches). 229 pages, 2-pages ads. Engraved frontispiece by James Gillray of a cat tormenting a mouse. Contemporary mottled calf (front cover detached, rebacked). Third edition (first Bulmer). Provenance: 1804 gift inscription in ink on front free endpaper from Mrs. Legge to Harriet St. Leger(?). Considered to be perhaps the first extended... Read More
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The Brass Rainbow
by COLLINS, Michael (pseud. of Dennis Lynds)
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1969. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A fine copy. 8vo. Original yellow cloth; pictorial dust jacket designed by Muni. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper to Kenneth Millar: "Santa Barbara, Jan 25, 1969 / For Ken, Who will always be there, out in front, showing how it should be done, must be done. Who, while doing it, can still take the impossible time to help others try to follow.... Read More
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The Song of Lazarus
by COMFORT, Alex
Barnet, England: Poetry Folios, 1945. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A fine copy, a few soft creases. 8vo. 11 pages. Original printed wrappers; glassine. First edition, one of 200 copies, this copy hors commerce. The dedication copy, inscribed beneath the colophon by the author: "À Paul Eluard en hommage Alex Comfort." The printed dedication ("For Paul Eluard") appears beneath the poem's title. With an ALS by Comfort to Eluard, in French, 30 January 1946, 4to, 1 1/4 pages,... Read More
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Autograph manuscript fair copy of apparently two poems: "Thoughts in a Burial Place" and "More than they that watch for the morning
by CONDER, Josiah (1789-1855), bookseller, author and poet
N.p., 1809. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8 pages, 8vo, two bifolium each tipped to the same sheet of heavy paper, signed by Conder at bottom of fourth page. With a three-line note by Conder at the end of the second poem about the resemblance of it to an Olney Hymn of William Cooper's. (BA) Conder was a correspondent of Robert Southey and was well-connected to Romantic authors of his day as editor of the British literary magazine 'The... Read More
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Bacon's Essays: With Annotations
by [CONKLING, Edward, his copy]; Francis BACON; Richard WHATELY (editor)
New York: James Miller, 1863. One leaf loose, wear to binding at extremities, some scattered foxing. 8vo. Original green cloth. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Provenance: Edgar Conkling (1812-1881), financier from Cincinnati, presentation inscription on front free endpaper to "His Namesake C. Edgar Kinne of Ovid, Seneca Co. New York. May 8 1863. Remember that Abraham Lincoln was once a poor boy, yet became President. That most of our great men became so by 'eternal vigilance,' by system,... Read More
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It's All True
by CONNER, Bruce
San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2016. As-new in original shrinkwrap. Folio. Pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. "This book is published by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on the occasion of the exhibition Bruce Conner: It's All True, co-curated by Stuart Comer, Rudolf Frieling, Gary Garrels, and Laura Hoptman, with Rachel Federman"--Colophon.
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John Connell: Works 1965-2009
by CONNELL, John
Santa Fe: Radius Books, 2015. Near-fine with light wear to the jacket. 4to. 191 pages. Full-page color illustrations. Original pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.
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The Green Pastures
by CONNELLY, Marc
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. First edition. Fine. Though slightly leaned, the jacket square and with only modest shelfwear at ends of spine, owner's name on front free endpaper, price intact, spine unsunned. 8vo. 173pp. Original green cloth; original printed dust jacket. A superior copy of Connelly's classic play (and early Farrar imprint), winner of the 1930 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, and successful film of 1936. Connelly based the work on 'Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun',... Read More
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Caricature of Connolly by Christopher Sykes
by [CONNOLLY, Cyril] – Christopher SYKES
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 7 x 5 1/2 inches. In pencil on the recto of an octavo piece of stationery of "Dumbleton Hall, Evesham" (somewhat smudged). On the verso is written in ink (by Sykes?): "Cyril / Drawn by / Christopher Sykes / Jan. 1937." (BA).
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The Green Pastures
by CONNOLLY, Marc
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine faded, light wear to board edges and corners, and light wear to slipcase.. 4to. Plates by Robert Edmond Jones. Original green boards, gilt-lettered and decorated, unopened; publisher's board slipcase. The author's copy: Copy no. 2 of this large-paper edition, printed at the Lakeside Press, signed by the author and illustrator. One of 550 copies. Laid-in is an autograph note on the publisher's letterhead by Stanley M.... Read More
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Alchemy of Light
by CONOVER, Mary; Kathleen LOE
Lincoln, Nebraska: Whale & Star / Metaphor, 2009. A near-fine copy with several small scuffs to acetate, otherwise clean and unread. 4to. 367 pages. Original cloth, cover illustration mounted on cover; acetate wrapper. FIRST EDITION. A selection of images, sketchbook pages, and notes by Mary Conover. Contributions by Robert Thurman, Enrique Martinez Celaya, and Susan Landauer.
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An Outcast of the Islands
by CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924)
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. 8vo (200 x 128 mm; 7 7/8 x 5 in.) . [ii, ads], [vi], 391, [1] pages. Title-page printed in red and black. Publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others uncut. A near-fine copy, the top gilt lightly abraded in a few spots, one short closed tear at head of spine, slight wear at extremities. Provenance: H. Stuart Hotchkiss (1913 ownership inscription on front free endpaper). Hotchkiss (ca 1878-1947), a member... Read More
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