Angela Strassheim: Left Behind
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Grinnell College (Faulconer Gallery), 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Collectible; Fine. The catalogue based on the October-December 2006 exhibition at Grinnell College's Faulconer Gallery. Bright and Near Fine in its pictorial laminate boards, with light bumping at the lower tips. Tall quarto, crisp color plates on each recto.
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Azteca 1948: The Mexico City College Yearbook
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Mexico City College, 1948. Hardcover. Collectible; Very Good. Uncommon 1948 yearbook of Mexico City College. Solid and tight in its pictorial laminate boards. Light soiling along the inner hinges, small box cut out at the title page. Tall quarto, apart from the student and faculty portraits dozens and dozens of photos of campus life, featuring primarily American ex-pats engaging in "American" activities (football, baseball, etc.). Still though, there seems something unsettling about such an enormous American presence (90%+)... Read More
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Ferrarissima (20 Issues)
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Milan: Automobilia, 1996. Cloth. Fine/Fine. A remarkable run of this lavishly-produced, very high-quality magazine out of Milan, issued half-yearly and devoted to all things Ferrari. Issues 1-13, 15 and 20-25 are offered here, all in 1st edition (limited to 5,000 copies) and all in pristine (or near-pristine) condition. All issues are tight and Fine in their dark cloth, and all are in bright, Fine dustjackets. Quartos, crisp black-and-white and beautiful color photography thruout. Text in Italian, English and... Read More
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Cindy Sherman (In Dustjacket)
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Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1991. Boards. Fine/Fine. A pristine copy of the catalogue based on the March-May 1991 exhibition at Stuttgart's Kunsthalle Basel. Clean and Fine in a crisp, Fine pictorial dustjacket. Sherman's incomparable self-portraits thruout.
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List of Causes in the Hudson County (New Jersey) Courts. September Term, 1903
Hoboken, NJ: The Observer Print, 1903. Original wraps. Very Good. Uncommon "List of Causes in the Hudson County (New Jersey) Courts, September Term, 1903". The booklet begins with a printed list of the "Supreme Court Issues" and then moves on to printed lists of the "Circuit Court Issues", the "Supreme Court Issues for Late Day", the "Circuit Court Issues for Late Day", "Common Pleas Issues", "District Court Appeals" and finally "Justices' Appeals to Court of Common Pleas". (The... Read More
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150 Years at Chateau Lafite Rothschild
Zachys, 2019. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine. An all-but-pristine copy of this lavish March 2019 catalogue. Clean and Near Fine in its dark-red, pictorial boards, with just a touch of very light bowing to the front panel. Quarto, lovely color reproductions throughout. Housed in a clean, dark-card box, with handsome die-cut titling to the front panel. A very attractive presentation. Sold 2/26/21.
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David Lance Goines Poster Book
New York: Harmony Books (Crown Publishers), 1978. Original wraps. Very Good +. David Lance Goines. A sharp, very presentable copy of the 1978 1st paperback edition. Clean and VG+ to Near Fine in its wonderful pictorial wrappers, with light creasing and soiling to the panels. Folio, richly-colored, first-rate reproductions throughout.
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Military Arms, Equipments and Ordnance Stores -- Price List, 1903-04
New York: M. Hartley Co, 1903. Pictorial wrappers. Near Fine. A clean, very well-preserved copy of this 1903-04 gun catalogue. Crisp and Near Fine in its fragile pictorial wrappers, with several tiny closed tears along the panel edges. Oblong octavo, engraved illustrations throughout.
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Exotique #10: A New Publication of the Bizarre and the Unusual (Gene Bilbrew Cover)
New York: Burmel Publishing Co, 1962. Pictorial wrappers. Near Fine. Gene Bilbrew, Eric Stanten. A very sharp copy of Exotique #10, circa 1962, with its provocative Gene Bilbrew cover. Clean and Near Fine in its stapled pictorial wrappers, with a touch of light creasing along the spine. With illustrations throughout by Eric Stanton (1926-1999) and African-American illustrator Gene Bilbrew (1923-1974), two of the giants in the field.
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Sculpture by Richard Boyce
Los Angeles: Felix Landau Gallery, 1969. Original wraps. Near Fine. A crisp, clean copy of the catalogue based on the September-October 1969 exhibition at LA's Felix Landau Gallery. Sharp and Near Fine in its stapled wrappers, with juist a touch of light creasing along the spine. Square 16mo, vivid reproductions throughout.
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Idees: Blouses--Jupes--Lingerie
Paris: Publications Louchel, 1955. Spiral bound wraps. Near Fine. Lovely French lingerie catalogue, focusing on the winter 1955 season. Spiralbound, crisp off-white wrappers, with just a touch of very light soiling at the panels. Easily VG+ to Near Fine and, internally, clean as could be, with no writing or markings of any kind. Tall quarto, very appealing color and black-and-white illustrations throughout.
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Takenobu Igarashi Design 1970-1982
Tokyo: Takenobu Igarashi Design, 1982. Original wraps. Near Fine. A crisp, very sharp copy of this 1982 monograph on Japanese designer Takenobu Igarashi. Clean and Near Fine in its white wrappers, with striking, creative color reproductions throughout. Tall quarto, printed in an edition of 500 copies.
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The Monkees No. #8 -- Dell Comic Book (January 1968)
New York: Dell, 1968. Comic Books. Very Good +. A crisp, sharp copy of issue #8 of the Dell comic book, the January 1968 issue. Solid and VG+ in its wonderful pictorial wrappers, with light soiling at the panels. "Groovy! Boss! Oh Heavens! Off Again with Another Ridiculous Package of Monkeeantics --
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Commission on Building Districts and Restrictions -- Final Report -- June 2, 1916
New York: City of New York Board of Estimate and Apportionment, 1916. Cloth. Very Good +. The uncommon June 1916 "final" report on building districts and restrictions for New York City. Solid and VG+ in its crimson-red cloth, with bright gilt-titling along the front panel and spine. A bit of light scuffing to the rear panel. attractive 1929 calendar (yellow) affixed to the front pastedown. Multiple elaborate fold-out maps (a number of them in color), hundreds of black-and-white... Read More
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Radford's Artistic Homes: 250 Designs
Chicago: The Radford Architectural Company, 1908. Pictorial cloth. Very Good +. A solid, very presentable copy of the 1908 1st edition. Clean and VG+ in its light-green cloth, with just a touch of mild soiling along the front panel's edges. 250 of Radford's designs on display, each with detailed floor plans and captions.
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Central Park Scenery (Single Sheet, 19th Century)
Ephemera. Very Good +. A single sheet of 19th century stationary (presumably), featuring lavish chromolithography, consisting of 16 separate scenes of Central Park. Clean and VG+, with just a touch of light creasing at the upper tips. The chromolithographed scenes, printed by Charles Magnus of New York, take up the upper 2/3 of the page, whose dimensions are 9 1/2" wide x 11 1/2" tall. A nice piece of 19th century New York (and specifically Central Park) ephemera.... Read More
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Who Chicago? An Exhibition of Contemporary Imagists
Ceolfrith Gallery/Sunderland Arts Centre, 1980. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A very sharp copy of the February-March 1981 exhibition --in its much less common hardback-- at England's Ceolfrith Gallery/Sunderland Arts Centre. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket, with very light creasing along the front panel's top-edge and one very small closed tear at the rear panel's top-edge. Square octavo, "216 pages; 159 illustrations (29 in color), 15 photographs". "The genesis of this book is an... Read More
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The Equitable Building -- Destroyed by Fire January 9th 1912 (With Ephemera)
New York: Equitable Life Assurance Company, 1912. Stapled wrappers. Very Good +. A sharp copy of this uncommon 1912 1st edition. Bright and VG+ in its stapled, pictorial wrappers, with very light wear along the spine. Octavo, 15 pgs., numerous black-and-white photos. Scarce pamphlet, with a detailed description of the fire that engulfed the Equitable Building at 120 Broadway on January 9, 1912. The pamphlet cites several sources --excerpts from the New York Times, the Human Factor, Leslie's... Read More
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Selected Photographs Illustrating the Work of Holabird & Roche Architects --Chicago-- 1882-1925
New York: The Architectural Catalog Company, 1925. Original wraps. Very Good. Scarce, early monograph on the renowned Chicago architecture firm Holabird & Roche, circa 1925. Crisp and VG in its light-brown wrappers, with light chipping to the spine ends (1" of loss at the base) and mild creasing along the edges. Neat, small former owner signature as well (very lightly written) at the front panel's top-edge. Internally very clean, with no writing or markings to speak of. Dozens... Read More
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Brice Marden (Including the Original Guggenheim Announcement)
New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1975. Pictorial wrappers. Near Fine. A very sharp example of the catalogue based on the March-April 1975 one-man exhibition at New York's Guggenheim Museum. Crisp and Near Fine in its pictorial wrappers, with just the slightest trace of light soiling at the panels. Limited to 2,000 copies. Also incudes the uncommon single-sheet Guggenheim announcement for the show.
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Claudia Chaseling -- Spatial Painting
Munich: Verlag fur Zeitgenossische Kunst und Theorie (VFZKT), 2016. Laminate boards. Fine. Wonderful 2016 monograph on German-born painter Claudia Chaseling. An all-but-pristine copy in its laminate illustrated boards. Tall quarto, lavish color reproductions throughout.
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Fabrique D'Ornements pour Le Batiment Zinc, Cuivre, Plomb ("Factory of Zinc, Copper and Lead Ornaments for Buildings")
Paris: E. Villard, 1880. Boards. Very Good +. Uncommon Parisian architectural catalogue, circa early 1880s, offering zinc, copper and lead ornamental embellishments on new buildings. 258 pgs. of engraved plates detailing the offerings of E. Villard of 21 Rue des Taillandiers, Paris. A clean, very well-preserved copy. 12mo in its duotone cloth, with bright gilt-titling at the front panel. The engravings crisp and sharp, each captioned and numbered to help in its identification. Text exclusively in French. ... Read More
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Jean Dunard Jean Goulden
New York: Kelly Gallery, 2013. Cloth. Near Fine/Fine. An all-but-pristine copy of the catalogue --in its less common hardback-- based on the June-September 2013 exhibition at New York's Kelly Gallery. Tight and Near Fine (just a touch of light bowing to the front cover) in a crisp, Fine dustjacket. First-rate color reproductions throughout.
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Robert Rauschenberg -- Works from Captiva
Vancouver, 1978. Portfolio. Near Fine. Robert Rauschenberg. A very sharp copy of the catalogue based on the September-October 1978 exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Includes several moving pieces, such as the catalogue itself, the invitation, a very large fold-out poster and a blank cardboard backing, all contained loosely within a pictorial (screen-printed) canvas bag. All pieces crisp and clean and Near Fine.
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Lucas Samaras: Boxes and Mirrored Cell
New York: The Pace Gallery, 1988. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. An all-but-pristine copy of the catalogue based on the October-November exhibition at New York's Pace Gallery. Clean and Near Fine to Fine in its silver, mirrored wrappers. Tall quarto, crisp color reproductions at the rectos.
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