The Sunken Garden
by CRANE, Nathalia
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1926. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Covers slightly and evenly foxed, spine faded, a good copy. 8vo. Original black cloth. First edition of the author's third book and first prose work (a novel). The dedication copy, inscribed by this twelve-year-old author: "For Jean Starr Untermeyer, most sweet friend and gracious lady, to whom I have dedicated The Sunken Garden. With love, Nathalia Crane. Brooklyn, N. Y., May 7, 1926." Opposite the inscription, on the... Read More
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Two scarce ephemeral items regarding the dinner for him on December 19, 1895, given by the society of Philistines
by CRANE, Stephen
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 1) "The Time Has Come," the Walrus Said, "To Talk of Many Things". [East Aurora, NY: Elbert Hubbard, 1895]. 8 pages, 9 x 6 1/4 inches, large illustration by Collin on the front cover, stitched with red thread (first and last leaves separated along spine). The program of a dinner given by the Society of the Philistines, Thursday evening, December 19, 1895, in honor of Stephen Crane, signed in pencil at top of... Read More
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Bookbinding for Amateurs: Being Descriptions Of The Various Tools & Appliances Required & Minute Instructions For Their Effective Use
by CRANE, W. J. Eden
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1900. A very good copy. 12mo (18.8 x 12.5 mm). vi, [2], 184 (text); 13, [3] advertisements. Publisher's green cloth, black- and gilt-stamped (rear hinge cracked, endleaves browned, light wear at extremities). A comprehensive work on bookbinding for the amateur, its twenty-two chapters covering everything from materials, to folding, sewing, and finishing. The ads at end promote the 1900 edition of a book, thus providing the circa date of publication.
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7 & 6
by CREELEY, Robert; Robert THERRIEN; and Michel BUTOR
Albuquerque, NM: Hoshour Gallery, 1988. Fine. Folio (280 x 242 mm; 11 x 9 1/2 in.). Text and plates loose as issued in chemise and slipcase. One of 1500 copies, printed by the Meriden-Stinehour Press.
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The Charm [Broadside]
by CREELEY, Robert
[Berkeley]: Book People-Mudra, 1971. Fine. 11 x 8.5 inches. Purple floral border. First broadside edition.
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His Idea
by CREELEY, Robert
[Toronto]: [Coach House Press], 1973. Fine. Square 8vo. [32] pages. Photographs by Elsa Dorfman. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED by Creeley on the title-page. With Elsa Dorfman's card laid-in. First Issue in unprinted tan stapled wrappers in dustwrapper of same material, apparently 300 copies.
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Twilight
by CREWDSON, Gregory (photographer); Rick MOODY (author)
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002. First edition. Generally a clean copy; dust jacket with some minor rubbing and wear. 11 x 10 inches. 112 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original boards; pictorial dust jacket. Published to accompany 3 simultaneous gallery exhibitions of Crewdson's work in Spring 2002: Luhring Augustine, New York, Gagosian, Los Angeles, and White Cube, London. "This volume chronicles Gregory Crewdson's Twilight series, elaborate tableaux that capture bizarre surrealities behind deceptively familiar suburban facades. The... Read More
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Gregory Crewdson: Cathedral of the Pines
by CREWDSON, Gregory (artist); Alexander NEMEROV (text by)
New York: Aperture; Gagosian Gallery, 2016. First edition. New in shrinkwrap. 12 x 16 inches. 76 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth. "Gregory Crewdson is a graduate of SUNY Purchase and the Yale University School of Art, where he is the director of Graduate Studies in Photography. His work has been exhibited extensively in the U.S. and internationally. The retrospective Gregory Crewdson toured Europe from 2005 to 2008, and the survey In a Lonely Place traveled throughout... Read More
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Gregory Crewdson
by CREWDSON, Gregory (photographer); Rick MOODY (author)
Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2005. First edition. Generally a clean copy; dust jacket with some minor rubbing and wear. 10 x 11.75 inches. 242 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original boards; pictortial dust jacket. "Gregory Crewdson's photographic series capture a particularly American state of normalcy--in dissolution. The viewer, at first seduced by what appears to be an idyllic scene, soon discovers subtle off-kilter elements more akin to Film Noir than an NBC comedy. In a work from his... Read More
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Beneath the Roses
by CREWDSON, Gregory (photographer); Russell BANKS (contributor)
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2008. First edition. Generally a clean copy; dust jacket with some minor rubbing and wear. 12 x 16 inches. 140 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original boards; pictortial dust jacket. "Best known for his elaborately choreographed, large-scale photographs, Gregory Crewdson is one of the most exciting and important artists working today. The photographs of small-town areas collected here portray emotionally charged moments of seemingly ordinary individuals caught in ambiguous and often disquieting circumstances.... Read More
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Sanctuary
by CREWDSON, Gregory (photographer); A. O. SCOTT (author)
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2011. First edition. A fine copy; dust jacket with some minor rubbing and wear. 12 x 16 inches. 96 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original cloth; pictortial dust jacket. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery, New York, in 2010.
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The Shawl with the Silver Bells
by CREW, Helen Coale
New York: Macmillan, 1932. First edition. Octavo. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, in a very clean and fresh dust jacket.
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A Hundred Years of Joint Stock Banking
by CRICK, W. F. and J. E. WADSWORTH
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1936. Royal 8vo (254 x 158 mm, 10 x 6 1/4 in.). 464 pp. Portrait frontispiece, folding diagram at end, numerous full-page illustrations to the text. Original deluxe binding of blue levant morocco by Leighton-Straker, stamp signed on rear turn-in, red morocco letteringpiece, spine and sides paneled in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. A fine, bright copy with small areas of wear at extremities. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION ISSUE, one of 350 specially-bound copies, this... Read More
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Spaced Out: Late 1990s Works from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection
by CROWLEY, Nancy editor
San Francisco: CCAC Institute, 1999. A near-fine copy. 8vo. Color illustrations. Printed wrappers.
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Poetical Effusions, from Celebrated Authors
by CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator
Edinburgh: Allan Bell and Co., and others, 1836. First edition. Johts slightly rubbed; occasional pale spotting, a few corners bumped. 12mo. 56 small wood-engravings after Cruikshank, each within decorated from borders illustrating texts by Goldsmith, Blomefield, and Cowper. Original flexible cloth, gilt-titled on front cover. Cohn 658.
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Strumpet Wind
by CRUM, Gertrude Bosworth
New York: Covici Friede, 1938. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A fine copy in a near-fine, lightly dulled jacket with light wear at edges. 8vo. Original green cloth, printed paper label on spine; printed dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy to the author's father, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To My Dearest Dad and Julia, from your devoted daughter Gertrude Crum," and with the bookplate of Charles J. Bosworth. A novel of California ranch-life, or as... Read More
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Abraham Cruzvillegas: The Autoconstrucción Suites
by CRUZVILLEGES, Abraham (artist); Clara KIM (editor); Olga VISO (introduction by); Patricia FALGUIERES (text by); Sergio GONZALES RODRIGUEZ
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2013. First edition. Generally a clean copy. 13.5 x 9.75 inches. 240 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. "Published on the occasion of the artist's first major survey, this volume explores the rich terrain of Abraham Cruzvillegas' (born 1968) work over the past ten years, rooting his sculptural language within the volcanic landscape of his childhood home in Ajusco, Mexico. The publication elaborates on Cruzvillegas' interest in autoconstrucción, a construction method arising... Read More
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Enzo Cucchi
by CUCCHI, Enzo (artist);Mary BOONE; Michael WERNER
New York: Mary Boone Gallery, 1984. First edition. Generally a clean copy. 11 x 9.5 inches. Profusely illustrated in color. Original wrappers. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Mary Boone Gallery in 1984.
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To What Stangers, What Welcome
by CUNNINGHAM, J. V.
Denver: Alan Swallow, 1964. 8vo. [24] pp. Original green printed wrappers. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, one of "about 1000 copies" according to the colophon. A series of 15 short poems.
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A Pictures Book for J.C. Xmas 1984
by CUNNINGHAM, Merce
Red Hook, NY: The John Cage Trust, 2012. Later edition. Some minor bumps to edges of the cover and the slipcase; generally a clean copy. 6 x 9 inches. 80 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Spiral-bound; original slipcase. "A Pictures Book for J.C. Xmas 1984" is a facsimile edition of an unusual sketchbook created for and personally gifted by the celebrated American choreographer Merce Cunningham to his lifetime partner, John Cage. The original, held in the archive of... Read More
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Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World
by CUOMO, Kerry Kennedy; Eddie ABRAMS (photographer)
Umbrage Editions, 2000. A little damage to the inscription affecting author's name, otherwise fine. 11 x 11 inches. 256 pages. Pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by author on half-title. First Edition. "Through photographs by Eddie Adams and interviews by human rights activist Kerry Kennedy, gripping stories are revealed of 51 men and women around the globe who put their lives on the line, surviving imprisonment, torture, and death threats, because of hope for and dedication to a future where equality... Read More
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Aaron Curry: MMNKTLPLKT
by CURRY, Aaron
New York: Michael Werner, 2011. A near-fine copy. 11.5 x 8 inches. Profusely illustrated in color. Original wrappers, with acetate covering. First edition. "Michael Werner Gallery is pleased to announce MMNKTLPLKT, an exhibition of new works by Aaron Curry, on view at 20 Hoxton Square in London from 20 September through 20 October. With MMNKTLPLKT, Aaron Curry disregards the confines of the traditional white cube to create an environment of complete optical immersion and confusion. Dazzling patterns... Read More
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Aaron Curry: Bad Brain
by CURRY, Aaron (artist); Karen MARTA (editor); Michael Ned HOLT (contributor)
New York: Bad Dimension; Koenig Books. Generally fine. 12.25 x 9.25 inches. 148 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards; acetate dust jacket, with booklet attached. First edition. "Bad Brain, Aaron Curry's eagerly awaited retrospective catalog from his 2014 exhibition at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, features 80 artworks spanning a decade, between 2003 and 2014. As Michael Ned Holte writes, Bad Brain draws on the artist's teenage fondness for Eddie, the skeletal mascot of Iron... Read More
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Greyhounds of the Sea
by CUTLER, Carl C.
New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1930. Some light wear at corners, a few leaves roughly opened with short tears, but otherwise a very clean and handsomely bound copy. 4to (26.5 x 19.5 cm). xxvii, 380 pages. Color frontispiece and plates, with captioned tissue guards. Specially bound, presumably a gift binding, in quarter green morocco, decorated paper boards, the spine gilt-lettered and with gilt dolphin tool, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, "C.B.F.B. 1934" stamped in gilt on front turn-in.... Read More
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Quelques Pianos
by CUTTS, Simon
The Jargon Society, 1976. Oblong 8vo. Stapled in black wrappers; pictorial wrappers. A near-fine copy with light wear to the wrappers. FIRST EDITION, signed by Cutts on the front free endpaper.
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