THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS 20-YEAR REPORT 1987-2007
by Warhol, Andy; Bers, Rachel
(New York): The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 2007. Near fine.. First edition of this set chronicling the progress of The Andy Warhol Foundation over a period of twenty years, in three parts. 3 volumes, 9.75'' x 9.25'' each. Original color wrappers, all. In original glossy black typographic slipcase with white and yellow text on front and back. Two volumes illustrated throughout in black-and-white and color; third lists grant recipients and exhibitions. 96; 96; 84 pages.... Read More
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANDY WARHOL
by Warhol, Andy
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Very good in very good jacket.. Inscribed early printing, boldly signed and dated by Warhol with an original drawing of his iconic soup can. Compilation of Warhol's shorter aphoristic sayings and longer pieces, much of it adapted from taped conversations with the artist's collaborators and ghostwriters. Which is to say: an entirely Warholian production. Included with the book is the original receipt from the Washington D.C. department store Woodward &... Read More
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Original Blank Andy Warhol Studio Letterhead
by Warhol, Andy
New York: Andy Warhol Studios, 1985. Near fine.. Original blank sheet of letterhead from the fourth (and final) location of Warhol's famed Factory. In 1981, Warhol purchased the building at 19 East 32nd Street and moved his various operations - art production, INTERVIEW, and even television studio (where he filmed his MTV show) - there. This unused piece of vintage Warhol stationery dates to that period and is an evocative document from the Pop Art great, whose practice... Read More
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REMARKS ON SOME FOSSIL IMPRESSIONS IN THE SANDSTONE ROCKS OF CONNECTICUT RIVER
by Warren, John C.; [Silsbee, George M.]
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. Very good plus.. First edition of the first US scientific book illustrated with a photograph, an exploration of fossilized dinosaur tracks - a wonderfully well-preserved copy. Scientists struggled valiantly against the imperfect illustration methods of woodcut, engraving, etching, and lithography for centuries. But the 19th century brought a new technology for representing subjects with more accuracy than ever before: photography. REMARKS ON SOME FOSSIL IMPRESSIONS IN THE SANDSTONE ROCKS OF CONNECTICUT RIVER is... Read More
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REMARKS ON SOME FOSSIL IMPRESSIONS IN THE SANDSTONE ROCKS OF CONNECTICUT RIVER
by Warren, John C.; [Silsbee, George M.]
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. Very good plus.. First edition of the first American scientific book illustrated with a photograph, an exploration of fossilized dinosaur tracks (what Warren calls "footsteps of an unknown animal") inscribed to fellow surgeon and Benjamin Franklin's great-grandson, Franklin Bache. Scientists struggled valiantly against the imperfect illustration methods of woodcut, engraving, etching, and lithography for centuries. But the 19th century brought a new technology for representing subjects with more accuracy than ever before: photography.... Read More
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HISTORY OF THE RISE, PROGRESS AND TERMINATION OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
by Warren, Mercy
Boston: Manning and Loring for E. Larkin, 1805. Very good plus.. First edition of this landmark history of the Revolutionary War, by the most prominent woman historian of the fledgling United States. As a playwright, poet, political agitator, prolific letter-writer, and Jeffersonian anti-federalist, Mercy Otis Warren was deeply ensconced in the political and literary circles of pre- and post-Revolutionary Boston, lauded by several future Founders for her polemical and satirical talents and a firsthand observer of many of... Read More
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NIGHT RIDER
by Warren, Robert Penn
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. First edition of Robert Penn Warren's first novel, the story of a young man's fall from grace during the Kentucky Tobacco Wars. Literary critic, poet, and novelist, Robert Penn Warren contributed to a number of genres with ease. NIGHT RIDER, his first published novel, thematically anticipates his later works: it focuses on life in the US South, moral quandries that lead to tragic irony, and... Read More
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WHO SPEAKS FOR THE NEGRO
by Warren, Robert Penn; Baldwin, James; Ralph Ellison; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Malcolm X.
New York: Random House, 1965. Fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition of this travelogue in which Warren recounts meetings and interviews prominent Black thinkers, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original red cloth, spine stamped in gilt and black, front board stamped in gilt. In original unclipped ($5.95) color typographic dust jacket with design by Muriel Nasser. Red topstain, fore-edge machine deckle. xii, 454 pages. Jacket with... Read More
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HEATHERS: An Original Screenplay
by Waters, Daniel
Los Angeles: [New World Pictures], 1987. Very good plus.. Original revised second draft for the classic 1989 teen film starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker, and Penelope Milford. One of the greatest high school movies ever made, and one of the few really worthy Winona Ryder vehicles, HEATHERS not only anticipated the more satirical edge of '90s teen movies to come, it perhaps embodied better than even John Hughes the world-weary pose for... Read More
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BATTLEBORN
by Watkins, Claire Vaye
New York: Riverhead Books, 2012. Fine.. Uncorrected proof of Watkins's first book, a collection of short stories that earned the 2013 Dylan Thomas Award - part of the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE Series. For more than ten years and over seventy installments, Powell's Books (Portland) has been issuing their semi-monthly INDIESPENSABLE series, a subscription-only selection of specially-produced, (typically) limited edition volumes from many of the most prominent names in literature (Claire Messud, George Saunders, Michael Chabon, Annie Proulx, Donna... Read More
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Original Typed Letter Signed
by Watson, James D.
Cold Spring Harbor, New York: n.p., 1970. Fine.. Original signed typescript letter from the Nobel Prize winner to teen autograph-hunter Harris Lentz III, who would later author the multi-volume CELEBRITY OBITUARIES book series. Watson's response to Lentz's autograph request was written eight years after his receipt (with Francis Crick) of the 1962 Nobel Prize for their pioneering work on the structure of DNA, and just two years after the publication of THE DOUBLE HELIX and his appointment as... Read More
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DIVINE SONGS ATTEMPTED IN EASY LANGUAGE FOR THE USE OF CHILDREN
by Watts, Isaac
Boston: J. & T. Fleet, 1802. Good.. Lovely chapbook edition of a selection of Isaac Watts's hymns, bound in an attractive vernacular wallpaper wrapper. Just because this edition of Watts's hymns adapted for a young audience was made to be inexpensive didn't mean it had to be unattractive. At least, that's what an early owner seemed to be thinking when they added a wrapper of blue and green wallpaper, with a floral design skillfully centered on the front... Read More
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DIVINE AND MORAL SONGS FOR CHILDREN
by Watts, Isaac; Gaskin, Mrs. Arthur [Georgina Gaskin]
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1896. Near fine.. Lovely Arts and Crafts edition of Watts' stern and pious children's verses, illustrated by Gaskin's sunlit Greenaway-esque visions of figures untroubled by guilt, grief, and sin. 7.75'' x 5.5''. Original blue cloth with pictorial paste-on. 91, [1] pages. Illustrated with 14 color plates by Gaskin. Minor wear to boards; spine gently sunned.
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HARRY WAUGH'S WINE DIARY: Volume Nine: 1978-1981
by WAUGH, Harry; Christie's
(London): Christie's Wine Publications, 1981. First Edition. Very good.. Informative guide to the wines encountered by this eminent wine consultant during the years 1978 to 1981. Wraps. Small 4to. Pictorial wraps. A very good copy. Mild scuffs to front and rear covers. Interior overall bright and clean with one mild touch of soil on final blank leaf. Good and sound. 204pp.
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IDA WAUGH'S ALPHABET BOOK
by Waugh, Ida; Blanchard, Amy
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1888. Very good plus.. First edition of this scarce illustrated alphabet book, a verse narrative by lifelong artistic collaborators and co-habitating companions Waugh and Blanchard, a beautiful copy. 10.5'' x 9''. Original decorative red and gilt-stamped boards in Art Nouveau style, carefully rebacked with green cloth spine. Illustrated by Waugh throughout. Unpaginated. Hinges reinforced. Light edgewear, faint soil and some faint spots of dampstaining to boards. Minor wear to fore-edge of text block. ... Read More
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BONNY BAIRNS
by Waugh, Ida; Blanchard, Amy Ella
New York: Worthington Co, 1888. Very good plus.. First edition of this collection of rhymes illustrated with darling chromolithographs of Victorian children by Ida Waugh. BONNY BAIRNS lives up to its name: its pages are full of lovely Victorian children frolicking in gardens, playing with toys, and being comforted by their elegant mothers. Ida Waugh paints an idillic picture of upper-middle-class 19th-century childhood in her illustrations, similar to her contemporary Maud Humphrey. An attractive production. 10.25'' x 8''.... Read More
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DE RERUM NATURA, ETC.
by W.B.A.
n.p.: n.p., 1935. Very good.. Mock-epic manuscript in six cantos, offering meticulously footnoted anonymous rhyming invective against the New Deal, the Nietszschian Superman, and the unappreciative American publishing industry. This never-published satire presents an array of politico-philosophic opinions and prejudices, refined to a high degree of erudition and incomprehensibility, unified by the author's displeasure with Franklin D. Roosevelt and "Teutonism" in all its forms. Refused by two cowardly American periodicals in previous drafts, the author then turned his... Read More
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AND WE ARE NOT SAVED
by Wdowinski, David
New York: Philosophical Library, 1963. First Edition. Very good plus in a very good minus jacket.. Signed first edition of this important account of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising from one of its few leaders to survive. Wdowinski was a founder of Betar and a leader of the Irgun Zva'i Leumi during the Ghetto revolt, an experience recounted here along with the author's experience both in pre-war Poland as a politician/activist (he was an active member of the Warsaw... Read More
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THE CURIOUS SOFA
by WEARY, Ogdred [Edward Gorey]
New York: Ivan Obolensky, 1961. First Edition. Very good.. First printing of this Edward Gorey work, published under the anagrammatic pseudonym Ogdred Weary. Unpaginated. With 30, mildly pornographic, illustrated leaves and accompanying text. [Toledano A7a.]. Wraps. 12mo. Illustrated wraps. Very good. Moderated handling wear, small crease to lower right corner, front. Previous owner's name to title page. Overall sound, contents clean.
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THE OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE
by Weatherly, F.E.; Berkeley, Edith
London / New York: Hildesheimer & Faulkner / Geo. C. Whitney, 1891. Very good plus.. Striking chromolithographed shape book of the classic nursery rhyme with cover image of a realistic late Victorian shoe. 6.25'' x 8.25'' (approx.). Original thread-bound stiff paper wrappers. Illustrated by Berkeley with lovely chromolithographs. [14] pages. A couple creases and nicks to wrappers. Light foxing to leaves. Marvelously intact.
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CHILDREN'S BIRTHDAY-BOOK
by Weatherly, F. E.; Greenaway, Kate
London: W. Mack, 1880. Very good.. First edition of this book for noting the birthdates of acquaintances, with verse and illustrations by Kate Greenaway and others. Kate Greenaway achieved great success in 1878 with her first solo publication UNDER THE WINDOW, and quickly became a household name. This achievement came after years of study at the National Art Training School and the Heatherley School of Fine Art, where she rubbed shoulders with the likes of Elizabeth Thompson (later... Read More
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DESERT NOIR
by Webb, Betty
Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press, 2001. Near fine.. Inscribed first trade paperback edition of this Southwestern mystery, in which PI Lena Jones's quest to uncover her forgotten past is brought to a halt when her friend is killed in her Scottsdale art gallery. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original color pictorial wrappers. 252 pages. Inscribed by Webb to title page "To Barbara!" Wrapper with a hint of edgewear. Half-title with two tiny spots of soil. Tight.
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BRANDED YOUTH AND OTHER STORIES
by Weber, Bruce
Boston and New York: Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1997. First printing. Near fine.. Signed first edition from the noted photographer - inscribed to the mother of musician Jeff Buckley, who Weber featured in this book. Buckley, best known for his indelible cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" (as well as his majestic debut album GRACE), tragically drowned the same year BRANDED YOUTH was released. Weber photographed the singer a number of times throughout the early to... Read More
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR BEANY
by Weber, Lenora Mattingly
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1957. First edition. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. First printing of the sixth book in the Beany Malone series, detailing the social fallout after Beany's 17th birthday party - a remarkably sharp copy. The Beany Malone series ran through 14 books, and Beany was Lenora Mattingly Weber's most well-known character. The series experienced a resurgence in popularity when it was republished in 1999. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original green cloth... Read More
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THE ART OF BABAR
by Weber, Nicholas Fox; de Brunhoff, Jean; de Brunhoff, Laurent
New York: Henry N. Abrams, 1989. First printing. Near fine.. First edition of this immense and lavishly illustrated reference work on the illustrations and other artistic output of the two generations of de Brunhoffs. 12'' x 8.75''. Original yellow pictorial cloth stamped in red. In original unclipped (no price) color pictorial dust jacket. Index at rear. 192 pages. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Series of small dings to rear panel/board. Else clean.
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