Lifelines: Artwork & Poetry by the Artists of Hospitality House
San Francisco: Central City Hospitality House, 1990. First edition. Sheets in portfolio, 11 x 14 inches; 40 pages of text and line drawings printed by Julie Holcomb on Arches paper, 10 color silkscreen prints printed by the artists on Rives BFK. Cover print by Nelson Morales, overall design by Marie Dern. One of 125, each print is signed and numbered. Cover slightly marked, else fine. Artists include Ira Watkins, Jane Winkelman, Sharon Tanenbaum, Alan Sperl.
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Le premier devoir de la jeunesse est de prendre ses droits
Paris: Soulèvement de la Jeunesse, 1953. first edition. Leaflet, 27.8 x 22 cm., printed in black on tan paper, recto only. This tract was published by the lettriste review "Soulèvement de la Jeunesse" at the time of a split in the lettriste movement led by Marc'O (Marc-Gilbert Guillaumin), advocating a new philosophy - "externisme". (WorldCat - Yale only.
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Gems of the Exhibition. [Cover-title] 1851
1851. Quarto. Original leather, stamped in blind and gilt, title stamped in the center of the upper cover. Colored dome-topped engraving (10 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches; 26 x 18 cm. ) of the Exhibition hall, plus 12 unsigned hand-colored prints mounted on card, illustrating various exhibits: Crystal Fountain, Silk Tent, Her Majesty's Boudoir, etc. The prints measure 7 3/8 x 5 1/2 inches. Binding rubbed and worn, and with a 3x4 inch piece of leather cut from the... Read More
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Bruno's Weekly
New York, 1916. Original wrappers, near-fine. From Hart Crane's papers, though no indication of ownership.
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CONTEMPORANIA. Description: Chapel Hill, NC: Contempo, [No Date, but circa 1934]. First edition, promotional broadside. Single quarto sheet, printed in two columns (on recto only), measuring circa 8 1/4 by 11 15/16 inches. Advertising flyer for the periodical Contempo, printing "Comments concerning CONTEMPO from authors, critics and the press..." including brief statements of support (usually only one sentence) by Hart Crane (stating: "Congratulations on your courage and acumen"), James Joyce ("By way of literary immortality I read Contempo"), and contributions by Sinclair Lewis, E. O'Neill, E. Caldwell, R. Jeffers, H.D., C. Sandburg, Shaemus O'Sheel, L.A.G. Strong et al. Folded horizontally in half (with tanning at fold), extremities h.
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The Little Review Anthology
New York, 1953. first edition. Cloth, dust jacket, near fine.
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Stars of the Photoplay
Chicago: Photoplay Magazine, 1916. First edition. Recent quarter cloth, original wrappers preserved. Text somewhat browned, due to paper quality.
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Fortune
1933. Wrappers. Very good. Cover by Roger Duvoisin.
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Slickrock. The Canyon Country of Southeast Utah. Photographs and commentary by Philip Hyde
by Abbey, Edward
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1971. First edition. Hyde, Philip. Folio, cloth, fine in price-clipped dust jacket.
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Le Cantique des Cantiques.; Introduction and new translation from the Hebrew by Edouard Dhorme
by (Aboulker, Célestine) ; Bible, O.T.
Paris: Editions du Sceau, 1946. Aboulker, Célestine. Quarto, original wrappers, slight wear to ends of spine, margins slightly browned; a very good copy. One of an edition of 130 copies, illustrated with 15 color lithographs by Celestine Aboulker. A member of a prominent Jewish family in Algiers, Aboulker's paintings, often biblicly inspired, are in the collections of Le Musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme in Paris and the museums of Ein Harod and Dimona in Israel.
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Autograph letter signed, one page 8vo, in German
by Abt, Franz
Braunschweig, 1875. A five-line letter to an unidentified correspondent, with a note on the verso in a second hand providing the dates of Abt's stay in Braunschweig. Light offsetting from a self-adhesive album page, otherwsie very good. German composer Abt (1819-1885) enjoyed considerable success in his day as a choral conductor but is best remembered for elegant songs such as "So viele Tausend Blumen" and Wenn die Schwalben heimwärts ziehn" Autograph letter signed.
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Jules und Henry oder Die Schule des Herzens; Mit 25 Original-Radierungen von Peter Ackermann
by Ackermann, Peter (1934-2007) ; Flaubert, Gustave
Berlin: Propylaen, 1971. Ackermann, Peter (1934-2007). 13-11/16 in. x 9-5/8 in.; 348 mm x 244 mm. Ochre boards, spine label. Fine condition, in lightly worn board slipcase. Series B, number 304 of 500, with signed frontispiece; twenty-five etchings in all, from total edition of 1000. Ackermann's etchings point in subject matter to a fantastic architecture, while alluding to old master technique.
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The History of the Charter-House
by (Ackermann, Rudolph) ; Combe,W
London: R. Ackermann, 1816. First edition. Quarto, 14 x 11 inches. Title page (verso blank) 32 text pages, plus five colored engravings (1816 watermark), with the directions to the binder slip. Contemporary boards, hand lettered on the front, uncut, rebacked. Usual offset from the plates to facing pages, occasional spotting to text leaves, the plates are clean. Plate 2 (Charter House School / from the Play Ground) is in the first state, though on unwatermarked paper. This separate issue,... Read More
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The History of the Rugby School
by Ackermann, Rudolph
London: R. Ackermann, 1816. First edition. Quarto, 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. Original boards with printed title information on the front board, roan back. Title-page, 34 text pages and five colored engravings. Excellent, clean copy, with mild offset from the plates to facing pages. See Tooley 3.
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The History of Westminster School
by Ackermann, Rudolph ; (Combe, W.)
London: R. Ackermann, 1816. First edition. Quarto (14 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches). Title page, 27 text pages, plus four colored aquatints, three of them after drawings by Auguste-Charles Pugin. Contemporary drab boards, uncut. The text is watermarked 1816 and one plate has an 1812 watermark. Second issue, first state, of plate 22. Occasional mild spotting to text, usual offset from plates to facing pages; the plates are clean. This separate issue appears to be very uncommonly offered for... Read More
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The Microcosm of London
by Ackermann, Rudolph ; Rowlandson, Thomas; Augustus Pugin
London: Ackermann, 1810. First edition. Quarto, 13 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. 334 x 270 mm. Each volume with a wood-engraved title and engraved dedication. (vol.1) iv, 231; (vol. 2) vvi, 239; (vol. 3) vi, 280, (3 leaves index); text, plus 104 colored aquatints after drawings by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin. Three-quarter calf, boards detached. Foxing to preliminary pages, offset from plates to facing text pages, otherwise text and plates clean and fresh. Later issue with plates having... Read More
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A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings
by Ackermann, Rudolph
London: Ackermann, 1814. First edition. Two volumes, quarto. (13 1/4 x 10 3/4 in. ; 337 x 265 mm.) 82 plates of which 64 are colored aquatints of city views and 17 colored line and stipple engravings of University costume. Half-titles present in both volumes. Vol. 1, plate 1 in second state, vol. 2, Hartford and Pembroke Colleges, plate in first state with aquatint between the images and title on slips. Old 3/4 pebble-grain morocco with cloth sides, a.e.g.,... Read More
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Great Houses of Italy. The Tuscan Villas
by Acton, Harold
New York: Viking, 1973. First American edition. Quarto, cloth. Fine in dust jacket.
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Derriére le Miroir no. 220. Adami
by Adami,Valerio
Paris: Maeght, 1976. First edition. Adami,Valerio. Folio, wrappers, fine condition, in publisher's chemise and slipcase (slightly faded). . One of 150 copies on vélin d'Arches, numbered and signed . 3 original lithographs. "DLM publié pour l'exposition ADAMI à la Galerie Maeght en octobre 1976. Extraits du journal de Valerio Adami. 32 pages non reliées. 3 lithographies originales en couleurs en double page et 26 reproductions dont 5 en couleurs. Tirage original.
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Das Reich. Gelegenheidtsgedicht Nr. 27.; Silkscreens by Valerio Adami
by Adami, Valerio ; Heissenbüttel, Helmut
Munich/Paris: Maeght, 1974. First edition. Adami, Valerio. Folio, 50 cm. x 42 cm. (29-1/2 x 17 in.) Printed cloth, as new in dust jacket and original gilt card slipcase (slipcase with one tear). One of 450 copies, signed by the author and artist (total edition 635 copies). Ten serigraphs by Adami illustrate the poet's "Lessons on the Reich," with Pop Art style images of Nietzsche's typewriter, Kaiser Wilhelm, etc. Text inGerman, French, and English Not in W /G. ... Read More
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Derriére le Miroir no. 188. Adami
by Adami,Valerio
Paris: Maeght, 1970. First edition. Adami,Valerio. Folio, wrappers, fine condition, in publisher's chemise and slipcase (slightly faded). Deluxe issue. One of 150 copies on vélin d'Arches, numbered and signed. With nine original color lithographs. "DLM édité en novembre 1970 pour la 1ère exposition ADAMI à la Galerie Maeght. Texte de Valerio Adami. 32 pages non reliées. 9 lithographies originales en couleurs dont 3 double page, 4 fac-similé de dessins et 15 reproductions en noir. Tirage original.
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Taos Pueblo. Photographed by Ansel Adams and described by Mary Austin
by Adams, Ansel ; Austin, Mary
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1977. Folio, original cloth covered boards with calf spine. One of 950 copies, signed by Adams, printed by Lawton Kennedy, the photographs printed in duotone by George Waters at Pacific Litho. This edition, an excellent facsimile of the rare 1930 first edition, contains a new afterword by Weston Naef. Fine condition with slipcase, as issued. With a laid-in autograph of Ansel Adams on an insert from a roll of Tri-X film.
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The pageant of history and the panorama of today in Northern California.; A photographic interpretation by Ansel Adams with text by Nancy Newhall
by Adams,Ansel ; Nancy Newhall
San Francisco: American trust Company, 1954. First edition. Adams,Ansel. Wrappers, 36x28 cm with plastic spiral binding. Two cracks in plastic, but an excellent copy.
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Ansel Adams at 100
by (Adams, Ansel) Szarkowski, John
Boston: Little, Brown, 2001. First edition. Folio, cloth in slipcase, fine, with facsimile plate in pocket.
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Producing and Directing for Television
by Adams, Charles
New York: Holt, 1953. First edition. Blue cloth, near-fine in lightly worn jacket. Ownership signature of Al Smith, UNC Durham.
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