The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth
by ALDRICH Thomas Bailey (1836-1907)
New York: Ridd & Carleton, 1858. Spine and board edges sunned, pp. 20-25 with small stains in upper margins.. 12mo (18 x 11 cm). 41 pages. Frontispiece, with tissue guard, half-title printed on recto; tailpieces, including Arabic quotations. Advertising leaf at front for Aldrich's 'A Collection of Poems." Publisher's plum blind-ruled and -monogrammed cloth. Provenance: C.B. Tillinghast (bookplate, his book number 1175). FIRST EDITION, first state, with p. [14] containing an Arabic quotation with no English translation, and... Read More
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Ponkapog Papers
by ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, 1903. Label age-darkened, some light wear, portrait of Aldrich tipped-in as frontispiece, but a very good copy without the very scarce dust wrapper. 8vo (19.2 x 11.7 cm). 195 pages. Half-title, initial advertisement leaf. Original cloth, printed paper label on spine, uncut. Provenance: Collin Armstrong (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, one of 200 copies bound uncut and with the paper label. Typography by Bruce Rogers. BAL 393.
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A small collection of the American stage acress
by ALLEN, Viola
Comprising: Autograph quotation signed. One page, 4to. Titled in the margin "Liberty Tree." – ALS, n.y. One page, 8vo to Miss Eldridge, enclosing a contribution for the Philomena Festival. – ALS, 12 December 1886. 2 pages, 8vo. Discussing performances. –ALS, 5 January 1909. Two pages, 8vo. – Christmas card with autograph note. – Portrait photograph signed, 5.5 x 4 inches. – Portrait photograph signed, 6.5 x 4.25 inches. – Program signed for Allen's lead performance in Clyde Fitch's 'The... Read More
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Christo
by CHRISTO (artist); Lawrence ALLOWAY
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969. Hardcover. A fine copy in a very good jacket that has one long closed tear on the back panel. 8 x 9 inches. Cloth; dust jacket. "Examines the Bulgarian-born artist's major works, such as Surrounded Islands, Running Fences, and the Pont Neuf Wrapped, which are catagorized as both sculptures and performance art.
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American Pop Art
by ALLOWAY, Lawrence
New York and London: Collier / Macmillan / Whitney Museum, 1974. Spine lightly sunned, some light toning to wrappers and sheet edges. 8vo. 144 pages. Color and black-and-white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers. The exhibition was held 6 April to 16 June 1974.
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Tar Magazine: Issue No. 6
by ALTHAMER, Pawel (contributor); BORDERLINE FILMS (contributor); Mario CALABRESI (contributor); Roe ETHRIDGE (contributor); Ben EVANS (contributor); Pamela GOLBIN (contributor)
New York: Tar Magazine, 2011. First edition. Some minor shelf wear; generally a clean copy. 12 x 9 inches. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers; printed wraparound band.
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Ghada Amer: Breathe Into Me
by AMER, GHADA (artist); Maria ELENA BUSZEK (contributor)
New York: Gagosian, 2006. First edition. A clean and fresh copy. 11 x 10 inches. 70 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth boards. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery in 2006.
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Vito Acconci: Thinking Space
by ANCCONCI, Vito (artist)
Middlebury, Vermont: Middlebury College Museum of Art, 2013. First edition. Some very minor shelf wear; generally a clean copy. 11 x 7 inches. 63 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, 2013.
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The Patsy Book
by ANDERSON, Anne
Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1919. Some wear to the extremities, endpapers browned, front cover with a few spots, else a presentable copy of a scarce book. Quarto. Color frontispiece and twelve color pates. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards with illustration by Alan Wright. FIRST EDITION. Scottish-born Anderson's fluid and delicate style exemplifies the Art Nouveau movement.
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Happy Accidents. Hornall Anderson: Three Decades of Design and Discovery
by ANDERSON, Hornall
New York: Graphis, 2012. Several small marks on covers. Thick 8vo. 479 pages. Printed boards, clear spine.
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Tea and Sympathy
by ANDERSON, Robert
New York: Random House, 1953. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Jacket with a trifle of soiling. A fine copy. 8vo. Photographs by Slim Aarons. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket by Clifford Strohl Associates. First edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Alan and Phyllis Sues: "For Alan & Phyllis – Two more loyal supporters a playwright never had. I am always touched by your kindness and enthusiasm. Affectionately Bob." Anderson's play stems from his experience of falling... Read More
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L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Number 8, Vol. 2, no. 2
by ANDREWS, Bruce and Charles BERNSTEIN, editors
New York, 1979. First edition. Fine. 4to. [32] pages. Self-wrappers, stapled. Contains contributions by Nick Piombino, Jerome Rothenberg, Bob Perelman, Lynne Dreyer, Michael Lally, Clark Coolidge, Alan Davies, Jackson MacLow, Lyn Hejinian, Robert Grenier, Madeleine Burnside, Steve Bensn, Milli Graffi, Robert Kelly, David Bromige, Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, and Stanley Cavell.
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L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 1, no. 4
by ANDREWS, Bruce and Charles BERNSTEIN, editors
New York, 1978. First edition. Fine. 4to. [28] pages. Self-wrappers, stapled. The back cover reproduced a 1920 collage by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy from Richard Kostelantz's 'Moholy-Nagy' (1970). This issue of Andrews and Bernstein's landmark journal of the Language poets opens with an essay by Ron Silliman on Louis Zukofsky, and later includes Silliman's classic distillation "For L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E." Other contributors include Eric Mottram, Richard Foreman, Bruce Andrews, Michael Gottlieb, and Joseph Timko.
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Finding a Girl in America: Ten Stories & a Novella
by DUBUS Andre
Boston: Godine, 1980. 8vo. 185pp. Original cloth; dust jacket; a fine copy save one small chip to rear panel. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Dubus on the title.
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In a Grain of Sand: Exploring Design by Nature
by FEININGER. Andreas
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1986. A near-fine copy with modest toning at sheet edges, in a near-fine jacket with some light wear at top. 4to (11 x 8.25 inches). 176 pages. Black-and-white photographs. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, first printing. INSCRIBED by Feininger on the dedicaton leaf: "For _____ with best wishes from Andreas Feininger.
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Sextodecimos et infra
by ANDREWS, William Loring
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. First edition, number 138 of 140 copies on English hand-made plate paper (an additional 12 copies were printed on imperial Japan). Without the publisher's printed paper chemise and slipcase. Internally clean and fine.. 8vo. xiii, 117 pages. 27 color and black-and-white plates, with tissue guards. Original French-fold paper wrappers (some wear at ends of spine and along lower joint). In a quarter vellum folding case. Contains Andrews' essay on his collection of... Read More
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Russian Ballet; Introduction by Arnold Haskell
by ANTHONY, Gordon
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1939. First edition. Folio (12 ½ x 10 inches). 96 black-and-white portraits, each tipped to mount with letterpress caption, including frontispiece. Original two-toned white and blue cloth, deckle edges preserved. Pale dampstains on rear cover, spine toned; light spotting to endleaves, marginal stain on dedication leaf, else a clean and internally fresh copy. These portraits of the Diaghilev company's celebrated choreographer Michael Fokine, including the first photographs of Serge Lifar, were taken by the great ballet... Read More
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Karel Appel: Street Art, Ceramics, Sculpture, Wood Reliefs, Tapestries, Murals, Villa El Salvador
by APPEL, Karel; RESTANY, Pierre; Allen GINSBERG (photographer)
New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. Hardcover. A fine copy in a very good plus jacket that has some light wear. 15.5 x 12 inches. 256 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition.
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Karel Appel: Works on Paper
by APPEL, Karel; Jean Clarence LAMBERT
New York: Abbeville Press, 1980. Hardcover. A fine copy in a very good plus jacket that has some light wear. 15.5 x 12.25 inches. 256 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First American edition. "A celebration of the graphic works of Karel Appel, this is the most complete collection assembled on his collages, gouaches, drawings, and waterworks.
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A Handlist of English Language Editions printed on the hand-press of the Officina Bodoni 1923-1975
by APPLETON, Tony
Brighton: Privately printed for Tony Appleton, 1975. A near-fine copy with a soft crease to front wrapper, and small tape adhesions on inner wrappers. 8vo. [20] pages. Original printed wrappers. Number 27 of 100 copies signed by Tony Appleton, who printed this as a Christmas keepsake in 1975. Includes a supplement of books designed and printed by Giovanni Mardersteig for the Limited Editions Club.
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Nobuyoshi Araki: Shino
by ARAKI, Nobuyoshi
Graphic-Sha Publishing Co., Ltd, 2002. Hardcover. A fine copy. 10.5 x 8.75 inches. Pictorial boards. First Edition. "Nobuyoshi Araki is an internationally acclaimed photographer whose erotically charged work has put him at the forefront of contemporary Japanese photography. This volume is dedicated to images of Araki's favorite model, Shino, and presents her in Araki's classic style. She appears clothed and unclothed, bound by ropes, in the bath, indoors and out, all with his signature cinematic touch. Featuring over... Read More
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A Miscellany Of Aralia Keepsakes
by ARALIA PRESS. [Booklets by Bruce Bawer, Tom Disch, Dana Gioia, Len Roberts, Ken Smith, Gary Soto, and Jon Veinberg]
Aralia Press, 1988. Minor bump to the printed folder else a fine set. Separate folded items, in the publisher's printed wrapper. One of 60 numbered sets with a signed item, from an edition of 200.
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A Cruise on the R. M. S. P. "Arcadian" [cover title]
by ARCADIAN, Cruise Ship – DAVEY & HACKNEY, photographers
London: Davey & Hackney, 1912. Some rubbing to binding. Photos with some age toning and occasional fading, but generally well preserved and crisp. Album containing 39 mounted black and white photographs, the first nine 11 1/4 x 7 inches (or vice versa); the remaining 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches (or vice versa). Each photo is captioned in the lower margin of the print. In a padded leather album, titled in gilt on the front cover. The photos,... Read More
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Accent of America
by ARMITAGE, Merle (1893-1975)
New York: E. Weyhe, 1944. 8vo. Illustrations. Original decorated cloth. A very good copy lacking the jacket, somewhat toned, hinges tender. FIRST EDITION, one of 1675 copies. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by the author on the colophon: "This copy signed for Edna Bennett, appreciating her enthusiasm Merle Armitage 1945". Edna Bennett was a photographer, naturalist, and writer from Greenport, Long Island.
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John Armlender
by ARMLENDER, John (artist); Lionel BOVIER (author)
Paris: Flammarion, 2006. A near-fine copy; corners slightly bumped. 11.25 x 8.25 inches. 207 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pink, die-cut boards. First edition. "Internationally acclaimed Swiss artist John Armleder fuses genres and media; he borrows influences from modernist art, modern design, constructivism, art deco, minimalism, op art, music, and film. The resulting images, sculptures, and installations often involve the viewer's active participation; his art is as much experienced as it is viewed. This comprehensive book charts... Read More
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