Letters ecrits a sur Provincial
by [ARNOLD, Matthew] – Blaise PASCAL
Paris: Librarie de Firmin Didot, 1872. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Light wear at extremities, but in very good condition. 8vo. Text in French. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Contemporary brown half morocco, top edges gilt; in a greyish-tan cloth slipcase. Matthew Arnold's copy, with 51 penciled annotations – totaling 590 words – by him on 31 pages, plus marginal markings and underlinings on these and numerous other pages. Some of the annotations are lengthy: 83 words in one case,... Read More
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Potiphar's Wife and Other Poems
by ARNOLD, Sir Edwin
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. Slightly leaned, light wear at extremities, generally bright and clean. 8vo. vi, 127, [1] pages. Publisher's green cloth, oval title panel on front cover in gilt and black. First edition, with Arnold's signature on card mounted on front free endpaper. Owner's name of Anna H. Davies above his card.
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Books and Letters Collected by William Harris Arnold of New York... To be sold At Auction Without Reserve by Bangs & Co
by [ARNOLD, William Harris, collection]
Jamaica, Queens: The Marion Press, 1901. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Joints rubbed, title torn at top of gutter, generally very good. 8vo. 125 pages. Contemporary red quarter roan, green cloth boards. Bookplate of the William L. Clements Library (withdrawn stamp). One of 1500 copies. 411 lots, priced in ink by C. Gerhardt (note on p. 125). The auctions were held on May 7 and 8, 1901. Known for his attention to condition, this was the second of... Read More
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From the Corners of the Earth. Contemporary photographs of the Jewish World
by ARON, Bill
Philadelphia, New York, Jerusalem: The Jewish Publication Society, 1985. A fine copy in a near-fine plus jacket, with only a few trifling touches on the jacket edges. 12 x 12 inches. 144 pages. Black-and-white photographs. Cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The hardcover issue is much less common than the paperback.
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Jean Arp: A Collection of Wood Reliefs and Collages
by ARP, Jean (artist)
New York: Blain di Donna, 2012. First edition. New in shrinkwrap. 9.5 x 9.5 inches. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers.
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Balthus
by BALTHUS (artist); Sabine REWALD; METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984. Softcover. Some light cockoling in lower margins to first 50 pages, some light shelfwear. 12 x 9 inches. 176 pages. Pictorial wrappers. Catalog for the exhibition from February - May 1984.
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HereHere: Cranbrook Gradbook
by CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART
Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook Academy of Art, 2011. First edition. Generally a clean copy; no internal markings. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 208 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original wrappers. MFA graduate cataloge and thesis show identity for Cranbrook's 2011 graduating class; designed in collaboration with Haynes Riley; studio portrait photography by Brittany Nelson and Erin Sweeney.
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Thunder Bay District 1821-1892. A Collection of Documents
by ARTHUR, Elizabeth (editor)
Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1973. A fine copy. 8vo. Plates and maps. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. One of 825 copies of volume IX from the Ontario Society of the Publications of The Champlain Society.
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Joan Mitchell / Christine Ay Tjoe
by Joan MITCHELL (artist); Christine AY TJOE (artist)
New York: Mnuchin Gallery, 2023. First edition. New in shrinkwrap. 12 x 9.5 inches. 65 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Mnuchin Gallery, February 9 - March 18, 2023.
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David Smith: To and From the Figure
by SMITH; David (artist)
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1985. Hardcover. A fine copy in a very good plus jacket that has some wear to the rear cover and a small tear at the top of the spine. 11.25 x 9.25 inches. Cloth; dust jacket. "The exhibition catalogue, featuring the acclaimed painter/sculptor's renditions of the female body.
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Rachel Whiteread: Sculpture
by WHITEREAD; Rachel (artist)
London: Gagosian Gallery, 2005. First edition. Generally a clean copy, with one light mark on the front cover. 12.5 x 10.5 inches. 95 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original boards. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery, London in 2005.
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A file of correspondence by five artists: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema; Sir George Causen; Edward John Gregory; John William North; and William Stott (of Oldham); to the London picture dealer Charles Deschamps (about seven letters are to his assistant W. P. H. Groome or others), 1872-1888
by [VICTORIAN ARTISTS]
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Consisting of 188 autograph letters signed, and one autograph postcard signed (336 pages, 12mo and 8vo), plus 25 related items. As below:. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912). 38 autograph letters signed, 52 pages, nearly all 12mo, about half in French, most signed "L Alma-Tadema" (a few signed just with initials), one letter with small ink sketch of Deschamps, another letter with a fore-edge a bit chipped; docketed by Deschamps and a few with his penciled... Read More
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American Art Auction Catalogues, 1785-1942. A Union List
by [ART REFERENCE] – Harold LANCOUR, compiler
New York: The New York Public Library, 1944. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 377 pages. Printed in double-columns. Original printed tan wrappers. A similar volume to George L. McKay's 'American Book Auction Catalogues, 1713-1934'. Fine copy. (BA).
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Richard Artschwager: Wall Works and Floor Works
by ARTSCHWAGER, Richard (artist); Lane RELYEA (author)
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002. First edition. A clean copy; no internal markings. 3 volumes. 10.5 x 8 inches. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original boards.
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Richard Artschwager
by ARTSCHWAGER, Richard (artist); Bob MONK (editor); Alison MCDONALD (editor)
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2008. First edition. A clean and fresh copy. 11.5 x 11 inches. 54 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery, New York in 2008.
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Richard Artschwager!
by ARTSCHWAGER, Richard (artist); Jennifer R. GROSS (author); Adam D DEINBERG (contributor); Cathleen CHAFFEE (contributor); Ingrid SCHAFFNER (contributor)
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2010. First edition. Some shelfwear; boards slightly buckled; internally a clean copy. 11.5 x 9.75 inches. 256 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original boards. "For nearly sixty years, Richard Artschwager (b. 1923) has undertaken an unrelenting investigation of art's ability to mediate contemporary experience and perception. Although his work, which includes sculpture, painting, prints, and drawing, is often characterized as having elements of Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art, his practice... Read More
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Ruth Asawa
by ASAWA, Ruth (artist); Tiffany BELL (contributor); Robert STORR (contributor)
New York: David Zwirner, 2018. First edition. New in shrinkwrap. 13.25 x 8.5 inches. 176 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. Catalog of the exhibition held at David Zwirner, New York, September 13-October 21, 2017.
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Can You Hear, Bird
by ASHBERY, John
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1995. 8vo. 175 pp. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. Fine. FIRST EDITION of Ashbery's seventeenth collection of poems.
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Laudes creaturarum
by DOVES PRESS – Francis of Assisi
London: Doves Press, 1910. 8vo (162 x 116mm). Printed in red and black. Original red morocco, gilt-lettered on front cover, stamp signed by the Doves Bindery on rear turn-in (some wear and staining to binding).
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Past/Foreward: The LA Phil at 100
by LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, 2018. First edition. As-new. Volume 2 of 2. 11 x 9 inches. 215 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original silver cloth. Published to commemorate the Los Angeles Philharmonic on the occasion of its centennial, October 24, 2019.
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Fortunas Chart. Triplicity
by [ASTROLOGY]
New York: Triplicity Company, 1919. Some light browning and handling wear, but generally in very good condition. Folding sheet (16.5 x 27 inches). Printed in red and black. A popular divination chart that "combines the ancient, medieval, and modern interpretation of the playing cards.
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Bodily Harm
by ATWOOD, Margaret
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. 8vo. 266, [1] pp. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. Near-fine with slightest shelfwear. FIRST EDITION.
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The Ullens Collection of Important Chinese Gold
by POLY AUCTION
Hong Kong: Poly Auction, 2017. Hardcover. As-new in shrinkwrap. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. 100 pages. Boards. First edition. In Chinese and English.
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The Platonic Bow
by AUDEN, W. H.
New York: Fuck You Press, 1965. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Square 8vo. Original printed white wrappers. First edition, one of 300 copies, of this sexually explicit homoerotic poem. In very good to fine condition. Bloomfield & Mendelson, Appendix II. WITH: Another edition. Washington: Guild Press, [1970]. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers (minute wear at bottom of spine, else fine). First illustrated edition (apparently). Illustrated with explicit photographs that portray the homoerotic actions described in the text. Also... Read More
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The Platonic Blow
by AUDEN, W. H.
New York: The Fuck You Press, 1965. A fine copy with only minimal handling wear. Square 8vo. [12] pp. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. One of 300 copies of the "Trade edition" (there was also the "Rough Trade Edition" of 5 copies; an edition of 3 unnumbered copies; and the "Turkey Edition" of two copies). "According to persistent rumour the poem generally knows as 'The Platonic blow' was written by Auden in 1948 under the stylistic... Read More
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