Blake's Illustrations to The Divine Comedy
by [ART] ROE, Albert S.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1971. Stated Third Printing. Quarto. 30cm. Publisher's blue bloth titled in gilt and dark blue to spine. Dustjacket. [xiii];[1]; 219pp.; [103] of art prints to rear, unpaginated. Light wear and scuffing to spine ends and extremities, with a little discoloration of the cloth at spine ends; internally clean and fresh, offsetting to front flyleaf from something, most likely newsprint that at one time was laid in at the front; in a strong, pale... Read More
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Dada A Paris
by [ART] SANOUILLET, Michel
Paris: Jean Jacques Pauvert, 1965. First French Edition. Octavo. 25cm. Publisher's printed glossy card wraps. 642pp.; [6]. Light wear and scuffing to corners and spine ends, with some chipping and wear to the head of the spine, some soiling to the white rear panel, sunning to spine panel; internally clean and fresh. A very good copy of an unwieldy volume. A highly regarded history, in French, of the people and work that formed the Dada movement, published... Read More
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Souvenir Program - Hermanas Padilla - Mexico City Tipica Revue
by [MEXICO] [PERFORMING ARTS]
N.p.; n.d. Mexico City Tipica Revue, [1946]. Quarto (28cm). Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; [16pp]; illus. Very mild signs of use; Near Fine. Dated from context. Souvenir program for this traveling troupe of Mexican performers, headlined by the famous Padilla Sisters from Michoacán, Margarita and María, whose ranchera style introduced Mexican popular music to a huge American audience during the Thirties and Forties. The program features dozens of black & white photographic illustrations, not only of the Padillas,... Read More
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Prison Poetry: New Jersey State Council on the Arts Creative Writing Program
by NEW JERSEY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS
Trenton: New Jersey Council on the Arts, 1973. First Edition. Oblong octavo (16.5x21.5cm.); original brown photo-illustrated card wrappers; 82pp.; illus., printed on brown and orange stock. Fine. Poetry written by inmates at the Bordentown Reformatory, 1972.
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In Morbid Colours: Art and The Idea of Decadence in The Bohemian Lands 1880-1914
by [ART] URBAN, Otto M.
Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2009. First Edition. Quarto. 28cm. Publisher's original decorated paper covered boards. 409pp.; [3]. Very light wear to corners and spne ends, strong and bright; internally clean and fresh, illustrated throughout. A near fine copy. An academic and focussed analysis of the rise to ascendancy of Czech art during the height of the Decadent period, and what it was about the lush, heavy, overspiced aesthetic that dovetailed so neatly with Czech artistic preoccupations and requirements. Featuring... Read More
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Zines 2009-2019
by [ART][ZINES] BENJAMIN, Heather
New York: Heather Benjamin, 2022. Stated Second Edition. Quarto. 28cm. Publisher's pink decorated stiff card wraps. Unpaginated [160pp]. Very light edgewear, bright and clean; internally clean, signed and dated by Heather Benjamin to the title page, laid in at the front is an issue of "Sad Sex #8", signed and numbered by Benjamin [#22/1000]. A near fine signed copy.
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El Movimiento Estridentista
by ARZUBIDE, Germán List
[Mexico]: Ediciones de Horizonte, 1982. Facsimile Edition, softcover. Octavo (19.5cm); white pictorial paper wrappers; 106pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations. Text in Spanish. Lightly tanned, with light shelf-wear, and pencilled note to front endpaper; Very Good+. Explores the avant-garde art style of the Stridentist Movement. [89214].
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朝井閑右衛門画集 [= Kan'emon Asai: Collected Works]
by 朝井閑右衛門 [= KANEMON Asai]
Hatsubai Nichidō Shuppanbu, 2000. First, Limited Edition. First printing, no. 447 of 700 numbered copies. Quarto (35cm). Cloth hardcover in dustjacket and publisher's card slipcase; 279pp; illus. A very fine copy, free of markings or wear, in like slipcase. Housed in publisher's original cardboard box with printed title label. Catalog raisonné of the painted works of the celebrated Western-style figural painter Kan'emon Asai (1901-1983). Text entirely in Japanese. Rare in the U.S., with only four locations noted in OCLC.... Read More
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The Prophet [Signed]
by ASCH, Sholem (novel); SUPER, Arthur Saul (translation)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1955. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [vi],[2],3-343,[3]pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Light wear to extremities, some trivial dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.00), gently spine-sunned, with modest external wear, and a few tiny nicks, tears, and attendant creases; Very Good+. With the business card of Asa B. Elliott, V.P. at G.P. Putnam's... Read More
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The Floating Bear: A Newsletter. Issue # 12
by [ASHBERY, John, contr.] DI PRIMA, Diane and LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka], eds
New York: The Floating Bear, 1961. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); side-stapled mimeographed self-wrappers; [12]pp. A Fine and unfolded (possibly unissued) copy, as the magazine sold only through its mailing list. Contents chiefly devoted to the poetry of John Ashbery, and provides a notice on p. [12] that the poet "is now looking for manuscripts (poems) for Locus Solus 3." Concludes with the plea "We are, as ever, badly in need of money for Bears. This isn't addressed to those... Read More
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A Wave [Prospectus]
by Ashbery, John; Will Barnet (illus.)
New York: 451 Books, [2002]. First Edition. Sewn wraps, printed in red; 12mo. 16 pp. Eight photo-lithographs by Will Barnet. Prospectus for the first publication of 451 Books, with a cover caption "451 Books", consisting of all the illustrations of the final edition and the limitation page on inside rear cover with the signatures of Ashbery and Barnet reproduced. The published edition in a small Folio size, in a linen box, and sold by Ursus Books of NYC was... Read More
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Hotel Lautréamont
by ASHBERY, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23cm); pretty paper-covered boards and beige cloth backstrip, with titling and author's initials stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; brown topstain; dustjacket; x,[2],3-157,[7]pp. The pictorial bookplate of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024) is mounted to the front pastedown. Fine in a very Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $23.00). 86058.
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SUNRISE IN SUBURBIA
by Ashbery, John
New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1968. First Edition. Sewn card covers; oblong 12mo. Number 75 of 100 copies (of 126 total) signed by the author. Printed at the Ferguson Press, Cambridge. Lacking (inexplicably) the decorated wrapper else fine. Inexpensive copy of a scarce book.
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A Wave [Prospectus]
by Ashbery, John; Will Barnet (illus.)
New York: 451 Books, [2002]. First Edition. Sewn wraps, printed in red; 12mo. 16 pp. Eight photo-lithographs by Will Barnet. Prospectus for the first publication of 451 Books, with a cover caption "451 Books", consisting of all the illustrations of the final edition and the limitation page on inside rear cover with the signatures of Ashbery and Barnet reproduced. The published edition in a small Folio size, in a linen box, and sold by Ursus Books of NYC was... Read More
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As Umbrellas Follow Rain [Signed]
by ASHBERY, John
Lenox, MA: Qua Books, 2001. First Edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. This one of the regular issue specially signed by the author on the title page. (There was a limited edition numbered and signed.) Qua was a short-lived press edited by Michael Gizzi and Craig Watson. Quite scarce signed.
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Selected Poems
by ASHBERY, John
New York: Viking Press, 1985. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Cloth-backed mauve boards; dustjacket; [viii],350pp. Tight, straight, clean copy with a touch of foxing to upper edge of text block; Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $22.95 on front flap), spotted on verso with tiny bit of wear at crown; Near Fine.
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SUNRISE IN SUBURBIA [Inscribed]
by Ashbery, John
New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1968. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies signed by the author, this being copy 'B'. Oblong octavo (14cm x 19cm); letterpress printed sheets, string-tied into plain grey card wrappers; patterned paper dustjacket, with letterpressed title label mounted to front cover; [20]pp. Additionally inscribed by the author at a later date on the title page: "For C.W. / Warmly / John Ashbery / May 3, 1998." Fine in a Fine dustjacket.... Read More
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April Galleons: Poems [Inscribed to Elizabeth Hardwick]
by ASHBERY, John
New York: Viking Penguin Inc, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); dark blue cloth and paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; viii,97,[5]pp. Inscribed on the title page in the year of publication: "For Elizabeth / John Ashbery / 9/23/87." Trivial wear along front joint, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $15.95), with light wear to crown and some yellowing to inner flap edges. Association copy of Ashbery's twelfth collection of poems,... Read More
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The Further Adventures of Romney Pringle
by ASHDOWN, Clifford (pseud. of R. Austin Freeman and John J. Pitcairn); DERLETH, August (introduction)
Philadelphia: Oswald Train, 1969. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-216,[8]pp. Base of spine gently nudged, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.50), gently suned and spine and flap folds, with mild dustiness; Very Good+. Collection of six Romney Pringle stories, pseudonymously-written by R. Austin Freeman and John Pitcairn. With an introduction by August Derleth. HUBIN, p.15.
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A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete Since 1946
by ASHE, Arthur R (Jr.)
New York: Warner Books, 1988. First Edition. First printing. Large octavo; cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 571pp; illus. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly edge-rubbed dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $39.95 on front flap), Near Fine. Third volume of Ashe's three-volume series documenting the history of African-Americans in sport.
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Daisy Ashford: Her Book. A Collection of the Remaining Novels by the Author of "The Young Visiters," together with "The Jealous Governes" by Angela Ashford. With a Preface by Irvin S. Cobb
by ASHFORD, Daisy [aka Margaret Mary Julia Ashford]
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920. First American Edition. Octavo. Linen backed pictorial boards, with photographic portrait inset device; dustjacket; xxv, 15-338pp; illustrated endpapers and jacket design by Ethel C. Taylor. Contemporary ownership signature to verso of half-title, bit of flecking to upper edge of text block, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the uncommon dustwrapper, lightly edgeworn and a tad darkened on spine panel; Very Good.
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The Economic Organisation of England: an Outline History
by ASHLEY, William (Sir)
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1930. Later impression (originally published 1914). 12mo. Red cloth boards, lettered in black on spine; 213pp. Slight toning to text, else a tight, straight, VG or better reading copy.
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Angela: A Revealing Close-Up of the Woman and the Trial
by THE PROFESSOR (pseud. of Charles Ashman)
North Hollywood: Leisure Books, 1971. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original. Octavo (17.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [8],9-224pp. Trivial wear to extremities, gentle sunning to spine, with some faint foxing to upper edge of textblock, and the usual tanning to the text edges; Very Good+. Hastily-written, pseudonymous volume on Davis, repeating "every right wing assertion about Ms. Davis being a black terrorist that had ever been issued. The following year, a month after she was found not guilty... Read More
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The Mountain and the Feather
by ASHMEAD, John
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); gray cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in red and light blue on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 397pp. Pencilled note to front endpaper. Shelf-soil to covers, with faint foxing to upper edge of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Paul Bacon, unclipped (priced $5.00), with modest shelf-wear, rubbing to spine ends and extremities, and faint foxing; Very Good. Ashmead's first novel offers a second-person narrative... Read More
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Abstract Art Before Columbus
by ASHTON, Dore (text); Lee Boltin (photographs); André Emmerich (preface)
New York: André Emmerich Gallery, 1957. First Edition. Laid in materials: three invitation cards, including one for this gallery exhibit, John Levee's exhibit on gouaches, and Lee Boltin's Pre-Columbian Objects exhibit; four André Emmerich Gallery pamphlets including the Pre-Columbian Sculpture exhibit, Adolph Gottlieb's artwork, John Levee's art exhibit on gouaches, and the artwork of Theodoros Stamos; one signed postcard to Dr. E.M. Mendelson from André Emmerich inviting him to see the new gallery; one illustrated gallery poster on Pre-Columbian... Read More
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