Richard Artschwager: No More Running Man
by ARTSCHWAGER; Richard (artist); Robert MORGAN (author)
New York: Gagosian; Rizzoli, 2014. First edition. New in shrinkwrap. 10.5 x 8 inches. 88 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original boards. "This book documents Richard Artschwager's last series of work, shown posthumously at Gagosian Gallery, New York, in 2014. For five decades, Richard Artschwager has forged a maverick path by confounding the generic limits of art while making the visual comprehension of space and the everyday objects that occupy it strangely unfamiliar. For his last series of... Read More
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Evidence 1944-1994 [Signed and Inscribed]
by AVEDON, Richard
New York: Random House. First edition. Light wear at ends of spine, generally a fine copy. Folio. 183 pages. Original printed boards. Inscribed by Avedon across double-page spread at front: "For Cynthia and Paul on this first Anniversary. Avedon May 1994." Edited by Mary Shanahan. Essays by Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik.
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An Autobiography: Richard Avedon
by AVEDON, Richard
New York; Toronto: Random House; Eastman Kodak Compny, 1993. First edition. A fine copy with some very light toning to board edges. 14.25 x 11.25 inches. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original cloth; acetate dust jacket.
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Aghani al-Darwish [Songs of the Dervish]
by AYYUB, Rashid (or Raschid Ayoub)
New York: Syrian-American Press, 1928. A very good copy, internally clean, the front wrapper with large chip at fore-edge. 8vo. Frontispiece by Kahlil Gibran. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front flyleaf in Arabic: "Ila Akhiy Jawaad ‘Arid [To my brother Jawaad ‘Arid] Rashid Ayyub." This is the second of the three volumes of verse published by the Lebanese-born poet Rashid Ayyub (1872-1941) nicknamed the "complaining" or "dervish" poet. It's frontispiece is a... Read More
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Manzoni Azimut
by AZIMUT, Manzoni (artist); Francesca POLA (editor)
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2012. First edition. As-new. 3 volumes, 11.5 x 8.5 inches. 136 pages; two smaller pamphlet facsimiles of Azimuth issues. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers; original printed slipcase. Includes forwards by Larry Gagosian, as well as Elena and Guiseppe Manzoni di Chiosca. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery from 2011 to 2012.
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Roy Lichtenstein: Pop Remix
by BABINGTON, Jaklyn
National Gallery of Australia, 2012. A near-fine copy with a minimum amount of edgewear to the upper rear wrapper, otherwise fine. 30 x 30 cm. Original printed wrappers. Traces Lichtenstein's print projects from the 1950s to the 1990s, exploring how he appropriated, transformed, and remixed numerous art historical sources.
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The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art 966-1066
by BACKHOUSE, Janet / D.H. TURNER / Leslie WEBSTER, editors
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1984. First edition. Fine. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, issued simultaneously in cloth. Two hundred treasures of pre-Norman art are described and illustrated, including the Alfred Jewel, the Benedictionals of St. Aethelwold and Archbishop Robert, the Exeter Book, and the Beowulf manuscript.
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Six Degrees of Freedom
by BACKHAUS, Jessica
Berlin: Kehrer Verlag, 2015. First edition, warmly inscribed to a curator on the title page. With an autographed note signed and loosely inserted. A fine copy. 11 x 9.25 inches. 110 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. "With her latest photographic series Jessica Backhaus examines, universal questions of human existence. Based on her own life story she inquires after the sig- nificance of knowing the roots of one's own existence and to what extent it is... Read More
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What Still Remains
by BACKHAUS, Jessica; Jean DYKSTRA (text)
Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, 2008. First edition. A near-fine copy. 9.75 x 11.25 inches. 96 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth. '"Turning points, in-between states, a beautiful kind of limbo that tugs at the heart and suggests stories of loss and remembrance. That is what photographs are, after all, memorials that stop time and hold it for a moment, for our contemplation. If Backhaus's photographs are partly memorials to lost combs and half-eaten apples, they surely allude,... Read More
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Essays
by BACON, Francis
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1903. Internal repaired tear on contents leaf. Small 4to. vii, 323 pages. Original half black morocco, marbled boards, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, red silk page markers.
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Richfield Springs Illustrated. Historical and Descriptive
by BAILEY, W. T.
Richmond Springs NY: Mercury Office, F. E. Mungor, proprietor, 1886. 8vo. 106 pp. 12 plates, illustrations in text, map at end. Original cloth-backed decorated pebbled boards. Binding worn, laks front free endpaper; one plate sprung loose and chipped at edges. FIRST EDITION of this guide to the Richfield Springs in Otsego County, New York. The name was derived from the local sulfur springs that served as a draw for tourists.
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Catalogue De L'œuvre Graphique Et Des Multiples/Catalogue of the Graphic Work and Multiples: D'Enrico Baj: Volume II 1970-1973
by BAJ, Enrico (artist); Jean PETIT
Panorama Forces Vives, Geneva, 1973. Softcover. A fine copy, the spine faded. 10.5 x 10.5 inches. Wrappers. Volume II of a collection of artist Enrico Baj's works.
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Catalogue De L'œuvre Graphique Et Des Multiples/Catalogue of the Graphic Work and Multiples: D'Enrico Baj: Volume I 1952-1970
by BAJ, Enrico (artist); Jean PETIT
Panorama Forces Vives, Geneva, 1970. Hardcover. A fine copy, light curling at upper edge of jacket. 11 x 10.75 inches. Cloth; dust jacket. Volume I of a collection of artist Enrico Baj's works.
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Enrico Baj
by BAJ, Enrico
editions Filipacchi, 1980. Hardcover. A fine copy, light shelfwear to jacket. 12 x 9.75 inches. 68 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. In French.
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Municipal Government of the City of New York
by BAKER, Abby G and Abby H. WARE
Boston: Ginn & Company, 1906. Some light wear at extremities. 8vo. 350 pages. Double-page bird's-eye view of the five boroughs and illustrations in text, all in duotone. Original decorated cloth, the front cover blocked with a panel centering a silhouette of the Brooklyn Bridge. Early owner's name on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION. The text responded to the call by New York's Board of Education to increase the study of the governments of the state and city in... Read More
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The Albert N'yanza: Great Basin of the Nile, and Exploration of the Nile Sources [Two Volumes]
by BAKER, Samuel White
J.B. Lippincott and Co, 1868. Some foxing, some light wear to bindings. Two volumes, 8vo. Folding map. Original cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
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John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné: Volume Four: 2005-2010
by BALDESSARI, John (artist); Hannah B. HIGGINS (contributor); David SALLE (contributor)
New Haven; London: Yale University Press; Marian Goodman Gallery, 2017. First edition. As-new. 12 x 10 inches. 536 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original green boards; original slipcase. "The fourth volume of the John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné comprises approximately 370 works that represent the activity of this iconic conceptual artist between 1994 and 2004. Here, John Baldessari (b. 1931) continues to interrogate the possibilities of photographic appropriation, further developing his unique strategies for the production of meaning and... Read More
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John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné: Volume Five: 2005-2010
by BALDESSARI, John (artist); Hannah B. HIGGINS (contributor); David SALLE (contributor)
New Haven; London: Yale University Press; Marian Goodman Gallery, 2018. First edition. Missing original slipcase; otherwise a generally clean copy. 11.5 x 10 inches. 534 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original orange boards. "The fifth volume of the John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné compiles the approximately 367 works made by the influential American conceptual artist (b. 1931) from 2005 through 2010. During these years, the artist undertook a number of series, including the shaped erasures of "Blockage"; the word-and-image... Read More
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17 x 23, 5 x 16
by BALKA, Miroslaw (artist); Michael ARCHER (text by); Zygmunt BAUMAN (text by)
London: Jay Jopling; White Cube, 2009. First edition. Some very minor bumping to corners; generally a clean copy. 9.5 x 7 inches. 110 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original boards. Held in conjunction with the exhibition, "Nothere" held at White Cube, London from 2008 to 2009.
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Candlestick Point
by BALTZ, Lewis
Tokyo and New York: Gallery Min and Aperture, 1989. Hardcover. Some light hazing to the boards, generally fine. 10 x 13 inches, oblong. Black-and-white and color images, some folding. Original black boards, printed paper label on front cover; original matching open-faced slipcase. First edition, signed "Cheers! Lewis Baltz" on the title-page. Published to coincide with the exhibition held 13 May to 2 July 1989. Text by Gus Blaisdell (in English and Japanese).
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Lettres Choisies
by BALZAC, Jean-Louis Guez de
Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1656. Modern ink gift inscription on verso of title, lacks front free endpaper. 12mo. 404pp. Engraved title. Contemporary vellum, manuscript lettering on spine. Provenance: Princes of Liechtenstein (bookplate). Willems 1193; Copinger 186; Brunet I, 633; Berghman 1408; Berghman Supplement 332; Rahir 1216; Tchemerzine I, 427.
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Bancroft Book Cloths [cover title]
by BANCROFT, Joseph & Sons Company
New York: Albert D. Smith & Co., a Division of Bancroft, 1950. Approx. 6 with small sections trimmed away, pencil notes on first tab. 12.3 x 22 cm. Approximately 200 samples, separated by tabs into categories: Linen Finish; Oxford; Eton; Natural Finish; Buckram; and Patterns. Cloth covers with two binding screws, pocket at end containing pricelist dated October 3, 1950 and two sheets providing concordances between new and old inventory numbers. A label on the inner cover gives... Read More
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Terezin - Mansfield/Mansfield - Terezin
by BANKA, Pavel
Prague: National Gallery, 2003. A fine copy, with Klotz/Sirmon Gallery sticker on inner wrapper. Text in English and Czech. Oblong. 32 pages, 13 color, and 12 black-and-white photographs. Printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, signed by Banka on the title-page, dated 2003.
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Story of the Automobile. Its History and Development from 1760 to 1917
by BARBER, H. L. [Herbert Lee]
Chicago: A. J. Munson & Co, 1917. Some light dustsoiling, spine lettering faded, some lower corners bumped, but generally clean and unblemished, the binding tight and sound. 8vo. 250 pages. Frontispiece showing Benjamin Franklin, Charles E. Duryea, and Henry Ford. Original dark red cloth, gilt lettered on cover and spine. First edition, showing "the struggle... for one hundred and fifty years to devise a means of propelling a vehicle without animal power." The author claims this is the... Read More
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Olivo Barbieri. Site specific Roma 04
by BARBIERI Olivo, DELOGU Marco (curator)
Rome: Zoneattive, 2004. Fine. 9 x 12 inches. Pictorial wrappers. Fine collection of these tilt-shift miniaturized aerial images of Rome.
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