Picasso | The Casisse á Remords Suite
by PICASSO, Pablo (artist); HAMMER GRAPHICS GALLERY
New York: Hammer Graphics Gallery, 1982. Softcover. A fine copy. 10 x 8 inches. 45 pages. Wrappers.
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Picasso: The Mediterranean Years, 1945-1962
by PICASSO, Pablo (artist); John RICHARDSON (contributor); Claude ARNAUD
New York: Gagosian Gallery; Rizzoli, 2010. First edition. A clean copy; dust jacket with some very minor shelf wear. 12 x 9.5 inches. 300 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. "The catalog to an international art sensation - a once in a lifetime event of Picasso's most prolific creative period - show opening at the Gagosian Gallery in London, June 2010. This volume features 3 single and 4 double gatefold illustrations and includes a... Read More
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The Sculptures of Pablo Picasso
by PICASSO, Pablo (artist)
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2003. First edition. Generally a clean copy. 11.5 x 8.5 inches. 145 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original wrappers; pictorial dust jacket.
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Picasso and Francoise Gilot: Paris-Vallauris, 1943-1953
by PICASSO, Pablo (artist); John RICHARDSON (editor); Francoise GILOT (text by); Charles STUCKEY (text by); Michael CARY (text by)
New York: Gagosian Gallery; Rizzoli, 2012. First edition. New in shrinkwrap. 12.5 x 9.5 inches. 378 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. "This publication explores Picasso's portrayals of life with Gilot and their young family in the decade they spent together. Françoise Gilot was a young budding painter when she met Picasso by chance at a café in 1943. The subsequent ten years spent together was a time of transformation in Picasso's paintings that... Read More
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Picasso Mosqueteros
by PICASSO, Pablo (artist); John RICHARDSON (contributor); Memory HOLLOWAY (contributor); Dakin HART (contributor); Jeff KOONS (contributor); Helene PARMELIN (contributor)
New York: Gagosian Gallery; Rizzoli, 2009. First edition. A clean copy; dust jacket with some very minor shelf wear and a small scratch. 12 x 9.5 inches. 300 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Picasso Mosqueteros," held March 26 - June 6, 2009 at the Gagosian Gallery. "This publication features new texts by esteemed Picasso biographer John Richardson, contemporary artist Jeff Koons, and scholars Dakin Hart and... Read More
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Picasso in the Nahmad Collection / Picasso Dans la Collection Nahmad
by PICASSO, Pablo (artist)
Monaco; Paris: Grimaldi Forum; Editions Hazan, 2013. First edition. Front cover is detatched; internally clean. 11 x 9.5 inches. 415 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Grimaldi Forum, 2013.
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Pablo Picasso and Marie-Therese: L'Amour Fou
by PICASSO, Pablo (artist); John RICHARDSON (editor); Elizabeth COWLING (editor)
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2011. First edition. New in shrinkwrap. 12.5 x 9.5 inches. 300 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. "Pablo Picasso's endless fascination with his lover's character and form led to radical shifts in his conception of portraiture and the mystical metamorphoses that the act of creation entails. Picasso's secretive love affair with Marie-Therese Walter, which began in 1927, inspired a radical shift in his conception of portraiture. The exhibition and catalogue... Read More
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A Foreigner Called Picasso Volume II
by PICASSO, Pablo (artist)
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2024. First edition. New in shrinkwrap. Volume 2 of 2. 12.5 x 9 inches. 208 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial boards.
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Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
by PICASSO, Pablo; Gary TINTEROW (editor); Susan Alyson STEIN (editor)
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010. Corner of front wrapper just touched, but a fine copy. 12 x 9 inches. 364 pages. Profusely illustrated. Printed wrappers. "This landmark publication presents for the first time a comprehensive catalogue of the works by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in the Metropolitan Museum. Comprising thirty-four paintings, fifty-eight drawings, a dozen sculptures and ceramics, and more than four hundred prints, the collection reflects the full breadth of the artist's multisided genius as it... Read More
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A Foreigner Called Picasso Volume I.
by PICASSO, Pablo (artist)
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2023. First edition. New in shrinkwrap. Volume 1 of 2. 12.5 x 9 inches. 236 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial boards.
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The Stavelot Triptych
by [PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY] RYSKAMP, Charles
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1980. First edition. Very good. Square 4to. Illustrated in color. Original printed wrappers, AS-NEW IN ORIGINAL PLASTIC SEAL (some contraction of the pastic seal with associated buckling of the text block). FIRST EDITION, an unsealed copy. This triptych was made in the Meuse Valley, Belgium, circa 1130-1158. It is the earliest surviving reliquary of the Tur Cross with illustrations from the Legend of the Tur Cross, uniting Eastern & Western iconographic traditions.... Read More
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Ode ... AIR: "Ye mariners of England
by PIERPONT, John
N.p.: s.n., n.d.. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Pale foxing, old folds. Broadside, 9 3/4 x 8 inches. A song sheet printing of Pierpont's celebrated temperance song. Published in his 'Airs of Palestine', it was often sung and reprinted, as on the celebration of Independence Day, 1839, when it was sung at Faneuil Hall in Boston and reprinted in local newspapers. Pierpont was a well-regarded poet, scholar and clergyman, and was the grandfather of J. P. Morgan. Found... Read More
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Anglo-Saxon Vernacular Manuscripts in America
by [PIERPONT MORGAN & SCHEIDE LIBRARIES] COLLINS, Rowland L.
New York: The Scheide Library / The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976. First edition. Fine. 8vo. Printed in red-and-black. Black-and-white illustrations. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, printed by the Stinehour Press. This was a joint exhibition between The Pierpont Morgan Library and The Scheide Library, gathering all the known Old English manuscripts in America.
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Bolt from the Blue
by PINTOFF, Ernest
Salt Lake City: Northwest Publishing, 1992. A fine copy. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 224 pages. Boards; dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper and with letter from author laid in. First Edition. "Bolt from the Blue is Pintoff's vivid accout of his stroke and his determined struggle to recover. A natural storyteller, Pintoff weaves an insightful tapestry of fear and love, depression and humor, and despair and the rebirth of dreams.
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Paola Pivi
by PIVI, Paola; Massamiliano GIONI; Jens HOFFMAN
Damiani, 2013. New in shrinkwrap. 4to. 190 pages. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "Over the course of her two-decade career, the Italian-born, Alaska-based multimedia artist Paola Pivi (born 1971) has fashioned such unlikely objects as a mausoleum made of cookies and a rotating airplane. Many of her sculptures and photographs are comical, as in her pictures of miniaturized designer chairs attached to bare buttocks, or a leopard walking across rows of cappuccino cups. Animals are a recurrent presence throughout,... Read More
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Paola Pivi
by PIVI, Paola; Massamiliano GIONI; Jens HOFFMAN
Damiani, 2013. A fine copy. 4to. 190 pages. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "Over the course of her two-decade career, the Italian-born, Alaska-based multimedia artist Paola Pivi (born 1971) has fashioned such unlikely objects as a mausoleum made of cookies and a rotating airplane. Many of her sculptures and photographs are comical, as in her pictures of miniaturized designer chairs attached to bare buttocks, or a leopard walking across rows of cappuccino cups. Animals are a recurrent presence throughout,... Read More
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Paola Pivi
by PIVI, Paola; Massamiliano GIONI; Jens HOFFMAN
Damiani, 2013. A fine copy. 4to. 190 pages. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "Over the course of her two-decade career, the Italian-born, Alaska-based multimedia artist Paola Pivi (born 1971) has fashioned such unlikely objects as a mausoleum made of cookies and a rotating airplane. Many of her sculptures and photographs are comical, as in her pictures of miniaturized designer chairs attached to bare buttocks, or a leopard walking across rows of cappuccino cups. Animals are a recurrent presence throughout,... Read More
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Poems from the Floating World
by POEMS FROM THE FLOATING WORLD – Jerome ROTHENBERG, editor
New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1963. Some light marginal creasing and toning to the penultimate volume, but all issues are otherwise remarkably clean, bright, and fine. Nos. 1-5, complete. Offset printed and stapled in printed wraps. First three issues 32mo, and final two 8vo. All issues published of one of the most important little magazines of the 60's, around which the poets of the deep image centered. Rothenberg was one of the best editors of the period, and... Read More
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A Guide to West Point and Vicinity; Containing Descriptive, Historical, and Statistical Sketches of the United States Military Academy, and of Other Object of Interest
by WEST POINT
New York: J. H. Colton, 1844. Amateur repair to spine, map with clear tape reinforcements on verso, and with some separations and small losses at folds. 12mo. iv, 112 pages. Original embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover. Provenance: library stamp on title, manuscript identification on text leaf. An early guidebook to the United States Military Academy, with map.
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Metropolis
by POLIDORI, Robert; Martin C. PEDERSEN; Crispwell LAPPIN
New York: Metropolis Books, 2004. A fine, clean copy with little signs of handling. Oblong (10.75 x 11.5 inches). 144 pages. 93 color photographs. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition, signed and dated 2006 on the half-title. "Not only is he one of the world's preeminent architecture photographers, Robert Polidori is also--as his popular book Havana proved--a master of urban portraiture. The Montreal-born photographer has made haunting studies of bombed-out buildings in Beirut, decaying New York tenements, Versailles rooms... Read More
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Source and Stimulus: Polke, Lichtenstein, Laing
by POLKE, Sigmar; Roy LICHTENSTEIN; Gerald LAING;
New York: Levy Gorvy, 2019. New in shrinkwrap. 13.5 x 10 inches. 136 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original illustrated wrappers. First edition. "United in their desire to create images absolutely of the moment, Polke, Lichtenstein and Laing--three artists on separate but interrelated artistic journeys--turned their attention in the early 1960s toward the Ben-Day dot. Featuring works inspired by this printing method, Source and Stimulus connects these artists on this basis" (the publisher).
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Action Painting: Jackson Pollock & Gesture in Painting
by POLLOCK, Jackson (artist); Pepe KARMEL (editor); Robert FLECK (text by); Jason KAUFFMAN (text by); Gottfried BOEHM (text by); Ulf KÜSTER (text by)
Basel: Beyler Museum, 2008. First edition. A fine copy. 12 x 9.5 inches. 200 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. "Jackson Pollock's pioneering "drip" technique provided the model for what Harold Rosenberg would term "Action Painting"--using the canvas as an arena for the emphatically physical, even balletic application of paint, and as a record of that engagement. Pollock also provided the credo for this approach: "When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what... Read More
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Jackson Pollock (Modern Masters Series)
by POLLOCK, Jackson; Elizabeth FRANK
New York: Abbeville Press, 1983. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket with minor rubbing. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. 128 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition. Part of the postwar Modern Masters series by Abbeville Press.
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Pillen voor Joe
by PONTEN, Kees van; Jan FEITH [pseud. Chris KRAS, illustrator]
Amsterdam: Cohen Zonen, 1900. Some light soiling to title leaf, generally colors fresh and sheets bright. 8vo (19 x 26 cm). [28] pages, each a full-color lithograph. Bound in plain, quarter cloth. A fine work by the caricaturist Chris Kras, critical of English involvement in the Boer War.
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Sober Advice from Horace, to the Young Gentlemen about Town. As Deliver'd in his Second Sermon. Imitated in the Manner of Mr. Pope.Together with the Original Text, as restored by the Revd. R. Bentley . . . And Some Remarks on the Version
by POPE, Alexander
London [but Edinburgh]: Printed [by Thomas Ruddiman] for T. Boreman, at the Cock on Ludgate-Hill; and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1735. Soiling and discoloration to title (with one marginal chip) and final leaf, light foxing. 8vo (7.5 x 4.75 inches). 12 leaves: [3], 10, 10, [1] pages. Text in Latin and English on facing pages. Disbound. A very scarce Scottish piracy of Pope's explicitly sexual and allusive poem, first published on 21 December 1734... Read More
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