Abstract Painting 825-II. 69 Details
by RICHTER, Gerhard
Scalo, 1996. A near-fine copy with light toning to sheet edges, original bookseller's sticker on rear board. Small 8vo. Color plates. Original pictorial boards. First edition in English, translated by Catherine Schelbert. Afterword by Hans Ulrich Oberst.
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Gerhard Richter: Red | Yellow | Blue
by RICHTER, Gerhard; Helmut FRIEDEL
Prestel, 2007. A fine copy with the slightest hints of shelfwear to the jacket. 11.5 x 9.75 inches. 128 pages. Boards; dust jacket. "Startling colors, soft grays, undulating lines and large canvases are the hallmark of Richter's abstract period. Like all of Richter's painting, these works defy categorization, reflecting the artist's own journey towards understanding the world around him, a journey he invites his viewers to share with him. Three of his seminal works of this period: Red,... Read More
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Description of Life
by RIDING [JACKSON], Laura
New York: Targ Editions, 1980. A fine copy, the glassine with some light toning and wear, with one larger loss at head of spine. 8vo. v, 75, [1] pages. Original cloth-backed blue boards; plain glassine wrapper. FIRST EDITION, one of 350 copies signed by Laura (Riding) Jackson. Designed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press, printed by Westbrook.
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James Rielly
by RIELLY, James (artist); Emma ANDERSON
Whales: Oriel Mostyn Gallery, 2000. Some light markings to wrappers; generally a fine copy. 10.75 x 8.5 inches. 47 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original blue wrappers.
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Rambles Round Eton and Harrow
by RIMMER, Alfred
London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. Covers detached, spine dried and cracked. 8vo (18.2 x 13.5 cm). xi, 291 pages. Frontispiece, 52 illustrations in text. Contemporary tree calf gilt. Provenance: 1891 gift inscription on flyleaf from Mrs. Thacher to Richard F. Perkins. FIRST EDITION.
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Jean-Paul Riopelle: May 1st to May 30th, 1989
by RIOPELLE, Jean-Paul (artist)
Canada: Galerie Claude Lafitte, 1989. Softcover. Some minor wear to wrappers, generally fine. 9 x 10.75 inches. Wrappers.
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Keyboard Instruments. Studies in Keyboard Organology
by RIPIN, Edwin M.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket, the spine with light fading and a few small losses at the ends. 8vo. 84 pages. 62 black-and-white plates. Cloth; pictorial dust jacket.
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Rails of the World. A Monograph of the Family Rallidae
by RIPLEY, S. Dillon
Toronto: M. F. Feheley Publishers Limited, 1977. A near-fine copy, jacket price clipped and with a few small soft creases and soilmarks to spine panel. Folio (14 x 10 inches). Illustrations by J. Fenwick Lansdowne. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket; publisher's plain card slipcase. First edition. With a chapter on fossil species by Storrs L. Olson. An exquisitely designed and printed book, produced in Verona under the direction of Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega.
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Matthew Ritchie: Incomplete Projects 01-07
by RITCHIE, Matthew
Wild Card Crew, 2006. A fine copy. 8.6 x 6.25 inches. Profusely illustrated. Red printed buckram. The works included in this volume were originally published from 2000 to 2006 as seven separate volumes to record a diverse group of projects. Institutional acknowledgements and credits accompanied each volume. Half of the print run was preserved to be collected in this final edition. Published in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Dallas Museum of Art; Artists Space;... Read More
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'A Superannuated Printer's Anecdotage'
by RITCHIE, Ward
Austin: Press at the Humanities Research Center, 1986. 8vo. 25, [1] pp. Color portrait frontispiece mounted. Original wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION, one of 100 copies. Foreword by Dechard Turner. Printed by Carol Kent.
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Hyalography of the Bath [Broadside]
by RITSOS, Yannis
West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, 1988. A few small areas of finger-soiling along the edge, generally clean and bright. 12 x 19 inches. Engraving by Gary Young. One of 150 copies printed by Michael Peich.
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Larry Rivers
by RIVERS, Larry; Sam HUNTER
New York: Harry N. Abrams, n.d.. A very good copy with some light darkening to sheet edges, half-title slightly cockled; jacket with several nicks/tears at edges. Oblong (8 x 8.75 inches). 102 pages. 56 illustrations, of which 28 in color. Cloth; dust jacket. SIGNED by Larry Rivers on the title-page. An authoritative account of Rivers' life and work by Sam Hunter, Professor of Art History at Princeton. An undated edition from Abrams' Modern Artists series, presumably the 1971... Read More
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Drawings and Digressions by Larry Rivers
by RIVERS, Larry; BRIGHTMAN, Carol; John ASHBERY (foreword by)
Massachusetts: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1988. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket, upper spine with small clear tape repair, otherwise clean and bright. 11.25 x 10.75 inches. 263 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. "Gathers drawings, including studies for major paintings, created by the author during the fifties, sixties, and seventies, and shares his comments on his art, influences, and life.
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Larry Rivers
by [RIVERS, Larry] Helen A. HARRISON
New York: Artnews Books / Icon Editions / Harper & Row, 1984. Square 4to (10 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches). 142 pp. Richly illustrated with 60 full-color plates and 40 black-and-white reproductions. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy with slightest shelf-wear and toning to jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY RIVERS on the half-title. Includes a chronology, extensive bibliography, and index.
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Artist and Art Historian
by ROBERTSON, Giles
Edinburgh: Privately Printed [by the Tragara Press], 1972. 8vo. 30, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION,
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Avon's Harvest
by ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington
New York: Macmillan, 1921. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Slightest wear, endleaves discolored, a very good to fine copy. 8vo. Original red cloth-backed boards, printed paper label; printed dust jacket. First edition.
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Cavender's House
by ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington
New York: Macmillan, 1929. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Cloth a little faded, a very good copy. 8vo. Original purple cloth; printed dust jacket. First trade edition. 'Cavender's House' is dedicated "To the Memory of William Vaughn Moody," the American poet, who died in 1910. (The two poets had met as undergraduates at Harvard and had remained good friends.) Robinson has inscribed this copy to his friend's widow: "To Harriet Moody with all good wishes of E. A.... Read More
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A Magazine #11: Curated by Rodarte
by RODARTE
Antwerp: A Publishers, 2011. A very good to near fine copy with modest shelfwear. 4to (11.5 x 9 inches). Printed wrappers. The eleventh issue of this important fashion magazine, in which designers act as guest editors and use it as a vehicle to express their aesthetic and share their work. "A Magazine is a biannual publication, exploring the creative sphere of a selected designer in each issue. We invite a guest curator - an international fashion designer, group... Read More
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Emperor of Midnight
by RODITI, Edouard
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. Fine. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; acetate wrapper. Number 26 of 50 numbered and signed copies.
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Double Magazine N. 30
by RODLAND, Torbjorn; David SIMS; Nadège VANHEE-CYBULSKI; Roe ETHRIDGE; Christian BOLTANSKI; Mstidf AGUAYO
Softcover. As-new in shrinkwrap.
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BR Today. A Selection of his Books, with Comments
by ROGERS, Bruce
New York: The Grolier Club, 1982. 8vo. 41, [2]pp. Original cloth. Near-fine with one small bump to front board. FIRST EDITION, one of 450 copies designed by Bert Clarke and printed at The Press of A. Colish, on the 25th anniversary of Rogers's death.
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Poems
by ROGERS, Samuel
London: Edward Moxon, 1845. Frontispiece lightly spotted. Some light rubbing to joints, light wear at ends of spine and at corners. Two volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of the author by H. Robinson after Sir Thomas Lawrence. Contemporary green hard-grained morocco gilt, covers with dotted-circle roll centering a gilt urn on each side, spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated gilt block in the remaining, edges gilt, by Hayday. Provenance: Katherine Jane Canning... Read More
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The Pleasures of Memory. In Two Parts
by [ROGERS, Samuel]
Dublin: William Porter, 1802. Binding rubbed and a bit worn, internally clean and bright, contemporary ownership inscriptions on front flyleaf. 12mo. 62 pages. Two engraved plates. Contemporary Irish binding, full mottled calf, gilt flortiate roll on sides. Scarce Dublin edition, published the same year as the London and New York editions.
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Autograph letter signed (in full) to "My Dear Gentry"; n.p., 18 November [1926?]
by ROHMER, Sax
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 12mo, on his letterhead with small engraved vignette. Regarding illustrations: "I consider these designs Too Terrible for words. They utterly miss the spirit of the story. Could you get another done from my rough pencil sketch I enclose [not present] & let me see?..." (BA).
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Warren Rohrer
by ROHRER, Warren (artist); David CARRIER (contributor); Elaine MEHALAKES (contributor)
Philadelphia: Locks Art Publications, 2016. A near-fine copy. 13.5 x 10 inches. 256 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original black cloth; dust jacket. First edition. "Warren Rohrer (1927-95) emerged from the experimental Philadelphia art scene in the early 1970s and became known for his luminous, color-saturated abstractions. This monograph, authored by philosopher and art critic David Carrier, is the first to trace Rohrer's trajectory over 40 years and describes the highly unorthodox arc of his life, from Mennonite... Read More
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