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Oinos Krithinos. A Dissertation Concerning the Origin and Antiquity of Barley Wine [Bound with:] A Philosophical Dialogue Concerning Decency. To Which is Added a Critical and Historical Dissertation on Places of Retirement for Necessary Occasions
by [ROLLESTON, Samuel (ca 1702-1766)]
I: Oxford; II: London: James Fletcher, 1751. Some intermittent foxing, light wear to binding. Two works in one volume, 4to (9.5 x 7.5 inches). I: Half-title. 38, [2] index, [3] publisher's catalogue. II: 47, [1] index. Modern quarter calf preserving early marbled boards. Provenance: Edward Hamilton (gilt-morocco bookplate); Wigan Free Public Library (discreet blindstamp on second title). COLLECTING THE ONLY TWO RECORDED WORKS BY SAMUEL ROLLESTON, FIRST (and only) EDITIONS. Both are informative, and highly witty, discussions, the... Read More
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Catalogue of the Very Select and Valuable Library of William Roscoe, Esq. Which will be sold by auction by Mr. Winstanley... Liverpool... the 19th of August, and Thirteen following days... 1816
by [ROSCOE, William, collection]
[London]: [J.M'Creery], 1816. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Front cover detached, loss at foot of spine, a few small holes at gutter of title-page. 8vo. 208 pages. Without the portrait, sonnet, and four leaves of "books omitted"; with a leaf at end advertising the auction sales of Roscoe's collection of pictures and prints. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Catalogue, mostly priced in ink, of the library of the great Liverpool historian (though best known for his children's classic,... Read More
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New Work on Paper 2
by ROSE, Berenice
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1982. Light wear to portfolio, but contents clean. 9 x 9 inches. Contents loose as issued in folding paper portfolio. This is the second in a series of exhibitions organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, that shows a small number of artists' recent work on paper. Artists featured: Jonathan Borofsky, Francesco Clemente, Mario Merz, A.R. Penck, and Giuseppe Penone.
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Big Table 1
by ROSENTHAL, Irving (editor)
Chicago: Big Table Inc, 1959. Slightly leaned, some pale staining to wrappers. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. First edition of this infamous first issue of Big Table – founded after editors Irving Rosenthal and Paul Carroll resigned from The Chicago Review in protest to harsh criticisms of their printing portions of the then-unpublished novel Naked Lunch by William S. Burrough. This first issue of Big Table, founded in the wake of this episode, was impounded by the U.S. Post... Read More
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Welcome to the Water Planet and House of Fire, 1988-1989
by ROSENQUIST, James (artist); Judith GOLDMAN (essay by)
New York: Tyler Graphics Ltd, 1989. Softcover. A fine copy. 12.5 x 9.5 inches. 48 pages. Wrappers.
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James Rosenquist: Time Dust
by ROSENQUIST, James
Mount Kisco, NY: Tyler Graphics, 1992. Fine. Folding brochure (10 x 9 inches folded). Four-panels, printed in color. Tyler Graphic's brochure for Rosenquist's eighty-two color print, comprised of colored, pressed paper pulp, relief printing, lithography, etching, and screenprinted collage elements on seven sheets.
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Photography's Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection
by ROSENHEIM, Jeff
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020. First edition. New in shrinkwrap. 11 x 9.5 inches. 180 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. "masterworks, it includes both rare and iconic examples of works by photography's most renowned and influential artists, including Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Walker Evans, László Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, and Cindy Sherman, as well as a diverse group of lesser-known practitioners who helped define photography in the 20th and early 21st centuries. Jeff... Read More
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Jasper Johns: Work Since 1974
by ROSENTHAL, Mark
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1988. 4to. 112 pp. 75 illustrations, 36 in color. Original black cloth; pictorial dust jacket. Fine. FIRST EDITION.
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Paths To The Absolute: Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian, Newman, Pollock, Rothko, Still
by ROSENTHAL, Mark (author)
New York: Di Donna Gallery, 2016. First edition. New in shrinkwrap. 11.5 x 9.5 inches. 97 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards; cloth spine. Published in conjuncton with the exhibition held at Di Donna Gallery in 2016.
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Port of New York: Essays on Fourteen American Moderns
by ROSENFELD, Paul
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1924. Front cover rubbed. 8vo. 311pp. Photographic plates by Alfred Stieglitz, Alice Boughton, Paul Strand, and Dana Desboro. Original cloth, printed labels on front cover and spine. Provenance: Melville Cane (inscriptions on endpapers). FIRST EDITION. A copy with an interesting provenance, owned by Melville Cane, American poet and lawyer who represented Sinclair Lewis, Ayn Rand and Thomas Wolfe. He has inscribed his name and addresses twice at front and has made one marginal note... Read More
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Walter Rosenblum: Photographer
by ROSENBLUM, Walter; Shelley RICE; Naomi ROSENBLUM
Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1990. A near fine copy. 11.25 x 9.5 inches. 211 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original white cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, inscribed by the artist on the title page. With 140 full-page photographs.
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Hurricane Waves
by ROSS, Clifford
North Adams and Cambridge, MA: Mass MoCA and the MIT Press, 2015. A fine copy save a few trivial bumps to extremities of boards. Oblong (10 x 12 inches). 173 pages. Duotone photographs. Pictorial boards. First edition. Ross went into the surf itself to photograph storm-tossed waves during hurricanes, wearing a wet suit, flotation vest and a rope tethering him to his assistant on the beach. The results are stunning images of this scarcely seen natural environment, at... Read More
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Catalogue of the Remaining Works of the Painter and Poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Deceased; Comprising a Few Specimens in Oil and Water Colour; and Numerous Works in Crayons, Coloured Chalks, Pen and Ink, Indian Ink, Pencil, &c ... Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods
by [ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel]
London, 1883. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Threads loose, else fine. 8vo. 19 pages, [3] advertisements. Self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Offering 211 lots of Rossetti art works: "One of the most important of all Pre-Raphaelite sale catalogues" (Frederman 19.3). (BA).
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Tips on Tables. Being a Guide to Dining and Wining in New York at 365 Restaurants Suitable to Every Mood and Every Purse
by ROSS, George
New York: Covici Friede, 1934. A fine copy. 8vo. 301 pages, with indices. Original red cloth. Early owner's name on half-title. FIRST EDITION. Providing readers with a different restaurant choice for every day in the year (unless it's a leap year...). Ross notes in his introduction that there were estimated to be 19,716 eating places in Manhattan at the time: and so his select group of inclusions are those he considered the best, with the finest cuisine, most... Read More
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The Last Night of Don Juan: A Dramatic Poem
by ROSTAND, Edmond
Yellow Springs, Ohio: Kahoe & Company, 1929. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket, with a few chips along the edges. 8vo (9 x 5.75 inches). 129 pages. Original printed boards; dust jacket.
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G.H Rothe: Master of the Mezzotint [Catalogue Raisonne]
by ROTHE, G.H.; Pierre RESTANY
New York: Hammer Publising, 1983. A fine copy with a few small indentations on jacket. 11.75 x 11 inches. 271 pages. Profusely illustrated. Cloth; dust jacket. In the publisher's cardboard mailing box. First edition, inscribed on the half-title in 1983 by the artist.
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G. H. Rothe: Master of the Mezzotint
by ROTHE, G.H (artist); Pierre RESTANY; Cam NEWELL (editor); Michael PERPICH (designer)
Hammer Publishing, 1983. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket with a tear on the front panel. 12.25 x 11.25 inches. 271 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. "271 pages, illustrated throughout. This Catalogue Raisonne of G.H. Rothe's mezzotints has been divided into the following categories: Dance, Horses, Still Life, Landscapes, Figurative. The images within each section have been listed in chronological order, according to published dates.
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Nature's First Green
by ROTH, Henry
New York: Targ Editions, 1979. A fine copy with slightest of soiling to wrapper, otherwise virtually untouched. 8vo. [12] pages. Original cloth; plain orange wrapper. FIRST EDITION, one of 350 copies signed by Roth, of the first Targ Edition. Designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press.
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Church & Rothko: Sublime
by ROTHKO, Mark; Edwin Frederic CHURCH; John WILMERDING
New York: Mnuchin Gallery, 2020. New in shrinkwrap. 12.5 x 11 inches. Profuesly illustrated. Original pictorial boards. First edition.
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Arthur Rothstein: Words and Pictures
by ROTHSTEIN, Arthur
New York: Amphoto, 1979. Dust jacket age-darkned, a few tears and small nicks to dust jacket. 4to (11.25 x 8.5 inches). 128 pages. Black and white photographs. Original black silver-lettered cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition of the first survey of the photojournalist's work.
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Extraits des assertions dangereuses et pernicieuses en tout genre
by [ROUSSEL DE LA TOUR, Abbé Claude-Pierre (1710-98)]
Paris: Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1762. Two volumes, 12mo (165 x 97 mm; 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.). Half-titles. xii, 436; viii, 479 pages. Contemporary French cat's-paw sheep, the spine in six compartments with five raised bands, tan morocco lettering-pieces in two, a repeated floral panel in the remaining. A very good copy with light wear to the binding at extremities, some pale browning and intermittent spotting to text, one rust hole on s11 in vol. 1 catching a few... Read More
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Tunisia, from Carthage to Tomorrow
by ROY, Claude; Paul SEBAG; Inge MORATH; Andre MARTIN; MARC RIBOUD
New York: The Orion Press, 1961. Some light wear at ends of spine and corners, slight toning to cloth and minor shrinkage of jacket, internally unblemished. 11.25 x 8.75. 162 pages. Photographs by Inga Morath. Pictorial cloth; printed acetate dust jacket. First edition. "An introduction to the geography, people, history, government, resources, culture, and major cities of Tunisia.
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Perfume Book
by RUBCHINSKIY, Gosha
Gosha Rubchinsky, 2016. A fine, clean copy. 8vo. Color photographs. White wrappers. FIRST EDITION, one of 100 copies, signed by the photographer. Model: Louison Savignoni. Design: Arseniy Kazimirov.
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Peter Paul Rubens: Oil Paintings and Oil Sketches
by RUBENS, Peter Paul (artist); David FREEBERG (author)
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1995. First edition. A clean and bright copy; no internal markings.. 10 x 7 inches. 89 pages. Original cloth. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery, 1995.
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The Operator
by RUBENS, Robert
London: Michael Joseph, 1964. A very good copy with sheets somewhat age darkened, the jacket also darkened and with few small nicks at edges. 8 x 5.25 inches. 157 pages. Boards; dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. A novel by the late author Robert Rubens.
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