Richard Serra. Drawings and Etchings from Iceland
by SERRA, Richard
New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 1992. First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket save for one small split along lower front joint. Small 4to (7.5 x 6.5 inches). Four photographic frontispieces by Serra of Hreppholar and Videy Island; reproductions of 32 drawings. Cloth; dust jacket. Published to accompany the exhibition held 20 March to 25 April 1992. With an interview by Mark Rosenthal. Designed by Leslie Miller, The Grenfell Press and printed in Iceland.
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Richard Serra, Drawing: A Retrospective
by SERRA, Richard
Houston, Texas: Menil Foundation, 2011. First edition. Wrappers with a few scratches; internally a clean copy. 12 x 9.5 inches. 176 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original pictorial wrappers. Published to accompany the exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 13-August 28, 2011, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 15, 2011-January 16, 2012, The Menil Collection, Houston, March 2-June 10, 2012.
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Richard Serra, Drawing: A Retrospective
by SERRA, Richard
Houston, Texas: Menil Foundation, 2011. First edition. Wrappers scratched, with some light shelf wear; internally a clean copy. 12 x 9.5 inches. 176 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original pictorial wrappers. Published to accompany the exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 13-August 28, 2011, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 15, 2011-January 16, 2012, The Menil Collection, Houston, March 2-June 10, 2012.
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Two Chinese Poems [Broadside]
by SETO, Elma; Paul BLACKBURN
New York: Doctor Generosity Press, 1971. A few short tears, some light handling wear, some light toning at edges. 14 x 8.5 inches. Near fine with some light handling wear, some light toning at edges. The Doctor Generosity Press was run out of a tavern in New York City at 73rd and 2nd on the East Side.
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This is Ann
by [SEUSS, Dr (Theodore GEISEL) and Munro LEAF]
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. In unusually fresh condition, the wrappers with slightest of toning and a few tiny spots, the staples lightly rusted. 5.25.x 4.25 inches. 32 pages. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. A SCARCE EARLY WORK BY DR. SEUSS. First edition, first inner rear wrapper variant reading "U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943 – 543637". This copy, with two staples, is considered the earliest. During World War II, Theodore Geisel took a hiatus from writing... Read More
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Transformations
by SEXTON, Anne
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. Light wear to glassine, generally fine. 8vo. Illustrated by Barbara Swan. Original red cloth, printed paper label on cover; glassine; publisher's slipcase. First edition, limited issue, one of 500 copies signed by Sexton. Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Photographic Florilegium of Sha Fei, a Famous Photographer
by SHA FEI
Beijing: Guangzhou Anno Domini Media Co., Ltd, 2005. First edition. Text block separating slightly at front, light wear to jacket, internally clean and fine. 4.75 x 4.75 inches. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Brown cloth; black printed dust jacket. Text in Chinese and English. Sha Fei was a Chinese photojournalist and war photographer best known for his work with the Chinese Communist Party during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45).
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The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts
by SHAHAR, Meir
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008. A near-fine copy. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 281 pages. First edition. 'This meticulously researched and eminently readable study considers the economic, political, and religious factors that led Shaolin monks to disregard the Buddhist prohibition against violence and instead create fighting techniques that by the 21st century have spread throughout the world" (the publisher).
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Peace Conference Hints
by SHAW, George Bernard
London: Constable & Co, 1919. First edition. Paper browned, booklabel on inner wrapper, otherwise fine. 8vo. 108 pp., 2 pp. ads at end. Original green printed paper wrappers over card; cloth chemise.
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Typed letter signed ("Irwin") to William Saroyan ("Dear Bill") in Dayton, Ohio; New York, 6 March [1943]
by SHAW, Irwin
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Usual fold creases, but fine. 3 pages, 4to, double-spaced on pale yellow paper. For more than half this letter Shaw critiques the movie 'The Human Comedy' based on Saroyan's play of the same title: "The big news is that I took my entire family... to see 'The Human Comedy' and there wasn't a dry eye among the Shaws. It's a lovely picture... I loved it. I say through it always on the verge... Read More
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We Pity the Plumage, But Forget the Dying Bird." An Address to the People on the Death of the Princess Charlotte
by SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe
[London]: Reprinted for Thomas Rodd, 1843. First edition. Fine. 8vo. Gatherings stitched; red morocco slipcase. According to Wise: "In 1843, when advertising the present pamphlet for sale, Rodd asserted that it was a facsimile reprint of an alleged original edition of which the author had printed twenty copies in 1816. No example of this mysterious original has ever been unearthed; no trace of it beyond Rodd's own statement has ever been discovered; and no mention of any kind... Read More
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Painting
by SHIBATA, Toshio
Chose Commune, 2021. First edition. New. 27 x 21 cm. 20 pages. 16 color photographic reproductions. Hardcover leporello with ribbon on the spine to hang book vertically. "The book Painting reveals 16 unpublished colour photographs by Toshio Shibata, a Japanese photographer who is known for his rigorous and meticulous compositions. The representation of intimate yet spectacular landscapes — natural, and especially artificial — are at the core of Shibata’s work. In keeping with the tradition of painting that... Read More
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The Tokyo Zodiac Murders: Detective Mitarai's Casebook
by SHIMADA, Soji
Tokyo, New York, London: IBC Publishing, 2004. First edition thus, revised from the original 1981 edition. A fine, very clean copy. 8vo. 251 pages. Black cloth; dust jacket. With branded Japanese bookmark. Translated by Ross and Shika Mackenzie. The revised version of the debut novel by Soji Shimada, a Japanese musician and writer on astrology who has written over 100 mystery novels.
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Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby
by SHIMOYAMA, Devan (artist); Jessica BECK (editor); Liz Rae HEISE-GLASS
Pittsburg, PA: The Andy Warhol Museum, 2018. First edition. A clean and fresh copy. 11 x 9 inches. 100 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Origianl pink boards; pictorial dust jacket.
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Ralph Schraivogel [World Graphic Design 93]
by SHRAIVOGEL, Ralph
Tokyo: Ginza Graphic Gallery, 2010. 18.3 cm. 64 pages. Color reproductions. Original hardcover boards, with the printed wraparound band. Text in Japanese and English. A fine monograph on the Swiss graphic designer's posters.
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Paul Sietsema
by SIETSEMA, Paul; Christopher BEDFORD
Wexner Central, 2014. As-new in shrinkwrap. 4to. Cloth; dust jacket. "The work of Paul Sietsema (born 1968) might be described as a sequence of multimedia suites, each of which begins with a phase of intensive research into historical-political themes, and which results in a body of interrelated sculptures, photographs, drawings, collages and films that propose an "exploded" model of historical progress. In general, these suites, such as Empire (2003) and Figure 3 (2008), have been discussed and exhibited... Read More
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Frost
by SIGHICELLI, Elisa; Marcella BECCARIA; David HUNT
Milan: Charta, 2001. A fine copy save some light age-toning to the sheet edges. 10.5 x 8.25 inches. Texts in Italian and English. 63 pages. Color photographs. Printed wrappers. Published to accompany the exhibitions at Gagosian Beverly Hills, 12 May to 23 June 2001 and Galleria Gio' Marconi, Milan, 28 February to 31 March 2001. "My work is about the scrutiny of ordinary things, which I attempt to make intensely ordinary, intensely present. I would like to confer... Read More
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Sketches
by SIGOURNEY, Mrs
Philadelphia: Key & Biddle, 1834. Covers worn, upper corner of title torn away not affecting text. 12mo. 216 pages. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. FIRST EDITION, p.146 is correctly paged. BAL 17667.
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Taryn Simon: Paperwork and the Will of Capital
by SIMON, Taryn (artist); Aliza WATTERS (editor); Hanan AL-SHAYKH (contributor); Daniel ATHA (contributor); Kate FOWLE (contributor); Nicholas KULISH (contributor)
Ostfildern, Germany; New York: Hatje Cantz Verlag; Gagosian Gallery, 2016. First edition. As-new. 13.5 x 10 inches. 200 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. "In Paperwork and the Will of Capital, Taryn Simon (born 1975)--one of the most original and challenging conceptual artists of our time--brings together geopolitics, horticultural science and the art of still life to investigate how the stagecraft of power is created, performed, marketed and maintained. At signings of political accords, contracts, treaties... Read More
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A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I - XVIII
by SIMON, Taryn
Gagosian Gallery / Wilson Center for Photograph, 2012. A fine copy with a small bubble to the spine panel near foot (a manufacturing flaw). Folio (13.5 x 10 inches). 774 pages. Black cloth. Originally published by MACK in 2011, this second edition was published by Gagosian and the Wilson Center the following year. All editions are now out of print. A Living Man Declared Dead And Other Chapters, I – XVIII was exhibited in Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany... Read More
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Jane Simpson: Tableau
by SIMPSON, Jane
Málaga, Spain: Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, 2004. A few small marks and light rubbing to cover; generally fine. 10 x 8.75 inches. 77 pages. Fully illustrated in color. Original wrappers. First edition.
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A Darkened Being. An Anthology
by SIMS, George (compiler)
[Hurst, Reading, Berkshire]: Privately Printed [by the Tragara Press], 1991. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Fine. 8vo. Original black cloth. First edition. One of 200 copies on Abbey Mills laid paper printed by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press in Edinburgh. This copy from the library of George Sims, with his bookplate. Sims has also written out on the front and back endleaves and half-title excerpts from poems by Charlotte Mew, Robert Bridges, Logan Pearsall Smith, Olive Heseltine,... Read More
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[Catalog: Exhibition at Galerie im Bootshaus 11 May to 15 June 1984]
by SIMS, Phil
Eckernforde: Nemo / Galerie im Bootshaus, 1984. A fine copy with some light toning and a few small stains on wrappers. 11.5 x 8.25 inches. 3 original etchings with tissue guards, printed on heavy paper. White wrappers. Number 220 of 300 copies signed on the colophon by Sims. With a short introduction essay by Erich Franz and a chronology of the artist's life an work on the inner rear wrapper.
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The Image and Other Stories
by SINGER, Isaac Bashevis
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1985. 8vo. 310 pp. Original red cloth; publisher's board slipcase. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 329 of 450 copies signed by Singer.
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