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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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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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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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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Places: Aaron Siskind Photographs
by SISKIND, Aaron
New York: Light Gallery, 1976. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket, the spine of jacket slightly faded, and with some light wear at the corners. 12 x 11 inches. 111 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, signed by Siskind on the front free endpaper. Introductory essay by Thomas Hess. Includes some of his images from his classic "Homage to Franz Kline" series.
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Aaron Siskind. Vintage Works 1930-1960
by SISKIND, Aaron; ROBERT MANN GALLERY
New York: Robert Mann Gallery, 1992. Softcover. New. 10 x 8.75 inches. 55 pages. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, one of 1000 copies. Brief texts by Robert Sobieszek, James L. Enyeart, Carl Chiarenza, Henry Holmes Smith, and Harold Rosenberg. Includes over 40 black and white images.
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Aaron Siskind. The Fragmentation of Language
by SISKIND, Aaron; ROBERT MANN GALLERY
New York: Robert Mann Gallery, 1997. Hardcover. New in shrinkwrap. 10 x 9 inches. 49 pages. Pictorial boards. First edition, one of 1000 copies. With an essay by Sheryl Conkelton and 36 duotone plates. Published on the occasion of the 1997 exhibition at Robert Mann Gallery.
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Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors
by SISKIND, Aaron; Carl CHIARENZA
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket, the spine faded as usual, and with a few small chips at edges.. 11.25 x 9.75 inches. 282 pages. With a foreword by James L. Enyeart and with a lengthy text by Carl Chiarenza. Includes 74 duotones and 198 halftones. Original brown cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, signed by Siskind on the printed presentation page, designating copies signed for The Presidents Club of the... Read More
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Victoria of England
by SITWELL, Edith
London: Faber and Faber, 1936. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Illustrated with 16 plates. Original dark red cloth, top edges gilt; printed dust jackets. Two copies: each a dedication copy of the first edition of Sitwell's first prose work. The book is dedicated "To Helen Rootham and Evelyn Weil." Each copy is also identically inscribed (except for the change of names) on the respective front free endpaper: "For darling Helen [Evelyn] with Edith's best love and the dedication,... Read More
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The Cyder Feast and Other Poems
by SITWELL, Sacheverell
London: Duckworth; New York: George H. Doran, 1927. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A few slight stains on front cover, a trifle rubbing at extremities, a little bowed, but a very good copy. Tall 8vo. Original buff buckram, untrimmed. First edition, one of 15 copies for presentation of 165 copies (150 for sale) on handmade paper numbered and signed by the poet (this is number 155). The book is dedicated "To My Brother, Sister and Little Son." This... Read More
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Five "Mrs. Brown" novels
by SKETCHLEY, Arthur
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. General wear and soiling, but overall well preserved. Comprising: Mrs. Brown Up the Nile. [1869]. – Mrs. Brown on "Dizzy". [1874]. – Mrs. Brown at the Skating Rink. [1875]. – Mrs. Brown at Cleopatra's Needle. [1878]. – Mrs. Brown and King Cetewayo. [1882]. All published London: George Routledge and Sons. Original "yellow back" pictorial boards. Sadlier 3631.
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The Indians of Manhattan Island and Vicinity
by SKINNER, Alanson
New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1926. Some light foxing, loose in wrappers. 9.75 x 6.75 inches. Illustrated. Original wrappers. Fourth edition.
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Only the River Runs Easy. A Historical Portrait of the Upper Green River Valley
by SKINNER, H. L.
Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Company, 1985. A near-fine copy with slightest toning at extreme sheet edges, and some light wear to front wrapper. Oblong. 131 pages. Duotone photographs. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, first printing, signed by Skinner on the half-title and dated December 1989. A portrait of the first twenty-five mies of the Green River where it flows out of the Wind River Mountains in western Wyoming.
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Retrospect: Biennale of International Photography
by PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER OF SKOPELOS
Skopelos, Greece: Photographic Center of Skopelos, 1990. First edition. A few marks on wrappers, otherwise fine. 11.25 x 8.25 inches. Text in English and Greek. 110 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original wrappers. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held from 26 June to 20 August.
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Skrebneski Black White & Color; Photographs: 1949-1989
by SKREBNESKI, Victor
Boston: A Bulfinch Press Book; Little, Brown and Company, 1989. A near-fine copy, with minor shelfwear. Large folio. Original boards; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, with a lengthy inscription on the rear endpaper: "Jennie Dear / Thank you Thank you for forever caring. love Victor 1 Oct. 89.
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David Smith: Origins & Innovations
by SMITH, David
London: Hauser & Wirth, 2018. A near-fine copy. 11.5 x 10.5 inches. 190 pages. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition.
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Davis Smith
by SMITH, David (artist)
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2010. First edition. New in shrinkwrap. 13.5 x 10.5 inches. 59 pages. Profusely illustrated. Original pictorial boards; cloth spine. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery, New York, 26 Feb. through 10 Apr. 2010.
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Case Study Houses: The Complete CSH Program 1945 - 1966
by SMITH, Elizabeth
Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2002. Some staining to acetate; generally a clean copy. 18 x 13.25 inches. 440 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original illustrated boards; printed acetate covering. First edition. "Modernist experimental homes. Prototypes for everyone The Case Study House program (1945-66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to... Read More
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Josh Smith: Abstraction
by SMITH, John (artist); Sophie Aschauer (contributor)
Berlin: Holzwarth Publications, 2007. A near-fine copy; slipcase corners slightly bumped. 13.5 x 11 inches. 280 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Two volumes, with a stapled booklet also included; cardboard slipcase. First edition. "Josh Smith's work focuses on themes of authenticity and authorship. He first became known for paintings in which he used his name as a motif on the canvas, shattering the myth of the artist through an act of ironic self-marketing. In his latest series, Abstraction,... Read More
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Josh Smith: Currents
by SMITH, Josh
New York: 38th Street Books, 2009. A near-fine copy, rear corners lightly bumped; Slipcase slightly toned with some wear. 8.75 x 12.5 inches. Profusely illustrated in color. Original illustrated wrappers; slipcase. First edition, illustrating 601 paintings.
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Josh Smith: The American Dream
by SMITH, Josh (artist)
Greenwich, CT: The Brant Foundation, 2012. First edition. A clean and fresh copy. 13 x 10.5 inches. 140 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at The Brant Foundation Art Study Center in 2011.
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Josh Smith: Hidden Darts Reader
by SMITH, Josh (artist); Achim HOCHDÖRFER
Germany: Walther Konig Verlag, 2009. A near fine copy. 8.75 x 6.75 inches. 220 pages. Orginal printed wrappers. First edition. "Published to accompany Josh Smith's one-person exhibition at Vienna's Museum of Modern Art, this volume contains scores of recent works alongside a very generous selection of texts. Smith is described by Achim Hochdörfer as "Very similar to Kippenberger, but more American, more working class and more jaded probably--less hopeful" (the publisher).
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