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Hello, My Name is Paul Stuart [Deluxe edition]
by SMITH, Paul; Deyan SUDJIC; Donna LOVEDAY
New York: Rizzoli, 2014. As-new in shrinkwrap. 29.5 x 24 cm. 271 pages. Original cloth; cloth slipcase; publisher's original pritned cardboard folding box. Deluxe edition in slipcase and publisher's box. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held from the 15th November 2013 to 9th March 2014, London's Design Museum.
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You Can Find Inspiration in Everything and if you can't, look again
by SMITH, Paul
London: Violette Editions, 2001. A fine copy, without the original polystyrene slipcase. 4to. Original color-illustrated cloth, lettered in silver on black cloth backstrip. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Paul Smith in 2001 on the front free endpaper. In this wide-ranging compendium on fashion and art, Smith collaborated with Richard Williams, James Flint, Glen Baxter, Paul Slater, Mick Brownfield, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Semir Zeki and Jim Davies.
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Robert Smithson
by SMITHSON, Robert (artist); Eugenie TSAI (editor)
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. First edition. Generally a clean copy with no internal markings. 11 x 9.5 inches. 280 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. "This fully illustrated 248-page book accompanies the first comprehensive American retrospective of Robert Smithson's (1938-1973) complex and highly influential career. Straddling the movements of minimalism and land art, Smithson, who died in a plane crash at the age of 35, had a profound impact on the cultural landscape... Read More
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L'arbre du voyageur
by SMITH, William Jay
Marseille: Sud poésie, 1990. One corner bumped, generally fine. Text in French translated from the English by Sonja Haussmann. 8vo. 93, [1] pages. Illustrated by Sonja Haussmann. Printed wrappers. French translation, INSCRIBED by Smith and Haussmann on the title-page.
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A Green Place. Modern Poems
by SMITH, William Jay (compiler)
New York: Merloyd Lawrence Book / Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1982. Toned jacket price-clipped and with light wear at edges, remainder spray on bottom sheet edges. 8vo. xiii, 225 pages. Illustrated by Jacques Hnizdovsky. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, first printing. INSCRIBED by Smith on the front free endpaper and with a two-page note by Smith on folded card, to a correspondent who had sent Smith comments on one of his poems. Smith recounts details of... Read More
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Grand Union
by SMITH, Zadie
New York: Penguin, 2019. A fine copy with some minor shelfwear, the jacket unclipped and very bright. Bookstore "signed copy" sticker on front jacket panel. 8vo. 246 pages. Blue quarter cloth and boards; printed dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Signed with initials on the front flyleaf.
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Herb Lubalin: Art Director, Graphic Designer and Typographer
by SNYDER, Gertrude; Alan Peckolick
New York: American Showcase Inc, 1985. A fine copy in a very good plus jacket that has some tears to the rear panel, a sticker on the front cover and some overall shelfwear. 12.25 x 9.5 inches. 184 pages. Cloth, dust jacket. First printing. "Herb Lubalin is the definitive book about the typographic impresario and design master of our time. Complete with more than 360 illustrations, 166 of which are in full-color, it was designed by his partner... Read More
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Balthus
by BALTHUS (artist); James Thrall SOBY
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1957. Softcover. A few small stains on front wrapper; otherwise fine. 10 x 7.5 inches. Wrappers. First Edition.
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Benevolent Pleasures of Sight
by SOLYAGUA, Camille
Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 1997. A fine copy with some very light surface wear to the jacket. 4to. Duotone photographs. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, number 130 of 1000 copies, signed by the photographer in silver on the front free endpaper. Foreword by Ruth Bernhard. Introduction by Robert Sobieszek. Luminous, poetic images of natural subjects.
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How to Touch What
by SONNEMAN, Eve (author); Lawrence WEINER (author)
New York: powerHouse Books, 2000. First edition. A few small scuffs on cover (image shows another copy). 6.5 x 7.5 inches. 60 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original boards. "Delicately framed in scrapbook format on European lined paper, each pairing of images--just 50 in all--construct a wordplay in sight and sound all its own, creating a satisfying children's book for adults to be enjoyed more with each repeated viewing. A perfect party favor for the visually literate" (the... Read More
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On Photography
by SONTAG, Susan
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. Jacket price clipped and with some light wear, but generally near fine with a previous owner's inkstamp on front free endpaper. 8vo. 207 pages. Original grey cloth, white lettering on spine; pictorial dust jacket designed by Jacqueline Schuman. First edition, first printing of Sontag's landmark investigation of the nature and role of photography, oft reprinted but here in its original edition just as it first made waves in the photo world.... Read More
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Mercedes Sosa New York 1983. Cancionero
by SOSA, Mercedes
New York: Washington Irving Auditorium, 1983. Wrappers toned. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 20 pages, mimeographed. Stapled in wrappers. First edition.
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7 + 7: 1st Joint Venture Ukrainian-Funen Exhibition of Painting
by SOVIART, THE MUNICIPALITY OF ODENSE AND THE ARTISTS
Odense: Brandts Klædefabrik Publications, 1990. Some short tears and bumps to wrapper edges, internally fine. 8.5 x 10.5 inches. 115 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original printed wrappers. First edition.
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Real Provision de los Señores del consejo por la qual se prohibe por punto general el abuso de correr por las calles novillos y Toros que llaman de cuerda, asi de dia como de noche
by [SPAIN, BULLS] CHARLES IV, King of Spain (1748-1819)
Seville: Imprenta Mayor de la cuidad, 1790. 4to (302 x 211 mm). 4pp. Unbound folded sheets. (Tears to folds.) Red cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION OF THE SEVILLE PRINTING OF THE 1790 ROYAL ACT PROHIBITING THE RUNNING OF THE BULLS: “... considering the bad consequences that it have and will always come from the overindulgence by the King’s people when the bulls run … through the streets day and night; and with the receipt of the news by our King... Read More
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Ettore Spaletti
by SPALLETTI, Ettore
N.p.: Finito di Stampare nel Mese di Luglio 2019. 237 x 170 mm. Blue printed wrappers, matching blue dustwrapper. A scarce and beautifully-printed artist's book by Spalletti, mostly known for his light blue monochrome paintings that he created on different surfaces and for his creative use of light.
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Auto Portraits
by SPANO, Michael
Brooklyn: powerHouse Books, 2008. A fine copy. 9.5 x 11.5 inches. 103 pages. 53 black-and-white photos. Pictorial boards. First edition, inscribed by the photographer on the half-title.
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Autograph letter signed to Theophilus Parsons, Jr., Cambridge, 7 January 1843
by SPARKS, Jared (1789-1866)
One page, 4to. Jared Sparks: historian, editor, and clergyman. One of the leading mid-nineteenth-century American historians that included George Bancroft and William Prescott. McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard College, and named president of the college in 1849. Reading: "Dear Parsons, I have lately received a letter from Taylor, from which the following is an extract.' Please say to our classmate, T. Parsons, Esq. that I did not receive his letter in reason... Read More
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Poems
by SPENDER, Stephen
London: Faber and Faber, 1934. A good copy with a split to the front joint and a few leaves coarsely opened, a worn jacket with chips and losses. 8vo. 69 pages. Black cloth; printed dust jacket. Second edition. Signed by Spender of the half-title.
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Nine Experiments
by SPENDER, Stephen
Cincinnati: Elliston Poetry Foundation / University of Cincinnati, 1964. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine slightly faded, a few small marks on covers, very good to fine. 8vo. Facsimile edition. Original green buckram. Number 25 of 500 copies. "I think I must have printed NINE EXPERIMENTS before the Auden POEMS, which I also did in 1928. I gave up printing the latter halfway through, owing to the collapse of the small hand press..." (Foreword).
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Whole Grains. A Book of Quotations
by SPIEGELMAN, Art and Rob SCHNEIDER (editors)
New York and London: Douglas Links, 1973. A fine copy. 8vo. 159 pages. Original printed wrappers designed by Spiegelman. FIRST EDITION, first printing. A collection of quotations from the ridiculous to the sublime, divided into four sections: Sex, Dope and Cheap Thrills; Earth Ship; Alienation Blues; and White Light. 'Whole Grains' is dedicated to Spiegelman's mother after her suicide. Bob Schneider is also a comic author and screenwriter who currently writes for McSweeney’s. From the collection of Spiegelman's... Read More
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Tour: Michael Raedecker
by SPIELER, Reinhard
Cologne: Wienand Verlag, 2014. As-new in shrinkwrap. 4to. 103 pages. Boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "Michael Raedecker occupies his own unique position within the field of contemporary painting: essentially dedicated to figuration, he replaces the concrete surroundings of his motifs with fields of color. His houses, plants, and laundry pieces can be understood as critical analyses of painting and pictorial composition and are often characterized by a mystical atmosphere. Typical of Raedecker s works is the combination of... Read More
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Songs from the Stars
by SPINRAD, Norman (b. 1940)
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. The original typed manuscript: the setting copy with all the editor's and proof-reader's marks. Complete book: 400 pages, 4to. Predominantly mechanically reproduced leaves, with some original typescript insertions. Original typed insertion leaves include those for the Dedication to David Hartwell; the leaf listing other books by Spinrad; and the About the Author leaf. The editorial corrections average some ten per page, and there are occasional annotations in Spinrad's hand. Songs from... Read More
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Autograph letter signed ("WB Sprague") to "My Dear Friend"; Albany, 24 November 1842
by SPRAGUE, Rev. William Buell (1795-1876)
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 4to. "... The signature of Queen Anne to which you refer is not in my possession, nor have I ever seen it. I have none of the Pope's Bulls, nor have I seen any..." Sprague was a clergyman, author, and one of the most important American autograph collectors of his day; graduated Yale in 1815; studied two years at Princeton theological seminary; A.M. from Yale in 1819; LL.D. from Princeton in 1869.... Read More
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The Grub Street Nights Entertainments
by SQUIRE, J. C.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Covers a bit worn, split to rear joint, but a very good copy. 8vo. Original black cloth, printed paper spine label. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the dedication page to Lady Eileen Oude: "From [indistinct nickname?] Oct. 7 1924." And with an ALS tipped to the facing leaf, 8vo, two pages, October 7, 1924, "you will be surprised, and may be disgusted, to see that this... Read More
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Wood Block Prints. Selected Ukiyo-E Adapted for Commemorative Stamp Issue
by [STAMPS]
Tokyo: Kyoto Hanga in, 1960. Spine partly perished, a few stains to boards, internally clean, colors bright. Printed description and 6 color prints window mounted. As-issued in board portfolio, printed paper label on front cover. A fine philatelic item, reproducing 6 prints by Utamaro, Hokusai, Hiroshiga, and others.
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