The Three Perfections: Chinese Painting, Poetry and Calligraphy
by SULLIVAN, Michael
London: Thames and Hudson, 1974. A near fine copy. 8vo (8.5 x 6 inches). 64 pages. Original brown cloth; slipcase. First edition. This presentation copy of the Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture is sent with the compliments of the Directors of Thames and Hudson.
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Slipping through the Jelly Line. A Novel
by SULLIVAN, Monica
San Francisco: Steve Rubenstein, 1981. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A few small stains, but a very good copy. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Dearest Alvah! I hope you like my book. At any rate, it's onward and upward! Thank you for helping me to keep my sensayuma. Love, Monica 6 August, 1981. San Francisco." The printed dedication reads: "For Alvah Bessie The Best Cheerer-Upper West of the... Read More
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Donald Sultan: Paintings 1978-1992
by SULTAN, Donald (artist); Donald KUSPIT (essay by)
New York: Guild Hall Museum, 1992. Softcover. A fine copy. 10 x 8 inches. Wrappers. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition from August - October 1992.
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Donald Sultan: Black Eggs
by SULTAN, Donald (artist)
La Galerie Alice Pauli, 1988. Softcover. A fine copy. 9.5 x 6.75 inches. 6 pages. Wrappers. Pamphlet published on the occasion of the exhibition from October - November 1988.
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Donald Sultan: Paintings: April 28 to May 24, 1990
by SULTAN, Donald
New York: Knoedler & Company, 1990. Softcover. A near-fine copy with some light wear to the wrappers. 10.5 x 10.5 inches. Wrappers.
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Donald Sultan: A Print Retrospective
by SULTAN, Donald (artist)
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1992. Softcover. A fine copy. 10 x 10 inches. 96 pages. Wrappers. 'This catalogue has been published in conjunction with Donald Sultan: A Print Retrospective, an exhibition organized and circulated by the American Federation of Arts.
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Ask Mamma:" Or, the Richest Commoner in England
by SURTEES, Robert Smith with Illustrations by John Leech
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1858. First edition. Minor wear to extremities and some foxing throughout, else a very good copy. 8vo. 412 pages. Color frontispiece; 12 full-page color illustrations and several black-and-white illustrations in the text. Boards with later half-calf. Gilt-decorated spine. FIRST EDITION.
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Visual Design in Action
by SUTNAR, Ladislav
New York: Hastings House, 1961. A close to near fine copy that is slightly musty and with some light soiling to the oatmeal cloth boards in a near fine dust jacket that is lightly soiled. A very nice copy of a high spot in graphic design books.. Small folio. Divided into three section that include a total of 36 color plates along with over 300 black and white illustrations. Original cloth; dust jacket. Preface by Mildred Contantine. One... Read More
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Christiernus II, Daniæ Rex: eveteri protractus ... Joan. Swaningi Dani : speculum Regis magni, crudelis, infelicis, exulis, exemplum cæteris
by SVANING, Hans
Frankfort: Serlinus and Ammonus, 1658. Somewhat browned, covers slightly bowed. 12mo (135 x 78 mm). 539, [6] pages. Engraved title. Contemporary vellum. Describes the reign of Denmark's Christian II, and his war with Sweden in the 16th century.
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Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic. September 4th, 1870
by SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles
London: F. S. Ellis, 1870. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Covers a little dusty, some slight wear at heel of spine and a rear edge. 8vo. Original printed tan wrappers, unopened. First edition. Tinker 2017; Wise, Swinburne, 52. (BA).
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Emin, the Governor of Equatoria
by SYMONS, A. J. A.
London: The Fleuron Ltd, 1928. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine slightly faded, a very good copy. 8vo. Original cloth-backed decorated boards. First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies (of which this is no. 21), and the dedication copy, inscribed by Symons on the front free endpaper (oddly, his inscription virtually repeats the printed dedication): "for Harold Fisher from whose eloquent lips, one sultry midnight seven years ago, I first heard the story of Emin: from AJ." Symons'... Read More
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Studies in the Seven Arts
by SYMONS, Arthur
London: Constable, 1906. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Covers with slight rubbing and marking. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, untrimmed. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Edward Hutton from Arthur Symons, November 1906." Essays by Symons on Rodin, Moreau, Whistler, Richard Strauss, Eleonora Duse, et al. Bookplate of Estelle Doheny (slight offset on inscription opposite). A very good copy. (BA).
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Philip Taaffe
by TAAFFE, Philip (author)
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2007. First edition. A near-fine copy. 12.5 x 10 inches. 30 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery in 2007.
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Philip Taafe
by TAAFFE, Philip (artist)
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1999. First edition. Light rubbing to covers. 14 x 11 inches. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. Includes 9 color plates. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery, 1999.
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Philip Taaffe: Works on Paper
by TAAFFE, Philip (artist); Peter Lamborn WILSON
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2010. First edition. A clean copy. 12.5 x 10.5 inches. 145 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial wraparound band. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery, New York in 2010.
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Opere di C. Cornelio Tacito; Translated by Bernardo Davanzati. With additions by Gabrielle Grotier, translated by Raffaele Pastori
by TACITUS, Publius Cornelius
Milan: Giovanni Silvestri, 1820. Four volumes, 8vo. xxxii, 373, [1 ads]; 362, [1 index]; 327 ; 607 pp. Large letterpress folding table in vol. one detailing the Caesarian pedigree. Contemporary Italian black morocco-backed green boards, the smooth spines richly decorated with a semé of dotted lozenges, orange morocco lettering- and numbering-pieces, pink speckled edges. Corners lightly worn, a few tiny nicks to labels; some intermittent pale spotting; overall a very handsome set.
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Circumference. Varieties of Metaphysical Verse 1456-1928
by TAGGARD, Genevieve, editor
New York: Covici Friede, 1929. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 inches). 237 pp. Original parchment-backed boards, uncut and unopened; dust jacket. Section of jacket cut out at bottom of spine panel, cello-tape stains on covers. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 385 of 1050 copies signed by the editor. The selections include Raleigh, Sidney, Drayton, Shakespeare, Donne, Herrick, Herbert, Milton, Marvell, Vaughan, Chatterton, Blake, Wordsworth, Crane, Eliot and Stevens.
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Au Pays du Mufle
by TAILHADE, Laurent
Paris: Léon Vanier, 1891. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Some wear and soiling. Preface by Armand Silvestre. 12mo. Contemporary black and white decorated boards, red roan spine label, original tan printed wrappers bound in, untrimmed. First edition of this volume of invective verse. A marked up copy, presumably for the second edition of 1894, and with two ALSs by Tailhade tipped in: 1) 1/12/95 "Cher ami j'ignore absolument le jour prècis de l'echjieance en question..." . 2) "Excusez... Read More
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Rebirth
by TAKUMA, Kenihiro (photographer); Seiji HOROBUCHI (editor)
Cadence Books, 1992. A near-fine copy with some wear on jacket; bumped on corners. 12.5 x 10 inches. Cloth; dust jacket. A collection of photographs by photographer Kenihiro Takuma.
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Yves Tanguy Retrospective 1925-1955
by TANGUY, Yves
Baden-BAden and Paris: Staatliche Kunsthalle / Centre George Pompidou, 1982. Softcover. A clean, well-preserved copy with a few soft creases and soilmarks to the wrappers. 11/75 x 8.25 inches. 239 pages, profusely illustrated. Text in French. Pictorial wrappers.
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Yves Tanguy & Alexander Calder: Between Surrealism and Abstraction
by TANGUY, Yves (artist); Alexander CALDER (artist); Susan DAVIDSON (text by)
New York: L&M Arts. First edition. Some shelf wear; boards with a few minor markings and a small tear; internally a clean copy. 11.5 x 9.5 inches. 180 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original printed boards. "In 1942, at the opening of her Art of This Century gallery, Peggy Guggenheim famously demonstrated her equability toward both Surrealist and abstract art by wearing one earring made by Surrealist painter Yves Tanguy and one by abstract sculptor and kinetic artist... Read More
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Antoni Tápies
by TÁPIES, Antoni (artist)
New York: The Elkon Gallery, 1989. Softcover. A fine copy. 11 x 8.5 inches. Wrappers. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition from March - May 1989.
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The Complete Works. Volume 1: 1943-1960
by TÀPIES, Antoni -- Anna AGUSTÍ, compiler
New York: Rizzoli, 1989. First edition. Some minor shelfwear, generally a near-fine copy and well preserved, with a few small marks on jacket. Large 4to, 12 x 11.5 inches. 546 pages. 983 illustrations, 133 in color. Cloth; dust jacket. First American edition.
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Abacus Now: Footnotes to Indecent Pleasures & Observations on Fine Book Printing, Book-collecting & Matters personal including How to Survive in the Computer Age. With a Checklist of the first twenty-four titles in Targ Editions
by TARG, William
New York: Targ Editions, 1984. Spine gently faded, without the glassine, a few minor marks on covers, generally fine, and internally fresh and unblemished. 8vo. Numerous paper and printing specimens. Original cloth-backed glazed boards. FIRST EDITION, one of 200 copies signed by Targ and the three printers of the edition: Ronald Gordon, Leslie Miller, and Leonard Seastone.
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Autograph manuscript signed (three times: "NB Tarkington," "N.B.T.") regarding the illustration of 'Penrod'; n.p., ca 1913
by TARKINGTON, Booth
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Binding worn, some leaves lightly creased. 15 pages, folio (13 x 8 inches), written in pencil on rectos only, in at least three numbered sections, being a combination of rough notes and more formal correspondence to Russell Doubleday; with four large pencil drawings and one plan by Tarkington. Bound in limp brown sheep. Provenance: from the collection of Frank Nelson Doubleday. Tarkington offers meticulous advice about how the characters in 'Penrod' are to... Read More
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