Chansons de France depuis le quinzième siècle jusqu'á nos jours
by BODENHEIM, Nelly
Amsterdam: Mason d'editions "De Spieghel, 1946. A very-good plus copy, the front cover with fading and pale tidemark at bottom, some intermittent and unobtrusive foxing. 8vo. 43, [1] pages. Black silhouettes by Nelly Bodenheim. Original quarter black cloth, pink pictorial boards. A charming series of songs, illustrated with silhouettes. Bodenheim was born in Amsterdam where she was trained at the Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, and then she followed lessons from the painter Jan Veth. Her illustrations... Read More
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Giovanni Mardersteig 8.1.1892 – 27.12.1977
by OFFICINA BODONI
London: The British Library, 1978. Four pages on one folded sheet (240 x 165 mm). Photographic portrait of Mardersteig. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, Brooke Crutchley's copy, signed by him on title. Printing Mardersteig's dictum: "A book consists of five elements: the text, the type, the ink, the paper, and the binding. To create a unity from these five elements in such a way that the result is not a passing product of fashio, but assumes the validity of... Read More
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Giovanni Mardersteig 8.1.1892 – 27.12.1977
by OFFICINA BODONI
London: The British Library, 1978. Folded sheet (240 x 165). Portrait of Mardersteig. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, printing Mardersteig's dictum: "A book consists of five elements: the text, the type, the ink, the paper, and the binding. To create a unity from these five elements in such a way that the result is not a passing product of fashion, but assumes the validity of permanent value – that should be our desire." Printed in Verona in Italic Dante... Read More
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The Czech Book and the World
by BOHATCOVA, Mirjam
Prague: Artia, General Management of the Printing Industry in Prague, 1972. Some light soiling to slipcase and spine. 13 x 6.25 inches. 85, [3] inches. Profusely illustrated. Original plain red wrappers; green outer wrapper; plain white slipcase. This was issued as an anniversary publication for Artaria, in collaboration with the General Management of the Printing Industry in Prague, and was not for sale. Scarce: WorldCat/OCLC locates only four copies.
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A Biographer's Notebook
by BOLITHO, Hector
London: William Clowes and Sons, 1950. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Slight edgewear and toning to the sheets, generally very good. 8vo. Advance copy in drab wrappers, printed paper label on cover. Advance copy, and the dedication copy, inscribed under the printed dedication "To Robert J. Shaw": "with devotion Hector." A prolific New Zealand writer, novelist and biographer, Bolitho (1897-1974), has inked a number of corrections throughout the text.
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Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology
by BOLTON, Andrew
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016. A few scuffs to the cloth binding but generally in near-fine condition. Folio. The complete set of items in the limited edition: cloth-bound edition of the book (black cloth), paperback pamphlet of interviews; and folded poster. Together in the original laser cut, high-density polyethylene box, outer black paper sleeve, and in the original folding cardboard box from the publisher. One of 600 copies of this limited edition that was available only... Read More
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Blahník by Boman Shoes, Photographs, Conversation
by BOMAN, Eric
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005. First American edition. Very minor shelfwear, overall a bright and fresh copy. Folio. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth; dust jacket. "Long before their supporting role in Sex and the City, Manolo Blahnik's shoes were legendary—exquisitely detailed, unabashedly luxurious, and impossibly sexy. The epitome of sophistication and taste, they have graced the feet of royalty, supermodels, and movie stars. In these breathtaking pictures by Blahnik's longtime friend, photographer Eric Boman, the shoes take center stage... Read More
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Design in Sweden
by BOMAN, Monica
Kungsträdgården: The Swedish Institute, 1985. A near fine copy. 9.5 x 8.25 inches. 142 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. Original pictorial wrappers. First edition.
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James Jennifer Georgina
by BOOM, Irma (designer); James, Jennifer, and Georgina BUTLER
London: Erasmus Publishing Ltd, 2010. First edition, one of 999 copies. A fine copy. Thick 8vo. 1198 pages. Original yellow cloth. In the publisher's printed black card clamshell case. A three-year collaborative effort between the Butlers, designer Irma Boom, and photographer Erwin Olaf. "Written between the lines of 1136 meticulously documented postcards, spanning ten years of travel, is the tale of the Butler family. It is a story of abandonment and love, of sickness and health, and of... Read More
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Pairs. New Poems
by BOOTH, Philip
New York: Penguin, 1994. A fine copy. ix, [3], 78, [5] pages. Printed wrappers. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed to the poet John Allman on the half-title: "For John Allman - in admiration of the arc of his work. From an earliest snowplow poem to the latest fiction – Philip. Castine [Maine] 14 X 94.
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Are Plants People? [With original photograph]
by BORTHWICK, Mark
Paris: L'Esprit Frappeur / Purple Books, 1999. A fine copy. 6 x 4.25 inches. 64 pages. Black-and-white photographs. Printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, with an original color Polaroid laid-in (4.25 x 3.5 inches), signed by Borthwick on the back. Borthwick spent the early 1990s in Paris, where he owned a nightclub and photographed for Purple Magazine. Includes photos of fashion models, children, landscapes and interiors.
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Gustavo Foppiani: Opere 1915-1986
by BOSSAGLIA, Rossana
Piacenza: Galleria Braga, 1993. Upper corners bumped throughout, some wear to jacket, but a clean and unmarked copy. 11.75 x 9 inches. 280 pages. Fully illustrated in color. Original boards; dust jacket. First edition, with three poloroids of two of Foppiani's encaustics laid in.
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Peasant Art of Europe and Asia
by BOSSERT, Helmut T.
New York: Hastings House, 1977. A near-fine copy; dust jacket with a few small nicks. 13.5 x 10 inches. 45 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket; carboard slipcase. First edition.
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The Book: Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, from Gutenberg to the Present Time
by BOUCHOT, Henri; H. Grevel (editor)
London: Grevel, 1890. First of this expanded version. Hardbound. Some foxing at beginning and end, light rubbing to binding, else a nearly fine copy. 4to. 383 pages, including 172 illustrations. Brown blind-tooled leather, morocco spine labels.
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Arman
by BOUHOURS, Jean-Michel
Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou / Service Commercial, 2010. A fine copy (save one bump to the top of the front board). 13 x 9 inches. 365 pages. Profusely illustrated. Glazed pictorial boards. In French.
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Louise Bourgeois: Conscious and Unconscious
by BOURGEOIS, Louise (artist); Larratt-Smith, Philip (curator)
Doha, Qatar: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, 2012. First edition. A small note written on the title page; otherwise a clean copy. 12.5 x 9 inches. 106 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards; cloth slipcase. With text in both English and Arabic.
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Louise Bourgeois: La Famille
by BOURGEOIS, Louise; Thomas KELLEIN (contributor)
New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2006. A near-fine copy. 9.5 x 6.75 inches. 223 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. First edition. "The fear of being born into the world an unwanted girl; the fear of becoming a pawn in the lives of her parents; the fear of failing as a wife, mother and artist: Over the course of her 70 years as an artist, Louise Bourgeois, born in 1911 in Paris, has always placed the... Read More
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Escultura de Louise Bourgeois: La elegancia de la Ironía: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Junio de 1995
by BOURGEOIS, Louise (artist); Richard MARSHALL
Mexico: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, 1995. Softcover. Some minor shelfwear to wrappers, generally fine. 96 pages. Wrappers. In Spanish. First edition.
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The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
by BOWLES, Janes
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. Near-fine (a few trifling spots on cloth) in a fine, unclipped jacket. 8vo. 431 pages. Original beige cloth, title in red on spine, publisher's name in pink; printed dust jacket. First American edition. Her fame unfairly outstripped by her husband Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles' story "Two Serious Ladies" is one of the masterpieces of American literature.
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The Journals of the Lives and Travels of Samuel Bownas and John Richardson
by BOWNAS, Samuel and John RICHARDSON
Philadelphia: William Dunlap, 1759. Crudely mistrimmed [with occasional loss of a few letters of text], G8 with marginal loss extending into text, a bit browned, light wear to joints. 8vo. viii + 242; iv + 220 pages. 20th-century brown half morocco. Provenance: John Martin (early inscripttion on front flyleaf). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. "Richardson visited America in 1701, and traveled through Virginia, Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and New England. He spent some time with William Penn at... Read More
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Beyond 1984: Remembrance of Things Future
by BRADBURY, Ray
New York: Targ Editions, 1979. A very fine copy, virtually untouched. 8vo. Original cloth, with Bradbury's portrait by V. Tony Hauser on front cover; plain paper wrapper. FIRST EDITION, one of 350 copies signed by Bradbury. This is the third of the Targ Editions, designed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press and printed at The Harbor Press.
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The Quick and the Dead
by BRADFORD, Gamaliel
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine dull and with a slight tear. 8vo. Illustrated. Original cloth, printed paper spine label. First edition of this work comprised of biographical portraits of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Edison, Henry Ford, Lenin, Mussolini, and Calvin Coolidge. One of 200 copies in this binding and signed by Bradford. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author: "Mark Howe with the affectionate regards of Gamaliel Bradford, February 28, 1931." The printed... Read More
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Neither New Nor Correct: New Work by Mark Bradford
by BRADFORD, Mark (artist); Carter E FOSTER (author)
New York: Whitney Museum of Art, 2007. First edition. Generally a clean copy; no internal marks. 11 x 7.5 inches 62 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. Signed by Mark Bradford on the half-title. "Focusing on Mark Bradford's unique method of establishing a metaphoric relationship between the materials he employs and the images he creates, this title offers a stimulating perspective on a rising star of contemporary art" (the publisher).
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Amicitia Amorque
by BRADLEY, William Aspenwall and Hans ZINSSER
New York: Privately Printed, 1911. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A fine copy. 8vo. Original thin printed boards, edges untrimmed. First edition of Bradley's first book, number 3 of 100 numbered copies. A penciled note says this copy was in the library of the dedicatee George Edward Woodberry, American critic and poet.
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Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Georges Braque
by [BRAQUE, Georges (1882-1963)] Nicole S. MANGIN (editor)
Paris: Maeght, 1959. 4 volumes (of 7, without Peintures 1924-1927, Peintures 1916-1923, and Le cubisme, fin 1907-1914), 4to. Photographic frontispiece of Braque in each volume, numerous black and white and color illustrations throughout. Original decorated buckram ring binders. Some slight darkening to spines, joints starting on a few volumes. Volumes 1-4 of Braque's catalogue raisonné, which includes Peintures 1948-1957, Peintures 1942-1947, Peintures 1936-1941, and Peintures 1928-1935.
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