Invention
by WALDMAN, Anne (b. 1943) and Susan HALL
New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1985. A near-fine copy, the boards lightly soiled. 4to. 130 pages. Illustrations by Hall. Original decorated boards. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Waldman on the title-page. Edited and designed by Lita Hornick.
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Todd Walker Photographs
by WALKER, Todd
Carmel, CA: The Friends of Photography, 1985. A near-fine copy with light wear to corners. 4to. Printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, issue 38 of the Friends of Photography series.
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The Edge of the Shadow
by WALKER, Todd
Tucson, AZ: Thumbprint Press by Todd Walker, 1977. Small 4to (165 x 134 mm; 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.). 16 leaves, including 13 plates. Original printed wrappers. A fine copy. Privately printed artist's book, signed in pencil by Walker on the title. Stated on the colophon: "This pamphlet is an experiment in making the visual visible.
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Walking
by WALKING, Stephen
Northampton, MA: Junction Press, 1993. A fine copy. 8vo. 78 pages. Original pictorial wrappers. First edition, inscribed by the poet on the title in 1999. Blurb by Robert Creeley on rear wrapper.
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Jeff Wall
by WALL, Jeff (artist); Peter GALASSI (text by); James RONDEAU (text by); Neal BENEZRA (foreword by)
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2007. First edition. A fine, unmarked copy; dust jacket with some very light shelf wear, one short tear at lower edge. 11.5 x 10 inches. 170 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. "Over the past three decades, Vancouver artist Jeff Wall's large color transparencies have won international acclaim. Wall has created a unique, seductive and complex pictorial universe by drawing upon philosophy, literature, nineteenth-century painting, Neo-Realist cinema and... Read More
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The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation Being a Discourse of Rivers Fish-Ponds Fish and Fishing
by WALTON, Izaak (1593-1683), Charles COTTON (1630-1687), and Harris NICOLAS, editor
London: William Pickering, 1836. 2 volumes, 4to (270 x 180 mm; 105/8 x 71/8 in.). Half-titles, titles printed in red and black, 61 steel engravings in two states, many printed on india paper. Contemporary dark green morocco by Hering, wide borders gilt, fish tool cornerpieces gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, fish tool gilt in the rest, edges gilt. Some occasional spotting; some light wear, spines somewhat dry and slightly darkened. Provenance: William... Read More
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Fenwick's Career
by WARD, Mrs. Humphry and Albert STERNER (illustrator)
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1906. A near-fine set with light wear to corners. 2 volumes, 8vo. 237 and 230 pages. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Contemporary blue half morocco, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Provenance: W. Macdoland MacKay (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Mary Augusta was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.
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Andy Warhol: Robots & Space Ships
by WARHOL, Andy (artist)
Los Angeles: Honor Fraser, 2013. First edition. A clean copy. 13 x 10 inches. Includes 27 full color plates. Original cloth. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Honor Fraser Gallery, 2013.
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Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms. A Guide to 817 Items in 2 Hours 56 Minutes
by WARHOL, Andy; Eva Meyer-Hermann (editor)
Rotterdam: NAI010 Publishers, 2008. A fine copy. 10.5 x 8 inches. 176 pages. 135 color and 160 black-and-white illustrations. Printed wrappers. Text by Eva Meyer-Hermann, Matt Wrbican, Geralyn Huxley, Greg Pierce, Hal Foster. "Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms, published on the occasion of the major exhibition by the same name at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, provides some new insight, digging into Warhol’s lesser-known film, video and audio tape works. Important--and just a little scandalous--films like Blow Job and... Read More
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Andy Warhol: Mao
by WARHOL, Andy (artist); Robert MNUCHIN (contributor); Domenique LEVY (contributor)
New York: L&M Arts, 2006. First edition. A clean copy; no internal markings. 7 x 5 inches. Profusely illustrated in color. Original wrappers. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at L&M Arts, 2006.
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Andy Warhol Enterprises
by WARHOL, Andy; Thomas Crow; Vincent Fremont; Sarah Green; Allison Unruh
Hatje Cantz, 2010. A few scuffs on covers but otherwise a fine copy. 11.5 x 8.25 inches. 160 pages. 8 color illustrations. Boards. "Andy Warhol Enterprises examines Warhol's complex and multifarious relationship to commerce in both his work and life, from his highly successful career as a commercial artist to his reign as a cultural tastemaker in the 1980s. The catalogue features a new essay by renowned scholar Thomas Crow and an interview with Vincent Fremont, one of... Read More
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Warhol: Liz
by WARHOL, Andy (artist)
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2012. First edition. A clean copy with no internal markings. 11.5 x 11 inches. 123 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery, New York, Sept. 16-Oct. 22, 2011.
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Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls
by WARHOL, Andy; Robert MAPPLETHORPE (artist)
Hartford, CT; New Haven, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. Later edition. A clean and fresh copy. 11 x 9.5 inches. 172 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in 2016.
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Warhol: Jackie
by WAROL, Andy; Bibi KHAN
New York: Blain Di Donna, 2014. First edition. A near fine copy, unmarked but with a few tiny nicks to board edges. 12 x 10 inches. 90 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. Published in conjunction with the exhibion held at Di Donna Galleries in 2014.
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Remarks on Some Fossil Impressions in the Sandstone Rocks of Connecticut River by John C. Warren, M. D.
by WARREN, John C.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. Minor fading to spine, minor wear at top and tail. Frontispiece a bit faded as usual and with minor chipping along one edge. 8vo (231 x 141 mm). 54 pages, plus a folding photographic frontispiece, being an original salt print of a Greenfield, Massachusetts trackway slab with dinosaur tracks, executed by George M. Silsbee, and with two additional engraved vignettes in the text. Original blue cloth blocked in blind and lettered in gilt.... Read More
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Love: Four Versions
by WARREN, Robert Penn
[Winston-Salem, NC]: Palaemon Press Limited, 1981. A pale stain at bottom on the cloth. 8vo. Original quarter white cloth, marbled boards, printed paper spine label. First edition, number 92 of 200 copies signed by Warren.
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The History of Stained Glass, from the Earliest Period of the Art to the Present Time, Illustrated by Coloured Examples of Entire Windows in the Various Styles
by WARRINGTON, William
London: Published by the Author, 1848. Folio (535 x 360 mm). [8], 72, [2], 17 pages. Frontispiece lithographed by Warrington, lithographed dedication leaf, and 25 lithographs (including three double-page and one triple) by T. J. Rawlins printed in colors by A. Moody and M. & N. Hanhart. Original half morocco, brown cloth sides with large central title panel in gilt, ticket of Edward Baker, Birmingham, on pastedown (repairs to spine and joints, scuffs to cloth sides). First edition. William... Read More
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The Maharajah's Son
by WARSH, Lewis
Lenox, MA / New York: Angel Hair Books, 1977. Some light rubbing to wrappers. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION, printed in Berkeley, CA at the West Coast Print Center, and limited to 1000 copies. The text comprises Warsh's "Letters", 1960-65.
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The Maharajah's Son
by WARSH, Lewis
Lenox, MA / New York: Angel Hair Books, 1977. 1/4-inch tear at base of spine, otherwise fine. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers, the cover design by Rosemary Mayer. First edition, printed in Berkeley, CA at the West Coast Print Center, and limited to 1000 copies. The text comprises Warsh's "Letters", 1960-65.
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Imperial Rescript of the Declaration of War on the United States and Great Britain. Dated December 8th, 1941 (but later, printed for Military Academy Use circa 1942-1944)
by WORLD WAR II – JAPANESE DECLARATION OF WAR
Light rubbing to cloth boards and slipcase, text lightly browned. Lithographic document in Japanese,accordion form, 14 x 4 inches (350 x 105 mm). The formal announcement of a state of war delivered to the Japanese people, comprising title panel and 8 pages. Purple boards, upper cover with Imperial chrysanthemum device, and titled, edges lightly rubbed; matching original blue/green card slipcase. Laid-in: mimeograph translation in English (presumed contemporary). The document provides Japan's reasons for declaring war in December 1941,... Read More
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Gen George Washington's Account with the United States, from 1775 to 1783, as Written by Himself
by [WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799)]
Brooklyn: John Hutchings, 1857. Some wear to extremities of binding, occasional light spotting, early pencil signature trials on front flyleaves. Small folio. Title-page, facsimile of accounts throughout, lithographed by Boell & Michelin. Original half black leather, brown cloth, front cover gilt-lettered and with gilt portrait of Washington at center. Covering the period from June 1775 to June 1783, these records detail Washington's day-to-day expenditures in his official capacity as Commander-in Chief of the Army of the United Colonies.... Read More
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Fac-Simile of Washington's Accounts from June, 1775 to June, 1783
by [WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799)]
Washington, D. C.: The Treasury Department, 1833. Small folio (332 x 206 mm). Facsimile of accounts throughout, 3pp. facsimile documents and plans and 1p. letterpress "Extract from Marshall's Life of Washington, Vol.I. 1758." at end. Contemporary half sheep, marbled boards, letterpress label to upper cover, stab-sewn. Lacking top sewing thread, some rubbing or light wear; dampstain to lower gutter corner, some light browning or stains. The first letterpress leaf is signed by Chief Clerk in the Registrar's office Mich.... Read More
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An act for giving effect to the several acts therein mentioned, in respect to the state of Rhode-Island and Providence plantations... June the 14th 1790." In: Columbian Centinel. Whole No. 661. No. 37 of Vol. XIII
by WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799)
Boston: Benjamin Russell, 1790. Folio newspaper (17 x 11 inches). 4 pages. Disbound. Slightly browned, but in fine condition. This and the preceding act that appears before it are both signed in italic print "George Washington." Brigham, C.S. Amer. Newspapers, p. 277; Evans, 22413.
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Not Today (First Issue)
by WATERFALL CO
Waterfall Co, 2013. Softcover. As-new in shrinkwrap. 11.75 x 9 inches. Wrappers. "For this first issue of NOT TODAY, we came up with a number of interesting sections. In OBJECTS we selected 6 different items that shine through our daily life. We conducted INTERVIEWS with fashion designer SHAO YEN and design studio NORM ARCHITECTS at the places where they live and work. In THE KITCHEN, we present a five-course dinner by young artist Yin-Ling Hsu. Entering SOMETHING SPATIAL,... Read More
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Not Today (Third Issue)
by WATERFALL CO
Waterfall Co, 2014. Softcover. As-new in shrinkwrap. 11.75 x 9 inches. Wrappers. "Summer is here. The third NOT TODAY arrives with fervor. Ting Cheng did a photoshoot called Do You Good for the COVER STORY. 2 INTERVIEWS were done in Shilin,Taipei and Nara, Kyoto, separately. In THE KITCHEN,Thai Mama cooked authentic Thai dishes at a specialist agriculture bookstore that was restored from a 100-year-old hotel in central Taiwan. For SOMETHING SPATIAL, something there is about artist-run initiatives. ... Read More
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