The Architecture of I.M. Pei: With an Illustrated Catalogue of the Buildings and Projects
by WISEMAN, Carter
London: Thames and Hudson, 2001. A near-fine copy; jacket lightly rubbed. 11.25 x 9.25 inches. 340 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white and color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, with 356 illustrations included.
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Minna. Wife of the Young Rabbi
by WITTIGSCHLAGER, Wilhelmina
New York: Consolidated Retail Booksellers, 1905. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Light fading to gilt lettering, but cloth very good plus; the jacket with some wear at extremities and a bit dull. 8vo. Frontispiece and illustrations by W. Herbert Dunton. Original decorated red cloth, blocked in black and lettered in gilt; pictorial dust jacket. First edition of the author's first book, and scarce in the dust jacket. An uncommonly found work of Jewish fiction.
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The Role of the Mann Family of Dedham, Massachusetts in the Marbling of Paper in Nineteenth-century American and in the Printing of Music, the Making of Cards, and Other Booktrade Activities
by WOLFE, Richard J.
N.p.: Richard J. Wolfe, 1981. First edition, one of 500 copies (of which 450 were for sale). Fine. 8vo (23.4 x 14.4 cm). 145 pages. Eight color plates and four illustrations in text. Black quarter cloth, marbled boards. The marbled paper on the boards was made by the author, simulating one of the Mann family's designs. With the prospectus loosely inserted.
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To Rupert Brooke
by WOLFE, Thomas
N.p.: Privately Printed by Lecram Press for Richard Jean Picard for Noel, 1948. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Slight toning to edges, and slight wear at corners, but a fine copy. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, stapled as issued. First edition, number 33 of 100 copies of this Christmas keepsake, the first publication in book form of Wolfe's 1918 tribute to Rupert Brooke.
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Greener Pastures. A Fable of Past, Present and Future
by WOLF, Howard
Caldwell, OH: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1936. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A very good copy with a few small stains on covers. 8vo. Original green cloth. First edition of this play "presented with a grand salaam in the direction of Mr. Marc Connolly, author of 'The Green Pastures'..." (Author's Note). A dedication copy from the publisher to Marc Connolly, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Marc Connolly with best regards from the Idaho publisher, J. H.... Read More
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Japan: The Beauty of Food
by WOLF, Reinhart
New York: Rizzoli, 1987. A fine copy. Square 4to. Glazed pictorial boards; slipcase. FIRST EDITION.
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Le Due Porte / The Two Doors
by WOLF, Silvio; Lyle EXER; Franco VACCARI; Anna STRADA
Charta, 2003. A fine copy. 9.25 x 6.35 inches. Text in English and Italian. 56 pages. Color and duotone reproductions. Pictorial boards. First edition.
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Paradiso
by WOLF, Silvio
Lugano: Galleria Gottardo, 2006. A near-fine copy with a few small bumps at extremities and some light toning to sheet edges. Folio (11 x 11 inches). 144 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Pictorial boards. With a DVD in pocket on inner rear board. First edition. "Paradiso was born in an exploration of the spaces planned by architect Mario Botta and in an intuition of architecture as the art of rendering the void livable. This concept is linked to... Read More
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Jonas Wood: Paintings and Drawings
by WOOD, Jonas (artist); J.C. GABEL (editor)
Los Angeles: David Kordansky Gallery, 2015. Lower corners bumped, otherwise fine. 13.75 x 10.75 inches. 68 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original printed boards. First edition. Published in conjunction with the 2015 exhibition at the David Kordansky Gallery, which included eighteen paintings and twenty-five drawings by Wood.
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Esther Vanhomrigh
by WOODS, Margaret L[ouisa]
London: John Murray, 1891. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine and adjacent half-inch front cover of vol. 1 faded to tan, front inner hinge of vol. 2 neatly tightened. 3 volumes, 8vo. Original diaper-grained red cloth lettered in gilt and blind. First edition of this historical novel about Jonathan Swift and the two Esthers in his life: Esther Vanhomrigh (the "Vanessa" of his "Cadenus and Vanessa," who conceived a hopeless passion for the author), and Esther Johnson (Swift's... Read More
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Road
by WOOL, Christopher
Germany: Holzwarth Publications, 2017. A new copy, in shrinkwrap. 15 x 10 inches. Printed wrappers, softcover. "It collects photographs taken by the artist between 2015 and 2017—dust roads, gravel roads, roads partly overgrown or full of tire tracks, roads through desert and fields of rocks, through sparse woods and along precipices. Wool’s roads are not purposeful trajectories toward destinations but the roads of perpetual, endless motion for motion’s sake. In Wool’s black-and-white photographs, only seldom does a fork... Read More
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Typescript of the story "The Number's Up
by WOOLRICH, Cornell
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 20 pages, 4to, the ribbon copy, double-spaced, with revisions (some extensive) in ink by Woolrich. There are about 65 words in his hand on 8 pages (2 and 14 have the majority) and about 30 crossouts/deletions on 7 pages (2 having about half). In very good condition. “The Number’s Up,” a horrific story of a young couple taken for a ride by gangsters, was first published in Beyond the Night (Avon Books, 1959). It... Read More
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1974 Portfolio Project
by VISUAL STUDIES WORKSHOP
Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop, 1974. Title with a few soft creases and soil-marks, occasional light wear to corners, generally clean and fresh. Title and 29 photographs, prints, and mixed-media pieces, either full sheet or on mounts, each signed by the artist either on recto or verso. Each 14 x 11 inches (or smaller and mounted). Number 39 of 75 copies. The artists include Skip Atwater, L. Myers, S. Moore, Elsa C. Voelcker, Laddy Kite, F. Duffy, Paul Ginsberg,... Read More
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Collected Writings. I. Studies in Medieval Art from the Sixth to the Twelft Centuries
by WORMALD, Francis. Edited by J.J.G. ALEXANDER, T.J. BROWN and Joan GIBBS
London: Oxford University Press for Harvey Miller, 1984. First edition. Near fine/Near fine. 4to. 190 illustrations, including color frontispiece. Original tan linen; original printed dust jacket (slightest wear to lower front panel, generally fine). FIRST EDITION of the first volume of Wormald's collected works, printing eleven works on Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Included are Wormald's important studies of the Gospels of St Augustine and the Utrecht Psalter. The remaining essays are on Anglo-Saxon art.
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Le Jardin d'encre
by WOU-KI, Zao (1920-2013); Bernard NOËL (b.1930)
Liancourt: Bernard Dumerchez, 2007. A fine copy with a few small soilmarks on box. Folio (25.25 x 14.5 inches; 640 x 368 mm). The complete portfolio with etching with aquatint printed in colors. Loose as issued in original portfolio; original cloth folding case, titled on top and spine. LIMITED EDITION, number 17 of 63 copies SIGNED BY NOËL AND WOU-KI, from a total edition of 99. Printed on Vélin BFK Rives. Throughout his career, Zao Wou-Ki... Read More
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Paul Wunderlich: Óleos, Gouaches, Dibujos, Esculturas, y Lithografias: Exposicion Antologica 1958-1988
by WUNDERLICH, Paul (artist)
Madrid: Levy, 1988. Softcover. A fine copy with light soiling to the wrappers. 8 x 8 inches. Wrappers. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition from November - December 1988.
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Paul Wunderlich: Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Gouachen und Zeichnungen (Paul Wunderlich, das malerische, graphische und plastische Werk) (German Edition)
by WUNDERLICH, Paul; Jean Christian JENSEN
Germany: Edition Volker Huber, 1979. Hardcover. Small soil mark on soil edges, otherwise fine, in a near-fine jacket with some minor wear, front joint with one small nick. 14 x 11.5 inches. 127 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. In German.
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Ying Han dian nao ji shu ci hui | English-Chinese dictionary of computing technique [Mandarin Chinese Edition]
by WU, Zhongxian
Beijing: Ke xue chu ban she, 1982. Revised and enlarged edition. Light wear to jacket. 8vo. 882pp. Original cloth; dust jacket.
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Jennifer Lorn: A Sedate Extravaganza
by WYLIE, Elinor
New York: Doran, 1923. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine dull and with a crease, a fore-corner a bit jammed. 8vo. Original tan cloth and marbled boards. First edition, second printing as usual with tipped-in corrected title-page (only one located at Yale is known of the first printing). Presentation copy, inscribed by Wylie on front flyleaf to the wife of the author Joseph Hergesheimer: "To Dorothy Hergesheimer / From Eleanor Wylie / December 1923 / This Excess in... Read More
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Life's Dream
by YAFFA, Claire
UNKNO, 2007. A fine copy with some light wear and a few small stains to the jacket. 8 x 10 inches. 80 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. Signed by author on half title. "A distinguished photographer respected for her images of the most needy in society - the homeless, abused children, children with AIDS - Yaffa also has an eye for the delicae and often unnoticed images that surround us. Accompanied by a brief poetic text, the books focusses... Read More
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The Yale Epitome Volume I.
by YALE – B. Franklin Mansfield, Alfred Ingram, Lemuel R. Hopton, Alexander H. Fay (editors)
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1896. First edition. Covers spotted and with some stains, internally clean and unmarked. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 191 pages; xlvi pages advertisements at end. Original gray cloth, lettered on front cover and spine. Inscribed by one of the editors on front flyleaf: "Compliments of Lemuel R. Hopton." This is the first volume of the Yale Epitome, which collects and publishes "some of the best articles from Yale's current literature... a condensed annual of... Read More
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The Edge of Time; Photographs of Mexico
by YAMPLOSKY, Mariana
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. First edition. A fine, well-preserved copy. 10 x 9 inches. 128 pages. Original red cloth in pictorial dust jacket. "The Edge of Time presents a retrospective of Yampolsky's photographic work since 1960. Reflecting her lifelong concerns, the images capture rural Mexico and its people with respect and infinite care" (The Publisher).
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10 Days in Krakow
by YANG, Yuanyuan
Jiazazhi, 2014. New in shrinkwrap. 8vo. 168 pages. Cloth-backed boards. FIRST EDITION, number 263 of 500 copies.
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Giulio Paolini: Hypothesis for an Exhibition
by YASAR, Begum (editor)
New York: Dominique Lévy, 2014. First edition. Generally a clean copy; printing on cloth lightly worn. 9 x 8 inches. 200 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held in 2014.
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Big City Primer: Reading New York at the End of the Twentieth Century
by YAU, John / BARRETTE, Bill
New York: Timken Publishers, 1991. First. Corners lightly bumped, ink ownership name on half-title, pages with light age-toning at edges. Square 4to. Photographically illustrated by Bill Barrette. Original pictorial wrappers. With poems by John Yau and photographs by Bill Barrette, this shows a "New York as it is" view of the city, unvarnished "immense and ultimately unknowable." Distributed by Rizzoli, it was praised by John Ashbery: "This 'record of gregarious surfaces' is the ultimate dream-Baedeker of New York... Read More
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