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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One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art
by YEE, Lydia and Franklin SIRMANS (curators)
The Bronx: Bronx Museum of Art, 2001. First edition. 23.8 x 25 cm. 84 pages. Profusely illustrated. Original printed wrappers. Published to accompany the traveling exhibitions at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Walker Art Center, and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. The artists included were: Edgar Arceneaux, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Bertocchi, Sanford Biggers, Max King Cap, Juan Capistran, Mel Chin, Brett Cook-Disney, Luis Gispert, Howard Goldkrand, Renee Green, David Hammons, Keith Haring, Glenn Kaino, Nikki Lee,... Read More
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The Great Metropolis: Or, New-York Almanac for 1850
by [NEW YORK]
New York: H. Wilson, 1850. Hardcover. Map slightly misfolded else clean and clear; rear hinge separated. 16mo. 142 pages, index and ads at end. Folding map. Original pale blue embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover.
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![A Bond of Performance between Garrett Poor (a carpenter) and Luke von Thinehoon (a "cuirurgoon" [sic]) and Lawrence Read (a merchant) to whom they agree to pay two hundred pounds. [New York], 22 May 1691](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/507/804/1499804507.0.l.jpg)
A Bond of Performance between Garrett Poor (a carpenter) and Luke von Thinehoon (a "cuirurgoon" [sic]) and Lawrence Read (a merchant) to whom they agree to pay two hundred pounds. [New York], 22 May 1691
by [NEW YORK]
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Horizontal folds, but in very good condition. One page, folio, with integral blank leaf (with docket). Signed by Roos and Thinehovon (followed by red wax stamps) and signed by three witnesses. "The Condicon of this obligation is... that if the above bound... doo well and truely observe, perform, fullfill, accomplish, and keep all and singular the Covenants, grants... which... are or ought to be observed, performed... and kept mentioned and Comprised in one... Read More
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Miller's New York as It Is: Or, Stranger's Guide-Book to the Cities of New York, Brooklyn, and Adjacent Places, Comprising Notices of Every Object of Interest to Strangers; Including Public Buildings, Churches, Hotels, Places of Amusements, Literary Instutions, Etc.
by NEW YORK
James Miller, 1866. Inkstamp on reverse of frontispiece and spotty stain to rear cover else a very good copy. Long folding map is misforded and lacks a small chip [not affecting the image] but is clean and bright. 134 pp + Index plus ads, including a number of plates, some folding. Original cloth over boards with gilt stamped cover.
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The Tourist's Pocket Map of the State of Ohio Exhibiting its Internal Improvements, Roads, Distances, &c
by YOUNG, James H. / Samuel Augustus MITCHELL, publisher
Philadelphia: Samuel Augustus Mitchell, 1834. Early issue (the first was 1831). Light rubbing to binding, a few short separations along folds, light wear at sheet edges. Hand-colored engraved folding map, 15 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches. Folding to 5 x 3 inches into original green gilt-decorated roan binding. Provenance: William Fitch (contemporary ownership signatures on verso of map). Mounted on the inside front cover of the binding is the 1830 Census data for the state, recording the total... Read More
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The Alms of Alcippe
by YOURCENAR, Marguerite
New York: Targ Editions, 1982. First edition in English. One of 250 copies signed by Yourcenar. A fine copy. 8vo. Frontispiece photograph by Timothy Callahan. Translated by Edith R. Farrell. Publisher's quarter blue cloth, in the original glassine wrapper. Published by Targ at the Grenfell Press. Designed by Leslie Miller, type set by M. Bixler, bound by A. Horowitz.
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Lisa Yuskavage
by YUSKAVAGE, Lisa (artist)
New York: David Zwirner, 2006. First edition. Generally a clean copy. 10 x 8.5 inches. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. Includes 80 colored images, and a foreword by David Zwirner. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery in 2006.
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Mirror Images: Greek Women Through Time
by ZAFIROPOULOS, Simoni
Athens: Simoni Zafiropoulos, 1985. Owner's inscription on front free endpaper; some modest shelfwear, otherwise fine. 10.5 x 10 inches. 141 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original white cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
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Joli Milan: Luoghi della Milano di Stendhal incisi all’acquaforte da Agostino Zaliani
by ZALIANI, Agostino, illustrator; Guido BEZZOLA; Stendhal
Milan: Franco Sciardelli, 1983. Folio (13 x 10 inches). Seven original etchings by Zaliani, each signed in pencil. Text and plates laid loose as issued in original printed wrappers; slipcase. A fine copy. LIMITED EDITION, number 81 of 120 copies.
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English Romanesque Art 1066-1200
by ZARNECKI, George / Janet HOLT / Tristram HOLLAND, editors
London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1984. First edition. Fine. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, issued simultaneously in wrappers and cloth. This exhibition was held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 5 April-8 July 1984. The essays by leading scholars in the field include studies of manuscripts, wall-paintings, stained glass, sculpture, ivory carvings, metalwork, decorative ironwork, seals, coins, bindings, potters, and textiles. A bibliography and chronology are found at end.
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Art of the Medieval World. Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, The Sacred Arts
by ZARNECKI, George
Englewood Cliffs and New York: Prentice Hall, Inc. and Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1975. First edition. Very good/Good. Folio. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white and color. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated; original pictorial dust jacket (some light rubbing and wear at edges). FIRST EDITION. The author was a professor at the Courtauld Institute, and his text provides an over-all view of artistic life in the medieval world. Included are a bibliography, glossary, chronological chart, maps, and index. This... Read More
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A Garland for Jake Zeitlin on the occasion of his 65th Birthday & the Anniversary of his 40th year in the Book Trade
by [ZEITLIN, Jake] J. M. EDELSTEIN
Los Angeles: Grant Dahlstrom & Saul Marks, 1967. 8vo. 131, [2]pp. Original orange cloth-backed decorated cloth, printed paper spine label, untrimmed. Fine. FIRST EDITION, one of 800 copies of this fine festschrift with contributions by Bern Dibner, Ward Ritchie, Warren R. Howell, and other authors. Includes Edelstein's bibliography of the Primavera Press. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed twice by Zeitlin, first to Herman Fels and then to Tony Appleton.
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Zobel. Contrapuntos
by ZOBEL, Fernando (artist); PANEQUE, Guillermo (curator); Ditas R. SAMSON (curator)
Makati City, Philippines: Ayala Foundation, 2017. First edition. Corners lightly bumped; generally a clean copy. 11.5 x 8.5 inches. 208 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white and color. Hardcover, with boards and a cloth tape spine. This book explores the world of Fernando Zobel, Spanish-Filipino artist and founder of the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art in Cuenca. Through his works of art and intimate correspondences, we discover a mind that's vastly creatve and immensely profound. This book was printed... Read More
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Francisco Zúñiga: Sculpture, Drawings, Lithographs
by ZÚÑIGA, Francisco (artist); Jacques LASSAIGNE (foreword by)
New York: Brewster Editions, 1982. Hardcover. A fine copy in a very good jacket that has some peeling to the lamination and some light wear. 9 x 9 inches. 124 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. "This volume contains 91 reproductions of Zuniga's works, many of which have never been published before. There are 22 full color plates, biographical notes and an extensive list of his many honors, prizes and exhibitions.
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John Zurier: Paintings 1981-2014
by ZURIER, John (artist); Lawrence RINDER (foreword by); Robert STORR (text by)
New York: Peter Blum Editions, 2015. First edition. New in shrinkwrap. 12 x 8 inches. 156 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; dust jacket. "This volume offers the first and most complete overview of the art of Berkeley-based painter John Zurier (born 1956). The book contains 97 full-color reproductions of his abstract oil paintings, with an essay by Robert Storr" (the publisher).
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