Living Notebook [in Japanese]: 25 issues

Tokyo: Kurashi no Techosha, 1988. Paper somewhat age-darkened (as expected), wrappers generally in fine condition with occasional small chips or tears. 11 x 8.5 inches. Profusely illustrated in color and back-and-white. Decorative paper wrappers. Comprising issues 56 to 61 (Sept/Oct 1978 to July/Aug 1979); 79 to 90 (July/Aug 1982 to May/June 1984); 4 (Sept/Oct 1986); and 9 to 14 (Aug/Sept 1987 to June/July 1988). An incredible visual resource of everyday life in Japan, cooking, interior design, architecture, homemaking,... Read More

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Le dix-neuvième siècle. Les Moeurs, Les Arts, Les Idées

Paris: Hachette, 1901. First edition. Folio (12 1/4 x 8 1//2 inches). 436 pp. 19 plates, some printed in color, black-and-white illustrations in text. Fine French binding by P. Affolter, three-quarter red morocco, marbled boards, smooth spine richly gilt with floral and other tools, top edges gilt. Slight touches to extremities, generally fresh and bright.

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Snap

Tokyo: Victor Entertainment, 2001. A fine copy. 8vo. Profusely illustrated. Pink printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, signed and dated in 2001 by "NT"(?).

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

The Critical Review: or, Annals of Literature. Volume the Nineteenth. -The Twenty-Eighth

London: A. Hamilton, 1769. Together two volumes, 8vo (8 x 5 1/4 inches). Contemporary quarter sheep, marbled boards, black morocco lettering-pieces on spines (wear at extremities, but in generally fine, original condition). Provenance: R. Michel, Esq. (engraved armorial bookplates). The Critical Review ran from 1756 to 1817, and was first edited by Tobias Smollett from 1756 to 1763.

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Fighting the Whales: Or, Doings and Dangers of a Fishing Cruise

New York: D. Appleton & Co, Library of Travel and Adventure, 1871. A later printing. Bookplate, cover spotted, frontispiece tissue guard worn, generally a good copy. 12mo. 169 pages. 4 color plates. Original crimson embossed cloth.

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

The Lengthening of Niagara Falls

Buffalo: Companies Associated wth Buffalo, Niagara and Eastern Power Corporation, 1930. Small loss along spine, upper corner of front board rubbed, collector's embossed stamp on front free endpaper. 8vo. 32 pages. Color and black-and-white plates. Brown paper over boards.

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Throb No. 1

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Student Publication Board, 1972. Discard stamp on front wrapper, a few light soil marks, generally clean. 12.5 x 8.5 inches. 22 pages. Stapled as issued in self-wrappers. A journal of poems, music, cartoons, and a wall poster. With contributions by Neil Macdonald, G. D. Trevelyan, Brian McCabe, James Wilkinson, Kenneth Ross, and others. Scarce: Worldcat/OCLC list only four copies in UK institutions.

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

The Monkey Wrench Gang

by ABBEY, Edward / R. CRUMB

Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press, 1985. A fine copy, slight wear to one joint of the slipcase. 8vo. 356, [1] pages. Illustrated by R. Crumb. Special edition bound in red cloth; slipcase with mounted picture. Limited edition, one of 250 copies, but this copy out-of-series and lettered "A" with designation as "Publisher's Presentation Copy." Signed by Abbey. With an unpublished print by R. Crumb laid-in as issued, with his signature.

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland In Aquatint and Lithography 1770 - 1860 from the Library of J. R. Abbey: A Bibliographical Catalogue

by ABBEY, J. R.

Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1972. A very good, sound copy. 4to. Cloth; dust jacket.

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

[The Birch Bark Books]. Collection of privately printed books of Adirondack tales

by ABBOTT, Henry

New York, 1932. First edition. Some occasional chipping to extremities, generally in very good plus to fine condition. 17 volumes, 12mo. Illustrated with woodcuts and maps, photographic plates tipped onto leaves; six volumes include folding maps. Bound in faux birch bark paper over boards. Phillips, pp. 11-12; Plum, Adirondack Bibliography (1956) 7236 & Supplement (1973), p. xxxiv; Bruns A11-A29; Heller 1:665-683; Litchfield sale (2001), lot 1. The famed Birch Bark Books of Henry Abbott. Complete sets are very... Read More

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Tomma Abts

by ABTS, Tomma (artist); James RONDEAU (editor); Lekha Hileman WAITOLLER (editor); Kate NESIN (contributor); Juliane REBENTISCH (contributor)

Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2018. First edition. Generally a clean copy. 13.6 x 9.9 inches. 176 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. "With a rigorous approach and self-imposed limitations to both scale and composition, Tomma Abts (b. 1967) has reinvigorated painterly abstraction and its relevance within contemporary art. Using a fixed canvas size and a vertical format, Abts deploys basic formal elements such as arcs, circles, planes, and stripes to create powerful works that are... Read More

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Pour Bunuel

by ACERETE, Julio C., J.F. ARANDA, Raymond BORDE, Jean-L. GOURG and Marcel OMS

[Paris]: l'A.G.E.T., 1962. First edition. One leaf with some marginal paperclip impressions, otherwise fine. 8vo. Four photgraphic illustrations on central gathering. Original printed wrappers. A scarce pamphlet.

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Nolde: The Painter's Prints

by ACKLEY, Clifford S., Timothy O. Benson, and Victor Carlson

Boston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1995. First edition. Slight rubbing to wrappers, otherwise fine. 4to. 308pp. Profusely illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers.

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

80 Portraits de Flaubert

by ADAM-TESSIER, Maxime

[Paris]: Musées de Sens, Éditions du Linteau, 2002. 4to. 139, [2] pp. Black-and-white illustrations, deluxe issue with original etching. Text and plates laid loose as issued in original printed wrappers, red printed chemise and slipcase. Fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, number 1 of 60 copies with an original etching by Gilles Narrey signed in pencil, from an edition of 700 copies.

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Examples The Making of 40 Photographs

by ADAMS, Ansel

Boston: Little, Brown and Company / New York Graphic Society, 1983. Some light spotting to endleaves and sheet edges, but generally fine, in a very well-preserved jacket. 4to. 178 pages. Copiously illustrated. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, third printing. Signed by Ansel Adams on the half-title. An insightful work, in which Adams shares the circumstances that lead to 40 of his most celebrated photographs.

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Ansel Adams: Singular Images

by ADAMS, Ansel; Edwin Land; David H. McAlpin, Jon Holmes

Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1974. First edition, inscribed. Light fading to the spine and along it on the sides, slight mustiness, but clean and otherwise fine. 10 x 8 inches. Black-and-white reproductions of 53 of Adams's images made with the Polaroid Land Camera. Printed wrappers. Inscribed by Ansel Adams to a noted photo curator on the half-title 23 April 1974. Published to coincide with the exhibition at MoMA of Adams' Polaroid photographs.

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Letters and Images 1916-1984

by ADAMS, Ansel

Boston: Little, Brown / Graphic Society, 1988. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near-fine jackewt that has fading to the spine. 4to. 402 pages. Original cloth; dust jacket. First edition. Edited by Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman. Foreword by Wallace Stegner.

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

A Parallel World

by ADAMS, Robert

San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2021. First edition. New in shrinkwrap. Folio. Cloth; dust jacket. "The Oregon coastline expresses nature's grand impersonal beauty in this recent series from Robert Adams. Inspired by a poem from Denise Levertov that finds solace in nature, Robert Adams (born 1937) presents scenes of natural beauty along the Oregon coast. The black-and-white photographs, made between 2015 and 2018, depict sand dunes and windswept trees, empty beaches and arresting skies, as well as views of... Read More

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Standing Still

by ADAMS, Robert

San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2021. First edition. New in shrinkwrap. Folio. Cloth; dust jacket. "The world in a front yard: Robert Adams records the seasonal shifts and transformations of the near and the intimate. For much of his long career, Robert Adams (born 1937) has photographed the regions where he has lived, recording the transformation of the Western landscape into suburbs in Colorado, or documenting the destruction left in the wake of the timber industry in the Pacific... Read More

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Terry Adkins: The Smooth, the Cut, and the Assembled

by ADKINS, Terry (artist); Charles GAINES (text by); Michael BRENSON (text by); Robin LEWIS (contributor)

New York: Levy Gorvy, 2018. First edition. New in shrinkwrap. 10 x 7.5 inches. 96 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. "The work of American sculptor and musician Terry Adkins (1953-2014) often started with a theme or idea, illuminated by sculptural components that sometimes housed a performative element. The performative and sculptural aspects of his practice evolved in tandem, and utilized materials that had likely served another purpose, be they instruments, materials from his printmaking experiences... Read More

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Terry Adkins: The Smooth, The Cut, and The Assembled

by ADKINS, Terry

New York: Lévy Gorvy, 2018. A fine, as-new copy. 8vo. 96 pages. Color illustrations. Printed boards. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held 10 January to 17 February 2018.

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Vincenzo Agnetti: Territories

by AGNETTI, Vincenzo, Germana AGNETTI, Ara H. MERJIAN, Karen PINKUS, and Bruno CORA

New York: Levy Gordon, 2017. As-new in shrinkwrap. 11.5 x 9 inches. 124 pages. 100 illustrations; 32 are in color. Felt covered boards.

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Lucien Aigner

by AIGNER, Lucien

New York: International Center for Photography, 1979. A very good copy, the white of the wrappers somewhat toned, otherwise clean and unmarred. Small 4to. 127 pages. Black-and-white photographs. Pictorial wrappers. Includes an introduction by Cornell Capa, an essay by A.D. Coleman, and Aigner's essay "A Life with the Camera.

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Pictorial Weavings

by ALBERS, Anni

Cambridge, MA: MIT New Gallery, 1959. 242 x 185 mm. Black-and-white photographic reproductions. With slip detailing 4 additional works shown at the exhibition loosely inserted. Rare catalogue of 11 weavings from the 1959-1960 traveling exhibition "Anni Albers Pictorial Weaving." Includes chronology.

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Despite Straight Lines: An Analysis of his Graphic Constructions

by ALBERS, Josef and François BUCHER

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961. A few small stains on covers, overslip with some tears and wear, some light rubbing of spine lettering, sheet edges lightly toned, generally in well-preserved condition. 4to (22.5 x 20.8 cm). 87, [1] pages. Duo-tone reproductions. Original black quarter cloth, white embossed boards, with the scarce printed overslip for the front cover. First edition, inscribed by Albers on the half-title: "Signed for Adam Lewis January 1971 / Josef Albers." Lewis is a... Read More

Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts