Ecouen: Office de Tourisme d'Ecouen, 2012. Limited edition (1 of 1000 copies). Soft cover. 152p, many ills., many in color. In French. Trace of old price sticker on front cover. Very comprehensive survey of the French, British, and American painters and printmakers who frequented this lesser-known artists' colony just north..... More
Rennes: Compagnons du Sagittaire [printer], 2007. Limited edition. Soft cover. 264p, many black-and-white photos. In French. One of 700 copies. Very informative exhibition catalogue of more than 50 artist magazines from the US, Britain, and Europe that were published from 1962 on. The exhibition was held at three sites in..... More
Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1987. Burke, Bill. Limited edition. Hardcover. N.p., many duotone photos by Burke and other ills., some in color. Plasticized pictorial boards; no jacket, as issued. One of 1000 copies (unstated). The first edition of this remarkable artist’s book. Via photographs, diary entries, and collaged ephemera, Burke documented..... More
![Item #30660 The Way I See It [Broadway columnist Earl Wilson's copy]. Eddie Cantor](/pictures/thumb/30660.jpg?v=1641235983)
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1959. No stated edition. Hardcover. Ed. by Phyllis Rosenteur. 204p, no ills. Line on copyright page reads 94611. With ink stamp, "From The Library of Earl Wilson The New York Post." Jacket torn, as shown. Breezy memoir, full of inspirational life lessons learned by the singer/comedian..... More
![Item #30802 Aphorisms [1 of 50, signed]. William Cole, Damon Lehrer](/pictures/thumb/30802.jpg?v=1645993893)
Cambridge: The Bow & Arrow Press / Cole & Contreras, 1992. Lehrer, Damon. Limited edition. Limp boards. Loose sheets and folded gatherings, with guardsheets. Partly printed in brown. No. 32 of this edition, signed by Cole (one of 50 thus, from a total edition of 89). Eight aphorisms written by..... More
Millau, France: L'Entre Deux, 1968. Braeken, Bernard. Limited edition. Soft cover. 45p + 16 original linocuts (4 in color) + color linocut on cover, all by Braeken. No. 132 of 300 copies (after 50 signed copies). Transparent jacket is chipped with small tears. Short presentation by Daveluy. Poems of memory..... More
![Item #30248 LeR DLa CaNpaNe paR DUBUFe J [presentation from Alfonso Ossorio; 1 of 165]. Jean...](/pictures/thumb/30248.jpg?v=1633973537)
Paris: L'Art Brut, 1948 (Noel). Dubuffet, Jean. Limited edition. Stapled soft cover. [18]p, 3 linoleum cuts and 3 woodcuts. Inscribed on the front cover by Alfonso Ossorio, Dubuffet's longtime friend, fellow Art Brut artist, and collector, to an American art historian. Light edge wear and soil to covers; two very..... More
Westmoreland, NH: Bridge Press, 2016. Cohen, Brian D. Limited edition (200 signed copies). Soft cover. N.p., 25 pls. "Reproduces the first twenty-five etchings of the Emblem series," accompanying an exhibition in Brattleboro, VT. Inspired by Renaissance emblem books, Cohen depicts "mostly things I like, encounter, or dream of. They are..... More
Madrid: 1965. Maniquant, Sooky. Limited edition. Paperbound. [16]p, 7 large pls. + 2 mounted color pls. + 2 cover ills. Additional text by Carlos-Antonio Arean. Covers soiled, handling wear; ex-lib. with label on front cover; no internal marks. In Spanish. One of 1000 copies. Catalogue of an exhibition by this..... More
Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1998. First paperback edition (1st pub. 1997). Soft cover. 112p, no ills. "Signed by the author" label on front cover; bookstore price sticker on back cover. Boldly signed by Graham on title page. Graham had recently won the Pulitzer Prize; this was her seventh book of..... More
![Item #30116 Fra Filippo Lippi [1406-1469] [presentation copy]. F. Gray Griswold](/pictures/thumb/30116.jpg?v=1633973510)
New York: Duttons, 1934. First edition. Hardcover (imitation vellum). 35p + 1 plate. No limitation notice, but many of Griswold's books were published in editions of a few hundred. A partly imagined biography, based on Vasari. Signed in ink on title page, also an ink presentation "Gay from Frank." Can..... More
![Item #25293 Quantities [first edition of author's first book, presentation copy]. Richard Howard](/pictures/thumb/25293.jpg?v=1633973457)
1962. Howard, Richard. Quantities: Poems by Richard Howard. Wesleyan University Press 1962. Stated first edition. 80p. Good paperbound (light wear, back cover stained). Warm presentation "For June & Jacques," dated 10/62. ** Howard's first book. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate... More
Zuirch: Bodmer, 1987. Chamberlain, John. Limited edition. Soft cover. N.p., many full-page photos and line ills., a few in color. In English and Spanish. One of 3500 copies. Introduction to the collection of, and plans for, this ambitious museum-studio of installation art in Marfa, Texas. Works by Judd, Dan Flavin..... More
![Item #30294 I Mean You Know [1 of 300, signed]. Warren Lehrer](/pictures/thumb/30294.jpg?v=1633973546)
Bayside, NY, and Rochester, NY: Ear-Say Books and Visual Studies Workshop, 1983. Lehrer, Warren. Limited Edition. Printed boards in slipcase. 152p, many typographic ills. Written and designed by Lehrer. Printed by offset lithography. "All photo-typesetting was set by the author on a compugraphic editwriter 7500 an itek quadritek 1200 and..... More
Leeds: Peregrine Books, 1999. Corrected second printing, with additions. Hardcover (plasticized boards). 194p, 80 small photos and 9 plates in color. No jacket (as issued?). The first printing was 2000 copies, and this one was 1000 copies. Very thorough collector's guide to the popular series of Observer's Books published by..... More
London: Penguin Books, 1942. Second printing (1st pub. 1940). Soft cover. 172p, no ills. Outer pages worn and relined; new covers with hand lettering. Ink name of C. Kerr on front endpaper. The second novel by Oxford don and World War II intelligence officer John C. Masterman. From the library..... More
Stuttgart: Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, 1992. First edition. Soft cover. 190p, many color ills. Color-packed survey of advertising posters made for the German savings bank, from the late 1920s through 1992, along with historical texts. Many well-known artists, and a wide variety of styles, are here. The title, "He who doesn't honor..... More
New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1984. Burgin, Gilbert & George, Mary Kelly, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, David Tremlett. First edition. Soft cover + 6 unbound sheets. Exhibition publication consisting of Catalogue (48p, many ills.), Bibliography (36p, no ills.), and various pamphlets, broadsides, and other items designed by the..... More
![Item #30283 3 Notations / 3 Rotations [1 of 150 signed copies]. Octavio Paz, Katayama Toshihiro,...](/pictures/thumb/30283.jpg?v=1633973543)
Cambridge, MA: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 1974. Katayama Toshihiro [Toshi]. Limited edition. 4 loose cardboard sheets in box. 4 loose cardboard sheets, as issued, in original box with die-cut opening, and with two plain cardboard sheets that sandwich the contents. One board is lightly scuffed; all..... More
Dresden: Albertina, 1930. First edition. Soft cover. 50p + 24 pls. Spine reinforced with tape; lower corner of front cover and opening pages chipped away. Paper age browned; the book has the look of a much earlier publication date. Exhibition catalogue of 206 drawings by Rembrandt and many of his..... More
