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
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
![LeR DLa CaNpaNe paR DUBUFe J [presentation from Alfonso Ossorio; 1 of 165]. Jean Dubuffet](/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
![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
![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
![The Bat-Poet [inscribed by Maurice Sendak]. Randall Jarrell](/pictures/thumb/30593.jpg?v=1638368643)
New York: Macmillan, 1966. Sendak, Maurice. Fourth printing (1st pub. 1964). Hardcover. 43p, many line ills. by Maurice Sendak. Small neat inscription by Sendak on front endpaper, dated May 9, '66, in the owner's presence. Unclipped jacket is very slightly shelf smudged. An exceptional copy of this fable about a...... 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
![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
London: The Verona Press, printed in 1939 but issued in 1947. Laurencin, Marie. Limited illustrated edition. Hardcover in good numbered slipcase (sturdy but soiled; light edge wear). 316p + 16 color lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Designed by Hans Mardersteig and printed at the Officina Bodoni, Verona. World War II delayed..... 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
![Wer den Pfennig nicht ehrt . . .; Plakate werben fur das Sparen [Milton Glaser's copy]. Frieder...](/pictures/thumb/26248.jpg?v=1633973471)
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
![3 Notations / 3 Rotations [1 of 150 signed copies]. Octavio Paz, Katayama Toshihiro, Toshi](/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
![A Half Century of Color [inscribed]. Louis Walton Sipley](/pictures/thumb/30492.jpg?v=1633973601)
New York: Macmillan, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 216p, oer 200 ills., many in full or flat color (1 folding). Glassine envelope holding an original dye-color print is tipped in. Jacket rubbed and a little foxed. Ink presentation from Sipley to the recipient "In appreciation of mutual interest in things photographic,"..... More
