Manchester, UK: Manchester City Art Gallery, 1975. Wood, Edgar; Sellers, James Henry. First edition. Soft cover. 96p, ca. 30 photos and line ills. Covers rather soiled from handling; internally nice and clean. From the library of architect James Stirling, with his bookplate. Exhibition catalogue of the buildings and furnishings by..... More
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 #25738 Cygnea Cantio: Swan Song [no. 2 of 50, signed]. Tracey Bush](/pictures/thumb/25738.jpg?v=1633973461)
England: Tracey Bush, 1999. Bush, Tracey. Limited edition. One folded sheet. Artist's book consisting of one stiff leaf of tan paper, folded in thirds, within blue cloth covers with ties. Very faint ghost of an old small label on back cover, which could easily be removed. Folded, 6 x 9..... 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
1929. Limited edition. Courthion, Pierre. Raoul Dufy. Paris: Chroniques du Jour 1929. (Vol. 1 in the collection XXe Siecle) [36]p. many line ills. + 40 pls., 2 in color pochoir (Leda and the Swan; "Carnaval"). Original wrappers (gatherings may loosen from dry glue) in original glassine d.j. (fair). All within..... 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
Paris: Goupil, 1911. Brun, Louis Auguste. Limited edition. Hardcover (buckram with leather label, original wrappers bound in). 150p, many ills. No. 73 of 1000 copies. Focuses on Brun's early career--portraits, landscapes, and a chapter of interesting studies of horsemen and horsewomen astride and aside. 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
Santa Barbara: University of California Santa Barbara Art Galleries, 1969. First edition [1 of 600 copies]. Paperbound (printed foil). 108p, 113 photos and line ills. One of 600 copies; designed by David Gebhard. (Two later editions were issued.) Covers scuffed, spine faded; internally very good. The photo is too pale. ..... 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
Hanover, NH: Ripley Publishing Co., 1947. First edition. Soft cover. 87p, several maps and ads. There are no ills. of the college buildings or students. Covers dampstained inside and out; content very good. New York Herald Tribune mention of the book mounted within. Signed by all three authors. Three Dartmouth..... 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 #26219 Margarethe Krieger: Holzschnitte zu Brecht [signed]. Karl Krolow, fwd](/pictures/thumb/26219.jpg?v=1633973471)
1966. Krolow, Karl, fwd. Margarethe Krieger: Holzschnitte zu Brecht. Ludwigshafen: Galerie Lore Dauer, n.d. [1966]. [36]p, 16 large pls. Very good paperbound (front cover chipped, lightly stained). Signed by Krieger. ** Powerful expressionistic woodcuts illustrating works by Brecht. One of Krieger's early publications. Can be sent outside the U.S. for..... 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
![Item #25240 Bayard [1 of 1590 copies]. Lo Duca](/pictures/thumb/25240.jpg?v=1633973457)
Paris: Prisma, 1943. First edition. Hardcover (original boards). 30p + 49 pls. followed by fold-out captions. No. 715 of 1590 copies. Ink name of previous owner, a Boston-area photographer. No d.j. (as issued?). The first book on Hippolyte Bayard, the early French photographer of the 1840s. Reproduces his portraits (including..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1974. First edition. Hardcover (boards). 133p + 8p of photos. Lacks original glassine jacket. Presentation from art historian Carl Nordenfalk. On the surface, was there ever a less likely pair of correspondents than the plainspoken Midwestern novelist and the erudite German emigre art historian? "What..... 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
N.p. [North Brookfield, MA]: Boston Public Library, 1996. Limited edition (1 of 600 copies). Unbound sheet. "In honor of David McCord on his ninety-ninth birthday, November 15, 1996, the Boston Public Library reprints as a broadside his poem from One at a Time, published by Little, Brown. Six hundred copies..... More
