- Quarto, 12 inches high by 8 inches wide. Hardcover, three volumes bound in yellow, green and red cloth titled in black on the spines with decorations and illustrations on the front boards, in the original glassine dust wrappers. The books are housed in a red slipcase with a paper label on its spine. The top edges of two of the glassine jackets are chipped. The slipcase is slightly rubbed & soiled and its label darkened. The pagination of each volume is as follows: 1) Ali Baba: vii, [3] & 51 pages and the colophon, illustrated with bright color lithographs by Edward Ardizzone; 2) The Ugly Duc... View More...
(Paris): Arenthon, circa [1986].. [1986].. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in silver wraps titled in black. There is a small crease to the rear wrap. Unpaginated. 3 black-and-white illustrations. Near fine. 147 books and artworks are catalogued with prices in French francs. The text is in French.The catalog is preceded by the sad story, signed L.D., of Monsieur Risel, a book lover and collector whose wife burned part of his collection and who finally vanished, leaving his huge library of books in a pyramid in his apartment. The obtuse police conclude he has fled to the Americas. The write... View More...
Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, (1990).. (1990).. Very good. - Quarto [11-1/4 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], cloth, in a dust wrapper. The covers are lightly rubbed with a small, light stain to the rear cover. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed with the top edges of the flaps darkened & the rear flap slightly chipped. 200 pages. Profuse black- and-white photographic illustrations. Very good. Dust jacket present. View More...
London: The Mayor Gallery, (1989).. (1989).. Very good. - Small quarto [10-1/4 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide] softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped. Unpaginated. Full-page photographic portrait of the artist & numerous full- page color reproductions of his works. There is a small, light stain to the front margin of 1 rear page. Very good.
Catalog for an exhibition shown at the Mayor Gallery, London in July and August 1989. The introductory essay is by Jeffrey Robinson. View More...
- Octavo, 8-1/8 inches high by 6 inches wide. Blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover and the spine. The top edge is gilt. The covers are rubbed with several small stains. The spine is faded. 163 & [3] pages, with profuse textual illustrations throughout, including full-page illustrations and a full-page illustration of the Chicago Fire of 1871 at the rear. There is minor soiling to the endpapers and pastedowns. Very good. First edition. A fictional tale dedicated "To That noble body of women which is acting as advance-guard to the great army of the unrecognized in its onward march toward... View More...
(Torino: I Llibri di Marginalia, 1985).. 1985).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial black-and-white wraps. The binding is very slightly soiled. 108 pages. There is light foxing to the front endpaper. Black-and-white illustrations. Very good. Inscribed to Dick Higgins of Something Else Press by the members of Mutus Liber [Tiziana Arnaboldi, Salvatore di Leonardo and Rosario Galeone] and signed Mutus Liber 8/3/86.The group states that the writings in this book accompanied their theatrical and visual researches and activities from 1981-1984. Mutus Liber [from the Latin Wordless Boo... View More...
London: Oswald Wolff, 1969., 1969.. Very good. - Small octavo, 7-1/2 inches high by 5 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in burgundy boards titled in gilt on the spine in a printed violet dust wrapper. The dust jacket is slightly soiled and rubbed with a few small stains and the jacket's spine is faded. 128 pages, illustrated with 4 full-page plates. The bottom corners of a few pages are lightly creased. Very good. First edition. "Modern German Authors Tests and Contexts, Volume One". Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
New York: Byron Gallery, 1969.. 1969.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed red wrappers in an acetate dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped with 2 light score marks to the front wrap. The dust jacket is rubbed. 132 & [1] pages plus colophon. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Very good.
Catalog for an exhibition held at the Byron Gallery, New York City from November 11 to December 21, 1969. Dust jacket present. View More...
(London, U.K.): Academy Editions, (1992).. (1992).. Very good. - Quarto [approximately 12-1/4 inches high by 10-1/4 inches wide], blue cloth in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is rubbed. 261 pages. Profuse photographic illustrations, drawings & architectural plans in color and black & white. There is a small area of very light soiling to the front endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.
First edition.
A study of the free spirit of architecture in the late twentieth century. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
(Boston, MA: Ars Libri, Ltd., March 1987).. March 1987).. Very good. - Quarto, gray & white pictorial wraps. 85 pp. & 1-page publisher's catalogue. Very good.
863 items are catalogued with prices. View More...
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, (1968).. (1968).. Very good. - Octavo, cloth in a price-clipped dust wrapper. There is some light spotting to the covers. The dust jacket is slightly soiled with a short tear to the top edge of the rear panel. xiii, [i] & 190 pages. 2 black-and- white illustrations. Very good.
First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery/Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania/La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, (1979).. (1979).. Very good. - Small quarto [approximately 10 inches high by 8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The binding is slightly rubbed at the extremities & the head of the spine is very lightly chipped. 103 pages. Profuse illustrations, mostly in black & white. Near fine. Catalog for an exhibition cooperatively organized by and seen at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY, the University of Pennsylvania's Institute of Contemporary Art and ... View More...
- Oblong quarto [8-3/4 inches high by 10-3/4 inches wide], softcover bound in folding pictorial wrappers. The binding is slightly rubbed & bumped. 47 & [1] pages. Illlustrated in color with full-page illustrations & plates, including a folding plate. Near fine. Catalog for an exhibition which ran at Galerie Tamenaga in New York from October 11 to November 5, 1991. There is an inscription in Japanese on the front endpaper. An illustrated brochure advertising the exhibition is laid in. Hiroshi Asada was born in Kyoto in 1931. Though he came from a family of 'nihonga [Japanese-style] painters, he... View More...
- Folio, 14-3/4 inches high by 10-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover in slipcase. Bound in black buckram titled in gilt on the front cover & spine. The book is housed in a red cloth slipcase titled in gilt on the cover & spine. The cloth is slightly loose along the inner lip of the slipcase. 243 & [2] pages, with black & white textual illustrations and profuse full-page color illustrations depicting Japanese and Buddhist art on fabric. The book has a very slight musty odor. Very good. Although the publishing information is printed in English at the end, the text is printed in Japanese calligraphy. View More...
LIMITED EDITION ON VELIN DE RIVES - Quarto, 11-1/4 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide. Two volumes uniformly bound in full maroon morocco with elaborate illustrations and decorations embossed in blind and black on the covers with a central illustrated panel and vignettes at each of the 4 corners framed in gilt. Gilt and blind rules frame the margins of the covers. Gilt-titled leather labels and gilt decorations within raised bands adorn the spines. The top edges of each volume are gilt. The volumes are additionally housed in a red marbled slipcases with leather-lined openings. The slipcases are ... View More...
(New York): Holiday House, 1935.. 1935.. Very good. - Squarish octavo, gray & red cloth titled in black with vignette stamped in black on front cover, in dw. The covers are lightly bumped & there is a small hole in the cloth of the spine; the dw is lightly soiled & chipped & somewhat darkened with several small pieces out of the dw spine. [x] & 124 pp. Full-page B&W illustrations & B&W head-pieces by John Atherton. The contents are near fine. First edition.The adventures of Sir Jaufry of Normandy were being sung by the troubadours of southern France three centuries before Malory wrote his Mort... View More...
- Octavo softcover bound in pictorial black-and-white wrappers. There is a label on the rear wrap with a mailing label mounted over it. 35 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Very good.
To celebrate its centenary [1903-2003] Steuben announces in an introductory note that it is renewing its Heritage Series and that 12 works have been hand-selected by the Steuben design team from our extensive archive spanning the past 100 years. The selection includes pieces by Lloyd Atkins, Taf Lebel Schaefer, James Houston and others. View More...
New York: Atlantic Terra Cotta Company, (1922).. (1922).. Very good. - Small quarto [approximately 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in printed cream wraps titled in black within a decorative black frame on the front wrap. The wraps are soiled & darkened around the edges with a few small stains. The top edge of the front wrap is chipped & the top half-inch of each wrap is detached. [16] pages, including black- and-white full-page illustrations & plates. The contents are very good. View More...
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1978).. (1978).. Very good. - Quarto [10-5/8 inches high by 8 inches wide], cloth, in a dust wrapper. 512 pages, printed in double columns. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Near fine.
First American edition, translated from an Italian edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
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