A New Year Greeting
New York: Scientific American, 1969. First edition. Original wrappers, stapled, back cover a little faded, otherwise fine. Bloomfield A64. More
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Las Vegas Sky, 1998.; From the series Las Vegas
Chromogenic color print, 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. One of 25 numbered, signed on verso. More
Descending, Chichen-Itza; from the series Mexico Observed
Color coupler print, 9 x 6 1/4 inches. One of 25 numbered, signed. More
Jenny Holzer.The Venice Installation
Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, (1991). First edition. Wrapper, fine. More
Autograph letter signed, to Jean Cocteau. 27 August 1919
4 pp., with original envelope. Auric says, forgive his silence/ He is not dead, he is always at Fiéveux and far from free. He has not forgotten Cocteau. He thinks of Cocteau's farm, and of his days in "seventh heaven". Cocteau, he says, returns with the birth of the clouds..... More
Typed letter signed, Paris, 22 October 1976. To Alain Denis
1-1/4 pages. Responding to a query apparently concerning the homosexual relation between the playwright and poet Maurice Rostand, son of Edmond Rostand, and Jean Cocteau. In French. "Of course, I am very touched by what you kindly wrote me on the subject of the scores I composed for the films..... More
Baj. Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié. Catalogue of the graphic work and multiples 1952-70. Réalisé par Jean Petit
(Genève: [Librairie] Rousseau, 1970. First edition. 122 p. illus. 28 cm. Panoramas forces vives. Cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. Fine copy. Inscribed by Baj with a drawing. More
The Three Rings. With twelve lithographic illustrations by T[rekkie] Ritchie
London: Hogarth Press, 1944. First edition. Blue cloth, lacks front and back free endpapers, covers rubbed, colored pencil or crayon markings. Scarce. Woolmer 508. More
The Telegraphic Transmission of Photographs
New York: Constable, 1910. First edition. Original gray cloth lettered in dark blue. Extreme corner clipped from front endpaper, but a fine copy. An American edition was published the same year. More
Wireless Pictures and Television
London: Constable, 1926. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. A fine copy in the scarce dust jacket, albeit the jacket lacks large chips at the top edge. More
Der sichtbare Mensch oder die Kultur des Films
Wien / Leipzig: Deutsch-Österreischer Verlag, 1924. First edition. Original printed wrappers with expressionist design by Tibor Gergely. Slight wear. Scarce in this condition. Considered the first important book on silent film aesthetics. Viejo, Film Books: A Visual History, 3.4. More
Four Events and Reactions
Florence: Centro Di, (1975). First edition. Original black wrappers, small scuff, but a near-fine copy. This book of the artist's photographs was published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. More
Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line; (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts)
Milan: Giampaolo Prearo Editore and Galleria Toselli, (1973). First edition. Baldessari's third artists' book includes 15 loose leaves (consisting of 13 color photographic plates, along with title and colophon sheets) contained in a 24.5 x 32.5 cm paper portfolio with a little window cut-out. Fine. While normal copies contain 12..... More
Unpublished extra plate from Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line; (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts)
Milan: Giampaolo Prearo Editore and Galleria Toselli, (1973). Baldessari, John. First edition. Baldessari's third artists' book contains 12 plates, each depicting three balls. This is a bonus 13th photographic plate produced, in unknown circumstances, depicting four balls, sometimes it is found as an addition in copies of the portfolio. Fine..... More
The Sound of Surprise
New York: Dutton, (1959). First edition. Gathered and sewn, unbound sheets, in dust jacket. Slight offsetting on the front endpaper, otherwise fine. First edition, an advance copy of the author's first book. More
Balthus, dessins et aquarelles
Paris: Galerie Claude Bernard, 1971. 1 v. (chiefly illus. (part col.)) 28 cm. Exhibition catalog. More
Katharine. A Travesty
New York: [Gillis Bros. & Turnuré, Art Age Press], 1888. First edition. A travesty of The Taming of the Shrew. First published edition, greatly enlarged from a rare 23-page pamphlet privately printed the same year, second state of the text. The first book Bangs published under his own name. Original..... More
The History of Motion Pictures. Translated and edited by Iris Barry
New York: Norton, (1938). First edition. Red cloth, fine, in slightly faded dust jacket. More
The Yellow Night. Poems 1940-41-42-43; Portrait and decorations by David Haughton
London: The Fortune Press, 1944. First edition. Original black cloth, spine lettering dull as always; fine, basically. With an 8-line autograph working draft, extensively re-written, of Barker's "Love Poem VIII" written in pencil on the front endpaper, dated 1946. Drummond Allison (1921- 2 December 1943) was an English war poet..... More
Selected Works of Djuna Barnes.
London: Faber and Faber, 1982. Cloth backed boards, fine in dust jacket. First English edition, from U.S. sheets. More
Duffy by Dan Kavanagh [pseud].
London: Cape: (1980). Black boards, fine in fine price-clipped dust jacket. First edition, the first of Barnes's pseudonymous mysteries. More
The Future of Colonies
London: Hogarth Press, 1936. First edition. Blue-grey wrappers. 46 pp. A very good copy, sunned to spine and with occasional pencil bracketing to margins. Day to Day Pamphlets No. 32. Woolmer 381. More
The New Boer War
London: Hogarth Press, 1932. First edition. Green cloth, quite faded. Withdrawn from the War Office library, with plenty of marks of ownership. Woolmer 280. More