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1982rif. 151912New York: Rizzoli 1982. First American Edition preceded by the French edition published by Editions du Regard in 1981. Photo-illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white. A superb history of the Bugatti family: Carlo the father a furniture designer Rembrandt Bugatti son a sculptor and Ettore and Jean son and grandson automobile designers. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Rizzoli unknown books
2011rif. 34490Farnham: Ashgate 2011. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Boards. 574 pp. As-new. In the series "A Library of Essays on Renaissance Music" edited by Stanley Boorman. Ashgate hardcover books
1980rif. 34954Portland: Amadeus Press 1980. Hardcover. Fine. Large octavo. Light purple boards. 422 pp. With occasional illustrations. In dustjacket. Amadeus Press hardcover books
2013rif. 54536Beacon NY: Dia Art Foundation 2013. First printing. Near fine. Scarce hardcover first edition of this book presenting comments left by visitors at Dia:Beacon Museum. 7.25'' x 5''. Original grey cloth stamped in dark grey to front board and spine. 48 pages. Touch of shelfwear. Sharp. Dia Art Foundation unknown books
1954rif. 55808New York: Simon and Schuster 1954. First edition. Very good. Lavishly inscribed association copy with multiple drawings from the surrealist master - signed to movie studio mogul Jack Warner and his wife. Jack Warner 1892-1978 was the legendary co-founder and CEO of Warner Bros. Studios which produced such classic films as THE JAZZ SINGER 1927 the first feature-length "talkie" LITTLE CAESAR and PUBLIC ENEMY 1931 THE MALTESE FALCON 1941 CASABLANCA 1943 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 1951 THE SEARCHERS 1956 MY FAIR LADY 1964 and WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF 1966 as well as innumerable other iconic films. By the time Dalí inscribed this copy in 1954 the two had already known each other for at least a decade. In 1944 Dalí had come to Hollywood to work on the Hitchcock film SPELLBOUND for which the artist contributed a pioneering dream sequence. By 1945 Warner had commissioned Dalí to paint portraits of both Warner and his wife Ann with Dalí actually living with the couple while he completed the works Sperling and Millner 269. This unconventional arrangement in fact led to a now-famous meeting between Dalí and Walt Disney an encounter that resulted in "a lifelong friendship between the man behind the mouse and the painter of melted clocks" Jukareddy. At a dinner party hosted by Warner Dalí and Disney were introduced and hit it off so well they began a collaboration that would eventually result in the production of "Destino" a six-and-a-half-minute surrealist animated film: "Dalí and Disney immediately connected and an overjoyed Dalí accepted Disney's proposal to collaborate on a surrealist animated short. Over the next eight months they created more than 200 storyboard sketches" ibid. A work of myth-making and fame-enhancement as much as anything Dalí's whimsical MUSTACHE finds him and his mustache answering questions "Your mustache looks so rigid - how does it react to the winds of public opinion" with playful responses "She bends" all accompanied by surrealist photographs and photo collages. A close and important association between these two titans with among the most elaborate and exuberant Dalí inscriptions we've seen. Original black-and-white pictorial boards. No jacket as issued. 126 pages. Illustrated throughout with photos of Dalí by Philippe Halsman. Preface by Dalí with a "Postface" by Halsman plus publisher's notes "on how some of the photographs were made." Inscribed in year of publication by Dalí to Jack Warner and his wife Ann across the front pastedown and endpaper: "Pur sic a pun / Prince des Gouts Felines / Jack / ei / Anunshka / L'amour de sur tout / Dalí / Gala / 1954. Roughly: "Purr for the Prince of Feline Tastes Jack and Ann Love above all." Dali has added numerous figures including a crown a shooting star a drawing of two figures dancing in a desert plus three scurrying ants and a moon playing a trumpet overhead. Chipping to head of spine with top centimeter or so of spine beginning to separate but holding. Some toning to endpapers and some starting at gutter before title-page. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1975rif. 616914New York: Harper & Row 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Volume III only. Contributions by Jean Devisse Betty Meggers and Roger Green. Tall octavo. xxx 1082pp. Illustrated. Remainder stamp on bottom edge else about fine in lightly tanned very good or better dust jacket with a few nicks and tiny tears. Sponsored by UNESCO the series is billed as "the first global history planned and executed from an international viewpoint. Harper & Row hardcover books
1951rif. 559033London: Victor Gollancz 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First English edition of this translation. Translated from the French La Bête du Musseau by Peter C. Rhodes. Introduction by Edmund Wilson. Small octavo. 224pp. Foxing on the foredge else near fine in spine-toned very good dust jacket with some old internal repairs. Victor Gollancz hardcover books
1951rif. 534570Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Introduction by Edmund Wilson. Jacket by Anne Marie Jauss. Octavo. 204pp. Topedge and foredge lightly soiled else near fine in price-clipped about very good dust jacket with a bit of loss at the spine ends and a couple of small chips and the spine and lower panel toned. Inscribed by Philipp Thoby-Marcelin on the front fly. A novel written by Haitian brothers. Houghton, Mifflin hardcover books
1944rif. 537310New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1944. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition in English. Translated from the French by Edward Larocque Tinker. Octavo. 225pp. Color frontispiece. Neat owner name on front fly else just about fine in moderately worn and toned very good dust jacket with several nicks and very short tears. Farrar and Rinehart hardcover books
rif. 469852Unbound. Fine. Gelatin silver photograph. Measuring approximately 11" x 14". Photographer's rubberstamp on verso: "Copyright by Philippe Halsman" and neat pencil notation in an unknown hand: "1958 / Marian Anderson." Three-quarter length portrait of Anderson dressed in an ornate embroidered brocade jacket standing and facing the camera with her eyes closed and mouth open in song. A fine copy with the image bright and crisp. From the 1940s through the 1970s Halsman's portraits of international figures appeared on the covers of widely circulated magazines such as Look The Saturday Evening Post and Life which published approximately 100 covers by Halsman. The National Portrait Gallery organized the first full exhibition of the photographer's work "Philippe Halsman: A Retrospective" which toured in 2000. His portrait of Anderson is an iconic image taken on January 7 1955 when Anderson became the first African-American to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera. On that occasion she sang the part of Ulrica in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in Maschera. She is also noted for her dramatic performance at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 when she was denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall in Washington DC. Eleanor Roosevelt quit her membership in the DAR and arranged for Anderson to sing at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial. In 1961 she performed at President Kennedy's inauguration. An especially large and striking photograph of Anderson. unknown books
1946rif. 503913New York: Rinehart & Company 1946. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition of this translation. Translated from the French La Bête du Musseau by Peter C. Rhodes. Slight toning on the front hinge and faint spotting on the top stain else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with tiny tears rubbing and some spotting. Rinehart & Company hardcover books
1962rif. 528205no place 1962. Unbound. Fine. Gelatin silver print. Print measures approximately 7¾" x 9¾" printed slightly askew on slightly larger paper. Fine. Photographer's rubberstamp on verso: "Copyright by Philippe Halsman" and neat pencil notation in an unknown hand: "Alfred Eisendstadt 1962." A portrait of a legendary photographer made by another. unknown books
1970rif. 443655Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First American edition. Small quarto. 277pp. Illustrated from both color and black-and-white photographs line drawings. Light foxing on page edges contemporary owner's gift inscription on front pastedown very good in a good only price-clipped dustwrapper with edges chipped and torn internal tape-repair. Doubleday & Company hardcover books
1944rif. 435187New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1944. Hardcover. Fine. First edition in English. Translated from the French by Edward Larocque Tinker. A bright about fine copy lacking the dust jacket. Farrar and Rinehart hardcover books
2005rif. 428919New York: Assouline 2005. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Folio measuring 11" x 15". 80pp. Printed boards. No dustwrapper as published. Illustrated from color photographs. A small stain on the introduction pages with a bumped spine foot near fine. Assouline hardcover books
1982rif. 427681Lausanne: Edita 1982. Hardcover. Fine. First Edition. Oblong quarto. 183 1pp. Tan cloth boards with a illustration pasted down on front board and brown titles. Color illustrations. Light staining on the rear board fine in a near fine slipcase with some staining and light rubbing. Illustrations of horses. Edition 127 out of 960 copies. Edita hardcover books
1949rif. 267219New York: Simon And Schuster Publishers 1949. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Wrapper age-toned and rubbed faint dampstain on rear wrapper topedge else very good. This is a photographic interview by the author. Laid in is a typed letter on Halsman's letterhead addressed to author P.K. Thomajan and Signed by renowned photographer "Philippe." Letter contained in the original mailing envelope dated 1950. A nice association copy. Simon And Schuster, Publishers unknown books
1981rif. 420175New York: Oxford University Press 1981. Softcover. Near Fine. Second printing. Glossy wrappers. Translated from the French by Helen Weaver. Short tear on front cover foredge near fine. Inscribed to author Nicholas Delbanco presumably by the translator. Oxford University Press unknown books
1968rif. 409403Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Later printing. Volume eleven only. 339pp. Text in German. Corners lightly bumped else fine in a very good dustwrapper with short tears on bottom edges spine faded. Suhrkamp Verlag hardcover books
1944rif. 402087New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1944. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition in English. Translated from the French by Edward Larocque Tinker. Modest edgewear corners lightly bumped a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Story of the more traditional native aspects of life in Haiti. Farrar and Rinehart hardcover books
1993rif. 368952Washington D.C.: Cambridge University Press 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 332pp. Green cloth boards. Black and white and color illustrations. Slightly bowed boards else fine in a near fine dustwrapper with some color faded from front panel light rubbing. From the Collections of the Nation Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue series. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
1838rif. 339910Milano: P. Ripamonti Carpano 1838. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Text in Italian. Quarto. pp. iv 280 4. With 7 engraved plates frontispiece title page and five plates in text. Bound in contemporary mottled calf gilt spine and turn-ins white silk moiré endpapers all edges gilt. An impressive armorial binding of King Louis Philippe I of France with his crown and name in an ornate metal relief design affixed to the front board. Professionally re-jointed with the original binding fully preserved modest chipping to the edges of the front free endpaper and fly leaf scattered foxing very good. The Strenna Italiana was a popular literary gift annual of Italian poetry and prose: this copy was likely given by Louis Philippe as a gift to an important political ally personal friend or dignitary. A scarce unique copy intended to display Louis Philippe's armorial binding conspicuously on a tabletop. P. Ripamonti Carpano hardcover books
1903rif. 335737Paris: A. Durel; Librairie Henri Leclerc 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. Four rare book catalogues bound together 26 cm. Very good in contemporary brown quarter morocco and marbled paper boards spine title in gilt "Catalogues de Livres Rares" with raised bands and marbled endpapers. Some text pages are a bit browned else near fine. The first catalogue consists of two parts each with a separate title page and pagination: 10 5-70 1;157 1 pp. The second catalogue: 59 1 pp. with 24 numbered plates lacks plate no. 1 the frontispiece. The third catalogue: 98 1 pp. with 21 leaves of plates some folded complete. The fourth catalogue: 154 2 pp. The gravure plates in the illustrated catalogues of book bindings and illustrations are especially fine. A. Durel; Librairie Henri Leclerc hardcover books
1806rif. 326029Lutetiae Parisiorum Paris: Aug. Delalain 1806. Hardcover. Very Good. New edition. Edited by Jean Philippe Jannet. Thick octavo. 4 viii 1251pp. Bound in contemporary boards covered with an old vellum manuscript with the hand written text running horizontally across the front and back boards. Small owner's name in pencil on the front pastedown. Soiling and scattered small tears to the vellum lacking a rear free endpaper very good. Aug. Delalain hardcover books
1968rif. 108973New York: Pantheon Books 1968. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Translated from the French by Anne Carter. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with minor tears. Pantheon Books hardcover books
