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1971réf. 192078Ottowa: National Fillm Board of Canada 1971. Softcover. Very Good- Cover has general wear creasing some writing on cover. Bottom corner of cover and several pages have missing corner. white wraps with illustration 72 leaves : chiefly illustrations. To be read/viewed from back to front. National Fillm Board of Canada paperback books
1927réf. 23143London: Greyhound Press 1927. hardcover. very good. 49 hand-colored illustrations by Picart Le Doux. 83pp. 8vo original decorative boards. London: The Grayhound Press 1927. Very good. One of 460 copies on Arches paper printed in France. Greyhound Press unknown books
1919réf. 411575Los Angeles: Lillian Hoag Monk 1919. Softcover. Good. First edition. Octavo. 54 2pp. Printed green wrappers. Light but pervasive dampstain throughout the text and on wrappers modest loss to the thin spine a sound good copy. Inscribed by the author on the front wrap: "Compliments of Mrs. Monk to Mrs. S.W. Walsh.". Essays prepared for the Galpin Shakespeare Club of Los Angeles perhaps about half on Shakespeare or about the Club itself. Lillian Hoag Monk unknown books
réf. 9552Many illus. 48 pp. Small 8vo pictorial semi-stiff wrappers title on spine. Glasgow: Tramway Visual Arts; FRAC des Pays de la Loire: Nantes 1996. Scarce and early publication on the artist Jonathan Monk b. 1969. With contributions in English and French by Judith Findlay and David Perreau and an entertaining interview between Douglas Gordon and Monk. As new. unknown books
2005réf. 44925Candia NH: John LeBow 2005. Fine. Candia NH: John LeBow 2005. First Edition Limited to 200 copies of which this is no. 187. Octavo; publisher's stitched white pictorial wrappers; 641pp. Very light soil to wrappers else Near Fine. Signed by Baraka on colophon in rear. Issued as Razor Series no. 2 this edition of poems and Jazz essays was designed by Amiri Baraka and the publisher John LeBow in hand-sewn wrappers by Mark Olson. Cover art also by Baraka. John LeBow unknown books
1935réf. 512559London: Jonathan Cape 1935. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition. Early faint staining at lower edge of front cover and corner of rear cover fore-edge lightly foxed thus a good copy in good or better good dust jacket moderately dust soiled with few short tears and nicks at tips of spine and extremities of both panels with single paper-tape mend on verso at crown of spine bit of paper residue on front and rear flaps from the publisher's printed band which is no longer present. Rear panel of the dust jacket prints the text of a long letter thirty-six lines to the author by George Russell A.E. Monk Gibbon was born in Dublin in 1876. Scarce. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1967réf. 34646Glendale: Norseman Press. 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine but for owner's bookplate on verso of ffep in rubbed dust jacket with light wear to edges and slightly sunned spine. A privately printed and important book on Norse cryptology and the deciphering of the hidden text under the medieval Norse calendar. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pp . Norseman Press hardcover books
1867réf. 012729NY: A. S Barnes & Co 1867. Soft cover. Very Good. 5 penmanship or drawing units same size and formats from diferent publishers executed in well-schooled juvenile hand.1 No.1 National Drawing Book Elementary Studies After Designs by Tomas Monk. AS Barnes NY copyright 1867 2 Spencerian System of Penmanship American Educational Series No 2 Ivison Blakeman Taylor NY copyright 1873. Exercises neatly execited in pencil. 3 No. 3 Specerian System of Practical Penmanship. Ivison Blakeman Taylor NY 1864. Exercises neatly executed in pencil. 4 No. 4 National Drawing-book Sketches of Animals After Designs by Thomas Monk. AS Barnes NY copyright 1867. 5 Paragon Writing Book. undated. Includes juvenile essay/ notes on physiology neatly executed in poencil. A. S Barnes & Co unknown books
2000réf. 172060New York: Gagosian Gallery 2000. Hardcover. VG/VG. Black cloth boards with stamped lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with cream red and black lettering. 90 pp. Color illustrations. Catalog of an exhibition held May 4-June 30 2000 at the Gagosian Gallery. Gagosian Gallery hardcover books
réf. 9838Black & white illus. throughout & color illus. on inside of wrappers. Unpaginated. Large 4to semi-stiff printed wrappers with flaps title on spine. Muttenz Switzerland: Kunsthaus Baselland 2016. Scarce Jonathan Monk exhibition catalogue; this show was held at the Kunsthaus Baselland. Consists of exhaustive photography documenting the exhibition space an interview with the curator Ines Goldbach in German & English and a list of the artist’s solo exhibitions. In fine condition. unknown books
1833réf. 142073London: J.G. & F. Rivington 1833. quarter leather over marbled paper-covered boards leather tips gilt ornaments and lettering on spine five raised bands top edge gilt marbled endsheets. Bentley Richard. 8vo. quarter leather over marbled paper-covered boards leather tips gilt ornaments and lettering on spine five raised bands top edge gilt marbled endsheets. frontispiece 428; 466 pages. Master of Trinity College and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge / with an account of his writings and anecdotes of many distinguished characters during the period in which he flourished by James Henry Monk D.D.: two volumes. Second edition revised & corrected. Private bookplate of John F. Dillon on the front pastedown of both volumes. Rubbing to spines hinges edges and corners. Internally a very good set. Notes; Includes index. J.G. & F. Rivington unknown books
réf. 9553Unpaginated. 8vo printed softcover title on spine. Paris: onestar press 2011. One of 250 numbered copies. Fine. unknown books
réf. 9554Black & white illus. throughout. Unpaginated. 8vo pictorial softcover title on spine. Paris: onestar press 2014. One of 250 numbered copies a scarce artist’s book in which Jonathan Monk b. 1969 represents his life through pennies minted from 1969 to 1999. In fine condition. unknown books
2018réf. 188150New York: Gagosian 2018. Hardcover. VG. Green cloth boards White spine. 79 pages : illustrations. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at Gagosian Gallery New York May 6-June 30 2017./ Text by Bob Monk and Lisa Turvey./ Includes bibliographical references. Gagosian hardcover books
1891réf. 620746Chicago: Laird & Lee Publishers 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. Introduction by Max Maury. Illustrated by Auguste Leroy. 400pp. Illustrated with engravings. Custom bound without the original wrappers in half blue morocco decorative paperboards spine with raised bands furrowed in gilt creating five compartments the middle compartment with a gilt device the compartments above and below with "Rosario" and "Monk Lewis" in gilt respectively pages with deckled edges and decorative endpapers matching the boards. Bound at the Haverhill Bindery with their ticket on the front pastedown "Chase Bros. Prop. 15 Washington St." Boards and spine worn spine slightly cocked the paper on the front board with a small abrasion and some edgewear to the pages overall still a very good copy with the binding sound and tight. A worn but nonetheless charmingly bound copy of Matthew Gregory Lewis' disturbing and controversial novel originally published in 1796. Laird & Lee Publishers hardcover books
1944réf. 31751New York: Advanced Music Corporation 1944. Words by Bernie Hanighen. Printed text and music. 4pp. 1 vols. 4to. Slight soiling else very good. Words by Bernie Hanighen. Printed text and music. 4pp. 1 vols. 4to. Advanced Music Corporation unknown books
1938réf. 169549Beverly Hills CA: MGM-British 1938. Vintage reference photograph from the 1938 film showing an ice skating scene with Robert Taylor and Maureen O'Sullivan. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A hot-blooded American aristocrat falls in love with his enemy's sister during his time studying at Oxford University. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first British production and an early screen appearance by Vivien Leigh. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine lightly toned. MGM-British unknown books
1976réf. 168658New York: La Mama E.T.C. 1976. Vintage poster for the premiere of the avant-garde opera by Meredith Monk at La Mama ETC in New York April 1976. Conceived as a portrayal of the harmful effects of an autocratic society on the collective mind body and spirit "Quarry" a multi-media opera in three movements "Lullaby" "March" and "Requiem" depicts the reverie of an American child sick in bed during World War II a dream that gradually mutates into a nightmare. Winner of an OBIE award in 1976. The opera was preceded by Monk's short silent film "Quarry" in 1975 and the opera was documented in a 1977 film of the same name by Amram Nowak supervised by Monk. 16.5 x 22 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with two faint horizontal creases a 1 inch closed tear to the bottom and a 2.5 inch closed tear to the top center vertical fold both repaired with cello tape to the verso. La Mama E.T.C. unknown books
1906réf. 5128London: William Clowes and Son Ltd 1906. 5 x 7 inches 514pp. Bound in full green leather at the W.H. Smith bindery from a design by Douglas Cockerell with central cover diamond design with inlaid red flower petals and small white inlaid dots surrounding the initials "D.C.B.H." Spine with five raised bandks title to second compartment of spine. All edges gilt. Spine sunned small repair to head of spine some rubbing and bumps to edges of boards. Cockerell managed the WHS bindery from 1905 to 1914 and ìin a statement printed in G.D. Hobson - English Bindings of J.R. Abbey p. 170 Cockerell notes that bindings signed with the ëWHSí stamp during this period were specially designed by himî Bookbinding in the British Isles. William Clowes and Son, Ltd unknown books
1928réf. 159841Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1928. Vintage reference photograph from the 1928 silent film showing director and actor William Wellman in costume. Mimeo snipe on the verso. A World War I film about four young men who join the Lafayette Escadrille a group of volunteer pilots known as the titular "legion of the condemned." Now considered a lost film. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
réf. 9839Color illus. 138 pp. Three vols. 4to yellow printed softcover staple-bound. London: Book Works 2004. All three versions of this scarce artist’s book containing photographs of books by Lawrence Weiner Ed Ruscha and Sol Lewitt in Monk’s personal collection and an interview with Seth Siegelaub that Monk conducted in October 2003. From the publisher’s description: “Jonathan Monk is an artist who loves other artists. His work draws on oblique autobiographical references and personal anecdotes together with art historical strategies and legacies to express a critical camaraderie in his subject. Cover Version features a selection of seminal publications from Monk’s extensive collection of artists’ books. Sol LeWitt Lawrence Weiner and Ed Ruscha are represented side by side to form a cogent series which presents a contemporary investigation into materiality and the problems of signification in conceptual art publishing. An integral section of Cover Version is a transcribed telephone conversation between Jonathan Monk and Seth Siegelaub which unfolds and discusses their mutual obsession with book making and collecting whilst speculating on the nature of the object. This ‘collectable’ book also has three different covers designed with its monetary value in euros dollars and pounds a direct reference to Lawrence Weiner’s 1968 publication Statements.” All three books are in fine condition. Designed by Jérôme Saint Loubert Bié and printed in an edition of 1000 copies total by Impressions du Sagittaire. unknown books
réf. 9966Silkscreened illus. throughout. 124 pp. Large 4to yellow printed softcover with flaps. Berlin: einBuch.haus 2023. One of 40 copies 5 A.P. signed and numbered by the artist on the inside of the lower cover. Monk’s pastiche of Martin Kippenberger’s Old Vienna Posters Grazer Kunstverein: 1992. As new. Collation and design by Jae Kyung Kim. unknown books
1805réf. 330London: D. N. Shury for J.F. Hughes 1805. First Edition. Very good in later speckled calf with gilt edges and spine marbled endpapers minor browning to a few pages and endpapers but generally clean and tight housed in a marbled slipcase. First edition of Monk Lewis's translation from the German of Zschokke's sensational gothic romance Abällino der grosse Bandit first published in 1793. In Coleridge's view this work exhibited the "wonder of effects produced by supernatural power without the means" and the plot follows the adventures of a banished and starving aristocrat who seeks employment as a hired assassin. 8vo. viii 340pp. 4 errata and ads. Wolff 4113. NCBEL III 743. Summers pg. 252 noting a few copies contain an 1804 date on the title page this copy with 1805. Thomson Voller and Frank pg. 254. D. N. Shury, for J.F. Hughes unknown books
1827réf. 21479Paris: Bachelier Succcesseur de Mme. Ve. Courcier 1827. Hardcover. Fine. Fifth edition. 4to. xx188pp. followed by 28 fold-out engraved plates Leather spine of marbled sheep gilt spine titles decorated paper over boards. A fine copy with a trace of foxing to the first couple of pages and light rubbing at edges and hinges Gaspard Monge was a French mathematician the inventor of descriptive geometry. This edition also contains the Theory of Shadows and Perspective extracted from his paper. . Bachelier (Succcesseur de Mme. Ve. Courcier) hardcover books
réf. 46577Hamburg: Gyula Trebitsch Produktion 1981. Manuscript. Hardcover. g to fine. Quarto. 1 19 19 leaves. Original black cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. The screenplay is based on the novel "Die Geschwister Oppermann" by Lion Feuchtwanger. Nineteen-page original screenplay in English at front accompanied by nineteen original b/w photographs 9 15/ x 7" pasted to cream heavy stock paper with brief captions. The screenplay was realized and aired as a TV miniseries in 1983. Telling the story of the family Oppenheim a dynasty in furniture manufacturing. The name of Feuchtwanger's original novel "Geschwister Oppenheim" was changed to "Geschwister Oppermann" due to the efforts of a German National Socialist with the same name who forced the name change. Therefore the third edition of the novel was published as "Die Geschwister Oppermann." The screenplay starts at the beginning of November of 1931 telling the tragic story of the family Oppermann in the years 1932 and 1933 against the backdrop of the Nazis taking power in Germany. The original photographs vividly represent the historic events including Hitler's arrival in Berlin riots demonstrations police action the election the boycott of Jewish business the Reichtagsbrand and a head shot of Lion Feuchtwanger in 1930 among others. Egon Monk 1927-2007 after serving in the German Air Force from 1943-1945 became an actor and joined the Berliner Ensemble as an assistant director. From 1954-1959 he worked for RIAS Berlin and for the NDR North German Broadcast after that. Monk won various Tele play Awards and the German Critics Association Award in 1988. His first realized project of "Senora Carrar's Rifles" by Bertolt Brecht in 1953 was a life television production for the East German Television. Some rubbing and few marks on covers with gilt lettering somewhat faded. Binding in overall good interior in very good photographs in fine condition. Protected in modern mylar. Gyula Trebitsch Produktion hardcover books
