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1973réf. 45441New York: New York Avant Garde Festival 1973. Very Good. New York: New York Avant Garde Festival 1973. First Edition. Large pictorial poster 77x50.5cm printed offset in red and black on white stock. Previous folds else a Near Fine example. Small printed note "Last Year's Brochure" mounted to verso. Beautiful example of the photomontage poster accompanying this pseudo-annual avant garde festival founded by the cellist and performance artist Charlotte Moorman 1933-1991. The Festival which ran fifteen times in eighteen years featured the musical offerings of the Fluxus movement as well as kinetic and video art. Among the artists whose work was featured in 1973: Ay-o the Gorilla Action Group Video Free America Jud Yalkut Jackson Mac Low Bernadette Mayer Jim McWilliams John Cage Yoko Ono and many many others. New York Avant Garde Festival unknown
1998réf. 47146New York: Harry N. Abrams 1998. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Harry N. Abrams 1998. Second Edition Revised and Expanded. Quarto 30cm; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 367pp.; full color illus. throughout. Light edge wear and faint surface scratches to dust jacket corners nudged else a Very Good or better example. Inscribed and signed by the leading American glass artist Dale Chihuly on half title page accompanied by a brief stick figure sketch. Harry N. Abrams unknown
1946réf. 20862Alfred Knopf NY 1946. HBDJ minor Rub wear Soil creases & tiny chips & mended Tears Extremities stated 1st Issued NF/VG AS-IS January 1946 Dark Beige embossed Cloth Cover with gilt spine Cover light rub wear Int erior nice tight clean light FoX 282 pages book is in very nice shape. The only flaw is normal yellowing of pages. DJ has minor edge wear light staining on back corner wear some wrinkling on bac k a 1inch closed tear at front and a few tiny closed tears. Hard Cover. Alfred Knopf, NY hardcover
1901réf. 000096Chicago: Caxton Club 1901. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 4to. 102pp. With 18 plates including 10 in color and in gilt. 5 illustrations of identification marks or seals are printed on tissue and inserted into the text. Partially uncut pages. Re-backed preserving the original spine. Paper spine label rubbed. Boards re-papered after original fashion. Caxton Club hardcover
1958réf. 154419Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1958. First Edition. First Edition. Cover art designed by Andy Warhol produced in the early stages of his career during his brief tenure as a commercial and advertising artist. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Stray pen mark on the front endpaper and faint foxing to the top page edge. Jacket lightly edgeworn and rubbed with a short closed tear to the bottom front hinge. J.B. Lippincott unknown
1994réf. 058791London: Han-Shan Tang Books 1994. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue leatherette lettered in gold foil silk book mark bound in. Very slight handling wear essentially as issued with art museum price sticker mounted inside front cover. 197 pp. illus. 1st ed. Very scarce. Han-Shan Tang Books Hardcover
1927réf. 004758Detroit: Fisher Body Corporation Fleetwood Body Corporation General Motors 1927. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. An extraordinarily beautiful sales catalogue organized around vivid colors as the title suggests. Folio 33 by 25 cm. xxx 30 2 pp. plus wraps. The colors are "Bird of Paradise" "Midnight Blue" "Angel Fish" "Morpho Menelans" emerald curite "Forest Green" "Th Grand Canyon" "Rose Coral" "Italian Waters" "Orchid" "Autumn" and the cars are all Cadillacs. All the cars have in fact two colors both of which are suggested by the color designation and each color and car receives a luxuriant two-page spread with three color illustrations: one for the inspiration for the particular color one of the car interior and one for the outer body. Accompanying the illustrations are fluid intoxicating descriptions that conjure up the imagery the sensate experience the fantasy with only passing mentions of some of the design specifics. The cars include Cabriolets a Roadster a Phaeton Imperials a Brougham a Town Sedan and a Convertible Coupe. One can see designs that both reach back to the fine coaches of a quickly receding era and the more comfortable sleeker cars to come. The brochure was released in conjunction with a road show showcase of the vehicles staged at fine hotels in New York Chicago Los Angeles and San Francisco the Commodore the Drake the Biltmore and the Palace respectively. Wear to the edges of the dust jacket the decorative paper covering the bound card-stock wrap0 with a few scratch lines on front soiling on rear and a few minor closed tears along edges. A hole to the white front fold-in of this jacket. Other than some light pencilled lettering a child's hand clean and bright within. Fisher Body Corporation, Fleetwood Body Corporation, General Motors unknown
1967réf. 165255London: Hamish Hamilton 1967. First UK Edition. Contemporary bookplate on the front endpaper see image else Fine in a Fine price-clipped dust jacket. A superb copy of a very elusive title in dust jacket or this condition. Hamish Hamilton unknown
1959réf. 4604New York / Basel SW: Hastings House / Teufen Ar. A. Niggli 1959 . First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/issued without. Square octavo 248 pages clothbacked boards rear joint repaired in publisher's worn slipcase. Scarce. "This international pictorial survey takes modern graphic art from its origins through the present-day achievements and concludes with a look into the future. Although 'graphic art' is limited here to art in the service of advertising there is no limit to the artistic value of the means employed - this is a selection of the best work in the field past and present. Contemporary graphic art - work done since the end of the World War II - is presented in the second and more comprehensive part of the book. It includes a wide range of media and techniques among which are: Newspaper advertisements leaflets catalogues posters displays lettering packages business stationery trade markes and devices." Trilingual text in Englilsh German and French. 432 illustrations of which 12 are in full colour. Printed in Switzerland. "Gerstner is one of the most important innovators in typography commercial art and corporate design - Swiss National Library." Includes treatments of trade marks book jackets posters magazines etc. Hastings House / Teufen, Ar., A. Niggli hardcover
1975réf. 39171Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun Co 1975. Very Good. Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun Co. 1975. First Edition. Folio 34cm; unpaginated. Black and white photographs of various U.S. locales throughout. Light blue boards stamped in white and bronze with black cloth spine lettered in silver; housed in publisher's black slipcase. Comes with publisher's original shipping box. Boards scuffed and smudged; binding sound; stain to top edge of text block; interior unmarked. Dust-soiling to slipcase with brief biopredation to a few edges; staining and wear to box; Very Good. Asahi Shimbun Co unknown
1980réf. 057914Kodansha International. A beautiful crisp clean hardcover in fine condition. DJ in fine condition. 1980 Revised edition. Includes clamshell box in good plus condition with rubbing to cloth at corners sunning to cloth. Photos available upon request. . Fine. Hardcover. 1980. Kodansha International hardcover
1978réf. 0007014Boston & Lexington KY: D. R. Godine 1978. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine/issued without. Quartos 57 213 pages quarter brown morocco brown cloth covered boards in matching cloth slipcase. These are copies XXXII of 50 deluxe copies of printings of 500 and 550 copies. The second title carries the imprint of The Anvil Press 1981. Both volumes were designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at his Stamperia Valdonega Verona Italy. These two companion volumes were later joined by VICTOR HAMMER: AN ARTIST'S TESTAMENT. Sir John Rothenstein was the Director of London's Tate Gallery. His volume includes 19 color plates. Hammer''s volume includes bibliographies of Victor Hammer and his four presses. D. R. Godine hardcover
1966réf. 222302New York: Harry N. Abrams 1966. First edition first printing. Solid square hardcover 12.25 x 12.25 inches bound in brown burlap text pages on kraft paper. Vertical surface creases to some sections not marring text or photographs in any way spine barely sunned a shade a tight and clean copy of a scarce book lacking the original clear jacket in custom mylar cover. IT WAS ALWAYS HAPPENING Take the book and place it on a flat surface and start turning the pages slowly the grainy black and white images setting a course of action as disturbing as a dream unfixed from the dreamer. Was it really then or now the book exclaims in a mire of events built on when it was happening. In this moment entering the book nothing is clear but that art is timeless boundless fearless. Step. Right. In. Thanks to the publisher Harry Abrams we have an art document that preserves a truly ephemeral American movement that resisted form defied space and transformed the expectant eye of the audience. Kaprow's book design allows space for entering and contemplation before jarring you back to the moment. His text is clear and easy should you accept the premise. Before you know it connections come to light: Schwitters Duchamp Pollock art brut a sixties babel of motion in creation. With a Selection of Scenarios by 9 Japanese of the Gutai Group Jean Jacques Lebel Wolf Vostell George Brecht Kenneth Dewey Milan Knizak Allan Kaprow. Harry N. Abrams unknown
réf. 016779John Murray. First Printing. Prior owner signature on ffep. Unclipped DJ in archival cover chips along edge. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1966. John Murray hardcover
1970réf. 21610Doubleday & Co Garden City Printed in USA 1970. HBDJ 1970 1st edition EARLY ISSUE DATES match on Title & Copyright page Minor rub wear & tiny Chips Tears extremities DJLight FoX backside DJ Blue & White Cloth Boards with Embossed Cover show slight sun extremities Small mended tears extremities DJ Interior Nice Tight Clean light wear NF/NF AS-IS 225 pgs Index NOT PriceClipped. First Edition. Hard Cover. Doubleday & Co, Garden City Printed in USA hardcover
1954réf. 046877Newport Monmouthshire England: Ceramic Book Co. 1954. Book. Near Fine. Full-Leather. Signed by Authors. Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Full royal blue leather bordered lettered and with front cover ornament in gilt top text block edge in gilt. Edges rubbed with patches of surface loss; slight soiling to endpapers. ix305 pp. 31 color plates. Glassine dust sleeve shows soiling/spotting and is discolored by age but is not torn or chipped. No. 9 of an edition limited to 25 numbered and specially bound copies signed by the author from the total limitation of 1200 copies. Ceramic Book Co. Hardcover
1965réf. 003886New York: Near Eastern Art Research Center 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Folio. 386 pp errata bound in at rear. Bound in full red cloth stamped in gilt on cover and spine in illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated with plates mostly full color including 8 fold-outs. From verso of table of contents page: "The rugs published in this catalogue are all from the collection of Joseph V. McMullan in New York." Very Good binding and gilt bright hard bump to tail of spine age-toning to margins of pages in Very Good dust jacket with 2" tear to lower edge of front cover 1/2" tear to upper edge of front cover creasing to flaps minor wear to head and tail of spine overall age-toning. Near Eastern Art Research Center hardcover
1897réf. 3382Frederick A. Stokes Co. New York 1897 IN THE ORIGINAL LINEN DUST WRAPPER WITH LETTERING AND DECORATION BY BRADLEY An octavo bound in the original rust colored cloth with a beautiful heavily gilt cover design by Bradley. The book is fine with no wear and the gilt clean bright and unworn. New endleaves with appropriate paper done at some point in the past. The paper backed linen dust-wrapper has wear and tear internally at the folds and is soiled with some darkening to the spine. Gilt titling and decoration by Bradley on the dustwrapper is bright and unworn. Very scarce and a nice example of the early cloth dust wrapper. Illustrated by Madeleine Lemaire. Frederick A. Stokes, Co. hardcover
1988réf. 066934Pasadena CA: Twelvetrees Press 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. Folio. Limited Edition of 100 slipcased signed and numbered copies. SIGNED by Duane Michals on copyright page and numbered 73/100. Includes slipcase. Minor shelfwear to DJ: light scuffing along edges and covers. DJ in mylar. Tight binding no marks. Scuffing on slipcase sifed fading along slipcase edges small round stain on slipcase. Volume is in Very Good condition. Twelvetrees Press Hardcover
1961réf. 83849New York: Random House 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.5cm; black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt and purple on spine; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 273pp. Light wear else a Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper designed by Ellen Raskin unclipped priced $3.95 with ring stain to front panel light rubbing to extremities and faint tanning and creases to flaps; Very Good. This novel focuses on an unlikely cross-country traveling duo as a man flees an unhappy marriage and a grieving high-school boy leaves home. Thomas Savage and his wife Elizabeth Savage published many novels with his later publications having queer elements. 83849. Random House unknown
1953réf. 50129New York: Stinson Records 1953. Later repressing. Vinyl album. vg-. Square Quarto 11 1/4". Original illustrated album cover with white lettering on cover. Protected by modern mylar. Striking modernist cover design with photomontage of bayonette. Cover design credited to "Nils" possibly Nils Borg. 10" vinyl record album 33 1/2 RPM Long Play containing the Stinson Records repressing of the album original issued as "Songs of the Lincoln and International Brigade" in a three record album released in 1944. The original album was produced by Moses Asch for his Asch record label and contained songs performed mostly in Spanish a few in English by members of the Almanac Singers including Pete Seeger Bess Lomax Baldwin Hawes and Tom Glazer. These were tunes sung by the antifascist volunteers during the Spanish Civil War. The original record set consisted of three 78 records and a total of 6 songs. This single 10" album reissue combines 4 of those tracks and adds an additional 6 tracks originally comprising the 1940 record "Six Songs for Democracy" Keynote Records July 1940 performed by German singer and actor Ernest Busch 1900-1980 along with a chorus of members of the International Brigades during the Spanish civil war in 1938. The Busch recordings comprise the A side of this record and the first song on the B side. The final four tracks on the B side are the Seeger recordings. 10 Tracks: Side A: - Band 1: The Peat-Bog Soldiers - Band 2: Hans Beimler - Band 3: Song of the International Brigades - Band 4: Freedom - Band 5: Song of the United Front. Side B: - Band 1: The Four Insurgent Generals - Band 2: Cook House - Band 3: Spanish Marching Song - Band 4: Quinte Brigada - Band 5: Quinte Regimento. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade was an international brigade of volunteers for the Republican cause during the Spanish civil war with the album containing "the songs of the men who left home and safety behind them in 1937 to fight Fascism" in Spain. The record label originally had an association with Moses's Asch's Asch and then Folkways label's. Stinson was initially known for its release of recordings made in the Soviet Union. It issued recordings by folk and blues music including recordings by Woody Guthrie and Josh White and was known for an association with leftist politics. Back cover with listing of folk music recordings released by Stinson Records. A scarce pressing of a historically important record. Album cover wear along edges with minor scuffing and lightly rubbing. Bottom edge mostly split. Vinyl with some light scratches. The record is somewhat noisey with some pops but is still listenable overall. Missing original inner record sleeve. Cover and record in vg- condition overall. Cover protected in modern mylar. Stinson Records unknown
1947réf. 19881Philadelphia and Toronto: The John C. Winston Company 1947. First Edition. Cloth. Slipcase with same cloth. Fine. 4to. 25.5 by 19.5 cm. Unpaginated 14 folded sheets of glossy paper not counting prelim and final blank leaves. Leaves folded Japanese-style. Szyk illustrations are half-title title first leaf quoting bible as to origin of 10 commandments then an illustration on every recto. Facing versos have commentary. Following tenth commandment two pages of further commentary and final page with content is a colophon crediting those responsible for different aspects of the book including some not mentioned in this description such as the typographers. Light wear on the slipcase with a modest corner bump. Overall Fine. The John C. Winston Company unknown
1869réf. 12844Paris: Librairie Generale 1869. 1st. Hardcover. Good. 10.8x7.2x0.9in. paper covered boards with 3/4 cloth; boards are unevenly faded and soiled bumping to corners color plates have pencil number in upper corner 2 plates have old tape repair at gutter pages are generally clean but with toning at gutter. A history of religious civil and military costume in France from the establishment of Christianity to the middle of the 19th century illustrated with 148 hand-colored plates. Text in French. 300pp 2.03lb 10.8x7.2x0.9in Librairie Generale hardcover
réf. dola2907Toronto: 2003. Limited Edition of 85 copies. The 34 contributing artists include Rudolf Bikkers Christine Benson Julia Prime Katherine Dynes Lauralie Clemmensen Paul Dempsey Judith Rudoler Adam Thyssen Sarah Beatty Olga Philip &c. oblong 8vo. unpaginated. numerous original serigraphs lithographs & collages most in colour some on handmade paper each work signed & numbered by the artist. text by F.T.Marinetti. quarter leatherette. endleaves of handmade paper. Fine copy. dola2907 Toronto: 2003 hardcover
1945réf. 54643Amsterdam: Van Holkema & Warendof N.V. 1945. First edition. Spiral_bound. g to vg. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. 30 pages. Spiral binding. Black heavy stock cardboard with white lettering on the front cover. The work contains harrowing and powerful photo-documantation of Nazi atrocities carried out in the concentration camps of "Grossdeutschland" "Greater Germany". There are a total of 26 striking b/w images in collotype each captioned underneath. The photos were taken by various unnamed Allied war photographer unders the auspices of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force after the liberation of the camps Bergen-Belsen Buchenwalde Langestein Mauthausen Dachau and Schwabmuenchen. The images were then collected and assembled here by acclaimed Dutch photographer Willem van de Poll 1895-1970. The second page contains a b/w map showing the location of the larger camps in "Grossdeutschland" of the time. Text in Dutch throughout. Binding with light wear along edges. White lettering on front cover lightly borwned so is white back cover and here two light water stains along top of cover. Inside cover with inked name and date of previous owner. Block somewhat age-toned due to paper quality. Alternate title: Nazi Hel SS. Van Holkema & Warendof N.V. unknown
