New York: Philip Ruxton, Incorporated (a division of the International Printing Ink Corportaion), 1929. Hardcover. Quarto. Paper-covered boards (9 1/4 in. x 7 1/4 in.) with lovely multi-colored string design to front board, and four-color vignette (black, blue, red and yellow) in center. Moderate rubbing to extremities, and smudging to..... More
Seattle, WA: Marquand Books, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Small folio, 12.25 in. x 12.5 in., pp. 334. Blach cloth boards with blind-stamped mandala design and silver tiotle to front. Silver title to spine. In the fall of 1899, Charles A.A. Dellschau (1830–1923), a retired butcher and who later worked in..... More
London, England: Privately Printed for Mr. and Mrs. F.T. Davies, 1891. Hugh Thomson, Louis Wain. First Edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto, 9.9 in. x 7.5 in., pp. 44. Rich blue morocco boards with gilt title and decorativestylized art nouveau fleur de lys design, and one raised band, to spine. Rubbing to..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art (M.O.M.A.), 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. brick-colored cloth-covered boards (11 1/4 in. x 10 in.), with midnight-blue endpapers. A lavish production spearheaded by Ms. Castleman, then Chief Curator in the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at the Museum of Modern Art. 264 pages..... More
Eugene, OR: Fern Ridge Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 11.5 in. x 10.25 in, pp. 100. Signed by the author in silver ink on the title page. Black cloth boards with gilt title and chinese script deign to front. Gilt title to spine. Unmarked. Protected in mylar. "Dan's experience with..... More
New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1979. 1st Edition(s). Hardcover. Quarto. Black cloth-covered boards with ever-so-slight rubbing to corners -- hardly noticeable. Decorated endpapers. Dustjacket shows some shelfwear and chipping, particular to spine caps. Groundbreaking work in Feminist art which "transforms the idea of the dinner party into a work of unprecedented..... More
London, England: J.M. Dent & Sons, LTD, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Black cloth over boards with red and gilt lettering to board and gilt to spine. More than 1000 engravings, mostly wood, but with a small section of copper engravings, mostly wortk done inthe early years. Also photographs of..... More
Anchorage, Alaska: Anchorage Museum of History and a rt: Alaska Design Forum, 1996. Softcover. Grey cardstock covers (9 in. x 6 in.) with a photograph of one of Mr. Goldsworthy's pieces to center. 15 color photos of his "extallations" The artist's "interest in the properties of cold and the process..... More
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2008. Second Printing. Hardcover. Quarto, 11.6 in. x 9.75 in., pp. 391. Richly illustrated with color photographs. Rich red cloth-covered boards with white title to spine. A premier assemblagist who elevated the box to a major art form, Joseph Cornell (1903-72) also was an..... More
San Francisco, CA: Paul Elder and Company, 1912. David Starr Jordan and Shimada Sekko. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Brown, paper-covered boards (6 1/2 in. x 8 in.), with maroon lettering to front, with a pastedown vertical paper ribbon (2 in. x 8 in.) , ruled in maroon, featuring four of..... More
New York: A Lookout Book / Powerhouse Books, 2002. Diane Keaton. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 11.6 in. x 8.7 in., pp. 128. Illustrated with color paintings. Boldly inscribed and signed by the author on title page. Pictorial front and rear boards and spine. No title to binding. Protected in mylar..... More
Washington D.C. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1999. Roy Lichtenstein. Hardcover. Folio, 13.75 in. x 9.6 in., pp. 247. 3,000 copies printed. Bright red boards with title stamped in blind to spine. Protected in mylar. More
Washington D.C. Acropolis Books Ltd., 1976. Peter Max. Hardcover. Quarto, 11.8 in. x 8.2 in. Unpaginated. Illustrated with color and black and white art drawings and paintings. Color illustrated pictorial boards. Black title to white background on front and spine. Light rubbing to board edges. Top rear corner nudged. Pictorial..... More
Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International Ltd., 1981. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Large Quarto, 12 in. x 9 in., pp. 221. Lavishly illustrated with color and black and white photographs and ink drawings. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Light spotting to fore-edge. Light rubbing to dustjacket. George Nakashima (1905-1990)..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, and Co., Inc., 1945. Salvador Dali. STATED FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Octavo, 8.4 in. x 5.7 in., pp. 111. Boldly signed by famous Surrealist artist to front free endpaper –"Salvador Dali, 1945", in thick black ink to front free endpaper. Gray cloth beveled boards with embossed..... More
New York: AMERICAN ARTISTS GROUP, 1943. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Octavo.Light brown buckram-covered boards, with gilt and red lettering/design to spine. Loaded with black and white photographs and eight color images. Light shelfwear to dustjacket and some light shipping to top and bottom of spine (of dustjacket). "...an interpretive account..... More
Bern, Switzerland: Benteli Publishers, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 11.25 in. x 9.6 in. pp. 263. Orange cloth boards with black title to spine. Slight nudge to top front corner. Original sales sticker to back of dustjacket. This catalogue was oublished on the occasion of the exhibition of artist Kurt Schwitters..... More
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1996. Michael Sowa. Hardcover. Charcoal Gray Folio 9 in. x 8 1/2 in. LIght shelfwear to jacket. "Sowa's Ark showcases the fantastic, off-kilter imagination of artist Michael Sowa, where pigs gaze distractedly from telephone wires, and genteel ducks remove their bathrobes before swan-diving into the..... More
Portland, OR: Triangular Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 10.6 in. x 7.6 in., pp. 47. Limited edition: #161/1000. Blue cloth spine over natural paper boards. Black title with green design on paper label to front. Light fingerprint stain to front and to back boards. Unmarked interior. Barbara Tetenbaum has..... More
New York: Atelier Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 120 Illustrations (100 in full color). Inscribed by the collector Richard Wiseman on half-title page. (Another inscription below, as yet unidentified). 128 pp. More
