New York: Brentano's, 1906. Two volumes. Octavo; Vol. I xxx + 360pp.; Vol II 387pp including index. Both volumes half-bound in brown leather with gilt seams front and back; spines with (pseudo) raised bands and gilt stamping. J.W. Meyer & Co. binding signature on verso of front free endpaper top..... More
Verona, IT: Oficina Bodoni / The Limited Editions Club, 1937. First Thus; Limited Edition of 1500 copies signed by Fritz Kredel, this being #725. Quarto. 302 pp. Illustrations. Printed dust jacket. Patterned cloth boards with blue leather title label to spine. Lacks publisher's slipcase, but housed in custom-made one... More
![Item #12431 Land [Review Copy] [Bookplate Signed and Inscribed by Fowles Laid in]. Fay Godwin,...](/pictures/thumb/12431.jpg?v=1645113331)
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985. First Edition. Square quarto; publisher's cloth in tan photo-illustrated dust jacket; xxxii,127pp.; chiefly black and white photographs. Corners and spine ends bumped, else Very Good or better. Review copy with slip laid in. Bookplate inscribed and signed by Fowles in 1996 additionally laid in..... More
Hardcover. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. First Edition with no additional printings listed. Imperial Octavo (11.5" x 8.75"); xvi, 467p. Illustrated dustjacket over brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket very lightly edgeworn but with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards square with a light bump at..... More
Somerset, NJ: Vanguard Productions, 2005. Deluxe, Slipcased, Hardcover Limited Edition of 500 copies. Quarto. 176 pp. + 16 pp. "Collector's Edition Portfolio." Black and white illustrations throughout, with the added illustrations in the portfolio unique to this edition. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Publisher's black slipcase lettered..... More
New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1994. First Edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Color reproductions; black and white photograph. White illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. Boards show very light shelfwear and some general smudging and rubbing. A couple very faint, stray pen marks on back pastedown and one pen-tip..... More
![Item #11479 Joe Zucker [Signed and Inscribed]. Joe Zucker, John Elderfield](/pictures/thumb/11479.jpg?v=1658336053)
New York: Thames and Hudson, 2019. First Edition. Signed and warmly inscribed: "To: Brenda with love / What can I say? What our friendship means to me your support over the yrs. was gigantic XO Joe 1/17/20." Oblong Quarto (26x31.5x2.5cm); 265pp, including biography, chronology, collections list, and bibliography. Densely illustrated..... More
New York: Galerie Lelong, 1988. First Edition. Quarto (23x23x05cm); 46pp. Twenty-one full-page close-ups of Coplans's hands, taken by himself; one three-page pull-out image. Coplans's artist's statement, as released by the gallery for the opening, is laid in. Heavy ivory card covers with deep French flaps, over sewn gatherings. Covers..... More
Sheboygan: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 1986. First Edition. Quarto (25x28x1cm); xii + 153pp, including artist biographies, orthographical and phonological appendices, and bibliography. The 281 catalogued items are accompanied by approximately the same number of photographs, most in color. Illustrated card wraps. Covers lightly shelfworn with some faint smudging along..... More
Zurich: Artibus Asiae Publishers, Museum Rietberg, 1999. First Edition. Quarto (30.5x24x3cm); 344pp, including appendices, bibliography, glossary, and index. Illustrated with 222 photographic images in color and B&W. Note that this is the true first edition, in hardcover, not the 2008 reprint from Paul Holberton Publishing, which bears the same ISBN..... More
![Item #10083 The Critical Eye/I [Exhibit Catalog with Multiple Elements, Complete]. John T....](/pictures/thumb/10083.jpg?v=1644346223)
New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1984. First Edition. Eight separate elements within publisher's original integrated box -- largest elements octavo (28.5x22cm), the size of U.S. letterhead. The covered "stationery" box itself is 29x23x3cm. Two of the elements are saddle-stapled booklets of U.S. letterhead size: the first a catalog..... More
![Item #14082 Just Looking: Essays on Art [Signed]. John Updike](/pictures/thumb/14082.jpg?v=1662147495)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition, stated. Signed by the author on full title with inscription "For Albert Raman, John Updike." Quarto (10.25" x 8.25"); [x], 210pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $35.00 price intact; book in blindstamped navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly shelfworn..... More
![Item #13897 Heroes and Anti Heroes [Signed by Updike]. John Updike, intro](/pictures/thumb/13897.jpg?v=1660920277)
New York: Random House, 1991. First U.S. Edition (numberline to 2 in keeping with RH's methods at the time). Signed by John Updike without inscription at front free endpaper. Quarto. 231 pp. Photographs throughout, some color. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in white. Dust jacket lightly worn..... More
Beverly Hills: A.R.T. Press and William S. Bartman Foundation, 1988. First Edition. Quarto (25.6x21.5); 40pp. Twenty-five Fiskin photographs—several on gatefolds; additional non-Fiskin documentary shots. Saddle-stapled quarto booklet in photographic card cover with French flaps. This survey of the work of Chicago-born, bi-coastal living Fiskin was published approximately..... More
London: A & J Speelman, 2006. First Edition. Quarto (32x25.5x2cm); 123pp. Full-page and close-detail full-color photographs of 55 precious objects, or sets of objects, as part of an A&J Speelman celebratory exhibition. Two gatefold spreads: one of lacquer tables; the other of eight erotic plaques in ivory. Photographic dust..... More
London: George Virtue, [n.d. but 1842]. "Enlarged and Improved Edition." Quarto; publisher's half tan cloth crudely rebacked with new gilt lettering to upper cover, new endpapers; 122pp. & 121 leaves of steel-engraved plates (collated and complete though bound out of order); engraved frontispiece and added title page. Cloth rubbed, leather..... More
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2008. First Edition. Quarto (30x28x1cm); 56pp. Color images of Artschwager's work throughout, with a preliminary section treating his influences, including images from Morandi, Vuillard, Matisse, and Bonnard. Pictorial boards. Covers are sturdy and clean, with a slight outward bow to back board toward fore-edge. Binding..... More
La Jolla and New York: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art and PaceWildenstein, 1974-2004. Robert Mangold. La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 23 March-12 May 1974. Oblong Quarto: (19x15.5x0.5cm); unpaginated [32pp], including biography and bibliography. Eleven full-page plates. Erratum card laid in. Sage green saddle-stapled card covers. Minimal rubbing..... More
Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, 1969. First Edition. Quarto (31x24x2.5cm); xx + 257pp, including appendices, bibliography, and index. Illustrated with 302 B&W and 13 color photographs, and 18 scientific analytical tables. Dust jacket in black with x-ray of bronze vessel. Volume bound in sage-green linen with gilt stamping..... More