Paris: M.J. Minard, 1965. "Passeport 11" from Minard's "passport" series, so named because of its format. 12mo (14x9.5x0.5cm); 63pp. Illustration of the Brooklyn Bridge by Alain Guiguet. Text in parallel French and English; introduction by Guiguet solely in French. Navy boards with gilt spine lettering and dual labels..... More
Los Angeles and Cambridge: The Museum of Contemporary Art and the MIT Press, 2007. First Edition. Quarto (27x23x4cm); 512pp, including chronology and exhibition checklist. Illustrated with art reproductions, media samples, and reference and background images throughout. Photographic dustjacket. Boards in slightly rosé-ified écru with purple lettering on spine and..... More
London: Methuen, 1996. First Edition. Octavo; liv, 1048. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with £25.00 price intact; book in blue cloth with silver lettering to spine and two ribbon bookmarks. Reviewer's copy with notes and materials laid in (see below). Jacket shows some rubbing at spine ends and back panel near..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1975. First Thus. Octavo; [viii], 583pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket featuring Liza Minelli Cabaret tie-in; book in purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Price-clipped dust jacket shows light edgewear with a couple small, closed tears and an adjacent crease along bottom front edge. Boards rubbed and..... More
![The Last of Mr. Norris [UK title: Mr. Norris Changes Trains]. Christopher Isherwood](/pictures/thumb/11361.jpg?v=1634846443)
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1935. First Edition. Octavo; [vi], 279pp. Publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine. Missing dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with nudging and scuffing to spine ends, darkening to spine, and some general smudging and soiling to surface. Spine a bit cocked. Endpapers toned, especially..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1939. First UK Edition. Octavo; 317pp. Publisher's linen boards with red lettering to spine and red topstain. Missing dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed at corners and spine ends, with some smudging and light soiling to cloth and darkening to spine. Front board shows a hint of..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1937. First Edition. 16mo (6.75" x 4.25");150pp. Publisher's blue cloth with black lettering to spine. Missing dust jacket. Boards lightly shelfworn with some scuffs down joints, darkening to spine, and general light smudging / soiling to surface. Front board just a bit bowed. Binding is sound..... More
Hollywood: Marcel Rood, 1947. First Thus. Octavo; 128pp. Printed dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; book in brown cloth with gilt lettering. Jacket shallowly chipped along edges with a larger chip at head of spine, losing first half of Isherwood's name, tearing down flap folds, and a good bit of..... More
![The Robert Mapplethorpe Collection (Christie's Auction Catalogue [for] Tuesday, 31 October 1989)....](/pictures/thumb/11354.jpg?v=1634818513)
New York: Christie, Mason & Woods International, Inc., 1989. First (and sole) Edition. Quarto (27x21x1.5cm); 228pp, including usual auction house documentation, disclaimers, and forms. Five hundred eighty-seven images of the 587 items on the block, with an additional suite of 15 images of works of art to be sold in..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 186 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price present. Light gray boards stamped in black. Dust jacket chipped and rubbed with largest loss to bottom of front panel near spine. 2" closed tear to top edge..... More
Houston, TX: The Menil Collection / Houston Fine Art Press, 1988. First Trade Edition. Square quarto. 136 pp. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Illustrated wraps. Wraps gently rubbed along edges with a touch of curling towards fore-edge and bit of creasing at top of spine. Binding..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1956. First Edition. Octavo. 248 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with "$3.00 price present. Marble paper-covered boards with black spine and silver lettering. Dust jacket shows some slight chipping along edges, a handful of short closed tears, and some general rubbing and creasing. Boards..... More
New York: D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc. [et al.], 1997. Third Edition, Revised and Expanded. Quarto (30x25x2.5cm); 304pp, including chronology, bibliography, glossary, concordances, and index. Over 1200 color illustrations. Illustrated dustjacket. Black cloth blind stamped on front panel; lettered in white on spine. Both..... More
New York: Hudson Hills Press and the American Federation of Arts, 1987. First Edition. Quarto (30.5x23x1.5cm); 201pp, including chronology, glossary, and index. Some 300 catalogued and classified works, from major prints to book covers and wine labels. Coated glossy card covers with Kelly reproductions front and back, over sewn..... More
San Francisco and New York: Fraenkel Gallery and Peter Freeman Inc., 2006. First Edition. Small Quarto (24.5x19.5x1cm); unpaginated [92pp]. Thirty-nine full-page reproductions. Tan textured paper boards with silver stamping on spine and both panels. Some spots of color abrasion at panel corners and edges, visible in our photograph; minor..... More
Stanford and Cambridge: Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University and the MIT Press, 2018. First Edition. Quarto (30.5x24.5x2.5cm); 232pp, including bibliography. Contact sheets reproduced ad infinitum, with many additional background and documentary images of Warhol-istic monkey business on every page. Photographic covers on heavy pasteboard with case binding over..... More
New York: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, 1971. First Edition. Oblong Quarto (22.5x30x1cm); 72pp. Graphic black-on-fuchsia saddle-stapled covers. Multiple B&W reproductions on all pages. Short of Near Fine solely because of slight sun fading near the spine edge, undoubtedly from where the longish volume projected beyond its peers on..... More
![Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture for a Large Wall 1957 [and] New Paintings (Two Volumes in Chemise)....](/pictures/thumb/11260.jpg?v=1634142960)
New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 1998. First Edition. Two paired volumes in shared notched chemise. Quarto (each volume 27x21cm). "New Paintings" 32pp, 7 full-page color reproductions with additional documentary photographs. "Sculpture" 42pp, 23 background and documentary images, with central doublespread gatefold color image. Each volume in illustrated card wrappers..... More
Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1998. First Edition. Oblong Quarto (29x31x2.5cm); 147pp. Densely illustrated throughout with full-page reproductions of Warhol's paintings, drawings, and collages, including three gatefolds; augmented with many background and documentary photographs in the opening material. Text in English. Illustrated dustjacket. Gray boards with red lettering on spine and..... More
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. First Edition. Quarto (28.5x22.5x2.5cm); 332pp. Densely illustrated throughout, largely in B&W but with some color. Pictorial dustjacket. Vivid orange cloth with black stamping on spine and front panel. Unclipped dustjacket—with first issue pre-Christmas/post-Christmas pricing—has closed tears at right vertical spine folds, some minor edge-chipping..... More
New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2008. First Edition. Quarto (30x24x2cm); unpaginated [100pp]. Forty-five full-page color plates, with 11 additional color figures for background reference. Pictorial dustjacket over black cloth boards with white lettering on spine and front panel. Both jacket and volume impeccable, As New. This is the..... More
New York: Interim Books, 1964. First Edition (limited to 500 copies). Octavo (23x15.5cm); 24pp. The volume is illustrated with a portrait of Crane and a reproduction of Crane’s personal bookplate, both by the architect William Lescaze, as well as a sketch of Crane, fully nude and standing frontally, by friend..... More
New York: Random House, 1950. Stated First Printing. Octavo; [x], 154pp. Printed dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; book in green cloth with white lettering and ornament. Jacket shows a couple half-inch closed tears at top back, along with a few tiny ones at spine ends and folds, with toning..... More
Ashcroft, BC: Ash-Tree Press, 2002. Limited Edition of 600 copies. Octavo; xix, 370pp. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with a light spot of rubbing along top back and a couple superficial scratches to surface. Boards are sturdy and square..... More
New York: Cheim & Read, 2006. First Edition (limited to 1000 copies). Quarto (30x23.5x1cm); unpaginated [66pp], including concise biography and extensive exhibition and collections lists. Twenty-one full-page color reproductions, with additional photo portrait frontispiece. Illustrated card wrappers with deep French flaps over sewn gatherings. Both covers and textblock impeccable..... More