![Item #10584 Secession: AA Bronson 1969-2000 [Signed Letter]. AA Bronson, Friedrich Tietjen, ed](/pictures/thumb/10584.jpg?v=1644005541)
Vienna: Wiener Secession, 2000. First Edition. Laid-in note signed and inscribed: "Dear Brenda—I wanted you to have the catalogue of my new (solo!) work. Best regards, AA Bronson." Quarto (30x21cm); 40pp. Photographs throughout. All text in parallel German and English. Black card covers over sewn gatherings. Title and author's..... More
New York: Welcome Rain, 2001. First Edition (stated). Octavo. 212 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket is lightly rubbed along edges with a touch of toning to verso. Bookseller sticker to rear panel. Very light shelfwear to bottom edge of boards and..... More
New York: Roy Publishers, 1954. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 140 pages. Black and white photographs including La Belle et la Bête frontis. Price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Green boards with spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is chipped along edges with soiling and rubbing throughout, predominantly to edges. Spine..... 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. Slight sun fading near the spine edge, else unmarred and unmarked. An early compilation of the advertising sketches Warhol did at the start of..... 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
Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 2007. First Edition. Quarto (28x24.5x1.5cm); 207pp, including bibliography and list of exhibitions. Seven color plates and 113 additional color and B&W illustrations of art details, photographs, and documents. Illustrated card covers with deep French flaps. Card spine uncreased and uncracked; textblock unmarked... More
![Item #14518 Venus Castina: Famous Female Impersonators Celestial and Human [Limited Edition]. C...](/pictures/thumb/14518.jpg?v=1668715845)
New York: Covici, Friede Publishers, 1928. First Edition, Limited to 960 copies of which this is no. 685. Quarto; publisher's black cloth over decorative paper-covered boards, spine lettered in silver foil, housed in custom cloth slipcase; [8],308pp.; frontispiece, eleven (11) leaves of plates. Boards a bit scuffed at extremities, binding..... More
![Item #6771 Bipolar Bare: My Life's Journey With Mental Disorder--A Memoir [Inscribed and Signed]....](/pictures/thumb/6771.jpeg?v=1598046507)
N.p.: BookSurge, 2009. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's purple pictorial card wrappers; xi,[1],393pp.; illus. A hint of wear and dust-soil, else Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page: "To Nyle / 06/20/09 / You will recognize Ginger in this book / Carl / Carlton..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First Edition, First Printing, with 1940 to title and copyright pages. Octavo. 356 pp. First-issue dust jacket with original $2.50 price present and "Summer’s Lease" blurb to rear flap. Tan buckram with dark red lettering. Large triangular chip along inner edge of front..... 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
![Item #11183 Christopher and His Kind: 1929-1939 [Signed]. Christopher Isherwood](/pictures/thumb/11183.jpg?v=1644006449)
London: Eyre Methuen, 1977 (copyrighted by Isherwood in 1976). First Edition. Signed by Isherwood without inscription on full title. Octavo (24x16x2cm); 252pp. Jacket with young Isherwood photographed by Humphrey Spender on the front; older Isherwood drawn by his lover Don Bachardy on the back. Brownish-plum boards with gilt spine stamping..... 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, 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
![Item #11361 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: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1935. First Edition. Octavo. 280 pages. Green cloth stamped in black. Lacks dust jacket. Isherwood's fictionalized account of life in Weimar Berlin is frequently combined with his later novel, Goodbye to Berlin in the single volume The Berlin Stories..... 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
Paris: Flammarion, [1958.] Reprint. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's white card wrappers printed in black and dark red; 232pp.; one photographic plate. Light toning to wrapper extremities, chiefly to spine panel, contemporary (1959) ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good to Near Fine. Collected correspondence of the French novelist..... 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
Munich: Edition Heiner Bastian bei Schirmer/Mosel, 1991. First Edition. Quarto (28x24.5x1cm); unpaginated [88pp]. Thirty-eight full-page color plates. Text in parallel German and English. Pictorial dustjacket; white boards with silvery-gray spine lettering. Jacket shows very faint beginnings of yellowing at top and bottom edges, with a touch of shelfwear. Boards bowing..... More
Houston: The Menil Collection / Houston Fine Art Press, 1990. First Edition. Oblong Quarto (26.5x28x1.5cm); paginated to p, 36 [+84pp], including list of works, bibliography, and brief biography. Twenty-seven full-page color plates, including four gatefolds. Illustrated dustjacket over nude white boards. Very light bumps to jacket at top corners..... More
New York: Sperone Westwater, 1989. First Edition, limited to 1500 copies. Tall quarto (34x28x1.5cm); 76pp. Twenty-seven full-page color plates. Two tipped-in B&W photographs; see note below. Gray textured paper with navy lettering on spine and front panel. Textblock is printed on two paper stocks: a heavy textured cream stock for..... More
New York: C&M Arts, 1994. First Edition. Quarto (27.5x21.5x1cm); unpaginated [40pp]. Fifteen full-page color plates with full-page photographic portrait frontispiece. Silvery gray linen with black lettering on spine and front panel. Back board curving outward near fore-edge. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. This is the catalog of the..... More
Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2002. First Edition. Large folio; publisher's cloth in yellow-orange printed dust jacket; 313pp. Slight spine lean, small dent at top edge of rear board, else Near Fine. More
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1954. First Edition. 16mo (7" x 5"); [xi], 12-575pp. Salmon dust jacket folded over plain white wraps. Printed on India paper. Covers rubbed along edges with shallow chips / tears at spine ends, some creasing to back, and a nickel-sized abrasion to top front corner, presumably..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1977. First U.S. Edition. Quarto. 312 pages. 434 illustrations, including 60 full color plates. Illustrated dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket shows very light wear to corners and some light rubbing to rear panel. Boards are gently worn along..... More