FRANCIS BACON
by Bacon, Francis; Ades, Dawn; Forge, Andrew
(London): The Tate Gallery / Thames and Hudson, 1985. Very good plus.. First edition of this companion to a retrospective exhibition held at the Tate Gallery, showcasing the figurative painter's distinct and atmospheric work — with full page color reproductions and many fold-out triptychs. 12'' x 8.75''. Original black pictorial wrappers. Illustrated throughout in black and white and... Read More
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FRANCIS BACON: The Papal Portraits of 1953
by Bacon, Francis; Davies, Hugh M.
San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001. Fine in fine jacket.. First edition of this moody, vibrantly illustrated exhibition book on the figurative painter's haunting papal portrait series. 10'' x 7.75''. Original black cloth, gilt-lettered front board and spine. In original color pictorial jacket, no price (as issued). Purple endpapers. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white.... Read More
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FRANCIS BACON: Important Paintings From the Estate
by Bacon, Francis; Sylvester, David; Hunter, Sam; Peppiatt, Michael
(New York): Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1998. Fine in fine jacket.. First edition of this companion to the first ever exhibition of paintings from Bacon's estate. 11.75'' x 9.5''. Original purple cloth, gilt lettered on front board and spine. In original color pictorial jacket with no price (as issued). Photographic endpapers. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white.... Read More
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THE GHOST OF OPALINA OR NINE LIVES
by Bacon, Peggy
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967. First edition (stated). Fine in very good jacket.. Inscribed first printing of the book about a ghost cat and a haunted house, notoriously scarce in this edition and even moreso signed. 8'' x 5.5''. Original cloth green cloth stamped in magenta including vignette of a sleeping cat. In original unclipped ($4.95) color... Read More
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BUTTONS
by Bacon, Peggy; Robinson, Tom
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing of this heartwarming story of a handsome cat's journey from the alley to a loving home — rare in a beautifully intact original jacket. Celebrated for her caricatures featured in periodicals such as VANITY FAIR and THE NEW YORKER, Peggy Bacon was noted... Read More
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THE SECOND TRAIL
by Baden-Powell, Sir Robert; Bowen, Marjorie; Cable, Boyd; Rutter, Owen
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1928. Very good plus in very good dust jacket.. First edition of this collection of stories themed around the values of the Girl Guides/Girl Scouts, in the rare original dust jacket. From stories of shipwreck survival to silly rhymes about an underwater dinner party, THE SECOND TRAIL annual was full of entertainment for 1920s Girl... Read More
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AMERICAN PICTURE BOOKS FROM NOAH'S ARK TO THE BEAST WITHIN
by Bader, Barbara
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1976. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing of this key picture book reference work, tracing the genre in the US from the 19th century to the 20th. Barbara Bader highlights the work of such pillars of the picture book art form as Charles G. Shaw, Ann and Paul Rand,... Read More
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DESTINIES [complete series]
by Baen, James Patrick [Jim Baen]
New York: Ace, 1981. Fine.. First editions of all 11 issues of the late '70s science fiction paperback magazine, including original works by Larry Niven, Frank Herbert, Orson Scott Card, Poul Anderson, Spider Robinson, Clifford D. Simak, Robert Zelazny, Frederick Pohl, and more. Advertising itself as the "very first PAPERBACK science fiction magazine," DESTINIES issued not only new... Read More
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SOBOLINYI SLED
by Bagritskyi, Z.; Brei, Andre
Moscow: Detizdat, 1937. Very good.. Pre-WWII Russian picture book about a little boy with a hunting rifle in the woods with his dog. This copy was once in the inventory of Aleph-Bet Books, and the description uses their images; if you would like further photos of the book, please contact us. 8.5'' x 6''. Original pictorial wrappers. Corners nipped... Read More
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HILLSIDE FARM
by Bailey, Bill
Akron, Ohio: Saalfield, 1933. Very good plus.. Bright and intact Depression-era farm toy book, complete with animals, pens, and farming implements. Containing 6 leaves of color die-cut farm objects - buildings, animals, machines and people - that can be punched out and used to play with against the large double page color farm backdrop. 12.5'' x 18.25''. Original... Read More
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CHASING RAINBOWS
by Bailey, David; Muir, Robin
London: Thames & Hudson, 2001. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing of this vibrant book of images from influential fashion photographer David Bailey. 13'' x 10.25''. Original red cloth boards. Original unclipped ($60.00) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. 224 pages. Jacket with mild edgewear, one tiny closed tear. Sharp and bright. ... Read More
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IMPARIAMO LA PITTURA
by Baj, Enrico
Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1985. Good plus.. Lavishly inscribed first edition of this treatise on art by the avant-garde sculptor, printmaker, and collage artist. 8.5'' x 5.25''. Original green wrappers. Text in Italian. Color plates, additional black and white illustrations in text. 208, [8] pages. Inscribed by Baj in gold felt pen, with original drawing, across inside front cover... Read More
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LA CRAVATE NE VAUT PAS UN MEDAILLE
by Baj, Enrico
(Geneva): (Rousseau), 1972. First edition. Near fine.. Beautiful and complex livre d'artiste by the avant-garde Italian anarchist, pataphysician, and founder of the movimento d'arte nucleare. Baj's collection of screen prints, collages, and mixed media assemblages, with a connecting throughline of semi-narrative text in French. 15'' x 14.75''. Original white cardboard enclosure in embossed white leatherette portfolio in slipcase.... Read More
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HUNGER TO HUNGER: Hungry/Foame
by Baker, David
[Toledo, OH]: Aureole Press, 2012. First printing. Fine.. Inscribed limited first edition poetry chapbook, translating Baker's poem "Hunger" from English to Romanian and back in an evolving series, from the library of American poet Stanley Plumly. Translators of Baker's original poem include: Radu Andriescu, Silvia Cernea Clark, Sean Cotter, Mark Irwin, Mihaela Moscalluc, Felix Nicolau, Julian Semilian, Adam... Read More
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DE CHIRICO: The Metaphysical Period 1888-1919
by Baldacci, Paolo
Boston: Bullfinch Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1997. First English language edition. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First edition in English of Baldacci's massive survey of de Chirico's early life and works. Monograph on the period from Giorgio de Chirico's birth through February 1919, the "date of Roberto Longhi's savage criticism of his first... Read More
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WOMAN ON HER WAY
by Baldwin, Faith
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1946. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition of this epic chronicle of the early 20th century, following the life of a woman married at 17 who starts designing dresses to support her family on her own. Baldwin developed a writing career as one of the highest paid women writers in... Read More
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BLUES FOR MISTER CHARLIE
by Baldwin, James
London: Michael Joseph, 1965. First printing. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First UK edition of Baldwin's second play, dedicated to the memory of Medgar Evers and partially based on the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. The play's inspiration was partially suggested to him as a theatrical subject by Elia Kazan, and Kazan took credit for... Read More
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ESQUIRE (July, 1968; Volume LXX, Number 1)
by Baldwin, James; Leary, Timothy; Ginsberg, Allen; Updike, John; Barth, John
New York: Esquire, Inc, 1968. First edition. Very good.. Includes an interview with Baldwin, titled "How Can We Get the Black People to Cool It?" Also in this issue: "Petition," by John Barth; "The Slump," by John Updike; and "The Genesis of the Alchemicals," Timothy Leary's account of feeding drugs to Allen Ginsberg, with a selection of Ginsberg's... Read More
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MCCALL'S (October 1966, Volume XCIV, Number 1)
by Baldwin, James
Dayton, OH: McCall Corporation, 1966. First edition. Near fine.. Includes Baldwin's prose portrait of good friend and "beautiful cat" Marlon Brando, part of the magazine's "Double Exposure" feature. 13.5'' x 10.5''. Original wrappers. 206 pages. Light edgewear and toning to wrappers, with a few tiny chips.
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JUST ABOVE MY HEAD
by Baldwin, James
New York: The Dial Press, 1979. First printing. Near fine in very good minus jacket.. First edition of Baldwin's last and longest novel, an attempt to "face [his] own legends," built around the story of a Black musician's life told by his brother. Baldwin's epic and ambitious late novel, written from the author's house in St-Paul-de-Vence, works toward... Read More
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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
by Baldwin, James
New York: The Dial Press, 1974. Very good.. Rare uncorrected galleys of the first edition, made up from sheets from the limited edition (and with an unsigned limitation page), of Baldwin's great novel centered around a Harlem love story. With every year that passes since Barry Jenkins's shimmering and triumphant 2018 film adaptation of Baldwin's love story, the... Read More
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NO NAME IN THE STREET
by Baldwin, James
New York: The Dial Press, 1972. Fine in near fine jacket.. First edition of Baldwin's fourth nonfiction book, a personal, philosophical, and political memoir. NO NAME covers from his childhood in Harlem to his life and work in the postwar '40s; to the turn of the McCarthyite '50s into the turbulent '60s, "when many of my friends vanished... Read More
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THE DEVIL FINDS WORK
by Baldwin, James
New York: The Dial Press, 1976. Fine in near fine jacket.. First edition of Baldwin's extended essay on a life in film. THE DEVIL FINDS WORK traces a captivating line from the author's first wondering childhood glimpse of Joan Crawford's straight shoulders through to his dispiriting season in Hollywood writing a doomed screenplay on the life of Malcolm... Read More
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GOING TO MEET THE MAN
by Baldwin, James
(New York): Dell, 1966. Near fine.. First paperback edition of Baldwin's only short story collection. Baldwin's first and only short story collection included eight stories, six of them previously published in periodicals ranging from COMMENTARY to MADEMOISELLE, between 1948 and 1965. The titular story was first published in the October 1965 issue of the ambitious but short-lived jet-set... Read More
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ESQUIRE (November 1969; Volume LXXII, Number 5)
by Baldwin, James; Hansberry, Lorraine
New York: Esquire, Inc, 1969. First edition. Very good.. Includes Baldwin's "Sweet Lorraine," a memoir of Lorraine Hansberry. Baldwin's tribute precedes and introduces "My Name is Lorraine Hansberry, I Am a Writer," selected sections from the then-forthcoming TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED, AND BLACK, a posthumous collection of Hansberry's autobiographical writings. 13'' x 10''. Original wrappers. 280 pages. Light... Read More
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