GO WEST
by Arnold, Bob
Brunswick, ME: Coyote's Journal, 1987. First Edition. French fold covers; 12mo. 58 pp. Inscribed by the poet to another small press publisher/poet, and signed "Love, Bob". Fine.
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ROPE OF BELLS
by Arnold, Bob
Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1974. First Edition. Stapled Kraft paper. [20 pp.] Edition limited to 250 copies. Signed by the poet. Poet/publisher's first book. Price inked out, else about fine. Arnold and his wife Susan among the more significant publishers of small fine press poetry with Longhouse Press in rural VT. He is the literary executor of... Read More
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The Young Refugees: The Adventures of Two Lads from Old Virginia
by ARNOLD, Edgar
Richmond: The Hermitage Press, 1912. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Brown cloth stamped in gilt; 305,[1]pp; frontispiece and 8 black and white halftone plates. An upright, unfaded copy with superficial abrasion to cloth over front board, rubbing to head and tail, partial crack to front hinge: Good or better. Story of a Reconstruction-era Georgia plantation by an author... Read More
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Everybody Slept Here
by ARNOLD, Elliott
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1948. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (21cm); yellow cloth-covered boards, with titling blocked in black with red lettering to spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; [vi],[2],3-346pp. Previous owner's name inked to front endpaper, and bookstore sticker on rear flap fold. Spine ends lightly nudged, with sunning to spine and board... Read More
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![Princely Gifts and Papal Treasures: The Franciscan Mission to China and its Influence on the Art of the West 1250-1350 [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/374/227/1684227374.0.m.jpg)
Princely Gifts and Papal Treasures: The Franciscan Mission to China and its Influence on the Art of the West 1250-1350 [Inscribed]
by ARNOLD, Lauren
San Francisco: Desiderata Press, 1999. First Edition. Folio (31cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in yellow and blind embossed to spine and front cover; dustjacket; 239pp; black-and-white and colorful illustrations throughout. Author's inscribed note taped to pastedown: "11/11/99 Hello Jens(?) - lots of water under the bridge since the last time we met, but I have finally found... Read More
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A French Eton; or, Middle Class Education and the State
by ARNOLD, Matthew
London: Macmillan and Co, 1864. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); original brown cloth ruled and lettered in gilt, unadorned spine; 122,[6](ads)pp. Extremities a bit rubbed, small loss at spine crown, joints cracked but holding, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown; About Very Good.
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Whoops Dearie!
by ARNO, Peter
New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc, 1927. First Edition. Thid Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); red cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 175pp; black and white illustrations throughout. Light shelf-wear, with tanning to edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.75), tanned, with shelf-soil and tiny chips and tears to extremities;... Read More
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The Miners in Crisis and War: A History of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (from 1930 onwards)
by ARNOT, R. Page
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1961]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in grey photo-illustrated dust jacket, grey topstain; 451pp.; color portrait frontispiece, 8 leaves of black and white photographs, one graph in text. Jacket extremities a bit chipped, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Third volume of the complete history of the Miners' Federation of Great... Read More
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The Meaning of Hungary (The New Leader, March 24, 1958)
by ARON, Raymond
New York: The New Leader, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 19pp. Very Good. Commentary by the noted French philosopher on the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and its aftermath; written under the auspices of the anti-Communist advocacy group (and CIA front organization) The Congress for Cultural Freedom.
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The Theatre Art of Boris Aronson
by [ARONSON, Boris] RICH, Frank and Lisa Aronson
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. Oblong Quarto. Cloth boards in dust jacket; xi, 322pp. Illus. in color and b&w throughout. Mild age toning to margins of textblock, faint rubbing to bottom edge of boards, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Jacket showing minor shelf wear, including a few superficial scratches and two small closed tears to... Read More
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Emmanuelle
by ARSAN, Emmanuelle (novel); BAIR, Lowell (translation)
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1971. First American Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth, blocked and titled in silver on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-221,[3]pp. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $6.95), with light wear to corner tips, and two small tears and attendant creases at crown. English translation of Arsan's best-selling erotic novel, first published... Read More
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100 Pisama / 100 Letters; 1965-1979
by [ART] ABRAMOVIĆ, Marina
Paris: Onestar Press, 2008. First, Limited Edition. Quarto. 30cm. Publisher's original pink paper wraps, titled in black to spine and front cover. 197pp. Some sunning and fading to the pale pink paper of the covers, with some very minor shelfwear and soiling, clean and bright; internally clean and fresh, signed by Abramović to the title page. A very good,... Read More
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Town and Revolution; Soviet Architecture and City Planning 1917-1935
by [ART & ARCHITECTURE] KOPP, Anatole
New York: George Braziller, 1970. First American Edition. Oblong Quarto. 22cm x 26cm. Publisher's cream colored heavy grain coth, titled in black and red to the spine. Dustjacket. 273pp. Very light marginal wear, mostly some faint soiling in places, otherwise the binding is crisp, strong, and clean; internally clean, with some isolated rippling to the rear pastedown, illustrated throughout;... Read More
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The Destruction of Lower Manhattan
by [ART & PHOTOGRAPHY] LYON, Danny
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1969. First American Edition. First Printing. Quarto. 28cm. Publisher's black cloth titled in silver gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 75pp. [each numbered & captioned page faces a full page unnumbered plate]. Light wear and sunning to the edges and spine ends, a strong and solid copy; internally clean, Inscribed by Lyon to... Read More
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Nervous Stillness on The Horizon
by [ART] BRUS, Günter [Ed. FABER, Monika]
Barcelona: Actar [with] Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2005. First Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's stiff white card wraps titled and decorated in black. 304pp. Some light shelfwear to corners and spine ends, bright and handsome; internally clean (with 95pp of text printed on pale tan paper stock, with the remainder of the book printed on heavyweight gloss paper. A... Read More
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Foundations of Chinese Art from Neolithic Pottery to Modern Architecture
by [ART][CHINA] WILLETTS, William
London: Thames & Hudson, 1965. First U.K. Edition. Quarto. 29cm. Publisher's heavy grain dark blue cloth titled and decorated in silver gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 456pp. Clean and strong, very light marginal wear to cloth; internally clean and fresh; in a strong, bright example of the dustjacket with only very minor wear. A near fine copy.... Read More
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EYE #8; "Available Light
by [ART][COUNTER-CULTURE] GREENWALD, Jeff; ZETHREN, Christine; KUHN, Richard, LOVELESS, Robert et al.
Venice, California: eye magazine, October 1983. First Edition. Quarto. 28cm. Limited edition; #12 of 150 copies only. Publisher's variously colored sheets, Velobound spine, clear acetate front cover over collaged artwork; internally clean, if compositionally erratic, assembled by hand. A very good, complete copy. Lavishly produced, for a clearly hand-made magazine produced on a budget, with over 30... Read More
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Semina Culture; Wallace Berman & His Circle
by [ART][COUNTERCULTURE] DUNCAN, Michael; McKENNA, Kristine
Santa Monica, CA: DAP [Distributed Art Publishers Ltd.], 2005. First Edition. Quarto. 28cm. Publisher's decorated paper covered boards. 383pp.; [1]. Minor scuffing and rubbing to the laminate at extremities, strong and tight with a little shelfwear; internally clean and fresh. A very good copy with some cosmetic wear. Laid in at the front is a leaflet for... Read More
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and The Drama
by [ART] COBHAM BREWER, The Reverend Ebenezer [EDITOR: HARLAND, Marion]
New York: Selmar Hess, 1902. First Edition. Two Volumes [8 vols bound in 2, bound from parts]. Large Quarto. 30cm. Later institutional pebble green cloth with leather title labels. Light wear to the cloth, some chipping to title labels, bright, strong and handsome; internally clean, private library stamp to flyleaves, cosmetic cracking to innner front joint of Vol I,... Read More
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The R. Crumb Sketchbook; November 1974 to January 1978
by [ART] CRUMB, Robert
Frankfurt: Zweitausendeins, 1978. First Edition. Quarto. 26cm. Publisher's maroon cloth spine over black cloth boards, titled in gilt to spine. Slipcase. 310pp. + 36pp. laid in staple bound text pamphlet, in German. Very minor wear to extremities, strong and handsome, some very slight dulling of the gilt; internally clean, sky blue stain to page edges, red silk page marker;... Read More
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Black Art, Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African-American Art
by DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART
Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, [1989]. First Edition. Folio (31cm.); original cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; [2],305pp.; color photographs throughout. Some edge wear to jacket extremities, else Fine/Very Good. Massive exhibition catalog.
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Cent Dessins Érotiques
by [ART][EROTICA] HAYASHI, Yoshifumi
Paris: Club du Livre Secret, 1982. First Trade Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's black faux leather titled in gilt to spine and front board. 115pp.; [1]. Some very minor bumping to the extremities, strong and tight; internally clean, text in French, German, English and Japanese. A very good, bright copy. Hayashi has been described as one of the few... Read More
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A Study of The Illuminated Books of William Blake, Poet, Printer, Prophet
by [ART][ESOTERICA] KEYNES, Geoffrey
New York: The Orion Press, with The Trianon Press of Paris, 1964. First Edition. Quarto. 31cm. Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 104pp. 59 plates. A little light wear to the extremities of the cloth, strong and solid; internally clean and fresh; in a clean, bright pictorial dustjacket with some light soiling to the white portions,... Read More
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Per Leonardo Sinisgalli..
by [ART] [FOOD] CARUSO, Bruno
Rome: For the Artist, 1962. 36.5cm. Folded sheet of heavy handmade paper in the form of a menu, bearing a signed and numbered (14 of 15) drypoint etching by Caruso to the front panel, and a handwritten bill of fare within, in pencil. The verso bears the signatures of 14 people present at the dinner given in celebration of... Read More
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Galeries Historiques de Versailles. Collection de Gravures Réduites D'Aprés Les Dessins Originaux Du Grand Ouvrage In-Folio Sur Versailles
by [ART] GAVARD, Charles
Paris: Chez L'Editeur, Rue Du Marché St. Honoré, 1838. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Half black morocco over glossy black cloth, titled in gilt to spine. 173pp; [5pp] plus 115 plates with 140 engravings. A little worn and scuffed to the corners, very strong and handsome; internally clean, marbled endpapers, and some very occasional light spotting. A very good copy... Read More
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