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callahan2Harry Callahan was appointed by László Moholy-Nagy to teach photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago. There he was well known to encourage his students to turn their cameras on their lives, and he led by example. Callahan’s work was defined by deeply personal response to his own life. He draws us ever more insistently inward toward his own private sensibility. He photographed his wife and daughter, the streets and buildings of cities where he lived, showing a strong sense of line and form, and light and darkness. He also worked with multiple exposures. He photographed everywhere – at home, in the streets, in the landscape; alone, with their daughter, with Eleanor, in black and white and in color, distant and close. He tried several technical experiments – double and triple exposure, blurs, large and small format film. Callahan retired in 1977, at which time he was teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design. When he died in 1999 he left behind 100,000 negatives and over 10,000 proof prints.

Description: SIGNED BY HARRY CALLAHAN on the half title page. Hard bound first printing with dust jacket. Published on the occasion of the major retrospective exhibition held by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Some minor wear to edges of jacket, othwrwise very good. Interior clean and binding tight.

Bookseller Inventory # 18737

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Callahan
Callahan, Harry

ISBN: 0912334754
Publisher: Aperture, New York
Publication Date: 1976
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Photographer
Edition: First Edition

Academy Award Nominated actor Terrence Stamp was discovered when he was cast in Peter Ustinov’s 1962 film adaptation of Melville’s classic bily budd. Like his friends Peter Cook and Michael Cane, Stamp has made a lasting impression on American audiences. For almost fifty years he has continually been cast in Hollywood films like Superman, Wall Street, The Limey, Star Wars-Phantom Menace, and most recently Get Smart.

In 1983 Anthony Price’s most popular character David Audley, the historian turned spy, was brought to life by Terrence Stamp in the British television series entitled Chessgame. In appreciation, Anthony Price sent Terence stamp this inscribed presentation copy along with a hand signed letter.

Description: INSCRIBED by Anthony Price to the well known actor Terence Stamp “Terence Stamp ( alias David Audley ) with best wishes from Anthony Price”. HAND SIGNED LETTER from Anthony Price to Terence Stamp discussing his role as Intelligence Chief David Audley. Some minor wear to dust jacket edges, otherwise very good. A Rare association copy!.

Bookseller Inventory # 16245

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Soldier No More
by Price, Anthony

Publisher: Crime Clubby
Publication Date: 1982
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author
Edition: First U. S. Edition

Aaron Siskind was an American abstract expressionist photographer. Siskind’s work focuses on the details of nature and architecture. He presents them as flat surfaces to create a new image out of them, which, he claimed, stands independent of the original subject. In the early 1940s, his work shifted to the abstract and metaphoric as Siskind cultivated friendships with such Abstract Expressionists as Franz Kline, Barrett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko. In 1950 Siskind met Harry Callahan when both were teaching at Black Mountain College in the summer. Later, Callahan persuaded Siskind to join him as part of the faculty of the IIT Institute of Design in Chicago (founded by Lazlo Moholy-Nagy as the New Bauhaus). During the 1950s, Siskind’s primary subjects were urban facades, graffiti, isolated figures, and the stone walls of Martha’s Vineyard. In 1971 he followed Callahan (who had left in 1961) to teach for the rest of his life at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Description: FIRST PRINTING OF SISKIND’S FIRST BOOK. Hard bound with dust jacket. Very minor wear to edges and corners of cloth boards with no wear to the silver lettering on the front board. Dust jacket shows only the most minor wear to edges and corners, otherwise fine (now in Brodart cover) RARE IN JACKET!.

Bookseller Inventory# 21129
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Aaron Siskind Photographs
Siskind, Aaron

Publisher: Horizon Press
Publication Date: 1959
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

What is most memorable about the austere, white-walled villas that he built after World War I in and around Paris is their cool beauty and their airy sense of space.
-Witold Rybczynski

Le Corbusier was a visionary. He believed that architecture had lost its way. Art Nouveau, all curves and sinuous decorations, had burned itself out in a brilliant burst of exuberance; the seductive Art Deco style promised to do the same. The Arts and Crafts movement had adherents all over Europe, but as the name implies, it was hardly representative of an industrial age. Le Corbusier maintained that this new age deserved a brand-new architecture. It was to become known as the International Style : raise the building on stilts, mix in a free-flowing floor plan, make the walls independent of the structure, add horizontal strip windows and top it off with a roof garden.

In 1907, he traveled to Paris, where he found work in the office of Auguste Perret, the French pioneer of Reinforced concrete. Between October 1910 and March 1911, he worked near Berlin for the renowned architect Peter Behrens where he met Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius. He was a pioneer in studies of modern high design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities. His career spanned 8 decades, with his buildings constructed throughout central Europe, India, Russia, and one each in North and South America. He was also an “Urban planner, painter, sculptor, writer, modern furniture designer.

Description: Hard bound first printing with dust jacket. A very nice copy, bright and clean.

Bookseller Inventory # 13600

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The Villas of Le Corbusier, 1920-1930: With Photographs in the Lucien Herve Collection
Benton, Tim

Publisher: Yale
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

JOHN IRVING

Description: Hard bound first printing SIGNED BY JOHN IRVING on the title page. Minor wear to corners and edges of dust jacket, otherwise very good.

Bookseller Inventory # 17250

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The Cider House Rules
Irving, John

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Publisher: William Morrow & Co, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1985
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition:Very Good
Edition: First Edition

Listed as one of Modern Library’s 100 Greatest novels of the twentieth century. Saul Bellow has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to have won the National Book Award three times, and the only writer to have been nominated for it six times.

Description: Bellow’s fourth novel. Hard bound first printing in dust jacket. Original $4.50 price on front flap of dust jacket. 341 pages. Dust jacket shows some minor wear and a few small chips, otherwise very good.

Bookseller Inventory # 20945

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Henderson the Rain King
Bellow, Saul

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INSCRIBED BY SAUL BELLOW TO HIS MOTHER IN LAW ” …WITH LOVE FROM HER FAVORITE SON-IN-LAW, SAUL”

Publisher: Viking
Publication Date: 1959
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author
Edition: First Edition

Joan Miró was among the first artists to develop automatic drawing as a way to undo previous established techniques in painting, and thus, with Andre Masson represented the beginning of Surrealism as an art movement. However, Miró chose not to become an official member of the Surrealists in order to be free to experiment with other artistic styles without compromising his position within the group. He pursued his own interests in the art world, ranging from automatic drawing and surrealism, to expressionism and color field painting.

Description: Hard bound catalogue raisonne of the illustrated books, with dust jacket in publishers red slipcase, as issued. 675 pages profusely illustrated with reproductions of the lithographs and engravings of Miro help create this definitive and indispensable reference work on his books. 1540 plates with 1300 in full color. An exhaustive work with 262 works each described in detail. A very nice copy in almost perfect condition.

Bookseller Inventory # 16821

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Joan Miro The Illustrated Books : Catalogue Raisonne
Miro, Joan and Mlet, Rosamaria

Publisher: Patrick Cramer, Geneva
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris on Christmas day. She emigrated to the United States to study at the Art Students League in New York. Primarily a sculptor, she has worked in many different mediums, including rubber, wood, stone, metal, and fabric. She often speaks of her work  in symbolic terms with the main focus being “relationships”. She finds inspiration from her early childhood. Her art explores the themes and paradoxes of childhood, memory, and sexuality. Her work conveys feelings of anger, betrayal and jealousy, but with feeling of playfulness. Her late work consist of very specific erotic imagery. Her most famous works are possibly the large spider structures, titled Maman. Maman now stands outside Tate Modern in London.

Description: NEW in publishers shrink wrap. 2 hard bound monographs (Echo, and Nature Study) both in publishers slipcase.

Bookseller Inventory # 17653

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Louise Bourgeois: Echo, Nature Study
Bourgeois, Louise

ISBN: 1499521812
Publisher: Cheim & Read
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket published on the occasion of the Tate Modern exhibition in association with Centre Pompidou, Paris. 304 pages with 150 illustrations.

Bookseller Inventory # 17655
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Louise Bourgeois

Morris, Frances

ISBN: 0847831310
Publisher: Rizzoli
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First U. S. Edition

Irving Penn’s images have defined several generations of fashion and portrait photography. Penn is perhaps best known for his fashion photography beginning with his notable 1950s series of the Paris fashion collections. He came to define the new look for magazines. By placing models against plain backdrops, Penn removed the familiar indicators of space or scale and allowed fashion to stand alone as the subject of his images. Many fashion photographs point to changes in aesthetic sensibilities as well as to changes in fashion itself, and Penn’s routine use of minimal, flat backgrounds can be viewed as the introduction of the modern age of fashion photography. Penn, who was born in 1917 in New Jersey, worked in New York as a graphic artist in the 1930s, and spent a year painting in Mexico before starting work at Vogue magazine in the early 1940s. His photographs have been widely exhibited, included in major retrospective exhibitions, and are in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Irving Penn’s work cn be defined by his unique sophistication shot with a soft natural light. He has also become known for his unusual arrangements, photographed with great detail and clarity. While his prints are always clean and clear, Penn’s subjects vary widely. Many of his photographs have now bwcome important works within the modernist photography canon. His still life compositions are skillfully arranged assemblages of food or objects; at once spare and highly organized, the objects are raised to a graphic perfection, articulating the abstract interplay of line and volume.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. Published on the occasion of the June 19, 2205 exhibition held by the National Gallery of Art. Beautifully produced tritone plates! A very nice copy, bright and clean.

Bookseller Inventory # 18342

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Irving Penn
Greenough, Sarah

ISBN: 0300109067
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket, missing original slipcase.183 pages. Introduction by Alexander Liberman. Romemary Blackmon collaborated in the writing of captions and text. First Edition of Penn’s first book. Eight essays in photographs and words by Irving Penn. A nice copy of a scarce photography monograph.

Bookseller Inventory # 17803

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Moments Preserved
Penn, Irving

Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Publication Date: 1960
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

Egon Schiele (1890–1918) (pronounced SHE-luh) was an Austrian painter, protégé of Gustav Klimt, and a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. Schiele’s work is noted for its intensity, twisted body shapes and expressive line. His paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism. His work is often erotic or pornographic, sometimes with a disturbing focus on sex & death. His life was marked with controversy. In 1911, Schiele met the seventeen-year-old Valerie “Wally” Neuzil, who lived with him in Vienna and served as model for some of his most striking paintings. Schiele and Wally left Vienna and went to a small town in southern Bohemia. Soon however they were driven out of the town by the residents, who strongly disapproved of their lifestyle. In 1912, the artist was imprisoned for a short period of time because of his way of painting very young nude models that was thought to be immoral. The magistrate made a point of personally burning one of Schiele’s drawings before the assembled crowd. 1915 marked a turning-point in Schiele’s life. Some time in the previous year he had met his future wife Edith, and by April 1915 he was engaged to her. In the fall of 1918 Edith fell ill with Spanish influenza and died. Almost immediately Egon came down with the same sicknes and died three days later, he was only 28.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. An exhaustive work – 718 pages, with over 3275 illustrations! Previous owners name in ink, otherwise fine.

Bookseller Inventory # 18731

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Egon Schiele the Complete Works Including a Biography and Catalogue Raisonne
Kallir, Jane

ISBN: 0810938022
Publisher: Abrams
Publication Date: 1990
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition:Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition:Very Good
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. FIRST GERMAN EDITION of The Water Method Man by John Irving ( Die Wilde Geschichte Vom Wassertrinker ). INSCRIBED BY JOHN IRVING on the titlepage “For a German Reader”. A HAND SIGNED LETTER by John Irving composed on his original letterhead chastising the recipient about the cost of stamps, and long lines at the post office, etc. Dust jacket cover illustration by Edward Gorey. Text in German. Minor damp staining to upper edge of blue cloth boards. Some minor edge wear, otherwise very good.

Bookseller Inventory # 18410
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The Water Method Man
Irving, John

ISBN: 3257018312
Publisher: Diogenes
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition:Very Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author
Edition: First German Edition

Christian Dior was arguably the most important fashion designer of the twentieth century. One of a handful of designers who dominated 20th century fashion along with Coco Chanel, Paul Poiret & Yves Saint Laurent. His career was launched in 1947 with his very first collection, in which he introduced the “New Look“. Featuring rounded shoulders, a cinched waist, and very full skirt, the New Look celebrated ultra-femininity and opulence. After years of military and civilian uniforms, sartorial restrictions and shortages, Dior offered not merely a new look but a new outlook. While the House of Dior is still a thriving business today, Dior’s untimely death in 1957 left the fashion world without a great dictator of style. Christian Dior designed under his own name for only a decade, but his influence will be felt for many years to come.

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Hard bound first printing with dust jacket.
INSCRIBED BY CHRISTIAN DIOR!
(and signed with his customary “Tian Dior” )

Description: Subtitle “As told to Elie Rabourdin and Alice Sheppard”. Translated from the French by Eugenia Shepard. A personal account of his rise within the fasion world, starting in the mid 1930’s as editor of Figaro, through the opening of his Parirs salon in 1947. B/W photos of Author and Fashions of the day. 112 pages. Minor rubbing to edges of boards and slight sunning to spine edge. Minor chipping to spine edges of dust jacket, and one tear to front, otherwise very good. A RARE COPY – inscribed by one of the most influential designers of the last century!

Bookseller Inventory # 19326

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Talking About Fashion
Dior, Christian

Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York
Publication Date: 1953
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First U. S. Edition

p1050484848c_18363_1p1050487One of the most beautiful books on salmon fishing. First published in 1888 by David Douglas Edinburgh, and printed by T & A Constable. Here reprinted by the Angler’s & Shooters Press with a signed frontispiece, and beautifuly bound in full blue leather and gilt, with marbled end pages & un-cut page edges. The Restigouche River is known as one of the best salmon-fishing rivers in the world. Originating in the mountains of western New Brunswick, the Ristigouche River flows in a north-easterly direction to the Bay of Chaleur, dividing the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick in its final 40 miles. Bright salmon begin entering the river in mid-May. From this time through the month of June, the average fish taken is 18 pounds with better than 10% over 30 pounds. These are magnificently conditioned and incredibly strong fish. It is quality fishing at its very best. American fishing enthusiast Dean Sage (1841-1902) starts with the geography and history of the Restigouche before dealing with the habits of the salmon and the history of fishing clubs, while entertaining the reader with many interesting fishing stories throughout.

Description: Angler’s and Shoters Press, Goshen Connecticut, 1973. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Pleissner, Ogden & DeFeo, Charles (illustrator). First Thus. Hard bound limited edition #40 of 250 printed copies. Bound in full blue leather with ornate gilt tooling on covers & spine. Gilt topstain and silk ribbion bookmark. Beautiful hand made marbled endpages. Signed by both editors, and artist, Charles Defoe, who did the frontispiece. personal One small bump to lower edge of blue laether board, otherwise flawless.

Bookseller Inventory # 17649

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The Ristigouche and It’s Salmon Fishing
Sage, Dean

Publisher: Angler’s and Shoters Press, Goshen Connecticut
Publication Date: 1973
Binding: Hard Cover
Illustrator: Pleissner, Ogden & DeFeo, Charles
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued
Edition: First Edition Thus

Truman Capote reached a pinnacle that many writer’s dream of but few ever ascend. No one quite climbed to that summit like Capote did. The extravagant and outrageous lifestyle of flamboyance may be dim among today’s own breed of celebrity, but 50 years ago it was a beacon in the bight life of high society and American Letters. He was a mainstay of the New York social scene, an a noted Hampton’s regular. To celebrate his rise to the top of high society in 1966 Capote hosted what would become known as the famous Black and White Ball, a virtual “who’s who” of the day. Capote’s natural talent for weaving truth with fiction and his unflinching descriptions of his friends soon led to his rapid descent in popularity within the very social circles he had worked so hard to adopt. This rejection led to his increased drinking and drug use. His lack of continued sobriety in later years was matched only by his lack of work. Capote became more of a recluse and his last work, Answered Prayers (where he offended many of his friends) was published only after his death. Truman Capote died on August 25, 1984, but his presence remains alive in the 21st century, even among today’s celebrated caricatures.

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Description: Hard bound with dust jacket in custom 1/4 leather & cloth clamshell box. SIGNED ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAGE BY TRUMAN CAPOTE. Stated first printing. Some minor wear to unclipped dust jacket edges, otherwise very good. The first of Truman Capote’s own “favorites” from among his works. Mustard cloth boards. Mylar-covered dust jacket (which shows $5.95 price and 2/63 date at bottom of front fold) Beautiful 1/4 leather clam shell box with gilt title on spine edge, shows only the most minoer edge wear. A rare signed copy!.

Bookseller Inventory # 19093

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Selected Writings of Truman Capote
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Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: 1963
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author
Edition: First Edition
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Description: Hard bound limited edition HAND SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY TRUMAN CAPOTE. Near Fine without dust wrapper in publishers slipcase, as issued. A wonderful collection of some of Capote’s best essays. Copy #148 of 350 printed copies. A near fine copy in like slipcase, scarce!.
Bookseller Inventory # 19094
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Music for Chameleons
Capote, Truman
ISBN: 0394514645
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: 1980
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued
Signed: Signed by Author
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hard bound with price clipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BEN SHAHN on the front free endpage. Some wear to dust jacket and cloth boards. Minor chipping to spine edges and corners of dust jacket, otherwse very good.

Bookseller Inventory # 16300

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Ounce Dice Trice
Reid, Alastair and Shahn, Ben

Publisher: Atlantic – Little , Brown
Publication Date: 1958
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition:Good
Signed: Signed
Edition: First Edition

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Description: Hard bound first printing with unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed by John Irving ” Happy Birthday Al – John Irving”. Hand signed letter ( in which he discusses coaching, and wrestling ) and a picture of Brendan Irving ( just after he won the class “A” title) laid in. Some minor wear to dust jacket, otherwise very good. A very nice presentation copy.

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Bookseller Inventory # 17252

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A Prayer for Owen Meany
Irving, John

ISBN 10: 0688077080
ISBN 13: 9780688077082
Publisher: William Morrow
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author
Edition: First Edition

Description: FIRST U.K. Edition, hard bound with dust jacket. A nice copy with only the most minor edge wear. RARE!.

Bookseller Inventory # 16643

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ISBN: 0257667997
Publisher: Jenkins, London
Publication Date: 1969
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. #1818 in a limited printing of 2000 copies. Foreword by Peter Beard. A very nice copy, bright and clean. Now out of print, and sought after.

Bookseller Inventory # 19352

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Edith Bouvier Beale of Grey Gardens: A Life in Pictures
Beale, Eva Marie

Publisher: Verlhac Editions, Paris
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hard bound first printing with dust jacket. The first full length study on the Theater work of Robert Wilson. Profusely illustrated. 240 pages. A pristine copy, bright and clean. Rare and sought after!.

Bookseller Inventory # 19211

9780847821037-1

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Robert Wilson
Quadri, Franco; Stearns, Robert & Bertoni, Franco

ISBN: 084782103X
Publisher: Rizzoli, New York
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition

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Lotz (Loetz) Glass was one of the premier glass works of the first part of the twentieth century. The studios were located in Bohemia, within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Loetz glassware was exhibited at the Paris International Exposition of 1889, held beneath the newly constructed Eiffel tower. The Loetz pieces won critical acclaim there, in fact the Paris Exposition was the launching pad for many of the century’s finest glass works, and is widely accepted as the birthplace of Art Nouveau. Encouraged by the success of Loetz, numerous other Bohemian manufacturers became active in the production of glass. Lotz is often confused with the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany, and it is widely believed that glass workers from Loetz and other Bohemian factories defected to Tiffany’s works in New York City, which would have been a welcome haven for emigrant artisans in the early years of the early twentieth century.

Description: 2 volumes hard bound in dust jackets. 979 combined pages, profusely illustrated. (Vol. 1 – Werkmonographie, Vol.2 – Katalogue der Musterschnitte) Published on the occasion of the Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf exhibition, in association with Museum Fur Kunsthandwerk & Kunstgewerbemuseum Prag. Text in German. Few glass works have exploited the bluish-green combination of cobalt, copper and iron more successfully than Lotz. The definitive Art Nouveau glass studio. An exhaustive ref. work. 2 very nice copies, with dust jackets that show only the most minor edge wear.

Bookseller Inventory # 18734

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Lotz : Bohnmisches Glas 1880 – 1940 (2 volumes)
Ricke, Helmut

Publisher: Prestel
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Description: First installment of The Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture. With an introduction by Vincent Scully. Generally considered one of the most important titles in architectural theory of the last 50 years. Simply – the opening text of postmodernism. Dust jacket shows wear and soiling, now protected in Brodart plastic cover. RARE FIRST PRINTING IN JACKET!.

Bookseller Inventory # 18267

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Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Venturi, Robert

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Publication Date: 1966
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition:Good
Edition: First Edition

Marilynne Robinson’s 1980 novel won a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Housekeeping is a coming-of-age tale set aganist the backdrop of a isloated Pacific Northwest town. Fingerbone, an all but forgotten place, is overshadowed by the new post war America. Its narrator, a teenage girl named Ruth, had likewise been exiled from conventional comforts. Her family story is an extended study in abandonment, madness and tragedy. The tale is a meditation on what is needed to sustain one’s self and household aganist the forces of nature by which it is constantly eroded. Walker Percy called Housekeeping “a story told in a language as sharp and clear as light and air and water”.

Description: True first printing, hard bound with price clipped dust jacket. Some minor wear to edges of dust jacket. Some fading to edges of boards, otherwise very good. Interior clean and binding tight. A Scarce copy of a classic modern first edition.

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Housekeeping
Robinson, Marilynne

ISBN: 0374173133
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1980
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition

Description: SIGNED BY LINCOLN KIRSTEIN. Hard bound in blue cloth with dust jacket. 107 pages. Limited printing 1/3000 printed copies. Color photographs by Jerry Thompson throughout. 9 1/4 x 12 1/4″. Lush photographs of the Kirstein family’s collection of art, sculpture, and more.

Bookseller Inventory # 19160

9780942642278

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Quarry
Kirstein, Lincoln

Publisher: Twelvetrees Press
Publication Date: 1986
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author
Edition: First Edition

p1050521p1050522p1050523Description: Massive exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the June 30 – October 8, 1972 German exhibition. Features screenprinted cover designed by Ed Ruscha. This orange standard two ring notebook includes artists index, introductory volume and tabbed indexed binder. 700 pages divided in 25 sections. Curated by Harald Szeemann, Arnold Bode, Karlheinz Braun, Bazon Brock, Peter Iden, Alexander Kluge. Text in German. Artists include Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Georg Baselitz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Chuck Close, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Gilbert & George, Nancy Graves, Duane Hanson, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Edward Kienholz, Imi Knoebel, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Robert Smithson, Wayne Thiebaud, William Wegman, and many others! Some minor wear, otherwise very good.

Bookseller Inventory # 19115

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Documenta 5
Szeemann, Harald and Ruscha, Ed

Publisher: Documenta GmbH, Kassel, Germany
Publication Date: 1972
Book Condition: Very Good

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