Signed and Inscribed by Charles Addams to an intimate friend and colleague. Large original drawing by Addams directly on the half title page!

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Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. Some minor sunning to spine edge of dust jacket, otherwise very good.

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Horst: Interiors
Plumb, Barbara 

ISBN: 0821220462
Publisher: Bulfinch, New York
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition:Very Good
Edition: First Edition

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Description: Hard bound first edition with original V. Bell dust jacket. Red cloth boards show some edge wear. Some wear and soiling to jacket. Spine edge of dust jacket worn with authors name abraded off, but title visible. Interior free of marks and binding strong. Minor foxing, otherwise good.

Bookseller Inventory # 16294

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Haunted House and Other Stories
Woolf, Virginia

Publisher: The Hogarth Press, London
Publication Date: 1943
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hard bound with Vanessa Bell dust jacket. Signed by the Jazz composer Claude Thornhill on the front lower left hand corner of the dust jacket. Blue cloth boards show some wear o edges. Spine edges and corners of jacket show chipping. Some damp staining to page edges, otherwise very good.

Bookseller Inventory # 17259

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Between the Acts
Woolf, Virginia

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Co.
Publication Date: 1941
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition:First U. S. Edition

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Celine’s second masterpiece was written as a prequel to Journey to the End of the Night. A work constructed with an immediate prose style, shocking for the time. Celine aspired to present humanity as is, without the stylistic trappings, and pretense he saw in his contemporaries. Offensive, vulgar, raw, and cynical; he was directly influenced by the tension felt in Europe between the wars. In this existential masterpiece, Celine explores the darker side of the psyche. His influence is far reaching, inspiring such authors as John Fante, Charles Bukowski, and Henry Miller.

Description: Hard bound first U. S. printing with unclipped dust jacket. 593 pages. Corners and edges of dust jacket worn. Minor chipping to edges, and one large chip to lower rear corner of dust jacket. Some sunning to red title on spine edge, otherwise good. Interior clean and binding strong.

Bookseller Inventory # 17150

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Death on the Installment Plan
Celine, louis Ferdinand

Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Publication Date: 1938
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Edition

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Burk Uzzle at the age of 23 became the youngest contract photographer for Life magazine, and five years later he joined the legendary agency Magnum Photos. During his fifteen years as a Magnum member, he served two terms as president. His photographs have appeared in numerous magazines worldwide, including Life, Newsweek, Fortune, and the New York Times Magazine. His work has been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe, and is represented in many private and museum collections, including the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Library of Congress; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the Smithsonian Institution.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket published on the occasion of the Nov. 17 – Feb. 17, 1985 exhibition held by The Philadephia Museum of Art. Distributed by Aperture. Stated first printing. Inscribed by Burk Uzzle ” for Cheryl, Burk Uzzle”. Some tanning to edges of white boards. Dust jacket shows some wear and spotting. Interior clean and binding tight.

Bookseller Inventory # 14295

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All American
Uzzle, Burk

ISBN: 0961361603
Publisher: St. David’s Books / Aperture
Publication Date: 1984
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Signed: inscribed by Photographer
Edition: First Edition

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Description: Signed by John Irving on the title page. Hard bound with dust jacket. Stated first trade edition. Some wear to unclipped dust jacket that shows some sun fading to spine edge. Some wear to edges of boards and previous owners name on front free end page and half title page, otherwise very good. Covered in protective Brodart cover.

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A Prayer for Owen Meany
Irving, John

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Description: Hard bound first edition in price clipped dust jacket. Some minor edge wear, otherwise very good.

Bookseller inventory # 11343

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Setting Free the Bears
Irving, John

John Irving’s first novel is a dark comic story of two students who conspire to liberate the animals from the Vienna zoo. The story is loosly based on a an actual incident from the last days of World War II. Many of the themes of Irving’s later work are explored here; the absurdity of existence, the idealism of youth, and the ever present dark veil of looming catrosphe.

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Description: Hard bound first edition with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY SAUL BELLOW TO THE ARTIST FUMI KOMATSU on the front free endpage. Wear and a few large chips to dust jacket edges. Some minor foxing, otherwise very good. A RARE INSCRIBED ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE AUTHORS SECOND BOOK!.

Bookseller Inventory # 18358

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The Victim
Bellow, Saul

Publisher: Vanguard Press
Publication Date: 1947
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition:Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author
Edition: First Edition

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A true visionary who defies classification. This collection of  short work was first printed in magazines such as Esquire, Playboy, The Atlantic Monthly. Vonnegut can be both humorous and satirical, his speculative fiction has the ability show the fantastic in the commonplace, and absurdity within the seemingly normal.

Description: Hard bound first printing with dust jacket. Yellow spine and black paper boards. Minor wear to boards. Dust jacket with some minor spotting, otherwise very good. Interior clean and binding tight.

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Welcome to the Monkey House
Vonnegut, Kurt

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This beautiful book is illustrated with full color plates of Chihuly’s hand blow glass pieces inspired by the sea.

My work, to this day, revolves around a simple set of circumstances: fire, molten glass, human breath, spontaneity, centrifugal force and gravity.”
-Dale Chihuly

Description: Hard bound in pink cloth, no dust jacket. SIGNED by Chihuly in blue, yellow and green paint on front board! Some minor sunning to boards, otherwise very good.

Bookseller Inventory # 17131

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Chihuly Seaforms
Chihuly, Dale

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Helen Frankenthaler’s woodcuts combine abstract expressionism with the quality and texture of paintings on wood.

“The process is totally different from painting or lithography or etching or anything else,” Frankenthaler says. “As with any other medium, I had to learn from what it offered, what it resisted and what I could bring to it.” Judith Goldman, who is the exhibit’s guest curator and the former print curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, says Frankenthaler’s woodcuts are “a landmark in her evolution as an artist and in the evolution of the woodcut medium.”

The woodcut, a notoriously difficult and rigid medium, could not be further from the artistic realm of a gestural, spontaneous painter. As a painter, Frankenthaler’s creative process is driven by the development of a dialogue with the work itself, ‘a fighting, loving dialogue with this piece of material. You force something on it and it gives you an answer back … until you know that this is right.’8 To a certain extent, the work directs her and it evolves out of itself. Therefore, when creating a woodcut, a medium which requires careful planning and numerous technical adjustments, either the style of the artist or the rules governing the medium must shift. Frankenthaler saw the woodcut as a challenge and has been determined not only to learn its language, but to master it.

Frankenthaler has worked with Tyler Graphics in a collaboration that has dramatically shifted the parameters of the woodcut. Frankenthaler’s experimental nature drove her to use paper pulp as a support for her woodcut Freefall, 1993and hand-dyed paper for Radius, 1993. The artist experimented with the combination of woodcut and other print techniques such as lithography in All about blue, 1994 and etching and aquatint in Ariel, 1996. By casting the rules aside, Frankenthaler has succeeded in coercing the woodcut into yielding printed works bearing the hallmarks of her unique lyrical style. The woodcut is no longer solely the medium of the graphic artist working alone in the studio; it is now also a medium to explore the abstract, a medium of collaboration, the medium of an entire print workshop working in sync with an artist.

In The Tales of Genji Helen Frankenthaler has created a series of six exquisite woodcuts. Working closely with Yasuyuki Shibata (a master of ukiyo-e printmaking), she has forged a new process that brings her unmistakable style to the ancient medium of woodblock printing.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. Published on the occasion of the 2002 exhibition in association with George Braziller. A very nice copy, bright and clean. Scarce hardbound!.

Bookseller Inventory # 16590

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Frankenthaler: The Woodcuts
Goldman, Judith;Frankenthaler, Helen

ISBN: 0807615099
Publisher: Naples Museum of Art, Florida
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition

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Description: Oblong paperback with 92 pages profusely illustrated in duo-tone. Photography exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the October 21 opening in association with the University of Maryland at College Park. Photo-montage of Herbert Bayer, Harry Callahan, Herbert Matter, Frederick Sommer, Val Telberg and others. 111 works listed with detailed descriptions, with photographers’ biographies & bibliography.

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Dreams, Lies, and Exaggerations: Photomontage in America
Wayne, Cynthia

Publisher: University of Maryland
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: As New

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Ed van der Elsken first realized that he wanted to be a photographer when, in 1947, he saw a book of pictures by the American photographer Weegee, Naked City. Weegee and his vision of urban life became a crucial influence on Ed van der Elsken’s work. Like Robert Frank and William Klein, he felt strongly drawn toward the darker side of human existence.

In 1959, armed with commissions from two magazines and from Netherlands TV, Ed van der Elsken and his wife Gerda van der Veen set off on a round-the-world trip that was to last almost a year. He worked in a number of countries in Africa, Asia, and America; his photographs regularly appeared in magazines, and he contributed short films to television programs. Six years after his return, he published a selection of photographs from the trip under the title Sweet Life.

Much of his work subjectively documented his own energetic and eccentric life experience, presaging the work of Larry Clark, Nan Goldin or Wolfgang Tillmans. Ed van der Elsken abolishes the frontiers between the professional and private spheres, and also between photography and real life.

Description: FIRST EDITION – FIRST PRINTING. Hard bound with dust jacket. boards show some foxing near edges and corners. Minor chipping to edges of jacket, andone lage chip to spine edge. Previous owners gift inscription, otherwise very good.

Bookseller Inventory # 10000

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Sweet Life
Van Der Elsken, Ed

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Description: Published on the occasion of the Feb. 2, 2002 retrospective held by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 344 pages. edited by Elizabeth Sussman. Text by Renate Petzinger, James Meyer, Briony Fer, Gioia Timpanelli. A lavish monograph, profusely illustrated.

Bookseller Inventory # 17651

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Eva Hesse
Sussman, Elisabeth

Publisher: Yale University Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition:Very Good

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Description: Hard bound with dust jacket in publishers shrink wrap. 512 pages with 430 illustrations!.

Bookseller Inventory # 17652

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The Book of Dreams
Fellini, Federico

Publisher: Rizzoli
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Marc Chagall took inspiration from Belarusian folk-life, and portrayed many Biblical themes that reflected his Jewish heritage. In the 1960s and 1970s, Chagall engaged in a series of large-scale projects involving public spaces and important civic and religious buildings. Chagall’s artworks are difficult to categorize. Working in the pre-World War I Paris art world, he was involved with avant-garde currents, however, his work was consistently on the fringes of popular art movements and emerging trends, including Cubism and Fauvism, among others. He was closely associated with the Paris School and its exponents, including Amedeo Modigliani.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket in publishers slipcase, as issued. 357 pages. English language edition. A very nice copy with almost no visible wear. This beautiful book is comprised of 114 examples of the books, albums and catalogues illustrated by Marc Chagall. Every work is described in detail and reproductions of the original artwork accompany each entry. This copy signed by the publishers Patrick Cramer on the title page.

Bookseller Inventory # 16825

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Marc Chagall the Illustrated Books : Catalogue Raisonne
Cramer, Patrick

Publisher: Patrick Cramer, Geneva
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Description: Paperback published on the occasion of the Sept 11 – Oct 10, 1998  PaceWildenstein exhibition.

Bookseller Inventory # 13642

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Georg Baselitz : New Paintings
Baselitz, Georg

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Description: Paperback copy published on the occasion of the April 22, 2008 exhibition held by the Grey Art Gallery of N.Y.U. 70 works from 35 artists that define a key decade (1955-65) of New York Art. A very nice copy, bright and clean.

Bookseller Inventory # 17671

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New York Cool : Painting and Sculpture from the NYU Art Collection
Karmel, Pepe

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Henry Spencer Moore (1898–1986) was an English artist best known for his monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world. His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures. Moore’s works are usually suggestive of the female body, apart from a phase in the 1950s when he sculpted family groups. His forms are generally pierced or contain hollow spaces. Many interpreters liken the undulating form of his reclining figures to the landscape and hills of his birthplace of Yorkshire.

Catalogue raisonne of graphic work of Henry Moore 1931 – 1884

A beautifully produced set published by Patrick Cramer, Geneva

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Henry Moore: The Graphic Work [Complete 4-Volume Set]
Grant, Alistair & Mitchinson, David & Cramer, Gerald & Cramer, Patrick

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Description: Paperback published on the occasion of the Sept 14 – Dec. 31, 1995 exhibition.

Bookseller Inventory # 13648

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The Mobile, the Stable, the Animal : Wit in the Art of Alexander Calder
Calder, Alexander

Publisher: Bruce Museum
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good

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Description: Paperback published on the occasion of the Dec. 5 Marlborough Gallery exhibition of the same name. A nice copy, bright and clean.

Bookseller Inventory # 17224

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Martin Chirino : New Works
Chirino, Martin

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Description: Paperback art exhibition cataloge published on the occasion of November 28, 2008 exhibition held by Hollis Taggart.

Bookseller Inventory # 17522

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Dynamic Impulse : The Drawings of Stuart Davis
Davis, Stuart

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Description: Staple bound art exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the August 25, 1995 exhibition held by the Cline Gallery. Minor sunning and some wear to wraps, otherwise very good. checklist laid in.

Bookseller Inventory # 17347

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Elaine De Kooning – Paintings and Drawings
De Kooning, Elaine

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Robert Rauschenberg was a painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and, in later years, even a composer, Mr. Rauschenberg defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style. He pushed, prodded and sometimes reconceived all the mediums in which he worked. Building on the legacies of Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell and others, he helped obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art — not to mention between art and life. Rauschenberg was also instrumental in pushing American art onward from Abstract Expressionism, the dominant movement when he emerged, during the early 1950s. He became a transformative link between artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning and those who came next, artists identified with Pop, Conceptualism, Happenings, Process Art and other new kinds of art in which he played a signal role.

Description: Paperback art exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the Jan. 11 opening of the 2008 exhibition held by the PaceWildenstein gallery, New York.

Bookseller Inventory # 17373

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Runts
Rauchenberg, Robert

Publisher: PaceWildenstein
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good

Description: Paperback art exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the October 27 opening of the 2006 exhibition held by the PaceWildenstein gallery, New York.

Bookseller Inventory # 17520

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Robert Rauschenberg : Scenarios and the Ancient Incident
Rauchenberg, Robert

Publisher: PaceWildenstein
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good

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