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"as entertaining to the eye and the imagination as a Beatles album is to the ear": First Edition of Alan Aldridge's The Beatles: Illustrated Lyrics
ALDRIDGE, Alan.
The Beatles: Illustrated Lyrics.
New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 1990.
First edition of the only major published collection of illustrated Beatles lyrics. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated with lavish, full-color illustrations by a host of internationally renowned artists with specially commissioned photographs featured on almost every page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 145102
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First Edition of Christian Boltanski's El Caso
BOLTANSKI, Christian.
El Caso.
Madrid: Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1988.
First edition. Oblong quarto, original stiff cardboard. In near fine condition. Introduction by Juan Miguel Hernandez Leon. Exhibition of the artist Christian Boltanski at Centro de Arte Reina Sofia 1988.
Price: $85.00 Item Number: 15056
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"The frayed sojourn of the secret price of sorrow simmers on the slow fire of remembrance where the onion plays the lead": First edition of Contemporary Poetry and Prose: Picasso Poems Number 4 & 5
PICASSO, Pablo; Salvador Dail; Andre Breton; E. E. Cummings; Kenneth Allott; Dylan Thomas; et al.
Contemporary Poetry and Prose: Picasso Poems Number 4 & 5.
London: The Farleigh Press, 1936.
First edition of this scarce pamphlet containing six poems by Picasso and additional contributions by Dali, Dylan Thomas, Andre Breton, and E. E. Cummings. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 125908
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"In a little village there was a church, and on the top of the church stood a weathercock": Evelyn Sharp's The Story of the Weathercock
SHARP, Evelyn. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
The Story of the Weathercock.
London: Blackie & Son Limited, n.d..
Early printing of Sharp's children's classic. Quarto, original publisher's decorated cloth, illustrated with sixteen color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations by Charles Robinson. In good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 135422
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"For, unlike you, I can't break through, a truant where the blue begins": First edition of Christopher Morley's Where the Blue Begins; wonderfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham
MORLEY, Christopher. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Where the Blue Begins.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1922.
First edition of Morley's classic canine story, wonderfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Quarto, original publisher's cloth, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with four color plates and numerous line drawings by Arthur Rackham. In very good condition with light rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine. A nice example.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 137414
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Volume 129 of Punch weekly; containing numerous illustrations by Arthur Rackham
[RACKHAM, Arthur].
Punch, or The London Charivari: Vol. 129.
London: Published at the Office and Sold by All Booksellers, 1905.
Volume 129 of Punch weekly containing numerous illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Quarto, original publisher's cloth, illustrated by numerous artists including 10 illustrations by Rackham in issues of July 5, August 30, September 6, September 27, October 11, October 25, November 15, and November 29. In very good condition. Armorial bookplate and ownership stamp.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 142537
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First Edition of Nathan Glazer's From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City; Inscribed by Him
GLAZER, Nathan.
From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture’s Encounter with the American City.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
First edition of this work by the co-author of The Lonely Crowd. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "To Chris and Kathy, Dear friends and neighbors! Nathan May 3, 2007." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 44001
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First Edition of Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image
THE CAXTON CLUB,.
Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
First edition of this work which compiles 101 landmark publications about Chicago from the past 170 years that have helped define the city and its image. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Neil Harris.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 140239
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First Edition of Ed Ruscha and the Great American West
RUSCHA, Ed [Karin Breuer; Kerry Brougher and D.J. Waldie].
Ed Ruscha and the Great American West.
San Francisco: Fine Arts of San Francisco, 2016.
First edition of this work on the renowned artist. Oblong quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 144358
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Yuichi Hibi's A Weekend With Mr. Frank; one of 500 copies signed by Hibi on the verso of an original print
HIBI, Yuichi. [Robert Frank].
A Weekend With Mr. Frank: A Book of Five Reproductions and One Original Print.
Tuscon, Arizona: Nazarelli Press, 2006.
Signed limited edition of the companion book to Yuichi Hibi's 2001 documentary on the life and work of Robert Frank. Small octavo, original boards, containing five reproductions of black and white photographs and one original print. One of 500 numbered copies signed on the verso of the original print by Yuichi Hibi, this is number 240. In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 122098
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First edition of the Star Wars: Punch-Out and Make-It Book; designed by Ib Penick and illustrated with Instructional Drawings by Charlotte Staub
PENICK, Ib [Designer]. Illustrated by Patricia Wayne; Instructional Drawings by Charlotte Staub.
Star Wars: Punch-Out and Make-It Book. Based on the film by George Lucas.
Glasgow and London: Collins, 1978.
First edition of this classic 70s punch-out and make-it book. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers. Designed by Ib Penick. Illustrated by Patricia Wayne. Instructional Drawings by Charlotte Staub. In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145053
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Rare Typed Letter Signed by Famed Architect Robert Venturi to Head of University of Iowa's Museum of Art Stephen S. Prokopoff
VENTURI, Robert.
Robert Venturi Typed Letter Signed.
Philadelphia: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc, August 11, 1999.
Rare typed letter signed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Robert Venturi. Quarto, one page on Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates 25% cotton stationary, the letter reads in full, 'August 11, 1999 Dear Stephen, At last, enclosed is a sketch [not present] which parallels one I've just made for the Las Vegas AIA! Hope you enjoy it. Very best wishes from us both, "Robert" RV:lp encl. Mr. Stephen S. Prokopoff University of Iowa Museum of Art.' In very good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146698
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"What is necessary is to speak about a man as though painting him": Limited First Edition of Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington's Picasso: Creator and Destroyer
HUFFINGTON, Arianna Stassinopoulos.
Picasso: Creator and Destroyer.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988.
Signed limited first edition of this ingenious biography of the prolific Cubist painter and hallmark of Surrealism, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, bound in full top-grain leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised bands, decorated gilt panels with designs by Martha Phillips inspired by Picasso's hand-decorated books, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece painting 'The Old Man and Time' by Francoise Gilot, Picasso's companion and the mother of their children Claude and Paloma, illustrated…
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146871
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First Edition of Edwina Sandys' Eve & Adam; Inscribed by Her
SANDYS, Edwina.
Eve & Adam.
New York: Edwina Sandys, 2000.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by Sandys. Small octavo, original boards, illustrated. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Frank and Carol Edwina Sandys." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 118981
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First edition of Aylmer Maude's Tolstoy on Art: and its Critics
MAUDE, Aylmer. [Leo Tolstoy].
Tolstoy on Art: and its Critics.
London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1925.
First edition of this collection of Maude's essays, including one of "one of the finest pieces of criticism of the nineteenth century", Tolstoy's What is Art? (The Empire Review). Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 128538
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"Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody": First Modern Library Edition of the death and life of great american cities
JACOBS, Jane.
The Death And Life of Great American Cities.
New York: The Modern Library , 1993.
First Modern Library edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145661
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First Edition of Graham Greene's Lord Rochester's Monkey Being The Life Of John Wilmot, Second Earl Of Rochester
GREENE, Graham .
Lord Rochester’s Monkey Being The Life Of John Wilmot, Second Earl Of Rochester.
London: Bodley Head, 1974.
First British edition of this work on John Wilmot. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 48748
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First Edition of Rockwell Kent's Salamina
KENT, Rockwell.
Salamina.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935.
First edition of Kent's boldly illustrated account of his visit to Greenland. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with over eighty illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Very good in a good dust jacket. Ownership inscription.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 131241
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First Edition of National Gallery Illustrations Volume III; with Nearly Four Hundred Reproductions
NATIONAL GALLERY,.
National Gallery Trafalgar Square Illustrations to the Catalogue Volume III: British, French, & Spanish Schools.
London: Printed for the Trustees, 1926.
First edition of the last volume in the Official Catalogue of the National Gallery, this volume featuring illustrations comprising the British, French, and Spanish Schools of art. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with nearly four hundred reproductions. In very good condition with some toning and light rubbing to the extremities. Accompanied by original dry mounted plates from 'Thesaurus Austriacus' on Strathmore notecards and envelopes by DesignsKTB.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 146552
