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First Edition of the First Monograph on Frank Gehry's Masterpiece The Walt Disney Concert Hall; Signed by Him
GEHRY, Frank.
Symphony: Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003.
First edition of this volume on Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by Frank Gehry on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Preface by Deborah Borda. Introduction by Frank Gehry. With essays by Richard Koshalek and Dana Hutt, Carol McMichael Reese, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Michael Wood. Photography by Grant Mudford.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 515
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First Edition of Architecture + Process: Gehry Talks; Signed by Frank Gehry
GEHRY, Frank.
Architecture + Process: Gehry Talks.
New York: Rizzoli, 1999.
First edition of this overview of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Oblong quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrations throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Frank Gehry on the title page. Edited by Mildred Friedman. Essay by Michael Sorkin. Commentary by Gehry throughout.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 47014
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First Edition of Architecture + Process: Gehry Talks; Warmly Inscribed by Frank Gehry
GEHRY, Frank.
Architecture + Process: Gehry Talks.
New York: Rizzoli, 1999.
First edition of this overview of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Oblong quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrations throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by Frank Gehry on the half-title page, "For Bob and Annie Much Love from Frank Gehry 2001." Edited by Mildred Friedman. Essay by Michael Sorkin. Commentary by Gehry throughout. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 112371
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First Edition of the Complete Works of Frank O. Gehry; Signed by Him
GEHRY, Frank O.; Francesco Dal Co; Kurt W. Forster.
Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works.
New York: Electra, 2003.
First paperback edition. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers. In fine condition. Signed by Frank Gehry on the title page.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 1392
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"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness": First Edition of The Architecture of Frank Gehry; Inscribed by Frank Gehry
GEHRY, Frank; Foreword Henry N. Cobb.
The Architecture of Frank Gehry.
New York: Rizzoli Publishers, 1986.
First edition of this early monograph of the work of renowned architect Frank Gehry. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Inscribed by Frank Gehry on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Essays by Rosemarie Haag Bletter, Coosje van Bruggen, Mildred Friedman, Joseph Giovannini, Thomas S. Hines, Pilar Vilades. Foreword Henry N. Cobb. Commentaries by Frank Gehry.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 44675
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"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness": First Edition of The Architecture of Frank Gehry; Inscribed by Frank Gehry to Academy Award-winning screenwriter Frank Pierson
GEHRY, Frank; Foreword Henry N. Cobb.
The Architecture of Frank Gehry.
New York: Rizzoli Publishers, 1986.
First edition of this early monograph of the work of renowned architect Frank Gehry. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the architect on the half-title page, "To Frank Pierson Frank O. Gehry." The recipient Frank Pierson was a renowned Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Dog Day Afternoon (along with the Academy-nominated Cat Ballou and Cool Hand Luke), director, and President of both the Writers Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Essays by Rosemarie Haag Bletter, Coosje van Bruggen, Mildred Friedman, Joseph Giovannini, Thomas S. Hines,…
Price: $1,450.00 Item Number: 99727
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"Produced by the most important and active printing press of 17th century Rome": Rare early seventeenth century Italian celestial globe produced by Roman cartographer Giuseppe de Rossi
GIUSEPPE DE ROSSI,.
Giuseppe de Rossi’s Globus Coelest. [Seventeenth Century Italian Celestial Globe].
Rome: Giuseppe de Rossi, [1615].
Rare early seventeenth century Italian celestial globe produced by Roman cartographer Giuseppe de Rossi, the founder the most important and active printing press of 17th century Rome, the Rossi firm. Laid horizontally and mounted on a turned mahogany stand, the celestial globe measures 8 inches in diameter and is comprised of 12 hand-colored engraved gores depicting the major constellations and all twelve zodiac signs, illustrated in detail after Jodocus Hondius famed celestial globe of 1601. The inscribed cartouche reads, "Globus Coelest, in quo stellae fixæ omnes quæ a N. Viro Tychone Brahe suma cura observatæ sunt, accuratissime dessignantur: quibus adjuncte…
Price: $28,000.00 Item Number: 127575
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First Edition of Zaha Hadid; Each volume is signed by Her
GIUSTI, Gordana Fontana; Zaha Hadid.
Zaha Hadid.
New York : Rizzoli Press, 2004.
First edition of this comprehensive work on Zaha Hadid. Quarto, 4 volumes, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Zaha Hadid in all four of the volumes at Yale University. In fine condition. The original plastic case is in fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 75644
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“The past is reinvented and becomes the future. But the lineage is everything": Signed Limited Edition of Music by Philip Glass
GLASS, Philip.
Music by Philip Glass.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987.
Signed limited edition, one of 250 numbered copies. Octavo, original leather, in the original slipcase. Fine in a fine slipcase. With the musical score laid in, as issued. Signed by Philip Glass on the limitation page. Edited and with supplementary material by Robert T. Jones.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 109279
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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 trade edition of Willy Pogany's illustrated FAUST; signed by Pogany
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Translated by Abraham Hayward. With Illustrations by Willy Pogany.
Faust by Goethe. With Illustrations by Willy Pogany.
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1908.
First trade edition of Willy Pogany's magnificently illustrated rendition of Faust. Quarto, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated with 30 colored plates by Pogany, each with lettered tissue-guard. Signed by Willy Pogany on the front free endpaper. In very good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 143834
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First Edition of The City Observed: New York: A Guide to the Architecture of Manhattan; Warmly Inscribed by Paul Goldberger
GOLDBERGER, Paul.
The City Observed: New York: A Guide to the Architecture of Manhattan.
New York: Random House, 1979.
First edition of this classic work on New York. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Edith and Martin Segal, Such treasured parts of New York that they should really be a part of this book- but even more important, valued friends. With much fondness, Paul Goldberger 16 October 1979." The recipients, Martin E. Segal made his fortune through the Segal Company, an international consulting business, and was perhaps best known as the elder statesman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where he served…
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 145643
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First Edition of Cape Dutch Homesteads; Signed by Photographer David Goldblatt
GOLDBLATT, David; Courtney-Clarke.
Cape Dutch Homesteads.
Cape Town: Struik, 1981.
First edition. Original beige cloth. Signed by the photographer, David Goldblatt. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 1359
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"This is my family, my history": First edition of Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
GOLDIN, Nan.
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.
New York: Aperture, 1986.
First edition of Goldin's masterpiece. Oblong octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 125 color photographs. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited with Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holborn and Suzanne Fletcher.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 139413
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Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale; finely bound and decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting
GOLDSMITH, Oliver.
The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: Bickers and Son, 1880.
Finely bound example of one of the most popular and widely read novels among Victorians. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a fore-edge painting of Squire Thornhill visiting the Primrose family, illustrated. In very good condition with the fore-edge painting exceptionally bright.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 138744
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith; finely bound and decorated with a fore-edge painting
GOLDSMITH, Oliver.
The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. and Professor of Ancient History in the Royal Academy of the Arts. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846.
Finely bound example of Goldsmith's complete poetical works, decorated with a fore-edge painting of a golfing scene. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt scrolling and fleuron cornerpeices to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, illustrated with wood engravings, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of a golfing scene. Ownership inscription. In very good condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 140226
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"FIGURES DO NOT TELL US ABOUT STEEL": FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION OF THE SANDVIK STEEL WORKS
GöRANSSON, Göran Fredrik.
The Sandvik Steel Works.
Gothenburg: John Antonsons Boktryckeri, 1931.
First Edition. Quarto. Bound in full blue morocco, gilt crowned monogram, "EP" to the front panel, gilt illustrated curtain frame to front and rear panel. Gilt tooling to the spine. Frontispiece portrait of G.F. Goransson, the first industrialist to implement the Bessemer process successfully on an industrial scale. With thirteen pantone-gravure plates illustrated by artist Ragnhild Nordensten. From the library of Edward, Duke of Windsor with Sotheby's sale label, "The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, September 11 - 19, 1997."
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 35019
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First Edition of Lucinda Gosling's Drawing From History
GOSLING, Lucinda; Foreword by James Gurney; Illustrated by Fortunino Matania.
Drawing From History: The Forgotten Art of Fortunino Matania.
Book Palace Books, 2016.
First edition, one of only 1000 copies. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 133742
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First edition of Sharon Gosling's Wonder Woman: the Art and Making of the Film
GOSLING, Sharon. Foreword by Patty Jenkins.
Wonder Woman: the Art and Making of the Film.
London: Titan Books, 2017.
First edition of the complete behind-the-scenes story of Wonder Woman. Oblong quarto, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. From the collection of Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across a breadth of industries. He has been a frequent contributor to numerous national news and entertainment programs including…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 140108
