ADAMS, ANSEL. Images 1923-1974

FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, one of 1000 copies signed by Ansel Adams and with additional silver print signed by Adams. A FINE COPY.
$11,000.00    (photos & details)

 

ADAMS, ANSEL. AUSTIN, MARY. Taos Pueblo

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION of perhaps the greatest pictorial representation of the American West; one of only 950 copies signed and numbered by Ansel Adams; a facsimile of the extremely rare 1930 edition of 108 copies printed for Adams. Beautifully illustrated with 12 gravure reproductions of Adams’s photographs.
$2,750.00    (photos & details)

 

ADAMS, ANSEL. Images 1923-1974

FIRST TRADE EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ADAMS, "To my former student..."
$1,100.00    (photos & details)

 

AESOP, . CALDER, ALEXANDER. Fables of Aesop, according to Sir Roger L'Estrange

FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES with an ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING by CALDER.
$18,000.00    (photos & details)

 

AGEE, JAMES. EVANS, WALKER. Many Are Called

FIRST EDITION of one of Evans’s most celebrated works, with introduction by James Agee and more than 150 reproductions of Evans's photographs of New York City subway riders; the preferred cloth/dust jacket issue (issued simultaneously in wrappers).
$900.00    (photos & details)

 

ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI. Japan Journey

IRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ARAKI. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of Araki's photographs.
$950.00    (photos & details)

 

ARBUS, DIANE. Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with "Two girls in identical raincoats" image) of this classic collection of the photographs of Diane Arbus.
$2,300.00    (photos & details)

 

AVEDON, RICHARD. Evidence: 1944-1994

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AVEDON across introductory pictorial spread: "Richard Avedon 1994".
$600.00    (photos & details)

 

AVEDON, RICHARD. In the American West

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AVEDON on front free endpaper. With a fine copy of the booklet prepared in conjunction with the exhibition In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon on view at the Amnon Carter Museum from September 14 through November 17, 1985.
$1,100.00    (photos & details)

 

BACON, FRANCIS. Francis Bacon, Special Number 162

LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 150 COPIES ON RIVES. A magnificent production, with 5 color lithographs and 5 color offset lithographs after Bacon.
$4,000.00    (photos & details)

 

BALTZ, LEWIS. The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California

FIRST EDITION OF BALTZ'S SEMINAL WORK.
$2,800.00    (photos & details)

 

BARBIER, GEORGE. Designs On The Dances Of Vaslav Nijinsky

LIMITED EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, number 107 of only 400 copies, with 12 large stunning pochoir plates by George Barbier. With additional illustrations in the text.
$7,500.00    (photos & details)

 

BARBIER, GEORGE. Journal des Dames et des Modes

FIRST EDITION OF ALL 79 ISSUES, WITH 186 HAND-COLORED PLATES by some of the most famous artists of the era. Number 884 (each issue from the same set) of only 1250 sets on Holland paper (out of a total edition of 1279). IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS IN FINE CONDITION.
$28,000.00    (photos & details)

 

BASKIN, LEONARD. Fifteen Woodcuts

LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY BASKIN, one of only 100 copies (out of a total edition of 600 copies) with an extra woodcut printed from the block at the Gehenna Press, for a total of sixteen large folio woodcuts plates by Baskin. The Gehenna Press, founded by Baskin in 1942, was one of the premier 20th-century fine presses in America.
$1,600.00    (photos & details)

 

BASKIN, LEONARD. Man With Clasped Hands

RARE WOODCUT by Leonard Baskin, number 7 of only 10 impressions SIGNED, NUMBERED, AND TITLED BY BASKIN.
$1,200.00    (photos & details)

 

BURKE, BILL. I Want to Take Picture

FIRST EDITION of one of the seminal photobooks of the 1980's. SIGNED BY BURKE INSIDE ORIGINAL DRAWING OF HIS HAND. One of only 1000 copies printed of the first edition.
$1,900.00    (photos & details)

 

BURTON, TIM. Martian

SIGNED COLOR LITHOGRAPH, number 84 of 100 signed and numbered by Tim Burton in pencil at the lower margin.
$1,350.00    (photos & details)

 

CALDER, ALEXANDER. Derriere Le Miroir. Calder. Special Number 201

LIMITED DELUXE FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 80 OF ONLY 150 COPIES SIGNED BY CALDER. With five original color lithographs by Calder. Text by Maurice Besset; printed on velin de la Dore. NOTE: The limited edition is of vastly superior quality than the corresponding trade issue of Derriere Le Miroir.
$4,500.00    (photos & details)

 

CALDER, ALEXANDER. Calder

Color exhibition book for the 1965 Calder show held at Paris's Musee National d'Art Moderne and New York's Guggenheim Museum, artistically SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CALDER (imitating the swirl on the cover) on the front endpaper: "To IPPY / Sandy / 1 July 65". Calder went by the name of "Sandy" and often signed as such. Complete with 4 serigraphs (3 in color).
$1,600.00    (photos & details)

 

CALDER, ALEXANDER. Mountains

RARE COLOR LITHOGRAPH SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY ALEXANDER CALDER. Number 103/110.
$4,000.00    (photos & details)

 

CARTIER-BRESSON, HENRI. The Decisive Moment

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Cartier-Bresson's most famous and important book. Illustrated with 126 full or double-page heliogravures of Cartier-Bresson's photographs. With dust jacket and boards specially designed by Henri Matisse for this work.
$5,000.00    (photos & details)

 

CHAGALL, MARC. Jerusalem Windows

FIRST EDITION in English, beautifully illustrated with 104 plates (64 in full color), and TWO ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPHS done expressly for this edition.
$2,000.00    (photos & details)

 

CHAGALL, MARC. Derriere le Miroir, Number 182

FIRST EDITION, with TWO ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS BY MARC CHAGALL.
$700.00    (photos & details)

 

CHAGALL, MARC. The Song of Songs

RARE lithograph poster, SIGNED AND DATED BY MARC CHAGALL in pencil ("Marc Chagall / 1975"). One of a small number of artist proofs printed on Arches vellum.
$3,400.00    (photos & details)

 

CHAGALL, MARC. Romeo and Juliet

STRIKING LARGE COLORFUL INTERPRETIVE LITHOGRAPH by Chagall of a detail from his ceiling for the Paris Opera.
$3,900.00    (photos & details)

 

CHAGALL, MARC. The Four Seasons

ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH poster by Marc Chagall, created for the unveiling of a large mosaic of Chagall, The Four Seasons, commissioned for a public site in Chicago.
$2,400.00    (photos & details)

 

CLARK, LARRY. Tulsa

FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION, SIGNED BY LARRY CLARK, fully illustrated with reproductions of Clark's raw photographs.
$1,200.00    (photos & details)

 

DALI, SALVADOR. Les Diners de Gala [The Dali Cookbook]

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, SIGNED BY DALI on front free endpaper.
$4,400.00    (photos & details)

 

DALI, SALVADOR. RONSARD, PIERRE DE. Les Amours de Cassandre

LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED AND DATED BY DALÍ; one of only 165 copies on arches blanc (out of a total edition of 299). Complete with10 full-plate and 8 vignette drypoint etchings by Dalí.
$12,000.00    (photos & details)

 

EISENSTAEDT, ALFRED. HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. The Old Man and the Sea

LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF 600 COPIES SIGNED BY PHOTOGRAPHER ALFRED EISENSTAEDT.
$1,600.00    (photos & details)

 

FINK, LARRY. Social Graces

SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, illustrated with 69 black and white images of Fink's photographs. One of 250 signed and numbered copies issued with an original photograph, "Tavern on the Green", signed and dated on the back.
$2,600.00    (photos & details)

 

CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. FLINT, W. RUSSELL. The Canterbury Tales

LIMITED EDITION, one of only 500 sets, illustrated with thirty-six colored plates by W. Russell Flint, one of the most renowned book illustrators of the 20th century. Elegantly printed on handmade Ricciardi paper and in the original deluxe vellum bindings.
$1,600.00    (photos & details)

 

CALDER, ALEXANDER. FONTAINE, JEAN. Selected Fables

FIRST TRADE EDITION, with a FULL-PAGE INK SELF-PORTRAIT BY CALDER on front flyleaf; initialed by Calder at the top of portrait. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Calder; translation by Eunice Clark.
$3,600.00    (photos & details)

 

FRANK, ROBERT. Flower Is...

LIMITED FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 500 COPIES. A FINE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL SHIPPING BOX.
$8,000.00    (photos & details)

 

GIACOMETTI, ALBERTO. Quarantacinque disegni di Alberto Giacometti

FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1,145 COPIES (out of a total edition of 1245), finely illustrated with 45 large folio reproductions of the artist's drawings (two in color).
$2,200.00    (photos & details)

 

GRIFFITHS, PHILIP JONES. Vietnam Inc.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY GRIFFITHS.
$1,000.00    (photos & details)

 

GRÄFF, WERNER. Es kommt der neue Fotograf [Here Comes the New Photographer!]

FIRST EDITION IN RARE DUST JACKET of one of the cornerstones of New Vision Photography, illustrated with 148 black and white photographs.
$8,000.00    (photos & details)

 

KEESHAN, ROBERT. SENDAK, MAURICE. She Loves Me… She Loves Me Not...

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND DATED BY MAURICE SENDAK (1981). A delightful collaboration between Sendak and Keeshan, better known for his role as Captain Kangaroo.
$1,300.00    (photos & details)

 

KERTESZ, ANDRE. J'Aime Paris. Photographs since the Twenties.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY KERTESZ. One of Kertesz's major monographs, a retrospective collection illustrated with over 200 gravure plates from his years in Paris.
$1,300.00    (photos & details)

 

KIMURA, IHEI. Pari (Paris)

FIRST EDITION of one the major works by one of the most celebrated Japanese photographers.
$2,000.00    (photos & details)

 

KOONING, WILLEM DE. ROSENBERG, HAROLD. de Kooning

FIRST EDITON, number 56 of 100 copies SIGNED BY DE KOONING on half-title.
$3,000.00    (photos & details)

 

BARBIER, GEORGE. LACLOS, CHODERLOS DE. Les Liaisons Dangereuses

ONE OF 650 COPIES ON RIVES (out of a total edition of 720), with 20 FULL-PAGE POCHOIR PLATES by BARBIER. With additional illustrated titles and head-pieces. Barbier’s Art-Deco representation of Laclos’s classic tale of sexual politics is one of the masterpieces of 20th-century book illustration.
$7,500.00    (photos & details)

 

LANGE, DOROTHEA. TAYLOR, PAUL. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY DOROTHEA LANGE AND PAUL S. TAYLOR.
$5,000.00    (photos & details)

 

LICHTENSTEIN, ROY. Landscape Sketches: 1984—1985

FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES SIGNED BY LICHTENSTEIN, complete with 24 offset lithographs printed in color on Coronado Opaque SST Cover paper.
$4,200.00    (photos & details)

 

MATISSE, HENRI. Portraits by Henri Matisse

FIRST EDITION, one of only 500 copies, of the English-language issue of Matisse's Portraits. (There were 2350 copies printed of the much more common French-language issue.) Lavishly illustrated with original lithograph (as frontispiece), 60 black and white portraits, and 33 mounted color plates. With introduction by Matisse.
$4,300.00    (photos & details)

 

MATISSE, HENRI. MIRÓ, JOAN. VERVE: Revue artistique et litteraire

The first issue of the most celebrated art journal of the century: Verve, No. 1, with original lithographs by Leger, Miro, Rattner, and Bores, and cover by Matisse.
$1,450.00    (photos & details)

 

MATISSE, HENRI. REVERDY, PIERRE. Les Jockeys Camoufles

FIRST EDITION, one of only 300 numbered copies on verge d’Arches (out of a total edition of 343), with five plates by Henri Matisse illustrating three poems by Pierre Reverdy.
$5,000.00    (photos & details)

 

JOYCE, JAMES. MATISSE, HENRI. Ulysses

FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF ULYSSES, ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH JAMES JOYCE AND HENRI MATISSE; one of the most celebrated books of the twentieth century.
$30,000.00    (photos & details)

 

CALDER, ALEXANDER. CHAGALL, MARC. MATISSE, HENRI. MIRÓ, JOAN. PICASSO, PABLO. Lithographies de l'Atelier Mourlot

FIRST EDITION, one of only 1000 copies printed (out of a total edition of 1150), with 11 lithographs (8 in color) by Chagall (cover), Picasso (2 lithos), Miro, Giacometti, Minaux, Jenkins, Matisse, Masson, Calder and Buffet. Printed to accompany the show “L’Atelier Mourlot” at La Galerie Redfern, London, from December 1965- January 1966.
$1,900.00    (photos & details)

 

CHAGALL, MARC. MATISSE, HENRI. MIRÓ, JOAN. PICASSO, PABLO. Prints from the Mourlot Press

First edition, one of 2000 copies on Velin d’Arches (out of a total edition of 2200) of this lavishly illustrated exhibition catalog from the Smithsonian Institution. With 18 original lithographs (most in color) by Chagall, Picasso, Miro, Beaudin, Esteve, Matisse, Guiramand, Florsheim, Cathelin, Brasilier, Brianchon, Cocteau, Minaux, Jenkins, Calder, Kito, Giacometti, and Manessier.
$1,500.00    (photos & details)

 

ALLARD, WILLIAM ALBERT. MCGUANE, THOMAS ALBERT. Vanishing Breed. Photographs of the Cowboy and the West

SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, one of only 30 copies reserved for the exclusive use of the authors and publisher (out of an entire edition of 780). Signed by both the photographer Allard and the writer McGuane. Profusely illustrated with full page reproductions of Allard's photographs of the American West.
$1,200.00    (photos & details)

 

BRUNELLESCHI, UMBERTO. MIOMANDRE, FRANCIS DE. Le Radjah de Mazulipatam

LIMITED EDITION, one of only 468 numbered copies on Holland van Gelder (out of a total edition of 500 copies), with 14 full-page color pochoir plates and 54 color pochoir vignettes by Brunelleschi. One of the most highly regarded books illustrated by Brunelleschi.
$1,900.00    (photos & details)

 

BRAQUE, GEORGES. MIRÓ, JOAN. PICASSO, PABLO. Hommage a Georges Braque. Derriere le Miroir Numbers 144-146.

LIMITED FIRST EDITION, WITH ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS BY PICASSO (DOUBLE PAGE), MIRÓ, AND GOUACHE FRONTISPIECE ETCHING BY BRAQUE ("Trois Oiseaux sur Fond Violet"). One of only 350 copies on Vélin De Rives. Also with lithographs by Pallut., Tal-Coat, and Ubac, and numerous portrait photographs of Braque by Man Ray, Brassai, Routhier, and Lachaud.
$2,800.00    (photos & details)

 

MIRÓ, JOAN. Lithographe I-VI

FIRST EDITIONS in six volumes of the complete catalog raisonné (French-language issue), complete with 36 original Miró lithographs, covering Miró's work from 1930-1981. Fine copies.

$5,700.00    (photos & details)

 

MIRÓ, JOAN. Derriere Le Miroir. Joan Miró. Peintures sur Cartons. Special Number 151-152.

SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 127 OF 150 COPIES SIGNED BY MIRÓ.
$6,500.00    (photos & details)

 

MODIGLIANI, AMADEO. Forty-five Drawings

LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES printed for the Grove Press (with text in English), out of a total edition of 1000. An extensive collection of reproductions of Modigliani's work in various media. With 45 large matted plates.
$2,100.00    (photos & details)

 

MONTFAUCON, BERNARD DE. Les Monumens de la monarchie française, qui comprennent l’histoire de France, avec les figures de chaque règne, que l’injure du tems a épargnées

FIRST EDITIONS of Montfaucon's profusely illustrated work on this history of France. Five large folio volumes bound in beautiful contemporary mottled calf with over 300 engraved plates (over 100 double-page).
$3,500.00    (photos & details)

 

HEDGECOE, JOHN. MOORE, HENRY. Energie im Raum. Energy in space. Energie dans l'espace.

DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, one of only 250 copies with a signed and numbered color lithograph by Moore. Complete with color photographic plates, one transparency, and the laid-in original lithograph ("Reclining Figure with Red Stripes").
$1,900.00    (photos & details)

 

HERRICK, ROBERT. MORRIS, WILLIAM. Poems Chosen out of the Works

FIRST KELMSCOTT PRESS EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES ON PAPER. Beautifully printed in red and black in Golden type. Exquisitely illustrated by William Morris with woodcut title page, first page (borders), and decorated initials throughout.
$5,800.00    (photos & details)

 

MULAS, UGO. New York: The New Art Scene

FIRST EDITION of Ugo Mulas's classic photographic study of the vibrant New York art scene in the 1960's. Illustrated with over 500 photographs of major artists including Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and many others.

$2,400.00    (photos & details)

 

MUNCH, EDVARD. SCHIEFLER, GUSTAV. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs bis 1906

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, ONE OF 400 COPIES, of the authoritative catalog of Munch's graphic work. With two superb etchings and numerous in-text woodcut illustrations.
$8,700.00    (photos & details)

 

NARS, FRANCOIS. X-RAY

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY NARS on title page: "With Love / Francois Nars / 10/15/99".
$400.00    (photos & details)

 

NEWTON, HELMUT. World Without Men

SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION of one of Newton’s most successful books, illustrated with 180 black-and-white photographs. Although the limitation is not stated, it is believed that the edition was limited to 200 copies.
$1,250.00    (photos & details)

 

BRAQUE, GEORGES. PAULHAN, JEAN. Braque le Patron

LIMITED EDITION, number 50 of only 60 copies on velin du marais (out of a total edition of 90), SIGNED BY BRAQUE and Paulhan. Complete with 60 illustrations including two original color lithographs (one for the cover, one on the first page of text) and one color plate.
$2,000.00    (photos & details)

 

PENN, IRVING. A Notebook at Random

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY IRVING PENN. An unconventional retrospective, illustrated throughout with reproductions of Penn's photographs and drawings.
$650.00    (photos & details)

 

JANIS, HARRIET AND. PICASSO, PABLO. Picasso. The Recent Years 1939-1946

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, one of only 350 copies SIGNED BY PICASSO. With 135 black and white illustrated plates of Picasso's work. An interesting presentation and commentary on Picasso's major works during the Second World War.
$1,800.00    (photos & details)

 

PICASSO, PABLO. Picasso. Deux Periodes: 1900-1914 & 1950-1954

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY PICASSO in purple crayon on front wrapper.
$1,500.00    (photos & details)

 

PICASSO, PABLO. Suite of 180 Drawings by Picasso

FIRST EDITION of the English language issue of the special double issue of Verve 29/30 dedicated to Picasso.
$2,500.00    (photos & details)

 

FITZGERALD, EDWARD. KHAYYAM, OMAR. POGANY, WILLY. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

A SUPERBLY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, number 43 of 525 copies printed on Japon vellum and SIGNED BY WILLY POGANY. With 24 tipped-in color plates.
$2,800.00    (photos & details)

 

POLLOCK, JACKSON. The Last Sketchbook

FIRST EDITION, NUMBER XV OF ONLY XXV ROMAN-NUMBERED COPIES, out of a total edition of 525.
$750.00    (photos & details)

 

ERNST, MAX. PREVERT, JACQUES. Les Chiens ont Soif

LIMITED EDITION, WITH TWO SIGNED COLOR ETCHINGS BY MAX ERNST, and 25 additional color lithographs; one of only 250 copies (out of a total edition of 320). An evocative collaboration between the surrealist poet Prevert and the surrealist artist Ernst. The Livre d'Artiste in the Twentieth Century 46.
$4,600.00    (photos & details)

 

PRINCE, RICHARD. Spiritual America

FIRST EDITION of one of Prince’s most influential books, published in conjunction with the artist’s landmark 1989 exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art in Valencia, Spain. Illustrated with over 200 color images and with a preface by Corinne Diserens & Vincent Todoli and an 'interview' with Richard Prince and the author J.G. Ballard.
$1,200.00    (photos & details)

 

EVANS, C.S. RACKHAM, ARTHUR. The Sleeping Beauty

SIGNED LIMITED DELUXE FIRST EDITION, one of only 625 copies, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with mounted full-color plate in pictorial border, three double-page silhouette illustrations with color, two full-page silhouette drawings with color, plus fourteen full- or double-page silhouette illustrations in black, and many illustrations within the text.
$2,100.00    (photos & details)

 

RAY, MAN. Photographs 1920-1934

FIRST EDITION OF MAN RAY’S FIRST MONOGRAPH, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY MAN RAY: “For Hana Mackler / man Ray Paris 1962”. With a portrait by Picasso and illustrated throughout with gravure reproductions of Man Ray’s photographs, rayograms, and potraits. With additional striking portraits of James Joyce, Salvador Dali, Matisse, Le Corvusier, DuChamp, Picasso, Braque, Derain, and many other of the leading artists of the century. Texts by Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Rrose Selavy, and Tristan Tzara.
$17,000.00    (photos & details)

 

LEBAUD, PHILIPPE. RAY, MAN. Variations sur l’Imaginaire

SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, an out of commerce copy marked “0” out of a total edition of 190.
$5,600.00    (photos & details)

 

RAY, MAN. Alphabet for Adults

FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 500 COPIES.
$1,750.00    (photos & details)

 

REDON, ODILON. Lettres D'Odilon Redon

FIRST EDITION, one of only 110 numbered deluxe copies on Vélin d'Arches à la cuve, with 3 original etchings by Redon. Preface by Marius-Ary Leblond.
$3,500.00    (photos & details)

 

RICHTER, GERHARD. Atlas: Of the Photographic Collages and Sketches

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, the celebrated revised, expanded, and English-language edition of Richter’s masterwork. With 633 sheets of photographs comprising over 5000 color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Introduction by Helmut Friedel.
$350.00    (photos & details)

 

RICHTER, GERHARD. Olympia

OFFSET COLOR LITHOGRAPH POSTER SIGNED BY GERHARD RICHTER.
$1,550.00    (photos & details)

 

RITTS, HERB. Men/Women

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HERB RITTS in gold marker on front free endpaper to "Men" volume: "To / Michael / Happy / Birthday! / #30 / 12/6/89 / Herb Ritts / 1989". With 92 Duotone plates printed on European matte art paper. One of 5000 copies.
$650.00    (photos & details)

 

RUSCHA, EDWARD. Every Building on the Sunset Strip

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with extra folding flap at end) of Edward Ruscha's most famous book; perhaps the greatest example of the new genre of art book that he created. Bound accordion-style as one continuous folding strip extending to 27-feet long.
$7,500.00    (photos & details)

 

SANDER, AUGUST. Antlitz der Zeit: 60 Fotos Deutscher Menschen [Face of Our Time]

FIRST EDITION of Sander’s classic, one of the most influential photobooks of the early twentieth-century.

$5,600.00    (photos & details)

 

HOCKNEY, DAVID. SPENDER, STEPHEN. China Diary

FIRST EDITION, WITH AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH SIGNED BY DAVID HOCKNEY. One of only 1000 copies signed by Spender and Hockney. With the original folding five-color lithograph ("Red Square and the Forbidden City") signed in pencil by Hockney loose in printed card sleeve; book with 158 illustrations, 84 in color.
$3,600.00    (photos & details)

 

SPENSER, EDMUND. The Shepheardes Calender

BEAUTIFUL KELMSCOTT PRESS edition, one of only 225 copies on paper (out of a total edition of 231). Elegantly printed in Golden type in red and black and with twelve wood-engraved plates by Arthur J. Gaskin.
$6,000.00    (photos & details)

 

STERNFELD, JOEL. American Prospects

FIRST EDITION of Sternfeld’s first and most celebrated photobook, illustrated with fifty-five color photographs.
$1,400.00    (photos & details)

 

ROY, CLAUDE. STRAND, PAUL. La France de Profil [A Profile of France]

FIRST EDITION.
$950.00    (photos & details)

 

BOCEK, JAROSLAV. JEDLICKA, PAVEL. KOHL, MIROSLAV. SUDEK, JOSEF. Josef Sudek

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, one of only 300 numbered copies signed by Bocek, Jedlicka, and Kohl.
$1,750.00    (photos & details)

 

RACKHAM, ARTHUR. SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 354 of only 765 copies signed by illustrator Arthur Rackham. Beautifully illustrated collection of Swinburne's children's poems, with nine mounted colored plates and 52 black and white drawings.
$1,400.00    (photos & details)

 

NEZVAL, VITEZSLAV. TEIGE, KAREL. ABECEDA [Alphabet]

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, one of 2000 copies printed, of one of the most important and influential books of European modernism. Illustrated with 25 black and white photomontages.
$6,000.00    (photos & details)

 

MATISSE, HENRI. TZARA, TRISTAN. Midis Gagnes. Poemes. Six Dessins de Henri Matisse

FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies printed on velin (out of a total edition of 1178 copies), with six full-page illustrations by Matisse. An interesting and evocative collaboration between Matisse and the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara.
$950.00    (photos & details)

 

AGLIONBY, WILLIAM. VASARI, GIORGIO. Painting Illustrated in Three Dialogues... with the Lives of the Most Eminent Painters

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with 1685 title page) in English of Vasari's classic Lives of the Artists, the conceptual basis for Renaissance scholarship and the foremost source for popular perceptions of the history of Western painting.
$4,500.00    (photos & details)

 

AVOROBEICHIC, MOSHÉ. VER, MOÏ. Ein Ghetto im Osten - Wilna [A Ghetto in the East]

FIRST EDITION, illustrated with 65 images of the Jewish ghetto in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. With preface by poet Zalman Chneour in Hebrew and German.
$1,900.00    (photos & details)

 

ROGER-MARX, CLAUDE. VERTÈS, MARCEL. Variations: Drawings, water colors, etchings and lithographs by Vertès

LIMITED EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES with an original lithograph signed by Vertès laid in (out of a total edition of 1000). With an additional 115 illustrations printed on various colored paper. Text by Claude Roger-Marx.
$1,600.00    (photos & details)

 

RENOIR, PIERRE-AUGUSTE. VOLLARD, AMBROISE. La vie et l'oeuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, with original glassine, one of 375 copies on velin d’arches (from a total edition of 1000). Magnificently illustrated with ONE ORIGINAL ETCHING by Renoir and 51 FULL-PAGE ENGRAVED PLATES after Renoir and numerous illustrations of Renoir’s work throughout the text.
$14,000.00    (photos & details)

 

VREELAND, DIANA. Inventive Clothes 1909-1939

FIRST EDITON and RARE LIMITED EDITION, sumptuously illustrated with over 150 folio color photographic plates of fashion designs.
$1,450.00    (photos & details)

 

WARHOL, ANDY. Neuschwanstein

COLOR SCREENPRINT BY ANDY WARHOL.
$2,200.00    (photos & details)

 

WARHOL, ANDY. Liz

OFFSET COLOR LITHOGRAPH on cream wove paper. From a publicity photograph of Elizabeth Taylor, c.1960.
$2,100.00    (photos & details)

 

WEBER, MAX. Primitives: Poems and Woodcuts

FIRST EDITION, one of only 350 numbered copies, SIGNED BY WEBER; the first book by the famous Spiral Press (founded by Joseph Blumenthal and A. George Hoffman). Introduction by Benjamin de Casseres. With eleven woodcuts by Weber; text printed in Pen Print Bold on hand-made English paper. In the original modernist binding after a design by Weber.
$2,300.00    (photos & details)

 

WESTON, EDWARD. Edward Weston, His Life and Photographs

SIGNED LIMITED DELUXE EDITION, ONE OF 350 COPIES SIGNED BY COLE WESTON WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH BY COLE WESTON FROM EDWARD WESTON'S ORIGINAL NEGATIVE.
$4,000.00    (photos & details)

 

CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. HENDERSON, KEITH. WILKINSON, NORMAN. The Romaunt of the Rose

LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 12 COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM (10 for sale), out of a total edition of 512. Magnificently illustrated with 20 tipped-in color plates in a Pre-Raphaelite style by Keith Henderson and Norman Wilkinson.
$3,800.00    (photos & details)

 

WINOGRAND, GARRY. Women are Beautiful

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY WINOGRAND on the half-title: “To Lights best intern / Garry Winogrand”. The preferred hardcover issue of the first edition.
$3,300.00    (photos & details)

 

WINOGRAND, GARY. The Animals

FIRST EDITION OF WINOGRAND'S FIRST BOOK.
$450.00    (photos & details)