American Artists

New York: Privately printed for An American Place, 1931.. Large octavo. Cloth. Tipped-in facsimile. A very fine copy in original glassine and faintly edgeworn box. First edition, deluxe issue. Edited, with an introduction, by Herbert J. Seligmann. From a total edition of four hundred copies, this is one of fifty deluxe copies, numbered and signed by Marin. The approximately eighty letters collected here are largely to Alfred Stieglitz, but include as well texts contributed to exhibition catalogues, and letters to Paul Strand, Egemont Arens and Lee Simonson. This limited issue is uncommon.

Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1975. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1975, first printing. Folio, 9 3/4" x 13". xx+219 pp., illustrated with over 300 reproductions printed on laid paper. Gold cloth with gilt titles and cover emboss, black and gold Rockwell Kent paper inlay, pictorial patterned end papers. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with mild creasing and short, closed tear along the top edge.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio. Illus.

New York: Scribner's, 1972. Signed on the title page by Robert Creeley. First edition / First printing. White printed cloth designed by the artist Robert Indiana. Fine in fine dust jacket.

London and Ostfildern, Germany: Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art and Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1999. First edition / First printing. Illustrated boards. Very fine in fine mylar dust jacket, with extremely light rubbing.

Manchester, VT: Hudson Hills Press, 1983. First edition / First printing. Black cloth. Fine in about fine plastic dust jacket, with rippling to the soft plastic.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. 4to., 9 1/2" x 12", 285pp., 171 color and 85 black and white illustrations. Minor foxing spots along top edge, else fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Fine. 4to.

NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Everson Museum of Art, 1983. SIGNED first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Abrams, 1983, first printing. Folio, 10 1/2" x 13 1/2", 350pp., over 1,000 illustrations, more than 900 in full color of personalities in the sports world. Boldly inscribed on half title to George L. Ball: "For George Ball, Merry Christmas 83', Leroy Neiman" Printed note paper of George L. Ball, Prudential-Bache Securities laid in, in which he gifts the book to someone else. . Signed by Author. 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio.

NY & Rochester, NY: Random House & Eastman House. Folio. 212pp., 600+ illus. Pictorial Boards, d.j. Signed. A VF copy in VF d.j.Please Note: Due to the size, weight, and cost of this book, extra shipping & insurance is required. NY residents must pay NY sales tax. Thank you.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First U.S. edition / First printing. Ivory cloth. Very fine in price clipped, fine dust jacket. The breakthrough book for Hughes. A stunning reappraisal of 20th Century Art, which changed the way we look at art.

Ridinghouse, 2012. Hardcover. New condition. Still sealed in shrinkwrap. Photo is of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Girard, KS: E. Haldeman-Julius Publications. 4to. With Introductions by Maria-Theresa, Carl Van Vechten, Mary Fanton Roberts, Shaemas O'Sheel, and Arnold Genthe. Included are Dance Sequence Drawings of Ballet, Agna Enters, Martha Graham, a Group of Pupils of Isadora, and Drawings Against War and Fascism by Walkowitz, with an Introduction by Konrad Bercovici. Unpag. (32pp.), 19 full-page plates with numerous sketches by Walkowitz. Stapled Wraps (covers and pages yellowed; small tear front endpaper; very small bump, bottom crease, otherwise VG. Signed by Walkowitz on the cover and, also, inscribed to the American sculptor, Hannah Small, by him, front endpaper.

Used. Stevenson, Robert Louis: A Child's Garden of Verses, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. 1905, Charles Scribner's Sons impression BB2C-1.58[H] Used. VG/Good price-clipped original purple dust jacket. RARE THUS. a gift presentation copy. Has a purple cloth ribbon laid in. This ribbon may be original to the edition, but I don't have that information. Condition: Other than a gift label pasted to front free endpaper and the ribbon, this item appears to be in near fine, unread condition. The purple dust jacket shows wear. Yellow topstain. Please see our photos.CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED CLASSIC SERIES.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1995. Special issue signed by the artist and stamped with his chop stamp. Additionally, signed by Sherman Alexie (p. 134), and Ernest Gaines (p. 108). First edition / First printing. Ivory cloth spine, pale gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Milwuakee, Wisconsin:: Evelyn Patricia Terry,, 2021.. Series Variant, each unique. 3 x 3"; 6 panels including book boards. Miniature altered book. Materials: intaglio prints, screen prints, pastel, thread, artist's hair, permanent ink. Includes collage and handwritten text. Signed by the arist. A miniature version of Terry's original serires "America, Guests Who Came to Dinner (and Stayed)." Evelyn Patricia Terry: "'America, Guests Who Came to Dinner (and Stayed)', an altered book series, transforms books with cut, torn, sewn and glued original prints, drawings and handmade paper produced during my 50-plus year printmaking and drawing career. The distinct group of books re-purposes my 1981 screen print edition of 68 black ink images on white Stonehenge paper for each book's interior pages. The book covers repurpose predominately, assorted etchings, colored screen prints and pastel markings and sometimes handmade paper.  "Unchanging, this… Read More

New York: Random House, 1967. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Original black and silver lenticular printing illustrated boards (3D effect) with silver lettering on spine. Boards are very bright and square with great depth illusion. Contributions by Andy Warhol, Stephen Shore, Billy Name, Nat Finkelstein and others. Pop-ups, fold-outs, affixed items and black-and-white photographs. The balloon, as always, is not present but left very little melting traces. All other objects are present and in fine condition: 1) a pop-up castle, 2) a fold-out accordion (does not squeak),3) a pop-up airplane, 4) a spring-mounted Chelsea Girls disc, 5) a dodecahedron paper sculpture, still attached, Pages between which the object was inserted were roughly opened resulting in small damage to the right side of the page, 6) Lou Reed flexi-disc, still attached, 7) a fold-out sheet with rainbow nose and overlays, 8) a pop-up Hunt's Tomato Paste can, 9) all 8 tear-outs 'For a big surprise'.… Read More