Artists' Books

[Verscio, Switzerland]: Ateliers Lafranca, [1986].. Rectangular folio (14 x 12"; 355 x 305 mm). Loose sheets and bifolia, laid into plain paper wrapper and board chemise. Illustrated. Slipcased. Fine. First edition. Copy #24 from a total edition of 54 (including 6 EA), signed by the author/artist and printer. Illustrated with nine original color stone lithographs, full- page or double-spread. Printed on heavy Moulin à papier La Collinasca in Bodoni types by Francois Lafranca. Evrard's concluding essay on lithography is printed in French, and in German and English translations.

Friedberg: Edition Hoffman, 1979.. [8] leaves of text. Quarto (33 x 24 cm). Prefatory text leaves, accompanied by six matted mixed-media prints. Enclosed in printed boards folder. Folder a trifle sunned at edges, with small chip at spine crown and short crack at one joint, otherwise near fine. First edition. Prefatory essay by E. Steneberg. Copy #68 of 120 numbered copies (and 25 epreuves), signed by the artist on the justification, and with the prints signed in the plate in the lower right corner. The prints are in black on white, or two colors on white, and vary significantly in size. Mansouroff (1896 - 1983) was one of the first generation of post-Revolutionary Soviet artists, and an associate of Tatlin and Malevich.

[Dijon]: Art & Art, [1988].. Stiff printed wrappers, paper label (21 x 14 cm). Fine. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies on verge d'Arches, from a total edition of 320. An illuminated color alphabet executed by the famed French installation artist, published under the auspices of the "Association pour la diffusion de l'art contemporain."

The book and unclipped dj are in new condition. Author's full signature appears under the title on the second title page. Statd first edition; presumed first printing. Contains 86 b&w photos. From the dj: Duveen's whole career was based on the simple observation: Europe has the art; America, the money. Secrest shows how he sold hundreds of masterpieces by Bellini, Botticelli, Giotto, Raphael, Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Watteau, Velázquez, Vermeer, and Titian, among others, by convincing such self-made Americans as Morgan, Frick, Huntington, Widener, Bache, Mellon, and Kress that ownership of great art would ennoble them, and while waving such huge sums at the already noble British owners that the art changed hands and all were happy. Shipment to any U. S. location will be upgraded to priority mail at no additional charge.

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(3) pages letterpress text, 6 lithographed plates. Publisher's wrappers with printed blue title shield to front cover. Uncut. Folio (480 x 320 mm). Slightly soiled. Engel. Bibl. Faustiana 1822 ; cf. Sammlung Kippenberg 1903 ("Verlag von Otto Humburg & Co." no date (obviously a remainder copy without the original wrappers; the Otto Humburg publishing house started its business around 1865) ; Rümann. 19. Jahrhundert 635. First edition. One of the rarest and at the same time most unusual suites to illustrate Goethe's Faust, and also one of the largest in size. Only a few copies with the original wrappers can be found; this is important because the suite was issued without a title page, so the title and imprint can only be found here. "(Er) wurde bekannt durch seine Illustrationen in Arabeskenform zu Goethes Faust und ebensolche zu Ossians Gedichten (Berlin, 1835)" (Thieme/Becker XVI, p 47). - "Carl Harnisch, born in Altenburg, Germany on January 1, 1800, worked as an artist and created designs for… Read More

* 3 volume set in slip case, each Stated First Edition - Limited to 1000 copies. "Fifty Seven American People", "Things People Have" (SIGNED by author on title page, no inscription), "Dividing Space".
* Book covers like new - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spines like new.
* Grey cardboard slip case like new, light shelf wear.
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Frank Reaugh painted West Texas in the early part of the 20th century. This book is the complete transcripts of sketch trips made in 1920 - 21 in North Central and West Texas. The book contains maps and some archival photos. Frank Reaugh painted longhorn cattle and other subjects of the old west, so he had to go where there were still remnants of that time. His home and studio were in Dallas and now it is preserved with a historical marker. His paintings are in several museums and in the White House. The book is unusual in that it is softcover, but it is punched at the spine and wrapped with cord. I've seen books like this that were used for field work to make them more durable. I've never seen another copy of this book, or even a picture, so I don't know if the book was intended for field work, or if this is an affectation. In addition, the pages are doubled (also durable). There is a very small tear at the bottom front spine, otherwise the book is in very good condition. The pages are clean and… Read More

"Scores are interspersed with essays on creativity"
Highly graphic content. Mostly hand written by Wishart in minute script (cf Cardew)
If you are interested please ask for inside views.
A rare insight into the art activity of the time were performance art, avant garde music, landscape art and community art are in spectacular collision. Involves well-know English performance art people like Roland Miller and Shriley Cameron, Al Beach, Mick Banks, Martin Mayes etc

Book cover near new, light edge wear - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine solid and undamaged.
Jacket near new, very light shelf wear.
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The first full survey of the work of a British artist whose art has captured the public imagination since the 1990s
Cornelia Parker (b. 1956) is one of the most thoughtful and poetic artists working in Britain today. Her wide-ranging practice, chiefly in sculpture and installation, touches on the fragility of human experience and is rich with visual allusions and literary innuendo. Parkers dynamic projects have included blowing up a shed, steamrolling musical instruments, exploding a firework made from a pulverized meteorite, and suspending charcoal taken from a church struck by lightning.This monograph traces the development of her art from the late 1970s to the present day. Organized chronologically, the book covers the… Read More

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1948. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Simon & Schuster, 1948, first printing. 4to., 9 1/4" x 12 1/4", unpaginated, frontis portrait and illustrated throughout with 700 of Hurter's drawings created for the Walt Disney Studio. Intro by Ted Sears, note by Walt Disney. Hurter's sketches were the foundations for most of the Disney films of the Thirties. He designed characters and settings for Silly Symphonies, Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia and Dumbo. Gray cloth with titles in red reverse block. Light wear at the crown, traces of a few spots on cloth, two tiny spots on front edge of page block, previous owner name on rear pastedown. A very good, attractive copy. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to.

SIGNED by author on title page, no inscription. Stated First Edition.
Includes 2 signed and numbered prints: Natalie #026, Jarrae #017, as well as a signed thank you letter from the artist.
Book cover like new - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new. Prints are As New protected in archival plastic.
No dust jacket issued with this book.
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New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition / First Printing. Black cloth spine, black and white printed boards, with a lenticular (hologram-like) black and silver illustration glued to the front board. Near fine. Issued without dust jacket, clear archival jacket supplied. Pop-ups, fold-outs, attached items and black-and-white photographs. Balloon has melted and fused two pages, also slightly coloring adjacent pages. Tear-out sheet is gone, all other objects are present and in fine condition: a pop-up castle, a fold-out accordion, a pop-up airplane, spring-mounted Chelsea Girls disc, a dodecahedron paper sculpture, Lou Reed flexi-disc is detached but is present, Rainbow nose with overlays, a pop-up Hunt's Tomato Paste can.

2 volumes. With text by the artist. Illustrations from paintings by Tom Lea, including 35 plates (12 in color) loose in accompanying portfolio. 11x8½" & 15½x11", two-tone cloth, spines lettered in gilt, both housed in the original slipcase with paper cover labels. First Edition. Fine examples from Lea's work throughout his career. About this book Thomas Calloway "Tom" Lea III (July 11, 1907 – January 29, 2001) was an American muralist, illustrator, artist, war correspondent, novelist, and historian. The bulk of his art and literary works were about Texas, north-central Mexico, and his World War II experience in the South Pacific and Asia. Two of his most popular novels, The Brave Bulls and The Wonderful Country, are widely considered to be classics of southwestern American literature. (Wikipedia).

Beautiful book bij Ashley Wood with drawings in the style of a comic book. Very good condition. First edition.

Book of one of the most famous and finest wood engravers Christopher Wormell in a superb condition. All letters of the alphabet with an animal. First edition.