London: Faber & Faber, (2005). Dave Roberts. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. A strange beast: a book of bones and stones, of vengeful hermits and wayward hearses, of junior Rip Van Winkles and resurrectionists. From the fainlty weird to the... More
London: MQP, 2007. Aline Kominsky Crumb. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Thick small 4to. Here, Aline draws on her remarkable body of comic strips over the past four decades, many featuring her self-effacing character Bunch. She records her wild and crazy journey that took her from her beginnings as a nice... More
New York: Dutton/Seymour Lawrence, (1988). First edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Stacy / Hooray for Art / up to a point / Yrs / Jim." Harrison has added his 'one-eye' drawing along with the date, 4/1/88.This is the story of Dalva... More
New York: Knopf, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, and winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award. Egan follows a ghost, Theodore Winthrop, who wrote the first national book about the Northwest in the 1850s. That journey went by horseback and canoe. The modern jaunt goes by kayak... More
New York: Random House, (1950). First edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. This tale is not about a man and a dog, even though there are several men, aged ten or thereabouts in the story. The book is mostly an affectionate recapturing of... More
n.p. University of New Mexico Press, 1948. Gene Roberts. First edition, first issue. Hardcover. "I want to tell you about men mean as hell. Thieves, murderers, cattle rustlers, who poured into the West in search of more "gun room." Then there were the pioneer folks, anxious to make a decent... More
London: Covenant, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. A 5-line inscription signed by Frances Henking (her address and date underneath inscription). ALS tipped in, Henking explains (to the two people the book is inscribed to) her current... More
New York: Wm Morrow, 1936. Author's Edition (later printing). Hardcover. Inscribed by James Hilton on the front endpaper and dated December 1944. Christmas sticker of a young girl holding a large postcard with a message to the same person the book is inscribed to. Illustrated in color. Basis for the... More
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1964. First edition. 4to. With text from his own writings. More
London: Faber & Faber, (1996). UK First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Born in a commune, Jane has led an itinerant childhood with her mother and only a vague notion of her father. Years before, Tom Owens had dropped out of college to form a.... More
New York: Da Capo Press, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. A folio size reprint of the first edition of this famous photo book originally published in 1950. Weston first met Point Lobos on a day in 1915 when friends, traveling with him along the California coast, said he must see this place... More
San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, (1992). First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. This copy is inscribed on a publisher's bookplate pasted to the front endpaper and signed by Milt Hinton who has added a small drawing of a musical instrument dated in the year of publication. Illustrated from photographs. 164pp. More
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, (1988). First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. This copy inscribed on the front endpaper by Milt Hinton, 1910-2000, with musical notes, then signed by Hinton with a small drawing of a musical instrument, dated '91. Hinton, the 'dean of bass players',has experienced the jazz world firsthand for... More
Danville: Aperture, (1999). Stated First edition. Hardcover. 4to. McBride, 1931-2015, has spent forty years seeking out children in the transition to adulthood, photographing privileged high school students, boys scratching out their lives on the gritty streets of Frankfurt, a fifteen-year-old Spanish bullfighter, and a modern Siddhartha story in India. 112pp... More
Koln: Konemann, (1997). First edition. Hardcover. McBride, 1931-2015, was an American photographer in reportage, art photography, and book illustration, as well as a painter (trained by Norman Rockwell) and sculptor. He served two years in the U.S. Army, 1953-1955, he would remain in Germany the rest of his life. His... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, (1990). First edition. Hardcover. A magnificent and intellectually stimulating account of large-scale Greek sculpture from the Dark Ages to Augustus (c. 12---30 B.C.). The author not only describes and dates the sculpture and illustrates its most significant, interesting, and characteristic examples but also places it... More
Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, (2010). First edition. Hardbound. Doonesbury at 40. A look back. However, this collection is not about Watergate, gas lines, cardigans, Reaganomics, a thousand points of light, Monica, New Orleans, or even Dubya. None of that. It is about how it felt to live through those years... More
New York: Abrams, n.d. First edition. Hardcover. A full-length record of a man who has had a great and lasting influence on contemporary painting, sculpture, and architecture, as well as on interior design, graphics, advertising art, and typography. Measures 8 3/4 x 12 inches. Includes 600 illustrations, including 34 plates in full color. More
London: Sotheby's Publications, (1985). First edition. Hardcover. In two massive volumes with the publisher's original dark green slipcase. Measures 10 x 13 1/4 inches. Includes all the lithographs, drypoints, monotypes, posters, along with a select bibliography, a concordance, with photographic acknowledgements and an index of titles. 831 pages (total for both volumes). More
n.p. Skira, (1962). First edition thus. Hardcover. Includes 120 illustrations, including 85 in full color (tipped in), includes St. Peter's Basillica, the Vatican Museums and Galleries, The Treasure of St. Peter's, The Vatican Grottoes and Necropolis, and The Vatican Palaces. Created by Albert Skira for Horizon Magazine. Includes a list... More
Boston: Abrams, (1989). First edition. Hardcover. A new view of the sovereign talent of Jacopo Bellini as evidenced in all his known works is the subject of this imposting volume, which also defines his role in establishing the Renaissance stype in Venice in the 15th century. 581 illustrations, including 118... More
Paris: Editions Ides Ed Calendes, Neuchatel, (1981). First edition. Hardcover. Tall 4to. Text in French. 240pp of art in full and double page. Published in conjunction with the Grand Palais de Paris exhibition of de Stael's work. More
Zurich: The Graphis Press, (1968). First Hardcover edition. Hardcover. 4to. Graphis magazine is devoted to art and design in Japan. Includes Editor's Note, Introduction, Katachi - Traditional Japanese pattern and design, Japanese family crests, Japanese design education, Japan's younnger generation, Advertising art, packaging design, display art, editorial art, industrial design... More
New York: Rizzoli, (1984). First edition thus. Hardcover. Orininally published in Italy in 1980. 382pp, with 407 illustrations including 17 in color. Measures 10 x 11 1/4 inches. This is the first major study on Bernini to appear for over a quarter of a century, unique in its scope, scholarship... More
New York: Abrams, (1976). First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Translated by Robert Allen with James Emmons. In "The Library of Great Painters' series. In life as in art, Fernand Leger was committed to the contemporary world, to the reality of cities, factories, advertising posters, to the collectivity of the common people... More
