New Arrivals
Barnes, Lucinda and Dennis Cooper (Interviews)
CHARLES RAY
Newport Beach, CA: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1990. Paperback. Newport Harbor Art Museum. Quarto. 44pp. Exhibition catalogue. Many full-page color plates. Scarce. Item #10867
Price: $60.00
Fraenkel, Michael
BASTARD DEATH
Paris / New York: Carrefour, 1946. First edition. Cardboard with wrapper. Carrefour. Lg.octavo. 169pp. Limited Edition, Number 50 of 200 copies signed by Fraenkel. Contents include: Letter to Henry Miller; Letter to Michael Fraenkel; The Body; The Death; The Image; The Will. Stiff cardboard with printed paper wrapper. Light soiling... Item #10866
Price: $250.00
Moses, Forrest
FORREST MOSES
Santa Fe, NM: Kensho Editions, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Kensho Editions. Sq.Quarto. 224 pp. Incl. 144 color plates. Limited edition, #28 of 200 copies of the "Artist Edition," signed by Moses and additionally inscribed to "James..." (Fashion designer James Galanos). Lacking giclee print that normally comes with the "Artist Edition."... Item #10865
Price: $200.00
Kawabata, Yasunari
THE EXISTENCE AND DISCOVERY OF BEAUTY
The Mainichi Newspapers, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. The Mainichi Newspapers. Sm. Octavo. Bilingual Edition: 109pp. English text, followed by 81pp. Japanese text. This was a public lecture that Kawabata gave at the University of Hawaii, Hilo campus in 1969. Printed boards have light scuffing and light scratches. In fine dust... Item #10851
Price: $75.00
Wharton, Edith
THE VALLEY OF DECISION
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First Edition. Cloth Hardcover. Charles Scribner's Sons. Octavo. First issue: "Published February 1902", printed at the Merrymount Press. 2 volumes. 343pp; 312pp. Light minor scuffing to burgundy cloth. Spine tips rubbed and lightly frayed. Corners turned slightly. Bump to top edge of front board... Item #6921
Price: $75.00
Sanger, Martha Frick Symington
THE HENRY CLAY FRICK HOUSES
New York: The Monacelli Press, 2001. Hardcover. The Monacelli Press. 295pp. Beautifully illustrated with over three hundred vintage photographs. Includes original drawings and sketches, designer's notes. Item #10864
Price: $40.00
Camard, Florence
RUHLMANN, MASTER OF ART DECO
London: Thames and Hudson, 1993. Hardcover. Thames and Hudson. Quarto. 311pp. with 487 illustrations, 67 in colour. Reprint of 1986 edition. Old price sticker on back panel of dust jacket. Item #10863
Price: $60.00
Bujon, Guy; Jean-Jacques Dutko
E. PRINTZ
Paris: Editions du Regard, 1986. Hardcover. Editions du Regard. Quarto. 304pp. Profusely illustrated, many in color. French text with English translation bellow. Includes biography, exhibition list and bibliography. Item #10862
Price: $300.00
Holliday, Kathryn E.
RALPH WALKER: ARCHITECT OF THE CENTURY
New York: Rizzoli, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Rizzoli. Quarto. 159pp. Nicely produced book printed on Strathmore Pastelle by Oddi Printing, Reykjavik, Iceland. Limited to 2500 copies. "...one of New York's most successful and prolific architects." Bump to edge near spine. Light wear and small tear to edge of dust jacket. Item #10861
Price: $75.00
Mussey, Jr., Robert D.
THE FURNITURE MASTERWORKS OF JOHN AND THOMAS SEYMOUR
Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum. 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Peabody Essex Museum. Quarto. 462pp. Substantial text plus 155 items with full page illustrations and full descriptions. Item #10860
Price: $250.00
Tolkein, Christopher
PICTURES BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Houghton Mifflin Company. Folio. Unpaginated. 48 plates of Tolkein's illustrations. Bright nice copy. Item #10859
Price: $85.00
Tedeschi, Martha with Kristi Dahm
JOHN MARIN'S WATERCOLORS, A MEDIUM FOR MODERNISM
Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago. 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Art Institute of Chicago. Oblong quarto. 192pp. Substantial text with beautiful illustrations in color. Item #10858
Price: $150.00
Jones, Kellie; Thelma Golden; Chrissie Iles
LORNA SIMPSON
London: Phaidon, 2002. First edition. Paperback. Phaidon. Quarto. 160pp. Wrappers. Includes Bibliography and Chronology. African American photo-based artist and filmmaker. Wraparound dust jacket has tear to top of spine. Item #10857
Price: $25.00
Kikuchi Kan
THE REALM BEYOND
Hara Publishing Company, 1964. Bilingual Edition. Hardcover. Hara Publishing Company. Octavo. 231pp. Text in English and Japanese. Darkening to edges of dust jacket, spine lettering a little faded. Item #10856
Price: $20.00
Takeshi Kaito
"PANIC" AND " THE RUNAWAY"
University of Tokyo Press, 1977. First English language edition. Hardcover. University of Tokyo Press. Octavo. 122pp. Pages uniformly toned. Light fading to edges and spine of dust jacket. Item #10855
Price: $30.00
Kinoshita Junji
BETWEEN GOD AND MAN: A Judgment on War Crimes
Seattle and London: University of Tokyo Press/ University of Washington Press, 1979. First English language edition. Hardcover. University of Tokyo Press/ University of Washington Press. Octavo.170pp. Verso of dust jacket toned, spine of dust jacket lightly faded. Item #10854
Price: $45.00
Kawabata, Yasunari
PALM OF THE HAND STORIES
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988. First edition thus. Hardcover. North Point Press. Octavo. 238pp. Dust jacket lightly faded on spine. Item #10853
Price: $40.00
Ryunosuke, Akutagawa
A FOOL'S LIFE
New York: Grossman Publishers/ A Mushinsha Book, 1970. First American edition. Hardcover. Grossman Publishers/ A Mushinsha Book. Oblong octavo. 135pp. With tipped-in illustrations after etchings by Tanaka Ryohei. Bilingual edition, nicely printed in two colors. Blue rice paper over boards with cloth spine and paper label. Illustrated dust jacket has... Item #10852
Price: $40.00
Kawabata, Yasunari
FIRST SHOW ON FUJI
Washington DC: Counterpoint, 1999. First American edition. Hardcover. Counterpoint. Octavo. 227pp. Originally published in Japan in 1959. Item #10850
Price: $20.00
Kawabata, Yasunari
THE OLD CAPITAL
San Francisco: North point press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. North point press. Octavo. 164pp. Dust jacket toned on verso and edges. Item #10849
Price: $20.00
Talbott, Page; Patricia Tanis Sydney
THE PHILADELPHIA TEN: A Women's Artist Group 1917-1945
Philadelphia: Moore College of Art and Design/ American Art Review Press, 1998. Hardcover. Moore College of Art and Design/ American Art Review Press. Quarto. 175pp. Exhibition Catalogue. Illustrated with 93 color plates and text illustrations. Includes biographical information on each of the original artists, plus others who occasionally exhibited with the group. Item #10848
Price: $35.00
(Rod Dresser) Stulz, Dale W.
ARTIST'S CHOICE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ROD DRESSER
Lahaina, HI: Limited Editions Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Limited Editions Press. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. 23 b&w plates with text on opposing pages. SIGNED BY DRESSER. Item #10847
Price: $75.00
Kay, Lily E.
THE MOLECULAR VISION OF LIFE
New York/ Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Oxford University Press. Octavo. 304pp. Some illustrations. Story of the rise of American molecular biology. One small annotation within the text and some notes on rear flap of dust jacket. Item #10846
Price: $60.00
Ishikawa Jun
THE BODHISATTVA OR SAMANTABHADRA, A NOVEL
New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. First edition thus. Hardcover. Columbia University Press. Octavo. 180pp. Includes Critical Essay by Tyler, Notes, List of other titles. Originally published as "Fugen," written in 1936. Dust jacket has light toning to white areas, and slight fading to spine. Item #10845
Price: $45.00
Meeks, Raymond; Forrest Gander
SOUND OF SUMMER RUNNING
Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Nazraeli Press. Quarto. Unpaginated. (68pp.) 63 duotone plates. Limited to 1000 copies. Poetry by Rick Bass and Forrest Gander, separate 8pp. selection of Forrest Gander poems laid-in; color print on Kodak paper is tipped in on rear blank, (approx. size 3-1/2 x.... Item #10844
Price: $225.00
