Ipswich: Limited Editions Club, 1954. First edition thus. Cloth. Four clothbound quartos contained in two hard slipcases. These volumes contain the sixty-five stories told by Shahrazade the Sultaness to divert Shahryar the Sultan from the execution of a vow he had made to avenge the disloyalty of his first Sultness..... More
Milano: Skira, 1996. First edition. Paperback. Paperbound quarto. Text in Italian by Giovanni Pozzi, Emilio Pizzi, Virginia Baradel and others. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Monograph on Botta. A very good copy in stiff illustrated wrappers with wide French flaps. This copy has been INSCRIBED by Botta to Terence Riley and..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1953. First edition. Cloth. Clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 102 pp. First edition of this impressive monograph on the architect and delineator Hugh Ferriss. Includes sixty illustrations. Ferriss, who died in 1962, was enormously influential to a generation of fellow artists and architects and is said..... More
London: Thames & Hudson, 2009. Revised. Hardcover. Hardbound quarto. 256 pp. This is the revised and expanded edition of Zaha Hadid: The Complete Buildings and Projects originally published in 1998. Handsome near fine copy. Introduction by Aaron Betsky. Illustrated in color and black and white. This copy has been INSCRIBED..... More
Dusseldorf: Plano Druck GmbH, the Artist and Siemens AG, 1991. First edition. Paperback. Paperbound quarto. An unpaginated artist book by Feldmann. It is comprised entirely of black and white photographs. No text other than the copyright page. Photographs of the people and scenes within a Siemens plant in Germany. Lovely..... More
Berlin: Edition Block, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Simple printed stapled wrappers. Rare original edition of Kopcke's piece No. 2 which was part of his major overall work of the period entitled "Continue" A signicant piece fusing music, poetry and visual art. This booklet contains 18 unnumbered leaves. Completely in text..... More
Berlin: Edition Societe, 2015. Second printing. Paperback. Stapled photo-illustrated glossy wrappers. Unpaginated. A volume of color photographs of four young beautiful swimsuited models intersperced with quotes in English by Zenkei Shibayma, Chuang Tzu and others. Photography by Marissa Kaiser. Book design by John McCusker. A fine example. Only one copy..... More
Germany: Otto Lembeck, 2000. First edition. Paperback. Stiff cardboard illustrated wrappers. 13 pp. Early artist book by Haegue Yang. Paper ruled in millimeter squares with various grid widths and colours. Published in an edition of 500. Per the artist's statement on the colophon page "The world is full of various..... More
Basel: Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, 1966 - 1967. First edition. Paperback. Sold here together as a complete set in four issues is Le Petit Colosse De Symi - The Nothing Else Review. Published by artist Daniel Spoerri and Kichka Baticheff during the period 1966 to 1967. Three of the four issues..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1979. First edition. Cloth. Cloth 8vo. Issued without dustwrapper and housed in a cloth-covered slipcase. 597 pp. Stated first eidition of this novel by the author of Giovanni's Room, Nobody Knows My Name and many other novels and collections of essays. One of five hundred..... More
Milwaukee: Singlepress, 2003. First edition. Loose Sheets. First edition. Standard issue. A suite of broadside poems laid into decorated box. Cover design by Fred Stonehouse. Broadsides measure 7 1/2 x 10" tall. Slight waviness to paper else all in fine condition. More
New York: Pantheon Books, [1962]. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this early illustrated children's book by the author of The Martian Chronicles. A near fine decorated hardcover book in the library binding without duatwrapper. One ding to one corner, faint erasure to front endpaper else fine. Not an ex-library..... More
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. First edition in glossy bound wrappers of the poet's scarce third collection. 61 pp. This copy briefly INSCRIBED by the poet on the title page and dated in 1989. Near fine copy. Signed by Author. More
New York: Dia Center For The Arts, 1992. First Edition. Loose Sheets. Two broadside poems laid into folded card wrappers. The two poets gave a reading at the Dia Center For The Arts in 1992 introduced by Amy Clampitt. The two broadsides are in fine condition. Coolidge has SIGNED his..... More
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Small oblong 8vo. A fine press book printed at the Gehenna Press by Harold McGrath on Nideggen and Fabriano blue and white paper. No text. Book contains illustrations of 16th and 17th century book decorations. Oblong patterned boards in fine condition. Lacking the..... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1949. First edition. Cloth. Royal octavo. 642 pp. With frontis photograph of the author taken by Clara E. Sipprell. First edition stated. Issued without dustwrapper. Handsome copy in full buckram binding and housed in a cardboard slipcase. Number 32 of five hundred special copies SIGNED by..... More
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1994. Later printing. Hardcover. Quarter black cloth over boards. 90 pp. Stated fourth printing. Small ink notation. Light wear to covers. A very good copy in very good price intact dustwrapper. Wrapper has some creasing and wear to a portion of the lower front panel.... More
New York: Adama Books, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine first edition in glossy decorated boards. No dustwrapper, as issued. Former owner stamp to inside front board. This copy SIGNED by Gorey on the title page and uncommon thus. Signed by Author. More
New York: Poetry Project, 1975 - 1978. First edition. Paperback. Sold here as a group are twleve relatively early issues of The Poetry Project Newsletter (first edited by Ted Greenwald and later Frances LeFevre). All were mailed to poet Jackson Mac Low. Condition varies, but generally all in good to..... More
Willits: Tuumba Press, 1976. First Edition. Paperback. First edition. An attractive copy of the poet's first major book. Printed as Tuumba #1. Near fine in stapled card wrappers. Quite scarce. More
New York: Eventorium Press, 1966. First edition. Paperback. Wide softbound 4to. A book of poems and drawings by this poet and filmmaker. The poet's fourth collection. Unpaginated. Illustrated with b/w photographs. A clean very good plus or better copy. SIGNED by the poet and quite uncommon thus... More
New York: New Directions, 1988. First edition. Cloth. Clothbound book in dustwrapper. 203 pp. A volume of minimalist poems by Lax. Edited by Thomas Kellein. Very good condition in navy cloth binding in a very good unclipped dustwrapper. Photo illustration to front panel of the poet on bicycle in the..... More
Japan: Kodansha International, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. First edition in English of this early novel by Murakami. Translated by Alfred Birnbaum. A clean near fine copy of this fragile paperback edition (there was no hardcover edition). Comes with decorated dustwrapper and scarce original belly band. One of the author's scarcest..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. True first edition of O'Flaherty's classic book of the Irish Underground in Dublin. Made into a memorable film directed by John Ford. A clean tight very good copy in green cloth with bright spine lettering. Price intact dustwrapper is quite bright and has..... More
