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Condition: Fine in near fine jacket. First edition of this comprehensive look at one of "the most underappraised though most influential periods in the history of American art" (Naumann). 11.75'' x 8.75''. Orange-red cloth, spine lettered in yellow. In original color pictorial jacket, (no price, as issued). Yellow endpapers. 220 illustrations, including 42 in full color. 255, [1] pages. Though no provenance markings, from the library of noted artist and photographer William Christenberry. Jacket with a bit of rubbing. Book with faintest toning to margins. Sound.

Seller Inventory # 51480

First printing. Signed limited first English edition of Garc�a Marquez's ode to the persistence of romantic memory. Gorgeously designed edition of the author's acclaimed novel, first published in Spanish in 1985. The English translation was praised by Thomas Pynchon to the utmost reaches of superlative adjectives, and was the recipient of less frenzied but still glowing compliments from Michiko Kakutani. Garc�a Marquez's theme - romantic love that never fades, vows never broken; or, seen another way, the nightmare impossibility of permanently dismissing a determined suitor - struck Pynchon as "revolutionary," though his judgment that working in "love's vernacular" is a "daring step for any writer" may raise eyebrows among those familiar with genres and modes of writing in which these themes and treatments have never fallen out of fashion. Garc�a Marquez himself once said, with perhaps greater perception, that the revolutionary part of writing consists simply of doing it well: and he did. A beautiful copy of this signed limited US edition, which preceded the UK edition by several months. 9.25'' x 6.25''. Original quarter pink cloth with black cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. In original decorative black lace-printed mylar protective jacket. With original yellow and black slipcase. Bright pink endpapers, fore-edge machine deckle. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. [10], 348, [4] pages. Signed by Garcia Marquez at colophon and numbered 107 of 350 signed and numbered copies of the first edition. Bright, sharp, clean, and tight overall. Fine in fine jacket and slipcase.

Seller Inventory # 52223

First edition of this companion book to a retrospective exhibition on the work of the American modernist painter, with several essays by Davis scholars. 12'' x 9''. Original black cloth with orange and yellow-lettered front board and spine. In original color pictorial jacket, no price (as issued). 300 illustrations including 129 in full color. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. 334 pages. Jacket with toning to spine, couple spots of soil to verso. Book with light rubbing, faintest toning to leaves. Bright. Near fine in very good plus jacket.

Seller Inventory # 51892

Condition: Near fine in near fine jacket. First edition of this book accompanying "the most comprehensive museum exhibit of Dada art ever mounted in the United States" (Dickerman). 12'' x 8.5''. Original full black cloth boards, blind stamp title on front board, spine lettered in brown. Original pictorial jacket (no price, as issued) designed by Daphne Geismar. Color pictorial endpapers, based on a detail from a Picabia painting. Illustrated throughout with 403 color plates, 217 halftones. XVI, 519, [1] pages. From the library of photographer William Christenberry, with handmade gift note laid in. Jacket with only light creasing to extremities, tiny closed tear to top rear fold. Light bumping to corners. Interior crisp and clean.

Seller Inventory # 51529

Condition: Fine. First edition. Inscribed advance issue of Martin's bestselling novel - a beautiful association copy inscribed to London bookseller Roger Katz. Katz was the manager of Hatchards bookshop for almost twenty years, during which time he came in contact with and befriended numerous writers, including Steve Martin. Accorder to Katz, he was "[i]ntroduced to Steve Martin by Ed Victor at the Ivy. He was looking for a novel, but couldn't remember the title or author. From his description I realised the book was Houellebecq's ATOMISED. I told him there would be a copy at Hatchards with my compliments. He came the next day, bought a number of books, & left me his own bound proof copy of his novel (later a film) SHOPGIRL" (quoted in Maggs Catalogue 1510). These "advance reading cop[ies] from uncorrected proofs" were specially bound by the publisher for promotional distribution to independent bookstores in the US. Those copies, however, were issued with a blank leaf signed by Martin bound in before the half title. That this copy lacks such a blank and that Martin had one in London strongly suggests this copy came from his own author's copies, if not his own personal copy itself. Martin is a reluctant signer and genuinely inscribed books from him are uncommon, especially with so nice a provenance. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Publisher's full red gilt cloth. No jacket, as issued. Metallic grey endpapers. [6], 130, [6] pages. Inscribed by the author on the half title: "To Roger / Hand corrected galleys - / not the final. / But I hope you / enjoy it - / Steve / Martin." Bright, sharp, clean, and sound.

Seller Inventory # 50894

First edition. Inscribed first printing of this tragic cult crime novel that Michael Chabon praised as "[b]eautiful, powerful, even masterful," Oakley Hall's second book and the first published under his own name. Before his tenure as a beloved western writer, Oakley Hall turned his pen to crime and tragedy. Though best known as an important West Coast writer, "a literary heir to fellow California writers like Wallace Stegner" (NEW YORK TIMES), Oakley Hall spent a pivotal few years in Iowa. Hall inscribed this copy of SO MANY DOORS in Iowa City, where he was attending the University of Iowa as a master's student and teaching - it was published in the same year he graduated. Oakley would go on to teach Ann Rice, Amy Tan, Richard Ford, among others, but this his second book remains scarce - and rare signed. Long considered something of a lost classic, it was republished in 2018 as part of the respected Hard Case Crime series. An important stepping stone in the career of the Pulitzer Prize finalist. 8'' x 5.25''. Original brown patterned boards. Original unclipped ($3.00) three-color pictorial dust jacket. Blue topstain. 302 pages. Inscribed by Hall to front flyeleaf "Best wishes / to / Stacy Jackson / Oakley/ Iowa City 1950." Owner names and address to front pastedown, dated July 14, 1950. Two newspaper clippings tipped onto front pastedown. Jacket with some edgewear, mild chipping; 1" closed tear to upper edge. Topstain a bit faded. Binding with light edgewear, slight offsetting to endpapers. Clean. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 48618

Condition: Near fine in near fine jacket. First edition of this monograph on New York City's remaining storefronts, arranged by neighborhood - with vibrant full page photos (including a few fold-outs), accompanied by short histories gathered from interviews with the owners. 11.5'' x 12.75''. Original grey paper boards, white lettered front board and spine. In original photographic wrappers, no price (as issued). Grey typographic endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout. 336 pages. Jacket with some light rubbing and edgewear. Small bump to spine foot. Interior bright.

Seller Inventory # 51748

Condition: Near fine in near fine. First edition of this in depth study of the Italian Old Master with full page reproductions of his Mannerist work on various high quality paper stocks - including paintings, murals, and frescos. 12.75'' x 9.25''. Original light blue boards. In original color pictorial dust jacket, (no price, as issued). Light blue endpapers. Illustrated throughout in color and in black-and-white. 297, [3] pages. Jacket with light edgewear, tiny bit of rubbing. Book with minor shelfwear, small spot to rear pastedown. Interior fresh.

Seller Inventory # 51509

Condition: Fine in fine. First edition of this exhibition book on one of the fathers of abstract expressionism, focusing on a period of his career wherein his "creativity burst forth and flowered." 11.5'' x 9.75''. Original black paper boards, silver-lettered spine. In original color pictorial jacket, no price (as issued). Black endpapers. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color. 176 pages. Jacket with trace edgewear. Bright and tight.

Seller Inventory # 51904

Condition: Fine. First edition of this elegant monograph on the famed French garden, with extensive illustrations of the grounds. Including reproductions of the suite of the 1785 Le Rouge engravings, as well as photographs by Michael Kenna and a survey of historical illustrations. 11'' x 16''. Original blue cloth with grey onlay. Grey endpapers. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Text in French and English. 116 pages. With original exhibit invitation, brochure, and prospectus laid in. One or two barely perceptible spots of soil to leaves, else crisp and bright.

Seller Inventory # 51754

Condition: Overall near fine. First printing. First edition of this massive two-volume set covering the iconic artist's life and work, with many vibrant full-page color plates. Two volumes, 12.25'' x 9.25'' each. Original publisher's red cloth with Picasso sketch stamped in white on cover, both. In original color pictorial jackets. With original slipcase. Illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white. 380; 740 pages. Gift inscription to artist and noted photographer William Christenberry to verso of front endpaper. Slipcase with a couple bumps, bit of shelfwear. Jackets with only faint rubbing. Books beautiful. Bright and clean.

Seller Inventory # 51490

Condition: Very good plus to near fine. First Detmold edition, with 12 exquisite tipped-in color plates with tissue guards, rare in the box. Quarto. 10.75'' x 8.25''. Original white gilt pictorial cloth. In original publisher's box with color plate on cover. Illustrated by Detmold with 12 tipped-in color plates. viii, 240 pages. Book with a bit of toning to spine and rear board, some foxing to fore-edge and first and last few leaves. Box somewhat rubbed and toned, with flaps repaired.

Seller Inventory # 1690

Condition: Very good. First edition of this exhibition book of photographs taken by a lifelong Brooklynite during his late adolescence and early adulthood as a young concert-goer in the '70s and '80s. 10'' x 14.75''. Original black paper, gilt-lettered front and spine. Color pictorial endpapers. Photographically illustrated, including some foldouts. Unpaginated. Rough 1'' scrape to top edge of front board, touch of bumping. Interior glossy, clean.

Seller Inventory # 51755

Condition: Fine in fine jacket. Later edition of this vibrantly illustrated survey of the French conceptual artist's career, with dozens of color reproductions of his work. 12'' x 9.5''. Original gray paper boards, black lettering to spine. In original blue photographic jacket, no price (as issued). Blue endpapers. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color. 64 pages. Jacket with light shelfwear. Book with faintest toning to leaves. Bright and tight.

Seller Inventory # 51893

Condition: Fine in fine jacket. First edition of this charming narrative-driven series by the Italian photographer, "depicting scenes from the memory bank of an old circus performer as he looks back on his life." 14'' x 11.25''. Original dark grey cloth with blind stamped lettering. In original color pictorial jacket (rear panel price $85.00), designed by Inger-Lise McMillan. White textured endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout. 120 pages. Crisp.

Seller Inventory # 51782

Condition: Fine in fine jacket. First edition of this monumental collection - still one of the best overviews of his work - in the original slipcase. Produced in collaboration with the Mapplethorpe Foundation only a few years after the photographer's death. 12'' x 11.75''. Original grey cloth boards. In original photographic dust jacket (unclipped; no price). In original grey cloth slipcase with photographic paste-on. Illustrated with full-page black-and-white images throughout. 380 pages.

Seller Inventory # 50901

Condition: Very good plus. First edition of this retrospective exhibition catalogue on Bourgeois, highlighting the autobiographical and architectural themes in her oeuvre. 12'' x 9.5''. Original color photographic wrappers with French flaps. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. 320 pages. Two barcode stickers to rear wrapper. Light shelfwear, shallow spot of peeling to foot of spine. A few leaves with scattered soil or a tiny bit of wear to top edge. Sound.

Seller Inventory # 51763

Condition: Fine. First edition of this vivid monograph of Albers's work, presented and organized through the lens of color theory. 10'' x 17''. Original grey cloth, white lettered boards. Grey endpapers. 56 pages. A couple tiny spots of soil to rear board. Interior bright.

Seller Inventory # 51751

Condition: Fine in fine jacket. First edition of this essay on the Atlanta Child Murders, which a contemporary review at the time called "nothing less than an update on the progress-or lack of it-of the American Dream." Baldwin first began researching the Atlanta Child Murders of 1979-1981 on assignment from Walter Lowe, the first Black editor at PLAYBOY, where an earlier version of this essay was first published and won the magazine's Best Nonfiction award for 1981. Sensitive to his burden of responsibility to victims, survivors, and the truth, Baldwin rejected the creative license employed by Truman Capote and his many lesser true-criminal successors, explaining: "Tolstoy has every right to throw Anna Karenina under the train. [.] But the life of a living human being, no one writes it. You cannot deal with another human being as though he were a fictional creation." Rather, EVIDENCE is a deep examination of the still-unresolved crimes and investigation in the context of the many failures and spoiled promises of a post-Civil-Rights-era South, the broken relations between the police and the Black community of Atlanta, and the fatal corruption of city administrators and the American justice system. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter black cloth, black paper boards, silver-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($11.95) glossy color typographic dust jacket with photo of Baldwin by J. Phil Samuell on rear panel. Fore-edge machine deckle. xvi, 125, [1] pages. Purple printed review slip, listing publication date as October 28, 1985 and price as $11.95, laid in. Bright, sharp, and sound. b.

Seller Inventory # 52200

Condition: Near fine in near fine jacket. First printing (stated). First edition, in the second-state dust jacket, of Morley (Brant)'s adolescent diary in Bishop's translation from the Portuguese. Alice Deyrell Caldeira Brant began keeping diaries in 1893, the 12-year-old daughter of a diamond miner in the small Brazilian town of Diamantina; their first publication (in Brazil in 1942) was arranged by her husband and edited to omit any and all reference to their meeting and courtship. At the time of Bishop's English translation, the author was 76, happy to meet the poet and expand on her old stories, living proof that "it really happened; everything did take place, day by day, minute by minute, once and only once, just the way Helena says it did" (Bishop). 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter yellow cloth with gray-green decorative boards. In original unclipped ($4.75) dust jacket by Harry Ford, second state, front flap text ending in "Mor-". Photographic endpapers. 281, [1] pages. Light edgewear to boards and jacket, minor soil and scuffing to extremities.

Seller Inventory # 51681

First printing. First US edition of Forster's classic discussion of the English-language novel, based on a series of lectures delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge. What is a novel about? -Oh, about 50,000 words. Subject to adjustment for inflation, Forster's answer to the eternal question still stands as one of the better ones. As Virginia Woolf so rightly said in response to ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL, the novel is a subject about which nobody knows anything, but Forster is perceptive, lucid, and intelligent whether in error or out of it. ASPECTS includes Forster's famous distinction between story and plot as well as his great and resolutely anti-historical vision of all novelists at work in a great circular room, the living and the dead alike suspended out of time, concerned not with the "demon of chronology" but with the stifling, airless spaces of the human heart. 7.25'' x 5''. Original maroon cloth. In original tan dust jacket. 250 pages. Light soil to jacket and top edge of text block. Minor chipping and edgewear to jacket; spine toned. Bookseller label to front pastedown. Overall, clean and sound. Near fine in very good plus jacket.

Seller Inventory # 51539

Condition: Very good plus. First US edition of Forster's first novel, a brutally comic drama of the English in Italy, originally published by Blackwood in 1905. 7.25'' x 5''. Original orange cloth boards, stamped in black. Brown topstain. 283, [1] pages. Small bookseller label to front paste-down. Light edgewear, some soil to spine and top edge.

Seller Inventory # 50731

Condition: Fine in a near fine jacket. Niva Gonzales (illustrator). First printing. Signed first edition (stated) of Cisneros's best known collection of short stories. Cisneros is an acclaimed and influential writer in the Chicano tradition, first breaking into the literary world with her famous novel THE HOUSE OF MANGO STREET (1983). Her reputation also rests on this multiple award-winning collection, featuring vignettes (much like the structure of MANGO STREET) that explore the lives of Mexican American women. The author bio at the rear describes Cisneros as "The daughter of a Mexican father and a Mexican-American mother, and sister to six brothers, she is nobody's mother and nobody's wife." 8.25'' x 5.75''. Original quarter black cloth, tan paper boards, spine lettered in copper with copper-stamped image to front board. In original unclipped ($18.00) color pictorial dust jacket designed by Susan Shapiro with painting by Nivia Gonzalez. Fore-edge machine deckle. [12], 165, [5] pages. Inscribed by Cisneros in black ink across title page: "Para el Fernando / abrazitos / Sandra Cisneros / 3.28.92 / Rockville." Jacket with a hint of toning to flaps. Else clean, sharp, and tight.

Seller Inventory # 52275

Condition: Near fine. First edition of this lavishly illustrated art book memorializing the abstract expressionist via a survey of his decades-long career. 10.75'' x 10''. Original pictorial wrappers. Light blue endpapers. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color. vi, 184 pages. ISBN sticker to rear panel. Spot of soil to textblock fore-edge. Interior bright and clean.

Seller Inventory # 52015

Condition: Very good plus. First printing. Uncorrected advance proofs for the first US edition of this perceptive biography (published in the UK as MORGAN: A Biography of E.M. Forster) by the founder of Persephone Books. 9'' x 6''. Original printed peach wrappers. Black and white illustrations. 404 pages. Light edgewear, minor soil to wrappers.

Seller Inventory # 51987

Condition: Very good plus. First edition of this two-volume set published in conjunction with the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair, showcasing France's accomplishments in the social and physical sciences in essays by the leading French intellectual figures in their respective fields. Subjects surveyed include Egyptology classical archaeology, art, linguistics, Sinology, Latin philology, law and economics, philosophy, sociology, education, mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry,geology, biology, medical science, geography, and paleontology. Among th authors: Gaston Maspero, L�on-Maxime Collignon, Charles-Victor Langlois, Alfred Jeanroy, Antoine Meillet, Charles Gide, Marcellin Boule, Paul Appell, F�lix Le Dantec, and Georges Henri Roger. 2 volumes, 8.75'' x 5.75'' each. Original beige printed wrappers. Illustrated with black and white plates. 403, [5] and 396, [2] pages. Many leaves still unopened. Light edgewear and toning, minor soil to wrappers, some corner creasing.

Seller Inventory # 51118

Condition: Very good plus. First US edition of this ABC accordion book, each panel with liftable flaps that reveal interesting animals in different habitats. 6.5'' x 7.75''. Original color pictorial boards with ribbon ties to fore-edge. No jacket as issued. Illustrated in color. [14] panels with liftable flaps. Binding with light sunning to spine, some toning to barcode sticker. Inner front board with a bit of rubbing. Colors bright.

Seller Inventory # 49420

Condition: Very good. First US edition of Forster's first short story collection, a tour through "the freakish land where boys leap into the arms of Pan and girls become trees" (Woolf), Contents include: The Story of a Panic, The Other Side of the Hedge, The Celestial Omnibus, Other Kingdom, The Curate's Friend, and The Road from Colonus. 7.25'' x 5''. Original orange and black cloth. Black topstain. Decorative endpapers. 163, [1] pages. Light edgewear and soil to boards; spine significantly darkened.

Seller Inventory # 50618

Condition: Near fine in near fine jacket. First edition in English of this hefty catalogue of drawings from the famed artist's personal collection. 10.5'' x 8''. Original brown cloth, gilt-stamped double dolphin logo to front board, gilt-lettered spine. In original color pictorial jacket, no price (as issued). With 1840 illustrations, 41 in color. 480 pages. Jacket with trace edgewear, book with touches of rubbing to boards, faint toning to leaf margins. Clean.

Seller Inventory # 51984

Condition: Fine. Lovely reissue of this compact collaboration, with vibrant color photographs of Ando's work, shot by Pare. 6'' x 5.25''. Original grey cloth, silver-lettered front and spine, blind-stamped design and publisher name to front board. Illustrated throughout in color. 284 pages.

Seller Inventory # 51965