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1994159628Paris: Gallimard / Electa 1994. Hardcover. VG Small remnants of a label on dj spine; some scuffs to slipcase; otherwise nice and clean. Midnight blue cloth white & color illus. dust jacket 383 pp. BW and color illus.; in matching blue cloth and color illus. slipcase. Text is in French. Considers the life and complete works of Italian Mannerist Jacopo da Pontormo 1494-1557. With a well-illustrated narrative. The main annotated and illustrated catalogue presents 86 pieces. Incudes exhibitions and collections histories and bibliography. A stunning presentation. Gallimard / Electa hardcover books
197943256Paris: Service des Travaux Historiques de la Ville de Paris 1979. Three volumes. Small 4to pp. lxix 367 plus 48 plates; liv 519 plus 40 plates; xlvi 720 plus 45 plates. Indices. In French. Pale green cloth stamped in dark green. Vol. 1: Abada--Avril. Vol. 2: Baaleu--Banville. Vol. 3: Baquelier--Billon. Copy of a letter reviewing the contents of Vol. 1 laid in that volume. Vol. 1 somewhat browned on spine cover slightly soiled Vol. 2 little faded on spine o/w a nice set. At the time of his death in 1934 Renouard was engaged in recording the production of the Paris book trade for the entire 16th century. His manuscripts for this project are being published over time by the Biblioteque National and offer a wide range of information going far beyond the alphabetical category of each volume. Service des Travaux Historiques de la Ville de Paris unknown books
1951018567Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1951. Their second collaboration inscribed by Thoby-Marcelin to Barbara Howes in 1971. Howes/Smith bookplate front pastedown causing offsetting to flyleaf at inscription. Introduction by Edmund Wilson with Howes' pencilled markings in the text of the introduction; spine cloth faded; very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with several small edge chips. Uncommon especially signed. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1944266091Paris: Les Joies Secrètes 1944. First edition one of 1000 copies from an edition of 1053 this copy being number 200. 6 full page color illustarions 39 pp. 4to. Printed paper wrappers. First edition one of 1000 copies from an edition of 1053 this copy being number 200. 6 full page color illustarions 39 pp. 4to. Ilustrated throughout by De Hand. Les Joies Secrètes unknown books
196816591New York: Viking Press 1968. cloth. Fine/Fine. Octavo quarter bound in black cloth with purple cloth covered sides. Fine in a fine dust jacket protected by a plastic sleeve. Inscribed on the half-title page with an extremely elaborate pen drawing in the style of the period Jullian loved. An inflential book in Jullian's long list of important books. His literary efforts helped usher in the revival of interest in Symbolism and Art Nouveau. Viking Press hardcover books
1961WRCLIT70974Milan: Galerie Schwarz 1961. Original monochrome etching plate size 11 x 14.5 cm on 26.5 x 19.5 cm sheet. Mounted in stiff board and acetate mat with printed caption on verso. Fine. One of sixty numbered copies in addition to twenty-five copies numbered in Roman signed and dated in the margin by the artist. Printed in Paris in the Atelier of Georges Leblanc on hand made paper from Papeteries de Rives. Hiquily b. 1925 in Paris studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1948 to 1953 and he attended the workshops of sculptors Jean Tinguely and Germaine Richier devoting himself almost exclusively to kinetic metal sculpture. He exhibited for the first time in 1955 at the Palms Gallery in Paris and at the Contemporaries Gallery in New York in 1959. This print was published as an element of Galerie Schwarz's series L'AVANGUARDIA INTERNAZIONALE. Galerie Schwarz unknown books
1944018565NY: Farrar & Rinehart. 1944. A novel of Haiti by these two Haitian brothers which won a prize in the Second Latin American literature contest sponsored by Farrar & Rinehart. Inscribed by Thoby-Marcelin to Barbara Howes in 1971. Poet Barbara Howes edited From the Green Antilles one of the first anthologies of Caribbean literature to appear in the U.S. in 1966. She was married to the poet William Jay Smith. This book has the Howes/Smith bookplate on the front pastedown. Translated by Edward Larocque Tinker who designed and illustrated the book and who provides an introduction to it entitled "Haitian Background" explaining both the history and the metaphysics of Haitian religious beliefs. Fine in a good price-clipped dust jacket threatening to split at the flap folds. An important book and especially scarce signed. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
1968128881Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1968. Final Script for the 1969 film. Originally set to be made by maverick director Joseph Strick who actually did some location shooting in Tunisia. However Strick ran into disagreements with Fox executives and was replaced with George Cukor who shot the remainder of the film in Hollywood. <br/><br/>Set in Alexandria in 1938 a young British schoolmaster named Darley meets Pursewarden a British consular officer. Pursewarden introduces him to Justine the wife of an Egyptian banker. Darley befriends her and discovers she is involved in a plot against the British the goal of which is to arm the Jewish underground movement in Palestine. <br/><br/>Partially shot on location at Ennejma Ezzahra a palace at Sidi Bou Said in Northern Tunisia. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as Final on the front wrapper and production No. 842 dated July 2 1968. Title page present dated July 2 1968 noted as Final with credit for screenwriter Marcus. 152 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 7-15-68 and 11-22-68. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1953WRCLIT59938Location: New Orleans: Philippe Halsman 1953. Original b&w silver print oblong 27.5 x 32 cm 10.75 x 12.5 inches with extended right border. Old coffee ring mark in blank right border a few minor creases but very good. A fine portrait of the Broadway director from a sequence of photographs Halsman took for LIFE during the pre- Broadway tryout in New Orleans for KIND SIR by Norman Krasna. Halsman's credit/copyright stamp appears on the verso along with pencil identification of the subject and the play. Philippe Halsman unknown books
1967WRCLIT82622New York: The Photographer 1967. Original black & white silver print photograph 35.5 x 28cm including thin border 14 x 11". Tiny crease to one extreme corner but about fine. With the Halsman copyright estate stamp on the verso along with penciled identification in a florid unknown hand. An original photo of the 1967 New York production at the Music Box Theatre of Pinter's play featuring Vivian Merchant Paul Rogers Ian Holm Michael Craig et al. The Photographer unknown books
192708303N.P. 1927. ALS Octavo 6 pages to a friend "Christian." With three caricature drawings in the text - written in blue ink. Philippe Swyncop 1878 - 1949 was the older brother of Charles Swyncop both were accomplished artists. Philippe lived in Spain for 12 years produced valuable works in oil watercolor and prints. <br/><br/> unknown books
1949WRCLIT84381New York: Philippe Halsman 1949. Original b&w silver print 35 x 28cm 14 x 11 inches with extended upper border. About fine. A striking photo of an opera rehearsal tentatively identified by a former owner as the 1949 production of Mozart's DON GIOVANNI starring Marguerite Piazza and James Pease. Halsman's credit/copyright stamp appears on the verso and the photo may have been shot to accompany an article about New York opera that appeared in LIFE 11 April 1949 XXVI:15. From the 1984 Halsman estate sale. Philippe Halsman unknown books
1959WB16624New York: Simon & Schuster 1959. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Small slim quarto. Warmly inscribed by Philippe Halsman in English and French to a pair of his close friends signing both his name and his wife's dated Dec. 1959 the year of publication. Nice copy in a worn and spotted dustjacket with a number of small chips and tears. <br/><br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1937908Paris: G.L.M. 1937. First Edition one of 1200 on offset from a total issue of 1270. 8vo. Handsomely bound in 3/4 green morocco and marbled paste-paper boards gilt fillets four raised bandsauthor and title gilt top edge gilt marbled paste-paper doublures original wrappers and spine bound in. The complete works from the surrealist period of this important poet and novelist one of the original surrealist triumvirate. G.L.M. unknown books
1982151912New York: Rizzoli 1982. First American Edition preceded by the French edition published by Editions du Regard in 1981. Photo-illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white. <br/><br/>A superb history of the Bugatti family: Carlo the father a furniture designer Rembrandt Bugatti son a sculptor and Ettore and Jean son and grandson automobile designers. <br/><br/>Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Rizzoli unknown books
1950WRCLIT60000New York: Philippe Halsman 1950. Original b&w silver print oblong 24.3 x 30.5 cm 9.5 x 12 inches with extended right and bottom borders. Faint crease in one border else about fine. A fine portrait of the songwriter and dramatist and his wife possibly taken concurrent with any one of the several sequences of photographs Halsman took of Hammerstein and Richard Rogers. Halsman's credit/copyright stamp appears on the verso. Philippe Halsman unknown books
193117505Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques 1931. Original wraps. Near Fine. The 1931 edition of this impressive short-lived French annual issued out of Paris and lasting only 11 years in this original incarnation. 124 lavish full-page gravures by the likes of Doris Ulmann Man Ray Edward Steichen Paul Outerbridge Munkacsi Lee Miller Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Andre Kertesz Germaine Krull Hoyningen-Huene Herbert Bayer Cecil Beaton et al. Also includes over two dozen wonderfully decorative period ads at the rear. This issue has held up very well to boot: clean and Near Fine in its spiral-bound off-white printed wrappers with just the slightest touch of spotting to the front panel. Tall quarto crisp well-preserved and very presentable with a number of hauntingly beautiful photos. Also includes a handsome navy-blue custom-made box with bright gilt-titling along the spine which houses the annual. <br/><br/> Arts et Metiers Graphiques paperback books
199246092Paris: Michel Aveline Editeur 1992. Hardcover. Very Good. 301pp. Slight spine lean else a very good hardack in a very good dustjacket that has some minor wear to the extremities. Text in French. <br/><br/> Michel Aveline Editeur hardcover books
199246424Paris: Michel Aveline Editeur 1992. Hardcover. Very Good. 301pp. Very good hardback in a jacket that shows just the lightest wear at the extremities and has a closed tear to the bottom of the front panel. Text in French. <br/><br/> Michel Aveline Editeur hardcover books
1926JC14536Paris: Au Sans Pareil 1926. Limited Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo. Original blue wrappers cellophane protective jacket present. Etchings by JEAN LURÇAT. This is one of only 35 copies on Japan Imperial paper with an extra suite of the etchings. Copy number 45 out of a total limitation of 990. Minor wear. A very nice copy. <br/><br/> Au Sans Pareil paperback books
19723411972. Engraving and drypoint. Number 8 of 60. Signed in red ink lower right. Impression on Japan. Kersten & Koschatzky 42. Image: 8 1/4 x 6. Margins: 13¾ x 11. books
1959WRCLIT80553Taken near Bordeaux France 1959. Original 14 x 11" silver gelatin print portrait photograph. Remnants of mat tape on verso at corners two small marginal nicks otherwise about fine. An excellent print of one of the several portrait photographs Halsman made of the Nobel Prize Laureate during a 1959 visit to Mauriac's home outside of Bordeaux. This portrait is a particularly sensitive and contemplative pose. Halsman's copyright stamp appears on the verso. unknown books
192522049Paris: Aux Editions du Sagittaire 1925. First edition. One of 50 large paper copies printed on Japon. A fine unopened copy. 8vo original black and red wrappers. A fine unopened copy. Aux Editions du Sagittaire unknown books
190764919Paris: Librairie Commerciale 1907. hardcover. very good-. Volume of models only comprising 7 plates in color each with numerous flaps exposing the mechanism and parts of each machine. Oblong folio pictorial blue cloth; rubbed. Paris: Librairie Commerciale 1907. A very good- copy of this unusual book.<br/><br/> Latest English locomotive; steam turbine; gazogene; Panhard automobile; Priestmann petroleum motor; electromotor; submarine with torpedo.<br/><br/> Librairie Commerciale unknown books
1956140940586Paris: Berggruen & Cie 1956. Limited First Edition. Near Fine. Limited first edition. Signed by the founder of the Dada movement Tristan Tzara as well as by the artist whose work is featured Bonnet in pencil. Text in French. Near Fine in the original glassine wraps title page rubbed from erasure of booksellers' pencil. Uncommon. Berggruen & Cie unknown books