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1988259158Easthampton: Cheloniidae Press 1988. Limited State Proof Edition; numbered "III" of 5 copies. Quarter Leather. Fine binding. Alan James Robinson; Calligraphy by Suzanne Moore. Signed by Robinson below the colophon. Quarter bound in celadon morocco by Claudia Cohen with multi-color morocco onlay of a fly by Gray Parrot; this edition includes an additional sixteen state proofs of the etchings along with state proofs and working proofs of the wood engravings two watercolors and an original study of one of the etchings laid in portfolio; a fine copy in publishers' morocco backed tray case with two prospectuses laid in. Fine binding. Cheloniidae Press unknown books
1966124803New York: New American Library 1966. Signed limited first edition of this collection of essays--which Rand in her introduction characterizes as "a nonfiction footnote to Atlas Shrugged." Octavo original half cloth. Boldly signed by Ayn Rand. Near fine in a near fine slipcase. With additional articles by Nathaniel Branden Alan Greenspan and Robert Hessen. This collection of 26 essays includes twenty by Ayn Rand as well as three essays by Alan Greenspan two by Nathaniel Branden and one by Robert Hessen. "One of the best defenses and explanations of capitalism one is likely to read" Walter E. Williams. New American Library hardcover books
19671458751967. Archive of eight vintage borderless photographs three typescript essays and a carbon typescript of the first essay and first page of the second by photographer Jerry Bauer circa 1967 with the photographs corresponding to the topics of the essays. <br/><br/>Bauer was an American photographer best known for his photographic portraits of writers with his portraits of Samuel Beckett being held in particularly high regard. Much of his work resides in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.<br/><br/>The first essay "The American Underground: Mind Expansion A Messiah 'Love'" is an examination of Timothy Leary and the "League for Spiritual Discovery" LSD a communal organization carrying out studies in the religious use of psychedelic drugs as well as the effects of LSD. Two photographs are of the New York Millbrook estate mentioned in the essay one of the centers for the group one photograph of the estate itself and the other of two participants on the porch. Another photograph shows three young people lounging on a bed a young man with beads in his hand matching the description in the essay of a subject's focus on "a set of beads" and a description of the living quarters being ". . . simple: mattresses on the floor." <br/><br/>The second essay "American Underground : Mind Expansion The Poets 'Love' 2" is broken into three sections. The first is about the musical group The Fugs who Bauer describes as "the Beatles of the American underground." Two of the photographs in and around Washington Square Park feature members of The Fugs one of a gleaming Ed Sanders and Geoff Outlaw with two unidentified young women. In a second photograph the same group is on the grass along with Ken Weaver and a third unidentified young woman.<br/><br/>The second section of the essay is about "the two stars" of the underground film movement Andy Warhol stars Baby Jane Holzer and Edie Sedgewick with a corresponding photograph taken in Warhol's Factory showing Ingrid Superstar sitting on a mattress Baby Jane Holzer on the floor with her back to the camera along with several unidentified subjects. Holzer is identified from a published photograph by Bauer titled "Baby Jane Holzer" taken at the same time as the one in the archive.<br/><br/>The final section of the essay is a about American youth and drug culture in Greenwich Village as well as the neighborhood itself. Here the related photographs are of several young people seated on the grass one playing the guitar in Washington Square Park and one of several people standing around a Greenwich Village intersection.<br/><br/>The third essay "Andy Warhol: Film Director of America's Underground" is a study of Warhol's early experimental films. Beginning with a brief summation of Warhol's early career Bauer goes on to postulate about Warhol's films discussing the director's various regulars including Elekro Baby Jane Holzer Sally Kirkland Nico here spelled "Nicot" and others.<br/><br/>Photographs: Six photographs 10.75 x 8.25 inches two photographs 10.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine overall.<br/><br/>Ribbon typescript essays: 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Typescript on onionskin stock six leaves bound with a silver corner clip. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Carbon typescript essays: 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock three leaves bound with a silver corner clip. Near Fine. unknown books
1987810Durham NC: Duke University Press 1987. First edition of the photographer's second major photobook. Quarto original cloth. Signed by Helen Levitt on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Not to be confused with the more common paperback edition. Helen Levitt and the author James Agee first collaborated in 1945 on a documentary film set in Harlem called "In the Street." Psychologist Robert Coles contributed the essays to this volume. Owen Edwards from The New York Times has noted that "in common situations Miss Levitt finds the glint of an often bizarre beauty that most of us-including photographers-do not notice. . . . She brings to her pictures an intensity that can be almost hypnotic." "There is no fundamental difference in the great landscapes and quiet portraits of Edward Weston and the profoundly revealing pictures of children by Helen Levitt. Both are photographic perceptions of the highest order" Ansel Adams. Duke University Press hardcover books
1992867Ithaca: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Cornell University 1992. <b>First edition one of 1000 hardbound copies this one of 200 issued with an original lithograph signed dated & numbered by the artist. </b>Small folio xiii & 192 pp. illustrated throughout in color & black & white. Laid in and enclosed in a folding sleeve is the untitled lithograph number 7 of 200 measuring 11.75 inches by 8.75 inches. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver on the spine & upper cover in pictorial dust jacket.<br /><br /> A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with slight edge wear and soiling.<br /><br /> Issued in conjunction with an exhibition at Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art this catalog of conceptual artist Agnes Denes' work is visually stunning. Includes essays by Peter Selz Lowery Stokes Sims Robert Hobbs and Donald Kuspit. The lithograph printed in blue ink on thick deckle-edged paper is not titled but represented on page 51 as <b><i>"Model for Probability Pyramid - Study for Crystal Pyramid." </i></b><br /> Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University hardcover books
194715058New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1947. First edition of this collection of essay regarding the influence of John Maynard Keynes. Octavo original blue cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize winning-economist Paul Samuelson who contributed an essay to this volume. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremities. Other contributors include John Maynard Keynes Wassily Leontief Lloyd Metzler Gottfried Haberler Wassily Leontief Abba Lerner Joan Robinson Joseph A. Schumpeter and Jan Tinbergen among others. Paul Samuelson is one of the developers of both neo-Keynesian and neoclassical economics the latter of which still dominates mainstream economics. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1970. One of Samuelson's many novel contributions was that he generalized and applied mathematical methods developed for the study of thermodynamics to the field of economics. His inspiration for doing so came in part from his mentor polymath Edwin Bisdwell Wilson who was a former Yale student of the founder of chemical thermodynamics Willard Gibbs. Samuelson therefore is a successful example of interdisciplinarity and he combined these ideas in his magnum opus Foundations of Economic Analysis. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
194742833New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1947. First edition of this collection of essay regarding the influence of John Maynard Keynes. Octavo original blue cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson on the title page. In very good condition. Other contributors include John Maynard Keynes Wassily Leontief Lloyd Metzler Gottfried Haberler Wassily Leontief Abba Lerner Joan Robinson Joseph A. Schumpeter and Jan Tinbergen among others. Paul Samuelson is one of the developers of both neo-Keynesian and neoclassical economics the latter of which still dominates mainstream economics. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1970. One of Samuelson's many novel contributions was that he generalized and applied mathematical methods developed for the study of thermodynamics to the field of economics. His inspiration for doing so came in part from his mentor polymath Edwin Bisdwell Wilson who was a former Yale student of the founder of chemical thermodynamics Willard Gibbs. Samuelson therefore is a successful example of interdisciplinarity and he combined these ideas in his magnum opus Foundations of Economic Analysis. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
197617022803San Francisco: The Book Club of California printed by Andrew Hoyem 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Angelo Valenti. One of 400 copies folio size 99 pp. signed by Valenti Angelo with prospectus and related ephemera in custom box. Valenti Angelo 1897-1982 was a highly-regarded designer illuminator and decorator of books over a career that spanned decades doing much of his early work for the Grabhorn Press and the Book Club of California; he also printed his own books in extremely limited editions under the imprints of "The Golden Cross Press" and "The Press of Valenti Angelo". This publication of The Book Club of California celebrates Angelo's fiftieth anniversary as a printer and is a detailed collection of his work up to 1975. Many of the facsimiles in the book are printed in colour and some are even hand-coloured by Angelo himself; he contributed greatly to the design of this book.<br/><br/>The volume has essays about Angelo's work and his skill as a printer and designer written by celebrated novelist Sherwood Anderson 1876-1941 writer Annis Duff and Robert Grabhorn of the Grabhorn Press. This particular copy has several pieces of related ephemera laid in including two different cards regarding Angelo's work and the publication of this book one with hand-colouring and two Christmas cards addressed to a prior owner one from Andrew Hoyem Printer and one from Valenti Angelo. The book is housed in a custom clamshell box.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Quarter red cloth with orange boards blue decorations by Valenti Angelo running vertically on the front and rear boards orange paper spine label with blue lettering fore-edge uncut bottom edge rough cut title page with illustrations and ornaments in blue and orange with hand-colouring in gilt by Angelo decorations and initial capitals by Angelo throughout forty-three specimens of Angelo's printing thirty-five of which are in colour and some hand-coloured throughout; monotype Centaur machine-made paper folio size 14.5" by 10.25" pagination: 1-6 7-97 98 1 colophon one of 400 copies unnumbered signed by Valenti Angelo on the colophon. With prospectus loosely laid in one sheet folded once and related ephemera two cards regarding the Open House celebrating the book's publication and an exhibition of Angelo's work and two Christmas cards inside envelopes with prior owner address one from Andrew Hoyem at the Arion Press featuring an illustration of madrone berries by Valenti Angelo and one from Valenti Angelo himself. Housed in a custom clamshell box covered in brown paper with a brown paper spine label with black lettering.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy; the covers clean the corners straight and unrubbed the binding tight with solid hinges the interior clean and bright and free of prior owner markings; clean crisp as new. The prospectus is near fine clean overall without wear except for a small crease to the bottom right corners. The custom clamshell box is near fine strong and sturdy clean overall with the hint of a stray mark or two spine is lightly sunned and bottom front corner bumped and with some rubbing. The ephemera are near fine clean overall with some minor soiling without wear.<br/><br/>___CITATION: BCC no. 154.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â Please note that this is an unusually large and heavy item and additional postage may apply; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Book Club of California [printed by Andrew Hoyem] hardcover books
19882296New York: Alfred A. Knopf/Harper Collins 1988/1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue boards. Very good in Very good dust wrappers. 193 & 224 pages. From the collection of the late bookseller Barbara Farnsworth 1934-2018. Laurie Colwin a novelist and short stories writer was well known for her wit and especially for her food columns in Gourmet Magazine. Colwin died suddenly at the age of 48 in October 1992. Colwin was a part-time resident of West Cornwall CT where she struck up a friendship with Barbara Farnsworth. These two first editions are accompanied by two personal correspondence between the two and clipped articles invitations and Colwin's obituaries - all annotated with dates by Farnsworth. <br /> <br />List of laid in items: Beatrix Potter post card from Laurie to Barbara 3/11/92 Letter from Laurie to Barbara 9/23/88 NYT Magazine article 11/02 NYT Book Review 10/93 Gourmet Article 8/01 Gourmet "You Asked For It" 9/87 New Yorker Fiction 10/93 Kirkus Review - Home Cooking Supplement Card 1988 With Compliments of the Author Card - Alfred A. Knopf Index Card with Laurie's NY address Postcard to Barbara for Laurie's Memorial Service at Symphony Space 2/9/93. Four clipped obituaries. <br /> <br />ln 1992 Andrew Malcolm describing Farnsworth's Books and bookstore in the New York Times quoted Barbara as saying "Nobody runs an old bookstore to get rich. It just legalizes my compulsion to own lots of books on lots of subjects and to put my own mark on the store." <br /> <br />Home Cooking is clean and crisp More Home Cooking is lightly foxed with an annotation in pencil Katharine Hepburn's Brownies. <br /> <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf/Harper Collins hardcover books
197116467Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum 1971. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine/good. 4to. 230 pp. Text in German English and Dutch. Catalog of a 1971 exhibition of various concrete and visual poets at the Stedelijk Museum. Small owner name to first page else a clean near fine example in unprinted bound wrappers. Printed on thin inexpensive paper stock. In good printed paper dustwrapper with some toning to covers and wear along top edge. Essays by de Vree Dohl and Cobbing. <br/><br/> Stedelijk Museum paperback books
1976CNBR358San Francisco: The Book Club of California printed by Andrew Hoyem 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Angelo Valenti. One of 400 copies folio size 99 pp. inscribed by Valenti Angelo with prospectus and related ephemera. Valenti Angelo 1897-1982 was a highly-regarded designer illuminator and decorator of books over a career that spanned decades doing much of his early work for the Grabhorn Press and the Book Club of California; he also printed his own books in extremely limited editions under the imprints of "The Golden Cross Press" and "The Press of Valenti Angelo". This publication of The Book Club of California celebrates Angelo's fiftieth anniversary as a printer and is a detailed collection of his work up to 1975. Many of the facsimiles in the book are printed in colour and some are even hand-coloured by Angelo himself; he contributed greatly to the design of this book.<br/><br/>The volume has essays about Angelo's work and his skill as a printer and designer written by celebrated novelist Sherwood Anderson 1876-1941 writer Annis Duff and Robert Grabhorn of the Grabhorn Press. This particular copy has the prospectus and several pieces of related ephemera laid in including a small note written in Angelo's hand regarding this book a copy of a similar note regarding the book two different cards regarding Angelo's work and the publication of this book one with hand-colouring and an elegantly printed announcement for Angelo's eightieth birthday one sheet folded once.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Quarter red cloth with orange boards blue decorations by Valenti Angelo running vertically on the front and rear boards orange paper spine label with blue lettering fore-edge uncut bottom edge rough cut title page with illustrations and ornaments in blue and orange with hand-colouring in gilt by Angelo decorations and initial capitals by Angelo throughout forty-three specimens of Angelo's printing thirty-five of which are in colour and some hand-coloured throughout; monotype Centaur machine-made paper folio size 14.5" by 10.25" pagination: 1-6 7-97 98 1 colophon one of 400 copies unnumbered inscribed by Valenti Angelo on the colophon "This copy has been hand-colored by the artist for Dr. R. S. Speck". With prospectus loosely laid in one sheet folded once with a horizontal crease for mailing and related ephemera a small note written in Angelo's hand regarding this book a copy of a similar note regarding the book two different cards regarding Angelo's work and the publication of this book one with gilt initial capital and an elegantly printed announcement for Angelo's eightieth birthday one sheet folded once.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy; the covers clean the corners straight and unrubbed the binding tight with solid hinges the interior clean and bright and free of prior owner markings; with light toning to the endpapers. The prospectus is near fine clean overall without wear except for a couple shallow creases to the top corners. The ephemera are near fine clean overall with some minor soiling without wear but for a few shallow creases to corners.<br/><br/>___CITATION: BCC no. 154.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â Please note that this is an unusually large and heavy item and additional postage may apply; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Book Club of California [printed by Andrew Hoyem] hardcover books
195419052019San Francisco: Printed by Roxburghers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn 1954. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 200 copies elephant folio size 83 pp. Limited edition of 200 copies "printed by Roxburghers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn" and sold only to members of the Club; included in the Exhibition of Western Books Rounce & Coffin Club. <br/><br/>Contains an essay on the Roxburghe Club by Carl I. Wheat an essay on the Duke of Roxburghe by Roy Vernon Sowers a Roster of Members and Officers for the 25 years a Chronology showing year by year the venue and topic of each meeting with twenty-six plates at the end of reproductions of invitations.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Marbled paper boards with black cloth shelfback paper label on back with black and red lettering and decorations fore- and bottom edges uncut cream endpapers printed throughout in red and black plates in colour; paper English handmade elephant folio size 15.75" by 10.5" unpaginated with 48 leaves total; limited edition of 200 copies unnumbered.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine overall with clean boards a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; a hint of rubbing to the bottom front corner barely discernible. Lacking the plain dustwrapper.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an extremely large volume and additional postage may apply; we are happy to ship at cost to both domestic and international customers please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___CITATION: Grabhorn Bibliography no. 547.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. (Printed by Roxburghers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn) hardcover books
196791526NY: Harper & Row 1967. First edition first prnt. Signed by Hoffer on the front free endpage. Cloth spine ends with minimal shelfwear; dustjacket with beginning extremity toning and minimal shelfwear. Tight copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Hoffer's fourth book. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row Hardcover books
193019165London: Gollancz 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 8vo 464 pp with 48 b/w plates from photographs; indexed. A very good copy with mild sunning to the spine some foxing on the edges of the text block. In the very scarce dust jacket which has internal tape reinforcements and chips missing from the head and foot of the spine and one corner of the front panel. Account of the unsuccessful 1930 International Himalaya Expedition led by Gunter Dyrenfurth which was plagued by bad weather an avalanche and other mishaps. Smythe describes the extensive preparations for the expedition the Himalayan scenery travels in the region--including a visit to the Pemayangste Monastery and the party's successful ascent of Jonsong 24344 feet. Neate S118. Gollancz hardcover books
190913051New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xvi 368 pp with two maps one folding and many illustrations from photographs. Original red cloth boards stamped in gilt and black. Spine slant slight sunning to upper board previous owner's name on front free endpaper else clean and sound. Decima Moore 1871-1964 was a successful stage actress and singer in London before marrying Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg an officer in the Royal Engineers. He was appointed director of surveys in the Gold Coast in 1905 and upon returning from their travels three years later the couple recounted their experiences in alternating chapters. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
19401931Connecticut/California 1940's-1960's. Cards. Decorated covers green yarn binding. Good. 21 pages. 25.5 x 17.5 cm. Handcrafted recipes book made up of decorated envelopes. Each envelope is decorated with pasted-on photos of food items which are labeled and filled with recipes. Both handwritten recipes and recipes cut from magazine periodicals and food packaging. Some envelopes empty. Front cover decorated with a photo of a 1950's dining room. Laid in: a page from The Lassez-Faire what appears to be a mock newspaper for humorous purposes; a pink tissue paper party hat; a black and white photo of a house circa 1940's and an invitation to a wedding - Nancy Jane Franklin Hopper. Recipes from both California periodicals and Connecticut periodicals. One envelope is detached. <br/><br/> unknown books
1993240662Daytona Beach Florida: The Museum of Arts and Sciences 1993. First. hardcover. fine. Chihuly. Beautifully illustrated in color throughout. 142pp 4to orange silk cloth dust wrapper. Daytona Beach Florida; The Museum of Arts and Sciences 1996. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Large presentation by the artist on the half-title.<br/><br/> The Museum of Arts and Sciences unknown books
1982219416Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press 1982. Hardcover. x 350p. personal inscription to Hugh Hagius signed by Ian Young very good second edition revised and updated in original yellow cloth boards titled black. 4282 entries. The primary reference book for literature featuring gay characters. Hagius is author of "G.I. Hustlers of World War II The Scarecrow Press hardcover books
1993292553Daytona Beach Florida: The Museum of Arts and Sciences 1993. First. hardcover. fine. Chihuly. Beautifully illustrated in color throughout. 142 pages 4to orange silk cloth. Daytona Beach Florida; The Museum of Arts and Sciences 1996. First Edition. A fine copy lacking the dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Large presentation by the artist on the half-title.<br/><br/> The Museum of Arts and Sciences unknown books
19822500Le Havre France: Jobin et. Co. 1982. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards title in gilt. Very good in very good slip case. 463 pages. 25.5 x 17 cm. Technical but informative presented in list format with 36 color photographs. Bilingual in both English and French. Publishers letter laid in. Interior clean and crisp spine sunned. <br /> Jobin et. Co. hardcover books
190619319New York: New York Historical Society 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Number 12 of a limited edition of 200 copies. Octavo 121 pp with appendix and index frontis portrait of the author and a facsimile page of the manuscript. Original maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine NYHS monogram in gilt on front board top edge gilt. Spine lightly sunned corners bumped else a very attractive and sound copy. An American woman's narrative of a sea journey and life in London during the Revolutionary War. The second volume in the NYHS Histories and Memoirs series. New York Historical Society hardcover books
20009008556Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Publishers 2000. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. 248 pages; 231 illustrations including 167 in color. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in blue. English edition. <br/><br/> Hatje Cantz Publishers hardcover books
19969014529New York: Thames and Hudson 1996. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. With 757 illustrations 216 in color. Bound in publisher's original navy blue cloth with the spine stamped in silver. <br/><br/> Thames and Hudson hardcover books
199160848NY: Farrar Straus Giroux 1991. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Milosz on the front free endpage. Laid-in is a 4"x6" black and white publicity portrait photo of Milosz signed by him. Spine cloth ends lightly pushed; otherwise in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed By Author with Photo. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Farrar Straus Giroux Hardcover books
1947149099New York: Grolier Club 1947. First Edition. First Edition one of 600 copies. Catalog of an exhibition held at The Grolier Club from April 18 through June 16 1961. Photo-illustrated throughout with examples of the books. <br/><br/>Very Good plus without dust jacket. Small dampstain to the bottom edge of some pages. Boards lightly soiled with light toning to the spine. Grolier Club unknown books
