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1930WRCLIT64620Paris: The Black Sun Press 1930. Oblong small quarto. Printed wrappers. A fine nearly untouched copy without foxing in glassine wrapper and somewhat worn and soiled publisher's slipcase and chemise with split at one joint. First edition in this format American deluxe issue. Illustrated with six original color lithographs by Marie Laurencin printed by Desjobert of Paris. From a total edition of 790 copies this is one of twenty copies of the American issue specially printed on Hollande Van Gelder with a duplicate suite of the six lithographs in sanguine bound at the end. Five of the six lithographs in the suite are signed by the artist with the sixth signed in the plate. Laurencin has also signed the limitation page. Neither the copies on Rives nor the special copies on Japon were issued signed either on the colophon or on the lithographs. MINKOFF A39. MONOD 2304. The Black Sun Press unknown books
1928228991Paris The Black Sun Press 1928. 1928. 4to. Illustrated with one double-page facsimile. Original cream wrappers printed in red and black. Original glassine dust jacket slight wear. Fine. Enclosed in a later 1/2 black morocco over black cloth slipcase with folding chemise. Number 13 of 16 copies on Japan paper with an original Typed Letter Boldly Signed "Henry James" Sussex Lamb House Rye October 18 1912. 8 1/8" x 10 1/8"; 3 pages 2 separate leaves. With two small ink corrections by James. To Walter Berry: Letter written in anticipation of Berry's upcoming visit to James. In part: "I welcome your generous compassion and am really not far from thinking that I rather deserve it. I have had a weary dreary sordid squalid time and don't even yet feel the tide to have very decidedly turned. Still I do get up - though I don't get further and I am at this moment in the depths of a demoralized loll the armchair most intimately acquainted with the imprint of my figure aiding whence I weave and try to waft to you these vague symbols of hope and trust." Walter Van Renssalaer Berry was the scion of an old New York family and close friend of both James and Edith Wharton. Minkoff A 16. Edel and Laurence C 8 - This letter was previously unpublished. Soft cover. Fine/Fine. Paris, The Black Sun Press, 1928. hardcover books
701380 woodcut illus. in the text. 100; 89 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo orig. wrappers minor foxing & rubbing orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers label on Vol. I no longer present new stitching. Kyoto: Murakami Kanbei 1668. First Japanese edition in Chinese with Japanese reading marks of the Yin hai jing wei a Chinese ophthalmological classic with 80 woodcut illustrations of various eye diseases. Some Chinese authorities have suggested that Simiao Sun 581-682 the famous physician of the Tang dynasty was the author of this work but other evidence supports a later date for the work at least during the Song Dynasty and perhaps afterwards. Sun known as "the King of Medicine" was a "great alchemist as well as an eminent physician and medical writer."-Lu & Needham Celestial Lancets p. 121. This was one of the chief texts used in the ophthalmological practice of Japanese physicians of the "middle ages" in Japan. It includes therapeutics operations and the use of moxa in ocular disorders. It is based on the theory of wu lun ba kuo showing the illustrations of a variety of eye diseases and explaining the causes and prescriptions of each disease. A fine set. ❧ Mestler A Galaxy of Old Japanese Medical Books IV p. 328-& illus. on Plate 1. Needham et al. Science and Civilisation in China Vol. 5 Part III pp. 132-39. Unschuld Medicine in China. A History of Ideas p. 160-"At the beginning of the seventh century Sun Ssu-miao a scholar versed in all humanistic endeavors compiled an extensive collection of prescriptions in which he combined as already indicated the concepts of systematic correspondence with Taoist techniques of demonic exorcism as well as with certain Buddhist notions.". unknown books
19081191031908. First Edition . SUN TZU. The Book of War. The Military Classic of the Far East. London: John Murray 1908. Octavo original gilt- and red-stamped green cloth. $8500.Rare first British edition of this essential military treatise""a text of matchless wisdom""dating back to the 5th century BCE featuring the translation into English by Calthrop a lovely copy in original cloth.Better known by the more popular translation of the title Art of War this seminal book of military strategy was written in the 5th or 6th century BCE and is attributed to Sun Tzu who ""is regarded as the first Chinese to have written about military affairs and as the founder of strategy"" Cornelli Sun Tzu and the Indirect Strategy. While there remains dispute over his life the work's profound influence is uncontested. ""It has been consulted by military figures and business strategists"" from Napoleon to Mao Zedong. General Douglas MacArthur stated ""I always kept a copy of Art of War on my desk"" and West Point uses it in a seminar on military strategy. To Sun-Tzu ""war was an extension of politics and required a coherent strategic and tactical theory and a practical doctrine governing intelligence planning command operational and administrative procedures To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting"" Ancient History Encyclopedia.The work remains pivotal to leaders in business the law professional sports and diplomacy. Its essential message is: ""Ripeness is all. That is he or she who takes a strategic approach to business lifewho is fit in mind body and spirit who is always ready for just about anythingis the player most likely to win the ongoing war that is life."" In effect the goal is to be ""so prepared for battle that battle has been rendered unnecessary"" Wall Street Journal. It is ""a text of matchless wisdom"" New Statesmen. Sun Tzu's work is a ""classic not just a military classic in the same sense that Thucydides' Peloponnesian War is a classic rather than a military classic like Thucydides it conjures the entire spectrum of human motivations that lead the already ultra-powerful to seek more power through violence. this classic returns us time and time again to the human scale and the extraordinary deeds that men and women find themselves capable of given the right situation"" Literary Hub. Each chapter is devoted to a unique aspect of warfare and treats it comprehensively. First translated into European languages about 200 years ago; this translation by Captain E.F. Calthrop was completed in the aftermath of the Anglo-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars. His translation served as the only one available until it was supplanted by that of Giles a British scholar. While Calthrop was treated as an interloper into the field of translation the importance of his endeavor should not be underestimated. Indeed Calthrop's achievement was made even more impressive by a later discovery that his mistakes were due in part to the source of his translationa Japanese version of Sun Tzu which was apparently corrupt. The first edition in English was published as Sonshi in Tokyo in 1905 Samuel Sunzi Art of War. Initially issued in 1905 this revised edition is the first British edition. Minor toning to spine. A very nearly fine copy. hardcover books
1908140941539London: John Murray 1908. First English-language edition. Very Good. First British edition. First in the English language as well. Never reprinted and there was no American edition of Sun Tzu until World War II. 132 pp. Publisher's green cloth stamped in red and lettered in gilt. Very Good with a little staining to cloth light wear two former owners' names on paste down pages toned with age offsetting to a few preliminary pages' text with a little discoloration a few easily erasable penciled tic marks to margins. Scarce.<br /> <br /> <p>A foundational text of military strategy written in the 5th or 4th centuries BC attributed to Chinese military general Sun Tzu. Its focus is on outsmarting opponents without resorting to physical conflict which has inspired countless works on strategy business and game theory. John Murray unknown books
2008237102008. Near fine. Collection of 85 photographs: 14 11'' x 14'' and 2 5'' x 14'' prints in white envelope; 19 4'' x 5'' prints in small folio with protective plastic sleeves; and 38 11'' x 14'' prints in plastic sleeves housed in ring-bound portfolio with handle and zipper closure. Brief identifying notes to verso of all prints. Production mark-up notes in silver ink to rectos of a small number of photos. With loose sheet briefly cataloging the contents handwritten and signed by Cobb. Some duplication. Near fine. <br/><br/>Portraits of Sol LeWitt wall drawing installers with images of the wall drawings themselves photographed over course of the 6-month installation of the Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing Retrospective at MASS MoCA. By artist and writer Chris Cobb himself one of the installers for the exhibition. From his included description: "These were made as tests for the final portfolios made for the museum & for Sol's widow Carol LeWitt. The portraits haven't been published only shown at Mass MoCA." Portrait subjects are identified on versos by first name and position title; of the several Wall Drawings visible most are shown in progress with a few shots of drawings #343 and #146 in a completed or nearly completed state. <br /> <br />As LeWitt wrote in his 1967 essay Paragraphs on Conceptual art "When an artist uses a conceptual form of art it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair." Accordingly his Wall Drawings were recreated each time they were exhibited as Cobb detailed in a 2008 BELIEVER article: "Early in LeWitt's career he made the drawings himself but as demand for them grew it became necessary for him to rely on a small group of draftsmen who could faithfully carry out his instructions developing techniques specific to each wall drawing.I am working alongside my apprentice Julia on Wall Drawing #343. By 'working on' I mean that I am attempting to recreate from a brief page of written instructions a work of conceptual art." <br /> <br />A remarkable collection documenting the process of recreating a body of artwork itself impermanent by design. And according to the photographer the first time a Lewitt work has been allowed to be documented in process. unknown books
196830276New York: Seth Sieglaub and John W. Wendler 1968. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Paperbound quarto in clear acetate wrapper. First edition. Published December 1968 in an edition of one thousand copies. Legendary conceptual artist book. As part of this project each of the seven artists were asked to contribute 25 pages of artwork produced with the assistance of a xerox machine. A gorgeous near fine copy in bound white wrappers printed only minimally at spine. The original sheer acetate wrapper is present and has a few expected small tears at the spine tips. Minor tape shadows to endpapers where the acetate wrapper was originally taped to the endpapers. Unpaginated and printed on rectos only. A seminal work cited in virtually every artist book reference work on the 1960's including Lippard Lewitt Castleman and Maffei & De Donno. Collector's copy. Seth Sieglaub and John W. Wendler paperback books
1930WRCLIT57739Paris: The Black Sun Press 1930. Oblong small quarto. Half dark blue morocco and decorated boards gilt extra with geometric rules and angular diagonal panels reaching from the foretips into the approximate center of the boards and with a small white morocco rabbit inlaid into the upper side-panel of the spine t.e.g. While the binding is unsigned it is characteristic of Bennett Studios. Light rubbing at tips else a fine copy enclosed in a matching morocco faced board slipcase with repaired splits at joints and some chipping to the extremities. First edition in this format. Illustrated with six original color lithographs signed in the plate by Marie Laurencin printed by Desjobert of Paris. From a total edition of 790 copies this is one of fifty copies on Japan vellum of 420 for distribution in the United States. The famous Laurencin lithographs benefit significantly from their appearance on Japan vellum in this uncommon issue which does not suffer from the foxing that frequently defaces the copies on paper. The binding is similar to that appearing on a small but observable number of copies of the US issue executed by Bennett perhaps at the instigation of the US distributor. MINKOFF A39. MONOD 2304. The Black Sun Press hardcover books
19721334010Chicago: Ihnfinity Inc/Saturn Research 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Staplebound quarto; G; 134 pages; Single sided pages with cardstock front cover; SIGNED by Sun Ra on half-title page To RONALD from Sun Ra; Some wear bumping to the corners; Toning to the front cover and exterior of the text block; Slight bending at the corners at the cover; Interior clean. shelved case 0. Extremely scarce volume of Sun Ra's poetry and philosophy. 1334010. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Ihnfinity Inc/Saturn Research unknown books
7534Numerous black & white illus. throughout. 127 pp. Large 4to 261 x 262 mm. orig. printed wrappers & orig. glossy pictorial dust-jacket price unclipped. New York City: Multiples Inc. 1980.<br /> First edition of LeWitt's celebrated book in which he meticulously records with photographs the possessions in his studio and home; this is a superb copy with a signed and dated original drawing inscribed by LeWitt "for Richard Wr- / Sol LeWitt / Las Cruces / Nov. 20 1981" on the recto of the front free endpaper. Nearly every page in this work comprises in a 3 x 3 grid nine photographs taken by LeWitt of his home and studio. It is a fascinating window into the life of this very private artist. In these photographs we encounter his collections of Japanese prints his own artists' books music type samples art ephemera books photographs family heirlooms sculptures etc.<br /> In Esthétique du Livre d'Artiste: Une Introduction à l'art contemporain 2nd ed.: 2012 Anne Moeglin-Delcroix writes p. 275 "In giving a tour methodically exhaustively of all that fills up his studio LeWitt seems to recount his life through the photographs of his family bric-à -brac.Despite the title despite as well the small indiscreet pleasure that one takes in penetrating the universe where an artist whose impersonal structures were all that we knew until now did we know that he listened to Lassus and Bach that he read Beckett and Chandler that he admired Japanese prints and popular imagery the interest is somewhere else as is the presence of Sol LeWitt elsewhere. His presence asserts itself with force because it is entirely active there in the book itself."<br /> A near fine copy enhanced by a classic "Lines in Four Directions" drawing executed and signed by LeWitt for the recipient; faint sunning to the edges of the dust-jacket and very minor wear to the corners. Two pairs of leaves are unopened at the end.<br /> ⧠A. Moeglin-Delcroix Esthétique du Livre d'Artiste: Une Introduction à l'art contemporain 2nd ed.: 2012 pp. 275-76 pictured on p. 276. S. Bury Artists' Books: The Book as a Work of Art 1963-2000 2nd ed.: 2015 pp. 89 pictured & 204. unknown books
1927WRCLIT69902Paris: Editions Narcisse 1927. Quarto. Contemporary tri-part green morocco and decorated boards by the heir of Jean Stroobant t.e.g. original wrappers bound in. Three plates. Minor rubbing at tips some faint occasional foxing otherwise a very good to near fine copy. First edition deluxe issue. One of 22 numbered copies printed on Hollande van Gelder from a total edition of 246 copies. The illustrations are after color watercolors by Francois Quelvée with finishing by hand or pochoir. This deluxe issue is scarce. MINKOFF A5. Editions Narcisse hardcover books
200369468San Francisco: Arion Press 2003. First edition lettered & signed issue. Square 4to. 126 pp. Fine in full decorated cloth and fine publisher’s matching slipcase. No dust jacket as issued. Introduction by Helen Vendler. One of 26 lettered hors commerce copies on Pescia mould-made paper SIGNED by Heaney and LeWitt. The first complete separate appearance of this sequence. Brandes & Durkan A51c. San Francisco: Arion Press, hardcover books
1985140941122New York: El Saturn Records 1985. Very Good. Signed by Sun Ra on front wrap in red ink. Former owner's faint notation below that "Autographed at Jerry Lind Hall Oakland Dec 4 '85." Stapled wraps. Very Good with small white/rubbed spot on front wrap bottom pencil "0" symbol on back wrap light wear. A signed work of poetry by the composer bandleader and pianist known as Sun Ra a man in a class of his own because according to him he was from Saturn. His music spanned a wide variety of genres from free jazz to proto-hip-hop bebop funk and noise. El Saturn Records unknown books
1930WRCLIT64587Paris: Black Sun Press 1930. Small quarto. Stiff printed wrappers. Trace of minor foxing along extreme untrimmed fore- edges of a couple leaves otherwise near fine in slightly rubbed and torn later acetate wrapper without slipcase. First edition. Copy #17 of twenty-five numbered copies on Japan vellum signed by the author from a total edition of 135 copies bearing the Paris imprint and 500 copies for distribution in the U.S. by Houghton Mifflin. This signed Japan vellum issue is somewhat more uncommon than even the small limitation would suggest. The last copy in ABPC is the Dannay copy sold in 1983 and it did not appear in such obvious sales as Goodwin or Keynes. MINKOFF A36. Black Sun Press hardcover books
1929WRCLIT69949Paris: The Black Sun Press 1929. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Frontispiece by Brancusi. About fine in later acetate wrapper in lightly rubbed original foil covered slipcase with ribbon pull. First edition. Preface by C.K. Ogden. One of 500 copies on Hollande van Gelder Zonen from a total printing of 650 copies. SLOCUM & CAHOON A36. ARTIST & THE BOOK 32. The Black Sun Press unknown books
1980007850New York: Multiples Inc 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Fine/Near Fine. First edition in bound wrappers of the artist's most sought after book. Briefly INSCRIBED and dated in 2000 by the artist. A fine copy in photographic glossy wrapper which is ever so lightly toned at edges. A superb copy. Signed by Author. Multiples, Inc paperback books
1983107833New York: Delacorte Press 1983. First printing of this edition edited by James Clavell of this fundamental treatise on military strategy. Octavo original cloth. Boldly signed by James Clavell on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Clavell was strongly influenced by Sun Tzu's writings and was the best-selling Asian saga consisting of Shogun Tai-Pan Gai-jin King Rat Noble House and Whirlwind. We have never seen another example signed by Clavell. The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC. Attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu the text is composed of 13 chapters each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly thought of as a definitive work on military strategy and tactics. It was placed at the head of China's Seven Military Classics upon the collection's creation in 1080 by Emperor Shenzong of Song and has long been the most influential strategy text in East Asia. It has had an influence on Eastern and Western military thinking business tactics legal strategy and beyond. Delacorte Press hardcover books
1930WRCLIT79870Paris: The Black Sun Press 1930. Oblong small quarto. Printed wrappers. Internally about fine but the wrappers are somewhat tanned rubbed and dust soiled with a smattering of small splash marks at the lower fore-corner of the upper wrapper and there are two short tears at the ends of the upper joint that have been neatly closed. The slipcase is not present. First edition in this format. Illustrated with six original color lithographs by Marie Laurencin printed by Desjobert of Paris. From a total edition of 790 copies this is copy #34 of 350 copies on Rives of 420 for distribution in the United States. MINKOFF A39. MONOD 2304. The Black Sun Press unknown books
196926426New York: 0 To 9 1969. First edition. Paperback. Very Good . Tall side -stapled wrappers. The fifth issue of Acconci and Mayer's much sought after artist / poet periodical. Experimental poetry fiction and conceptual art mix in the era's most thought provoking journal. A particularly well-preserved copy. Front cover intentionally wrinkled by the publishers. Staples still holding very well. 96 pp. 0 To 9 paperback books
2000007074San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yale University Press 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition in black cloth of Lewitt's catalog raisonne. Fine condition in fine unclipped dustwrapper. This copy SIGNED by Lewitt and quite scarce thus. Essays by Martin Friedman Andrea Miller-Keller Brenda Richardson Anne Rorimer John S. Weber and Adam D. Weinberg. 416 pages. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yale University Press hardcover books
192813802Paris: The Black Sun Press 1928. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Wide 4to. Paper wrappers with cello cover. First edition one of only 100 copies this being number 76. Small amounts of expected wear to delicate cello wrapper else near fine. Scarce. The Black Sun Press paperback books
1984140940698New York: The Limited Editions Club 1984. Limited Edition. Near Fine. A beautiful production of Jorge Borges' Ficciones published by the Limited Editions Club. Bound in full black leather with spine lettered in blind in black publisher's paper-covered card slipcase. Near Fine with light shelf wear and a hint of fading to the spine. Copy number 1194 from a limited edition of 1500 signed by the artist and book designer Sol Lewitt. Printed at The Anthoensen Press. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
198024355New York / Boston: Multiples Inc. / Michael K. Torf 1980. Tiny indentation to the front cover else fine in printed wrappers near fine dust jacket lightly toned. First Edition. Square quarto. Lewitt's best known book a catalogue of his personal items including several shots of his library with one mouth watering page showing multiple copies of his own limited editions! Parr / Badger v2 155; Open Book 322-323; Auer 624. New York / Boston: Multiples Inc. / Michael K. Torf unknown books
20002761New Haven CT: Yale University Press 2000. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A beautiful copy of the 2000 1st edition SIGNED BY SOL LEWITT!! on the half-title. Immaculate and Fine in a bright Fine dustjacket. Quarto 416 pgs. The catalogue based on the February-May 2000 exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Signed by Illustrator. <br/><br/> Yale University Press hardcover books
1979404935New York: Harry N. Abrams 1979. A near-fine copy in a like jacket pale stain to cloth on upper panel the jacket with minute wear. Square 4to 8 x 8 inches; 203 x 203 mm. 48 pages. Full-page color offset prints. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION inscribed by Lewitt on the front free endpaper in pencil to "Ann." Uncommon in the cloth-bound issue and especially so when signed. Lewitt conceptually explores: "Circle Square Triangle Rectangle Trapezoid and Parallelogram in Red Yellow and Blue on Red Yellow and Blue." The book is divided into three sections each of which differ by background color. Barbara M. Reise wrote that "LeWitt's colours like his lines and squares are like 'facts': they are inert pre-established accepted and un-emotional man-made constructs which can 'come to life' within a present context but do not necessarily do so. Red yellow blue and black and the white of wall or paper are standard "absolute primaries basic to all pigment colour - that is according to the colour system accepted by an art academic from early 19th-century theorists like Chevreul. Unlike the Newtonian rainbow-spectrum based on light-waves this theoretical structure is more conceptually mathematical and tautological than referential to some exterior and inhuman Nature. LeWitt's use of these colours is as flatly complete physical and self-reflective as the theory itself. Unlike Seurat whose use of the same colour theories was subordinated and interrelated to other interests in proportion theories and seen scene subject-matter LeWitt uses colour as both the subject and the object of his art" in: 'Sol Lewitt Critical Texts' ed. Adachiara Zevi Rome 1994 p. 188. <br/><br/> Harry N. Abrams hardcover books
