New York: Scratch Books / David Zwirner Books, 2017. First Revised and Expanded Edition. Small 8vo. 334 pp. Graphic illustrations by Crumb. Black leather with gilt lettering, all edges gilt, red silk ribbon, as issued without dustjacket. A fine copy. This revised and expanded English edition, published by David Zwirner..... More
![Item #21694 White House Invitation; Dressing Room & Gym Keys [and] Studio Photograph. Robert De Niro](/pictures/thumb/21694.jpeg?v=1679092803)
Culver City: 1982. This lot includes a hand-addressed invitation from the President Ronald Reagan White House to actor Robert De Niro on the occasion of Kennedy Center Honors to George Abbott, Lillian Gish, Benny Goodman, Gene Kelly, and Eugene Ormandy on December 5, 1982. Parenthetically, the lot also includes several..... More
Boston: Virginia Adams, Yosemite National Park and Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950. First Edition. SIGNED by Ansel Adams. Folio; 97pp. Illustrated with thirty views of U.S. National Parks from Maine to Hawaii (printed recto identified on facing pages and with photographic notes for each image at the end, along with a...... More
Will A. Kistler Company, 1935. First Edition, Limited Edition No. 395 of 500 SIGNED copies. SIGNED by the author on the colophon. Also INSCRIBED "This copy for Mrs. Leopold Stokowski just back from the Spanish Main. Merle Armitage, 1936". Square small 4to. 111 pp. Frontispiece portrait after a photograph by..... More
Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 2015. First Edition. 4to. 112 pp. Color and black & white illustrations. Stiff color printed wrappers in fine, new condition. Catalogue for exhibition held at the Monterey Museum of Art April 30 - September 28, 2015, 'Lasting Impressions—Pedro de Lemos' the first exhibition that celebrates one..... More
1966-67. Alan Searle, once the lover of Lytton Strachey, was W. Somerset Maugham's private secretary and companion beginning in the 1940s. He lived with Maugham in his Monte Carlo villa and remained with him until Maugham's death in 1965. In his final years, Maugham made an unsuccessful attempt to disinherit..... More
Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, 1974. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Ansel Adams with a Merry Christmas greeting from Carmel. Oblong folio. 127 pp. Foreward by Wallace Stegner. Black cloth in publisher's photo-illustrated dustjacket and publisher's brown slipcase. The book and dustjacket are in fine condition; partial splitting along rear..... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Ansel Adams with a Merry Christmas greeting from Yosemite Valley. Oblong quarto. 116 full-page plates of Adam's photographs reproduced by double impression offset lithography - accompanied by 28 pages of text. Red and blue cloth in photographic dustjacket. A fine..... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. First Edition. SIGNED by Ansel Adams on half-title page. Oblong quarto. 116 full-page plates of Adam's photographs reproduced by double impression offset lithography - accompanied by 28 pages of text. Red and blue cloth in photographic dustjacket. A fine copy (slight fading along board..... More
Monterey, CA: The Monterey Jazz Festival, 1963. First Edition. 8 1/2" x 11". 32 pp. Includes photographs and biographies for the festival's many performers, such as: Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul, and Mary, The Weavers, The Rooftop Singers, Barbara Dane, The Modern Folk Quartet, Kajsa Ohman, The New Lost City Ramblers..... More
Vancouver: Charles van Sandwyk Fine Arts. Artist's Proof Copy. Original hand-colored copper plate etching on textured cream paper (7 1/2" x 5 3/4", etching in center measures 5" x 3 3/4"). SIGNED by Charles van Sandwyk in lower right corner; marked 'A.P' in lower left corner. More
La Habana Vieja, Cuba: Ediciones Bolona, 2012. First Edition. INSCRIBED to a photographer friend by Alex Castro. 4to. 127 pp. Text in Spanish. Essays by ArmandoHart Dávalos; Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Eusebio Leal Spengler; and Rafael Acosta de Arriba. Striking photographs (both color and black & white) of Fidel Castro dating..... More
Vienna: Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, 1950. First Edition. Quarto; 135pp plus plates. A Very Good copy in light blue linen and grey paper-covered boards; upper board titled in grey, spine in gold in somewhat worn and tape-reinforced dust jacket. Bookplate of author, publisher and bookplate collector Clare Ryan Talbot to front pastedown..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1940. First Edition. SIGNED by Edward & Charis Weston. 4to. 127 pp. Black & white photographic prints by Edward Weston with commentary by Charis Weston. Black cloth with silver lettering. Some wear to extremities and minor spotting to covers; a very good copy in..... More
Monterey, CA: Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, 1983. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the three artists to early California art collectors, Phil and Madalyn. Illustrated poster (26" x 17") on heavy paper for the art exhibition held August 13 - September 11, 1983. Fine condition. Gus Arriola, Eldon Dedini and Hank..... More
BOSTON: Marshall Jones, 1934. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. xi, 244pp. Red cloth in cream and red dustjacket. A near fine copy in like dustjacket (minor wear to extremities; light foxing; 2 short closed tears); nice copy of a scarce title. "... portrays the education and training of one of the leaders..... More
Sausalito: Canyon Cinema, 1973. 1st. Quarto; 38 pages. Staple-bound wrappers. Light wear & age-toning else a near fine copy. Lists 8 mm and 16 mm films. Indexed. Publisher's printed Addenda listing the film "Different Strokes" directed by Stephen F. Varona, laid in. More
New York: American Art Association Anderson Galleries Inc, 1933. Octavo; (viii), 102pp; 42 plates. Listing of 469 items. Public Auction Sale February 2 and 3. Yellow wrappers in very good condition. More
New York: American Art Association Anderson Galleries Inc, 1933. Octavo; (vi),91, (2)pp; 22 plates. Listing of 468 items. Unrestricted Public Sale December 1 and 2. Tan wrappers in very good condition. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First US Edition. Square quarto; 203pp. Profusely iIllustrated throughout with beautiful photographs by Michikazu Sakai. Gift inscription on ffep, else a Near Fine copy in original blind embossed laminated boards with black cloth spine lettered in white; endpapers reproduce map of Japan with keys..... More
Los Angeles: Self published, 1930. First Edition. Tall quarto; 137pp. A Fine copy in original blue cloth titled in gold, orange and black pictorial dust jacket with 1/2" closed tear at crown of spine (else in Fine) in Near Fine publisher's olive paper-covered slipcase with gold label lettered in black..... More
New York: Yamanaka & Company and American Art Association, 1906. First Edition. 8vo. Unpagintaed. Frontispiece, 5 plates (1 in color), and 2 double-page plates. Pale green silk brocade flexible covers, all edges gilt, in very good condition (fraying at spine and corners; rear hinge partially split). Catalog for sale conducted..... More
Tokyo: Kodansha, 1960. First Edition. Tall quarto; viii, 207pp. A Near Fine copy (lower rear corner lightly bumped, typed label in English to spine) in white cloth embossed in black with gold cartouche on front cover and spine. In Very Good tan paper-covered slipcase with typed English-language label to spine. Large..... More