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The Moment and Other Essays
by Virginia Woolf
A selection of twenty-nine essays. "[Woolf's] essays...are lighter and easier than her fiction, and they exude information and pleasure.... Everything she writes about novelists, like everything she writes about women, is fascinating.... Her well-stocked, academic, masculine mind is the ideal flint for the steel of her uncanny intuitions to strike on" (Cyril Connolly, New Yorker). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.
World Geographic Atlas A Composite Of Man's Environment Privately Printed For Container Corporation Of America, 1953 Edited And Designed By Herbert Bayer
by Herbert For Container Corp America Bayer
Metal Unto Art
by William I, Text; J F Bartholomew, Type and Presswork; Herbert Ridelstein, Cover Art Garren
Kurt Kranz Bauhaus and Today Exhibition Dates
by John David Farmer, Theodore Heinrich, Alfred Moir, Stephen Reichard, George Rickey and Eduard Sekler Texts By Max Bense
Shared Visions Native American Painters and Sculptors In the Twentieth Century
by Margaret Archuleta and Dr Rennard Strickland
Modernism Books & Ephemera
Les Vies de Dora Maar. Bataille, Picasso et les surréalistes
by [Maar, Dora]. Mary Ann Caws
Paris: Thames & Hudson, 2000. First French edition. 224 pp. Full black cloth, lettered in silver on the spine and blind on the front board, with the dust jacket. A translation of Caws' Dora Maar: With and Without Picasso, translated by Christian-Martin Diebold. Profusely illustrated with black and white and color plates. Slight rubbing to lower board edges, else fine.
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€118.15
From the Green Box
by Duchamp, Marcel
New Haven: The Readymade Press, 1957. First edition. Printed paper boards, with the dust jacket. Book about fine with the slightest rubbing to the corners; jacket is price-clipped and has some edgewear to the top edge with some tiny chips.One of 400 copies printed, designed by Henry Steiner of the Graphic Arts Department at Yale. Translated and with a preface by George Heard Hamilton. Duchamp's "La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même," also known as the "Large Glass," was "an art form without...
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€3,071.90
THE YEARS
by WOOLF, Virginia
Tavistock Square, London: by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Bell, Vanessa [dust wrapper]. Pale green cloth printed in gilt. 7 1/8 x 4 3/4" Cream dust wrapper printed in black and brown, designed and signed in the design by Vanessa Bell. A very good copy, front hinge starting, former owner signature on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good, respectable, dust wrapper with the usual chips and a split along the front spine edge. First edition,...
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€657.86
Paul Cezanne 1839-1906 Pioneer of modernism
by Becks-Malorny, Ulrike
Koln: Benedikt Taschen. 1995. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with colour and black & white reproductions. Translated by Phil Goddard. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 96 pages. . 1st thus. Softcover.
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€14.83
![KÅÞové sestry [z ruÅ¡tiny pÅel. Ladislav RyÅ¡avý: původnÃmi dÅevoryty vyzdobil FrantiÅ¡ek Horký] [Sisters of the Cross: translated from the Russian by Ladislav RyÅ¡avý and illustrated with original woodcuts by FrantiÅ¡ek Horký].; Knihy dobrých autorů, sv. 130-131](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/598/640/1586640598.0.b.jpg)
KÅÞové sestry [z ruÅ¡tiny pÅel. Ladislav RyÅ¡avý: původnÃmi dÅevoryty vyzdobil FrantiÅ¡ek Horký] [Sisters of the Cross: translated from the Russian by Ladislav RyÅ¡avý and illustrated with original woodcuts by FrantiÅ¡ek Horký].; Knihy dobrých autorů, sv. 130-131
by Remizov, Aleksei (Aleksej) and František Horký, illustrator
First and only edition thus of this Czech translation of Remizov's "Krestovye sestry," the 1910 symbolist novel. Aleksei Remizov (1877-1957) was one of the most versatile and idiosyncratic Russian writers of the twentieth century, known for his complex ornamental narrative style, his fascination with the Russian oral tradition, a deep interest in dreams and the surreal, and his illustrations, which combine elements of calligraphy with folkloric themes. In 1921 he left Russia, eventually settling in...
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€200.00
THE HEAT OF THE DAY
by BOWEN, Elizabeth
New York: Knopf, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Gilt cloth. Small stain to top edge, else near fine in a bright dust jacket with a scattering of a few rubbed areas. First American edition. Bowen was an Anglo-Irish writer who, although she lived primarily in England, maintained a large family estate, Bowen's Court, in County Cork, Ireland. She mixed with the Bloomsbury Group, becoming good friends with Rose Macaulay and welcomed Virginia Woolf, among others, to Bowen's Court. In the...
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€30.25
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[The Second Leaf]
by Riding, Laura
Deyá, Majorca: The Seizin Press, 1935. First edition. Single sheet of cream laid paper, folded twice, unbound, to form [8] pp. [1], title-page, [2], blank, [3-6], text, [7-8], blank. Top edge cut. Some edgewear and minor browning and spotting. A poem which later became part II of "Disclaimer of the Person," which appeared in Riding's Collected Poems. This was the last text printed by Riding and Graves on their Crown Albion handpress. Wexler A25.
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€425.34
Kinderlust
by Jespers, Floris, ill. Jan Peeters
Antwerp: J.F. Bogaerts & R.R. Dodson, 1923. First edition. Original pictorial wrappers, front and rear wrapper with a different color lithographed illustration. Some edgewear, rust stains from staples at spine edge. Colors bright and fresh. Twelve verses for children by Jan Peeters, with 12 full-page linoleum block color prints by Floris Jespers. A spectacular and early avant-garde children's book. Jespers' abstracted and representational color plates interplay geometric and decorative styles drawn from...
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€4,962.30
Certain Radio Speeches of Ezra Pound. From the Recordings and Transcriptions of His Wartime Broadcasts, Rome, 1941-1943
by Pound, Ezra
Rotterdam: Cold Turkey Press, 1975. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies printed of the first edition, published October 1975 (there was a later edition published two months afterward). Glossy printed wrappers with black cloth spine. Edited by William Levy. Addendum sheet laid in, as issued. Lower corner bumped, some surface wear. Inscribed by the editor of Cold Turkey Press, Gerard Belart, to Clayton Eshleman on the contents page and dated 1975. Gallup A96.
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€236.30
Diptych Rome-London. Homage to Sextus Propertius & Hugh Selwyn Mauberley; Contacts and Life
by Pound, Ezra
New York: James Laughlin/New Directions, 1958. First edition thus. 76 pp. Brown paper boards lettered in gilt on the front board and the spine, with the publisher's slipcase with printed label. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by Pound. Gallup A75.
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€1,843.14
Twenty-Five Poems
by Hartley, Marsden
Paris: Contact Publishing Company, 1923. First edition. 60 pp. Original perfect-bound printed wrappers. The first collection of verse by the great American painter, written while he was living the life of an "impecunious exile" in Berlin and published by his friend Robert McAlmon. A fresh, fine copy of a fragile item, in original wraparound glassine. Signed by Hartley on the title-page.
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€1,181.50
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Virginia Dwan and Dwan Gallery [signed]
by [Dwan Gallery]. Celant, Germano
Milan: Skira, 2016. First edition. 403 pp. Flexible glossy boards. Corners slightly bumped, else about fine. A detailed and profusely illustrated survey of the legendary gallerist. Inscribed by Virginia Dwan on the half-title.
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€141.78
Not Seen and/or Less Seen of/by Marcel Duchamp/Rrose Selavy 1904-64. Mary Sisler Collection
by Duchamp, Marcel
[New York]: Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, 1964. [82] pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers, with Duchamp's doorway image extending slightly beyond the rest of the wrapper, and reproduced in blind on the rear panel. Some tanning and soiling to covers, some surface wear, especially to edges, as almost always seen due to the extension of the doorway image. Foreword and texts by Richard Hamilton. Extensive black and white illustrations, three tipped-in color plates. Three thousand copies were printed at the Ram...
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€283.56
Play and Two Short Pieces for Radio
by Beckett, Samuel
London: Faber and Faber, 1964. First edition. 48 pp. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to top edge of jacket and spine creases, near fine. Collects Beckett's pieces Play, Words and Music, and Cascando. Federman & Fletcher 42.
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€189.04
CIOPW
by Cummings, E.E
New York: Covici-Friede, 1931. First edition. [119] pp. Rough-woven tan cloth over boards, cover board stamped in silver facsimile of Cummings' signature. One of 391 numbered copies printed, signed by Cummings on the title-page in watercolor. Some rubbing at spine extremities and hinges, as always seen with this fragile production. Endpapers darkened at gutters, contemporary gift inscription on front pastedown. A luxe edition of Cummings' visual artwork in Charcoal, Ink, Oil, Pencil and Watercolor, with...
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€1,701.36
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Braque. [Une Aventure Méthodique]
by [Braque, Georges]. Pierre Reverdy
[Paris]: Fernand Mourlot, 1949. First edition. Folio (17 x 12 ¾ inches). 60, [53] pp. Unbound gatherings laid into an open folding vellum portfolio, housed in publisher's clamshell case. Original color lithograph frontispiece, 26 en texte lithographs, and 12 offset color lithographs. One of 250 numbered copies on vélin d'Arches. Signed by the artist and author on the justification page. Some minor foxing throughout, some offsetting from prints. Cloth is separating slightly on the lower rear spine edge...
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€5,671.20
Quia Pauper Amavi
by Pound, Ezra
London: The Egoist Ltd, 1919. First edition. 51 pp. Deep gray-green paper boards over green cloth backstrip, printed paper label on spine. Text block edges foxed, else about fine. The error on p. 34 is not corrected in manuscript in this copy. Gallup A17a, one of 500 copies.
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€708.90
The Priest
by William L. Sullivan
Hardcover as pictured, binding tight, boards with light shelf wear, text block clean and unmarked, your purchase helps support our small village library. s (AR)
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€20.79
Francis Picabia. The Late Works 1933-1953
by [Picabia, Francis]. Zdenek Felix, ed
Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1998. First edition. Full red cloth, lettered in white on the front board and the spine, with the dust jacket. Top edge of jacket a little rubbed. A gorgeous monograph, long out of print, published to accompany an exhibition in Hamburg and Rotterdam. Picabia's "output during the last twenty years before his death bears witness to the restless vision of an artist who was not willing to bow to the dictates of any single style, preferring instead a spirited, ironic,...
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€236.30
EAT (Original photograph of Robert Indiana's art installation for the 1964 World's Fair)
by Robert Indiana (artist); Eric Pullitzer (photographer)
Garden City Park, NY: N.p., 1964. Vintage photograph of Robert Indiana's 1964 art piece, "EAT," created for the 1964 New York State Pavilion for the World's Fair in Queens, New York, and displayed on the side of Philip Johnson's Theaterama. The sign was later exhibited at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, in 2009, for the exhibition "Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope." 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Discrete pinholes at the corners, else about Near Fine.
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€354.45
A Surreal Life: Edward James 1907-1984
by [James, Edward]. Nicola Coleby, ed
London: Philip Wilson Publishers, in association with the Royal Pavilion, Libraries and Museums, Brighton & Hove, 2003. First edition. 159 pp. Red cloth, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Fine copy.
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€118.15
HELIODORA AND OTHER POEMS
by H. D. [Hilda Doolittle]
London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition. Spine label and endsheets a bit darkened, light foxing to preliminaries, else very good, without the printed dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
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€66.16
Madame D'Ora Wien-Paris. Vienna & Paris 1907-1957: The Photography of Dora Kallmus
by [Dora Kallmus, Madame D'Ora]. Monika Faber, curator
Poughkeepsie: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1987. First edition. 60 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Head and tail of spine a little nicked, slight handling wear. Texts by Jan E. Adlmann and Monika Faber. Includes exhibition chronology, bibliography and list of works exhibited. Fully illustrated. 3000 copies were printed. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Vassar College Art Gallery.
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€141.78
H. D. A BIBLIOGRAPHY 1905-1990
by [DOOLITTLE, Hilda]: BOUGHN, Michael
Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Cloth. First edition of the first descriptive bibliography of H. D.'s works. Fine, in pictorial dust jacket featuring H. D. holding her daughter, Perdita. As new copy encased in publisher's shrink wrap (as seen in photo).
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€30.25
Pittura Scultura Futuriste (Dimanismo Plastico) Con 51 riproduzioni. Quadri sculture di Boccioni - Carra - Russolo - Balla - Severini - Soffici
by BOCCIONI (Futurista)
Milano: Edizioni Futuriste di "Poesia, 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Good (defective). Square octavo, 448pp. (lacking pp. 449-469). A defective copy, lacking the frontispiece and the last 20pp., and rebound in period-style plain wraps with the original spine laid down. Most pages unopened; a clean example. Housed in a custom-made blue cloth clamshell box, titled in red. All of these repairs were done at some expense, seemingly by someone who had not realized that the book was missing some pages. A...
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€189.04
