Remote Viewing (Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing)
New York: Whitney Museum, 2005. Illustrated (color). 135 pages. Square 4to., pictorial boards. New York: Whitney Museum, (2005). A near fine copy.
New Arrivals
The Last Diaries: In and Out of the Wilderness
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002. Edited by Ion Trewin. Illustrated. xxi + 405 pages, 8vo, red cloth, d.w. London: Weidenfeld & Nicoloson, (2002). A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper.
Henry Moore; Sculpture and Environment.
New York: Abrams, 1976. Foreword by Kenneth Clark. Commentary by Henry Moore. Illustrated, with many tipped in color plates. Thick square 4to, black cloth, d.w. (edgeworn and torn on spine). New York: Abrams, 1976. A near fine copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper.
The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters; Correspondence of George Lyttelton and Rupert Hart-Davis
London: John Murray, 1978. Six volumes. 8vo, red cloth, d.w.; minor tears to some of the dust wrappers. London: John Murray, (1978-1984). Very good(+) copies in, mostly, very good dust wrappers.
Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children
New York: Bulfinch, 2004. Beautifully illustrated throughout in color and black and white. 255 pages, square 4to, pictorial wrappers, spine lightly faded. New York: Bullfinch Press in association with the Brooklyn Museum, (2004). A near fine copy.
Robert Lee Morris: The Power of Jewelry.
New York: Abrams, 2004. Illustrated with many large color plates. 180pp. Large square 4to, pictorial boards, d.w. New York: Abrams, (2004). First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.
Experiments on the Principle of Life, And Particularly of the Motions of the Heart, and on the Seat of this Principle
Birmingham: Classics of Cardiology, 1989. Translated by N.C. and J.G. Nancrede. One fold-out plate. 326 pages. 8vo., stamped blue cloth. Special edition reprint of 1813 M. Thomas (Philadelphia) edition. Birmingham, AL: The Classics of Cardiology Library, (1989). Fine.
The Letters of Kingsley Amis
London: HarperCollins, 2000. Edited by Zachary Leader. liv + 1208 pages, very thick 8vo, black cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper quite rubbed but intact. London: HarperCollins, (2000). A very good copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper.
Letters of Conrad Russell 1897-1947
London: John Murray, 1987. Edited by Georgiana Blakiston. 278 pages, 8vo, brown cloth, d.w. London: John Murray, (1987). A very good(+) copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.
The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex.
Adelaide: Limited Editions Club, 1971. With Preface by Ashley Montagu. Drawings by Fritz Kredel. 362pp. 4to, green morocco-backed boards, tooled gilt stamped spine, board slipcase. Adelaide, South Australia: The Limited Editions Club, 1971. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. Fine in a very good, slightly cracked slipcase.
Locked Rooms and Open Doors; Diaries and Letters 1933-1935
New York: Harcourt, 1974. Illustrated (b/w). 352 pages. 8vo., blue cloth backed stamped grey cloth, dust wrapper. First edition. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1974). A near fine copy. Inscribed on title page: "For [...] who is interested - and gifted - in "unlocking" problems. With admiration and gratitude from Anne Morrow Lindbergh". Includes a note paper clipped to flyleaf: "No need to read this page by page - it is a strange unbalanced book. Perhaps just read the introduction...
The Knot. Arte Povera at P.S. 1
Torino: 1985. 4to, 263 pp. many illustations, corrugated cardboard cover designed by Massimo Vignell still tied with the original rope. First edition of this sought after catalogue based on the October-December 1985 exhibition at New York's P.S.1. Torino and New York: Published by P.S. 1 / The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc. / Umberto Allemandi & C., (1985).
The History of The Peloponnesian War.
Avon: Limited Editions Club, 1974. 2 volumes. Translated by Richard Crawley. Revised by R. C. Feetham. Introduced by Peter Pouncey and Illustrated with Woodcuts by A. Tassos. Thin 4tos, black & rust cloth, both in one board slipcase. Avon, Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club, (1974). Fine in near fine box. One of 2000 numbered copies signed by the illustrator.
Listen! the Wind
New York: Harcourt, 1938. 275 pages. 8vo., stamped red cloth, dust wrapper showing a few small tears. Early edition. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1938). A near fine copy in a very good wrapper. Inscribed on half-title page: "For [...] with all good wishes Anne Morrow Lindbergh October, 1966"
Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul.
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2006. Introduction by Kynaston McShine. Essays by Reinhold Heller, Patricia G. Berman, Elizabeth Prelinger and Tina Yarborough. 207 color and 43 black & white illustrations, 256pp, 4to, cloth, d.w. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2006. Fine in fine dust wrapper.
Sons and Lovers.
Avon: Limited Editions Club, 1975. With an Introduction by Robert Gorham Davis and illustrations by Sheila Robinson. 443pp. Tall thick 8vo, cloth, paper label, board slipcase. Avon, Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club, 1975. Fine in near fine slightly bumped slipcase. One of 2000 numbered copies signed by the illustrator.
Candide, or Optimism.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1973. Translated by Richard Aldington. Illustrated by May Neama. 123pp., thin 4to, white leather-bacled decorative cloth, slipcase. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1973. Fine. Limited edition of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator.
Liubov Popova
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. 135 pages, 4to, black cloth, dust wrapper. New York: Harry Abrams, (1991). A fine copy in near fine dust wrapper.
Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996. Illustrated. ix + 494 pages, 8vo, two-tone boards, dust wrapper. New York: Farrar, (1996). A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper.
Izzy: A Biography of I. F. Stone.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. Illustrated. 388 pages. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, (1992). Near fine.
The Frontier in Latin American History.
map. 8vo, paper wrappers. Univ. of New Mexico Press, (1978). Very good.
The Fauve Landscape.
Profusely illustrated, mostly in color. 350pp. Thick square 4to, gold cloth, chipped d.w. New York: Abbeville Press & Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (1990). A near fine copy.
Je Suis le Cahier: The Sketchbooks of Picasso. Limited Collector's edition.
Boston: Atlantic Monthly, 1986. Profusely illustrated, including some color plates; pictorial endpapers. 349 pages. Large square 4to, red cloth, d.w., red cloth slip case. New York: Pace Gallery, 1986. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper and slipcase. Accompanied the 1986 Pace Gallery exhibition of the sketchbooks, which had hitherto been privately held by the artist's family. Includes a catalogue raisonne describing all 175 extant sketchbooks. With a foreword by Claude Picasso.
Typed Letter, signed
New York: 1936. Written on personal stationery to Mrs. Louis Cushman on 2 and 1/2 pages, New York, July 17, 1936. Signed "Tom Wolfe" in pencil. Wolfe thanks her for her offering to help him with advice on how to deal with his German publisher. He goes at great length to describe his negotiations with them -"...Rowohlt tells me that I will get 800 marks as my royalty on....800 copies, This sounds awfully small, doesn't it?.... I am giving you...
Jasper Johns: A Print Retrospective
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1986. Illustrated throughout, some in color. 148 pages. Small 4to, gilt-lettered gray cloth, d.w. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, (1986). Fine in near fine dust wrapper.