Collection: Art & Illustration

Bloomfield Hills, MI: Lightworks, 2000. Perfect-bound in pictorial wraps, 11 x 8-1/2 in. 96pp. Heavily illustrated throughout in black-and-white. With audio CD in plastic sleeve mounted to p. 69. Light wear at heel of spine. Short closed snag to fore-edge of rear cover. Else as... More

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. First edition. 310pp; index; 8 b&w plates at center. 8vo; black boards backed with black cloth; metallic blue spine lettering; dust jacket. One dog-eared page corner; mild offsetting to endpapers. Else fine in a very near fine jacket, unclipped, with... More

NY: Grove Press / Balance House, 1968. First edition. 190pp; index; b&w and color illus; plates. 4to; orange cloth stamped in green to front board; metallic purple spine titles; dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked. Else near fine in a very good, unclipped jacket with a... More

NY: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1965. 38pp; plates (9 color, 11 b&w). 4to. Blue papered boards stamped in white to front and spine. Near fine, with light sunning to spine. Auction catalog for a sale held October 13, 1965, featuring items primarily from the collection of Mr.... More

NY: Sonnabend Gallery, 1974. Off-white card, 5-3/4 x 4-7/8 in., printed recto only. About near fine, with light toning and a touch of corner wear. Announcement card published in conjunction with this group show at Sonnabend Gallery January 8-12, 1974; an impressive line-up, and Haxton's... More

NY: William Morrow & Company, 1974. First edition. 220pp. 8vo; black boards backed with off-white cloth; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Light foxing & soiling to textblock edges; sunning to board perimeters; slight forward cocking to spine. Unclipped (“$6.95”) jacket with sunning to spine, toning... More

NY: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1985. 168pp; b&w & color illus. Square 4to. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt on front board and spine; dust jacket. Near fine in like jacket. Signed & inscribed on the half-title to New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie... More

NY: The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, 1977. 4to. Perfect-bound in wraps. 127pp.; illus. Near fine, with two white surface abrasions to the front cover, some minor rippling to the front fore-edge. A sharp copy of this exhibition catalog for the first show at... More

NY: The Picture Newspaper, 1975. Unbound newsprint tabloid, 22-3/4 x 14-3/4 in., folded horizontally as issued; two sections paginated continuously to 35pp.; offset printed in color and b&w. About very good, with some splitting/tattering at the head and tail of the spine fold. One leaf... More

Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin, 1990. First edition. 4to. Glossy illustrated boards, as issued without jacket. [52]pp. About fine, with laid-in publisher's postcard advertising other books in this series. Color reproductions of collaborative artworks between American painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel (b. 1951) and his daughter Lola... More

Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin, 1990. First edition. 4to. Glossy illustrated boards, as issued without jacket. [48]pp. Light foxing to upper fore-edge of textblock; sporadic internal foxing; light wear at heel of spine. Very good. Color reproductions of paintings by the French artist Robert Combas (b. 1957),... More

Zug, Switzerland: Swan Productions, 1982. First edition. 4to. Signature-bound in photo-illustrated wraps. [112]pp. Moderate bump to bottom fore-corner; edge and corner wear. Very good. First edition of this iconic photobook, a landmark of bold and super-saturated 1980s style, featuring photographs by Cheyco Leidmann and design... More

NY: Pelham Press, 1985. 4to. Perfect-bound in red illustrated wraps. [144]pp.; illus. Very good, with surface scratches along fore-edge of front cover. Cover drawing by Mark Kostabi. A heavily illustrated guide to the mid-80s avant-art scene in New York's East Village. With five essays* elucidating... More

Lisbon: S. N. I., 1948. 8vo. Saddle-stapled in printed wraps. 29pp.; illus. Leaves rather toned, else about fine. Text in Portuguese. Pamphlet published to coincide with the 1948 inauguration of the Museu de Arte Popular in Lisbon, Portugal. The text provides an overview of the... More

Stockbridge, MA: o·blēk editions, 1991. First edition. No. 3 of 100 hardcover copies signed by Coolidge opposite the bios at rear. Oblong 8vo. 118pp.; illus. Black cloth stamped in white on front board and spine; no jacket, as issued. A fine copy of this collaborative... More

Chicago: The Swallow Press, 1969. X, 351pp.; illus.; three tipped-in fold-out leaves. 8vo. Red cloth; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Fine in a very near fine jacket, unclipped, with a touch of wear at spine ends. Signed and inscribed by Wildman on the half-title verso... More

Slymar, CA: Glenn Bray, 1982. First edition. 94pp; illus. Large 4to., 12.25 x 11 in. Signature-bound in wraps. Very good, with creasing and some light curling to top corners. Laid in are the following: five 8.5 x 11 in. illustrated color sheets advertising other books... More

NY: The New Press/The Brooklyn Museum, 1992. First edition. Xv, 148pp.; color plates; b&w illus. 4to. Black boards; black quarter-cloth; silver spine titles; dust jacket. About fine in a near fine, unclipped jacket with light edge crumpling and mild toning to interior. Signed, dated and... More

NY: Experiments in Art and Technology, 1981. 45pp. Printed wraps in plastic comb binding, 5-1/2 x 4-1/2 in. Light abrasion to rear cover; mild edgewear; scattered foxing to first page. Very good. A collection of transcribed interviews conducted by electrical engineer Billy Klüver with eleven... More

Munich: Prestel, 2001. Octavo, 9-3/8 x 6-3/4 in. 192pp., with index. Blue textured paper boards; blue spine titles; pictorial endpapers; dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white and color plates. Bumping to spine ends, else fine in a fine jacket. First edition of this memoir of... More

Claremont, Australia: Platypus Press, 1994. No. 146 of 200 copies signed by Goodman and Leach-Jones on limitation page at rear. Small octavo, 8-3/8 x 5-3/8 in. viii, 82pp. Gray cloth; title plate mounted on front board; red sewn-in bookmark; lacking a jacket, presumably as issued.... More

A portfolio of sixteen charming full-color reproductions of graphite-and-colored-pencil sketches by the French-born artist Alice Thévin (1862-1937), who from 1909 until her death lived in Boston (and abroad) with her partner, the arts patron Fanny Peabody Mason, founder of the long running Peabody Mason concert... More

Inscribed first paperback printing of this graphic novel by the American cartoonist and recipient of both Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships. NY: Pantheon Books, 1999. First paperback edition. Signed, dated, and inscribed with a doodle by Katchor on front free endpaper recto. Perfect-bound in printed matte... More

Self-published, 1973. No. 7 in an edition of 20. Signed, dated, and numbered on the interior rear board. Plastic spiral spine, plain off-white boards. 7 x 7 in. Prints interleaved with vellum; one leaf of text at front containing a dictionary definition of "number" and... More

Los Angeles: Astro Artz, 1981. Large 8vo. Perfect-bound in photo-illustrated wraps. Some rubbing to the rear cover, else about fine. Signed and inscribed by Montano on the title page: "Blessed Art / Life / Love." A monographic artist's book documenting the early career of the... More