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Rhetoric of Purity, The: Essentialist Theory and the Advent of Abstract Painting


Cheetham, Mark A.

Paperback. Cambridge, MA, Cambridge University Press, 1st paperback, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages, paperback. An exploration of the historical and theoretical relations between early abstract painting in Europe and the notion of purity. With black-and-white plates throughout. Light rubbing to wrappers. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951266


Price: $31.00 

 

Original Eye, The: Arbiters of Twentieth Century Taste


Core, Philip

Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Twelve profiles of modern art influencers/patrons, from Robert de Montesquiou to Malcolm McLaren. Mild fading and edgewear to dust jacket, mostly to top edge. Light soiling to wraps, copy edges lightly foxed. Slight bumping to top edge corners. Remainder stamp to bottom copy edge. Many b&w plates throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 951311


Price: $39.00 

 

Word Image Number


Sarah Lawrence College

Softcover. Bronxville, NY, Sarah Lawrence Gallery, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, paperback. Square slim octavo. Issued on the occasion of the exhibition "Word Image Number" held at the Sarah Lawrence Gallery in 1975. Tanning to spine and fore edge. Slight stain to top edge. Fading to front and rear endpapers. Previous owner's inscription to dust jacket front flap. Illustrated with b&w photos throughout. Scarce. A tight copy.

Record # 951357


Price: $79.00 

 

Seven Artists at Tyler Graphics LTD.


Trisolini Gallery

Softcover. Athens, GA, The Ohio University College of Fine Arts, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages, paperback. An exhibition organized by Trisolini Gallery at Ohio University. Fading and light soiling to wraps. Mild edgewear. Color plates throughout. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951358


Price: $31.00 

 

Flair Annual 1953


Fleur (Editor), Cowles, Illust. by: Federico Pallavicini

Hardcover. New York, Cowles Magazines Inc., 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, hardcover. Red cloth stamped gilt, with a cutout front panel around the phrase "Annual 1953." Tastefully illustrated in color and b&w, with cutouts, fold outs, booklets, etc. By the editor of the short-lived Flair; one of the more visually inventive magazines ever conceived. Designed by and with many drawings by Federico Pallavicini. Fading and slight edgewear to boards, milld tear to front panel at cutout. Rubbing and slight staining to boards as well. Fading to text block edges. Slight cocking to spine. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951390


Price: $101.00 

 

Paul Klee (GERMAN TEXT)


Grohmann, Will , Illust. by: Paul Klee

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1st German, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 163 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. GERMAN TEXT. Retrospective on the work of Paul Klee. Glued-in photocopied essay in English by the author on front endpaper and flyleaf. Artist related ephemera, ranging from postcards to museum pamphlets, tipped in. Mild edgewear to lower boards. Moderate bumping to corners. A tight copy.

Record # 951517


Price: $55.00 

 

Writings of Marcel Duchamp, The


Sanouillet (Editors), Michel and Elmer Peterson

Softcover. New York, Da Capo Press, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages, paperback. Entertaining and essential companion to any study of Duchamp. Light fading to wraps, mild rubbing as well. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952128


Price: $19.00 

Gaud': The Man and His Work Berg-s, Joan
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Gaud': The Man and His Work


Berg-s, Joan

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 3rd printing, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with wear to dust jacket. Dust jacket edges frayed. And otherwise tight copy. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 2230059


Price: $63.00 

 

Baudelaire's Voyages: The Poet and His Painters


Coven, Jeffrey/Dore Ashton (Contribution)

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Bulfinch Press Book, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 183 pages. Hardcover. Navy cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Bright dust jacket in very good condition. Profusely illustrated in full color and black & white throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670046


Price: $19.00 

 

Cocteau: A Biography


Steegmuller, Francis

Softcover. Boston, MA, Nonpareil Books, 2nd, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 590 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Minimal amount of black and white pictures throughout. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 30013


Price: $19.00 

Portrait of Picasso by: Penrose, Roland
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Portrait of Picasso by: Penrose, Roland

Softcover. New York, The Museum of Modern Art New York, 2nd, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. Published on the occasion of Picasso's 90th birthday. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Some tanning to pages, doesn't affect text or illustrations. Binding tight, no rips or tears. In great shape. Picasso's life and work. Record # 31676
Price: $12.00 

Night Life: Photographs by Sandra Mann by: Ammann, Jean-Chrisophe
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Night Life: Photographs by Sandra Mann by: Ammann, Jean-Chrisophe

Softcover. Heidelberg, Germany, Kehrer Verlag, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, soft cover. Covers have minor wear but are still in very good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains full-color photography throughout. This book by Sandra Mann, a young photographer, portrays moments in nightlife not only through the lens of her camera, but as a member of the scene itself. She provides the viewer with intimate, sometimes erotic sights of artists, musicians, dancers, and common people. Clean copy. Record # 34278
Price: $15.00 

 

Rauschenberg Photographs


Rauschenberg, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-Paginated. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Robert Rauschenberg. Price clipped dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609796


Price: $75.00 

 

Stage Designs and the Russian Avant-Garde 1911-1929 - A Loan Exhibition of Stage and Costume Designs From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Nikita D. Lobanov-Rostovsky


Bowlt, John E.

Softcover. Washington, D. C., International Exhibitions Foundation, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 84 pages. Exhibition catalog. Black & white illustrations. Darkening to spine and cover edges. Not ex-library copy. Pages clean, unmarked.

Record # 612257


Price: $19.00 

 

Younger French Poets - The Chapbook (A Monthly Miscellany) - Number 17 - Volume 2 - November 1920, The


Flint, Frank Stewart

Softcover. London, The Poetry Bookshop, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 page "Chapbook". Bound in heavy stock filing folder with handwritten title on cover. 4 black & white illustrations. 12 page photocopied article on "Vorticism" by Ezra Pound from Fortnightly Review - Sept. 1, 1914 - laid-in. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 612563


Price: $125.00 

 

All-Night Party - The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem 1913-1930 by: Barnet, Andrea

Softcover. Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages. Softcover. Clean, tight copy. Record # 612665
Price: $12.00 

Experimental Cinema - Number 5 - 1934 Jacobs (Editors), Lewis/B. G. Braver-Mann/Seymour Stern
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Experimental Cinema - Number 5 - 1934


Jacobs (Editors), Lewis/B. G. Braver-Mann/Seymour Stern

Softcover. New York, Experimental Cinema, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Softcover magazine. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Feature articles include: "Synopsis for "Que Viva Mexico!" By S. M. Eisenstein and V. G. Alexandroff, "My Method" By A. Dovzhenko, "The Kingdom of Cinema" By Rene Clair, "Experimental Cinema in America, and more.Light wear, Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 614026


Price: $94.00 

 

Sylvia


Michaels, Leonard/Sylvia Bloch

Softcover. San Francisco, CA, Mercury House, First Edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with light wear to edges. Black & white illustrations by Sylvia Bloch throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751381mem


Price: $13.00 

 

Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs


Morgan, Barbara

Hardcover. New York, Morgan & Morgan, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 164 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A revised edition of the famed photographic dance document. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Moderate fading and edgewear to dust jacket. Price-clipped. Light edgewear to boards. Inscription of previous owner on front flyleaf. Age-toning to text block edge, mild fading as well. A tight copy.

Record # 951488


Price: $44.00 

 

Futurist Performance


Kirby, Michael

Softcover. New York, PAJ Publications, reprint, 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages, paperback. Documents the first modern style oriented around society as spectacle in 13 manifestos and 48 performance texts. With black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light soiling to wraps, mild rubbing and edgewear as well. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951611


Price: $19.00 

 

History of the French New Wave Cinema, A


Neupert, Richard

Softcover. Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press, Reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 342 pages. Softcover with only marginal wear to illustrated wraps. Black & white illustrations, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 6670042


Price: $23.00