Search Results: Art from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop, 1974. Title with a few soft creases and soil-marks, occasional light wear to corners, generally clean and fresh. Title and 29 photographs, prints, and mixed-media pieces, either full sheet or on mounts, each signed by the artist either on recto or verso. Each 14 x 11 inches (or smaller and mounted). Number 39 of 75 copies. The artists include Skip Atwater, L. Myers, S. Moore, Elsa C. Voelcker, Laddy Kite, F. Duffy, Paul Ginsberg, Gail De Loach, L. Blacklow, Joan Lyons, Jonathan Morse, Greg Taylor, David Greene, Eve Cohen, Steve Foote, Frank Pflaumer, J. Morse, Gunther Cartwright, Alan Winer, Erik Sundance, A, Rosen, Tad Goodale, and other artists. The Visual Studies Workshop was founded by Joan Lyons in 1971 and has been a crucible for experimentation ever since. The Workshop has published over 450 titles. Scarce: not in OCLC.

New York: E. Weyhe, 1944. 8vo. Illustrations. Original decorated cloth. A very good copy lacking the jacket, somewhat toned, hinges tender. FIRST EDITION, one of 1675 copies. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by the author on the colophon: "This copy signed for Edna Bennett, appreciating her enthusiasm Merle Armitage 1945". Edna Bennett was a photographer, naturalist, and writer from Greenport, Long Island.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1980. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket with some minor shelfwear, a few dings to spine of jacket. 11 x 11.75 inches. 404 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. Revised edition. "All in the timing: The week before Easter brings many surprises to Grace Chapel Inn. Alice's old beau reappears and she finds herself facing feelings she never anticipated. And the sisters get to know a sullen teenager who has recently been left blind.

New York: The New York Public Library, 1944. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 377 pages. Printed in double-columns. Original printed tan wrappers. A similar volume to George L. McKay's 'American Book Auction Catalogues, 1713-1934'. Fine copy. (BA).

Munich: Galerie Art in Progress, 1977. Softcover. Wrappers soiled, some cockling to sheets. 11.5 x 9.5 inches. 111 pages. Wrappers. First edition.

A fine archive of three original drawings by the English "mouth artist" John Carter, two letters by his biographer, a copy of the revised edition of Carter's Memoir, and related materials. A fine collection of three original drawings by John Carter (31 July 1815 - 2 June 1850), an English mouth artist, together with a memoir and two autograph letters discussing Carter's work by William James Dampier, Carter's first biographer. The collection also includes a heliotype after a drawing by Carter as well as a list of subscribers to Dampier's memoir. The small collection was apparently presented by Dampier to one of his friends. Original drawings by carter are rare, as most "of his work, now widely dispersed and probably unrecognized, is of course only known from nineteenth century reproductions" (Trevor Disley) John Carter was born in Coggeshall, Essex, "of humble parents", as Dampier notes. At school "he showed a disposition to scribble the figure of a man, a horse, or a bird, upon his desk or copy… Read More

Boston: J. E. Tilton, 1860. Cloth with a few stains and with some light wear at extremities, a sound copy, the sheets lightly browned, early owner's penciled name on flyleaf. 8vo. 331 pages, 4-page advertisements at end. Frontispiece, illustrations in text. Publisher's blue blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt. First edition of this extensive manual of artistic practices in the fine and decorative arts. Includes drawing, painting, sculpture, papier mache, feather flowers, leather work, hair work, taxidermy, gilding and bronzing, plaster work, wax work, shell work, magic lantern, paper flowers, imitation of pearl, the aquarium, panorama painting, coloring photographs, enamel painting, etc.

Thames & Hudson, 1989. Softcover. A near-fine copy, some light creasing to the spine. 9.75 x 8 inches. 524 pages. Wrappers. "Examines the career of the two British conceptual artists and relates their work to the cultural context of a dehumanized society.

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, remnants of brown masking tape at lower fore-corners and top edges. The artist writes (translated from the French): "I send you my wishes for the New Year and I think from the bottom of my heart that it will bring you health and a complete cure... I myself have worries about my mother who is very aged, which means that I will be a bit delayed in what I had promised you. Don't hold it against me..." (BA).

Florida: Billig Publications, 1959. Hardcover. Fine copies. 9.25 x 6 inches. 205 and 208 pages. Cloth.

New York: Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, 2006. Softcover. A near-fine copy with one small mark on wrappers at corner. 9 x 10.5 inches. 24 pages. Wrappers. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition from September 7 - October 7 2006.

London: Wyman and Sons, 1895. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Corners bumped, some light staining and wear to binding, intermittent foxing. 4to. 16 plates by G. J. Pinwell and J. North. Original quarter green morocco, red cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by co-author Harry Quilter to dedicatee Maria Theresa Earle on the front flyleaf: "Maria Theresa Earle with the Author's Kind Regards. May 1895." The printed dedication reads: "To Maria Theresa Earle, in Memory of a Certain Day at Deschamps Gallery in the Year 1876, these Notes are Dedicated by the Author." The work typically appears in wrappers, and therefore this is presumably a gift binding made for the dedicatee. Mason (1818-1872) was considered one of the greatest of the idyllic painters of England. Pinwell (1842-1875) was also a member of the Idyllic School and excelled at drawing on wood for book illustration.

London, 1883. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Threads loose, else fine. 8vo. 19 pages, [3] advertisements. Self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Offering 211 lots of Rossetti art works: "One of the most important of all Pre-Raphaelite sale catalogues" (Frederman 19.3). (BA).

Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1926. Some light toning internally, the wrappers a bit soiled and with contemporary annotations on front wrapper in colored pencil, and pen titling along spine. 4to. [84] pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Printed white wrappers. With a preface by Jean Cocteau. The auction catalogue of the important collection of paintings amassed by John Quinn, including works by: Cézanne, Derain, Dufy, Fresnaye, Gris, Laurencin, Matisse, Pissarro, Redon, Rouault, Rousseau, and Segonzac. The sale was held on 28 October 1926. A celebrated, and elusive, catalogue.

Abbeville Press, 1984. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket with the extremities just lightly touched. 11.75 x 10 inches. 261 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. "Traces the history of Cobra, an avant-garde art movement centered in Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam, and examines the group's influence on modern art.

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1914. Some scuffing to binding, a few plates lightly offset, partly cracked at center but binding strong; a few splits and light wear to slipcase. Rare with the original slipcase. 8vo. 245 pages. Complete with 23 color reproductions of Cubist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, all mounted on card; and 46 half-tone illustrations. Original cloth-backed printed boards, top edges gilt; slipcase with printed paper spine label. First edition. The lawyer, art collector, author and critic Arthur Jerome Eddy was a key figure in the first generation of Modern Art collectors. This, his most important book, is the first American work to promote these artists, and the first work to promote Wassily Kandinsky. Much of the information in the book was gained from the artists themselves, as Eddy was actively studying and collecting their works. Kandinsky had only been represented by one painting in the Armory Show the previous year: four are illustrated here ('Village Street'; Landscape… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961. A few small stains on covers, overslip with some tears and wear, some light rubbing of spine lettering, sheet edges lightly toned, generally in well-preserved condition. 4to (22.5 x 20.8 cm). 87, [1] pages. Duo-tone reproductions. Original black quarter cloth, white embossed boards, with the scarce printed overslip for the front cover. First edition, inscribed by Albers on the half-title: "Signed for Adam Lewis January 1971 / Josef Albers." Lewis is a graduate of the Yale School of Art and Architecture. With the small errata slip laid-in.

Stuttgart: Cantz Verlag, 1993. 4to. 159 pp. 143 color plates. Original salmon boards; pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION of this catalogue of Judd's work for a traveling exhibition sponsored by the Stankowski Foundation. It showed the full spectrum of Judd's work in art and architecture, including prints, drawings, furniture, architectural designs, and posters.

Paris: Egoiste, 2012. Both in original shrinkwrap as issued, as new. 2 volumes, large folio. Lavishly produced and illustrated. Original printed wrappers. TWO MINT COPIES OF THIS DELUXE CULT FASHION MAGAZINE. Keira Knightly was photographed by Ellen von Unwerth and James Thierrée by Paolo Roversi. "The most outstanding photographers and writers of their time (Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon, Guy Bourdin and today Paolo Roversi, Ellen von Unwerth) have graced the 18 issues published to date [18, not included here, was published in March 2018] with a capricious periodicity. Egoïste is the subjective dictionary of an era. Known for the magic of the models, its mythical images such as Yannick Noah's nude by Avedon or the portrait of Ava Gardner by Helmut Newton and its bespoke advertisements designed and created especially by Nicole Wisniak, Egoïste offered a space of creativity to great writers such as Françoise Sagan, Jean d'Ormesson, Bernard Frank, Patrick Besson, Jean-Paul Enthoven, Frederic… Read More

Paris: Egoiste, 1987. Fine. Large folio. Lavishly produced and illustrated. Original printed wrappers. With cover photograph by Richard Avedon and contributions by Federico Fellini, Sigourney Weaver, Helmut Newton, Karl Lagerfeld, and Yves Saint Laurent. "The most outstanding photographers and writers of their time (Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon, Guy Bourdin and today Paolo Roversi, Ellen von Unwerth) have graced the 18 issues published to date [18, not included here, was published in March 2018] with a capricious periodicity. Egoïste is the subjective dictionary of an era. Known for the magic of the models, its mythical images such as Yannick Noah's nude by Avedon or the portrait of Ava Gardner by Helmut Newton and its bespoke advertisements designed and created especially by Nicole Wisniak, Egoïste offered a space of creativity to great writers such as Françoise Sagan, Jean d'Ormesson, Bernard Frank, Patrick Besson, Jean-Paul Enthoven, Frederic Beigbeder, Marie Darrieussecq). The release of… Read More