Search Results: Titles starting with D from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

London: Academy Editions / New York: St. Martin's Press, (1973).. (1973).. Very good. - Quarto [approximately 11-5/8 inches high by 8-5/8 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. There is a small score mark to the rear cover. The dust jacket is rubbed. There are 2 score marks with a tiny hole to the rear panel. 102 & [2] pages. Profusely illustrated in black & white and color. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. <p>First American edition.<p>The text includes selections from the writing of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1980.. 1980.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial gray & tan wraps. The wraps are faded along the spine. Title, [2] leaves & [5] pages plus colophon. Very good. <p>First trade edition.<p>The colophon states: "Printed January 1980 as a New Year's Greeting for the friends of the Black Sparrow Press".

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956.. 1956.. Very good. - Octavo, cloth, in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The extremities are slightly faded & the covers are lightly bumped. The dust wrapper is soiled & chipped with short tears repaired with scotch tape internally. xiv, 393 & v pages plus colophon. Very good in a good dust wrapper. <p>First American edition.

London: William Heinemann, Ltd., (1935).. (1935).. Good. - Small octavo, softcover bound in printed wrappers. The binding is rubbed & soiled with the edges of the rear wrap darkened. The spine is chipped with short tears to the head. 22 pages. Illustrated in black & white with a portrait frontispiece, a facsimile & 3 photographic illustrations. The top edges of the pages are darkened & there is a tiny stain & light soiling to the front endpaper. Good. <p>First edition.<p>Aldington's essay is followed by a two-page list of D. H. Lawrence's works as published by William Heinemann.

Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press / London and Amsterdam: Feffer & Simons, Inc., (1970)., (1970).. Very good. - Octavo, black boards backed with a silvery white spine, titled in red & black on the spine, in a pictorial white dust wrapper. The book's covers are slightly rubbed. The title is fading from the spine of the price-clipped dust jacket. The jacket is slightly soiled with some minor tiny tears to the edges. xii, [ii] & 241 pages. Very good.
First edition.

NY: The Museum of Modern Art, (1965).. (1965).. Good. - Square octavo, pictorial wraps. Rubbed; corners creased; tail of spine torn. 88 pp. Illustrated with B&W production shots and stills from the films. Good.

Westfield, MA: Paper Makers Advertising Association, 1968.. 1968.. Good. - Quarto [approximately 11 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide], softcover bound in printed wrappers with a black-and-white vignette on each cover. The binding is bumped & soiled with some light creasing & chipping to the edges of the wraps & a few tiny ink stains to the front wrap. There is some foxing to the spine & to the front wrap at the tail of the spine. 28 pages of text plus a large section of advertisements with paper samples & examples of graphic design by association members. The last few paper samples are detached. Good. <p>This issue contains an article on the Adagio Press by Leonard F. Bahr. Bahr [1934-1992]founded the press in 1956, working out of his home in Harper Woods, Michigan and specializing in fine and limited editions. He worked as an advertising typographer with George Willens and Company in Detroit for thirty-four years, retiring in 1991.

Varese: Edizioni la Lucciola, (1956).. (1956).. Good. - Quarto [11-3/8 inches high by 8-5/8 inches wide], cream boards backed with green cloth with the titling stamped in gilt on the front cover & spine. The boards are darkened & lightly bumped and the spine is faded. 149 & [2] pages plus colophon. Illustrated with numerous tipped-in plates in color and black & white. There is an ink address & date on the front pastedown & the page edges are darkened. Good. <p>Number 798 of a limited edition of 2,000 numbered copies. The text is in Italian.

New York: Doubleday, (2003)., (2003).. Good. - Octavo, black boards backed with black cloth & titled in gilt on the spine in a dust wrapper. The rear cover is dampstained with some bubbling. Half-title, title, [3] leaves & 454 pages. The rear pastedown & endpaper are slightly rippled, else the contents are near fine. First edition, first printing with the full number line, "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1".

Teufen [Switzerland]: Verlag Arthur Niggli, (1965).. (1965).. Good. - Small quarto [approximately 7-1/2 inches high by 7-3/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The binding is lightly bumped with the spine & extremities darkened & with some minor soiling to the rear cover. The covers are slightly bowed. 128 pages. Profuse black-and-white illustrations. There is a pencil notation on the inside rear wrap, else the contents are very good.

New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, circa [1943]., [1943].. Very good. - Octavo, 7-5/8 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in printed blue wrappers. The extremities of the covers are very lightly rubbed and the spine is darkened. 128 pages. Near fine.
"Bestseller Mystery" No. B67.

Stockholm: Bokforlaget Aldus/Bonniers, (1965).. (1965).. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed wrappers. The binding is bumped & lightly soiled. The spine & the adjacent edge of the rear wrap are darkened with a small chip to the mid-section of the spine. 249 pages plus 5-page publisher's catalog. The page corners in the first third of the book are lightly bumped. Good.

Torino [Italy]: Umberto Allemandi & C., (2003).. (2003).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The binding is very slightly bumped & the film surface is lightly chipped along the bottom edge of the rear wrap. 253 & [2] pages plus colophon. Illustrated in color and black & white. Very good. <p>Published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Paolo Venturoli. The text is in Italian.

(Seattle, WA): Seattle Art Museum, 1992).. 1992).. Fine. - Quarto [12 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The tail of the spine is slightly chipped. 70 pages. Profuse color illustrations. Near fine.

Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1992.. 1992.. Very good. - Quarto [12 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The binding is lightly rubbed with a price-sticker on the rear wrap. 70 pages. Profuse color illustrations. Very good. <p>Second printing.

Greenwich, Connecticut: The New York Graphic Society, (1965).. (1965).. Good. - Quarto, 11-1/4 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide. Grayish-white marbled boards backed with a black cloth spine, titled in gilt on the spine. The book is housed in its original white slipcase with a full-page illustration mounted on the case's front cover. The slipcase is rubbed and soiled with short tears to the edges. 74 & [1] pages, illustrated with a tipped-in portrait frontispiece by Halsman and 27 tipped-in color plates of Dali's jewelry with descriptive text on the facing page. The plate opposite page 52 is torn and creased along its right edge. Good. <p>Inscribed and signed on the front endpaper by Owen Cheatham, the owner of the collection.<p>Laid in with the book is the 12-page exhibition catalog with a descriptive index of the jewels. The 8-1/2 inch high by 5- 1/2 inch wide catalog is bound in gilt-titled white wraps with a yellow silk cord at the spine.

New York: Rizzoli, (2004)., (2004).. Fine. - Quarto, 11-3/4 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in color pictorial wraps. 607 & [1] pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white, including full-page and double-page illustrations. Near fine.
First American edition. Published on the occasion of the exhibitions at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, Italy and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Munchen: R. Piper & Co. Verlag (1959).. (1959).. Good. - Small octavo, pictorial paper covered boards. The spine & extremities are darkened. 65 & [2] pages plus publisher's ad. 24 full-page & textual illustrations in black & white. There is an owner's stamp on the front endpaper with his notation on the rear pastedown. Good. <p>The text is in German.

Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Colleges of the Arts, (1987).. (1987).. Fine. - Quarto [approximately 12 inches high by 9 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial black wrappers. 63 & [1] pages. Full-page color illustrations and drawings reproduced in black & white. Near fine. <p>Catalog for an exhibition organized by Eleni Cocordas and the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of the Philadelphia Colleges of Arts. The exhibition was presented in Philadelphia from February 27 to March 30, 1987, and subsequently at the Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Goldie Paley Gallery, (1993)., (1993).. Fine. - Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in color pictorial wraps. The edges of the covers are very slightly rubbed. 52 pages, including the covers, with profuse color and black & white illustrations of Dan Graham's indoor and outdoor conceptual art installations. Near fine. A catalog of an exhibition held from September 7 through October 17, 1993 at the Goldie Paley Gallery and the Levy Gallery for the Arts in Philadelphia, which then traveled to three other locations.The conceptual New York artist Dan Graham (born 1942) is an influential figure in the world of contemporary art. He is both an artist, theorist, and an art critic. Founder of the John Daniels Gallery in New York, he works with film, video, performance, photography, architectural models and glass and mirror structures which seek to bring focus to the relationship between the viewer and the art work.