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BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991) and HENRY W. LANIER (b. 1873). Greenwich Village Today & Yesterday. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. 8vo. 162 pp. Black-and-white photographs on 32 leaves. Original black cloth; pictorial dust jacket.

FIRST EDITION of this classic study of New York's Greenwich Village: "In the 1940s the Village vibrated so slowly that it seemed to stand still. My way of working, so far removed from the snapshot, had trained me in the creation of that nimbus of stillness." Designed by A. W. Rushmore. Fernández, New York in Photobooks, pp. 58-61. (402988)

$400

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PAUL AUSTER (b. 1947). The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1994. 8vo. 464, [3] pp. Original red cloth; dust jacket designed by Katie Messborn.

FIRST AMERICAN COLLECTED EDITION, DELUXE LIMITED ISSUE, one of 200 copies signed by Auster; designed by Guy Bennett. These important meta-detective novels were originally published in 1985 and 1986. Employing elements of the nouveau roman and postmodernism, the trilogy is ultimately a genre of its own, and is rightly considered Auster's defining work, and one of the great works of American fiction in the 1980s. (402932)

$500

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SAMUEL BECKETT (1906-1989). Ill Seen Ill Said. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1982. 8vo. 45, [1] pp. Printed in blue and black. Original black morocco-backed striped-paper boards, morocco faced fore-edge, gilt-lettered on spine.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, copy Y of 26 lettered copies from an edition of 325, SIGNED by Beckett on the half-title. Printed on mouldmade Bugrabutten paper, printed by Henry Morris, and bound by David Bourbeau. Translated from the French by Beckett. (402323)

$2,000

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CHARLES BUKOWSKI (1920-1994). "fourteen dollars and thirty two cents". Typescript with holograph corrections signed ("Charles Bukowski / 9-28-77"). [Los Angeles], 1977. Two pages, 4to, on cream typing paper, stapled. 51 lines, with 11 corrections to punctuation.

Published in Dangling in the Tournefortia (Black Sparrow, 1981). Aubrey Malone, in The Hunchback of East Hollywood: A Biography of Charles Bukowski references this poem as an example of Bukowski's "incredibly jumpy mind" (p.126). Bukowski creates a poem out of insomnia, and life pressures, "dead cat on the boulevards. / de Sade grinning in the dark. / more trouble in the government. [...] getting an erection / from looking at the girl cashier. / 'how you doing?' she asks / 'I need my teeth drilled,' tell / her [...]" (401191)

$3,500

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MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985) – JEAN LEYMARIE. The Jerusalem Windows.[New York]: George Braziller, Inc. / André Sauret, [1962]. Folio. 213pp. Two original lithographs after Marc Chagall, printed by Mourlot Frères; color and black-and-white plates. Original red cloth; pictorial dust jacket; original acetate.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Translated from the French by Elaine Desautels. This edition was published the same year as the first editions in French and English. This celebrated work shows various drafts and the final versions of the 12 stained glass windows (one for each of the tribes of Israel) designed by Chagall for the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center. (401229)

$650

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LARRY CLARK (b. 1943). Tulsa. New York: Rapoport Printing for Larry Clark, 1971 [but 1979]. 4to. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket.

First edition sheets bound in cloth. SIGNED by the photographer on the title. Clark had copies of this – his first book – bound in cloth in 1979, using remaining sheets from the first edition. "Clark set out in his photographs to try to tell the truth about the world and about himself" (Roth, 208). (402171)

$1,250

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ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1935-1998).MANIFESTO. Concerning: The pre-planned political murder of Bobby Seale... New York: Committee to Defend the New York Black Panther, [1970?]. Broadside, 14 x 8 1/2 inches. Text in double-column.

SCARCE BROADSIDE. Cleaver's manifesto against the execution of Bobby Seale during the 1970 New Haven Black Panther trials was printed in several forms, including an appearance on the first page of The Black Panther newspaper. (400741)

$600

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CLARK COOLIDGE (b. 1939). Solution Passage. Poems 1978-1981.Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Oblong folio (8½ x 13 inches). 391 pages on 195 leaves, each leaf containing two pages of the text. Xeroxed proof with printer's registration marks and incorporating an earlier editorial reader's occasional notes. Comb binding with drab wrappers.

UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF, with four penciled corrections by Coolidge in the Table of Contents, and twenty-seven corrections in the text. Solution Passage, Coolidge's largest collection to date, brings together 232 of his poems written between 1978-1981, including major works such as "Thin Places: Twelve Interiors," "Of What The Music to Me," "Jerome in His Study," "Peru Eye, The Heart of the Lamp," and "After Morandi." (402940)

$750

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JOSEPH CORNELL (1903-1972) and ELISE POLKO (1822-1899). Maria. New York: Salamander Editions, [1954]. 4to (5½ x 4¼ inches). Engraved vignette, small color image of the Manhattan skyline mounted on last page; original blue tissue preserved. Stapled in original printed wrappers. A virtually untouched example. Provenance: Sylvia Pedlar (1900-1972), American fashion designer.

A SUPERB COPY OF CORNELL'S SCARCE ARTIST'S BOOK, printed in an edition of 100 copies, this one of those with an original image Cornell mounted in personalized copies, and is accompanied by a letter presenting the pamphlet to American fashion designer Sylvia Pedlar (1902-1982).

[With:] CORNELL. Typed letter signed (“Joseph Cornell”) to Sylvia Pedlar, 3708 Utopia Parkway, Flushing, NY, 27 May 1956. One page, 4to, on Valley Onion Skin.

Maria, an appropriated text translated by Cornell from Elise Polko’s original prose-poem, reflects Cornell’s obsession with opera, and with Maria Malibran in particular. This early example is among those Cornell specially personalized for notable friends. (402918)

$15,000

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PHILIP K. DICK (1928-1992). Valis. New York: Bantam Books, 1981. 8vo. 204pp. Original green printed wrappers, green linen backstrip, publication date of January 1, 1981 changed in manuscript to February.

SCARCE PROOF OF DICK'S VALIS, of which only a small number were prepared (by one account only 19 copies), none of which were sent to reviewers. Laid-in is Bantam's "Brief Description" for the book, mimeographed typescript, 4to, three paragraphs. (401190)

$900

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JAMES ROOD DOOLITTLE. The Romance of the Automobile Industry. Being the Story of its Development–its Contribution to Health and Prosperity–its Influence on Eugenics–its Effect on Personal Efficiency–and its Service and Mission to Humanity as the Latest and Greatest Phase of Transportation. New York: The Klebold Press, 1916. 4to. 460pp. 116 plates. Original gilt-decorated cloth.

FIRST EDITION of this early, monumental history of the American automobile industry. Includes stories of the inventors, the history of manufacturing, the organizations of the industry, the laws of the road, the economics of the industry, and the role of the automobile in American culture. (402909)

$400

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JOHN FANTE (1909-1983). Wait Until Spring, Bandini. Los Angeles: 1983. 8vo. Original linen-backed decorated boards; acetate wrapper.

DELUXE ISSUE OF THE BLACK SPARROW EDITION OF FANTE’S FIRST NOVEL, number 62 of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. (402963)

$350

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WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962).Absalom, Absalom! New York: Random House, 1936. 8vo. 384 pp. Folding map at end. Original black striped cloth; printed dust jacket designed by George Salter.

FIRST EDITION. Absalom, Absalom! was the first major novel brought out by Random House, and their aggressive marketing greatly expanded Faulkner’s reputation. (402432)

$750

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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940). The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. 8vo. Original green cloth, titled-in blind on front, gilt-lettered on spine; quarter morocco slipcase.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. An unusually fresh and bright copy, the spine gilt crisp. (401795)

$7,000

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MAHATMA MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI (1869-1948). The Wheel of Fortune. Madras: Ganesh & Co., 1922. 8vo (7 x 5 inches). xiii, [2], 160pp. Half-title. One illustration of a spinning wheel, or charka, on p.[156]. Publisher’s original Khadar cloth printed in turquoise on the upper and lower boards.

FIRST EDITION, first printing. With an appreciation by Dwijendranath Tagore entitled "Dawn of a New Era": "Let critics of Mahatma Gandhi then look to History before they condemn him for trying to bring this much belauded Modern Civilisation down to the common starting point of all great civilisations. We are at the dawn of a New Era, and Mahatma Gandhi is the one leader who shows us the right path..."

This is Gandhi's fourth, and perhaps scarcest, book, published in the year of his arrest, trial, and conviction for sedition (resulting in a six-year prison sentence). Gandhi promotes the spinning wheel – the wheel of the title and illustrated on the cover – as a means to break from British rule. (402939)

$2,500

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JOHN GARDNER (1926-2007). The Quiet Dogs. [London]: 1980. Carbon typescript with holograph corrections, 411pp., 4to, a thorough revision of the draft manuscript apparently prepared at the final stages of pre-publication. Gardner has annotated some 215 pages, including the changing or removal of text, insertion or changing of words. Of these, 62 pages contain more extensive revisions, ranging from the insertion of a single sentence to an entire paragraph, in one of two pens (blue and black). Other minor editorial marks are found throughout the typescript.

AN EXTENSIVE WORKING DRAFT FOR GARDNER'S THIRD NOVEL IN HIS SERIES ABOUT BIG HERBIE KRUGER, the anti-hero British spy. Published in 1984, The Quiet Dogs finds Kruger washed up and regarded with suspicion by his MI6 director and colleagues. He is given the Quixotic mission of extracting a long-term asset in Moscow without leaving London, and finds the opportunity to vanquish the KGB officer who almost destroyed him four years earlier in The Garden of Weapons. (401465)

$2,500

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GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM – CURT GLASER. Die Graphik der Neuzeit vom Anfang des XIX. Jahrunderts bis Zur Gegenwart. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1922. Tall 8vo. 585pp. Original etchings by Lovis Corinth, Edvard Munch, Max Pechstein and Hans Purrmann; an original lithograph by Max Liebermann; and an original woodcut by Max Slevogt. With lettered tissue guards. Original red morocco gilt, top edges gilt.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, number 139 of 150 copies with six original prints: 1. Edvard Munch, Kinderkopf (Schiefler 250 IIa) –– 2. Lovis Corinth, Tiergartenlandschaft (Müller 476) –– 3. Max Slevogt, Tischkarte (Rümann 24) –– 4. Hans Purrmann, Landschaft (Heilmann 97 b) –– 5. Max Liebermann, Der barmherzige Samariter (Schiefler 347) –– 6. Max Pechstein, Fischerfamilie (Krüger R 127). (401407)

$1,250

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ANDRÉ GIDE (1869-1951). Portrait photograph by PHILIPPE HALSMAN inscribed to Waldo Frank, 1934. Superb portrait by Philippe Halsman, gelatin silver print, 6 x 4½ inches on 9 3/4 x 7 inch mount, signed "Halsman Paris" on the mount beneath the image and with his stamp on verso of the mount.

A FINE HALSMAN PORTRAIT WITH PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION BY ANDRÉ GIDE (1869-1951): "pour Waldo Frank en affectieuse souvenir André Gide." Waldo Frank (1889-1967) – American novelist, critic and political activist – wrote extensively for The New Yorker and The New Republic in the 1920s. (401085)

$3,000

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SAM HASKINS (1926-2009).Posters. London: [Printed in Switzerland by Lichtdruck AG, Dielsdorf, Zurich for Sam Haskins, 67 Glebe Place, 1972]. Folio. 31 photographs. Deluxe gold-leaf over boards, title cartouche on front cover, white-lettered on leather spine.

FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, number 92 of 1500 copies signed by Haskins. Frequently found in wrappers, the work is scarce in this deluxe hardcover limited edition and it is unlikely that as many as 1,500 copies were distributed based on its availability in the market. This was the first color book produced by Haskins. It is printed on one side using a thick stiff paper and a soft glue perfect binding so that the pages could be removed and used as posters. The book won a gold award at the New York One Show. (401619)

$600

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CHARLES E. IVES (1874-1954). 114 Songs. Reading, Connecticut: By the author, 1922. 4to (12 x 9½ inches). 259, [4] pp. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth.

FIRST EDITION, second issue. "...114 Songs, privately printed and distributed without copyright and free of charge; no one was expected or allowed to pay for them. They were sent to libraries, music critics, and musicians, and to anybody else who asked for them... The 114 Songs forms the most original, imaginative, and powerful body of vocal music that we have from any American,..." (Cowell, Henry & Sidney, Charles Ives and His Music, New York, 1955). (402876)

$1,000

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JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941) and HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954). Ulysses. Introduction by Gilbert Stuart. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Large 4to (12 x 9½ inches). 382pp. 6 etchings and 20 reproductions of preliminary drawings by MATISSE, tipped in. Original gilt-stamped pictorial brown cloth from a design by LeRoy H. Appleton; printed slipcase.

FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 1500 copies, signed by Henri Matisse on the limitation leaf. "One of the very few American livres de peintres issued before World War II. According to George Macy, who undertook this only American publication of Matisse's illustrations, he asked the artist how many etchings the latter could provide for five thousand dollars. The artist chose to take six subjects from Homer's Odyssey" (Riva Castleman, A Century of Artists Books, pp.35, 61). (402913)

$6,500

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GYORGY KEPES (1906-2001), editor. Vision + Value Series: Education of Vision - Structure in Art and in Science - The Nature and Art of Motion - Module, Proportion, Symmetry, Rhythm - The Man-Made Object - Sign Image Symbol. New York: George Braziller, 1965-1966. Together 6 volumes, large 4to. Original cloth; dust jackets.

FIRST EDITIONS. "A groundbreaking compilation of essays from artists, designers, architects, and scientists exploring new directions in education, art, science, and visual communications" (MIT). This important series in the annals of modern design included contributions by Dore Ashton, Max Bill, John Cage, R. Buckminster Fuller, Bruno Munari, Paul Rand, Sir Herbert Read, Ad Reinhardt, I.A. Richards, Victor Vasarely, and others. The aim of the series was to “…to stimulate the circulation of ideas, to find channels of communication that interconnect various disciplines and offer us a sense of structure in our 20th century world…" (401231)

$500

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JACOB LAWRENCE (1917-2000). The Great Migration. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, The Philips Collection, Harper Collins, 1993. Oblong 4to. [48] pp. Color reproductions of the entire "Migration of the Negro" series. Deluxe binding of blue cloth, gilt-lettered; cloth slipcase with mounted color image on front.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, number 4 of 100 copies signed by Lawrence and bound in cloth, and with slipcase. Lawrence's "The Migration of the Negro", a narrative series of sixty individual panels, was painted between 1940 and 1941. (402547)

$1,500

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ALEXEI LEONOV (b. 1934) and VLADIMIR LEBEDEV (1891-1967). Space and Time Perception by the Cosmonaut. Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1971. 12mo. 199, [2]pp. Three color plates reproducing Leonov's paintings, one color plate "Some of the visual illusions arising in the weightless condition," and black-and-white diagrams and photos in text. Original pictorial wrappers, the front cover showing a cosmonaut floating in space.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. An important first-hand account of space exploration and the effects of space travel on medicine from the first person to walk in space. Alexei Leonov made the first extra-vehicular space walk on 18 March 1965 during the Voskhod 2 mission. (401820)

$350

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HELEN LEVITT (1913-2009) and JAMES AGEE (1909-1955). A Way of Seeing: Photographs of New York. New York: The Viking Press, 1965. Oblong 8vo. 78pp., includes 50 black-and-white images. Original cloth, lettered in white; pictorial dust jacket.

FIRST EDITION, a review copy, with slip laid-in. "Blending the static beauty that [Walker] Evans extracted from day-to-day events with Cartier-Bresson's sense of movement, Levitt created a genuine portrait of street life. She isolates the brightest and most spontaneous moments with a vision that includes a clear dose of emotion and that betrays an admiration, even a perplexity, in the face of neighborhood life" (Horatio Fernández, New York in Photobooks, Barcelona, 2016, p.92). (401139)

$900

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KNUD LÖNBERG-HOLM (1895-1972) and LADISLAV SUTNAR (1897-1976).Catalog Design. New York: Sweet's Catalog Service, a division of F. W. Dodge Corporation, 1944. 4to. 36 leaves, unpaginated. Original printed boards, yellow endpapers, spiral bound.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION of an important work from two of the great pioneers in the fields of information design and information architecture. (400755)

$2,500

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ALVIN LUSTIG (1915-1955) and JAMES LAUGHLIN (1914-1997). Bookjackets by Alvin Lustig for New Directions Books. New York: The Gotham Book Mart Press, 1947. Title and two leaves text: Statements by Laughlin and Lustig. 18 color plates of New Directions jackets designed by Lustig. Original comb binding, printed wrappers.

A RARE PROMOTIONAL BROCHURE FROM NEW DIRECTIONS. Laughlin states: "It is obvious that the series of jacket designs which Alvin Lustig has made for my New Classics books is a constant pleasure to the eye. There is nothing in the book world today which compares with them for color, for variety, for life, for appeal to the intelligence....”(402975)

$500

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ALVIN LUSTIG, Alvin (1915-1955).Introduction by PHILIP JOHNSON (1906-2005). The Collected Writings. New Haven: [NY: The Thistle Press for] Holland Roberts Melson Jr, 1958. 8vo. 94, [1] pp. Original pictorial boards with a portrait of Lustig on the front cover by Maya Deren; original glassine.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION, one of 600 copies. Designed by Holland Roberts Melson, Jr., set in Monotype Walbaum, and printed on Mohawk Superfine Text by Clarke and Way at the Thistle Press. Binding by Russell-Rutter Company. Quite uncommon in the market.

This was the first and only collected edition of Lustig’s writings, published by Elaine Lustig Cohen in memory of her husband who had taught at the School of Art and Architecture at Yale from 1951 to 1954. (403035)

$1,000

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ROBERT McALMON (1895-1956). A Hasty Bunch. [Paris: Printed in Dijon by Maurice Darantière for Contact Publishing Co., 1922]. 8vo. 288pp. Original printed French-folded wrappers, uncut and unopened. A beautiful, fresh copy.

FIRST EDITION, one of approximately 300 copies privately printed, of McAlmon's second book (preceded by a collection of poetry) and the first book issued by his own Contact Publishing Co. This copy includes the broadside "From an h'English Printer to an English Publisher" laid-in. (402910)

$850

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CORMAC McCARTHY (b. 1933). "The Dark Waters". In: The Sewanee Review. Vol. LXXIII, no. 2. Sewanee, Tenn: The University of the South, April-June 1965. 8vo. 344 pp. Original printed wrappers.

FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST EXTRACTS OF CORMAC MCCARTHY'S FIRST NOVEL, The Orchard Keeper (published by Random House in 1965). (403022)

$350

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HENRY MILLER (1891-1980). Autograph letter signed ("Henry Miller") to Mr. Musgrave, Big Sur, 31 July 1955. One page, 4to, in two color inks. Framed with a black-and-white photograph of Miller, inscribed.

Miller sends Musgrave two watercolors – "Village by the Sea," "Greek Boy – and the silkscreen "Hindu Wedding." The photo shows Miller standing with a paintbrush in his hand, a watercolor and supplies on the table before him. He inscribes the reverse: "In living room at Partington Ridge 1954. Return to Henry Miller Big Sur California." The recipient is presumably Victor Musgrave, British poet, art dealer, and curator – a pioneer as a champion of Art Brut who often bragged that he was the only dealer to not wear a tie. (401083)

$550

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JOAN MIRO (1893-1983). Lithographs. Vols. I - IV. New York and Paris: Tudor (I); Léon Amiel (II); and Maeght (III and IV), 1972-81. Four volumes, folio (12 1/2 x 10 inches). 32 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS BY MIRO. Original cloth; pictorial dust jackets being original lithographs, vols. 3 and 4 with original wrap-around bands. A fine set.

FIRST EDITIONS IN ENGLISH, vols. I-III each one of 5000 copies; vol. IV one of 4000 copies. With texts by Michel Leiris, Fernand Mourlot, Raymond Queneau, Joan Teixidor, Nicholas & Elena Calas (402658)

$2,000

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UGO MULAS (1928-1973) and ALAN SOLOMON (1907-1990). New York: The New Art Scene. New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1967. Folio (13 x 9½ inches). Profusely illustrated with over 500 of Mulas's black-and-white photographs. Original cloth; dust jacket.

FIRST EDITION of this classic photographic record of the vibrant New York art scene in the 1960s, featuring Marcel Duchamp. Barnett Newman, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Larry Poons, Kenneth Noland, John Chamberlain, Jim Dine, Frank Stella, Lee Bontecou, George Segal, Jim Rosenquist, Tom Wesselman, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg. (402958)

$1,000

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DAVID OGILVY (1911-1999). Confessions of an Advertising Man. New York: Atheneum, 1963. 8vo. Original cloth; folding dust jacket.

FIRST EDITION, A PRESENTATION COPY in the folding jacket, inscribed by legendary Madison Avenue ad-man David Ogilvy. The dust jacket flaps advise the reader to "see inside... for samples of David Ogilvy's wizardry," and it unfolds to reveal six classic advertisements he created.

Known as "the father of advertising", Ogilvy attributed the success of his campaigns to meticulous research of consumer habits, a skill gained during his years at Gallup. Some have suggested that Ogilvy served as the model for Don Draper in the series Mad Men. (402202)

$1,500

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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973). 21 large compositions for Hélène chez Archimède. [Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1955]. 21 large woodcuts after Picasso by Georges Aubert. Sheets 17 x 13 inches. Suite with several on pale blue paper. Loose in portfolio.

RARE SEPARATELY ISSUED SUITE OF PICASSO'S WOODCUTS. These cuts had been commissioned by Ambroise Vollard and were done at about the time Picasso illustrated the Chef d'Oeuvre Inconnu, and were issued as an additional suite for Hélène chez Archimède by André Suarès. One plate is reproduced in Uma Johnson's Ambroise Vollard. Apparently only 50 copies of this separately-issued suite were published. (401875)

$2,500

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BARBARA PYM (1913-1980). Less Than Angels. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. 8vo. 256 pp. Original gilt-lettered brown cloth; dust jacket.

FIRST EDITION of Pym's fourth novel, concerned with the activities of a group of young anthropologists. It was based in part on the author's experiences working at the African Institute in London. (402987)

$475

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PAUL RAND (1914-1996), his copy. H. L. C. JAFFE.de Stijl 1917-1931. London: Alec Teranti, Ltd, 1956. 8vo (9¼ x 7 inches). viii, 293 pp. Four color plates showing designs by Mondrian, Rietveld, Van der Leck, and Van Doesburg and Van Eesteren; and 48 black-and-white plates at end on 24 sheets. Original cloth. Light age-toning to sheet edges; minor handling wear to binding.

A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY GIVEN BY HANS SCHLEGER TO PAUL RAND IN 1969, inscribed in Rand’s hand on the title-page: “London Oct 3.69 from Hans Schleger.” EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED BY RAND: 71 pages bear a total of 164 of Rand’s pencilled notes, underlinings, and doodles. In total, 91 phrases or sentences are underlined, 63 notes in margins repeat or amplify ideas, and there are five doodles, four annotated commentaries, and one correction.

This important association copy, connecting two twentieth century masters to one of its major design movements, is accompanied by two evocative documents of the trip. (403038)

$1,500

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STEVE REICH (b.1936)

Original manuscript score of ‘Drumming: Part One For 4 Pair of Tuned Bongo Drums and Male Voices.’

Fair-copy signed twice. [New York], 1971. 8 leaves, including title. Title with general textual description and drawing of performance parameters, all but two of the leaves of the score with extensive performance notes written at the foot of the page. This comprises the complete first part (of four) of the entire piece.

The present score is in superb condition, and shows the beautiful graphic process by which Reich prepared his finished working manuscripts. This manuscript was acquired from Reich in the early 1970s, soon after the debut of the piece, and has remained since in the same private collection.

This is likely a unique opportunity to acquire a major manuscript from this ground-breaking American artist.

$65,000

“minimalism’s first masterpiece”original manuscript of steve reich’s ‘drumming’

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HELENA RUBINSTEIN (1872-1962). Photographic Archive of 162 black-and-white photographs.1902-1958. Though unattributed, several of the prints are of photographs taken by Cecil Beaton for a 1950 shoot for Vanity Fair.

A fine archive of photographs of Helena Rubinstein (1872-1965), cosmetics entrepreneur, art collector, and philanthropist. (401388)

$2,500

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FREDERICK SOMMER (1905-1999). 1939-1962 photographs. Words not spent today Buy smaller images tomorrow.[Rochester]: Aperture, 1963. 4to. 21 leaves. Original white cloth, lettered in black on upper cover.

FIRST EDITION, DELUXE CLOTH ISSUE, of Sommer's first book and the first book issued by Aperture in hardcover (it was originally published as Aperture 10:4). "An almost perfect monograph"; "this early enactment of Sommer's ideas about the workings of linguistic and pictorial logic is a gem" (101 Books). (401618)

$1,200

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STEVEN SPIELBERG (b. 1946), producer.MELISSA MATHISON (1950-2015). A Boy's Life [Working title for E.T. the Extra Terrestrial]. Culver City, CA: Extra-Terrestrial Productions, Inc, 1981. 4to. 113 pages. Original printed wrappers, closed with three brass brads.

SHOOTING SCRIPT, August 21, 1981. Spielberg's classic film E.T. the Extra Terrestrial began filming in September 1981 under the cover name A Boy's Life to prevent discovery and plagiarism on the plot. (402235)

$1,800

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ALFRED STIEGLITZ (1864-1946) – JOHN MARIN (1870-1953).Edited by HERBERT J. SELIGMANN (1891-1984). Letters of John Marin. New York: Privately Printed for An American Place, 1931. 8vo. Original grey cloth, gilt-lettered on spine.

FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, number 22 of 50 number copies signed by Marin from an edition of 400, presented by Stieglitz to Dorothy Secker Norman.

A SUPERB PRESENTATION COPY, with a lengthy inscription by Alfred Stieglitz on a laid-in sheet to Dorothy Norman: "I did not fail to inscribe this book -- If you will look at the last leaves of the volume you'll find way down in the left hand corner in pencil DPN / AS 1931. So we had not forgotten. For Dorothy, Alfred. An American Place. May 11 - 1940." (401622)

$1,500

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ROBERT FRANKLIN STROUD ("The Birdman of Alcatraz," 1890-1963). Typed letter signed ("Robert Stroud") to Fred E. Daw.Leavenworth, Kansas, 20 September 1938. Three pages, 4to, with a handful of holograph corrections.

"The Birdman of Alcatraz" writes a lengthy letter while imprisoned for manslaughter. His 17-year term at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary began on 19 December 1942. His famous bird-keeping and ornithological research had taken place at Leavenworth Prison (where this letter was written). Such practices were prohibited at Alcatraz, so he instead concentrated on writing, studying law, and petitioning for his release. (401064)

$500

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DAISETZ TEITARO SUZUKI (1870-1966). The Essence of Buddhism. London: The Buddhist Society, 1947. 8vo. 72 pp. Original blue mottled paper printed wrappers.

Second edition, revised and enlarged. INSCRIBED BY SUZUKI on the title-page: "Daisetz T. Suzuki New York October 1956" followed by an inscription in Japanese. The text presents two lectures and is the author's translation from the Japanese of his command address to H.M. the Emperor of Japan on April 23rd and 24th, 1946, and nearly doubles the length of the first edition (printed the previous year). (400735)

$600

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DAISETZ TEITARO SUZUKI (1870-1966). Essays in Zen Buddhism (Third Series). London: Rider and Company for The Buddhist Society, 1953. 8vo. Frontispiece, half-tone plates. Original cloth; printed dust jacket.

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY SUZUKI on the title-page: "Daisetz T. Suzuki New York October 1956" followed by an inscription in Japanese. Foreword by Christmas Humphreys. This is the third of the three separate series of essays on the subject of Zen Buddhism by Suzuki. (400736)

$1,200

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EDGAR VARÈSE (1883-1965). Hyperprism for small Orchestra and Percussion. London: J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., 1924. 4to. Original printed wrappers with an Art Deco design by Witold Gordon.

FIRST UK EDITION [“Curwen Edition 90747”], SIGNED AND ANNOTATED BY THE COMPOSER. Varèse has written in red china pencil on the title: "CORRECTED COPY / Edgar Varèse." (402240)

$700

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ORSON WELLES (1915-1985). Signed publicity photograph from Citizen Kane. 1941. 8 x 10 inches. Matted, framed, and glazed.

WELLES AS CITIZEN KANE – INSCRIBED. The renowned actor/director stands at a desk with co-stars Joseph Cotton and Everett Sloane seated on either side of him. (400732)

$1,500

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EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958) – MERLE ARMITAGE (1893-1975). The Art of Edward Weston. New York: [Will A. Kistler Company] for E. Weyhe, 1932. Folio. Foreword by Charles Sheeler, Appreciation by Lincoln Steffens, Prophecy by Arthur Miller, Estimate by Jean Charlot. 12pp. text, 39 photographic plates. Original printed paper-backed black boards.

A FINE PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 48 of 550 copies.

INSCRIBED by Weston to Lewis Milestone on the epigraph leaf facing the title. Milestone (1890-1980) is renowned for his direction of Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) – both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director. (401564)

$2,250

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WILLIAM WONDRISKA (1931-2016), designer. GEORGES BERNANOS (1888-1948). Mouchette. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. Small 8vo (7½ x 5½ inches). THE DESIGNER’S ORIGINAL MOCK-UP FOR THE BOOK.

A UNIQUE SURVIVAL. Wondriska's original maquette for the first edition in English of Georges Bernanos's final novel (he died in 1948). Accompanied by a copy of the final, published book. (402770)

$400

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VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941). The Years. London: The Hogarth Press, 1937. 8vo. 469 pp. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; pictorial dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell.

FIRST EDITION of Woolf's penultimate novel, published six years after her previous, The Waves. (402322)

$1,750