Below is a short list of some of our more interesting titles. This list is updated every week.
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1985, 1986. First editions. Hardcovers. First printings. Widely regarded as some of Auster's best works. All three books are in fine condition and are in fine dust jackets with the jacket for "City of Glass" being the second state. A lovely set. Item #155589 More
Price: $600.00
New York, Kansas City, MO, and East Hampton, NY: Knoedler & Company, Kemper Museum of Art, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition that ran January 25 through March 10, 2007 at Knoedler & Company and then traveled for additional dates. Introductions by Rachael Blackburn Cozad and Helen A. Harrison. Essays by Irving Sandler, James Enyeart, and David Sylvester. A striking collection of 40 color and 23 black and white images of artists like Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly, Philip Guston, Helen Frankenthaler, and others. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed on the half title page: "For John Loengard, with my fond regard and all good wishes, admiration to infinity! Dan Budnick October 2008." Also includes a handwritten letter from Budnick presenting the book as well. The recipient was long time picture editor and photographer at Life Magazine. A nice association copy of a book that is uncommon signed. Item #153611 More
Price: $150.00
New York: Morgan & Morgan, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 160 pages. Edited by Liliane De Cock. Text by Barbara Bullock, Wynn's daughter. Includes 88 images. A clean near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Signed and nicely inscribed by Bullock on the title page. An uncommon book signed. Item #161480 More
Price: $200.00
Bay Shore, NY: Universal Limited Art Editions, 2008. First edition. Large oblong hardcover. 145 pages. An interesting book on Tatyana Grosman who was a printmaker and started the publisher Universal Limited Art Editions. Preface by Bill Goldston. Includes numerous illustrations, excerpts from interviews, chronology, all in the format of a pseudo scrapbook organized by Castleman. A clean very near fine copy in boards. No dust jacket as issued. Signed and nicely inscribed by Castleman to Douglas Druick who was the one time director of the The Art Institute of Chicago. Uncommon and especially signed. Item #168405 More
Price: $250.00
London: Architectural Association, 1990. First edition. Large softcover. 99 pages. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at ran at the Architectural Association in the Autumn of 1990. Essay by Andrew Higgott. Includes numerous black and white images. A near fine copy in wrappers with a small gift inscription on the half title page in a very near fine dust jacket. Item #148740 More
Price: $150.00
Salamanca: Ediciones Unersidad de Salamanca, 1998. First edition. Oblong softcover. Text in Spanish and English. with an essay by Jose Luis Brea and commentary by diCorcia Includes 24 color plates of street scenes from Los Angeles, Tokyo, Barcelona, Hong Kong, Paris, New York, Rome, London, Naples and Odessa. A near fine copy in wrappers with some very minor wear. Surprisingly uncommon. Item #138580 More
Price: $450.00
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. The first book of fiction published by The Sierra Club. A funny novel about flyfishing. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with some very minute wear. A much nicer than usual copy of this classic. Item #161049 More
Price: $200.00
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Text by Allan Massie. A collection of black and white photographs of the Scottish city of Aberdeen. A very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some minor wear. Signed an inscribed by Eisenstaedt to fellow photographer and Life magazine editor John Loengard on the half title page in the year of publication. A nice association copy. Item #172514 More
Price: $200.00
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 47 pages. Gunn's third book. A very near fine copy in paper covered boards. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Gunn on the title page. A clean copy. Item #138584 More
Price: $150.00
Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1978. First edition. Oblong hardcover. First printing. A depressing look at suburban life, whereas Owen's book "Suburbia" was somewhat optimistic Hare's images are dark and poignantly show the ennui in middle America. A very near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with a few small edge tears and some very slight wear. A very nice copy of this classic monograph. (Parr & Badger v2, 23). Item #153055 More
Price: $175.00
New York: G.P. Putnam's & Sons, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Harris' first book, a thriller that revolved around a blimp, terrorism, and the Super Bowl. Made into a movie with Robert Shaw and Bruce Dern. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some minor wear and a small tear to the top of the front panel. Item #160112 More
Price: $150.00
Port Townsend,WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Limited edition one of 250 copies. Issued without dust jacket. A powerful collection of poems from the author of "Legends of the Fall" and "Dalva." A very fine as new copy. No dust jacket as issued. Signed and numbered by Harrison. Item #164347 More
Price: $150.00
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Center for the Book, 2003. First edition. Broadside printed in three colors and measuring 15.75" wide by 11.125" high. Printed in an edition of 200 copies but this is one of a small number that were out of series. Produced on the occasion of the Truman Capote Award being presented to Heaney on September 25, 2003 and was printed by Shari DeGraw and Nicole Flores. A very fine copy. Item #155775 More
Price: $250.00
Ann Arbor, MI: Passim Editions, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. One of only 100 copies printed by Wesley B. Tanner. A slim collection of 10 poems. A very fine copy of this fine press book with cloth spine, paper covered boards and with a printed spine label. Signed by Hecht on the colophon page. A beautiful book. Item #127271 More
Price: $200.00
Carmel, CA: Friends of Photography in conjunction with Light Gallery, 1980. First edition. Oblong hardcover. 158 pages. One of 2000 copies. Features text contributions by Marvin Bell, Carl Chiarenza, Candida Finkel, Charles Hagen, William Jenkins and John Upton. Includes nearly 100 color and black and white images. A very fine copy in cloth binding. No dust jacket as issued. In a fine copy of the original shipping carton. Still in the publisher's shrinkwrap slit open to photograph the signature. Signed by Heinecken on the colophon page. A beautiful copy. Item #172438 More
Price: $150.00
Copenhagen: Schoenberg, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Self-published by Helmer-Petersen. An early and important book of color photography that precedes the work of William Eggleston, Paul Graham and Joel Sternfeld. An about good copy with some shallow staining to the top edge of some of the later pages and some other minor wear in an about fair/poor dust jacket with a number of large chips and tears and wear. Still, a presentable copy. (Parr & Badger v1, 202-203). Item #140357 More
Price: $650.00
Paris & Lausanne, Switzerland: Centre national de la photographie / Musee de l'Elysee, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. 71 pages. A powerful follow up to Hernandez' book "Landscapes for the Homeless" Published in conjunction with an exhibtion that ran November 22, 1996 through January 19, 1997 at the Musee de l'Elysee in Lausanne and then May 16 through August 11, 1997 in Paris. Text in English and French by Regis Durand and Christophe Blaser. A collection of 26 color images that show where homeless people live but is devoid of the actual people. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Hernandez on the title page. Item #158044 More
Price: $150.00
Munich: Prestel, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Introduction by South African photographer Pieter Hugo. Essay by Adetokunbo Abiola. A collection of 35 color photographs that present an intimate and non-judgemental look at a profession/way of life for some people in Nigeria that involves the use of hyenas, rock pythons and baboons. A very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a small tear to the top right corner. A nice copy of this surprisingly uncommon book. Item #171028 More
Price: $650.00
Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 132 pages. Published in conjunction an exhibition that ran November 1973 to January 1974. Introduction by Jonathan Williams. Features stories by Lafcadio Hearn along with captions by Laughlin. Includes numerous black and white images. A tight near fine copy with some light bumping to the corners and top of the spine in a near fine dust jacket with the same minor bumping. Signed and inscribed by Laughlin on the verso of the front free endpaper: "for Gerald Nordland with the hope we will meet again in 1976! Clarence John Laughlin Oct 1975." A nice association copy as the recipient was an author and museum curator. Item #167748 More
Price: $350.00
Germany: Luca Verlag, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Text in English and German. Edited by Ute Eskildsen and with a preface by Andor Kraszna-Krausz. A haunting collection of extreme close ups of faces. A fine and tight copy in a fine dust jacket. Rather uncommon. Item #106861 More
Price: $400.00
New York: Pantheon Books, 1982. First edition. Simultaneous softcover edition. Includes a selection of black and white photographs chosen by Lesy from the collection of the Library of Congress. A near fine copy in wrappers with a small crease to the bottom front corner and a tiny bit of wear to the base of the front panel. Signed and inscribed by Lesy to author and museum curator Thomas Garver. Laid in is handwritten letter from Lesy to Garver and a copy of the original invitation for the show for this book. A terrific association copy. Item #118792 More
Price: $150.00
New York: The Viking Press, 1965. First edition. Oblong softcover. Simultaneous special Museum of Modern Art issue. The first book to collect fifty of Levitt's classic black and white street photographs. Includes James Agee's terrific posthumous essay. A very near fine copy in wrappers. A lovely copy of what is widely considered one of the best photo books of the 20th century. (Parr & Badger, v1 252-253: Roth 178-179). Item #158961 More
Price: $250.00
New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Introduction by Hilton Kramer. Text by Jean Lipman. Afterword by Nevelson. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A near fine copy with some slight sunning to the spine and edges of the boards near the spine in a near fine glassine jacket. An attractive monograph. Item #128940 More
Price: $150.00
Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1967. First edition. Softcover. Copy 3 of only 5 for presentation. A collection of poems. A very near fine copy in string tied wrappers with Loewinsohn's name misspelled on the front panel. Signed on the limitation page. Item #128665 More
Price: $175.00
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Francisco Columbo, 1942. First edition. Softcover. 93 pages. Text in English. A collection of poems by Manning and Shand. An about very good copy in blue printed wrappers that are somewhat soiled, with some minor staining to the rear panel and some creasing and bumping to the corners. Signed and inscribed by Manning on the front free endpaper and very uncommon thus. Item #129287 More
Price: $150.00