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Architecture, Graphics, Design and Fashion
Thoughts on Design
First edition. Among the most notable graphic design books ever published. After a decade of establishing himself as the wunderkind of American graphic design, Paul Rand released this treatise on his princicples and working methods. It has been reprinted on several occassions and remains a standard.
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Art and Photography
Derriere Le Miroir, No. 149. Ellsworth Kelly
Deluxe edition, one of 150 copies signed on colophon by Kelly. One of the most beautifully realized editions published by Derriere Le Miroir—it includes three double-page, three-color lithographs. They are original works created by Kelly for the edition and documented in Axsom’s catalogue raisonne.
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Literature
Lolita
First edition. Precedes the American edition with several slight variations from the final text of that edition, from a print run that is unknown but generally agreed to have been fewer than 5,000 copies.
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Literature
Peyton Place
First edition. This novel, the story of three women in a New England town, was shocking in it’s time because of the way it dealt with adultery, incest, murder, social class and moral hypocrisy, but also extraordinarily successful commercially.
$1,250
Art and Photography
New Realists
"New Realists," was an epoch-making show which featured the work of Claes Oldenberg, Robert Indiana, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Andy Warhol. The exhibition helped define the emerging Pop generation.
$500
Art and Photography
Gus Van Sant: 108 Portraits
First edition. Full-page black and white photographs made from polaroids Van Sant used in casting his early films, inluding Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, and Mala Noche.
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Architecture, Graphics, Design and Fashion
David Adler: The Architect And His Work
First Edition. Beautiful copy of the first edition.
$1,500
Architecture, Graphics, Design and Fashion
Visual Design in Action
First edition. There were likely fewer than 1,000 copies printed. With design and typography throughout by Sutnar, this is a statement and demonstration of design principles by one of the 20th century’s acknowledged masters.
$3,000
Architecture, Graphics, Design and Fashion
TYPO-FOTO. Elementaire Typografie in Nederland 1920-1940
First edition. Text in Dutch, but an extraordinary visual reference and probably the best anthology of Dutch avant-garde typography from 1920-1940 and graphic design available.
$400
Music, Film, Pop Culture, Politics and Society
[sic]
First edition, one of 250 signed and numbered copies, of which this is number 40. Named for the copyeditor’s term “sic,” Landers’ book reproduces his handwritten, stream-of-consciousness studio writings as they were written.
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Architecture, Graphics, Design and Fashion
Asymmetric Typography
A beautiful copy of the first English language publication by Tschichold, whose typographic principles, developed at the Bauhaus in the 20s, did much to define the Modernist look in printing and book design.
$350
Music, Film, Pop Culture, Politics and Society
The Hour
A book on the cocktail, humorously written in the style of a faux-manifesto devoted to the hope of America, “those who cherish our two most magnificent indigenous products—American whiskey (rye or bourbon) and the Dry Martini.”
$150
Art and Photography
Greenwich Village: Today &Yesterday
First edition. Signed by Berenice Abbott on title page with her photographs throughout.
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Art and Photography
Horst. Patterns from Nature
First edition. Horst’s book of botanical studies proves that he is far more than a glamour photographer—a beautiful copy of a title that is very scarce in dust-jacket.
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Architecture, Graphics, Design and Fashion
Linotype Faces
A specimen book, circa 1930s, from a Brooklyn printer based near what is now known as the Clinton Hill neighborhood. Such books were a resource for the printer’s trade and, as working documents, rarely survive in good condition.
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Art and Photography
All of a Sudden
4to; fully illustrated in color; illustrated endpapers; illustrated boards; slight edgwear; near fine.
First Edition.
$250
Art and Photography
Bruce Nauman
Catalog for Bruce Nauman's first New York City show, at the legendary Leo Castelli Gallery. Nauman's work was difficult, often unfinished looking, or unpleasant in effect and throughout the 60s and 70s Nauman’s work sold slowly.
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Art and Photography
American Bricolage
Edition of 885. This one is number 772. Book constructed and designed by Tom Sachs using coardboard and duct tape, each one unique. Made in conjuction with an exhibition at Sperone Westwater in 2000.
$350
Architecture, Graphics, Design and Fashion
Eero Saarinen On His Work
A selection of buildings dating from 1947 to 1964, with statements by Saarinen.
$400
Music, Film, Pop Culture, Politics and Society
21 Recettes Pratiques de Mort Violente: Petit Manuel du Parfait Suicide
First Edition. Inscribed to Russ from Sally: "Russ- Un petit livre pour rifirence - Sally 1926." The title roughly translates to "21 Practical Recipes for violent death: Small Handbook of the Perfect Suicide.
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Music, Film, Pop Culture, Politics and Society
Joy Division/ New Order: A History in Cuttings (1977-1983)
Any afficionado of the post-punk scene will revel at the attention to detail of this book. Contains an ephemera of rarely seen band photos, set lists, album and show reviews (some positive, others viciously negative), a gig/tape guide and countless articles published all over the world. A coveted publication. This is an especially clean and bright copy.
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Literature
Project For A Revolution in New York
First Printing. In the new novel by the leading French writer of nouveau roman, New York City becomes the chief protagonist in a book in which he creates the mythology of the great American city with it's paroxysm of wonder and terrors, it's underground world of vice, crime, and drugs.
$250
Music, Film, Pop Culture, Politics and Society
The Ethics of Fasting
First Edition. Gandhi, spiritual leader and political liberator of India, remained committed to non-violence in even the most extreme circumstances. He used rigorous fasts, for long periods, for both self-purification and protest. An iconic book, representing an important piece of 20th century political philosophy.
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