Search Results: Art from Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB

New York: Abbeville Press, 1990 (1981). Revised Edition, Third Printing. Folio. 15 x 11-1/2 inches. Unpaginated. Hardcover with dustjacket housed in slipcase. Near Fine / Near Fine / Near Fine. White linen-covered boards with particulars and decorative panels stamped in black to backstrip. Dustjacket illustrated with art from Audubon plates. Sturdy white linen-covered slipcase with glossy paper overlay duplicating dustjacket. Royal blue endpapers. Illustrated with 435 color plates. Color frontispiece (John James Audubon, by John Syme, 1826). Contains A Note About This Edition, Introduction, eleven sections of plates, and Appendix (including Concordance and Index). 3/4-inch crease to upper leading corners of 12 pages, 2-inch dog-ear to lower leading corner cluster of 3 pages, and 1-inch dog-ear to lower leading corner cluster of 7 pages, all likely due to previous owner struggling to return the extremely heavy volume to its slipcase. Else Fine. No bumping. Tips sharp and firm. Slight rubbing and… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1970. First Edition thus. First Printing. Hardcover. Folio. 14 x 11 inches. xix, [1], 232 pp, plus two double-page foldouts. Fine / Very Good+. Publisher's black textured cloth over boards. Debossed gilt spine lettering. Debossed gilt marionette design on front board. Original white- and red-lettered acetate protective wrapper. Black endpapers. Profusely illustrated with photographs by the author: black-and-white photos throughout, 22 heavy black leaves holding 55 tipped-in color plates, and double black-and-white foldout at end of text. Binding tight and square. Internally unmarked and clean. Longitudinal crease down free edge of right-hand foldout and small, faint stain at top leading corner of text block edge, else Fine. Wrapper shows rubbing, minor edgewear, one half-inch closed tear, and one separated seam. Oversized and heavy. Additional shipping charges will apply.

New York: Readymade Press, 2012 First Edition, First Printing. Quarto. 11-1/4 x 8-3/4 inches. ix, 530 pp. Hardcover in pictorial dustjacket. Fine / Fine. Forest green cloth over board with gold stamping of title to front board and particulars to spine. Endpapers in solid blend of yellow ochre and titanium buff (Come on, it's Duchamp!). Dustjacket design, executed by Dana Martin-Strebel, incorporates a photo by Man Ray and elements of two Duchamp works. Interior clean, bright, and crisp. Profusely illustrated throughout in black & white and color. Book condition Fine, apparently unread. No bumping. Tips sharp and firm. Dustjacket shows strip of sunning, green to blue, on back panel along spine edge. Else Fine. No rubbing, chips, tears, or edgewear. From the dustjacket, "Reading about Marcel Duchamp can be hard work, unless the writer has Francis Naumann's ability to leaven imaginative scholarship with clarity, candor, insight, and high spirits. The most influential artist of the last century caught… Read More

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2014. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Wide quarto. 11-1/4 x 10-3/4 inches. 198 pp. Fine / Fine. Publisher's bronze buckram over boards. Debossed title in gilt on front board. Particulars gilt-stamped on spine. Goldenrod endpapers. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket shows $40.00 on front flap. Now in removeable archival sleeve.

New York: Sunwise Turn, 1920. First Edition. Wrappers. Thin folio. 12.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good. Finely printed on rice paper. Original wrappers string-bound in the Japanese manner. Paper title label laid on front wrapper. Original limitation slip laid in. Limited Edition of 250 copies, of which 222 were for sale. 28 reproductions of chalk or brush line-drawing studies of the female nude. Green rice paper wrappers sunned at periphery, creased, stained in spots. Closed tears to bottom edge and leading corner of rear wrapper with no material loss. Damp stain to leading edge of flyleaf, title page, and contents page. Pages of drawings in fine, un-marked condition. Quite scarce. Only 14 copies located through WorldCat (OCLC # 3644188), 2 of which are publicly held. Ananda Coomaraswamy, a prominent art historian and scholar of traditional iconography, served as curator in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts until his death in 1947.