Search Results: Titles starting with A from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket with some minor shelfwear, old sticker residue and a few scuffs on front endpapers. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. 127 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. "Catalogue to accompany exhibition at Waddington Galleries, 26 May - June 1982.

Austin: Press at the Humanities Research Center, 1986. 8vo. 25, [1] pp. Color portrait frontispiece mounted. Original wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION, one of 100 copies. Foreword by Dechard Turner. Printed by Carol Kent.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1813. Some foxing. 8vo. Travers's paper appears on pages 1-16. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. Second edition. Garrison-Morton-Norman 2931.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1839. Minimal chipping and soiling. 8vo. Stafford's paper appears on page 218-21. Engraved plates. Original cloth reinforced with tape. Provenance: Medical Library of the New York State Lunatic Asylum (bookplate on pastedown). FIRST EDITION. "Sarcoma of the prostate was first recorded by Stafford." (Garrison-Morton-Norman 4259). In this volume is one other important paper: NASMYTH, Alexander (1789-1849). "On the structure, physiology, and pathology of the persistent capsular investments and pulp of the tooth". Vol. 22, pp. 310-28. "'Nasmyth's membrane', or persistent dental capsule" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 3681).

London: Longman, Hurst, et al., 1814. First edition. Restoration to spine; some intermittent foxing/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. 8vo. Stevens' paper is on pp. 422-39. Entire volume: xx, 456 pp. 8 engraved plates at end, two hand-colored. Contemporary half sheep. "First successful ligation of the internal iliac, Dec. 27, 1812. The patient died in 1822 and an account of the autopsy is given by Richard Owen in Med.-chir. Trans.,1830, 16,219-35" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2935).

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1814. Discreet library stamps on endpapers, some foxing. 8vo. Stevens's paper appears on page 422-34. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "First successful ligation of the internal iliac." (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2935). In this volume is one other important paper: BRODIE, Benjamin Collins (1783-1862). "Further observations on the diseases which affect the synovial membranes of joints". Vol. 5, pp. 239-54. In Medical Classics vol. 2.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1812. Discreet library stamps on endpapers, some foxing. 8vo. Cooper's paper appears on page 1-12, 222-33. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. Second edition. "Cooper ligated the common carotid artery on Nov. 1, 1805; the patient died, but a second case (June 22, 1808) proved successful" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2929). In this volume are two other important papers: DUNDAS, David. "An account of a peculiar disease of the heart". Vol 1, pp. 37-46. "Account of nine cases of rheumatic endocarditis" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2739). ABERNETHY, John. "On a dimunition... of the area of the aperture by which the left auricle of the heart communicates with the ventricle of the same side". Vol. 1, pp. 27-36. Early report on mitral stenosis.

Italy: Drusticamente, 2017. First edition, warmy inscribed to a curator on the back cover. Number 98 of 450 copies. A fine copy. 9 x 6.5 inches. 12 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Accordian form, loose as issued in printed wrappers.

New York: Michael Werner, 2011. A near-fine copy. 11.5 x 8 inches. Profusely illustrated in color. Original wrappers, with acetate covering. First edition. "Michael Werner Gallery is pleased to announce MMNKTLPLKT, an exhibition of new works by Aaron Curry, on view at 20 Hoxton Square in London from 20 September through 20 October. With MMNKTLPLKT, Aaron Curry disregards the confines of the traditional white cube to create an environment of complete optical immersion and confusion. Dazzling patterns cover the walls and floor of the gallery, alternately mirroring and obscuring the painted sculptures that stand, lean and hang throughout the space. The exhibition continues across the street from the gallery with two monumental sculptures installed in Hoxton Square Park. This ambitious installation brings to a new level of complexity the artist's exploration of the relationships between drawing and form, abstraction and figuration, and spaces both real and virtual. The result is a contemporary Merzbau,… Read More

New York: Bad Dimension; Koenig Books. Generally fine. 12.25 x 9.25 inches. 148 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards; acetate dust jacket, with booklet attached. First edition. "Bad Brain, Aaron Curry's eagerly awaited retrospective catalog from his 2014 exhibition at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, features 80 artworks spanning a decade, between 2003 and 2014. As Michael Ned Holte writes, Bad Brain draws on the artist's teenage fondness for Eddie, the skeletal mascot of Iron Maiden, and the gnarly skull drawings of Pushead, who provided artwork for Metallica t-shirts and Texas-based Zorlac skateboards; his eventual encounters with the weird figuration of the Chicago Imagists, the Hairy Who and the oozing faces of Peter Saul during his time in Chicago; and still later his close encounters with Richard Hawkins and Mike Kelley ... who provided support and encouragement for mining the margins (if not broad middle) of culture. The book also includes an annotated… Read More

New York: Robert Mann Gallery, 1997. Hardcover. New in shrinkwrap. 10 x 9 inches. 49 pages. Pictorial boards. First edition, one of 1000 copies. With an essay by Sheryl Conkelton and 36 duotone plates. Published on the occasion of the 1997 exhibition at Robert Mann Gallery.

New York: Robert Mann Gallery, 1992. Softcover. New. 10 x 8.75 inches. 55 pages. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, one of 1000 copies. Brief texts by Robert Sobieszek, James L. Enyeart, Carl Chiarenza, Henry Holmes Smith, and Harold Rosenberg. Includes over 40 black and white images.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket, the spine faded as usual, and with a few small chips at edges.. 11.25 x 9.75 inches. 282 pages. With a foreword by James L. Enyeart and with a lengthy text by Carl Chiarenza. Includes 74 duotones and 198 halftones. Original brown cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by Carl Chiarenza on the title-page.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket, the spine faded as usual, and with a few small chips at edges.. 11.25 x 9.75 inches. 282 pages. With a foreword by James L. Enyeart and with a lengthy text by Carl Chiarenza. Includes 74 duotones and 198 halftones. Original brown cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, signed by Siskind on the printed presentation page, designating copies signed for The Presidents Club of the University of Arizona Foundation.

Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1987. A near-fine copy, a soft crease on some internal pages in a fine, price clipped jacket. 8.5 x 6.25 inches. 54 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on title-page. First Edition, the hardcover issue, of the author's acclaimed first book. An extensive collection of Karr's poetry.

New York: Targ Editions, 1984. Spine gently faded, without the glassine, a few minor marks on covers, generally fine, and internally fresh and unblemished. 8vo. Numerous paper and printing specimens. Original cloth-backed glazed boards. FIRST EDITION, one of 200 copies signed by Targ and the three printers of the edition: Ronald Gordon, Leslie Miller, and Leonard Seastone.

Self published, 2009. A fine copy. 4to. 96 pages. Color plates. Cloth-backed printed boards. FIRST EDITION.

New York: J. & J. Harper, 1833. Two volumes, 8vo. 225 pp, [2] ads; 222 pp, 6 pp. ads. Original pink cloth. Bindings worn, one section and label of vol. 1 lacking; some pale dampstaining, vol. 2 p. 61 with marginal paper flaw, p. 167 with tear crossing text. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Sadleir 3212 (for 1st ed.).

London: At the Sign of the Unicorn, 1903. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Very slight rubbing at extremities, some foxing at fore-edges, else a fine copy. 12mo. Original light green cloth gilt, top edges gilt, after a design by Moore. Provenance: Frederic Dannay (his sale Christie's New York, 16 December 1983, lot 249). First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To W. A. Pye with affectionate regard from T. S. Moore, 7/2/1903." The printed dedication is simply "To W. A. P." The dedicatee was William Arthur Pye, a wine merchant and collector of contemporary and Asian art, who had introduced Moore to his daughter Sybil in 1899. Moore and Sybil Pye developed a life-long friendship (at one point he proposed marriage). She became an esteemed British bookbinder, producing her first binding in 1906 after establishing a workshop in her father's house. Colbeck, p. 571; for Moore's binding designs, see John Russell Taylor, 'The Art Nouveau Book in Britain'… Read More

Scalo, 1996. A near-fine copy with light toning to sheet edges, original bookseller's sticker on rear board. Small 8vo. Color plates. Original pictorial boards. First edition in English, translated by Catherine Schelbert. Afterword by Hans Ulrich Oberst.