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

New York: The Grolier Club, 1982. 8vo. 41, [2]pp. Original cloth. Near-fine with one small bump to front board. FIRST EDITION, one of 450 copies designed by Bert Clarke and printed at The Press of A. Colish, on the 25th anniversary of Rogers's death.

Paris: Centre Culturel de Paris, 1978. Light scuffing to the evenly toned spine, generally in fine, well-preserved condition. Folio (380x280 mm; 15x11 inches, sheets). 7 wood engravings, one collage hand painted with gouache on gold paper, and one etching with color. Publisher's gilt- and blind-stamped burgundy calf. Extra-suite of plates in folding portfolio. Slipcase. INSCRIBED WITH A FULL-PAGE DRAWING BY DALI TO HIS ATTORNEY, the drawing depicting St. George: "A mon amie Michael Stout Dali 979." Limited edition, number 13 of 90 copies on Rives paper from a total edition of 395. With an extra suite of three progressive plates, comprising one woodcut signed Dali 1976 in the plate, and two trial proofs for the same work depicting the brain, the brain and a bed with a woman jumping rope, and a black form with woman fleeing (together loose in separate portfolio). Dali had conceived of the surrealist film Babaouo in 1932. The present work revives the original conceit of the unmade film following the… Read More

Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1930. 8vo (22 x 17.5cm). 46 pages. Original unbound sheets. One of 375 signed and numbered copies printed on Pannekoek Holland of an edition of 394 (this is no. 16). The author's copy, unbound and in a manila envelope with Westcott's manuscript notes, giving Monroe Wheeler's initials at top "M.W." and three notes: "The Babe's Bed, unbound sheets * to be assigned to a binder or a box-maker." The two other notes read "Call M.W. to the deep shaming(?) of Scotch tape" and "Herein are the blank back and front pages, to be placed with the pages of text when I get it back from the off-set man." This was the third publication of Harrison of Paris, the press run by Wheeler and Barbara Harrison. Of the thirteen books issued by the press, two were by Westcott, Wheeler's partner from 1919 until 1987.

Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing Books, 1997. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Fine. 8vo. Original red cloth; pictorial dust jacket; publisher's slipcase. First edition, limited issue no. 105 of 300 copies signed by the authors.

New York: James Miller, 1863. One leaf loose, wear to binding at extremities, some scattered foxing. 8vo. Original green cloth. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Provenance: Edgar Conkling (1812-1881), financier from Cincinnati, presentation inscription on front free endpaper to "His Namesake C. Edgar Kinne of Ovid, Seneca Co. New York. May 8 1863. Remember that Abraham Lincoln was once a poor boy, yet became President. That most of our great men became so by 'eternal vigilance,' by system, by diercedness of purpose, anchored in God. The *boy* must decide what the *Man* may be. Religiously - morally - intellectually. E. C." With engraved portrait on pastedown.

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1957. Softcover. A few small stains on front wrapper; otherwise fine. 10 x 7.5 inches. Wrappers. First Edition.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984. Softcover. Some light cockoling in lower margins to first 50 pages, some light shelfwear. 12 x 9 inches. 176 pages. Pictorial wrappers. Catalog for the exhibition from February - May 1984.

New York: Skira/Rizzoli, 1982. Softcover. Some light toning to sheet edges, very light shelfwear, otherwise fine. 10.75 x 9.25 inches. 155 pages. Pictorial wrappers. Second Edition.

New York: Bulfinch Press, 2001. A fine copy. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. 260 pages, Profusely illustrated in color. Original black cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First North American edition, second printing. "Count Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, better known as Balthus, is one of the greatest European painters of our time. Though not part of any major school, Balthus lives and works in Switzerland and has steadily gained recognition over the past 20 years. See in this study the brooding art of this fascinating, contemporary artist. This landmark book will be prized by anyone who admires contemporary art. 182 color plates" (the publisher).

Herscher, 1981. Hardcover. Lacks jacket; a near-fine copy with some minor wear and light toning at edges. 9.75 x 8.75 inches. Cloth. First Edition.

Brooklyn: Grant Brower, 1894. Folio (12 x 9 inches). 24 pp. Musical notation. Original printed wrappers. Somewhat age-darkened, a few chips at edges of wrappers. Revised edition, after the first of 1891. Exercises, scale studies, arpeggios or harp chords, harmonics, slides, double fingering, velocity studies, barre, a duet for two banjos, ending with Brower's composition "Kingston Galop." Scarce. Not in OCLC.

Toronto: The Champlain Society in Cooperation with the Ontario Heritage Foundation, 1987. A fine copy. 8vo. Plates. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. One of 1300 copies of volume XIII of the Ontario Series from the Publications of The Champlain Society.

New York: George H. Doran, 1919. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine and spine label defective, sides partially darkened and marked, a fore-edge of a leaf chipped from careless opening. 8vo. Original gray boards, printed paper labels, uncut; brown cloth slipcase. First edition of the twenty-three-year-old poet's first book. The dedication copy to her mother, inscribed by Deutsch on the front free endpaper: "For dearest Mamma, with love from Babette. April 1919." The printed dedication reads: "To My Mother and the Memory of My Father." During her life Deutsch was also a Columbia professor, a critic, novelist and translator, and secretary to Thorstein Veblen. This is the Jonathan Goodwin-John Fleming copy (from his personal collection; sold Christie's New York, 18 November 1988, lot 104). (BA).

[Paris, circa 1900-1910]. Some chipping to edges and age darkening to mounts, generally in very well-preserved condition with colors fresh and bright. A collection of pencil, pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings on 66 mounts (one unmounted), some mounts with numerous smaller drawings, all drawings tipped at corners. Mounts measuring 360 x 173 mm. In a cloth folding case. Richard Barabandy (1849-1915), born Riccardo Barabandi in Milan, studied from 1864 to 1869 with Bartolomeo Giuliano at the Milan Academy of Fine Arts. He was appointed a professor of the Academy in 1879 and was active in the literary and artistic circles of the city, counting among his close friends the poet Gian Pietro Lucini, the writer Felice Cameroni, and the sculptor Medardo Rosso. By 1889, the year of the great Exposition Universelle that celebrated the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution and helped to establish Paris as the art capital of Europe, Barabandy was living in Paris. He changed his name to Richard Barabandy… Read More

London: The Tate Gallery, 1968. A near-fine copy in a lightly worn jacket. Small 4to. 64 pages. Cloth; dust jacket.

Paris: Actes Sud, 2003. A fine, bright copy. 12 x 9.5 inches. 256 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition. From the publisher: "An artistic journey accompanying Barcelo on his ongoing travels throughout Europe and Africa, encompassing projects and periods spent in Majorca, Barcelona, Mali, Palermo, Lanzarote, and Paris. - The themes of Barcelo's work--the way his art is touched by the light, the colors, the textures, and the materials of the places and the studios he has chosen, and the way in which he absorbs alien cultures, as well as uses them to rediscover his own heritage. - The intimacy and immediacy of the images, which capture and echo the dynamism and spontaneity that are palpable in all of his creations, from paintings and ceramics to architectural projects and designs for the stage. - The artist's imagination, where inspiration can be derived from the most eclectic of objects, from animal bones and dried plants to plastic toys.

West Burke, VT: The Janus Press, 1980. A fine copy with a few minor marks on the cloth. Tall narrow 8vo. Xerox by Ray K. Metzker. [20] pages. Black cloth, printed paper label on spine. Number 17 of 150 copies signed by Lockwood and Metzker, with a lengthy 1980 inscription by Lockwood to a collector on the colophon. The text was set by Barbara Luck, printed on Eltham (the papers handmade by Barcham Green); Xerox on Toned Repairing and endpapers Martian Red. Bound by James Bicknell. Laid-in letterpress order form for the book on pink paper.

New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1925. A very good copy, with a few stains and light wear to binding. 10 x 7 inches. 43 pages. Original blue cloth. "Sing, therefore, as often as may be and as tunefully as you can, these songs of Barnard, new and old, and may they give you joy! (Virginia C. Gildersleeve, from her introduction).

London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1952. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Some fading to cloth at edges and spine; jacket with a closed tear on rear panel and other light creases at extremities. 8vo. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To dear Bice (who asked to have this book dedicated to her) and to James (who knew nothing of it) from Norman 3.Sr[?]. 52." Collins had a successful career as an editor and writer before entering broadcasting (he was one of the major figures behind the establishment of the Independent Television [ITV]).

New York: Clarkson Potter, 1984. A fine copy in a very good plus jacket with one tear at top of front joint, minor curling at edges, and light shelfwear. 12.25 x 9.5 inches. 150 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original purple cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.