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

New York: Vrej Baghoomian, 1989. A fine, clean copy, save one tiny bump along the front board fore-edge. 11 x 8 inches. 105 pages. Color reproductions. Printed boards with image mounted on front cover. One of 2000 copies. Printed on the occasion of the exhibition at Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, 25 May to 24 June 1989.

Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854. 8vo. 256 pp, 4 pp advertisements at end. Folding lithographed frontispiece map. Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. A very good copy, spine slightly sunned, map with pale dampstain. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest - if not the earliest - books on Kansas, considered the best book on the emigration occasioned by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Hale gives an historical survey of Kansas, an account of the Indian tribes, and a detailed description of the soil, rivers, settlements, railroads, and projected cities in Kansas and Nebraska. Of particular interest is information on emigrant aid companies, emigration from the West (including of Chinese from California), the suitability and promise of the territory for emigrants and a significant discussion of the fugitive slave question, the Missouri Compromise, women's rights, suffrage, and the railroad. The "Map of Kanzas & Nebraska from the Original Surveys" (17x18.7 cm) has… Read More

Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854. 8vo. 256 pp, 4 pp advertisements at end. Folding lithographed frontispiece map. Original red embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest - if not the earliest - books on Kansas, considered the best book on the emigration occasioned by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Hale gives an historical survey of Kansas, an account of the Indian tribes, and a detailed description of the soil, rivers, settlements, railroads, and projected cities in Kansas and Nebraska. Of particular interest is information on emigrant aid companies, emigration from the West (including of Chinese from California), the suitability and promise of the territory for emigrants and a significant discussion of the fugitive slave question, the Missouri Compromise, women's rights, suffrage, and the railroad. The "Map of Kanzas & Nebraska from the Original Surveys" (17x18.7 cm) has Nebraska including present-day Wyoming, Montana and adjacent… Read More

New York: Abbeville Press, 1980. Hardcover. A fine copy in a very good plus jacket that has some light wear. 15.5 x 12.25 inches. 256 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First American edition. "A celebration of the graphic works of Karel Appel, this is the most complete collection assembled on his collages, gouaches, drawings, and waterworks.

New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. Hardcover. A fine copy in a very good plus jacket that has some light wear. 15.5 x 12 inches. 256 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition.

New York: Aperture, 2005. A near-fine copy, with some very light rubbing to jacket. 12 x 10.25 inches. 120 pages. Original white boards; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. "Working with ordinary people who answered ads in local papers, posing them in their nondescript homes or unexceptional landscapes and using relatively simple equipment, Katy Grannan alchemizes these factors into extraordinary photographs. Disarming for their directness and for the provocative but casual nudity on display, her pictures capture the spirit of her subjects in the manner of Diane Arbus, but they also draw upon the artificial, posed tableaux of Gregory Crewdson and, indeed, art history. The posture of the tattooed and tanned (and nude) figure in Mike, a 2003 portrait which appeared in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, resembles nothing so much as the awkward repose of the desert nomad in Henri Rousseau's Sleeping Gypsy. In this first monograph, over half of the photographs are previously unpublished, providing a fresh… Read More

Simon and Schuster, 1955. First edition. Cloth with some light wear at ends of spine, slight toning, a few old tape adhesions; jacket spine panel lacking, some chipping, inner flaps detached but present. Quarto. The pullout (pages 13-16) is present but detached (bright with no tears). Original decorated cloth; original dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of the original Eloise -- a work initially meant for adults (its re-release in 1969 was aimed at children). This book spawned three further tales of the girl who lives on "the tippy-top floor" of the Plaza hotel (and one posthumous book). Thompson's goddaughter, Liza Minelli, has been cited as a possible model for Eloise, as has Thompson herself. Laid in is a slip correcting text on p. 50 -- "Lily Dache" to "Coco Chanel.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983. A fine copy. Folio. Original boards; dust jacket. Later printing. Inscribed by both the artist and author on the front free endpaper: "From Hilary Knight and ME, ELOISE!

Annandale-on-Hudson: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2008. As-new. 12.5 x 10.25 inches. 176 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Die-cut rubber cover with resin rose laid-in; with a small booklet included. First edition. "This unique publication showcases the work of one of America's foremost young sculptors. Each comes with a specially created plastic rose in honor of his work capturing the cultural and emotional significance of flowers. Also included is a loose leaflet showing the installation "Bremen Town," which was part of the comprehensive exhibition "Keith Edmier 1991-2007" at Bard college in New York from October 2007 through February 2008. The installation featured a full-scale reproduction of the interior spaces from the home in which Edmier grew up in Tinley Park, a suburb of Chicago" (the publisher).

London: Macmillan, 1924. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece of Morris by Emery Walker, 16 plates. Original linen-backed blue holland boards, printed paper spine label. A fine copy. First edition, and a fine copy of this excellent study of the operation and history of the Kelmscott Press. The author was the son-in-law of William Morris between 1890 and 1898. He had married May Morris, but their marriage ended over her involvement with George Bernard Shaw.

New York: Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, 2006. Softcover. A few small creases and scuffs to wrappers. 13.25 x 12.5 inches. Wrappers. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition January - February 2006.

Los Angeles: Mixografia Gallery, 1988. Softcover. A near-fine copy, a few marks on wrappers. 11 x 8.5 inches. Wrappers. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition that took place May 1988.

New York: Galeria Joan Pratts, 1989. Softcover. Impression from paperclip on cover and title, otherwise fine. 8 x 8 inches. Wrappers.

New York: Abbeville, 1983. A fine copy, very well preserved. 4to. 120 pages. Black-and-white photographic reproductions. Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First American edition, signed by Kertész on the title-page. "This combination of revealing, often charming text and sparkling duotone reproductions forms a unique, 120-page self-portrait of the man and artist of his years in his native Hungary, in Paris in the '20s and '30s, and in New York from 1936 to the present day. Droll, poignant, gently mysterious, and always arresting, these photographs of Manhattan scenes and people, of yesterday's irretrievably romantic Paris and Budapest, of sinuous nudes and celebrated artists mark his genius with the 35mm camera, whose special capabilities he was among the first to exploit" (jacket).

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket, the spine with light fading and a few small losses at the ends. 8vo. 84 pages. 62 black-and-white plates. Cloth; pictorial dust jacket.

Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1959. A fine copy. 8vo. Plates and maps. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. One of 600 copies of volume III from the Ontario Society of the Publications of The Champlain Society.

London, New York, San Francisco: Pentagram Design, 1970. Light wear to wrapper edges, but a fine copy. Oblong (7 x 9.5 inches). Original printed wrappers. The Kingswalden Notes are Quinlan Terry's journal recording the deign and building of Kings Walden Bury, a new country house in Hertfordshire, which was completed in 1971.

New York: Harper and Row, I Can Read, 1968. A fine, bright copy. 8vo. The uncorrected proof of the reissue, in unimprinted black wrappers. SIGNED on the title-page by Sendak.

New York: Goodman Gallery, 2010. A fine copy save some slight age-toning to the sheet edges. 9.5 x 8 inches. 200 pages. Duotone photographs. Printed wrappers. First edition. Accompanied the exhibitions at The Jewish Museum, New York and South African Jewish Museum, Cape Town.

[New York]: The Spiral Press, 1956. In fine condition. 16mo. 10 leaves. Decorations by Antonio Frasconi. Original printed wrappers. First edition, issue for Howard Cady, one of 100 copies with their imprint. Crane B28.