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

Boston: David R. Godine, 1974. A near-fine copy with some light wear to extremities. 11.5 x 9 inches. 110 pages. Fully illustrated in black-and-white. Original blue cloth: pictorial dust jacket. First edition.

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co, 1869. 12mo. 122 pp., [4] advertisements at end. Original plum gilt-lettered cloth. Spine sunned, pale stain on front cover, pale dampstain in second half of volume. FIRST EDITION. A scarce and early guidebook published on the occasion of the opening of the Transcontinental Railroad, which jointed the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad. Not in Graff, Howes, Sabin.

New York: Arts Inc, 1953. A fine and tight copy in an about very good plus price clipped dust jacket with some small chips from the base of the front panel at the spine, chips to the spine ends and some small edge tears and some scratches as well. Still, a very bright and pleasing copy of an uncommon book in any jacket.. Oblong 4to. Original cloth; dust jacket. First edition. Another tour de force on the importance of design elements in the marketing of products.

Padiglione D'arte Contemporanea di Milano, 1984. Softcover. Cover and all pages toned along edges, covers with some light wear at extremities. 10.75 x 10.75 inches. Wrappers. Catalog for the exhibition from January - February 1984.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1925. 8vo. Plates by Zack Hogg. Original cloth, color print mounted on front cover. Some modest wear to cover, pale foxing.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1904. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Front free endpaper is cut away and a photo of the author is affixed to blank paper which is pasted to the endpaper's stub. A nice copy. 8vo. Original pictorial gray cloth, stamped in black and yellow, lettered in gold, top edges gilt. First edition of this collection of stories. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author just below the printed dedication, which is "To Agnes": "from Richard Le Gallienne." "Agnes" does not appear in the index of the exhaustive biography of Le Gallienne, 'The Quest of the Golden Boy,' by Whittington-Egan and Smerdon (1960), and she remains unidentified. (BA).

Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2001. A near-fine copy. 9 x 6.5 inches. 350 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original Pictorial wrappers. First edition. "The 30 artists in this exhibition represent a wide array of disciplines, including film, architecture, design and photography in their explorations of the contemporary state of painting and the possibilities of redefinition and "hybridization." 175 color images, including a gatefold plate section containing reproductions of the work" (the publisher).

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N Abrams, 1994. First edition. Fine, as new in original shrink wrap/fine. Folio. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; original pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, published to accompany the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum in 1994-95. This catalogue studies five generations of manuscript painters in Florence, from the contemporaries of Giotto at the beginning of the fourteenth century to Fra Angelico and his followers in the middle of the fifteenth.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. First edition. As-new. Two volumes, folio. Profusely illusrtrated in color. Original black cloth; publisher's decorated cloth slipcase.

New York: Penguin, 1994. A fine copy. ix, [3], 78, [5] pages. Printed wrappers. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed to the poet John Allman on the half-title: "For John Allman - in admiration of the arc of his work. From an earliest snowplow poem to the latest fiction - Philip. Castine [Maine] 14 X 94.

Verona: The Verona Press, 1937. A fine copy, preserving the fragile jacket and wraparound band. 8vo. 70 pages. Original cloth; dust jacket with a wood engraving by Fritz Kredel; printed wraparound band. FIRST EDITION.

London: Brendin Publishing Company, 1936. A fine copy, light toning to boards. 8vo. Illustrated by George Plank. Decorated paper over boards. First edition, one of 120 copies. Abbott.

Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1984. 4to. 20 pp. Large folding color plate. Original wrappers, printed paper label on front cover. A soft crease to upper corners, a few tears at edges of wrappers. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, reprinted from Matrix 3. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to a book collector.

Damiani, 2013. A fine copy. 4to. 190 pages. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "Over the course of her two-decade career, the Italian-born, Alaska-based multimedia artist Paola Pivi (born 1971) has fashioned such unlikely objects as a mausoleum made of cookies and a rotating airplane. Many of her sculptures and photographs are comical, as in her pictures of miniaturized designer chairs attached to bare buttocks, or a leopard walking across rows of cappuccino cups. Animals are a recurrent presence throughout, whether taxidermied and rendered sculptural or alive and photographed in unlikely locales (e.g. her tender portrait of two zebras, their heads hooked around each other's necks, against a backdrop of mountain snow). This volume is published for Pivi's 2013 exhibition at the Galerie Perrotin in Paris, and gathers a selection of her work from the past ten years" (the publisher).

Damiani, 2013. A fine copy. 4to. 190 pages. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "Over the course of her two-decade career, the Italian-born, Alaska-based multimedia artist Paola Pivi (born 1971) has fashioned such unlikely objects as a mausoleum made of cookies and a rotating airplane. Many of her sculptures and photographs are comical, as in her pictures of miniaturized designer chairs attached to bare buttocks, or a leopard walking across rows of cappuccino cups. Animals are a recurrent presence throughout, whether taxidermied and rendered sculptural or alive and photographed in unlikely locales (e.g. her tender portrait of two zebras, their heads hooked around each other's necks, against a backdrop of mountain snow). This volume is published for Pivi's 2013 exhibition at the Galerie Perrotin in Paris, and gathers a selection of her work from the past ten years" (the publisher).

Damiani, 2013. New in shrinkwrap. 4to. 190 pages. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "Over the course of her two-decade career, the Italian-born, Alaska-based multimedia artist Paola Pivi (born 1971) has fashioned such unlikely objects as a mausoleum made of cookies and a rotating airplane. Many of her sculptures and photographs are comical, as in her pictures of miniaturized designer chairs attached to bare buttocks, or a leopard walking across rows of cappuccino cups. Animals are a recurrent presence throughout, whether taxidermied and rendered sculptural or alive and photographed in unlikely locales (e.g. her tender portrait of two zebras, their heads hooked around each other's necks, against a backdrop of mountain snow). This volume is published for Pivi's 2013 exhibition at the Galerie Perrotin in Paris, and gathers a selection of her work from the past ten years" (the publisher).

New York: David Zwirner / Lawrence Markey / Radius Books, 2013. A near-fine copy with light shelfwear to the jacket. Folio. Color illustrations. Original boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.

London, New York, San Francisco: Pentagram Design, 1986. A fine copy. 12mo. Original printed wrappers, laid-in plain envelope with printed sheet "Greetings from Pentagram 1986" listing staff of the firm. A scarce promotional mailing from Pentagram, with pictorial representations of paper puzzles.

Lugano: Galleria Gottardo, 2006. A near-fine copy with a few small bumps at extremities and some light toning to sheet edges. Folio (11 x 11 inches). 144 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Pictorial boards. With a DVD in pocket on inner rear board. First edition. "Paradiso was born in an exploration of the spaces planned by architect Mario Botta and in an intuition of architecture as the art of rendering the void livable. This concept is linked to Silvio Wolf's poetical understanding of the questions of absence, of the void, and of elsewhere, which recur throughout his photography and his multimedia installations.

Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2006. A fine copy, light shelfwear to the jacket. 12 x 8.5 inches. 120 pages. Boards; dust jacket. "Color is everything, and Lorenzo Castore uses it in extraordinary ways, conveying a rich sense of place and atmosphere. The resulting images are revealing and powerful. The subjects he chooses: the bars, the cafes, the streets, the everyday. Paradiso is the winner of the Leica European Publishers Award, and Castore is a member of the prestigious French photoagency Agence VU.