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

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. A good copy, the spine faded and partly split along joint, some intermittent spotting and browning, library label on spine and card at rear. 8vo. 552 pages. Mezzotint frontispiece by John Sartain, map of "Baffin's Bay", 12 engraved and lithographed plates, numerous wood engraved vignettes. Lacks the folding map. Original cloth, stamp-embossed, gilt voyage motif within stamped lozenge. FIRST EDITION, second issue with 1854 title-page.

Milan: Admira, 2015. First edition, an unknown limitation of copies, this numbered "1. A fine, clean copy. 7.75 x 7.75 inches. 149 pages. Color and black-and-white reproductions. Printed wrappers. "The intent of the Veronese author was to produce the first official archive of unidentified Photographic Subjects (U.Pho.S.). Parallel to the photographic work, Mauro Fiorese wanted to document the project with a video diary mounted in a single and surreal fiction - or "mockumentary" - which deepens the news of the disappearance of the artist Mauro Fiorese: paradoxical situations recorded by the photographer during his travels in search of alien sightings are mixed with live news and interviews with people who comment on his mysterious absence" (Admira website).

Stockholm: GunGallery, 2009. In fine condition. 245 x 175 mm. 176 pages. Original cloth, each cover with image mounted. Limited edition, signed and numbered 254 of 250 copies of an edition of 400 (two issues of 25 copies each with a print; 150 copies signed and numbered as here; and 100 artist's proofs). Collects images made on daily walks in Ulan Bator from September 21st to October 12th 2008.

Hong Kong: Poly Auction, 2017. Hardcover. As-new in shrinkwrap. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. 100 pages. Boards. First edition. In Chinese and English.

England: Hurley Style Limited, 1986. Hardcover. A near-fine copy with a couple of small marks on binding. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. 45 pages; illustraded with scratch and sniff stickers for fruits, vegetables, cocktails, and various meals. Boards. A funny scratch-n-sniff book with a punning pseudoym of an author. "All good ideas are simple and this one is about as simple as you can get. You want to eat less and lose weight? You want to save time at the office? You want to save money on expensive lunches? You want to learn more about business? This book achieves it all for you. Here's how: There are five basic senses: Touch Smell Taste Sight Hearing The act of eating involves all of these but mostly taste, sight and smell. Professor Tymus Munney has developed The Ultimate Executive Lunch by simply removing two out of these three. Good presentation of food is preferable to a sloppy mess on the plate but is largely to blame for the rise of the cult of Nouvelle Cuisine-skimpy, pathetic little portions but… Read More

Paris: M/M, 2013. A fine copy. Text by Jo-Ann Furniss. 4to (10 x 10 inches). Color and black-and-white photographs. Wrappers; pictorial outer wrapper that unfolds to be a poster; publisher's plastic sleeve with sticker. FIRST EDITION, number 618 of 200 copies. Designed by art directors Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag M/M (PARIS). A major retrospective of McLellan's work, focusing on his Yorkshire upbringing and pride in northern England: a distinctly British edgy pop aesthetic, but with a melancholic cast.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1956. Fine. 12mo. Original pictorial boards incorporating an image of Joyce on the cover. A selection of Sylvia Beach's recollections of Joyce in Paris, being a privately published New Year's keepsake for friends of the author and publisher. Selected from Beach's forthcoming book 'Shakespeare and Company.'.

Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1997. First edition. Fine.. 4to. 64 pages. Profusely illustrated. Original wrappers. A fine copy of this exhibition catalog, held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, January 17-March 8, 1998.

Hartford: [Self-published, sponsored by] Capitol Region Conference of Churches Homeward Bound Foundation, 1988. A near-fine copy with a small nick along lower front wrapper. Folio (12 x 10 inches). Black-and-white photographs. Printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by Farnsworth on the front free endpaper: "______ Thanks 3/1/88 Philip Farnsworth." Additionally signed on a laid-in brochure for Farnsworth's Homeless Project. A powerful social document, the text and images exposing the homeless conditions of Hartford, Connecticut.

New York: Gagosian, 1997. A near-fine copy (plastic with some slight shrinkage). 8.5 x 6.5 inches. 156 pages. Original brown wrappers, with plastic cover. First edition, published on the occasion of the exhibition "Dinos and Jake Chapman.

Boulder CO: University of Colorado, 1918. Hardcover. A very good copy, the binding with a few pale stains and some soiling. 9 x 6 inches. 412 pages. Boards.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1978. A near-fine copy with some light spotting to sheet edges and spine panel of jacket. 8vo. 490 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition. The story of McGregor's early life in the inner city, through prison, and his eventual life as a Fortune Society counselor, prison-reform spokesman, and Hollywood actor.

Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1990. 8vo. Plates and maps. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. One of 1250 copies of volume XIV of the Ontario Series from the Publications of The Champlain Society.

Toronto: The Champlain Society, Government of Ontario, 1990. A fine copy. 8vo. Plates and maps. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. One of 1250 copies of volume XIV of the Ontario Series from the Publications of The Champlain Society.

Salt Lake City: Bureau of Information, n.d.. Softcover. 6.75 x 4.5 inches. 93 pages. Wrappers.

Rotterdam: Veenman, 2007. A near-fine copy. 11 x 8.5 inches. 144 pages. Original cloth. First edition. "In this clothbound volume, the German-born artist Uwe Henneken, represented in New York by Andrew Kreps Gallery, reflects upon the human condition, the search for meaning and the fear of the unknown in paintings that are garish, moody, ironic, melancholic, grotesque and audacious" (the publisher).