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

London: Faber and Faber, 1929. Slightest shadow to front board, minimal wear at extremities. A very good copy of this fragile publication. 8vo. [13] pages. Two full-page designs by Paul Nash. Original printed boards. LIMITED ISSUE, number 276 of 400 copies on large-paper and case bound, signed by AE. Nash's mystical plate is hand-colored. This is no. 19 of the Ariel Poems series. Russell adopted the nameAE from AE on signifying the lifelong quest of man. A Dublin-born author, critic, and painter, AE met Yeats through Joyce in 1902 and practiced theosophy and mysticism throughout his adult life. He claimed to be clairvoyant and conversant with spiritual beings, which he illustrated in his paintings and drawings. Andrew Causey, Paul Nash, 1980: "By choosing here to illustrate a poem by AE, Nash came closer than anywhere previously to affirming his allegiance to the Platonic incarnation myth. [The frontispiece] seems to presage Yeat's proposition made in 1931: 'What is water but the generated soul?'" (p. 169). Read More

Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press, 1985. A fine copy, slight wear to one joint of the slipcase. 8vo. 356, [1] pages. Illustrated by R. Crumb. Special edition bound in red cloth; slipcase with mounted picture. Limited edition, one of 250 copies, but this copy out-of-series and lettered "A" with designation as "Publisher's Presentation Copy." Signed by Abbey. With an unpublished print by R. Crumb laid-in as issued, with his signature.

Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1972. A very good, sound copy. 4to. Cloth; dust jacket.

Luxembourg: Galerie Guy Bärtschi, 2008. A near-fine copy. 11 x 8.5 inches. 123 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original green cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.

[Paris]: l'A.G.E.T., 1962. First edition. One leaf with some marginal paperclip impressions, otherwise fine. 8vo. Four photgraphic illustrations on central gathering. Original printed wrappers. A scarce pamphlet.

Boston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1995. First edition. Slight rubbing to wrappers, otherwise fine. 4to. 308pp. Profusely illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers.

London: Atlas Press and Bookartbookshop / The London Institute of 'Pataphysics, 2002. A fine copy. 8vo (7 x 5.75 inches). 83 pages. Original printed wrappers, sheets unopened. FIRST EDITION, number 191 of 111 numbered copies from an edition of 222. The British comics author Adam Dant created the figure of Donald Parsnips, and this text is comprised of cartoon panels done in Dant's Hogarthian style. The London Institute of 'Pataphysics was formed in 2000 to promote 'pataphysics to the English-speaking world. It publishes books and a journal and is comprised of six departments: Bureau for the Investigation of Subliminal Images, Committee for Hirsutism and Pogonotrophy, Department of Dogma and Theory, Department of Potassons, Department of Reconstructive Archaeology, and The Office of Patentry.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket with some light shelfwear and toning. Oblong. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition, first printing, inscribed by Ansel Adams on the dedication page to the NYC galleriest Marjorie Neikrug, 11/8/1976.

Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1974. First edition, inscribed. Light fading to the spine and along it on the sides, slight mustiness, but clean and otherwise fine. 10 x 8 inches. Black-and-white reproductions of 53 of Adams's images made with the Polaroid Land Camera. Printed wrappers. Inscribed by Ansel Adams to a noted photo curator on the half-title 23 April 1974. Published to coincide with the exhibition at MoMA of Adams' Polaroid photographs.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company / New York Graphic Society, 1983. Some light spotting to endleaves and sheet edges, but generally fine, in a very well-preserved jacket. 4to. 178 pages. Copiously illustrated. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, third printing. Signed by Ansel Adams on the half-title. An insightful work, in which Adams shares the circumstances that lead to 40 of his most celebrated photographs.

Boston: Little, Brown / Graphic Society, 1988. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near-fine jackewt that has fading to the spine. 4to. 402 pages. Original cloth; dust jacket. First edition. Edited by Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman. Foreword by Wallace Stegner.

New York: Aperture, 1983. First edition. A fine copy. 11 x 8.5 inches. 93 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original pictorial wrappers.

Cincinnati: Strobridge & Co, 1876. Backstrip and corners worn, generally in fine condition. 68.5 x 664.5 cm (approximately 2.25 x 22 feet). Colored panorama joined and mounted on linen, lacquered, folding into original folio covers. Half calf. "A riot of color and detail." Second "Centennial" edition. A mammoth pictorial timeline of the history of the world, composed in a horizontal stream-of-time fashion and using Archbishop Ussher's canonical date of 4004 BCE for the Creation, it seamlessly moves from sacred to secular history. It was "a strong affirmation of the power of the regular, measured, single-axis timeline and the importance of visual tools in education" (Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton, 'Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline,' Princeton Architectural Press, 2010, p. 173). It could be purchased as an accordion form book as here, or on rollers for mounting on the wall. The chart begins with a view of the world from the Eastern Hemisphere (since the discovery of the… Read More

[Paris]: Musées de Sens, Éditions du Linteau, 2002. 4to. 139, [2] pp. Black-and-white illustrations, deluxe issue with original etching. Text and plates laid loose as issued in original printed wrappers, red printed chemise and slipcase. Fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, number 1 of 60 copies with an original etching by Gilles Narrey signed in pencil, from an edition of 700 copies.

Manuscript title as above and 21 pen-and-ink and wash drawings, each mounted onto a page within an album, most with manuscript captions and ink borders, most signed with initials within the image. 4to. Canada, New York and elsewhere: July 1892. Contemporary half morocco and cloth boards, marbled endpapers, Boston stationery and account bookseller label on the front pastedown. Frederick Edward Walton (1834-1928) was a successful British manufacturer noted as the inventor of Linoleum. On this summer trip, Walton visited Niagara Falls, islands along the St. Lawrence, the Adirondacks and Lake Champlain. Noted as an art collector, Walton's drawings are highly accomplished for an amateur. The drawings present here are titled (image sizes are approximate): 1) The American Fall (8 x 4 inches) 2) Horse Shoe Fall (4 x 8 inches) 3) American Fall (7-1/2 x 4-1/8 inches) 4) The Thousand Islands (3-7/8 x 7-1/8 inches) 5) The Sentinel (4 x 3-1/2 inches) 6) Lotus Island (3-1/2 x 5 inches) 7) Lake of the Thousand… Read More

Saratoga Springs, NY: The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, 2017. A fine copy. Folio. 300 pages. Lavishly illustrated. Original pictorial boards. TRUE FIRST EDITION, released prior to the trade edition released the same year by Prestel. "This first career-spanning volume of dynamic artist/musician Terry Adkins surveys three decades of multimedia installations and performances. In his sculpture, photography, and video, Adkins transforms and re-purposes a range of found materials, archival imagery, and reclaimed actions in a process that he calls potential disclosure. This book features detailed biographical information, an interview with the artist, and a selection of Adkins's writings" (Prestel, about their edition).

New York: Lévy Gorvy, 2018. A fine, as-new copy. 8vo. 96 pages. Color illustrations. Printed boards. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held 10 January to 17 February 2018.

Paris: Adrein Maeght, 1989. Softcover. Some minor wear to wrappers. 8.25 x 6 inches. 283 pages. Wrappers.

[Mount Vernon, NY]: A. Colish, 1988. Introduction by Kit Currie. 8vo. 52, [2]pp. Printed in red and black. Original patterned paper boards. A fine copy. One of 1500 copies designed by Jerry Kelly.

Venice: Manfredus de Bonellis de Monteferrato, 1492. 4to (211 x 145 mm). 70 (of 72) leaves, a2.7 supplied in facsimile. Gothic type, 40-41 lines, initial spaces with printed guide letters. 64 (of 66) woodcuts within any of five decorative historiated frames; a single woodcut initial. Modern russet morocco. Some spotting and soiling. Provenance: Giambattista Giorno (early ownership inscription); some early marginalia at end, and a few early ink outlines of animals; sold by Philip Hofer to Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow in 1967. Bonellis' first edition of Aesop's Fables, illustrated with a superb series of woodcuts that were in part based on the first Venetian series, used by Bernardinus Benalius in his 20 November 1487 edition (GW 431, only a single imperfect copy known). "The book is charmingly illustrated; the designs being redrawn and improved from those in the Venice Aesop of 1487. There is so much artistic freedom in the treatment of the cuts, that they are fully entitled to be regarded as new and… Read More