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

Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd; London: Simpkin, Marshall et al., 1913. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine faded, light toning to board edges, several leaves crudely opened, but a very good copy. 8vo. Original red cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the dedicatee Austin M. Purves, Sr. to his son on the front free endpaper: "To my son Dale Benson Purves on Christmas Day 1914 with love from Austin M. Purves." The printed dedication reads "To My Friend Austin M. Purves of Philadelphia and Troy Town." Austin M. Purves was a financier and patron of the arts.

Cork: [spider & ink press for] Crawford Gallery, 2008. 8vo. 129 pp. Color and black-and-white photographs. Original black boards. One small stain on front cover, otherwise near-fine. FIRST EDITION. The exhibition was held 16 October to 22 December 2007 at the Crawford Gallery.

Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1926. Some light toning internally, the wrappers a bit soiled and with contemporary annotations on front wrapper in colored pencil, and pen titling along spine. 4to. [84] pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Printed white wrappers. With a preface by Jean Cocteau. The auction catalogue of the important collection of paintings amassed by John Quinn, including works by: Cézanne, Derain, Dufy, Fresnaye, Gris, Laurencin, Matisse, Pissarro, Redon, Rouault, Rousseau, and Segonzac. The sale was held on 28 October 1926. A celebrated, and elusive, catalogue.