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

Milan: Cento Amici del Libro, 1999. Folio (330 x 253 mm). Etchings and lithographs by Sandro Martini. Original printed wrappers; blue printed paper chemise; slipcase. A few soft creases to slipcase, otherwise a fine copy. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES for designated recipients from an edition of 130, signed by the artist.

New York: Orchard Books for Gump's, San Francisco, 1996. A fine copy, virtually untouched. Oblong. Original glazed decorated boards, specially bound with Gump's branding. Special limited edition, inscribed by the master pop-up book artist and paper engineer Robert Sabuda. According to the colophon this issue of the book "was created by Robert Sabuda and published by Orchard Books expressly for Gump's/San Francisco." Inscribed on the front of the panel for the letter A: "Merry Christmas Alphabet Myrna! Happy popping up! Robert Sabuda." A very scarce limited issue of Sabuda's now classic pop-up book. Very uncommon.

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Fine, chatty letters to a good friend, in very good to fine condition. A total of 6 pages, 4to, half are single-spaced, at least 2600 words, with three envelopes. 20 September 1962: "... I guessed you were in Hollywood... because I've seen you in TV plays coming out of there... I had a letter a couple of years ago... from Hedy Lamarr. It was business, and I disappointed her in the end... she thought she had to let me know or to remind me that there are as many nice and reasonable people in Hollywood as anywhere else... I'm very glad if my stories meant something to you... I hope to hell I see you one of these months, Gerry..." 20 May 1964: Salinger devotes about half of the first page (of two single-spaced) to an amusing account of a "really nutty, unblanaced" so-called Hollywood producer showing up to talk about a movie sale. He then praises her TV acting career and warns her about her upcoming marriage to Budd Schulberg (she became his third wife that July): "...… Read More

Boston / Toronto: Little, Brown, 1963. 8vo. 248pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Jacket with some overall pale mottling, a few small nicks at ends of spine. FIRST EDITION, third state with the insertion of the dedication leaf after the title, first issue jacket priced $4.00.

New York and London: Harcourt, Brace, 1979. Oblong 4to. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Original black cloth; pictorial dust jacket. A very good copy in a worn jacket with some nicks/tears/creases at edges. FIRST EDITION.

Washington: Gibson Brothers, 1886. First edition. Light wear to edges of wrappers, generally very good/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. 8vo. Salmon and Smith's paper is on pp. 204-05. Entire volume: pp. 201-20, 4 pp. advertisements at end. Original printed wrappers. "Discovery of Salmonella cholerae-suis. The Salmonelleae tribe was named after Salmon, even though the discovery was made by [his assistant] Smith" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2505).

GILES, 2021. New in shrinkwrap. 10.25 x 8.5 inches. 156 pages. Fully illustrated. Original grey cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. "The Old Master paintings and European sculpture and decorative arts at the renowned Frick Collection might be thought to be all but inextricable from the domestic setting of the Gilded Age mansion in which they reside. For a couple of years, however, while the Frick is undergoing renovation, highlights from the collection have been relocated to a radically different, unlikely home: Marcel Breuer's Brutalist building five blocks away, which the architect designed for the Whitney Museum of American Art. The result is a stunning reconstruction and re-presentation of a beloved collection, with the museum's treasures comfortably and elegantly adapting to their temporary modernist abode. This handsome volume documents this altogether singular moment in the Frick's history with stunning photographs by Joseph Coscia Jr. and a reflective foreword by Roxane Gay" (the… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, 1979. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Fine copy.. 8vo. Original cloth-backed orange boards; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the half-title: "To John Flint / James Salter." (BA).

New Haven: Yale University Library, 1975. 8vo. 113 pp. Folding plate. Original cloth; glassine. A fine copy. Fine facsimile edition, number 63 of 400 copies.

New York: PaceWildenstein, 1996. Hardcover. A fine copy with some very minor shelfwear. 7.5 x 11.75 inches. Pictorial boards case, spiral bound sections inside. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibitions from October 25th - November 23rd 1996 and November 8th - December 14th 1996.

New York: Aperture, 1987. A near-fine copy. 9.5 x 12.5 inches. 184 pages. Profusely illustrated. Original blue cloth; pictoral dust jacket. First edition. "This exhaustive body of work paved the way for a generation of contemporary photo artists, expanding the expressive possibilities of the medium" (the publisher).

London: Robert Jennings, 1824. First edition. Hinges tender, and some light wear to bindings, some intermittent spotting, but generally a very handsome and well-preserved set. Three volumes, 4to (373 x 268 mm). 80 engraved plates, of which 70 are hand-colored, with historiated hand-colored initials for each chapter throughout. Contemporary grey calf, blind-tooled borders, spines with gilt bands and red leather lettering-pieces, all edges gilt. Provenance: Jasper Hall (bookplate); Henry J. B. Clements (bookplate, sold Sotheby's 1 November 1966, lot 975). One of the first works to view the subject of ancient arms and armor from an historical perspective. "This most superb archeological work is animated with numerous novelties, curious and historical disquisitions, and brilliant and recondite learning... Plates as fine as the monuments of Westminster Abbey. Really and truly the work is admirably executed, and deserves every eulogy" (Edinburgh Review, quoted in Lowndes). Includes a glossary of military… Read More

London: R[oger] N[ortron] for A[ndrew] Crook, 1670. Paper lightly browned, title with pale browning at edges from binding. 8vo (174 x 110 mm). [32], 221 pages. Lacking the engraved frontispiece portrait. Modern half red morocco, gilt-lettered on spine. Third edition of Sanderson's treatise on oaths. ESTC R34127; Wing S484.

San Francisco: Greenwood Press, 1971. A fine copy. 8vo (9.6 x 6.5 inches). 41, [1] pages. Original wrappers. Number 10 of 50 copies, printed by Jack Werner Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press on French Rivers paper. With a foreword by Sanford's son-in-law Robert L. Dunn.

Omaha: University of Nebraska Press, 1959. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered. Light soiling to covers, generally fine. FIRST EDITION. Pioneer Heritage Series. Her journey began in Indianapolis and included time in the Colorado gold fields. Wynar 376.

San Francisco: Greenwood Press, 1971. Some modest handling wear at corners and ends of spine, pale stain on front free endpaper, another smaller stain at extreme bottom of last two leaves and one interior leaf, otherwise clean and unmarked. 8vo (9.6 x 6.5 inches). 41, [1] pages. Original wrappers, printed paper label on spine. Number 6 of 50 copies, printed by Jack Werner Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press on French Rivers paper. With a foreword by Sanford's son-in-law Robert L. Dunn.

St. Louis: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum / University of Chicago Press, 2014. A fine copy. 8vo. 144 pages. 43 color plates, 19 halftones, 1 visual essay. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION, a scarce monograph published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum at Washington University, 9 September 2011 to 9 January 2012. The artwork in the exhibition includes pneumatic sculptures, modular environments, large-scale drawings, and video, all conceived as part of his ongoing exploration "Air-Port-City / Cloud-City" (2001 present), a floating city in the sky fueled by solar and wind energy. With Contributions by Ines Katzenstein, Tomás Saraceno, and Denis Weaire.

Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1857. A very-good copy with minor wear to extremities, spine lightly faded. 8vo. 480 pages. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; folding map; several plates and text illustrations. Original blind stamped cloth. FIRST EDITION. Chronicles the search of Sir John Franklin in the arcitc, with the contextualization of several other Arctic expeditions during the same time period (including those of William Parry and Sir John Franklin).

Electra, 1997. A fine copy. 12 x 9.5 inches. 216 pages. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial wrappers.

Chicago: The Black Archer Press, 1936. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine area faded, else fine. 12mo. Original pink wrappers with portrait of Saroyan in pink and black on front. First edition, one of 50 copies issued, boldly signed in blue ink by Saroyan on front cover. One of his rarest items: an essay on book collectors. (BA). Introductory note by William Targ. Variant issue in pink wrappers (Kherdian 4).