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

New York: Random House, 1987. Folio. 221 pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Original decorated cloth; printed acetate wrapper. A near-fine copy with slight shrinkage to the acetate. FIRST EDITION of Schnabel's autobiographical retrospective, lavishly illustrated and recounting his life: leaving Texas in 1973 to return to his hometown of New York City, hanging out in Max's Kansas City, meeing Sigmar Polke, Blinky Palermo, Ross Bleckner, and numerous other people in the scene, and traveling to Europe.

[New York]: The Spiral Press, 1951. In fine condition save one tiny closed tear at head of front wrapper. 16mo. 8 leaves. Decorations by Leo Manso. Original printed wrappers. First edition, issue for Theodore Amussen, one of 150 copies with his imprint. Crane B23.

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1916. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A fine copy in the uncommon dust jacket. 8vo. Original cloth, partly unopened; printed dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the poet: "For Raphael Weill, this unneutral book, with gratitude and affection, George Sterling. San Francisco, July 5th, 1916." The printed dedication reads: "To Raphael Weill / Chevalier of the Legion of Honor." With the two misprints noted by Merle Johnson (p. 474) corrected in ink by Sterling. Almost a third of the book (pp. 117-168) is a section of poems "On the Great War." BAL 18767. (BA).

Bologna: Damiani, 2012. First edition. New in shrinkwrap. 14.5 x 11.75 inches. 72 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. "Photographer Caleb Cain Marcus' second monograph, A Portrait of Ice finds breathtaking worlds of color in the glaciers of Patagonia, Iceland, Norway, New Zealand and Alaska. Devastatingly lonely, yet beautiful, these landscapes where ice meets sky seem to belong to a world where man has never set foot" (the publisher).

Catskill, NY: Lunar Chandelier Collective, 2018. A near-fine copy with a soft crease on front cover. 8vo. 322 pages. Printed wrappers. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed to another poet on the title-page by Kelly. This is the fifth and final volume in a cycle of long poems, collectively forming The Island Cycle.

Cambridge MA: John Ford at the Chronicle Office, 1857. First edition of the ninth in the series. Hardcover. 8vo. Engraved folding "Map of the City of Cambridge, Mass." after W.A. Mason, engineer and surveyor. Original blind-decorated brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Robert O. Fuller (pencil inscription on front flyleaf, he is listed on p.115). FIRST EDITION of this ninth Cambridge Directory, which opens with a calendar and then provides a complete listing of commercial, religious, governmental, and individual names, occupations, and addresses. 11-pages advertisements at front (3 on blue paper) and 19-pages advertisements at end (3 on blue paper). Including advertisements for L.H. Hales, Photographers -- "Daguerreotypes, Photographs, and Glass Pictures" -- and Harvard Block on Harvard Square. A fine copy with contemporary Cambridge provenance: R.O. Fuller, whose ownership inscription records his address at 40 Auburn St, is listred on page 115 as working at Gay, Manson & Co. at the… Read More

San Francisco, 1974. 4to. 8 pages. Stapled as issued. A very good copy, the first leaf separated from staple, the sheets with characteristic pale toning at edges. FIRST EDITION of this scarce mimeo journal. Contains Joseph Bruchac, "Third World Writing Today"; Rich Mandelsdorf, "Towards Understanding How We Sound"; and Richard Kostelanetz, "After Sentences." The collage cover is by Li Graves. Clay & Phillips, p. 267.

New York: LINES, 1966. Some light soiling to the wrappers, generally fine. 11 x 8.5 inches. Mimeographed. 26 leaves. Printed on rectos only. Stapled in wrappers, typographic cover design by Perrault. First edition. Introduction by John Ashbery: "The first person singular occurs throughout these poems, like a key signature in music, but the poems are not meant as autobiography and in fact tell us nothing about the poet... The poems are simultaneously big, important and world-ordering; and small, odd and private..." Perreault was an art critic at The Village Voice and The SoHo Weekly News and an early champion of feminist art and the craft-oriented pattern and decoration movement in the 1970s.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1995. 8vo. 175 pp. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. Fine. FIRST EDITION of Ashbery's seventeenth collection of poems.

New York: Hispanic Society of America, 1971. Folio. Original beige cloth boards. Spine slightly leaned, one pale stain along spine, cover gilt lightly faded, a one quarter inch marginal tear in the first c.50 leaves not affecting text. FIRST EDITION.

Tokyo and New York: Gallery Min and Aperture, 1989. Hardcover. Some light hazing to the boards, generally fine. 10 x 13 inches, oblong. Black-and-white and color images, some folding. Original black boards, printed paper label on front cover; original matching open-faced slipcase. First edition, signed "Cheers! Lewis Baltz" on the title-page. Published to coincide with the exhibition held 13 May to 2 July 1989. Text by Gus Blaisdell (in English and Japanese).

Redfield, 1853. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine slightly faded, foxing. 8vo. Original green cloth, blind rule borders, gilt-lettered and -decorated on spine. First edition of the Connecticut author's scarce first book, with publisher's advertisements at end. Wright II, 1206.

Hollywood, CA: Capitol Records, 1992. A near-fine copy with some light shelfwear to jacket. Oblang 4to. 219 pages. Color photgraphs. Pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, a limited edition for promotional use only, not for sale.

Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, 1940. A bit frayed at extremities, child's penciled name and initials on endleaves. 8vo. Photographs by R. D. Richardson. Original tan cloth, photo-illustrated title panel mounted on cover. A photographically illustrated children's book about a marionette and his squeeze box, and his African American friend Binny.

[Boston]: [The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and The American Humane Education Society], 1918. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Foxed, particularly the last page, else very good. 8vo. Four page leaflet. First edition, first printing, of his foreword to 'Michael, Brother of Jerry' (1917). London in the novel exposed the cruel conditions for trained dogs and circus animals, particularly in regard to their cages. So effective was his indignation that hundreds of Jack London Clubs sprang up after the publication of the book, dedicated to ending the trade in performing animals. BAL 12005. WITH: 2 copies of the second printing; 5 copies of later printings; and a folder of ephemera (a large folded poster, leaflets, news clippings, etc). (BA).

Derry, PA: Rook Press, 1976. Folded sheet, 9 x 4 inches. Illustration by William Lint. Original red printed wrappers; publisher's envelope. Fine. FIRST EDITION, number 36 of 96 copies signed by Heyen.

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 7 x 5 1/2 inches. In pencil on the recto of an octavo piece of stationery of "Dumbleton Hall, Evesham" (somewhat smudged). On the verso is written in ink (by Sykes?): "Cyril / Drawn by / Christopher Sykes / Jan. 1937." (BA).

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1976. First edition and first printing, signed by Meiselas on the title-page at a later date. A very good copy in silver paper covered boards with some light bumping to the top right corners and some faint foxing to the preliminary pages and in an about very good dust jacket with a large chip to the top of the front panel and with some other edge tears and wear. Despite the flaws a solid copy of a book that is very prone to wear and is seldom found in anything approaching fine condition. 8.75 x 10 inches. 150 pages. Original silver cloth; original fragile printed dust jacket. Meiselas' pioneering first book, a collection of black-and-white photographs documenting Meiselas's three-year travels to strip shows. "Meiselas portrayed the women and men caught up in this world with great sensitivity, balance and respect making 'Carnival Strippers' a remarkably human document" (Roth 238-239).

London: Gagosian, 2005. A fine copy. 8vo. Two pamphlets in wrappers; DVD. Slipcase. This was Höller's first solo gallery show in London, held 1 September to 8 October 2005.

Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2002. Some staining to acetate; generally a clean copy. 18 x 13.25 inches. 440 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original illustrated boards; printed acetate covering. First edition. "Modernist experimental homes. Prototypes for everyone The Case Study House program (1945-66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences that could be easily and cheaply constructed during the postwar building boom. The program's chief motivating force was Arts & Architecture editor John Entenza, a champion of modernism who had all the right connections to attract some of architecture's greatest talents, such as Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen. Highly experimental, the program generated houses that were designed to re-define the modern home, and… Read More