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

Willimantic, CT: Ziesing Bros, 1982. Pamphlet. a nearly fine bright copy. 8vo. Printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, one of 800 copies.

New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002. First edition. A few tiny stains on covers, otherwise as-new. Square 4to. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white and color. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Essay by Kirk Varnedoe. Chronology and artist's biographies by Robert Dean. Catalogue editors: Ealan Wingate, Lisa Kim and Erin Wright. This is the original catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition from 12 September 12 to 19 October 2002, not the later mass-market reprint published by Rizzoli in 2009. According to Gagosian Gallery it was "an exhibition celebrating the years of the pioneering Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles (1957-1967). Organized by Irving Blum, the exhibition brings together historical examples of the artists fostered and represented by Ferus during this decade. "During the 1960s, under the direction of Irving Blum, Ferus became one of the most significant galleries on the West Coast. This exhibition will feature twenty-two of the Ferus artists, with many works on loan from… Read More

Newcastle: E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son, 1818. A very good copy, internally clean and fresh, joints restored and with some light wear to binding. 8vo. xxiv, 376 pages. 188 fable cuts and 136 tailpieces in text. Contemporary English polished calf, the sides and spines decorated in blind and gilt, marbled edges, by Whitehead and Sons, Leeds (with their ticket on pastedown). A handsome copy of Bewick's extensively and exquisitely illustrated fables. Roscoe 45.

New York: Viking Press, 1954. A fine copy, slight wear to slipcase. 8vo. x, 342 pages. Cloth; acetate wrapper; slipcase. First edition, limited issue, number 220 of 400 copies signed by Moore (300 were for sale). Abbott A11.a1a.

New York: Viking Press, 1954. Light wear to binding at extremities; jacket a bit faded and with some light wear and chips along edges. 8vo. x, 342 pages. Cloth; printed dust jacket. First trade edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Marianne Moore: "M.M. from M M with love / Dear Margaret, I I hope I am right in feeling that you would care to have this. Diffidantly, Marianne." Moore has made four corrections in the text, on pages x, 77, 230 and 326. Abbott A11.a1a.

Washington, D. C.: The Treasury Department, 1833. Small folio (332 x 206 mm). Facsimile of accounts throughout, 3pp. facsimile documents and plans and 1p. letterpress "Extract from Marshall's Life of Washington, Vol.I. 1758." at end. Contemporary half sheep, marbled boards, letterpress label to upper cover, stab-sewn. Lacking top sewing thread, some rubbing or light wear; dampstain to lower gutter corner, some light browning or stains. The first letterpress leaf is signed by Chief Clerk in the Registrar's office Mich. Nourse, and notes: "General Washington's account of expenses during the Revolutionary War, in his own hand writing, is on file in this office:---the annexed is a fac simile copy thereof." The four final pages include a facsimile of a plan submitted to General Forbes by Washington in 1758. Provenance: Mr. Galland(?) (early gift inscription from M.B.W. Edgar on slip of paper pinned to front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. Covering the period from June 1775… Read More

Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1971. A very good plus copy in a good jacket with chips and wear at edges. 12 x 9.5 inches. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition, signed by Karsh on the front free endpaper.

Chicago: Chicago Books, 1986. A near-fine copy, with slightest of evidence of handling. Oblong folio (11 x 17 inches). [32] leaves. Original tan linen. First edition, a collection of illustrations by Leon Golub in collaboration with David Reynolds. One of Golub's works from the 1980s after he turned his attention to diverse examples of terrorism: from the subversive operations of governments to urban street violence and corrupt dynamics of power (Hauser + Wirth).

Milan, Rome, etc.: G. Ricordi & Co, 1893. 4to (267 x 203 mm; 10½ x 8 inches). 471 pages. Full-page portrait of Verdi. Original gilt-lettered and -ruled green cloth. A fine copy with only slightest of wear at the ends of the spine. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Published the same year as the first edition in Italian. Falstaff is the last of Verdi's operas, composed as he neared his eightieth year. The composer wanted to write a comedy, and collaborated with Boito for three years from mid-1889. Of his 27 operas, this is only his second comedy (the first was his second opera, Un giorno di regno). The work premiered at La Scala in Milan on 9 February 1893; it was published in its original Italian and in translations later that year. .

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. Hardcover. The covers a bit dull, and with some light wear at ends of spine and corners. 9 x 6.75 inches. 208 pages. Decorated cloth. Owner's name on front free endpaper.

New York: The Jargon Society, 76, 1974. First edition. Small area of the laminate peeled at the rear, a very pale dampstain lower margin, else a very good copy. 4to. Original wrappers.

Easthampton, MA: The Pennyroyal Press, 1979. A fine copy, the extremities just touched. Oblong (7.5 x 10.5 inches). Original boards. Number 71 of 175 copies signed by Barry Moser on the colophon. A folding plate of a sword, signed by Moser, is tipped to the title-page.

London: MACK, 2019. New. 31 x 23 cm. 80 pages. Red buckram, embossed, in a silkscreened sleeve. Limited edition, one of 150 copies with a collotype print produced by Japanese atelier Benrido. Numbered and stamped by the Masahisa Fukase Archives. "For three generations the Fukase family ran a photography studio in Bifuka, a small provincial town in the northern Japanese province of Hokkaido. In August 1971, at the age of 35, Masahisa Fukase returned home from Tokyo, where he had moved in the 1950s. He realised that the Fukase Photographic Studio, which his younger brother managed, combined with the growing family members, constituted the perfect subject for a series of portraits. Between 1971 and 1989, he returned regularly and used the family studio, the large-format Anthony view camera and the changing family line-up as the basis for the series. True to his style, Fukase often introduced third-party models and humorous elements to juxtapose the ineluctable reality of time passing and the dwindling… Read More

Phaidon press, 2015. As-new in shrinkwrap. 8vo. 572 pages. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "Twice a year for the last 10 years Fantastic Man has chronicled the world's most stylish and influential men through insightful interviews and the lenses of equally stylish and influential photographers. David Beckham, Tom Ford, Ewan McGregor, Helmut Lang and many others have been cast in a new light by a magazine heralded not only for its witty editorial and award winning design but for the iconic photographers (Juergen Teller, Bruce Weber, Wolfgang Tillmans) who have shot for them as well. Fully illustrated, Fantastic Man represents the best of the magazines's archives, offering a fascinating portrait of contemporary men's style and a unique viewpoint on what defines masculinity in the 21st century. The publication celebrates the ten-year anniversary of Fantastic Man magazine. Elegant and cool, the book reflects the magazine's signature aesthetics" (the publisher).

Scalo, 1994. A near fine copy, the covers slightly bowed and with some light wear to the corners. Folio (14.5 x 11 inches). Blank-and-white photography. Original pictorial boards. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Peress to pioneering photo-gallerist Marjorie Neikrug in bold silver ink on the title: "For Marge / Gilles Peress." "Farewell to Bosnia covers a period of almost six months during 1993, focusing primarily on the areas of Tuzla, central Bosnia, Mostar and Sarajevo. The work was initiated by Francois Hers, who was familiar with Peress's ongoing project about the reemerging patterns of hate and discrimination in Europe - Hate Thy Brother - and who, because of his contacts in Bosnia, felt the urgency to have a visual documentation of what was happening in the Balkans. Peress set out to provide an illustrated continuum of experience and existence, and only having a small period of time could not explain everything that was occurring in Bosnia; not the historical intricacies of the… Read More

[London], 1931. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Folio (18 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches). 8 pages. Original printed wrappers, tied. First edition, issued as a Christmas supplement and preceding the book edition. (BA).

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. A very good set, some light wear at exgtremities, but generally very clean and fresh. 2 volumes, 8vo. Four folding chromolithographed maps in pockets in volume one. Engraved frontispiece by Johan Nordhagen, 16 color plates, tissue guards. Original decorated cloth, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION (the first edition in Norwegian was published the previous year). Arctic Bibliography 11983.

London: Butler and Tanner, 2004. Large folio. [112] pp. Lavish fashion photographs printed on laminated stocks. Original pictorial glazed boards; embrossed black dust jacket with monochromatic printing on the reverse. Slightest wear to jacket edges, otherwise near-fine. FIRST EDITION of this sumptuous collection of Rankin's fashion photography.

Oxmoor House, 1990. A few minor marks on the title page; generally a clean copy with some light wear to the jacket. 9.75 x 13.5 inches. 155 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. Cloth faded at edges and with light wear at extremities; jacket toned and with some light chipping at edges. 8vo. [12], 340 pages. Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Presentation copy, with a lengthy inscription by Jong across the span of the title: "June '74 / For RIch / My old pal from worser days - the die was cast then - with much love & thanks for much / Tea & sympathy / Erica.