Livres d'artistes, illustrated, fine press (listed alphabetically):

With three signed Alechinsky etchings

(ALECHINSKY, PIERRE). FRENAUD, ANDRE.  La Vie Comme Elle Tourne et par Example

Alechinsky is "a man of strange blameless passions. Decorated invoices, worthless stock certificates, obsolete air-force navigational charts and ancient hand-written archival materials spark his imagination. . . . He has a taste for nature’s upheavals." -John Russell

First edition, one of only 90 copies signed by Alechinsky and Frenaud.  With three original etchings signed and numbered by Alechinsky printed on old French notary acts, one each in red, blue, and green. $3400.

(details)

One of only 150 copies

BACON, FRANCIS.  Francis Bacon, Special Number 162

Bacon was "internationally the most acclaimed British painter of the twentieth century" (DNB).

LIMITED First edition, one of only 150 copies on Rives. A magnificent production with five color lithographs and five color offset lithographs after Bacon. $4000.

(details)

A magnificent set in original wrappers,
complete with 186 stunning pochoir plates

BARBIER, GEORGE.  Journal des Dames et des Modes

The Journal des Dames et des Modes was an expression "of the most refined Parisian elegance, and illustrated by the most gifted designers and illustrators of the time." -Christina Nuzzi

FIRST EDITION OF ALL 79 ISSUES, WITH 186 HAND-COLORED PLATES by some of the most famous artists of the era. Number 884 (each issue from the same set) of only 1250 sets on Holland paper (out of a total edition of 1279). IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS IN FINE CONDITION. $28,000.

(details)

Barbier's first illustrated book

BARBIER, GEORGE.  Designs on the Dances of Vaslav Nijinsky

Barbier began his career as a costume and set designer for the Ballets Russes, where he became inspired by the poetic movements of the celebrated Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. Designs on the Dances of Vaslav Nijinsky is Barbier's first illustrated book and one of the first lavishly produced editions de luxe that became so popular in France and London during the 1910's and 1920's.

LIMITED EDITION, number 107 of only 400 copies, with 12 magnificent pochoir plates by Georges Barbier. In scarce original wrappers. $7500.

(details)

With 20 full-page pochoir plates by George Barbier

(BARBIER, GEORGE, illus]. LACLOS, CHODERLOS DE.  Les Liaisons Dangereuses

ONE OF 650 COPIES ON RIVES (out of a total edition of 720), with 20 FULL-PAGE POCHOIR PLATES by BARBIER. With additional illustrated titles and head-pieces. Barbier’s Art-Deco representation of Laclos’s classic tale of sexual politics is one of the masterpieces of 20th-century book illustration.

An exceptionally fine set in original wrappers. Most rare in this condition. $7500.

(details)

 One of only 100 copies, signed by Baskin and with sixteen woodcuts

BASKIN, LEONARD.  Fifteen Woodcuts

"People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation." -Leonard Baskin

LIMITED EDITION, one of only 100 copies (out of a total edition of 600 copies) with an extra woodcut printed from the block at the Gehenna Press, for a total of sixteen large folio woodcuts plates by Baskin. $1600.

(details)

 Beautiful Art Deco binding with two hand-painted dancers

[BINDING, ART DECO]. DIVOIRE, FERNAND.  Pour La Danse

LIMITED EDITION, number 442 of only 1350 copies, of this history of modern dance, profusely illustrated with numerous photographic reproductions. Bound in extraordinary custom French Art Deco binding with hand-painted dancers, the painting on the front cover signed by the artist "G. Bruneau". With original wrappers laid in. $600.

(details)

With original designs by William Blake

(BLAKE, WILLIAM, illus.). BLAIR, ROBERT. The Grave

"These illustrations must always remain among [Blake's] greatest. They are much less illustrations of Blair than expressions of his own moods and visions. We see the body and soul rushing into each other's arms at the last day, the soul hovering over the body and exploring the recesses of the grave, and the good and bad appearing before the judgement seat of God, not as these things appeared to the orthodox eyes of Blair, but as they appeared to the mystical eyes of William Blake." -Tom Paulin

First edition with william blake’s illustrations.  One of 589 subscriber’s copies. $2700.

(details)

With an original watercolor signed and inscribed by Braque

BRAQUE, GEORGES. Cahier de Braque 1917-1947 [Notebooks]

“In art there is only one thing that matters: what cannot be explained.” – Braque, Cahier

LIMITED FIRST EDITION, WITH AN ADDITIONAL ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR BY BRAQUE. The original watercolor on the front blank is of an artist’s palette and brushes; signed and inscribed next to the watercolor: “Pour Madame Hant / 1952 / G Braque”. One of only 845 copies of this edition. $3900.

(details)

With original lithographs by Picasso and Miró, and etching by Braque

BRAQUE, GEORGES. Hommage a Georges Braque. Derriere le Miroir Numbers 144-146.

LIMITED FIRST EDITION, WITH ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS BY PICASSO (DOUBLE PAGE), MIRÓ, AND GOUACHE FRONTISPIECE ETCHING BY BRAQUE ("Trois Oiseaux sur Fond Violet"). One of only 350 copies on Vélin De Rives. Also with lithographs by Pallut., Tal-Coat, and Ubac, and numerous portrait photographs of Braque by Man Ray, Brassai, Routhier, and Lachaud. $2800.

(details)

Signed by Georges Braque, with two original lithographs

(BRAQUE, GEORGES). PALHAN, JEAN. Braque le Patron

LIMITED EDITION, number 50 of 60 copies on velin du marais (out of a total edition of 90), signed by Braque and Paulhan. Complete with 60 illustrations including two original color lithographs (one for the cover, one on the first page of text) and one color plate. A beautiful production. $2000.

(details)

With 238 hand-colored plates

BREE, CHARLES. A History of the Birds of Europe

FIRST EDITIONS of Charles Bree's exquisitely illustrated History of the Birds of Europe. Complete with 238 hand-colored tinted lithographed plates (180 of birds, 58 of eggs). Five volumes in handsome contemporary three-quarter morocco gilt. $2900.

(details)

Beautifully illustrated by Brunelleschi

(BRUNELLESCHI, UMBERTO). MIOMANDRE, FRANCIS DE.  Le Radjah de Mazulipatam

LIMITED EDITION,  one of only 468 numbered copies on Holland van Gelder (out of a total edition of 500 copies), with 14 full-page color pochoir plates and 54 color pochoir vignettes by Brunelleschi. One of the most highly regarded books illustrated by Brunelleschi. A fine copy. $1900.

(details)

One of only 50 copies with an original drawing by Alexander Calder

(CALDER, ALEXANDER; illus.).  Fables of Aesop, according to Sir Roger L'Estrange

"In the summer of 1931, [Calder] produced some of his finest graphic work and a masterpiece of American book illustration, the Fables of Aesop for Harrison of Paris" (James Johnson Sweeney, Alexander Calder).

FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES with an ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING by CALDER. A fine copy. Scarce. $18,000.

(details)

With an original self-portrait drawing by Calder

(CALDER, ALEXANDER, illus.) LA FONTAINE, JEAN.  Selected Fables

FIRST TRADE EDITION, with a FULL-PAGE INK SELF-PORTRAIT BY CALDER on front flyleaf; initialed by Calder at the top of portrait. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Calder; translation by Eunice Clark.

New York: George Braziller, 1957. Quarto, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. A fine copy. $3600.

(details)

Signed by Calder, with five original lithographs

CALDER, ALEXANDER.  Derriere Le Miroir. Calder. Special Number 201

"I paint with shapes..." -Alexander Calder

LIMITED DELUXE FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 80 OF ONLY 150 copies SIGNED BY CALDER. With five original color lithographs by Calder. Text by Maurice Besset; printed on velin de la Dore. A fine copy of this magnificent production. $4500.

(details)

Signed and inscribed by Calder

CALDER, ALEXANDER.  Calder

Color exhibition book for the 1965 Calder show held at Paris's Musee National d'Art Moderne and New York's Guggenheim Museum, artistically signed and inscribed by Calder (imitating the swirl on the cover) on the front endpaper: "To IPPY / Sandy / 1 July 65". Calder went by the name of "Sandy" and often signed as such. Complete with 4 serigraphs (3 in color). $1600.

(details)

Signed and inscribed by Marc Chagall

CHAGALL, MARC. The Lithographs of Chagall. Volumes I-VI (complete)

First editionS of all six volumes (English-language issues) of Chagall’s catalogue raisonèe, Signed and inscribed by chagall in volume I. Complete with 28 original lithographs, including original lithograph dust jackets for volumes I-IV.

An interesting association copy: inscribed by Chagall to the highly accomplished Polish-American artist Manfred Schwartz. A superb set in fine condition. $14,500.

(details)

With magnificent Chagall lithograph of Anne Frank

(CHAGALL, MARC). FRANK, ANNE.  Journal de Anne Frank

LIMITED EDITION, one of only 495 copies, with a frontispiece lithograph by Marc Chagall. Printed on vélin d'arches. A perfect union of artist and subject.

Translated into French by Tylia Caren and Suzanne Lombard. Paris: Tournon, 1959. Thick quarto, original printed wrappers; unopened; board chemise and slipcase. Lithograph loose as issued. Slight toning to chemise, otherwise fine. Rare. $2400.

(details)

With 11 lithographs by Chagall, Picasso, Miro, Calder, and others

CHAGALL; PICASSO; MIRO; CALDER; MATISSE; et al.   Lithographies de l'Atelier Mourlot

"Fernand Mourlot, one of the most renowned printers of lithographs today, presents for us here an exhibition of works from his great press—original lithographs, and posters by young painters of the School of Paris, works by Frenchman, English and Americans.” –Jean Adhemar

 FIRST EDITION, one of only 1000 copies printed (out of a total edition of 1150), with 11 lithographs (8 in color) by Chagall (cover), Picasso (2 lithos), Miro, Giacometti, Minaux, Jenkins, Matisse, Masson, Calder and Buffet. Printed to accompany the show “L’Atelier Mourlot” at La Galerie Redfern, London, from December 1965- January 1966. $1900.

(details)

With two original Chagall color lithographs

CHAGALL, MARC.   Jerusalem Windows

"All the time I was working, I felt my father and my mother were looking over my shoulder, and behind them were Jews, millions of other vanished Jews of yesterday and a thousand years ago." –Marc Chagall

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, beautifully illustrated with 104 plates (64 in full color), and two original color lithographs done expressly for this edition. $2000.

(details)

 Signed by Salvador Dali

DALI, SALVADOR.  Les Diners de Gala [The Dali Cookbook]

(details)

Illustrated and signed by Salvador Dali

(DALÍ, SALVADOR). RONSARD, PIERRE de.   Les Amours de Cassandre

LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED AND DATED BY DALÍ; one of only 165 copies on arches blanc (out of a total edition of 299). Complete with10 full-plate and 8 vignette drypoint etchings by Dalí.  Folio, contents loose as issued in pictorial wrappers; gilt-stamped black cloth clamshell box. A fine copy. Rare. $12,000.

(details)

 With two original signed color etchings by Max Ernst

(ERNST, MAX). PREVERT, JACQUES.  Les Chiens ont Soif

LIMITED EDITION, WITH TWO SIGNED COLOR ETCHINGS BY MAX ERNST, and 25 additional color lithographs; one of only 250 copies (out of a total edition of 320). An evocative collaboration between the surrealist poet Prevert and the surrealist artist Ernst. The Livre d'Artiste in the Twentieth Century 46. Paris: Au Pont Des Arts, 1964. Large folio, loose as issued in original lithographed paper wrappers; original buckram clamshell box. $4600.

(details)

 With 45 large Giacometti plates

(GIACOMETTI, ALBERTO).  Quarantacinque disegni di Alberto Giacometti

FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1,145 COPIES (out of a total edition of 1245), finely illustrated with 45 large folio reproductions of the artist's drawings (two in color). Folio. Text (in French and Italian) bound (as issued), plates inside original wove paper folder, original tan cloth-covered portfolio box with brown printed artist's signature on the front and text on the spine and original grey cardboard box with white label with printed artist's signature. $2200.

(details)

The magnificent Golden Cockerel Chaucer, illustrated by Eric Gill

(GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS). CHAUCER, GEOFFREY.  The Canterbury Tales

“Gill became the greatest artist–craftsman of the twentieth century: a letter-cutter and type designer of genius, whose Gill Sans and Perpetua typefaces have continued in world-wide use for many decades… No other wood-engraver of the period comes near to Gill's originality and verve” (DNB). 

ONE OF 485 COPIES (out of a total edition of 500) on hand-made paper of the magnificent Golden Cockerel edition of The Canterbury Tales, illustrated with wood engravings by Eric Gill;  one of the most beautiful books produced in the 20^th century. $9000.

(details)

Signed and inscribed by Hirschfeld and with 24 original lithographs

HIRSCHFELD, AL.  Harlem, as seen by Hirschfeld

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY HIRSCHFELD, with 24 beautiful mounted lithographs. Many of the Hirschfeld's images in Harlem have become iconic representations of the African-American experience in the 1930's and are often considered to be the artist's best work. One of only 1000 copies printed. An unusually well-preserved inscribed copy of a work that is extremely difficult to find in collectible condition.$7000.

(details)

With large original color lithograph signed by David Hockney

HOCKNEY, DAVID; SPENDER, STEPHEN.  China Diary

“Let’s begin by saying it’s just a little personal trip we made together. I think the book should be in that sense a bit bitty – like life – patched up in some way, as if made by three schoolboys on a tour of a continent for the first time.” –David Hockney on China Diary

FIRST EDITION, WITH AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH SIGNED BY DAVID HOCKNEY. One of only 1000 copies signed by Spender and Hockney. With the original folding five-color lithograph ("Red Square and the Forbidden City") signed in pencil by Hockney loose in printed card sleeve. $3600.

(details)

Signed and inscribed by David Hockney

HOCKNEY, DAVID.  Cameraworks

“It takes time to see these pictures—you can look at them for a long time, they invite that sort of looking.  But, more importantly, I realized that this sort of picture came closer to how we actually see, which is to say, not all-at-once but rather in discrete, separate glimpses which we then build up into our continuous experience of the world.” –David Hockney on his collage technique

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by David Hockney on half-title in red, blue, and green: "to Marcia + Ken / David Hockney". $850.

(details)

One of the most celebrated art books of the century:
signed by Jasper Johns and Samuel Beckett

JOHNS, JASPER; BECKETT, SAMUEL.  Foirades / Fizzles

SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES SIGNED BY JASPER JOHNS AND SAMUEL BECKETT (from a total edition of 300).

Magnificently illustrated with original prints by Johns including: 26 lift ground aquatints and 5 etchings with mixed media, 1 soft-ground etching, and one aquatint; plus 2 color lithographs as endpapers. Printed on handmade wove Auvergne Richard de Bas paper watermarked with Beckett’s initials and Johns’s signature. A FINE COPY. $30,000.

(details)

One of only 250 copies from the Kelmscott Press

[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. HERRICK, ROBERT.  Poems Chosen out of the Works

The Kelmscott Press "was far and away the most splendid of all private presses... quite without a peer." -Colin Franklin, The Private Presses

FIRST KELMSCOTT PRESS EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES ON PAPER. Beautifully printed in red and black in Golden type. Exquisitely illustrated by William Morris with woodcut title page, first page (borders), and decorated initials throughout. $5800.

(details)

One of only 225 copies from the Kelmscott Press

[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. SPENSER, EDMUND.  The Shepheardes Calender

"Gaskin's drawings for each month of the Shepeardes Calender are perhaps the happiest of all Kelmscott illustrations, bringing a strictness of form and composition none of the others provided..." -Colin Franklin, The Private Presses

BEAUTIFUL KELMSCOTT PRESS edition, one of only 225 copies on paper (out of a total edition of 231).  Elegantly printed in Golden type in red and black and with twelve wood-engraved plates by Arthur J. Gaskin. Rare. $6000.

(details)

One of only 100 signed copies

LICHTENSTEIN, ROY.  Landscape Sketches: 1984—1985

“Here Roy Lichtenstein admits us to his private world…”

FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES SIGNED BY LICHTENSTEIN, complete with 24 offset lithographs printed in color on Coronado Opaque SST Cover paper. A FINE copy in original shipping box. $4200.

(details)

Signed by Robert Frost

[LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB]. FROST, ROBERT.  The Complete Poems of Robert Frost

"Sometimes I have my doubts of words altogether, and I ask myself what is the place of them. They are worse than nothing unless they do something; unless they amount to deeds, as in ultimatums or battle-cries. They must be flat and final like the show-down in poker, from which there is no appeal. My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that become deeds." -Robert Frost

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, one of only 1500 copies, signed by Robert Frost, book designer Bruce Rogers, and illustrator Thomas Nason. The classic Frost collection. $2700.

(details)

With original Matisse lithograph

MATISSE, HENRI.  Portraits

"The entire plan of this volume was drawn up by Henri Matisse, who himself selected the works to be reproduced. The cover-design and the original lithograph which forms the frontispiece were made by the artist especially for this publication."

FIRST EDITION, one of only 500 copies, of the English-language issue of Matisse's Portraits. Lavishly illustrated with original lithograph (as frontispiece), 60 black and white portraits, and 33 mounted color plates. A beautiful, fine copy. $4300.

(details)

With five illustrations by Matisse

MATISSE, HENRI; REVERDY, PIERRE.  Les Jockeys Camoufles

FIRST EDITION, one of only 300 numbered copies on verge d’Arches (out of a total edition of 343), with five plates by Henri Matisse illustrating three poems by Pierre Reverdy. Often considered Matisse's first illustrated book, Les Jockeys Camoufles actually contains drawings made previously by Matisse between 1903-1917. A beautifully printed book with text in four colors. In original wrappers. Rare. $5000.

(details)

Signed by Miró, with three double-page color lithographs

MIRÓ, JOAN.  Sobreteixims. Derriere Le Miroir: Special Number 203

SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, one of only 150 copies SIGNED BY MIRÓ, with three magnificent double-page color lithographs on velin d'Arches. Issued to correspond with the famous "Sobreteixims" exhibition of 1973.

(details)

A fine complete set, with 36 Miró lithographs

MIRÓ, JOAN.  Lithographe Vols I-VI

"The best way to approach a work by Miró: Empty yourself of preconceptions, look at it without any reservations, and bathe your eyes in it as in water that can wash away the dust that accumulates around so many masterpieces."  -Michel Leiris, 1947.

FIRST EDITIONS in six volumes of the complete catalog raisonné (French-language issue), complete with 36 original Miró lithographs, covering Miró's work from 1930-1981. Fine copies. $5700.

(details)

One of only 150 copies, signed by Miró

MIRÓ, JOAN.  Derriere Le Miroir. Peintures sur Cartons. Special No. 151-152

"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music..."-Joan Miró

SIGNED limited FIRST edition, NUMBER 127 of 150 copies SIGNED BY MIRÓ.  The complete suite, comprising 22 lithographs printed in colors on Rives paper, signed in pencil on the colophon; includes four double-page lithographs. A magnificent production. $6500.

(details)

With five color lithographs by Miró

MIRÓ, JOAN.  Derriere Le Miroir. No. 164/165

Original issue of Derriere le Miroir, with five color lithographs (including one tri-fold) by Miro. Because issues are often bound together or mined for the lithographs, complete copies in original wrappers have become increasingly rare. Outer corner of issue lightly creased; extremely clean throughout. $975.

(details)

Signed by Miró

(MIRÓ, JOAN). DOPAGNE, JACQUES.  Miro

"I get my ideas from the simplest things. I prefer a plate out of which a peasant is eating is soup to the ridiculously ornate plates wealthy people use... For me, an object is something alive. A cigarette, a matchbox have a life that is much more intense than that of certain humans. When I see a tree, I receive a shock, as if the tree were something that breathed, that talked..."-Joan Miró

FIRST edition, SIGNED BY MIRÓ on the page of the first color plate, next to his self-portrait. Published by Leon Amiel and intended as an introduction to the artist's work. With 88 color plates. $850.

(details)

First issue of Verve, with original lithographs

(MIRÓ, JOAN; MATISSE, HENRI; et al).  VERVE: Revue artistique et litteraire

An outstanding copy in original wrappers and with rare original box, of the first printing (preceding the English-language edition) of the first issue of Verve, with four original lithographs: L'Eau by Leger, L'Air by Miro, le Feu by Rattner & la Terre by Bores. With photography by Man Ray, Brassai, and others; text by Gide, Bataille, Garcia Lorca, Malraux, Henri Michaux, Vollard, and Cradel. The cover by Matisse was designed specially for this issue. $1450.

(details)

With 45 large Modigliani matted plates

(MODIGLIANI, AMADEO).  Forty-Five Drawings by Modigliani

LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES printed for the Grove Press (with text in English), out of a total edition of 1000. An extensive collection of reproductions of Modigliani's work in various media. With 45 large matted plates. New York: Grove Press, 1959. Large folio, plates loose as issued. Original cloth drop back box. $2100.

(details)

With signed color lithograph by Henry Moore

(MOORE, HENRY). HEDGECOE, JOHN.  Energie im Raum. Energy in Space.

"The whole of my development as a sculptor is an attempt to understand and realise more completely what form and shape are about, and to react to form in life, in the human figure, and in pat sculpture. This is something that can't be learnt in a day, for sculpture is a never-ending discovery."

DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, one of only 250 copies with a signed and numbered color lithograph by Moore. Complete with color photographic plates, one transparency, and the laid-in original lithograph ("Reclining Figure with Red Stripes"). $1900.

(details)

The definitive Edvard Munch catalog

(MUNCH, EDVARD). SCHIEFLER, GUSTAV.  Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs bis 1906

"Schiefier's catalogue came out in 1907, and instantly became the standard work on Munch's graphic art - as it still is today.” –Gerd Woll, senior curator at the Munch Museum

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, ONE OF 400 COPIES, of the authoritative catalog of Munch's graphic work. With two superb etchings and numerous in-text woodcut illustrations. SCARCE. $8700.

(details)

Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish

(PARRISH, Maxfield, illust.); SAUNDERS, Louise.  The Knave of Hearts

"Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to hear the truth of an old legend that has persisted wrongly through the ages; the truth, until now hid behind the embroidered curtain of a rhyme, about the Knave of Hearts, who was no knave but a very hero indeed..."

FIRST EDITION,  a vibrant, well preserved copy of this classic collaboration by Parrish and Saunders. $4000.

(details)

Special double issue of Verve dedicated to Pablo Picasso

(PICASSO, PABLO).  Verve. Vol VIII, No. 29/30. Vallauris-Mil Neuf Cent Cinquante Quatre. Suite de 180 Dessins de Picasso. 28 Novembre 1953 au 3 Fevrier 1954

"Last winter, from mid-December to the end of January 1954 Picasso was working indefatigably on this series of drawings, which rank among the finest, boldest, most poignantly human of all he has produced in the course of his long and brilliant career..." -Teriade

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (French-language), of the special double issue of Verve dedicated to the drawings of Pablo Picasso, focusing on the works composed during his stay at Vallauris in 1954. With 180 plates including 16 color lithographs after Picasso printed by Mourlot. $3200.

(details)

Signed by Pablo Picasso

(PICASSO, PABLO). JANIS, HARRIET AND SIDNEY.  Picasso: The Recent Years 1939-1946

"The figure of Picasso has for almost half a century stood for more than artist; it has stood for the whole challenge which the concept modern throws, not merely to our complacency, but to the supposedly basic way of living and thinking to which we have adhered for centuries. With the advent of war, Picasso, with this almost universal quality of his nature, became all at once a symbol of the effect of war on the spiritual integrity, even life, of the individual human being."

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, one of only 350 copies signed by Picasso. With 135 black and white illustrated plates of Picasso's work. Rare. $2400.

(details)

One of only 25 copies

POLLOCK, JACKSON.  The Last Sketchbook

FIRST EDITION, number XV of only XXV roman-numbered copies, out of a total edition of 525. Facsimile of Pollock’s sketchbook. The original was displayed in a 1967 retrospective of Pollock’s work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. $600.

(details)

Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, in elegant leather binding

(RACKHAM, ARTHUR). EVANS, C.S.  The Sleeping Beauty

"For a long time the Prince stood and gazed upon her, for never in all his life had he seen a maiden so lovely. Then suddenly he bent down and kissed her lips. That was the end of the enchantment. The Princess's eyelids quivered; languidly she moved her head and stretched out her arms. Her eyes opened and she smiled. 'Is it you, my Prince?" she said. "How long you have kept me waiting!'"

FIRST TRADE EDITION, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with mounted color frontispiece, three double-page color silhouettes, two full-page color silhouettes, six double-page and eight single page black and white silhouettes, and forty-one in-text illustrations. $850.

(details)

One of only 100 copies signed by Rackham

(RACKHAM, ARTHUR). MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER.  Where the Blue Begins

SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, one of only 100 copies signed by both Christopher Morley and Arthur Rackham. Finely illustrated with 20 Rackham illustrations (four in color). One of the rarest of Rackham's signed limited editions. $2200.

(details)

Poe's Tales, signed and illustrated by Arthur Rackham

(RACKHAM, ARTHUR). POE, EDGAR ALLAN.  Tales of Mystery and Imagination

SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 322 of 460 copies signed by illustrator Arthur Rackham. With twelve mounted color plates, seventeen black and white plates, numerous in-text drawings, and wonderfully frightening decorated endpapers. Included among the 25 Poe tales are such classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Purloined Letter. $3400.

(details)

Signed and illustrated by Arthur Rackham

(RACKHAM, ARTHUR). SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES.  The Springtide of Life

"One reason why Swinburne never brought out such a collection was his failure to find an artist who could interpret to his satisfaction the simplicity and freshness of his verses. We are fortunate in having secured, in Mr. Arthur Rackham, one whose delicate and romantic fancy is in sensitive harmony with Swinburne's..." -Edmund Gosse

SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 354 of 765 copies signed by illustrator Arthur Rackham. $1400.

(details)

One of only 110 copies, with three Redon etchings

REDON, ODILON.  Lettres D'Odilon Redon

"My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined." 

FIRST EDITION,  one of only 110 numbered deluxe copies on Vélin d'Arches à la cuve, with three original etchings by Redon. Preface by Marius-Ary Leblond. In outstanding condition in original wrappers. $3500.

(details)

One of only 375 copies, with an original Renoir etching

[RENOIR, PIERRE-AUGUSTE]. VOLLARD, AMBROISE.  La vie et l'oeuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, with original glassine, one of 375 copies on velin d’arches (from a total edition of 1000). Magnificently illustrated with ONE ORIGINAL ETCHING by Renoir and 51 FULL-PAGE ENGRAVED PLATES after Renoir and numerous illustrations of Renoir’s work throughout the text. RARE. $14,000.

(details)

1685 First edition in English of Vasari's Lives of the Artists

(VASARI, GIORGIO). AGLIONBY, WILLIAM.  Painting Illustrated in Three Dialogues... with the Lives of the Most Eminent Painters

"The example of so many able men and all the various details of all kinds collected by my labours in this book will be no little help to practising artists as well as pleasing all those who follow and delight in the arts." -Vasari 

FIRST EDITION,  FIRST ISSUE, IN ENGLISH of Vasari's classic Lives of the Artists, the conceptual basis for Renaissance scholarship and the foremost source for popular perceptions of the history of Western painting. $4500.

(details)

One of only 100 copies with original signed lithograph

[VERTÈS, MARCEL]. ROGER-MARX, CLAUDE.  Variations: Drawings, water colors, etchings and lithographs by Vertès

"And if Vertes's drawings... are certain not to become antiquated or, more exactly, to do so gracefully, it is because, behind this modern 'new look' and these superficial changes, the philosopher and the poet have never ceased to stress, in man, in woman- united or apart, aroused or tender- in every living thing, and in every sight, what is most universal, most fixed and immutable."

LIMITED EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES with an original lithograph signed by Vertès laid in (out of a total edition of 1000). $1600.

(details)

One of only 350 copies signed by Weber; first book by the Spiral Press

WEBER, MAX.  Primitives: Poems and Woodcuts

“Primitives is Weber’s second book of poetry... Many years earlier he had first become interested in primitive art, to which the title and the style of the woodcuts both testify. This little-known book is one of the very few American ‘livres de peintres’ published as early as the 1920s.” -The Artist and the Book

FIRST EDITION, one of only 350 numbered copies, SIGNED BY WEBER; the first book by the famous Spiral Press. With eleven woodcuts by Weber; in the original modernist binding after a design by Weber. $2300.

(details)

The classic Andrew Wyeth collection

WYETH, ANDREW. Christina's World; Wyeth at Kuerners

Andrew Wyeth is “the only narrative artist of genius during the second half of the twentieth century.” -Paul Johnson,  Art: A New History

First LIMITED edition,  each volume SIGNED BY ANDREW WYETH. One of only 200 copies. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of reproductions of Andrew Wyeth's sketches and paintings. $2400.

(details)