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Bauhaus (KUBIN, Alfred). Schmied, Wieland. ALFRED KUBIN Der Zeichner Alfred Kubin. Unter Mitwirkung der Graphischen Sammlung Albertina und des Oberosterreichischen Landesmuseums. Katalogbearbeitung Alfred Marks. Salsburg: Residenz Verlag, 1967. 4to. 453pp, illustrated throughout. Full leatherette, dust jacket in Brodart protector. Very Nice. One of 100 numbered copies. -
Chagall, Marc-Longus DAPHNIS AND CHLOE of Longus. Translated by George Moore. Illustrations by Marc Chagall. New York: Brazillier, 1977. 4to, 230pp, cloth, dust jacket. Very good copy in Brodart jacket. First published by Verve in 1961 -
Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage New York, Henry Abrams, [n.d., 1968] 4to, 525pp with 851 illus including 60 color. Grey velour stamped in white & gilt, dust jacket . Very Good. First Edition. "Amassive, scolarly history. Superbly illustrated" (Arntzen 1259). Rubin was the chief curator of painting and sculpture at MoMA when he wrote this massive study. -
Der Zeichner Algred Kubin ALFRED KUBIN Der Zeichner Alfred Kubin. Unter Mitwirkung der Graphischen Sammlung Albertina und des Oberosterreichischen Landesmuseums. Katalogbearbeitung Alfred Marks. Salzburg: Residenz Verlag, 1967. 4to, 453pp, illustrated throughout. Full leatherette, dust jacket in Brodart protector. Very nice copy. One of 100 numbered copies. -
Millard Sheets. Articles by Arthur Miller, Dr Hartley Burr Alexander and Merle Armitage. Portrait Photograph by Edward Weston. Los Angeles: Dalzell. Hatfield, 1935. 4to, (x), 28 b/w plates, frontispiece portrait by Weston. Orig. boards, dust jacket. Embossed owner's stamp, bottom edges of boards slightly worn, dust jacket stained and with small loss to ends of backstrip, otherwise very good. Only edition,one of 1000 numbered copies, with an original lithograph frontispiece signed by Sheets. The first monograph on the southern California artist Millard Sheets (1907-89) who became one of our leading landscape water-colorist. Designed by Merle Armitage and printed by Lynton Kisler. -
(Tatlin, Vladimir). Larissa Alekseevna Zhadova, editor. New York: Rizzoli, 1988 4to, 533pp with 426 illus. in color & b/w. Black cloth, dust jacket. Discrete embossed owner's stamp on endpaper. Very Good. First Edition. "Vladimir Tatlin stands out among the Russian avant-garde as the artist whose wholly unique vision and ideology formed the basis for the Constructivist movement" (Barron & Tuchman, The Avant-Garde in Russia p.255). -
The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde 1915-1932 New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1992 4to, 732pp, with over 700 plates. Wrappers. Owner's blind-stamp on endpaper, otherwise very nice. A monumental catalogue for the Guggenheim exhibition of 1991, with 21 scholarly essays, and over 700 illustrations. -
History of African American Arts History of African American Arts Beardens Henderson -
Art in the 20th Century Volume I RUHRBERG, Karl et al. Taschen, 1998 2 volumes boxed set, 840pp, illustrated throughout. Cloth, dust jackets. Very good in very good slipcase. -
Art in the 20th Century Volume II RUHRBERG, Karl et al. Taschen, 1998 2 volumes boxed set, 840pp, illustrated throughout. Cloth, dust jackets. Very good in very good slipcase. -
CALIFORNIA ART: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media. MOURE, Nancy Dustin Wall. Los Angeles: Dustin Publications, 1998 4to, 560pp, 475 color illus, 45 b/w illus. Cloth, dust jacket. Fine copy. The finest survey of California art published to date. Includes Bibliographies, List of Mnographs on each artist, Timeline, and Index, and a pamphlet, “Where to Buy California Art.” -
CLAES OLDENBERG Oldenberg, Claes ROSE, Barbara NewYork: MOMA, 1970. Oblong 4to, 22opp, Illus in b&w and with 40 color plates. Limp vinyl covers. Very good copy with the separate exhibition checklist laid in. First Edition, in the “soft sculpture” binding (also issued in wrappers). “The soft binding echoes Oldenburg’s soft-sculptured foods and machines, and could be considered yet another edition of ‘multiples’ “(Solway, Multiples in Retrospect, p.157). -
RUSCHA, Edward (SIGNED) . (Text by Margit Rowell & Cornelia Butler) COTTON PUFFS, Q-TIPS, Smoke and Mirrors: the Drawings of Ed Ruscha. Signed. New York: Whitney Museum/Harry N. Abrams, 2004 4to, 260pp, with 251 illustrations Gray cloth stamped in white. Boldy inscribed to the recipient: “…Rage on! Ed Ruscha.” -
David Hockney, David Hockney -
FIGURE DRAWING For All it’s Worth Loomis, Andre New York: Viking Press, 1982 4to, 204pp, 137 b&w illustrations. Quarter green cloth, gilt lettering on spine stamped illustration on cover, dust jacket, fine copy. First issued in 1943, Loomis’s classic remained in print until at least this thrity-second printing. $200 -
Frank Lloyd Wright, Autobiography 1st Edition -
FRED TOMASELLI TOMASELLI, Fred – Essay by Gregory Volk New York: James Cohan Gallery, 200o 4to, 48pp including color and b&w white plates. Blue cloth titled in silver. Fine copy in glassine jacket. -
Larry Rivers Harrison -
MAN RAY PHOTOGRAPHE MAN RAY Introduction par Jean-Hubert Martin. Publie a l’ Occasion de L ‘Exposition Man Ray 10 Decembre 1981-12 Avril 1982 au Musee National d’ Art Moderne, Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou. Philippe Sers, 1981. 4to. 256pp, illustrated. Wrappers. Very Good, First Edition -
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO, Permanent Collection Volumes I, II, III. Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1969 – 1990: Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990’s; Selections From The Permanent Collection San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art (1990 – 1997) 3 vols, 4to, misc, pagination, profusely illus. Illus wrappers, publishers original gilt lettered slipcase, fine in like slipcase with a bit of mid soiling. First Editions. Scarce in slipcase. -
ART OF THE 1990s MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO, Permanent Collection Volume II. 1/3 -
BLURRING THE BOUNDARIES, Intallation Art 1969-1996, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO, Permanent Collection Volume III. 2/3 -
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO, Permanent Collection 3/3 -
Nude Photographs 1850-1980 SULLIVAN, Constance (ed.) New York: Harper & Row, 1980 4to, 203, 134 photo plates, some in color. Quarter black cloth over gray boards, dust jacket lightly worn at edges but without chips. -
Red Grooms, Arthur C Danto -
PICON, Gaëtan. SURREALISTS AND SURREALISM 1919 – 1939 Albert Skira & Rizzoli, 1977 4to, 23pp, 68 color plates, 340 b/w plates. Cloth, dust jacket. Very good copy. -
MACHINE OVER MEN YATES, RAYMOND New York: Stokes 1939 8vo, ixi, 249pp, 25 plates. Blue cloth, gilt. Very Good. First Edition of an early study of robots. -
The Works of Hogarth, 150 Plates with Explainations -
Tasks by Twilight KINNEY, Abbot New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1893 8vo, 211 pp. Orig. olive green cloth, gilt. Small ding to edge of lower cover, light wear but a very good copy. Abbott Kinney (1850 – 1920), known as the founder of Venice, California, had many other ideas and concerns. He was a vital force in maintaining awareness of the need for plant life in urban areas and his efforts resulted in the first national forest reservation in California, now the Angeles National Forest. He also wrote on metaphysics and health and it was he who accompanied Helen Hunt Jackson on her trip throughout Southern California in 1822 gathering information on Native Americans; that trip resulted in her writing Ramona. The present works covers Kinney’s ideas about education for boys and girls, as well as his views on history and diet. He was an advocate of exercise, especially boxing, as well as a balanced, healthful diet. He also analyses the effects of tea, coffee, alcohol, tobacco and opium.
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Throughout a lifetime spent in the service of literature, William has amassed major collections on alchemy, erotica, drugs and the occult. In 1973 he co-founded what at the time was the world’s largest collection of literature on the subject of psychoactive drugs – known as the LSD Library, it has subsequently been expanded upon and now resides at Harvard University. During the ‘70s and ‘80s, William published a series of exquisitely designed, limited edition hand-set books on his Press of the Pegacycle Lady imprint – with its charming epigraph, ‘Under the imprint of the knowing smile’ – which featured works by a wildly diverse group of authors that included Stephane Mallarme, Barry Humphries and Dory Previn, and featured collaborations with such artists as Wallace Berman and Don Bachardy.
After 30 years, William closed the doors of his highly regarded bookstore on Melrose in 2007, having published 70 catalogues of rare books and fine prints. He now operates as a private dealer and spends most of his time at a Spa in Desert Hot Springs that he won in a poker game. A passion for this new locale has inspired the accumulation of a collection of rare books and ephemera on the Southern California desert.