viaLibri ~ Rare Books from 1982

Kertesz, Andre (Photographer) & Brassai (Contributor)
 ANDRE KERTESZ: THE GALERIE WILDE COLLECTION
 Cologne, Germany: Galerie Wilde, 1982. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Cologne, Germany: Galerie Wilde, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 50 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most beautiful books on the photographic art of Andre Kertesz. Limited Edition of 1000 numbered and signed copies. The first and only edition. The book is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Galerie Wilde: Regular-sized volume format. Cream silk cloth boards with brown titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Andre Kertesz. Introduction by Brassai. List of Plates, Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Major Exhibitions appended at the end. Printed on cream uncoated stock paper in Cologne, Germany to absolutely the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents some of the photographer's finest and most representative images in an exquisite Limited-Edition production. Each of the photographs is presented on the right-hand page only. "His combination of Modernist vision and poetic wit defined a vocabulary that generations of photographers have continued to use" (Brassai) . "His photographs reveal a whole world at once expected and unexpected to anyone who examines them" (Carol Kismaric) . A gem of a book, this is a "must-have" title for Andre Kertesz collectors. This copy is Number 796, indicated as such in pencil on the Back Limitation Page, and it is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen by Andre Kertesz. This is an Import title and is now highly collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 23 plates. Andre Kertesz's "Day of Paris" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ANDRE KERTESZ TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0900406828.

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PINTER, Harold
        Other Places. Three Plays
      London: Methuen,, 1982. Small octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the jacket, lightly toned and with a small nick to head of spine panel. First edition, first impression. With the signed presentation inscription to the actress Anna Massey, "To Anna with love + thanks, Harold". Massey played the part of Pauline (alongside Judi Dench) in the debut of Pinter's "A Kind of Alaska", which is the third in the cycle of three plays included in this volume. Massey was from one of the great theatre families of the 20th century, being the daughter of Raymond Massey and Adrianne Allen. Though she never reached truly stellar fame, Anna Massey was a highly respected actress and very much a prominent feature of the thespian landscape of the late 20th century. In 2004 she was awarded a CBE for her services to drama.

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Elytis, Odysseus
        Autograph Letter Signed
      Athens: Odysseus Elytis, 1982. First edition. Not bound.. Very Good +. An Original Autograph Letter Signed from Odysseus Elytis to Mr. Antonopoulos of the winery Achaia Clauss. Written entirely in the Nobel Prize Winner's hand over both sides of a piece of his headed card stock (measuring 104 mm X 149 mm and dated 28th July 1982), the letter reads as follows: "My friend Mr. Antonopoulos, I have not forgotten my promise (my wish one would be more correct to say) to visit your facility in Patras. And I'll first tell you that for exceptional reasons I was obliged almost all spring to avoid all small movements. Now of course comes the time to leave for the summer holidays. But do not worry. I have all confidence when will be the right time to give a notice [of his planned trip to the winery]. Thank you again for your honest feelings. With friendly wishes Elytis." On the verso's lower left corner Elytis has written "Skoufa 23, his address in Athens. The letter in Very Good + condition with staple holes and a bit of wrinkling to the lower left corner (not affecting text) and two neat holes (also not affecting the text), presumably made by a prior owner in order to place the letter into a ringed binder. Odysseus Elytis (the pen name of Odysseus Alepoudhiéis) published his first poem at the encouragement of, among others, his friend George Seferis, winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature, was soon thereafter himself praised as an important writer, and ultimately also won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1979) "for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness". A lover of excellent wines, Elytis was friendly with the Antonopoulos family, operators of the winery Achaia Clauss, one of Greece's most famous wineries. The letter clearly shows Elytis' intent to visit the great winery as many notable individuals had done before him. Signed letters from Odysseus Elytis, especially those written entirely in his own hand, are quite scarce indeed. A Very Good + Autograph Letter Signed by Nobel Prize Winner Odysseus Elytis. QUITE SCARCE.

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Kitajima, Keizo
        New York
      Tokyo: Biyakuya-shobo, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover.. VG+/VG+. 4to, unpaginated (ca 260pp). Black boards in printed dustwrapper. Numerous Black & White plates. Text in English and Japanese. A little rubbing to top and bottom, else near fine in like dustwrap. More images available on request. Kitajima's lamdmark work, in the vein of Weege or Klein, documents both the chaotic streetlife and underbelly of early 80s New York. His images highlight the stark juxtapositions and quiet desperation of city life and, in the tradition of the flaneur, his eye zooms in on the passing celebrity, occasional decadence, and random displays of outrageous behavior. Absolutely incredible.

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KAGARI, Ikko
        Document Tsuken Densha / Document Commuter Train
      Tokyo: Hama Shobo, (1982). Fine in white wrappers in the distinctive yellow photo-illustrated jacket (also fine), complete with the publisher's rare obi.. First Edition and scarce thus: many copies sold are later editions, improperly identified. Quarto. Publisher's orange insert laid in. The now infamous 'up-skirt' book, consisting primarily of infrared images Kagari took up women's skirts on the Tokyo subway. A great corollary to Document Kouen, and destined for stardom in the pantheon of weird Japanese pervert books.

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Paz, Octavio; Bravo, Manuel Alvarez
        Instante y Revelacion
      Mexico: Círculo Editorial, 1982 A copy from the First Mexican Edition, limited to 2,200 copies, printed on 15 September 1982. Signature of M. Alvarez Bravo is penned on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a flyer from the 1978 exhibition of Bravo's work at the Center for Inter-American Relations in New York City. NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD dust jacket. Pages clean, faint toning to edges, otherwise fine. Front endpapers are toned from the laid in flyer, the toning affects a portion of signature (flyer is now in a plastic sleeve). Brown cloth hardcover, gilt lettered front and spine, has small damp mark to bottom of front board and slight edge rub but is otherwise fresh and fine. White jacket with brown lettering is clean though lightly toned along spine and edges; very slight shelf rub. Jacket is in a new clear archival protector. Binding and hinges firm, intact and straight. Introductory essay and poetry by Octavio Paz (in Spanish) intertwines with black and white photography by Alvarez Bravo. 9-3/4 x 12". Unpaginated (220). Signed By Photographer. First Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Bravo, Manuel Alvarez.

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Hockney, David; Spender, Stephen
        China Diary
      London: Thames and Hudson Ltd. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 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; book with 158 illustrations, 84 in color. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1982. Quarto, original red cloth gilt, original card slipcase with printed label. Slipcase very good with some rubbing and spotting; book, lithograph, and folder fine.

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Ediciones Dos Amigos. Neruda, Pablo
 Poema 20
 Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones Dos Amigos. 1982. One of 30 copies, all on buff Okawara hand-made paper, printed in purple ink. Bound: loose in original buff wrappers, housed in blue and black paper over boards clamshell box, fine. Page size: 24 leaves; 10-1/2 inches x 8-5/8 inches. Handset in Garamond 20pt. by Claudio R. Lopolla and printed letterpress under the supervision of Cesar Palui. An elegant edition of this poem of love and sadness, from TWENTY POEMS OF LOVE AND A DESPERATE SONG originally published in 1924. See an <A HREF= http://www.bookrouter.com/im/juvelisbks/9718.jpg >Image.</A> 

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Mendelsohn, John; Detwiler, Donald S. (editors)
        The Holocaust: Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes
      2010. Mendelsohn, John and Donald S. Detwiler, Editors. The Holocaust: Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1982. 18 volumes, 8-1/2" x 11". Reprinted 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616190002. ISBN-10: 1616190000. Hardcover. New. * Each volume is composed of facsimiles of essential records of the Holocaust, in most of its aspects from 1933 to 1945, arranged both topically and chronologically. The set contains over 330 documents in over 5,200 pages. Originally published New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1982. The documents were carefully chosen from the thousands preserved at the U.S. National Archives, by the late Dr. John Mendelsohn, a supervisory archivist of the U.S. National Archives and Records Service, who was the author of numerous finding aids and guides to captured German documents and Holocaust records. Dr. Donald S. Detwiler, an internationally recognized authority on the history of World War II and its documentation and Professor Emeritus, Southern Illinois University, is the Advisory Editor. Each volume contains an Introduction by Dr. Mendelsohn or another distinguished authority. The introductions offer historical perspective on the documents as well as general information about the topic. Each volume contains a detailed table of contents listing each document and providing its source. The volumes are grouped topically: PLANNING AND PREPARATION 1. Legalizing the Holocaust: The Early Phase, 1933-1939 2. Legalizing the Holocaust: The Later Phase, 1939-1943 3. The Crystal Night Pogrom 4. Propaganda and Aryanization, 1938-1944 5. Jewish Emigration from 1933 to the Evian Conference of 1938 6. Jewish Emigration 1938-1940: Rublee Negotiations and the Intergovernmental Committee 7. Jewish Emigration: The S.S. St. Louis Affair and Other Cases THE KILLING OF THE JEWS 8. Deportation of the Jews to the East: Stettin, 1940, to Hungary, 1944 9. Medical Experiments on Jewish Inmates of Concentration Camps 10. The Einsatzgruppen or Murder Commandos 11. The Wannsee Protocol and a 1944 Report on Auschwitz by the Office of Strategic Services 12. The "Final Solution" in the Extermination Camps and the Aftermath 13. The Judicial System and the Jews in Nazi Germany RESCUE ATTEMPTS 14. Relief and Rescue of Jews from Nazi Oppression, 1943-1945 15. Relief in Hungary and the Failur

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Perishable Press. Hamady, Walter
 Papermaking By Hand. A Book of Suspicions
 Minor Confluence Perry Township, Wisconsin: The Perishable Press. 1982. One of 200 copies, all on a variety of contemporary hand made papers: 13 various Shadwells; Roma & Perusia from Miliani in Fabriano; Canterbury from Barcham Green in Maidstone, Kent (all three retain their watermarks); Barlow from HMP in Woodstock, Connecticut; Banana-sisal from Carriage House in Brookline, Massachusetts; Yale (in wove and laid surfaces) from Twinrocker in Brookston, Indiana. Bound by Bill Anthony & Associates: tan Irish linen over boards, fine. Page size: 11 x 7-1/2 inches; 56 pages surfaces in 7 signatures, 26 pages of text. Illustrated with 3 illustrations from Diderot and 12 linoleum cuts by Jim Lee especially for this text. There are 2 title pages - one by Walter Hamady and one penned by Hermann Zapf who also designed the typeface, Palatino, used for this text. The type was hand set and printed by Walter Hamady, 50 of the pages printed in 88 press runs, in 5 basic colors (blacks, reds, blues, browns and grays) on 19 different colors of paper. Certainly, this is a key book on papermaking and one of the most beautiful books from Walter Hamady. PP #102. See an <A HREF= http://www.bookrouter.com/im/juvelisbks/10637.jpg >Image.</A> 

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King, Stephen
        THE PLANT ... [with] THE PLANT ... PART TWO [with] THE PLANT ... PART THREE
      Bangor, Maine: Philtrum Press,. 1982-1985. decorated green wrappers, sewn.. Several mild stress creases to edges of part one, a fine set of this. uncommon King title. This is the real thing, not the seemingly more. common (and perhaps now virtually unsalable) unsigned designer,. printer and binder proofs, trial copies, and fragments in the. marketplace these days -- and part three is the stopper. (#139472). Each part limited to 226 copies of which these are numbers 45, 41 and 18 respectively of 200 numbered copies, each one signed by King. A presentation set, each booklet having a warm signed inscription by King to the artist Gahan Wilson and his wife Nancy.

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KING, Stephen
        The Plant. Part 1 and Part 2 (Signed)
      Bangor, Maine: Philtrum Press, 1982 and 1983. Designer Proofs.. Original green wrappers.. Each a fine copy.. Quarto. Unusual serialized tale, which begins in a paperback publishing house, where an editor receives an interesting manuscript from a strange little man. The editor rejects the work, thus setting-off a revealing and frightening chain of events. ~Designer proofs of two of the three parts of King's unfinished serial novel, each limited to 200 copies, which the author gave as Christmas presents to friends. Part 1 (32 pages) was printed in November 1982 and is designated "- designer's proof - M.H.A." with the initials M.H.A. presumably belonging to designer, Michael Alpert. Part 2 (36 pages) was printed in 1983 and is also designated "- designer's proof -" though without the initials. ~Original green wrappers with black titles on front cover, printed on Fabriano Ingres paper, with a hand-sewn binding. ~Part one of this two part offering is SIGNED by King on the front free endpaper and dated 6/3/83. Both being fine copies, with just the slightest of expected creasing to the extreme edges of the covers. ~Two very scarce and highly desirable volumes from an edition limited and presented to friends by the master of horror himself!

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(PENNYROYAL PRESS). [DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE]. "LEWIS CARROLL" (Pseudonym)
        ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
      Northampton, Massachusetts: Pennyroyal Press, 1982. No. 189 OF 350 COPIES (300 for sale), SIGNED BY BARRY MOSER. Hardcover. 425 x 279 mm (16 3/4 x 11"). 2 p.l., 145, [6] pp. Preface and notes by James R. Kincaid. Text edited by Selwyn Goodacre. No. 189 OF 350 COPIES (300 for sale), SIGNED BY BARRY MOSER. Original purple half morocco over marbled paper by Gray Parrot (his ticket on rear pastedown), flat spine with gilt titling accented by daisy tools, endpapers with key motif from the illustrations printed in yellow; the volume, along with extra plates (in folders) contained in the original matching folding box of coarsely woven linen with a gilt-titled (lightly sunned) morocco spine. The volume itself WITH 75 WOOD-ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS (one folding), as usual, AND WITH AN ADDITIONAL SUITE OF PLATES, EACH SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, the latter including a printed broadside, signed by Moser, about damage to the woodblocks. Printed in red and black. A hint of discoloration from glue to edges of endpapers, otherwise pristine. This extremely appealing "Alice" is the product of some of the finest book craftsmen in the United States. The letterpress was composed and cast in Boston by Michael and Winifred Bixler; the hand composition and printing were done at Pennyroyal by Arthur Larson and Harold McGrath on handmade paper from Strathmore Paper Company; and the binding came from the Massachusetts workshop of Gray Parrot. Pennyroyal was founded in 1969 by artist Barry Moser, who studied with George Cress, Leonard Baskin, Fred Becker, and Jack Coughlin. The press issued modest books until Moser decided--fresh off his success as the illustrator of the Arion Press "Moby Dick" for Andrew Hoyem--that he would produce more ambitious work. With the encouragement of a cadre of supporters and collaborators, chiefly the outstanding printer Harold McGrath, Moser circulated a questionnaire in the book world asking which among a small group of potential titles would be a choice to print in a special edition. "Alice" won the vote, and the rest is history: the book won the National Book Award for design and illustration in 1983, and a number of impressive large-format projects followed, all meeting with general applause. The illustrations done for our book prompted the poet John Ashbery (writing in "Newsweek") to call Moser's work "never less than dazzling." Others have been as complimentary: according to Nicholas Basbanes, "Barry Moser is probably the most important book illustrator working in America today," and the "American Book Collector" has said that "Moser has the technical virtuosity to pull more out of a piece of wood than any other contemporary American engraver.

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BUTLER, Robert Olen; CLARK, Tom
        Typed Letter Signed and Book Review [The Launch of a Pulitzer Prize Winning Author]
      1982. A typed letter signed by Butler to poet Tom Clark, regarding Clark's review. In 1981, Butler, who would later win the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for his collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, published his first book, The Alleys of Eden. It was reviewed by Clark in the February 11, 1982 Los Angeles Times, with the headline "Vietnamization of a Deserter's Mind." On May 12, Butler wrote to Clark, saying, in part: "I have received twenty major reviews of the book but none of them was more sensitive or insightful than yours. The best literary criticism actually explains an author to himself. That's what your review did. I understand my own book better after reading your review and I want to thank you for that." The letter is signed "Bob Butler." Also included here is Clark's original, 3-page manuscript review, signed by Clark: "...Desertion, Butler seems to say, is an inevitable act, made necessary by the human state. Every small movement is an abandonment of the past, with death looming over everything as the greatest desertion of all..." Clark's review makes it clear that Butler's protagonist -- an Army intelligence officer who ends up deserting out of self-disgust over his involvement in the torture and death of a Viet Cong prisoner -- is an analogue for the larger society, which deserted both Vietnam and those who fought there, leaving both the Vietnamese and the veterans as "displaced persons," in both countries. Clark's review is penned on the back of copies from a book about Celine and folded in half; near fine. A photocopy of the published review is included. Butler's letter is folded for mailing; else fine in a near fine envelope. With a copy of Alleys of Eden [NY: Horizon (1981)], which is fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a short edge tear. An insightful review of one of the best novels to come out of the Vietnam war, and the author's appreciative response. . First Edition.

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Allard, William Albert; Mcguane, Thomas Albert
        Vanishing Breed. Photographs of the Cowboy and the West
      Boston: Little Brown and Company. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, one of only 30 copies reserved for the exclusive use of the authors and publisher (out of an entire edition of 780). Signed by both the photographer Allard and the writer McGuane. Profusely illustrated with full page reproductions of Allard's photographs of the American West. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. Oblong folio, original half-calf over linen boards; original slipcase with mounted photograph. Provenance: from the library of the noted German photographer Michael Ruetz with his stamp on copyright page. Stamp bleed through to title and offset on dedication page. A little bit of rubbing to spine, otherwise fine.

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King, Stephen (signed)(aka: Richard Bachman ) / Donald M Grant - SIGNED LIMITED EDITIONS
        Roland Deschain Cycle: Gunslinger; Drawing Three; Waste Lands; Wizard & Glass; Wolves Calla; Song Susannah; Dark Tower; Little Sister of Eluria; Wind Through Keyhole -12 Volumes - all # 433 -book I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII Plus Eluria ( Wastelands )
      West Kingston, RI and Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M Grant, 1982, 1987, 19911997, 2003, 2004, 2004, 2008, 2012, 1st Edition, 1st Printing for All, All are # 433 of the Signed, Slipcased Limited Editions -----------12 volumes for the 9 book series, hardcovers, all are Fine copies in Fine dustjackets, these look new but close, close inspection MIGHT reveal TINY marks to a jacket but honestly these are incredibly sharp copies and virtually as issued, WIZARD, CALLA and TOWER are two-volume sets as issued ( thus 12 volumes for the 9 book series ), all books have been SIGNED by KING and the artist for that volume (although WIZARD, CALLA and TOWER have book ONE of each two-volume set signed and numbered only), all are # 433 of the limited editions, so all are signed and numbered with the same # -433, all housed in Near Fine/Fine slipcases, a couple of slipcases have a wee bit of very light rubbing and a bit of fading along edges from a bit of sunning, The Wind Through the Keyhole is still in shrinkwrap and is therefore Very Fine, this is the complete GUNSLINGER / ROLAND DESCHAIN series with the first 7 books comprising the bulk of the story, ELURIA contains a story about Roland and the Man in Black which pre-dates (in story, not publication) the GUNSLINGER (about 90 pages), as well ELURIA contains an expanded version of The GUNSLINGER, KING has written about this expanded edition ---"What I did want to do was to give newcomers to the tale of the Tower (and old readers who want to refresh their memories) a clearer start and a slightly easier entry into Rolands world. I also wanted them to have a volume that more effectively foreshadowed coming events. "---, KEYHOLE is the newest addition to the cycle having been released in 2012, you are likely never to see another set like this offered, ---apparently RON HOWARD is going to film the Gunslinger as a movie which will be followed by a major television series production, a movie project that will surely result in a new round of interest in this extremely popular book series, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Michael Whelan; Phil Hale; Ned Dameron; Dave McKean; Bernie ( Berni ) Wrightson; Darrel Anderson; Jae Lee -all Signed.

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(MOTHERWELL, ROBERT). Arnason, H.H, Barbralee Diamondstein & Robert Motherwell. Introduction by Dore Ashton
        ROBERT MOTHERWELL (SECOND EDITION, NEW AND REVISED) - SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY FROM THE ARTIST
      (MOTHERWELL, ROBERT). Arnason, H.H, Barbralee Diamondstein & Robert Motherwell. Introduction by Dore Ashton. ROBERT MOTHERWELL (SECOND EDITION, NEW AND REVISED) - SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY FROM THE ARTIST. Signed Association Copy from the Artist. New York: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, 1982. Second Revised and Updated Edition. Oblong Small Folio. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 250pp, 328 illustrations in color and b&w. With a chronology, bibliography and exhibition history. Published by Harry N. Abrams, this massive Robert Motherwell monograph is still the most comprehensive reference on the noted late American Abstract Expressionist artist and scholar. Copiously illustrated, it features an essay by H.H. Arnason as well as the transcript of a lengthy 1977 interview between the artist and Barbralee Diamondstein. A most handsome copy of the preferred 1982 revised and enlarged second edition with the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "for Henry Hopkins - en route - Robert Motherwell" in black ink on the front free endpaper. The late Henry T. Hopkins was a pioneering California-based curator and Museum director from whom we acquired this directly. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-8190-1333-X Inventory Number: 019495&

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[LEROUX, GEORGES]
        Ubu Roi: Drame en Cinq Actes, by Alfred Jarry
      Paris: Dupont-Visat, 1982. Large quarto. (6), 61, (13)pp. One of 150 copies. An important work of absurdist and surrealist theater based loosely on Shakespeare's Macbeth. It is illustrated with eight colored etchings and a "pop-up" theater by the Chilean expressionist artist, Roberto Sebastian Matta. The etchings depict Pere Ubu and other characters from the play, done in the style of comic strips and Mayan carvings. Georges Leroux, one of the important twentieth century French bookbinders, chose vermillion calf as a palette to bind Ubu Roi. He sculpted relief figures depicting Father and Mother Ubu on the front and rear covers. Modeled after 1950s style Japanese robots, Leroux incorporated a series of gears, springs, and clock wheels in the chest cavities of both figures. He added multi-colored wires, metal widgets, sheet plastic and marbles to the figures and has Father Ubu's holographic eyes spinning in his head. The spine is lettered in gray calf onlays; the flyleaves and doublures are red suede. Book label of noted collector Jan Van Der Marck, whose 1997 work The Art of Contemporary Bookbinding features this work. Van Der Marck writes, "Attracted to the incongruous, like the Surrealists, Leroux indulges his love of tinkering by analyzing, dissecting, and reproducing the most salient imagery and features of a given text and illustration," often using irony and "tongue-in-cheek visual rhymes." For Ubu Roi, he drew on Matta's bold color palette, and the spiral clock spring inside of Father Ubu's chest plays on the characteristic, distinctive spiral designs used both in Matta's illustrations and in Jarry's original depiction of the greedy ruler. Extremely fine, housed in a chemise and slipcase. A complete tour-de-force accompanied by a reproduction of the tin toy, "Chief Robotman," which is battery powered and was the influence for Leroux's design. (Van Der Marck, The Art of Contemporary Bookbinding, p. 29-31; 73).

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Cartier-Bresson Henri
        HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON [et Jean Clair]. Inscribed Association Copy
      Paris: Fondation Nationale de la Photographie - Photo Poche, 1982 Cartier-Bresson Henri. HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON [et Jean Clair]. Inscribed. Association Copy. Paris: Fondation Nationale de la Photographie - Photo Poche - Delpire, Paris, 1982. Sm. 8vo., 145pp. [French text] Inscribed by Henri Cartier-Bresson to his close friend, writer & photographer, James Lord ['Plausible Portraits of James Lord: With Commentary by the Model', 2003] with a reference to Gérard [Macé] who is poet, writer, photographer & also a close friend of Cartier-Bresson - on the inside front cover: "A James / ce petit memento / + la pensée de / Gérard sur / la photo. / Avec toute / mon amitié / Henri". First edition. Glossy photographic wrappers. First edition of the second volume in the outstanding collection created by Robert Delpire in 1982 at the Centre National de la Photographie. Contains 64 full page photographt by HCB. A fine bright copy. . Signed by Author. First Edition.. Illus. by Henri Cartier-Bresson..

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GINSBERG, Allen
        Plutonian Ode
      San Francisco: City Lights, (1982). A little light wear; just about near fine in wrappers.. First Edition. A fabulous and potentially historically significant association copy, INSCRIBED by Ginsberg in 1983 to Hungarian writer, Istvan Eros: "There are many small / Changes & Typographical / Mistakes here - / We need to send you / Corrected Second / Printing. But I've checked out most of them by pen." On the title page Ginsberg has added: "Allen Ginsberg / for Istvan Erosi / December 21, 1983." In the text there are several significant emendations in both Ginsberg and Eorsi's hand. In some cases it appears they were working together.

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Newton, Helmut (Photographer) & Lagerfeld, Karl (Contributor)
 HELMUT NEWTON: BIG NUDES
 New York City, NY: Xavier Moreau, Inc. , 1982. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Xavier Moreau, Inc. , 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 80 pages. Landmark collection of female nudes. One of the most influential erotic art photography books of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The book is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Helmut Newton and Xavier Moreau: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and photo-tableaux by Helmut Newton. Essay by Karl Lagerfeld, one of the greatest fashion designers of our time. Printed on thick coated stock paper in the United States to the very highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents some of Helmut Newton's finest and most representative female nude and sex pictures for the very first time in book form. One of the most beautifully produced titles in Helmut Newton's oeuvre, it is the photographer's third collection, after "White Women" (1976) and "Sleepless Nights" (1978) . The three books defined his style, cemented his reputation, and remain his most important individual collections. Newton's now-classic work melds eroticism, compositional brilliance, drama, fetishism, impeccable technique, and voyeurism in a way that makes the viewer feel happily complicit and guiltily uneasy in equal parts. That is his singular achievement as an artist who worked mainly in the compromised commercial realm, and yet became "the most important photographer of the 20th century". That's according to Benedikt Taschen, who produced SUMO, the biggest photography book ever published thus far (it weighs 70 pounds and comes with its own stand) . Helmut Newton died in a car crash in Hollywood on January 23, 2004. He is buried next to Marlene Dietrich at the Berlin Cemetery, the city's peripatetic and most successful photographer back home for good. A "must-have" title for Helmut Newton collectors. This presentation copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black pen on the half-title page by the photographer: "For David Ruttenberg, with best regards [followed by best wishes in French] in Tinsel Town, Helmut Newton". The recipient is a renowned photography figure/collector whom Newton unmistakably personally knew. "Tinsel Town" is Newton's (and many other artists' and writers') term of endearment for Hollywood. This title is now highly collectible. This is the only such signed and inscribed copy of the First American Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Almost all other copies available online have major flaws yet command hundreds of dollars. A rare, one-of-a-kind signed copy thus. 47 plates. One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER HELMUT NEWTON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0937950025.

 [Bookseller: Modern Rare]

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Charles Henri Ford, Drawings by Isamu Noguchi
        Secret Haiku
      NY: Red Ozier Press, 1982. Hardcover. Very good. A fine copy in publisher's gilt pictorial iridescent orange cloth produced by Twelfth Night Bindery,five illustrations by Noguchi including a double page plate; printed in four colors in Goudy's Deepdene types on handmade paper formed by Twinrocker Mill. Number 28 of 155 copies signed by Noguchi and Ford on the half title. A scarce collaboration between one of the most celebrated twentieth sculptors and the great voice of Surrealism in America.

      [Bookseller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA]

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[CHAMBERLAIN, SARAH]
        (Watercolor Alphabet)
      1982. A lush 20 1/2 by 15 3/4-inch original watercolor painting of the alphabet surrounded by a thicket of leaves, tall grass, and wildflowers. Birds and butterflies flutter amidst the leaves, while a rabbit and a field mouse sit in the grass. The alphabet is painted in pale yellow, and it sits squarely at the center of the painting, in a clearing framed by the leaves and the horizon. Sarah Chamberlain is a well-known artist and book illustrator who studied with Barry Moser and Leonard Baskin and, for a decade beginning in the 1970s, ran the Chamberlain Press. Her work has illustrated numerous texts, from Aesop and the Brothers Grimm to Charles Simic, and many miniature books. In a blue mat and a simple oak frame. Very fine.

      [Bookseller: Bromer Booksellers]

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Ediciones Dos Amigos. Borges, Jorge Luis
 La Memoria de Shakespeare
 Buenos Aires: Ediciones Dos Amigos. 1982. One of 36 copies, numbered from 1 to 36, printed on 240-gram cream paper hand-made in the mills of Richard de Bas located in Auvergne, France. All copies housed in clamshell boxes. Page size: 6-1/2 inches x 10 inches; 28pp. Bound: original violet wrappers printed in gray and black with author, title and artist and date on front cover, author and title and publisher's parephe on spine; housed in custom-made violet and gray paper over boardsclamshell box with title printed in black on spine with author and date, front wrapper printing repeated on front panel of box.& Printing of this short story by Jorge Luis Borges was completed on September 21, 1982 by Mirta Ripoll who designed and hand-printed it on her press; titlepage printed in black and purple, original etching in brown printed as frontispiece and signed in pencil below by the artist, etching offset to titlepage (as with all copies), else fine. Text printed in 12pt. Kleukens. Samuel César Palui was in charge of looking after the printing. See an <A HREF= http://www.bookrouter.com/im/juvelisbks/9867.jpg >Image.</A> 

 [Bookseller: Priscilla Juvelis, Inc.]

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BORGES, Jorge Luis
        Photograph
      1982. An original photograph of Borges by Layle Silbert, taken in the Trustees Room of the New York Public Library, September 30, 1982. Together with two sets of contact sheets with 56 images of Borges (many in conversation with others, and most or all presumably unpublished) from the same evening. Borges' visit to New York was sponsored by NYU's New York Institute for the Humanities, directed that year by Edmund White. Silbert is a prominent photographer of literary figures, as well as a writer herself. Four of her literary portraits are in the National Portrait Gallery. Approximately 7" x 10"; tiny corner crease to one margin; photographer's marks on six of the smaller images; else fine, with Silbert's stamps on verso. .

      [Bookseller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA]

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