Past K-Ville by Steinmetz, Mark

Hong Kong: Plum Blossoms (International), Ltd., 2003. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Cloth hardcover with dust jacket. 89 pages. Color plates. Text in English. This copy signed and dated by the artist Hong Zhu An on the title page. Published to accompany an exhibition of paintings by Hong Zhu An at Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong, from 12 December to 27 December 2003. Includes a Chronology. Includes the essays "[Hong Zhu An]: Poetic Compositions of Nature. The Rhythm and Pulse of Brush" by Tan Hwee Koon (5pgs.); "Hong Zhu An's Geneology of Line" by Iola Lenzi (3pgs.); and "The Colour of Memory: Hong Zhu An and New Chinese Brush Painting" (2pgs.) by W.Y. Choy. Dust jacket has some light wear, small tears at the top of the spine.

Abbeville Press, NY, 1978; First Edition; Folio, 308 pages; illustrated. Art historian Michael Croydon’s catalogue raisonné of unique American artist Ivan Albright (1897-1983), whose shocking paintings provoked the public for more than fifty years. Foreword by contemporary painter Jean Debuffet, who describes Albright’s works as "unequaled in their powers of revelation." One-hundred and seventy magnificent plates, 83 of them in full color. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket that has not been price-clipped. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp.

Sotheby Parke Bernet Publication LTD, New Jersey and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc, New York, 1976 Book. Good. Hardcover. English text.; Hardcover (3 volumes with dust jacket in slipcase). Top edges gilt.; 34 x 25.5 cm.; 8.3 Kg.; 1034 pages with black and white and a few colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the dust jackets and slipcase. Interior in very good condition.; Limited edition of 2,000 copies of which this is 793.; Among the arts of Japan, the colour print continues to exercise the strongest appeal to us in the West. The main reason for the present widespread and growing interest is the powerful design combined with the beauty of the colour harmonies of the prints. But there are also other reasons; they depict a Japan of the past now almost vanished, its culture, mores, annual events, legends and its history; and they also show the influence of the Japanese print on the evolution of modern Western art. In the last few years the most important event in the world of… Read More

Privately Printed, 1924. Softcover. Very Good. Original exhibition catalog issued on the occasion of an exhibition of books containing illustrations by celebrated painter, engraver, publisher and illustrator Jean-Gabriel Daragnes - specifically, woodcuts. Illustrated with an original portrait etching of Daragnes by Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, 11 black-and-white Daragnes plates, three depicting lesbian scenes, and an original Daragnes hand-colored engraving laid in showing a husband walking in on his wife in bed with her lover - a scene from Fielding's Tom Jones. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper thus: "Pour Madame Legat | Ce registre d'etat und des infants | qu'un pere demature confie a | l'assistance publingier | le pere indigne | Daragnes." Translation: "For Mrs. Legat: This register of state and children that a father has entrusted with the assistant publisher. The unworthy father, Daragnes." Also signed and inscribed on front free endpaper by an… Read More

NY: PaceWildenstein, 1996. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Oblong handmade paper wraps, bound with two brass fasteners. 86pp., with color plates throughout. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran February 22 through March 23, 1996. A Fine copy.

New York: Scribner and Welford, 1890 IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. COMPLETE with 21 plates as called for. Half title, xv [1] 131pp in a library binding, showing bumped corners. BINDING AND HINGES TIGHT. No library marks on the plates ( ink stain on the back of one plate with slight bleed through).

Rogers and Manson Company, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good. Heavy folio. Brown cloth. Complete volume 25, 1916. Profusely illustrated. Clean, unmarked pages. Good binding and cover. Hardcover. Shelf wear. Spine ends chipped. Edges sunned. Ships daily. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US.

Paris: Editions du Chronique du Jour, 1931. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 4to (21 x 25cm). A very good copy with excellent provenance - signed and inscribed by the author Luc Haesaerts and dedicated to Madame Lyle. Haesaerts thanks her for her hospitality during his stay at Barrington Court and is dated Barrington, le 22 Sept 1935. (The Lyles took over the lease of Barrington Court from the National Trust and oversaw and financed its extensive restoration - the Lyles had made their money from sugar i.e. Tate & Lyle). This copy is no. 517 of 1000. 703 pages, colour frontispiece and black and white images throughout. Original cream cloth binding with paper on-lay to the front front board, very good with a little general wear and rubbing, a little dust marked. Contents clean and tight, minimal spotting to page edges, otherwise unmarked. A very good copy with outstanding provenance signed by Luc Haesaerts..

Printed by Douglas Pepler, Ditchling, Sussex. 1918. 16 pp Catalogue plus invite to private view. (6.3 x 4.8 inches). Illustrated with 6 wood engravings. Contains a foreword by Pepler plus a list of the items in the exhibition, three with hand written notes, including prices for the items. Printed on Caslon O. F white paper, sewn. Loosely inserted is a hand printed invite to the private preview on Sunday may 5th, 2.30-6pm. (one sheet, 10.9 x 3.8 inches, folded once). A scarce survivor, even more so with the preview invite. --Evan Gill. Bibliography of Eric Gill. No. 364 , the preview invite is not recorded in the bibliography.

Los Angeles, 1927; Original Leo Cotton pen and ink drawing of Dorothy MacKaye, notorious actress at the center of the scandal that rocked Hollywood in 1927 when her husband, musical comedy star Ray Raymond, was beaten to death by popular actor Paul Kelly, with whom McKaye was involved in a love triangle. While serving time in San Quentin for her part in the crime, MacKaye wrote "Women In Prison," which in 1933 was made into the Warner Bros. film "Ladies They Talk About," starring Barbara Stanwyck and Preston Foster, and again in 1942 as "Lady Gangster," with Faye Emerson and Jackie Gleason. Artist Leo Cotton (1880-1946) was longtime art director of the Los Angeles Examiner where his illustrations for years were a regular feature of the newspaper’s format. In the fine arts arena he is noted for his California landscape paintings, in particular those of the Palm Springs desert region. Drawn on heavy stock and dated on the back 5-29-27, at the time of the trial. Signed… Read More