Search Results: Titles starting with C from DuBois Rare Books

Dublin, Ireland: CAP Art Limited, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 364 p. : ill. en coul. ; 31 cm. Folio. Hardcover. Publisher's original robin's egg blue cloth over boards, white lettering to spine. Book Condition: spine end lightly soiled at the tail, an almost imperceptible toning to razor thin top edge of pages, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very light wear else fine. A very sharp copy of a luxuriantly produced volume. Scarce title dedicated to documenting the fantastic art collection (CAP Collection) of a collector who apparently has no desire to be known, only to know. He or she is never named; and once dealt with in the preface is never mentioned again. With a thoughtful, detailed introduction by the artist David Breuer-Weil that endeavors to explain what makes this collection and this collector special. This survey features works by 49 different artists, over half of which are works on paper. The production values of the book are lavish, with a… Read More

U.S.A.: Privately Printed, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/None Issued. Unpaged. Chiefly color illustrations. 23 cm. 8vo. Hardcover. Original illustrated paper over boards. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None issued. Inscribed by Alexander Barton: "S-----, Good Glut & guten blut. Alexander Barton." A fascinating record of the 2010 collaboration of Barton and Anagnostis which includes an interview excerpt in the last few pages. Two event cards for Alexander Barton's November, 2010 exhibition "Hot Hide" enclosed. Scarce. Worldcat shows no record of this title. From the "Machines with Magnets" website: "COMEX OR BECAMUS by: ALEXANDER BARTON & ADAM ANAGNOSTIS Alexander Barton and Adam Anagnostis join forces in a genre-bending artistic collaboration. COMEX OR BECAMUS will be debuting at Machines With Magnets on Saturday, August 28th 2010. Barton, a RISD graduate, and Anagnostis, a URI graduate, have spent the last year and a half constructing COMEX OR BECAMUS, a… Read More

New York: KSAD Publications, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Perfect bound Magazine. Near Fine. 131pp. 28cm. Tall 4to. Perfectbound magazine with wraps. Condition: faint signs of handling else fine. Copiously illustrated, primarily photography. Worldcat records only one institution as holding copies, The Metropolitan Museum of Art [New York]. They subscribed until issue #9 after which either The Met decided enough was enough or Crushfanzine did, the library record doesn't specify. A sharp copy. Crushfanzine is a quarterly magazine published in NYC since 2009.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1964. First UK edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 254pp. 21cm. 8vo. Hardcover. Publisher's original blue paper over boards, silver lettering to spine. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Price clipped with soiling to rear panel, a salt and paper nick here and there.

Baltimore: The Camera Inc, 1948. First Edition, First Printing. Photo Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. 164pp. ill. 24 cm. Softcover. Perfect bound. Book condition: Very good. Moderate hand-soiling, wear to extremities, small closed edge tears. Pages 3&4 have a chunk the size of a toddler's pinky finger missing at an edge, no content is affected. Binding sound and interior othewise pristine. This issue of "The Camera" features the first interview with Stanley Kubrick ever published. The interview is 1000 words, give or take, generously illustrated with a dozen or so of Kubrick's photographs. Kubrick has just turned 19 when the interview takes place. Vol. 70, No. 10.

Guildford, Surrey, England: Circle Press, 1979. Signed Limited Edition. Full Leather. Fine. [32pp] unumbered : 32 cm. 4to. Maroon leather over boards, gilt lettering. Letterpress in white handwriting with photographic reproductions tipped in. Includes a special 8 x 11 print numbered and signed laid in. Enclosed in a black bristol board clamshell box. Condition of all elements is fine. Written and designed by the artist in his concern for the photographic myth and the frailty of photographic fact, with eight color photographs tipped-in and hand-written text in off-set lithography. 300 signed copies, 45 proofs - 32 pp - 30 x 24 cm on Heritage board, bound into maroon leather and laid into a black cloth-covered box.

np: The Armenian National Committee, 1979. Pamphlet. Near Fine. [6 p. - One long leaf. Folded towards the center, back-third first, front-third second to make a quarto size 6 page pamphlet (printed on both sides) ]. A call to action with regard to upcoming votes in the United Nations concerning a report entitled "The Study on the Question of the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide". This report, commonly known as the Ruhashyankiko Report (after Nicodène Ruhashyankiko the special Rapporteur appointed in 1973 to produce it) was ultimately approved for the widest possible distribution by the UN sub-commission but not before some fairly mild language mentioning the Armenian massacre during WWI as a bona fide genocide was removed under pressure from Turkey, realizing precisely the fears mentioned in this pamphlet. Encourages the public to exert itself politically and pressure the UN to do the right thing. Nicely printed on cream colored medium weight stock with exuberent typography, one… Read More

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. vii, 143 pages ; 22 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original red quarter- cloth and black paper over boards, silver lettering to spine. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very minimal wear in the form of mild rubbing to panels and a few stray indentations. Almost certainly unread. Warmly inscribed by the author with his signature inscription: "For Sarah, with sweet wishes. James Purdy." A sharp copy. Not to be confused with the City Lights limited edition with the same title published in 1985-that edition contains the title story only.

[Bogota]: [Galeria Fernando Quintana], 1994. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good +. 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, portrait ; 30 cm. Book Condition: Superficial signs of handling else fine. Exhibition catalog for Sept.-Nov. 1994. Worldcat shows 5 institutions holding copies. Text in Spanish.

New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good+. 145 pages ; 21 x 15 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original black cloth over boards, lettering stamped in blind to spine. Book Condition: perished at the crown of spine with boards visible at tips and along small split to spine. Binding sound and interior unmarked. Scarce.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2007. First Printing of First American Edition. French wraps of stiff cardboard. About Fine. 383 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. 4to. Pictorial wraps. Copiously illustrated with hundreds of full color reproductions. First published to accompany the exhibition in Paris at the Pompidou in 2006, Chronicle has done a nice job with the first American Edition. A sharp copy of an invaluable reference work that is also great fun to dip into. Deserves a place on everybody's coffee table.

New York: New York Blue Print Paper Co., 1913. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Very Good. 399 pp. including index. illus. 23cm. Softcover. Cloth spine and stiff paper wraps with raised lettering & decorations to front cover, brown lettering to spine. "Corrections on Catalogue Volume 10, March 24, 1913" page tipped in. Book Condition: Very Good at least; wear to spine with frazzled ends and a split to the hinge running about half the length of the spine centered in the middle portion; dampstain to lower corner of front cover, upper corner of rear cover creased, rear endpapers have pencil markings of simple map. Completely intact with virtually pristine interior, sound binding, fresh and unmarred illustrations, with multicolor fonts. A profusion of easily 1000+ engravings of tools and suppies of every possible description pertaining to mathematical and engineering instruments, blueprint papers, drawing tables, papers, inks, pens, scales, protractors, triangles, t-squares, curves, etc.… Read More

New York: Putnam Adult, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: A.A. Knopf, 2003. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Fine. [xi], 496 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Wraps.

Tiumen: Tyumen regional department of Russian Union Women, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 127 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. Tall 4to. Publisher's green paper over boards, embossed to front cover. Over 100 illustrations, most as full page plates, and predominently in color. The ceramics are particularly fantastic. Book Condition: Near Fine. Two small paper bubbles to front cover, very extreme page edges show faint toning. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good with mild wear to the extremities and a small closed tear to top edge of front panel. A solid copy of a scarce book. The single institutional holding that shows up on Worldcat is the the Library of Congress.

New York: Macmillan Co, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Very Good+. 126pp, ii. illus. index. 4to. Wraps. Mild wear, creasing to corners, else fine. Publisher's material laid in (5 page typed letter laying out talking points for reviewer).

New York: Gallery of Modern Art, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Very Good. 53, [25] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Softcover. Perfectbound wraps. Book Condition: wear to extremities, with chipping along the spine and edges, pages faintly toned just at the top edge; with carbons of 2 page typescript titled: "The Faces of Mankind" March 21,1996, being "excerpts from lecture" and ."excerpts from questions and answers period (sic)" Inscribed to poet Yvette Ripplinger by the great man himself. Exhibition held Nov. 16-Dec. 16, 1965, at the Gallery of Modern Art. Description:.

New York: Grove Press, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 339 pages. Warmly inscribed by author: "To Dana, Enjoy. Saira

New York: Penguin Press, 2009. First Printing of First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. xiv, 306 pages ; 25 cm. Remainder mark to bottom edge; jacket shows crinkles & teeny bits of dustiness and soiling.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, 1957. Later printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 236 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles ; 35cm. Folio. Hardcover. Publisher's original fine golden cloth over boards, black boxed gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front cover. Book Condition: Near Fine with traces of wear to extremites. Dust Jacket Condition: Frazzled at the spine ends and to a lessor extent at the tips, nics to the edges.