American Artists

Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1980. Uncommon HARDCOVER first edition. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. SEE PHOTOS. NOT price clipped ($45.00). NOT a library discard. Sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. A few small brown speckles (light foxing) on the endpapers and cover (see photos). All text pages and illustrations are fresh and bright white with NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Oversize Hardcover. 10.25" wide by 11.25" tall. First printing. Illustrated with nearly 1,000 incisive political cartoons. Pictorial endpapers. Foreword by Clare Boothe Luce. Bound in the publisher's gray cloth, with a cream-color cloth spine, stamped in shiny gold. Includes dust jacket.. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. xii, 435pp.

Philadelphia:: Audubon, J.J.,, 1844.. Imperial Folio Edition. Fine with bright original hand-coloring. . A Fine original hand-colored lithograph by JT Bowen after painting by John James Audubon, FRS, FLS. Imperial Folio Edition. Rich original color, full margins; 22 x 28 inches. Custom framed: double French matted with gold leaf & burl moulding; sized to 34 x 29.5 inches. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (Philadelphia c.1845-48) represents the culmination of a lifelong dream held by America's most prominent naturalist and visionary, John James Audubon (1785-1851). Following the completion of his magnum opus, the Double Elephant Folio Edition of Birds of America, c. 1824-38, Audubon was at liberty to pursue a project close to his heart, large scale portraits of all of North America's native animals. Audubon's effort to render America four-legged (thus quadruped) mammals in their natural settings pioneered the way for an entire culture of naturalist artists… Read More

Avoca, Nebraska:: Blue Heron Press,, 2013.. Edition of 30. 11” x 5” closed, 11” x 35” open. Woodcut and letterpress on Japanese Nishinouch. Digital print on Asuka. Irregular accordion folding, into folio of covered boards with etching and mixed media decorative paper. Karen Kunc: "The cantilevered folds of a looming structure have subtle visual cues that seep and inundate behind and within. This edifice is made vulnerable by the hype and chatter of rumor and echoes; it is permeated by the consuming, swirling network of insistencies - the distractions of the media world we have created - that penetrates our every hour...fascinating, fanciful, insidious, precarious.

NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981, first printing. Small 8vo. 143pp., illustrated with b/w photos. A critical look at the past fifty years of American architecture and assesses the influence of foreign architects and movements. Fine, as new, in near fine dust jacket with a tiny closed tear at fold on rear panel. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2014. Original print signed by Alec Soth on the back is loose in paper pocket in the back of the book. First edition / First printing. Limited edition. Number 237 of 500 copies. Orange laminated boards. Very fine. The 88th publication in the Nazraeli Press One Picture Book series.

New York: Pat Hearn Gallery, 1987. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 8pp, stapled self-cover. Uncommon original publication from a 1987 Philip Taaffe exhibition, with transcription of a conversation with William Burroughs, edited by the late Diego Cortez and James Grauerholz. Schottlaender G78. Unmarked copy, minor wear.

Oconomowoc Lake, WI: Stooge, 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 84pp, stapled wrappers. Another scarce issue of this brilliant experimental review, includes photographic covers by John Baldessari and work by Clark Coolidge, Opal Louis Nations, Douglas Blazek, et al. Unmarked copy, light corner bumps.

East Hampton, New York:: Barry McCallion,, 2018.. Edition of 3 variants. 13 x 10"; 18 text pages, 9 original linoleum block prints. Handwritten text on beige Rives BFK paper. Lino prints enhanced with acrylic inks and paints. Includes two original carved blocks of the prints adhered to the interior of the box. Signed and numbered by the artist McCallion has handwritten the text of Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado". The text is accompanied by McCallion's original artwork. Poe's short story is a revenge plot with the resulting punishment.  McCallion's lino cuts begin with the narrator meeting his "friend" Fortunato on the street at Carnival time. He lures Fortunato to test a cask of Amontillado. Our next image is of the long and winding spiraling staircase that Fortunato descends to the catacombs (the next lino image). The images continue as the fate of Fortunato is revealed. The last image being that of the narrator building a wall… Read More

* Inscribed and SIGNED by Isabel and Ruben Toledo on title page, with doodle of model. * Book cover shows moderate wear at end caps, one bumped corner - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new. * Jacket shows modest edge/ shelf wear, one small taped tear. * Proceeds benefit Friends of the Pleasant Hill Library. * "Honest and reliable service - every book hand-packaged with care." One of the most exciting fashion designers in the United States, Cuban-born Isabel Toledo has been honored with a National Design Award from the Cooper- Hewitt Museum and a Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion, given by The Museum at FIT. Yet her name and work are recognized only by fashion insiders. This ravishing book brings Toledos creations to a wider audience, places them within the context of contemporary fashion, and examines her creative process. Interviewing Toledo, her husband (fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo), and other colleagues, clients, and critics, Valerie Steele gives an account of… Read More

Chicago: The Chicago Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. Folio, 67 leaves (printed one-side), printed wrappers. Double second issue of this important early seventies mimeo poetry magazine edited by Alice Notley. Includes 15 poems by Jim Carroll, a Philip Guston plate page, much else. Unmarked copy (aside from what appear to be publisher's touch-ups to some missing marginal characters), light toning and wear to wrappers, slight bumping.

New York: The Floating Bear, 1962. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 10pp (mimeographed). This issue of the seminal sixties underground periodical Floating Bear was guest-edited by Billy Linich (Billy Name) of Andy Warhol's Factory; many contributions from and references to the 1962 artistic avant-garde. Brief pieces by Ray Johnson and George Brecht; quotes attributed to Andy Warhol, Leo Castelli, Larry Rivers, and others appear in a parodic collection of art-world sayings. Issue also includes a brief advertisement for the Fluxus Anthology (available from LaMonte Young) as well as one for a tape of Young with Angus MacLise, Tony Conrad, and Marian Zazeela. This copy, addressed to Canadian poet David Cull, is sound with a bit of edge wear and soil.

Freeport, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2022.. Edition of 3. Artist's book with mixed media silkscreen prints with collage, cloth bound accordion book, edition of 3 , 11.25 h x 7.75w x 1.75 d closed book, open 11.25h x 88 w x 7d in inches Rebecca Goodale: "Wolfe's Neck in Freeport, Maine is home to Wolfe's Neck State Park, several parcels of land preserved by the Freeport Conservation Trust, and also Wolfe's Neck Farm (aka Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment). All of this land is open to the public for walks in the woods, fields, and along the shoreline.  "In the spring of 2020 when I was adjusting to a world without Yoga classes or an indoor pool at the Y I began a regime of walking and running the dirt roads in and around the farm. As the warm spring unfolded ahead of the biting insects I began to develop a more intimate relationship with this pastoral spot. "The bright landscape was punctuated with farm equipment holding steady,… Read More

Davis, CA: Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California - Davis, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, [20]pp, stapled wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for an early retrospective of the work of this seminal California artist; includes original texts by Robert Duncan (Bertholf B66) and Michael McClure. Listed lenders to the exhibition include Wallace Berman, Ed Ruscha and Dean Stockwell. Unmarked copy, minor wear

Boston: Houghton Osgood / Houghton, Mifflin, 1879. First edition. Hard cover. 2 volume matching set. Published Boston: Houghton Osgood / Houghton, Mifflin, 1879, 1880. 8vo., lxxxvii+386pp.+43pp. index; lviii+373pp.+43pp. index. Dark maroon cloth with gilt spine titles and cover design, beveled boards with black endpapers, all edges tinted red. Volume one has the 1879 imprint of Houghton Osgood on title page; volume two has 1880 imprint of Houghton, Mifflin. Some wear to the cloth at spine ends, bit or rub to cloth in a few spots, previous owner name on title page of volume one, else a fine, clean, crisp set. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo.

Garden Bay, Canada: Fanzini, 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 120pp, printed wrappers. Deliriously packed art magazine from 1974, lots of collage and mail-art work (including an enigmatical Ray Johnson page). Light wear to the fragile wrappers (small closed tear at base of spine) and some outer soil, no markings.