Calligraphers and Painters, A Treatise by Qadi Ahman, Son of Mir-Munshi (circa A.H. 1015/A,D, 1606) de Minorsky, V.,Translation from the Persian; B. N. Zakhoder, Introduction - 1959

New York: Dia Center For The Arts, 1995. Signed by Ann Hamilton on the half-title page. First edition / First printing. Red and ochre cloth. Very fine without dust jacket, as issued. Most uncommon signed. Archival clear mylar jacket is supplied.

Seattle / New Haven: Henry Art Gallery / Yale, 2006. Signed on the title page by Maya Lin and dated 2006. Also signed by Henry Art Gallery Director and essayist Richard Andrews and Lawrence Weschler, who contributed the Foreword. Weschler's signature has spattered a bit. First edition / First printing. Off White cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The catalogue of Maya Lin's 2006 exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery. An attractive production. The cover is embossed with the artist's "Waterline.

Milan: Olivetti, 1969. Livre. Illus. by Jean-Michet Folon et Roland Topor. Bon. En Feuilles. Edition originale. Petit In-4. Sl [Milan], Olivetti, 1969 (1968 au copyright). 25,5 x 22 cm, petit in-4, 12 planches en couleurs tirées en offset et montées sur carton, (4) pp. de texte également montées sur carton (ici recto et verso), en feuilles sous étui de l'éditeur imprimé au dos. Rare tirage à part des illustrations de Folon pour le premier calendrier Olivetti de 1969. Toutes les planches (ainsi que le texte) sont montées sur carton fort et sont pré-percées en tête pour être punaisées. Petites déchirures à l'étui..

Greenwich: New York Graphic Society [0-8212-0381-9] 1971. (4to) 266pp. Very good in good dust jacket. Illustrations, including mounted color plates, chronology, bibliography. A coffee stain to the edges of the pages at the top corner, the spine is slightly cocked, and the dust jacket is worn and reinforced with tape on the inside of the spine. Art of Alberto Giacometti. (Art).

New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1979. 288 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by the editor Rackstraw Downes (Realist painter and ally of Porter) on the title page, no dedication. Dust jacket, with moderate edgewear & a faded spine, protected in a mylar book cover.. SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Collectible.

Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, Limited, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by both the author and Bill Reid directly onto the title page in black ink. Black cloth over boards, title stamped in gilt onto upper board and spine, square quarto, (9-3/4 inches tall), colored endpapers, pp. 192, illustrated throughout, select bibliography, list of illustrations, color pictorial dust jacket. Volume w. light fade to top edge of boards and a tiny spot on top edge of text block, jacket w. minor rubs and wear, else fine and unclipped. First printing of the first edition with numberline to "1

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… Leer más

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… Leer más