Art from Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1937. First edition. First edition, limited issue signed by Thomas Hart Benton on the limitation page. The so-called "Missouri Edition." xii, 276 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with blindstamped front board, gilt spine lettering. Illustrated. Former owner's name on paste down, offsetting to endpapers, else Fine in Near Fine dust jacket,… Read more about this item

New York: Harmon Foundation Incorporated, 1933. First edition. First edition. 56 pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated stapled self-wraps. Near Fine with light wear to wraps. A rare catalogue of African American art with a short essay, "The Negro Takes His Place in American Art" by Alain Locke. Exhibiting artists include Malvin Gray Johnson, Richmond Barthe, Sargent Johnson, Lois Mailou… Read more about this item

New York: Harmon Foundation Incorporated, 1935. First edition. First edition. 60 pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated stapled self-wraps. Very Good+ with scuffing and light soiling to wraps. A rare guide to an important African American art and sculpture exhibit with many black and white photos of the work as well as the artists (Harlem Renaissance painter Malvin Gray Johnson,… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Locus Solus, 1999. Single-sided LP album of musique concrete composed and designed by turntablist Christian Marclay, designed to be scuffed and worn by being stored and shipped without a sleeve. When played the wear would become part of the composition. Our copy has been stored in a cover, however, and is Very Good+ or better with hardly any… Read more about this item

New Orleans: Francois Mignon, 1956. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Signed by the authors beneath a rubbertamp that states: "Neither of us can write much but we sure can mark our initials: "C.H. / F.M." Publisher's original yellow plastic comb-bound wraps printed in brown. Very Good with moderate wear to wraps and fading to comb binding. A… Read more about this item

[New York]: Yoko Ono, 1971. First edition. First edition. Signed by Yoko Ono on colophon in brown marker with symbols, inscribed Aiu, Yoko '72." Unpaginated. Bound in publisher's wraps. Page 5 stamped "Copyright 1972 by Yoko Ono." Good+ with chip to front wrap, archival tissue repair to that chip and along fore edge of front wrap; wraps toned with… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1985. First Edition. Near Fine. First paperback edition, first printing. Signed by Andy Warhol in black marker on the front cover. Bound in publisher's silver, black and white wraps. Near Fine with light wear, slight water warping to the top corners of the early leaves. A photographic study of America in the eighties.… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1936. First edition. First edition. Signed by Alain Locke on the foreword, dated 1937. [vi], 122 pp. Bound in publisher's stapled wrappers. Very Good, wraps a little stained and toned, light foxing along edges, wear at foot.Called the "philosophical architect" and "ideological genius" of the Harlem Renaissance, in this booklet Howard University… Read more about this item

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008. Second edition, first printing. (The first English language edition.) Bound in publisher's black leatherette with pink edges, pink stamping, pink and black internal bookmarks. Text in German and English. Includes CD in unopened pouch at rear. Sticker schmutz on rear board and a hint of mustiness, else Fine. Berlin-based graphic designer Judith Schalansky's… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday Doran and Company, Inc, 1933. First edition. First edition. xviii, [ii], 301 pp. with 32 photographs. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with red lettering. Near Fine with light wear, cloth slightly grubby, in an unfaded dust jacket, price-clipped, slightly short for book, wear along fore edge, tape repairs on verso of back panel mending a tear,… Read more about this item

[np]: [No Publisher], 1977. Six loose 20 3/4" x 16" black-and-white prints housed in a mustard yellow portfolio with the artist's name on the front wrap. A little scuffing and slight wear to the portfolio, bright prints in Fine condition. A collection of pencil drawings reminiscent of the illustrations of Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire by Southern California based… Read more about this item

Prague: Tiskem A Nakladem Noviny, 1944. First edition. First edition. Unpaginated. Bound in publisher's boards with black cloth backstrip. About Very Good with tear and fraying to a spot on the spine, boards slightly bowed, former owner's stamp on a few pages. A wordless graphic novel about the life of Jesus with an introduction in Czech. It was issued… Read more about this item

[Brno, Czech Republic]: Grafický klub pro Moravu, 1926. First edition. Portfolio housing six loose prints, each signed in pencil by Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichova, the artist. Complete. Paperclip stains and faint impression along top edge, else Fine. Paper toned with age. Rare, only two institutional copies located in WorldCat. A visual hymn to the watery byways of Venice, Italy by the… Read more about this item

Aspen, CO: Meat Possum Press Ltd, 1970. First edition. Signed by artist Thomas W. Benton in pencil along bottom margin of poster front wrap. 4 pp. Each page measures 22″ x 14″. Very Good+ with faint vertical crease about an inch from the left edge of the front panel running throughout all pages, another light crease along upper corner,… Read more about this item

London: Henry Sotheran and Co, 1877. Second English-language edition. [vi], 58 pp. with all 100 vivid chromolithographic plates present; plates XLVII (top and bottom edge trimmed) and XXVIII bound at front. Folio. Publisher's maroon cloth, recased with spine laid down, lettered in gilt and black, all edges gilt. Very Good+ with wear along edges, exposed tips, small corner chip… Read more about this item

New York: Appearances Press, 1982. Second Edition. Near Fine. Second printing. Staple-bound white wraps printed in black. Near Fine with toning, light creases, light soiling and wear, with a large but light sticker shadow to the rear cover.

[Berkeley?]: [No Publisher], 1972. A small collection of five materials relating to a group about which we can find no information, The Friends of Ruth Schwartz. Insofar as it existed it appears to have come from Berkeley, CA circa 1972 and to have originated in a detourned image of a 1969 R. Crumb comic, Despair, with its cover of… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills: Copley Galleries, 1948. First edition. First edition. Signed by Man Ray on the title page with the inscription playing off the title, "et les enfants / Man Ray Paris-62." French philosopher Georges Bataille's copy with his ex libris on front free endpaper; inscribed in the year of his death. Bound in publisher's boards with cloth backstrip. Very… Read more about this item

London: Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co, 1934. First Edition. First edition, first printing. viii, 856 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in red, with black topstain, issued without a dust jacket. Very Good+ with rubbing to cloth along edges, worn at head and tail, small bookplate to front free endpaper, a few spots of foxing to edges,… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1968. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Copy 91 of 100 copies numbered and signed by Alexander Calder. Publisher's yellow printed paper-covered boards with surface bubbling and light fading to spine. Price-clipped dust jacket with sunning to spine, light… Read more about this item