Search Results: Authors starting with R from DuBois Rare Books

Chicago: R.S. Johnson Fine Art, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. 100pp. illus. 28cm. 4to. Hardcover. Publisher's original black cloth over boards, copper lettering to spine and cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Crinkled along the top edge with a nick to tail of the spine and superficial wear to panels. Very Good+ at least. A luxuriously produced catalog featuring 48 plates in color or duotone as the artwork determines. Each work is elaborately documented with references for further study. A sharp copy of a formidable book.

London [mostly]: Various, 1800. Apparently Unique. Hardcover. Very Good. 213 pp. [handwritten page numbers]. 13 1/4" x 10 1/2". Oblong folio. Hardcover. Marbled paper over boards. A sammelbande of approx. 40 assorted glees, catches, rounds, and canons. Approximately 40 individual compositions from an indeterminate number of sources bound into a single volume. Book Condition: Completely perished at the spine with bookbinder's tape utilized for re-backing some time ago. Covers worn through to the boards at the corners and along all edges. Binding quite sound with all compositions firmly installed. A wide assortment of chips, creases and folds throughout though there are no chips, folds, or crease affecting a single note of music or letter of text. Moderate-to-heavy-to-complete lack of foxing to pages, most pages bright and free of blemish. An extraordinary greatest hits of the day collection. The composers represented in this compilation were some of the greatest musical talents of their preferred… Read More

[New York]: Estate of Jack Rabinowitz, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Staplebound. Very Good +. 36 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm. Small, squarish 4to; staplebound wraps. Condition: Very Good+ with light wear to extremities including bent tips. An impassioned treatise, retrospective monograph, memorial tribute to "a painter's painter" strikes a familiar but welcome chord. Hard are the fields of art to those who toil there and though many are called, few are chosen. Copiously illustrated with pictures of the hard evidence as well as many effusive testimonials from the cognescenti of the New York city 1960's-70's art scene. Worldcat locates just two institutions holding copies, U of Pennsylvania and Seatle Art Museum Libraries.

Paris: Librarie de Paris, nd. Leather_bound. Near Fine. 2 p. ., 667 p. front. (port.) 18 cm. Quarter bound crushed red morocco leather and marbled paper over boards. Raised bands with 6 panels, title stamped in gilt in 2nd panel, TEG. Evidence of wear very moderate, extremities showing small rubbed patches, tips bumped, pea sized bruise to rear panel leather halfway down. Sound binding feels firm to the hand. In French.

New York: Do-Not Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

K ln: Taschen, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Near Fine. 199 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm. 4to.

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

New York: Front Street, Incorporated, 1997. Second printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. 112pp. 6 x 0.8 x 8.6 inches. 35.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1991. First Edition. 32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm. "Published in conjunction with the exhibition, The art of the personal object, National Museum of African Art.

New York: St Martins Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/About Fine. 228 p. Slim 8to. Black paper over boards, gilt spine lettering. First novel by Reed, who draws upon his experience serving in military intelligence in Viet Nam. A widely published poet.

Paris: J. Dumaine, 1845. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Plates only Volume 2 which accompanied Volume 1, the body text of this work. [1 l. (blank), [iii-viii - half title, imprint, blank, title page, blank, Table de L'Atlas, blank]. 27 cm x 23 cm. 4to. Hardcover. 17 double page plates, printed on one side of paper only, so that each plate appears on verso and recto of facing pages. Three-quarter sheepskin and marbled paper over boards. Worn through in patches of the spine, 2 leaves with small closed tears, faint foxing. Very Good at least. Uncommon. "In their writings published between 1845 and 1858, Joseph Toussaint Reinaud and Ildephonse Favé have been able to extract, to a large extent, the contribution of the Islamic countries to the technology of weaponry. The results obtained by them from the study of the manuscripts of Arabic works on military technology which were accessible to them at that time and from information in historical works are to a large extent valid even today."… Read More

Chicago: Apprentice House, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. 1 v. (unpaged; chiefly ill.) 25 cm. Softcover [sewn binding laid into stiff cardboard wraps with french folds]. Spine shows some salt and pepper wear else fine. Limited to 1000 copies and presented by The Typophiles.

New York: Charles L. Webster and Co, 1892. First Edition, First Printing with no additional printings indicated. Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth over boards with gilt, black and olive coloured decoration and lettering. Essays about writing, publishing and books in general. Ex-library with all usual markings.

New York: H.N. Abrams, 1966. First Printing of First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Lacking. 450 pages: illustrations (some mounted color) ; 32 cm. Folio. Hardcover. Publisher's original pictorial cloth over boards. Book Condition: upper cover with thin scrape, else fine. Interior is pristine. A sharp copy lacking the acetate jacket. A massive, comprehensive tour de force. Translation of: L'art 1900. Includes index. Description: Contents: Introduction -- Architecture -- Commercial architecture -- Decoration in stone and wrought iron -- Heating -- Locks and fastenings -- Bathroom design -- Painting -- Sculpture -- The applied arts -- Furniture and decoration -- Ceramics -- Glass -- Lighting -- Wallpapers, tapestries, carpets -- Bibelots -- Jewelry -- Fashion and frivolity -- Typography and bookbinding -- Posters -- Graphics -- Medallions -- Machinery -- Religious and funerary art. Translated from the French by Patrick Evans.

Barcelona: Ajoblanco Ediciones, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. [not to be confused with 2004 reprints of first six issues]. Staplebound. Very Good. 24pp. 33 cm x 24 cm. Tall Folio. Staplebound magazine on flimsy paper-b&w graphics. Condition: Very Good at least. Ephemeral, fragile item in lovely condition with splash to upper cover which is a little grotty, v. light toning to page edges and faint wear to extremities. Ajoblanco. Spain. (from "One of the great magazines who included philosophers, poets, architects, artists, comic drawers related with the contra cultural scene of Barcelona in the 70's. They got together in the same project of political opposition as others against Franco regime. Together politics, other interests were of social context such as environmentalism, anti-psychiatry, collectivism, gay movement etc. It achieved up to 1 million readers in 1977. It was directed by José Ribas." Issue no. 1 "coordinado": Pepe Ribas, Toni Puig, Claudi Montana...etc. etc. Issue no. 1… Read More

New York: Broadway, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 304pp. Octavo. Black and tan paper over boards with gilt spine lettering. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Presentation Copy, Inscribed by Author: To -------, Who appreciates Japan and great food. Itadaki Masu! (Bon Appetite!). Victoria Riccardi 5/27/2003 (14 days after publication).

New York: The Century Co, 1903. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Lacking. 12mo. (7 1/8 x 4 5/8) xii, 197 pp. Hardcover. Pictorial boards covered with green cloth stamped in gilt, white, lime and red. Touch of wear to spine ends, and tips, could be a bit brighter but oh what a pretty copy. We think we have the nicest copy out there, or at the very least as nice. The pages are immaculate.

Chicago/New York: Electronic Publishing Company Inc, 1971. Perfectbound Softcover. Fine. 176 pp. Glossy photo-pictorial wraps. 8to. Anything and everything to do with Audio or Video. Thousands of illustrations through-out catalog. All products listed with prices. It's easy to spot such 70's hi-fi icons as the Marantz receiver with ultra smooth horizontal tuning wheel, the Kenwood gear that leveraged chunky knobs, 100% aluminum surfaces, and rain forest hardwoods, and the elegance of the Garrard turntables. The technology for reproducing music electronically was still very much rooted in the realm of the mechanical in 1971 which largely explains why all the gear was so beautiful. Scarce. Worldcat doesn't come up with anything for "Sonocraft" at all. We did find it listed in the Library of Congress records of application for Copyright for 1971, and that led us to the Smithsonian Library; they have 4 Sonocraft catalogs in their Smithsonian Trade Literature Collection! This catalog is in freakishly… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. 485 pages ; 25 cm. Jacket shows faint shelf wear to lower panel, tiny crinkles to spine ends, else fine. A Frank Bascombe book. With "The Sportswriter," in 1985, Richard Ford began a cycle of novels that ten years later -- after "Independence Day" -- won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Uncorrected Proof for Limited Distribution. Wraps. Near Fine. 479 pages ; 23 cm. Softcover. Perfectbound illustrated wraps. Book Condition: some tiny scuffs and crinkles to the cover edges, lower fore-edge a little dusty, two very small page corners bent. Near fine. Both the "Advance Reader's Edition" (usually "Advance Reader's Copy" hence: ARC) and "Uncorrected Proof" nomenclature are used by the publisher here though they are often two different entities. The ARC preceedes the first printing even, though it is preceeded by the galleys. You can see (photographs accompanying this listing) that Knopf has very big expectations for this book: 15 city author tour, national advertising in the most prestigious periodicals, NPR sponsor, etc. The ARC's are sent out to anyone that the publisher thinks may review the book and get that review published, broadcast etc., after a certain amount of time goes by all the semi broke writer types walk their bag of ARCs up (or down) to… Read More