Search Results: Titles starting with A from Gotcha By The Books

New York: ABC No Rio, 1985. 1st Edition. paperback. Good in rubbed wraps. 4to. profusely illustrated Illustrated history of the ABC No Dinero art gallery, a non-profit arts collective founded in 1980 in a squat at 156 Rivington St. on New York's Lower East Side; foreword by Lucy Lippard; texts by various authors; b&w illustrations throughout - poetry, art, activism, happenings, and more; scattered foxing, o.w. G-VG throughout; wraps rubbed, wear along spine with reading creases and cracks - two worn patches (through to text block).

Brisbane: Boolarong, 1988. limited edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 12mo. b&w frontispiece Facsimile edition of R.J. Flanagan's The Aborigines of Australia (first published in 1888); here published in an edition of 1500 copies to mark Australia's Bicentenary in 1988; blue vinyl boards with gilt titling to spine and illustration to front board; bookshop label to front endpaper, tiny stain to fore-edge, small worn spot to underside of rear board, o.w. Very Good.

Brisbane: Boolarong, 2015. 1st paperback. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. colour and b&w illustrations History of Aboriginal campsites, with focus on the location and features of the camps that flourished in and around Brisbane from convict times to as late as the 1950's; colour and b&w photo illustrations throughout, and including maps of the campsites and their locations.

Armadale: Scott Livesey Galleries, 2007. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good tight clean copy. large 8vo. colour illustrations Catalogue for the exhibition of Aboriginal art, Scott Livesey Galleries 2007; 30 full-page colour plates with notes (including provenance) to facing page; works by Ningie Nangala, Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri, Pauline Sunfly Nangala, Kathleen Petyarre, Josephine Napurrula, Yinarupa Nangala, Rosella Namok, and others; includes original price list

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in G-VG Dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations Study of the life and work of Achille Bocchi with focus on the Symbolicae Quaestiones, part I establishing the life and intellectual context, part II exploring poetic theory and the role of the symbol in the development of Bocchi's symbola (referencing symbolism of mythology); includes a section of 48 b&w illustrations; mild foxing to text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly rubbed, minor loss top edge, o.w. Very Good.

London: Heinemann, 1965. 1st UK Edition. hardbound. G-VG in Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. 1st UK Edition of Christopher Koch's second novel; original price 21s Net to front flap of dustwrapper; blue cloth boards with gilt titling to spine; former owner's name to front endpaper, heavy foxing to text block (with some bleeding to edges of pages), G-VG throughout; dustwrapper foxed and rubbed, tanned to spine, o.w. Good.

New York: Rizzoli, 1991. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Traces and re-examines the career of Ad Reinhardt from the late 1930's through the 1960's; text by Yve-Alain Bois; 94 colour plates, 28 b&w illustrations; includes chronology, exhibition history, select bibliography; published to accompany the exhibition Ad Reinhardt The Museum of Modern Art New York May 30 - September 2 1991, and The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles October 13 1991 - January 5 1992; Very Good and clean throughout in Very Good dustwrapper.

Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1985. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 31.5 x 31.5cm. profusely illustrated Published in conjunction with the Ad Reinhardt exhibition, 13 April - 2 June 1985 Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, which showed not only Reinhardt's paintings, but also selections of his colour slide photograpy and political cartoons; texts by Gudrun Inboden and Thomas Kellein; b&w frontispiece photo of the artist in his New York apartment/studio; 24 full-page colour plates of the abstract paintings, 10 pages of the colour slides, many more of the cartoons; text in catalogue in German, and with 29 page stapled booklet with English translations; large square hardbound with black endpapers, no dustwrapper (apparently as issued); limited to 1500 copies, a desirable Reinhardt catalogue; boards sunned to spine and a few cms near spine front and rear, text block lightly tanned, mild offset from frontispiece photo illus., o.w. Very Good and clean throughout; booklet very good throughout in… Read More

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1938. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. 1st Edition collection of poems by T. Inglis Moore; half cloth with blue papered sides, blue titling to spine; former owner's name to front endpaper, tanning to endpapers and text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; foxing to cloth and edges of boards; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, tanned to spine and folds of flaps.

Sydney: The University of Sydney, 1999. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 4to. profusely illustrated Catalogue for the exhibition of traditional jewellery and body decoration from Australia and the Pacific, Macleay Museum 23 March 1999 - 30 January 2001; texts by Anna Edmundson and Chris Boylan, photography by David Little; colour and b&w plates throughout, endpaper maps; includes ethnographic information for each plate, and bibliography; first edition first printing (9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1); wraps very lightly edgeworn, o.w. a Very Good copy.

Brisbane: Andrew Baker Art Dealer, 2004. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good tight clean copy. square 8vo. colour plates Catalogue for the exhibiton of paintings by Adrian King, Andrew Baker Art Dealer Brisbane 2004; 5 full-page colour plates, plus one each to front and rear cover; limited to 1000 copies.

Washington: Freer Gallery of Art, 2002. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Copiously illustrated in colour and b&w, brings together over sixty of the images from the illustrated version of the Hamzanama, originally produced during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar (1556-1605) - the illustrations being based on the text describing the exploits of Hamza, an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad; published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; texts by John Sellyer, Ebba Koch, Antoinette Owen, Rainald Franz, and Wheeler M. Thackston; includes glossary, notes, bibliography; Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper; PLEASE NOTE: VERY HEAVY BOOK MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGES..

London: Andrew Melrose, 1926. 1st UK Edition. hardbound. Good in fair boards. 8vo. True First Edition of this novel by David Lindsay, whose philosophical/speculative-fiction novels have become cult classics; very scarce in the first UK edition (the first US was published a year later in 1927 with the title 'A Blade for Sale'); tanning and foxing to endpapers and prelims, med-heavy tanning to text block, occasional minor foxing in text, o.w. Good throughout; boards fairly heavily rubbed, and with wear along edges, heavy wear to spine.

London: Oxford University Press, 1971. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. Smollett's third novel, here edited and with an introduction and notes by Damian Grant; includes select bibliography, and Smollett chronology; a volume in the Oxford English Novels (general editor James Kinsley); very minor foxing to endpapers and text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; boards lightly sunned at edges; dustwrapper with light wear along spine, o.w. Very Good.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1883. hardbound. Good/no dustwrapper. 12mo. Text in Latin and Greek (no English translation); selections from the writings of British classical scholar and critic Peter Paul Dobree, prepared and with a preface by William Wagner; a volume in the Bohn's Library, 1883 edition two volumes bound in one; endpapers and prelims foxed, text block heavily tanned, edges of pages browned/tanned throughout (medium-heavy), o.w. Good

London: Cassell, 1967. Proof Copy. paperback. Good (front cover loose). 8vo. Proof Copy (Cassell London 1967) of Menzies' memoirs, with publisher's covering letter (photocopied) loose inserted; printed pale blue wraps, 'Proof Only' to front cover, and with two amendments in blue biro; wraps creased and sunned, front cover partly detached (just holding), spine sunned, Very Good throughout.

Koln: Walther Konig, 2015. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper in Very Good slipcase/Dustwrapper in Slipcase. 22 x 24.5cm. b&w illustrations Series of lyrical meditiations/aphorisms by Agnes Martin, accompanied by the illustrations of Richard Tuttle; limited to 1500 copies; intense orange cloth boards, orange endpapers, salmon-pink dustwrapper with black titling and yellow rectangle to front, green rectangle with printed aphorism to rear; in silver silk/cloth slipcase, with Tuttle drawings to front and rear; Scarce; Very Good tight clean copy in Very Good dustwrapper (lightly sunned to spine) in Very Good slipcase.

Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art , 1976. reprint . paperback. G-VG in rubbed/foxed wraps. 23 x 23cm. b&w and colour plates 1976 reprint of the catalogue for the Agnes Martin show (originally held January 22 to March 1 1973 Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia); texts by Lawrence Alloway, Ann Wilson, and Agnes Martin; numerous full-page b&w and colour plates; includes biography and exhibitions, bibliography; rippling to some pages at gutters, foxing to prelims and text block and occasionally in text, o.w. G-VG throughout; wraps rubbed and foxed, vertical crease to front.

The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1977. 1st Edition. stiff card. G-VG in rubbed wraps/Dustwrapper. 8vo. colour plates Catalogue for the Agnes Martin show, Arts Council of Great Britain 1977; texts by Dore Ashton, and Agnes Martin; 3 full-page colour plates of Martin's paintings (including frontispiece), most of the catalogue being taken up by a facsimile manuscript for a lecture given by Martin at Yale University on 5 April 1976, entitled 'We are in the midst of a reality responding with joy'; includes list of catalogues, and bibliography, and details of all the works in the exhbition (title, date, dimensions, medium, collection); stiff-card wraps with dustwrapper; occasional foxing in text, and with some rippling to two plates (at gutters), o.w. G-VG throughout; wraps rubbed and foxed.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for John Howell, 1958. Limited Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 4to. colour frontispiece/b&w illustrations Limited to 400 copies, printed at the Grabhorn Press for John Howell; a selection of letters, translations and poems by Agnes Tobin, a woman of letters - born in San Francisco, who spent many years in London, where she enlivened the literary circle around Alice Meynell (which included Yeats, Pound, Gosse, and Augustus John); Tobin and Meynell would become great friends, as reflected in a number of the letters herein; includes a biographical sketch by J.S., a note on Tobin and Meynell by Sir Francis Meynell, followed by Tobin's translations (of Petrarch and Milton), and original poems; colour frontispiece plate, 6 b&w illustrations; half grey cloth with title label to spine, blue papered sides; fore-edge untrimmed; Very Good and clean throughout; knock/crease top rh corner of front board.