Search Results: Titles starting with L from DuBois Rare Books

New York: Lid Publishing, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Perfect bound Magazine. Near Fine. Unpaged. 28cm. Tall 4to. Perfectbound with stiff glossy photo-illustrated covers. Lavishly produced and copiously illustrated, primarily with hiqh quality photography. Condition: pristine, very faint signs of handling else fine. A very sharp copy. Issue 11 was published with 4 cover variants, Andy Warhol, Marlon Brando, Daido Moriyama, and Jimmy Page; this is the Jimmy Page cover. Issue no. 11 contents: "Rare Warhol" by Gretchen Berg, collages by David Croland, "Japan Treatre Photo Album" by Daido Moriyama, "Film Stills" by Gerard Melanga, a portfolio of photos and conversation with Jimmy Page, and more. From the publisher: "Lid is a black and white fine arts magazine that's published twice a year. Each issue features rare and never before published photographs and art by and of some of the most interesting figures in fashion, music, art and film Some numbers published with different covers.

New York: Ballantine Books, 2002. First Edition, First Printing with full number line. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Black and grey paper over boards stamped on spine with silver gilt. Sharp copy of author's second book.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. First Edition, First Printing with no additional printings indicated. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. pp. xii. 316 including Introduction, Conclusion, a Calendar, Critical Works Cited, and Index. Hardcover. 8to. 8.5". Blue cloth covered boards with silver spine lettering. Book Condition: Fine. Binding tight and sound, tips sharp and edges bright. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Brilliant orange DJ has the spine end crinkles, w/ two 1 centimeter closed tears (1 centimeter = eyelash length), sprinkling of faint smudges, and a lightly sunned spine. This jacket presents just about fine. A nicer than usual first printing of this title. (Poets btw, are: Hardy, Yeats, Robinson, Frost, Pound, Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane & William Carlos Williams).

Nurnberg: Ziegers und Lehmanns, 1700. German Edition. Loose_leaf. Good. Copper plate engraving on laid paper with hand coloring after Abraham van Diepenbeeck. From the German Edition of William of Newcastle's book on horsemanship, "New method and extraordinary invention to dress horses and work them according to nature". Sheet size: 28.3 x 37.3 cm. Print condition: heavy printers fold thru center, longish creases in 2 or 3 spots, moderate to heavy foxing, strongest just inside printed borders; a 5 cm. long closed tear one third the way past printers fold on the right, ending just into first band of green color, and another smaller tear right at print number lower right border. A pleasing piece despite it's flaws.

[Paris]: Borderie, [La biblioteque Oblique], 1980. Édition ornée de 14 planches. Hardcover. Fine. 2 vol. (137 p.-[4] f. de pl. ; 107 p.-[9] f. de pl.) : ill. ; 22 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original cloth over boards, stamped in pink lettering Book(s) Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Sharp, virtually pristine copies. Full title: La philosophie dans le boudoir [,ou les instituteurs immoraux]: [dialogues destinés à l'éducation des jeunes demoiselles]. . Responsibility: D.A.F. De Sade ; [avec une préface de Pierre Klossowski et un postface de Jacques Lacan].

New York: Grove Press, 1959. First edition thus [First printing of the first American edition of the original unexpurgated definitive 3rd manuscript edition first published by Giuseppe Orioli in 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 368 pages 21 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original blue 1/2 cloth and taupe colored paper over boards, metallic silver lettering to spine. Book Condition: mild spine slant, top edge dusty, fore edge with some small splashes, PO name and light foxing to front and back pastedowns. Dust Jacket Condition: remarkably well preserved Bruce Barton designed jacket with correct price of $6.00 intact; spine and back panel little grotty, with small wears and tears to extremities. Surprising difficult edition to find in condition this nice. Includes introduction by Mark Schorer and letter from Archibald Macleish.

New York: Harcourt, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. 84 pages ; 22 cm. Jacket has a nip to upper flap fold, right at the top edge, else fine. Breyten Breytenbach was born in Bonnievale, South Africa, in 1939. He settled in Paris, where he met and married Yolande Ngo Thi Hoang Lien (to whom Lady One is dedicated). In 1975, after returning to South Africa illegally, he was caught and imprisoned. He was released in 1982, and The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, a memoir of his prison years, appeared in 1985. Breytenbach lives in Paris and New York.

New York: Hurst and Company, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good +/None Issued. [ii] 168 p. [x] front. illus. 19 cm. [Green floral patterned end papers] Red pressed cloth over boards, elaborate floral decoration set in double ruled panel, stamped in both black and gilt, title inside decoration similarly contained and executed. Ditto for the spine, which is quite rubbed. [No statement of edition anywhere in pages prior to text or on cover.] Lalla Rookh is an Oriental romance by Thomas Moore, published in 1817. As a collector one could remain very happily engaged for his or her life collecting this title alone. Dozens and dozens of editions were published prior to this edition, a single volume of a set published as "Moore's Works". Book Condition: Fairly worn, tips turned, spine ends pushed. Enough gilt on the front board so the exquisite design still charms, but not so on the spine. Inside...inside it's a peach, sweet and unread, on very thick paper with a slick orange border on each page, raised, this… Read More

Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Fine. 211 pp. : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm. 4to. Softcover. Stiff photo-illustrated French wraps. Includes scarce original transmittal envelope, an ingenious thin cardboard multi-fold chemise, addressed to Michael Feingold, the long time New York theatre credit who wrote for the Village Voice for over twenty years. Book Condition: absolutely fine, pristine. A very sharp copy. Transmittal envelope shows bumps and bruises consistent with a long journey from Tokyo to New York in a variety of mail bags but is completely intact. There's always been a certain hautiness about the superiority of the Japanese catalog's production values but having never been able to view the two editions side by side we cannot confirm or deny the truth in this preference. We can say that the reproductions in this volume are extraordinarily beautiful. The exhibition consists of works from the George… Read More

[Denver]: [Denver Art Museum], 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. About Fine. 28 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. 4to. Staplebound wraps. Book Condition: about fine. Brochure to accompany an exhibition by the Denver Art Museum concerned with basic elements of the visual world. The brochure and exhibit update and synthesize previous Museum publications and exhibits on the topic. Written and edited by Cile M. Bach. Description:.

Chicago: Paul Theobald, 1944. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Missing. 228 pp. 4to. Blue cloth over boards with silver spine lettering. First Edition of a classic that has gone on to over a dozen printings. Not a beach read. As far as we can tell, this book both formalized a movement that was in progress and pushed it forward at the same time. Maybe. Copiously illustrated with diagrams, reproductions of contemporary art works, photographs, advertisements, and visual examples garnered from popular culture. Book Condition: Very lightly scuffed, spine ends show minor fraying else fine. Dust Jacket missing.

Madrid: Galería Kreisler, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Stiff Wraps. Very Good +. Unpaged [8 plates, essay, Premios, Exposiciones Individuales]. 24cm. Stiff wraps. Book Condition: Very Good+, with light wear to extremities. Presentation copy warmly inscribed by Jose Lapayese del Rio. "Para el buen amigo Marshall recordando siempre nuestro inolvidable encuentro en NEW YORK. !!Felize ano 1979!! Jose.

Helsinki: Weilin + Göös, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. About Fine. 31pp text, 56 pp. plates. 24cm. Small squarish 4to. Hardcover. Publisher's original glossy photo-illustrated boards. Book Condition: wear to extremities. In Finnish. Profusely illustrated.

Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Spiral_bound. Very Good +. [36] pages : 12 illustrations ; 34 x 41 cm. Spiralbound. Book Condition: Very Good at least, with some smooshing to the spiral wire binding, corners gently pushed and the occasional spot of dustiness here and there. Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Art Institute, Chicago, Mar. 6-Apr. 19, 1970. Foreword by Harold Joachim.

New York, NY: Carroll & Graf, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. Octavo.

Chicago, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 291pp. 8vo. illus. Hardcover. Quarter-cloth and paper over boards. Book Condition: Gently pushed spine ends else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: touch of shelf wear to panels, salt and pepper nips to extremities else fine.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

London: Faber & Faber, 1963. First Printing of First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. xv, 400pp. illus. 23cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original red cloth over boards, copper lettering to spine. Book Condition: mild wear to extremities, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very light wear to the extremities, dusty in spots, toned a shade down from original bright white. The first British Edition which followed closely (weeks? months?) after the U.S. first. A nice copy.

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