Search Results: Titles starting with S from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1957. 8vo. 340 pp. Plates. Original blue cloth. Fine. Revised edition, with folding map and extensive bibliography.

[New York]: Grenfell Press, 1984. A fine, unblemished copy. Tall 8vo. Title design drawn by Louisa Chase. Original cloth, printed paper label on spine. FIRST EDITION, number 13 of 115 copies signed by Lauterbach and Chase from an edition of 130.

New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near fine jacket, bright and with only a few small areas of shelfwear. 8.5 x 6.75 inches. 176 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original violet cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.

New York: Abrams, 2009. In fine condition. 9.5 x 7 inches. 292 pages. Stiff printed wrappers; red plastic slipcase. "Just as film, art, music, and literature have the power to move people, Sagmeister's innovative work--featured in this lavishly illustrated collection--shows that graphic design, too, can cut to the emotional quick. Includes text by design historian Hall and is annotated with Sagmeister's own writing" (the publisher).

Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: Self-published, 1938. Wrappers with a few small spots and some light soiling and edgewear, internally clean and unblemished save the library markings to the preliminaries. 8vo (9 x 6.25 inches). 146, [4] pages. Color frontispiece, black-and-white plates. Original salmon printed wrappers. Provenance: Hastings Historical Society (label on front pastedown, donor's name in ink on-half-title). Sold on behalf of the Society to Benefit their annual fund. SCARCE FIRST EDITION, one of only 400 privately-printed copies, most of which were distributed to members of the club. The Saint Andrews Golf Club in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York is the oldest golf club in the United States. John Reid of Dunfermline, Scotland, founded the club in 1888. It has existed in its current site since 1897, and features an 18-hole golf course designed by golf course architects William H. Tucker and Harry Tallmadge. In 1983, the track was refurbished by legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus.

Pen-and-ink drawing, 11 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches, on verso of printed sheet (possibly a printer's proof), inscribed at head to his attorney "Pour Miguel Angelo St[star]," undated but circa 1970s. Dali made a number of drawings of Saint George and the dragon, with the present executed in his characteristic loose and fluid style. A fine drawing with impeccable provenance.

[Salida]: [Denver Photo Engraving Co], 1892. Oblong. [48] pp, the last blank. Illustrated. Original paper-backed wrappers, stapled. A well-illustrated commemorative pamphlet for the Knights Templar, meant to encourage investment in Colorado. Discussing the railroad, climactic advantages, mineral resources, and listing business and social additions that Salida wants especially. Wynar 741.

Printed for Private Distribution [by The De Vinne Press], 1904. Lacking printed paper spine label, some trifling wear to covers, internally fine. 8vo. x, 152, [1] pages. 19 plates, of which three in color of flies, the remaining gravures from photographs. Original half white parchment, grey-green boards. Provenance: Arthur C. Cooper (armorial bookplate). Number 29 of 100 copies of the second edition, printed on Imperial Japan (the first had 143 pages). Davis was one of the eight founding members of the Cascapedia Club, which purchased the lease of the river from the Canadian Government in the 1870s (it had previously been leased to Canada's Governor Generals). One of the world's great salmon rivers, it is famous for yielding huge fish. Bruns D25; Gee 88; Litchfield 71.

Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Books, 1972. Some soiling and staining to wrappers. 8vo. 23 pages. Stapled in original printed wrappers. First edition, one of 500 copies. Presentation copy, inscribed on the title: "For Sandy Taylor, In friendship + respect - Brendan Galvin." The Salt Farm was Galvin's first volume of poetry.

Göttingen: Steidl, 2016. A fine copy. Oblong folio (36 x 29 cm) 31 color photographs. Cloth; slipcase. Additional photograph in cloth chemise. DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, number 25 of 50 copies signed by Burtynsky with an original photograph, from an edition of 150 (three sets of 50 copies, each with one of three images) plus 15 artist's proofs. The additional image is that found of p. 4 of the book. "The images in this book are not about the battles being fought on the ground. Rather, they examine this ancient method of providing one of the most basic elements of our diet; as primitive industry and as abstract two-dimensional human marks upon the landscape." - Edward Burtynsky. For this series, the photographer traveled to Gujarat, India, to make images of the Little Ranch of Kutch, a region that is home to more than 100,000 salt workers extracting around one million tons of salt from the floodwaters of the Arabian Sea each year. "Salt has been their main industry for the last four hundred years.… Read More

London: Methuen, 1908. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Fine. 8vo. With twelve illustrations by Will Owen. Original pictorial greenish-blue cloth, decorated in black and gilt. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page to Arthur Morrison: "To Mr. Arthur Morrison from the lesser author. W. W. Jacobs, Oct. 1908." Morrison was a neighbor of Jacobs. Morrison, a Japanese print collector, is best remembered for his sequence of novels featuring detective Martin Hewitt. (BA).

Prague: Galerie D., 1967. Original portfolio containing one Poster A2 and 38 (of 40?) duotone plates. In fine condition.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982. Some light spoiling to cloth, light toning to sheet edges, lacks jacket and slipcase, presumably because this was an out-of-series sample copy. Oblong (10.75 x 11.5 inches). 296 pages. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth. Deluxe revised edition, one of 150 copies signed by Francis, this copy marked "sample." With essays on Francis' prints by Susan Einstein and Jan Butterfield.

New York: Aperture, 1987. A near-fine copy. 9.5 x 12.5 inches. 184 pages. Profusely illustrated. Original blue cloth; pictoral dust jacket. First edition. "This exhaustive body of work paved the way for a generation of contemporary photo artists, expanding the expressive possibilities of the medium" (the publisher).

San Juan: Silverton Standard, 1977. Oblong. 7 x 10 1/2 inches. Illustrated. Original printed wrappers. Dampstained. Reprint.

Chicago, 1909. First edition. Fine/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. Folio. Pp. 1075-77. Portait plate of Gorgas by Harris and Ewing. Disbound. "In 1901, Gorgas was sent to Havana to undertake a special campaign against the yellow fever mosquito Aëdes aegypti. His methods of sanitation were so successful that in three months yellow fever was practically eradicated from Havana. Gorgas outlined the main principles of his methods in the above paper." (Garrison-Morton-Norman 5460).

Worcester: Metacom Press, 1982. Pale stain on blank penultimate leaf, otherwise fine. 8vo. 19, [1] pp. Sewn in original wrappers, printed label on cover. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 57 of 300 copies signed by Merrill from an edition of 326.

London: Thames & Hudson, 2009. First edition. A near-fine copy. 7.6 x 5 inches. 144 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original printed wrappers.

New York: Saturdays Surf NYC, 2012. A fine copy. 12 x 9 inches. Lavishly illustrated. Original wrappers. The first issue of the magazine created and edited by Saturdays Surf NYC's Colin Tunstall, published by Tunstall, Morgan Collett, and Josh Rosen. Saturdays opened in SoHo in 2009 and has since grown into an international lifestyle brand. This issue has contributions by Mike D, Jason Polan (an extensive section of his drawings), Mitsuyuki Shibata, Vincent Cassel, Mark Hartman, and others.

New York: The Oliphant Press, 1969. A fine, fresh copy. 12mo. [21] pages. Illustrated by Phyllis Goodwin, several illustrations hand-colored by the artist. Original parchment-backed blue boards, gilt-lettered on spine. One of only 75 copies, designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press. This copy unnumbered, out-of-series, and from the printer's personal collection.