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Beautiful and complex livre d'artiste by the avant-garde Italian anarchist, pataphysician, and founder of the movimento d'arte nucleare.
Beautiful and complex livre d'artiste by the avant-garde Italian anarchist, pataphysician, and founder of the movimento d'arte nucleare.
First edition, second issue of Man Ray's extraordinary first monograph, with written contributions from his surrealist contemporaries.
Uncommon, spectacular exhibition catalog, issued in the year of the artist's death.
First printing of Blossfeldt's stunning and influential enlarged photo studies of plant forms.
Rare signed limited edition of this wordless novel by the great early master of the form.
Limited first edition of these previously unpublished plates of Bakst's spectacular costume and theater designs.
First edition, first printing of the "first novel by a Japanese American woman" (Wenying Xu) set in the United States.
Signed limited first edition of Lurçat's original lithographs illustrating twenty of La Fontaine's fables, signed by the artist and publisher.
Scarce limited French edition of Carroll's mathematical logic primer, illustrated by his great Surrealist admirer.
Scarce catalogue of the Belgian symbolist's lithographs and engravings with an original lithographed cover by the artist.
Scarce catalogue of an exhibition by the Belgian symbolist, with a cover specially designed by the artist.
Signed limited livre d'artiste, a remarkably beautiful book of beasts paired with the artist's own text.
Signed limited first edition of 'This Thing,' a dialogue between Pinget's text and Deyrolle's images.
Lavish large-format limited edition of ten drawings and gouaches by Lurçat.
Signed limited first French edition of Bakst's sumptuous designs for Diaghilev's 1921 London revival of Petipa's classic ballet.
First edition, first state of Twain's allegorical adventure of 16th-century England, aimed at elevating his literary reputation before HUCKLEBERRY FINN finally secured it.
First edition of the famous comedic memoir, a companion to the best-selling INNOCENTS ABROAD and a model for later satirical travel narratives like those of David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell – an exceptional copy.
Rare late Elizabethan book of Psalms, many set to music with letterpress notation, an imperfect copy lacking a number of leaves (though with far more than listed in its STC holding, 2501).
Signed first edition, first printing of "the first memoir written by a South Asian American" (Wenying Xu), chronicling the author's return at 16 to Bombay after an absence of ten years.
First edition of the first autobiography by a biracial Japanese American woman, "a woman who in America is considered a Japanese and in Japan an American."
First edition of the first novel by a Japanese American writer, this copy gifted from the Prat Sisters who founded the Primrose Bindery.
Gorgeous limited first printing of Huxley's essay, followed by etchings of Piranesi's 'Carceri'.
Signed limited "Manuscript Edition" of this duplicated work by the Japanese-American poet and art critic, containing tanka – the earliest known American book to do so.
Second printing (issued simultaneously with the first printing) of the second edition, a resurrection in the middle of the Prohibition era of the scarce 19th-century classic that codified American cocktails.
Early reprint, published the same year as the George Sully first, of the popular world travelogue using the cheeky theme – in the Prohibition-era – of cocktails.