The Duquette Collections
Los Angeles: Christie's, 2001. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Auction catalog, 439p, profusely illustrated in color. Near fine, little signs of use. Near Fine. More
Los Angeles: Christie's, 2001. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Auction catalog, 439p, profusely illustrated in color. Near fine, little signs of use. Near Fine. More
NY: Published by Pynson Printers for Random House, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, purple cloth stamped in gilt, with the slightest fading about edges in original dustacket with a few specks chipped at the dustjacket along the upper edge of the front panel and top of spine. SIGNED by Kent..... More
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First edition, second printing, softcover. SIGNED by author and photographer Danny Lyon on the half title. Near fine copy. The second publication of five in The Lyndhurst Series on the South. More
London: Petersburg Press, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Catalog documenting the publication of The Blue Guitar, a group of etchings by Hockney, accompanied by a poem by Wallace Stevens,, The Man with the Blue Guitar. Square 8vo, paper label front cover, in dustjacket that has some modest wear at tips and..... More
London: Constable, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, xii, 264, illustrated with 31 line drawings and 17 photographs, all black and white. Pictorial title page replicates the cover of the dust-jacket. Inscribed by artist and author Jones on the ffe: "For dearest Ray/ with love from Barbara". Unclipped dustajcaket has some..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1895. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Two uniform volumes, 5th edition (apparently issued in a gift box that is missing), gold cloth decorated with peacock feather motif, decorations in the Arts& Crafts style, gte, sides untrimmed, illustrated w/ b&w photograph reproductions w/ tissue guards. Covers modestly soiled, some..... More
NY: New Masses, Inc., 1926. 1926. 1st Edition. Soft cover. The fourth issue - August 1926 - of the Greenwich Village-based, Marxist magazine founded in 1926 as part of the Workers (Communist) Party of America's publications, whihc featured the work of leftist and Socialist independent writers and artists. The original..... More
Lyon: Chez B. Corman et Blanc, 1833. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio, half leather over marbleized boards. xxiv, 390, 63 plates, this lacking plate 9, and plates 8, 11, 12, 48 and 61, cut from binding and laid-in. Text block separated from casing. Some edgewear to loose plates but all are..... More
Gotha: Justus Perthes 0. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Adolf Stieler's Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde und über das Weltgebäude. In original pebbled full leather binding, moderately worn at hinges and corners. 8 pages of text, all 95 maps extant and in fine condition. Undated, circa 1870s. Extra shipping charges will..... More
NY: Printed by Carol Strum & Douglas Wolf, 1989. 1st Edition, limited. Soft cover. Privately printed of presumably limited run but unknown number of copies. Presentation copy from WS Merwin (1927-2019), Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1971 and 2009), to author Edmund Morris (1940 - 2019), Pulitzer Prize for NonFiction, "The..... More
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First edition, trade paperback. Presentation copy from WS Merwin (1927-2019), Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1971 and 2009), to author Edmund Morris (1940 - 2019), Pulitzer Prize for NonFiction, "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" (1979). Inscribed on the half title: "For Edmund..... More
NY: Atheneum, 1971. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fifth printing, trade paperback edition. Presentation copy from WS Merwin (1927-2019), Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1971 and 2009), to author Edmund Morris (1940 - 2019), Pulitzer Prize for NonFiction, "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" (1979). Inscribed on the half title to Morris and..... More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Book fine in near fine dustjacket, very slightly faded in the upper left corner front panel. Presentation copy from W.S. Merwin (1927-2019), Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1971 and 2009) to author Edmund Morris (1940 - 2019), Pulitzer Prize for..... More
NY: Antaeus Editions, 1976. 1st Edition Limited. Soft cover. First edition, limited issue, this #12 0f 50 signed copies, from a total edition of 500. Stapled printed wrappers, French flaps, 12p (unnumbered). Designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press. As new. More
London: Printed by Iohn Bill, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, 1623. Hardcover. 4to, disbound, detached covers appear to be original or certainly very old calf, double blind-ruled. Lacking front endpapers and prelims, title page remounted, 96, 320, remnants of rears, with variable loss of edges to leaves, mostly..... More
NY: Pantheon, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed to photo researcher at Aperture by Meiselas: "For Susan for being interested. Susan Meiselas 2/7/84". Dustjacket slightly rubbed with a short closed tear top edge and some incidental edgewear. More
Wollaston MA: Many Voices Press, 1978. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Photographs that document the hard-knocks life of teh Dorchester section of Boston. Covers slightly rubbed, internals fine. More
NY/ London: Writers and Readers, 1983. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Oblong softcover, 120p. "For Susan" and signed by Forche, Meiselas and Mattison on the title page. More
Beverly Hills / NY: Gagosian Gallery / Rizzoli, 2103. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Stunning 2013 exhibition catalogue of Gagosian in Beverly Hills, then London, of Avedon's photographic portraits, mostly in b&w, of women from Jackie Kennedy to Dorothy Parker. 98 loose sheets, folded down the center, inserted one into the..... More
NY: Joe McKenna Publishing 0. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Folio-size, highly glossy fashion magazine. Incidentla wear to bottom edge, internals as new. More
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As new, unused copy in fine pictorial box. More
NY: Quartet Books Ltd, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine, unused copy - as new, really - in fine dustjacket plainly signed by fashion photographer Blake and dated by her '84, the year of publication, on the title page. With a compliments card from Rebecca Blake Studios, 25 W 36..... More
London: Westminster Press, 1930. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. The large paper edition, 185 copies, this #152 and signed by woodcut artist Derrick on the limitation page, with a signed woodcut print laid-in. Faux vellum, gilt titles front and spine, gte, ribbon-marker, 4to, sides untriimmed, 100p. The text, edited by Rhys..... More
NY: Boni & Liveright, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Polished, aqua-blue cloth, gilt-stamped titles, decorated endpapers. Original dustjacket re-assembled but missing half of spine and corner sections. More
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A behind-the-scenes look from the ad exec who managed one of the most successful advertising campaigns of the 20thC. Book is near fine. Dustjacket is price clipped with some rolling, a closed tear and a small chip top edge front panel. More