Anouilh, Jean.

Pieces Costumees: L'Alouette / Becket Ou L'Honneur de Dieu / la Foire D'Empoigne.

Paris: Les Editions de la Table Ronde, 1960. 1960. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY JEAN ANOUILH - Octavo, off-white cloth titled between raised bands on the spine with a vignette color portrait of a French army officer on the front cover. With a cream silk bookmark. The corners of the covers are very lightly creased & there is a stain to the tail of the spine. 371 pages plus a 3-page colophon. Very good.

First trade edition and first publication of "La Foire d'Empoigne".

Inscribed in French and signed in full by the playwright on the half-title: "Pour Honoria Plesch pour la nouvelle annee pour une amitie nouvelle et pour le progres du francais..amicalement / Jean Anouilh / 1er janvier 61".

Jean Anouilh [1910-1987] was a French playwright whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, he is best known for his 1943 adaptation of Sophocles' "Antigone". The play was seen as an attack on Marshal Petain's Vichy government. Anouilh was one of France's most prolific writers in the postwar period. Much of his work addresses themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.

Costume designer Honoria Plesch [1919-1990] was born in Berlin. In 1933, together with her brother Peter and her family, she left Germany and emigrated to England. Her most important professional assignment was as costume designer for the 1947 film "Brighton Rock" starring Richard Attenborough. Plesch was apparently Anouilh's neighbor for a time in Switzerland.

The text is in French. Very good .

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Book number: 35984

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: THEATRE; THEATER; FRENCH THEATRE; FRENCH PLAYWRIGHT; FRENCH DRAMATIST; PLAYS; JEAN ANOUILH; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; PIECES COSTUMEES: L'ALOUETTE / BECKETT OU L'HONNEUR DE DIEU / LA FOIRE EMPOIGNE; COSTUME DESIGNER; HONORIA PLESCH;

Antes, Horst

Antes: Bilder 1965-1971. Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden Und Gesellschaft Der Freunde Junger Kunst 30. 7-26. 9. 1971... . (Catalog)

(Baden-Baden: Staatliche Kunsthalle, 1971). 1971). (Baden-Baden: Staatliche Kunsthalle, 1971). 1971). Good. - Quarto [12-1/2 inches high by 9-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in white wrappers with a color vignette mounted on the front wrap. The binding is bumped, soiled & chipped with the spine & extremities darkened. Tears to the rear wrap & the upper end of the spine have been repaired with scotch tape. 120 pages plus colophon with an errata slip laid in. Color frontispiece & profuse color illustrations with a bookmark in the form of a folding black-and-white cut-out figure of the artist hanging from a tape with biographical information printed on the inner surface. The brilliantly colored illustrations are clean & bright. Good.

Edition of 4,000 copies.

The catalog is edited by Klaus Gallwitz. The text is printed in German, French and English. Good .

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Book number: 19992

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: ART; ARTIST; PAINTER; HORST ANTES; ANTES: BILDER 1965-1971; EXHIBITION; CATALOG; STAATLICHE KUNSThalle, Baden-Baden; Gesellschaft der Freunde junger Kunst; KLAUS GALLWITZ.

[E. & H.T. Anthony].

Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and Materials for Amateurs, June, 1889. [First Edition].

[New York]: John Polhemus, Printer [for E. & H.T. Anthony], 1889. 1889. - Octavo, 9-7/8 inches high by 6-3/8 inches wide. Softcover bound in stapled wraps, lacking the front cover. There are several tears to the soiled rear cover with a piece torn from the top inner corner of that cover. [vi] & 118 pages, including a 4-page index. Profusely illustrated throughout, with depictions of large and small cameras, tripods, lenses, darkroom equipment and an unusual camera mounted on the handlebar of a nineteenth century bicycle with the large front wheel titled "Anthony's Bicycle Equipment". The page corners are lightly creased with the bottom front corner of the first few pages chipped away. There is a small tear to the top edge of the first leaf with tiny holes to the top edge of the next 2 leaves. Complete except for the cover. First edition. N.B.: This is the original first edition and NOT a facsimile. In addition to the handlebar mounted camera, the firm also offers a "Lilliput Camera" which resembles a "small handbag" and thus unobtrusive. On that same page, the firm portrays and describes a "Concealed Vest Camera", "worn under both coat and vest with the lens protruding through the buttonhole of the vest". RARE. Fair .

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Book number: 95123

Catalogue: Photography

Keywords: PHOTOGRAPHY; E. & H.T. ANTHONY; ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENTS AND MATERIALS FOR AMATEURS, JUNE, 1889; CATALOG; FIRST EDITION; 19TH CENTURY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 1ST EDITION; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS; HANDLEBAR MOUNTED CAMERA; ANTHO

(Anthony, Gordon). Saint-Denis, Michel.

John Gielgud: Camera Studies by Gordon Anthony with an Introduction by Michel Saint-Denis.

London: Geoffrey Bles, (1938). (1938). - Small quarto [10 inches high by 7-1/2 inches wide], black cloth titled in silver. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped with some tiny white stains to the front cover. The head & tail of the spine are lightly chipped. Unnumbered pages, including 24 black-and-white plates from photographs by Gordon Anthony, interleaved with caption pages. Good.

First trade edition. Good .

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Book number: 35815

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: THEATER; THEATRE; STAGE; BRITISH; ACTOR; JOHN GIELGUD; MICHEL SAINT-DENIS; PHOTOGRAPHER; PHOTOGRAPHY; GORDON ANTHONY; FIRST TRADE EDITION; 1ST TRADE EDITION.

Antonetto, Marco; Donnini, Marco

Swatcher: The Swatch Hand Book '92. 497 Swatch Catalogati Con Quotazioni Di Mercato

(Milano): Auritempore Edizioni, 1992. 1992. (Milano): Auritempore Edizioni, 1992. 1992. Fine. - Quarto [10-3/4 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide], red-and-white paper covered boards in a dust wrapper with a printed red band wrapped around the dust wrapper's panels & spine. The binding is lightly bumped. The bottom corner of the dust jacket's front panel is creased. 325 pages. Illustrated with profuse images of color & black-and-white swatches. Near fine.

Second edition.

The text is printed in Italian and English. . Fine .

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Book number: 29333

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: ART; DESIGN; HOROLOGY; WATCHES; SWATCHES; SWATCHER: THE SWATCH HAND BOOK '92; MARCO ANTONETTO; MARCO DONNINI; CATALOG; REFERENCE; PRICES; ILLUSTRATIONS.

Antonioni, Michelangelo; Bartolini, Elio; and Guerra, Tonino.

L'Avventura (a Film by Michelangelo Antonioni) from the Filmscript by Michelangelo Antonioni with Elio Bartolini and Tonino Guerra.

New York: Grove Press, (1969). (1969). New York: Grove Press, (1969). (1969). Very good. - Small octavo, 7 inches high by 4-1/8 inches wide. Softcover, mass market paperback bound in purple & white wraps. The covers are slightly soiled with a price penned at the top of the front cover. 288 pages, with several pages of illustrations after photographs & stills from the film. Very good. First edition, first printing. In addition to the filmscript, the book includes an interview with Antonioni as well as the scripts for variant scenes omitted from the movie and essays by several critics and reviewers. Very good .

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Book number: 98308

Catalogue: Film

Keywords: FILM; MOVIES; L'AVVENTURA; A FILM BY MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI; FILMSCRIPT; ELIO BARTOLINI; TONINO GUERRA; GEORGE AMBERG; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; FIRST PRINTING; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; NEW WAVE CINEMA; NOUVELLE VAGUE; ITALIAN CINEMA; CLASSI

Antonioni, Michelangelo; Leprohon, Pierre

Michelangelo Antonioni: An Introduction. Translated by Scott Sullivan

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. 1963. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. 1963. Good. - Octavo, pictorial black-and-white wraps. The wraps are rubbed & lightly bumped with staining to the top edge of the front wrap. 205 pages. Black- and-white illustrations. There is staining to the inside front wrap & small stains to the bottom edges of the pages in the first half of the book. Good.

First edition.

In addition to Pierre Leprohon's text on the director's life and works, the book includes writing on cinema by Antonioni and criticism and commentary by other writers and directors such as Ingmar Bergman, Alberto Moravia, Italo Calvino, Jonas Mekas and Stanley Kaufmann. Good .

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Book number: 16377

Catalogue: Film

Keywords: FILM; MOVIES; CINEMA; ITALIAN; DIRECTOR; MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI; PIERRE LEPROHON; FILM CRITICISM; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

(Antonucci, Emil). Lax, Robert.

Fables. Drawings by Emil Antonucci.

New York: Journeyman Press, 1970. 1970. - Small quarto, 8-3/8 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled blue-gray wrappers featuring a title design by Antonucci. The spine is lightly faded. [32] pages printed on blue-gray stock, with full page illustrations by Emil Antonucci on the rectos. The top front corners of the covers and pages are bumped. Very good.

First edition. Uncommon in commerce. Very good .

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Book number: 98126

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; ROBERT LAX; FABLES; EMIL ANTONUCCI; ILLUSTRATED; AMERICAN ROMAN CATHOLIC POET; POEMS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; ILLUSTRATIONS.

Apel, Willi

Harvard Dictionary of Music

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958. 1958. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958. 1958. Very good. - Octavo, maroon cloth titled in gilt on spine. The covers are rubbed & bumped & there is a tiny tear to the cloth of the spine. x & 833 pp. There are tiny stains to 2 rear blanks. Illustrated with music staves. Very good.

Originally published in 1944. Very good .

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Book number: 2125

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; REFERENCE; DICTIONARY; HARVARD; WILLI APPEL.

(Appel, Karel). Fuchs, Rudi

Karel Appel: Black and White Paintings

New York: Marisa Del Re Gallery, 1991. 1991. New York: Marisa Del Re Gallery, 1991. 1991. Very good. - Quarto [11-1/2 inches square], softcover. The contents are bound between printed black-and-white cover sheets with black metal rings. The cover sheets are bumped & lightly soiled & the corners of the rear cover sheet are chipped. Unpaginated with some pages printed on black stock. Full-page color photographic portrait of the artist & 9 full-page reproductions of his works in black & white and color. The page corners are bumped & there is some light rubbing to the black stock. Very good.

Catalog for an exhibition shown at the Marisa Del Re Gallery in New York City from March 7 to April 6, 1991. The text includes an essay by Rudi Fuchs. Very good .

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Book number: 26213

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: ART; TWENTIETH CENTURY ART; 20TH CENTURY ART; ARTIST; PAINTER; KAREL APPEL: BLACK AND WHITE PAINTINGS; EXHIBITION; CATALOG; RUDI FUCHS; MARISA DEL RE GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY; ILLUSTRATIONS.

(Applebroog, Ida). Reinhardt, Brigitte; Pohlen, Annelie; Schulz-Hoffman, Carla; Storr, Robert

Ida Applebroog: Bilder

(Ulm [Germany]: Ulmer Museum, 1991). 1991). (Ulm [Germany]: Ulmer Museum, 1991). 1991). Very good. - Quarto [approximately 11 inches high by 9-3/8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The extremities of the binding are rubbed. 95 pages. Numerous illustrations in color and black & white. Very good.

Catalog for an exhibition which opened at the Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany on September 29, 1991 and was shown in Bonn and Berlin in the following year. The catalog essays are printed in German and English. Very good .

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Book number: 25215

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: ART; AMERICAN ART; TWENTIETH CENTURY ART; 20TH CENTURY ART; AMERICAN ARTIST; IDA APPLEBROOG; EXHIBITION; ULMER MUSEUM, ULM, GERMANY; CATALOG; BRIGITTE REINHARDT; ROBERT STORR; ANNELIE POHLEN; CARLA SCHULZ-HOFFMAN.

Aptecker, George

Beyond Despair. (Introductory Essay by Elie Wiesel)

Morristown, NJ: Kahn and Kahan Publishing Co. Inc. (1980). (1980). Morristown, NJ: Kahn and Kahan Publishing Co. Inc. (1980). (1980). Fine. - Quarto, black cloth titled in white on spine & front cover in pictorial B&W dw. Unnumbered pages, including profuse full-page B&W illustrations from photographs by George Aptecker. Near fine.

"'Beyond Despair' is an exploration through symbolic photographs, selected quotes and an introduction by Elie Wiesel, of the words 'Final Solution' and an event known as the Holocaust.."--From the dw copy. Fine .

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Book number: 1527

Catalogue: Photography

Keywords: PHOTOGRAPHY; JEWS; HOLOCAUST; FINAL SOLUTION; NAZIS; PHOTOGRAPHER; GEORGE APTECKER; ELIE WIESEL.

Apuleo, Vito

L'Opera Grafica Di Mario Russo

Rome: Trevi Editore, (1973). (1973). Rome: Trevi Editore, (1973). (1973). Fine. - Quarto, green cloth in pictorial white dw (soiled & chipped). xii, 200 & [vi] pages with 200 illustrations. Near fine in a good dw.

Inscribed by the artist, Mario Russo, on title page. Fine .

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Book number: 3843

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: ART; SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; ILLUSTRATED; L'OPERA GRAFICA DI MARIO RUSSO.; VITO APULEO; INSCRIBED; ARTIST; ITALIAN; MARIO RUSSO.

Arbus, Diane; Southall, Thomas W.

Diane Arbus: Magazine Work.

(Millerton, NY): Aperture, (1984). (1984). - Quarto [approximately 11-1/4 inches wide by 9-1/2 inches wide], pictorial boards in a matching dust wrapper. 175 & [1] pages. Profuse black-and-white illustrations. The top edges of the pages are slightly darkened. Very good.

Edited by Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel. With an essay by Thomas W. Southall and commentaries by Diane Arbus. Very good .

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Book number: 35378

Catalogue: Photography

Keywords: PHOTOGRAPY; AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER; DIANE ARBUS: MAGAZINE WORK; THOMAS W. SOUTHALL; DOON ARBUS AND MARVIN ISRAEL, EDITORS; PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY; PORTRAITS.

Arcand, Pierre-Andre; et al.

Inter Export Inter Export Inter Export Inter Export Inter: Une Exposition Du Collectif Des Editions Intervention Chez Jacques Donguy 57, de la Roquette Du 2 Au 27 Avril 1985.

(Quebec, Canada: Editions Restreintes/Editions Intervention), (1985). (1985). - Oblong octavo [5-1/4 inches high by 8-3/8 inches wide], softcover bound in plain tan wrappers with a vignette of a clock on each wrap and with a bookmark of tan cord threaded through a metal nib. The catalog is housed in an plastic sleeve with "Inter Export" printed in red & black on the front side. There is some very light creasing to the binding and the sleeve is rubbed & creased. Unpaginated. Profuse illustrations of artists' pages in black & white and color with elements of collage, including fabric & metal, pasted in. Very good. Limited edition of 99 copies. Catalog of an exhibition of work by members of "Le Collectif des Editions Intervention". The exhibition was conceived and realized by Pierre-Andre Arcand, a member of the collective, who also supervised the catalog. It was shown in Paris from April 2nd to 27th 1985. Les Editions Intervention, based in Quebec City, Canada, aims to bring together artists, poets and other creative individuals in order to produce more diversified forms of work. Richard Martel writes for the Collective: "Nous cherchons simplement des alternatives, nous nageons dans l'indefinissable et l'indescriptible. C'est notre engagement politique envers l'art". [We simply search for alternatives, we swim amidst the indefinable and the indescribable. That's our politcal commitment in regard to art]. The artists included are Patrick Altman, Mona Desgagne, Guy Durand, Robert Gelinas, Pierre Monat, Jean-Claude St.-Hilaire and others. Rare. WorldCat locates no copies. Very good .

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Book number: 33899

Catalogue: Conceptual Art

Keywords: CONCEPTUAL ART; VISUAL POETRY; CATALOG; EXHIBITION; INTER EXPORT INTER EXPORT INTER EXPORT INTER EXPORT INTER; COLLECTIF DES EDITIONS INTERVENTION; CANADIAN ARTISTIC COLLECTIVE; PIERRE-ANDRE ARCAND; RICHARD MARTEL; Patrick Altman; Mona Desgagne; Guy Duran