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![FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **New York: Abrams, [1970?] (dated introduction by Jean Marcenac). A livre d'artiste published in an edition of 1998 copies for the entire world; 666 copies each for US, France, and Germany. This is number 377 of the US edition. Facsimile reproductions of three studio sketchbooks from 1964. 23 signatures loose as issued in chemise of linen over boards and housed in a matching clamshell case with linen covers and orange silk edges; the case closes with a leather strap and fastener. The text consists of 4 signatures totalling 32 pp. A 4-page signature follows, with this description: "The re-creations in this Album. . . are the exact size of the original drawings and were produced through a unique process that employs the same type of materials as used by the artist, instead of the usual printing inks. Grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, and charcoal are among the artist's materials used in making the re-creations in this Album. The paper is handmade and is pure rag Velin d'Arches. . . ." 18 signatures of 8 pp. each contain 71 facsimile plates printed on rectos only (24 in color). Page size about 33 x 25 cm. The case shows light wear and some fraying of the joints at the head and tail of the spine.](/mcgilvery/images/items/120x500/26261.jpg "FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **New York: Abrams, [1970?] (dated introduction by Jean Marcenac). A livre d'artiste published in an edition of 1998 copies for the entire world; 666 copies each for US, France, and Germany. This is number 377 of the US edition. Facsimile reproductions of three studio sketchbooks from 1964. 23 signatures loose as issued in chemise of linen over boards and housed in a matching clamshell case with linen covers and orange silk edges; the case closes with a leather strap and fastener. The text consists of 4 signatures totalling 32 pp. A 4-page signature follows, with this description: \"The re-creations in this Album. . . are the exact size of the original drawings and were produced through a unique process that employs the same type of materials as used by the artist, instead of the usual printing inks. Grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, and charcoal are among the artist's materials used in making the re-creations in this Album. The paper is handmade and is pure rag Velin d'Arches. . . .\" 18 signatures of 8 pp. each contain 71 facsimile plates printed on rectos only (24 in color). Page size about 33 x 25 cm. The case shows light wear and some fraying of the joints at the head and tail of the spine.")
Picasso: le goût du bonheur [gout]: a suite of happy, playful, and erotic drawings
Picasso, Pablo. Marcenac, Jean
FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **New York: Abrams, [1970?] (dated introduction by Jean Marcenac). A livre d'artiste published in.. more
Price: $2,750.00
Pianos of sympathy
O'Reilly, Montagu
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Norfolk, Ct.: New Directions, 1936. New Directions Pamphlets, edited by James Laughlin.. more
Price: $400.00
![FREE domestic & international shipping with direct order. **New York: Rudge, 1931. Copy 663 of an unspecified number. Embossed white image of the Empire State Building on blue boards with white spine. Color frontispiece & 24 drawings with descriptions on facing pages depict the construction, from the demolition of the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in mid-October 1929 to its completion in 1931. [60] pp. About 41.5 x 32 cm. Essay by Colonel W. A. Starrett. A small break in the front joint. Otherwise, beautiful. The box in dark blue boards is present but worn and stained, with the cover detached and the corner seams split. A fabulous book.](/mcgilvery/images/items/120x500/61201.jpg "FREE domestic & international shipping with direct order. **New York: Rudge, 1931. Copy 663 of an unspecified number. Embossed white image of the Empire State Building on blue boards with white spine. Color frontispiece & 24 drawings with descriptions on facing pages depict the construction, from the demolition of the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in mid-October 1929 to its completion in 1931. [60] pp. About 41.5 x 32 cm. Essay by Colonel W. A. Starrett. A small break in the front joint. Otherwise, beautiful. The box in dark blue boards is present but worn and stained, with the cover detached and the corner seams split. A fabulous book.")
Empire State: a pictorial record of its construction. Drawings by Vernon Howe Bailey
Bailey, Vernon Howe
FREE domestic & international shipping with direct order. **New York: Rudge, 1931. Copy 663 of an unspecified number. Embossed white.. more
Price: $500.00
![FREE domestic & international shipping with direct order. **[Kingston, NY? the artist, 1990s?] A copy of S.D. Conte's Elementary Numerical Analysis: an Algorithmic Approach (New York: McGraw-Hill, ©1965) has been carved by the artist Robert Thé into the shape of a Luger-like semi-automatic pistol. The unaltered spine forms the top of the breech and barrel, and most of the open part of the book has been removed to form a barrel, grip, and trigger guard; the last is drilled irregularly to create the illusion of a trigger. 23.4 x 15.7 x 2 cm (maximum width). Dark red cloth with gilt titling on a grey background. A copy of the original book accompanies this artist's book. They provide an interesting surprise shelved together. In his essay "The beauty of second use" (The best American essays 2008, edited by Adam Gopnik. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008), Jonathan Lethem writes about receiving as a gift "a copy of my own first novel, Gun, with occasional music [1994], expertly cut into the contours of a pistol. The object was the work of Robert The, an artist whose specialty is the reincarnation of everyday materials…. The gun-book wasn't readable, exactly, but I couldn't take offense at… this appropriated object conveyed back to me—the strange beauty of its second use…. [T]he world makes room for both my novel and Robert The's gun-book. There's no need to choose between the two." Light wear at the head and tail of the gun-book backstrip. A previous owner has written his name, Minneapolis address and telephone number, and a collection number in ink on the flyleaf of the unaltered copy.](/mcgilvery/images/items/120x500/31351.jpg "FREE domestic & international shipping with direct order. **[Kingston, NY? the artist, 1990s?] A copy of S.D. Conte's Elementary Numerical Analysis: an Algorithmic Approach (New York: McGraw-Hill, ©1965) has been carved by the artist Robert Thé into the shape of a Luger-like semi-automatic pistol. The unaltered spine forms the top of the breech and barrel, and most of the open part of the book has been removed to form a barrel, grip, and trigger guard; the last is drilled irregularly to create the illusion of a trigger. 23.4 x 15.7 x 2 cm (maximum width). Dark red cloth with gilt titling on a grey background. A copy of the original book accompanies this artist's book. They provide an interesting surprise shelved together. In his essay \"The beauty of second use\" (The best American essays 2008, edited by Adam Gopnik. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008), Jonathan Lethem writes about receiving as a gift \"a copy of my own first novel, Gun, with occasional music [1994], expertly cut into the contours of a pistol. The object was the work of Robert The, an artist whose specialty is the reincarnation of everyday materials…. The gun-book wasn't readable, exactly, but I couldn't take offense at… this appropriated object conveyed back to me—the strange beauty of its second use…. [T]he world makes room for both my novel and Robert The's gun-book. There's no need to choose between the two.\" Light wear at the head and tail of the gun-book backstrip. A previous owner has written his name, Minneapolis address and telephone number, and a collection number in ink on the flyleaf of the unaltered copy.")
[Altered book in the shape of a gun.]
Thé, Robert (artist, b. 1961). Conte, S.D.
FREE domestic & international shipping with direct order. **[Kingston, NY? the artist, 1990s?] A copy of S.D. Conte's Elementary Numerical.. more
Price: $500.00
