Softcover. Beirut, Plan Bey, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 24 pages. Color plates. Limited to 300 copies. Lebanese artist, critic and poet Samir Sayegh is a pioneer of modernism in the Arab world. Often uniting ornamentation with calligraphic script, he has developed a distinctive practice. This catalog is printed in offset in three Pantone colors on special Fabriano Ingres laid finished drawing paper with Japanese hand binding. Clean copy.
Softcover. Santa Barbara CA, UCSB Art Museum, 2nd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 105 pages illustrated with b&w photos and architectural drawings. Clean, crisp copy of this exhibition catalog.
Hardcover. Burlington, Bridgman, Maeck, JDK Gallery, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 37 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY BRIDGMAN AND MAECK ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Illustrated with full color photographs. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear. INSCRIBED BY STEINBERG in blue pencil and dated Oct 79 on the half-title page. Inscribed to Silvano Arieti (1914-1981), a psychiatrist, regarded as the world's foremost authority on schizophrenia. He was also a longtime professor at New York Medical College. 256 pages, black and white and color reproductions, publisher's brown cloth-backed tan papered boards, lettered in gilt at spine, brown endpapers (minor chipping to rear bottom edge. Pictorial dust jacket minor toning and wear mostly to edges, very good.
Hardcover. US, PaceWildenstein, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. 83 pages. Spiral bound.
Softcover. New York, Whitney/Knopf, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear. Else a clean, tight copy. Illuminates Steinberg's creative genius as a writer of pictures by critically viewing his ability to transcend borders between art and language in his drawings, cartoons, New Yorker covers, watercolors, and three-dimensional constructions.
Softcover. New York, Whitney/Knopf, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear. Else a clean, tight copy. Illuminates Steinberg's creative genius as a writer of pictures by critically viewing his ability to transcend borders between art and language in his drawings, cartoons, New Yorker covers, watercolors, and three-dimensional constructions.
Softcover. Calcutta/Chicago, Seagull/University of Chicago, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, flexible cloth in a bright dust jacket. An elaborate catalog published by Seagull Books, a venture begun in Kolkata in 1982 by Naveen Kishore, a theater practitioner. They focus on world and Indian literature in English translation, serious non-fiction, culture studies, performance studies, art and cinema. 372 pages illustrated in color. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Hart Publishing, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 56 pages. Two-color illustrations by Ronald Ferns. Previous owner's inscription on back of front endpaper. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Story of a cat and her kittens moving into a new town.
Softcover. Carrara Italy, privately printed, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated (48 pages), illustrated in color and b&w. Contains reproductions of Tallarigo's stone sculptures created from 1990-1995. Text in Italian and English.
Hardcover. Fribourg, Office du Livre, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright but edgeworn dust jacket. 339 pages with 34 tipped-in color plates and 314 b&w illustrations. Top edge gilt. Catalogue raisonne of 117 items forming what is arguably the best collection of soft-paste Sevres in existence. With biographies of important artists and craftsmen, introductory essay on the factory, important personages, crafstmen, painters and gilders, and colours. Scarce.
Boston, Little Brown , 1st , 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 262 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY SCHINE on title-page. Clean, tIght copy.
Softcover. NY, Adelson Galleries., 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with heavy paper slipcase. Contains 15 loose 12x12" color plates and a folded sheet featuring a photo of the artist and a short essay by Warren Adelson. A 16th plate called for in the list of paintings is missing. Plates on heavy stock, bright and clean, slipcase shows wear.
Hardcover. New Haven/New York, Yale University Press/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 340 pages, 223 color, 92 b&w plates. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. New York, Charta, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. 80 photographs in black and white. A collection of portraits from throughout the 1960's.
Hardcover. Garden City NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with red cloth spine. Copyright 1948 by James and Jonathan. Oversize hardback story/picture book measures about 9 by 11 1/4 inches. Story of Slappy, a duckling who runs away from home to discover the world. Clean copy of a fragile book. Fragments of dust jacket laid in.
Hardcover. Tarrytown NY, Sleepy Hollow Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 310 pages. includes index, bibliography, b/w illustrations throughout the book plus middle section of full-color photos. Covers Phillipsburg Manor, Upper Mills & Van Cortland Manor and Washington Irving's Sunnyside.
Softcover. Wilmington, DE, Delaware Art Museum, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 235 page catalog. Includes 167 artists. Numerous b&w and color illustrations, most of which are accompanied by biographical text on artist. Some mild wear on back cover. Else is very good.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Hardcover, original publisher's paper covered boards. 28 pages with wonderful drawings of kittens by Newberry, Child's lettering on inside of both covers, internally clean pages. Spine paper gone, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Torino, Italy, Hopeful Monster Editore, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color and black and white photographs throughout. Clean, tight copy. Italian Text.
Softcover. North Adams, MA, Mass Moca, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy. Color plates in rear.
Softcover. Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum/Stedelijk Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 207 pages. Oblong softcover with full color and black & white photographs. 406 illustrations. Texts by Alexander van Grevenstein and Jan Debbaut, in parallel English and Dutch. Minor wear. Clean, tight copy.