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A Personal Calligraphy [signed]

By: Pratt, Mary

Price: $50.05

Publisher: Fredericton, NB, Goose Lane Editions: 2000

Seller ID: Books008527

ISBN: 0864923163

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

143 pages. Warmly inscribed by the author / artist on title page. The recipient is a cousin of Pratt's, and has dog-eared some corners and added some brief notes and some marginal scoring in pencil.
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History of Manon Lescaut and of the Chevalier des Grieux

By: Prevost, Abbe; [Preface by Guy de Maupassant]

Price: $336.88

Publisher: London and New York, George Routledge and Sons: 1886

Seller ID: Books012450

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

xx, [4], 204, [3], with twelve full-page tissue guarded plates as called for. Finely bound by Birdsall, with their stamp to verso of first front endpaper. Leather rubbed along extremities; large discard stamp to decorative first endpaper and to verso of second - no other library indications. Swipe of blue stain to lower portion of untrimmed fore-edge. Top edge gilt. A handsome volume; no inscriptions; binding sound. Due to weight, please inquire for overseas shipping quotes.
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Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development

By: Rank, Otto

Price: $103.13

Publisher: New York, Agathon Press: 1975

Seller ID: Books011980

ISBN: 0875860109

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xlix, 431 pages, index xii, with a preface by Ludwig Lewisohn and a new foreword by Anais Nin, translated from the German by Charles Francis Atkinson
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The Fantastic Art of Clark Ashton Smith

By: Rickard, Dennis

Price: $96.25

Publisher: Baltimore, MD, The Mirage Press: 1973

Seller ID: Books012295

Binding: Saddle Stapled Card Covers

Condition: Good

Stain and light silverfish predation to rear cover; stain to verso of covers and adjacent leaf. Top edge foxed. Silverfish holes to first leaf and to four leaves of photos (not affecting image or text). Light foxing to fore-edge and to first and final leaf. Faint small tideline at gutter.
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Harlequin & Mother Goose: or The Magic Stick [signed]

By: Robbins, Ruth

Price: $171.88

Publisher: Parnassus Press: 1965

Seller ID: Books012616

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Unpaged. Signed by author and by illustrator at foot of copyright page. Former owner's signature top right of title page. Jacket not price clipped, though lower corner of front flap has been. Light rubbing to jacket and a short tear to rear panel - now in a removable archival sleeve.
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America's Black and White Book. One Hundred Pictured Reasons Why We Are At War [in jacket, with newspaper ephemera]

By: Rogers, W. A.

Price: $240.63

Publisher: New York, Cupples & Leon / New York Herald: 1917

Seller ID: Books009514

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

100 leaves of images printed recto with description on facing verso. Jacket rubbed, soiled, chipped at extremities and with a 1.5 inch closed tear at center bottom of rear panel. Offsetting to front endpapers from laid in newspaper clippings of seven more Rogers war cartoons and "All the Kaiser Wants!" by Robert Carter. Unobtrusive moisture wave to lowest inch of textblock.
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Richard Serra : Sculpture. Edited with an introduction by Laura Rosenstock. Essay by Douglas Crimp

By: Rosalind E. Krauss, Douglas Crimp, Laura Rosenstock

Price: $71.50

Publisher: U.S.A., The Museum of Modern Art [MOMA]: 1986

Seller ID: Books007704

ISBN: 0870705903

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

184 pages. Clean and unmarked with no creasing to spine. Two leaves lightly dogeared. "Nearly 120 works are illustrated, from early rubber and neon tubing pieces to late large-scale projects in steel. ... This book accompanies an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York." [from rear cover]
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What Is Pink? [signed by artist]

By: Rossetti, Christina

Price: $41.25

Publisher: Singapore, Rubicon Publishing: 2003

Seller ID: Books010894

ISBN: 0921156928

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

[26] pages. Signed by Holly Carr twice. Else as new.
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Creative Drawing: Point and Line

By: Rottger, Ernst; and Dieter Klante

Price: $89.38

Publisher: New York, Reinhold: 1964

Seller ID: Books012037

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

143 pages. Jacket rubbed along extremities and toned along top edge, with slight bubbling to the overlay - not price clipped. Interior clean and unmarked - profusely illustrated. Binding is sound.
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Munera Pulveris Six Essays on the Elements of Political Economy. [Works of John Ruskin Volume II]

By: Ruskin, John

Price: $128.70

Publisher: London, George Allen: 1880

Seller ID: Books008788

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

xxvii, 186 pages. Finely bound in blue leather rubbed at extremities, with spine sunned. All edges gilded; marbled endpapers with bookplate of William Laurence Pullar to pastedown. Clean and unmarked in binding entirely sound. Two title pages: the first for The Works of John Ruskin - this being Volume II; the second for this particular work noting "second thousand". Both title pages are dated 1880. At time of listing, we have Ruskin's A Joy For Ever [Volume XI in Works] in matching binding.
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"A Joy Forever" (and its price on the market): Being the substance (with additions) of Two Lectures on the Political Economy of Art. [Works of John Ruskin Volume XI]

By: Ruskin, John

Price: $128.70

Publisher: London, George Allen: 1895

Seller ID: Books008794

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

xi, 239 pages. Finely bound in blue leather rubbed at extremities, with spine sunned. All edges gilded; marbled endpapers with bookplate of William Laurence Pullar to pastedown. Clean and unmarked in binding entirely sound. Two title pages: the first for The Works of John Ruskin - this being Volume XI; the second for this particular work noting "second edition". Both title pages are dated 1895. At time of listing, we have Ruskin's Munera Pulveris [Volume II in Works] in matching binding.
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Kralj Zlate Reke ali Crna Brata [The King of the Golden River or The Black Brothers]

By: Ruskin, John; Ljudevit Furlani trs.

Price: $130.63

Publisher: Ljubljani, Zvezna Tiskarna: 1922

Seller ID: Books012502

Binding: Saddle Stapled Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

33, [1] pages. Light foxing to covers and first leaf. Illustrated throughout. Staples rusted but secure.
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The New Woodcut. Studio Special Spring Number 1930

By: Salaman, Malcolm C.; C. Geoffrey Holme ed.

Price: $85.80

Publisher: London / New York, The Studio / Albert & Charles Boni: 1930

Seller ID: Books009749

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

viii, 176 pages. Profusely illustrated. One inch closed tear along hinge at base of spine. Binding sound, interior is clean and unmarked. Removeable vernacular cover, with handmade label peeling off, has protected the exterior for decades.
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Kerf [With] Print Shop Chicanery [and] Uncutting The Block

By: Sanger, Peter; Andrew Steeves

Price: $378.13

Publisher: Kentville, N.S., Gaspereau Press: 2002

Seller ID: Books012702

ISBN: 1554470048

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

Unpaged [12 leaves]. Number 163 of 300 copies issued. Devil's Whim No. 6, flat signed by Peter Sanger on the title page. Laid in is a copy of Print Shop Chicanery (number 4 of 85, second state, Devil's Whim No. 10) inscribed to Joe Stevens by Andrew Steeves. Also laid in is the Gaspereau letterpress keepsake that was originally laid in DA 51 (Fall/Winter 2002) featuring a Wesley Bates engraving at the head of a Peter Sanger poem Uncutting The Block. The keepsake is signed Peter Sanger at foot. Joe Stevens [17 April 1951 - 20 Jan 2020] was a cataloguer at Acadia University library, and long-tim...
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A Midsummer-Night's Dream

By: Shakespeare, William

Price: $378.13

Publisher: London / New York, William Heinemann / Doubleday, Page, & Co.: 1908

Seller ID: Books012453

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

134 pages, and all 40 captioned tissue guarded plates. Head of spine pulled, spine darkened, cloth with light soil and wear. Attractive bookplate to front pastedown, inscriptions to front free endpaper. Offsetting to endpapers; light foxing throughout, but not to plates. 2-inch closed tear to page 21. Binding is sound.
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Metamorphosis. The Art of Robert Pope

By: Smart, Tom

Price: $41.25

Publisher: Hailfax, N.S., Art Gallery of Nova Scotia: 2012

Seller ID: Books010701

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

78pp.
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Alex Colville : Return [signed]

By: Smart, Tom

Price: $268.13

Publisher: Vancouver, B.C., Douglas & McIntyre: 2003

Seller ID: Books010377

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

144 pages. Inscribed by Colville on the title page. Fine, in fine jacket. Co-published by Douglas & McIntyre and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Note on colophon states First US edition published in 2004, though both numberlines indicate 2003 first printing. Laid in are a few newspaper clippings, and a folding illustrated card for the May 28 - June 18, 2005 Mira Godard Gallery: Alex Colville New Paintings & Drawings Opening Reception.
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