Modern Books

Manuel Ocampo: Fear of a Kitsch Existence (1989–2017). New, sealed in original publisher's shrink-wrap — unopened. A comprehensive monograph surveying Manuel Ocampo's work from 1989 ...

The Most Beautiful Libraries of the World by Jacques Bosser Photographs by Guillaume De Laubier. Published by Thames & Hudson, London, 2003. Hardback in dust jacket. A breathtakin...

A First Edition 'Goodbye Picasso' coffee table or library book, by author David Douglas Duncan, 1974, New York. An amazing book covering an intimate look at the relationship between ...

A very handsome Tiffany & Co. sterling silver bookmark incorporating a charming and highly practical magnifying glass. Expertly crafted in sterling silver, the piece combines functi...

Is apartment living the way of the future? According to some, it's the only way to live. For most apartment-dwellers, beautiful views, functional floor plans, low maintenance and convenient, inner-city locations far outweigh the attributes of the traditional quarter-acre suburban block. This book presents, through text, superb floor photographs and floor plans, 50 of the best apartments from around the world. Focusing on fabulous interiors, this book is a digest of the myriad ways to fit out spaces that often begin as concrete shells, but are transformed, through the talents of the best interior architects and designers, into luxurious penthouses, funky lofts, hip apartments, sleek bachelor pads and sumptuous family homes. An inspiring sourcebook for all lovers of beautiful interiors. Title Fifty of the World's Best Apartments Editor Robyn Beaver...

Tolkien, J.R.R., The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King. London: Allen & Unwin, 1956, 1957, 1959. First editions, fifth impress...

Nixon, Richard. The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978. First Edition. Signed and inscribed on a pasted down bookplate. In original dust jacket and boards...

Katsura, Ermitage et Jardins - Un Moment de Perfection (Katsura, Hermitage and Gardens, a Moment of Perfection), French Book by Office du Livre, Vilo Editions Paris, 1986. 274 pages. Dimensions: Overall: 10.63 in by 13.75 in (27 by 35 cm). Published in 1986 by Office du Livre, Editions Vilo, Paris. Book by Arata Isozaki and Osamu Sato; photographs by Yasuhiro Ishimoto; French translation and commentary by Pierre and Suzanne Rambach. A visit to Katsura, the imperial villa, is a circuit of an hour. One emerges amazed, astonished, and dazzled. What remains are the intense images captured by the eye, captured by the moment that flees without recourse. Amid its garden and the four tea pavilions that border the central pond, built in the 17th century by Prince Toshihito, on the banks of the river that flows through Kyoto, Katsura remains the image of refinement. Villa, also known as Katsura Rikyū, is an architectural gem located in Kyoto, built in the 17th century by Prince Toshihito. Designed as a place of relaxation for the imperial family, this villa embodies not only the elegance and serenity of Japanese architecture but also the perfect harmony between man and nature. Visionary architects Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius of the Bauhaus movement, as well as Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Le Corbusier, were influenced in their designs by the Katsura Imperial Villa, particularly by its minimalist approach, clean lines, and profound respect for the environment. This helped to disseminate and integrate the principles of Japanese architecture into the modern movement. The elegance of this princely "hermitage" and its tea pavilions creates an atmosphere of serenity and highlights the natural beauty of its surroundings. Its landscaped gardens, true contemplative gems, feature a meticulous arrangement of ponds, bridges, rocks, and vegetation, creating a subtle harmony. It is said that the brilliant gardeners of the Katsura Villa brought about a revolution: for the first time, they introduced, into the landscapes they created by imitating nature, elements that could only come from man: straight lines, regular geometric curves, or, conversely, skillfully rhythmic ones. In short, the Katsura Imperial Villa is a cultural and architectural treasure, offering fascinating insights into traditional Japanese aesthetics and philosophy. The Authors: Arata Isozaki (磯崎 新, Isozaki Arata...

Beautiful copy of Le Carré Hermès, an important reference book devoted to one of the most iconic creations of Hermès Paris, written by Nadine Coleno and published by Éditions du Rega...

New York: George H Doran Company, (1922). First American Edition. 8vo, 9 x 6 1/2 inches 230 x 160 mm); 204 pp. 25 tipped-in color plates, including the frontispiece; illustrations ...

1939 The WPA Guide to New York City: The Federal Writers’ Project Guide. Rare Hardcover 1st edition.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse–Five; or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty–Dance with Death. [New York]: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, [1969].  First edition, first printing. Octa...

First edition, stated, of Slim Aarons’s first book of photographs, published in 1974 by Harper & Row. “Attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places,” in the artist’...

Hard bound first edition monograph on pioneering feminist artist/performance artist Hannah Wilke. Titled "Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective," it was published in 1989 in conjunction with...

The very beautiful 'Reflections of Eternity' jewelry coffee table book from luxury Maison, Van Cleef & Arpels. Book was published to mark the Centenary (100th Anniversary) of Van Cle...

The Art of Cartier A Cartier high jewelry exhibition catalog book, The Art of Cartier, Paris, 1989, The Musee du Petit Palais, Paris, France. O...

A collectable, first edition (English), 'Picasso', an art coffee table book, 1974, New York, New York and Paris, France. A great piece to add to a collection or to start one. The a...

Original exhibition catalog accompanying An Exhibition of “Unpopular” Art, held November 7 to December 29, 1940 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN and issued under the late ...

First edition, published by Schiffer Publishing, 1999 Starting out as a leather business in Stuttgart, 1865, the Knoll Empire grew as Walter Knoll expanded the furniture manufactu...

Cook book comprising 161 recipes, some real and some decidedly not, by 161 different artists and world personalities, mostly from lower Manhattan. Each recipe accompanied by a b/w il...

Emile Galle coffee book by English publishing.

Louis Vuitton Le Catalogue Reference Book 1997. From the Louis Vuitton store in Rodeo Drive Beverly Hills in California. Master suitcase mak...

Title: Richard Diebenkorn : the Ocean Park Series Publisher: Prestel USA Publication Date: 2011 Language: English ISBN: 9783791351384 Binding: Hardcover Condition: New / Sealed Offi...

7 Houses - John Hejduk - first edition - 1980. "a must for any design library". Book in generally good condition - cover is soiled. "New York: Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1980. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran January 22 through February 16, 1980. Introduction by Peter Eisenman...

Cohen, Leonard. Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs. Toronto: McClellan & Stewart, Inc., 1993. First edition. Rebound with full leather boards, gilt tooling, gilt titles, and ra...

First edition, second printing of a foundational text of the women's liberation movement, radical both in its political messaging and because it was written “by women for women.” Ari...

Italy: The New Domestic Landscape - MoMA - 1972 some water damage / damage to the dust cover book in general very good condition.

A KAWS (Brian Donnelly) rare hand-signed first edition/ first printing hardcover fine art book "New Fiction" published by The Monacelli Press, 2023 and based on Kaws' blockbuster 202...

Jazz Manies et Collections (Jazz Mania and Collections), French Book by Frédéric Marchand, 1997. Preface by Francis Hofstein and Bernard Lion. The author has collected 180 objects re...

Collection of 9 Rolls-Royce automobile hardcover books. Featuring books printed in the United Kingdom and United States. The collection includes 9 books. 1. Rolls-Royce by L.J.K. Setright hardcover 1979, Great Britain 2. The Rolls-Royce "Wraith" by Tom C. Clark 1986, Great Britain 3. The Rolls-Royce Motor Car and the Bentley since 1931 by Anthony Bird and Ian Hallows 4. Rolls-Royce The History of the Car by Martin Bennett 1988, Hanes Publication North America 5. Rolls-Royce Fact and Legend by C.S. Shoup with T.E. Reich 1988 6. Rolls-Royce The Best Car in the World by George Oliver...

Atelier International catalog in original printed plastic ring binder, with tabbed sections for Seating, Armchairs, Tables, Storage, and Office Furniture. The roster of designers fea...

A David Hockney rare hand-signed first edition/ first printing (with full number line "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1") hard cover fine art book "That's The Way I See It" published by Chronicl...

Marino Marini: Complete Works, 1970 — Monumental Italian Art Monograph (New York / Milan) A substantial, bold and highly decorative large-format volume book dedicated to Marino Mari...

Christie's December 2010 Important 20th Century Decorative Art & Design Collection of Max Palevsky. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog 426 lots illustrated in color and fully described...

This is the complete three volume set of reference Books titled: The Dictionary of English Furniture, by Ralph Edwards and published by The Antique Collectors Club of the UK. This s...

History Of Modern Art By Arnason, H. H.; Mansfield, Elizabeth C. For undergraduate course in Modern Art, Origins of Modernism, Art since 1945, Contemporary Art and other courses fo...

Catteau Claire de Pauw, Marcl Stal Donation. This special French book was published in conjunction with the 2001 exhibition at the King Baudouin Foundation in Belgium. The Catteau co...

High-quality French design and decoration book about the legendary Maison Leleu and designers Jules and André Leleu. The work shows the development of their style from the beginnings...

Icons of Fashion Design, Seven Volumes (Some Signed and Inscribed) Various Publishers, 2009–2020 A curated group of seven volumes celebrating leading figures in contemporary fashio...

Catalog published in conjunction with a 1978 exhibition held at Tokyo’s Minami Gallery. Square 4to (9.75” x 9.75”), pictorial wrappers, 10 pages on stiff paper, color illustrations t...

This Notebook from Hermès comes in a Paper case in the typical Hermès orange and it´s boundet with 3 metal rings . The Notebook is in a excellent condition and has never been used be...

ABOUT First edition coffee table book of Robert Mapplethorpe's early photographs taken between 1970 and 1974. The photographs are finely reproduced. One of the scarcer titles on Map...

The quintessential distillation of American Pop culture in the eighties, "Pictures" by Herb Ritts, circa 1988. The book is in very good vintage condition and measures 11.25" x 14.5". A must have! #4282 Herb Ritts was an American fashion photographer who concentrated on black-and-white photography and portraits in the style of classical Greek sculpture. Consequently some of his more famous pieces are of male and female nudes in what can be called glamour photography. Ritts was born in Los Angeles, California to a prosperous family. His parents, Herb and Shirley Ritts, owned a successful furniture business. He received an economics degree from Bard College in upstate New York in 1974 and soon after returned to Los Angeles to work as a sales representative for his family's business. He came out as gay to his parents while in college; they were accepting and supportive. However, Ritts started taking night classes in photography and decided to dedicate himself to the art in the late 1970s. His first break into the business occurred as a result of taking portraits of his actor friend Richard Gere. These photos gained national exposure on the covers of many magazines. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s he worked with magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and Vogue on portraits of famous people and artistic photos of models. Subjects of his black-and-white celebrity portraits included Kofi Annan, Cindy Crawford, Tenzin Gyatso (the Dalai Lama), Madonna, Jack Nicholson and Elizabeth Taylor. In 1981, Ritts took photos for the album cover of Olivia Newton-John's Physical. He started his long term collaboration with Madonna in 1984, when he shot the ad for her movie Desperately Seeking Susan. In 1984, he photographed Eagles drummer and vocalist Don Henley for his second solo album Building the Perfect Beast. In 1986, Ritts shot the cover photo of Madonna's True Blue album. He later ventured into the world of music video at a suggestion of Madonna and filmed her video "Cherish". In 1988, he photographed Steve Winwood for his Roll With It album. In 1989, he photographed Belinda Carlisle...

Art: Over 2500 Works from Cave to Contemporary by Nigel Ritchie Hardback Book. 2008.The definitive visual guide to over 2,500 paintings and sculptures from around the world, from pre...

A masterpiece of photography, art, and design — this extraordinary Annie Leibovitz SUMO Collector’s Edition is one of only 9,000 signed and numbered copies worldwide. This specific e...

Academic treatment of the innovative video sculptures by Israeli/British artist Buky Schwartz, created over a 12 year period from the late 1970’s to early 1990’s. Published in 1992 ...

A rare and striking vintage catalogue from Knoll International, dating back to the early 1980s. This substantial hardcover edition, bound in elegant fabric, comprises 90 richly desig...

Life by Keith Richards, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Published by Orion - London, UK, 2010. 564pp. Hardcover: Dust...

A fine vintage silver bookmark or paperclip. By Tiffany & Co. In sterling silver. In the form of Comedy & Tragedy masks. Fully marked to the reverse. Simply wonderful Tiffany de...

The Ultimate Picasso — Oversized Illustrated Hardcover Art Monograph, Harry N. Abrams, 2000 An impressive large-format hardcover edition of The Ultimate Picasso, an extensively illu...

1925, Les Années-Mémoire (1925, The Memory Years), French book by Editions Larousse, 1988. Relive the year 1925 as if you were there. This volume will make you relive, with emotion, ...

A very engaging and quite scarce first edition softcover book with dust jacket by famed Japanese photographer and contemporary artist Nobuyoshi Araki. The book titled New York, cons...

Picasso Lithographs, Catalog Raisonnee, 1970 Printed By S.P.A.D.E.M, Paris Translated from French by Jean Didry Printed In France "Profuse black & white photos and color illustr...

Hard to find book showcasing the work of Enrique Metinides (Feb. 1934- Jan. 2022) Mexican photojournalist known for his amazing and shocking photos o...

"Une Aventure Contemporaine, La Photographie 1955-1995" France, 1996, Box Set of Two Photography Books "These book were published to accompany...

Fundacion Joan MitchellGuide book with illustrations.

First edition of this cult classic, “the teenage movie that…America never made,” published by Grove Press in 1995 in conjunction with director and photographer Larry Clark’s first mo...

A fine Mars bookmark. By Tiffany & Co. In sterling silver. In the form of the Mars symbol, used in modern day as the representation of the Male and Masculinity. Simply wonderful ...

Rare copy of "Mark Rothko 1903 - 1970" book, circa 1996. The book is in very good vintage condition with no torn or missing pages and contains 94 full color plates and 15 black-and-w...

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First trade edition, first issue. In the original first-state dust jacket and publisher’s black cloth boards. Presented in a new archival ¼ leather and cloth clamshell case, with raised bands, gilt tooling, and titles to the spine. Presented is a first trade edition, first issue of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. The book was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York, in September of 1929. This first printing is presented with its original first issue dust jacket. The dust jacket, as designed by Cleonike Damianakes Wilkins, is considered by many to be one of the greatest of the 20th century and rivals even The Great Gatsby in its collectibility. Set during World War I, A Farewell to Arms tells the story of a young American Lieutenant serving as an ambulance driver in Italy struggling through love and war. The story is told through first person narration detailing many aspects of war that would have been very familiar to readers at the time, as the book was published only 11 years after the 1918 armistice. The simple, direct tone his character uses when giving his unromanticized account of the war later defined Hemingway’s writing style. A Farewell to Arms is loosely based on Hemingway’s own experiences. The author briefly served overseas as an ambulance driver in the Italian Army, sustained injuries, and met a nurse who he eventually proposed marriage to but was declined. The novel’s post-war disillusionist subject assigned Hemingway to the “Lost Generation” of Modernist artists. A Farewell to Arms was Hemingway’s most successful publishing venture to date. Charles Scribner's Sons issued seven impressions of the novel in the short time between September and December of 1929, with over 100,000 volumes sold. The novel secured Hemingway’s place as a popular American author and became his first bestselling book. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy of words and dry understatement, strongly influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and his public image. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works during his lifetime; a further three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are now considered classics of American literature. The book’s striking dust jacket design was illustrated by the artist Cleonike Damianakes Wilkins, who worked under the pen name of Cleon. Wilkins was known for her distinctive fusion of Art Deco and Hellenistic styles. She designed the dust jackets for Hemingway’s earlier The Sun Also Rises in 1926 and his later publication In Our Time in 1930, as well as Conrad Aiken’s Great Circle, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s All the Sad Young Men,and Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save Me the Waltz. Wilkins was chosen by Hemingway’s celebrated editor at Scribner’s, Maxwell Perkins. In order to differentiate Hemingway’s tale from other, competing WWI novels on the bookshop shelves, Perkins sought to widen its appeal through the dust jacket. The resulting design was Wilkins’ interpretation of Sandro Botticelli’s epic oil painting “Venus...