Search Results: Titles starting with A from Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare

Thirty-seven Polaroid photographs and two swatches of colored paper, rivet-bound into six booklets and annotated in the margins. 10.6 x 8.8 cm. Very good. Bound with brass rivets, each photograph has been encapsulated in Mylar for ease of handling ; the ensemble is housed in a custom black leather etui. [1471]
A breath-taking document of Andy Warhol's creative process at the Factory, circa 1977, including twenty photographs showing Warhol with his own Polaroid camera, shooting images of two unidentified men engaged in acts of an intimate nature for a series known as Sex Parts and Torsos. The other images show the artist mixing and applying pigments in the studio, and cutting red paper, two samples of which are included in the sequence. These six photo-booklets were made by Ronnie Cutrone, Warhol's assistant at the Factory from 1972 until 1980. They come to us via the collection of artist Dickie Landry, who received them as a gift from his friend, Norman Fisher, shortly before Fisher's death from… Read More

Folded poster-pamphlet with texts and images printed in black ink on cream paper stock, opens to large color poster on verso. 4to [opens to 17.5 x 22.5 in] Near fine ; old central crease. Loose folded sheet. [1319]
A delightfully riotous publication with texts attributed to former King Mob member Phil Cohen and associates in the London Streeet Commune. The poster illustration on the pamphlet's verso depicts a youth with a huge erection being sentenced to correction bu authorities at a "Penal Institution." Our expert source informs us that Agro was printed in an attempt to organize London's hippie, greaser, and skinhead youth cultures to work together against ruling class oppression, rather than antagonize one another. "At the end of 1969 the pilot – and only! – issue of Agro tried to mobilize the skinhead opinion. The paper ('printed by the Gutter Press'), bore the stamp of the [London Street] Commune and most of it in fact consisted of an abridged version of 'Project Free London', a small… Read More

60 pp. collection of poetry in Spanish, with brief biographies and statements by the poets, illus. throughout. 8vo. [Coleccion Espacios 13] Near fine. Illus. stiff wraps. [1402]
While OCLC shows holdings for a later publication of erotic poetry from Chiapas under a similar title (Editorial Viento al Hombro, 2007), the present collection precedes it by more than a decade and features a different roster of contributors. As of January 2022, OCLC does not locate the publication and we can find no listings online.

Ten unpaginated children's books [16 pp. each] printed in color on glossy boards, illus., with texts in English and a flexi disk sound recording (providing English narration.) Box set includes promotional flyer and the Angel Books Guide Book with simultaneous English-Japanese dual translations and vocabulary lessons (also illus.) Minor spotting throughout with a slight odor of basement storage. Illus. self wrappers, books with in clear vinyl protective covers, housed in bright blue case printed with the title series. [1223]
Ten-book series of traditional Japanese folktales with texts in English and a flexi disk sound recording (narrated in English) devised as tools for teaching young Japanese children the foreign language using familiar stories. Pictures by a who's-who of Japanese children's book illustrators, including Hiroshi Tada, Shinta Cho. Makoto Wada, and Kuniharu Naruse. Titles in the series are as follows: 01. Hanasaka Jijii (The Old Man Who Made Cherry Blossoms Bloom) 02. Momotaro (The… Read More

Copy 110 of an edition of 150 copies. 835 pp., [20] leaves ; illustrated with forty etchings, 18 chapter numbers and 22 color illustrations, on 20 double leaves. Signed by Motherwell. Small folio. Near fine. White pigskin over blue cloth ; In case as issued (case shows mild sun fading and wear at the extremities). [1615]
Included with the work are fine copies of the original Arion Press prospectus and the invitation to Dora Donner Ide's February 13, 1990 donation dinner at the San Francisco Public Library, both with prints by Motherwell. Per the colophon: "Ulysses by James Joyce is the twenty-seventh publication by the Arion Press. The book was designed by Andrew Hoyem and produced under his direction with the following associates: G. B. Carson, Matthew Kelsey, Gerald Reddan, Glenn Todd, Lawrence Van Velzer, and Marilyn Young. The type is Perpetua. Monotype for the roman was composed by Michael Bixler in Skaneateles, New York, and cast by Lewis Mitchell at Mackenzie Harris Corp. in San Francisco. The… Read More

Unpaginated artist's book, [ ca. 112 pp.], illus. throughout. 12mo. Very good, with scuffing and marginal old fold to rear cover. Illus. stiff wraps. [1283]
The work consists of five chapters: "AS," "TO PLACE," "AND," "TO PLACE," "AS/AGAIN" paiiring examples of the artist's "two lines" drawings with eight images ashowing full-bleed vertical photographs of New York City street views. A scarce and attractive work.

IX, 114 pp. text in English : 83 illustrated with lenticular images, activated through the use of a plastic lens element housed in the rear pocket. 4to. Near fine. Black cloth boards with lenticular image on front cover, housed in glossy boards cassette. [1670]
A rare an unusual medical imaging photobook, using lenticular technology to animate stereoscopic images of the brain and its vascular system. Rare in the market and institutionally uncommon.