Rare books from Cabina 68 Books

Average used book with all pages present and no tears. Outer cover shows some age tanning. There is very faint tanning to the extremities of the pages, otherwise they are clean and unmarked. ///Out of print - Catalogue printed in the occasion of the exhibition Irving Penn / Collection privee at the Museum of Art and History of Fribourg, Switzerland from 20th May to 15th August 1994. 116 pages, 22 x 27 x 1 cm

Book with all pages present, without creases/tears. Worn outer cover. Owner's signature covered in black pen on second title page (does not affect content). 216 pages, 21.8 x 29 x 2.7 cm / 5.24 x 0.98 x 8.46 inches This new collection of Peter Lindbergh's photographs presents his work from the past ten years. The prolific fashion and portrait photographer is one of the leading commercial artists of our day. His special subject are women.

Edition of 1000. /// Open copy that looks new and has no defects. "Loves roses" are glass tubes, 3/8 inches in diameter, 4 inches long. Covered on one end with foil, each contains a cloth flower: red, yellow, blue, violet, white or green. They are duplicitous objects. If you ask one kind of person, they'll tell you these "stems" are romantic offerings, valentine's gifts. If you ask another kind of person, they'll tell you these are pipes for smoking crack cocaine. In September 2008 at a palazzo gallery in Brescia, Italy, Dan Colen and Nate Lowman installed the third incarnation of an evolving body of collaborative work. A long-envisioned but, until Italy, unrealized plan for a sculpture had been a "beaded" curtain made of "love roses" (and titled the same). The curtain was hung in a doorway leading into the ornate spaces housing the rest of their show. Dash snow arrived in Brescia when Colen and Lowman were finishing their installation. A close friend of the collaborators, snow had documented their… Read More

Signed copy. Light tanning to pages edges, not affecting text or content.No tears/marks on either binding or paper. ///Published in Welsh and English in an edition of 850

Crisp, no tears/marks on either binding or paper. Some degree of tanning to pages edges, not affecting text or content. Edition of 1800. 68 pages. 28.5 x 23 cm ///From the foreword by Christopher Coppock, director of Ffotogallery, Wales; ".If in some way Cross Currents makes a small contribution to the atrophy of British indifference, and on occasion, cultural chauvinism towards its continental neighbours, then this fact alone will have made this project extremely worthwhile." Texts in English and French. Illustrated in black and white throughout

First Italian edition, first printing of Harry Potter e la pietra filosofale ("Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"), with Joanne Rowling on copyright page. Comes with the rare first issue dust jacket that depicts Harry Potter without glasses. Only a few hundred copies were printed with this first issue dust jacket, and were soon corrected and issued with the second issue dust jacket with glasses. Major defects: The dust jacket has a short cut along the folded edge of the front flap. The dust jacket is gently used with tiny creases along the top and bottom edges of the spine. A few marks, please see pictures.Any signatures or inscriptions: none
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