Rare Books LA 2024
We are excited to be returning to Pasadena for the 2024 edition of Rare Books LA, running from 3rd to 4th February.
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George Condo Collage Paintings, January 30 - March 7, 1998.
CONDO, George.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /Presentation copy with a drawing by George Condo. Inscribed by Condo to Hilary Gerrard with an original drawing titled 'War against the tutu':'for ...
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Imogen!
CUNNINGHAM, Imogen.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Deluxe limited issue with a signed original photograph. Deluxe signed issue with a signed original photograph 'False Hellebore, 1926'. Imogen Cunni...
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Trattato su la Commedia dell'Arte, ossia improvvisa. Maschere Italiane, ed alcune scene del carnevale di Roma.
VALENTINI, Francesco.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /Valentini's delightfully illustrated treatise on the famous cast of characters from the Commedia dell'Arte, for example 'Arlechino' and 'Pantalone...
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Lotte Jacobi.
JACOBI, Lotte; WISE, Kelly (editor).Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /With Jacobi's signed portrait of Albert Einstein. Deluxe issue, with the often missing original photograph, 'Albert Einstein, Physicist, Princeton,...
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The Artists of My Life...
BRASSAÏ (pseud. HALASZ, Gyula).Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Deluxe issue with a signed print. deluxe issue of Brassai's last book, specially bound and with a signed gravure print: 'Henri Matisse drawing from...
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Jazz.
ELSKEN, Ed van der.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £0.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00| /These photographs were taken during performances in Amsterdam and The Hague of musicians including Duke Ellington, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Lou...
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Le navigationi et viaggi, fatti nella Turchia,
NICOLAY, Nicolas de.Original price £8,000.00 - Original price £8,000.00Original price £0.00£8,000.00£8,000.00 - £8,000.00Current price £8,000.00| /The Loverdos copy of the expanded Italian edition. The best, expanded edition in Italian of Nicolas de Nicolay's (1517-1583) Quatre premiers livres...
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Personal Exposures.
ERWITT, Elliott.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /With a signed photograph from the set of 'The Misfits'. The deluxe edition with a signed photograph of Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clif...
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The Right Sort.
ALKEN, Henry.Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00| /Schwerdt-Spitz-Bobins copy. The Schwerdt-Spitz-Bobins copy of this rare early Alken series, issued without a title-page and which Schwerdt says was...
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Sartoris.
FAULKNER, William.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /A superior copy of a notoriously vulnerable book - the jacket in particular is prone to spitting.First edition, first printing; 8vo; publisher's b...
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Pylon.
FAULKNER, William.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /A novel of the airways.First edition, first printing, trade issue; 8vo; publisher's blue cloth, titles to upper board gilt on a black ground and t...
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These Thirteen. Stories.
FAULKNER, William.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /An important early collection of short stories and, incidentally, one of the most attractive books of its era.First edition, first printing, first...
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The Personal History of David Copperfield.
DICKENS, Charles.Original price £8,750.00 - Original price £8,750.00Original price £0.00£8,750.00£8,750.00 - £8,750.00Current price £8,750.00| /First edition in book form in variant binding.Dickens would write in his preface to the 1869 edition of David Copperfield, that: 'Of all my books,...
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Certain Noble Plays of Japan:
POUND, Ezra; YEATS, W.B.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /Limited edition of 350 copies. A choice example in the scarce unprinted dustjacket of this collection of four Noh plays selected by Ezra Pound, bas...
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The Decorative Art of Léon Bakst.
[BAKST]. ALEXANDRE, Arsene; COCTEAU, Jean.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /With fine provenance . An exceptionally fresh example of this major luxury work on Bakst's art.Cecil Hopkinson (1898-1977) was a musical bibliograp...
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Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836,
DARWIN, Charles; FITZROY, Capt. Robert; KING, Capt. Philip Parker.Original price £65,000.00 - Original price £65,000.00Original price £0.00£65,000.00£65,000.00 - £65,000.00Current price £65,000.00| /With important Australian provenance. Darwin's first published, and his most widely read book: the account of the most important 19th-century voyag...
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Tender is the Night.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00| /Fitzgerald worked for six years on his most accomplished and ambitious novel. Its complex structure and delayed publication met with little critic...
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Absalom, Absalom.
FAULKNER, William.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /Sound and the Fury notwithstanding, this may be Faulkner's best-loved work. And minor flaws apart this is a rather handsome copy of book with rare...
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Tarikh-e vaqaye' va savaneh-e Afghanistan, History of Events and Incidents in Afghanistan,
PRINCE IHTIZAD AL-SULTANEH [ALI QULI KHAN].Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00| /An intriguing historical treatise on Afghanistan compiled during the reign of Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar which includes a dedication to the Prime min...
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War with the Newts.
ČAPEK, Karel.Original price £3,250.00 - Original price £3,250.00Original price £0.00£3,250.00£3,250.00 - £3,250.00Current price £3,250.00| /Rare first edition in English of Čapek's classic science fiction novel, which extensively satirises contemporary European politics, including colo...
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Çay Risâlesi [The book of tea].
IZZET, Seyyed Mehmed [Çayci].Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /The first book on tea printed in Ottoman Turkish. First edition of the first printed book on tea in Ottoman Turkish. Seyyed Mehmed Izzet (1819-1909...
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