Search results for: 'JOHNSON, Ray'
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JOHNSON, Ray; Jasper Johns; Andy Warhol - LEVINE, Les. Culture Hero. A Fanzine of Stars of the Super World. Jill Johnston Exposed: Special Issue.
New York : 1970
First edition, first printing, signed by Ray Johnson, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol on the front cover, signed by Levine on the first and last pages, the page devoted to Andy Warhol signed by Warhol, and the page devoted to Ray Johnson signed by Johnson. The artists who have signed this publication were in attendance at the launch party. Jill Johnson... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 139809
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JOHNSON, Ray. The Paper Snake.
New York : 1965
First edition, first printing, casebound issue. A particularly fine example of this seminal artist's book, which interweaves text with collages and mail art. Ray Johnson (1927-1995) was a Neo-Dada artist loosely associated with the Fluxus movement. He was once described as "New York's most famous unknown artist" and the network of mail art he instigated... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 112862
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JOHNSON, Crockett. Harold and the Purple Crayon.
New York : 1955
First edition, first printing, of the first book in the series. A very attractive copy of this charming story of what imagination and one crayon can bring. Learn More£2,875.00Stock Code: 98938
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JOHNSON, B. S. Poems Two.
London : 1972
First edition, first impression, signed limited issue, number R of 26 copies for the author's use only, inscribed on the limitation page "R is for Rayner Heppenstall. 35/3/72". The recipient was British experimentalist and BBC radio producer Rayner Heppenstall (1911-1981). A further 100 copies were thus specially bound, numbered, and signed. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 144147
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BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson,
London : 1835
An attractive set of Boswell's great biography, first published in 1791. "This version contains both the original texts, augmented by the additional writings of the biographer and his subject, and the very valuable new and related material which Croker introduced in his 1831 edition" (Pottle). "Boswell's Life of Johnson remains the most famous biography... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 139422
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BURRELL, Kenny. Freedom.
New York : 1980
Inscribed by Burrell on the back cover in blue ball-point pen, "To Don, Best wishes! Kenny Burrell". Brian Priestley writes of Burrell that he manages to be "both boppy and bluesy without being boring, he has furthered the Charlie Christian style better than almost anyone else" (Jazz: The Rough Guide, 1995). Burrell's is not a common autograph.
Freedom... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 144414
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MAUERER, Hans. The Pete Johnson Story.
New York and Frankfurt : 1965
First and only edition, extremely uncommon, WorldCat lists some 20 copies, but only 2 outside of North America. Survey of the life and work of one of the great boogie-woogie pianists, issued to raise funds to help support him in hard times following a stroke. In his survey The Blues - From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray Tony Russell places Johnson in... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 72345
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FORD, Charles Henri (ed.) View.
New York : 1940-7
A complete set, one volume inscribed by Ford, of first printings of the remarkable American literary and art magazine published by artist and writer Charles Henri Ford and writer and film critic Parker Tyler. View covered the contemporary avant-garde and Surrealist scene, and was published quarterly as finances permitted. The roster of prestigious contributors,... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 109741
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HOLMES, Randolph Bezzant, & an unidentified staff officer with the 24th Brigade, Wana Column. Album of photographs relating to service with the Wana Column, September 1920 to February 1921.
Waziristan : 1920-1
Superb photograph album documenting the British reoccupation of Wana and the end of the 1919-20 Waziristan campaign in over 80 intimate original snapshots, supplemented by a run of atmospheric professional photographs from Holmes's souvenir series, "With the Wana Column", and several group officer portraits, all meticulously captioned and forming an... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 115213
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SMITH, Adam - ADLERSPARRE, Georg, & others (eds.) Läsning i blandade ämnen. Första [– Femte och Sista] Årgången.
Stockholm : 1797–1801
First edition of all 50 parts of the Swedish literary periodical Läsning i blandade ämnen, containing over 200 pages of passages from various sections of the Wealth of Nations, making it the first opportunity for Swedish speakers to study Adam Smith.
Georg Sartorius's abridgement of the Wealth of Nations, the Handbuch der Staatswirthschaft... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 135144
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GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Beauties of English Poesy.
London : 1767
First edition, complete with the half-titles and contents leaves in both volumes. This is a particularly nice copy, in a handsome unrestored contemporary binding, of this scarce anthology of English poetry selected by Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), published the year after The Vicar of Wakefield.
The selection includes such near-contemporary... Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 143778
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JONES, Mary. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse.
Oxford : 1750
First edition of the author's only book, a beautifully bound subscriber's copy, one of approximately 330 copies printed on royal paper, this from the library of Sir Edward Popham of Littlecote.
Born in Oxford, where she lived all her life, Mary Jones (1707-1778) was a well-connected poet and letter-writer whose work was greatly influenced by... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 134908
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ANDERSON, James. Observations on the means of exciting a spirit of National Industry; chiefly intended to promote the Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and Fisheries, of Scotland.
Edinburgh : 1777
First edition, in a fine Scott of Edinburgh binding, presentation copy, inscribed from the author on a preliminary blank to William Murray, first earl of Mansfield, whose celebrated library was largely destroyed by fire during the Gordon Riots.
The Scottish agriculturalist and political economist James Anderson (1739-1808) wrote several influential... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 127839
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BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson.
London : 1835
An attractive set of Boswell's great biography, first published in 1791. "This version contains both the original texts, augmented by the additional writings of the biographer and his subject, and the very valuable new and related material which Croker introduced in his 1831 edition" (Pottle). "Boswell's Life of Johnson remains the most famous biography... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 140500
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LENNOX, Charlotte. Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune,
London : 1778
An attractive and well-preserved set in 'Etruscan' calf, most probably executed by the esteemed bindery of the Edwards of Halifax. This is the ninth edition (first published in 1755 in 3 volumes and subsequently expanded to 5) of this much republished translation by Lennox of the history of one of Henry the Great's main advisers.
Charlotte Lennox... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 133228