1960s Books

The Wrightsman collection, Vols.I-V, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966-1973. First Edition, hardcovers with dust jackets. Inscribed by the Wrightsmans, incl. a Christ...

Paintings of the high Renaissance in Rome and Florence by Sydney Freedberg. Harvard University Press, 1961. two volume set 1st Ed hardcovers with dust jackets. Volume 1 is 644 pp. of text, all the 700 b/w illustrations are contained in volume 2 which has 514 pp. "These two volumes constitute a study of virtually the whole extent of painting of the High Renaissance in Rome and Florence the richest concentration in time and place of master accomplishments of Italian art. The author deals at length with the major figures: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Fra Bartolommeo...

Chips and Shavings: Stories of Upstate New York by George Walter. Heritage Press, 1966. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Loaded with interesting stories about the early days of ups...

Mosquitobush Stories and Prints by Francis Tolman. Richard R Smith, New Hampshire, 1963. Signed and inscribed by the author first edition hardcover with Broadart covered dust jacket....

Decorative Wedgwood by Alison Kelly. Country Life Limited, 1965. Signed and Inscribed 1st Edition hardcover with dust jacket. The book covers: Josiah Wedgwood and the Taste of His Time, Ideas for Interior Decoration, Chimney-Piece Designs, Jasper Chimney-Pieces, Wyatt, Holland & Cameron (architects), Fonts, Furnishing Details, Tiles and Dairies, Furniture Inset with Wedgwood Ware, the Victorian Revival. A study of Wedgwood's decorative production as it relates to the taste of the times in the applied arts. The author describes the whole range of Wedgwood's output in the field of interior decoration, from the basalt figures and wall plaques to the more esoteric fonts and funeral urns...

Meubles et Ensembles Picards by Stany Gauthier. Paris, Editions Charles Massin, 1960. 1st Edition hardcover with dust jacket. 12 pages of text in French, 36 pages with 90 b/w photos....

Step into the enchanting world of cinema with this captivating vintage book, showcasing the remarkable work "A Notable Role on the Screen" by S. Polotskaya, from the USSR. Circa 1962...

AUTHOR: ATWOOD, Margaret. TITLE: The Edible Woman. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1969. DESCRIPTION: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., publisher's original pink cloth backed boards, gilt lettered spine, inscribed by Atwood on the half-title "For Bart & Roby best wishes Margaret Atwood...

A lovely first impression copy of Shel Silverstein's important and influential children's novel, illustrated by Silverstein throughout, in an early im...

AUTHOR: FLEMING, Ian. TITLE: Thrilling Cities - UNCORRECTED PROOF. PUBLISHER: London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, UNCORRECTED PROOF. 1 vol., only 175 copies printed, illustrated. Bound in the publisher's original pictorial printed wrappers, without the exceedingly scarce proof dustjacket. CONDITION: General light...

First English Edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies published in 4 volumes by Akademische Druck - und Verlagsanstalt, Graz, 1964. Across the four volumes of this comprehensive wo...

A sought after first edition of one of the most important sci-fi novels of all time, signed by Arthur C. Clarke to the title page. The first U.S. edition, first printing. Signed by...

Serge Gauthier, director de la manufacture nationale de Sevres, conservateur du musee municipal de Limoges wrote the preface to this book. The story of French Porcellain is fascinati...

- 1965 - designer : Miroslav Rada - Artia Praha - English version - original condition, see the photos - 207 pages - many beautiful pictures - jr.

Steps, Jerzy Kosinski. Published by Random House, New York, 1968. Stated 1st Printing hardcover with dust jacket. Steps is a book by the Polish-American writer Jerzy Kosinski, releas...

Fleming, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, second state printing. Octavo printing. In the original publisher’s black cloth boards with gil...

Christo and More SMS A Collection of Multiples 'William N. Copley, 1968' S.M.S. is an art collection in a box that was available by subscription in 1968. Through February and December, subscribers were mailed six issues containing assorted works of art curated by William N. Copley. The portfolios consist of “original reproductions" by 73 artists including William Copley, Christo, Marcel Duchamp, Roy Lichtenstein, Joseph Kosuth, Walter de Maria, Yoko Ono, Lawrence Weiner, Richard Artschwager, Man Ray, Bruce Nauman, John Cage, Terry Riley and more. S.M.S. included renowned and unknown artists side by side. As form of protest against galleries, S.M.S. made contemporary art affordable and accessible at a modest price of $125.00 per subscription. The portfolios are all kept in their original display covers. Edition of approximately 2,000 published by Letter Edged in Black Press. Volume No. 1 February 1968 Little Box of Earthquake and Cotton (cover), Irving Penn; Black Dress, James Lee Byars; Chicago Project…, Walter de Maria; My Country ‘Tis of Thee, Kasper Konig; Luggage Labels Nancy Reitkopf; Project for a Bridge, Sue Braden; A Postcard for Mother, Richard Hamilton; Two Propositions in Black, Le Monte Young and Marian Zazeela; Store Front, Christo; Sol Mednick; Pharmaceuticals, Julian Levy. Volume No. 2 April 1968 Seven Minute Recording of Contapetrie, a surrealist word game (cover), Marcel Duchamp; The Mirror of Genoveva, Meret Oppenheim; Three Color Separations, Alain Jacquet; A Two-Year-Old Girl Choked to Death Today on an Easter Egg, Ray Johnson; A Proposed Comic Section for the New York Times, Bernard Pfreim; Farwell to Faust, George Reavey; Album, Clovis Trouille; Legal Tender, Bruce Conner; 10 collages, Marcia Hertscovitz; Cynocephalus & Co., Nicolas Calas. Volume No. 3 June 1968 Untitled abstract landscapes (cover), John Battan; Clouds, William Bryant (Bill Copley); Ode to London, Dick Higgens; Two Drawings, Ronnie Landfield; Bush in Hand, Roland Penrose; The Father of Mona Lisa, Man Ray, signed and numbered; Glove, Enrico Baj; Four Titled Abstracts, Joseph Kosuth; Correspondence, H.C. Westerman; Signal Flag Poem, Hannah Weiner; Poppy Nogoods All Night Flight, Terry Riley; Poems, Atograf. Volume No. 4 August 1968 Untitled (cover), Robert Stanley; Drift Study 4:37:4:05:09:50 5 VII 68, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela; Permanent Parking Decal, Robert Watts; 100 Year Calendar, On Kawara; Lichtenstein Hat, Roy Lichtenstein; Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) continued, John Cage; Phenakistiscope, Hollis Frampton...

“The deeper the white man went into Africa, the faster the life flowed out of it, off the plains and out of the bush…vanishing in acres of trophies and hides and carcasses” proclaimed renowned photographer and artist Peter Beard in his 1965 seminal publication The End Game, a tome highlighting the atrocities of man made destruction done to Africa’s wildlife in the National Parks of Kenya’s Tsavo lowlands and Uganda. An incredible 1st edition issue of "End of the Game...

Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First edition, first printing. Octavo. In original blue cloth boards, stamped in white. In the original unclipped dust jacket. Presented with a new archival ¼ leather and cloth clamshell. Presented is the first edition, first printing of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. Catch-22 was published by Simon and Schuster, in October of 1961. This book is presented in the original publisher’s blue cloth boards, titled and embossed in white, and the original, unclipped dust-jacket. The Simon and Schuster “A Note to the Reader” postcard is laid in. The book comes with a new, archival ¼ leather and cloth clamshell. Catch-22 was Joseph Heller’s first novel and his most acclaimed work. Set during World War II, the novel uses a unique, non-chronological third-person narration, mainly focusing on the life of a B-25 bombardier in the U.S. Army, Captain John Yossarian, and his attempts to avoid bombing runs. Both the title and plot device, “Catch-22” refers to an Air Forces regulation which asserts that a man is considered insane if he willingly agrees to fly dangerous combat missions, but that if he makes the formal request to be relieved of such missions, the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved." By the end of the novel, the phrase is invoked as the explanation for many unreasonable restrictions. “Catch-22” has since entered the English lexicon. Heller spent eight years writing "Catch-22," and used his own war experiences as inspiration for the novel. From 1942 to 1945, Heller served as a combat bombardier in the Twelfth Air Force and was stationed on the Island of Corsica. Upon publication, the book was not an immediate bestseller, but did elicit glowing reviews from some. “Wildly original, brilliantly comic, brutally gruesome, it is a dazzling performance that will probably outrage nearly as many readers as it delights. In any case, it is one of the most startling first novels of the year and it may make its author famous” (Orville Prescott, New York Times). It became a publishing sensation thanks to the 1962 paperback edition, which set record sales and benefitted from the national debate surrounding the Vietnam War. In the decades since, it has inspired a feature film, a miniseries, a 50-character stage play, and sold more than 10 million...

Fleming, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1962. First US edition, first printing. Octavo. Presented in the publisher's original dust jacket and original cloth boards. With new archival quarter leather and cloth clamshell archival case. This is the first US edition of Ian Fleming’s tenth James Bond thriller, The Spy Who Loved Me. The book is presented in the publisher’s original boards and dust jacket, with Richard Chopping’s classic artwork...

Set of 27 books from the Universale Scentifica collection published from 1965 by Bollati Boringhieri. Jung, Freud, Einstein theories introduced by intriguing cover artworks designed ...

Les Déjeuners - Picasso, 1st French edition, 1962
Published by Éditions Circle D’art Paris, 1962 
 A beautiful copy of Picasso’s seminal book Les Déjeuners complete with fine cloth s...

These are three books signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson and inscribed to Gordon Bunshaft. Bunshaft and Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill Architects (SOM) designed the Lyndon B. Johns...

A very scarce beautiful first edition volume commemorating the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics, vividly illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout. A very scarce first edition. In ...

Art Treasures of the Louvre by René Huyghe. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1960. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Translated and adapted from the French, b...

L'art de la porcelaine en europe (French) Hardcover – January 1, 1984 by Jan; and Ernould-Gandouet Divis (Author) The Art of Porcelain in Europe, beautiful objects from the past. Pub...

Congress and the Nation 1945-1964: A Review of Government and Politics in the Postwar Years. District of Columbia: Congressional Quarterly Service, 1965. First edition, two-volume se...

The first edition, first impression of Andy Warhol's iconic pop-up book offering a glimpse into Warhol's world. The first edition, first impression. Bound in the publisher's origin...

An uncommon to see signed novel by P. L. Travers, a touching war novel inscribed by Travers. The author's presentation copy, signed to the recto of the front endpaper, 'Mary Cadogan...

Always Go First Class by Laurence Marks. First Edition hardcover. Published by Random House, New York, 1962. Dust-jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

A beautifully bound first edition of this illustrated cookery book on French provincial cooking, housed in a slip case. A first edition of the work, rebound in a beautiful dark blue...

A smartly bound, first edition copy of Anthony Burgess' celebrated novel, his jeu d'espirit, 'A Clockwork Orange'. With a signed letter from the author loo...

Paintings drawings and sculpture in the Phoenix Art Museum collection by James Harithas, Compiler. Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 1965. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 226 pages. Of...

‘American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’ by Albert TenEyck Gardner. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1965. First Edition, 1st printing...

AUTHOR: BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. TITLE: The Book Of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, & other Rites & Ceremonies of The Church, According to the use of The United ...

Circa 1968 manufacturer’s catalog for the Italian lighting company Flos, showcasing the innovative and influential designs by Tobia Scarpa and by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglion...

AUTHOR: GEISEL, Theodore: (Dr. Seuss) (Chuck Jones). TITLE: How The Grinch Stole Christmas (Original 1966 Animation Production Drawing). PUBLISHER: MGM - Turner Entertainment Co.,...

Unlock the nostalgia of a bygone era with this extraordinary collection of vintage postcards from the USSR. This assortment of 17 random postcards, spanning the years from the 1960s ...

A set of five art books about the artists Brueghel, Cezanne, Gauguin, Giotto and Manet. Hardcover books published by Crown Publishers, Inc. of New York in the late 1960's. Printed in...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very rare, highly collectable original 1st Edition signed Brian Wildsmith 1962 children’s A.B.C book B...

New York Que J'aime (New York I love), a French book by Robert F. Wagner (New York Mayor). Text by Joyce Peterson, and Photographs by Peter Fink. New York is undoubtedly the most dyn...

Dieter Roth’s Quadrat Print/Quadrat Blatt/Feuilles Carat/Kwadraat Blatt, one of a series of experiments in printing sponsored by the Dutch printing house Steendrukkerij de Jong Hilve...

The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley. Softcover book published in 1967 by Dover Publications, Inc., of New York. Printed in the United States. Illustrated, 174 plates with two in color...

The Fashion Makers, A Photographic Record by Walter Vecchio. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Published by Crown Publishers, New York, 1968. . 277 pages, introduction followed by c...

The Ivory Hammer, The Year At Sotheby's 219th Season 1962 - 1963, by Sotheby's. With Ian Fleming's "The Property Of A Lady" insert, an original short stor...

Hardcover catalog of Fritz Hansen furniture featuring work by Arne Jacobsen, Borge Mogensen, Hans Wegner, Verner Panton, Kaare Klint, Karen and Ebbe Clemmensen, Kristian Vedel, Mogen...

The Pleasure of His Company by Paul B. Fay Jr. 1st edition hardcover printed in 1963. Protective Mylar dust jacket has been added.

Meubles et Ensembles Époque Directoire Empire by Yvonne Brunhammer. Paris: Editions Charles Massin, 1965. First Edition hardcover with dust jacket, 76 pages. Great photos of Empire furniture, a lot in period room...

Regency Furniture Designs (from Contemporary Source books) 1803-1826 by John Harris. Published by London / Alec Tiranti, 1961. 1st Ed hardcover with slipca...

This original copy of Andy Warhol's Index (Book) is the 1967 first printing. Inside this metallic softcover lies a world of pop-up Pop Art brilliance. An iconic publication of the er...

American Art from American Collections, Numbered #199/455, Signed by James Biddle Associate Curator in Charge of the American Wing. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1963, 1st Ed...

Promotional booklet advertising the Boda Glass Works and documenting the process of glass making at the Boda factory in southeastern Sweden. Published by Boda circa 1964. Showcases w...

American Indian Art by Norman Feder coffee table book. Hardcover with dustjacket, published in 1965 by Harry N. Abrams of New York. Printed and bound in Japan. 302 illustrations, inc...

Abstract Painting in Flanders by Michel Seuphor. Published by Editions Arcade; Fonds Mercator S.A., Antwerp, 1963 1st Ed hardcover. With 130 tipped in color plates. Fernand Berckelaers pseudonym Michel Seuphor (anagram of Orpheus), was a Belgian painter. Seuphor established a literary magazine, Het Overzicht, in Antwerp in 1921. He moved in Dutch, Belgian, and French avant-garde circles. He associated at various points with Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian, and was influenced by their iconic Neo-plasticist works. Along with Joaquin Torres-Garcia and Pierre Daura...

New York Photographs, Book by Andreas Feininger, 1964. This is a stunning photographic document of its time: A portrait of New York. Color and black and white photo-reproductions by ...

The Hudson River Day Line by Donald C. Ringwald. Berkeley, CA: Howell-North Books, 1965. 1t Ed hardcover with dust jacket. It was the premier steamboat line on the Hudson River from ...

Ten issues of the Year 1967 Bo Bedre (Live Better) Danish vintage magazines of Modern Home Style and Design. First published in March 1961. The magazines are in the Danish language ...

Hardback coffee table book that delves into the innovative and serene world of Japanese home architecture. By Kiyoshi Seike, and Charles S. Terry published in 1969. First edition, 20...

Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East by Earl F Ziemke. United States Army, Office of the Chief of Military History, Washington, DC, 1968...

More Massachusetts Towns, illustrated with wood engravings of fifty-three Massachusetts Towns, drawn in 1840 by J. W. Barber. Commentary by Ivan Sandrof, and a special foreword by Mr...