Rare Books & Magazines

- Dimensions: 8.5" x 10.5" x 1.25" 

- This handsome volume invites readers on an intimate stroll through centuries of jewelry, botany, drawing, prints, video-game imagery and scientific illustrations, offering a primer on the beauty and ingenuity of nature as reflected in art.

- Five contributions punctuate the visually structured journey, including a previously unpublished leporello by the late artist Etal Adnan that pulls out into a six-page gatefold. Indeed, this book-as-object is a masterpiece in and of itself, featuring a cover infused with fluorescent and silver inks, in addition to eight pages of sumptuous endpapers printed in deep forest green.

- Artists and designers include: Noyubushi Araki, Emile Gallé, Joan Fontcuberta, Christian Dior, Claude Monet, Sarah Bernhardt, Eugène Delacroix, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Anna Atkins, Gustave Courbet, Henri Cartier-Bresson, René Lalique, Georgia O'Keeffe, Otto Dix, Robert Mapplethorpe and Yves Saint-Laurent.

- Please note: this is a new book. Multiples are available. Please see our detailed photos.

- Dimensions: 8.25" x 9.5" x .25"

- First published in 1972, Klaus and Elizabeth Gemming's Block Island Summer captures the ethos of this "sandy little place" in all of its charm and Victorian splendor.

- In black and white photographs, the book chronicles the island during the summers of the 1970's— idyllic, remote, stunningly beautiful. Lovers of Block Island will recognize many favorite vistas and structures (some changed, many still the same), and maybe even a familiar face or two.

- At once an ode to what makes this place so unique and a call for its preservation, this coveted volume belongs on the shelf of anyone who loves this little island, the New England coastline, and the simple joys of summertime. 

- In collaboration with the Gemming estate, our studio is offering nine of the most iconic images from the book in a framed, limited edition giclée print series. Discover the complete collection here. 

- This first edition book is in very good vintage condition with minor signs of wear consistent with age and use. Its dust jacket is protected in a plastic sleeve. Please see our detailed photos.

- Dimensions: 9" x 6" x 1.25"

- Anglo-Italian author and adventuress Freya Stark was the O.G. badass: fluent in Arabic and Turkish, she blazed her way across the Middle East and Afghanistan at a time when few Westerners, much less women, dared to tread there. Praised as a “poet of travel,” her evocative writing earned her fans like Vita Sackville-West and her memoirs make for exhilarating reading.

- This first volume of her memoirs, from a second printing, retells her unconventional childhood: born in Paris in 1893 and brought up in France, Italy, and England, she had no formal schooling, but spoke three languages by the time she was five. She was a nurse on the Italian front in World War I, then learned Arabic and mountaineering in the Alps. With original photographs and a graphic, vivid cover, it will draw admirers to your cocktail table like a magnet.

- This book is in good vintage condition. Its dust jacket, which is secured in plastic, has a few small tears. The pages are clean and the volume is well intact. This title is part of a 4-book set, each sold separately.

- Dimensions: 9" x 6" x 1.25"

- Anglo-Italian author and adventuress Freya Stark was the O.G. badass: fluent in Arabic and Turkish, she blazed her way across the Middle East and Afghanistan at a time when few Westerners, much less women, dared to tread there. Praised as a “poet of travel,” her evocative writing earned her fans like Vita Sackville-West and her memoirs make for exhilarating reading.

- This first-edition of the third volume of her memoirs recalls journeys in Egypt, the Persian Gulf, and the Arabian desert in the ‘30s, includes her original photographs, and boasts a graphic, vivid cover that will draw admirers to your cocktail table like a magnet.

- This book is in good vintage condition. Its dust jacket, which is secured in plastic, has a few small tears. The pages are clean and the volume is well intact. This title is part of a 4-book set, each sold separately.

- Dimensions: 8.25" x 5.25" x 1.4"

- Paris in Winter combines fanciful ink and watercolor drawings by American artist and writer David Coggins with charming vignettes about his family's annual New Year's sojourns to Paris, which, because of their unending love for the city, they've been taking together for almost 20 years. This memoir of poetic, lighthearted stories highlights the family's passion for art and food, fashion and social life. Family rituals--from having lunch each January at the delightful Le Grand Vefour to haunting favorite antique shops and seeking out-of-the-ordinary spots, like a little known garden or a gypsy circus--are interspersed with serendipitous moments: hearing Bono sing "Happy Birthday" to a friend in a bistro, adopting an abandoned lap dog, and the simple pleasures of Parisian street life.

- Coggins's delicate and intimate drawings capture classic Parisian scenes as well as family and friends against the backdrop of the elegant City of Light under the cloak of winter. Across cafes and hotels, apartments and galleries, the family mixes with a lively group of Parisian and international actors, designers, writers, and students. Furthermore, Coggins weaves in fascinating bits of the city's history and artistic lore, from Victor Hugo's interior designs to the painting that legend has it started Impressionism, to delight Francophiles all over.

- Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5"

- A quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton, The Paris Review began with a simple editorial mission: to celebrate "the good writers and good poets."

- The magazine is known for featuring quality fiction and poetry by both established and relatively unknown writers. It helped launch the careers of Philip Roth, Jack Kerouac, and Raymond Carver. The review is also famous for its interviews of notable writers.

- The Winter 2023 issue features a cover by Sarah Charlesworth.

- Highlights of this issue include:

- Louise Glück on the Art of Poetry: “You want a poem to register in every mind the way it did in yours. Then you discover this never happens.”
-Yu Hua on the Art of Fiction: “If I’d taken another two or three years to start writing, I’d still be a dentist.”
- Prose by Ananda Devi, Fiona McFarlane, and Sean Thor Conroe.
- Poetry by Harryette Mullen, Alice Notley, and Farid Matuk.
- Art by Marcius Galan and Claudia Keep, and cover by Sarah Charlesworth.