Collector's Editions: Art, Architecture, Cinema, Music

Apollinaire, Guillaume : : Chroniques D'Art, 1902-1918 : : Mostly reviews of art-show openings. This volume fortified binding for library use, sold off due to lack of borrowing. Card-holder inside back board, some underlining 5.5 x 8 524 pp. Art Cinema Performance Gallimard Paris 1960 Sewn-cloth Good $ 22

Arco Team, Sofia Cheviakoff, editor : : Minaimalism : : Minimalism maximus; for fashion, design, architecture, interior design: over 2,000 photos, 1500 colour. A brick (small) 5.5 x 7.5 999 pp. Art Cinema Performance Konemann-Tandem Verlag Barcelona 2003 perfectbound As New $ 25

banz, stefan : : a shot away some flowers / video works 1997 - 1999 : : Stills from video shoots over a tight gutter. Prose piece on banz by Christoph Doswold -on neon-green paper- begins "How real is reality?". 2nd edition, still startling 4.75 x 6.5 168 pp. Art Cinema Performance Edition Patrick Frey Zurich 2000 sewn cloth As New $ 25

Baratloo, Mojdeh & Clifton J. Balsch : : ANGST:Cartography : : Brooklyn's Gowanus wasteland early 1900's. Photos verso, architectural drawings recto with an Italo Calvino text from " Invisible Cities" running bottom margin. From SITES magazine 5 x 8 106 pp. Art Cinema Performance Lumen Books Boston 1990 perfectbound Fine $ 15

Barbour, Carol E. : : The Wind People : : Text mostly but paintings copied and glued on pages beside text. Drawings and photos too. Cult living with Blakesian inlays 5.5 x 8.5 140 pp. Art Cinema Performance Carol Barbour Toronto 1990 perfect w/ jacket Fine $ 23

Beckwith, John : : Early Medieval Art : : Copiously illustrated guide to the architecture, painting, sculpture, illuminations and ivories beginning with the Carolingian of 800 A.D. 53 illustrations in colour. Slight lift to cover 6 x 8.25 270 pp. Art Cinema Performance Thames and Hudson London 1994 perfectbound Fine $ 23

Blake, Richard A. : : After Image : : Investigates the Catholic imagination at work in the films of Scorsese, Hitchcock, Capra, Ford, Coppola and Scorcese 6.25 x 9.25 274 pp. Art Cinema Performance Loyola University Press Chicago 2000 Sewn-cloth Mint $ 20

Bullock, Michael : : Avatars of the] Moon : : Cover collage by Lori-Ann Latremouille. Phases of the moon with each poem. #77 of an edition of 120 5.5 x 8.5 44 pp. Art Cinema Performance Ekstasis Editions Victoria BC 1990 staplebound As New $ 15

Bullock, Michael : : Lines in the Dark Wood : : Surrealist poems printed over 20% screens of vegetation. Bunged corners but good overall condition    6 x 9 72 pp. Art Cinema Performance Third Eye London ON 1992 perfectbound Good $ 20

Burnett, Virgil : : Skiamachia : : First trade edition. Text and illustrations previously serialized in Penthouse Magazine (13-1) with 6 of the artist-author's illustrations. Fading blue cover complements the phantasy   8.75 x 7 28 pp. Art Cinema Performance The Porcupine's Quill Erin ON 1982 perfectbound Fine $ 35

Butin, Hubertus and Stefan Gronert : : Gernard Richter Editionen 1965-2004 : : Catalogue Raissone of the work for this period by the acclaimed artist; works reproduced as painted, colour for colour, etc.Texts ganz auf Deutsch. Ink mark at front, else clean 9 x 12 287 pp. Art Cinema Performance Hatje Cantz Ostfildern-Ruit DE 2004 perfectbound Fine $ 75

Chambers, G. B. : : Folksong-Plainsong: A Study in Musical Origins : : 2nd Merlin Press edition of 1972 with a preface added by Ralph Vaughn Williams to the original 1956 edition. Tightly sewn text, stiff cloth boards, only wear is to the dustjacket" 6 x 8 122 pp. Art Cinema Performance The Merlin Press London 1972 Sewn-cloth Fine $ 20

Chatman, Seymour an Paul Duncan, ed. : : Michelangelo Antonioni: The Complete Films : : A chronology of Antonioni's films told by way of a series of stills (some in colour) from each film. With fold-in white on black gloss covers. Detailed Filmography 7.25 x 9 96 pp. Art Cinema Performance Taschen Los Angeles 2008 perfectbound As New $ 23

Clemente, Francesco : : INDIA : : The working year of the artist living in Madras, India in 1985. Drawings, coloured drawings, paintings; 11 texts with illustrations. Golden cobra embossed on coral board cover 10.25 x 12.5 114 pp. Art Cinema Performance Twelvetrees Press Pasadena CA 1987 sewn cloth As New $ 88

Coleman, Victor and David Young : : Woodstock Reichstag : : Collagic collaborations with over 10 writers in and edition of 26 copies. This is Letter 'G'. Slight tear to blue paste-on cover the only blemish 8.5 x 11 20 pp. Art Cinema Performance The Eternal Network Toronto 1991 cerlox bound Good $ 17

Corrigan, Timothy : : New German Film : : Revised and expanded University of Texas text from 1983 considering 9 contemporary German films in detail. Halftone stills 6 x 9.25 224 pp. Art Cinema Performance Indian University Press Bloomington IN 1994 perfectbound As New $ 15

Cruz, Amanda, editor : : The Film Art of Isaac Julien : : Published for an exhibition of the Brit's film art. Essays by David Deitcher & David Frankel. Luscious colour stills and duotones 11.25 x 9.5 120 pp. Art Cinema Performance Center for Curatorial Studies Annand-on-the- Hudson NY 2000 perfectbound As New $ 23

de Silva and Otto van Simpson, editors : : Man Through His Art, Volume 1: War an Peace : : First edition of 1964 contains 15 full-colour prints. Printed in Britain for the New York Graphic Society and funded in part by Unesco. No jacket, some outward warp to the cloth boards 8 x 12 64 pp. Art Cinema Performance The New York Graphic Society New York 1964 Sewn-cloth Fine $ 20

Duras, Marguerite; Richard Seaver and Barbara Wright, tr. : : Hiroshima Mon Amour and Une Aussi Longue Absence : : Screen plays in translation into English with copious b x w stills. Buckling crease to upper corner, sturdy" 5.25 x 8 191 pp. Art Cinema Performance Calder & Boyars London 1966 perfectbound good $ 17

Elkins, James : : What Painting Is : : "How to think about Oil painting using the lanugage of alchemy". Quirky, speculative aesthetics with 29 colour plates and index 5.75 x 8.25 246 pp. Art Cinema Performance Routledge New York 1999 Sewn-cloth Fine $ 20

Escoffier, Jeffrey and Matthew Lore, editors : : Mark Morris' l'allegro, il penseroso, ed il moderato : : Celebration in text and colour stills of a grand dance that encompasses works by Milton, Handel and Blake 10.25 x 11.5 160 pp. Art Cinema Performance Marlowe & Co. New York 2001 cloth Fine $ 25

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence : : When I Look At Pictures : : Poems and meditations on painting and paintings (over 20 fully reproduced in colour) by the San Francisco poet. 7.5 x 8 47 pp. Art Cinema Performance Gibbs Smith Publishers Layton UT 1990 perfectbound As New $ 28

Fernandez-Galiano, Luis, translated by Gina Carino : : Fire and Memory: On Architecture and Energy : : Develops a theoretical dialogue between combustion and construction towards a reinstatement of th tactile in design. Flaming reds of a matte cover.Pen-marked 5.5 x 8 325 pp. Art Cinema Performance MIT Press Cambridge MA 2000 perfectbound As New $ 15

Gance, Abe, Moya Hassan, translatorl : : Napolean : : The original screenplay for Gance's groundbreaking masterpiece. Introduction by Kevin Brownlow 5 x 8.5 325 pp. Art Cinema Performance Faber & Faber London 1990 perfectbound good $ 18

Hafner, Katie : : A Romance on Three Legs : : Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano"" -a Steinway grand, 'CD 318' built during WWII 9 x 11 261 pp. Art Cinema Performance McClelland & Stewart Toronto 2008 Sewn-cloth Mint $ 27

Halliday, David : : Murder : : Bold-printed poems of ""man slaying woman'. With an envelope of 20 collages for the reader to tip in at the parallel recurrence. Red cover, appropriately disturbing 8 x 6 40 pp. Art Cinema performance Coach House Toronto 1986 perfectbound Fine $ 22

Hancock, Geoff & Rikki Ducornet : : Shoes & Shit: Stories for Pedestrians : : 45 writers and photgraphers present a speculum of the unlikely phantasms of the everyday. B x w juxtapositions with heavily seriffed print bewteen. Black on grey, minor bungs 7 x 10.5 167 pp. Art Cinema Performance Aya Press Toronto 1984 perfectbound Fine $ 21

Hart, Mickey and Frederic Liebeman : : Planet Drum : : The world-beat of rhythm presented psychedelically by the percussionist of the Grateful Dead. First Edition Paperback from HarperCollins 9 x 11 224 pp. Art Cinema Performance Harper & Row San Francisco 1991 perfectbound fine $ 22

Heron, Liz and Val Williams, editors : : Illuminations : : "Women Writing on Photography from the 1850's to the Present" with an emphasis on thinking forward. Big, green and beautiful cloth boards 6.25 x 9.5 521 pp. Art Cinema Performance Duke University Press Durham NC 1996 Cloth As New $ 23

Hlynsky, David : : Salvage : : 42 sharp duotones of everyday objects dressed to kill. Text as illustration. waitress serving a plastic tablesetting on cover. This is a review copy 6 x 8.75 50 pp. Art Cinema Performance Coach House Toronto 1981 perfectbound As New $ 25

James, Robin : : Cassette Mythos : : Large-format paperback from the 'citizens of the music underground' before there was www. Punk Autonomedia. First edition of 1992, topics 5 to 10 years before that.8.5 8.5 x 11 196 pp. Art Cinema Performance Autonomedia Brooklyn NY 1992 perfectbound Fine $ 22

Jarman, Derek : : Dancing Ledge : : Autobiography of the film-maker edited by Shaun Allen. First American edition from Overlook. Soot stains to dustjacket and top face. bottom face is grease-spotted 7 x 9.5 154 pp. Art Cinema Performance Overlook Press Woodstock NY 1993 Cloth good $ 25

Johnson, Brian D. : : Brave Films Wild Nights : : Gold-wrapped, paperbound celebration of the first 25 years of what is now called the Toronto International Film festival. Every caption and header printed in margin bleed-off style"   8.5 x 11 366 pp. Art Cinema Performance Random House Canada Toronto 2000 perfectbound As New $ 27

Johnson, Randall : : The Film Industry in Brazil : : Delves into the relation of State to Culture in Brazil by way of film. Has 21 tables, bibliography and indices. No jacket 5.75 x 8.5 285 pp. Art Cinema Performance University of Pittsburgh Press Pittsburgh 1987 Sewn-cloth As New $ 20

Johnston, Jude and Joyce mason, editors : : Issues of Censorship : : 6 contributors, 14 issues addressed. Published by A Space Gallery in 1985 and still relevant. All as new except the paint's peeling to the front spine 8.5 x 11 78 pp. Art Cinema Performance A Space Toronto 1985 staplebound Fine $ 12

Julian, Philippe -no translator listed : : Dreamers of Decadence : : First Pall Mall edition of 1971 reprinted the same year for Praeger of London & New York. Pink sunrise dustjacket, text contains 149 illus.,49 in full-colour with indices to Decadence Movement artists 7 x 10 272 pp. Art Cinema Performance Praeger New York 1971 Cloth Fine $ 25

Koehnline, James : : Magpie Reveries: The Iconographic Mandalas of James Koehnline : : Front and back paper covers in full reds on royal blue collages, all inside are b x w. 46 of them. Foreword by Hakim Bey 8.5 x 11 102 pp. Art Cinema Performance Autonomedia Brooklyn 1992 perfectbound Good $ 15

Krasilovsky, Alexis : : Women Behind the Camera: Conversations with Camerawomen : : Beginning with 4 women who worked before the 70's, the author moves on to interview 19 more contemporary camerawomen, each with their own photograph. Crisp 6 x 9.25 215 pp. Art Cinema Performance Praeger Westport CT 1997 perfectbound As New $ 15

Lemon, Ralph : : geography : : Drawings, journal entries, photos towards texts for performance by this alien-African-in-America. Colour included, superb dustjacket 7.25 x 10.25 202 pp. Art Cinema Performance Wesleyan University Press Hanover NH 2000 Cloth As New $ 25

Levy, Evan : : Cold Rolled: Recent Sculptures : : Photographs by Teresa Maie Webster of the sculptor's rolled steel work in various installations introduced by Linda Generoux   8 x 10 32 pp. Art Cinema Performance Lake Galleries Toronto 1990 perfectbound Fine $ 11

Lynch, David and Barry Gifford : : Lost Highway : : Screenplay for the film released in June 1997. Interview with Lynch at the front. Top face stained, some foxing and creases to cover 5.25 x 8.5 144 pp. Art Cinema Performance Faber and Faber London 1997 perfectbound Good $ 12

Marranca, Bonnie and Guatam Dasgupta, editors : : Theatre of the Ridiculous : : Performing Arts Journal (PAJ) reprinted with 18 pages of illustrations -mostly stills -some pages still uncut. Shiny 5.5 x 8.5 190 pp. Art Cinema Performance Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore 1998 perfectbound As New $ 16

McGreevey, John, editor : : Glenn Gould: Variations : : Subtitled, "By himself and his friends";this is a remembrance of the virtuoso through interviews with Bernstein, Stokowski & Meuhin ,e.g. First edition 8 x 10.25 319 pp. Art Cinema Performance Douleday Toronto 1983 Cloth As New $ 27

Morris, Lynda and Robert Radford : : The Story of the International Artists Association, 1933 - 1953 : : Chronicles this activist art group through a record of its newsletters, bulletins, exhibitions and AGMs.""AiA" printed green on pale yellow card stock covers 8 x 12 96 pp. Art Cinema Performance The Museum of Modern Art Oxford 1983 perfectbound As New $ 20

Murray, Joan : : Richord Gorman: Naked Eye : : Monograph on the Ottawa-born artist with 7 full-colour reproductions. Copy # 260 of an edition of 500  7 x 9.5 32 pp. Art Cinema Performance Lake Galleries Toronto 1990 perfectbound Fine $ 15

Neruda, Pablo; Milton Rogovin, photographer and various translators : : Windows That Open Inward : : Photographs of the island of Chiloe in southern Chile taken at the poet's recommendation. Black on white, (English) text is stapled through then paper cover glued to its seam 8.5 x 7 60 pp. Art Cinema Performance White Pine Press Buffalo 1985 perfect + stapled Good $ 28

Ottenberg, Simon : : Seeing with Music: The Lives of Three Blind African Musicians : : Three performers of 'Kututeng': Sayo Kamara, Muctaru Mansaray and Marehu Mansaray from the Limba area of Sierra Leone. Their innovation, but also the stability they brought 6 x 9.5 216 pp. Art Cinema Performance University of Washington Press Seattle 1996 sewn cloth As New $ 25

Pater, Walter : : The Renaissance : : First Mentor maas-market edition of 1959. Introduction by Louis Kronenberge, specially prepared for this editionr   4.5 x 7 160 pp. Art Cinema Performance Mentor Books New York 1959 perfectbound As New $ 12

Rabinowitch, David : : Konstruktion des Sehens: Zeichnungen mit Farbigen Elementen  : : 25 drawings in illustration of the artist's colour theory accompanied by articles in German by the artists, Erich Franz and Walter Klepac translated into English by Brigitte Kalthof. Bunger back cover 8 x 12 112 pp. Art Cinema Performance Richter Verlag Dusseldorf 1999 perfectbound Good $ 33

Reese-Heim, Dorothea : : Unnutzbucher / Useless Books : : Books in state before legibility; as bodies, as sculptures, as mobile, before being read. German text with English following. Karen Meetz' essay in English. Cover green on cloth 8 x 9.5 120 pp. Art Cinema Performance Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg 2002 sewn cloth As New $ 22

Ribero Y Tarrago, Julian : : La Musica Andaluza Medieval : : Hardbound reprint of 1925 Spanish edition from E. Maestre. Over 160 pp. of scored music as would have been performed through the 1100's by trovadores, troveros & minnesingers 5.75 x 9 246 pp. Art Cinema Performance AMS Press New York 1974 Sewn-cloth Mint $ 30

Ricard, Rene : : Trusty Sarcophagus Co. : : Paintings & garden variety 'objets d'art' with freehand poems spilled upon them reproduced in colour. Handprinted text en face. Stiff paper card cove, turquoise matte jacket 5.75 x 8 100 pp. Art Cinema Performance INANDOUTPRESS New York 1990 perfectbound Fine $ 55

Richardson, John : : Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass' Akhenaton : : New theoretical models brought to bear on Glass'  works and their genesis. 34 music excerpts included 6 x 9 296 pp. Art Cinema Performance Wesleyan University Press Hanover NH 1999 perfectbound As New $ 17

Rikki : : The Butcher's Tales : : Fabulous stories with either surrealiste or camp-Victorian illustrations. Flayed pig graphic used on black printed beige cover. Copy #163 out of 231  8.5 x 12 104 pp. Art Cinema Performance Aya Press Toronto 1980 perfectbound Fine $ 43

Samuel, Claude; Miriam John, translator : : Prokofiev : : Original French work from Editions du Seuil of 1960, translation copyright to Calder & Boyars in 1971. In the "illustrated Library of Composers' series -photos, drawing and scores 5.25 x 8 192 pp. Art Cinema Performance Grossman Publishers New York 1971 perfectbound Fine $ 17

Sandved, Kjell B. : : The Butterfly Aphabet : : First edition, text, photos and jacket all in As New condition. 36 sets of wings for alphanumeric appreciation -26 letters and 10 numerals as found within the lightplay of scaly-wings 8.5 x 11.5 72 pp. Art Cinema Performance Scholastic, Inc. New York 1996 Cloth As New $ 20

Schwarz, Arturo; Ludwig Zeller and Susana Wald, collages : : Pieces of Dreams : : Stark, surrealist collages set to orchestrate brief poems. Original collages focus the front and back paper card deecal covers printed brown with red endpapers. 6.5 x 6.5 32 pp. Art Cinema Performance Oasis Toronto 1977 perfectbound Fine $ 27

Selz, Peter : : Max Beckmann : : Catalogue copy for travelling exhibition of the painter's work in 1964-65. 'Self-Portrait with Beret' (1934) reproduced on yellow cover; 3 triptyches full-colour fold-ins. Minor peels 8.5 x 8 160 pp. Art Cinema Performance The Museum of Modern Art New York 1964 perfectbound Good $ 20

Shiraishi, Kazuko; Alan Green, paintings, John Solt, translations : : Burning Meditation : : Intense global poetry, facing japanese-English texts, searing abstract expressionist paintings reproduced in full colour beside. Austere wax-paper wrap cover with slip-case.   6 x 8.5 64 pp. Art Cinema Performance Seichisha Tokyo 1986 sen paper Fine $ 125

Tolstoi, Leo; Charles Johnston, translator : : What is Art : : The great novelist wirtes of an art that raises our consciousness of the brotherhood of man. No jacket, corner cracked, 'Madonna House Library' stamped on title page 4.5 x 6.5 298 pp. Art Cinema Performance Henry Altemus Philadelphia 1898 cloth Fair $ 15

Tomaselli, Keyan : : The Cinema of Apartheid : : Subtitled, "Race and Class in South African Film". Taking his earlier, "The South African Film Industry" (1979) as point of departure. B x w cover" 5.5 x 8.5 299 pp. Art Cinema Performance Routledge London 1989 perfectbound As New $ 15

Turim, Maureen : : The Films of Oshima Nagisa : : Subtitled, "Images of a Japanese Iconoclast"" with b x w stills as illustrations within and for cove. Includes filmography, bibliography and index          6 x 9 314 pp. Art Cinema Performance University of California Press Berkeley 1998 perfectbound As New $ 17

Vaughan, David : : Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years : : Chronicle of the life and career of someone once deemed, "the most important avant-garde choreographer of our time" . Splendid photos 9.75 x 12.5 320 pp. Art Cinema Performance Apeture New York 1997 Cloth As New $ 37

Vitti, Antonio : : Giuseppe De Santis and Postwar Italian Cinema : : The biography, stories and a brief assessment of the Italian communist and Neorealist filmmaker's career. 32 pp. of b x w stills under red coversr, no jacket 6.25 x 9.25 220 pp. Art Cinema Performance University of Toronto Press Toronto 1996 Sewn-cloth As New $ 20

Wenders, Wim and Donata Wenders : : The Heart is a Sleeping Beauty : : Colour stills from a film. Text by Wim Wenders, foreword by Bono, poems and title from Nicholas Klein. Startlingly fine colour reproductions 10.75 x 10.5 151 pp. Art Cinema Performance te Neues New York 2000 Cloth As New $ 23

Whittal, Arnold : : Schoenberg Chamber Music : : In the BBC Music Guides series that purports to introduce composers to ""listeners, performers, students"" in ""non-technical language". Some fade to the virid paper covers 5 x 7.5 64 pp. Art Cinema Performance University of Washington Press Seattle 1972 perfectbound Good $ 13

Wolvecamp, Theo : : werken op papier : : Teksten by Hans Sizoo and others, completely in Dutch. Expressionist design,completely in line with the post-war Cobra Art Movement that shaped Wolvecamp's career 8.5 x 8.5 44 pp. Art Cinema Performance Leo Duppen Amstelveen 1994 Sewn-cloth As New $ 18

Zeller, Ludwig; L. Zeller & S. Wald, collages, S. Wald & A.F Moritz, translators : : In the Country of the Antipodes : : Over 30 collages and 20 drawings in this trade sized edition. Cover, in orange with a black collage and titles printed on terra-cotta has some stains. Knife-cut pages 6 x 9.25 185 pp. Art Cinema Performance Mosaic Press Oakville ON 1979 sewn paper Fine $ 77

Zeller, Ludwig; L. Zeller & S. Wald, collages; S. Wald & A.F. Moritz, translators : : Circe's Mirrors : : Translation from the Spanish of "Los espios de Circe". Wrap-around collage on cover printed brule-yellow on creme and run ragged. 8 x 9 20 pp. Art Cinema Performance Oasis Toronto 1978 staplebound Fine $ 25

Zeller, Ludwig; L. Zeller & S. Wald, collages; S. Wald & A.F. Moritz, translators : : Wanderers In The Mandala : : Wrap-around paper cover of surrealiste collage printed russet on veneer-green. English translation of Spanish text printed on hand-made paper 8 x 9 22 pp. Art Cinema Performance Oasis Toronto 1978 staplebound As New $ 27

Zeller, Ludwig; Ludwig Zeller & Sausana Wald, collages : : Los espios de Circe : : Surrealiste poems with magnificent collages en face. Wrap-around collage on cover printed brule-yellow on creme and run ragged. Signed by author. Minor loss of pigment. 8 x 9 20 pp. Art Cinema Performance Oasis Toronto 1978 staplebound Fine $ 25

Zeller, Ludwig; Ludwig Zeller & Susana Wald, collages : : Nomades en el mandala   : : Chilean, surrealiste poems with wrap-around cover in surrealiste collage printed kelly-green on blue. Spanish text with 4 more collages outstripping it 8 x 9 22 pp. Art Cinema Performance Oasis Toronto 1978 stalebound As New $ 27

Golding, John : : Cubism: A History and an Analysis, 1907 - 1914 : : Masterful unfolding of the Cubist Movement with a comprehensive bibliography and index and over 100 b x w examples of the mode and its influence at the back. No jacket 7.5 x 10 268 pp. Art Cinema Performance Boston Book and Art Shop Boston 1968 cloth Fine $ 23