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All books are first printings of first editions or first American editions unless otherwise noted.
CUMMINGS, E.E.
1939-05-04. Oil on cardboard. 8-1/2" x 14-1/2".
[#034287]
$5,000
CUMMINGS, E.E.
Watercolor. 12-3/4" x 9-3/4". No date. Signed by Cummings at the lower left with "Pornic" written in his hand on the lower right. Cummings visited Pornic, a seaside village on the French Atlantic coast, and painted a number of outdoor scenes while he was there, frequently of French peasants at their work. This painting was part of an exhibit at the Gotham Book Mart some time in the late '60s or '70s and bears their notation "GBM #412" on verso. Although a prolific painter, Cummings seldom signed his work.
[#026723]
$5,000
CUMMINGS, E.E.
Pencil on paper. 8-1/2" x 10-1/4". No date.
[#034283]
$5,000
CUMMINGS, E.E.
Oil on canvas. 16" x 12". Summer on Chocorua. No date.
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$5,000
CUMMINGS, E.E.
Oil on canvasboard. 12" x 16". No date.
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$5,000
CUMMINGS, E.E.
A landscape painting by Cummings of a colorful tree on the shore of Silver Lake in New Hampshire, where the Cummings family had a summer home. In the background is Mount Chocorua, one of the most frequent subjects of Cummings' artwork. The use of a bright and vivid palette is reminiscent of Matisse, Kandinsky, and the Fauvists, all of whom have been cited as influences on Cummings as an artist. Thematically and as a composition, this image also owes a debt to Cezanne, one of Cummings' great idols as a painter and an influence, as he said, on both his and other Modernist writers' poetry and fiction by virtue of his providing "a new way of seeing things." In Cummings' work one can almost see an echo of Cezanne, with Cummings' frequent and varied depictions of Mount Chocorua echoing Cezanne's repeated returns to Mont Saint-Victoire as a subject for his paintings. 8-3/4" x 11-1/2", oil on cardboard. Painted on the underside of the cover of a box of his typewriter paper. Undated. Edges slightly rough, and a few random water spots on the image; overall very good condition.
[#029554]
$5,000
CUMMINGS, E.E.
1955. Open window. Oil on canvas. 12" x 16". On verso: March '55.
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$5,000
DICK, Philip K.
1978. A full-page typed letter signed from Dick to Hazel Pierce, author of the Philip K. Dick Starmont Reader's Guide (1982), in which Dick directs her how to get permission to quote from his work; agrees to meet with her; confesses the project appeals to his vanity; and divulges that a speech of his to which she apparently has access was intended for a French audience, and "When I write something for France, or am interviewed by the French, I always make startling claims which I can't back up, knowing that French scholarship does not require the empirical validation of the Anglo-Saxon world's methodology." Included is the original mailing envelope: Dick has written his phone number on the back. Pierce's reply is included, in which she sent Dick a 3-page chronology of his life for correction and an additional page of 14 questions for him to answer, in a fill-in-the-blank style. Dick's handwritten corrections and responses, approximately 30, are included. For example, he fills in the last names of his wives, some significant dates, answers that the Western writer Will Cook was an influence on his writing, and notes that his work in progress is "VALIS." This chronology was included in Pierce's guide, which was published shortly after Dick's death. The letter appeared in Dick's Selected Letters. Stray pen mark on the text of Dick's letter; mailing folds and mild age-toning; otherwise the lot is fine. A notable piece of what might be called Dick-iana. Unique.
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$5,000
FORD, Richard
(n.p.), (Grenfell Press), (1999). A fine press limited edition: one of 35 copies of the first book publication of this story, which first appeared in the New Yorker and was later published, in 2001, in Ford's collection A Multitude of Sins, with several small changes to this text. An elaborate and elegant production by one of the premier fine presses in the country, with seven etchings by artist Jane Kent. This is Copy No. 21 of 35 copies, and is signed by both Ford and Kent. Unbound folios, 10-1/4" x 15-1/2", with tissue guards protecting each of the etchings, and all laid into the publisher's clamshell case, which was made by Claudia Cohen. A fine copy, offered at the publisher's price.
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$5,000
ca. 1980s. An archive of the 1980s art world, from the files of Art & Antiques magazine, with more than 350 signed pieces of correspondence from approximately 200 names in the fields of art, architecture, academia, literature, dance, photography, music, journalism, fashion, economics, social history, and more. The archive includes letters, notes, cards, invitations; several signed contracts; and approximately 20 typescripts, all from notables such as: Svetlana Alpers, Eve Arnold, John Barth, Daniel Boorstin, Jean-Claude Christo, Craig Claiborne, William Crutchfield, Oscar de Mejo, Carol Diehl, Max Ferguson, Leslie Fieldler, John Kenneth Galbraith, Stella Gibbons, Francoise Gilot, Adam Gopnik, Robert Gottlieb, Francine du Plexis Gray, Tina Howe, Philip Johnson, Wolf Kahn, Allegra Kent, Carlton Lake, Walter Liedtke, John Loengard, George Lois, Edward Lucie-Smith, Sam Messner, P.J. O'Rourke, Jed Perl, Bennard Perlman, Darryl Pinckney, David Plante, Reginald Pollack, Mordecai Richler, Jerome Rothenberg, Peter Schjeldahl, Joan Snyder, Debra Solomon, Holly Solomon, Eve Sonneman, Pat Steir, Faith Stewart-Gordon, Andrew Sullivan, Michael Van Rijn, and Diana Vreeland, among many others. A few of the folders have apparently been carried forward from an earlier time, and pre-date the 1980s (and several may fall into the 90s). Alphabetical file folders, in two bankers boxes. Scattered marginal foxing; near fine.
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$4,500
CUMMINGS, E.E.
1940-09-27. Oil on cardboard. 8-1/2" x 15-1/4".
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$4,500
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