Rivers Larry John Ashbery (26 results)

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 63 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran May 3-27, 1993. Features a brief text by John Ashbery. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations and a checklist. A very good copy in wrappers with the top right corner clipped and from the library of the Marlborough Gallery with their marks. A solid copy with an interesting provenance.…

Softcover, 64 pages, as new condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. 11.5 x 11 inches. 263 pp. Lavish b/w and color illustrations throughout. Turquoise cloth lettered in gilt at spine. Minor toning to board edges. Jacket price-clipped, one closed tear to crown of spine, two small scratches along bottom edge of front panel. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. In mylar wrapper.…

Hardcover. First edition, 1979, first printing. Fine/As New cloth-bound hardcover in a Fine dust jacket, protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. A monograph on the work of Larry Rivers with autobiographical and critical commentary by the artist. Foreword by John Ashbery; contributions by Carol Brightman. 263 pages; 1 tipped-in color frontis + 70 color and 215 b&w illustrations; 10.75 x 11.25 inches. Chronology, list of illustrations. Due to size and weight, international and expedited shipping will be more than quoted.…

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 16 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran May 1962. Features short texts by John Ashbery and Thomas B. Hess. Includes with the covers 3 color and 5 black and white illustrations, a black and white photograph of Rivers, and a checklist. A very good copy in stapled wrappers with some light wear and from the library of the Marlborough Gallery with their marks. Rivers has written on the front cover: "Return to Larry Rivers." A nice copy with an interesting provenance.…

hardcover. Condition: Like New. Like New. First Edition. A nice hardcover in a protective Mylar sleeve with a crisp dust jacket, a tight binding and an unmarked text. From a private smoke free collection. Shipping within 24 hours a tracking number and delivery confirmation.

195 pp.; 21.1 x 15.7 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Issue number five of the journal "Art and Literature," edited by John Ashbery, Anne Dunn, Rodrigo Moynihan, and Sonia Orwell. Contents include "A Selection from 'The Venice Letters,'" by Fr. Rolfe, Baron Corvo; "The Feast of Love," by Virgil Thomson; "Poems: 'In the Wood' and 'Ballade,'" by Boris Pasternak; "Poems: 'from Laborintus' and 'from Erotopaegnia,'" by Edoardo Sanguineti; "Narcissus Pseudonarcissus," by Elio Pagliarani; "Poems: 'When I Saw the Willow,' "Grey Clearings are Kindled,' 'from Birthday,' 'from Predilections,'" by Alfredo Giuliani; "Pop Art and Non-Pop Art," by Robert Rosenblum; "Beautiful and Interesting," by Larry Rivers and David Hockney; "The New American Modern Dance," by Jill Johnston; "from 'The Red Robins,'" by Kenneth Koch; "Can we Talk," by Donald Barthelme; "Poems: 'Two Voices,' 'I See the Far,' 'Song of the Golden Gayboy,' and 'Summer to Winter,'" by Soteré Torregian; "Poems: 'Arch Romance in an Orchard,' 'Telegram for Love in Tradition,' 'Apprentice Clockmaker-Clockmaker Abroad,' 'The Two Cronies,' 'Night and Day,' 'Cameos of Philosophy,' 'The Lady in the Avenue of Love,'" by G.W. Watson; "Poems: 'The Betrayal,' and 'from Letters from a Foreign Place,'" by Stephen Donadio; "Poems: 'When Youth Shall This Generation Waste,' and 'Mirage,'" by Gerard Malanga; "Birthday in Bedlam," by Roger Hammer and "On Expression and Expressionism," by Richard Wollheim. Good. Moderate wear to cover edges including 1.1 cm. area of loss to recto edge and tears including 5 mm., 6 mm., and 7 mm., tears to recto. Discrete small rubber stamp logo inside rear cover, otherwise contents clean and unmarked.…

hardcover. Condition: As New. Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Clarkson Potter, 1979. FINE- hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. Remainder marked. First Edition, SECOND Printing. Previous owner's artistic embossed stamp at bottom of FFEP otherwise as new.

Cloth. Condition: Fine Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 264 pp., 285 illustrations 70 in full color. Light soiling to the edge. A bit of chipping an wear to the dustjacket edge, otherwise fine. Dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover.

195 pp.; 21.1 x 15.7 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Issue number five of the journal "Art and Literature," edited by John Ashbery, Anne Dunn, Rodrigo Moynihan, and Sonia Orwell. Contents include "A Selection from 'The Venice Letters,'" by Fr. Rolfe, Baron Corvo; "The Feast of Love," by Virgil Thomson; "Poems: 'In the Wood' and 'Ballade,'" by Boris Pasternak; "Poems: 'from Laborintus' and 'from Erotopaegnia,'" by Edoardo Sanguineti; "Narcissus Pseudonarcissus," by Elio Pagliarani; "Poems: 'When I Saw the Willow,' "Grey Clearings are Kindled,' 'from Birthday,' 'from Predilections,'" by Alfredo Giuliani; "Pop Art and Non-Pop Art," by Robert Rosenblum; "Beautiful and Interesting," by Larry Rivers and David Hockney; "The New American Modern Dance," by Jill Johnston; "from 'The Red Robins,'" by Kenneth Koch; "Can we Talk," by Donald Barthelme; "Poems: 'Two Voices,' 'I See the Far,' 'Song of the Golden Gayboy,' and 'Summer to Winter,'" by Soteré Torregian; "Poems: 'Arch Romance in an Orchard,' 'Telegram for Love in Tradition,' 'Apprentice Clockmaker-Clockmaker Abroad,' 'The Two Cronies,' 'Night and Day,' 'Cameos of Philosophy,' 'The Lady in the Avenue of Love,'" by G.W. Watson; "Poems: 'The Betrayal,' and 'from Letters from a Foreign Place,'" by Stephen Donadio; "Poems: 'When Youth Shall This Generation Waste,' and 'Mirage,'" by Gerard Malanga; "Birthday in Bedlam," by Roger Hammer and "On Expression and Expressionism," by Richard Wollheim. Very Good / Fine. Light yellowing of covers and mild overall rubbing. Contents are clean and unmarked.…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1979 Clarkson Potter hard cover - 1st edition - signed with small inscription by Rivers - some staining to dust jacket, edge of cover and page edge - otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean - a nice collectible - enjoy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slightly Frayed. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Book signed by Larry Rivers / personal dedication to a Jeanne.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Noticeable foxing along top edge of book. Mild shelf wear. Wrapped in Brodart jacket protector.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Slight scratching/scuffing on dust jacket. Interior pages in very nice condition. Open copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Teal cloth over boards with gilt-stamped lettering on spine; full-color illustrated dust jacket; pp. [264], with tipped-on frontispiece, 285 duotone illustrations and photographs, 70 full-color reproductions. Signed and dated (Dec 1980) by Rivers on the ffep. Faint adhesive stain (about 3") along front joint; very light soiling at bottom corner of text block (not infringing into textblock). Dust jacket rubbed, with a few small scuff marks here and there; lightly wrinkled along the edges. Internally bright and clean, an excellent copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. Cream cloth printed in gold. pp.[ii] (blank), xxx, 592pp. + frontispiece. Brings together for the first time all of the poems that had so far been discovered - more than five hundred - which O'Hara wrote in his lifetime. This copy has the 1st issue jacket, by Larry Rivers, which was deemed unsuitable by members of O'Hara's family and was quickly replaced by a typographic design, and it has the 1st issue binding; subsequently, the covers were stamped blind. Early copies such as this one were sent to reviewers and comprised the first shipments on advance orders. Very Good indeed with just moderate signs of handling, a handful of leaves with tiny corner bumps, and the fore edge with a spot at the end matter, the jacket a little rubbed to the head edge, where the spine is bumped and shows on the reverse a faint patch of soiling, slightly faded around the spine, and with a couple of short, mild scratches to the lower panel, but nonetheless Very Good overall.…

Unbound. Condition: Fine. First edition (unsigned issue). Single sheet measuring 10 7/8 by 12 7/16 inches, printed on recto only. Illustrated. Photolithographically reproduces in color on laid paper a portrait of John Ashbery by Larry Rivers. Left and right blank margin lightly creased, with two tiny edge tears, else a near fine copy. Published in an edition of 150 numbered copies and 30 "hors commerce" copies, all of which were to be signed by John Ashbery and Larry Rivers; this is an out-of-series issue, and is NOT numbered and NOT signed]. Ashbery is seated at a typewriter, composing a poem with the printed text of the poem, entitled "Pyrography" reproduced in the top margin background, as if in a dreamscape.…

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. dj. First Edition. Inscribed on half title "For Janet / Armenian like Gorky / [signed] Larry Rivers" in black ink. First edition, second printing. 264pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Gallery Guide to Skirball Cultural Center show laid in. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Signed by Illustrator. …

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. About the print: 150 copies were printed for a special art exhibit "Doubly Gifted, Writers Who Paint" sponsored by University of Charleston in the Frankenberger Gallery, November 1-6, 1997. This is copy 69. Printed by the technique of photolithography, on 80 lb. laid text, partial cotton, in full color. Print is in fine condition in shrink wrap. Colophon on backside of print. Additional photos available upon request. Rivers, Larry (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Very good+ copy in printed wrappers with folding flaps. (Traces of light shelf soiling & edge wear. ) Features an interview between artists Larry Rivers & David Hockney. Also a story by David Barthelme. Uncommon. ; 6 1/2" x 8 1/2". …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First state dustjacket with the nude frontal portrait of O'Hara by Rivers. Solid book with the lightest stain that affects about 1/2" of the lower right corner of the book through page 152 (of 586 pages). Some spotting to beige cloth covers. No names or bookplates. Throughly presentable copy.…

Unbound. Condition: Fine. First edition. Poem by John Ashbery and portrait by Larry Rivers. Single sheet, approximately measuring 11" by 12½" printed rectos only. Photolithographically reproduces in color a portrait of poet John Ashbery by Larry Rivers. Ashbery is shown seated at a typewriter composing a poem, with the printed text of the poem "Pyrography" reproduced above him as if in a dream. A fine copy with separate printed colophon. Copy 123 of 150 numbered copies Signed by both John Ashbery and Larry Rivers (from a total edition 180 copies).…

No Binding. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. This is the complete portfolio with 8 original hand SIGNED prints; ARTISTS: Richard Avedon, Willem de Kooning, Elaine de Kooning, Jim Dine, Jane Freilicher, Alex Katz, R.B. Kitaj, and Larry Rivers. Together with a foreword by the poet John Ashbery; a recording of his reading of the poem and on the album, an essay by Helen Vendler; all prints and text sheets measure: 17-3/4in diameter (450mm); housed in a cylindrical canister, with 32 text sheets ( [3] 27, [2] leaves), 8 prints, 1 sound disc). 49 cm. in diam., 4 cm. high; Limited Edition of 175 numbered copies (One of 150 copies offered for sale) and this is # 144; the paper was specially made in rounds at Twinrocker Mill in Indiana; the 40 text sheets are handset in Cochin type in lines that radiate as spokes from a hub holding the page number, so that the pages are literally turned to be read; The Foreword is hand SIGNED in pencil by the poet John Ashbery, also SIGNED in pencil by the printer, Andrew Hoyem in colophon.; Each print is numbered and signed in pencil by the respective artists; print by Larry Rivers also dated '83. The sound disc (analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 12 in.) is enclosed in a square folded sleeve with title: "Self-portrait in a convex mirror": the poem read by the poet, John Ashbery. The essay by Helen Vendler, "Reading and hearing John Ashbery's Self-portrait in a convex mirror," appears on p. [2-4]of sleeve. cover; canister made by Atlas Metal Spinning, San Francisco, California. THE DESCRIPTION of PRINTS: No. 1) Richard Avedon of John Ashbery; 1 photomechanical print in offset lithography (reproduction of photograph), b&w full-page. No. 2) Willem de Kooning; b&w lithograph, paper made at the Twinrocker Mill in Indiana, lithograph printed from stones at Hampton Editions Limited, Sag Harbor, N.Y. No. 3 & 4) Elaine de Kooning and Jane Freilicher; contributed 1 b&w lithograph, each full-page, Printed from stones at Hampton Editions Limited, Sag Harbor, N.Y. No 5) Jim Dine; 1 b&w woodcut, full-page, Printed at the Arion Press. (References: D'Oench, E. Jim Dine prints, 178). No. 6) Alex Katz; 1 b&w lithograph, full-page, printed from a metal plate at Siena Studio, New York. No. 7) R. B. Kitaj; 1 b&w, soft ground etching, aquatint, full-page. Printed by Aldo Crommelynck, Paris. No. 8) Larry Rivers; 1 photomechanical print : photogravure (reproduction of drawing), hand col., full-page. Printed at Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, N.Y.; CONDITION OF PORTFOLIO: all the contents are stored in the original canister and shipping cardboard box; the Willem de Kooning was for a short time floated (without tapping to a matt) in a frame but has no flaws; the Richard Avedon has some small tape pulls on the back from once being matted for a short time (no sunning to image at all); there are some small fingers prints on the canister but nothing distracting; as far as we can tell there are no other flaws with the prints, text sheets and album; otherwise all the contents in this beautiful portfolio are in EXCELLENT COND. PLEASE NOTE: the buyer must pay full insurance on the full value within the USA and International shipping. Signed by Author(s).…