1960s Books

AUTHOR: SIMAK, Clifford D. TITLE: All Flesh Is Grass. PUBLISHER: Berkley Medallion, 1966. DESCRIPTION: FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION SIGNED. 1 vol., signed on the title-page, hinges fi...

Author: FLEMING, Ian. Title: You Only Live Twice - UNCORRECTED PROOF. Publisher: London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, UNCORRECTED PROOF. 1 vol., perhaps limited to approximately 500 copies, neat ownership signature to page 3. Bound in the publisher's original pictorial printed wrappers. Condition: Slight slant to spine, general light...

Published in 1990 in Japan in a limited edition of 1,000, this book is a beautifully illustrated retrospective showing 1960s psychedelic patterns and prints with bold floral and pais...

1968 MoMa edition of Robert Frank The Americans: Cover: Fair overall vintage condition: minor creasing & age related wear. Interior: Good overall vintage condition. Bibliographic ...

AUTHOR: GREENE, Graham. TITLE: A Burnt-Out Case. PUBLISHER: London: Heinemann, 1961. DESCRIPTION: SIGNED FIRST EDITION. 1 vol., 8" x 5-1/2", signed by Graham Greene on the title-...

Embark on a captivating journey into a world of wanderers and nomads with this remarkable vintage book, showcasing the exceptional work "Nomads" by K. Kripichny, from the USSR. Circa...

Book Limited Availability Book by Israel Katzman titled La Arquitectura Contemporanea Mexicana Hard Cover. Published 1964. Original Dust Jacket. Modern masters of contemporary Archit...

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

Capote, Truman, In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. New York: Random House, Inc., [1965]. First trade edition, first printing. Octavo. Original d...

Roy Lichtenstein Ileana Sonnabend Paris 1965: Vintage original 1960s exhibition catalog published on the occasion of Roy Lichtenstein's 1965 show at t...

True 1st edition, Editions Cercle D’Art Paris 1967 French Language Douglas Cooper explores the part theatre design had in Picasso’s life, drawing on...

Bronze sculpture book by Alexander Calder for Perl's Galleries. Manufactured in New York, circa 1950. In good original condition, with cons...

Presented is one of the most important texts of the American Civil Rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham City Jail.” Printed as a stapled pamphlet, ...

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...

Le Belle Case Italiane by Doria Ludovica. Edizioni Di Grazia, Milano, 1964. 2nd edition hardcover with dust jacket. Great interior room settings with Italian furniture, paintings and...

Martyn Green's Treasury of Gilbert and Sullivan by Martyn Green. Simon & Shuster, New York, 1961. Stated 1st printing hardcover with Gaylord dust ...

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...

Chinese Trade Porcelain, 1st Ed by Michel Beurdeley. Charles E. Turtle Company, Rutland, Vermont, 1962. Tipped-in color frontispiece and 24 tipped-in color plates, 100 monochrome text figures, 244 monochrome figures in the appendix. A through explanation of Chinese export porcelain and its debt to the west; historical surveys of the Far Eastern connections to al of the countries named...

Immerse yourself in a linguistic voyage with this vintage USSR dictionary (translated as "Dictionary of Foreign Words"). This treasured book, dating back to the 1960s, is a testament...

Nixon, Richard. Six Crises. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. Stated first edition. Autopen signature on free endpaper. Presented in the publisher's original dust jacket and...

Rickenbacker, Edward. Rickenbacker: An Autobiography. Englewood-Cliffs: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1967. First edition, fifth printing. Signed and dated by Rickenbacker in felt-tipped ink. ...

William Klein, portfolio magazine. Special edition. 110 pages, 1997. Softcover. 11x14 inches. Some very minor wear otherwise excellent condition. A retrospective of photographs by William Klein. Printed on thick coated stock paper in Germany. Limited edition. Number 7 in the continuing series by Stern. William Klein The social documentary tendencies of William Klein’s oeuvre find their roots in his hometown of New York City. Though he began as a painter working in Paris and Milan, Klein was enticed back to the U.S. by photography and immediately began working for Vogue. Klein's first assignment was to create a photo-journal of New York, a project that began his raw city portraits...

A smart first edition of this collection of essays from Baldwin, following on from his first collection Notes of a Native Son, signed and inscribed by the author. First edition. Si...

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...

Jean-Luc Godard, Anna Karina 1960: Vintage original 1960 Se Og Hør magazine featuring a fantastic Jean Luc Godard/Anna Karina cover that would look very cool framed. Full magazine. 8 x 10 inches. Staple bound. Approximately 40 pages. Some minor staining to front cover; in otherwise good condition for its age. While working together on Le Petit Soldat, Karina and Godard began a relationship and married in 1961. Eventually, Karina served as a cinematic muse to Godard, appearing in eight of his films, including Alphaville, Bande à part, and Pierrot le Fou...

The Thousand Islands of the Adriatic Hardcover Book 1965. Text by Antun Soljan Published by Yugoslavija 1st edition 1965.  

Horizon Summer 1967 Hardcover – January 1, 1967 Horizon Magazine - A Magazine Of The Arts, Summer 1967 By Thorndike, Joseph Ed/ New York: American ...

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...

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...

Published by Pantheon Books, New York, 1966. Hardback. Text in original French with English translation. In 1962, the Nobel-Prize winning French poet-diplomat, Saint-John Perse, com...

Treasures of the Vatican: St. Peter's Basilica, The Vatican Museums and Galleries, The Treasure of St. Peter's, The Vatican Grottos and Necropolis, and The Vatican Palaces by Maurizi...

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...

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

Comment Installer Son Interieur en Louis XIII ou Louis XIV, by Colette Lehmann. Paris, Éditions Charles Massin, 1963. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. How to decorate with L...

Joan Miro Life and Work by Jacques Dupin. Published by Harry N. Abrams, 1962, New York. 1st Ed hardcover with Brodart covered dust jacket. A Catalogue Raisonne of Miro's paintings from 1914-1961. 596pp. 1158 illustrations, including 46 color hand-tipped plates...

All 48 issues (plus the June 1962 Special Supplement) of Ayn Rand’s first monthly publication The Objectivist Newsletter, running from January 1962-December 1965 and from Vol. 1, No....

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...

November 1968 catalog for the iconic Italian design company Kartell, divided into two sections: Lamps and Furnishings. Square 8vo with printed plasticized wrappers, 55 pages, lavishl...

The Complete Work of Raphael, (1483-1520). Published in New York, Reynal & Company in association with William Morrow and Company, 1969. Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first na...

Set of nine hardcover cloth bound ex-libris Vogue magazines from 1968-1970. Dark green cloth binding with gold embossed lettering. Featuring many iconic covers and editorials from D...

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...

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...

Author: WAUGH, Evelyn Title: Decline & Fall. Publisher: London: Chapman & Hall, 1962. Description: Revised edition with a new preface and a presentation copy. 1 vol., illustrated with plates after Waugh, inscribed on the front blank endleaf "For Patrick [Balfour] with regards from Evelyn", publisher's original gilt lettered blue cloth binding, with the DJ, not price clipped. Condition: Minor foxing to endleaves otherwise NEAR FINE/VG. Provenance: Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904-1976). Evelyn and Patrick first met at Oxford in the early 1920s, and later in that decade were members of the social set known as The Bright Young Things...

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...

Picasso à L'oeuvre – Photographs by Edward Quinn 1965 Published by Manesse-Verlag, 1965. An intimate photographic biography by Edward Quinn with text written by Roland Penrose. Wonderful photographs capturing Picasso working and relaxing, from his finished pieces to his home and studio - including intimate interior and still life shots...

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...

The Loom of Art by Germain Bazin. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1962. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. In ten chapters of text and plates, Bazin,...

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...

New York, L'Humanite au Metre Cube (New York, Humanity by Cubic Foot), French book by David Lachterman, 1966. About this book, the author said: "Anything that can be written about Ne...

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...

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...

Set of 5 Books: Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Lost Worlds, Middle Ages, Elizabethan World. New York: American Heritage Publishing Co. Ancient Rome: in an age when Latin has become ra...

Painting in Islam: A Study of the Place of Pictorial Art in Muslim Culture. Painting in Islam by Sir Thomas W. Arnold (1965-07-01). Paintings in Islam indicates the place of painti...

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...

Rome For Ourselves by Aubrey Menen. Published by Mcgraw-Hill, New York, New York, 1960. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 244 pp. Illustrated with 151 plates, 41 in color. A persona...

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...

The English House Through Seven Traces by Olive Cook. Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1968. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. A history of English d...

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado. Hardcover 1st edition. Very good overall condition with clear Mylar protective cover added.

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...

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....