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Ttumpets From Montparnasse


Gibbings, Robert

Hardcover. New York, NY, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 201 pages. Hardcover. "Illustrated with eight colour plates and forty wood engravings by the author." Cover boards bound in blue cloth with agewear, gilt title on spine and design on front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, with agewear. Pages and edges have some tanning throughout, and foxing at beginning and end pages.

Record # 32188


Price: $15.00 

 

Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered


Hales, Dianne

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Shuster, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 317 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Story of the most recognized artistic subject of all time. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951281


Price: $24.00 

 

Bibliography of the Published Works of Charles M. Russell


Yost, Karl and Frederic G. Renner

Hardcover. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 317 pages. Complete bibliography records and describes approximately 3500 works, comprising all works published through 1966. Brown covers with white cloth spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 42 plates with 18 in full color. Light rubbing to dust jacket and wear to jacket edges, miild foxing and soiling to spine; otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 806112


Price: $50.00 

 

Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives


Karl, Frederick R.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1008 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Blue top edge of text block. Minor foxing to text block. Otherwise tight copy.

Record # 470927


Price: $25.00 

 

New Mexico Santero, The


Boyd, E.

Softcover. New Mexico, Museum of New Mexico, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog.Yellow stapled covers with b&w illustration, b&w plates throughout. Light wear to covers; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806098


Price: $12.00 

 

Moffatt-Ladd House: Its Garden and Its Period:1763, The


Orcutt, Phiilip Dana

Softcover. Portsmouth, NH, The New Hampshire Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Blue-cloth backed boards with black spine, laid in pamphlet on the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, numerous b&w plates. Wear to cover edges and spine, discoloration along cover edges due to age, light chipping to some pages; a tight, clean copy.

Record # 806052


Price: $20.00 

 

Heart Whispers


Ormsby, A. S.

Softcover. London, James E. Hawkins, First Edition, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 22 pages, non paginated. Softcover, string bound. Full color illustrated wraps. Moderate foxing throughout. Black & white engraved illustrations throughout. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Record # 751114


Price: $31.00 

 

Stavisky


Semprun, Jorge

Softcover. New York, The Viking Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages. Softcover with minor edgewear. Clean, unmarked copy. Minor shelf wear to back wrapper. Black & white images throughout.

Record # 470846


Price: $25.00 

 

Grueby


Grueby, William H.

Softcover. Syracuse, NY, Everson Museum of Art, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Exhibition catalog. Pink stapled covers with white titles and color illustration, foreword by Ronald A. Kuchta, essay by Robert W. Blasberg, 19 color and b&w illustrated figures, catalog of the exhibition. Light rubbing to covers, some numerical listings circled in pencil by previous owner; otherwise a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806031


Price: $35.00 

 

Eileen Gray: Designer 1879-1976


Johnson, J. Stewart

Softcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 67 pages. Color illustrated laminated covers, perfect binding, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Extremely light wear to covers; book in great condition.

Record # 806005


Price: $26.00 

 

Bernard Moore: Master Potter 1850-1935


Moore, Bernard

Softcover. London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 27 pages. Exhibition catalog. Color illustrated stapled covers with black titles, foreword by Roy Strong, introduction by Aileen Dawson, checklist of exhibition, numerous b&w plates throughout. Light rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 805996


Price: $22.00 

 

Stranger at the Party


Lawrenson, Helen

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st edition, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Deckled, untrimmed edges. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Note in marker to back page. Tan cover boards, blue quarter cloth, gilt title on spine, author's initials in gilt on front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. A touch of foxing to edges. In great condition. Lawrenson tells the story of her own life against the backdrop of the glamorous world of Vanity Fair, as well as against the atmosphere of the waterfront that she came to know through her husband's work with the National Maritime Union.

Record # 32327


Price: $23.00 

 

Charles E. Ives: Discography


Warren, Richard

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Library, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Blue cover with gilt lettering on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with light edgewear. Tight copy.

Record # 470822


Price: $38.00 

 

Southwestern Indian Arts & Crafts


Bahti, Tom

Softcover. Flagstaff, AZ, KC Publications, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Stapled covers with color illustration and white titles, illustrated throughout with color and b&w plates. Light wear and rubbing to covers and edges.

Record # 805850


Price: $15.00 

 

George Cooke, 1793-1849


Art, Georgia Museum of

Softcover. Georgia, University Press of North Georgia, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Softcover with light edgewear. Light scratches on back wrapper. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy. Color images throughout.

Record # 470780


Price: $31.00 

 

Edmund Hillary: The Life of a Legend


Booth, Pat

Hardcover. New Zealand, Moa Beckett, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Unmarked, clean copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Tight copy. Black & white and color images throughout.

Record # 470779


Price: $15.00 

 

At the Sign of the Rainbow: Margaret Calkin James 1895-1985


Miles, Betty

Softcover. Warwickshire, Felix Scribo, Reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 84 pages. Softcover with slight edgewear. Former price sticker on back wrapper. Clean, unmarked copy. Color images throughout. Foreward by Alan Powers.

Record # 470778


Price: $19.00 

 

Jumping Cholla: Genesis of a Bronze Sculpture


Christie, Keith

Softcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 67 pages. Brown wrappers with color illustration to front cover, profusely illustrated with b&w figures, diagrams and illustrations, 5 pages of color illustrations, glossary. Light rubbing to cover; overall, a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 805813


Price: $12.00 

 

Afro


Malerei, Lyrische

Softcover. Berlin, Wien/Bozen, Folio Verlag, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 133 pages. Softcover with light edgewear. Slight ink smudging on half title page. Color images throughout.

Record # 470708


Price: $25.00 

 

Myth of Mirror Neurons, The: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition


Hickok, Gregory

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Dust jacket unclipped, very good, Small tear (1/3") at top of spine, patched with tape. . Purple cover boards, purple gilt title on spine. Binding tight, pages/edges clean and bright. In beautiful condition.

Record # 31550


Price: $23.00 

 

Words and Music: Caricatures of writers, composers, and performers from the New York Review of Books


Levine, David

Softcover. New York, NY, New York Review of Books, 1st, unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 unbound plates with introductory sheet in folding cover. Tan folding cover with dark brown type. Very light wear to folding cover; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 805786


Price: $12.00 

 

David Levine's Gallery


Levine, David

Softcover. New York, NY, New York Review of Books, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 unbound plates with introductory sheet in folding cover. Tan folding cover with dark brown type. Very light wear to folding cover; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 805785


Price: $12.00 

 

Aurora Australis


Shackleton, E. H.

Shrewsbury UK , Airlife, Reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, One color, other B&W illustrations. Facsimile of book published in Antarctica in 1908 by the British Antarctic Expedition. Introduction by Mary Goodwin.

Record # 220983


Price: $20.00 

 

Post-War and Contemporary Art: Morning Session; Thursday, November 13, 2008


Christie's

Softcover. New York, Christie's , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 329 pages, paperback with French flaps. Beautiful color plates, fold out plates as well. Light rubbing to wraps. Slight soiling to fore edge text block. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951377


Price: $48.00 

 

Permanent Collection, The: Vol. 1


Gunther, Dr. Erna

Softcover. Bellingham WA, Whatcom Museum of Art, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages, b&w illustrations. Paper wrappers in very good condition.

Record # 900310


Price: $19.00 

 

Private History of Awe, A


Sanders, Scott Russell

Hardcover. New York, North Point Press, First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with silver titles to navy cloth spine. Dust jacket with light wear to edges, small tears & price-clipped. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751196


Price: $15.00 

 

Exhibiting the Visual Culture of American Religions


Morgan, David/Sally M. Promey

Softcover. Valparaiso, Valparaiso University/EVCAR, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 130 pages. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613549


Price: $15.00 

 

American Indian Design and Decoration


Appleton, Leroy H.

Softcover. New York, Dover Publications, Reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 277 pages, illustrated throughout with over 700 illustrations from the entire western hemisphere. Formerly titled: Indian of the Americas. Reprint of the original 1950 edition. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges, slight wrinkle to lower corner of back cover, else like new.

Record # 805694


Price: $13.00 

 

Gaslights and Gingerbread: Colorado's Historic Homes


Dallas, Sandra

Softcover. Chicago, IL, Swallow Press, Revised, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164, illustrated throughout with b&w photographs. Yellow pictorial stiff wrappers. Paper clip marks to pages 3-6, else like new.

Record # 805679


Price: $13.00 

 

Gleanings from Old Shaker Journals


Sears, Clara Endicott

Hardcover. Meriden, CONNECTICUT, The Meriden Gravure Company , Reprint, 1959, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 298 pages, b&w illustrations. Blue cloth with white title to spine, no dust jacket. Very nice copy. Like new.

Record # 805677


Price: $19.00 

 

Animal Kingdom in American Art, The


N/A

Softcover. Syracuse, New York, Everson Museum of Art, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 108 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Oblong. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to covers and spine, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 805671


Price: $26.00 

 

Dali Adventure 1943-1973, The: A Photo Album


Morse, , A. Reynolds and Eleanor R. Morse

Softcover. Cleveland, Ohio, The Salvador Dali Museum, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, illustrated throughout with b&w photographs of Salvador Dali, Gala and the authors. Oblong folio. White stiff wrappers. Light wear to covers and slight stain to spine, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 805653


Price: $19.00 

 

Korean Collection of the Peabody Essex Museum


Bean, Susan S. & Frederic A. Sharf

Softcover. Salem, MA, Peabody Essex Museum, 1st, 1999, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 94 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Slight curl to front cover, else like new.

Record # 805632


Price: $16.00 

 

Children of America: A Study of Images and Attitudes


Humm, Rosamund Olmsted

Softcover. Atlanta, Georgia, The High Museum of Art, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 72 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Blue pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges, spine worn with a few small tears. Overall a nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 805590


Price: $11.00 

 

Young America: Children and Art


N/A

Softcover. Sandwich MA, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 101 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Essay by Lynette and Thomas Long. Exhibition catalog with color illustrated wrappers. Several pages with paper clip impressions in top margin, otherwise very good.

Record # 805587


Price: $32.00 

 

Namath: A Biography


Kriegel, Mark

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Group, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 512 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Green cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine in green. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. pages clean. Looks barely read, in great shape. "In Namath Mark Kriegel has written the first major biography of this authentic icon, uncovering the truth behind the Broadway Joe legend."

Record # 31789


Price: $15.00 

 

Index of Pacific Northwest Portraits


Appleton, Marion B.

Hardcover. Seattle, Pacific Northwest Library Association, 1st, 1972, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 210 pages. Index of 12,000 portraits. Yellow cloth with black titles to spine, no dust jacket. Light bumping to lower corners, else like new.

Record # 606027


Price: $13.00 

 

Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves


Waal, Frans de

Hardcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, First Edition, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages. Hardcover. Crisp, clean & unmarked with illustrated dust jacket, also in very good condition. Interior photographs in black & white. Tight binding, a nice copy.

Record # 2230283


Price: $15.00 

 

Artist was a Young Man, The: The Life Story of Peter Rindisbacher


Josephy, Alvin M.

Hardcover. Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum, unknown, 1970, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Exhibition catalog. 101 pages, color frontispiece portrait, and 41 plates, some in color. Gtay cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new. In shrinkwrap.

Record # 606010


Price: $32.00 

 

Conversations with Brando


Grobel, Lawrence

Paperback. NY, First Cooper Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages, paperback. With a new afterward from the author. Corners lightly bumped, mild rubbing to wraps. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951276


Price: $16.00 

 

First King of Hollywood, The: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks


Goessel, Tracey

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Chicago Review Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 581 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of silent film superstar. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight condition.

Record # 951275


Price: $39.00 

 

Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings


Kerouac, Jack

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 249 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Edited by Paul Marion. More than sixty previously unpublished works that Kerouac wrote between the ages of thirteen and twenty-one. Bumping to lower spine. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Bottom edge boards mildly rubbed. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951273


Price: $19.00 

 

Early American Stencil Decorations: A Reissue of Early American Stencils on Walls and Furniture


Waring, Janet

Softcover. Watkins Glen, N.Y., Century House, reissue, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 138 Pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. White pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to spine, slight foxing to covers, and small price in ink on front fly leaf, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 605980


Price: $16.00 

 

Modern Slovak Prose: Fiction Since 1954


Pynsent (Editor), Robert B.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan Press LTD, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 268 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, all edges. Small tear to dust jacket bottom spine. rubbing to boards, confined to top and bottom edges. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951270


Price: $48.00 

 

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton


Rice, Edward

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 522 pages, hardcover. No dust jacket. Slight bow to front boards, light soiling and shelf wear as well. Slight soiling to copy fore edge. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951267


Price: $24.00 

 

Rhetoric of Purity, The: Essentialist Theory and the Advent of Abstract Painting


Cheetham, Mark A.

Paperback. Cambridge, MA, Cambridge University Press, 1st paperback, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages, paperback. An exploration of the historical and theoretical relations between early abstract painting in Europe and the notion of purity. With black-and-white plates throughout. Light rubbing to wrappers. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951266


Price: $31.00 

 

Muddling Through or Britain in a Nutshell


Benson, Theodora and Betty Askwith, Illust. by: Nicolas Bentley

Hardcover. London, Gollancz, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 149 pages. Hardcover. Black & white cartoon illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Some soil to front cover. Foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 66505


Price: $23.00 

 

Biographical Index to California & Western Artists, A


Korb, Edward L

Softcover. Lawndale, CA, Old Master Gallery Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 172 pages. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, front hinge cracked, but binding still tight. A nice. clean copy.

Record # 605964


Price: $26.00 

 

Catalogue of the Charles H. Taylor Collection of Ship Portraits, A


Jenkins, Lawrence W.

Softcover. Salem, MA, Peabody Museum, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 36 pages illustrated throughout in b&w. Gray paper wrappers. Front cover lightly sunned, slight wear to edges, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 605963


Price: $11.00 

 

Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of the Irving S. Olds Collection of American Naval Prints and Paintings


Peabody Museum of Salem

Softcover. Salem, MA, The Peabody Museum, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 61 pages text + b&w plates. Blue paper wrappers. Light wear to edges and slight sun-fading to upper front cover, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 605962


Price: $10.00 

 

Indian Skin Paintings from the American Southwest: Two Representations of Border Conflicts Between Mexico and the Missouri in the Early Eighteeth Century


Hotz, Gottfried

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages, b&w illustrations. Tan marbled boards with gilt title to spine. Pictorial dust jacket with light wear and wrinkle to spine, and slight foxing to back cover, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 605874


Price: $13.00 

 

Images: Stone: B.C. Thirty Centuries of Northwest Coast Indian Sculpture


Duff, Wilson

Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 191 pages illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. White pictorial dust jacket with light wear to edges and spine and shelf-wear/stains to covers. Overall a nice, tight copy.

Record # 605863


Price: $19.00 

 

Ontario Fraktur: A Pennsylvania-German Folk Tradition in Early Canada


Bird, Michael S.

Hardcover. Toronto, Canada, M. F. Feheley Publishers Limited, unknown, unknown, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 144 pages, 242 illustrations, many of which are in color. Black cloth, red pictorial dust jacket. Copy in shrinkwrap, hence no date or edition. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Record # 605850


Price: $26.00 

 

American Salons: Encounters With European Modernism, 1885-1917


Crunden, Robert Morse

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, xv, 493 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. Brown cloth spine with dark brown titles, cream boards. White pictorial dust jacket with light wear to spine. Overall a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 605846


Price: $13.00 

 

Relationship of Painting & Literature, The


Huddleston , Eugene L.

Hardcover. Detroit Michigan, Gale Research Company, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, xxiii + 184 pages. Volume 4 of the American Studies Information Guide Series. Red pictorial boards with gilt titles to front and spine, no dust jacket. Light wear to spine still very good.

Record # 605843


Price: $26.00 

 

Faces on Places: About Gargoyles and Other Stone Creatures


Haldane, Suzanne

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new. Mixing history and anecdotes, Suzanne Haldane tells the story of how these fanciful creatures and comic faces are made, step by step.

Record # 32294


Price: $15.00 

 

Milton Friedman: A Biography


Ebenstein, Lanny

Hardcover. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Blue cover boards, some moisture damage to top right on front cover board and top left on back cover board, doesn't affect pages or edges. Binding tight. In great shape.

Record # 31571


Price: $19.00 

 

Artists of the Canyons and Caminos: Santa Fe, the Early Years


Robertson, Edna & Sarah Nestor

Softcover. Salt Lake City, Gibbs M. Smith, Inc, 2nd, 1982, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Yellow pictorial wrappers with light wear to edges, else like new.

Record # 605827


Price: $10.00 

 

Lichen Flora of the United States, The - A Reissue


Fink, Bruce

Ann Arbor MI, University of Michigan, 2nd, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 426 pages plus 47 pages of b&w photos and illustrations. Dust jacket has wrinkles, flaps glued to inside covers. Ex-lib with light stamping, rear fly leaf missing. Internally very good, tight copy.

Record # 601004


Price: $18.00 

 

Probing the Earth: Contemporary Land Projects


Beardlsey, John

Softcover. Washington, DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 111 pages illustrated throughout with 68 plates, including 2 in color. Stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine and small smudge to back cover. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 805571


Price: $22.00 

 

Flair Annual 1953


Fleur (Editor), Cowles, Illust. by: Federico Pallavicini

Hardcover. New York, Cowles Magazines Inc., 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, hardcover. Red cloth stamped gilt, with a cutout front panel around the phrase "Annual 1953." Tastefully illustrated in color and b&w, with cutouts, fold outs, booklets, etc. By the editor of the short-lived Flair; one of the more visually inventive magazines ever conceived. Designed by and with many drawings by Federico Pallavicini. Fading and slight edgewear to boards, milld tear to front panel at cutout. Rubbing and slight staining to boards as well. Fading to text block edges. Slight cocking to spine. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951390


Price: $101.00 

 

Life of Rev. John Murray, The: Preacher of Universal Salvation


Murray, Rev. John

Hardcover. Boston, Universalist Publishing House, 1st , 1869, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 408 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owners inscription and foxing on front fly leaf. Sun fading to spine and front cover. Back cloth cover slightly wrinkled. Black & white frontispiece of author.

Record # 470800


Price: $25.00 

 

John Doe, Bottle Collector


Tibbitts, John C.

Softcover. Sacramento, California, Little Glass Shack, The, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Guide to bottle collecting. 124 pages with 27 black/white plates. Good condition, covers show some fading/rubbing, previous owner's name, date, and location written in ink inside the cover.

Record # 805543


Price: $8.00 

 

American Folk Sculpture: The Work of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Craftsmen


Winser, Egner, et. al., Beatrice, Arthur F., et. al.

Softcover. Newark, New Jersey, Newark Museum, 1st, 1931, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalogue featuring American folk sculpture, including wood carvings, decoys, and weather vanes. 108 pages with 24 black/white plates to accompany essays and catalogue entries. Near fine condition, some edge wear, small ink mark inside the cover.

Record # 805533


Price: $35.00 

 

American Folk Sculpture: The Work of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Craftsmen


Winser, Egner, et. al., Beatrice, Arthur F., et. al.

Softcover. Newark, New Jersey, Newark Museum, 1st, 1931, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalogue featuring American folk sculpture, including wood carvings, decoys, and weather vanes. 108 pages with 24 black/white plates to accompany essays and catalogue entries. Near fine condition, only very slight edge wear, no other visible flaws.

Record # 805532


Price: $35.00 

 

Directory of Corporate Art Collections


N/A

Softcover. Largo, FL, International Art Alliance, Inc,, 3rd, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, This second edition includes descriptions corporate art collections, listed in alphabetical order. Also includes cross-indexes which list the collections by state and by personnel. In very good condition, a clean copy. There is a small amount of rubbing wear on front and back covers.

Record # 805528


Price: $22.00 

 

Early Arts in the Genesee Valley: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries


Genesee Valley Council on the Arts

Softcover. Geneseo, NY, Genesee Valley Council on the Arts, 1st, 1974, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 158 page catalog that is number three in a series published by the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts. Includes numerous b&w illustrations of various portraits, landscape paintings, animal paintings, pieces of furniture, fabrics and stitching, and decorative pieces. There are text descriptions accompanying each piece of art. This is a catalog of an exhibition held by the Council about the social functions of the arts in the 18th and 19th centuries. In near fine condition, a very clean copy.

Record # 805519


Price: $13.00 

 

Boudinot family portraits and possessions in the Art Museum, Princeton University


Backlin-Landman, Hedy

Softcover. Princeton, NJ, Art Museum, Princeton University, 1st, na, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Red stapled covers with b&w illustration, includes two articles by author reprinted from the publication Antiques, frontispiece, 35 b&w plates. Light wear to cover; otherwise a very tight, clean copy.

Record # 805509


Price: $10.00 

 

Late Victorian Interiors & Interior Details


Tuthill, Wm. B

Softcover. NY, American Life Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in near fine condition. A facsimile of Wm. B Tuthill's Interiors and Interior Details, 1882. B&W illustrations throughout. A tight, near new copy.

Record # 805478


Price: $26.00 

 

Currents of Change: Art and Life Along the Mississippi River 1850-1861


Busch, Jason T., Christopher Monkhouse & Janet L. Whitmore

Softcover. Minneapolis, MN, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pp. 136 color illustrations. Essays about life and art in the Mississippi River region.

Record # 805475


Price: $18.00 

 

Cultural Calendar of the 20th Century


Lucie-Smith, Edward

Hardcover. Oxford, Phaidon Press Limited, 1st, 1979, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Orange pictorial dust jacket with sunned covers and spine, otherwise a nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 805469


Price: $13.00 

 

More Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Museum


Smith, Philip Chadwick Foster

Hardcover. Salem, MA, Peabody Museum of Salem, 1st, 1979, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Limited edition, # 90/3000 copies. 166 pages illustrated with over 200 plase in color and b&w. Red cloth with gilt title to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy in original slipcase. Like new.

Record # 805455


Price: $51.00 

 

Contemporary Decorative Arts: From 1940 to the Present


Garner, Philippe

Hardcover. New York, Facts on File, Inc., 1st, 1980, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages illustrated throughout with photos in color and b&w. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. White pictorial dust jacket with minor wear to edges and slight wrinkles to back cover. A very nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 805451


Price: $13.00 

 

Decorative Thirties, The


Battersby, Martin

Hardcover. New York, Walker & Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages illustrated throughout with over 180 plates in color and b&w. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with slightly worn edges. Gray pictorial dust jacket with light wear and chipping, and a few closed tears to back cover. Overall a nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 805450


Price: $22.00 

 

Quilts to Wear


Avery, Virginia

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1982, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 141 pages illustrated throughout with 135 photos, some in color. Tan cloth spine with purple paper boards. Purple pictorial dust jacket with minor tear to back flap, else like new.

Record # 805441


Price: $13.00 

 

Posters: The 20th-Century Poster - Design of the Avant-Garde


Ades, Dawn

Softcover. New York, Abbeville, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Catalog for an exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Contributions by several scholars, index, brief biographies of artists represented.

Record # 605717


Price: $19.00 

 

Pursuit of the Horizon: A Life of George Catlin, Painter & Recorder of the American Indian


Haberly , Loyd

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan & Co., 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 239 pages illustrated throughout with plates in b&w. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket with multiple closed tears and slight wear. The copy itself is very nice, tight and clean.

Record # 605700


Price: $13.00 

 

American Nautical Art and Antiques


Kranz, Jacqueline L.

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, Inc, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages illustrated throughout in b&w. Gray cloth spine with green paper boards and red title. Green pictorial dust jacket with light wear and small closed tear to lower edge of spine

Record # 605688


Price: $10.00 

 

Civil War, The: The Artists' Record


Williams, Hermann Warner

Softcover. Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 251 pages. 166 illustrations in b&w, some color. Blue/gray paper wrappers with gilt titles to front and spine. Light wear to edges and slight rubbing to front cover and lower spine, else a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 605669


Price: $19.00 

 

Biographical Sketches of American Artists


Earle , Helen L.

Hardcover. Collingwood, NJ, Anthony C. Schmidt Fine Arts, 5th, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 370 pages. An unabridged republication of the edition originally published by the Michigan State Library in 1924. Maroon leatherette with gilt titles to front and spine. No dust jacket. Small stain to bottom edge, else like new.

Record # 805433


Price: $16.00 

 

Drawings and Digressions


Rivers, Larry & Carol Brightman,

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1st, 1979, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 263 pages. 285 duotone illustrations, 70 in full color. Presents a fascinating tour through the life and work of a vital figure in New York School. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Light wear to edges and back cover, else like new.

Record # 805421


Price: $45.00 

 

Leon Kroll: A Spoken Memoir


Hale, Nancy & Fredson Bowers

Hardcover. Charlottesville, NC, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 140 pages + 163 b&w prints. Monograph of a painter who carried the standard of realism through the 20th century while the artistic movement raced toward abstraction. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and white pictorial dust jacket. Minor bumps to right corners and lower edge of spine, otherwise a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 805403


Price: $45.00 

 

Art of Healing, The: Medicine and Science in American Art


Gerdst, William H.

Softcover. Atlanta, Georgia, Perry Communications, Inc, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages illustrated throughout with prints in color and b&w. Gray pictorial stiff wrappers with light wear to edges and spine, and small wrinkle to lower corner of front cover, else a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 805399


Price: $8.00 

 

Art Museums of New England, The: New Hampshire, Vermont & Maine


Faison, Jr., S. Lane

Softcover. Boston, Massachusetts, David R. Godine, 2nd, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Reference guide to New England art museums in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. 463 pages plus an index. Illustrations include three black/white maps and 103 black/white photographs. Very good condition, slight edge wear and few scratches to the back cover.

Record # 805376


Price: $13.00 

 

Museums in New York


McDarrah, Fred W.

Softcover. New York, E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 2nd, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Revised edition. Reference guide to museums in New York, including libraries and other historic houses and buildings. Foreword by Thomas P. F. Hoving, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 319 pages illustrated with 200 black/white photographs. Very good condition, slight wear to the edges and to the back cover.

Record # 805375


Price: $11.00 

 

Age of the Revolution and Early Republic in Fine and Decorative Arts 1750-1824


Kennedy Galleries, Inc.

Softcover. New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of 144 exhibits, organized in six sections: paintings, furniture, silver, miniatures, accessories, and engravings. Illustrated in b&w. A good copy, very clean. There is tearing along the spine. Rubbing/scratching on front and back covers.

Record # 805373


Price: $10.00 

 

History of Costume


Kohler, Carl

Softcover. New York, Dover, 1st, 1963, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in near fine condition. Over 600 patterns and illustrations. 464 pages. Begins with the Egyptians and other peoples of antiquity and ends in the end of the 19th century. This Dover edition, first published in 1963, is an unabridged republication of the English translation first published by George G. Harrap and Company, Limited in 1928.

Record # 805360


Price: $16.00 

 

History of Costume


Kohler, Carl

Softcover. New York, Dover, 1st, 1963, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in near fine condition. Over 600 patterns and illustrations. 464 pages. Begins with the Egyptians and other peoples of antiquity and ends in the end of the 19th century. This Dover edition, first published in 1963, is an unabridged republication of the English translation first published by George G. Harrap and Company, Limited in 1928.

Record # 805359


Price: $16.00 

 

Spa Fever


Freeman, Dr. Larry

Softcover. Watkins Glen, NY, Century House Publishers, 1st, 1981, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages, b&w illustrations. Limited. Blue pictorial paper wrappers with minor wear, else like new.

Record # 805334


Price: $13.00 

 

American Beauties: Women in Art and Litterature


Sullivan, Charles

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 159 pages. 99 illustrations, including 45 plates in full color. Red cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover. Red pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Record # 805323


Price: $10.00 

 

Book of Wallpaper, The


Entwisle, E. A.

Hardcover. London, Arthur Baker, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 pages. Blue cloth cover, acetate-protected color illustrated dust jacket, color frontispiece, 2 color and 72 b&w plates. Chipping and wear to dust jacket edges and spine, top of spine cover chipped; overall a tight, clean copy.

Record # 805311


Price: $26.00 

 

American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art-Union: Introduction 1816 - 1852


Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett

Hardcover. New York, New York Historical Society, reprint, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, b&w frontispiece and 21 plates throughout. Light wear to cover edges; overall a tight, clean copy.

Record # 805303


Price: $96.00 

 

20th Century Design: U.S.A.


Friedman, William

Softcover. Buffalo NY, Albright Art Gallery, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages, illustrated in b&w. A survey exhibition that traveled to 8 museums, 1959-1960. A cross section of fine industrial design covering all catagories of consumer goods. Clean, tight copy of an important exhibition catalog.

Record # 805291


Price: $64.00 

 

Currier & Ives: Printmakers to the American People


Peters, Harry T.

Hardcover. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 41 pages, plus 192 illustrated plates. Gray cloth cover with decorative border and color illustration to cover, black and gilt lettering to spine, includes both color and b&w plates of Currier & Ives's prints. Light wear and rubbing to cover, previous owner's name and date to front endpaper; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 805266


Price: $45.00 

 

Currier & Ives: Pictorial History of American Battle


Freeman, G. L.

Hardcover. Watkins Glen, New York, Century House, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 101 pages. White cover with blue & red illustrations to cover, numerous full page b&w plates with accompanying description. Light wear to cover; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 805264


Price: $16.00 

 

Treasures of the Library of Congress, Revised and Expanded Edition


Goodrum, Charles A.

Hardcover. New York, Harry Abrams, reprint, 1991, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Fine, 344 pages. Revised and expanded edition. Blue cloth cover, color illustrated dust jacket, 460 illustrations including 173 in color plates, many full page, and 1 multi-page fold-out. Book still in original shrink wrap; an excellent copy.

Record # 805262


Price: $96.00 

 

Treasures of the Library of Congress


Goodrum, Charles A.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Blue cloth cover with silver embossed seal to front cover and silver lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 439 illustrations including 156 plates in full color, fully indexed. Light wear to cover, mild rubbing to dust jacket; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 805261


Price: $51.00 

 

Word Image Number


Sarah Lawrence College

Softcover. Bronxville, NY, Sarah Lawrence Gallery, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, paperback. Square slim octavo. Issued on the occasion of the exhibition "Word Image Number" held at the Sarah Lawrence Gallery in 1975. Tanning to spine and fore edge. Slight stain to top edge. Fading to front and rear endpapers. Previous owner's inscription to dust jacket front flap. Illustrated with b&w photos throughout. Scarce. A tight copy.

Record # 951357


Price: $79.00 

 

American Audience for Art, The


Childs, Charles D. & others

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Boston Public Library, 1st, 1972, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 57 pages. Limited edition of 1500 copies. Yellow pictorial paper boards, tan letters to spine, light wear. No dust jacket. A nice, tight copy

Record # 805238


Price: $10.00 

 

Life and Letters of Washington Allston


Flagg, Jared B.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 805227


Price: $19.00 

 

Exhibition of New Haven Silver, An


The New Haven Colony Historical Society

Softcover. New Haven, CT, New Haven Colony Historical Society, 2nd, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibiton catalog of silver by New Haven silversmiths at the Yale University art gallery. Includes catalog of silversmiths, with small biographical summaries and reproduction of inscription of their initials. Text followed by 33 full-page b&w reproductions. Cover shows tiny bit of scratching/rubbing, overall a very good, clean copy.

Record # 805206


Price: $13.00 

 

Clear Grit: A Collection of Lectures, Addresses, and Poems


Collyer, Robert

Hardcover. Boston, American Unitarian Association, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Blue cover with gilt lettering and top edge gilt. Former library stamp on front fly leaf. Price sticker on spine. Otherwise clean copy. Black & white frontispiece of author.

Record # 470799


Price: $25.00 

 

Samuel Longfellow: Memoir and Letters


May, Joseph (Editor)

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Green cover with gilt lettering and top edge gilt. Former library stamp on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 470797


Price: $25.00 

 

California Design 1910


Andersen, Timothy J., Eudorah M. Moore, Robert W. Winter (editors)

Softcover. Santa Barbara & Salt Lake City, Peregrine Smith, Inc, reprint, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Reprint of original 1974 edition. Includes paintings, pottery, ceramics, metalwork, household furnishings, and architecture. 144 pages illustrated in b&w. A clean, unmarked copy. The top layer of paper has been scraped away on front bottom right corner on cover (the size of a dime).

Record # 805191


Price: $19.00 

 

Charles Willson Peale: Son of Liberty, Father of Art and Science


Plate, Robert

Hardcover. New York, David McKay Company, Inc., rep, 1967, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Biography of American portraitist Charles Willson Peale. 276 pages illustrated with 16 black/white reproductions of Peale's paintings. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, very clean copy. Dust jacket is in very good condition with some edge wear.

Record # 805178


Price: $10.00 

 

Charles Willson Peale: Artist and Patriot


Briggs, Berta N.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., rep, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Biography of intriguing American painter Charles Willson Peale of the Revolutionary War period. 262 pages with 10 black/white reproductions of paintings. Cloth bound book is in very good condition, slight bumping to the ends of the spine, few spots on the top edges of pages but internal pages very clean. Dust jacket is in fair condition with some edge wear and rubbing.

Record # 805176


Price: $13.00 

 

18th Century Wedgwood: a Guide for Collectors & Connoisseurs


Buten, David

Hardcover. New York, Methuen, Inc, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Works of Josiah Wedgwood, 1730-1795. 18th century English pottery. Cream cloth spine, gilt lettering, blue cover. Dust jacket edge wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 805162


Price: $26.00 

 

Classic Book Jackets: The Design Legacy of George Salter


Hansen, Thomas S.

Softcover. New York , Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages, illustrated throughout in color. A collection of the legendary graphic designer's best work over 40 years. Foreword by Milton Glaser. Like new.

Record # 900210


Price: $19.00 

 

Biographical Index of American Artists, A


Smith, Ralph Clifton

Hardcover. New York, Olana Gallery, unknown, unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 102 pages. No date mentioned, but seems to be a reprint of the 1929 edition. Brown cloth with gilt title to spine, no dust jacket. Minor wear to edges of spine, else like new.

Record # 605661


Price: $10.00 

 

British Folk Art


Ayres, James

Hardcover. Woodstock, The Overlook Press, 1st US, 1977, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages illustrated throughout with plates in b&w and color. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Red pictorial dust jacket with some sunfading to back cover, else like new.

Record # 605648


Price: $26.00 

 

Abroad in America: Visitors to the New Nation, 1776-1914


Pachter, Marc

Softcover. Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Beige pictorial stiff paper wrappers. Light wear to borders, else like new. Newspaper clippings laid in. Collection of the stories, impressions and observations of 33 illustrious visitors to America, who were subjects of the National Portrait Gallery"s Bicentennial Exhibition. Text augmented by historic paintings, prints and photographs.

Record # 605625


Price: $16.00 

 

Treasury of Great Italian Textiles, A


Santangelo, Antonino (Text)

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc,, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover. Full color and b/w tipped-in plates throughout.. Cover boards bound in orange cloth, gilt title on spine. Tanning from age throughout. Foxing to edges and endpapers. Moisture damage to top edge corner, doesn't affect text or illustrations (plates). Binding tight, spine straight. In good shape for its age.

Record # 31742


Price: $50.00 

 

Introduction to Wallpaper, An


Hamilton, Jean

Hardcover. Owings Mills, Maryland, Stemmer House Publishers, Inc, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages, richly illustrated with color and b&w wallpaper-prints. Black illustrated paper boards, no dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked with wrinkle to bottom, light wear to binding - still a nice copy.

Record # 605618


Price: $16.00 

 

Support: The Foundation for the Promotion of Supplementary Occupations and Related Techniques for Her Majesty Queen Sirikit of Thailand


Khunying Oranush Isarangkun Na Ayudhta

Hardcover. Thailand, Thanakhan Echia, 1st, 1992, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Lavishly illustrated oversize volume produced in celebration of the 60th birthday of Sirikit, Queen of Thailand, patron of Thai arts and crafts. 428 pages, text and picture captions in Thai and English. Beautiful copy with pictorial paper boards in pictorial dust jacket and gilded pictorial slip case. Light wear to case, else like new.

Record # 605617


Price: $96.00 

 

Biography of J.A.M. Whistler: Victorian Outsider


McMullen, Roy

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages, 34 b&w illustrations. Tan cloth, gilt title to spine. Black pictorial dust jacket with minor wear. Overall a nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 605604


Price: $16.00 

 

Benjamin West: A Biography


Alberts, Robert C.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1978, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, xvi+525 pages, b&w illustrations. The first full-length biography of one of the fathers of American art. Light green cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover. Blue pictorial dust jacket with slight rubbing to spine and edges, closed tear to front cover. Overall a very, nice, clean, neat copy.

Record # 605601


Price: $26.00 

 

Radios: The Golden Age


Collins, Pilip

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages, Color photography throughout. White pictorial paper wrappers with minor wear, otherwise a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 605579


Price: $13.00 

 

Needlework- The Smithsonian Illustrated Library Of Antiques


Cavallo, Adolph S.

Hardcover. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, 107 b&w photographs and 30 plates in full color. Green cloth spine, tan cloth boards, gilt titles to spine and front cover. White pictorial dust jacket with light wear and slight tear to upper edge, otherwise a clean, tight, crisp copy.

Record # 605564


Price: $13.00 

 

Boxes - The Smithsonian Illustrated Library Of Antiques


Ketchum, jr, William C.

Hardcover. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, 100 b&w photographs and 30 plates in full color. Blue cloth spine, tan cloth boards, gilt titles to spine and front cover. White pictorial dust jacket with light wear to upper edge, otherwise a clean, tight, crisp copy.

Record # 605563


Price: $13.00 

 

Glass - The Smithsonian Illustrated Library Of Antiques


Gardner, Paul Vickers

Hardcover. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1979, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages, 99 b&w photographs and 31 plates in full color. Black cloth spine, tan cloth boards, gilt titles to spine and front cover. White pictorial dust jacket with light wear, otherwise a clean, tight, crisp copy.

Record # 605561


Price: $13.00 

 

Clocks - The Smithsonian Illustrated Library Of Antiques


Shaffer, Douglas H.

Hardcover. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1980, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages, 115 b&w photographs and 31 plates in full color. Blue cloth spine, tan cloth boards, gilt titles to spine and front cover. White pictorial dust jacket with light wear and slight bump to upper edge. Overall a nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 605560


Price: $19.00 

 

Collector's Book of Bottles, The


Klamkin, Marian

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Green cloth, blue titles. Blue pictorial dust jacket, worn with light rubbing to spine. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, light foxing to top edge, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Record # 605554


Price: $10.00 

 

Nineteenth-Century Art Glass


Lee, Ruth Webb

Hardcover. New York, M. Barrows & Company, Inc, 8th, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages, color frontispiece, b&w illustrations throughout. Maroon cloth, silver title to spine and silver decoration to front cover, spine slightly worn. Yellow pictorial dust jacket, price clipped, Light wear and small tears. previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Light foxing to top edge. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 605553


Price: $16.00 

 

Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement 1890-1920


Volpe, Tod M. & Beth Cathers

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1988, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages, 144 illustrations, including 131 plates in full color. Folio. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Yellow pictorial dust jacket with minimal edge wear and small price listing in ink on back cover. Overall a very nice, clean, tight, well preserved copy.

Record # 605531


Price: $38.00 

 

Commemorative Pottery, 1780-1900: A Guide for Collectors


May, John & Jennifer

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 180 pages. 250 b&w illustrations and 8 plates in full color . Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Green pictorial dust jacket, edge wear and some sunfading. Tape residue to front cover, foxing to top edge, otherwise a nice, tight copy.

Record # 605519


Price: $64.00 

 

Pottery of Acatlan, The: A Changing Mexican Tradition


Lackey, Louana

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. 68 b&w photos and 18 plates in full color. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Green pictorial dust jacket with light wear to spine and back cover. Overall a nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 605518


Price: $13.00 

 

Meadows of Memory: Images of Time and Tradition in American Art and Culture


Kammen, Michael

Hardcover. Austin, Tx, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, xxv+192 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Blue cloth, silver title to spine. Dark blue pictorial dust jacket, white title to black spine. Edge wear. A nice, clean copy.

Record # 605512


Price: $22.00 

 

Paintbox on the Frontier, the Life and Times of George Caleb Bingham


Constant, Alberta Wilson

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1st, 1974, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, 193 pages. 34 b&w and color illustrations throughout. White cloth. Beige pictorial dust jacket with some edge wear, and sunfading to upper edge of front cover. A very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 605506


Price: $19.00 

 

Plain & Fancy: American Women and Their Needlework, 1700-1850


Swan, Susan Burrows

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Color and b&w illustrations throughout. Red cloth. Pictorial dust jacket with light edge wear. Small bumps to corners, otherwise a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 605504


Price: $16.00 

 

Pueblo Shields: From the Fred Harvey Fine Arts Collection


Wright, Barton

Hardcover. Flagstaff, Northland Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 96 pages. Numerous b&w illustrations. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine and decoration to front cover. Orange dust jacket with minimal wear to back cover, otherwise a beautiful copy. Like new

Record # 605502


Price: $32.00 

 

Indian Masks & Myths of the West


Wherry, Joseph H.

Hardcover. New York, Bonanza Books, 1st, 1969, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Numerous b&w illustrations. Light green cloth. Purple and green pictorial dust jacket with small sealed up tear to upper edge of spine, light edge wear. Overall a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 605500


Price: $16.00 

 

G. P. A. Healy, American Artist: An Intimate Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century


De Mare, Marie

Hardcover. New York, David McKay Company, Inc, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages. 32 b&w plates. Biography of the man known as the "Painter of the Presidents". Green cloth. Red pictorial dust jacket, edge wear, some small tears and chipping, in protective mylar cover. A nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 605495


Price: $29.00 

 

G. P. A. Healy, American Artist: An Intimate Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century


De Mare, Marie

Hardcover. New York, David McKay Company, Inc, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages. 32 b&w plates. Biography of the man known as the "Painter of the Presidents". Green cloth. Red pictorial dust jacket, edge wear, some small tears and chipping to front cover. A nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 605494


Price: $29.00 

 

Jewelry of the Prehistoric Southwest


Jernigan, E. Wesley

Hardcover. Santa Fe, NM, School of American Research, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 260 pages. Color and b&w illustrations throughout. Cream cloth, slight staining to lower edge, green title to spine, green decoration to front cover. Green pictorial dust jacket with minor wear. A very nice, tight copy.

Record # 605487


Price: $26.00 

 

In Praise of Hands: Contemporary Crafts of the World


Paz, Octavio

Hardcover. New York, McClelland & Stewart/New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Turquoise cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, turquoise dust jacket with color illustration to cover, 64 color plates and 190 b&w illustrations. Light wear to dust jacket, small half inch tear to bottom of dust jacket at spine; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 605472


Price: $26.00 

 

Texas Cowboy, A: Or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony

Hardcover. New York, NY, William Sloane Associates, Inc., 1st Thus, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 198 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations by Tom Lea throughout. With Biographical Study & introduction by J. Frank Dobie and drawings by Tom Lea. Has original dust jacket, unclipped, has a touch of age wear. Cover boards bound in orange cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Bump to back cover board bottom. In great shape for its age. Originally published in 1885 as a paperback, this reissue is Siringo's chronicle of his years as an "itching-footed" boy, cow hand, range detective, and adventurer and is told with enormous gusto and relish.

Record # 32242


Price: $25.00 

 

Early Meissen Porcelain in Dresden


Menzhausen, Inglelore

Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st US, 1990, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 212 pages. Gray cloth cover with blue embossed illustration of publisher's seal to front cover and blue lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 175 color plates - photography by Jurgen Karpinski, decorated endpapers. Very light wear to dust jacket; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 605441


Price: $26.00 

 

Glass of Desire Christian, Ghost for Galle, The


Traub, Jules S.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, The Art Glass Exchange, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages. Brown cloth cover, gilt titles to front cover and spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 69 color plates, b&w illustrations throughout text. Light wear to dust jacket, previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 605440


Price: $26.00 

 

Historical Present: Essays of the 1970s


Masheck, Joseph

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, MI, UMI Research Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages. 3rd book in the Contemporary American Art Critics series. Red cloth cover with white titles, white dust jacket with black lettering and red design. Light wear to dust jacket; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 605427


Price: $32.00 

 

Art Museums of America: A Guide to Collections in the United States and Canada


Sherman, Lila

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Descriptions of art collections from over 550 museums. Color illustrated dust jacket, maroon cloth bound spine with gilt lettering, 32 pages of b&w photographs. Light wear to cover; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 605422


Price: $10.00 

 

Images of Labor


Howe, Irving, Joan Mondale

Hardcover. New York, The Pilgrim Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 94 pages. 32 color plates with works by 32 contemporary American artists. Produced as a project of one of the top Labor Unions. Black cloth, slight sunfading to edges, silver lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket with some tears and bumps to edges, edge wear. A nice tight copy.

Record # 605407


Price: $19.00 

 

Who's Who in American Art, 16th Edition


Catell - Editor, Jaques

Hardcover. New York, R. R. Bowker Company, 16th, 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 1186 pages. Large heavy book. Blue leatherette boards. Small bump to upper right corners otherwise like new. No dust jacket as issued. A very nice, tight clean and well preserved copy.

Record # 605389


Price: $32.00 

 

American Art Directory, 1978


Catell - Editor, Jaques

Hardcover. New York, R. R. Bowker, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 703 pages. Yellow cloth. Some wear to cover, otherwise a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 605386


Price: $19.00 

 

American Art Directory, 1974


Catell - Editor, Jaques

Hardcover. New York, R. R. Bowker, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 457 Pages. Original red cloth. White letters to spine and front cover. Light wear to back cover, otherwise a nice, tight copy.

Record # 605384


Price: $19.00 

 

Sotheby's: Japanese and Korean Works of Art


Sotheby's

Softcover. New York, Sotheby's , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Wrapper excellent. In great shape. Auction catalog.

Record # 31837


Price: $19.00 

 

American Iconology: New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature


Miller, David C.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale Univrsity Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 344 pages. b&w illustrations. Cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Like new, in shrinkwrap. A beautiful copy.

Record # 605361


Price: $42.00 

 

Evolution of American Taste, The: the History of American Style from 1607 to the Present


Randel, William Peirce

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1978, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 212 pages. Over 200 illustrations in color and b&w throughout. Dark blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket, minimal yellowing near edges. Minor bump to lower corners, otherwise a very clean, crisp and tight copy.

Record # 605356


Price: $19.00 

 

Artful Players: Artistic Life in Early San Francisco


Hjalmarson, Birgitta

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Balcony Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout.cover boards bound in blue clot, title blind stamped on spine and front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new. Decorated endpapers. Hjalmarson has written a thoroughly enjoyable social history of the early San Francisco art community - blending the anecdotal and historical to perfection.

Record # 32182


Price: $25.00 

 

Patrons and Patriotism: The Encouragement of the Fine Art in the United States, 1790-1860


Miller, Lillian

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, xv+335 pages. b&w plates with informative captions throughout. Gray boards and spine, slight wear and lightly stained. No dust jacket. Multiple dog-eared pages.

Record # 605349


Price: $13.00 

 

Francis Calley Gray and Art Collecting for America


Cohn, Marjorie B.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 344 pages. 28 b&w photos. Red cloth, slightly bleached on upper edge, gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket, edge wear. Light smudges to page corners.

Record # 605348


Price: $13.00 

 

History of the Brooklyn Art Association With an Index of Exhibitions, A


Marlor, Clark

Hardcover. New York, James F. Carr, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 421 pages. b&w illustrations. b&w frontis. Green/brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Tiny bookseller sticker on titlepage. Slight edge wear to spine, otherwise like new. A very clean, crisp, tight and well preserved copy.

Record # 605345


Price: $115.00 

 

Art Fakes in America


Goodrich, David L.

Hardcover. New York, The Viking Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages. b&w illustrations. The lively business of making, buying, and selling fraudulent art from Colonial times to the present, with advise on avoiding swindles. Dark blue cloth, silver lettering to spine and front cover. Pictorial dust jacket with minor wear.

Record # 605333


Price: $13.00 

 

Mallett's Index of Artists. International - Biographical. Including painters, sculptors, illustrators, engravers and etchers of the past and the present. + Supplement (2 Volumes)


Mallet, Daniel Trowbridge

Hardcover. New York, Peter Smith , Reprint, 1948, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes. Index, xxxiv+493 pages. Supplement, xxvii+319 pages. Beige cloth. No dust jacket. Minor smudges to top edge, otherwise like new.

Record # 605330


Price: $45.00 

 

Art, Crafts, and Architecture in Early Illinois


Madden, Betty I.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 297 pages. B&w and some color illustrations. Oblong. Dark blue cloth spine, cream cloth boards, gilt lettering. Pictorial dust jacket with slight shelf rub, small tear to front cover. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 605325


Price: $16.00 

 

Pennsylvania German Fraktur of The Free Library of Philadelphia (2 volumes)


Weisner., Frederick S.

Hardcover. Breiningsville, The Pennsylvania German Society, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes. V.1: xxiii pages+prints 1-277 in color. V.2: prints 278-1021 in b&w + index. limited edition. 1/3000 copies. Cream cloth boards, red print, decorative tulip on front cover. No dust jacket as issued. Like new.

Record # 605303


Price: $64.00 

 

Glass by Galle


Duncan, Alastair, Georges deBartha

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. 357 illustrations, including 93 plates in full color. Catalogue Raisonne of Galle's work including list of exhibitions of his glass. Gray cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Gray dust jacket in mylar cover, color slightly sunfaded around edges. Cosmetic paper-split between front board and endpaper, not affecting binding, Very nice clean copy.

Record # 605292


Price: $115.00 

 

Jewelry and Enamels of Louis Comfort Tiffany, The


Zapata, Janet

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 176 pages. 142 illustrations, including 84 plates in full color. Green cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. Like new. In original shrinkwrap.

Record # 605287


Price: $32.00 

 

Wallpaper


Greysmith, Brenda

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Publishing Compny, 1st US, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. 188 illustrations, including 32 pages in full color. Green cloth, silver lettering to spine. Decorative endpapers. Pictorial dust jacket with minor wear and small closed tear to lower right corner of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 605284


Price: $19.00 

 

George Caleb Bingham: River Portraitist


McDermott, John Francis

Hardcover. Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, xxviii+454 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Portrait of one of America's most admired and faithful genre painters, revealing 112 drawings in crayon depicting river life. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Price clipping. Pictorial dust jacket, edge wear, otherwise a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 605281


Price: $32.00 

 

Pennsylvania Dutch Stuff: a Guide to Country Antique


Robacker, Earl F.

Hardcover. Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Press, 3rd, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages. B&w illustrations. Red/brown cloth, yellow lettering to spine. Spine somewhat crooked.

Record # 605268


Price: $10.00 

 

Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta: the Cone Collection


Richardson, Brenda

Softcover. Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. Color and b&w illustrations throughout. A beautifully illustrated study of the "Cone sisters" and their vast collection of modern art and antiques. Tiny bump to upper corner of spine, otherwise a very attractive and well preserved copy.

Record # 605267


Price: $29.00 

 

Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Morris, Edmund

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 874 pages. Hardcover. Deckled foreedge. Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Remainder mark on bottom edge. The only biography ever authorized by a sitting President, yet written with complete interpretive freedom. Taken from Reagan's personal papers, including early autobiographical stories and a handwritten White House diary. A truly intimate look.

Record # 31794


Price: $44.00 

 

Domestic and Artistic Life of John Singleton Copley, The


Amory, Martha Babcock

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin & Co, 1st, 1882, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 478 pages. Previously owned by the Woodstock Library Association, with their original plates pasted on front end paper. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. In good condition for its age.

Record # 605247


Price: $13.00 

 

Glen Loates: A Brush With Life


Warner, Glen

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 79 pages+prints. 157 illustrations, including 86 plates in full color. Provides a definitive exploration of Glen Loates' profound love of nature, the wellspring of his creativity and unfailing inspiration for his art. Light brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Beautiful pictorial dust jacket with tiny, tiny tear to lower right corner. A very, nice, clean and tight copy.

Record # 605242


Price: $26.00 

 

Thirteen Chapters of American History Represented by the Edward Moran series of Thirteen Historical Marine Paintings


Sutro, Theodore

Hardcover. New York, The Baker & Taylor CO, 1st, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 113 pages + b&w plates. Includes several full-page plates from the marine paintings depicting American history from Lief Erickson through the Spanish-American war. Tissue-protected photography portrait of the artist in front. scarce edition. Blue cloth spine with gilt lettering. Some bumps and wear to cover. Inscription: "Compliments of the Ainslie Galleries Inc, 677 Fifth Avenue, New York City" on front attached end paper. Rough cut edges. In good shape

Record # 605231


Price: $16.00 

 

American Pioneer Arts and Artists


Drepperd, Carl W.

Hardcover. Springfield, MA, The Pond Ekberg Conpany, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 172 pages. B&w illustrations. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pastedown title patch on front cover. Original pictorial dust jacket with some patches missing to upper and lower spine and lower right corner of front cover, in protective mylar cover.

Record # 605229


Price: $19.00 

 

metropolis das bild der stadt eine ausstellung des IVAM institut


N/A

Softcover. Salzburg, Germany, Museum der moderne , reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 39 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. GERMAN TEXT. Color and Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470516


Price: $38.00 

 

Hiram Williams: Exploring the Sources of His Expression


Stephens, William B.

Hardcover. Memphis, TN, Memphis State University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 152 pages. 27 b&w reproductions and 8 plates in full color. An account of William's life and works, and methods. Red cloth, somewhat stained, gilt lettering to spine. Price clipped. Pictorial dust jacket with minor wear. Nice tight copy.

Record # 605227


Price: $13.00 

 

Life and Art of William Merritt Chase, The


Roof, Katerine Metcalf

Hardcover. New York, Hacker, reprint, 1975, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Biography over one of Americas central Renaissance painters, following him on his journeys around the world: Munich, Venice, London, Spain and Holland as well as New York and California. Beige cloth, gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New copy, still in original shrink wrapping. In mint condition.

Record # 605225


Price: $32.00 

 

Wood Carvings: North American Folk Sculptures


Klamkin, Marian, Charles Klamkin

Hardcover. New York, Hawtorn Books, inc, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 213 pages. b&w illustrations throughout. Yellow cloth spine, brown cloth cover. Brown pictorial dust jacket somewhat worn. Nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 605222


Price: $13.00 

 

English Ceramics


Savage, George

Hardcover. New York, Alpine Fine Arts Collection, ltd , reprint, 1981, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 268 pages. 184 b&w and color illustrations. Collections of English pottery and porcelain masterpieces from medieval times through to the end of the eighteenth century. Purple cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Copy in mint condition in original slip case and pictorial dust jacket. Looks brand new.

Record # 605219


Price: $32.00 

 

Great Magazine Covers of the World


Kery, Patricia Frantz

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A panorama of more than 500 covers from 20 countries, spanning a century-and-a-half of magazine publishing around the world. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951351


Price: $31.00 

 

Letters of Horatio Greenough, American Sculptor


Wright, Nathalia

Hardcover. Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 456 pages. A collection of 241 of Greenough's letters, 188 printed in their entirety for the first time. Purple cloth, dust jacket with minor wear. A very nice and well preserved copy.

Record # 605203


Price: $19.00 

 

Master Pieces: Making Furniture from Paintings


Ball, Richard, Peter Campbell

Hardcover. New York, Hearst Books, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Twenty original designs and complete working instructions for recreating furniture that appears in masterpieces of world art.Blue cloth, silver lettering to spine. Dust jacket with minimal wear. A very nice, clean an well preserved copy.

Record # 605193


Price: $16.00 

 

Arts in America, The: the Colonial Period


N/A

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 368 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Cream cloth with gild decoration to front cover. Gilt lettering to red leatherette spine. Dust jacket edge wear with tiny tear to bottom right edge, otherwise a very nice, clean and tight copy.

Record # 605191


Price: $19.00 

 

Antique By-Lines: Southern Vintage


Coons, Betty C.

Hardcover. Richmond, VA, Whittet & Shepperson, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 64 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Green cloth, silver lettering on front cover. Black dust jacket shows edgewear. Errata pasted on title page. A nice clean tight copy.

Record # 605187


Price: $19.00 

 

Art & Antiques Magazine September 1986


Wick (editor), Allison

Softcover. New York, Art & Antiques Associates, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, September 1986 issue of Art & Antiques magazine featuring Andrew Wyeth's secret paintings of Helga. Other articles: How to Spot a Fake Antique: The Five Telltale Signs - The Biedermeier Factor: How Michael Graves Adopted a 19th Century Style - For Love of the Chase: A Hunting Classic Comes to Light - Picasso and Company - The Mage and the Boffins: How James Joyce Underpainted his Masterpiece - and more. Very good condition with no markings or tears. Minimal wear to covers.

Record # 805138


Price: $18.00 

 

American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century


Johnson & Ketchum, Jr., Jay & William C.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., na, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Comprehensive guide to American folk art and artists. Features biographical profiles of over 100 artists, each entry accompanied by color illustrations of their work, most full or double-page. 342 pages. Dust jacket and cloth bound book are in near fine condition, pages numbers written in ink by a previous owner inside the cover.

Record # 805126


Price: $26.00 

 

English, Scottish & Irish: Table Glass: From the Sixteenth Century to 1820


Hughes, G. Bernard

Hardcover. New York , Bramhall House, 1st, 1956, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in near fine condition and dust jacket in very good condition (minor tears to upper spine and upper edge of back cover). 410 pages with index. 308 illustrations in black and white, 2 in color. "Both in its text and in its illustrations this is the most complete account so far published of the Table Glass produced in England, Scotland and Ireland from the sixteenth century to 1820.

Record # 805118


Price: $16.00 

 

Discovering the Present: Three Decades in Art, Culture, & Politics


Rosenberg, Harold

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press , 1st, 1973, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in near fine condition with dust jacket in very good condition (minor tear to lower edge of back cover). 336 pp. index included. "The book's five sections deal with illusions arising from various intellectual disciplines; the socio-political dynamics of the contemporary art world; problems of identity in American culture; the situation of the Jew in the contemporary world; and the role of myth in modern politics.

Record # 805114


Price: $22.00 

 

Famous Colonial Houses


Hollister, Paul M. , Illust. by: James Preston

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company Publishers, 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Famous colonial houses with descriptions of their historical significance. Full-page color illustrations by James Preston. 170 pages. Paper shows some age toning. Blue cloth covers with gold gilt title. The cloth shows wear around the edges and has small piece torn loose at the top.

Record # 805106


Price: $29.00 

 

Artist's Proof: The Annual of Contemporary Prints, Vol. VII


Eichenberg, Ed., Fritz

Hardcover. New York, Pratt Center for Contemporary Printmaking/Barre Publishers, rep, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Collection of articles on various artistic trends and accompanied by particular pieces. 128 pages, fully illustrated with numerous black/white photographs and reproductions. Cloth bound book is in very good condition, slight bumping to the ends of the spine, very clean interior pages. Dust jacket has some light discoloration/rubbing and light edge wear, very good condition.

Record # 805088


Price: $13.00 

 

American Furniture from the First Colonies to World War I


Butler, Joseph T.

Hardcover. London, England, Triune Books, rep, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Reference guide for American furniture design from the colonial period up until World War I. 144 pages, illustrated with 240 photographs, 40 of which are in full-color. Cloth bound book is in very good condition, old price sticker attached inside the cover. Dust jacket is price-clipped and shows edge wear and has small rip near the top of the spine.

Record # 805077


Price: $13.00 

 

Louis C. Tiffany's Art Glass


Koch, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, Inc, 2nd, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 134 pages. B&w and color photographs throughout. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket, small tear to lower right corner of front cover, tiny bump to upper edge of spine. Nice tight copy.

Record # 805072


Price: $19.00 

 

Portraits of John Marshall, The


Oliver, Andrew

Hardcover. Charlottesville, VA, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1977, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Historical work on the many portraits that exist of the chief justice John Marshall. 209 pages, illustrated with 123 black/white reproductions of paintings and photographs. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, pencil mark on the top edges of some pages. Dust jacket is in very good condition, front cover is very clean, back shows some rubbing/few creases; few light spots on the spine.

Record # 805040


Price: $13.00 

 

Gilbert Stuart


Whitely, William T.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Biography of painter Gilbert Stuart and his career in both Europe and the United States. 240 pages with 7 black/white full-page illustrations. Book is in very good condition, a few bumps/marks on the spine and back cover. Previous owner's name written in pencil inside the front cover.

Record # 805038


Price: $16.00 

 

Somehow A Past: The Autobiography of Marsden Hartley


Hartley, Marsden

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Autobiography of American modernist Marsden Hartley, edited and with an introduction by Susan Elizabeth Ryan. 246 pages with 45 black/white illustrations, including photographs and reproductions of Hartley's work. Book is in fine, like new condition, no visible defects or signs of wear.

Record # 804988


Price: $26.00 

 

Album of American Battle Art 1755-1918, An


Mugridge, Donald H. and Helen F. Conover

Hardcover. New York, NY, Da Capo Press, Inc., 2nd, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 319 pages, contains 150 black and white plates. Includes graphic index and list of negatives. Dust jacket shows wear on corners and edges. Overall a tight, clean copy.

Record # 804981


Price: $19.00 

 

American Pewter in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston


Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Department of American Decorative Arts & Sculpture

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1st, 1974, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: Poor, 119 pages, catalogue of black and white photographic illustrations arranged by state. Includes introduction, bibliography, and checklist of American Pewter in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Book binding in fair condition, small white stains on upper left-hand corner of front cover. Dust jacket shows wear and is ripped at the top of the binding.

Record # 804980


Price: $13.00 

 

Masterpieces of Glass


Charleston, Robert J.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. 102 full page plates in full color. Beautifully illustrating a vast collection of the finest glass in the Corning museum ranging from ancient Egyptian, Roman, Frankish, Islamic and Bohemian through to Studio glass, with commentary to 102 plates. Folio. Cream cloth with slight yellowing to upper and lower edges, gilt lettering to spine and gilt decoration to front cover. Pictorial dust jacket with minor wear. Clean, crisp and tight copy.

Record # 804951


Price: $64.00 

 

Fairground Art: the Art Forms of Traveling Fairs, Carousels and Carnival Midways


Weedon, Geoff, Richard Ward

Hardcover. London, England, White House Editions, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. b&w and color photos throughout. Beautifully illustrating the art of the Circus, with thematically arranged chapters. Rare. Folio. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Original slip case decorated by Fred Fowle. Minor wear to slip case opening edge, still very good copy,

Record # 804950


Price: $128.00 

 

18th Century Wedgwood: a Guide for Collectors & Connoisseurs


Buten, David

Hardcover. New York, Methuen, Inc, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Monograph of Josiah Wedgwood,1730-1795. 18th century English pottery.Cream cloth spine, gilt lettering, blue cover. Dust jacket with light edge wear. Nice, clean and tight copy

Record # 804945


Price: $22.00 

 

Art Idea, The


Jarves, James Jackson

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 313 pages. Reprint of the 1864 original. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. previous owner's inscription in front. A very crisp, clean and well preserved copy

Record # 804941


Price: $13.00 

 

Colonial Williamsburg


Kopper, Philip

Hardcover. New York , Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1986, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 320 pages with 328 plates, 168 in color. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 804930


Price: $19.00 

 

Auguste Edouart's Silhouettes of Eminent Americans 1839-1844


Oliver, Andrew

Hardcover. Charlottesville VA, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 553 pages, 348 full-page portraits in b&w. Includes a catalogue of 3,800 silhouettes by the artist. Very good in a crisp, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 804912


Price: $51.00 

 

William Morris and His Earthly Paradises


Marshall, Roderick

Hardcover. London, Compton Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 315 pages plus index. B&W illustrations. Very good in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 900139


Price: $13.00 

 

Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight: Brook Farm and Concord


Cooke (Ed.), George Willis

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages, brown cloth with gilt and red design, top edge gilt.

Record # 900132


Price: $16.00 

 

Apocalypse of the Word - The Life and Message of George Fox (1624 - 1691) (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Gwyn, Douglas

Softcover. Richmond, Friends United Press, Reprint, 1991 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 241 pages bound in wine colored wraps. Inscribed by the author to title page. Light creases to spine & a touch of faint foxing to top edge. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Record # 751197


Price: $15.00 

 

Robert Salmon: Painter of Ship and Shore


Wilmerding, John

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Boston Public Library, 1st, 1971, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover with original dust jacket, both in near fine condition. 123 pp., 6 color and 50 b.w. illustrations. Four page museum catalogue laid in. Previous owners signature on front fly leaf (in pencil).

Record # 804888


Price: $128.00 

 

History of American Marine Painting


John , Wilmerding

Hardcover. Salem, MA, Peabody Museum, 1st, 1968, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover Quarto. xxiii + 279 pp. Includes bibliography, notes and index. Contains one hundred sixty-eight full page black & white illustrations and sixteen full-color plates. Green cloth over boards with gilt title stamped on spine, Near fine condition with dust jacket in very good condition, minor tear to upper spine of jacket. Previous owner's inscription on inside fly leaf.

Record # 804879


Price: $32.00