Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 274 pages. Illustrated with black & white plates. Some underlining in ink with notation in margins. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Dust jacket worn with tears and chipping.
Softcover. London, national Portrait Gallery Publications, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. In good condition. A bit of light yellowing to fore edge and edges of pages. Does not effect text or illustrations. Pretty clean inside and out.
New York , Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages. B&W photos by Kahn. Introduction by Arnold L. Haskell. Dust jacket price clipped. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown
Softcover. Boston, MA, Childs Gallery, 1st, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of works from one gallery. Glossy white covers with color plates on front and back. Light scratches. Staple wrappers tight, pages glossy, clean and crisp. Numerous small b/w plates of paintings, furniture, and other decorative art related to colonies. Catalog is divided up by historical period or subject. Brief explanations of each work provide some historical information.
Softcover. Boston, MA, Childs Gallery, 1st, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of works from one gallery. Glossy white covers with color plates on front and back. Light scratches. Staple wrappers tight, pages glossy, clean and crisp. Numerous small b/w plates of paintings, furniture, and other decorative art related to colonies. Catalog is divided up by historical period or subject. Brief explanations of each work provide some historical information.
Softcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red textured covers, slight rubbing and scratching, minor sunning. Paper wrappers tight, pages generally clean and crisp, with slight smudge on front flyleaf. Generous introduction on American colonial painting and English influence on this, as well as looking at Belknap's collection of paintings. 32 b/w plates from collection, with information on the mezzotint in each. 39 pages.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 427 pages. Hardcover. Red gilt title on spine. Deckled foredge. White covers, still very clean. Dust jacket in good shape, covered in protective plastic. From the front flap: "Yuan Zhao, a celebrated Chinese performance artist and political dissident, has accepted a one year's artist's residency in Los Angeles. He is to be a Visiting Scholar at the St. Anselm's School for Girls, teaching advanced art, and hosted by one of the school's most devoted families: the wealthy if dysfunctional Traverses. ...a novel about secrets, love, and the shining chaos of everyday American life, The Dissident is a remarkable and surprising group portrait, done with a light, sure hand."
Hardcover. London, Chartwell Books, Inc., 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. Black and white illustrations and drawings. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. Waterville, Maine, Colby College Art Museum, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Gray covers with folded flaps and illustration of drawn portrait, perfect binding, foreword by James M. Carpenter, introduction by W. Mark Brady, 72 full-page b&w plates with accompanying descriptions. Slight rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. Cleveland, William Collins, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 96 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription at top of front endpaper. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Dust jacket with light wear along edges, fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, The Century Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 289 pages, with 63 full page b&w plates. Text and pictures, discusses painters of the 18th and 19th centuries. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. Clean bright copy.
Hardcover. Charleston, SC, Garnier & Co, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages. Edition limited to 500 copies, unabridged republication of the limited edition (325) originally published in 1923. Blue cloth cover with gilt titles to spine, 10 b&w plates; overall a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Benjamin Blom, reprint, 1972, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 65 pages. Reissue of rare 1930 first edition. Brown cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, illustrated profusely with over 50 b&w plates. Copy still packaged in original shrinkwrap, never opened; in excellent condition.
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.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Harpercollins, 2nd pr., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages. Very little wear to cover and dust jacket. Inside is very bright and clean. Section of b&w photographs and illustrations. A nice copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 388 pages. Hardcover. Extensive listings and illustrations of over 360 works - featuring black & white and full color tipped-in plates. One fold-out. Previous owners name at top right corner of preliminary page. Light bump to top right corner of pages. Light wear to dust jacket corners and edges. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New Haven, 1st, January 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Salem, MA, The Essex Institute, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Quarterly catalog with gray covers, some sunning on edges, minor rubbing and edge wear. Paper wrappers. Several sections: first on cabinetmakers, second on portraits in the Essex Institute, and third on ship registries. A few b/w plates throughout, rest is text. Paginated from 323 to 459. Tight copy, clean interior.
Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, final, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog, 158 pages. Between 125-137 B&W plates throughout. Some edgewear to wrapper and many small tears. Tanning and some small staining to wrapper. Otherwise a tight and clean interior.
Softcover. Lewisburg, PA, Bucknell University, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with glossy white covers, color plate on front; some rubbing, especially on front. Staple wrappers are tight, pages are clean and crisp. Previous owner sticker on very last page. 39 plates, 4 in color, of American portraiture in both painting and sculpture, from various artists. All work is recent but in numerous artistic styles. 57 items, by artist, listed at back. Text runs throughout and discusses some specific artists and portraiture in the 20th century U. S. 48 pages.
Softcover. Zurich, Baur au Lac Hotel, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Auction catalog. 90 pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout. Color frontispiece. Inlaid estimate sheet. White pictorial cover with very slight wear. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Columbia, Missouri, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 333 pages, with two portraits of Dickens. Dust jacket edge wear and crease, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.