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Art Across America - Two Centuries of Regional Painting


Gerdts, William H.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Three slipcased volumes. Volume One - New England, New York, Mid Atlantic - 422 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Dust jacket shows minor wear. Clean, bright copy. Volume Two - The South, Near Midwest - 396 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Dust jacket shows minor wear. Clean, bright copy. Volume Three - The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific - 396 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Dust jacket shows minor wear. Clean, bright copy. Red Cloth slipcase with 3/4" of light fading to cloth along mouth. Light wear overall. Additional shipping required.

Record # 610393


Price: $375.00 

 

Art Dealers, The


Taylor, John Russell & Brian Brooke

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 316 pages. Purple cloth with silver lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to edges and spine, front cover slightly sunned, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 606258


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Art in South Carolina 1670-1970


Bilodeau, Francis W.

Softcover. Charleston, SC, The South Carolina Tricentennial Commission, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, White covers with illustration on the front. Embossed print on cover wrapping around the illustration. Rubbing and some marking on covers. Pages are clean and crisp with reproductions of artists' work throughout, mostly in black and white with a few in color. Binding is creased, with some wear at the bottom, but still in good condition. 229 pages.

Record # 806921


Price: $25.00 

Art in the White House: a nation's prideKloss, William
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Art in the White House: a nation's pride


Kloss, William

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., White House Historical Association, reprint, 2008, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 407 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations and photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 469235


Price: $31.00 

 

Art of Gone With the Wind, The : The Making of a Legend


Cameron, Judy

Hardcover. US, Prentice Hall Trade, 1st, 1989-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 254 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear to price clipped dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 463986


Price: $19.00 

 

Art of Music: American Paintings & Musical Instruments, 1770-1910, The


N/A

Softcover. Clinton, NY, Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. Exhibition catalog. Mostly black-and-white illustrations with occasional color illustration. Light shelf-wear and edge-wear. Top corner of rear cover slightly faded. A little foxing on top edge. Minor soiling to fore and bottom edges. Bottom corner of last few pages and rear cover lightly creased. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 856432


Price: $25.00 

Art of the Cigar Label, TheDavidson, Joe
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Art of the Cigar Label, The


Davidson, Joe

Hardcover. New Jersey, Wellfleet Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 252 pages. Hardcover. Full page, full color photographs & illustrations throughout. Dust jacket design by Carmela Pereira, with only minor wear. Clean unmarked, tight copy.

Record # 750120


Price: $38.00 

 

Art of the Tinsmith, The: English and American


DeVoe, Shirley Spaulding

Hardcover. Exton PA, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A tribute to the men and women who made and decorated utilitarian tinwares on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Mild fading to dust jacket top edge. Faint age toning to top and fore edge text blocks. Light age toning to top edge preliminary pages. Many black-and-white photos and illustrations throughout. Marbled endpapers. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951796


Price: $31.00 

 

Art of Transition, The: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis


Masiello, Francine

Paperback. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 333 pages, paperback. Indispensable reading for literary critics working on contemporary Latin America. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Light fading to wraps as well. Light bumping to corners. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952264


Price: $15.00 

 

Art-Makers of Nineteenth Century America, The


Lynes, Russell

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 514 pages, b&w illustrations. Bibliography. INSCRIBED BY LYNES TO JOHN WILMERDING, fellow art historian and author. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 401419


Price: $50.00 

 

Artist In America, The


Goodrich, Lloyd.

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Dark blue cloth with gilt title to spine. White pictorial dust jacket, Light wear to covers and spine, slight stain to front cover, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 606243


Price: $15.00 

 

Artists of America, The: A Series of Biographical Sketches of American Artists; with Portraits and Designs on Steel


Lester, C. Edwards

Hardcover. New York, Baker & Scribner, 1st, 1846, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 257 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations on steel (by artist only mentioned in Preface as Mr. Burt) with tissue guards throughout. Cover boards bound in dark brown leather, gilt title on spine, raised bands and embossed design on covers and spine. Some chipping to top and bottom of spine, as well as corners of covers. Tanning from age and foxing to pages and edges, but doesn't affect legibility of text or illustrations. Beautiful old volume. Biographical sketches of eight American painters.

Record # 31725


Price: $63.00 

 

Artists of America, The


Lester, C. Edwards

Hardcover. New York, Baker & Scribner, 1st, 1846, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 257 pages. Includes biographical sketches of Thomas Crawford, Rembrandt Peale, James DeVeaux, John Trumball, Gilbert Charles Stuart, Benjamin West, Henry Inman, Washington Allston. Brown cloth covers with embossed decorative borders, gilt titles decorative illustration to spine and cover, green patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, 9 b&w tissue-protected engravings. Previous owner's pencil inscription to blank preview page, wear and rubbing to cover edges and spines, cloth covering partially detached from lower portion of spine, noticeable foxing to most pages. A rare book in good condition.

Record # 806049


Price: $80.00 

 

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 

 

Arts at Black Mountain College, The


Harris, Mary Emma

Softcover. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 314 pages, illustrated throughout. Light water damage to last 30 pages on bottom edge, minor edge and corner wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853719


Price: $35.00 

 

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 

 

Aspects of the 70's


various authors

Softcover. Massachusetts, multiple publishers, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six art catalogs published together in a white slip case. "A collaboration among six museums in the Boston area, consists of six separately conceived exhibitions...". Sizes of catalogs differ so that edges stagger to reveal all six titles from front of slip case. Text by James Sheldon. Catalog titles: "Directions in Realisms," "Mavericks," "Painterly Abstraction," "Sitework," "Spiral: Afro-American Art of the 70's," and "Photography: Recent Directions." Light wear to slip cover edges, discoloration to revealed edges of catalogs; otherwise a very clean, tight copy of a unique set of exhibition catalogs.

Record # 806053


Price: $80.00 

 

Aspects of the 70's


various authors

Softcover. Massachusetts, multiple publishers, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six art catalogs published together in a white slip case. "A collaboration among six museums in the Boston area, consists of six separately conceived exhibitions...". Sizes of catalogs differ so that edges stagger to reveal all six titles from front of slip case. Text by James Sheldon. Catalog titles: "Directions in Realisms," "Mavericks," "Painterly Abstraction," "Sitework," "Spiral: Afro-American Art of the 70's," and "Photography: Recent Directions." Light wear to slip cover edges, discoloration to revealed edges of catalogs; otherwise a very clean, tight copy of a unique set of exhibition catalogs.

Record # 806055


Price: $80.00 

 

Association of American Geographers, The: The First Seventy-Five Years, 1904-1979


James, Preston Everett

Hardcover. Assn of Amer Geographers, 1st, December 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 279 pages, b&w photographs. Edge wear, small tears to price-clipped dust jacket. Else clean and tight.

Record # 452905


Price: $15.00 

 

Astonished Traveler, The - William Darby, Frontier Geographer and Man of Letters


Kennedy, J. Gerald

Hardcover. Baton Rough, Louisiana State Univ., 1st, n .d., Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 55526


Price: $20.00 

 

At Andersonville - A Narrative of Personal Adventure at Andersonville, Florence and Charleston Rebel Prisons


Brownell, Josiah C.

Paperback. Glen Cove Public Library, Rep.wraps, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A reprint of the original 1867 ed. 40 pages.

Record # 60831


Price: $28.00 

 

At the Supreme War Council


Wright, Captain Peter E.

Hardcover. New York & London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st?, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 201 pages, with a handful of b&w illustrations and fold-out maps. Covers the Supreme War Council, the campaign of 1918, and the Battle of St. Quentin. Burgundy hardcovers, showing some edge-wear. Pages unmarked, although slightly yellowed. Library stamps on front endpaper, as well as a name of previous owner. Overall, a tight, clean copy.

Record # 808042


Price: $15.00 

 

Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy


Richard M. McMurry

Hardcover. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2000, 229 pages. Hardcover. Great Campaigns of the Civil War series. B/w illustrations. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean. Looks nearly new and barely read. In great shape. McMurry examines the Atlanta campaign as a political and military unity in the context of the greater struggle of the war itself.

Record # 31795


Price: $25.00