Hardcover. New York, NY, Museum of Modern Art, First Thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover with illustrated endpapers. Features writing by Starr Figura, Judith Hecker, Raimond Livasgani, Harper Montgomery, Jennifer Roberts, Sarah Suzuki, Wendy Weltman & Deborah Wye. Profusely illustrated in full color & black & white throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.
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.
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.
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.
Hardcover. US, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1972-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and tearing to dust jacket with slight crease to spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white and color illustrations throughout. A tight copy.
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.
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.
Hardcover. US, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2008-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 265 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear title to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2nd, 1982, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Red cover, with pages and covers in pristine condition. Like new, in shrinkwrap.
Softcover. Jeannette PA, privately printed, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages, heavy orange stock wrappers. This is a notable book of circus history that lists most, if not all, the important circus companies and related entertainment shows that performed across the United States from 1800 through 1942. The compiler was an agent for many traveling shows which are listed here.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, America's 100 year cigarette war, the Public Health and the unabashed triumph of Philip Morris
Softcover. New York, Pantheon, 2nd, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 Volumes. Softcovers. Volume 1 - Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Clean, unmarked text. Cover shows standard wear. Volume 2 - Clean, unmarked text. Covers show standard wear. Volume 3 - Clean, unmarked text. Cover shows standard wear.
London, John Murray, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages. Gift inscription on front end paper. cover has edgewear. Corners slightly bumped.
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.
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.
Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 1983-09-28, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages. Green cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 2nd, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 357 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Mild soiling to front dust jacket panel and fore edge text block. Unmarked. A tight copy.
Softcover. Salem, MA, Essex Institute, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, One in a series on historical Massachusetts houses; red covers with b/w plate on front; hardly any wear to covers. Staple wrappers tight, pages clean and crisp. Postcard of house inside front cover. 8 b/w plates of house and blueprints, extensive text on history and architecture. 31 pages.
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.
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