Softcover. Scranton PA, Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences, N/A, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ten softcover booklets, stapled gray wrappers, b&w illustrations and photographs, most around 60 pages. Titles: Dressmaking: Finishes and Trimmings, Dressmaking: Perfection in Details, Designing With Foundation Patterns, Aprons and Caps, Cutting and Fitting, Essential Stitches and Seams, Individualizing Tissue-Paper Patterns, Embroidery and Decorative Stitches, Underwear and Lingerie (Parts One and Two). Minor wear, some chipping, clean set. Seem to all be dated 1925-28.
Paperback. Philadelphia:, Moncure Biddle & Co, 1st wraps, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, December 25, 1944. Text and plates. Decorative end-papers. Light cover soil, chipping, small scar to back wrap. Internally VG.
Softcover. St. Paul, Northwest Area Foundation, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. 1" closed tear on bottom edge of back cover. Light wear overall. Clean, tight copy.
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.
Softcover. New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc. and Israel Sack, Inc., 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 92 pages. Softcover. Normal wear to front and back covers, upper spine shows chipping and cracking.
Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 314 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Yellow blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine. White pictorial dust jacket. Back cover slightly sunned, else a beautiful copy. Like new.
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.
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.
Hardcover. London, UK, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages, illustrated throughout with numerous plates in b&w and color. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Light wear to dust jacket, slight scratch to front cover, minor rubbing to top edge of spine. Nice, clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Los Angeles/Newport Beach, CA, Modernage, First Ltd., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY JOHN R. CORK ON TITLE PAGE. Photographs by John R. Cork. Softcover limited edition number 943 of 2000. Includes 50 full color plates. Front cover full-color photograph with white lettering. In very good condition, edgewear to cover and a few pages bent at the top right corner. Otherwise an excellent, clean copy.
Softcover. Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 263 page catalog of April 23-June 19, 1977, exhibition by the Art Institute of Chicago. Divided into sections on European Decorative Arts, American Arts, Textiles, and Oriental Arts. Color photograph on front endpage. Numerous black and white illustrations and descriptive text. Art Institute of Chicago price sticker on back cover.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Abbeville Press Publishers, First Edition, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth covered boards with silver titles to spine. Full page, full color photography by Melba Levick throughout. Decorative endpapers. Dust jacket in full color, very clean, with light, marginal wear to edges. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Sterling/Chapelle, 1st, November 1, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages, illustrated throughout in color. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Small closed tear to rear flap, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. UK ?, Sotheby's, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1049 lots, illustrated in color and b&w. Softcover with light wear to covers, else in very nice condition.
Softcover. New York, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 295 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. Edge wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1st, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages. 32 B&W plates. Frontispiece. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine and front. Embossing to front. Top edge gilt, other edges unfinished. Hinges cracked. Binding cracked at page 262 and 186.
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. South Kensington, Christie's , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Auction catalog. 97 pages, illustrated throughout in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Softcover. South Kensington, Christie's , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Auction catalog. 105 pages, illustrated throughout in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Softcover. South Kensington, Christie's , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Auction catalog. 109 pages, illustrated throughout in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of various furniture and decorative pieces in Manhattan from 1925 up until the Depression. Text by Karen Davies; 124 pages; photographs of pieces in black & white (2 are in color). Cover in color; design based on a rug by Ruth Reeves called "Electric." In near fine condition.
Softcover. Washington, D.C., The Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of the collection of bags and bandboxes at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. White covers with color plates on front. Minor rubbing and marking. Staple wrappers are tight, pages clean and crisp. Numerous b/w plates of bags in the museum's collection. Organized by style of bag. Introductory essay on the bag in art. 33 pages.
Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 234 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Minor sunfading to spine. Otherwise tight copy. 117 illustrations with 110 in color.