The Garden of Language
London: Fisher Son & Co., 1835. Hardcover. Eighteenmo. Hardcover. Bound in brown cloth with gilt titles on front panel. 31 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm. More
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Chinnery and China Coast Paintings
Leigh-on-Sea, England: F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, 1970. Hardcover. Yellow cloth over boards; BW pictorial dj.; 64 pp. plus plates; Color frontispiece, tipped in; 142 bw plates. Extensive text; Number 56 of a hundred numbered copies in this edition of six hundred. More
Ernest Lawson: American Impressionist, 1873-1939
Leigh-on-Sea, England: F. Lewis, Publishers, 1968. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Green cloth in white jacket with b&w illustration and black titles. 66 + plates pp. 6 color, 134 bw plates. Includes a Foreword written by Ira Glackens. List of Illustrations, followed by one page of biographical data presented in chronological order..... More
Rosanjin: 20th Century Master Potter of Japan
New York: Japan Society, Inc., 1972. Softcover. Off-white wraps, raised letters on front cover, unpaginated, BW & color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 1972 exhibition featuring the craftsmanship of Japanese artisan Rosanjin (1883-1959). With an introductory essay by Sidney B. Cardozo and quite a number of illustrations to entice..... More
Selected Drawings From Old Masters in the University Galleries and in the Library at Christ Church Oxford, Part V
Oxford/ London: Clarendon Press/ Henry Frowde, 1906. Hardcover. Oversized tan paper over boards portfolio with brown lettering, tan ribbon tie closures; 20 unpaginated sheets of mounted plates, several with two illustrations per page. Each page of plates has a descriptive protective guard sheet. This is Part 5 only. Inside front..... More
Illumination and its Development in the Present Day
New York: Doran, 1920. Hardcover. Blue boards with gilt lettering; 267 pp.; richly illustrated. Many color and black & white illustrations throughout this book. More
A Florentine Picture-Chronicle: Being a Series of Ninety-Nine Drawings Representing Scenes and Personages of Ancient History, Sacred and Profane
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1898. Hardcover. Oversized tan cloth boards with black illustrated front and rear cover and spine; bw illustrated title half page and title page; errate slip bounded in, VI, 42 pp with bw illustrations; 99 plates with each plate having a descriptive page. Printed in edition of 300..... More
The New City: Architecture and urban renewal; an exhibition, January 23-March 13, 1967
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1967. Softcover. Blue, red and white stapled wraps. [46] pp. Many illustrations in bw, some with some color added. Catalog of an exhibition held Jan. 23 to Mar. 13, 1967, at the Museum of Modern Art. "An exhibition of 4 studies of..... More
Brancusi: A Study of the Sculpture
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1967. Hardcover. Off-white cloth over boards; Blue-and-white dj.; 247 pp.; 200+ bw figures. A study of nearly all of the sculpture rendered by Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957). More
Brancusi: A Study of the Sculpture
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1967. Hardcover. Off-white cloth over boards; Blue-and-white dj.; 247 pp.; 200+ bw figures. A study of nearly all of the sculpture rendered by Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957). More
Brancusi: The Sculpture and Drawings
New York, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1975. Hardcover. Off-white cloth over boards; bw embossed image on front cover and black lettering on spine; gray and white dust jacket with black lettering and color illustration; mylar cover; color illustrated tipped-in frontispiece; 200 pp.; 52 color, 240 bw plates and..... More
Interpreting Cezanne
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Black DJ with color illustration and yellow and white lettering; black boards with gilt lettering; ix, 296 pp.; richly illustrated. In this remarkable book the sculptor and writer Sidney Geist presents a revolutionary interpretation of the art of Cezanne -- DJ. More
Scrap: No.7
New York: Sidney Geist, 1962. Pamphlet. four pgs w/ illustrations; fold-out insert, printed on all sides. Text and images remain dark and detailed. Paper is still highly readable; tear lines remain fragile. Insert fold-out entitled 'Pandemonium' and printed with scattered poems by Milton Resnick, Ed Ruda and Pat Passlof... More
GLASS from Sasanian antecedents to European Imitations (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, Volume XV
Nour Foundation in Association with Azimuth Editions, 2005. Hardbound. Dark blue cloth with glossy color illustrated dustjacket, the whole contained in a sturdy cloth slipcase. 383 pp., 338 line drawings and 343 full-color sumptuous plates. An awesome and vital reference to Islamic glass. A delight to hold and peruse, this..... More
Saul Steinberg: An Exhibition of Recent Work
1966. Softcover. White wraps. [36] pp. 28 bw plates. No text, just the full-page plates of his drawings and a catalogue list of 76 works. More
Henri Rousseau
1951. Softcover. Black wraps. [16] pp. 4 color, 10 bw plates. 'Le Douanier Henri Rousseau: The Role of Time and Space in his Work,' by Tristan Tzara, catalogue of 23 annotated works, several beautiful plates. More
An Exhibition by de Kooning Introducing His Sculpture and New Paintings
1972. Softcover. Black wraps. [20] pp. 2 color, 19 bw plates. Checklist of 49 works supplemented with the illustrations. More
Exhibition of New Sculpture by Marisol
New York: Sidney Janis, 1984. Softbound. Black stapled wraps. 12 pp. 3 color, 8 bw plates. Title on cover: Marisol. Issued in conjunction with a 1984 exhibition of artwork by French-born Venezuelan sculptor Marisol Escobar (1930-2016). The catalogue lists 8 works inside back cover. Includes one large work called "Last..... More
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Amherst, Massachusetts: The Oxbow Press (printers) / The Massachusetts Review, 1989. Paperback. Grey wraps with black lettering/decoration; [46]; all bound with a double string tie at spine edge. French flaps. 26 bw images. An illustrated essay, The Sculptural World of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, by Sidney Kaplan, featuring numerous memorials, monuments, and..... More
American Government: Balancing Democracy and Rights
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004. Softcover. Black illus. wraps with gold and white lettering; 544 plus appendices. A textbook probing the deep cultural and historical roots of American government, it engages students in an ongiong constitutional dialogue about the development of ideas, institutions and politics. More
Directions: Alison Saar
Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1993. Paperback. White folded wraps with color-illustration and gray and black lettering. 5 pages. 2 color and 2 BW illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition from April 1 to June 27, 1993. More
Directions: Boyd Webb
Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1990. Softcover. White tri-fold card brochure with two color and 2 bw illustrations. 3-section essay by Lawrence, including 2 bw illustrations. Two sections with color images and a section listing biographic, exhibition and bibliographic information, along with the exhibition catalogue. More
The Golden Legend
New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1890. Hardcover. Olive green boards with gilt lettering and illustration; viii, 153 pp.; 25 unnumbered leaves of plates; color illustrations. Filled with gorgeous mounted color illustrations. More
The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and his Family: Volume 4, Charles Willson Peale: his Last Years, 1821 - 1827
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Bound in green cloth in green illustrated jacket. XLVIII, 628 pages, illustrations. More
Sidney Nolan's Wimmera: From Wail to Ballarat
Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1999. Softcover. Blue wraps with color illustrations, 12 pp, profusely illustrated in color. "A National Gallery of Victoria travelling exhibition." Exhibition held at Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Aug. 17-Sept. 26, 1999 and at six other venues in Australia until Nov. 13, 2000. More