New York / Providence, RI: Gorham Manufacturing Co., 1908. Softbound. Stiff boards with brown cloth tape spine. 140 pp., profusely illustrated in line engraving and photographs on glossy paper. An essential and vital resource for dating styles and individual pieces. Hundreds of individual pieces are illustrated in this larg-format addenda..... More
New York: National Building Publishers, 1910-1930. KAVE. Hardcover. 21 bound volumes, with slightly varying heights as per format of original magazines. 21 bound volumes, comprising Vols. 31-52 (1910-1930) of this fascinating architectural journal. Subsumed the previous periodicals "The National Builder," "The Permanent Builder," and "The Builder's Journal." Profusely illustrated with..... More
Philadelphia: 1901-1906. KAVE. Hardcover. 10 bound volumes, three-quarter leather and marbled boards, gilt letters on spine, top gilt page edges. Vols. 1-10 (1901-1906) of this classic American magazine, well before it was sold to Conde Nast in 1911. Profusely illustrated with BW or sepia photos. A lovely set, though not..... More
Milano: Libreria di Francesco Sanvito, 1859. Hardbound. Marbleized boards with green leather spine and gold lettering; 595 pp. with numerous color plates and bw illustrations. This volume is devoted to the fashions of America, Malaysia, Australia, and Polynesia. Text in Italian. More
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1973. Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards with textured design, gilt lettering on spine. [8] pp, XXIV BW plates + 52 pp, XXIV BW plates. Two books in one volume, reprinted. The second volume is from the Collection Andre Breton and Paul Eluard. Text in French..... More
Pegasus Press, 1929. First. Hardbound. Beige cloth boards with gilt titling and spine design, [xxiii] 131pp, 10 tipped in color plates and 94 BW plates, several BW figures; some also tipped in. One of 375 copies, copy unnumbered. Mostly plates, this is a fascinating and beautiful text on Islamic art..... More
London: John Murray, 1814. Hardbound. Red quarter-leather binding with gild lettering and decoration on spine; gilt top edge; unpaginated with approx. 140 pp. and 60 color plates. Beautiful color engravings of dress during the Ottman Empire, with full descriptions of each plate and commentary on the lifestyle of a person..... More
San Francisco: William Doxey (C.E. Murdock & Co. for issue No.1), 1895-1897. Printed color publishers' cloth iwth design (age yellowed). 2 Volumes. (Book I, Nos. 1 - 12; Book II, Nos. 13 - 24 + Epilark issue). First edition, second issue with the Doxey imprint. Complete, with collective title-page and..... More
The Saligman Collection, 2012. Hardcover. Sage cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, dark turquoise & color illus. dust jacket, illus. flyleaves, 234 pp., profusely illus. in color. One of two volumes that detail, in word and color illustration, the American art collections and decor of Harvey and Linda..... More
Paris: Musee National d'Art Moderne, 1965. Softbound. Color pictorial wraps. 54 pp., serigraphs ( monocolor, 2 bi-color, 1 tri-color) many other color and bw plates. Text is in French. Color exhibition book for the 1965 Calder show held at Paris's Musee National d'Art Moderne and New York's Guggenheim Museum... More
Dusseldorf: Richter, 2003. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gray lettering on front cover and spine, blue dust jacket with bw illustration on front and blue lettering, spine blue with black lettering on dust jacket, 552 pp, profusely illustrated in color and black and white illustrations. Contents include: Foreword / Wenzel..... More
New York: Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Ltd., 1979. Paperback. Yellow bi-fold with black lettering. Laid in is a large brown sheet, folded into eighths, of 3 BW photograph reproductions with other drawings and phrases. Bi-fold contains a chronology, selected collections, solo exhibitions, commissions and special projects (with one correction in pen)..... More
Paris: Musee National du Jeu de Paume, 1939. Softcover. Tan stapled paper wraps, 20 pp., 5 BW illus. Text is in French. Issued in conjunction with a March 1939 exhibition of work by Chinese artist Chang Shan Tse, known as the Tiger Painter. With an introduction by Andre Dezarrois. The..... More
[Paris]: Palais de Chaillot, 1946. No. 1125 of 1150 copies (950 of this style). Softcover. folded and glued illustrated raps. Unpaginated, 12 pp. minimalist-style advertising at rear, followed by colophon. This copy included color lithographs after works by Matisse, Laurencin, Berard, and black and white lithographs after Matisse, Picasso. Rear..... More
New York: Verlag George Wittenborn, 1956. Original; one of 30 copies printed. Small folio. White card folio with bw image and lettering on cover; French flaps. Contents include 7 card pages folded in half vertically with text and a total of: 5 bw photographs and 5 original multi-colored lithographs. This..... More
New York: Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966. Hardcover. 4 vols. Burgundy cloth, blue title block on spine with gilt letters and outlines, various paginations, BW illus. The first four volumes of the seven-volume reprint set of all issues of this American literary periodical, which originally ran from 1927-1934. These four volumes..... More
Brussels: Editions Alain Noirhomme, 2007. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with white stamped spine lettering. Glossy black and color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. BW and color illustrations. "The Paintings of Ross Bleckner is the first monograph on the artist covering thirty years of his work, from 1976 to 2006. Always..... More
Baltimore: The Walters Art Gallery Trustees, 1938 - 1947. Softcover. Plain paper wraps, each year a different color, with colored lettering and a blind stamp of the museum's insignia. Each volume has +/- 125 pp. with bw images throughout. Each volume contains 7-10 articles examining various pieces of art in..... More
New York: Praeger, 1956. Hardcover. Black cloth with silver gilt embossed title on cover and spine. x, 60 pp. Illustrated in bw and original signed etching (62/100) as a frontis. Woman with an umbrella signed by Felicia Meyer (Mrs. Marsh), an artist in her own right. Etching is #62/100 copies..... More
Grenoble, France: Bordas Editeurs, 1944. J.A Carlotti. Softcover. Slipcase covered with patterned color paper; Metallic silver tape around all edges; Off-white illus. wraps; 172 pp.; 22 bw plates with tissue overlays. Text in French; The 1934 story by Swiss writer C.F. Ramuz accompanied by wonderful etchings by J.A. Carlotti; Number..... More
Japan: late 19th centuiry. Softbound. Goldish (worn) brocade covers. 17 folds of dual-page images. Old invoice in the book attributes the book to Taki Katei (1830-1901) with a "?" and says it is sign ....katei go. A very nice specimen. More
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1861. Hardbound. 1/2 leather with 5 raised bands , applied black leather gilt embossed title label with gilt devices and tooling (all recent) with new marbled boards. 2 Volumes. Vol. 1: xv, [3], 354 pp., 4 plates. Volume 2: viii, 363, 13, [3] pp ads at..... More
NY: Russell F. Whitehead, 1915. Hardcover. Five volumes bound in sturdy green ibrary cloth with hand-lettered spine labels. A Bound, exlibrary run of these most important publications. Each serial volume consists of 6 issues usually. Bound volume 1 contains the following: Vol. 1 (1915): 3 numbers (all issued). Vol. 2..... More
