Ansel Adams in Color
Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1993. First edition, first printing in dust jacket. A pristine, unread copy.
Art & Design
Art Deco Photographic Scrapbook Assembled by a Department Store Window Display Dresser
Peoria, Illinois: 1930s-40s. Large black striped album binding titled "Exquisitely", with decorative image of a stag pasted to front cover, 46 photographs, several pieces of ephemera, and numeros pictorial clippings. The album was assembled by Gene Casad, window trimmer in the display department at the Block and Kuhl Co department.....
Catalogue of Drawings and Engravings by Eric Gill Alpine Club Gallery. 5th to 14th May A.D. 1918
Ditchling: Douglas Pepper, 1918. 16pp, stitched, uncut and unopened. Finely printed exhibition catalog illustrated with six woodcuts by Eric Gill. Very good with minor soilling, offsetting and creasing.
Catalogue of Japanese Color Prints (Reproductions of Old Masters)
Minneapolis, Minnesota: No. 374 Toyokuni's Japan Art & Novelty Imp. Co, Crica 1920. 12mo, 44 pp, stapled booklet. Illustrated trade catalog of reproductions of Japanese Old Master artwork, including many by Hiroshige and Hokusai, offered by Toyokuni's Japan Art & Novelty Imp. Co. of Minneapolist. Creased, soiled, paper abrasion to.....
Edvard Munch Malerier Og Grafikk
Oslo: Forlaget Norsk Kunstreproduksjon, 1962. 8vo, 22 pp, illustration plates, 8vo, softcover with extra wrapper, good plus with foxing.
Edwin A. Jackson & Bro., Inc. High Grade Mantels and Fireplaces 50 Beekman Street, New York
New York: Circa 1910. Oblong 4to, green wrappers, 36pp. Illustrated trade catalog of classical fireplace mantels. Toning and minor damp staining to covers.
GEMS OF ART
New York: Scott & Bowne, [1890]. Oblong, 10 x 7”, nine leaves plus printed wrappers, string ties. Covers rubbed. Very Good. Dated based on an 1890 issue of “America, a Journal for Americans” that mentions the book’s publication. An art instruction manual, consisting of eight “studies” of birds and flowers.....
Harper's Weekly January 2, 1864 [Complete Issue with Thomas Nast New Year's Engraving]
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1864. Folio, 16pp, with many civil war related engravings as well as a double page engraving "New Years Day 1864 North South" by Thomas Nast, depicting Civil War scenes and a Union celebration alongside a Confederate cemetery. A very good copy, removed from bound volume.....
Harrison Fisher American Beauties Postcard
1909. Color image of woman with gold background, with writing & postmark on back, dated 1909. In nice condition, bit creased.
Long Lines December, 1921
New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1925. 4to, 56pp, pictorial cover. Illustrated monthly magazine of the Long Lines Department at the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. With color pictorial cover of a christmas tree in front of an ornament/globe upon which a man on woman sit talking to each.....
Meubles & Sieges Copies D'Anciens
[France]: Circa 1910. 13 x 9.75", brown marbled boards with cloth spine, gilt lettering, bound with screws. French catalog of reproduction of antique furniture (Louis XIV, XV, etc). A very good copy with rubbingand wear to edges of boards, fraying to cloth at spine ends,
The Naum M. Los School Of Art
New York City: [1928]. 4to, [24] pp, tan wrappers. Illustrated promotional booklet for an art school at 22 East 60th Street in New York City, run by a German classical sculptor. Illustrated with examples of the artwork produced there. Very good, bit soiled, minor creasing.
The New York School of Interior Decoration. Announcement of Summer courses July 7th to August 18th 1926
New York: 1926. Laid in is a student card of Lucy McCabe Kelley for the Summer term advertised. Small octavo, original printed wraps. An excellent copy with just a touch of soiling to covers, mild creasing along rear edges.
Novelty Potted Plant Calendar
1928. Color printed calendar measuring 6 x 4", consisting of a series of die cuts in the shape of flower plants, one for each month. In original pictorial box which reads "Each month represented by a different plant in full color." In excellent condition.
Sir Christopher Wren and his Times. With Illustrative Sketches and Anecdotes of the most Distinguished Personage in the Seventeenth Century.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1852. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, xiii, 436 pp. Loss to upper 1/2 inch of spine cloth, tear through upper spine cloth, sunning to spine, bumping to corners, light foxing and toning, bit of soiling, owner inscription to front endpaper, a good copy.
Trade Catalog of Colonial Reproduction Furniture by a Virginia Company
Richmond, Virginia: H.C. Valentine & Co Antiques, 1929. 8vo, brown marbelized paper folding wtih gilt titles, containing 130 sample pages laid into interior pockets, each printing prices and illustrations for a piece of colonial reproduction furniture manufactured by H.C. Valentine & Co of Richmond, Virginia. Includes a wide variety of.....
Vintage Miniature Blank Book
Brown leather, gilt decorated binding measuring 2.75 x 2.25", with patterned endpapers, and attractive blank leaves within. Circa 1920s-30s. Very good.
Useful Details in Several Styles.
London: Alffred H. Botwright, Circa 1908. Tall 4to, 152pp, orange cloth. Book of furniture patterns. A good copy with covers worn and stained, minor foxing to pages.
Eternal Moments Stories of Life and Love
New York: Guido Bruno, 1920. 12mo, 24pp yellow card wrappers, staple bound. Illustrations by Clara Tice, a avant garde erotic artist in New York known as "The Queen of Greenwich Village". Tear through most of front wrapper repaired with old tape to verso, minor toning and soiling, rusting to staples.....
The Festive Renaissance: Illustrated Books from the Colt Collection
Washignton, D.C. The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1995. Softcover, 40 pp. Catalog of an exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library. In very good condition with slight foxing to pages, ink annotations to pages.
Histoire De Douce-Amie Conte des Mille et une Nuits
Paris: Editions Rene Kieffer, Relieur d'art, 1922. 4to, 100pp, color illustrations by Jean Picart. No 504 of 580 copes. Lacking spine covering, covers chipped, heavily toned, foxed, damp staining to front cover, slight damp stain to margins of first 20 or so pages, toning and some foxing to pages.
American Photographs
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1938. 4to, black cloth, 198pp, with original dust jacket. First edition, first printing, with limitation page at end of book, errata slip bound in. Book with owner inscription (State College, 1938) to front endpaper, glue residue from removed bookplate to front pastedown, also with.....
CEZANNE
New York: Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Inc, 1913. 8vo, 76pp, tan printed wrappers. A biography of the Cubist painter, printed specifically to be given out at the 1913 Armory Show, also known as the International Exhibition of Modern Art, the first large exhibition of Modern Art in America.....
The Life & Adventures of John Nicol Mariner
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936. 4to, 214pp, original cream cloth binding with morocco and gilt title and spine labels, pink marbled endpapers, and deckled edges. Signed and numbered by Gordon Grant on the blank half title below a large black and red pen and ink drawing by Grant measuring.....
Antique Garden Ornament Two Centuries of American Taste
Harry S. Abrams, 1999. Quarto, with original dust jacket. A fine copy, like new.