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.....
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.
New York: Circa 1910. Oblong 4to, green wrappers, 36pp. Illustrated trade catalog of classical fireplace mantels. Toning and minor damp staining to covers.
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.....
[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,
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.....
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.
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.....
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.
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.....
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.....
South Carolina: Brookgreen Gardens, 1937. Octavo, folding brochure with six panels on each side. Brochure for Beatrice Evelyn Longman's "Victory" sculpture, displayed at Brookgreen Gardens in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, founded in 1931 as the first sculpture garden in the United States. Longman was the first woman sculptor to be.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1879. 8vo, green cloth with gilt spine lettering, 216 pp. A treatise on house painting first published in 1868. An attractive copy with toning to pages, front endpaper detaching, binding cracked before half title, wear to corners and spine tips, mild discoloration to covers.....
New York: Chinese Culture Study Group of America, 1946. 4to, green cloth with dust jacket, 134 pp, illustrated. Number 187 of a limited first edition of 1500 copies. Original prospectus for the book laid in. Very good with fading to covers, staining to dust jacket, chipping to rear panel of.....
New York: National Small Sculpture Committee, [1930]. Small octavo, stapled booklet, [18]pp. Informational booklet on the carving of ivory soap, illustrated with half tones of winning submissions to Proctor & Gamble's annual soap sculpture competition. The author, a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Pratt Institute, won.....
Japan: 1965. Woodblock print measuring 23.5 x 18". Signed and numbered 72/100, unframed and rolled. A bit of toning, some foxing and creasing.
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1976. Softcover, stapled wrappers, [36] pp. Lists 82 drawings shown at the exhibit, accompanied by small illustrations within text. Very good with foxing and yellowing, bit of soiling to rear cover.
New York: Excelsior Publishing House, Circa 1870. Hardcover, 7.5 x 5", green cloth with gilt spine decoration, v, [1], 7 to 139, [5] pp. A practical guide to designing and building greenhouses, graperies and horticultural buildings, featuring many illustrations of the buildings, including plans. Likely an early reprint of this.....