Spokane: Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, 1974. B/w Illustrations. First Edition. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A very good copy with light creasing to one corner of cover; faint staining to rear wrap. Catalogue to the exhibition at the Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, December 13, 1973 to January 13, 1974. Scarce. More about Kathleen Gemberling Adkison Show
New York: Art Handicraft Association; Permanent Exposition of Danish Art Handicraft and Industrial Art, 1939. B/w Illustrations. First Edition. Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Exceptionally rare catalog of the exhibition of modern Danish industrial art (furniture, textiles, ceramics & porcelain, silver, etc.) at the New York World's... More about Modern Danish Industrial Art: New York 1939
New York: Justin G. Schiller, Ltd., 1987. B/w Illustrations. First Edition. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. One of 100 copies with a superb signed original wood-engraved self-portrait by Barry Moser laid in, "Self-Portrait With Burin", 1st state, signed with limitation by Moser. Scarce. Description: 28 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. More about Barry Moser : collection of prints, broadsides and limited edition books containing original...
NP: NP, 1960. Howard, Bob (photographer); 20 b/w Photographs (including Upper wrapper). First Edition. Hardcover. Tall 4to. [20] pages (including covers). Otherwise uncredited and undated "portfolio" of sculptural works, viewed in both assembled and disassembled states. Includes 2 extra b/w photographs of Bennett's sculptures, printed on similar heavy stock cardboard... More about A Portfolio of Sculpture
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963. 8 b/w photos; 15 text figs. First Edition. Full Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG in lthr (some sunning/rubbing to covers). 8vo xviii+253+plts Historical and technical overview, written by the former president of the National Pap er Trade Association. Bound in full... More about The Wholesaling and Distribution of Paper
Sarawak Literary Society, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 234 pages, color photos throughout, drawings, bibliography, glossary of local and technical terms, index, illustrated card cover. Very light warping to top corners. Interior is clean and spine is tight. More about Iban Baskets
London, England: H.G. Bohn, 1857. Hand-colored Plates. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A fair+ copy in cloth (covers/few leaves detached; spine wear). 12mo 504+plts Auction catalogue (4,294 lots in all), plus engraved list of marks/monograms. Notable for the hand colored plates. Series: Bohn's Illustrated Library..... More about A Guide to the Knowledge of Pottery, Porcelain, and Other Objects of Vertu
Geneva/Paris: Editions des Trois Collines, 1946. 1 Color plate & 56 Sepia Illustrations. First Edition. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Artist Jan Stussy's copy with a somewhat abstracted reddish watercolor sketch of a plant of tree in a pot on inner jacket flap, signed two pages later... More about Braque le Patron
New York: Muriel Karasik Gallery, 1989. Erml, George (photographer); Over 50 Color & b/w Photographs. First Edition. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Featuring a fulll page ink drawing by Dale Chihuly at p.61, in what appears to be a sketch of his piece titled "The Venetians" shown... More about The Venetians : Modern Glass, 1919-1990
Los Angeles: Southern California Institute of Architecture / SCI ARC / Public Access Press, 1994. Tipped-in Original Photographs By Gertrude Cohen. First Edition. Cloth-backed Stiff Covers. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 8.5 x 11" 16pp. An exceptionally scarce artist's book (exploring the nature of "home") featuring 9 hand-mounted... More about Sticks and Stones (Public Access Press series, no. 2
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Clean, tight copy in Very Good condition. Some minor shelf wear to edges of DJ, previous owner's signature in ink on top corner of front free end piece, otherwise unmarked. More about Rembrandt's Bankruptcy: The Artist, his Patrons, and the Art Market in Seventeenth-Century...
Italy: Treves-Treccani-Tumminelli Editori, 1932. Color, b/w Illustrations. First Edition. Hard Cover. Folio - between 12" - 15" Tall. The rare complete first year of this impressive Italian theatrical review (also including dance, music, etc.). Profusely illustrated. The inaugural number was issued in February, so Volume I is complete with 11... More about Scenario. Rivista Mensile Anno I (volume I, #1 to Volume I, #11
New York: Abrams, 1973. 65 color & 161 b/w illus. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12" - 15" Tall (oblong). Solid copy in jacket of one of the more celebrated art monographs of the Postwar era. (slight fading to extremities of binding; text edges a trifle browned; rear panel... More about De Kooning
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. First Edition. Hard Cover. Folio - between 12" - 15" Tall. Fine used copy of the book in near fine jacket (slight wear to jacket). More about Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Washington, DC: Published by the Author, 1938. 80 Color & b/w Illustrations / Plates (including Folding Plate at rear). First Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. xiv, 275, [2] pages + plates. Excellent pictorial as well as historical survey of the subject; notable particularly for the reproductions... More about Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries: Their History, Makers and Uses,...
Lausanne: Clairefontaine, 1964. Color & b/w Illustrations. First Edition. Hard Cover. Folio - between 12" - 15" Tall. INCLUDES AN ORIGINAL DRAWING. With a superb original, full page, ink drawing of male & female nudes. Inscribed to Yetive Moss, March, 1965. Includes numerous tipped-in color plates. See Freitag #2723 for... More about Hans Erni
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. 110 b/w photographs; b/w Decorative Borders. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Wear to spine and covers (cloth; chiefly to head and foot of spine, edges and other extremities); sunning, rubbing, browning and fading to spine and covers (chiefly to... More about Form and Re-Form : A Practical Handbook of Modern Interiors / By Paul T Frankl
NP: Frank Kelly Freas, 1971. B/w Illustrations. First Edition. Spiral-bound Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Presentation copy, signed with two drawings by Freas. This is copy #132 of 500, signed and numbered with limiotation statement in Freas' own hand inside front cover. Just beneath, there is a.... More about The Astounding Fifties: a Selection from Astounding Science Fiction Magazine
Fort Worth, TX: Modern Art Museum Of Fort Worth, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 126pp., with color reproductions throughout. Half cloth spine over paper boards, with spine titles in white, and a mounted color cover illustration on the front board. Issued without dust jacket... More about GEORGE BASELITZ: Portraits Of Elke
Paris: Editions Des Quatre Chemins, 1924. Color, b/w Illustrations. First Edition. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. This rare two volume work is a tribute to the creative collaborations that came together to form Serge Diaghilev's celebrated Ballet Russes production of "Les Facheux" with costumes by Braque. The... More about Theatre Serge De Diaghilew Les Facheux [2 volumes
Tokyo, Japan: G. I. P., 1991. Gottlieb, Willam P. (photographer); Leloir, Jean-Pierre (photographer); Over 115 b/w Photographs (chiefly portraits). First Edition. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. EXCEPTIONALLY RARE photographic work of jazz portraits by two prominent photographers of the scene. Good copy of the paperback first edition... More about Jazz: Dedicated to Cool Cats
NP: Rigby Graham, 1990. Original Artwork. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. These seven Rigby Graham blocks were part of an intended book on Leicestershire Quarries that the artist seems to have begun about 1981, and later for some unknown reason abandoned after taking the work all the way... More about Collection of 7 Zinc Plates from an Unpublished Work on Leicestershire Quarries
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New York: E. & H.T. Anthony & Co, 1890. B/w Illustrations. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xix + 489pp.; 156pp. ads at the back, and 21 leaves of plates. Original green cloth stamped in gilt, Front cover elaborately decorated in gilt with photographic motifs. One... More about The International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin. Volume III [3], 1890
London: Kasmin Limited, 1965. First Edition. Single Sheet. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Single folded and glued card sheet with die-cut frame to upper panel revealing b/w plate behind. Documentation. Includes magazine clippings with 4 color illustrations from Hockney's paintings, including a still life ("More Realistic Still Life"). Hockney... More about David Hockney. Pictures with frames and still life Pictures
London: R. Scholey, 1810. 2 Engraved Plates. First Edition Thus. Leather Binding. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xxiii + 154pp., with two engraved plates. Binding and text block shaken, and boards detatched, spine is gone; interior foxing throughout affecting the plates. Engraved armorial bookplate of Sherwin on dfront... More about The Analysis of Beauty: Written with a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste
