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[Syracuse, Nd [1960]: The Everson Museum of Art. First Edition. Small Quarto. The Everson Museum of Art hosted the Cermaic Nationals from 1933 to 1993. The major exhibit this year had three stoneware heads by Kenneth John Dirck, Ernie Kim's branch bottle which the museum acquired; along with many others nicely photographed in black and white with three… Read more

London; Nd (ca.1850): George Virtue. Folio. Frontispiece portrait of David Wilkie engraved by Francis Holl after a painting by Thomas Phillips. Engraved vignette title page and regular title page. 4 unnumbered pages, 93 pages, 80 unnumbered pages and 67 unnumbered leaves of plates, each with overlay sheets. The Wilkie Gallery with biographical and critical notices. This very large volume… Read more

Ogunquit, Maine: H. Strater, 1979. Quarto. No pagination [172] pages, chiefly illustrations, portraits. Foreword by Edward F. Fry; compiled by the artist and Michael Henry Strater. Title on Cover: Rocks, Nudes, & Flowers. His work of the region as well as the images he did of Ernest Hemingway done in 1922. Bound in blue pictorial gilt… Read more

New York; (2004): Hudson Hills Press. First Edition. Quarto. 183 pages, list of works and collections; Exhibition History, Chronology (of his life). Inscribed to Adeline, his niece, on front free endpaper; "for Adeline, with my warm regards my dear niece. I know your dreams will always be important to you. It is that which makes you… Read more

London: Printed by J.M. M'Creety, 1817. Quarto. 2 preliminary leaves, 73 portraits. (lacks Peter Paul Reubens and Anthony Vandyke). A marvelous reference of many of the important painters of the 16th and 17th centuries. Bound in 3/4 red morocco over marbled paper covered boards, rebacked in red leather lettered and decorated in gilt, endpapers renewed, a few leaves… Read more

Boston, nd: Dana Estes and Co., [Edinburgh] : Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press. Limited Editioin. Quarto. The Florentine Edition, limited to 250 copies. The present set is number 11 illustrated with two hundred tipped in plates in colour and with a preface by Frank Brangwyn. Haldane was one… Read more

London; Easter 1897: The Art Journal. Quarto. 31, [1], 4 unnumbered leaves of plates by Poynter including his lovely paintings of women including his nude entitled High Noon. Book plate of Olive May Graves Percival (1869-1945). Lawrence Clark Powell wrote of her collection: In spite of an income limited to her clerk's earnings and from the… Read more

London at the Chiswick Press: G. Bell, 1895. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 125 copies. The present copy is #13. Uncut, xxv, 146 pages, index, profusely illustrated, errata slip bound in. Not only examples of major illustrators such as Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, Howard Pyle, as well as Whistler, Beardsley with notes on the techniques used. Bound… Read more

While most Americans discovered his art in Playboy magazines and Robert Altman's film which featured his lithograph, The Screen Goddess, his work has been shown in museums and exhibits around the world. The Certificate of Authenticity on the verso of the framed lithograph is from the Collier Art Corporation and initialed RF. Entitled: "The Scholar" here… Read more

[November 1993 and January 1995]: Telmex. Limited Editions. Folio. Volume I: limited to 3000 copies, 233pp. Volume II: limited to 2000 copies, 297pp. Beautifully Illustrated in color and in black and white. A history of Mexico, as seen through the eyes of several important authors and artists' with beautiful illustrations of their work in 19th century Mexico. As… Read more

[New York, 1999): Apparition. Quarto. [60] leaves of plates, chiefly color illustrations. Under his own imprint, titled Apparition, Penn published this book gathering sixty years of private drawings and paintings, many of which were made using methods influenced by photography. Penn valued "drawing [as] a haven from the real world that belongs to the camera." A fine copy… Read more

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. Limited Edition. Quarto. In six volumes. The rediscovery of the lost manuscripts of Leonardo that had been lost since 1830, were rediscovered in 1967 and then researched, photographed and translated by Ladislao Reti who did not live to see them in print. Contains also glossary, index and bibliographic notes. McGraw-Hill produced a superb example of… Read more

(New York, 1993): Metropolitan Museum of Art. Quarto. 31 pages, 37 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded), color illustrations with rich red panels cut with letters D V to house the collection. When it opened for the Costume Institute, the Metropolitan said that Diana Vreeland was one of the great tastemakes of the 20th century. Some light rubbing to… Read more

New York; (1993): Rizzoli. Limited Edition. Large Quarto. Limited to 1000 copies.The present copy is number 471, 435pp., illustrated 285 full color illustrations and 1,276 in black and white. By comparing Spanish artist Joan Miro's finished paintings and sculptures with more than 1200 of his sketches and preparatory studies, Gimferrer places Miro's art in a surprising new… Read more

(Christensen Studios, Jackson, Wyoming, 2005). Quarto. 156p. Besides photography of his art, his essay "My place in the West" helps illuminate both his painting and the imageries that inspired him. A very fine book of a wonderful contemporary Western Artist. A fine copy still in original shrinkwrap.

Albuquerque, NM: Amon Carter Museum / University of New Mexico Press, 1985. First Edition. Small Quarto. 355pp. 8 maps. illustrated by Richard H. Kern, with 151 figures and 16 color plates. Text. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Kern's artistic career in the West began as a member of Fremont's disastrous 1848-39 expedition. After nearly dying, he was on the Pacific… Read more

New York: George Brazillier, 1957. First Edition. Quarto. 122 examples of some of the finest work of the expressionist. This copy is signed and inscribed by Carl Zigrosser to Ding (the nickname for Kneeland McNulty who was the Curator of Prints at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He writes: "to Ding with many thanks for his… Read more

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First Edition. Small Octavo. 196 pages. Illustrated by Mac Harshberger. One of the great love stories in all world literature, here translated by Hilaire Belloc with the rich art deco illustrations of Mac Harshberger. It is the story of King Marc of Cornwall, his Irish bride, the princess Iseult, who is… Read more

Rutland, VT; [June, 1972]: Charles E. Tuttle Co. First Edition. Quarto. 204pp., translated by Michael Bullock, illustrated in black and white, along with several tipped in color plates. This book is a catalogue raisonne of the work of Castiglione as well as an account of the meeting of two contrasted techniques of painting and theories of art. It also… Read more

Flagstaff, AZ (1973): Northland Press. First Edition. Small Quarto. xiv, 78pp., inscribed by the author dated 1981. Foreword by Rudy H. Turk who describes Udinotti's work as " often shocks: not because she or her works are immoral or lacking in taste, but because the mature viewer recognizes unwelcome truths". Bound in black cloth lettered in black, spine… Read more