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London: Messrs. Henry and Company. Very Good-. 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. [14], 266, [8] pages; Contents clean and secure in original pinkish brown cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and front board and six gilt ornaments to front board of bird with a leaved branch with berries. Binding has some wear at spine ends and lower corners, a half inch abrasion at edge of spine and a half inch spot on rear board. OCLC 317949455 Cloth binding designed by Charles Ricketts; endpapers by Lucien Pissarro. Illustrated with 23 Plates; ornate capitals and a few text illustrations. Literary contents include Austin Dobson, Edmund Gosse, Max Beerbohm et al. Illustrations includes pictures by Gustave Moreau, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charles Condor, Edward Burne Jones, George Frederick Watts, Charles Hazelwood Shannon; Walter Crane, et al.; lacks the two leaves with Lucien Pissarro woodcut (pp 59-62). Includes the essay "The Pictures of Gustav Moreau" by Gleeson White. .

Aberdeen: Lewis Smith. Very Good. 1868. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 129 pages; along with Wood Engravings of Some of the Wells, etc. Brown cloth over pictorial boards showing the Gateway to the Old Trades Hall (repeating the engraved titlepage inside). All engraved plates and maps present, lightly age toned. Boards lightly soiled, rubbed and bumped at edges. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

New York: Judge Company. Very Good. 1908. First Edition. Print. 1 pages; Image clean and clear, with bright white matting. Image measures 13 X 9.25 inches; matted measures 22 X 14 inches. Full page cover of JUDGE magazine for April 11, 1908 depicting William Jennings Bryan as a golliwog (African American caricature) with a basket of eggs representing electoral delegates, some of them dropping to the floor and cracking. Beyond the door is a sign pointing to Denver (site of the Democratic National Convention), and hiding in the dark is an image of Bryan's primary challenger Minnesota Governor John Albert Johnson with a threateningly raised hatchet labeled "Minnesota Delegates." The 1908 U.S. Presidential election occurred in the backdrop of the Progressive achievements of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's second term as well as against the U.S. recovery following the Panic of 1907. In this election, Roosevelt's chosen successor, Republican William Howard… Read More

Frankfurt am Main: Friedrich Wilmans. Very Good. 1822. First Edition. Hardcover. x, (2) 538 pages; Former owner's name, otherwise clean and tight in contemporary quarter black leather over marbled boards, wear at spine ends and rubbed a bit at extremeties. Illustrated with 16 beautiful full page copperplate engravings of various scenes in this beautiful port city. OCLC: 246165965 Heinrich Christian Zietz (*1769- 1834 ) was an evangelical pastor and topographer. This comprehensive description of Lübeck in 1820 under the title Views of the Free Hanseatic City of Lübeck and its surroundings with 16 engravings after designs by Anton Radl is still one of the major sources of information on the state of Lübeck in the first quarter of the 19th century. TEMPORARY PRICE REDUCTION!; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Boulogne sur Seine: Art d'aujourd'hui. Near Fine. 1953. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. 4e Série, No. 5. Julliet 1953; 32 pages; Contents clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers. Includes original serigraph. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fabulous original wrappers designed by Pablo Palazuelo. Wonderful hors texte serigraph (silkscreen) by Jean Deyrolle. Articles include: Jorge Romero Brest - Le Monument au Prisonnier Politique Inconnu; Leon Degand - Exposition d'art Abstrait Italien et Francais a Rome; Julien Alvard - Les Idees de Malevitch ART D'AUJOURD'HUI was edited by sculptor and architect André Bloc with Edgar Pillet and Pierre Faucheux. Former owner's name in pencil on rear wrapper: "Munsing" From the collection of Stefan P. Munsing [1915-1994] who worked in New York City as a designer for Hans Knoll, Norman Bel Geddes and RCA. Munsing served in the Army in World War II, then as Chief of the Monuments,… Read More

Boulogne sur Seine: Art d'aujourd'hui. Near Fine. 1953. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. 4e Série, No. 6. Aout 1953; 32 pages; Contents clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers; one tiny but to outer edge. Includes original serigraph and wrap-around band. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fabulous original wrappers designed by Jean Arp. Wonderful hors texte plate by E. W. Nay. The theme of this issue is "L'Art Abstrait en Allemagne d'Auhourd'hui." Articles include: Michel Seuphor - Allemagne ; Ludwig Grote - Quelque Points d'Histoire; Presentacion de 18 Artistes; Gert Schiff - Le Groupe de Hambourg and La Jeune Generation; Duverneuil and Gueguen - A Propos d'une Interview de Braque; etc. ART D'AUJOURD'HUI was edited by sculptor and architect André Bloc with Edgar Pillet and Pierre Faucheux. Former owner's name in pencil on rear wrapper: "Munsing" From the collection of Stefan P. Munsing… Read More

Boulogne sur Seine: Art d'aujourd'hui. Near Fine. 1953. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. 4e Série, No. 8. Decembre 1953; 32 pages; Contents clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers. Includes original serigraph - hors text plate by Sophie Tauber-Arp. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fabulous original colour wrappers designed by Jean Dewasne. Design and layout by Sarisson. Articles include Michel Seuphor on Theo van Doesburg; interview between Edgar Pillet and Mario Pedrosa, Pillet - Le Groupe Espace; L'Art et LaTechnique - Herbin, Poliakoff, Pevsner; Rene Clair - Hommage a Francis Picabia; etc. ART D'AUJOURD'HUI was edited by sculptor and architect André Bloc with Edgar Pillet and Pierre Faucheux. Former owner's name in pencil at top left corner of front wrapper: "Munsing" From the collection of Stefan P. Munsing [1915-1994] who worked in New York City as a designer for Hans Knoll, Norman Bel Geddes and RCA.… Read More

Boulogne sur Seine: Art d'aujourd'hui. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. 4e Série, No. 2-3. Mai-Juin 1953; 80 pages; Contents clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers with original glassine dustjacket imprinted "CUBISME.' Includes fabulous original seriegraph (silkscreen) "Le Compotier" by Juan Gris. Double issue of this art journal devoted to Cubism. Illustrated throughout. Articles include: L. Degand "Situation et signification du Cubisme" "Apollinaire et le Cubisme", D.H. Kahnweiler "Naissance du Cubisme", H. Wescher "Les collages Cubiste", Pierre Gueguen "La sculpture Cubiste", R.V. Gindertael "De quelques Dessins Cubistes", Gabrielle Buffet "La Section d'Or", P.A. Birot "A propos d'cubes" .

Boulogne sur Seine: Art d'aujourd'hui. Near Fine. 1953. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. 4e Série, No. 7. Octobre-Novembre 1953; 32 pages; Contents clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers. Includes Original serigraph by W. Otto Carlsund -- Otto Gustaf Carlsund (1897 – 1948) was a Swedish avant-garde artist and art critic, connected to Cubism, Purism, Neo-Plasticism, and Concrete art. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Articles include: Rolf Soderberg - Suede; Ake Gulin - Finlande ; Miche Seuphor - Islande; Meir Stein - Danemark, etc. Former owner's name in pencil at top of rear wrapper: "Munsing" From the collection of Stefan P. Munsing [1915-1994] who worked in New York City as a designer for Hans Knoll, Norman Bel Geddes and RCA. Munsing served in the Army in World War II, then as Chief of the Monuments, Fine-Arts & Archives Section in Munich. The MFAA was an Army unit locating stolen artworks which had disappeared into… Read More

New York: Art in America. Near Fine. 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Volume 58, Number 1; 146 pages; Clean and secure in original glossy pictorial wrappers. Cover by Robert Indiana. Issue features Into The Seventies. Includes works by Francis Bacon, William O. Golding, Claes Oldenberg, Ellsworth Kelly, Tom Wessleman, Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, Louise Nevelson, Robert Motherwell, Lucas Samaras, Duane Michals, Chuck Close. Features an original folding colour lithograph Phenomena Tide Finder by Paul Jenkins. Paul Jenkins (July 12, 1923 – June 9, 2012) was an American abstract expressionist painter. .

Santa Barbara: Art in America. Near Fine. 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Volume 58, Number 2; 158 pages; Clean and secure in original glossy pictorial wrappers. Cover designed by Ivan Chermayeff. Articles include: The U.S. Pavilion at Expo '70 - 1970 World Exposition in Osaka, Japan; Ten Photographers Tell The Story by John Szarkowski, Four Centuries of Building by Peter Banks; Conversation with Carter Brown; Folk Arts Cross-Country by Frederick Dockstader, Faces and Places-Paintings from the Met by Thomas P. F. Hoving. Artists represented include Ivan Chermayeff, Alexander Liberman, Richard Hamilton, Benno Friedman This issue includes an original foldout lithograph YELLOW REVERSED by Richard Anuszkeiwicz. Richard Joseph Anuszkiewicz (1930 – 2020) was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor. He was one of the founders and foremost exponents of Op Art, a movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Victor Vasarely in France and Bridget Riley in England were his… Read More

Evanston: Douglas C. McMurtrie. Near Fine. 1941. First Edition. Brochure. 4 pages; Large four page brochure designed and printed by Douglas McMurtrie for presentation to his friends for Christmas 1941. The front cover is a reproduction of the fabulous manger scene by Albrecht Durer dated 1511, the interior bears McMurtrie's printed Christmas salutations, the rear panel presents McMurtie's explanatory text on Durer and this woodcut in particular in double columns. A wonderful survivor house in its original stiff card mailing envelope, addressed to Mr. John Vance (Law Librarian) at the Library of Congress. Douglas Crawford McMurtrie (1888 – 1944) was an American typeface designer, graphic designer, historian and bibliographer of printing. .

New York: Harper Bros. Very Good. 1884. Hardcover. Contents clean and secure in original pictorial cloth binding. Binding worn at spine ends, lower corners rounded. Twenty-six b&w illustrations. OCLC 1196363838 Other stories include Phil's Fairies; Florio and Flobella - A Chistmas Fairy Tale; Boreas Bluster's Christmas Present. .

Philadelphia: Stoddart and Atherton. Good. 1830. Second Edition. Leather. 330 pages; Former owner's name "J. Daggett" otherwise contents clean and text block securely stitched, full leather contemporary binding quite worn at spine, hinges splitting. Beautifully illustrated with 19 full page engravings of many species, including Mountain Goats, Moose, Deer, Gerbils, Opossum, Beaver, Flying Squirrel, Chickaree, Giant Sloth, Giant Mastodon, Marmot, etc. John Godman was an American naturalist. Born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1794, he died in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1830. He traveled extensively, and made important contributions to the understanding of the natural world in the new world. He began his career apprenticed to a printer in Baltimore, but joined the Navy when he was 20. When the war with Britain ended, Godman went to medical school and worked as a doctor until 1821, at which time he became a professor of medicine in Cincinatti, Ohio. He soon moved back to… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton. Very Good. 1923. First American Edition. Hardcover. xiii, (1), 162 pages; Clean and secure in original binding of red cloth spine and gray cloth boards with printed title labels at spine and front cover. A nicely designed and produced book with wonderful b&w illustrations after pencil drawings. OCLC: 8102561 John Shirley Fox (c. 1860–1939) was a Victorian painter who painted primarily Scottish landscapes. Shirley-Fox lived in London and was educated in Paris in Bouguereau's Atelier at the Academie Julian. In his youth he was primarily a portrait painter, but he did landscapes in the English Barbizon style. Beyond painting, his enthusiasms included numismatics and dry fly fishing in the chalk streams of southern England. This book incorporates his penchant for fishing with his artistic endeavors. .

Boulogne sur Seine: Aujourd'Hui. Very Good. 1959. First Edition. Paperback. n°24 Decembre 1959; 100 pages; Clean and secure in original glossy pictorial wrappers; faint crease at top right corner. Cover reproduces a painting by Bram Van Velde. Sommaire : Peintre Espagnole d'Aujourd'hui Contents include: Piscine a Milan, Italie; Gueguen - Sculptures Jeux; Hommage a la Quadriennale de Rome dau peintre Gino Severini; L'art américain sur la côte du Pacifique: San Francisco; Filature Gatti, Rome; Stade Flaminio Rome; Bordoni par G. Dorfles; Stuart Church par A. Boatto; Roel d'Haese; etc. .

Boulogne sur Seine: Aujourd'Hui. Very Good+. 1960. First Edition. Paperback. n°25 fevrier 1960; Clean and secure in original glossy pictorial wrappers. Cover reproduces a gouache painting by Gea Panter. Pierre Lacombe Art, design, sculpture, peinture, photographie : L'art anglais, La collection de René Gaffé, Augusto Giacometti, France Pellegrin, Georges Breuil, Les Expositions à Paris et à l'étranger; Architecture (Frank Lloyd Wright, Musée Solomon R. Guggenheim, Ambassade des Etats Unis, La Haye...), Siège Social et Magasin d'exposition de Mobilier à Paris (Claude Parent, André Bloc, Steiner, Airborne...). .

Boulogne sur Seine: Aujourd'Hui. Very Good. 1959. First Edition. Paperback. n°21 Mars-Avril 1959; 100 pages; Clean and secure in original glossy pictorial wrappers; faint crease along top edge of front wrapper. Cover reproduces a painting by Serge Vandercam. Sommaire: Incertain Stromboli par François di Dio - Pollock et la nouvelle peinture américaine - L'art indien aux Etats-Unis par Pierre Guéguen - Histoire des Galeries Parisiennes - etc. Contents include: Presse illustrée, magazines, revues 4ème année. Bimestriel. Sommaire : Incertain Stromboli par François di Dio; Pollock et la nouvelle peinture américaine; L'art indien aux Etats-Unis par Pierre Guéguen; Histoire des Galeries Parisiennes; La Galerie H. Le Gendre par D. Chevalier; La Nouvelle Avant-Garde Italienne; Le Secret de Picasso - Résidence à Kobé Japon; Préfabrication et Avenir de l'Architecture par Craig… Read More

New York: McLoughline Bros.. Very Good-. 1877. Hardcover. 54 pages; Contents clean and secure in original pictorial boards, cloth spine worn at spine ends, boards rubbed at edges and corners; endpapers split along internal hinges, but holding strong; tiny bookseller's label at corner of ffep ("Booksellers / Mohun Bros. / 1015 PA Ave / Washington") . Deep brown paper over boards with moderate reddish-brown very fine diagonal rib spine; central panel with various images found in book of cow jumping over the moon, the dish and the spoon, a cat playing the fiddle and a dog laughing, candles and plants and birds, all within triple rule border, lettering above on panel and garland; masks and musical instruments on ribbon on either side; lettered panel below with two floral designs and three mices within panel, all in yellow and black; rear board: crane and two children holding sheet music in panel at center, panels above and below with garland and faces, all in black and yellow.… Read More

Sandusky and New York: Prang Company Publishers. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1946. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 32 pages; Former owner's name on ffep, otherwise clean and tight in original pictorial boards in matching dustjacket with edgewear and scraping along spine. OCLC: 32805811 Ana Sewell's classic story of a horse of nineteenth century England who tells his life story from his early home through many masters and experiences, both good and bad, retold in brief by Malcolm Claire with illustrations by Bernice Magnie. Charmingly told and wonderfully illustrated. .