Art from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

New York: New York University Press, 1971. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 240pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed. Handsome, tight first edition.

Paperback. Group of twenty (20) hand-colored woodcuts clipped from unidentified book and bound into stiff brown wrappers.16mo. (20pp). Very good. This bibliographically-cryptic group of woodcuts is clearly French in origin and of 18th century vintage, but defies all attempts at identification beyond that. Each of its 20 woodcuts bears a printed caption beneath in identical typeface, and all are… Read more about this item

Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1975. Hardcover. Square 16mo. Glossy pictorial paper over boards, slipcase. (Ca. 200pp). Color frontispiece, extensive illustrations (most color). Near fine/very good. Card stock slipcase faintly edgeworn. Handsome and tight second edition of this survey of the holdings of Russia's largest art museum -- one hundred works pictured and described from the 14th through 20th centuries.… Read more about this item

London: Elek, 1971. Hardcover. Translation by Eveline Hart. 8vo. Salmon cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 256pp. Numerous illustrations (some color). Fine/near fine. Superb, tight, bright first edition of this survey -- and with surprising autograph addition, for this copy has been extra-illustrated with a tip-in facing the title page (frontispiece, in effect) from a well-known modern… Read more about this item

New York: Hacker Art Books, 1969. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. xx, 132pp, (ca. 200pp). Extensive full-page illustrations. Near fine. Exceptionally tight 'n' bright reprint edition of the 1933 2-volume clasic, here done up in single volume.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1970. Hardcover. Small 4to. Cream cloth with black lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 159pp. Numerous illustrations (many color). Fine/fine. Superb and tight first edition of this (to cite jacket front panel) "Contemporary Survey with Examples and Commentary on the work of Seventy-Four Artists.

Greenwich, CT: Pratt Graphics Center, 1971. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 128pp. Color frontispiece, extensive illustrations (2 in color). Fine/fine. Superb first edition of the eleventh volume of the noted journal. Frontispiece (titled "Local Choice") is an original offset color lithograph signed and dated by artist Michaek Knigin in pencil on lower margin.… Read more about this item

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. Hardcover. 4to. Tan cloth with orange spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 181pp. Extensive tipped-in plates (most color). Fine/fine. Outstanding fresh and tight first U.S. edition of this survey of French prints from renowned artists and etchers ranging from Auguste Renoir and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to Raoul Dufy and Pablo Picasso, with Georges Braque and… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1969. Hardcover. Photographs by Bert Koch. 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 80pp. Color frontispiece, diagram, numerous illustrations, numerous tipped-in color plates (a couple foldouts). Fine/near fine. Outstanding first edition of this close examination of the early 16th century sculptural triptych masterpiece attributed to Matthias Grünewald and Nikolaus of Haguenau… Read more about this item

New York: Bounty Books, 1970. Hardcover. Introduction by Frank Getlein. Appreciation by Kees Van Dongen. 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 251pp. Extensive illustrations. Fine/near fine. Pristine and tight "Deluxe Edition," a superb first edition of this authoritative gathering of the etchings of the 17th century Dutch artist and printmaker. Exceptional copy of a scarce… Read more about this item

New York: Horizon Press, 1969. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 232pp. Numerous illustrations (some color), pictorial endpapers. Fine/near fine. An exceptionally tight and sharp first edition.

New York: Hecker Art Books, 1969. Hardcover. Foreword by M.J. Friedlander. 4to. Tan cloth with green spine lettering. ix, 71pp, (3pp), 80pp, (6pp). Near fine. Superb and tight facsimile reprint of the 1925 first edition, a slim but definitive study.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jackets. x, 644pp; xxxiii, 514pp. Volume II entirely illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Jackets with faintest of wear (mainly spine head/tail). Superbly uncannily bright and tight first edition of this mammoth, award-winning pair from the noted Italian Renaissance art… Read more about this item

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter black cloth with gilt spine lettering and red cloth, slipcase. xiii, 273pp. Numerous full-page (most color) illustrations. Fine/near fine. Lovely, tight "New edition" -- first trade edition after the extremely limited (15 copies) suite of prints. A superb, fresh copy of this survey and how-to.

London: Spring Books, 1964. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 40pp, 48pp. Frontispiece, numerous full-page color plates. Near fine/very good. Mild bit of jacket edgewear only. Tight and nice second revised printing of this survey.

Greenwich, CT: Pratt Graphics Center, 1971. Hardcover. Introduction by Kneeland McNulty. 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 40pp, (4pp), 48pp, (2pp), 48pp, (2pp), 48pp, (2pp), 40pp, (2pp), 56pp, (2pp), 56pp, (2pp), 48pp, (10pp index). Numerous illustrations. Fine/very good. Jacket spine sunned. Handsome and tight first edition of this facsimile of the earliest issues of the… Read more about this item

New York: Pynson Printers, 1939. Hardcover. 4to. Green cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 187pp. Extensive illustrations (some partly color). Fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and a few edge chips. Superb true first edition of this well-illustrated master class by the prolific German-American practitioner (1888-1962). Not the more common 1945 first trade edition (American Artists Group), but the… Read more about this item

New York: Crown Publishers, 1946. Hardcover. 4to. Grey cloth with burgundy lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 346pp. Extensive illustrations. Very good/very good. Faint binding weer and endpapers a tad age toned; jacket edgeworn, with spine sunned. A tight and nice first edition of this standard reference. Front flyleaf bears pencilled ownership signature of Frank S. Hanlin (1924-82), noted bibliographer… Read more about this item

Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1954. Hardcover. 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, dust jacket. xvi, 181pp. Numerous illustrations (several foldouts). Fine/very good. Jacket rather age toned and edgeworn. Handsome first edition of this great reference. Laid in is the original 1955 AAS invoice.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. (Ca. 300pp). Extensive illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edge rubbed. Handsome first edition of this hefty study -- the pages of which, weirdly enough, are not numbered.