Search Results: Authors starting with G from Robin Bledsoe, Bookseller

Georgetown, KY: Old Friends, Inc, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Galleithner-Steiner, Dagmar. 116p, many small ills. and large color plates by Galleithner-Steiner, who worked on them for many years. Foreword by Bob and Jill Baffert. Short closed tear to top edge of jacket. Presentation from Michael Blowen. Pastel portraits of the retired Thoroughbreds at Old Friends Farm (founded by Michael Blowen) plus short texts on their careers and their lives at the farm. Includes Kentucky Derby winners Silver Charm and Charismatic, three-time Santa Anita Handicap winner Game On Dude, Eclipse champion Hidden Lake, Gulch, Rapid Redux (winner of 22 consecutive races), and many more. Out of print, and hard to find. Large; shipping/handling will be extra. Please keep this in mind when ordering.

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1970. First edition. Very good. 88p (461 lots), many black-and-white ills. Covers age-yellowed. No realized prices. A two-day sale that also included a Regency games table, seat furniture, cut glass, clocks, and other decorative objects. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1963. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. 65p, a few ills. 278 lots, of which 1-111 are children's books and references. Other lots, including English and American literature, are from the library of the late The Vice-Chancellor Maja Leon Berry. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1951. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. Auction Catalogue 1283, November 14 and 17, 1951. 348 lots, many black-and-white ills. Cover soil; internally very good. Museum de-accession, with label on front cover and small ink stamp on first page and back cover. The 88 paintings are priced in ink, for a total of $62,910. "Including Dutch and Flemish genre subjects, works of the Italian & French schools, British portraits, valuable gold snuff boxes, early English & Georgian silver, Oriental rugs, continental silver, Venetian table glass." The auction was held only a matter of weeks after William Randolph Hearst's death and Davies's marriage to Horace Brown. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. Scarce.

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1943. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. 54p + 1 pl. Unpriced. Wtih bid sheet and return envelope. 357 lots. Also includes the George Barr McCutcheon collection of first editions of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper. One lot, an edition of Jacobus de Voragine, contains "one of the earliest known bookplates" (ca. 1470). Juliana Force was a pioneering collector and curator of American folk art in the 1920s. She collaborated with Gertrude Whitney on the founding of what became the Whitney Museum of American Art, which was temporarily administered from her apartment, and she stayed involved with the museum and modernist art for the rest of her career. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. No other copies online at the time of this listing.

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1954. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. 98p, several ills. Unused bid sheet laid in. Auction catalogue of 477 lots, a few ills. of bindings by Pierre Legrain and P.L. Martin, among others. Rose was an English artist "vigorously championed by Gertrude Stein" (Wiki). Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1964. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. 58p, 3 plates. Unused bid sheet laid in. Auction catalogue of 153 lots: literature, science, music, drawings, incunabula, a letter by Martin Luther, etc. The 3 plates show 12 bindings, including "an outstanding example of the use of the 'drawer-handle' tool so popular in England from the Restoration on." Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1938. First edition. Soft cover. Very good (covers chipped, browned). Blake, William. 85p, many ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue: 233 lots. For Clemens, they include "manuscripts, autographs, first editions including the manuscript of 'Tom Sawyer' from which the London 1876 edition was printed." Also various "autograph letters, first editions of English and American authors." Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1940. First edition. Soft cover. Very good (small slight stain to back cover). 321p, a few ills. Sale was held on January 25, 1940. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 321 lots, including "a small but representative portion of Mr. Lewisohn's collection of Hebrew books." A wide variety of older books, illuminated manuscripts, literature, association copies, etc. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1955. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. 120p, several ills. Erratum slip laid in. No prices realized. Auction catalogue of 504 lots, "including some of the best work of XIX-XX century French artists, publishers, printers and binders with important Surrealist material." Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Macbeth Gallery, 1929. First edition. Unbound sheet. Good (handling soil, one-inch closed tear to bottom margins). One sheet, folded twice to make 4 panels, printed on one side; 1 ill. Panel size 4 x 8 inches. Exhibition reprising part of the annual summer show of the Mystic, Connecticut, art colony, held from Dec. 24, 1929, to Jan. 6, 1930. One-page foreword and checklist of 21 works by Charles H. Davis (the "dean" of the group), Carl Lawless, cartoonist Garrett Price, J. Havard Macpherson, LarsThorsen, and others. Includes one woman--Paulette van Roekens ("Studio Tea"). Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Holly Solomon Gallery; Pace/MacGill Gallery, 1992. First edition. Soft cover. Fine. Wegman, William. [24]p, 12 pls., many in color. In fair original mailing envelope, with postmark and address label. Catalogue for 2 shows: "New Paintings, Polaroids, and Drawings" at Holly Solomon, and "Early Black & White Photographs" at Pace/MacGill. Laid in: announcement for performances of "The Puppet Show (for adults)" by Douglas Skinner and Michael Smith. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Dwan Gallery, 1966. First edition. Soft cover. Good. Exhibition catalogue of ten works in various media by Carl Andre, Jo Baer, Dan Flavin, Don Judd, Sol Lewitt, Agnes Martin, Robert Morris, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Smithson, and Michael Steiner.  Each work is illustrated with one full-page black-and-white photo.  There are also two installation photos.  The only text is the captions.  16p.  Ca. 11 inches square.  Covers foxed, soiled; external handling wear; internally very good.  Date stamp on inside front cover. . From the library of the late curator Robert M. Doty, and priced in red ink for him by the gallery. Scarce.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. Book club edition. Hardcover (boards). Very good (edges shelf-rubbed)/very good. Salter, George. 307p, no ills. Unclipped jacket (price $2.75). Covers printed in blue, red, and white. Jacket (and presumably cover) design by George Salter. Novel about the boy Peter, who, as he lies unconscious following an accident, dreams that he becomes a cat.  A wise tabby named Jennie befriends him and teaches him much about behaving like a cat ("when in doubt, wash") and other life lessons.  Another of Gallico's memorable, heart-warming stories. An early Christian Herald's Family Bookshelf Selection, as this book club began only in 1949.  Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Madrid, 1965. Limited edition. Paperbound. Fair. Maniquant, Sooky. [16]p, 7 large pls. + 2 mounted color pls. + 2 cover ills. Additional text by Carlos-Antonio Arean. Covers soiled, handling wear; ex-lib. with label on front cover; no internal marks. In Spanish. One of 1000 copies. Catalogue of an exhibition by this mid-century prize-winning abstract painter (1934-2012). Born in Indochina, she exhibited and won awards in Spain and Paris. Uncommon. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate.

Mount Vernon, NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1929. Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1787. Hardcover (imitation leather, gilt-stamped). Fine/fine. Bunbury, H.; Ross, Gordon. xx, 38p + 12 pls. by Bunbury and 2 additional pls. by Gordon Ross, 1 in color and signed in pencil. One of 100 deluxe copies (unnumbered; out of series). Presentation copy from artist Owen Culbertson to Churchill Newcomb, 1929. With Culbertson's bookplate. Laid in: 2 handwritten notes from Culbertson to Newcomb, and a typed list of an exhibition of Culbertson's collection of sporting art. In original plain jacket and slipcase. A fine-press reprint of this classic of equestrian humor, with an introduction by Culbertson. Equestrian mishaps and accidents are much the same today, and a close reading also reveals a good deal about British horsemanship of ca. 1800. (For this and other mock horsemanship manuals, see Monica Mattfeld's recent book Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship.) A beautiful… Read More

Northleach, UK: Alexander Heriot, 1993. Third edition (1st pub. 1964, 1976). Hardcover. Very good. xxvii, 211p + many photos. Without the original flimsy glassine d.j. This latest edition of mares and stallions registered with the Arab Horse Society added many photos and omitted "dead" lines. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate.

N.p. [London or Paris]: H. Gaze & Son, 1889. No stated edition. Stapled soft cover. Very good (bottom front cover corner lightly creased and chipped). 10p, 1 ill. on front cover (self-wrappers). Detailed descriptions of the excursions offered to Paris and environs, with related ads for souvenir photo albums, theaters, etc. One pound (25 francs or $5) bought you a package ticket for all three excursions. Scarce. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Ernest R. Gee, 1937. Limited edition. Hardcover (thin paper over boards). Very good (front hinge exposed but binding is sturdy; covers scuffed). [54]p, no ills. Internally fine. On the last page: "Printed by Eugene V. Connett at The Derrydale Press." No d.j., as issued. Without the drop box called for by Biscotti. Unused ruled diary for recording details of hunts such as date, hounds, huntsman, the meet, horses, covers drawn, found, wind, scent, observations, etc. Printed in blue and red. (Siegel 117: "undetermined number of copies." Biscotti p. 201: "One of the scarcest of all the Derrydale Press books").

Cologne: DuMont, et al., 1990. First edition. Paperback original (self wrappers). Good+/good+. Hannes Jãhn. 399p, many ills., several pls. in color. Slightly skewed from poor storage. Memorial appreciations by various colleagues, friends, and students of Jähn, with a generous sampling of his work. Book jackets, book design, posters, illustration, photography, etc., by this multi-talented German designer. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping/handling rate.