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New York: M. Knoedler & Company, Inc.. Very Good. 1929. First Edition. Paperback. New York: M. Knoedler & Company, Inc.. Very Good. 1929. First Edition. Clean and secure in original stiff wrappers. Colour frontispiece, black-and-white images throughout. Artists include James Hogg, Raphael Smith, William Ward, SW Reynolds, William Nutter, and others. . ; Art and Art History, Most Recent Listing, Most Recent Listing .

Karlsruhe: Badisches Landesmuseum. Near Fine. 1995. Paperback. 170 pages; Clean and tight in original pictorial wrappers. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Text in German. .

Buffalo: Albright-Knox Gallery. Very Good. 1968. First Edition. Original Pictorial Wrappers. 62 pages; Buffalo: Very Good. 1968. First Edition. 62 pages; Clean and secure in original stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. Unpaginated. Eight glossy photographs ( 8" X 10") inserted in front pocket - 4 colour and 4 b&w. Notes on a couple, e. G. , "can be cover if you will not use colour" These photographs depict highly polished metal and glass schuptures. Does not have separate broadside of text by Macagy. Catalog for a exhibition March 3 through April 14, 1968 at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo. Foreword by Gordon M. Smith. Essay by Douglas MacAgy, foreword by Gordon Smith, along with brief biographical sketches by Ted Weeks, Jr. , Robert M. Murdock, and Bruce W. Chambers. Includes black and white illustrations of works by Yaaacov Agam, Josef Alberts, Olle Baertling, Giacomo Balla, Max Bill, Ilya Bolotowsky, Kasimir Malevich, Enrico Castellani, Kandinsky, Liubov… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press. Near Fine. 1997. Original Pictorial Wrappers. x, (2), 392 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers. Extensively illustrated A description and interpretation of the great Villa built by Emperor Hadrian near Tivoli, as it existed in Roman times, together with a description of how the Villa has influenced artists and architects in history, from the Renaissance through to the present day."This lavishly illustrated book ... is the most ample and informed work on the villa, its figurative decoration and sculpture collection, and the first study of its reception over the past 500 years. ... An essential source of information on one of the glories of Western architecture." [Ackerman, TLS] .

Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack. Very Good+. [1927]. Hardcover. 94 pages; Clean and secure in original binding of gray-green cloth spine with very dark green boards with extensive gilt decoration to front board depicting elaborate portico gazing to a landscape beyond; two dark green spine labels with gilt lettering (chipped at lower left corners). A very attractive book with fabulous black and white illustrations by Haldane Macfall throughout. OCLC 561893964 From the foreword: "... such Universal songs as are sung wheresoever the English tongue is spoken." Chambers Haldane Cooke Macfall was an English military officer, author and artist. He became an influential art critic and historian, and a successful novelist of both historical fiction and adventure stories. Macfall was also an accomplished artist, illustrator, and book designer; he contributed illustrations to magazines, designed bookplates, decorated books and exhibited at the Royal Academy. .

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.. Good+. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. 714 pages; New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.. Good+. 1961. First Edition. Autograph; xxiii & 714 pages; Publisher's aqua-green cloth. Binding worn, with minor damage to the upper corner of the rear cover, front inner hinge a bit shaken. Lacks the dust jacket. A sweeping survey of twentieth century music by the Riga-born musicologist, professor [Qeens College; Julliard Graduate Division] and opera translator Joseph Machlis [1906-1998]. Paul Hume seems to have used this copy while writing or thinking about Dmitri Shostikovich -- with two page numbers written in ink on the front free endpaper, under Hume's signature and two vertical pen marks on the margins of passages on those pages concerning Shostikovich and his adaptation to Soviet pressure to renounce "formalism. " From the music reference library of the late Paul Hume, longtime musical editor of the Washington 'Post.… Read More

London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. Good. 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. xii, 480 pages; Contents clean and secure in contemporary binding of brown half leather over green cloth. Hinges very tender, leather worn at extremeties, large chip at base of spine (1"). Frontispiece engraving and 6 additional full page engraved plates with linen backing, many engravings (some full-page), plus decorated initial letters at beginning of each chapter. All plates and illustrations listed in the index are present, a couple have some spots of foxing, including the manuscript "Facsimile of Queen Elizabeth's Letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury" and "Allegorical Letter, Arms of Linlithgow." Former owner's signature in ink on ffep -- Peter Hagner; a couple old pencil notes on rear endpaper. During her brief reign, Mary found comfort in a number of Scottish castles and palaces, some even as a prisoner. Linlithgow Palace. Blackness Castle. Stirling Castle. Palace of… Read More

Very Good+. 1990. Hardcover. 39 pages; Family trees and various documents related to the family history. Clean and secure in original bright red cloth binding. .

London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. 384 pages; Clean and secure in original green cloth bindingwith gilt lettering at spine and photographic endpapers. Dustjacket is edgeworn with several short closed tears and chipping. Small booksellers ticket at bottom of front endpaper "Galignani / 224 Rue de Rivoli - Paris (1er)" Original owner's initials on ffep "B.W.R." Belle Wyatt Willard (1892 - 1968) married Kermit Roosevelt (1889 – 1943) , the second son of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Kermit Roosevelt (Sr.) was an explorer on two continents with his father, graduate of Harvard University, a soldier serving in two world wars, with both the British and U.S. Armies, a businessman (between WWI and WWII he founded the Roosevelt Steamship Company and the United States Lines, and writer. Just before he and his father Theodore Roosevelt embarked on the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition to Brazil… Read More

London: The Bodley Head. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1940. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A fine copy of this example from the Limited First Edition of only 500 copies in a nice price-clipped dust jacket. Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work. During World War II, MacLeish assisted with the development of the new "Research and Analysis Branch" of the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency. The operations of the Branch were overseen by Archibald MacLeish (Librarian of Congress) and William L. Langer. During the 1930s MacLeish was a great admirer of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his progressive policies. This book reflects MacLeish's developing liberal humanism, promoting the pursuit of freedom and communal solidarity to keep fascism at bay and to… Read More

Washington, DC: The Library Quarterly. 1944. Paperback. 39 pages; Clean and tight in original printed yellow wrappers, toned along edges. Reprinted for private circulation from The Library Quarterly Vol. XIV, No. 4, October 1944. Archibald MacLeish (1892 – 1982) was an American modernist poet, writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, and also served as Librarian of Congress. American Libraries has called MacLeish "one of the hundred most influential figures in librarianship during the 20th century" in the United States. At the prompting of Felix Frankfurter, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated MacLeish for the Librarian of Congress. The position was frought with political and bureaucratic difficulties, and MacLeish's initial investigations found the Library of Congress to be extremely disorganized and overwhelmed by the pace of acquisitions. MacLeish engaged leading scholars in library science to analyze the library’s managerial structure. Working from their… Read More

Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good+. 1928. Paperback. Library of Congress; 24 pages; Clean and tight in original green printed wrappers, lower corner of rear wrapper has tiny chip. .

New York. Very Good. 1981. Letter. Autograph; 1 pages; Typed Letter Signed by William B. Macomber to Towland and Katherine "Kay" Evans. "May 19, 1981 // Dear Rolly and Reddy: / You guys were great to come by / in the midst of your busy schedules. // We look forward to seeing you / again in Washington one of these / days but, in the meantime, if either / of you are in New York, let's set up / a reciprocal reunion here. If we / could get you by at lunchtime, you / will find thet the food's pretty good / and the setting is terrific! // Cheers, and / All the best, / Bill [Signature] / William B. Macomber / Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Evans / 3125 O Street, N.W. / Washington, D.C. 20007" William Butts Macomber Jr. (March 28, 1921 – November 19, 2003) was an American diplomat who served in several positions in the United States Department of State. He was the 12th president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. PROVENANCE: Rowland Evans was a provocative newspaper… Read More

Washington: Spanish Embassy. Very Good. 1948. First Edition. Paperback. 36 pages .

Paris: Societe Nationale D'Acclimatation. Very Good+. 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. 210 pages; Clean and secure in binding of quarter green calf over marbled boards with marbled endpapers, gilt lettering at spine. Corners rubbed, otherwise a very nice copy of this scarce monograph. Catalogue raisonné par régions des espèces qu'il y aurait lieu d'acclimater et de domestiquer en France. 37 woodcut illustrations in the text by J. Terrier, including one folding plate. Louis Magaud d'Aubusson (1849-1917) also published Les Oiseaux de la France and La Fauconnerie. Quarter green calf over marbled boards with marbled endpapers. Corners rubbed, otherwise a very nice copy of this scarce monograph.; 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. 1888. First Edition. Print. 1 pages; Image clean and clear, a couple spots on matting. Image measures 13 X 9.25 inches; matted measures 22 X 14 inches. Full page cover of JUDGE magazine for October 6, 1888 titled THE PAUPER LABOR BADGE featuring a color lithograph showing two images of silk political badges featuring a likeness of Grover Cleveland - Democratic Candidate for President. The story describes U.K. support for Cleveland as the true "Free Trade" candidate. The report points out that "Enormous quantities of this English silk badge passed through the Customs House on June 5th -- Cleveland was nominated on June 6th. The English knew whom they wanted!" The 1888 Presidential Election featured incumbent President Grover Cleveland as the Democratic nominee and Benjamin Harrison as the Republican nominee. Harrison won the election in the electoral college, but lost the popular vote. Tariff policy was the central issue,… Read More

Paris: Firmin Didot & Co.. Very Good-. 1931. Original Printed Wrappers. Histoires de France; Autograph; 207 pages; Ownership signature of "Susan Mary Jay" [later Alsop] on front wrapper. Contents clean and secure in original printed wrappers, toned. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes (both with and without Alsop) hosted… Read More

Austin: Alcalde Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; 80 pages; Warmly inscribed and Signed by Lady Bird Johnson on the halftitle. ; Signed by Notable Personage, Related; 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. .

Washington: U.S. Governent Printing Office. Fine. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976; xxviii, 1020 pages; Clean and secure in original red cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. Unread, virtually as new. The "Foreign Relations of the United States "volumes of the series include all records needed to provide comprehensive documentation of major foreign policy decisions and actions of the United States Government. The documentation in this volume illuminates the sustained high-level attention to the negotiations and the difficulties involved in establishing agreement--first on U.S. Government positions and negotiating strategies and then with the Soviet Union. This volume picks up where "Foreign Relations," 1969-1976, Vol. XXXII, SALT I, 1969-1972 (Print ISBN: 9780160784019) leaves off, with the Nixon administration working to establish objectives and negotiating positions beginning in October 1972. This work is… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Co. Very Good-. 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. (viii), 212 (3) pages; Clean and secure in original blue cloth binding; former owner's name on first blank after navy blue endpapers; cloth worn at spine ends, lettering faded from spine. Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840 – 1914) was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." His book The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783 (1890) won immediate recognition, especially in Europe, and with its successor, The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793–1812 (1892), made him world-famous and perhaps the most influential American author of the nineteenth century. .