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Book of the Month. PAPERBACK. 1/1/1952. 001893 :Good condition with minor edge wear on the (2) boxes. Most stickers neatly placed unless otherwise noted. Includes Album L: (Box 1, 9 books) B - The World of Pieter Bruegel, C - Paintings by Paul Cezanne. D - Degas in the Metropolitan, E - Children in Art, F - Figure Painting by Renoir, H - English Paintings in the Huntington Gallery, J - Japanese Prints in the Metropolitan. K - The National Gallery Italian Renaissance Painting, M- Michelangelo, (Box 2, 10 books) N - Six Centuries of Flower Painting, O - Great Drawings in the Metropolitan, P - Masterpieces in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, R - Rembrandts in the Metropolitan, T - Toulouse-Lautrec (moderate edge wear), V - Vincent van Gogh, W - Three American Water Colorists (Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent), X - The Christmas Story in Art and Legend, Y - Raphael The Stanza Della Segnatura in the Vatican, Z - American Folk Art . Used - Good.

New York ( 1983 ): Abradale Press / Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1973. First Edition Thus . White Cloth. Fine/Fine. 13 5/8" Tall. Bill Justice, Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas, and the Disney Studios. 458 Pp. White Cloth, Gilt. A Reissue Of The 1973 Original Edition, Which Had Plastic Images Of Mickey On The Front Cover, And A Clear Plastic Printed Wrapper; This Issue Has A More Traditional Opaque White Dust Jacket With The Same Images And Text And A White Cloth Binding, Which Is Much More Stable Than The Earlier Binding. This Copy With An Original Full Page Ink Drawing On The Front Endpaper, Signed By Bill Justice, Of A Chipmunk Holding A Sign "This Book Is The Property Of Mark", And Signed On The Third Page By Ollie Johnston And Frank Thomas Above The Colored Illustration Of Mickey Mouse. Two Great Pages, Each Framable By Themselves, But Better Still In The Book. A Wonderful Disney Item, Inscribed To Professional Clown Mark Towner, Who Won A 1998 Local Emmy For His Tv Program… Read More

New York: Abbeville Press, 1983. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New. Serafini, Luigi. Large Oversized Hardbound with Dust Jacket. About 14 x 10 inches. First Printing of the American edition. Full black cloth binding with title to spine in gold and title blind stamped to cover. With color illustrations throughout. Beautifully designed and published. Book and Dust Jacket AS NEW. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding tight and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked in any way and very clean, glossy and bright. Dust jacket same. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Paris and New York: Editions des Chroniques du Jour and E. Weyhe, 1930. #845 of an edition of 1200 copies, of which 550 (51-600 ) constitute the edition in French, and 650 ( 601-1250 ) the edition in English, this being one of the English copies printed for E. Weyhe in New York. Near Fine, small chip to paper at bottom edge of spine, in a Near Fine original glassine dust wrapper, 1" tear bottom edge of spine, and in the original string-tie portfolio case, Very Good Plus, light soiling and light wear at the corners. A handsome copy indeed of this important monograph on Picasso, translated from the Spanish by Warre B. Wells. Includes 4 tissue-guarded pochoir color plates and 62 pages of text with numerous illustrations, followed by 48 black and white plates.. Limited and Numbered First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition.

Kodansha International Ltd, Tokyo, 1980 Book. Good. Hardcover. English text; Hardcover (cloth without dust jacket - as issued. In splicase.); Used books. The 11 volume set is in good condition with minor scuffs and signs of wear in the slipcases and hardcover cloths. The spines are slightly faded as usual (volume 11 - Metropolitan Museum is slightly more faded then the other volumes). Volume 5 (British Museum) and volume 9 (Freer Gallery of Art) show minor wear marks on the top of the slipcase. Far Eastern Ceramics is in very good condition showing minor signs of shelf wear, namely some marks on the front and back cover. The ribbon bookmark is slightly scuffed on the bottom. The interior of all volumes is as new.; A milestone in international ceramic documentation, this series is a brilliant presentation of the oriental ceramics collections of the world's major museums. Originally published by Kodansha in 1975 as a limited deluxe 12 volume set, this critically acclaimed and now scarce masterpiece… Read More

First ILLUSTRATED edition. Very good copy. Very scarce Valgrisi edition. Complete [36], 566 [i. e. 560] pp. 88 full-page engraved copperplates. Ex libris. Few contemporary marks/annotations.

Illustrated with 6 plates of 134 water-color samples gradated and tipped in by hand on Whatman's drawing paper. With a one-page introduction by John Ruskin, the leading art critic of the Victorian era, as well as art patron, water-colorist and prominent social thinker and philanthropist. The introductory essay by J. Scott Taylor, editor of Fields Chromatography, deals with the durability of pigments when exposed to sunlight, followed by chapters on sources of pigments and descriptions of pigments. Very Good condition. Grey Hard cover, some darkening on upper edge with small area of foxing, 2 small spots of foxing on front edge and very slight damage to top and bottom of spine. Defects consistent with age. Pages and plates are clean and in very good condition. The color samples are bright and substantiates the claim of the color permanence of Winsor & Newton colors. Collectible. From the Library of Harold Lloyd, silent comedy movie star. "Lloyd studied colors and microscopy, and was… Read More

An invaluable illustrated catalogue of all the etched works of Norman Lindsay, whose output in this medium was remarkable. The various essays, appendices and notes make this reference book an essential resource on the subject. Bungendore: Odana editions and Sydney : Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1999. First edition. Quarto, illustrated boards. Beautifully illustrated. Out of print. The contents cover: the etchings: notes on the unpublished etchings catalogue raisonne; notes on the published etchings catalogue raisonne; selected exhibitions in chronological order; public collections; glossary of etching terms; selected bibliography; index of published etchings in alphabetical order; index of etchings in chronological order.

Nancy's Mysterious Letter: Keene, Carolyn. Copyright 1932, Grosset & Dunlap. RARE Nancy Drew #8, 1939 issue thus. Includes original "HEADLINE BOOKS FOR GIRLS" DUST JACKET. RUSSELL H. TANDY COVER ART. Since the dj Back panel authors are: Faith Baldwin through Ann Spence Warner and titles listed were published in 1931, this may be a first state unclipped dust jacket. Price on front flap is 5050. USED. Good Condition/ Good Condition DJ. Summary: "By mistake Nancy Drew receives a letter from England intended for an heiress, also named Nancy Drew. When Nancy undertakes a search for the missing young woman, it becomes obvious that a ruthless, dangerous man is determined to prevent her from finding the heiress or himself."

WE ARE HAPPY TO PRESENT: Flack, Marjorie. THE STORY ABOUT PING. TRUE FIRST EDITION 1933 VIKING PRESS. 3 lines of copyright information. HARDCOVER. BACK DJ FLAP INCLUDES JUNIOR VIKING COUPON. Matching blue floating duck back board and dust jacket panels do not bear weekly reader logo. PLEASE SEE OUR PHOTO OF DJ BACK PANEL. Unclipped Front DJ flap priced at $1.00 . ILLUSTRATED BY KURT WIESE. QUITE THE FIND. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ GOOD CONDITION DJ. A CLEAN SOLID COPY. PLEASE SEE OUR PHOTOS. Summary " Ping was an adventurous duck who lived on a beautiful wise-eyed boat on the Yangtze River. He liked his life on the riverboat just and liked his large family and his kind master. He didn't like to be the last in line to board the boat at night, for that unlucky duck got a loud spank" . Will ship from Oregon.

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Renoir, Pientre de Nu, Preface d' Henri Regnier, Les Editions Berheim-Jeune, Paris 1923. soft cover. Original limited edition, this copy is one of only 150 printed on Arches paper, with one original etching in black on the front cover (Femme nue couchee tournee a droite, Delteil 14). this edition includes 40 reproductions by Renoir in Black, sanguine and in color, executed by Daniel Jacomet. This copy, however, is missing one of the black and white reproductions. Aside from the missing print, the book is in fairly good condition. The front and back covers are tanned, page edges are lightly aged and the binding is loose.

Folio, original illustrated French-folded wrappers, original acetate and original red cloth bound slipcase. Translated by J.B. Sidgwick, 1958. Text in EnglishLimited first edition, number 1265 of 2000 copies, with four original black and white lithographs and one fifteen-color double page lithograph entitled " The Road". This volume also includes 37 beautiful color plates. The original lithographs were pulled in Paris by the Mourlot Freres atelier. Mourlot's printing of "The Road" was supervised by the artist in collaboration with Charles Sorlier.This copy is in very fine condition with the exception of two loose pages before the title page and some slight wear on the slip case.

DUST JACKET ONLY. NO BOOK IS INCLUDED The Aesop For Children (1919 unclipped Rand McNally Dust Jacket Only) RARE! 27 X 11 7/8 Orange/Red First Edition unclipped DUST JACKET ONLY. dimensions are: 27 X 11 7/8 (fits volume 9 3/4 X 11 7/8) Original price $2.00, from Rand McNally & Company. USED. Good condition. No book included. Orange dust jacket ILLUSTRATED BY MILO WINTER. SHOWS SOME WEAR. A NICE FIND.

Very good set of this fine British flora, the first to rival James Sowerby's English Botany from 1791. Complete with 509 hand-coloured copperplates engraved by Charles Mathews after botanical illustrations by Mathews, Isaac Russel (an Oxford glass painter) and William Alfred Delamotte. The plates were reputedly hand-coloured by Baxter's daughters and daughter-in-law. George Claridge Druce in The Flora of Berkshire, 1897, writes, "The plates of this work, although of unequal merit, are in many cases very excellent and possess a special value, because each figure is drawn from an individual plant, the locality or origin of which is usually stated."First issued in parts from 1832, and later in book form from 1834. This set states Second Edition, 1834, on the title page of Vol. I, but all other volumes are 1st edition: Vol. II 1835, Vol. III 1837, Vol. IV 1839, Vol. V 1840, and Vol. VI 1843. Six volumes bound in 3.William Baxter (1787-1871), was a British botanist, author, curator and head gardener of the… Read More