![Item #30751 Americana [Catalogue 572]. Karl W. Hiersemann, bookseller](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30751.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1644154024)
Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1927. First edition. Soft cover (dusty, age soiled; spine chipped). 472 entries, 23 line ills. Pages age browned. Blank order form laid in. "A collection of rare and valuable books relating to South and North America from the time of the discovery up to the year..... More
Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1990. First edition. Soft cover. 168p, ca. 100 ills. (ca. 60 in color). Large exhibition catalogue featuring the work of 20 mid-century painters, among them John McLaughlin, Peter Krasnow, Oskar Fischinger, Rico Lebrun, Helen Lundeberg, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, and June Wayne. Good survey... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1964. First edition. Soft cover. 96p, many ills., a few in color. Cover shows a Luis Barragan garden. A pioneering survey of mid-century outdoor rooms, parks and plazas, flower gardens, constructed landscapes, and more. Works by Barragan, Burle Marx, Le Corbusier, Noguchi, SOM, Wright..... More
![Item #31767 A Walker in the City [review copy, signed]. Alfred Kazin](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31767.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696881544)
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951. Bileck, Marvin. First edition. Hardcover (patterned boards). 176p, several line ills. by Marvin Bileck. Review copy slip tipped onto front endpaper: "Advance Copy from Harcourt, Brace and Company. Please note the release date for review and the price. Oct 29 1951. $3.00." Signed by Kazin..... More
![Item #31526 1990 / 1991 Season's Greetings; [Alphabet Broadside]. Jerry Kelly, calligraphy](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31526.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1683639123)
Lunenberg, VT: Stinehour Press, 1990. Kelly, Jerry. First edition. Unbound sheet. One sheet, printed in red and shades of green. Ca. 10 x 34 inches. Very decorative! Will be sent rolled. Shipping/handling may be extra; please keep this in mind when ordering. More
![Item #30853 Desiderio da Settignano: St. Cecilia [signed]. Clarence Kennedy, Toldeo Museum of...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30853.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1648467842)
Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art, n.d. [ca. 1938-39]. Kennedy, Clarence. First edition. Unbound sheets. Gelatin silver photograph printed on semi-glossy paper and mounted on light card stock, laid within 4-page letterpress folder. No date, but ca. 1938-39, as the portfolio was probably issued in commemoration of the work's acquisition in..... More
Moscow: Detgiz [State Publishing House for Children's Literature], 1958-59. Unstated editions. Soft cover; hardcover. Most are 16-20p. All soft cover except Cat's House, which is 48p and in boards. Cat's House is a play; the others are verse about animals (About Everything in the World is also an ABC book)..... More
Boston: C. Kimball, n.d. [ca. 1890-1900?]. Kimball (photographer). No stated edition. Mounted albumen print. With the photographer's monogram CK on back. Kimball, "Instantaneous Photographs," was located at 140 Court Street, Boston. Studio portrait of a young lady in her finest finery--elaborate lace collar, fitted jacket, embroidered diamond-shaped lappets, box-pleated skirt..... More
Folkestone, UK, and Hamden, CT: Dawson & Son and Archon Books, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 204p, 103 black-and-white ills. Lacks jacket. Sticker removed from front endpaper. Good informative survey. The purpose and techniques of zoological illustration, zoological works up to Linnaeus, "the great age of illustrated works," and the modern..... More
Darmstadt: Alexander Koch, 1921. First edition. Hardcover (boards). 190p, many large photos, 2 in color. A few marginal tears, all neatly mended. Pictorial survey of contemporary rooms devoted to food--breakfast and tea rooms, dining areas, buffets and credenzas, silver and glassware, table settings, and kitchens and cooking facilities. Interior decor..... More
![Item #31608 Hard Words [by] Peter Koch. Peter Koch, Griff Williams](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31608.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688497636)
San Francisco and Missoula, MT: Gallery 16 and University of Montana Art Galleries, 2000. First edition. Soft cover. [12]p, several color ills. Exhibition catalogue / prospectus for Koch's monumental suites of engraved half-tone portraits, Hard Words. The portraits, based on contemporaneous photos, honor the chiefly anonymous men and women "that..... More
Bethlehem, CT: June 1 Gallery, 1980. Arms, Pennell, Eby, Lewis, Chamberlain. First edition. Stapled paperbound. 32p, many ills. Sale catalogue of 116 prints by Arms, Pennell, Eby, Lewis, Chamberlain, and many other portrayers of buildings as they "actually look." Grouped by Italy, France, Spain, England, Other European Places, Small Town..... More
Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum, 1983. Penck, A.R. First edition. Soft cover. [24]p, 16 plates (6 in color). Text in English and Hebrew. Exhibition catalogue of Penck's "Expedition to the Holy Land," a portfolio of 16 etchings, lithographs, screenprints, and aquatints (total edition size 84). One plate reproduces a screenprint..... More
Ludwigshafen: Galerie Lore Dauer, n.d. [1966]. Krieger, Margarethe. First edition. Soft cover. [36]p, 16 large pls. Signed by Krieger. Exhibition catalogue of powerful expressionistic woodcuts illustrating works by Berthold Brecht. One of Krieger's early publications. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate... More
Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1979. Karina, Elena. First edition. Soft cover. 8p, 5 large ills. (vessels only). Exhibition catalogue, including artist information and checklist of the 21 vessels and 8 drawings exhibited. Also selections from a conversation between Karina and David Schaff. Can be sent outside the US..... More
Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche: Le Centre des Livres d'Artistes (CDLA), 2008. Kuppel, Edmund. First edition. Stapled soft cover. [16]p, a few ills. Small exhibition catalogue of Kuppel's photographic and video installations. The text consists primarily of Kuppel's interviews with Mathieu Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate..... More
New York: Nancy Hoffman Gallery, 1994. Frey, Viola. First edition. Soft cover. 40p, 69 color ills. including cover. Photo here is cropped on the sides. Traveling exhibition catalogue of 69 of Frey's expressionistic plates, which Kuspit describes as both funk and hallucinatory. Large; shipping/handling may be extra. Please keep this..... More
Zurich: L'Art Ancien, n.d. [1970s]. Hollar, Wenzel. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., many line ills. In German. Substantial auction catalogue of 464 lots of prints, albums, books etc., of late Mannerism, Baroque, early Rococo, and the 17th century, including over 40 works by Wenzel Hollar. Architecture, emblems, festivals, calligraphy, ornament..... More
Boston: Lame Duck Books, n.d. [ca. 1999]. First edition. Soft cover. 88p + 1 color ill. on cover (an e.e. cummings painting). 356 detailed items. Fwd. by proprietor John Wronoski. "We would like to think...[that this catalogue] suggests a shadowy, and often tragic, narrative of the romantic individualism at the..... More
Victoria, Australia: National Gallery of Victoria, 1979. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., many ills. + color cover ill. Exhibition catalogue of 241 objects featuring kangaroo motifs from the 1770s on--textiles, metalwork, ceramics, wood, emu eggs, etc. The works are chiefly English and Australian. One of the very few treatments of..... More
Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1999. Leuthold, Marc. First edition. Soft cover. [Ca. 36]p, many color plates. Larsen's text is a short appreciation. Other texts by Mario Cutajar and Thomas Piche, Jr. Exhibition catalogue of Marc Leuthold's intricately carved porcelain wheels and other cylindrical forms. Can be sent outside..... More
Paris: CNRS Editions, 2004. Bosse, Abraham. First edition. Soft cover. 317p + 38 ills. Detailed study of the influential French etcher-illustrator and his times--his life, the world of printmaking and illustration, the Academy and his difficulties with it, his study of perspective and theory, etc. Scarce in the U.S.... More
Paris: Le Courrier Graphique, 1956. First edition. Soft cover. 108p, many ills. and printing-related ads (some in flat color). Issue 86 of this French trade journal devoted to book design and the printing and publishing industries. Surveys a decade of French typography, fine press books, photography books, pocket books ("un..... More
Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1979. First edition. Soft cover. 168p, many ills. + 4 color pls. and color cover. In French. Catalogue of the huge exhibition mounted to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Diaghilev's death, covering his entire career. Over 400 costumes, photos, manuscripts, scores, and other artifacts, drawn mostly from..... More
Athens: Institut Francais d'Athenes, 1981. de Stael, Nicolas. Limited edition. Soft cover. 32p, several ills. by Nicolas de Stael and others. Cover ill. from a collage by de Stael. No. 249 of 300 copies on papier d'Arches. Exhibition catalogue of 26 books, plus much documentation on Lecuire's career. Includes a...... More
