Paris: Galerie Bellier, 1990. First edition. Soft cover. 134p, many large color plates, some folding. Handsome exhibition catalogue of folding screens and multi-part panels by about 40 artists from the US and Europe. Divided into three parts: the Nabis and their circle, modern artists, and the revival of polyptichs in..... More
Florence: Albizzi, 1822. 6th edition. Soft cover. 220p + 3 line pls. In original printed covers. Lacks backstrip: gatherings and cords exposed. Scattered foxing throughout. Partly dampstained, sometimes heavily, but not obscuring content. Gatherings are separating but cords are sturdy. This guidebook to the Uffizi opens with a brief history..... More
![Item #30887 Announcing Tristram Shandy from the Arion Press [cover title]. No stated author,...](/pictures/thumb/30887.jpg?v=1650317343)
San Francisco: Arion Press, n.d. [1988]. Baldessari, John. First edition. Soft cover. [12]p, 4 ills. (2 by John Baldessari). Prospectus for the 3-volume edition of The Life and Opinons of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne, with an essay on the author and his novel by Melvyn New, and with..... More
Paris: Fernand Nathan, n.d. [1930s?]. No stated edition. 48p, 48 line ills. All printed in black and red. Small initials printed in some of the illustrations. Fair (covers and margins a little chewed; front cover stained, internally very good, unused). . Reading, spelling, and handwriting manual for French primary school..... More
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 318p + 16p of black-and-white ills. "Nodelman explores the various means by which pictures tell stories: design, style, code, tension, action, irony, and rhythm." Discusses the relationship between text and pictures in books for all ages by many illustrators--Anno, Burkert..... More
Pittsburgh: University Art Gallery, Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Building, 1976. First edition. Soft cover. 56p, 8 black-and-white ills. + color cover. Published to accompany an exhibition of 86 facsimiles, with a checklist of them. The text surveys the various techniques used from the 1920s on--handmade facsimiles, woodcuts and engravings..... More
London: The Women's Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 242p, 40 ills. Examines "the aspirations and expectations of Victorian women artists [painters and sculptors], their struggle for proper training, for exhibition and for unqualified recognition in the male-dominated art world." With case histories of Henrietta (Mrs. E.M.) Ward, Joanna Mary Boyce..... More
![Item #30126 Behind Bars [with press release and announcement]. Meg O'Rourke, curator](/pictures/thumb/30126.jpg?v=1633973511)
New York: Thread Waxing Space, 1992. First edition. Stapled paperbound in self wrappers. 32p, 14 color pls. Laid in: press relase (headed "Behind Bar") and postcard announcement. Exhibition of abstract works in various media (including installation and video) by 16 artists, which examine "the conceptual relationship between viewer and object..... More
![Item #30099 Zakko Hinagata [Templates for Carpenters] -- 2 books. Taiga Hankoku Ochiai, Sentaro...](/pictures/thumb/30099.jpg?v=1661437983)
Sendai, Miyagi, Japan: Seibundo, N.d. [ca. 1876]. No stated edition. Japanese stab paper binding. N.p. [each ca. 24p], many line ills., partly printed in red. Two carpentry manuals showing details and proportions of traditional Japanese wood construction and carving. Originally printed in two 2-volume sets. Ours are volume 1, number..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 2002. Oelbaum, Zeva. First edition. Hardcover. 96p, many photos printed in sepia duotone. Instead of a jacket, a sheet with information about the book is mounted to the rear cover, as issued. Oelbaum was inspired by a student teacher's century-old botany journal that she found in Maine..... More
Milan: Giancarlo Politi, 1982. First edition. Soft cover. 320p, many ills., many in color. . A seminal publication on international neo-expressionist painting of the 1970s-80s, which embraced forms of earlier art (figuration, texture, emotion, etc.) in reaction to conceptual abstraction. Oliva dubbed the Italian version "La Transavanguardia." Contains "Transitional Art" by..... More
Boston: Ginn, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. 162p, no ills. Covers lightly rubbed, paper label browned. From the library of a professor Cross, with his pencil name and with a gift card laid in. Perhaps a later printing? (copyright line reads 66.12). No jacket (as issued?). Originally published in the scientific..... More
New York: Otto Gerson Gallery / Fine Arts Associates, 1956-1963. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated. Texts by various contributors. Further details on request. 1956: Rodin to Lipchitz Part II. 1957: Picasso Sculpture Part I, Lipchitz, David Smith. 1958: Paintings Watercolors Sculpture. 1959: R. Delaunay, Summer Fall, Paintings..... More
London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1955. Gore, Spencer Frederick. First edition. Soft cover. 16p + 8 pls. The first reassessment of this pioneering member of the Camden Town Group. Checklist of 76 works exhibited. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate... More
London: Tate Publishing, 2011. First edition. Soft cover. 90p, many color ills. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. Surveys the achievements of British women war artists from World War I to the present--"as eyewitnesses, participants, commentators, and officially commissioned recorders of war." Includes Laura Knight, Lucy..... More
![Item #31327 Palo Alto; The Home of President Hoover and of Stanford University [cover subtitle]. ...](/pictures/thumb/31327.jpg?v=1676939824)
Palo Alto, CA: Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce for the City of Palo Alto, n.d. [early 1930s]. No stated edition. Soft cover. 16p, many photos and 2 maps printed in red. Stamp of The Ask Mr. Foster Travel Information Service, Seattle, on back cover. Promotional brochure aiming "to illustrate in..... More
New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1984. Burgin, Gilbert & George, Mary Kelly, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, David Tremlett. First edition. Soft cover + 6 unbound sheets. Exhibition publication consisting of Catalogue (48p, many ills.), Bibliography (36p, no ills.), and various pamphlets, broadsides, and other items designed by the..... More
Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1982. First edition. 282p, 148 large photos (some folding), printed in rich dark sepia by Meriden Gravure. Jacket shelf soiled. Front endpapers discolored, perhaps from old glue? Former owner's rubber stamp at bottom of title page. Content is otherwise fine. Designed by Eleanor Morris Caponigro..... More
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1940. First edition. Soft 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..... More
![Item #30092 Eighteenth & Nineteenth Continental Furniture Porcelain Prints & Paintings [etc.];...](/pictures/thumb/30092.jpg?v=1633973506)
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1970. First edition. 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..... More
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1969. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated (1 color pl. of opals). No prices realized. Group of 5 catalogues offering jewelry from various owners, including Tallulah Bankhead, the Tenth Duke of Manchester, Stella Aronson Gilboy, Dr. Moser Lyon Stadiem, James A. Bohannon, and others..... More
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1963. First edition. Soft cover. 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..... More
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1951. First edition. Soft cover. 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..... More
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1943. First edition. Soft cover. 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..... More
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1938. Blake, William. First edition. Soft cover. 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..... More
