![Item #30887 Announcing Tristram Shandy from the Arion Press [cover title]. No stated author,...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30887.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1650317343)
San Francisco: Arion Press, n.d. [1988]. Baldessari, John. First edition. Soft cover. [12]p, 4 ills. (2 by John Baldessari). Printed in letterpress. Prospectus for the 3-volume edition of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne, with an essay on the author and his novel by Melvyn..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, n.d. [1988-89]. Motherwell, Robert. First edition. Soft cover. [24]p, several ills (the binding, page spreads), some in color. Printed in letterpress. Former owner's ink stamp on title page. Description of the novel, the project, the artist, the illustrations, titling of images, color for prints, the collaboration..... 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](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30126.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30099.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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]. ...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31327.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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
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: Harcourt, Brace, 1927. No stated edition. Hardcover. 225p + 94 photos and line ills. Without the jacket. Bound in green cloth with paper spine label; there was also an edition bound in batik-patterned paper over boards. One of the first general-interest books to promote modern design in the..... 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.];...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30092.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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, 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, 1954. First edition. Soft cover. 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..... More
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1955. First edition. Soft cover. 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..... More
![Item #31503 Sale 2285: Important Bindings [etc.] from Various Sources including the Collection of...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31503.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1683577635)
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1964. First edition. Soft cover. 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..... More
