Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. First edition. Paperbound. 272p, many ills., some in color. The first major survey of the Surrealist magazine Documents (1929-30), edited by Bataille. It "combined an eclectic mixture of art, archaeology, ethnography, and popular cultue." Published in conjunction with the Hayward Gallery exhibition "Undercover Surrealism: Picasso..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1919. box 15, not 7. First (only) edition. Paperbound. Auction catalogue, March 20-27, 1919. N.p. (2409 lots), a few pls. Covers soiled overall, tear to head of spine. Internally nice and clean. No prices realized. Large dispersal sale of hundreds of reproductions of works of..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1916. box 15. First edition. Paperbound. N.p. [1037 lots] + over 20 ills. on 8 pls. Covers sunned, minor penciling, tips of backstrip chipped. Covers may loosen. Pages age browned, else internally very good. Important auction catalogue of over a thousand American, English, French, German..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1915. First edition. Soft cover. Auction catalogue, May 7, 1915. 483 lots, several plates. Covers age-smudged. Chiefly 19th-century works, with some early books and rarities, such as 16th-18th-century manuscripts and Fr. Colonel's 1620 grammar of the Maya language of Yucatan. The original edition. No prices..... More
1920. American Art Galleries. Books and Brochures by and relating to James McNeill Whistler collected by the late Frederick William Hunter. NY, 1920. 171 items, 1 plate. Very good paperbound (shelfsoil). ** Auction catalogue. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate... More
New York: Wm. E. Rudge's Sons, 1945. Armitage, Merle. Trade edition. Hardcover in slipcase. 74p, many ills., some with a second flat color (a sort of rust-coral). Cover stamped in silver. One of 3000 hardcover copies in slipcase (which is very good). No d.j., as issued. Armitage's thoughts on book..... More
1889. Art Institute of Chicago; American Art Association. Exhibition of the Works of Vassili Verestchagin: Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue. Plus: First and Second Appendixes. Chicago, 1889. 3 items: 80p with many ills.; 14p, 35p. Very good stapled paperbounds (Second Appendix covers are soiled and sunned). Owner's small ink stamp on two..... More
1902. Baedeker, K. La Russie: Manuel du Voyageur. Leipzig: Baedeker, and Paris: Paul Ollendorff, 1902. 3rd [and last] edition. xlix, 476p, 19 maps (most folding), 32 plans, all in color. Hardcover (limp cloth). Split to rear joint mended; ca. 2-inch tear to rear folding map, suitable for mending. Else very..... More
![Austria; Togethep [sic] with Budapest, Prague, Karlsbad, Marienbad. Karl Baedeker](/pictures/thumb/30155.jpg?v=1620217682)
Leipzig; London; New York: Karl Baedeker; T. Fisher Unwin; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. 12th rev. ed. Soft cover. 518p, 86 maps and plans, 2 panoramas, most in color. Limp cloth (a few light stains). Ink name of a Mrs. Reynolds, New York. An early issue of this edition, with the..... More
1929. Baer, Joseph & Co., Frankfurt. Will Sell by Auction Oktober 1926 Part I of a Collection of Incunabula the Property of Herr Kurt Wolff. 28p, many ills. Poor paperbound: front cover detached, rear cover missing. ** Prospectus for the "most important private collection of 15th century books formed in..... More
New York: Barneys New York, n.d. [1980s]. First edition. Unbound sheets. Three accordion-folded sheets, printed on card stock. "Man" consists of 16 panels printed on one side (7 photos + prices). "Woman" consists of 16 panels printed on both sides (12 photos + prices). "Home" consists of 16 panels printed..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1930. First edition. Paperbound. 88p, many large pls. (generally one per artist). One of 2250 copies. Catalogue of the museum's second exhibition, and its first of American art (1929-30). The painters--deliberately "eclectic" and representing both "conservative" and "advanced" styles--were selected with the aid of..... More
No place [Buffalo?]: No stated publisher, 1987. First edition. Soft cover. Six reproductions of photographs, printed in duotone on glossy card stock, laid in folder. Short texts by Reyner Banham, Anthony Bannon, and the photographer. Ca. 6 x 9 inches. Folder lightly soiled; price sticker removed from back; photos are..... More
1979. Berlin. Nationalgalerie. Max Liebermann in seiner Zeit. 1979. 687p, many ills., many in color. Nice sturdy paperbound (light cover wear); internally very good. ** Substantial exhibition catalogue of over 500 paintings, prints, and drawings by this German impressionist and Berliner Secession artist. Texts by Matthias Eberle and others. Very..... More
Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 286p, several photos. Slight wear to jacket. History of the innovative curriculum at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University from 1900 on, through a study of the administrations of the first six art directors (Charles F. Binns, Charles..... More
1943. Besson, George. Ch. Walch. Lyon: Braun 1943. 16p, ca. 15 ills. Fair paperbound in poor, rather torn, d.j. In the publisher's "Initier" series. ** Despite being born with a deformed leg and arm, Alsatian-born Walch achieved artistic renown in France between the world wars. Besson was the first critic..... More
1962. Bill, Max, ed. Georges Vantongerloo. London: Marlborough Fine Art 1962. 54p, many ills., a few in color. Good paperbound (corners bumped and slightly shelfworn, base of spine taped). ** Retrospective exhibition catalogue of paintings, drawings, and constructions in many media. With some texts by the artist, including "Reflections" and..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967-1969. Various editions. Hardcover. Hundreds of pages, some ills. Light shelfwear and soil; overall clean and sturdy). No d.j. (if issued?). From Henry Adams to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Vol. 5 is the 1969 first printing; vols. 1-4 are 3rd or 4th printings of 1967 and..... More
Minneapolis: Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 1958. First edition. Soft cover. 28p, 21 ills. One of 1000 copies designed by Rob Roy Kelly. Back cover and last few pages dampstained along spine. Covers age soiled. Catalogue for a loan exhibition that aimed to assemble all the major Poussin paintings in..... More
No place: No stated publisher, n.d. [1986?]. First edition. Paperbound. 16p, 18 large color ills. Light handling soil to covers. The text is titled "Hand-Werk zu Arbeiten von Peter Reichenberger." The oils on canvas or paper have a resemblance to color field painting. Can be sent outside the US for..... More
Frankfurt: Societats-Verlag, 1930. First edition. Soft cover. 16p, several ills. + 200 ills., mostly full-page plates. They are numbered to 199; the 200th is the half-title photo. Half-title page detached. Original covers chipped. Text in German; captions in German, French, and English. Short survey of the first 30 years of..... More
![Third Annual Dinner [menu printed on silk]. Boston Marketmen's Republican Club](/pictures/thumb/26593.jpg?v=1616764742)
Boston: Elwell French (printer), 1891. First edition. Unbound folded sheet. The dinner was held at The Quincy (address Sinclair and Mann), Boston, February 11, 1891. There are well over 10 courses, starting with Bluepoints Deep Shell and moving on to soup, fish, removes [beef and fowl], entrees, releve [orange de..... More
1861. Bouillet, J.-B. Musee de Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dome). Clermont: Typographie de Paul Hubler 1861. 212p, no ills. Fair paperbound: institutional library discard, minimally marked. Covers detached, stitching loosening. Housed in card-stock folder. ** First edition of this guide to the recently established provincial museum in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Short introduction, list of..... More
Cambridge, MA: Privately printed (Harvard University), June 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 176p, no ills. Photo-duplicated typescript, printed on rectos. Tipped in: "This report is confidential and not for distribution or publication until permission has been granted by the Present of Harvard University." Covers lightly shelf-rubbed. A mid-century needs and opportunities..... More
New York: Bruce R. Lewin Gallery, 1995. Anton, Peter. First edition. seed packet. Unopened seed packet purportedly containing assorted cantaloupe seeds to be opened under zero gravity and sowed during a lunar eclipse. Issued as an invitation to a private preview of Peter Anton: Recent Sculptures. Stained (probably artist's linseed..... More
