![Reproductions on Sale of Objects in the Collections (2 editions) [and] Publications on Sale [and]...](/pictures/thumb/30742.jpg?v=1644153903)
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press, Boston, 1925-1930. First edition. Soft cover; postcards. Two brochures of art reproductions for sale (1927, 1930); one pamphlet of publications for sale (1925); and Postcard Series 4.1 (no date, but at least before 1927). The catalogues..... More
London: G. Michelmore & Co., n.d. [April 1921 from receipt date]. First edition. Soft cover (yapped). 191p (251 iems) + several pls. of bindings, a few in color and/or folding. Bookseller catalogue, with occasional pencil checkmarks. One large folding color plate shows an elaborate embroidered 18th-century Italian binding made for..... More
![The New York Woman [first issue, 1938]; Edited for the Woman of Metropolitan New York. James...](/pictures/thumb/30040.jpg?v=1633973494)
New York: New York Woman, 1938. First edition. Paperbound. First issue of this weekly magazine, September 9, 1936, "after two years of intensive preparation." Fashion tips, society gossip, life-style advice for all up-to-date New York women: working women, young marrieds, young mothers, and those in search of a new look..... More
Lambertville, NJ: Arts & Crafts Quarterly Press, 1993. Grueby, William H. First edition. Soft cover. 119p, over 180 ills., 63 in color. Comprehensive study of the quintessential American Arts and Crafts potter, his studio, and his production of vases, tiles, and other ceramic ware. More
Windham, CT: Elizabeth Moody, 1982. First edition. Soft cover. 52p, several line ills. Showcases winners of author and illustrator awards for children's books; also a few other awards, such as the National Book Award. Chiefly books published before 1976. No other copies online at the time of this listing. Can..... More
Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1998. Morell, Abelardo. First edition. Soft cover. 63p, many large photos. Evocative photographs made while Morell was artist in residence at the Gardener, "revealing the extraordinary in the ordinary." Texts by poet Simic and Gardner curator Jennifer R. Gross. More
![Col. Louis J. Kolb Collection of Books, Manuscripts & Historical Objects [cover title]. Wm. D....](/pictures/thumb/30354.jpg?v=1633973563)
Philadelphia: Wm. D. Morley, 1941. First edition. Soft cover. 126p, several ills. Covers torn at top and bottom. Unpriced. 332 items: "superlative Washington, Lincon & Grant autographs, books, and relics; manuscripts including 'Star-Spangled Banner' ,'Dixie'--'Home, Sweet Home'--'Hail Columbia'; association books, fine bindings, etc." Includes desk and chair used by Lincoln..... More
Edinburgh: Graeme Murray, 1990. Finlay, Ian Hamilton. First edition. Soft cover. 32p, no ills. Prospectus laid in. Lists 773 works, grouped by The Wild Hawthorn Press, Poor.Old.Tired.Horse, Books and Booklets, Cards and Folding Cards, Poems/Prints, Proposals, Miscellaneous, Exhibition Catalogues and Related Books, and Morning Star Publications. Prepared by Murray and..... More
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1997. Rogier van der Weyden. First edition. Soft cover. 221p, over 50 ills., 33 in color. The first volume in the ME FECIT series, dedicated to analyses of individual 15th- and 16th-century paintings. Detailed case study of this northern masterpiece--its subjects, iconography, context, and much technical analysis..... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society for Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 260p, 314 duotone photos printed by Rapoport Printing Co. Jacket spine faded. With an essay by Therese Thau Heyman. Seminal survey of the nature of western landscape and many aspects of its..... More
Boston: Goodspeed's, 1935. Nason, Thomas. First edition. Unbound. Small card, 1 ill. Age wear and soil, old tack hole at top. Announcement / invitation card for this exhbition, which was held December 2-31, 1935. A scarce piece of Goodspeed's bookstore ephemera. Can be sent outside the US for less than..... More
![Instructions concerning Erecting of a Library [etc.]. Gabriel Naudeus](/pictures/thumb/26574.jpg?v=1633973482)
1903. Naudeus [Naude], Gabriel. Instructions concerning Erecting of a Library: Presented to My Lord The President De Mesme. As now interpreted by Jo. Evelyn, Esquire. Introd. by John Cotton Dana. Cambridge, MA: Houghton, Mifflin at the Riverside Press 1903. xxxii, 160p, no ills. Good hardcover (marbled boards, leather spine). Some..... More
New York: Collection J.B. Neumann, n.d. [ca. 1936]. First edition. Soft cover. N.p. [15 pls.]. Text by Neumann on the inside covers. Catalogue issued from Neumann's gallery at 509 Madison Avenue, offering chiefly northern European and Italian old master paintings. Includes works by an unknown 15th-century Austrian master, Bosch, Zurbaran..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1945. Strand, Paul. Second [revised] edition. Hardcover. 32p,. 23 plates. No d.j. The first monograph on Strand, and MOMA's first monograph on a photographer. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Cooperative Society; printed by The Albertype Company, Brooklyn, n.d. [early 1930s]. No stated edition. Soft cover, bound with original cord. N.p., 24 large gravure plates + cover. No text except for identifying captions. Owner's ink name on cover. Lovely views of an empty, tranquil Harvard Yard and..... 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
![Announcing Tristram Shandy from the Arion Press [cover title]. No stated author, Arion Press](/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
![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
![Zakko Hinagata [Templates for Carpenters] -- 2 books. Taiga Hankoku Ochiai, Sentaro Egawa, text,...](/images/noimage.png)
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 wood construction and carving. Originally printed in two 2-volume sets. Ours are volume 1, number 1, and..... 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
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
