No place [San Francisco?]: Privately printed, 1978. Adams, Ansel. First edition. Unbound folded sheet. 9 x 12 inches, folded. Edges worn and soiled. Not yellowed as the photo seems to show. The reproduction is fine. Printed on coated stock by Pacific Lithograph Company, supervised by George Waters (Adams's longtime printer)..... More
New York: Wittenborn, 1961. Callery, Mary. First edition. Hardcover. 164p, 172 black-and-white ills. Front of jacket soiled, as shown; front flap creased (photo is taken through removable acetate jacket). Texts in English and French. With a summary catalogue of 191 works in bronze, aluminum, clay, plaster, iron, and stone. Comprehensive..... More
![Item #30388 [Set of 22 Color Poster Postcards for the 1972 Munich Olympics]. Joksch Aicher, Nagy,...](/pictures/thumb/30388.jpg?v=1633973574)
Murnau: Hamann-Verlag, 1972. Aicher,Jjoksch, Wirthner, Nagy. No stated edition. Postcards. Numbered 101 through 122 in the series "Offizielle Olympia-Poster des Organisationskomitees der Spiele der XX. Olympiade Munchen 1972." . Twenty-two postcards that reproduce the vibrant posters designed by Aicher, Joksch, Wirthner, Nagy. (Otl Aicher also designed the Games' spiral-sun logo and..... More
Valley Cottage, NY: Aleph-Bet Books, n.d. [1984]. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 22 ills. (somewhat faintly reproduced). A wide variety of titles from this leading specialist, 258 items in all. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
New York: R.R. Bowker, 1964. First edition. Soft cover. 224p, several ills. in publishers' ads. Pages age yellowed. A very few lightly dogeared corners. Covers lightly age soiled. With the imprint of Hathaway House Bookshop, Wellesley, MA. Arranged by grade and subject, with indexes to authors, titles, series, and illustrators..... More
Kyoto: Hoshino Publishing, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 332p, ca. 300 black-and-white photos + 2 color plates of decorative patterns. Slightly shaken, first gathering detached, guardsheets over color plates torn, pencil scribbling on endpapers and in some margins, ink stamp of former owner. Covers rubbed. No jacket, if issued. Photographic survey..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1919. 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 art as well as..... 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
New York: American Art Association/Anderson Art Galleries, 1935. First edition. Soft cover. 175p (354 lots), many pls. Bid sheet bound in. No prices realized. Features the original manuscripts of the "Liber Scriptorum" of The Authors Club and a series of unpublished letters by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning. Also..... More
New York: American Art Association / Anderson Galleries, 1936. First edition. Hardcover (boards). 337p, several line ills. The sale was held on March 11 and 12, 1936. Auction catalogue of 565 lots, featuring Perry's collection of every book completed by the Kelmscott Press (lots 236-302), including all the editions printed..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 118p, no ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 540 lots: books and manuscripts chiefly of the 18th-20th centuries from America, Britain, and Europe. Lots 154-171 are "beautiful books printed at the Doves Press." Can be sent outside..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1938. First edition. Soft cover. 108p, a few line ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 608 lots. Besides the Dunbar "Tamarlane," they include "Civil War autographs & letters by Lincoln, Grant, Lee, & others, property of the Estate of John Wanamaker, Philadelphia..... More
![Item #31020 Sales 4221 and 4242: The Library of Abel Cary Thomas [cover title]. American Art...](/pictures/thumb/31020.jpg?v=1658836809)
New York: American Art Association, 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 2 parts, complete: 132, 121p, a few line ills. Unused bid sheets bound in. Auction catalogues of over 1100 lots: "first editions and autograph letters and manuscripts," including Washington's signed copy of Jeffries on two aeronautical voyages, and an "apparently..... More
New York: Anderson Galleries, 1919. First edition. Soft cover (parts of backstrip chipped away). 1020 lots + many pls. New York Times account of the sale laid in, browning the neighboring pages. The sale totaled $104,269. A well-handled copy, with many pencil prices and some notes by a bidder who..... More
New York: Anderson Galleries, 1924. First edition. Soft cover. 38p, 3 ills. of title pages. Covers worn and soiled; internally clean and complete. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 266 lots: "source books: books by and about Shakespeare, English literature of the Elizabethan period, etchings, engravings, etc. pertinent..... More
New York: Anderson Galleries, 1928. First edition. Soft cover. 34p, a few line ills. Laid in: Anderson Galleries sale catalogue 2233 offering the "Manuscript Horae together with the only perfect copy in America of Nicolaus de Lyra's 'Postillae super Bibliam' [Strassburg, ca. 1472], the property of Professor Paul Soubeiran de..... More
![Item #30485 [Two 1930s French Billheads for Nestle Chocolates]. Anonymous designer](/pictures/thumb/30485.jpg?v=1633973598)
Paris: J. Simon (printer), n.d. [ca. 1933]. No stated edition. Two unbound sheets. Two unused French billheads for Nestle chocolates. One is headed by a bucolic illustration of a milkmaid and dairy cow, printed in red and green. Its verso promotes the health advantages of sugar in the diet of..... More
![Item #30487 Bartlett Sisters [1932]. Anonymous Photographer](/pictures/thumb/30487.jpg?v=1633973599)
N.p. [probably U.S.]: Unpublished, 1932. Original photographs. Unbound photographs. Two sepia-toned photographs showing nine women posing in 19th-century dress in a formal parlor. They are grouped differently in each photo. One is costumed as a man. "Bartlett Sisters 1932" is written in ink in the lower right of each photo..... More
![Item #30484 Northampton Street, Easton, Pa. [windowed souvenir mail card]. Anonymous Photographer](/pictures/thumb/30484.jpg?v=1633973598)
New York: Rotograph Co., 1905. No stated edition. Postcard. Souvenir mail card featuring a windowed set of smaller views. Here the metal clasp holds an accordion-folded strip with 12 photos of sites in and around Easton--The Circle, Delaware River Bridge, Court House, Library, and Lafayette College (several). The main scene..... More
New York: Viking Penguin, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 216p, many ills. + 8 color pls. Pioneering survey of prominent women artists and designers in many fields, "ranging over the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, the Glasgow School of Art, the Russian Constructivists, the Bauhaus, the Wiener Werkstatte, the great..... More
Utrecht: Antiquariaat Forum, 1998. First edition. Soft cover. 197p, many ills., many in color. Bookseller's large handsome catalogue of 752 manuscripts, books, and globes relating to travels, voyages, discoveries, atlases, natural history, architecture and gardens, navigation and related fields. Fully indexed. More
Manchester, UK: Manchester City Art Gallery, 1975. Wood, Edgar; Sellers, James Henry. First edition. Soft cover. 96p, ca. 30 photos and line ills. Covers rather soiled from handling; internally nice and clean. From the library of architect James Stirling, with his bookplate. Exhibition catalogue of the buildings and furnishings by..... More
New York: Argosy Book Stores, n.d. [1949]. First edition. Soft cover. 38p, no ills. Dated from penciled acquisition date, "July -49-." Addressed to Massachusetts historian H. Leavitt Horton; the pencil marks and notes within are presumably his. Lists 420 items, including "[Maxim] Karolik material" as noted on the cover. Can..... 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
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Advocate, 2008. Ashbery, John. First edition. Soft cover. 72p, many ills. and photos. Laid in: DVD with animation, claymation, and other films by 5 artists (6 tracks total). This issue of The Harvard Advocate was published in anticipation of Ashbery's reciving the Harvard Arts Medal in Spring..... More
