Amherst, MA: University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, 1984. Puryear, Martin. First edition. Soft cover. 44p, many large ills., many in color. Photo is cropped on the sides. The first major exhibition survey of Puryear's mixed-media sculpture, monuments, installations, and proposed works. Includes a conversation among the authors and Puryear... More
London / New York: Studio Vista / Dutton, 1971. First edition. Soft cover. 160p, many photos. Index of 500 films, including their production companies, directors, and any variant titles. One in the publishers' pioneering (and now collectible) Pictureback series of inexpensive illustrated surveys of almost everything. SF films from a...... More
New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1972. Miro, Joan. First edition. Soft cover. 160p, over 90 ills. (60 full-page), some in color. Krauss explores "the visual and and conceptual relationship between Miro's painting of the 1920s and that of the 1960s." Miro was then still alive, and the show was organized with..... More
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1996. Hoch, Hannah. First edition. Hardcover (boards, quarter cloth). 224p, many ills., over 100 in color. No jacket (as issued?). Texts by Makela, Boswell, and Carolyn Lanchner. Catalogue of a major exhibition--the first comprehensive survey of Hoch's work in an American museum. Surveys "the full scope..... More
New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, n.d. [1933]. First edition. Unbound sheet. One sheet of red card stock, folded once. Printed in green. No ills. Closed, 9 x 6 inches. Checklist of 20 works, including some loans. The exhibition was held February 7-March 4 (no year given); dated from the Museum..... More
Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1985. Armajani, Siah. First edition. Soft cover. 96p, many photos, many in color. Substantial exhibition catalogue of Armajani's impossible yet logical living spaces, furniture, installations and other structures, chiefly in wood. This was the late artist's first comprehensive museum show. "Armajani has..... More
London: George Redway, 1896. Thomson, Hugh. Reprint edition. Hardcover, gilt stamped. 87p, many ills. + several plates and cover designs by Hugh Thomson. The memoir is by R. Farquharson Sharp. Frontispiece is detached. An early and often reprinted long poem on hare and fox hunting, by a lifelong enthusiast of..... More
New York: Whitman Saddle Co., n.d. [ca. 1885]. No stated edition. Soft cover. 43p, many line ills. Ca. 6 x 8 1/2 inches. Trade catalogue with descriptions and prices of many styles of saddles and trees--park, boys', hunting, racing, ladies' (5 pages, all with leaping horn), traveling, army, frontier, vaquero..... More
New York: O. Judd Co., 1886. First edition of Weld text; later printing of du Hays text (1st pub. in US in 1868). Hardcover. 142p + several wood-engraved plates of horses. No jacket (if issued). In 1868 the early Percheron importer and breeder Walter T. Walters published the first English..... More
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[Los Angeles/Catalina Island: n.d., mid-1920s]. Unpublished. Loose photos; some bound on stubs in imitation leather album. A total of 19 original and copy photographs documenting the stagecoaches that William Banning (Phineas's son) operated on Catalina Island, California. Some of the photos, and the vehicles, were presented by William to Los..... More
Jersey City, NJ: Perleberg & Fenney, n.d., ca. 1910-20s]. First edition. Loose leaves in portfolio, printed in sepia on glossy card stock. Many photos on 41 of 44 leaves, ca. 11 x 14 inches. Lacks plates 3, 38, and 39 (supplied in photocopy). Plate 3 shows various breeds, plates 38..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1905. Kemp-Welch, Lucy. First edition. Hardcover. 22p + 22 large mounted plates, 4 in color and the rest in grey tones. No jacket (if issued?). The first volume in the publisher's Artists of the Present-Day Series, ed. by W. Shaw Sparrow. This impressive book was published..... More
New York: Chanticleer Press, 1958. Munnings, Morris, Pollard, Herring, Stubs, Wootton, Alken. Limited edition. Hardcover (full leather). 296p, many plates, including many tipped-in color plates. One of "250 copies made for private distribution only," printed in Switzerland on handmade paper. In original board slipcase (poor, broken). A record of one..... More
New York: Rogers Peet & Company, 1900. No stated edition. Soft cover. 102p, 3 tipped-in color hunting scenes (plus one on cover), many halftone and line ills. Corner of one plate is chipped off. With mounted-in label of Jordan Marsh & Co., Boston, the eastern distribuors of the firm's livery..... More
Paris: A. Lacombe, 1771. Fourth edition (1st pub. 1766]. Hardcover (early full leather, spine gilt stamped). xii, [420]p + 10 large folding etched plates. The plates are misnumbered and misplaced, as in other copies, but complete. A few neat additions to plate 1, written in red ink. One short closed..... More
New York: Carlton Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 143p, many photos from family archives. Life and times of skillful horse tamer Beery (1861-1945)--charismatic teacher and successful entrepreneur--written by his granddaughter. With many anecdotes about his famous training demonstrations. His popular correspondence course, the Beery School of Horsemanship, has now been..... More
London: Printed for J. Walthoe, et al. 1729. 4th corrected edition (1st pub. in French 1644). Hardcover (old leather, new leather spine labels). [16], 376, [16]p + 6 engraved plates, most folding. Neatly mended closed tears to two pages and one plate, with no loss. The numbering of the plates..... More
London: Printed for Richard Phillips by R. Taylor, 1805. First edition. Hardcover (contemporary boards, later leather and spine labels). 2 vols. Vol. 1: [39], [619]p + 54 engraved pls., some folding and one hand-colored (Hereford bull frontispiece). One folding plate shows the Plan of Woburn Park Farm. Pp. 583-618 consists..... More
Saumur: S. Milon fils, n.d. [1890]. First edition. Soft cover, in new archival pressboard box with button ties. 2 vols.: 595, 775p + many plates from Newcastle, Dupaty du Clam, and other sources. Photo 2 shows the Versailles Manege, under the direction of M. d'Abzac. In French. A monumental history..... More
Munich and New York: Art Lithographic Publishing Co. (printed in Germany), n.d. [ca. 1890s]. Feller, Frank. No stated edition. Soft cover (printed color boards, tied with original ribbon). [16]p, 6 color plates and several line ills. by Frank Feller. No. 2498 of an unidentified series. Ca. 5 1/2 x 5..... More
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Malden-on-Hudson, NY: Mark IV, 1968. No stated edition. Soft cover. 2 items. (1) Group of 25 photos showing acts, horses, and performers in the Fratelli Riccobono equestrian circus. Each ca. 5 x 4 inches. Some are original, some seem to be copy prints. (2) Small book about the brothers and..... More
![Item #31799 El Arte en Mexico; Pintura Colonial 1-8 [out of an undetermined number]. Carlos...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31799.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1698150182)
Monterrey, Mexico: La Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc, n.d. [1930s]. No stated edition. Unbound sheets. Eight bifolia on card stock, 16 ills. (8 of them color plates) + 8 color advertisements for Cerveza Carta Blanca beer. Lacks the numbers following 8 (9, 10, 11, and more?). A collection of texts about and reproductions..... More
London: Tilt and Bogue for the proprietor, Charles Smith, 1842. Willson, Harry. First edition. Hardcover (original gilt- and blind-stamped boards, new cloth spine, rehinged). 82p + many ills. on 12 lithographed plates (5 in color, 1 mounted) + 6p of art supply ads. Heavily foxed; occasional penciling. Detailed advice chiefly..... More
New York: Clarkson N. Potter / Crown, 1986. Metzner, Sheila. First edition. Hardcover. N.p., 54 large color plates. "A Polaroid Book." Preface by Mark Strand, designed by Katy Homans. Jacket slightly chipped. Paitnerly portraits and still lifes, "enhanced by the muted colors and grainy texture of her prints, achieved through..... More
Chicago: Albert Rouiller's Art Galleries, printed by Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelly & Sons, 1913. First edition. Soft cover. 152p, many ills. Occasional marginal pencil marks. Pricelist of hundreds of etchings by painter-etchers George Charles Aid, George Walter Chandler, Charles W. Dahlgreen, C.K. Gleeson, Lester G. Hornby, Katharine Kimball, Bertha Lum..... More
