South Woodstock, CT: Charles B. Wood III, 1978. First edition. Soft cover. Section One (Images): 104p with over 200 ills. Section Two (Books): 87p, no ills. The second of Wood's pioneering catalogues in this field. Section One is devoted to over 200 books, albums, portfolios, and photographs from France, Britain..... More
Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum, 1983. Penck, A.R. First edition. Soft cover. [24]p, 16 plates (6 in color). Text in English and Hebrew. Exhibition catalogue of Penck's "Expedition to the Holy Land," a portfolio of 16 etchings, lithographs, screenprints, and aquatints (total edition size 84). One plate reproduces a screenprint..... More
Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1984. Dove, Arthur. First edition. Soft cover. 380p, 373 ills. + 64 color ills. The definitive work on Dove. This edition was published to accompany a joint exhibition among Terry Dintenfass Gallery, Barbara Mathes Gallery, and Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, with lists of the works shown..... More
New York: Wittenborn, n.d. [ca. 1958]. Hiler, Hilaire. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., many full-page plates, many in color. Additional texts by Hiler ("The Origin and Development of Structural Design") and Vincent Schmidt ("The Structuralism of Hilaire Hiler and Its Relation to Other Tendencies in Art"). Presentation of Hiler's paintings..... 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: American Art Association, 1916. First edition. Soft cover (stiff wrappers, in rubbed but sturdy slipcase). [Ca. 200]p, many ills. From the library of painter Stanley Marc Wright, with his bold ink stamp on both sides of the slipcase. Auction catalogue of 259 American, German, French, Danish, and other..... More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987. First American edition. Hardcover. 296p, 263 ills. (9 in color). Important survey of German architecture, ca. 1740-1845: the influence of France and England, neoclassicism in North Germany and South Germany, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Leo von Klenze, etc. With an applendix of every important German neoclassical..... More
![Item #31542 Eikoh Hosoe [Untitled 42]. James Alinder, ed., Ronald J. Hill](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31542.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1684786984)
Carmel, CA: The Friends of Photography, 1986. Eikoh Hosoe. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 31 plates and 3 small photos. The photos, from 1959 on, are grouped by theme: Man and Woman, Barakei, Kamaitachi, Embrace, Shifukei (Simon: A Private Landscape), Portraits and Workshops, and Architecture by Antonio Gaudi. Published as..... More
Boston: Library of the Boston Athenaeum, 1981. Stone, Arthur J. First edition. Soft cover. 24p, many ills., including photos of marks. Exhibition catalogue devoted to the work of "one of the last independent designers and master silversmiths of New England" (1847-1938). Includes information about his workshop. Checklist of a wide..... More
Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1968. Indiana, Robert. First edition. Soft cover. 63p, many ills., several in color. Catalogue for Indiana's first solo museum exhibition, which also traveled to San Antonio and Indianapolis. Very large and comprehensive, with much documentation. Can be sent outside the US for..... More
London: Canale, [1957]. Roberts, William. Limited edition. Hardcover (boards, designed by Roberts). 16p + 12 black-and-white pls., including several relating to World War I. No d.j., as issued? One of 300 copies, unnumbered. Text by Roberts, "William Roberts and Vorticism's Year," on his role in the development of English abstract..... More
![Item #31537 An Artist's Life, The Second Burst, The Finish [3 vols.]. Sir Alfred Munnings](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31537.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1684238740)
London: Museum Press, 1951-52. Munnings, Sir Alfred. Various printings. Hardcover. 3 vols.: totaling over 1000 pages, ca. 140 ills. Without the jackets. Vol. 1 is October 1952 reprint of the third edition (1st pub. 1950). Vol. 2 is December 1951 second edition (1st pub. 1951). Vol. 3 is October 1952..... More
Chicago: The Horseman, 1893. First edition. Hardcover (handsomely bound in brown cloth with leather spine label). Pp. 1089-2044 (26 issues) of this weekly journal, complete with all front covers and supplementary illustrations. Many photos and line ills., including a double-page painting of Directum 2:05 1/4 (photo 3). The front covers..... More
New York: Random House, 2003 (1st pub. 2001). Special Illustrated Collector's Edition. Hardcover. 378p, over 100 photos from Seabiscuit's day. Light shelfwear to jacket; bookseller label on back. Handsome large-format gift edition of the bestselling tale of Seabiscuit and the three men with whom he made racing history--rider Red Pollard..... More
New York: Ballantine, 2000. Stated first edition. Hardcover. 409p, no ills. The first edition, first printing, of the first title in the Sister Jane MFH murder mystery series. A prestigious Virginia hunt needs a new Master--but murder interferes. Seems to have been read once, carefully. Good for a gift for..... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1971. Russell, Charles M. Second printing. Hardcover. 317p, ca. 40 ills., some in color. Cover spine foxed. Jacket worn, chipped. Not a picture book or a critical study, but a remarkable compilation of ca. 3500 items by or illustated by Russell through 1966. Includes books..... More
London: William Clowes & Sons, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. 80p, no ills. No jacket (if issued). New leather spine label. An engaging little guide to the practicalities of hunting in the wake of World War I; the advice is based on much experience in the field. As well as hunting..... More
New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1969. Jackson, Harry. First edition. Hardcover. 98p, many ills. (some folding), many in color. Photographed through removable acetate jacket. Published to accompany a major exhibition of Jackson's popoular bronzes, paintings, and drawings of cowboy life in the American West. Despite the subtitle, this isn't a catalogue..... More
![Item #31529 The Rodeo: Souvenir Program for Mailing [Opening Day, March 9, 1912]. " J. H. Gwinn...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31529.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1684238735)
Los Angeles: "The Rodeo" 1912. First edition. Unbound sheet. One folded self-mailer of card stock, ca. 6 x 10 1/2 inches folded. Printed in red and black. Half of one page is pictured. Program for opening day, March 9, 1912. Lists 13 events, their prize money, conditions, and the March..... More
![Item #31527 Use Gombault's Caustic Balsam [with portrait of trotter Boralma 2:07]. Williams Co....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31527.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1684238734)
Cleveland: Lawrence, Williams Co., n.d. [ca. 1902]. No stated edition. Unbound card. Chromolithographed trade card, ca. 5 x 3 1/2 inches. Ink stamp of G. Jay Tompkins (a local distributor?) on back. Thomas Lawson's Boralma 2:07, "one of the most famous trotters seen on the turf," is used to advertise..... More
![Item #31526 1990 / 1991 Season's Greetings; [Alphabet Broadside]. Jerry Kelly, calligraphy](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31526.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1683639123)
Lunenberg, VT: Stinehour Press, 1990. Kelly, Jerry. First edition. Unbound sheet. One sheet, printed in red and shades of green. Ca. 10 x 34 inches. Very decorative! Will be sent rolled. Shipping/handling may be extra; please keep this in mind when ordering. More
New York: George Braziller, 1985. Picasso. First edition. Hardcover (red cloth). N.p., 20 large plates and many other ills., all by Picasso. Handsome facsimile edition of the limited edition first published in 1948. Picasso's etchings and aquatints interpret and embellish 20 sonnets by the 16th-century poet Gongora, which Picasso wrote..... More
New York: George Braziller, November 1983. Matisse. Second printing (1st pub. June 1983). Hardcover (black cloth), in good to very good slipcase (faded, lightly scuffed, sturdy). Ca. 150p, 20 large color ills. (some double page). A beautiful copy of this sumptuous facsimile edition of one of the all-time great artist's..... More
Santa Cruz, CA: Hobos from Hell, n.d. [ca. 1996]. First edition. Soft cover. 99p, many ills. (photos, cartoons, drawings, etc.). Dated from internal evidence. Zine anthology of accounts by various hobo writers on hobo lifestyle, travels, encounters, etc. Sometimes raunchy and violent. Includes a few ads for similar publications. Scarce..... More
New York: Achim Moeller Fine Art, 2005. Gojowczyk, Hubertus. First edition. Soft cover. 8p + 24 color plates. Gallery press release laid in. Bound in three different sizes of paper. Exhibition catalogue of Gojowcyzk's mixed-media altered books, including a series titled "Wunderkammer / Cabinet of Curiosities." More
