Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1943. Kirmse, Marguerite. No stated edition but presumably first. Hardcover (printed boards). 60p, many ills. by Marguerite Kirmse, a few plates + jacket in color. Back of jacket soiled, one-inch closed tear at top. Jacket is unclipped (price $1.00). Little Nipper discovers snow. One of the appealing dog..... More
Geneva: Musee de l'Athenee, 1960. Dufy; Buffet. First edition. Soft cover. [20]p, many ills., 1 in color. Exhibition announcement laid in. In French. Exhibition catalogue. Checklists of 37 works by Dufy and 37 works by Buffet, all chiefly oils. "Raoul Dufy ou le Triomphe de la Joie" by Courthion, reprinted..... More
London: Marlborough Fine Art, June 1967. Nicholson, Ben. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 12 large color plates (1 folding). In original acetate jacket. With "Ben Nicholson: The Latest Reliefs" by Geoffrey Grigson. Exhibition catalogue of eleven painted reliefs and one oil wash, all created in 1966-1967. Can be sent outside..... More
Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1984. Oakley, Violet. First edition. Soft cover. [16]p, many ills. + color cover. Exhibition catalogue of 26 "demanding objects" and related works that Oakley designed as an ensemble for the Vassar College Alumnae House living room in 1922-1924--painted ceiling, mystical-religious triptych, painted and illuminated..... More
Tokyo: Galerie Tokoro, 1993. Shinro Ohtake. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., large color plates (some double-page) of 14 works, showing many of them from different angles. Cover photo is slightly cropped. Large catalogue of a 1993-94 exhibition. Text ("Premonition of the Sea" ) and captions in Japanese and English; artist..... More
New York: Curt Valentin, n.d. [ca. 1954-55]. First edition. Unbound sheet. One sheet, folded once, no ills. Lists the 37 books and portfolios published by Curt Valentin from 1940 into 1954. A nice piece of art publishing ephemera. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping..... More
Paris: G. de Malherbe [printer], 1904. First edition. Stapled softcover. 8p, no ills. Checklist of 170 works of equestrian art, which were exhibited at the Grand Palais during the Paris concours hippique (horse show) of 1904. They included oils, watercolors, sculpture, and a few drawings. Among the artists, most of..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 2002. Oelbaum, Zeva. First edition. Hardcover. 96p, many photos printed in sepia duotone. Instead of a jacket, a sheet with information about the book is mounted to the rear cover, as issued. Oelbaum was inspired by a student teacher's century-old botany journal that she found in Maine..... More
Chicago: Chicago University of Commerce, 1913. No stated edition. Hardcover. 293p, many photos and line ills. Some offsetting from the plates. No jacket (as issued?). Textbook, with test questions at the end. Chapters by Thomas A. Bird, Homer J. Buckley, Henry S. Bunting, E.N. Ferdon, and Samuel C. Dobbs. On..... More
Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1985. Bonnot, Agnes. First edition. Soft cover. 72p, ca. 40 black-and-white photos by Bonnot. Short text in French by Caujolle. Old bookstore price sticker on back of lightly shelfsoiled vellum jacket. Evocative photos of horses in many guises--harness racing, in training at Saumur, close-up details in the..... More
![Item #31059 Blind Beauty [advance reading copy]. K. M. Peyton](/pictures/thumb/31059.jpg?v=1660653423)
New York: Dutton, 2001. Advance reading copy of the first American edition. Soft cover. 360p, no ills. Owner's neat ink stamp on two bottom margins. One of the best novels by this masterful author of many fine novels, including the Flambards series. Technically young adult (with some adult themes), but..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 271p, no ills. Covers dampstained and wrinkled, as shown. Ex-lending library. Occasional staining to the gutters, else Internally clean and complete. Western romance set in the Arizona desert, by an author more remembered today for his cowboy poetry. "Miss Percival, a pretty girl..... More
Warrenton, VA: Virginia Horseman's Association, 1951. First edition. Unbound sheets. Vol. 5, nos. 1 and 2 of the Virginia Horsemen's News. 24p, no ills.; several pedigrees. This is a PHOTOCOPY of this issue of a very scarce magazine. Hewitt discusses some current breeding theories and leading European stud farms. His..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 245p + several photos. How a group of British aristocrats sought to make their fortunes in the American cattle business in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, and Texas, in the late 19th century. For instance, one of them, the Earl of Dunraven, bought the whole..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (Belknap Press), 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 553p, 180 ills. from many sources. One-inch closed tear to top of back jacket. Landmark "panoramic history of exhibitions 1600-1862" in London--a detailed account of the display of relics, waxworks, pleasure domes, dioramas, theatrical spectacles, museums, freak shows, mechanical..... More
![Item #31049 Fine Standard Sets and Gift Books Mostly in Fine Bindings [cover title]. Himebaugh,...](/pictures/thumb/31049.jpg?v=1660043444)
New York: Himebaugh & Browne Book Stores, n.d. [ca. 1940?]. First edition. Soft cover. 52p + several plates, mostly fine bindings. Catalogue of 367 books and a few paintings. Some of the categories are: Napoleon, presidential autographs, inexpensive single books, small standard and gift sets, Oxford poets and classics, Limited..... More
Philadelphia and New York: Rosenbach Company, n.d. [1920]. First edition. Soft cover. [10]p, no ills. Pages age browned. Published to promote Rosenbach's offering of these books. With contemporary penciling, often noting buyer and price. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate... More
Brattleborough, VT: Ken Leach, 1983. First edition. Stapled sheets. 46p, no ills. Duplicated typescript, as issued. Light handling wear. Bookseller's catalogue of "odd volumes of American books, published in two or more volume sets prior to 1850, in original bindings." 805 items, including titles by Jane Austen, James Fenimore Cooper..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1934. d'Aulaire. Stated first edition. Hardcover (pictorial boards). [32]p, many line ills. and color plates enhanced with gold. Without the jacket. Children's picture book, using scenes of nature and children's daily life to interpret the Protestant version of The Lord's Prayer. (There was also a...... More
Sausalito, CA: Windgate Press, 1985. Moulin, Gabriel. First edition. Hardcover. 208p, 171 large photos. Cover edges sunned, outer pages slightly foxed; bottom fore-edges stained. Moulin (1872-1945) was a prominent society and architectural photographer, who documented the lavish private estates and gardens of wealthy San Francisco Bay Area families--first with glass-plate..... More
London: The Women's Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 242p, 40 ills. Examines "the aspirations and expectations of Victorian women artists [painters and sculptors], their struggle for proper training, for exhibition and for unqualified recognition in the male-dominated art world." With case histories of Henrietta (Mrs. E.M.) Ward, Joanna Mary Boyce..... More
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1938. Blake, William. First edition. Soft cover. 85p, many ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue: 233 lots. For Clemens, they include "manuscripts, autographs, first editions including the manuscript of 'Tom Sawyer' from which the London 1876 edition was printed." Also various "autograph letters, first..... 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
New York: Norton, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 311p, many photos, plans, elevations, and other line ills. (many previously unpublished). "By tracing the powerful flux of ideas at Harvard's Graduate School of Design in the 1930s and 1940s, Anthony Alofsin reveals a radically novel picture of how American modernism emerged, struggled..... More
Indianapolis: Horseman and Fair World, 1942-1944. First edition. Soft cover. Three year-end Christmas issues of this "national trotting turf & fair weekly" for 1942, 1943, and 1944. Variously paged, many photos. Somewhat worn, some old dampstaining, but complete. Lots of photos of leading trotting and pacing horses of the day..... More
