Springfield, MA: Copyrighted by Julia Munson Sherman, 1944. First edition. Soft cover. Vol. 32, no. 4. Pp. 147-244 + several pls., many ads. Articles by various museum directors and others on the histories, status, and policies of the National Gallery of Art (Walker), Walters Art Gallery (Hill), Princeton (Mather), Cone..... More
![Item #25240 Bayard [1 of 1590 copies]. Lo Duca](/pictures/thumb/25240.jpg?v=1633973457)
Paris: Prisma, 1943. First edition. Hardcover (original boards). 30p + 49 pls. followed by fold-out captions. No. 715 of 1590 copies. Ink name of previous owner, a Boston-area photographer. No d.j. (as issued?). The first book on Hippolyte Bayard, the early French photographer of the 1840s. Reproduces his portraits (including..... More
New York: Lori Bookstein Fine Art, 1997. First edition. No binding. One sheet of glossy card stock, folded to make 6 panels, 2 ills. Ca. 8 x 10 inches, folded. Announcement of an exhibition of recent gridded paintings by this abstract and color field artist. With Wilkins's text on 3..... More
Munich: Rosenthal, n.d. [ca. 1940]. First edition. Soft cover. 146p, 1 plate printed in red and black + cover ill. Over 1800 short entries of books, manuscripts, autographs, documents, and other material relating to Bavaria, from the 16th century on. Issued as a supplement to Katalog 133. Can be sent..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1974. First edition. Hardcover (boards). 133p + 8p of photos. Lacks original glassine jacket. Presentation from art historian Carl Nordenfalk. On the surface, was there ever a less likely pair of correspondents than the plainspoken Midwestern novelist and the erudite German emigre art historian? "What..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. Macaulay, David. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 80p, many ills. by the author. Unclipped jacket (price $6.95). Jacket photo is cropped. Macaulay's pioneering first book, filled with his detailed pen-and-ink drawings that illustrate the step-by-step creation of the fictional catheral of Chutreaux--its buttresses, sculptures, stained glass..... More
![Item #26540 Exhibitions from the Summer Colonies: No. 3 Mystic [1929-30]. Macbeth Gallery](/pictures/thumb/26540.jpg?v=1633973480)
1929. Macbeth Gallery. Exhibitions from the Summer Colonies: No. 3 Mystic. NY, Dec. 24, 1929-Jan. 6, 1930. One sheet, folded twice to make 4 panels, printed on one side; 1 ill. Panel size 4 x 8 inches. Good (handling soil, one-inch closed tear to bottom margins). ** Reprises part of..... More
Utrecht: A. Oosthoek's Uitgeversmaatschappij for the International Union of Crystallography, 1965. Escher, M.C. First edition. Hardcover. 84p, 41 pls., many in color. A few light stains to front cover, two tiny spots to one inside margin. No jacket. Description and analysis of Escher's patterns--how they use classical symmetry, black-and-white symmetry..... More
Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum [Catalogus 202], 1959. First edition. Soft cover. [8]p, 3 flat-color plates, including a double-page spread and a spread running across both inside covers and underneath the text. Another plate wraps around the covers. Printed on heavy tan stock. No deaccession stamp, but a legitimate museum discard (bookplate..... More
London: Maggs Bros. Summer 1932. First edition. Soft cover. 120p, a few plates. Bookseller catalogue of more than 400 annotated items handwritten by royal and noble women, actresses, novelists and dramatists, artists, women in religious orders, and others from throughout Britain and Europe, of the 16th-19th centuries. The item numbering..... More
London: Maggs Bros. June 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 90p, several line ills. Back cover dusty. Fwd. by Philip Gosse, author of "History of Piracy." Bookseller catalogue of 363 items: books and ephemera of the 17th-20th centuries dealing with "highwaymen, murderers, pirates, plotters, robbers, smugglers, witches, etc." Chiefly non-fiction. Indexed..... More
London: Maggs Bros. Spring 1940. First edition. Soft cover. 96p + 23 ills. 264 items "written mainly on clay, papyrus, vellum and paper; but also on linen, leather, bamboo leaves, etc." Issued early in what became the year of the Battle of Britain. Second photo shows the summary table of..... More
![Item #30321 A Royal Catalogue [Catalogue 606]; Comprising Books, Bindings, Autograph Letters,...](/pictures/thumb/30321.jpg?v=1633973553)
London: Maggs Bros. May 1935. First edition. Soft cover. Over 220p, several text ills. + 36 pls. Light edge wear to covers; fore-edges foxed. 684 items relating to royalty over the centuries in Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. "Issued to commemorate the silver jubilee of H.M...... More
No place (printed in San Mateo, CA): San Carlos Villagers, n.d. [1967-68]. First edition. Hardcover. 117p, several photos and line ills. Covers are splayed due to cross-grain binding. No jacket, as issued. . San Carlos lies between San Francisco and San Jose, in San Mateo County on the San Francisco Peninsula. ..... More
London: Marks & Co., n.d. [ca. 1938-39]. First edition. Soft cover. 32p + 2 color pls. of the bestiary. 482 items: Agriculture and Husbandry; Botany, Gardening, Horticulture, &c. (items 32-198); Entomology; Geology; Ichthyology; Ornithology and Oology (items 287-424a); Zoology. The firm later gained renown in "84 Charing Cross Road." Can..... More
London: Marlborough Rare Books, n.d. [1950s-60s]. First edition. Soft cover (bumped, some handling wear). 44p, several ills. 209 items, described in detail. Opens with George Bernard Shaw's copy of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, with 6 MS leaves in Shaw's hand on the help he gave to Lawrence and other..... More
London: Marlborough Rare Books, n.d. [1950s?]. First edition. Soft cover. 64p, a few ills. Bookseller catalogue with 423 items, including "festival books, colour plate books and topographical views." Chiefly 18th-19th century works; also a 16th-century Flemish album of architectural drawings and other Renaissance drawings. Can be sent outside the US..... More
London: Martin Breslauer, n.d. [1970s]. First edition. Soft cover. 70p, many ills. Printed in red and black. Large-format bookseller catalogue with 321 items on many subjects--manuscripts, autographs, hisorical documents, 15th-20th-century books, bindings, Oriental books, bibliography and allied subjects. One of the firm's last London catalogues. More
Paris: Promodis, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 539p, many ills. + many color ills. on 38 plates. Chipped d.j. Masterful history of the 19th-century French book, with chapters by various experts. Covers book production, publishing and bookselling, the illustrated press, genres and reading audiences, etc. Large and heavy; shipping/handling will be..... More
![Item #26447 The National Architect [July 1916, St. Charles Hotel, Atlantic City]. Master...](/pictures/thumb/26447.jpg?v=1633973479)
Philadelphia: National Architect, 1916. First edition. Stapled paperbound. 40p, many large photos and line ills. Features the work of Hewitt & Granger, Architects: St. Charles Hotel in Atlantic City and the YWCA Building in Kensington, Philadelphia. Also 4 watercolors of church and civic interiors in Belgium, one (all?) by Louis..... More
London: Penguin Books, 1942. Second printing (1st pub. 1940). Soft cover. 172p, no ills. Outer pages worn and relined; new covers with hand lettering. Ink name of C. Kerr on front endpaper. The second novel by Oxford don and World War II intelligence officer John C. Masterman. From the library..... More
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1958. First edition. Soft cover. [16]p, a few ills. Exhibition checklist of little magazines and literary reviews from the collection of Dr. Marvin Sukov, with their addresses at the time. Some "are not strictly speaking little magazines, but like little magazines are not easy to find..... More
New York: Artist's Limited Edition in association with Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 132p, 91 ills., a few plates in color. Jacket rubbed, torn at edges. A survey of the interrelation of art and human anatomy from antiquity on by the longtime Metropolitan Museum print curator. Essays..... More
![Item #30519 The Wind beyond the Wall, A Walled Garden in Moylough, Winter in the Eye [3 books]....](/pictures/thumb/30519.jpg?v=1634144823)
Brownsville, OR; Galway: Story Line Press; Salmon Poetry, 1991; 1995, 2003. Second American printing (The Wind beyond the Wall); the others first editions. Soft cover. Variously paged, no ills. From the library of an American poet and professor. The Wind beyond the Wall is inscribed to him, 1995. A Walled..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1998. First edition. Hardcover (textured fabric). 104p, 23 text ills.; 66 color ills. (chiefly large detailed photos). No jacket (as issued?). Photo is slightly cropped. Analysis and beautiful presentation of these sumptuous, shimmering fabrics. They are grouped by type: transparent, dyed, reflective, printed, sculpted..... More
