Cambridge, MA: Privately printed (Harvard University), June 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 176p, no ills. Photo-duplicated typescript, printed on rectos. Tipped in: "This report is confidential and not for distribution or publication until permission has been granted by the President of Harvard University." Covers lightly shelf-rubbed. A mid-century needs and opportunities..... More
New York: Dutton, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 142p, many line ills. on 64 plates. Owner's small bookplate. Jacket is chipped. Introduces the principles of all-over and border geometric patterns. Many good ideas for quilters here! In the publisher's series of wide-ranging "Education of To-Day" books. The front flap advertises An..... More
Camden, NJ: A.J. Milliette Printing & Publishing Co., 1893. First American edition (1st pub. in France 1860). Hardcover. 330p + 7 plates (photos of the Acropolis and Parthenon horsemen). No jacket, probably as issued. Roberts was encouraged to do the translation by her friend Emily Sartain. Romanticized conversations among a...... More
![Item #32379 [Two Papers on Prussian Blue]: Recherches Chimiques sur la Teinture AND Premiere Note...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32379.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724704688)
Paris: Institut de France, 1837 and n.d. [1850s]. First edition. Disbound. The first paper was read to the Academie de Sciences de l'Institut de France on August 7, 1837, and published as its Sixieme Memoire in vol. 19. Pp. [491]-551, a few tables. The second paper was published as an..... More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press for Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 144p, 128 ills. Small overstock mark on bottom fore-edges. Critical study of Dada and Surrealist use of "words, letters, and numbers in their works [which] altered perceptions of what a painting or an art object..... More
Watkins Glen, NY: Century House, 1971. Prang, Louis. First trade edition. Hardcover. 192p, many ills. + many ills. on 16 color plates. In the publisher's Library of Victorian Culture series. Jacket is soiled and torn, as shown. The first comprehensive account of Prang's life and work as art educator and..... More
Chicago: American-Marietta Company, 1960. No stated edition. Comb-bound soft cover (2 links broken off). 16p, many color ills. (1 folding) and several wood chips. Part of the glassine guard page has adhered to part of the sample of varnished mahogany. A.I.A. File No. 25-D-6. Principles of harmonizing the finishes 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
Boston: Ginn, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. 162p, no ills. Covers lightly rubbed, paper label browned. From the library of a professor Cross, with his pencil name and with a gift card laid in. Perhaps a later printing? (copyright line reads 66.12). No jacket (as issued?). Originally published in the scientific..... More
![Item #32604 Karl Gerstner + "This picture is called Carro 64" [2 items]. George W....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32604.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1747078549)
New York: Staempfli, 1965. Gerstner, Karl. First edition. Unbound sheets. One sheet, accordion folded to make 6 panels, printed on both sides;11 ills. + color cover ill. Laid in: "This picture is called Carro 64" (one folded sheet; 7 ills., 1 in color; shown in photo 2). Ex-lib. (ink name..... More
Manchester, UK: Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, 1988. First edition. Soft cover. 31p, many ills. An informative exhibition organized by the staff and students of the Course in Art Gallery and Museum Studies, University of Manchester. Wide-ranging survey of gesture in its pictorial, narrative, communicative, and theatrical contexts. The..... More
