New York: American Art Association, 1921. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., several title-page illustrations. No prices realized. With an appreciation of Trumbull by Annie E. Trumbull and a long introduction to the collection. Auction catalogue of 1133 items "comprising a notable collection of books, tracts and broadsides of Connecticut and..... More
New York: Anderson Auction Co., 1906. First edition. Stapled soft cover. 73p (706 lots), no ills. The auction was held on February 15, 1906. Lightly creased; light cover wear. Contains 137 lots of bookplates with short identifications, 145 lots of Washingtoniana, 83 lots on the War of 1812, and 24..... More
New York: Argosy Book Stores, n.d. [1949]. First edition. Soft cover. 38p, no ills. Dated from penciled acquisition date, "July -49-." Addressed to Massachusetts historian H. Leavitt Horton; the pencil marks and notes within are presumably his. Lists 420 items, including "[Maxim] Karolik material" as noted on the cover. Can..... More
New York: Weintraub Gallery, 1969. Rood, John. First edition. Soft cover. [8]p, 12 ills. + color cover. Ex-museum-lib. (label on back cover, ink stamp on title page). Exhibition catalogue. Checklist of 12 works mostly in bronze, also marble and wood. Can be sent outside the US for less than the..... More
N.p. [Dorchester, MA?]: Unpublished, 1932. Original photographs. Unbound photographs. Two sepia-toned photographs showing nine women posing in 19th-century dress in a formal parlor. They are grouped differently in each photo. One is costumed as a man. "Bartlett Sisters 1932" is written in ink in the lower right of each photo..... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1933. Evans, Walker. First edition. Hardcover, stamped in silver. 441p + 31 photos by Evans and a few anonymous photographers. No jacket. Lightly shelf-rubbed though most of the stamping is bright. Small old bookseller and price labels on rear endpaper; "Stern Brothers, 2.64." Journalist and political activist Beals..... More
Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, 1984. First edition. Soft cover. 44p, 27 ills. + color covers. Ex-museum-lib. (cover label, internal ink stamp). Exhibition of works owned by the museum, promised to them, or lent by several private collectors. From Africa, the Americas, India, the Pacific, etc. The text..... More
Milan: Galleria Lawrence Rubin, 1999. Rauschenberg, Robert. First edition. Soft cover. 44p, 30 large plates. Ex-museum-lib. (cover label). Text in Italian and English. Photo is cropped on the right. Beautiful detailed reproductions. More
New York: Harry Stone, n.d. [ca. 1930?]. First edition. Soft cover. 36p, no ills. Bookseller catalogue: "In response to [the] growing demand for first editions of American authors we are happy to offer this catalogue of 350 titles by our own writers." Alcott, Dunbar, Emerson, Holmes, James, Norris, Poe, Roosevelt..... More
Helsinki: Museum of Art and Design, 1999. Higby, Wayne. First edition. Soft cover. 54p, many large color ills. In English. Exhibition of 15 works embodying "memory-traces" of canyons, rocks, the sea, etc. Short artist's statement. Long bibliography and biography by Helen W. Drutt English (who lent the works) and Huron..... More
Memphis, TN: Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, 1957. Lewis, Jeannette Maxfield. First edition. Unbound sheet. One folded sheet, 1 ill. Ex-lib. (ink stamp, shelf label). Checklist of 41 works, with a short biography and quotes from reviews. When she wasn't traveling, Lewis worked in her native California. The cover shows the..... More
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St. Louis: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1969. First edition. Soft cover. [18]p, many ills. "The first exhibition sponsored by Steinberg Art Gallery Associates (SAGA)." Ex-museum-lib. (bookplate and ink stamp). This exhibition brought together for the first time many up and coming young artists, mostly in their 20s: Peter Alexander..... More
Manchester, NH: Currier Gallery of Art, 1959. Hopper, Edward. First edition. Soft cover. [20]p, many ills. of the watercolors. Ex-museum-lib.: small ink stamp, label on front cover. With checklists of the 45 watercolors and 18 etchings exhibited. Billed as one of the very few Hopper exhibitions in New England to..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press for The Newberry Library and The Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 157p, 74 large color maps. A monumental presentation of beautiful detailed maps showing the American colonies, cities, the Spanish borderlands, Indian settlements, economic and cultural activity, political activity..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. Gauguin, La Farge. First edition. Hardcover. 329p, 122 ills. + 16 color plates. Brings together the "modernist primitivism of the French painter Paul Gauguin, the nostalgic exoticism of the American artist John La Farge, and the elite tourism of the American writer Henry Adams"..... More
Akron, OH: Akron Art Museum, 1985. Frank, Robert. First edition. Soft cover. 28p, 16 ills. Ex-museum-lib. (cover label, interior ink stamp). Images of Hoboken officials, the 1956 Chicago Democratic convention (including the famous tuba player), the 1984 San Francisco Democratic convention, New York City, some western scenes, etc. Can be..... More
Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Center, 1973. Man Ray. First edition. Soft cover. [32]p, 16 ills. Ex-museum-lib. (cover name, interior ink stamp). With a checklist of the 172 works, chronology, and long "selected bibliography." Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983. First edition. Soft cover. 123p, many ills., many in color. Exhibition catalogue of 81 items made by New York artists, or for New York clients or consumption--furniture, ceramics, textiles, metalwork, etc. Grouped into the categories Using the Past, Modern Art, Urban Life, Promoting..... More
Miami, FL: Miami Museum of Modern Art, 1962. Gillespie, Dorothy. First edition. Soft cover. 26p, ca. 20 ills., 2 in color + color covers. Ex-museum lib. (cover label, ink stamp inside). One of 2000 copies. Catalogue of about 20 abstract oils, gouaches, and drawings. With 2 photos of the artist..... More
Chicago: Chicago and North Western Railway [and] Union Pacific Railroad, 1950. No stated edition. Soft cover. 64p, many maps, line ills., and photos, many in color. Ca. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Brochure offering 10 "escorted all-expense tours to Western wonderlands" by rail and bus. The tours, ranging from..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 225p + over 200 plans and photos, many never before published. Jacket back is sunned. Photo is a little cropped. Detailed, insightful comparison of Rio and Brasilia, by a renowned architectural historian who spent much time there. "Both cities are typically..... More
Providence: John Carter Brown Library, 1990. First edition. Soft cover. xvi, 16, 36p + 12 plates. Printed by Meriden Gravure-Stinehour Press. Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition The Book in the Americas, presented at the Americas Society Art Gallery, New York, in 1990. Describes and collates 12 supplemental books..... More
Washington DC: Phillips Collection, 1965. MacIver. First edition. Soft cover. 12p, several ills. Ex-museum lib. (cover label, ink stamp inside). Loan exhibition of 30 paintings from institutional and private owners, with checklist. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1959. First edition. Soft cover. 12p, no ills. Ex-museum-lib.: small ink stamp, pencil accession note. Reproduced typescript, as issued. Photo 2 shows the start of the paintings checklist. Account of "the most ambitious project so far to implement the East-West cultural exchange agreement..... More
Irvine, CA: Irvine Museum, 2001. Longpre. First edition. Soft cover. 141p, many ills., most in color. Comprehensive study of the career of Longpre (1855-1911), a French-born California Impressionist who was active in the early 20th-century Los Angeles art community. He was well known (and commercially very successful) for his popular..... More
