Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 286p, several photos. Slight wear to jacket. History of the innovative curriculum at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University from 1900 on, through a study of the administrations of the first six art directors (Charles F. Binns, Charles..... More
New York: Reinhold, 1956. Second printing (1st pub. 1955). Hardcover. 200p, many photos (6 in color), line ills., and 2 pages of mounted chips of "functional colors" for factories, offices, schools, and hospitals, and "decorative colors" for stores, hotels, restaurants, and homes. Jacket soiled, foxed, torn (edge tears not shown..... More
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 Present of Harvard University." Covers lightly shelf-rubbed. A mid-century needs and opportunities..... More
Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1879. First edition. Soft cover. 277p + 7 pls. Lacks front wrapper. Title page torn in half. Back wrapper present. The sewn gatherings are separating. Suitable for enclosure or for a good rebinding project. As first issued, in the Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France..... More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press for Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 144p, 128 ills. Small MIT 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..... 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
Berkeley: Arts & Crafts Press, 1999. Dow, Arthur Wesley. Limited edition. Sewn soft cover in self wrappers. Two pamphlets, laid in tri-fold cloth portfolio, which is lined with blue paper and closed with a ribbon and wood button. 26, 30p, each with many ills., a few color plates tipped in..... More
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New York: Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1949. First edition. Stapled soft cover. [24]p, several ills. Covers lightly age soiled. Laid in: list of MoMA patrons. Catalogue of an exhibition of 18 MoMA treasures held for the benefit of the Museum of Modern Art's 20th anniversary. Collects comments by contemporaneous art critics, writers..... 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
London: Quaritch, 1998. First edition. Soft cover. 94p, many line ills. + several color pls. Bookseller catalogue of 88 extraordinary European and British books of the 15th-19th centuries: Alberti, Durer, Chevreul, Euclid, Newton, Kepler, Fosse, and many more. The works treat dyeing, color printing, geometry, and much more. Can be..... More
