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
Watkins Glen, NY: Century House, 1971. Prang, Louis. First edition (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..... 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
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 160p, 116 ills., including 32 large color plates. Described as the first book in English "to focus on the changing perception of light in early Italian painting" (ca. 1250-1430). Examines contemporary attitudes to light, the fresco and panel painting techniques that..... 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
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
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
