![Cabinet Card of Woman in Exotically Decorated Bed/Sitting Room]. Anonymous](/pictures/thumb/30386.jpg?v=1633973574)
Unknown [probably U.S.]: n.d. [1880s-90s?]. Mounted photograph. Printed in sepia, mounted on heavy card stock. No photographer, place, or date. The surface is lightly rubbed, evident only in raking light. Two small nicks to the side margins. Ca. 7 x 5 inches. A youngish woman stands in a bed/sitting room..... More
![Northampton Street, Easton, Pa. [windowed souvenir mail card]. Anonymous Photographer](/pictures/thumb/30484.jpg?v=1633973598)
New York: Rotograph Co., 1905. No stated edition. Postcard. Souvenir mail card featuring a windowed set of smaller views. Here the metal clasp holds an accordion-folded strip with 12 photos of sites in and around Easton--The Circle, Delaware River Bridge, Court House, Library, and Lafayette College (several). The main scene..... More
No place [Buffalo?]: No stated publisher, 1987. First edition. Soft cover. Six reproductions of photographs, printed in duotone on glossy card stock, laid in folder. Short texts by Reyner Banham, Anthony Bannon, and the photographer. Ca. 6 x 9 inches. Folder lightly soiled; price sticker removed from back; photos are..... More
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: Cooper Union, 1928-1951. Mostly first editions. Hardcover (buckram, spine gilt-stamped). Variously paged and illustrated (chiefly text). From the library of E. Maurice Bloch, with his bookplate. Typed contents page glued in. The museum is now the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Contents: "Proposed Plan of the Cooper Union Museum..... More
New York: Princeton Architectural Press for New York Chapter/American Institute of Architects, 1987. Rodchenko, Alexander. First edition. Soft cover. [32]p, many black-and-and white ills. Exhibition catalogue. Texts by Bowlt, Alexander Lavrentjev, and Vieri Quilici on Rodchenko's photographs and graphic design, architectural language, and constructivist theory. Can be sent outside the..... More
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 294p, many large photos, many in color. Many installation views. Erratum slip laid in. A beautiful copy of this lavish survey of international contemporary fiber art (1960s-70s). Historical introduction followed by chapters on about 30 leading practictioners--Abakanowicz, Giauque, Hicks, Tawney, Zeisler..... More
London: John Murray, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 110p + many photos. on 64 pls. Lacks jacket. Owner's ink name. The first comprehensive survey of modern English studio and functional pottery, from the 1920s on. With historical chapters, "How Pottery Is Made," "Learning to Distinguish Good Pottery," and "Some Opinions on..... More
Innsbruck: Wagner'sche Universitat, 1891. First edition. Paperbound. 55p, 3 line ills. In German. On wood construction in antiquity--Assyria, Egypt, Greece--based on ancient texts and other evidence. Passing references to Gottfried Semper. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate. Reference copy... More
Santa Barbara: University of California Santa Barbara Art Galleries, 1969. First edition [1 of 600 copies]. Paperbound (printed foil). 108p, 113 photos and line ills. One of 600 copies; designed by David Gebhard. (Two later editions were issued.) Covers scuffed, spine faded; internally very good. The photo is too pale. ..... More
![The Making of the South Kensington Museum [in Journal of the History of Collections]; Curators,...](/pictures/thumb/30277.jpg?v=1633973542)
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. First edition. Soft cover. Vol. 14, no. 1. 176p, many photos. Slight shelf wear. Articles on the founding and first decades of the Victoria and Albert Museum by Clive Wainwright, Anthony Burton, Martin Levy, Paul Tucker, and others. The Government Schools of Design and the..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1953. Rand, Paul. Third edition, revised. Soft cover. 48p, many ills. Cover design by Paul Rand. Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name. An iconic presentation of paintings, sculpture, photographs, graphic design, and furniture in the categories of abstract geometric form, geometrically..... More
London: Pavilion, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 224p, many ills., many in color. "A definitive centenary celebration" of this British ceramic artist, acclaimed for her vibrant Art Deco "Bizarre" ware. Very informative, drawing on much previously unknown material. More
![1895 C.R. Hettel Jewelry Company, St. Louis, Mo. [cover title]. C. R. Hettel Jewelry Company](/pictures/thumb/26395.jpg?v=1633973475)
1895. Hettel Jewelry Company, C.R. 1895 C.R. Hettel Jewelry Company, St. Louis, Mo. [cover title]. 222p, many line ills. Poor but complete limp cloth. Back cover, index, and rear endpapers detached. Front cover worn, opening pages dampstained, pages dogeared. Ca. 8 x 10 inches. ** Trade catalogue used as a...... More
Wilton, Cork: Collins Press, 2004. First edition. Spiral bound paperbound. 268p, 240 photos, line ills., and maps. Reproduced by photo-offset. Detailed survey of the monuments on the Burren and the Aran Islands of Ireland--tombs, crosses, churches, tower houses, forts, etc. Grouped chronologically: the first peoples, from Neolithic to Bronze Age..... More
Zuirch: Bodmer, 1987. Chamberlain, John. Limited edition. Soft cover. N.p., many full-page photos and line ills., a few in color. In English and Spanish. One of 3500 copies. Introduction to the collection of, and plans for, this ambitious museum-studio of installation art in Marfa, Texas. Works by Judd, Dan Flavin..... More
Bethlehem, CT: June 1 Gallery, 1980. Arms, Pennell, Eby, Lewis, Chamberlain. First edition. Stapled paperbound. 32p, many ills. Sale catalogue of 116 prints by Arms, Pennell, Eby, Lewis, Chamberlain, and many other portrayers of buildings as they "actually look." Grouped by Italy, France, Spain, England, Other European Places, Small Town..... More
Nanjing: Yilin Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover (plasticized boards). 176p, dozens of color photos and short captions. No jacket, as issued. Photographic survey of dark red pottery teapots, a specialty of Yixing in China's Jiangsu Province. Includes traditional examples from the 16th-century Ming Dynasty on, and many contemporary examples. Heavy;..... More
Caligari: Paolo Pisano, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 174p, many photos and line ills., several in color. Monograph on the pre-Christian grotto-crypt of the church of Santa Restituta in Caligari, Sardinia, and its excavation. Chapters on its history, some reproductions and transcriptions of documents relating to the later church, inscriptions found..... 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
![The National Architect [July 1916, St. Charles Hotel, Atlantic City]. Master Builders' Exchange...](/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
Baltimore: 1907. First edition. Stapled paperbound. Catalogue of dozens of framed pictures, mirrors, frames, hat racks, screens, display easels, and commodes. All described and priced. The back cover lists the firm's other home furnishing lines, and their warehouses in Baltimore, New York, Kobe (Japan), and Canton (China). The firm's factories..... More
![The Breeder's Gazette Farmer and His Wife! [cover title]. Virginia C. Meredith](/pictures/thumb/30042.jpg?v=1633973495)
Chicago: Sanders Pub. Co., n.d. [ca. 1918]. First edition. Paperbound. A lavish promotional brochure soliciting subscribers and advertisers to the weekly Breeder's Gazette, which reached "the very cream of the farming population." The tone is aspirational: "The Gazette is devoted to 'nurture and education' in better thinking about the fine..... More
![Zakko Hinagata [Templates for Carpenters] -- 2 books. Taiga Hankoku Ochiai, Sentaro Egawa, text,...](/images/noimage.png)
Sendai, Miyagi, Japan: Seibundo, N.d. [ca. 1876]. No stated edition. Japanese stab paper binding. N.p. [each ca. 24p], many line ills., partly printed in red. Two carpentry manuals showing details and proportions of wood construction and carving. Originally printed in two 2-volume sets. Ours are volume 1, number 1, and..... More
![Eighteenth & Nineteenth Continental Furniture Porcelain Prints & Paintings [etc.]; Property of...](/pictures/thumb/30092.jpg?v=1633973506)
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1970. First edition. 88p (461 lots), many black-and-white ills. Covers age-yellowed. No realized prices. A two-day sale that also included a Regency games table, seat furniture, cut glass, clocks, and other decorative objects. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate..... More
