New York: Wittenborn, 1961. Callery, Mary. First edition. Hardcover. 164p, 172 black-and-white ills. Front of jacket soiled, as shown; front flap creased (photo is taken through removable acetate jacket). Texts in English and French. With a summary catalogue of 191 works in bronze, aluminum, clay, plaster, iron, and stone. Comprehensive..... More
![Item #30487 Bartlett Sisters [1932]. Anonymous Photographer](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30487.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1633973599)
N.p. [probably U.S.]: Unpublished, 1932.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
New York: Viking Penguin, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 216p, many ills. + 8 color pls. Pioneering survey of prominent women artists and designers in many fields, "ranging over the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, the Glasgow School of Art, the Russian Constructivists, the Bauhaus, the Wiener Werkstatte, the great..... More
Ecouen: Office de Tourisme d'Ecouen, 2012. Limited edition (1 of 1000 copies). Soft cover. 152p, many ills., many in color. In French. Trace of old price sticker on front cover. Very comprehensive survey of the French, British, and American painters and printmakers who frequented this lesser-known artists' colony just north..... More
N.p. [Redding, CA?]: Colleen Barry, 1996. Barry, Colleen. Three-dimensional object. Unique mixed-media book object. Ca. 10 inches high, 7 inches wide, and 5 inches deep including the door knob. Signed and dated. Purchased from the artist in the year of its creation, 1996. Photos are too light; colors are..... More
Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, n.d. [1992-93]. First edition. Unbound sheets. Folded card plus 2 loose sheets. Printed by offset in two colors. Ca. 4 x 5 1/2 inches. Publisher's prospectus. One sheet reads, "A gentle reminder to let friends, collectors, and book lovers everywhere know that Carol's nifty new alphabet..... More
New York: Pantheon, 1979. First American edition. Hardcover. 232p, many ills. Photo is slightly cropped. Very informative history of women artists and their roles in the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain and America--design education for women, ceramics, embroidery and needlework, lace making, jewelry and metalwork, wood carving, furniture and..... More
New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1993. Horn, Rebecca. First edition. Soft cover. 344p, over 100 ills., many of them large color plates. Subtitled The Inferno-Paradiso Switch only on the copyright page. Photo is a little cropped. Substantial exhibition catalogue of the mixed-media objects, installations, films, and performances by this eclectic artist..... More
Philadelphia: Moore College of Art, 1979. Duckworth, Zeisler. First edition. Stapled soft cover. Two texts bound dos-a-dos, each 36p; over 50 ills. total, 2 in color. Joint exhibition catalogue: 20 ceramic sculptures by Duckworth and 21 fiber works by Zeisler. Foreword by Drutt; texts by McTwigan. With checklists of exhibited..... More
Madrid: 1965. Maniquant, Sooky. Limited edition. Paperbound. [16]p, 7 large pls. + 2 mounted color pls. + 2 cover ills. Additional text by Carlos-Antonio Arean. Covers soiled, handling wear; ex-lib. with label on front cover; no internal marks. In Spanish. One of 1000 copies. Catalogue of an exhibition by this..... More
New York: Grand Central Art Galleries Art Education Association, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 94p, many ills., including 8 color pls. Important exhibition of this lyrical landscape style, which fell out of favor in the wake of modernism and is now highly valued. Overview by Gerdts, followed by chapters on four..... More
Paris: Galerie Vallois, 1983. Orloff, Chana. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., many full-page ills. Text in French and English. Exhibition catalogue of bronze sculpture from the 1920s, chiefly figures with a monumental presence despite their small size. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate..... More
Munich: J. Halle, n.d. [1925]. First edition. Soft cover. 32p, no ills. except two 16th-century woodcut ills. on covers. In German. Over 560 items about music and musicians: books, sheet music, and portraits of composers and performers, including many women. Order postcard laid in. Can be sent outside the U.S...... More
Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1990. First edition. Soft cover. 168p, ca. 100 ills. (ca. 60 in color). Large exhibition catalogue featuring the work of 20 mid-century painters, among them John McLaughlin, Peter Krasnow, Oskar Fischinger, Rico Lebrun, Helen Lundeberg, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, and June Wayne. Good survey... More
Ludwigshafen: Galerie Lore Dauer, n.d. [1966]. Krieger, Margarethe. First edition. Soft cover. [36]p, 16 large pls. Signed by Krieger. Exhibition catalogue of powerful expressionistic woodcuts illustrating works by Berthold Brecht. One of Krieger's early publications. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate... More
Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1979. Karina, Elena. First edition. Soft cover. 8p, 5 large ills. (vessels only). Exhibition catalogue, including artist information and checklist of the 21 vessels and 8 drawings exhibited. Also selections from a conversation between Karina and David Schaff. Can be sent outside the US..... More
New York: Nancy Hoffman Gallery, 1994. Frey, Viola. First edition. Soft cover. 40p, 69 color ills. including cover. Photo here is cropped on the sides. Traveling exhibition catalogue of 69 of Frey's expressionistic plates, which Kuspit describes as both funk and hallucinatory. Large; shipping/handling may be extra. Please keep this..... More
New York: Lori Bookstein Fine Art, 1997. First edition. No binding. One sheet of glossy card stock, folded to make 6 panels, 2 ills. Ca. 8 x 10 inches, folded. Announcement of an exhibition of recent gridded paintings by this abstract and color field artist. With Wilkins's text on 3..... More
Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum [Catalogus 202], 1959. First edition. Soft cover. [8]p, 3 flat-color plates, including a double-page spread and a spread running across both inside covers and underneath the text. Another plate wraps around the covers. Printed on heavy tan stock. No deaccession stamp, but a legitimate museum discard (bookplate..... More
London: Maggs Bros. Summer 1932. First edition. Soft cover. 120p, a few plates. Bookseller catalogue of more than 400 annotated items handwritten by royal and noble women, actresses, novelists and dramatists, artists, women in religious orders, and others from throughout Britain and Europe, of the 16th-19th centuries. The item numbering..... More
[Melbourne]: Lesley Kehoe Galleries, n.d. [2008]. Maio Motoko. First edition. Unbound sheet. One folded sheet of card stock, 6 color ills. Closed, ca. 8 x 11 inches. Presentation of two of the artist's vibrant folding screens made from washi, cloth, gold and silver foil, and acrylic paints. Statement by the..... More
![Item #30519 The Wind beyond the Wall, A Walled Garden in Moylough, Winter in the Eye [3 books]....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30519.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1634144823)
Brownsville, OR; Galway: Story Line Press; Salmon Poetry, 1991; 1995, 2003. Second American printing (The Wind beyond the Wall); the others first editions. Soft cover. Variously paged, no ills. From the library of an American poet and professor. The Wind beyond the Wall is inscribed to him, 1995. A Walled..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1996. Sargent, Margarett. First edition. Hardcover. 371p + 20p of ills. (8 in color). Ink presentation from Moore on the title page. Jacket shelf-smudged. Evocative life of the exuberant, troubled modernist painter (1891-1978). The colorful figurative work of her short career is now newly studied and..... More
London: The Women's Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 242p, 40 ills. Examines "the aspirations and expectations of Victorian women artists [painters and sculptors], their struggle for proper training, for exhibition and for unqualified recognition in the male-dominated art world." With case histories of Henrietta (Mrs. E.M.) Ward, Joanna Mary Boyce..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 2002. Oelbaum, Zeva. First edition. Hardcover. 96p, many photos printed in sepia duotone. Instead of a jacket, a sheet with information about the book is mounted to the rear cover, as issued. Oelbaum was inspired by a student teacher's century-old botany journal that she found in Maine..... More
