![Item #30487 Bartlett Sisters [1932]. Anonymous Photographer](/pictures/thumb/30487.jpg?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N.p. [probably U.S.]: Unpublished, 1932.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, and in fine condition. Photos are..... More
Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, n.d. [1993]. 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: Cultural Division of the French Embassy, 1949. First edition. Stapled soft cover. 50p, no ills. except for tipped-on cover ill. Cover edges shelfworn, covers lightly browned, rust around staples. Reproduced typescript. Traveling loan exhibition of 242 20th-century examples of French book arts, divided into three parts: Several Great..... 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
Berlin: Clara Landau, n.d. [ca. 1924-25]. First edition. Soft cover. 40p (307 items), 2 cover ills. The catalogue opens with a 14th-century breviary from Mainz, followed by a wide range of generally less rarefied works on many subjects.. The fourth catalogue from this woman bookseller; her third catalogue was issued..... More
New York: Granary Books, 1998. First edition. Soft cover. 310p, several ills. Introd. by Charles Bernstein. Designed by Drucker. Ca. 25 wide-ranging essays divided into The Word Made Flesh, Writing as Artifact, Visual Poetics, Artists Books Past and Future, The Future of Writing, and Personal Writing. All previously published, sometimes..... 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
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
New York: Guerrilla Girls, "conscience of the art world" n.d. [1989]. First edition. Unused but with handling wear and toning to paper. Very short closed tear to lower left margin (not visible in photo). Ca. 11 x 15 inches. Original poster listing ten injustices in the art world that reflect..... 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
Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1978. Kahlo, Frida. First edition. 28p, many ills., 2 in color. Covers scuffed; internally very good. "The first American exhibition of paintings by Frida Kahlo, a Mexican artist whose haunting images and remarkable career are not well-known in the United States." The show traveled to..... 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
![Item #26219 Margarethe Krieger: Holzschnitte zu Brecht [signed]. Karl Krolow, fwd](/pictures/thumb/26219.jpg?v=1633973471)
1966. Krolow, Karl, fwd. Margarethe Krieger: Holzschnitte zu Brecht. Ludwigshafen: Galerie Lore Dauer, n.d. [1966]. [36]p, 16 large pls. Very good paperbound (front cover chipped, lightly stained). Signed by Krieger. ** Powerful expressionistic woodcuts illustrating works by Brecht. One of Krieger's early publications. Can be sent outside the U.S. for..... 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
![Item #30519 The Wind beyond the Wall, A Walled Garden in Moylough, Winter in the Eye [3 books]....](/pictures/thumb/30519.jpg?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
Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1984. Oakley, Violet. First edition. Soft cover. [16]p, many ills. + color cover. Exhibition catalogue of 26 "demanding objects" and related works that Oakley designed as an ensemble for the Vassar College Alumnae House living room in 1922-1924--painted ceiling, mystical-religious triptych, painted and illuminated..... 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
