New York: American Art Association, 1916. First edition. Soft cover (stiff wrappers, in rubbed but sturdy slipcase). [Ca. 200]p, many ills. From the library of painter Stanley Marc Wright, with his bold ink stamp on both sides of the slipcase. Auction catalogue of 259 American, German, French, Danish, and other..... More
New York: Anderson Auction Co., 1906. First edition. Stapled soft cover. 73p (706 lots), no ills. The auction was held on February 15, 1906. Lightly creased; light cover wear. Contains 137 lots of bookplates with short identifications, 145 lots of Washingtoniana, 83 lots on the War of 1812, and 24..... More
![Item #30487 Bartlett Sisters [1932]. Anonymous Photographer](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30487.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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N.p. [probably U.S.]: Unpublished, 1932.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
![Item #30484 Northampton Street, Easton, Pa. [windowed souvenir mail card]. Anonymous Photographer](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30484.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
New York: Argosy Book Stores, n.d. [1949]. First edition. Soft cover. 38p, no ills. Dated from penciled acquisition date, "July -49-." Addressed to Massachusetts historian H. Leavitt Horton; the pencil marks and notes within are presumably his. Lists 420 items, including "[Maxim] Karolik material" as noted on the cover. Can..... More
Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press for Harvard University Library, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 178p, 88 ill., almost all in color (some published here for the first time). Essays on the histories and personalities behind selected American daguerreotypes in Harvard collections. The college began collecting daguerreotypes early on, recognizing their..... More
Helsinki: Museum of Art and Design, 1999. Higby, Wayne. First edition. Soft cover. 54p, many large color ills. In English. Exhibition of 15 works embodying "memory-traces" of canyons, rocks, the sea, etc. Short artist's statement. Long bibliography and biography by Helen W. Drutt English (who lent the works) and Huron..... More
Boston: Library of the Boston Athenaeum, 1981. Stone, Arthur J. First edition. Soft cover. 24p, many ills., including photos of marks. Exhibition catalogue devoted to the work of "one of the last independent designers and master silversmiths of New England" (1847-1938). Includes information about his workshop. Checklist of a wide..... More
Sausalito, CA: Windgate Press, 1985. Moulin, Gabriel. First edition. Hardcover. 208p, 171 large photos. Cover edges sunned, outer pages slightly foxed; bottom fore-edges stained. Moulin (1872-1945) was a prominent society and architectural photographer, who documented the lavish private estates and gardens of wealthy San Francisco Bay Area families--first with glass-plate..... More
Chicago: Chicago and North Western Railway [and] Union Pacific Railroad, 1950. No stated edition. Soft cover. 64p, many maps, line ills., and photos, many in color. Ca. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Brochure offering 10 "escorted all-expense tours to Western wonderlands" by rail and bus. The tours, ranging from..... More
London: Whitechapel Gallery, 1991. Diebenkorn. First edition. Soft cover. 156p, 52 large color plates + several other ills. New York Times 1993 obituary laid in. Photo is a little cropped on the right. Handsome catalogue of a traveling exhibition. Includes many in the Ocean Park series. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 225p + over 200 plans and photos, many never before published. Jacket back is sunned. Photo is a little cropped. Detailed, insightful comparison of Rio and Brasilia, by a renowned architectural historian who spent much time there. "Both cities are typically..... More
Providence: John Carter Brown Library, 1990. First edition. Soft cover. xvi, 16, 36p + 12 plates. Printed by Meriden Gravure-Stinehour Press. Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition The Book in the Americas, presented at the Americas Society Art Gallery, New York, in 1990. Describes and collates 12 supplemental books..... More
New York: Praeger, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 264p, ca. 220 ills. + 28 color pls. In the publisher's American Art and Artists series. A pioneering book, and still a standard survey. Large and heavy; shipping/handling will be extra. Please keep this in mind when ordering. More
New York: H.P. Kraus, n.d. [1960]. First edition. Soft cover. Fifty "manuscripts and documents, many unpublished and unrecorded, early printed and illustrated books including important first editions, charts and atlases," all described in meticulous detail. Includes the Amoretti Codex of Vespucci, which Kraus later donated to The Library of Congress..... More
![Item #30751 Americana [Catalogue 572]. Karl W. Hiersemann, bookseller](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30751.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1644154024)
Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1927. First edition. Soft cover (dusty, age soiled; spine chipped). 472 entries, 23 line ills. Pages age browned. Blank order form laid in. "A collection of rare and valuable books relating to South and North America from the time of the discovery up to the year..... 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
Boston: C. Kimball, n.d. [ca. 1890-1900?]. Kimball (photographer). No stated edition. Mounted albumen print. With the photographer's monogram CK on back. Kimball, "Instantaneous Photographs," was located at 140 Court Street, Boston. Studio portrait of a young lady in her finest finery--elaborate lace collar, fitted jacket, embroidered diamond-shaped lappets, box-pleated skirt..... More
N.p. No stated publisher, n.d. [1880s-90s]. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. One newsprint broadsheet, folded once to make 4 pages. Large advertising flyer for Lee's "monster aggregation of living marvels. The most successful exhibition traveling of features that cannot be duplicated in America." Advertises educated horses, donkeys, and dogs; reed..... More
Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms, 1993. Light, Michael. First edition. Hardcover. N.p., many black-and-white photos printed in sheet-fed gravure on black pages. Evocative photos, sometimes deliberately grainy, of details of ranch life, gear, animals, buildings, etc., that are visceral, ordinary, and often unnoticed. More
New York: Macbeth Gallery, 1929. First edition. Unbound sheet. One sheet, folded twice to make 4 panels, printed on one side; 1 ill. Panel size 4 x 8 inches. Exhibition reprising part of the annual summer show of the Mystic, Connecticut, art colony, held from Dec. 24, 1929, to Jan..... 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
![Item #26447 The National Architect [July 1916, St. Charles Hotel, Atlantic City]. Master...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26447.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1968. Indiana, Robert. First edition. Soft cover. 63p, many ills., several in color. Catalogue for Indiana's first solo museum exhibition, which also traveled to San Antonio and Indianapolis. Very large and comprehensive, with much documentation. Can be sent outside the US for..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 261p, many contemporary views and plans. Without the jacket. On progressive agriculturists with 5 case studies of individual homes and farms, the changing nature and division of work on the farmstead 1830-1885, living and children's spaces, and new patterns of consumption..... More
