New York: Norton, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 311p, many photos, plans, elevations, and other line ills. (many previously unpublished). "By tracing the powerful flux of ideas at Harvard's Graduate School of Design in the 1930s and 1940s, Anthony Alofsin reveals a radically novel picture of how American modernism emerged, struggled..... More

N.p. [probably U.S.]: Unpublished, 1932.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

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

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

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

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

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

1929. Macbeth Gallery. Exhibitions from the Summer Colonies: No. 3 Mystic. NY, Dec. 24, 1929-Jan. 6, 1930. One sheet, folded twice to make 4 panels, printed on one side; 1 ill. Panel size 4 x 8 inches. Good (handling soil, one-inch closed tear to bottom margins). ** Reprises part of..... More

Philadelphia: Wm. D. Morley, 1941. First edition. Soft cover. 126p, several ills. Covers torn at top and bottom. Unpriced. 332 items: "superlative Washington, Lincon & Grant autographs, books, and relics; manuscripts including 'Star-Spangled Banner' ,'Dixie'--'Home, Sweet Home'--'Hail Columbia'; association books, fine bindings, etc." Includes desk and chair used by Lincoln..... More

Boston; Huntington, NY: Boston Public Library in co-operation with Barre Publishers; Black Oak Publishers, 1974; 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Over 400p total, over 300 ills. total (mostly large). Jacket photos are cropped on the sides. Collects all the prints and some drawings of this master lithographer, who specialized in New..... More

Mexico City: Imprenta Universitaria Mexico, 1941. First edition. Soft cover. 67p, 4 line ills. Laid in: undated program for an unidentified concert by the Orquesta Sinfonica de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. In Spanish. Translation into Spanish of Vespucci's 1504 letter to Piero di Tommaso Soderini on his four..... More

New York: Bernard Danenberg Galleries, 1971. Weber, Max. First edition. Soft cover. 24p, 47 ills. (8 of them full-page color pls.). Elaborately die-cut front cover. Exhibition catalogue of 48 cubist-inspired and abstract gouaches, pastels, watercolors, and drawings of 1909-1917. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default..... More

Peterborough, NH: Creature Prints, n.d. [1980s?]. No stated edition. Postcards. Four postcards by the self-taught outsider artist Stuart H. Williams (1950-2012). From his almost-lifelong New Hampshire home Williams painted colorful pile-ups of animals, with descriptions on the backs of the cards of what they were doing. The pictures here are..... More