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 (many previously unpublished).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
New York: American Art Association, 1915. First edition. Soft cover. Auction catalogue, May 7, 1915. 483 lots, several plates. Covers age-smudged. Chiefly 19th-century works, with some early books and rarities, such as 16th-18th-century manuscripts and Fr. Colonel's 1620 grammar of the Maya language of Yucatan. The original edition. No prices..... More
1920. American Art Galleries. Books and Brochures by and relating to James McNeill Whistler collected by the late Frederick William Hunter. NY, 1920. 171 items, 1 plate. Very good paperbound (shelfsoil). ** Auction catalogue. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate... More
![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N.p. [probably U.S.]: Unpublished, 1932.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
![Item #30484 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
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
Minocqua, WI: NorthWord, 1993. Conway, Thor. First edition. Hardcover. 160p, many color photos by the author. A beautiful exploration of Native American carved and painted pictographs across the United States and Canada--the history of rock art, the pigments and tools used to create it, discoveries and scientific investigations, and the..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Copyright 1939. d;Aulaire. Later printing [ca. 1950]. Hardcover (printed boards, cloth spine). N.p., many color and black-and-white ills. "lithographed in five colors by the authors." No jacket. Edges shelf-rubbed, old insect damage to back cover. Label of Paul Elder's Books, San Francisco, on rear endpaper. Photos..... 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
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
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
![Item #30751 Americana [Catalogue 572]. Karl W. Hiersemann, bookseller](/pictures/thumb/30751.jpg?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
Brattleborough, VT: Ken Leach, 1983. First edition. Stapled sheets. 46p, no ills. Duplicated typescript, as issued. Light handling wear. Bookseller's catalogue of "odd volumes of American books, published in two or more volume sets prior to 1850, in original bindings." 805 items, including titles by Jane Austen, James Fenimore Cooper..... 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
Springfield, MA: Copyrighted by Julia Munson Sherman, 1944. First edition. Soft cover. Vol. 32, no. 4. Pp. 147-244 + several pls., many ads. Articles by various museum directors and others on the histories, status, and policies of the National Gallery of Art (Walker), Walters Art Gallery (Hill), Princeton (Mather), Cone..... More
![Item #26540 Exhibitions from the Summer Colonies: No. 3 Mystic [1929-30]. Macbeth Gallery](/pictures/thumb/26540.jpg?v=1633973480)
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
![Item #26447 The National Architect [July 1916, St. Charles Hotel, Atlantic City]. Master...](/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
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: New York Graphic Society for Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 260p, 314 duotone photos printed by Rapoport Printing Co. Jacket spine faded. With an essay by Therese Thau Heyman. Seminal survey of the nature of western landscape and many aspects of its..... More
New York: Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, NYU, 1979. Tiffany. First edition. Soft cover. 64p, ca. 40 ills., several in color. Laid in: sheet of introductory text plus list of decorative objects lent for the exhibition. The first study of Tiffany's relatively unknown paintings--landscapes and city scenes in various..... More
![Item #26212 Wood Sculpture [with 2 signed letters]. John Rood](/pictures/thumb/26212.jpg?v=1633973470)
1940. Rood, John. Wood Sculpture. Athens, OH: Lawhead Press 1940. 32p, many black-and-white photos of Rood's sculptures. Good paperbound (card covers) in fair d.j. (spine reinforced with tape; torn, soiled). Title page smudged from offsetting from front jacket flap. Some foxing. ** Text by Rood on his work. Laid in..... 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
