Search Results: Art/Monographs from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

Zurich: Edition Hans Bolliger, (1973). First edition. 1/500 on velin de Rives with 2 unsigned blue originals to front following text in French and German then 24 full-size reproductions on yellow background from the 1969-70 sketchbook. Card wraps in original glassine jacket. Signed by Exemplar N. "h. c.", "for Mr. Childs by the editor". 26,3:18,3cm. pp. [37 leaves]. Fine/Very Good. Missing rear piece to glassine only fault. Only US copy available. Note: An H/C (h.c.) Hors d'Commerce (For Commercial Use), is given as a gift to the artist for allowing the publisher to print their images and are the most valuable because of their rarity and usually not sold..

Boston: Estes and Lauriat (University Press), 1885. Illustrated by 20 original etchings suitable for framing. 4th edition. c.1879, 1880, 1881. 1/3 leather backed beveled cloth. 4to. pp. unpaginated text and 20 plates. Very Good. Cover restored in-house by Karen Thompson Bullock: Joint, corner and color repair. Internally near fine except frontis has foxing starting and last plate has a faint old water stain at bottom not affecting etching or framing margin. The Art Quarterly Volume V 1942 Index laid in..

London: Apple Press (Quintet Publishing Ltd.), (1989). Illustrated by b&w and color reproductions. First edition. Black cloth, illustrated burgundy endpapers. 4to. pp. 128. Fine/In like jacket/Clipped price in mylar. No marking or ownership. ISBN: 1850761817..

New York: T. Spencer Hutson & Co, (1929). Illustrated by 12 framable tipped in plates. Stated 1st printing edition. Original paper covered boards, topboard label and added Dodin varnished marbled spine. Signed by pencil initials (each plate). 4to. pp. [10] 12 plates on folded 4-page signatures. Very Good/Lacks jacket. Compiled by the Crafton Collection. Artist of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and one of the fathers of impressionist painting. Foxing starting on mounting paper not plates: The Plaza Santa Barbara (272), The Chase House Annapolis (309), Santa Barbara portrait Edward Borein (270), Wayside Inn Oaks in Spring (261), Helen Wills at Easthampton No. 1 (298), Bonnie Moore (257), Stock Exchange (266), Big Horse Chestnut Tree (304), Old Mulford House Easthampton (264), Old Woodshed Easthampton (318), The Skimhampton Road Easthampton (317), Old Mulford Farm Easthampton (319)..

Basel: Amerbach-Verlag, (1947). Illustrated by 24 hand-colored facsimiles. First thus edition. Self-extended wraps with glassine jacket. 12mo (18cm). pp. 11, [1] blank, 24 (facsimiles). Good. [The Minstrels: Portraits from the Weingartner Manuscript]. Cover title: Die MinnesŠnger in vierundzwanzig vielfarbigen Bildern der Weingartner Liederhandschrift. [The Minstrels: 24 multi-colored facsimiles of the Weingartner Manuscript (Medieval Songbook)]. Dampstain to bottom throughout, some pages with short tears, facsimiles very good. Original glassine has large rear chip...

London: R. H. Russell, New York; Lawrence & Bullon, 1897. Illustrated by 61 full page plates. First edition. Rear board acid free J. Hewit brown cloth, 1/3 J. Hewit acid free black Cawburn goat backing, acid free complimentary colors marbled endpapers. Oblong folio. pp. [vi], 61 plates unpaginated. Very Good+/No jacket, as issued/As New. Full restoration of topboard illustration with Japanese tissue and water mark removal, page repairs. Neschen P-90 joint reinforcement to each plate and entire text block restitched. What was once a classic too big for it's binding book is now viewable and opens flat. Owen Wister introduction, Howes R-205, Book inserts vertically into a brown cloth with cawburn goat slipcase then a J.Hewit black skiver top gilt stamped on both sides: Remington Drawings matches front of book, and Remington to rear. One of a Kind Masterpiece restoration and slipcase done inhouse by Karen Thompson Bullock..

New York: Published by the author for the Museum of Modern Art, (1968). Translated by Teri Wehn. Illustrated by color w b/w photos of author sculptures by Slauny and Dumage. First edition. Pictorial stiff wraps, yapped edged, thick paper issue with chart laid in on equivalents (for metric conversion). Super Royal 8vo. pp. 46, [1] blank, [1] colophon, [2] blank. VG+. Light edgewear and shallow tears to yapped covers, price sticker remnant topboard upper right. Internally fine..

San Diego: Padre Publishers, (1990). Translated by Stephen Gorman. Illustrated by frontis and 84 numbered full page (recto and verso) photographic reproductions in color and b/w. First English edition. Stiff pictorial wraps. Royal 4to. pp. 98. Near Fine. Beautiful unread copy with minor edgewear and faint cover scratches..

Boston: New York Graphic Society Books, Little Brown, in association with the Amon Carter Museum, 1987. Illustrated by 140 color, 22 duotone by author. Stated first edition. Grey cloth. 4to (31,5cm). pp. 275, Checklist of the Exhibition, Bibliography, Index. Fine/In like jacket/In mylar protector. Foreword by Martha A. Sandweiss. Exhibition catalog for Texas, Maine and Alabama &c. ISBN10: 0821216759, ISBN13: 9780821216750. [Oversize 4lb 10oz before packaging]..

University of Pennsylvania: Arthur Ross Foundation, New York, 1992. Illustrated by full color and black & white. First edition. Illustrated card wraps. Oblong 8vo. pp. 61. Fine. Catalog of three exhibits 1992-3..

Leipzig: Verlag von Ernst Fleischer, n.d. 1840 preface. Illustrated by 12 b&w plates (2-13, title plate excluded). Unspecified edition. Paper covered, decorated and printed topboard. Oblong 4to. pp. 60. Good/No jacket, as issued/Ex-Lib. Library stamps and labels, gift inscription 1892, moderate internal foxing. Rubbed boards rebacked with black cloth. Explanations of Dr. Hermann Ulrici in German and English..

Leipzig: Verlag von Ernst Fleischer Illustrated by 12 b&w plates (2-13, title plate excluded). Unspecified edition. Paper covered, decorated and printed topboard. Oblong 4to. pp. 67. Good/No jacket, as issued/Ex-Lib. Library stamps and labels, gift inscription 1892, moderate internal foxing. Rubbed boards rebacked with black cloth. Explanations of Dr. Hermann Ulrici in German and English..

Leipzig: Verlag von Ernst Fleischer, n.d. Illustrated by 12 b&w plates (2-13, title plate excluded). Unspecified edition. Paper covered, decorated and printed topboard. Oblong 4to. pp. [52]. Good/No jacket, as issued/Ex-Lib. Library stamps and labels, gift inscription 1892, moderate internal foxing. Rubbed boards rebacked with black cloth, some archival tape page repairs. Explanations German, English, French and Italian..

Leipzig: Verlag von Ernst Fleischer, n.d. Illustrated by 16 b&w plates. Unspecified edition. First Series starts with title plate. Paper covered, decorated and printed topboard. Oblong 4to. pp. [67]. Good/No jacket, as issued/Ex-Lib. Library stamps and labels, gift inscription 1892, moderate internal foxing. Rubbed boards rebacked with black cloth. Explanations of Dr. Hermann Ulrici in German and English..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf and Callaway Editions, 1989. First edition. (Print laid-in at half-title: Sky Above the Clouds IV, 13.8 x 36.3 cm.). Gray cloth, silver print spine and top emblem (Julian Water's rendering of Alexander Calder brooch made for author in 1930). Transparent printed title wrap-around band over dust wrapper. Large Oblong. pp. [iv], 98 plate titles, 98 (Full color and b/w Plates), [7], [5] List of Plates, [1] Notes, [2] Acknowledgements, [1] Colophon. Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. O'Keeffe Country (text) by Doris Bry. Pages 94 and 95 are extended (single fold). (Postage as 2 books)..

Geneve: Les Tresors de la Peinture Francaise editions d'Arts Albert Skira, (Decembre 1943). Illustrated by 12 chromolithographs: 1 paste-on to cover (excerpt from plate 9), 2 in text, 9 card mounted and numbered (collated). First edition. Card cover with original glassine wrapper. Folio (39cm). pp. [8], 9 plates on card mounts, colophon. Near Fine/In very good glassine wrapper. Ink owner (Richard Van Every). Original toned glassine wrapper has cap and corner chips, text and card mounts near fine with traces of toning, all plates fine, ink owner. Scan of glassine cover is cropped to title..

New York: Harry Abrams, n.d. (1964). Illustrated by 30 color and 181 b/w plates of which 34 are tipped-in . (c.1962) after publication of 3 Vollard letters in Art de France II . Green cloth, printed yellow. Folio. pp. 227, [1]. Chronology, exhibits, bibliography, index. Near Fine/In like jacket/No price in mylar. Slight edge darkening to pages with front hinge starting in jacket with tinge of soil. Vallier's first publication on Rousseau published after a series of articles appearing in the 60's, the most influential disclaiming the portrait of in the Philadelphia Museum. (Monograph, France)..

Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, 1902-4. Illustrated by 95 tip mounted plates on grey board (collated). First edition. Art Deco illustrated green cloth with 3-fold over edges. 4to. pp. 19 card folders decorated purple and gold with burgundy cord binding, each containing text and 5 plates per folder . Near Fine/Very Good+. Archival reinforcement to inner flaps, one heel nick. Note: Missing Lieferung (folder) No.1 (with plates 1-5), 19/20 folders near fine; internal text and plates as new with some text sections unopened. Original publisher advertisements laid in and tipped in throughout. ..

New York: Associated American Artists, 1981. Illustrated by b/w artist port and 75 numbered reproductions. First edition. Post card size "with the compliments of Associated American Artists Sylvan Cole, Jr. Director" enclosed. 3 volumes. Stapled wraps, red cover, with illustrated pamphlet, card. 8vo. pp. 40; [4]; [1]. Title Index. Near Fine. Traces of sunning to red cover, all else fine. Biography, 75 illustrated works including published editions and museum collections. Scarce three piece, as issued offering..

Boston: MFA Publications, 2014. Illustrated by full color throughout. Stated First edition. Green linen, gold eps. Oblong 4to (24x28cm. pp. 207, colophon. Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Exhibit July 16 through December 14, 2014. ISBN: 9780878468140. Scan trimmed, oversize..