Search Results: pottery, ceramics from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Santa Fe, NM: Santa Fe East Galleries, 1984. Staplebound. [2]-31 pages, illustrations, wraps. Oblong. 8.5 x 11 in. First edition. Light scuffs to covers, but otherwise Very Good. The artist reflects on pottery and clay in a series of brief texts. With an essay by Bruce Berger. Photographs by Jerry Jacka. Includes a short glossary of Hopi terms related to pottery. Qöyawayma is the nephew of the noted potter Polingaysi Qöyawayma, who he comments on in the foreword. Qöyawayma is also a mechanical engineer and founder of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.

no place: Printed in Ireland for John Hinde Curteich Inc, 1989. Wire-bound, oblong drop-down calendar, 8.5x11.5 inch double-sided cardstock leaves with dates recto and color exhibit photography verso, punch-holed for hanging. January leaf has 3 neat inked notes, otherwise unblemished, a very good copy. The photography is clear, the captions seem expert. Collector Martindale's portrait photo on first page, he looks scarcely twenty years old (he's 28) but started in at four. A born aficcionado!

London: Annely Juda Fine Art, 1971. Staplebound. [20p.], staplebound exhibition catalog, 6x7.3 inches. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Right edge sunned, else very good.

Lyon: Danto-Rogeat & Cie, 1910. Hardcover. 124p., artists' renderings of bathroom fixtures, mostly realistic b&w wash drawings showing a single appliance accompanied by engineering diagrams; in the terminal section (plumbing and towelracks) find multiple images sometimes with commentary. Presswork is on coated alkaline paperstock, hardbound in stiff titled covers fastened with cord. A cloth backstrip is frayed with short splits, cover is soiled with handling as is the title leaf (foredge is filthy) and next several leaves. Some items shown have been overstruck in red, "supprime' " --discontinued. Generally good, with the above reservations; sound and unmarked, if not clean.

Columbus, OH: Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; Dayton Art Institute; John Herron Art Museum, 1951. Staplebound. [29p.], staplebound wraps, 6x9 inches, very good. llustrated with a map and b&w photographs.

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1966. Paperback. 185p., b&w and color exhibit photography in a running text, softbound in 8.5x7.5 inch frenchfold colorphoto wraps. Covers are edgeworn, half-titled bears an ownership inscription in ink and a dealer's code in pencil. Clean and sound within, a good copy.

Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd. in collaboration with the International Society for Educational Information, Inc, 1981. Hardcover. 825p., openweave green cloth boards; a sound copy, clean within, while casing shows signs of much handling: hand-soil, splash stain to edges, spine titling dim.

San Francisco: Bonhams & Butterfields, 2007. Paperback. 200, profuse fullpage and vignette exhibit photos in color on high-gloss paperstock (but the terminal fifteen pages are shown in b&w). The usual top-of-the-line format: 10.5x8.5 inch coated grey wraps. Top edge is bumped with slight creasing, head of spine panel is crushed with a quarter-inch tear, generally presentable nonetheless, a good (good-only) copy.

Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. Paperback. xxvi, 285p., illustrated with b&w snapshot photography (youngsters at their tasks), softbound in 8.5x5.5 inc photographic wraps. Expect a little light bumping at corner-tips else entirely sound, clean and unmarked.

Merion PA: the museum, 1958. Pamphlet. 70p., profusely illustrated with b&w exhibit photography amidst lengthy captions and a running text. Presswork on semi-glazed alkaline paperstock, saddle-stitched into a fat pamphlet. Mildly dim with age and handling; inconspicuous staple-holes from the museum's business card once fastened to the front cover (bearing holograph directions to site) now laid in, stapleless. Covers slightly toned, a touch of silverfishing to an upper corner, a good to very good copy: generally sound, clean and unmarked.

London: Beurdeley, Matthews & Co. Ltd, 1981. Paperback. 59p., paperback, 8x10 inches. Illustrated profusely with b&w photographs. Light handling wear to spine, else very good.

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1979. Hardcover. xix, 396p. + [56]p. of plates, cloth-covered boards, very good condition in like dust jacket.

Beijing: Chang feng pai mai you xian gong si 長風拍賣有限公司, 2007. Hardcover. Heavy, unpaginated auction catalog of Chinese porcelain, jade, and other wares. Minor shelfwear. Text in Chinese; color photos.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, 1950. Staplebound. [16p.], staplebound exhibition catalog, 5x7.5 inches. Previous ownership signature on cover page, light soiling to the bottom left page, else very good.

[Beloit, Wisconsin]: the Wright Museum of Art, 1989. Staplebound. [16p.], staplebound exhibition catalog, 8.5x11 inches. Illustrated with b&w and color photographs. Light handling wear to wraps, else very good.

South Pasadena: P.D. and I. Perkins, 1948. Hardcover. 114p. hardcover, very good, lacking dust jacket. The revised second edition.

Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1977. Paperback. 58p., wraps, illus., very good exhibition catalog.

Paris: the auction house, 2005. Paperback. Each 10.5x8.3 inches, superior coated paperstock with profuse exhibit photography in vivid color, averaging 40p. except for last two numbers which run to sixty pages each, fine copies. Represented here are lots put up for sale on 28 Fevrier and 23 Octobre 2000, 26 Fevrier and 24 Octobre 2003, 5 Mars 2004, and 11 Mars 2005. The six items as a small lot.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1961. 153p., profuse exhibit and site photography with doublespreads and numerous tipped-on plates, well-reproduced. First English-language edition in 12x9 inch brown buckram gilt and dust jacket, jacket somewhat edgeworn with several short tears, a very good copy.

Bucharest: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, 1978. 159 p., [9] leaves of plates, hardcover, generally very good, corners bumped; extensive illustrations of excavated pottery.