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New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Limited Edition, No. 135 of 500 copies stated; Vol.1: Paintings and Sculpture, Vol. 2: Furniture and Other Decorative Arts; 4tos, marbled boards/cloth spines, no djs, in red slipcase; vg (spines sunned; spine ends bumped and worn; top front corner of Furniture bumped) in good+ slipcase (tears along edges; corners worn to boards; shelfworn; panels darkened with stain to one).

Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-/Good+. Leopoldo Flores. 1st, vg- (shaken, corners bumped, crack starting towards middle of book) in good+ dj (edges heavily worn, esp. corners; tears to edges; chip to top edge of rear panel). A sq. 4to in silver-stamped blue cloth. Catalog of a major exhibit of this artist's work in oils, sculpture and stained glass. Photos of the exhibit accompany close-ups of the paintings. 168 pp.

London: Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., 1992. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Exhibition Catalogue, card laid in 'with the compliments of Christopher Drake'; unpaginated, fifty color full-page plates and notes on each facing page; folio, burgundy wraps; vg (spine and edges of covers faded; spine ends bumped and worn; corners rubbed; shelfworn).

Albuquerque: Mark Attwood, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+. 1st and only edition: "This book is no. 41 in a limited edition of 50. Printed from linocuts on Rives heavyweight paper, using a Dufa flat-bed offset press." On the next page, preceding the title page: "Another Day in Paradise is a collection of images by a group of people from different countries and backgrounds. Artists, printers, students, curators, a director and a doctor participated. Each person was invited to make a linocut on the theme of 'Another Day in Paradise'. No images were edited. One book was printed for each participant." The book is lg. 8vo, bound in coarse linen with no titles, untrimmed edges. Condition vg+; the binding has been slightly distorted by the laying in of a linocut, described below. No text in the book other than that quoted above.. Attwood, whose blindstamped chop-mark appears on the above-quoted limitation page, was certified a master printer by Albuquerque's… Read More

New York: Greenwood Press, 1987. First Edition . Leatherette. Very Good. Two volume set; Volume I INSCRIBED and dated by Jackson on ffep; 8vos, yellow cloth, no djs as issued; vg (boards and top edges dustsoiled; shelfworn; spine ends bumped and worn); 1681pp total incl. index.

Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1956. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. First Edition, no additional printings; 4to, light blue cloth; vg (spine ends bumped, worn, and faded; corners bumped and rubbed; edges, eps, and pages toned) in fair dj (heavily chipped, torn, and worn; large loss to top of front panel; tears and chips closed by owner with clear tape and us with non-acidic FilmoplastP; bottom edge of front panel and flap stained). 84pp.

Maresa Editions, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good. Mack, Bill. Assumed First Trade Edition, no additional printings; folio, white cloth boards with inlaid reproduction of Mack's work. no dj as issued; vg (shelfworn; boards soiled; two marks to rear board; fabric worn through on one corner of spine tail; spine ends bumped); 165pp.

Porterhouse Fine Art Editions, 2001. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Mark Ryden. 1st, 4to softcover, a fascinating exhibit catalog; 8 color paintings with various detail views and essays by the artist. Includes a 'prospectus' card with a UPC on it, which was probably loose inside the shrinkwrap when the book was new. A very good copy (edgewear; light soiling to covers).

Dublin and London: Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1895. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good+. First edition (NAP), rebound with the original boards and spine affixed to new leatherette hinges. Small folio, green boards with gilt decorated design on front board and gilt title on spine. A slip affixed to the new binding describes the cover design as taken "from that on O'Donel's Life of St. Columba, an Irish MS. in the Library of the Franciscan Monastery, Dublin." Good+ (board edges fraying and rubbed, corners bumped and worn; gilt is fading with rubbing; scratched; spine darkened; deckle edges darkened, rubbed, and lightly chipped; toning and light foxing throughout, though the plates are unaffected). 50 plates and accompanying descriptions. Please note that shipping this large and heavy book Priority or internationally may require additional postage.

DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1969. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology #11. 1st, lg. 4to, navy cloth, 211 pp. + a fascinating section of 22 folding timeline charts, illustrating changes in art styles. Vg- (cocked; spine ends and corners bumped; spine toned; pages toned; 1inch tear to bottom end of front hinge).

New York: Benjamin Blom, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good. Leon Bakst. Reprint of the limited edition folio with black and white illustrations; 4to, red cloth, no dj; vg (spot on front board, white smudge on rear; bottom edge of rear board and bottom corners bumped; spine ends bumped; eps and pages toning). 18pp + 54 plates.

Montfermeil, France: Recherche et Expression - Jack Renaud, 1977. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-/Good. Francois Desnoyer. Scarce biography of this fine French artist, very little known in the US, with many paintings reproduced in color or b&w. French text. 1st, #352/1000 (1/1000 in the trade edition). 4to, blue cloth stamped vivid orange, vg- (cocked, corners bumped) in good-only dj with the edges quite tattered and heavily chipped. INSCRIBED (in French) by Souza Desnoyer on the half-title. 359 pp. Also including a pamphlet from an exhibition at Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. in London, 'Francois Desnoyer: Paintings and Drawings', dated October 1955 (English text). It has 8 paintings reproduced in b&w and is INSCRIBED by the artist, Francois (in French) on the half-title.

London: George Redway, 1899. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Cruikshank, George, et al.. First Edition, no statement of Second Edition on title page; 4to; green cloth; re-cased in original green cloth boards w/new endpapers; good (spine ends bumped; fading to joints and edges; soiling to boards; foxing to first and last five pages; faint foxing to side edge; cracks throughout; Plate XXXVII and its tissue guard detached; chips to side edge of pp158-9 due to way pages cut). 22 portraits and facsimiles of 70 original drawings. Artists include Cruikshank, Seymour, Buss, "Phiz," Cattermole, Leech, Doyle, Stanfield, Maclise, Tenniel, Frank Stone, Landseer, Palmer, Topham, Marcus Stone, and Luke Fildes. 256 pp.

San Luis Potosi: Letras Potosinas, 1948. First Edition . Soft cover. Good+. 1st edition of the third volume of Chessal's intricate and beautiful etchings. A large 4to softcover, good plus; spine is sunned and torn at the bottom; there are two water spots on the front cover. Clean within; each image is accompanied with a description printed on a glassine interleaf. 10 plates. SIGNED by the artist on the half-title.

London: William Tegg. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Leech. No published date, but probably around 1850. First. 53 numbered pages, each one opposite an etching from one of three books illustrated by Leech: "Jack Bragg," "Christopher Tadpole," and "Hector O'Halloran." Illustrated covers with new maroon cloth spine and new endpapers. All edges gilt. Condition: Covers Good with rub and soil on corners and front and back. Interior VG+: clean, no foxing, tight.

NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. 1sts, 4to, off-white textured cloth, no djs, g+ (all vg+ except p.387 torn in Vol. I, corner of page separated but included) in vg slipcase (a little soiled). 848 pp. total incl. index. Please be aware that shipping this item will require extra charges above our standard rate.

Frankfurt: Umschau, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Helfried Weyer photos. 1st, hardcover folio in pictorial boards, vg+ in vg+ dj a little sunned on rear panel. 159 pp. German text. Includes a music CD in pocket on rear pastedown, with forged aboriginal music by Maik Madsen, Sebastian Pfausch, and Stefan Jules Werner.

Beijing: China Travel and Tourism Press, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition stated. Folio in deluxe speckled orange cloth boards with gilt decoration. Inscribed or signed on p. 12. Very good (boards bowed; leather bookmark damage/residue on pp.12-13; pastedowns slightly bubbled) in vg dustjacket (rubbed, esp. near spine; lightly wrinkled top edge). Includes deluxe maroon cloth box with gilt title, in very good condition with one corner loose. 206pp. Please note that shipping this large book internationally may require additional postage.

New York: Wittenborn and Company, 1947. Soft cover. Fair. Problems of Contemporary Art Number 2; green paper wraps; 4to; fair condition (heavily edgeworn; edges of wraps faded; black smudging to wraps; corners bumped; spine worn and faded; spine ends chipped and torn; 1.5" tear to front wrap along top of spine; foxing to pages; cracked throughout); 92pp.

NY: Wittenborn, Schultz, 1947. Soft cover. Good+. Problems of Contemporary Art #2. Probably 2nd printing, 4to softcover, good+. Has worn and sunned edges, chipped ends of spine, stain on lower foreedge. 48 pp. + 49 plates.