Search Results: Art from R & A Petrilla

Princeton: Princeton U Press, 1940. First Separate Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. Unpaginated: 6pp text, 14 plates of captioned wood engravings after Alexander Anderson. Bound in gray wrappers, cover decoration; small chip from top of spine. 8.75" x 5.75" This is one of 200 copies printed from the original wood blocks in the possession of Helen M. Knubel.

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1878. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: 213, (3)publisher's ads; 14 illustrations on text stock, decorative chapter headpieces. Bound in brown cloth, decorated in black and gilt. 6" x 4.25

Paris: Revue Art et Decoration, 1930. First Separate Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. Offprint, (12)pp; illustrated from Berthold Mahn paintings. Bound in plain tan wrappers. 11.5" x 8.5" This is a presentation copy with a three-line inscription inked on the title-page and signed by Berthold Mahn. [Interesting aside: Mahn was a camouflage artist in World War I.].

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1908. First American Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. Large quarto. (48)pp on heavy stock; 12 full-page portraits in color, smaller portraits and floral decorations on all other pages. Bound in green cloth, pastedown cover illustration by Harrison Fisher, gilt lettering. 11" x 10.25" Besides Harrison Fisher and Will Jenkins, other artists include Clarence T. Underwood, Howard Chandler Christy, Nathan Cootes, and Will Grefe.

New York: Grolier Club, 1908. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. 100pp; frontispiece portrait. Bound in decorated tan wrappers; two tips chipped from rear cover. 7" x 4.25

NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1968. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. pp; 251, (1); 294 illus from photographs, a few in color. Coated red wrappers, lettered in black and white. Slight spotting of top edges, otherwise fine. 9.25" x 9

New York: Czechoslovakia Government Information Service, 1944. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. (16)pp text; two illustrations on coated stock. Bound in pictorial stiff wrappers, 8.25" x 5.25" Designed by Rudolph Ruzicka. Printed by Supreme Printing Service, New York.

Lancaster, PA: Charles H. Frey, 1889. First Edition. Original wraps. Very Good. 16pp; 13pp drawings. 7.25" x 5.25" Includes the rules of a drawing contest sponsored by Frey, the Lancaster boot & shoe merchant, using the models in this book. Inside the front cover is promotional text for Frey's large stock and low prices.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1968. Second printing. Original Cloth. Very Good. Two volumes, quarto. pp: xlvii, (i), 265 with index, 124 illustrations; xv, 178 with index, 51 illustrations. Bound in brown buckram, gilt lettering on spine and decorated title on cover. 11.25" x 8.5" Volumes I and II are dated 1968.

Chicago: P.F. Volland, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong quarto, 124pp; cartoons throughout, some color highlights. Bound in green cloth and pictorial boards. 9" x 12.75" [Donovan & Murdoch, Golf and the Printed Word, 7430.].

Boston: Jason Weiler & Sons, 1924. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. 56pp, narrow octavo; illustrated throughout in black and white, highlights in red and blue. Bound in string-tied cream wrappers, embossed in gilt and green. Tipped inside the front cover is a 52-page booklet, "Net Price List of Diamonds, Latest Revised Prices." Light wear to edges of wrappers, contents near fine. 9" x 4" Shows many examples of diamond jewelry, with descriptions and prices.

New York: Cooper Union, 1951. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. (16)pp; three woodcuts, two examples of type design. Exhibition notes by Paul Standard. Bound in printed self-wrappers, 5.5" x 8.25

Paris: Librairie Theophile Belin, 1911. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: (iv) with errata, 197; illustrated throughout the text. Bound in blue cloth, gilt spine title; original wrappers bound in, the front one serving as the title-page, with small corner chips. 9.5" x 6.25" A priced catalogue of 582 titles illustrated from wood engravings. Text in French.

Paris: Chez Claude Aveline, 1926. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. pp: xxii, 55 leaves illutrated on rectos only, (7) index, (3) publisher's ads, colophon. Bound in stiff wrappers, printed in red and black, glassine dust jacket chipped at spine ends. 9" x 7.5" #35 of 35 copies on velin de rives for the author and editor, this is a presentation copy with a four-line inscription inked on the half-title and signed by Berthold Mahn. [Interesting aside: Mahn was a camouflage artist in World War I.].

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1918. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: (vi, 218) with index; occasional illustrations in the text. Bound in yellow cloth, spine and cover titles in red. Chapters include: Woods for Staining; French Polishing; Glazing; Inlaid Work; Stencilling on Wood and Ornamental Wood Staining; Varnishing; &c. 7.5" x 5

New York: Whittlesey House, 1936. Second printing. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: x, 293 with index; 434 illustrations from photographs. Bound in tan wove cloth, stamped in brown; spine mildly sunned. 9.25" x 6" Presentation copy: "May 10, 1937 / Best regards to Jack Reynolds--the 'almost' Navy officer. / E.J. Tangerman.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. pp: liv, 127 with index; frontispiece portrait, 16 plates, few illustrations in the text. Bound in blue wove cloth, gilt-stamped spine, decorated dust wrapper with shelf-back sunned. 9.5" x 5.75" Laid in is a bookmark one blue stock: a vignette and four-line tribute to BR on the recto, and on the verso a printed notice, "Paper hand-made by Harrison Elliott from former wearing apparel of Bruce Rogers.