Search Results: Collections & Exhibitions from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

Image 9 3/4 x 7 inches, sheet 12 x 9 inches. Pen and ink on paper. Signed with "EG" monogram. Crop marks in margins. Traces of pencil guide lines, artist's corrections in white tempera, small ink flecks throughout. Near fine. A drawing made to accompany a listing for the Fashion Institute of Technology's exhibition, "The Little Black Dress and Other Signs of Status," in the March 27, 2000, issue of THE NEW YORKER, appearing only weeks before Edward Gorey's death on April 15. It is one of Gorey's most elaborate later pieces, containing balloons, bangles, a beach pail, a bodysuit, platform shoes, canvas sneakers, skis, gender nonconformity, near nudity, a ballerina in bat wings, a child with a dog aloft on a leash, a widow in a veil, and other characters perched around the letters, "B-L-A-C-K," with a young woman at the center in the eponymous outfit.

Paris: United Nations Educational [Unesco], 1953. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Quarto. 27,[1] pp. including in-text illustrations. Covers toned, lightly foxed. Very good. Fourth part of Unesco's Division of Museums and Historic Monuments' MUSEUMS AND MONUMENTS five-part series. The volume reports on Unesco' second mission concerning the preservation and restoration of historic buildings: this concerning Yugoslavia's early medieval Church of St. Sophia in Ochrida (Ohrid), Macedonia. The author, Ferdinand Forlati (1882-1975), was an important Italian architect and civil engineer, responsible for the restoration of many of the Veneto region's architectural landmarks.

[S.l.]: A. Friedländer, lithographer, [ca. 1880s]. First Edition. Broadside. Very good. Advertising card, 11.5 x 8.6 cm., pictorical color lithograph on recto, text on verso. Light wear, staining and light scuffing on verso, evidently from early adhesive. Very good. Chromolithographic card promoting the anatomical museum of Julius Winkler in Leipzig, featuring a centerpiece of an anatomical theater (mid-dissection), surrounded by images of jarred fetuses, a pair of conjoined twins, a sword swallower with an opened torso, and various surgeries and anatomical preparations. The verso describes a collection of more than 1000 pieces in areas of anatomy, embrology, pathology, surgery, and hygiene, including new exhibitions of "life-size bodies" depicting various epidemics, an "unsolved puzzle" and a "wandering corpse." Printed by Adolph Friedländer (1851-1904), the great Hamburg-based lithographer and publisher of posters of circuses and other entertainments. OCLC locates no copies. Rare.