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Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. Magritte, Rene. 208 pages. 25 x 19 cm. 216 illustrations, twenty-one in color. Index. FREITAG 5873.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Near fine. 123 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Originally published 1935.

Montreal: Musee d'art contemporain, 1979. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. Pollock, Jackson. 115 pages. Six illustrations. Preface by Louisa Letocha. Four essays which represent perspectives on Jackson Pollock. Text in French and English.

Rome: Canesi, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in near fine slipcase. 3 vols. 151,149, 189 pages. 34 x 25 cm. Total of 174 color plates, and a plethora of black and white illustrations: photographs and drawings. A comprehensive worldwide review of domesticity and interior design from the earliest times through the 20th century. First volume covers prehistory, pre-Columbian, Asia, Islam and the Greco-Roman periods. Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, Colonial America [Vol. II], and last volume carries to the present, also discussing modern architecture and landscape gardening. Index in each volume with general index of buildings in last volume. Text in Italian. Fresh, bright set.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Orange brown cloth, front cover lettered in silver, black spine label lettered in silver. Fine. 368 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Landmark work on the American economy, reasoned and unpolitical, facing a future in pursuit of goods rather than investing in people. It is perhaps truer today than than the day published. Unclipped dust wrapper $5.00 price, pristine almost as new copy.

Madrid: Por El Autor, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. half vellum and brown cloth. Very good. 427 [1] [172] pages in text. 32 x 23.5 cm. Unknown limitation, this copy no. 51 on "papel de hilo," signed by the author. 90 leaves of plates, 12 in color, text profusely illustrated, headpieces, historiated initials, many tinted in sepia and sanguine, decorated endpapers. Contains half-title page. Includes appendices bibliographical references and index. Major work, naval architecture of wooden ships, some of the illustrations to scale. PALAU I, 521. Backstrip darkened, small nicks head of latter.

Paris: Furne, Libraire-Editeur, 1855. Hardcover. Brown leather spine and brown cloth. Aeg. Near fine. 598 pages. 27 x 17 cm. Twenty four full page high quality steel engraved plates with tissue guards. Chapter headings with Initial letters, List of the Doges of Venice Text generally very clean and bright. scattered light toning to margins of front fold-out map of Venise. Small, faint oval library stamp title page. Raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, sunning to front cover.

New York: Wittenborn And Company, 1943. First edition. Orig. blue/green cloth, paper labels spine and front cover. Near fine. Braque, Georges. 6 leaves. 26 x 18.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 400 stamped "Review Copy" on limitation page. Frontispiece is a color lithograph. 12 full page black and white plates. Bibliography.

NY: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1990. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine.. 112 pages. 27 x 23 cm. Illustrated in color and black and white.

New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1986. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 138 pages. 10 x 7". Abundantly illustrated in color and black and white.

New York: Maynard Walker Gallery, 1962. First edition. Paperback. Orig. tan printed wrappers. Very good. Kuhn, Walt. 10 pages. Eleven illustrations. Drawings and watercolors date from 1928 to shortly before his death in1949. These works by Kuhn were never previously exhibited. They were shown for the first time in 1960 at the Cincinnati Museum. This was the second exhibition and the first in New York. With a typed price list signed by Maynard Walker, and laid-in hand-written note from Richard K. Lacarda, another art dealer commenting on who purchased what -- "Huntington Hartford bought the "Hand Balancer" #88, for about $35,000....Pres. Kennedy's sister, Mrs. Stephen Smith paid about $12,500 for #109, "Apples on Red Cloth," and with additional comments and prices. A few small cover spots. Cover marked "Priced List" and"Do not remove.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth. Near fine in slightly nicked dust wrapper. 315 pp. With essay on The Development of Poster Art by Carlo Arturo Quintavalle. Translated by Alfred and Bruni Mayor. Profusely illustrated with 450 illustrations, 250 in full-color. Bibliography. The color reproduction is particularly exquisite.

New York: William Helburn, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Publisher's saffron yellow spine and brown boards with architectural vignette in silver gilt and spine labels lettered in silver. Very good. 2 vols.. VIII, 120, 5 & 91 (2) pages in text. 25 x 19.5 cm. 57 and 136 plates in heliogravure from photographs printed recto only by Lucien Vogel. Plus 157 line drawings by Albert Laprade. Text in French. Elegantly illustrated with fine examples of interior gardens and their layouts. Some of Laprade's drawings are to scale. Laprade collaborated with the author on this monograph with photos depicting an array of traditional Moroccan residences. This work was also published in France by Albert Levy. A small number of copies were published by Helborn. A tight set well printed with wide text margins. Book seller label of M. Sterling Carter, 414 Post Street, San Francisco. One spine label nicked.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1922. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. dark green limp calf. Teg. Very good. 1104 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Limited edition, 120 of 275 copies signed by Galsworthy. Galsworthy's most well-known work consisting of three novels and two interludes that trace three generations of the Forsyte family. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Galsworthy and fold-out Forsyte family tree. Front cover gilt stamped, Backstrip extremities worn, front free endpaper dated 14.8.22,

Kansas City: Earle J. Bernheimer, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter vellum spine and green boards. Near fine. Unpaginated. 27 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 27 of 30. Copies of hand written letters by Galsworthy, and commentary on World War I. Spine slightly toned.

Paris: Pierre Tremois, 1946. Hardcover. Text and extra suite of plates, fine in reinforced board chemise with leather spine label, wear at front cover joint. and housed in very good slipcase. Falke, Pierre. 171 pages. 28 x 21 cm, Limited edition, One of 16 on Japan Imperial with an extra suite of 16 pochoir plates bound separately (total edition of 736). Plus one "Dessin Original," signed by Galtier-Boissiere & Falke laid-in with the suite of extra plates. Pochoir chapter heads and endings by Pierre Falke. Mostly unopened, very fresh copy, with intact original glassine wrappers.

San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1963. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth. Very good. 80 pages. Six illustrations. Largefold-out map. Three documents translated from the Spanish by Adelaide Smithers. Edited by John Galvin. Printed in black, red and green. Limited edition,one of 750 designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. Bookplate.

New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in fine illustrated dust wrapper. Gambee, Robert. 272 pages. 28 x 23 cm. Signed by Gambee on front cover free endpaper. Profusely illustrated with color photographs by the author/photographer.

Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cream boards with front cover paper label. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 183 pages. Large 4to, 274 black and white plates for each of the entries in the catalogue with each entry annotated. Index of Painters. Index of Subjects. An important and useful reference work.

Park Forest: W.R. Hasbrouck, 1963. Reprint. Hardcover. Orig. brown and green cloth. Fine. Wright, Frank Lloyd. Unpaginated. 35 x 29.5 cm. This is the second publication of The Prairie School Press, the first being "A System of Architectural Ornament" by Louis Sullivan. A facsimile of the original edition with Wright's design faithfully adhered to, printed in red and black on eighty pound antique finished paper and bound as the original, with a small folio of Wright's nature photographs, handsewn in booklet form as was the original tipped inside the front cover. Laid-in, the original type written announcement of this work by the publisher. Interior contents clean and crisp.