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New York: Arts Inc, 1961. First English Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. E.L. Kirchner. Translated from the original German by Mrs. Ilse Falk. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Sans dust jacket, bound in black cloth and with bright white lettering to spine. A fine and accessible artist monograph that reproduces a telling pencil self-portrait from 1915 and with many score fine black-and-white reproductions from photographs of his best work and another couple score full-color reproductions tipped in. [6], 7-163 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Philadelphia: Wm. Duane. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. The Wikipedia entry devoted to "John Horne Tooke" notes that the author, born 25 June 1736 – 18 March 1812, was born John Horne but in 1782 added the surname of his friend William Tooke. Horne was an "English clergyman, politician, and philologist. Associated with radical proponents of parliamentary reform, he stood trial for treason in November 1794." Published in 1806 and 1807, stated First American Edition from the Second London Edition, complete in two volumes, bound handsomely in contemporary mottled calf, red leather labels, gilt lettering thereover, speckled edges, with Williams, Cornhill bookseller's ticket inside front flap at top, signatures of "Edwd Brooks" (perhaps a librarian?) on both paste-downs. Original receipt of purchase for $20 from Goodspeed's Book Shop of Boston, Massachusetts, and laid in is a T & R Yonge Books of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Toning to… Read more

London: Oxford University Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Thomas Eakins. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in gray paper over boards, black cloth-backed. Silver lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. [3], 1-583 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Belfast, Ireland: W.H. Greer, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A delightful copy in octavo format, gilt portrait frontis, at xxvii + 638 pp. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, gilt device to front over, lettering and illustration to spine. Toning to pastedown and other endpapers, bumped spine head and foot, else just about rock-solid. This copy has the original publisher's name laid over by a printed W.H. Green name and address, but also with the tell-tale little dealer stamp of Allen & Johnston, Bookbinders, Belfast inside front flap at bottom near gutter. Francis Davis was born the son of a soldier in Ballincollig, County Cork. A Wikipedia entry about him notes that his father was a Presbyterian from the north of Ireland, while his mother, Jane MacFee, was from Belfast. His father fought in the Napoleonic wars, his mother died when he was young, he was consigned to drudge-work at a loom as an apprentice, and when his father died he left for Belfast. He made a… Read more

Belfast, Ireland: Patrick Mallon, 1878. Hardcover. Near Fine. A remarkably handsome little tome, likely an early reprint of or a simultaneously-published-by-a-different printer edition, also from 1878, having been rebound in dark green cloth, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Very light foxing to and soiling of original endpapers, and new endpapers added. Black and white illustration of "The Belfast Man" at frontis. A fine collection of the Irish poet's best poems, he having been one of the "minor Victorian-era poets." Very lightly bumped spine head and foot. Francis Davis was born the son of a soldier in Ballincollig, County Cork. Another Irish bookseller notes that three different printings were considered firsts and sometimes with a printed-over ticket pasted on. A Wikipedia entry about him notes that his father was a Presbyterian from the north of Ireland, while his mother, Jane MacFee, was from Belfast. His father fought in the Napoleonic wars, his mother… Read more

New York: Harper & Row, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A particularly well-preserved copy of the stated First Edition, First Printing. Bound handsomely in blue cloth, with sharp and distinct silver lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Particular focus on the work and importance of Duchamp, Picasso, Picabia, Kandinsky, Cezanne, Delaunay and others from Europe and then American artists such as Dove, Hartley, Marin, O'Keeffe, Covert, Davis, Stella, Weber, Sheeler, and many others. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. One hundred seventy illustrations in black and white in-text and another eight in full color, all being printed on high-gloss paper. vii [2], 2-324 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy… Read more

New York: Amer Antiquarian Society, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. x [1]. 1-89 pp., profusely illustrated, bound tightly in the original printed wrappers, a lovely exhibition catalogue of an important collection of 61 American bindings each being illustrated with a full-page plate. Printed by Meriden Gravure and The Stinehour Press, complete with an index of binders, owners and binders. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Washington, D.C: OERI Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Bound in brown printed, illustrated wraps. xvi, 287 p. Extensive catalogue of American textbooks 1775-1900, arranged by subject, with bibliography, author and subject index. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Double-column text, easy to use. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press , 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs but for a bookplate from the library that donated the book to Rabbi Samuel Penner Library from one Jewish organization (of Sacramento) to another (of San Diego); not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Handsomely bound in a bright brick-red cloth, with gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, printed, showing moderate cover wear and chipping along top edge, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Top-edge gilt, deckled fore and bottom-edges. Friedman recounts the narrative of the first and earliest waves of Jewish settlers in especially Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania, complete with genealogical notes and historiography. List of (8) illustrations. Rough-cut fore-edges, remarkably bright of interior. Volume contains… Read more

College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Another fine contribution to the Montague History of Oil Series, this being Number Four in the series. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Several score illustrations and photographs of the early decades of California's petroleum industry. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xiii [2], 3-242. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

San Francisco, California: The Book Club of California, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. A lovely collection of 10 pamphlets plus an Introduction, complete. Measuring 8" x 10" in size and with printed wraps, then laid in loosely into a Fine condition cloth-covered folder fitted in to a Fine condition, also blue cloth-covered slip-case, a bit sunned and toned, slip-case being graced with two cloth labels neatly affixed at spine head and foot with gilt-lettering thereto. Published for its members in The Book Club of California in 1991. This Keepsake edition consists of individual folders by Michael A. Lederer, and was been designed and printed at the Anchor & Acorn Press in Petaluma, California The set is comprised of the following: 1.: Introduction; 2.: The Bancroft Company; 3.: Redington & Company; 4.: Main & Winchester; 5.: Palmer & Rey; 6.: Wm. Hatteroth's Surgical House; 7.: J.J. Pfister & Company; 8.: Pacific Manufacturing Company; 9.: Joseph Budde and the… Read more

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975. Softcover. Very Good. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, bound in a big, tall quarto format minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy, with an illustrated wrap. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. This publication comprises a catalogue of 225 exhibits that are grouped in 34 subject categories, replete with commentaries. Preface by the art historian Charles Ryskamp, then a Foreword by Gerald Gottlieb, then a long essay, "The First Flourishing of Children's Books," by J. H. Plumb. The catalogue per se is assembled by Gerald Gottlieb. Complete with bibliography. xxx [2], 3-263 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: The Connoisseur, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The publisher's blurb brags on the nearly 160,000 words and the plates (one colored, 300 in monochrome, being reproductions of 413 drawings in water-color or allied media, illustrating the work of 264 great English artists. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in oatmeal cloth, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to cover and spine. A bit of scuffing along bottom edges, none discernible to top. Simple print dust jacket, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, not price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xxii [1], 1-266pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially… Read more

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press for The Metropolitan Museum, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Special focus on the delightful work of Maso Finiguerra, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Baccio Baldini, Francesco Rosselli and other engraving artists of 15th-century Italy. Handsomely bound in red cloth over boards, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Four major sections, a Preface, a list of plates, biographical notes and definition, documents and reports, and brilliant illustrations and photographs in black-and-white. xxii [1], 3-112 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A classic social history of precolonial Madagascar, focusing on the dynastic tribal kingdoms. The publisher's dust jacket has it that "Professor Kent began his detailed research into the precolonial history of Madagascar with the purpose of providing a more balanced historical account than previous accounts had presented. In particular he felt that the amount of investigation into the early kingdoms of Madagascar was insufficient in light of their historical importance. Limiting his endeavor to the period 1500 - 1700, he sought to answer several questions: how, precisely, were the early kingdoms formed; how did they grow; how did they change; why did they change? Product of impressive scholarship, this volume is an important contribution to the study of the Malagasy past as well as a work of considerable interest to students of history and the social sciences engaged in area studies." Sterling condition… Read more

Williamsburg Virginia / London: The Book Press, Ltd. / Farrand Press & Private Libraries Association, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. The presence of the original publisher's glassine wrap (removed just now) has greatly added to the look of this fine book, with only slight sunning to the bottom edge thereof, published in association between Farrand Press & Private Libraries Association, London, in First Edition state. Gilt lettering to cover and of cover device, bound in overlarge octavo format, at [9], 10-374 pp. in length. Very large number of gorgeous illustrations. From the Introduction: "This book is about books produced by lithography in Europe in the age of the hand press. The period it covers corresponds roughly with the first half of the nineteenth century, but since the hand press continued to be used for lithography long after this, even on a commercial basis, I have allowed myself some chronological license. To my knowledge very little of any consequence has been… Read more

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. James Daugherty. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Previous owner's bookplate inside front flap. Stated First Edition and illustrated by James Daugherty including illustrated endpapers. Bound in mauve cloth covers, blind-stamped illustration to front cover, rubbed lettering to spine. 136 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A fine and accessible study of the iconography of 15th-century Netherlandish paintings, mostly found in public altarpieces. 11 paintings are of special focus of the 120 triptychs still extent. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, bound handsomely in brown linen cloth, with stamped brown lettering to cover and spine, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing moderate wear and especially to spine head and foot, a bit of edge-wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Fine color frontispiece and then another 10 large plates, six being in full color, augmented with another 80 smaller monochrome illustrations. 176 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for… Read more

Madison, Wisconsin: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in black cloth, and with sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. From the publisher's blurb, "Tilework is the most spectacular architectural manifestation of Islamic Iran. In Early Persian Tilework, Douglas Pickett examines the growth to maturity of Persian tilework and mosaic faience, generally termed kashi, from its appearance about 1600 A.D. to the invasion of Tamerlane about 1390 A.D. . . Chapter 1 of Early Persian Tilework begins with a description of the subject and its precursors. Chapter 2 presents a typology of kashi variets in Iran and the adjacent areas from the period down… Read more

Princeton, New Jersey: Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 1994. Softcover. Fine. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. From the publisher's blurb, "Art history became established as an academic discipline in the United States between 1865 and 1895, when courses were introduced not only at Yale, Princeton, and Harvard, but also at Vassar, Syracuse, Wellesley, Rockford Female Seminary, Radcliffe, and Bryn Mawr. The prominent early role of the women's colleges and smaller universities is just one of the areas investigated in this volume on the genesis and early development of art history in the United States. Other essays focus on single departments of art history, examining the early subjects and methods of American art history and the way in which its practitioners responded to and assimilated contemporary developments in other fields, particularly history, the… Read more