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Leicester, England: Twelve by Eight Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo 7" - 7. Rigby Graham. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Rigby Graham's artwork illustrates the covers, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bound in Linson paper, hand-set at the Orpheus Press, printed by William Caple & Co. for the Twelve by Eight Press. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, not price-clipped. Unpaginated, but roughly 36 pp., and augmented with brilliant black-and-white woodcuts.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.

Los Angeles, California: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997. Second Impression. Hardcover. As New/As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the first author, being warmly inscribed at the first free endpaper to and from the personal library of the Lake Forest, Illinois-based former architect and Lake Forest College-based art historian and critic, Professor Franz Schulz, dated June 24, 2000. 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, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. 200 full-color illustrations, another 50 in duotone.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. Read More

Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 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, illustrated, showing only very minor wear beyond it being taped to both flap, protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. Lots of black-and-white illustrations and photographs. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Edited and with an Introduction by Lina Fergusson Browne for whom the subject of this fine volume was her great grandfather-in-law. xxi [3], 1-419 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: The Dial Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and due homage to the National Jewish Welfare Board. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn along edges, extremities, protected by a plastic coat. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. And a Foreword by Frank L. Weil.xxxiv, 1-490 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.

Dublin, Ireland: William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1843. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Browne, Hablot K. The fuller title is from a two-volume work, "Our Mess." and by Harry Lorrequer, Charles Lever's true name. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, with forward cock to spine, bumping to spine head and foot, rubbing of the gilt lettering to spine but still distinct, blind-stamped illustrations to front and rear panels. Rough-cut page edges make this a particularly attractive copy. Before he was "Phiz," Hablot K. Browne was a prominent illustrator, and here he has provided 27 plates including a particularly fine black-and-white portrait of the offer at frontis, tissue-protected. All plates collated and present, one being severely toned, but the rest are clear and sharp. Moderate toning to endpapers, but a clean text-block. The author's dedication to The Right Honourable Lord Eliot is included. Frontis matter + 6-306… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author at the half-title. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy but for remainder mark along bottom edge, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear beyond former price sticker residue at rear panel, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped.306 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.

Saml. Gabriel and Sons. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Gordon Robinson. N. 428 in the series, staple-bound in linenette, colorfully illustrated by Gordon Robinson in duotone and full color, including full page. Unpaginated, but roughly 14 pp., single short closed tear to fore-edge.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: The Museum of Modern Art, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy of a major museum artist exhibit, minor wear of glossy illustrated covers, less to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy, and sumptuous photographs printed on high-gloss paper. 32 pp., with selected bibliography, exhibition checklist. Foreword by Kynaston McShine, then an essay of Introduction by Ellen H. Johnson.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: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Michael Foreman. 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 beyond a slight diagonal crease to inside front flap, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Near-gift-quality condition inside and out.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: Icon Editions by HarperCollins, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Jackson Pollock. 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 a two-tone, black paper over boards, red cloth-backed. 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. A near-fine copy of the first printing. The publisher's blurb has it that "This concise study of Jackson Pollock provides a reliable survey of his life and work and an understanding of his paintings--their origins, meanings, and influence. Unlike other books on Pollock that deal extensively with his life or with formal analysis of his works, Cernuschi's… Read More

Berlin: Druck und Verlag Georg Reimer, 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A still handsome, still sturdily bound copy in hardcover, marbled paper over boards, leather-backed spine, with four raised bands to spine, gilt titles at spine. Skinny octavo in format, at 167 pp. Beautifully decorated endpapers, German language text. Three articles penned by the noted German philologist and author of Grimm's Fairy Tales for the Presussischen Jahrbucher, compiled by WIlhelm Scherer. Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, also known as Ludwig Karl, was also a jurist, and folklorist, and was also the co-editor/-author of the monumental and influential work known as the Deutsches Wörterbuch.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: The Rappahannock Press, for The Phillips Collection, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Jacob Lawrence. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial wraps. Edited by Elizabeth Hutton Turner, with an Introductory essay by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., then chronology by Stephen Bennett Phillips, and essays by Lonnie G. Bunch II and Spencer R. Crew, Patricia Hills, Elizabeth Steele and Susana M. Halpine. Features 60 paintings reproduced in full color, plentiful other illustrations in black-and-white. 172 pp. including chronology, notes, bibliography and index.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: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Jacques Lipchitz and James Moore. Forewordy by Jacques Lipchitz, text by H.H. Arnason, a chronology of Lipchitz's works, then a selected bibliography, and followed by a section of plates, photographs in black-and-white being from James Moore. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing considerable wear especially to extremities, and a chip missing from upper front panel, but not price-clipped, and protected by a Brodart sleeve. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 195 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 Tate Gallery, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Jacques-Laurent Agasse. A sterling condition copy bound in tall quarto format of an artist exhibition catalog of the works of Jacques-Laurent Agasse, and with various contributions by Renee Loche, Colston Sanger, Claude Lapaire, and Nicholas Serota, among others. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. The exhibition ran from November 10, 1988 through January 22, 1989, first in Geneva then in London. Preface by Claude Lapaire and Nicholas Serota, and then full-on essays by the four editors. Several score lovely reproductions in full color. Index, list of sponsors, exhibition checklist, and more.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.

Berlin: Judisches Museum, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the brilliantly glossy illustrated wraps in gate-fold. 179 pp., and with several score brilliant reproductions printed on glossy paper. Vorwort by Dominik Bartmann and Ammon Barzel, and then with a biographie, and then contributions by Heinz Peters, Ziva Amishai-Maisels, Kathrin Kellner, Inka Bertz, Dominik Bartmann, and Ziva Amishai-Maisels again, and then with a Katalog der Gemalde, Zeichnungen, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, Lithographien, Illustrierten Bucher und Autographen Jakob Steinhardts im Berlin Museum / Judischen Museum im Berlin Museum bearbeitet von Kathrin Kellner.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: Dover Publications, 1966. Softcover. Good. 12mo 7" - 7. A fine, important work of ethnomusicology, from the personal library of Dr. Art Lehmann, author of Magic, Witchcraft and Religion. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, with some creased glossy pictorial wraps, six pages of penned notes up front, thereafter being a clean text. New introductory essays by Philip Sherlock, Louise Bennett and Rex Nettleford. lii [2], 2-188 pp. + a list of other, related Dover publications. Unabridge and unaltered republication of the true First Edition of 1907, and with three new essays.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: Ed. J. Burrow & Co. LTD, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the former Governor of Jamaica, George F. Timpson, being a Presentation Copy, published by Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd., 1938, London. Only one additional copy in this signed state available on-line. From the publisher's blurb on front flap inside: "Jamaica, the oldest and most beautiful of our tropical colonies, was the great stronghold of British slavery; on her shores Christianity and the slave system met in mortal combat. The stirring story of Jamaican emancipation is told in this volume, which closes with a description of the Island today . . . " In point of fact, a self-backpatting from a former representative of the former slave state-colony akin to Christian back-patters regardig Abolition in the U.S. It's not as if equality then began to reign. Bound handsomely in blue cloth, gilt lettering and illustration at front cover and lettering to spine, still… Read More

Austin, Texas: State House Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author at half-title, being warmly inscribed "To Dave Montgomery with best wishes for your birthday." Handsomely bound in two-tone, brown cloth over boards, gilt-stamped title to front board, light tan cloth-backed. From the personal library of Mr. Robert Allen as conveyed to me by his widow, Ms Priscilla (Brownie) Allen, he having been a noted bookseller and appraiser and also editor of a number of volumes of the The Eighteenth Century: a current bibliography series in a project headed at the University of Southern California. Plentiful penciled notations left in, mostly unobtrusive, but telling of the technical skills of the previous owner. Plentiful black-and-white reproductions of covers and title pages of Michener's best-known works. xvii [6], 7-313 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be… Read More

Philadelphia: The Centaur Book Shop, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo 7" - 7. SIGNED by the compiler, "For Ray, this opusculura, which he need not read. Guy." Another fine contribution to the series The Centaur Bibliographies of American Authors, compiled by Guy Holt about the works of James Branch Cabell. Little hardcover tome, bound simply in brown paper over boards, brown buckram cloth-backed. Printed paper title label over front cover, another to spine, a bit abraded and soiled. Interior clan, unmarked. No. 10 of 500 copies printed, and the third in the series following Joseph Hergesheimer and Stephen Crane. 73 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.

Damiani, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. James Casebere. Brand-new artist monography, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder, a brilliant, sumptuously illustrated catalogue raisonne. From the publisher's blurb, "This is a major mid-career survey of the work of James Casebere, the New York contemporary photographer and artist. Authored and edited by Okwui Enwezor, the renowned American art historian, it includes many lesser-known early works, never before reproduced sculpture, as well as photography from 1975 to 2011." Edited by and contributed to by Okwui Enwezor, it includes contributions also by Hal Foster, Tony Morrison and and Ford Morrison. James Casebere (born 1953) emerged in the Pictures Generation as an artist-photographer complicating the status of the photographic image alongside Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical… Read More