New York, NY: R. H. Russell, Publisher, 1899. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Unpag. Oblong Folio. Clean, crisp copy with minor scuffing to the covers. Fourth in Gibson's series of publications of his drawings.
Produced in an edition of 250 copies, this is #100 and signed by Charles Dana Gibson and the publisher on the limitation page. Very Good. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1948. Hardcover. First Edition. xiv, 743 pp. 4to. Dust jacket has minor scuffing and small closed tears at edges and a 3/4" loss at top right corner of rear panel, now in mylar cover. Red cloth boards with silver embossed titling. Previous owner has inscribed his name and date of gift in light blue ink on front pastedwon, they have also pasted a small plate to the first free endpaper of a typed quote by William Maitland, "Today we study the day before yesterday, in order that yesterday may not paralyze today, and that today may not cloud our vision of tomorrow."
Siegfried Gideon (1888-1968) was an important influence on the International Movement in architecture and design. "Mechanization Takes Command"..... More
Braque, Georges. Paris/New York: Editions Pierre Tisne/Universe Books, Inc., 1956. Hardcover. First Edition. 109 pp. 136 plates. Brown cloth boards with slitght staining, sunning to spine, silver embossed titling to cover board and spine, clean within. Very Good. More
Goldsworthy, Andy. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 157 pp. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / fine. More
New York: Abrams, 2007. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 190 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. xiv, 169 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with photograph of de Montebello inset on front cover. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine. More
New York: Jan Kleijkamp and Ellis Monroe, 1946. Wraps. First Edition. 44 pp. 4to. Light tan heavy paper wraps with a string binding, mnor sunning line along top edge. Clean within. [Purcell 61].
A catalog for an exhibition that would to five museums along the West Coast: deYoung Memorial Museum, Pasadena Art Institute, Portland Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Seattle Art Museum. Very Good. More
Freud, Lucian. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. First U.S. Edition. 119 pp. 4to. Scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear. small tear at upper left corner of rear panel, now in mylar cover. Clean within. Fine / Very Good. More
Indiana, Robert. New York: Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2003. Wraps. First Edition. First Printing. Unpag. 4to. Clean and crisp within. Catalog for an exhibition of Indiana's work in Milan February 14-March 22, 2003.
Inscribed by the artist on the first free endpaper in the year of publication, signed with his handwritten, iconic image, LOVE. Fine. More
Indiana, Robert. Lewiston, ME: Bates College Museum of Art, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 52 pp. 4to. No dust jacket as issued. Black cloth boards with and inset color image of one of Indiana's Hartley Elegy Paintings on front board. Clean, and crisp within.
Published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name held at the Bates College Museum of Art. Indiana donated the series to the Bates College Museum of Art, which was founded in 1955 by the donation of a large collection of Marsden Hartley's work by his niece. Inscribed by the artist on the title page. Fine. More
Indiana, Robert. Milan, Italy: SilvanaEditoriale, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 137 pp. 4to. No dust jacket as issued. Clean and crisp within. Text in both Italian and English. Catalog for an exhibition of Indiana's work in Milan July 4-September 14, 2008.
Inscribed by the artist on the first free endpaper in the year of publication, signed with his handwritten, iconic image, LOVE. Fine / fine. More
Indiana, Robert. Rockland, ME/New Haven, CT: Farnsworth Art Museum/Yale University Press, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 126 pp. 4to. White dust jacket with Indiana's image of HOPE in homage to his iconic LOVE image on front cover. Very light scuffing to the foredge of jacket, slight darkening along right and left edges of both front and rear panels. Clean, and crisp within.
A chronicle of Indiana's life and work, focusing on his time in Maine and life on the island of Vinalhaven. Published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name held at the Farnsworth Art Museum, June 20-August 25, 2009. Signed by Robert Indiana (1928-2018) on the title page. Fine / Very Good. More
![Item #27294 Christmas Seal Stamps 1939 [Rockwell Kent]. Rockwell Kent](/pictures/thumb/27294.jpg?v=1595332907)
Kent, Rockwell. 1939. Paper. First Edition. One sheet of 100 stamps, 96 of which are the same repeat of image of a young woman with a single halo with the Christmas Seal cross directly behind her. Center four stamps are a different, plain design without the image of the woman. Clean, crisp sheet with no chips or tears. Fine. More
Russia: Mockba, 1965. Hard Cover. First Edition. Second Printing, 1966. 647 pp. 8vo. Only Russian Edition of Rockwell Kent's autobiography first published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1955. Dust jacket has minor chips and tears, scuffing, now in mylar cover. Slight bumping to cover boards, minor soiling at edges. Inscription on first free endpaper and note on rear pastedown, both in Russian.
Filled with Kent's illustrations and reproductions of color paintings that supplement the text. A stunning work when it was published in 1955 in the United States. Republished in the Soviet Union in 1965, with the new Russian text working almost seamlessly with the original illustrations [Libman 2875]. It is an extremely rare edition with none appearing in library holdings via OCLC. Very..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. 285 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
The catalog for the exhibition of the same name that toured The Tate Gallery, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1999. Fine / Fine. More
Gorbaty, Norman. New York: QCC Art Gallery/CUNY, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. 191 pp. 4to. Dust jacket has very light scuffing from shelf wear at edges, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within. Fine / Very Good. More
Lea, Tom. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. xviii, 227 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
A poignant work that documents what Tom Lea saw, sketched, painted, and wrote about in his experience in various theaters of World War II. Fine / Fine. More
Magee, Alan. New York, NY: Forum Gallery, 2003. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 222 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed by Magee on the second free endpaper. Fine / Fine. More
Maloof, Sam. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha, 1988. Wraps. First Edition. First Paperback Edition. First Printing. 223 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket which is unusual for a large format paperbound book.
A fascinating look inside the mind and workshop of legendary furniture designer and builder, Sam Maloof (1916-2009). Inscribed by Maloof on the first free endpaper in his distinct script. Fine / fine. More
Miami, FL: Bass Museum of Art, 2014. Wraps. First Edition. 138 pp. Clean, crisp copy bound with leather and metal studs, paying homage to the subject's distinct style. Fine. More
Nagoya, Japan: Eirakuya T shir, c. 1829-1847. As. Volumes 1, 2, 4 & 5 of the original 5 volume set. Missing Volume 3. Unpag. 8vo. Volumes 1 & 4 contain 22 leaves; Volumes 2 & 5 contain 21 leaves. Each volume has an orange cover with a paper label on front cover of each. Each binding has a loose or broken string but all are still intact, Volume I loosest; set is connected by one string that keeps the set together. Wear and scuffing to covers, interiors clean and bright, all wood block illustrations in black and white.
Each volume has numerous color wood cut illustrations, Volumes 1, 2 & 4 depict daily village life in a humorous way; Volume 5 focuses on samurai and..... More
Innsbruck: Verlag Der Wagner'schen Universitats-Buchhandlung, 1901. Hard Cover. As. 52 pp, 8 color plates, 1 photo-type plate. Folio. Brown cloth covered boards with gold border surrounding a fishing scene. Wear and scuffing to edges, bumping, spine cloth has been removed but covers still tight and intact, front hinge starting. A very nice reproduction of an important fishing text from the collection of Maximilian I (Holy Roman Emperor from 1501-1515). Stunning color plates. Very Good. More
Tucson, AZ: Privately Printed, 1945. Wraps. First Edition. Unpag. 4to. Terracott and beige wraps with Dixon's signature thunderbird "mark" at the center of the design. Light scuffing and soilinge from age. A long running series of Dixon's quotes fills the verso and recto of the cover wraps. Illustrated within the text, but also contains center section of 16 pages of his paintings, 8 black and white, 8 in color. Key to this publication is a list of Dixon's exhibitions by date and city, the same with mural decorations, and a final list of collections housing his work. Photograph of Dixon by Ansel Adams is the frontispiece.
Maynard Dixon's (1875-1946) work as an illustrator, painter, and muralist focused on the American Southwest, and for many came..... More
Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1969. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition of the English Translation. Scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, the number "5" written in blue ink at base of front dust jacket flap, jacket now in mylar cover. Black cloth boards with silver embossed titling to spine, small bump at base of front board. Clean within.
An English translation of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's (1895-1946) treatise on the three mediums of the title originally published as a Bauhaus of 1925-27. In republishing the designers were attentive to the imporatance of design and typography to the original German production in getting Moholy-Nagy's ideas across and replicated as best they could in this production. An important book by an important member of the Bauhaus..... More
Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, 2000. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. xiii, 179 pp. 23 plates. Clean, crisp copy. Fine / Fine. More
