Dickins, Asbury and John W. Forney

American State Papers. Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, from the Second Session of the Nineteenth to the Second Session of the Twenty-First Congress, Commencing January 12, 1827, and Ending March 1, 1824-1827, Class VI, Volumes II and III, Naval Affairs

Washington, Gales & Seaton, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copies, Volume II, rebound in a creamy black buckram cloth and with new endpapers and gilt-stamped titles to spines, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; ex-library, but only minimally so, there being an ink-stamp to each volume at title page nothing that the volume had once been in the U.S. Congressional Library, but with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Previous owner's ink-stamp at title page, having been once in the library of the House of Representatives. Massively heavy, oversized volume. Occasional smudging to or crimping of pages, else, tightly bound, clean and unmarked of interiors.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 346750

Catalogue: American History

Keywords: American State Papers|U.S. Congress|19th Congress|20th Congress|21st Congress

Ashley, Frederick W.

Catalogue of the John Boyd Thacher Collection of Incunabula

Washington, D.C., General Printing Office, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete. Handle with some care, as the cloth-over-boards, leather-backed bindings are a bit fragile, having peeled away a bit from the underlying tissue and then glue-repaired neatly. Scuffing to leather, chipped at spine head, library accession number in white at spine bottom, embossed stamp of Rhode Island College Library at p. 7. ink-stamped "Discard" inside front flap. Cracked rear pastedown, too, also glue-repaired. The book comprises a "Notable collection of early printed books. entrusted by Mrs. John Boyd Thacher to the custody of the Library of Congress as a deposit subject to her pleasure." 272 pp. of entries about individual works and from various countries, then title and printer and name indexes follow. [6], 7-329 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair

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Book number: 356039

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Keywords: incunabula Frederick W. Ashley rare books rare collectibles

Ashton, Dore

Barbara Hepworth: Conversations

New York, Marlborough Galleries, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Barbara Hepworth: Conversations presents a major retrospective held March and April, 1974, at the Marlborough Galleries, New York, and with a fine introduction by Dore Ashton. Big, tall, illustrated glossy pictorial covers. Bronzes, carvings, sculptures galore, augmented with black-and-white and full-color photographs of her work, 18 full-page plates all in. Ink-stamp from former owner at title page, else unmarked. 60 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 352833

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Ashton Dore Barbara Hepworth sculpture sculptors

Ashton, Rod

Erotique: Masterpieces of Erotic Photography

London, Carlton, 1999. . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of the stated first reprint edition, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. 224 pp. of exquisite black-and-white and eventually fine full-color, full-page erotic photographs. Augmented with an index of photographers responsible for the more than 200 erotic photographs from some of the world's most influential photographers some of which are almost transcendent.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 353571

Catalogue: Photography and Photographers

Keywords: Rod Ashton erotica photography Kiki Alice Prin Man Ray photographers erotic photographers

Ashton, Dore

Fragonard: In the Universe of Painting

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 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. Dore Ashton's fine artist biography has chapters listed in the Table of Contents as The painter's dream of light; The painter as puzzle; the painter's apprentice; Rigors of the academy in Paris; Life at the academy in Rome; Nature as art. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [8], 9-256 pp. First Edition is not stated.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,

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Book number: 348143

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Jean-Honore Fragonard|Dore Ashton

Ashton, John

Modern Street Ballads

London, Chatto & Windus, 1888. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Scarce in the trade in this state and condition, being an at least Fair condition exemplar, being Number 94 of only 100 copies printed in the Large Paper edition, thus a First Edition Thus. Big, tall, Imperial octavo hardcover format, gray paper over boards, one-quarter vellum, and augmented with 56 illustrations from old woodcuts. Paper soiled a bit, tips and edges scuffed, spine head and foot, ditto, paper title label soiled and abraded a bit, rough-cut fore- and bottom-edges, else tightly bound and bright of interior. From the personal library of the noted erotophile, bibliographer, folklorist, literary sleuth and former book scout, Gershon Legman, whose inimitable signature graces the heavily toned first free endpaper. An impressive collection of scurrilous, historical, erotic, political, geographical, social, mythological and sea street ballads, with a special focus on Queen Anne, she having been the focus of another biography by John Ashton. Replete with numerous in-text illustrations in black-and-white ballad headers. Illustrated frontispiece, tissue-protected, of an old woman proclaiming, "Fifty songs for a far-r-r-r-den." All in, a good, sturdy exemplar of an important work in English ethnomusicology.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair

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Book number: 356299

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Large Paper Edition John Ashton modern street ballads England English history music history popular music

Ashton, Dore

Picasso on Art; a Selection of Views

Middlesex, England, Penguin Books, 1977. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the The Documents of 20th-Century Art series, long a prominent sourcebook for writings about art, artists and art movements, General Editor Robert Motherwell, this one assembled by Dore Ashton; two complete works assembled here. xxvii [4], 4-187 pp. and with plentiful black-and-white illustrations and facsimile photographs.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 352256

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Robert Motherwell Dore Ashton 20th century art

Assouline, Pierre

An Artful Life: A Biography of D.H. Kahnweiler, 1884-1979

New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Translated from the original French by Charles Kuos, being the first U.S. edition of an important biography of perhaps the 20th century's greatest Jewish art dealer, who traded in the works of Picasso, Braque, Gris, Leger, Derain, Klee, and Masson. 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, tan paper over boards, brown cloth-backed. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xiii [2], 3-411 pp. Several ranges of evocative black-and-white photographs of Kahnweiler, other dealers and some of the 20th century's most influential painters.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 347130

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: D.H. Kahnweiler|Jewish Art dealers|Jewish culture|Jewish history|Pierre Assouline

Atchity, Kenneth John

Sleeping with an Elephant: Selected Poems, 1965-1976

St. Petersburg, Florida, Valkyrie Press, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers beyond sunning along edges, less to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Previous owner's inscription, else clean and unmarked. 78 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 356774

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry poems Kenneth John Atchity

Atchity, Kenneth John

Sleeping with an Elephant: Selected Poems, 1965-1976

St. Petersburg, Florida, Valkyrie Press, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers beyond sunning along edges, less to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Previous owner's inscription, else clean and unmarked. 78 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 356775

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry poems Kenneth John Atchity

Wadsworth Atheneum

11 New England Sculptors

Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Glossy, pictorial covers, and featuring the sculptural work of Alexander Calder, Naum Gabo, Peter Grippe, David Hayes, William Kent, Conrad Malicoat, Thomas Morin, Mike Nevelson, David Von Schlegell, Hugh Townley, and H.C. Westermann. Unpaginated, but roughly 22 pp. Foreword by C.C. Cunningham, the Director of the Wadsworth Atheneum Gallery.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 347624

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: sculpture|Sculptors|Alexander Calder|Naum Gabo|Peter Grippe|David Hayes|William Kent|Conrad Malicoat|Thomas Morin|Mike Nevelson|David Von Schlegell|Hugh Townley|H.C. Westermann

C.E.B.; Wadsworth Atheneum

Alexander Calder: Mobiles; Naum Gabo: Kinetic Constructions and Constructions in Space

Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1953. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Original stapled paper wrappers, illustrated on front panel by two kinetic sculptures, one each from Alexander Calder and Naum Gabo. Introductory essays by C.E.B., 20 black-and-white plates divided unevenly between the two sculptors. Fine frontis portrait of each author in black-and-white. Undated, but published by Wadsworth Atheneum in 1953. Photograph of Alexander Calder by Herbert Matter, and of Naum Gabo by E. Irving Blomstrann. 27 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 347559

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Naum Gabo|Alexander Calder|kinetic sculpture|art history|sculpture|mobiles

Atkinson, Cale

To the Sea

New York, Disney/Hyperion, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Glossy, pictorial boards. Unpaginated, but roughly 22 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 355349

Catalogue: Children

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Atterbury, Rowley Streatfeild

The Contributors

Westerham, Kent, England, Westerham Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Near pristine copy, being the paper of a talk delivered to the Wynkyn de Worde Society at Stationers' Hall on 16th May, 1974, in Westerham, Kent, England. Replete with black-and-white photographs of master printers and binders, pages of stationers ads, including tipped-in. Bound simply in gray paper over boards, distinct lettering to spine, gray paper wraps thereover, with paper title label affixed neatly. Clean and unmarked of interior. Page in facsimile of the Doves Press Bible, a Note from Sir Francis Meynell. Quite fascinating. 31 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 351781

Catalogue: Books and Bookbinding

Keywords: Francis Meynall