Survey of American Painting

Pittsburgh, Department of Fine Arts Carnegie Institute, 1940. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A fine, indispensable reference guide to American painting and painters to near-mid century. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, with moderate wear to and slight soiling to the illustrated card stock wraps but with a particularly clean and bright interior. Published in First Edition state in Pittsburgh by the Department of Fine Arts Carnegie Institute, 1940, and built around an exhibition held from October 24th to December 15th, 1940. 135 plates, unpaginated, but probably 200 pp. or so and complete with an index of painters featuring, from Abbey to Zsissley.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 347415

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: American painters|American painting|art history|American art history

Thirty Illustrations of Childe Harold: The Original Drawings Produced Expressly for the Art Union of London

London, The Art Union, 1855. Reprint. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Quite handsomely and sturdily rebound reprint edition in a crushed red Morocco leather hardcover format. Gilt-stamped lettering to cover and spine, and gilt-stamped dentelles interior and illustrations to front cover. Compartments divided by five raised bands. Scuffing to tips, edges, spine head and foot, and with considerable scuffing to and loss of gilt borders on rear panel. Tank-like of appearance, though, heavy, tall quarto size in format. Unpaginated initial text, but then 30 duotone engravings from original drawings by various artists such as J. Tenniel, H.C. Selous, F.W. Hulme, C.W. Cope, T. Faed, J. Holland and others, as then engraved by Williams, Dalziel, Thompson, Linton, Measom, and many others. A foxed tissue-guarded portrait frontis of Byron, previous owner's bookplate inside front flap, and another plate inside rear panel with a penned "1,378" (perhaps an accession number?). Library-reinforcing tape at both gutters, burgundy colored, and remains of the original linen ribbon bookmark, a section thereof laid in, as well. Gilt edges all-around. Index to the illustrations listing Canto, Stanza, artist name and engraver. Then following plates is the epic poem, proper, printed on glossy paper. A Wikipedia entry about the Byronic heroic epic poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage notes that the poem was published between 1812 and 1818 and describes "the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man, who is disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry and looks for distraction in foreign lands." 275 pp. and including Notes to Canto the Fourth.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 349527

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Childe Harold |The Art-Union of London|Childe Harold'sPilgrimage

Torino: Immagini E Documenti Dall'Archivio Storico Del Comune

Torino, Italy, Archivio Storico della città di Torino, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Square 4to 9" - 11" tall. Gorgeous copy inside and out, featuring glossy pictorial hardcover binding, brilliant white interior. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Tall square quarto format, and absolutely stuffed with black-and-white, duotone and full-color, often full-page illustrations. Italian language text. Housed in a simple printed cardboard slipcase in Good condition, scuffed a bit and worn at the tips and along edges, but having done its job admirably. 239 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 345769

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Italian language|Torino|Italian culture|Italian history

Vision of a Collector: The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress

Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" 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. Dark green raw silk cloth over boards, printed spine label. Bright and shiny dust jacket, bright white, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, not price-clipped. xxxv + 427 pp. Over 100 essays each dealing with a specific book from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. illustrated profusely. Lessing J.Rosenwald (1891 - 1979) was an American businessman and rare-book collector, son of the president of Sears, Roebuck and Company. He donated his collection to the Library of Congress. Special focus on the Kelmscott Chaucer, a Mainz Bible, and works by Durer and Blake.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 347219

Catalogue: Books and Bookbinding

Keywords: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection|Sears, Roebuck and Company|The Kelmscott Chaucer|Geoffrey Chaucer|The Mainz Bible

Walt Kuhn Still Life Paintings

New York, Kennedy Galleries, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine and due homage to the American painter Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), chronicler of the circus and who had his first one-man show in 1910. Foreword by Lawrence A. Fleishman, introducing the exhibit that ran from March 12 - April 5th, 1980. Sumptuous full color photographic reproductions of his best works, printed on high-gloss paper. One black-and-white photograph of Kughn and then full-color, 43 works.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 349857

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: still life paintings|Walt Kuhn|artist exhibit|artist monographs|Lawrence A. Fleishman

Walter Crane Hazelford Sketch Book: A Sampler with Autobiographical Notes from the Manuscripts in the Caroline Miller Parker Collection in the Harvard College Library

Cambridge, Massachusetts, John Barnard Associates, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine sampler of duotone and black-and-white illustrations by Walter Crane (1845-1915), an English graphic artist, and Introduction by Caroline Miller Dabney Parker (1874-1922) from her collection. Sterling condition hardcover copy of the Limited Edition of only 700 copies, 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. Illustrated paper over boards, brown cloth over boards. Bright, clean, unmarked interior. 30 [1] pp. plus frontis matterMember, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 351541

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Walter Crane Hazelford artist monograph sketchbook Caroline Miller Parker

Welcome to Lancaster House

Ronks, Pennsylvania, Armstrong / Lancaster, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition and complete portfolio of twelve artists, housed in quadru-fold wing-folder constructed from stiff brown card stock. Complete with original prospectus from Lancaster House, a two-page, type-written letter of introduction, a shiny, square bound introduction to Lancaster House, staple-bound, separated by tissue guard, then index, order Form, and price-guide, and then examples of the originals works they were selling, including from George Thiewes, Clare Leighton, Guido Brink, Doug Danz, Wilburn Bonnell, III, Sabra Johnson Field, Joan Woodward, Susan Wolf, Allan Houser, Nancy Miller and William Brinley.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 349329

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: George Thiewes|Clare Leighton|Guido Brink|Doug Danz|Wilburn Bonnell III|Sabra Johnson Field|Joan Woodward|Susan Wolf|Allan Houser|Nancy Miller|William Brinley

Willi Baumeister: Zeichnungen, Gouachen, Collagen.

Stuttgart, Germany, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" 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. Bound handsomely in blue cloth covers with stamped light blue lettering to cover and 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. Following upon a lengthy exhibition held in multiple galleries and museums, "Willi Baumeister. Zeichnungen, Gouachen, Collagen" organized for the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth at Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (April-June 1989), then Museum Fridericianum Kassel (July-September 1989) and finally the Kunstmuseum Bern (February-April 1990). Contributions by Ulrike Gauss, Ursula Zeller , René Hirner, Ina Conzen-Meairs, Peter Chametzkky, Peter Beye and Heinrich Geissler. Directory of 284 numbers, all reproduced.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 346361

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Willi Baumeister|Ulrike Gauss|Ursula Zeller|René Hirner|Ina Conzen-Meairs|Peter Chametzkky|Peter Beye|Heinrich Geissler

World's Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893

Chicago, Illinois , , 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Neither author nor publisher is stated, but appears to have been published in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition of 1893, held in Chicago. Handsome little tome containing fine and sharp duotone (white and light gray) illustrations (engravings) on laminated card-stock. Bound in accordion-style, the final two having been split at the fold and then neatly tape-repaired. Panels are 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" tall and wide, respectively. Titles include "View Looking South over the Lagoon," "Mining Building," "Machinery Hall" (double-page), "Woman's Building" (double-page) and many others. Covers are brown paper over boards, with gray, gilt and black illustrations and with gilt lettering to cover. 14 panels, all in.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 357158

Catalogue: Americana/Regional Interest

Keywords: World Exposition Columbian Exposition Chicago Illinois 1893

The Youth's Companion, Volume 76, 26 Issues Running Consecutively from January 2, 1902 to June 26, 1902

New York, Perry Mason Company, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Seldom have I shuddered so in excitement upon acquisition of an item and contemplated its collation. Yes, this contains the first appearance of Jack London's magnificent short story, "To Build a Fire," published here on May 29th, p. 275, which was revised and augmented six years later and published in __The American Century__ (where the weather becomes colder, an anonymous interloper appears, a faithful Alaskan dog is drawn in, and, well, I don't want to give away the spoiler involving the tree bough and the snow . . . ). The story ends, "And Never Travel Alone!" An absolutely gorgeous collection of a half-year's worth of weekly issues of this influential newspaper-like magazine for "youth," which means age 12 on up. Comprises issues for the following dates, without interruption: January 2; January 9; January 16; January 23; January 30; February 6; February 13; February 20; February 27; March 6; March 13; March 20; March 27; April 3; April 10; April 17; April 24; May 1; May 8; May 15; May 22; May 29; June 5; June 12; June 19; June 26. This latter issue of The Youth's Companion also contains the first appearance of Kate Chopin's short story "The Wood-Choppers", Willa Cather's poem, "The Night Express", the February 20, 1902 issue contains "The New Citizen, by Theodore Roosevelt / Now President of the United States", and the set contains the entire serialization of "Pickett's Gap" by Homer Greene, articles about the attempted use by the U.S. Army of camels in transport and battle. Speaking of camels . . . near-elephant folio size format, bound together by linen-covered tan buckram cloth, with gilt lettering over a burgundy colored label to spine, abraded a bit. New endpapers, one being crimped diagonally, with slight crimping behind it, else a clean, tightly bound, bright and unmarked collection of 26 issues of an extremely influential publication for youth. Collectible condition.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 342060

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: The Youth's Companion|Jack London|To Build a Fire|Kate Chopin|Willa Cather|Theodore Roosevelt|Homer Greene

Schmidt, Robert A. and Barbara L. Voss, eds.

Archaeologies of Sexuality

London, Routledge, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. 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. A fine reader in ethnography and ethnology of sex and sexuality research, with contributions by Robert A. Schmidt and Barbara L. Voss, the two editors, and by Gayle Rubin, Roberta Gilchrist, Whitney Davis, Lynn Meskell, Rosemary A. Joyce, Lauri A. Wilkie, Eleanor Conlin Casella, Jula G. Costello, Sandra E. Hollimon, Elizabeth Prine, Robert A. Schmidt and Victor Buchli. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xiv [2], 2-302 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 356747

Catalogue: Sexuality and Sexology

Keywords: sexuality research Robert A. Schmidt Barbara L. Voss Gayle Rubin Roberta Gilchrist Whitney Davis Lynn Meskell Rosemary A. Joyce Lauri A. Wilkie Eleanor Conlin Casella Jula G. Costello Sandra E. Hollimon Elizabeth Prine Robert A. Schmidt Victor Buchli

Pokrovsky, Boris A. and Yuri N. Grigorovich

The Bolshoi: Opera and Ballet at the Greatest Theater in Russia

New York, William Morrow and Co., 1979. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Translation from the original Russian and Italian by Daryl Hislop, this being a First English Edition copy, being an apt celebration of the lyrical theatre's 200th anniversary. Forewordy by Leonid Brezhneve, then jointly written chapters and individual contributions, too. Sterling condition hardcover copy, bound in bright red cloth, 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, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. [5], 6-237 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 349574

Catalogue: Performing Arts

Keywords: Daryl Hislop |Boris A. Pokrovsky|Yuri N. Grigorovich|The Bolshoi Ballet

Carbone, Teresa A. and Patricia Hills; Teresa A. Carbone, ed.

Eastman Johnson: Painting America

New York / Brooklyn, Rizzoli of New York, for the Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Special contributions by the editor, Teresa A. Carbone, and by Patricia Hills, Jane Weiss, Sarah Burns, and Anne C. Rose. 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. Produced handsomely, being bound in red cloth, blind-stamped title to front cover, sharp and distinct 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. Detailed exhibition catalog and full bibliography, with a lengthy list of the artist's letters, which are included here. [5], 6-272 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 348486

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Eastman Johnson|Patricia Hills|Teresa A. Carbone

Michener, James A. and Jack Levine

Facing East

New York, Maecenas Press / Random House, 1970. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Limited Edition: no. 1019 of 2500 copies, signed by both author Michener and artist Levine, TWICE. Fine condition overall. Two folios (Parts One and Two) housed in a custom-built clamshell box made of beige-watered silk with a black leather strap and holder. Gilt lettering on spine of the box. Some very light soiling to and soiling of the outer cover along edges. Part One comprises unbound leaves and four full-color lithographic plates in a beige- watered silk folio with black leather strap and holder. Part Two comprises unbound leaves with facsimiles of sketches in black and white and color in an unlined black Morocco leather folder. Glassine leaves are laid in between each facsimile.Part One: xxxii (text) (4 (colophons)). Part Two: unpaginated, but 54 pp. Box measures 20â€� x 13 1/2.â€� Each folio measures 13â€� x 19 1/4.â€� The box and the folios and their leaves are very clean and intact.The following is the text from one of the colophons: â€oeThe 1500 De Luxe portfolios of this limited edition, numbered from 1 to 2500, were individually signed by the author and the artist. In addition, sixteen portfolios marked from A to P are the property of the author and the artist. Several portfolios marks H.C. were printed for the publishers and their collaborators. The four original lithographs, signed in the stone by the artist, were pulled on Rives paper. The text, hand-set in Caslon de Corps 24, and the original woodcuts, were printed on Arches paper. The original ‘Hors-Texte’ woodcut was pulled on Kawanaka Japanese vellum paper. The fifty-four watercolors, gouaches and drawings from the sketchbook by Jack Levine were printed by Phototype and Pochoir processes on Ingres paper. From two to forty colors were hand-brushed on each.â€� The leaves within the silk folio detail Levine’s travels to Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Cambodia, San Francisco, and Hawaii.Produced with a pronounced degree of lavishness. Gift-quality inside and out.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . As New/Near Fine,

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Book number: 345214

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Jack Levine|James A. Michener|drawings|etchings|travel|signed|Far East|East Asia

Jackson, Peter A. and Nerida M. Cook

Genders & Sexualities in Modern Thailand

Chiang Mai, Thailand, Silkworm Books, 1999. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Extensively pencil-notated, and from the personal library of a noted sex researcher himself, Michael A. Weidemann. Contributions by the two editors and by Chris Lyttleton, Andrea Whittaker, Jiemin Bao, Scot Barme, Nicola Tannenbaum, Craig J. Reynolds, Penny Van Esterik, Prudence Borthwick, and many others. From the publisher's blurb, "Many foreign observers of the "Land of Smiles" are familiar with a narrow range of gender relations and sexual practices in Thailand, from the fanciful portrayal of 19th-century harem life in The King and I, to recent media coverage of sex tourism and AIDS. Yet serious study of patterns of sexuality, femininity, and masculinity in Thailand is relatively new. This book is a rare collection by scholars from around the world and across social disciplines who are tackling these issues. The essays urge the reader to look beyond fantasies of Thailand as an "oriental sexual paradise" or "land of sexploitation" to historical and contemporary forms of gender and eroticism. Studies of the changing opinions and practices among villagers and urbanites, the creative expressions of novelists and aristocrats, and the concerns of early women's magazines and recent AIDS-prevention campaigns, reveal the extraordinary diversity of debates about gender and sexual issues in 20th-century Thailand. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xi [1], 2-289 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 356765

Catalogue: Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Keywords: Modern Thailand Peter A. Jackson Nerida M. Cook gender secxuality