Jack and the Bean-Stalk

, Saml. Gabriel and Sons, . . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 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. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 351232

Catalogue: Children's

Keywords: Gordon Robinson Jack and the Bean-Stalk

Japanese Decorative Style. Catalogue by Sherman E. Lee.

Cleveland / New York, Cleveland Museum of Art, distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 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. Bound most handsomely in brown cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine, and lovely gilt crane illustrations, cranes flying east to west across the covers. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Five chapters devoted the histories of various decorative arts in Japan, including Buddhist art of the Heian Period, Yamato-e, the Muromachi interim, and the Momoyama and Edo periods. Notes to both text and illustrations, selected bibliography, index of artists and a list of lenders to the exhibition. [1], 2-161 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: 346603

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Sherman Lee|Japanese decorative art|Japanese art history

The Jewish Historical Society of England Transactions Sessions 1939-1945 Volume XV

London, Edward Goldston, 1940. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, moderate wear of covers, with mild soiling to and sunning of printed card stock wraps, scuffing to, peeling of paper at spine head, less to text-block beyond light toning, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Contributions to Jewish history and Jewish culture in England by Cecil Roth, Wilfred S. Samuel, Bertram B. Benas, Alfred Rubens, Rabbi L. Rabinowitz, Rev. Michael Adler, Rabbi Dr. I. Epstein, and Paul H. Emden. 268 pp. with full index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 351313

Catalogue: Religion::Judaism

Keywords: Jewish history Jewish culture Cecil Roth Wilfred S. Samuel Bertram B. Benas Alfred Rubens Rabbi L. Rabinowitz Rev. Michael Adler Rabbi Dr. I. Epstein Paul H. Emden

Joan Miro: Equilibri a Lâ´Espai

Barcelona, Spain , Fundacion Joan Miro, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of a fine artist retrospective-collection devoted to the great Spanish artist Joan Miro, founded upon the collection of Kazumasa Katsuta. Published by Fundacion Joan Miro, 1997. Unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy illustrated covers, in gatefold. Published in First Edition state by the Fundacion Joan Miro, Spain, 1997. Text in Catalan and English. Art. Biographies. Profusely illustrated with b/w and color photographs with artistic work. 122 pages 29 x 24. Illustrated editorial paperback. No underlining. Perfect state of conservation.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 352871

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Joan Miro Spanish language artist exhibit catalog Kazemuasa Katsuta

John F. Kensett Drawings

University Park, Pennsylvania, The Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, measuring 8 1/2" by 11" in size, with minor wear of covers, less to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Exhibition catalog, drawn from a show that ran from August 27 - October 22, 1978 at the Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania State University. x + 91 pp., 79 black-and-white illustrations.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 348743

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: John F. Kensett|artist monographs

Joseph Raffael: The California Years, 1969-1978

San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of illustrated covers beyond edge-wear and some furling, near-pristine text-block, crease to rear cover, extending inward for two pages, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Fine catalog to augment the exhibition organized by Thomas H. Garver for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, January 20-March 5, 1978. Essays about Joseph Raffael by Thomas H. Garver. Very lightly soiled on the first free endpaper, furled a bit of tips, else clean and replete with lovely reproductions of Raffale's work. Published by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1978. 64 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 349337

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Joseph Raffael

Journal of the Central Assembly of the State of Vermont, at Their Session Begun and Holden at Montpelier, in the County of Washington, on Thursday, 10th October, A.D. 1833

Danville, Vermont, Eben'r Eaton, 1833. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Unique in the trade, a nicely bound, complete and sturdy examplar of the 1833 General Assembly report. Lightly toned, title page clipped at bottom tip, rear wrap torn and half-detached, else clean and unmarked of interior. Saddle-stitched, lightly wavy text-block, else nice, soft paper. Articles, motions, letters, correspondence, etc., for an early meeting of the State of Vermont. 234 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 357125

Catalogue: Americana/Regional Interest

Keywords: Vermont General Assembly Montpelier

Life of General Taylor

New York, Cornish, Lamport & Co., 1851. . Hardcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. A racing hagiography of the American General Zachary Taylor, born in 1790, hero of the U.S./Mexico and other battles and wars. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, bound in red cloth over boards, gilt design of a soldier on horse at front cover, gilt lettering and designs to spine, quite fine, clean, if toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities beyond scuffing to spine head and foot. Previous owner's extensive penned inscription at first free endpaper. 256 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 357207

Catalogue: American History

Keywords: General Taylor Zachary Taylor U.S. Mexican War military history American history

A List of Wills, Administrations, Etc. In the Public Record Office, London, England 12th-19th Century.

Baltimore, Maryland, Magna Carta Book Company, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Drawn from a typewritten copy in the Public Record Office. Published by Magna Carta Book Company, Baltimore, 1968. 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. Very slight bowing to front board. Bound in buckram cloth and with silver lettering to spine. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. ix + 158 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 348470

Catalogue: England

Keywords: administrative rolls|chancery rolls|England

Living Letters / Lifandi Letur: International Exhibition of Calligraphy / Alpjooleg Syning a Skrautskrift

Reykjavik, Iceland, College of Arts and Crafts, Iceland, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy bound as a booklet, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. 55 pp. Bound in printed form in a gate-fold wrap. English and Icelandic texts throughout. Stuffed with duotone illustrations of fine lettering and calligraphy drawn from a 1982 international exhibition of same.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 345778

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Iceland|Icelandic language|arts and crafts|calligraphy|letters|books about books

A Lot of Titles from the Lakeside Press: Revolutionary Days; from the Deep Woods to Civilization; Arctic Explorations; Behind the Scenes; the Rough Riders; the Life of Olaudah Equiano; from Mexican Days to the Gold Rush; Westward Journeys; We Pointed Them North; Narrative of the Coronado Expedition: Relacion de la Jornada de Cibola

Chicago, The Lakeside Press, for R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, . Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A fine-looking lot of ten (10) Lakeside Press tomes, including four that are brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. The remainder of the lot are in condition no worse than Fie, unread, practically unopened. The lot is comprised of the following titles and editions: 1) E.C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott and Helena Huntington Smith, "We Pointed Them North: recollections of a cowpuncher" (edited by Ron Tyler, 1991); 2) Jesse A. Applegate and Lavinia Honeyman Porter, "Westward Journeys: memoirs of Jesse A. Applegate and Lavinia Honeyman Porter Who Traveled the Overland Trails" (edited by Martin Ridge, 1989); 3) James Wilson Marshall and Edward Gould Buffum, "From Mexican Days to the Gold Rush: memoirs of James Wilson Marshall and Edward Gould Buffum Who Grew Up with California (edited by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., 1993); 4) Olaudah Equiano, "The Life of Alaudah Equiano: the interesting narrative of the ife of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by himself" (edited by Joanna Brooks, 2004); 5) Sir John Franklin and Elisha Kent Kane, "Arctic Explorations: the Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin 1853, 54, 55" (edited by Chauncey Loomis and Constance Martin, 1996); 6) Theodore Roosevelt, "The Rough Riders" (edited by Marifeli Perez-Stable, 2003); 7) Elizabeth Keckley, "Behind the Scenes: Formerly a Slave, but More Recently Modiste & Friend to Mrs Lincoln" (edited by Francis Smith Foster, 1998); 8) Charles Alexander Eastman, "From the Deep Woods of Civilization, including excerpts from Indian Boyhood" (edited by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, 2000); 9) "Revolutionary Days, Including Passages from My Life Here and There, 1876-1917, by Princess Julia Cantacuzene (edited by Terence Emmons, 1999); Narrative of the Coronado Expedition: Relacion de la Jornada de Cibola, edited by Castaneda.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 346046

Catalogue: Americana/Regional Interest

Keywords: The Lakeside Press|E.C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott|Helena Huntington Smith|Ron Tyler|Jesse A. Applegate|Lavinia Honeyman Porter|Martin Ridge|James Wilson Marshall|Edward Gould Buffum|Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.|Olaudah Equiano|Joanna Brooks|Sir John Franklin|Elisha Kent

A Lot of Seven (7) Max Beckmann-Related Items

, , . First Edition. . . A lot of seven (7) Max Beckmann-related items, each in easily Good condition, showing moderate wear and tear, but clean and relatively unmarked. 1) "Max Beckmann 1948), an exhibit catalog from a 1948 exhibit held at the City Art Museum of St. Louis, with Prefatory Note by Hanns Swarzenski, an Introduction by Perry T. Rathbone, excerpts of writings from the artist, a chronology, plates, catalogue proper, and bibliography by Hannah B. Muller. Moderately worn and soiled blue softpaper wraps, in gatefold, at 114 pp.; 2) "Max Beckmann," published by Buchheim Verlag, Germany, 1954, a 24mo bound in illustrated paper over boards, moderately worn, from the Welt des Einzelnen series, mit 46 holzschnitte radierungen lithographien in black-and-white; 3) Heinrich Simon, "Max Beckmann," Band 46 from Junge Kunst, published in Berlin in 1930 by Verlag von Klinkhardt & Biermann, 32 pp. replete with many black-and-white and a single full color reproductions of Beckmann's paintings to 1930; 4) Whitechapel Art Gallery, "Max Beckmann: the triptychs, an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain, 13 November 1980 - 11 January 1981, an oblong softcover format item with contributions by Nicholas Serota, by Beckmann himself, Gert Schiff, Stephan Lackner, Claude Gandelman, and Margot Clark, at 59 pp., colorful portraits at front and rear panels, protected in Mylar; 5) Grace Borgenicht Gallery, "Max Beckmann: paintings & sculpture," an exhibit shown October 17 - November 19, 1981, with 25 plates printed on high-gloss paper, including two in full color; 6) Grace Borgenicht Gallery, "Max Beckmann: paintings and works on paper," February 3 - February 29, 1984, bound in blue softpaper wraps, mildly soiled, with plentiful black-and-white and a few full color plates; 7) Alice Adam, "Max Beckmann: a selection of Beckmann's prints in honor of his 100 anniversary, a Fine condition softpaper-wrapped catalog, embossed gallery name to front cover, with 24 works printed on high-gloss paper, in black-and-white.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 347525

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Max Beckmann|German Expressionists|Expressionism|German Expressionism|Alice Adams|artist exhibit

A Lot of Four (4) Exhibit Catalogs About Oscar Kokoschka: Homage to Kokoschka; Oskar Kokoschka; Kokoschka; Kokoschka

, , . First Edition. Softcover. . A lot of four (4) good-looking, structurally sound museum or gallery exhibit catalogs regarding the work of Oskar Kokoschka: 1) Victoria and Albert Museum, "Homage to Kokoschka: prints and drawings," lent by Reinhold, Count Bethusy-Huc (London, 1976, 64 pp., many illustrations); 2) Rchard S. Field, "Oskar Kokoschka: literary and graphic works 1906-1923" (Storrs, Connecticut, 1977, Introductory Note by Jaroslaw Leshko, 86 pp.); 3) Hans Heilmaier, Kokoschka (Paris, Les Editions G. Cres et Cie, 1929, 13 pp., with 20+ duotone heliogravure plates, 32 of them); 4) The Tate Gallery, "Kokoschka: a retrospective exhibiton of paintings, drawings, lithographs, stage designs and books" (London: The Tate Gallery, 1962, 120 pp., many black-and-white illustrations, glossy, pictorial covers, in gate-fold, protected by laminate cover.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 348759

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Oscar Kokoschka|Oskar Kokoschka|museum catalog|gallery exhibit

A Lot of Eleven (11) Federal Writer's Project (W.P. A. ) Guides: Maryland; Mississippi; Kansas; North Dakota; Wiconsin; Florida; Delaware; Pennsylvania; West Virginia; South Carolina; South Dakota

New York, Oxford University Press / Viking Press, . . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A lot of eleven (11) fine contributions made by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration known as the Federal Writer's Project (W.P.A.) Guides. Each volume withdrawn from the U.S. Information Service Library in both Saigon and Hanoi (!). Each bound quite attractively in dark green buckram cloth with sharp and distinct gilt lettering and ruling to spine. Each volume published by the Oxford University Press and Viking Press. Each with library bookplate inside front flaps, ink-stamps at title pages and a few throughout, but remaining signs minimal of ex-library status, and with no checkout-pockets. No underlining or highlighting. Nice-looking green and white endpapers front and rear. Hundreds of black-and-white illustrations and Maryland: a guide to the Old Line State (1946, Third Printing, xxviii [1], 3-561 pp. with full Index); Mississippi: a guide to the Magnolia State (1949, Fourth Printing, xxiv [2], 2-545 pp.); Kansas: a guide to the Sunflower State (1939, First Printing, xviii [4], 1-538 pp.); North Dakota: a guide to the Northern Prairie State (1950, Second Printing, xix [1], 1-352 pp.); Wisconsin: a guide to the Badger State (1941, Second Edition, extensive frontis matter, 3-651 pp.); Florida: a guide to the Southernmost State (1946, Fourth Printing, xxiv [1], 3-600 pp., with a torn final page); Delaware: a guide to the First State (1938, First Edition, xxv [3], 4-548 pp.); Pennsylvania: a guide to the Keystone State (1947, Third Printing, xxxii [2], 3-660 pp.); West Virginia: a guide to the Mountain State (1946, Third Printing, xxxi [1], 3-559 pp.); South Carolina: a guide to the Palmetto State (1946, Third Printing, xxvii [1], 3-514 pp.); South Dakota: a guide to the State (1952, Second Edition, xxvii [1], 1--421 pp.).Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 357189

Catalogue: Americana/Regional Interest

Keywords: U.S. history American history F.D.R. Franklin Delano Roosevelt W.P.A. Works Projects Administration Federal Writer's Project The Great Depression Maryland Mississippi; Kansas; North Dakota; Wiconsin; Florida; Delaware; Pennsylvania; West Virginia; South C

Marc Chagall - Oskar Kokoschka - Exibition Catalogue - 22. 10 to 13. 11 - 1960, Charlottenborg, the Netherlands

Charlottenborg, The Netherlands, Erasmusprisen, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Bound in large format, an exhibition catalogue with soft, flexible card covers, plain and sunned a bit along edges, and then with a bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, not price-clipped. In Dutch language throughout, and twin-side, Marc Chagall going in one direction, Oscar Kokoscha upside-down and coming back the other way. Published by Erasmusprisen, in Charlotteenborg, The Netherlands. Full-color reproductions printed on glossy paper, many being full-page, plus additional black-and-white reproductions.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 347200

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Oskar Kokoschka|Jewish artists|artist catalog|The Netherlands|Marc Chagall