Benjamin, Susan

English Enamel Boxes: From the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries

New York, A Studio Book, by the Viking Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at half-title where is laid in an errata card noting two mistakes caught. 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 in blue cloth, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering over 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. Foreword by Kenneth Snowman. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [6], 7-128 pp., and with many score fine reproductions of English Enamel boxes in full color and duotone.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Collectible: Like New

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Book number: 348192

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Susan Benjamin|signed|English Enamel Boxes|Kenneth Snowman

Chazin-Bennahum, Judith

The Ballets of Antony Tudor: Studies in Psyche and Satire

New York, Oxford University Press, 1994. 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. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xvii [2], 3-311 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: 346639

Catalogue: Performing Arts

Keywords: Judith Chazin-Bennahum|dance|ballet|performing arts|studies in psyche|satire|Antony Tudor

Stone, William; Richard Bennet and William Claiborne

A Declaration Published in Maryland; Captain William Stone's Resignation of the Government; Order for Settling the Government of Maryland

Washington, D.C., Peter Force, . Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: Elephant Folio 23" tall. Virtually certainly a reprint by the Peter Force who published enormous quantities of American and then U.S. historical documents, looking virtually identical to other reprinted documents of his dating to the 1830s. Single elephant folio-sized sheet, folded thrice, one fold about 3/4 split, some foxing thereto, but still completely and easily readable. "Captain William Stone's Resignation of the Government" begins on p. 38 and ends on p. 39, with "Witness my Hand the 20 of July, 1654 In Presence of William Stone, Thomas Gerrad, Thomas Hatton, and Ed. Scarburgh, the latter three (probably) being the three authors. "A Declaration Published in Maryland" is on p. 36 and p. 37, dated at Pauxent, Maryland, dated 15 of July 1654, by Richard Bennet and Will Claiborne.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 349264

Catalogue: American History

Keywords: William Stone|Maryland|American history|Richard Bennet|William Claiborne

Bennett, Ian

Complete Illustrated Rugs & Carpets of the World

New York, A Quarto Book, for A & W, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Massively heavy, oversized volume. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Over 500 illustrations, with 160 being in full-color, printed on high-gloss, heavy card stock. An indispensable reference work, with chapters devoted to Techniques and Materials of Oriental Carpet Weaving; Oriental and African Rugs and Carpets; European Rugs and Carpets; North American Rugs and Carpets; Buying and Maintenance of Rugs and CarpetsMember, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 351799

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Ian Bennett Oriental rugs Oriental carpets rugs carpets textiles

Gray-Bennett, Anna

Five Centuries of Tapestry: From the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

San Francisco / New York, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco / Chronicle Books Llc, 1992. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Stellar copy of the Revised Edition, and augmented with the Director's Forewor by Harry S. Parker III, "Tapestry Redux" by Mark Adams, and a full array of gorgeous photographic reproductions, printed on high-gloss paper, reproducing often wall-sized, mural-sized tapestries from European collections and libraries. 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 brown cloth, with sharp and distinct black lettering to 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.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 349762

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Anna Gray-Bennett|tapestry|the decorative arts|embroidery|fabrics

Bennett, Anna G.

Five Centuries of Tapestry

San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, by Charles E. Tutt, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, California / Rutland, Vermont. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of a fine museum exhibit catalog, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy illustrated wraps. Sumptuously illustrated, accessible survey of the world of tapestries, a history of the collection, chapters about design and weaving techniques, color and dyes, Late Medieval tapestries, Sixteenth-Century tapestries, seventeenth and eighteenth-century tapestries, and then a list of abbreviated references, notes and bibliography. v [1], 253 pp. Black-and-white, duotone and full color photography galore.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 352221

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Anna G. Bennett tapestries medieval art history materials methods dyes

Bennett, Leonora

Historical Sketch and Guide to the Alamo

San Antonio, Texas, Lenora Bennett, 1904. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Still good-looking, structurally sound copy in First Edition state but for the splitting of endpaper between title and black-and-white engraving opposite, with staple-rust and some minor paper tears and soiling. Denting to middles of first two endpapers. Uncommon in the trade. 1904 is at title and copyright pages. Gray card stock co covers. Moderate rubbing to, soiling of covers. Frontispiece plate of the Alamo. Heroic poems at end devoted to the honored dead including David Crockett. Printed for the author by the Press of James T. Roney & Co., Chicago. 131 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 352892

Catalogue: Americana/Regional Interest

Keywords: Lenora Bennett

Keith-Bennett, Jean; Letty Grierson, ed.

An Introduction to Ancient Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1980. 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. Staple-bound, fine illustration stamped to front cover, and then with a number of other fine black-and-white photographs. Four thousand copies produced, but still relatively scarce in the trade. Comprises a catalogue for an exhibition opened March 3, 1937, preceded by an Introduction on Pre-Columbian art of Peru, with extensive information on textiles. Features works of pottery, goblets, huacos, and objects in gold, silver and wood, as well as textiles and the fabric arts, including woolen products.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Like New

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Book number: 346889

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Ancient art|Ancient Greek art|art history|Wadsworth Atheneum

Bennett, Anna G.

Unfolding Beauty: The Art of the Fan

Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 12mo 7" - 7. The Collection of Esther Oldham at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Sterling condition softcover copy bound in oblong format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Double-column texts and sumptuous photography of a fine collection. 268 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 352219

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: the art of the fan Anna G. Bennett

Bennett, Paul A.

A Visit to the Southworth-Anthoensen Press of Portland, Maine

Portland, Maine, The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1941. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Keepsake letter #13, a special little tome, 20 pp., staple-bound, with simple softpaper wraps, printed title label at front cover, with a beautiful, colorful portrait of the small letterpress's logo inside front flap. The University of Southern Maine possesses a Special Collection regarding the The Anthoensen Press of Portland, Maine, nationally renowned as a creator of fine books, using a Linotype machine composition "in order to craft books of the highest quality. Some titles were composed by hand including A. S. W. Rosenbach’s Early American Children’s Books. The Press printed other notable bibliographies and catalogs such as Margaret Bingham Stillwell’s Incunabula in American Libraries. Its roster of clients included Bowdoin and Colby Colleges, the Peabody Museum, the Boston Athenaeum, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Limited Editions Club, and scholarly journals such as The New England Quarterly, The American Neptune, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and The American Oxonian.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 349651

Catalogue: Books and Bookbinding

Keywords: Paul A. Bennett|The Southworth-Anthoensen Press|letterpress|small press

Benson, Timothy O.

Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy

Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993. 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. Handsomely bound in two-tone, gritty tan paper over boards, black cloth-backed, and with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. just a touch of discoloration to bottom edges. 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. 323 pp., [5], 6-231, with plentiful black-and-white illustrations, and including 57 in full, glorious color. Published to augment the 2003-2004 exhibition that "explores how the optimistic and forward-looking themes of utopia and fantasy sustained faith among artists and architects in the power of art to shape a better world during the tumultuous era surrounding World War I in Germany. When the construction of buildings there became nearly impossible, paper became the medium of the unbridled imagination. at the center of the activity were the 'utopian architects' of the Working Council for Art and the Crystal Chain, whose architectural inventions ranged from ideal agrarian communities to futuristic worlds dependent on miraculous advances in technology for their creation or discovery. . Presents the diverse manifestations of the utopia metaphor in its progression throughout Expressionism from arcadian to man-made utopias using selections from the realms of paradise, metropolis, architectural fantasy, anti-utopia, and film and stage." Contributions by Timothy O. Benson, but also by Reinhold Heller, David Frisby, Ian Boyd Whyte, and Anton Kaes.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 347362

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Expressionism|Expressionist painters|art history|architecture|utopian architecture

Benson, Timothy O.

Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993. 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 beyond slight waviness to text-block; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Handsomely bound in two-tone, gritty tan paper over boards, black cloth-backed, and with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. just a touch of discoloration to bottom edges. 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. 323 pp., [5], 6-231, with plentiful black-and-white illustrations, and including 57 in full, glorious color. Published to augment the 2003-2004 exhibition that "explores how the optimistic and forward-looking themes of utopia and fantasy sustained faith among artists and architects in the power of art to shape a better world during the tumultuous era surrounding World War I in Germany. When the construction of buildings there became nearly impossible, paper became the medium of the unbridled imagination. at the center of the activity were the 'utopian architects' of the Working Council for Art and the Crystal Chain, whose architectural inventions ranged from ideal agrarian communities to futuristic worlds dependent on miraculous advances in technology for their creation or discovery. . Presents the diverse manifestations of the utopia metaphor in its progression throughout Expressionism from arcadian to man-made utopias using selections from the realms of paradise, metropolis, architectural fantasy, anti-utopia, and film and stage." Contributions by Timothy O. Benson, but also by Reinhold Heller, David Frisby, Ian Boyd Whyte, and Anton Kaes.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 348602

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Expressionism|Expressionist painters|art history|architecture|utopian architecture

Bentham, Jeremy; W. Star, ed.

Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings, Volume One, Volume Two, Volume Three

London, The Royal Economic Society, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Complete in three volumes, published in First Edition, First Printing states in 1952, 1952, and 1954, respectively, Volume One, Two and Three. A perfectly serviceable set of three reference copies; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spines, rubbing to extremities. Ex-library copies with usual markings to spines, bookplates, endpapers, ink-stamps, etc. This is the Critical Edition, based on his printed works and unprinted manuscripts, edited by W. Stark, and with lengthy Introductions by him to each volume. Volume One: [6], 7-412 pp.; Volume Two: [6], 7-458 pp.; Volume Three: [6], 7-600 [1] pp. including a Note of Errata.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 353474

Catalogue: England

Keywords: Jeremy Bentham economics

Benton, Walter

This Is My Beloved

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Fourteenth Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Walter Benton's This is My Beloved was a profoundly popular work, being a 14th printing in the American Poetry series, being a contribution to the 1945 issue. New York: Knopf, 1945. 43 pp. Brick-red cloth binding, gilt-stamped spine, rubbed. No d.j. as such, but the two inner flaps of the d.j. are laid-in. Front end-paper says G. Legman 1946 and the date 1943 is written in the upper corner of the inside of the front cover. From the personal library of Gershon Legman as conveyed to me by his widow Judith Legman.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 353940

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Walter Benton poetry poems

De Berardinis, Olivia

Let Them Eat Cheesecake: The Art of Olivia

Roslyn, New York, Ozone Productions, 1993. First Edition. . Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Introduction by Hugh Hefner. 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 stiff black buckram cloth, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to 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. Letter from Albert Vargas printed. 108 pp., with over 90 full-color plates.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 348304

Catalogue: Erotica

Keywords: Olivia De Berardinis |Hugh Hefner