Franks, Kenny Arthur and Paul F. Lambert

Early California Oil: A Photographic History, 1865-1940

College Station, Texas, Texas A & M University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Another fine contribution to the Montague History of Oil Series, this being Number Four in the series. 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, 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. Several score illustrations and photographs of the early decades of California's petroleum industry. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xiii [2], 3-242.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 345882

Catalogue: Americana/Regional Interest

Keywords: California |Montague History of Oil |Kenny Arthur Franks|Paul F. Lambert|petroleum|Western Americana

Freeman, Arthur and Janet Ing Freeman

John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Produced by two independent scholars who lived in London putting together this fascinating bio-bibliography. Fine-looking, structurally sound set of red cloth-bound hardcovers, complete in two volumes, little discernible wear thereto, with bright interiors, unmarked. Sharp and distinct gilt lettering to front covers and spines. Housed in a paper label-covered slipcase, slight furling along one edge, else about Near Fine in condition. Fine pencil drawing of John Payne Collier at frontis to Volume I. 17 illustrations thereafter. Volume II has another frontis portrait of the subject, and another nine illustrations. 1532 pp. all in, across the two volumes. John Payne Collier (1789 - 1883) was just as prolific a scholar of drama, poetry, and popular prose of William Shakespeare's age as he was also a spectacular forger and provider of false evidence, seriously messing up Shakespeare scholarship. The publisher writes, "This monumental two-volume work addresses the whole of Collier's activity, systematically sorting out his genuine achievements from his impostures. The authors also survey the broader history of literary forgery in Great Britain and consider why so talented a man not only yielded to its temptations but also persisted in it throughout his life." Collier's Wikipedia entry is just impossibly fascinating to read, the sheer output, on the one hand, and the disturbingly dishonest forgeries. As a sidenote, the Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman papers, housed at the Johns Hopkins University, are described thus: "Starting on a shoestring budget as a graduate student at Harvard, where he also entered the antiquarian book trade as co-founder of Ximenes Rare Books in 1961, Arthur began to collect for himself, generally in the area of his academic specialty, Elizabethan drama, focusing in particular on the long career of the nineteenth-century English scholar-forger John Payne Collier an interest later revived through close collaboration with Arthur's wife, co-author, and business partner Janet Ing Freeman. Together they completed, after twenty more years of collecting and research, a two-volume, 1500-page bio-bibliography of Collier, published by the Yale University Press in 2004. This was awarded the prestigious International Bibliography Prize of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers for the years 2002-2006, and remains the authoritative account of that controversial figure. In the process of assembling and exploiting their Collier collection, they also widened their scope and began to collect all forms of literary forgery they could reasonably identify. The Freemans constructed their own canons of inclusion, defining practical limits--as, for example, where traditional pseudepigraphy might border on deliberate and tendentious misattribution, or where true narrative impostures converge on conventional fiction, or whimsical hoaxes give way to immediate disclaimer. The collection includes letters and other materials documenting the history of literary forgery, 1778-1970." Apparently unread, spines still crackle.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 355962

Catalogue: Bibliographies and Bibliographers

Keywords: Janet Ing Freeman Arthur Freeman scholarship forgery John Payne Collier

John Arthur

Realist Drawings & Watercolors: Contemporary American Works on Paper

Hartford, Connecticut, New York Graphic Society, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Twenty-four full color drawings, 84 in black-and-white, printed on high-gloss paper, including works by Alfred Leslie, Wayne Thiebaud, Chuck Close, Ben Schonzeit, Janet Fish, Yvonne Jacquette, Alice Neel and others. [7], 8-144 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 351905

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: realism realist art art history

California College of Arts and Crafts

Master of Fine Arts Graduates, California College of Arts and Crafts

Oakland, California, California College of Arts and Crafts, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 12mo 7" - 7. A fine and due homage to the 1969 graduates of the California College of Arts and Crafts, bound in printed softpaper wraps in oblong, and featuring the works of James Harvey Albertson, Richard Allen, Craig Brigham Douglas Char, Michael Cullen, Tomi De Paola, Donald H. de Viveiros, John Dumas, Adna Gissoiano Ertas, Frank Gaard, John Hara, Roger E. Kast, Donna Kieszcz, Donna Mossholder, Robert Mumm, Arthur E. Nelson, Eunice M. Prieto, Susan Grofsick Rago, David Burrell Richardson, Barbara J. Rogers, Ira Sharkey Merlin, Stone John Sumner and George T. Wray.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 353420

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: California College of Arts and Crafts James Harvey Albertson Richard Allen Craig Brigham Douglas Char Michael Cullen TOmi De Paola Donald H. de Viveiros John DumasAdna Gissoiano Ertas Frank Gaard John Hara Roger E. Kast Donna Kieszcz Donna Mossholder Robe

McFadden, David Revere, Guest Curator, Museum of Arts & Design

Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting

New York, Museum of Arts & Design, 2008. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine and fine-looking exhibition catalog from a show of the same name, held in 2007. Foreword by Holly Hotchner, then an Introduction by David Revere McFadden, and then contributions by Jennifer Scanlan, Liz Collins, Freddie Robins, Erna van Sambeek, Yoshiki Hishinuma, Barbara Zucker, Ruth Marshall, Annet Couwenberg, Janet Echelman, Dave Cole, Althea Merback, Henk Wolvers, Niels van Eijk, Bennet Battalle, Sabrina Gschwandnter, Cat Mazza, Francois Dupre, Shane Waltener, Cal Lane, Piper Shepard, Elana Herzog, Eugene van Veldhoven, Hildur Bjarnadottir, Carson Fox, Hilal Sami Hilal, Edward Mayer, Sheila Pepe, and Anne Wilson. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy illustrated wraps, in gate-fold. [5], 6-141 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 348887

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Holly Hotchner|David Revere McFadden|Liz Collins|Freddie Robins|Erna van Sambeek|Yoshiki Hishinuma|Barbara Zucker|Ruth Marshall|Annet Couwenberg|Janet Echelman|Dave Cole|Althea Merback|Henk Wolvers|Niels van Eijk|Bennet Battalle|Sabrina Gschwandnter|Cat M

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, D.C., Gales & Seaton, 1860. . Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Two remarkably attractive ardcover copies, Volume II and Volume III, rebound 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 noting that the volume had once been in the U.S. Congressional Library, but with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Massively heavy, oversized volumes. Occasional smudging to or crimping of pages, else, tightly bound, clean and unmarked of interiors. This volume is given over to "Naval Affairs" mostly from the 1820s, 1830s and 1840s. An incomparable set of primary documents for the scholar of U.S. history, the U.S. Navy, navigation, and military history.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 346717

Catalogue: American History

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

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

Ashbery, John

Where Shall I Wander: New Poems

New York, HarperCollins, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Simply bound in blue paper over boards, blind-stamped title to front cover, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Comprised of 51 poems by John Ashbery, a Poet the New York Times Book Review described as a "National Treasure" and who Harold Bloom declared to be "America's greatest living Poet." Ashbery was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. 81 pp.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: 353646

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: John Ashbery poetry poems

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

Catalogue: Books and Bookbinding

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