The Trow Business Directory of New York City (Formerly Wilson's), 1895, Volume XLVIII

New York, The Trow Directory, 1895. Hardcover. Black cloth boards, silver and gilt lettering on front, rear and spine; xxxv, 964 (88) pp; bw illustrations. Annual publication from 1895, Volume XLVIII. Good (shelfwear to boards; age toning to pages as expected with age of book but text is otherwise clear. Binding is tight) .

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Book number: 183111

Catalogue: Reference of All Sorts

Keywords: Reference of All Sorts ; New York Business Directory ; ;

The Trow Business Directory of New York City (Formerly Wilson's), 1896, Volume XLIX

New York, The Trow Directory, 1896. Hardcover. Black cloth boards, silver and gilt lettering on front, rear and spine; xxxii, 1034 (91) pp; bw illustrations. Annual publication from 1896, Volume XLIX. Good (shelfwear to boards; age toning to pages as expected with age of book but text is otherwise clear. Internal hinges are loose but all pages are intact) .

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Book number: 183112

Catalogue: Reference of All Sorts

Keywords: Reference of All Sorts ; New York Business Directory ; ;

Twentieth-Century British Stage Design: The Tobin Wing Marion Koogler Mcnay Art Museum - June 20 - Nov. 7, 1993

San Antonio, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, 1993. Softcover. Glossy, illustrated wrap. 37 pages : illustrations (chiefly color). Catalog of an exhibition held at the museum June 20-Nov. 7, 1993. Includes errata slip. Nice reference work. VG .

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Book number: 180662

Catalogue: Theater / Ballet

Keywords: Theater / Ballet ; Marion Koogler Mcnay ; ;

... A Valuable Reference of Lighting in All Its Branches, Cobering the Application of Traditional Styles Land Contemporary Trends

New York, The Simes Company, 1939. Hardcover. Brown paper-covered, gilt printed covers with coarse woven cloth spine. 98 pp. including 92 pages of bw illustrations. Cover title (from top to bottom): "MCMI The Simes Company Inc Lighting Fixtures MCMXXXIX" 98 pages of lighting for Public Building Illumination (pp. 1-43); Residential Lighting Motifs (pp. 44-77); General Illumination (pp. 78-98). Essential reference for the time period 1901-1939, as defined on the cover. VG, exlibrary with minimal markings a superb copy overall .

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Book number: 165735

Catalogue: Technology and Manufacturing

Keywords: Technology and Manufacturing ; Lighting - American ; ;

Vh 101 / Revue Trimestrielle / Numero 7-8 / Printemps - Ete 1972 (L'Architecture Et L'Avant-Garde Artistique En Urss de 1917 a 1934)

Paris, Editions Essellier, 1972. Paperback. Red printed thick glued wraps. 220 (4) pp. profusely illustrated. For the series, which ended with issue 9 in late 1972, Covers the arts in general with an emphasis on cinema. This issue in [articular is devoted to the Avant Garde arts and architecture of Russia. Uncommon. Text is entirely in French. VG minor spotting on covers .

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Book number: 170784

Catalogue: Russian Art

Keywords: Russian Art ; Russian Art ; ; General Reference - Russian Art

Les Vieux Hotels de Paris; le Temple Et le Marais. Tome II, Motifs de Decorations Interieures

Paris, Chez F. Contet, 1913. Troisieme Edition. Hardcover. Oversized, green marble paper over boards, green cloth spine with gilt lettering, bw illustrated title page, (4) pp text with bw illustrations; plates numbered 1-40. Text is in French. The Old Hotels of Paris; The Temple and the Marsh. Volume II, Patterns of Interior Decorations. Good+ (light shelfwear and soiling to covers, light age toning throughout, all plates present and otherwise clear, bookplate of previous owner inside front cover) .

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Book number: 190934

Catalogue: European Architecture

Keywords: European Architecture ; French Architecture ; ; Regional Architecture - European

Les Vieux Hotels de Paris; le Temple Et le Marais. Tome Premier. Motifs de Decorations Interieures

Paris, Chez F. Contet, 1913. Quatrieme Edition. Hardcover. Oversized, green marble paper over boards, green cloth spine with gilt lettering, bw illustrated title page, (4) pp text with bw illustrations; plates numbered 1-40. Text is in French. The Old Hotels of Paris; The Temple and the Marsh. Volume I, Patterns of Interior Decorations. Good+ (shelfwear and soiling to covers, cloth spine torn, light age toning throughout, all plates present and otherwise clear, bookplate of previous owner inside front cover) .

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Book number: 190970

Catalogue: European Architecture

Keywords: European Architecture ; French Architecture ; ; Regional Architecture - European

Vogue, 90 Ans D'Audace

Paris, Vogue, 2010. Softcover. White unstapled wraps, [100] pp. many BW & color illus. Text (minimal) is in French. "90 Years of Daring." Full-page BW & color photos from the periodical, with years of publication and photographers' credits. Audacious indeed. VG- (Front cover soiled in spots; cover edges tanned; illus. unaffected.) .

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Book number: 136376

Catalogue: Photography

Keywords: Photography ; Vogue ; ;

A Vous de Juger (Picasso Portraits of Stalin)

Paris, PAIX et LIBERTE, 167 Rue De Universite, Paris, 1953. Softcover. Folded sheet, printed in black and red ink. Text is as follows: A vous de Juger le Parti Communiste a commande a Pablo Picasso le portait de Stalin conforme aux donnee du realisme socialiste. Ayant eu la chance de nous procurer quelques etudes qui paraissent pouvoir etre attribuees au Maitre, nous les soummettons au public pour qu'il se rende compte des tatonnesments de l'artiste et de ses efforts jusqu'a l'art Supreme. (roughly translates to: It is up to you to judge. The Communist Party has ordered Pablo Picasso to produce a portrait of Stalin according to the style of socialist realism. Having had the chance to obtain some studies which seem to be able to be attributed to the Master, we submit them to the public so that it becomes aware of the state of the artist and his efforts up to the Supreme art." No date is on this pamphlet, but surely quite rare. As found on the web under the search terms Stalin Picasso Liberte : This cartoon is a satire on the portrait of Stalin painted by Pablo Picasso. It was NOT actually painted or drawn by Picasso, but is related to his portrait of Stalin, completed for the tribute issue of a magazine further described by Joel Kotek as follows: "..On 12 March, at the request of its editor, Louis Aragon, Les Lettres françaises, the Communist cultural weekly published a tribute by Picasso to the great Stalin. The departed autocrat was portrayed in youthsome tones, fresh and rosy. Initially, Aragon was relieved. Picasso could have, but did not, portray Stalin as a hero, and as the heroic mode requires, as a nude on a cloud. Nevertheless, Picasso's tribute was considered a scandal. Protests poured in, immediately and spontaneously. "a horrible drawing," "an indecent caricature," "appalling," "ridiculous," disrespectful," "outrageous," a hideous portrait," were some of the reactions. Picasso and Aragon had committed a sacrilege by representing him other than as a reassuring elderly man, eternal father of his peoples, in short, in a way which did not correspond to the canons of socialist realism. VG-, some ink or blood on rear sheet, a small amount of loss from printed border .

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Book number: 170788

Catalogue: European Artists

Keywords: European Artists ; Picasso ; ;

Waddell Mfg. Company, Catalogue No. 20

Grand Rapids, MI, The James Bayne Company, 1904. Paperback. Green paper wraps with illustration,220 pages : illustrations. Includes dimensions, prices and index./ Catalogue no. 20, 1904-1905. VG Cover has fading, creasing, and staining. Rear cover has water damage. Bookblock has age toning .

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Book number: 183168

Catalogue: Misc

Keywords: Misc ; Misc ; ;

Weltausstellung in Paris 1900: Amtlicher-Katalog Der Ausstellung Des Deutschen Reichs

Berlin, Stargardt, 1900. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards, illustrated and red lettering on front and spine; all edges red tinted; 440, 80 pp; color and bw illustrations and maps. Text is in German. World Exhibition in Paris 1900: Official catalog of the exhibition of the German Reich. Rear 80 pp are advertisements which are also illustrated. Good (overall light shelfwear to blocks, tears to internal hinges, pages lightly age toned but otherwise clean and clear.) .

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Book number: 186626

Catalogue: General European Art

Keywords: General European Art ; German Art ; ;

The Wilkie Gallery: A Selection of the Best Pictures of the Late Sir David Wilkie, R.A. Including His Spanish and Oriental Sketches. With Notices Biographical and Critical

London, Virtue & Co, 1840. Hardcover. Full leather cover decorated with blind and gilt embossing. Thick bevelled boards and raised bands on spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. 94 pp + notices + 72 tissue guarded bw engravings. An exceptional collection of steel engravings after works by Scottish painter Sir David Wilkie (1785 -1841), who was in his later years the Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV and then Queen Victoria. Ill.: Wilkie, David. VG- (ex-library with minimal markings, including a bookplate, call label on spine, and accession stamp on list of plates. plates are not stamped. pages are in exceptional condition with few smudges or spots. Wear and scuffing to the cover, especially to edges and bands. leather is worn through at all corners and is starting to crack at hinges, which is not uncommon with these heavy boards) .

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Book number: 133689

Catalogue: European Artists

Keywords: European Artists ; Wilkie, David ; ; Wilkie, David

Windowphanie: The Great Stained Glass Substitute: Centre Pieces for Chapels, Churches, Lecture Rooms, Halls, Libraries, Etc.

New York, C.H. Malz, (not dated). Pamphlet. Green stapled wraps with dark green lettering and illustration, illustrative border on covers; 10 sheets printed on one side, 9 of the pages being bw illustrations. Prices for pictures and centre pieces on first page. The modern translucent glass decoration. Good (overall aging and shelfwear to wraps, pages lightly age toned, dog eared corners, pencil drawing on rear of last page) .

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Book number: 189761

Catalogue: American Decorative Arts

Keywords: American Decorative Arts ; American Glass ; ; Glass - American

Wood-Engravings Being a Selection of Eric Gill's Engravings on Wood. No. 5 (Virgin and Child) Is a Wood Cut, Cut with a Knife on the Long Grain of the Wood Instead of with a Graver on the 'End' Grain

New York, E. Weyhe, 1924. No. 100 of 100 numbered copies (of a total run of 150 copies). Cloth. Linen oatmeal colored cloth with Brown-paper thick stock dustjacket. 36 leaves of hand-made paper including the half-title. 34 illustrations or woodcuts within the printed portion of the book, and an additional small (and pencil-signed) print of Madonna and Child pasted onto the title-page, over top of a red inked printed cross found on the English edition of this title. This image is different than image No. 5. and it is not referenced in the Contents. Limitation statement following the title-page states: "One hundred and fifty copies of this edition have been printed of which one hundred are numbered and offered for sale at 17$. 50c. This copy is no. 100." The English printing of this book has a slightly different title, as follows: " Wood-engravings being a selection of Eric Gill's engravings on wood. The first (Virgin and child) is a wood cut, that is cut with a knife on the long grain of the wood instead of with a graver on the "end" grain." [This was cut for a poster]." As such, it is unclear to me if the Weyhe edition was 150 copies, or if there were 150 copies combined of both printings. The English printing appears to lack the pasted-on image found on this copy of the Weyhe printing. Additionally, the English printing is much more widely held (41 copies) in public and institutional libraries, than is the Weyhe printing (9 copies) according to Worldcat. No other copies encountered mention the pasted-on signed image on the title-page. VG, few light smudges and the dustjacket is soiled but crisp and undamaged at the extremities with minor exceptions .

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Book number: 187051

Catalogue: European Artists

Keywords: European Artists ; Gill, Eric ; ;

XI'an Bei Lin Bo Wu Guan = XI'an Forest of Stone Tablets Museum

Xi'an Shi, Shanxi ren min chu ban she, 2000. Softcover. Blue flexible cloth covers, red band and white lettering; French flaps. 172 pp. An abundance of BW and color illustrations. Text in Chinese and English. Contents include Confucian Temple, Steles, Art of Stone Carvings, Paintings and Calligraphy, and Survey of This Museum. VG. Light wear to covers. Clean contents.

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Book number: 171109

Catalogue: Asian Decorative Arts

Keywords: Asian Decorative Arts; Stone Tablets; Steles; Stone Carvings; Chinese Calligraphy ; Stone Tablets ; ; General Decorative Arts - Asian