New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2003. Hardcover. Beaux Arts Editions. 320 : color illustrations; 34 cm. Illustrated cover. Dust jacket repeats cover design. Grey endpapers. A beautiful coffee table book about the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, which displays art in a wide variety of media produced between 1848 and 1914..... More
Paris: Librairie Hachette & Cie. 1911. Hardcover. 190 p.: full-page and in-text illustrations; 26 cm. Maroon cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles and decoration. Edges of boards are bevelled. Top page edges gilt. Decorated endpapers. Title page in red and black. Series title on cover: Nouvelle Collection des Classiques..... More
1890. 18.5 x 13 cm. card with pink-and-white embossed floral decoration on the front. Inside is a line drawing of a boy holding a buttercup under the chin of a girl, both in late 19th-century dress. Accompanied by a poem beginning "When the perfume of flowers is shed on the..... More
Lancaster, Pa. Red Rose Coin Club, 1971. Paperback. [2], 12, [2] p.; 20 cm. Blue paper covers printed in black. The Red Rose Coin Club was established in Lancaster, Pa., in 1958 and still exists. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. More
Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1923. Paperback. 238 p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Brown wrapper printed in black. "April 11, 1923-May 9, 1923" -- front wrapper. Includes an index of the lenders of the paintings. 317 paintings were in the exhibition of portraits by American painters Charles Willson Peale..... More
London: Smith and Robins, 1842. Hardcover. xxiv, 250 p.: 1 leaf of engraved portrait of Horace Walpole, in-text illustrations; 29 cm. Later 19th-century brown cloth spine with original boards. Engraved cover title: A Catalogue of the Contents of Strawberry Hill. Engraved title page. George Robins, the auctioneer, advertised the sale..... More
Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1934. Paperback. Second Edition. 66, viii p., [50] p. of illustrations; 20 cm. Purple wrappers printed in gilt with yapp edges. Yellow endpapers. The catalog includes a portrait of Alonzo Jennings by Julius Bloch; paintings by Daniel Garber, Katherine Morris Wright, George Biddle..... More
New York: Selmar Hess, Publisher, 1885. 1 chromolithograph 13 x 20 cm. (5 x 8 inches) on a captioned buff sheet 24 x 32 cm. (9.25 x 12.5 inches). This is one of a series of Prang chromolithographs used in Our Living World: An Artistic Edition of the Rev. J.G...... More
Princeton, N.J. American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1964. Paperback. Printed by the Meriden Gravure Co., Meriden, Conn. One orange-brown folder containing 5 loose leaves, as issued: one leaf of text and 6 pages of color illustration on 4 leaves (2 blank sides); 31 cm. Cut-out rectangle in front..... More
Paris: Le Décor d'Aujourd'hui, 1951. Hardcover. [14], 324 p.: 21 color plates tipped in on heavy, captioned stock, and many black-and-white photographs, drawings, and plans; 30 cm. Buff linen spine with black-stamped spine title; buff paper over boards printed in black with a leaf pattern. Grey endpaper. Lacking dust jacket..... More
Munich: Hermann Lukaschik, 1899. Hardcover. [4], 39, [1] p.: in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Leather spine with dark brown pebble-grain paper over boards. Green leaf-pattern endpapers. Austrian Arabist and archeologist Eduard Glaser (1855-1908) was one of the first Europeans to explore South Arabia and is still considered the most important scholar..... More
1875. Paperback. [36] p.; 22 x 29 cm. Paper cover printed in black. Cover title within decorative border; back cover has decoration in black. No publication information. Consists of 18 blank leaves separated by tissue guards. Faint penciled name (possibly McSully) on front cover dated Oct. 23, 1875. One page..... More
Boston: A Bulfinch Press Book, Little, Brown and Co., 1993. Hardcover. 62, [2] p.: 23 color and 7 black-and-white illustrations; 29 cm. Dark blue cover with gilt spine title and cover title. Red endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Stated First Edition. The Easter story illustrated with works from the National Gallery..... More
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1904. Paperback. [16] p.: illustrations; 15 x 17 cm. Stapled wrapper with illustrated front. Publication information on front wrapper. "No. 83" -- on back wrapper. Inside of front wrapper shows primary and secondary colors, with directions for making secondary colors from primary colors. Inside of back..... More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2016. Paperback. [2], 143, [1] p.: color illustrations; 28 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. This exhibition catalog contains contributions by Michael Leja, Haely Chang, Anne Cross, Lee Ann Custer, Andres De los Rios, Tara Giangrande, Kirsten Gill, Jullia Griffith, Olivia Horn, Jeffrey J. Katzin, Ramey Mize..... More
New York: Art Directors Club, 1926. Hardcover. [20], 136, [32] p., color frontispiece: color and black-and-white illustrations; 29 cm. Yellow and green cover with spine and cover titles. Black endpapers. Artists represented include: Edward Steichen, E. A. Georgi, Henry Raleigh, Walter Biggs, Lucille Patterson Marsh, Frank Swift Chase, Edward A...... More
Rome, Italy: Alitalia, 1966. 5 menus; each consists of one folded sheet with a color front illustration; 24 cm. high. Printed by Staderini, Rome. The front illustrations appear to be from unidentified 18th-century prints. The two New York-to-Milan menus each have "5-66" in the lower right-hand corner of the menu..... More
Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1969. Paperback. 20 unnumbered pages of color illustrations; 28 x 28 cm. Black card cover with color pastedown of bootprint on the moon in the center of an embossed circle. No date of publication, but the text indicates that this collection of photographs..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. Hardcover. Vol. 2 published in 1810. 2 volumes: vii, [1], 524 p., frontispiece and 62 leaves of engraved plates; viii, 444, [30] p., frontispiece and 95 leaves of plates (one folded): one in-text engraving; 29 cm. Original brown boards; both spines are covered..... More
Hamilton, Ohio: Joseph Meadon, 1910. Hardcover. 428, [2] p.: many illustrations, both color and black-and-white, some tipped-in, some folded; 26 cm. Original leather spine with brown morocco-grain cloth over boards with gilt-stamped cover title: The Graphic Arts and Crafts Year Book 1910. 20th-century spine repair with dark brown library repair..... More
Paris: Librairie Hachette & Cie. 1912. Hardcover. 268 p.: full-page and in-text illustrations (1 folded); 26 cm. Maroon cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles and decoration. Edges of boards are bevelled. Top page edges gilt. Decorated endpapers. Title page in red and black. Series title on cover: Nouvelle Collection..... More
Kansas City, Mo. Helicon Nine, 1984. Paperback. 91, [5] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: Homage to Jane Austen by Marianne Langner Zeitlin -- My Father Dying [poem] by Barbara Elovic -- Elizabeht "Grandma" Layton: A Drawer of Pictures by Lynn Bretz -- Six Poems by Doris..... More
Kansas City, Mo. Helicon Nine, 1984. Paperback. 93, [3] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: A Candle for Edna Millay by Robert Erwin -- Three Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- A Portrait [poem] by David Ray -- Three poems by Ruth Whiteman -- Alice Pole..... More
Kansas City, Mo. Helicon Nine, 1985. Paperback. 178, [6] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: The Black & White Legacy of Käthe Kollwitz by Carol Jacobsen -- Flying in Your Own Food by Padma Perera -- Dreams & Rhubarb by Katherine Mansfield -- An Interview with Maxine..... More
Kansas City, Mo. Helicon Nine, 1982. Paperback. 95, [1] p.: illustrations, record; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: Georgia O'Keeffe and the Feminine Experience by Katherine Hoffman -- Notes on a Morning Gory: Mary Lou Williams an appreciation by Terry Teachout -- The Architecture of Julia Morgan by Richard..... More