Hardcover. New York, Ridge Press/Macmillan, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 251 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs. price clipped dust jacket shows standard wear. Clean, tight copy. Bil Baird, a master puppeteer of our time, recounts the history of his art, from its remotest yesterday to its bright and promising tomorrow. Along the way, he examines the famous and outrageous Mr. Punch, the raucous Karaghioz, the noble knights of the Orlando legend, the lovely shadow plays of Asia, the unique Bunraku puppets of Japan, and the exciting developments in today's puppetry around the world. To which we would like to add: There has never been any book to compare with this one. It remains the classic text on the history of puppetry around the world. It has dozens of amazing photographs, and a very lucid text written by one of the great master puppeteers of our time.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs. Foxing to endpapers, with faint darkening to page edges. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Christie's, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover catalog, 234 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Grand Rapids, Periodical Publishing Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with slipcase. Features 101 black & white plates with design measurements and details. Book clean and tight, with bright gilt titles on cover and spine. Moderately worn slipcase with a deep abrasion confined to bottom right corner of spine - approx. 1".
Hardcover. New York, Dryden Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 114 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with 66 black & white photographs. Previous owner has carefully glued-in additional black & white photographic images of related Chinese bronzes to preliminary pages front and rear, and to a few random pages. Dust jacket with chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover.
Hardcover. London, George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1st, 1873, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 699 pages. Hardcover. Beautifully rebound first edition. Blue cloth covers with title in gilt on black leather spine label. Features black & white illustrations and full color tipped-in plates. Clean, tight. A very nice copy.
Hardcover. Paris, Flammarion, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 pages. Hardcover. Text in French only. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Dust jacket with wear to edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Art Media Resources, Inc., 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated with full color photographs. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Stratford, John Edwards, Reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 409 pages. Hardcover. Features more than 5700 buttons illustrated, identified and described. Previous owners stamps on front endpaper. Dust jacket with light wear along edges. Clean, unmarked text.
Softcover. Shelburne, Shelburne Museum, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, 180 pages. Softcover exhibition catalog. Features full color photographs and information related to furniture manufactured in the state of Vermont up to 1850. Light wear to covers. Clean, unmarked text. A nice copy.
Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover with dust jacket and plastic covering in near fine condition. 391 pages, appendix of early saddlemakers, glossary of terms, bibliography, index, over 800 photographs and illustrations.
Hardcover. Tarrytown NY, Sleepy Hollow Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 310 pages. includes index, bibliography, b/w illustrations throughout the book plus middle section of full-color photos. Covers Phillipsburg Manor, Upper Mills & Van Cortland Manor and Washington Irving's Sunnyside.
Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE AND SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Black cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 18 color and 400 b&w illustrations, book review included from Maine Antique Digest, August 1977. Light wear to edges of dust jacket; overall a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover set. Two volumes in a cardboard slipcase, 344, 300 pages. Illustrated with b&w photographs throughout. Vol. 1 covers New England, Vol. 2 - The Middle Colonies and the South. Clean, tight copies.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 282 pages, plus index. Text by Bernard Barenholtz and Inez McClintock, photographs by Bill Holland. Light blue cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, illustrated laminate dust jacket, 285 illustrations including 100 plates in full-color. Light rubbing to dust jacket, clean boards, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. Marion, MA, N/A, N/A, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, b&w photographs. Green cloth covers w/ small gilt lettering. Missing front fly leaf, previous owner's markings on some pages. Foxing/staining to end papers, covers and edges; else pages clean.
Softcover. New York, Christie's , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 155 lots, illustrated in color. Softcover with minor wear to covers and spine else in very good condition.
Hardcover. New York , H. L. Lindquist Publisher, 1st, 1947, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcovers, 2 Volumes. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGES. 319 + 305 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Black cloth, gilt lettering. Dust jackets chipped and worn with faded spines, Tape-residue to front cover of volume 2. Internally very good.
Hardcover. Privately Printed, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 283 pages. INSCRIBED By AUTHOR on title page. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Dust jacket spine slightly faded, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. CD inside rear cover. Covers the 40 year production span of the mechanical organs that provided music in the last pert of the 19th century and first 30 years of the 20th.
Hardcover. Dorset, VT, Two Damn Yankees, Inc., 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Hardcover. Rare. Color illustrations throughout. In excellent condition. Binding tight. Clean and unmarked inside and out. Looks barely read.
Record # 5560091
Price: $250.00
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