Hardcover. London, Harrison and Sons, 1st, 1869, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, dark green cloth with maroon and gilt labels on spine. Originally published in blue wrappers, here bound in hardcovers. Vol. 1: 307 pages, Vol. 2 309-642 pages. Profusely illustrated including 2 color chromolithographs, several color folding reproductions, at least one b&w engraved lithograph and hundreds of wood engravings. Compiled by a committee of the Council of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Inscription on wrapper cover in Vol. 1, light pencil marking in margins to about 20 pages, otherwise clean, tight set.
Hardcover. New Castle DE, Oak Knoll, 1st, 2004, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A History of the Eragny Press, 1894-1914, is a full and exceptionally well-researched account of the Press. It begins with a brief survey of Lucien Pissarro's early career in France in order to establish the influences and motivations for his book designs and proceeds to examine Lucien's association with Charles Ricketts, the establishment of the Eragny Press, and the Press' relationship to the publishers Hacon & Ricketts. Eragny was not a commercial publisher, yet profits was an important motivation for the Pissarros. Included here is the first major account for a private press of the costs of production, profits, and marketing and distribution practices. Eragny Press books were promoted and sold in England, the Continent, and the United States. Two of the Eragny Press books were the results of commissions from French bibliophile clubs. This history of the Eragny Press includes a discussion of the influences and artistic theories that are the basis for the Pissarros' books and provides a critical reassessment of their significance within the history of the English Arts and Crafts Private Press movement. About half the book is devoted to an exhaustive and detailed bibliography of all the Eragny Press publications, with critical commentary on each. Accompanying the text and the descriptive bibliography are more than seventy-five reproductions of rare Eragny wood engravings ( by Lucien Pissarro, T. Sturge Moore, and others), title pages, borders and decorated initials, binding papers, and book covers. A History of the Eragny Press, 1894-1914, is an important book for anyone interested in the history of printing, the Arts and Crafts movement, Impressionism, private presses, the art of wood engraving, and illustrated and fine books.
Softcover. NY, New York Museum of the American Indian, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, leaflet of the Museum of the American Indian, account of a rare blanket, thought to be woven of dog hair, of the Salish Indians along with discussion of technique. Very good condition, bound between stiff card wraps.
Hardcover. White Plains NY, Peter Pauper Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in color by Simler. From New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book artist Isabelle Simler, a picture book (and nature guide!) to linger over. Look closely as a spider -- both a collector and an artist -- skillfully crafts a masterpiece from all that falls into her path. Patient and observant, she appreciates all the wonders that make up her landscape -- from ferns and feathers to bugs and butterflies. Readers will come back again and again to the luscious and intricate illustrations, soaking up all of Simler's delicate details. Clean copy.
Softcover. Newark NJ, Newark Museum, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, brick-red paper wraps. Exhibition catalogue featuring American folk sculpture, including wood carvings, decoys, and weather vanes. 108 pages with 24 black/white plates to accompany essays and catalogue entries. Near fine condition, some edge wear, small ink mark inside the cover.
Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 303 pages. Color illustrations, index and appendices. Introduction by Margit Rowell; essay by Joseph Jacobs. A groundbreaking retrospective of art from "off the beaten path" sculpture features spectacular images from a wide variety of American artists and craftspeople, in a study that includes everything from religious totems and antique trade signs to hand-carved canes.
Charlottesville VA, University of Virginia, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog illustrated in color, 266 pages. The Kluge-Ruhe Collections, now held by the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, is one of the largest and best-documented collections of Australian Aboriginal art outside Australia. Art from the Land focuses on the desert region and Arnhem Land, drawing on the many fine works in the collection and on the authors' detailed knowledge of the artists and their communities to illustrate the unique and complex nature of Australian Aboriginal artistic expression. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Grantsville, MD, Hobby House Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Minor shelf-wear to illustrated, laminated boards. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Honolulu, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers with mild shelf wear, 293 pages., 622 figs. including color plates. This publication presents the objects collected by Cook that were exhibited at the Museum. A truly dazzling catalogue that has scores of photographs of extraordinary, seldom seen objects (from the Bishop Museum's collection and on loan from the most important museum and private collections in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S.), with full data for each object that appears in the photographs.
Hardcover. Antique Collectors Club , reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket 272 pages. This charming book, first published in 1912 as Gardens for Small Country Houses by Country Life at a time when both Jekyll and Weaver were writing for the magazine, contains the substance of a legend. It embodies the period when the Arts and Crafts Movement had evolved into country house architecture and then found its most delightful expression in the making of gardens. This new edition, which has been re-titled to distinguish it from the original book, is now illustrated with color photographs and reproductions of contemporary paintings and watercolors which bring new color and light to a vanished world. In their collaboration on this book, the authors found common ground and reveled in their mutual intuitive approach to artistic and historic gardening ideas. Arts and Crafts Gardens is a practical handbook with invaluable information on garden restoration, insights into craftsmanship and planting relationships, and provides a fascinating classic text on garden design.
Hardcover. New York , Rizzoli, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Photographer Ian Macdonald-Smith has captured more than forty of the most characteristically innovative extant houses designed by M.H. Baillie Scott (1865-1945), as well as their gardens, in color photographs that express the craftsmanship and planning of this early-20th-century master. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages, illustrated throughout with 213 plates in color and b&w. Maroon cloth with white title to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new. The rich artistic and social history of the Arts and Crafts movement in California, as well as the highly collectible objects it produced. In a brief but intensely prolific period between about 1895 and 1930. Essays by Leslie Greene Bowman, Bruce Kamerling, Cheryl Robertson, Joseph A. Taylor, David C. Streatfield, Karen J. Weitze and Richard Guy Wilson.
Hardcover. London, National Portrait Gallery, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Photographs throughout, spotless and tight copy. Following his maxim, 'Look, Observe and Think', the German photographer, August Sander, was a craftsman of unerring precision. Despising 'tricks, poses and effects', Sander found inspiration in his determination to create images which were absolutely 'true to nature'. His resulting body of work is a diverse catalogue of portraits which capture people of all ages, from every social setting and calling, which provide, in turn, a rich overview of the personalities who shaped Germany's Weimar Republic. A master of camera portraiture, August Sander began photographing people as a boy around the iron-ore mines of his German hometown. As he grew older, he began to foster strong ideas about the function of photography. These opinions culminated in his 'Confession of Faith in Photography', written in 1927, where he talked of showing the 'truth about our age and its people'. This vision is reflected in the universal quality his images share: the innate ability of the photographer to present more than a portrait to show the characters of his sitters. Published to coincide with the National Portrait Gallery's major exhibition of Sander's photographs, this fascinating book offers a comprehensive overview of Sander's rich body of work. Opening with an introductory essay which gives a thorough analysis of Sander's techniques, the book's range of black and white photographs (over 190 in total) are interspersed with contemporary observations regarding Sander's work (these include the photographer's own words). Spanning more than fifty years, the images shown in August Sander offer a pictorial overview of an era and its people. Dominated by the portraits which make up his huge portfolio, 'People of the 20th Century', this catalogue also includes family photographs and a selection of Sander's haunting landscapes.
Softcover. London, Academy Editions Ltd, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w. Baillie Scott's long career spanned the years from 1892 to 1939 - several ages in architecture. He may be considered a third-generation Arts and Crafts architect, who joined the movement after it had become well established and took its ideas to everyman. He invented a new type of small house by opening up a plan around a spacious house-place or hall and extending the interior into the garden. These airy little houses, with their intimate alcoves and sunny verandas, captured William Morris's vision: 'Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement: a sanded floor and whitewashed walls, and the green trees, and flowery meads... will turn all "operatives" into workmen, into artists, into men.' This book includes many newly commissioned photographs of Baillie Scott's houses, as well as original drawing and new research. By looking at his writing and revisiting his buildings - some previously unknown - it makes available the work of an important architect of the Arts and Crafts movement. It reveals for the first time the beauty of Baillie Scott's architectural works and the fascinating breadth of his theory and practice. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 4th pr., 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with light water stains. Book is undamaged, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 86 pages illustrated with b&w photos and diagrams. No markings.
Hardcover. 5 Continents, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 10" x 11.5", together with dust jacket, new, still in shrinkwrap. 196 pages, illustrated in color. Ceil Pulitzer started her journey as a collector of African art more than thirty years ago. Her artistic spirit has drawn her to all forms of culture and human expression across time and space. As a dedicated painter, she has relentlessly exercised her eye in the study of art and art history. As a collector of modern art first, she understood that African art shaped the trajectory of twentieth-century art. Later, in Paris, she met the venerable expert and legendary dealer of African art, Charles Ratton. In one brief meeting, he said to her: "You have a good eye." This encounter distilled her passion and pursuit of excellence in classical African art. The Ceil and Michael Pulitzer Foundation has developed and supported a number of philanthropic endeavors in Africa, and in major institutions that promote the art of Africa and humanitarian efforts there.
Hardcover. New York , St Martins/Christies, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 236 pages. Illustrations in color, b&w. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket. Everyone knows the beauty and value of Tiffany glass lamps, vases and windows. But few know that the masterful pieces fron the Tiffany Studios would not have been possible without Arthur Nash, developer of the now-priceless Favrile glass, and his son Leslie, director of the Studio's division of glassmaking, pottery and enamel. Leslie's memoirs, along with notes and references, tell the unfiltered and refreshing story of the Studio's heyday, and substantially expand our knowledge, and his photos comprise the largest collection of here-to-fore unseen images of the studio's earliest pieces. This historical find is an event in the decorative arts world and will appeal to both collectors and museums.
Hardcover. New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 52 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with tape repaired tears along edges, areas of fading. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Price clipped dust jacket with light wear to edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Warner Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light foxing top edge, and a couple small spots of foxing to right edge. Dust jacket with thin line of foxing top edge. Otherwise clean tight copy.
Hardcover. Milwaukee WI, Bruce Publishing, reprint, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong brown cloth with black lettering and design, 62 pages illustrated with b&w illustrations and photos. Detailed instructions on building birdhouses. Foxing to endpapers otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 11th ed., 1946, Hardcover, black cloth in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Small sticker on dj spine. 169 pages, b&w illustrations, Practical reference data on materials, design, and construction methods employed in brick construction; for contractors, builders, architects, engineers, and students...".
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