Collectibles

Softcover. San Diego CA, Smart Art Pr, 1st, 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes. Light shelf-wear, rubbing and sunning to wrappers. Text in English and Spanish. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 3 Mexican and 2 Spanish institutions, June 1998 - February 2000; notable for the interview of the collector, Tom Patchett, by Rugoff (volume 2) as well as the illustrative matter.

Hardcover. Iola, Wisconsin, Krause Publications, inc., 3rd Expanded, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 482 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial paper boards, no dust jacket. Slight wear and rubbing along edges, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Chez Castel, 2nd pr., 1858, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, VIII-352 pages plus a 70 page supplement. Title printed in red & black. Original 1/2 leather, with marbled boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilded decorations. This is the 2nd. and much enlarged edition. A very useful volume in the scarce field of book repair. FRENCH TEXT. Leather corners show light wear, small scar to front panel, otherwise a very good, clean volume.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages, hardcover, 186 illustrations, 23 in color. A well illustrated detailed study of the 21 European clocks (19 French, 2 German) in the Getty Museum with detailed biographies of their makers.

Hardcover. Major Cities Publishing Company, 2nd Edition, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 234 pages. Haardcover. Ford Model "A" 50th Anniversary Commemorative Printing. B/w illustrations throughout. Orange decorated cover boards. Dust jacket has some agewear (chipping, tanning, light foxing). Pages unmarked. Binding very good. Spine straight.

Hardcover. NY, Pivately Printed, 1st , 1908, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 3/4 leather and marbled boards with gilt lettering on spine and raised bands. 16 pages of text by W. Stanton Howard. 261 pages. Black & white plates. Card of author tipped on front end paper. Previous owner's name & stamp. Bright, sharp condition.

Softcover. London, Christie's, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 280 pages, color photographs throughout. Light edge wear, rubbing to wrappers. Bottom right cover corners slightly bent. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Goliga, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Folio, hardcover. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. 191 pages. Black and white and color photos throughout. A look at high heels in fashion and fashion photography, with several essays focusing on fetishism and photography. With an interview with Manolo Blahnik, among others. Many high fashion and art photos throughout of women in high heels, including nude photos.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Remainder mark on bottom edge, light shelf-wear, else a clean, tight copy. A lively non-fiction account of an art dealer's long quest to own an original painting by Andy Warhol. An illuminating view of the inner workings of the art world and the interplay of artists, collectors, galleries, auction houses, etc.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum Of Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout with 112 color plates and 55 b&w reproductions. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. A catalogue to accompany an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A beautiful publication examining Italian Maiolica. An essential reference work for historians, collectors, and anyone with an interest in ceramics.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 152 pages. A fabulous facsimile of an almost unknown masterpiece by Joseph Cornell, presented in a box, along with a volume of essays and an interactive DVDOne of Joseph Cornell's favorite pastimes was to meander through the used bookstalls of lower Manhattan, sorting through old books, magazines, postcards, photos, and other ephemera in search of items to spark his creative impulses. Sometime in the early 1930s he came upon the Journal d'Agriculture Practique (Volume 21, 1911), a voluminous handbook of advice for farmers. Though he was very much an urban creature, he adored French culture of that period, and the book was filled with charming black and white engraving and photographs of pigs, horses, vegetables, and farm machinery. Over time Cornell altered and reinvented many of the pages in the Journal. He inserted collages, photomontages, and occasional drawings; he crossed out words in the text and made French puns with others. Hand-colored engravings, cutouts, and lift-ups intricately transport the reader from page to page. The dazzling elegance of Cornell's work on the Journal has rarely been viewed. It was discovered in his basement studio soon after his death in 1972 and is now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Due to its fragility, the work is not well known, even among Cornell scholars. Now, in a unique venture, sixty of the most extraordinary pages have been re-created in virtual facsimile, with cutouts, glue-ons, and other unique handmade details. Included in a specially designed box are a DVD of the entire work, including pop-up commentaries, and a volume of illustrated essays on the Journal and Cornell's artistic practice. 103 illustrations

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 290 pages, color frontispiece, many b&w illustrations. Top edge gilt. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Previous owner's bookplate and 5-line note on front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. US, R W Elliott, limited, 1987-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 174 pages. Edition limited to 2500 copies. Light edgewear and rubbing to brown covers. Internally very good.

Hardcover. New York , Aperture, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, New copy still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Two hardcover volumes in slipcase. A total of 512 pages with 100 color ills. Introduction to 'Postcards' by Thomas Weski. Introduction to 'Objects' by Martin Parr. "While 'Objects' is the first publication to document Parr's 25 plus years of such collecting, 'Postcards' is the last word on an extraordinary collection of over 20,000 cards. Presented in album format, it is a highly entertaining yet serious study of postcard history.

Softcover. Warren CT, Floating World Editions, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 143 pages, color plates. Chinese scholar's stones, variously called "viewing stones," "spirit stones," "respect stones, (gongshi)," and even "weird rocks, (guaishi)," have been appreciated and written about in China for more than a millennium. Through descriptions and color photographs, Modern Chinese Scholars' Rocks introduces over 40 stone types, including their mineral compositions, typical colors, hardness on the Mohr scale, and where they are found or quarried. The qualities for which they are valued are explained as are other features for the stone connoisseur to look for. Clean, bright copy. No markings.

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.

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Tan cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. A light smudge to foreedge. Pages unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. Issued in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 1, 2002-January 5, 2003.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 176 pages illustrated in color. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 302 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 405 b&w and 80 color illustrations, stapled cardboard slipcase. Bottom right corner of cover slightly bumped. Very light wear to dust jacket edges; a very clean, tight copy. This book is the first to survey the whole i development of porcelain n Europe between the Napoleonic era and the First World War. The nineteenth century was a period of technological change and of artistic innovation: both these strands came together in the development of porcelain, which industrialization brought within the reach of the burgeoning middle classes of industrial Europe. While early in the century Neoclassicism had brought about a new purity of line and decoration, in Germany and in England taste demanded more elaborate styles and resulted in the emergence of the 'new Rococo' and later in the development of revived styles of decoration such as Minton's 'Majolica' and the work of studio potters. This book covers not only the great factories, Sevres, Limoges, Copenhagen, Meissen, but also the smaller producers in Holland, Italy and Spain and extends to the birth of Art Nouveau.

Hardcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. , 144 pages illustrated in color and b&w. During the global postcard craze that peaked around 1900 and continued for several decades thereafter, photographers in Africa grasped the opportunity to serve a lucrative market for images of the continent, both locally and worldwide. Their picture postcards now contribute to understanding political and cultural changes in Africa at the time, as the rise of the new medium coincided with the expansion and consolidation of colonial rule. They also provide a way to reconstruct the life and work of the photographers of European, African and other backgrounds who created these images-which often survive only in postcard form-and in some cases published them as well. The cards were produced for residents and travelers in Africa, as well as for buyers and collectors who had never set foot on the continent. Their depictions of colonial administrations and the exploitation of resources and peoples, as well as images inscribing tribal identities and racial classifications, often reflect the colonizers' worldview. Yet it is also possible to recover the authorship of some of the African women and men who participated in these photographic encounters. For instance, some cards show that members of Africa's elites recognized the power of photographic images to enhance their standing and present their own narratives.

Hardcover. Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 124 pages. Featuring eighty-two vintage postcards published beginning at the turn of the century, Postcards of the Night traces American cultural life as it was transformed by industrial strength and shifting demographics. The nation increasingly was growing more educated, upwardly mobile, and urban, and the nighttime postcard popularized this modernism for ordinary consumption. Coalitions of city planners and urban developers, politicians and the media utilized the picture postcard to strategize the role of the individual in the rise of the city. It was the birth of leisure and of travel, the new tourist city to which the postcard needed forcefully to speak, in ways that were equal part artifice and art.

Softcover. Gas City, IN, L-W Book Sales, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 104 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Softcover. Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art Washington, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages. Softcover. National Gallery of Art publications from exhibition laid in. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. In beautiful condition. Wrapper bright and excellent. Pages clean, binding good. Catalogue to accompany exhibition held from February 7, 1991-May 9, 1982.