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Rings For The Finger : From The Earliest Known Times To The Present, With Full Descriptions Of The Origin, Early Making, Materials, The Archaeology, History, For Affection, For Love,...

Major-General Abner Doubleday and Brevet Major-General John C. Robinson in the Civil War [In Memoriam: Abner Doubleday 1819-1893 and John Cleveland Robinson 1817-1897]. Published by the State of New York, J.B. Lyon Co. Albany NY, 1918. In many of the world's military establishments, a brevet was a warrant giving a commissioned officer a higher rank title as a reward for gallantry or meritorious conduct but may not confer the authority, precedence, or pay of real rank. An officer so promoted was referred to as being brevetted. Abner Doubleday 1819-1893 was a career United States Army officer and Union major general in the American Civil War. He fired the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter...

Joan Miro Life and Work by Jacques Dupin. Published by Harry N. Abrams, 1962, New York. 1st Ed hardcover with Brodart covered dust jacket. A Catalogue Raisonne of Miro's paintings from 1914-1961. 596pp. 1158 illustrations, including 46 color hand-tipped plates...

Honore Daumier. Catalogue Raisonné of the paintings watercolors and drawings. Published by New York Graphic Society Ltd., 1968. 1st Limited Edition of a two volume set in a custom sl...

Author: Browning, Robert. Title: The Works of Robert Browning. Publisher: London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1912. Description: The Centenary Edition. 10 vols., 8-7/8" x 6", limited to 500 numbered copies on Antique Laid Paper...

Fleming, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1962. First US edition, first printing. Octavo. Presented in the publisher's original dust jacket and original cloth boards. With new archival quarter leather and cloth clamshell archival case. This is the first US edition of Ian Fleming’s tenth James Bond thriller, The Spy Who Loved Me. The book is presented in the publisher’s original boards and dust jacket, with Richard Chopping’s classic artwork...

AUTHOR: POTTER, Beatrix. TITLE: The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse. PUBLISHER: London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, [after 1918], DESCRIPTION: PRESENTATION COPY LATER EDITION. 1 vol., inscribed on the half-title by the author 'To Elizabeth Todhunter from Beatrix Potter...

Decorative Wedgwood by Alison Kelly. Country Life Limited, 1965. 1st Edition hardcover with dust jacket. The book covers: Josiah Wedgwood and the Taste of His Time, Ideas for Interior Decoration, Chimney-Piece Designs, Jasper Chimney-Pieces, Wyatt, Holland & Cameron (architects), Fonts, Furnishing Details, Tiles and Dairies, Furniture Inset with Wedgwood Ware, the Victorian Revival. A study of Wedgwood's decorative production as it relates to the taste of the times in the applied arts. The author describes the whole range of Wedgwood's output in the field of interior decoration, from the basalt figures and wall plaques to the more esoteric fonts and funeral urns...

Painting in Islam: A Study of the Place of Pictorial Art in Muslim Culture. Painting in Islam by Sir Thomas W. Arnold (1965-07-01). Paintings in Islam indicates the place of painti...

Author: IRWIN, Will; GENTHE, Arnold. Title: Old Chinatown. A Book of Pictures by Arnold Genthe, with text by Will Irwin. Publisher: NY: Mitchell K...

AUTHOR: POTTER, Beatrix. TITLE: The Tale of Pigling Bland. PUBLISHER: London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, [after 1918], DESCRIPTION: PRESENTATION COPY LATER EDITION. 1 vol., inscribed on the half-title by the author 'with kind regards from Beatrix Potter', and with additional ink inscription 'To Peggy, from Mrs Postlethwaite & Mary, Sept. 8th 1933', 15 colour plates (including frontispiece), black & white illustrations to text, pictorial endpapers, original pale green pictorial boards. CONDITION: Inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, spine slightly darkened, internally clean and bright, a VERY GOOD coy seldom seen inscribed. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Postlethwaite family lived at High Green Gate...

AUTHOR: ATWOOD, Margaret. TITLE: The Edible Woman. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1969. DESCRIPTION: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., publisher's original pink cloth backed boards, gilt lettered spine, inscribed by Atwood on the half-title "For Bart & Roby best wishes Margaret Atwood...

Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America by Hasso Von Winning. Published by Abrams, New York, 1968. First edition. First major study to elevate t...

Author: WAUGH, Evelyn Title: Decline & Fall. Publisher: London: Chapman & Hall, 1962. Description: Revised edition with a new preface and a presentation copy. 1 vol., illustrated with plates after Waugh, inscribed on the front blank endleaf "For Patrick [Balfour] with regards from Evelyn", publisher's original gilt lettered blue cloth binding, with the DJ, not price clipped. Condition: Minor foxing to endleaves otherwise NEAR FINE/VG. Provenance: Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904-1976). Evelyn and Patrick first met at Oxford in the early 1920s, and later in that decade were members of the social set known as The Bright Young Things...

Author: Greene, Graham. Title: Travels With My Aunt. Publisher: London: The Bodley Head, 1969. Description: first edition presentation copy. 1 vol., inscribed on the title-page "With thanks for everything from Graham Greene...

Author: Hughes, Langston. Title: The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers. Publisher: Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1967. Description: First edition presention copy and signed twice. 1 vol., inscribed in his familiar green ink on the half-title "To the (Jack) Aistrops- Happy Holidays and Bon Voyage Sincerely, Langston Hughes...

Decorate your sturdy / Library room with this collection set of gilt leather bound library book set of eighteen volumes. Germany in storm and stress ...

Les dessins de Paul Delvaux 1st edition Preface by Maurice Nadeau Published by Denoël, Paris, 1967. Hardback first edition in dust jacket. French language text. A beautiful illustr...

Book Limited Availability Book by Israel Katzman titled La Arquitectura Contemporanea Mexicana Hard Cover. Published 1964. Original Dust Jacket. Modern masters of contemporary Archit...

Jean-Luc Godard, Anna Karina 1960: Vintage original 1960 Se Og Hør magazine featuring a fantastic Jean Luc Godard/Anna Karina cover that would look very cool framed. Full magazine. 8 x 10 inches. Staple bound. Approximately 40 pages. Some minor staining to front cover; in otherwise good condition for its age. While working together on Le Petit Soldat, Karina and Godard began a relationship and married in 1961. Eventually, Karina served as a cinematic muse to Godard, appearing in eight of his films, including Alphaville, Bande à part, and Pierrot le Fou...

Steps, Jerzy Kosinski. Published by Random House, New York, 1968. Stated 1st Printing hardcover with dust jacket. Steps is a book by the Polish-American writer Jerzy Kosinski, releas...

Abstract Painting in Flanders by Michel Seuphor. Published by Editions Arcade; Fonds Mercator S.A., Antwerp, 1963 1st Ed hardcover. With 130 tipped in color plates. Fernand Berckelaers pseudonym Michel Seuphor (anagram of Orpheus), was a Belgian painter. Seuphor established a literary magazine, Het Overzicht, in Antwerp in 1921. He moved in Dutch, Belgian, and French avant-garde circles. He associated at various points with Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian, and was influenced by their iconic Neo-plasticist works. Along with Joaquin Torres-Garcia and Pierre Daura...

Author: Bierbaum, Otto Julius. Title: Das Schoene Madchen von Pao. Ein chinesischer Roman. Prachtausgabe mit Bildern von Bayros. Publisher: Munchen: George Mullers, n.d. (1910...

Jean Dubuffet. Cerceaux ‘Sorcellent by Max Loreau. Edition Jeanne Bucher, Editions Beyeler, Paris, 1967. Limited edition of 800 of which this is no. 496. Contains 20 original colo...

The Second Treasury of Early American Homes by Richard Pratt and Dorothy Pratt. Hawthorn Books Inc., New York, 1964. 3rd printing hardcover with dust jacket. 144 pages with more than...

La Jolla By James Britain Photographs by John Waggaman California Review No. 5, San Diego, 1965. Paperback First edition. Softcover with pictorial wrappers. Unpaginated. Capturi...

Fleming, Ian. Octopussy and The Living Daylights. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. First UK edition. Octavo. Rebound in full leather with gilt facsimi...

Great Houses Of America by Henry Lionel Williams and Ottalie K. Williams. G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY, 1966. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 400 B&W illustrations and 47 full co...

Always Go First Class by Laurence Marks. First Edition hardcover. Published by Random House, New York, 1962. Dust-jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East by Earl F Ziemke. United States Army, Office of the Chief of Military History, Washington, DC, 1968...

Suppressed books a history of the conception of literary obscenity by Alec Craig. The World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York, 1963. Stated first edition hardcover with dust...

More Massachusetts Towns, illustrated with wood engravings of fifty-three Massachusetts Towns, drawn in 1840 by J. W. Barber. Commentary by Ivan Sandrof, and a special foreword by Mr...

Martyn Green's Treasury of Gilbert and Sullivan by Martyn Green. Simon & Shuster, New York, 1961. Stated 1st printing hardcover with Gaylord dust ...

The English House Through Seven Traces by Olive Cook. Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1968. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. A history of English d...

Adventure into Architecture by Bernard John Grad. Arco Publishing, New York, 1968. Signed 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. "This is truly an adventure into the world of architecture as it is today, with glimpses into the future. It is a world of art and business, government and industry, people and products, dreams and realities." [Preface] Chapters include: 'The Evolution of Expressionism'; 'The Face of Construction'; 'The Language of Vision'; and 'The Challenge of Change'. With approximately 100 b/w photographs including aerial shots, architectural plans, models and drawings, project planning tools, a topographical...

First edition, published by the Viking Press, New York in 1968. A collection of interior photos and portraits featuring the opulent houses and affluent people of the 1960s, photogra...

History of old Sheffield plate being an account of the origin, growth, and decay of the industry and of the antique silver and white or Britannia metal trade with chronological lists...

Che Guevara Historio de America: Late 1960s-early 1970s Historio de America publication featuring a brilliant Che Guevara cover that is well-suited for framing. Full publication. minor stain on upper left; otherwise good to very good condition for its age. Binding is stiff and well-intact. Medium: Newspaper style printed publication; 50+ pages. Dimensions: 10 x 10 inches. Related categories Che Guevara photograph. Cuban revolution...

The Blinded Sailors and Soldiers Gift Book by George Goodchild. Jarrold & Sons, London 1915. 1st Ed hardcover. Tipped-in color frontispiece and eighteen plates in color. Published fo...

Norwegian Folk Costumes (Norske Folkedragter) by Einar Lexow and Joh. F.L. Dreiers. Norsk Folkemuseum, 1913. 1st Ed hardcover. Norwegian traditional dress ...

The Stars, The Personalities Who Made The Movies By Richard Schickel, Designed by Allen Hurlburt. First Edition hardcover with dust jacket. Bonanza Books, New York, 1962. With 400 b&...

Chips and Shavings: Stories of Upstate New York by George Walter. Heritage Press, 1966. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Loaded with interesting stories about the early days of ups...

Meubles et Ensembles Picards by Stany Gauthier. Paris, Editions Charles Massin, 1960. 1st Edition hardcover with dust jacket. 12 pages of text in French, 36 pages with 90 b/w photos....

Decorative Wedgwood by Alison Kelly. Country Life Limited, 1965. Signed and Inscribed 1st Edition hardcover with dust jacket. The book covers: Josiah Wedgwood and the Taste of His Time, Ideas for Interior Decoration, Chimney-Piece Designs, Jasper Chimney-Pieces, Wyatt, Holland & Cameron (architects), Fonts, Furnishing Details, Tiles and Dairies, Furniture Inset with Wedgwood Ware, the Victorian Revival. A study of Wedgwood's decorative production as it relates to the taste of the times in the applied arts. The author describes the whole range of Wedgwood's output in the field of interior decoration, from the basalt figures and wall plaques to the more esoteric fonts and funeral urns...

William Klein, portfolio magazine. Special edition. 110 pages, 1997. Softcover. 11x14 inches. Some very minor wear otherwise excellent condition. A retrospective of photographs by...

Antique panorama children’s book illustrated by Willy Pogany and retold by Edith L Elias. A total of 14 panels, one side with illustrations, and the other with text. Published by George G. Harrap & Company. This book is part of a children’s series by Willy Pogány of folding panoramas illustrations and text, inspired by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1855 epic, The Song of Hiawatha. Lines from Longfellow run underneath Pogány’s illustrations, which follow the Ojibwe child Hiawatha from his early kinship with the wild animals, through his struggles with Nahma, King of Fishes, and his own estranged father, Mudjekeewis, up to his courtship of Laughing Water (Minnehaha). The prose text by Edith Elias, printed on the verso of the panorama, carries Hiawatha’s story farther, through the death of Minnehaha and the coming of “the Pale-Face Chief.” Pogány’s dynamic frames, with their striking use of negative space, show the influence not only of Golden Age illustrators like Walter Crane, but also the new generation of cartoonists like Winsor McCay...

L'art de la porcelaine en europe (French) Hardcover – January 1, 1984 by Jan; and Ernould-Gandouet Divis (Author) The Art of Porcelain in Europe, beautiful objects from the past. Pub...

Albany Silver 1652-1825 by Norman Rice. Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY, 1964. First Edition softcover. Limited to 1000 copies. The catal...

An Exaltation of Larks, or The Venereal Game by James Lipton. 10th edition hardcover no dust jacket. Lipton's humorous retrieval of zoological collective nouns, and whimsical inventi...

First Edition, published by Concordia Publishing House, St Louis & London 1969. An important and appreciative visual study of Christian artists across Africa, Asia and with several ...

Published by Art, Inc, New York, first edition, 1962. This was the first book published on Modigliani's sculpture, the book is filled with beautifully printed black and white imag...

Horizon Summer 1967 Hardcover – January 1, 1967 Horizon Magazine - A Magazine Of The Arts, Summer 1967 By Thorndike, Joseph Ed/ New York: American ...

Congress and the Nation 1945-1964: A Review of Government and Politics in the Postwar Years. District of Columbia: Congressional Quarterly Service, 1965. First edition, two-volume se...

Edith Wharton. Ethan Frome. Published by Charles Scribner & Sons, New York 1911. First edition. This is the novel that sealed Wharton's success as a n...

This was rock and roll icon Jimi Hendrix's final tour program book in 1969. It is a tri-fold cover in color and black and white. It has 12 pages of pictures and a back page of credit...

Mosquitobush Stories and Prints by Francis Tolman. Richard R Smith, New Hampshire, 1963. Signed and inscribed by the author first edition hardcover with Broadart covered dust jacket....

Christo and More SMS A Collection of Multiples 'William N. Copley, 1968' S.M.S. is an art collection in a box that was available by subscription in 1968. Through February and December, subscribers were mailed six issues containing assorted works of art curated by William N. Copley. The portfolios consist of “original reproductions" by 73 artists including William Copley, Christo, Marcel Duchamp, Roy Lichtenstein, Joseph Kosuth, Walter de Maria, Yoko Ono, Lawrence Weiner, Richard Artschwager, Man Ray, Bruce Nauman, John Cage, Terry Riley and more. S.M.S. included renowned and unknown artists side by side. As form of protest against galleries, S.M.S. made contemporary art affordable and accessible at a modest price of $125.00 per subscription. The portfolios are all kept in their original display covers. Edition of approximately 2,000 published by Letter Edged in Black Press. Volume No. 1 February 1968 Little Box of Earthquake and Cotton (cover), Irving Penn; Black Dress, James Lee Byars; Chicago Project…, Walter de Maria; My Country ‘Tis of Thee, Kasper Konig; Luggage Labels Nancy Reitkopf; Project for a Bridge, Sue Braden; A Postcard for Mother, Richard Hamilton; Two Propositions in Black, Le Monte Young and Marian Zazeela; Store Front, Christo; Sol Mednick; Pharmaceuticals, Julian Levy. Volume No. 2 April 1968 Seven Minute Recording of Contapetrie, a surrealist word game (cover), Marcel Duchamp; The Mirror of Genoveva, Meret Oppenheim; Three Color Separations, Alain Jacquet; A Two-Year-Old Girl Choked to Death Today on an Easter Egg, Ray Johnson; A Proposed Comic Section for the New York Times, Bernard Pfreim; Farwell to Faust, George Reavey; Album, Clovis Trouille; Legal Tender, Bruce Conner; 10 collages, Marcia Hertscovitz; Cynocephalus & Co., Nicolas Calas. Volume No. 3 June 1968 Untitled abstract landscapes (cover), John Battan; Clouds, William Bryant (Bill Copley); Ode to London, Dick Higgens; Two Drawings, Ronnie Landfield; Bush in Hand, Roland Penrose; The Father of Mona Lisa, Man Ray, signed and numbered; Glove, Enrico Baj; Four Titled Abstracts, Joseph Kosuth; Correspondence, H.C. Westerman; Signal Flag Poem, Hannah Weiner; Poppy Nogoods All Night Flight, Terry Riley; Poems, Atograf. Volume No. 4 August 1968 Untitled (cover), Robert Stanley; Drift Study 4:37:4:05:09:50 5 VII 68, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela; Permanent Parking Decal, Robert Watts; 100 Year Calendar, On Kawara; Lichtenstein Hat, Roy Lichtenstein; Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) continued, John Cage; Phenakistiscope, Hollis Frampton...

‘American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’ by Albert TenEyck Gardner. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1965. First Edition, 1st printing...