American Books

Two catalogues on the furniture of Georgia. 1.) Neat Pieces, The Plain-Style Furniture of 19th Century Georgia. Atlanta: Atlanta Historical Society, 1983. First edition softcover. 20...

Mediterranean Design hardcover – August 17, 2006. by Mary Whitesides (Author). Title: Mediterranean Design Publisher: brand: Gibbs Smith Publication date: 2006 Binding: Hardcover Great hardcover coffee table book. Mediterranean Design reveals the vibrant color, outdoor-living emphasis, and diverse cultural influences that have created this unique style. Defined by an eclectic mix of natural elements: sunlight bouncing across textured walls, rooms arranged around porch-lined courtyards, terra-cotta tile roofs covering wood-beam ceilings, arched passages and porticos, vibrantly colored interiors, and courtyards and fountains that take advantage of the temperate climate. Mediterranean Design brings home the romantic and worldly appeal of a style that finds its heritage in the diverse lands of Morocco, Spain, Greece, Turkey, France, and Croatia. Mediterranean Design highlights the unique aspects of the style, such as spatial orientation of the rooms is defining and private vestibules and porches rather than hallways connecting functional spaces, bedrooms as suites rather than lonely rooms, bathrooms as spas rather than generic or merely functional rooms. Details such as arches, pillars, high ceilings, fountains, gardens, pergolas, lime-washed walls, stone façades...

Early Netherlandish painting it's origins and character by Erwin Panofsky, Volume 1 and 2. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First Icon editio...

1 Volume. Emil Ludwig. Lincoln. With Woodcuts by Alice D. Laughlin. Signed Limited Edition. Bound in 3/4 blue morocco by Bennett, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, raised...

Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First edition, first printing. Octavo. In original blue cloth boards, stamped in white. In the original unclipped dust jacket. Presented with a new archival ¼ leather and cloth clamshell. Presented is the first edition, first printing of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. Catch-22 was published by Simon and Schuster, in October of 1961. This book is presented in the original publisher’s blue cloth boards, titled and embossed in white, and the original, unclipped dust-jacket. The Simon and Schuster “A Note to the Reader” postcard is laid in. The book comes with a new, archival ¼ leather and cloth clamshell. Catch-22 was Joseph Heller’s first novel and his most acclaimed work. Set during World War II, the novel uses a unique, non-chronological third-person narration, mainly focusing on the life of a B-25 bombardier in the U.S. Army, Captain John Yossarian, and his attempts to avoid bombing runs. Both the title and plot device, “Catch-22” refers to an Air Forces regulation which asserts that a man is considered insane if he willingly agrees to fly dangerous combat missions, but that if he makes the formal request to be relieved of such missions, the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved." By the end of the novel, the phrase is invoked as the explanation for many unreasonable restrictions. “Catch-22” has since entered the English lexicon. Heller spent eight years writing "Catch-22," and used his own war experiences as inspiration for the novel. From 1942 to 1945, Heller served as a combat bombardier in the Twelfth Air Force and was stationed on the Island of Corsica. Upon publication, the book was not an immediate bestseller, but did elicit glowing reviews from some. “Wildly original, brilliantly comic, brutally gruesome, it is a dazzling performance that will probably outrage nearly as many readers as it delights. In any case, it is one of the most startling first novels of the year and it may make its author famous” (Orville Prescott, New York Times). It became a publishing sensation thanks to the 1962 paperback edition, which set record sales and benefitted from the national debate surrounding the Vietnam War. In the decades since, it has inspired a feature film, a miniseries, a 50-character stage play, and sold more than 10 million...

This is the FIRST edition, FIRST printing of Gertrude Stein's (1874-1946) FIRST published book and is from the FIRST issue of 700 copies, with a further 300 copies exported to Britai...

Cheloniidae Press - Kinney, Arthur F. (texts); Alan James Robinson (ill.). The Birds and Beasts of Shakespeare. Easthampton, Massachusetts: Chelo...

Earhart, Amelia. 20 Hrs. 40 Min. Our Flight in the Friendship. New York: G. P. Putnam's and Sons, 1928. First trade edition. Signed on the free endpage. Rebound in maroon ¼ leather a...

Pre-Columbian Art, New York: Phaidon Publishers, Inc., 1957. First edition hardcover with skip case. 285 pp. A vintage book cataloguing Robert Woods Blis...

AUTHOR: DODGSON, Charles L. (Lewis Carroll) (Salvador Dali - illustrator). TITLE: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. PUBLISHER: NY: Maecenas Press - Random House, 1969. DESCRIPTIO...

Symbols of Islam by Malek Chebel. Published by Assouline Publishing (2001) A visual synthesis of the Arab-Islamic world, which continues to grow and gain a global presence. Provides meaning, history, and cultural significance to twenty-two Islamic symbols taken from its doctrine and architecture. Over 13 centuries...

Frank Lloyd Wright Schumacher wallcovering books catalogue reference 1986-1999 - ‘Prints inspired by nature’ Anyone with an ounce of interest i...

Chihuly Black, by Dale Chihuly, Dedicated to: Anne Gould Hauberg. Published by Chihuly Workshop, 2008. 1st Ed hardcover. Anne Gould Hauberg (November 13, 1917 – April 11, 2016) was an American civic activist, philanthropist, and patroness of the arts. In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly co-founded the Pilchuck Glass...

Sotheby's New York: Property From the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra Volume III, November 4, 2005. First Edition softcover catalogue on European Furniture and Fine & Decorativ...

Joyce, James. Ulysses. New York: Random House, 1934. First Authorized American Edition. Octavo. In publisher’s original red and black stamped cream cloth boards, original first issue printed dust jacket, and a custom folding slipcase. Presented is a first authorized American edition of Ulysses, a modernist novel by James Joyce. The book was published in New York by Random House, in 1934. It is presented in its original red and black stamped cream cloth boards, original first issue printed dust jacket, and a custom folding slipcase. James Joyce originally conceived of Ulysses as a short story to be included in Dubliners, but decided to publish it as a long novel instead. Ulysses takes place on a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, and follows three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly Bloom. Divided into 18 episodes, Joyce drastically shifts narrative style with each new episode, completely abandoning the previously accepted notions of plot, setting, and characters. It is considered by many to be the paramount in Modernist literature. Ulysses has a very interesting publishing history, with at least 18 editions and numerous variations of each edition. It was first serialized in the American journal The Little Review...

AUTHOR: MILLER, Arthur. TITLE: Danger: Memory. PUBLISHER: NY: Grove Press, 1987. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED. 1 vol., 8-1/4" x 5-1/2", inscribed by Miller on the title-p...

French Folk Art by Jean Cuisenier. New York: Kodansha International Ltd., 1977. Stated First English edition hardcover with dust jacket. 310 pp. A larg...

Tulips, Arabesques and Turbans: Decorative Arts from the Ottoman Empire by Yanni Petsopoulos. Abbeville Press, 1982. First Edition hardcover no dust jacket. The author analyzes the p...

Adam Fuss: Mask by Adam Fuss and Peter Lamborn Wilson. Published by Baldwin Gallery, 2005. 1st Ed hardcover with slipcase exhibition catalog. The photograms ...

Corot: Women by Mary Morton. Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 2018. 1st Ed exhibition catalog for Exhibition dates, National Gallery of Art, Washington, September 9-Dec...

AUTHOR: CAPOTE, Truman. TITLE: The Grass Harp. PUBLISHER: NY: Random House, 1951. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., 8-3/8" x 5-3/8", inscribed on the front bl...

Design darlings Cortney and Robert Novogratz tackle a long list of design dilemmas and offer scores of smart tips on how to solve them. Well known to their fans through their seve...

Catalogue of Property from the Collection of Henry P. McIlhenny, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, May 20 & 21, 1987. Published by Christie's, NY. S...

Faberge Eggs Imperial Russian Fantasies Softcover Book. Near Fine-very. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,1995. 'Fabergé Eggs - Imperial Russian Fantasies'. Elephant Folio, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 68 pp. A visually sumptuous presentation of the famous - and very rare Fabergé Eggs...

Two Georgia O'Keeffe softcover books. A Woman on Paper, published in 1988, 294 pages. The Poetry of Things, published in 1999, 158 pages.

An Uncensored anthology gathered from many questionable sources. Illustrated by Joseph Wynn. Published by The Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York, 1939. The only copy in leat...

Gauguin book by The Metropolitan Museum of art published in conjunction with the 2002 exhibition "Gauguin in New York Collections: The Lure of the Exotic". Softcover. Text in English...

Jewels in her crown treasures from the Special Collections of Columbia's Libraries, Introduction by Jean Ashton. Columbia University, 2004. 1st Ed softcover exhibition catalog. ewels...

A catalogue of engraved views, plans, etc., Of New York City, (The Collection of Percy R. Pyne II). Privately Printed by The De Vinne Press, New York, 1912. Limited to 100 copies. Gr...

Steven Art & Antiques Auction Catalog Dec. 2015. Pasadena California. Featuring a large collection of Chinese Art , collectible snuff bottles, jade wine cups, Tibetan art, porcelain ...

Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition of Colonial and Early Federal Furniture, Portraits and Glass 1929, by American Art Galleries. Published by American Art Gallerie...

Satire Against Husbands by J. F. Regnard,. Hardcover 1954 1st Edition. Mylar jacket has been added at later date.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Circa 1945 - Rare Vintage Edition. Vintage Book Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll with Illustrations by John Tennel Children's Cl...

The Pleasure of His Company by Paul B. Fay Jr. 1st edition hardcover printed in 1963. Protective Mylar dust jacket has been added.

AUTHOR: CAIN, James M. TITLE: Serenade. PUBLISHER: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., inscribed on the front blank endleaf “To...

Wedgwood, a Living Tradition by John Meredith Graham II and Hensleigh Cecil Wedgwood. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and the Brooklyn Museum, 1948. Limited first e...

People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures: Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835 – by Myrna Schkolne. First Edition 2006, limited to a run of 1000. The first comprehensive collectors’ r...

Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1929. First American Edition. Octavo. In the publisher's original gray buckram boards, titl...

AUTHOR: MILLER, Arthur. TITLE: Arthur Miller's Collected Plays. Volume II. PUBLISHER: NY: Viking Press, 1981. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION SIGNED. 1 vol., 8-1/2" x 6-1/8", SIGNED b...

A collection of five hard-bound history of furniture styles and makers reference books full of color photos and illustrations. Covering Early American, New Hampshire Seacoast, Shaker, and Contemporary American Woodworkers. Contemporary American Woodworkers by Michael A. Stone. Gibbs M. Smith Inc. 1986. 165 pages Fine Points of Furniture, Early American by Albert Sack. Crown Publishers 1993. 320 pages. American Antiques Encyclopedia...

Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, by Andrew Robinson and Margaret Morgan Grasselli. From exhibition at National Gallery of ...

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Britton: Christie's, New York: Saturday 16 January 1999. Hardcover with dust jacket. Auction catalog of American Furniture and Decorative Arts fro...

Over-sized hardback coffee table book with dust jacket titled THE ARTIST AND THE CAMERA: Degas to Picasso by Dorothy Kosinski. Published in 1999 by Dallas Museum of Art. Beautifully illustrated with vintage black and white photographs and color reproductions. Dust jacket has moderate scuffing/scratches. Synopsis: Artists discovered and explored the artistic and practical applications of photography at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. This stunning book explores the highly individual ways some of the most influential artists of the period put this wondrous new medium” to use in their painting and sculpture and shows how they enfolded photographs into their creative processes. Paintings, sculpture, and photographs by such artists as Bonnard, Brancusi, Degas, Gauguin, Khnopff, Moreau, Mucha, Munch, Picasso, Rodin, Rosso, Vallotton, von Stuck, and Vuillard are discussed and reproduced. The book also includes an array of photographs by great masters (Steichen, Nadar, Muybridge) and lesser-known figures. About the Author: Dorothy Kosinski is the Barbara Thomas...

An attractive fifteen volumes of the limited edition Bankside Shakespeare, edited by Appleton Morgan, and uniformly bound in half calf. One of 500 limited edition copies of the Bank...

Christie's: Important European Furniture, Works of Art, Ceramics and Carpets in eluding the Property of Moillie Wilmot. First edition auction catalog, 338 lots all in color and fully...

Presenting a gloriously rare book …. The Return of Tarzan First Edition by Edgar Rice Burroughs Grosset & Dunlap 1st Edition. First edition. Il...

The Precious Legacy, Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collections. Softcover book, edited by David Altshuler, published in 1983, illustrated, 288 pages.

Jiha Moon Double Welcome, Most Everyone's Mad Here, by Mark Sloan, Amy Moorefield & Lilly Wei. Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, 2016. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. Exhibition Dates: January 21—April 30, 2017. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Jiha Moon (Korean, born 1973) harvests cultural elements native to Korea, Japan, and China and then unites them with Western elements to investigate the multi-faceted nature of our current global identity as influenced by popular culture, technology, racial perceptions and folklore. Featuring over 50 works, Moon blurs the lines between Western and Eastern identified iconography such as the characters from the online game Angry Birds and smart phone Emojis which float alongside Asian tigers...

Christie's: April 2004 Important English Furniture including Property from the Estate of Halsted B. Vander Poel. New York, first edition catalog with 298 lots all photo’d in color an...

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. Printed Cambridge: Metcalf and Company. Second edition...

2 Volumes, Campan, Jeanne L.H. Memoirs Of The Private Life Of Marie Antoinette. With Illustrations. Bound in full orange morocco, ornate gilt on covers and spines, top edges gilt, ra...

AUTHOR: BEMENT, Austin F. TITLE: A Complete and Official Road Guide of the Lincoln Highway. PUBLISHER: Detroit, MI: The Lincoln Highway Assoc, Inc., 1924. DESCRIPTION: FIFTH EDIT...

Texas Furniture: The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840-1880, by David B. Warren and Lonn Taylor. University of Texas Press 1975. Pre-publication first...

French Eighteenth Century Furniture by Genevieve Souchal. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1961. 128 pp.; 127 illustrations, including thirty...

Small Houses: Contemporary Residential Architecture by Nicholas Pople. Universe Publishing, 2003. Paperback. Small houses are no longer thought of as cheap...

Louis Comfort Tiffany Masterworks Hardcover Book by Bedoyere D. E. La Camilla.Louis Comfort Tiffany was highly skilled in jewellery design, as well as ceramics, enamels, and metalwor...

The Grandeur of Viceregal Mexico; Treasures from the Museo Franz Mayer. Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 2002. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. Spanish and English text. 36...

English Furniture A.D. 43 - 1950 by Edward T. Joy. Published by Arco Pub. Co. NY. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 84 pp with 200 monochrome illustrations and archive photographs t...