20th Century Books

Sotheby's: The Andy Warhol Collection Americana and European and American Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Vol. V, Friday, April 29 and Saturday,...

Colonial Ironwork in Old Philadelphia: The Craftsmanship of the Early Days of the Republic by Philip B. Wallace. Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1930. First Edition hardcover with dust jacket. "147 pages of detailed drawings and magnificent photographs show the craftsmanship of the early days of the Republic in the studies of gates, railings, lamps, locks, hinges, weathervanes, and all the beautiful things that were made by our forefathers." This illustrated tribute to Philadelphia's many well-preserved examples of colonial ironwork has 182 clear and fantastic, large B&W photographs and 41 measured drawings. These rendered ironworks appear in the railings and gates of churchyards, on the marble steps...

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...

Pair of First Edition Books, "Evolution of the Pedal Car," Volumes I & II, by Neil Wood. L W Publishing & Book Sales, 1992. First Edition softcovers. Filled with images and photos, descriptions, dimensions, and original values of child-size toy vehicles...

First edition hardcover, Arena Editions, 2001 A comprehensive monograph illustrating John Rawlings prolific and revered career in fashion photography. Lavish and cinematic, his wo...

The Japanese print: its evolution and essence Book by Muneshige Narazaki. "In this book the author attempts to place the Japanese print in a very broad historical setting. He has str...

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...

A Last Encore by Noel Coward Published by Little, Brown & Company, Boston 1973. First American Edition. The wit of Noel Coward's words alongside...

Vintage fishing book, golden days by Romilly Fedden A good 1949 (2nd edition) angling book by Romilly Fedden entitled 'Golden Days' and printed in Grea...

Christie's: Fine and Decorative Arts: The Maurice & Margo Cohen Collection. Important 20th Century Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture, New York, May 1999. 194 pp., illus. Works by Otto ...

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...

Published by Éditions Charles Moreau, 1998 Text by François Baudot, preface by Karl Lagerfeld. The distinctive designs of Gilbert Poillerat may be regarded as part of the Art D...

Meubles Usuels: Louis XVI by Jacques Mottheau. Libraire Centrale Des Beaux-arts, Paris, France. 36 B&W plates all printed on one sided heavy stock. On...

Richard Parkes Bonington 'On the Pleasure of Painting' by Patrick Noon. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 315 pp. A large book on the ...

Horn of Africa by Philip Caputo, signed, numbered, limited edition, specially bound #167/250. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1980. Oatmeal cloth ...

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....

Skinner's Horse by Philip Mason. Harper & Row, New York, 1979. Stated First American Edition hardcover with dust jacket. James Skinner, a half-caste officer in early 19th century Ind...

Cars: Tin Toy Dreams by Teruhisa Kitahara. Chronicle Books, 1985. First Edition softcover. Contains hundreds of full color and black and white illustrations from the T. Kitahara coll...

The Plutocrat by Booth Tarkington. Doubleday, Page and Co. Garden City, New York 1927. First Edition hardcover with dust jacket. The adventurous roman...

Sothebys May 1996 property from The Estate of Lita Annenberg Hazen. Softcover catalogue. Sotheby's sale of paintings, European furniture and decorative objects belonging to Lita Anne...

‘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...

Mr. Dooley at His Best. Edited by Elmer Ellis at the University of Missouri. With a Foreword by Franklin P. Adams. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition, 1st printing, one of 520 copies with one page of the author's original manuscript. Frontispiece portrait. 291 pp. Buckram and decorated boards with a leather label. Finley Peter Dunne (1867- 1936) was an American humorist and writer from Chicago. In 1898 Dunne published Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War, a collection of his nationally syndicated Mr. Dooley sketches. Speaking with the thick verbiage and accent of an Irish immigrant from County Roscommon, the fictional Mr. Dooley expounded upon political and social issues of the day from his South Side Chicago Irish pub...

Set of Six 1st Ed, Limited Ed and Signed Books on Lionel Toy Trains. 1. Greenberg's Guide to Lionel Trains by Bruce C. Greenberg, 1945-1969. Sykesville: G...

First Edition, published by Whitney Museum of Art and Pace Editions, New York, 1971. First and only edition, limited to 2000 copies. The Artist Lucas Samaras' celebrated first mono...

China from the West by David Howard and John Ayers. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications. First edition hard cover in two volumes with slip case, 1978. 1048 pp. A retrospective ...

A 2 volume set of books published in a limited edition of 2160 in 1955. By Sacheverell Sitwell & James Russell with 8 stunningly beautiful color reproductio...

American Furniture, the Federal Period by Charles F. Montgomery. New York: Crown Publishing, 1978. Hardcover with dust jacket. 496 pp. A large reference book on American federal period furniture...

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...

This is a wonderful collection of photographs taken by Lord Snowdon, who was one of the great portrait photographers of the 20th century. International fi...

Doll Kitchens, 1800-1980 by Eva Stille. Schiffer Pub Ltd, 1997. First edition paperback. Doll kitchens in Germany were originally a plaything. The Author ...

Irish Houses and Castles by Desmond Guinness and William Ryan. NY: The Viking Press, 1974. Hardcover with dust jacket. 352 pp. In this book Desmond Guiness, President of the Irish Ge...

1st Battalion Virginia Infantry 39th Battalion Virginia Cavalry 24th Battalion Virginia Partisan Rangers by Robert J. Driver and Kevin C. Ruffner. H. E. Howard, Lynchburg VA, 1996. 1...

Britten's Old Clocks And Watches And Their Makers by Granville Hugh Baillie. Bonanza Books, New York, 1956. 7th edition hardcover with dust jacket. A historical and descriptive account of the different styles of antique clocks and watches...

An exhibition catalogue of R.B. Kitaj's paintings and drawings from his 1995 Marlborough Gallery solo show. This is a beautiful monograph of his provocative and eccentric images repr...

Collecting antique metalware by Evan Perry. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, USA, 1974. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. With...

Guide to Russian Works of Art Paulson, by Paul and Maria Paulson. Self published, Washington D. C., 1980, by Apollo Books. 117 pp. softcover first edition. With black and white illus...

This is the important monograph on Guglielmo Ulrich which was published in 2009. With over 500 pages having 667 illustrations which include - color and black and white photographs as...

1) Sotheby's New York: European Works of Art, Tapestries, Furniture, English furniture and decorations, 2000. Softcover with 405 lots. 2) Sotheby's New Yo...

The Terror : The Return of Dr Palfrey by John Creasey. Walker and Company 1966, New York. 1st Ed hardcover. The story of the near-panic that strikes the world's governments when an u...

Sotheby's: The Roger Whittaker collection. Softcover auction catalogue. 152 pp. paintings, furniture and works of art collected by Roger Whittaker during his life as an international...

Sotheby's the collections of Hanns and Elisabeth Weinberg & the Antique Company of New York, November 2006. 468 pages, 738 lots of important Europe...

Cardboard cover titled 'Ethnographica in het Museum van het Bataviaasch Genootschap' including 12 plates of ethnographic items of Batavia including: 1) Carved door, from Talaga, Cheribon. 2) Carved door, from the Dewa-temple. 3) Achenese weapons. 4) Pouches for Sirih-Ingredients. 5) Bronze objects. 6) Bronze objects. 7) Large broad axes, made of bronze. 8) Details of the ornamentation of the axes. 9) Details of the ornamentation on the back of the axes. 10) Golden bowl...

Paintings drawings and sculpture in the Phoenix Art Museum collection by James Harithas, Compiler. Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 1965. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 226 pages. Of...

Candleholders in America, 1650-1900 by Joseph T. Butler. NY: Bonanza Books, 1967. First edition thus hardcover with dust jacket. 178 pp. 136 full-page photos of candlesticks, candela...

Color and light: Luminous atmospheres for painted rooms by Donald Kaufman. Clarkson Potter, New York, New York, 1999. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket....

The Work of William Lawrence Bottomley in Richmond. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1985. Signed by the author, first edition hardcover...

Chinese Export Porcelain, Standard Patterns and Forms, 1780-1880 by Herbert, Peter, and Nancy Schiffer. West Chester: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1975. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacke...

Henri Rousseau dit Le Douanier by Jean-Marie Lo Duca, Paris. Paris: Syndicat de la Propriété Artistique, 1951. 1 first edition softcover portfolio. Unpaginated. Portfolio of work by ...

First edition, published by Høst & Søns Forlag København, 1954 An important document of Danish chair design during the early 1950s, showing many of the aesthetic and technological...

Produced in 1959 this catalogue in sort covers introduced what was then "Dunbar's new executive office collection" which had been designed by Edward Wormley. The introduction states...

Sotheby’s fine English furniture decorations and carpets including property of the Late Perry Ellis, New York, June 1987. 234 lots in color and b & w. NPT Books a division of N.P. Tr...

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...

"IL MOBILE EMILIANO"book by Luisa Bandera. Novara: Istituto Geografico De Agostini, 1997. Reprint from 1972 edition hardcover with dust jacket. Hardcover with dust jacket. 203 pp. It...

Van Dongen et le Fauvisme (Van Dongen and Fauvisme.) Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts Lausanne, 1971. First edition hardcover with dust jacket and slip case. A beautiful book on Kees ...

This is an extremely rare bound set of the 12 ART, GOUT, BEAUTE monthly fashion magazines from 1924. It was noted or its superb art deco pochoir illustrations, some of which were dou...

John Marin by John Marin. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1970. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. A look at this important American artist. Edited by Cleve Gray. Includes numero...

Two books in soft covers housed in a brown cloth covered slip case with cream lettering. One volume illustrates Louis Vuitton products through the years, the second illustrates the "...

Extremely rare set of Georges Braque archives maquettes books and lithographs created with the publisher 'Au Vent d'Arles', Paris. The set is composed with: - L'Ordre des Oiseaux (...