20th Century Books

Portfolio of Art Deco and early modernist Paris shops and boutiques, showing both interiors and exteriors, edited by Roger Poulain and published by Vincent Freal et Cie (Paris) in 1929. 72 (of 72) loose plates plus checklist enclosed in graphically striking printed paper-covered boards with ribbon ties. Includes projects by Eugene Printz, Claude Levy...

1. Clear As Crystal, Red As Flame: Later Chinese Glass, by Claudia Brown, Donald Rabiner. Natural History, University of Washington Press, 1990. Gloriously colored Chinese glass arti...

This is a soft covered exhibition catalogue which was produced in 1992 by Galerie Pierre Passebon and Galerie du Passage of an exhibition of 33 pieces designed and created by Argentinian designer Marcial Berro...

Sotheby's, Jewels, Watches and the Costume Jewelry Collection of Mrs. James W. Alsdorf. This post auction catalog consists of 111 pages with 549 lots all illustrated in color and B&W...

Rare limited numbered boxed portfolio for the "Art and Architecture of Bruce Goff" exhibit. Yellowstone Art Center. Billings, Montana 1978. Number 366/1500....

The story of American Furniture by Thomas Hamilton Ormsbee. New York: The Macmillion Company, 1941. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A comprehensive resource book on America antique 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...

Summer Cottages and Castles, Scenes from the Good Life by Patricia Corbin. New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc., 1983. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 139 pp. Photographic overview ...

Published in 2010, this is the much anticipated book on the life and career of Signe Sornay, with text in English and French. The book was published by Galerie Alain Marcelpoil who a...

Visages de la danse indienne. Introduction par Tara Michaël. Mazeran, Alain: Theater, music and dance constituted in ancient India the different aspect...

The Universal Story: The Complete History of the Studio and Its 2,641 Films by Clive Hirschhorn. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Crown Publishers Inc., New York, USA, 1987....

Mobilier Savoyard et Dauphinois by Lucile Olivier. Paris: Èditions Ch. Massin, 1976, French text. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 80 pp. The book illustrates the beds, seat...

The United Artists Story, by Ronald Bergan. Crown Publishers, New York, 1986. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with Brodart covered dust jacket. This book tells the fascinating story of "the ...

New York Nude, a photographic essay by Charles R. Collum. NY: Watson-Guptill publications. First edition hardcover with dust jacket, 1981. 128 pp. A collection of nude portraits capt...

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 ...

Oriental Art at Auction, 1st Ed Presentation Copy, Robert Eldred August 1973. Red leather bound with gilt highlights. Presented to the consignor with a...

Sotheby's Catalog: Americana from the Collection of M. Austin and Jill R. Fine, January 30, 1987. First edition softcover with 196 lots photographed in color and B&W and fully descri...

Property from the Collection of the Late Gilbert Verney: At Bennington, New Hampshire, Including Property Removed from His Residence on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Softcover fir...

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...

One of the world’s great architects, Frank O. Gehry has produced an astonishing body of work. With the artistry of a sculptor and the brilliant articulation of an engineer, Gehry creates constructions that defy categorization. Over three hundred projects and a thousand illustrations — includes, among others, the controversial American Center in Paris; Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis; Nationale-Nedelanden Building (Fred and Ginger Building) in Prague; Vitra Headquarters in Weil am Rhein, Germany; California Aerospace Museum; Loyola Law School in Los Angeles; Chiat Day...

'Japan, The Place and the People' by G.W. Browne. Illustrated with over 300 colored plates and half-tones. 438p., col. map, num. (col.) plates and ills., orig. gilt cl., sm. 4to. Par...

Get down with such legends as Marvin Gaye, Earth Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, The Jacksons, Diana Ross, James Brown, and Chaka Khan in this col...

Adamski, George. Inside the Space Ships. New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1955. Signed first edition, third printing. Original dust jacket. Housed in custom slipc...

Mr. Punch's Motor Book, London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1931. First edition hardcover with no dust jacket as issued. 99 pp. A humorous book of comics taken from Punch; or The London Ch...

Published in 2008, this is an exhibition catalogue from the Galerie Christine Diegoni which illustrates many of his most famous lighting designs....

American Iconology, New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. Hardcover with dust jacket. 344 pp. Overview of the "sister arts"...

Antiques At Home by Barbara Milo Ohrbach. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. Publishers, 1989. Stated first edition hardcover with dust jacket. 246 pp. Guid...

Mobilier Vendeen Aunis Saintonge by Lucile Olivier. Paris: Èditions Ch. Massin. French text. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 80 pp. The book illustrates the beds, seating, tables,...

H.M. Tomlinson "The Sea and The Jungle" First Edition with woodcuts by Clare Leighton, circa 1930 Rare First Edition. Very good condition. Fantastic woodcuts by noted artist Clare...

A beautifully produced book which is on handmade paper and is a limited edition of only 3000 copies, this is numbered 2294. Hardback covers with black silk in a presentation clam shell box...

Large hardback book in slipcase, 685 pages lavishly illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs. This book is the most complete overview of the more than sevent...

Sotheby's: The West Wycombe Park Sale June 1998.First Edition softcover with 1442 lots photographed in color and fully described, with results. This house was the site of some filming of Downtown Abbey...

The Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum by Alice Winchester and Joseph Downs. The Magazine Antiques, 1951. First Edition hardcover. A classic work from the...

The Leverhulme collection: Thornton Manor, Wirral Merseyside, Volume One and Two, 26, 27, 28 June 2001. London: Sotheby's, 2001. Softcover. Volume one 325 lots on 431 pp., Volume two 961 lots on 701 pp. All lots photographed in color and fully described. Fine Art and antiques that were collected by the Lever family, one of Britain’s most prominent and philanthropic dynasties of industrialists. Includes highly important English Furniture and part of his celebrated collection of 19th century British Paintings. Also includes Old Master and early British Pictures...

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 Cinema: One Hundred Years of Filmmaking by Jeanine Basinger. Rizzoli International Publications, NY, 1994. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. "This book was published to com...

Lambeth Stoneware; The Woolley Collection, including Doulton Ware and products of other British Potteries, by Rhoda Edwards. London Borough of Lambet...

Antique map titled 'Brazil Railway Company'. This folding map is attached to the booklet titled 'The Brazil Railway Company'. It is a memorandum by A. H. A. Knox-Little, who was the ...

Collection de M. Henry Clarke Vendue au Profit de L’Institut Pasteur. 1st Ed softcover. With results. 112pp. with 480 lots in color.  

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

The Jingguantang Collection Part III fine and important Chinese ceramics and Works of Art, Christie’s; New York September 18, 1997. First edition soft...

The New Clay: Techniques and Approaches to Jewelry Making. A wonderful book, with over 100 color photos, on making intricate beads and jewelry using modeling clays such as "Fimo" and "Sculpey." Everything you need to know to work with the new polymer clays is covered clearly in this book. Excellent working diagrams show how easy it is to make the most complex looking designs. One of the first books...

Tennis Flicker Book, No.8. Betty Nuthall demonstrates the Drop Volley and Service. Published by SLAZENGERS, Ltd., London. On the rear page of this flicker book is an advert for Sugg Sports Goods, Sheffield, Hull and Nottingham, circa 1930. Produced by Flicker Productions Ltd., 113b Earl's Court Road, London, SW5, phone Frobisher 3277 Flickers teach the game. The sports covered in the first series are as follows:- Cricket Don Bradman...

The Genius of Charles James exhibition catalogue by Elizabeth Ann Coleman. Book accompanied the 1982 Brooklyn Museum show. Soft cover first edition.

“John Heartfield”. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1992. First Edition hardcover with dust jacket. 342 pp. Exhibition catalogue published ...

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

Fine Jewels and Watches. Sotheby's Sale 7312, Los Angeles, May 4, 1999. Sotheby's, LA, 1999. First Edition soft cover. 208pp, 495 lots photographed in color, with results. Includes t...

Mobillier de Haute Normandie by Édith Mannoni. Paris: Èditions Ch. Massin. French text. First Editon hardcover with dust jacket. 93 pp. The book illustrat...

This catalogue was issued in conjunction with a 1997 exhibition of furniture designs created by Edward Wormley. In yellow and brown illustrated wraps, with 76 pages showing 75 items ...

Thirty-one volumes. First published in 25 volumes but eventually grew to 31 volumes as Kipling continued to write. Signed by Ruyard Kipling in volume one on the front title p...

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...

French Furniture of the 18th century by Pierre Verlet and Penelope Hunter-Stiebel (Translator). University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1991. First edition thus hardcover ...

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...

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 ...

History of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry Which Was Recruited and Known as the Anderson Cavalry in the Rebellion of 1861-1865 by Charles H. Kirk. Reprint of the 1906 or...

American neoclassic sculpture, the Marble Resurrection by William H. Gerdts. New York: The Viking Press, 1973. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 160 pp. Overview of American neoclas...

The Georgian House by Steven Parissien. London: Aurum Press Limited, 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket. 240 pp. A book on the architecture of the English Georgian house that claims th...

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...