Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo, 1980. Hardcover. Octavo size, inscribed by Glenn Opitz. This volume an expanded version, printed in 1980, of an original work done by J. Collins published in 1973. "There is, of course, more to 'Women Artists in America' than the convenience of a biographical listing. While such a...... More
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995-2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (covering 650 CE to 1250 CE), quarto size, 723 pp., second volume in slipcase. The symmetry and beauty of Islamic art and architecture has been admired for centuries; these two volumes, while published separately, are being offered as a...... More
Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1998. Kent, Rockwell; Muniak, Susan (Photography). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 96 pp., inscribed by Scott Ferris and Ellen Pearce. Inscribed by co-author and Kent specialist Scott R. Ferris to Riette Kahn, who with her husband, Albert, is mentioned on page 86 of the book..... More
Paris / New York: Goupil & Co., Jean Boussoud, Manzi, Joyant & Co., Successor, 1900. Lawrence, Thomas. Limited Edition. Leather. Number 66 of 200 copies, elephant folio size, 191 pp. Limited edition of 200 copies, this no. 66, specially bound in full leather by Bickers & Son, London. Sir Thomas..... More
New York: [Printed by the De Vinne Press], 1904. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio size, one of 350 copies (unnumbered), presentation copy, inscribed in 1923 by Archer M. Huntington. Archer M[ilton] Huntington (1870-1955) was a lifelong friend of the arts and philanthropist; known for his scholarly works in..... More
Basauri: (Grafilur, Impresion y Encuadernacion (Printing and Binding), 1990. Ibarrola, Agustin. Hardcover. Quarto size, 118 pp., inscribed by Agustin Ibarrola, in Spanish and Basque. A catalogue of an exhibit of the work of Spanish Basque painter and sculptor Agustin Ibarrola (b. 1930), known for his work expressing commitment to both..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., [1980]. Klimt, Gustav. Hardcover. Elephant folio size, [92] pp., illustrated, in clamshell box with original shipping carton. A selection of erotic drawings by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), published from a private collection focused on the nude female form, most in frankly erotic poses. Klimt began..... More
[Oakland, California]: The Oakland Museum Art Department, 1973. Soft cover. Oblong octavo, 105 pp. A documentation, through interviews taken with leading Bay Area artists, of the pioneering era of San Francisco Abstract Expressionism. Artists interviewed for the book include Adolph ("Ad") Reinhardt (1913-1967), abstract painter active in New York beginning..... More
New York: A Studio Book, The Viking Press, c. 1959. Picasso, Pablo. Hardcover. Octavo size, 143 pp., in a custom binding. A handsome, austere custom binding of half leather, with the backstrip and fore-edges of leather over black paper boards. Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) was not only an extremely prolific..... More
New York: The Viking Press, (1981). Hardcover. Quarto size, 800 pp., with original publisher's mailing box. Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) was a German-Jewish artist; born in Berlin, she fled Nazi Germany to live in the south of France, where she produced the 769 gouaches in "Life or Theater?". The book is..... More
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San Francisco: Printed by The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1959-1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Vols.1 and 3 limited to 400 copies; 2 and 4 limited to 450 copies, four volumes, folio size, all with original prospectuses laid in. Edwin Grabhorn (1889-1968), along with his brother, Robert, founded..... More
![Hiroshige; Meisho Edo hyakkei-Honderd beroemde aanzichten van Edo [100 Views of Edo]. Melanie...](/pictures/thumb/17111201_1.JPG?v=1568587864)
Germany: Taschen, 2010. Hiroshige. Sewn binding. Folio size, 272 pp., illustrated in colour, text in German. A beautiful re-issuing from the Ota Museum of Art, Tokyo, of this famous series of ukiyo-e prints by Hiroshige (1797-1858), featuring 100 views of Edo. Ukiyo-e or "pictures of the floating world" were usually..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed at the Grabhorn Press], 1965. Utamaro, Kitagawa. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 450 copies, folio size, [36] pp., with prospectus. The Book Club of California's publication for Christmas 1965. Presents the pictures of Kitagawa Utamaro (1783-1806), an eighteenth-century Japanese artist that dealt..... More
[New York], Printed in Verona: The Limited Editions Club, Printed at Stamperia Valdonega, 1966. Kredel, Fritz; Vasari, Giorgio. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, quarto size, 750 pp., signed by book designer Giovanni Mardersteig, with Monthly LEC Newsletter. Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer, and historian..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1993). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, oblong quarto size, 481 pp. In this volume, "Joseph Viscomi drastically revises our understanding of William Blake as he explores the technology behind the Illuminated Books. By using facsimiles created in his own studio, Viscomi, an experienced printmaker, offers the..... More
![Weltgeschichte [World History]. Prof. Dr von Pflugk-Harttung, Julius](/pictures/thumb/17061702_1.JPG?v=1565638806)
Berlin: Ullstein & Co, 1907-1910. Hardcover. Six volumes (complete), quarto size, in German. German historian Julius von Pflugk-Harttung (1848-1919), best known as an authority on Papal and mediaeval history, wrote this expansive six-volume set on the history of art around the world, copiously illustrated with photographs, maps, and facsimiles, some..... More