New York: 1906. 8vo. 2 pages, approximately 150 words, in part: "Give me a chance to get at it this winter & advance me part of the payment for these fearsome days at the end of the year & I will do them both for $1000." Particularly noted for his..... More
Washington, DC: Library of Congress Preservation Office Research Services, 1981. First edition. 4to. vii, 31 pp. Line drawings, diagrams. "Mats not only provide protection and support; they also impose a standard size and format upon a wide range or materials, provide a safe, yet intimately connected surface for annotation, and..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1931. First edition, 1/400 copies signed by each of the 16 contributors. 4to. x, (2), 326, (4) pp. Plates, some in color, double-page color map of the South Carolina low country. The South Carolina low country as portrayed by the leading writers, poets, and artists of the..... More
Romae: np, 1627. Green vellum, rebacked in green leather with gilt stamped title, and the last coat of arms of J.A. de Thou (7 quarterings), bearing the motto "Mane Nobiscum Domine," on the front and rear boards. 22 cm. Engraved title page and 45 engraved plates, printed on rectos only..... More
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[Meredith Village, NH: ca.1857]. Original drawing book belonging to W.W. Stevens, with approx. 18 pages of illustrations and sketches in pen & ink, pencil, and watercolor, many with political content, plus 2 small watercolors laid in. Light green stitched paperwraps, 22 x 28 cm. Sketches protected by tissue guards of..... More
New York: The editor, 1912. First edition of this issue, No. 37. Small 4to (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches). 48 pp. 9 portrait photogravures; 12 pages of ads for business related to photography. This issue devoted to the work of the 19th-century British photographer David O. Hill (1802-1870), whose..... More
(Boston, MA): Boston Public Library in co-operation with Barre Publishers, (c1974). First edition, 1/100 specially bound copies that include a signed original lithograph by Wengenroth. 4to. 295 pp. Marginal vignettes, 344 illustrations for the lithographs made by Wengenroth from 1931 through 1972, illustrated endpapers. Wengenroth (1906-1908), a native New Yorker..... More
[Washington, DC?]: 1961. Artist's sketchbook containing six original drawings for cartoons depicting political topics of note in 1961: a split amongst the Teamsters (1), the newly inaugurated D.C. Stadium (2), The Common Market (1), the Berlin Wall (1), and Nuclear Bomb Tests by Russia (1). Three of the drawings, 8..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, (c1984). First edition. 4to. 216 pp. Mostly illustrations, plates. "Published in conjunction with he first comprehensive retrospective of Penn's work … identified by its great refinement of craft, by the wit and grace of its formal invention, and by its unequaled sensitivity to the..... More
NY: Published by N. Currier, 152 Nassau Street, 1856. Hand colored lithograph, painted by A.F. Tait, and lithographed by L[ouis] Maurer (his signature on the plate) for N. Currier's New York firm. 52 x 68 cm. A couple of shallow chips along the margins, not affecting image; professionally cleaned, a...... More
Original pen-and-ink drawing, 12 x 9 3/4 inches, signed by the illustrator in the lower left corner, "H. Thomson 07," with various shades of blue, brown, yellow, and flesh-tone wash coloring. Pictured as a full-color plate (as in this drawing, but not as vibrant) opposite page 238 in "Silas Marner"..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949. 4to. xiii. 285pp. 168pp unpagenated with 413 illustrations, including one foldout. Hardback with black cloth boards. Title in gold lettering on spine. This is an odd volume in very good condition. More
Berlin: Rembrandt Verlag, 1968. Quarto. Limited to 200 copies. This being number 168. Original black cloth with artist's name and book title in black on pink label on front cover. Six color and six black & white original screenprints on arches paper. Text in German. Bright copy. Trökes was a...... More
Baton Rouge, (LA): LSU Press, (c1972). First edition. 4to. xviii, 142 pp. Illustrated from photographs and paintings, plates, frontispiece and 26 in color. Very good. Red-stamped light brown cloth, color illustrated dust jacket. (10421). More
New York: Brentano's, 1928. 1 of 2500 copies. 8vo.; xv, 269 pp. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts by the author. Illustrated endpapers [previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown]. Brown stamped mustard yellow cloth; small illustration of a cat on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket (spine darkened; small chips to corners, spine..... More
[Charleston, SC]: The artist, nd [ca. 1950]. Copyrighted reproduction, 16 x 12 inches, glazed and in a simple black frame. Trying to meet demand for her work in the 1940s, Verner made reproductions of some of her etchings, selling them signed, as here (cf. Stan Shelley profile on BlueRidgeNow.com online)..... More
Columbia, SC: Bostick & Thornley, (c1945). Second edition (first published in 1939). 4to. (25) pp. Frontispiece and 47 plates, each with facing text. Label removed from endpaper, but a good solid copy. Original gilt-stamped two-ton cloth (rubbed and a little soiled, spine ends show some wear). (10420). More
1975. Oil painting on canvas, 17 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches, the palate bright but carefully modulated. In a two-inch wide oak frame. Fine condition but for one tiny chip from a patch of impasto (in a distant highrise). Walker (1921-1993) was a self-taught African-American artist, born in Kentucky but..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1972). First edition. Folio. 230 pp. Profusely illustrated from Bearden's artwork, plates, some folding, many in color, portrait frontispiece. "[Bearden's] visual idiom involves montage and collage elements in combination with forms and styles that echo those of African sculpture, and is orchestrated by a deft..... More
[June - August, 1974]. Sixteen well executed sketches, 14 x 17 in., on plain drawing paper, removed from an artist's sketchpad, depicting various phases of the cases brought in 1974,related to Watergate, including United States v. Nixon. Most of the drawings are signed and dated by Davies, and she has..... More
NP: 1972. Original signed watercolor, 6 1/2 x 5 inches, matted (7 1/2 x 6 inches), glazed and framed; additionally inscribed by the artist below the portrait "To Eve and Pete / With love! / Milt." With the artist's note of presentation, "Eve &Pete / At long last - /..... More
nd (ca.1859). "Drawn on the spot and in colors by C.H. Wells. Printed in oil colors by F. Collins." A wood engraving, colored, of George Washington's home Mount Vernon, shown from its river side, approx. 19.5 x 21.5 in., matted, glazed and framed. Upper corners of the image are curved..... More
(Salisbury, England): Harpvale, (c1984). First edition. 4to. 216 pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs of Frink sculptures, color plates. Front endpaper inscribed by Frink in 1985; Christmas card featuring an illustration of a Frink sculpture, inscribed by her, laid in. Very good. Tan cloth, color illustrated dust jacket, publisher's cloth slipcase. (#5130)..... More
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Charleston, SC: The artist, 1908 and 1910. Oblong folio. 24 watercolor sketches on card stock, each 4 ¾ x 6 ¾ inches and signed by the artist, each mounted to a larger sheet with a pen-and-ink lettered title on tissue bound ahead of the painting. With the bookplate of H.C...... More
Boston, (MA): Little, Brown, 1931. First edition, 1/425 copies. 4to. xxii, 243 pp. Profusely illustrated, plates. Describes 621 lithographs. Fine copy in a worn box. Original quarter-calf and cloth, gilt spine title, t.e.g., dust jacket, publisher's two-part box, with printed paper label (stained) on upper part (corners cracked, sides repaired). (#5222)..... More
