Attic Red-Figured Vases A Survey
by Richter, Gisela M.A.
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Very good in chipped dust wrapper. 221 pages. 125 figures in the text. Extensive Bibliography. General Index. Museum Index. Primary stress has been given the vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The author includes new material from that of her two-volume catalogue,... Read More
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Posters Of The Nineteen-Twenties
by Rickards, Maurice
New York: Walker & Co, 1968. 1st American edition. Boards. Orig. white boards. Very good in ragged dust wrapper. 70 pages. 20 x 15 cm. Thirty-two posters are presented, four in color -- from American, British and European sources.
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Posters Of Protest And Revolution
by Rickards, Maurice
New York: Walker, 1970. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Very good in near fine dust wrapper. 30 pages intext. More than 200 illustrations with sixteen in color. Index of Posters by Country. From anti slavery to anti blasphemy: humanity at odds with itself, subjects trite or dramatic all one imprimatur: the human condition.
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Oscar Wilde Recollections
by Ricketts, Charles & Jean Paul Raymond
London: Nonesuch Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gilt decorated white cloth in classical motifs, gilt title. Teg. Fine in very good, spine nicked black cloth dust wrapper, spine printed in gilt.. Ricketts, Charles. 60 pages. 26 x 16 cm. A fictitious character, Jean Paul Raymond, created by Ricketts enabling him to reveal his displeasure at the fate... Read More
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Unrecorded Histories
by Ricketts, Charles
London: Martin Secker, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated cream cloth with designs in gilt. Teg. Very good. 139 pages. With six designs by the author. Limited edition, one of 950. The content may not be great literature, nor even good literature, but for Ricketts collectors, an fresh copy of an extremely well-printed book by a well-respected publishing... Read More
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Ecclesiastes; Or, The Preacher, And The Song of Solomon
by Ricketts, Charles (Illustrator)
London: Vale Press, 1902. First edition thus. Hardcover. Orig. holland backed boards, uncut, paper label upper front cover. Very good. Ricketts, Charles. 17 pages. 29.5 x 20 cm. Printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts in red and black under the supervision of Charles Ricketts in the King's fount. Roderick Cave in "The Private Press," notes,... Read More
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The Carpenter And Joiner, Stair Builder And Hand-Railer; With Fifty-Nine Plates, Comprising A Series of Card-Board Models
by Riddell, Robert
Edinburgh: Thomas C. Jack, 1880. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Orig. three quarter black morocco and dark green cloth. Very good. 126 pages in text. Folio, 35 x 28 cm. Fifty-nine plates, including four three dimensional card board models [pop-ups], and lithographic illustration, "Dignity of Mechanic Art." Earlier edition contained 58 plates. HITCHCOCK 1007. Noting the American edition, 1874. KARPEL... Read More
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The Houses of Parliament; History Art Architecture
by Riding, Christine & Jacqueline Riding
London: Merrell, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 288 pages. 30 x 26 cm. Profusely illustrated in black and white and color. Articles by experts. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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Moscow, Havana, and National Liberation in Latin America: Three Decades of Guerrillas and Terrorists 1959-1990
by Riefe, Robert, H.
Coral Gables: Univ. of Miami North-South Center, 1991. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine.. 118 pp. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", this work is designed to be an analysis of the extent of Havana's involvement in the revolutionary process in Latin America over the course of the past thirty years. Index.
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The Parish-Watson Collection Of Mohammadan Potteries
by Riefstahl, Rudolf Meyer
New York: E. Weyhe, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Very good. 259 pages. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. 94 plates. Limited edition, copy 261 of 500. All descriptive lettered tissue guards present. The author states, " The genesis of Mohammadan art is psychologically one of the most interesting chapters in the history of art." Ceramics presented... Read More
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The Notebooks Of Malte Laurids Brigge; Translated into English by Stephen Mitchell
by Rilke, Rainer Maria
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1987. Hardcover. Orig. full vellum lettered in gilt. Fine in near near fine cloth slipcase. 218 pages. 27 x 17.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 774 of 800 printed at Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, designed by Benjamin Shiff, mould made text paper created at Cartiere Enrico Magnanai and bound by Recalcati in Mlan.Slight sunning... Read More
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The Sonnets To Orpheus; With Engravings By Kurt Roesch
by Rilke, Rainer Maria
New York: Wittenborn & Co, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher pale blue boards, spine lettered in gilt in matching dust wrapper. Fine in very good original black slipcase with mottling to spine. Roesch, Kurt. [76] pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates. 41 x 26.5 cm. Limited edition, copy XX of XXXV numbered and signed copies designed by... Read More
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Danish Greenland It's People And Its Products; Edited by Dr. Robert Brown
by Rink, Henry
London: Henry S. King & Co, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated salmon cloth. Good. XVIII, 468 pages. 19.5 x 14 cm. 16 full page illustrations, lacks the folding map. Appendix of flowerless plants of Greenland. Index. Rink was a Danish geologist, one of the pioneers of glaciology, and the first to accurately describe the inland ice of Greenland. Rink, who first... Read More
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Derriere Le Miroir. No. 208, February 1974
by Riopelle, Jean-Paul [Paris. Derriere Le Miroir]
Paris: Maeght, 1974. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Very good. 30 pages. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. Commentary by Jacques Dupin in French. 18 color lithographs by Riopelle, many are fold-outs. Front cover dusty, interior text and images fresh and clean.
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Art and the Stage in the 20th Century Painters and Sculptors Work for the Theater
by Rischbieter, Henning (Editor)
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. persimmon cloth. Very good in very good dust wrapper. 306 pages. 256 illustrations including thirty color plates. Bibliography. List of Exhibitions. Index. A unique, comprehensive survey and critical evaluation of the contributions made to the Theater by major painters and sculptors of the 20th century. Sets and costumes... Read More
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The Dearest Friend A Selection from the Letters of Richard Aldington to John Cournos
by Risk, R.T. (Introduction)
Francestown: Typographeum, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cream cloth spine and brown boards, paper spine label. Near fine. 20 pages. 25.5 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 57 of 100 signed by R.T. Rask. Facsimile letter frontispiece. Slight bleed through lower front cover pastedown and free endpaper.
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Sculpture of the Twentieth Century
by Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff
New York: MOMA, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper. 240 pages. 176 plates. Biographical Notes. Bibliography by Bernard karpel. The first book to attempt an organic exposition of the development of modern sculpture during the past half-century. CHAMBERLAIN 995. LUCAS p64.
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The New Decade 22 European Painted and Sculptors
by Ritchie, Andrew Cardiff (Editor)
New York: MOMA, 1955. First edition. Boards. Selected Bibliography by Bernard Karpel. Orig. white boards. Near fine. 111 pages.
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The Ward Ritchie Press And Anderson, Ritchie & Simon
by Ritchie, Ward
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth decorated in blind, paper spine label. Fine. 156 pages. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 1000, Illustrated with color sample pages. Foreword by Lawrence Clarke Powell. Bibliography. Author and Title Index.
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Renoir et ses Amis
by Riviere, Georges
Paris: H. Floury, 1921. Stiff Wraps. Orig. pictorial wrappers. Near fine. 273 pages. 26 x 20 cm. With the original dry point etching (Delteil 8, third state) "Jeune Filles Fleurissant leurs Chapeaux," hors-texte drypoint etching " and with lithograph "Tête de Jeune Fille". 95 heliogravure illustrations and 56 plates (12 in color). Table Des Gravures Hors Texte and... Read More
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Toine Suivi De Histoire D'Une Fille De Ferme by Guy De Maupassant
by Robaudi, Alcide (Illustrator)
Paris: A. Ferroud, 1923. Original Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Very good. 93 pages in text. 19 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 96 of 300 [total edition of 1500] on Japon, with three states of the plates. Plethora of pochoir illustrations: initial letters, text illustrations, and an extra sets in color and in black and white. . Partly... Read More
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Variae ac Multiformes Florum Species; Designees et Gravees d'apres le naturel par Nicholas Robert
by Robert, Nicholas
London: Scolar Press, 1975. Reprint. Cloth. Orig. brown cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in fine slipcase. Unpaginated. 30 1/2 x 22 cm. Orig. published ca. 1660. Thirty-one plates as per the original from a copy in the Lindley Library at the Royal Horticultural Society. Limited edition, copy 128 of 500 printed on hand-made paper by F. Amatruda, Amalfi.... Read More
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Historic Styles In Furniture
by Robie, Virginia
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth and boards, front cover paper label. Very good. 196 pages. 22 x 18 cm. More than 100 illustrations. Index. Historic overview, with examples. Modest extremity wear.
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Persian Miniature Painting from collections in the British Isles
by Robinson, B.W.
London: HMSO, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Orig. stiff wrappers. Fine in slightly soiled dust wrapper. 120 pages. 23 1/2 x 19 1/2 cm. Fifty-two black and white plates. 184 entries. Index of Artists.
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The Viol Of Love
by Robinson, Charles Newton
London: John Lane, 1895. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green decorate cloth. Very good. 56 pages. 20 x 13 cm. Limited edition, one of 350. Front cover decoration by Laurence Housman, noted for his intricate Art Nouveau designs. 16 pages of adverts at rear. Small book label free front endpaper of W.H. Clarke & Co., Boston. Interior contents... Read More
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