Caillebotte and His Garden at Yerres
by Wittmer, Pierre
New York: Abrams, 1991. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 321illustrations, including 170 plates in color. Preface by Bernard Lorenceau. Bibliography. Index. Presents a complete survey of Caillebotte's known works, and a detailed treatment of French garden design and practice during the latter half of the 19th century.
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Legacies Of Genius A Celebration of Philadelphia Libraries; A Selection of Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art
by Wolf 2nd, Edwin (Editor)
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, 1988. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illlustrated wrappers. Near fine.. 266 pages. 28 x 22 cm. Profusely illustrated. 219 entries. Index.
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The Silver Cat And Other Poems; Designed by Bruce Rogers
by Wolfe, Humbert
New York: The Bowling Green Press, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's olive green boards, spine stamped in silver foil. Fine in near fine olive green dust wrapper, two tiny chips at head. Unpaginated. 23.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition, one of 780 printed by William Edwin Rudge on Strathmore Artlaid paper. Pages printed recto only on light... Read More
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The Italian Townscape
by Wolfe, Ivor de
New York: Braziller, 1966. First edition. Orig. white cloth. Very good in chipped, worn dust wrapper. 280 pages. 481 black and white illustrations. The author believes Italy is the best, or at least the basic model for those who have lost but want to recreate the charms of urbanism. An offbeat if not singular approach to urban criticism.... Read More
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A Note On Experts: Dexter Vespasian Joiner
by Wolfe, Thomas
New York: House Of Books, Ltd, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in fine original glassine wrapper. Unpaginated. 19.5 x 13 cm. Limited edition, copy 72 of 300. This manuscript fragment found by the executor of his Estate had never been published, and deemed of sufficient importance to be published at this... Read More
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
by Woodberry, George E.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark green cloth with paper spine label. 302 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Index. Limited edition, copy 202 of 600. Uncut, spine sunned.
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Woodward's Graperies And Horticultural Buildings
by Woodward, George E. & F.W. Woodward
New York: George E. & F.W. Woodward, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. charcoal cloth decorated in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine. 139, (iii) pages. 19 x 13 cm. 59 illustrated wood engravings. This work being an extension of his "domestic vernacular" applied to garden buildings. Considered to be one the scarcest of his pattern books. HITCHCOCK. 1433.... Read More
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Woodward's National Architect; Containing 1000 Original Designs, Plans and Details, To Working Scale, To Working Scale, For The Practical Construction Of Dwellings Houses For The Country, Suburb And Village with Full And complte Sets of Specifications And An Estimate Of The Cost Of Each Design
by Woodward, Geo. W. & Edward G. Thompson
New York: Geo. E. Woodward, 1869. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown publisher's cloth. Very good. 26 pages in text, 100 lithographic plates, advertisements at end of text with twelve full-color lithographic samples of floor tiles. This volume contains full blown stick style for cottages, houses, an ice house, boat and bath house, schoolhouse,stable, French villa, church, miscellaneous details... Read More
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Woodward's Country Homes
by Woodward, George E. & F.W. Woodward
New York: The American News Company, 1865. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth, backstrip stamped and lettered in gilt. Near fine. 188 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Illustrated in black and white with 150 figures in the text representing floor plans and cottage designs. This is a revised and enlarged edition with many additional illustrations. HITCHCOCK1425. KARPEL B245. "Hitchcock has... Read More
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Volunteer Wit Or Not Enough For A Prime
by Woodward, George Moutard & Thomas Rowlandson
Np: Np, Nd. Original Wraps. Orig. wrappers. Very good. 25 x 34 cm. Color etching with standing man at right replying, "I should be very happy to obey your orders Colonel but really your glasses are so small that d__m me if there is enough for a Prime." a few tiny nicks, with reinforcement at head.
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Woodward's Architecture and Rural Art. No. 1-1867
by Woodward, George W.
New York: Geo. E. Woodward, 1869. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt. Near fine. 144 pages. 16.5 x 12.5 cm. 144 wood-engravings, fifty-eight designs; cottages, farm houses, various farm out-buildings, a Doctor's residence, ornaments in landscape gardening, a country schoolhouse, grape arbor, etc. HITCHCOCK 1420. "A new issue of the 1867 item, with title:... Read More
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A Cure for a Smoky Chimney !!
by Woodward, William
London: Thomas Tegg, 1822. Wraps. Very good. Woodward, William. 26.5 x 40 cm. Etching with hand coloring. Whatman watermark 1822. Woman says, "believe Doctor your are little better than a great Irish impostor -- to take two Guineas for curing my Chimney, and the moment I put a bit of fire in the grate I almost suffocated !!"... Read More
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Jacob's Room
by Woolf, Virginia
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1923. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. mustard yellow cloth with printed paper spine label. Very good. 303 pages. 19 1/2 x 14 cm. One of 1500 copies. KIRKPATRICK A66. Faint owner inscription, interior contents bright and clean, slight rubbing to backstrip head and foot.
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Granite And Rainbow
by Woolf, Virginia
London: Hogarth Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. royal blue cloth. backstrip lettered in gilt. Near fine in very good dust wrapper nicked at head and foot.. 240 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. A volume of essays, the latter often published anonymously were not easily traced here gathered. Leonard Wolff in his editorial note presents further documentation. Owner... Read More
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Recollections of Western Texas; Descriptive And Narrative Including An Indian Campaign, 1852-55 Interspersed With Illustrative Anecdotes By Two of the U.S. Mounted Rifles
by Wooster, Robert (Editor)
Austin: The Book Club Of Texas, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth covered boards, printed spine paper label. Fine. 109 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Limited edition, One of 300 copies. Illustrated with Wood Engravings from William H. Emory's Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Facsimile of the original title-page and Map of antebellum... Read More
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Poetry By Fred A. Murphy, Cheryl Steets, Mary George, Anthony Verrill, Robin Petro, Barbara Siegel & Stuart Blazer
by Creative Writing Workshop
Np: Np, Np. Hardcover. Fine. 28 leaves. 22.5 x 19 cm. Signed in ink by Cheryl Steets, Mary George & Barbara Siegel. Signed presentation copy to Paul Petrie and signed by Mary George. Poetry printed recto only. Hand-bound in full cream cloth with lavender spine cotton cloth stitching. It may perhaps be the only copy -- product of... Read More
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The Elements of Architecture collected by Henry Wotton Kt from the best Authors and Examples
by Wotton, Sir Henry K.
London: Longmans, Green, And Co, 1903. Hardcover. Recased in modern gray boards with original spine label laid-down. Fine. 98 pages. 18 x 14 cm. Limited edition, one of 350 copies reprinted from the first impression, 1624 with the addition of the Dedication to Prince Charles. Printed at the Chiswick Press with the ornaments designed by Herbert P. Horne,... Read More
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America's Forgotten Architecture
by Wrenn, T.P. & E.D. Mulloy
Washington, DC: National Trust Historical Preservation, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth spine and illustrated boards. 311 pages. 475 black and white illustrations. Appendices including, Preservation Information Sources. Bibliography and Selected Reading List. Index. All the many varieties of architecture worth saving in the United States are documented here. Orig. illustrated gray boards and brown cloth. ... Read More
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The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century
by Wright, Christopher
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1985. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 288 pages. 170 illustrations, more than half in color. Bibliography. Index of Locations. Index. This is thefirst book in English to examine this period comprehensively, rather than as a precursor of latter French painting.
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Frank Lloyd Wright On Architecture Selected Writing 1894-1940
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth. Very good. 275 pages. 21.5 x 21.5 cm. Edited, with an Introduction by Frederick Gutheim. List of Published Writings of Frank Lloyd Wright. Index. FREITAG 10407. KARPEL B1348. "An important source for the student of Wright. `Contains introduction and many notes by Gutheim on the... Read More
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Frank Lloyd Wright Yamagiwa; Lighting Collection
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
Np: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Nd. Stiff board folder. Orig. black stiff folder with FLW logo on cover.. Sixteen 28 x 22 individual sheets on glossy stock presenting his lamp designs in brilliant color with details of each design on back cover and laid-in the black stiff folder the "Weissgram" a supplier of Wright products located in Pittsburg.... Read More
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The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
New York: Horizon Press, 1960. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers.. Approx. 28 leaves. 25 x 20 cm. Illustrated in black and white on glossy stock -- photographs and plans.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Staircase
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
Np: Np, Nd. Stiff Wraps. Orig. decorated front cover. Very good. 19 x 20 cm. Fold out illustrated in color and black and white on glossy stock. Toning to front cover.
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[Coronet] Master-Builder; Concerning Frank Lloyd Wright. Stormy Petrel Of Architects
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
Coronet, 1937. First printing. Paper. Orig. tan paper. Very good. 14 pages. 19 x 14 cm. Photographs in color and black and white. Article by Meyer Levin.
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Frank Lloyd Wright ALS matted and framed to Lewis Mumford [61 x 37 cm.]; Discusses the Guggenheim Museum
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
Taliesin, 1931. Glass Framed. Fine condition, matted and gilt framed -- suitable for hanging. Typed letter, 45 x 20 cm. to friend and architectural critic, Lewis Mumford. "My dear Lewis: I've read `The Brown Decade' you so kindly sent me and it is a useful work in your splendid style. I didn't agree in total but admire and... Read More
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