Art In The United States Capitol
by U.S. Congress. 94th Congress
Washington,DC: GPO, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue leatherette cloth with front cover lettering in gilt. Near fine. 455 pages. Comprises a total of 744 works of art and other objects as of June 1964. This is an 88th Congress, 2nd Session publication. Updates Fairman's "Art and Artists," published in 1927. A profusion of black and white plates.... Read More
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Compilation of Works of Art and Other Objects in the United State Capitol Prepared by the Architect of the Capitol
by U.S. Congress. 88th Congress
Washington, DC: GPO, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue leatherette cloth with front cover lettering in gilt. Near fine. 426 pages. Comprises a total of 744 works of art and other objects as of June 1964. This is an 88th Congress, 2nd Session publication. UpdatesFairman's "Art and Artists," published in 1927. A profusion of black and white plates.... Read More
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Love for Love: A Comedy. Acted at the Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn Fields, By His Majesty's Servants
by Congreve, William
London: Jacob Tonson, 1697. Third edition. Wraps. Old brown wrappers chipped. Very good. 85 pages. 21 1/2 x 17 cm. A classic Restoration drama first acted 1695 by Betterton in a new theatre, the famous house in Lincoln inn fields. CBEL, Vol. VIII, pp.150-155, notes, "The success of the play was without precedent and well merited. At each... Read More
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Oriental Architecture in the West
by Conner, Patrick
London: Thames & Hudson, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Orig.green cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 209 pages. 154 illustrations,fourteen in color. Bibliography. Index. The author examines buildings and gardens still extant as well as those now gone or which never existed, but more importantly, Conner discusses Western fascination with Oriental architectural ideas.
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Suspense A Napoleonic Novel
by Conrad, Joseph
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Original decorative vellum boards, decorated with ship design and lettered in gilt, blue stripe and blue corners, blue dust-jacket lettered with design on spine. Teg. Fine in fine orig. glassine overwapper, and housed in fine blue slipcase. 274 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Large paper, limited edition, copy... Read More
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Four Fictions; The Lagoon, The Legend of Saint Julian, The Jolly Corner & The Annuity [respectively]
by Conrad, Joseph, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James & Luigi Pirandello
Kentfield, CA: Allen Press, 1973. Hardcover. Orig. white boards with light brown stripe front cover with back cover, a complimentary three quarters brown. Near fine. 168 pages. 37.5 x 25.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 137 copies. Illustrations respectively for the four titles: Blair Hughes Stanton, Michele Forgeois, Joseph Low and Paolo Carosone. Each story printed in a... Read More
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Revolutionary Soviet Film Posters
by Constantine, Mildred & Alan Fern
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1974. First edition. Boards. Orig. illustrated blue boards. Fine in chipped dust wrapper. 97 pages. With fifty-six posters in black and white, sixteen in full-color, and seventeen text figures. Index. This monograph tracks the relationship between film making and the graphic arts which developed in the Soviet Union during the1920's.
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Weymouth Massachusetts General Plan Report; Vol. I: Comprehensive Development Plan AND Vol. II: Implementation Programs
by Edwards And Kelsey (Consultants)
Boston: Weymouth Planning Board, 1963. First edition. Paperback. Orig. spiral bound stiff wrappers printed in green black with clear plastic covers. Near fine. 2 vols.. 83 and 96 pages. 28 x 28 cm [Vol.I] and 28 x 21 cm [Vol.II]. Charts, graphs, aerial views, photographs, plans in color including large fold-outs. This two volume report covers Land Use,... Read More
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Old Master Drawings
by NY. Jack Kilgore & Co
NY: Jack Kilgore & Co, 1994. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 66 pages. 10 1/2 x 8 1/4." Thirty-three color plates. Index of Artists.
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The Explorations Of Captain James Cook In The Pacific As Told By Selections Of His Own Journals 1768-1779; Edited by A. Grenfell Price * Illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton
by Cook (Captain), James
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Hardcover. Quarter kangaroo skin, tapa decorated sides. Near fine in very good slightly sunned slipcase. Ingleton, Geoffrey C.. 310 pages, 28.5 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 774 of 1500 signed by Ingleton and Douglas A. Dunstan (who designed the color frontispiece after Flaxman). Laid-in are the Monthly LEC Letter, a four... Read More
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
by Cooper, Douglas
New York: Abrams, 1966. Hardcover. Orig. pale blue cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de. 152 pages. 4to, fifty tipped-in colorplates. Bibliography. FREITAG 9540. LUCAS p.197.
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The Work of Graham Sutherland
by Cooper, Douglas
London: Lund Humphries, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards in clear plastic dust cover. Very good. Sutherland, Graham. 97 pages in text. 29.5 x 24.5 cm. Text by Douglas Cooper. Fifteen color and more than 180 plates in black and white. Biographical Summary. A Selective Bibliography. Index. FREITAG 9237.
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The Pathfinder
by Cooper, James Fenimore
Lunenberg, Vermont: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Cloth. Orig. quarter black cloth and marbled boards with orig. glassine overwrapper [slightly nicked at head]. Fine in near fine slipcase, spine a hint sunned. Powers, Richard M. 492 pages. 24 1/2 x 18 cm. illustrated with 19 color collages by Richard M. Power. Limited edition, copy 839 of 1500, signed by... Read More
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Fashion Sampler Manuscript With Designs, Art Techniques, Hair Styles, Wool, Cotton & Synthetic Samples and Designs
by Coos Bay, Oregon
Np: Np, 1950. First edition. Spiral Bound. Partly spiral bound black (front cover) and beige (back cover) stiff boards. Very good. 22 unnumbered leaves. Oblong folio, 25 x 36 cm. Numerous watercolor pen and ink illustrations, pencil and charcoal, and tipped-in designs [nine are tipped-in fabric samples]. Fashion manuscript by a young Coos Bay, Oregon student. She includes... Read More
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Charlie In The House Of Rue; Wood Engraving By Jerome Kaplan
by Coover, Robert
Lincoln, MA: Penmean Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. three quarter navy cloth and decorated boards. Fine. Kaplan, Jerome. 44 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 73 of 300 signed by Jerome Kaplan and Robert Coover, printed on 100lb. Mohawk Superfine Text, and designed by Michael McCurdy. As new copy.
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Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening
by Copeland, Robert Morris
Boston: John P. Jewett, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown textured cloth, cover panels in blind. Near fine. 813 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Nearly 150 plates: Double-page lithograph frontispiece; woodcut plates and in-text illustrations. KARPEL B526. "Robert Morris Copeland was one of that remarkable generation of landscaped architects which included F.L. Olmsted, H.W.S. Cleveland, and Charles Eliot.... Read More
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Illustrated Price List Of Novel And Original Designs For Pyrographic Decorations
by Philadelphia. F. Weber & Co
Philadelphia: F. Weber & Co, 1900. Wraps. Buff wrappers lettered in black. Very good. 46 pages. 20 x 25 cm. Pyrography or pyrogravure is the free handed art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated source. Over 100 images. One of the oldest art form for cultures including... Read More
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Count Stefan
by Coppard, A.E.
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Hardcover. Quarter yellow buckram and hand-marbled boards. Fine. Gibbings, Robert. 57 pages. 22.5 x 15.5. Illustrated with engraving on wood by Robert Gibbings. Limited edition, copy 14 of 600 on English hand-made paper in 12 pt. Caslon Old Face. Another example of Gibbing's work when he owned the press. Bright copy,... Read More
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Cherry Ripe Poems
by Coppard, A.E.
Np: Tintern Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green and violet striated cloth with violet leather spine label, yapp edges. Near fine. Marshall, Sylvia. 47 pages. 26 x 17 cm. This is the first collection of these poems in a Limited edition, one of 150, this copy not numbered. Series of wood engravings by Sylvia Marshall, hand printed... Read More
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Hips & Haws: Poems
by Coppard, A.E.
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1922. Hardcover. Orig. yellow boards with red cloth spine. Backstrip paper label. Very good. 44 pages. 20 x 13 cm. Signed by Coppard in ink front (second) endpaper Mostly unopened and noted "Not for Sale." Coppard's first book of poems and the seventh book of the press. This was the first book... Read More
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Pelagea & Other Poems
by Coppard, A.E.
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. Hardcover. Quarter white buckram and batik cloth covered boards. Near fine. Gibbings, Robert. 44 pages. 23.5 x 15 cm. Engravings on wood by Robert Gibbings. Limited edition, copy 225 of 425 on English hand-made paper. Bookplate of Richard D. Friedlander. CHANTICLEER 43.
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Cherry Ripe; With a Bibliographical Note By George Saul and decorations by Valenti Angelo
by Coppard, A.E.
Windham: Hawthorn House, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two tone boards. Fine in original glassine overwrapper in fine matching slipcase. 40 pages. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 300. Wide text margins, attractive very clean copy.
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Qui Etait Le Corbusier
by Le Corbusier
Geneve: Albert Skira, 1968. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth. Very good in clear printed overwrapper. 228 pages. Text by Maurice Besset. Twenty plates in color, and 200 illustrations in black and white. Jean Leymarie, General Editor. Bibliography. Index of Names and Places.Text in French. A survey of modern art with particular emphasis on Le Corbusier..."Who was Le Corbusier?," FREITAG... Read More
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The 18th Century Novel a Handlist of General Histories and Articles of the Last Twenty-Five Years; With An Introductory Note By James R. Foster
by Cordasco, Francesco
Brooklyn: Long Island Univ. Press, 1950. First edition. Paperback. Orig. printed wrappers. Very good. 19 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Ex-library.
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Seven Boxes by Joseph Cornell
by Cornell, Joseph
Tokyo: Gatado Gallery, 1978. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. blue and white paper wrappers. Fine. Cornell, Joseph. 41 pages. 25 x 18.5 cm. Illustrated exhibition catalogue with Preface to "A Joseph Cornell Exhibition" by Robert Motherwell. Text in English and Japanese.
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