Banco to the Knave
by Gillray, James
London: Hannah Humphrey, 1782. Wraps. Near fine. Gillray, James. 27 x 39 cm. Etching with hand coloring on wove paper. Figure with wolf's head says: "Gentleman the Bank is mine. & I will open every Night at the same hour." Chair inscriptions read "John Shuffler" and Sir Grey Parolle quips, "I want a new Master." Most of the... Read More
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Exhaltation of Faro's Daughters
by Gillray, James
London: Hannah Humphrey, 1796. Wraps. Very good. Gillray, James. 40 x 28 cm. Hand colored etching. Note below standing figures, " Cure for Gambling Published by Lord Kenyon in the Court of Kings Bench on May 9th 1796." Lord Kenyon was considered an excellent judge who suffered from an "excess of zeal" in moral issues. Gaming was very... Read More
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The Bulstrode Siren
by Gillray, James
London: Hannah Humphrey, 1803. Hardcover. Gilt wood frame in very good condition. 14 x 10.5 inches print size, in glass frame 22 x 17.5 inches (3 inch mat) ready for hanging. Etching and stipple engraving with hand-colouring. Mrs. Billington, who was as famous for her size as she was for her musical ability is shown serenading the Duke... Read More
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a Great Man of the Turf___0r___Sir Solomon in all his Glory
by Gillray, James
London: Hannah Humphrey, 1803. Wraps. Near Fine. Gillray, James. 35.5 x 25 cm. Hand colored etching and aquatint. Clean, bright copy with ink number at lower left margin. The Duke of Bedford [Identified in the House of Lords Gillray Collection as Mr Norton.] stands directed to the right., his head in profile, on a mound watching a race.... Read More
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Farmer Giles & his Wife shewing off their Betty to their Neighbours on her return from School
by Gillray, James
London: Hannah Humphrey, 1809. Wraps. Very good. Gillray, James. 30 x 46 cm. Hand colored etching. A rich farmer's parlour or drawing-room, with curtains drawn over two high windows (right). Lower left corner states, "Drawn by an Amateur Etched by Js Gillray." Bluebell of Scotland, sheet music played and sung by Betty. Wall signboard reads, "Evil communications corrupt... Read More
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Lasting Impressions Lithography as Art
by Gilmour, Pat (Editor)
London: Alexandria Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in rubbed dust wrapper. 416 pages. 28.5 x 22 cm. 360 illustrations, including forty-eight in color. Ten informative essays by experts. Bibliography. Index. Excellent essay on Charles Joseph Hullmandel an early English printer.
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The Enduring Navaho
by Gilpin, Laura
Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper.. 263 pages. 28 x 21 1/2 cm. Profusely illustrated: photographs in black and white and color. Bibliography. Index. Pictures of the Navaho, the interraltionship of their life and land.
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Observations, Relative Chiefly To Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 772, On several Parts of England; Particularly The Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland
by Gilpin, William
London: R. Blamire, 1792. Third edition. leather_bound. Contemporary gilt decorated brown calf. Aeg. Very good. 2 Vols. 238, 264 (xiv). 22.5 x 14 cm. Thirty aquatint plates. Errata. RUSSEL p.55. "Gilpin is more closely identified with the picturesque movement than some of the greater artists and deeper thinkers." Contents generally clean, owner signature free endpaper of Vol.I &... Read More
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Remarks On Forest Scenery, And Other Woodland Views, (Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty) Illustrated By The Scenes Of New-Forest In Hampshire
by Gilpin, William
London: R. Blamire, 1791. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary brown tree calf, marbled endpapers, raised bands spines richly gilt in floral arabesques. Near fine. Three vols. in two. 22 x 14.5. [*4, A-Y8, **2] & [*1, B-U8, X4, b8, c2]. Double page map and 31 tinted aquatints or soft ground etchings. The plates for this work were divided between... Read More
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An Unhurried View Of Erotica
by Ginzburg, Ralph
New York: Helmsman, 1958. First edition. Boards. Orig. embossed black boards. Fine in slightly worn slipcase. 125 pages. 26 x 18 cm. Preface by George Jean Nathan. Index.
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Cities and People A Social and Architectural History
by Girouard, Mark
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper. 397 pages. 26 x 21 cm. More than 300 illustrations, some in color. Index.
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The Victorian Country House
by Girouard, Mark
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1979. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper.. 218 pages. More than 400 illustrations. Map of houses described in text. General Index. Subject Index. The social context of the Victorian house is as interesting if not more so than the often eccentric styles of the buildings themselves. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER J210. "A... Read More
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The Isthmus Of Darien In 1852. Journal Of The Expedition Of Inquiry For The Junction Of The Atlantic And Pacific Oceans. ; With Four Maps
by Gisborne, Lionel
London: Saunders And Stanford, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's dark green cloth decorated in blind, front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Very good. 238 pages. 20 x 13 cm. Maps are tinted. Gisborne, a British engineer went to Ireland in 1842 as a resident engineer to improve the navigability of the Shannon River, deepening and rebuilding... Read More
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William Glackens and the Ashcan Group; The Emergence of Realism in American Art
by Glackens, Ira
New York: Crown, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth spine and blue boards. Very good. 263 pages. 23 x16 cm. Signed presentation copy dated 30 Oct. 1957. Color frontispiece and a host of photographs and text illustrations. Index. Spine sunned.
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Edvard Munch
by Glaser, Curt
Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pictorial tan cloth lettered in black, top edge stained tan. Near fine. 191 pages. 26 x 19 cm. With original etched frontispiece, seventy-eight plates in duotone plus text illustrations. His well known work , "The Scream" sold for $119.9 million in 2012, currently the second most expensive artwork ever sold... Read More
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Examples of Lustre Ware * Lowestoft And Toile De Jouy used in America during these periods
by N.Y. Loan Exhibition of Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Furniture & Glass
New York: American Art Galleries, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Maroon buckram, spine lettered in gilt. Very good. 28 x 19.5 cm. Unpaginated. 926 entries, most are with full descriptions and illustrations (photographs). Portraits by Stuart, Peale and others, lustre ware from England, Lowestoft from China; for the Benefit of the National Council of Girl Scouts, Inc. Exhibition September... Read More
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Calder '76 The Cutouts
by Glimcher, Mildred
NY: PaceWildenstein, 2002. First edition. Boards. Illustrated boards, accordian style, folding out from either end. Fine. Calder, Alexander. 10 x 8". Nine full color mobiles with dimensions.
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Mario Perez
by Glusberg, Jorge (Introduction)
Buenos Aires: Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes, 2000. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 62 pages. 12 x 9". Color plates. Text in English and Spanish.
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L'Oeuvre Grave De Adriaen Van Ostade
by Godefroy, Louis
Paris: Chez L'Auteur, 1930. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. decorated tan printed wrappers in original glassine overwrapper. Very good. Van Ostade, Adriaen. 87 pages in text. Profusely illustrated in black and white this edition preceded the American edition by 60 years. Van Ostade, a painter and etcher was a pupil of Frans Hals. Best known for his scenes... Read More
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Lyric Verse A Printer's Choice; Compiled and printed by David R. Godine
by Godine, David R.
Lunenburg: Stinehour Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige linen spine and marbled boards. Fine. 75 pages. 25 x 16.5 cm. One of 500 copies bound by the Harcourt Bindery. A signed presentation copy "For Judge and Mrs. Lune, With all my fond wishes, affection & respects," dated Jan. 69. Written as a result of a Senior Fellowship... Read More
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Märchengeister; Illustrations by Toni Schonecker
by Goes, Gustave
Berlin: Verlagsanstalt Hermann Klemm A.G., 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards. Very good. Schonecker, Toni. 120 pages. 27.5 x 20 cm. Fairy tale by the author with full page color illustrations and black and white pictures in the text. Owner inscription. First few leaves toned, interior clean. Text in German.
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Design for Arid Regions
by Golany, Gideon S (Editor)
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 334 pages. 28 x 22 cm Illustrated: photographs, drawings and plans. Index.
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The Buffalo Public Library Commemorating Its First Century of Service to the Citizens of Buffalo..1836-1936
by Goldberg, Arthur
Buffalo: Privately Printed, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned cloth, front cover lettered and decorated in gilt. Near fine. 155 pages. Illustrated. Presidents of the Library 1836-1936. Librarians 1836-1936. Library Board Members. Limited edition, one of 1800 copies. A hundred year history of the Buffalo Public Library. Lovely copy.
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Memoirs of a Geisha
by Golden, Arthur
New York: Knopf, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter black cloth and white boards lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 434 pages. 24 x 16,5 cm. Type in Fairfield, the first typeface by Rudolph Ruzicka.
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Lord of the Flies
by Golding, William
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1955. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter tan cloth spine stamped in green and darker striated tan and black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 243 pages. 21 x 14 cm. First American of the British classic named to Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list of English-language novels published during the 20th century. GEKOSKI... Read More
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