The Arts of Japan Late Medieval To Modern; Vol. I translated and adapted by John Rosenfield & Vol.II translated and adapted by Glenn T. Webb. Photographs by Takahashi Bin
by Noma, Seiroku
Tokyo: Kodansha, 1972. Hardcover. Orig. decorated beige cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrappers in clear plastic overwrappers. 2 Vols. 236, 229 pages. Folio, 36.5 x 27 cm. Two monumental works with a host of black and white, color and tipped-in plates. Chronology of Japanese Art until 1568 (Vol.I) and Chronology of Japanese Art from the Sixteenth Century.... Read More
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Richard Diebenkorn
by Nordland, Gerald
New York: Rizzoli, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Diebenkorn. 248 pages. 31.5 x 26.5 cm. First full scale monograph on Diebenkorn. Several hundred color and black and white plates. Exhibition history and selected bibliography.
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Gaston Lachaise The Man and His Work
by Nordland, Gerald
New York: George Braziller, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. Lachaise, Gaston. 184 pages. With ninety-five black and white illustrations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Combines a brief biography with a critical examination of the themes that recur throughout his work. FREITAG 5072.
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Alfred Stieglitz An American Seer
by Norman, Dorothy
New York: Random House, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. salmon cloth. Near fine in ragged dust wrapper. 253 pages. 30 x 22 cm. 80 reproductions of Stieglitz photograph. Bibliography. Index.
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The Argonaut Manuscript Limited Edition Of Frank Norris's Works
by Norris, Frank
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. First edition. leather_bound. Full crimson morocco. Teg. Fine. 10 Vols. 22 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 17 of 245 with a 57 line manuscript page from the author's McTeague inserted in Vol. I with hand corrections and notations. Original ink smears and fingerprints of Norris. Introductions by H.L. Mencken, Theordore... Read More
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One Hundred Fables, Original And Selected Embellished With Two Hundred Eighty Engravings on Wood (Second Edition) & Fables Original And Selected (Second Series), Illustrated By Two Hundred and Eighty Engravings On Wood
by Northcote, James, R.A.
London: Geo. Lawford & John Murray, 1833. Second & First editions. Hardcover. Contemporary crimson cloth decorated in blind, backstrips elaborately decorated in floral gilt motifs. Very good. 2 Vols.. 272 , 248 pages. 20 x 12.5 cm. The illustrations, "the greater portion of which are of my own invention," with his headpiece designs for each one and with... Read More
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Culs De Lampe
by Northampton, MA. Gehenna Press
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Orig. marbled boards, spine paper label. Fine. 20 pages. 17 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition one of 250. Images in colors printed recto only. A cul-de-lampe is a typographic ornament, sometimes called a pendant, specifically a tailpiece in the shape of a triangle marking the end of a section of text.... Read More
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Conrad's Manifesto To A Career; The History Of The Preface To The Nigger Of The Narcissus
by Northampton, MA. Gehenna Press
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Orig. marbled boards housed in gray board portfolio in a matching board slipcase backstrip with paper label. Fine. 79 pages. 29 x 23.5 cm. Limited edition copy 299 of 1100 for the Rosenbach Foundation. Edited with an Essay by David R. Smith. Portrait of Conrad by Leonard Baskin. Harold McGrath was... Read More
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Robert Creeley An Inventory, 1945-1970
by Novik, Mary
Montreal: McGill Queen's Univ. Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. lime green cloth. Very good. 210 pages. With a Foreword by Robert Creeley. Index to Names. Index to Poems. Index to Periodicals. Spot on spine base.
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The Columbian Riddler, or Entertaining Puzzle Book. 7th series, no. 4
by Portland. Bailey & Noyes
Portland: Bailey & Noyes, 1800. First printing. Pamphlet. Light green illustrated paper wrappers. Very good. 16 pages. 10 x 6.5 cm. Illustrated. Two pages of Conundrums -- "What occupation has the sun." Answer. "A Tanner." OCLC: 612682507. Reasonably clean copy.
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The Life of Benvenuto Cellini; A Florentine Artist. Written by Himself in the Tuscan Language and Translated from the Original
by Nugent, Thomas (translator)
Philadelphia: R & T. Desilver, 1812. First American edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf. Near fine. 2 vols. 352, 256 pages. 18 x 11 cm. A variety of curious and interesting particulars, relative to painting, sculpture and architecture. The author Thomas Nugent was an erudite Irish historian and travel writer. The English edition was published in 1772. Elegant... Read More
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The Two Winchester Bibles
by Oakeshott, Walter
Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon linen cloth. Teg. Fine in fine beige linen slipcase. 149 pages. Folio, 51 x 36 cm. With twelve color plates, 192 black and white text illustrations. Limited edition, copy 384 of 1000. This work presents an exhaustive study of how two twelfth-century Winchester bibles were designed and produced.... Read More
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Six Historic Homesteads
by Oakley, Imogen B.
Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1962. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Very good in worn dust wrapper. 191 pages. Illustrated edition with drawings by Thornton Oakley and with photographs. The Colonies lacked architects, but not the master-builders whocreated the historic homesteads detailed herein. ROOS 394.
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The Historical Monuments of South Africa
by Oberholster, J.J.
Cape Town: The Rembrandt Van Rijn Foundation for Culture, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 354 pages. 260 monochrome and twelve color illustrations. Index. A survey of more than 370 historical monuments described and arranged according to provinces and regions. Bookplate.
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Northern Lights
by O' Brian, Tim
London: Marion Boyers, 1975. First English Edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth spine lettered in silver. Fine in price clipped illustrated dust wrapper. 356 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Signed presentation copy, "For Ken, Peace, Tim O'Brian." A tale of wilderness survival in the rugged Arrowhead area of Minnesota, his second book -- two brothers caught in a blizzard.... Read More
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A History Of Italian Furniture From The Fourteenth Century To The Early Nineteenth Centuries
by Odom, William Macdougal
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 2 vols. 354, 415 pages. 39 x 28.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 500. A total of 865 text figures, photographic plates, a good number are full-paged. List of Subscribers Vol. II. Tipped-in Errata slip Vol. I. CHAMBERLAIN 1716.... Read More
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Notes Descriptive Of A Panoramic Sketch Of Athens Taken May, 1839; Sold In Aid Of The Funds Of The London Benevolent Repository
by Bracebridge Selena (Notes Descriptive of)
London: W.H. Dalton, 1839. Second edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter black morocco over dark green cloth covered boards stamped in blind and gilt. Very good. 8 pages in text. 27.3 x 22 cm. Illustrated with large folding map, 27 x 268 cm., a lithographic panorama by Bracebridge sketched from Nature and on Zinc. Originally published 1836, a fund... Read More
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Punch's Pocket-Book For 1876, Containing A Calendar, Cash Account, Diary And Memoranda For Every Day In The Year, And A Variety Of Useful Business Information; Illustrated By John Tenniel, Charles Keene, and Linley Sambourne
by London. Punch Office
London: Punch Office, 1876. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. navy morocco covers with tab insertion flap at rear cover. Aeg. Very good. 192 pages. 12 x 9 cm. Frontispiece, a large, color lithograph fold-out entitled "The Modern Babylonian Marriage Mart, plus full color title. Profusely illustrated with wood-cuts in the text. Note(s): Single issue of an annual which was... Read More
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The Fukui Earthquake, Hokuriku Region Japan 28 June 1948; Volume I, Geology & Vol. II, Engineering
by Office of the Engineer General Headquarters, Far East Command
Tokyo: Office of the Engineer General Headquarters, Far East Command, 1949. First edition. Paperback. Orig. buff, stapled stiff wrappers. Very good. 2 Vols.. 81 and 205 pages. 27 1/2 x 36 cm. Geology prepared by Geological Surveys Branch Intelligence Division Office of the Engineer, and Engineering prepared by Design Branch Engineering and Operations Division. Vol. I with two... Read More
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Three American Architects; Richardson, Sullivan, and Wright, 1865-1915
by O'Gorman, James F.
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1991. Hardcover. Orig. light brown cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper.. 170 pages. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. 105 illustrations. Glossary. Index.
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The Making of an Architect * 1881-1981 Columbia University in the City of New York
by Oliver, Richard (Editor)
New York: Rizzoli, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. 263 pages. 28 x 22.5 cm. Introduction by Dean James S. Polshek. More than 200 illustrations including twenty-four in full-color. A centennial celebration of The Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, this book commemorates the occasion with a series of essays by... Read More
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Le Livre Illustre Au XV Siecle
by Olschki, Leo S.
Florence: Leo S. Olschi, 1926. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. parchment over wrappers. Very good. 80 pages in text. 24.5 x 17.5 cm. With 344 illustrations on 220 plates with one in color, three in bistre, plus 15 figures in the text, two in color. Printed in red and black, interior contents: text and plates fresh and bright.... Read More
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The City As A Work of Art London * Paris * Vienna
by Olsen, Donald J.
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth and boards. Near fine in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. 341 pages. More than 150 photographs. Bibliography. Index. The author argues that each of these capitals was a deliberate work of art, and proposes a different use to which the streets were put in each of these cities.... Read More
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Caroline Silver 1625-1688
by Oman, Charles
London: Faber and Faber, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. ruby cloth. Very good in very good dust wrapper. 71 pages in text .8vo, 24 x 14 cm. More than 100 illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Index of Goldsmiths and Their Marks.
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De Iconografie Van Philips De Schone
by Onghena, M.J.
Brussels: Academie Royale de Belgique, 1959. First edition. Wraps. Orig. gray printed wrappers, plates are laid-in loose as issued. Very good. 2 vols. 435 pages. 25.5 x 16.5 cm. Philip the Handsome, the first Habsburg monarch in Spain, and the progenitor of every later monarch of Spain. This is Tome X, No. 5 of the publications of the... Read More
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