Architectural Essays From The Chicago School * Thomas Tallmadge * Louis H. Sullivan * Jens Jensen And Frank Lloyd Wright; From 1900 to 1909 W. R. Hasbrouck Editor
by Park Forest. The Prairie School Press
Lake Forest: Prairie School Press, 1967. Reprint. Stiff Wraps. Orig. printed stiff wrappers. Very good. Wright, Frank Lloyd. 20 pages. 35 x 27 cm. Illustrated with drawings, plans and photographs. Reprints of articles by the above named authors. Front cover slightly toned at head and margins.
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Balls Deep
by Paris. Real Life Press
Paris: Np, Nd. Stiff Wraps. Orig. printed and stapled salmon stiff wrappers. Fine. 52 pages. 13.5 x 10 cm. An attempt to capitalize on French erotica, hyped by purposely ill spelled English, and three nude illustrations as sexy as cod liver oil. Probably published in the United States as a ruse with a price of 500 Francs on... Read More
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Elements Of Christian Theology: Containing Proofs Of The Authenticity And Inspiration Of the Holy Scriptures; A Summary Of The History Of The Jews; A Brief Statement Of The Contents; Of The Several Books Of The Old And New Testaments, etc.
by Pretyman, George
London: Cadell and Davies, et al., 1799. Second edition. leather_bound. Contemprary full brown tree calf. Near fine. 2 vols.. 531, 563 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Errata. The author, Bishop of Lincoln and later, Bishop of Winchester served as Prime Minister of Great Britain in December 1783 when the Fox-North coalition fell. Pitt later named him his private... Read More
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The Arts and Crafts in Philadelphia, Maryland and South Carolina 1721-1785, 1786-1800 Gleanings From Newspapers
by Price, Alfred Coxe
Topsfield: Walpole Society, 1932. Hardcover. Orig green cloth. Fine with original glassine wrappers. 2 vols. 323 & 331 pp. 8vo, Series I-II, total of seventy-one illustrations. Indexes in each volume. Limited editions: First Series, one of 500 and Second Series, one of 400. A mine of information for the antiquarian. KARPEL K66-K67. Entries are arranged according to the... Read More
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Poster Design; A Critical Study of the Development of the Poster in Continental Europe, England and America
by Price, Charles Matlock
New York: George W. Bricka, 1922. New and Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth, front cover paper label. Very good. 370 pages. 27 x 20 cm. Sixty-five color reproductions and 150 monotone illustrations: all are tipped-in, printed recto only. First edition, 1912, with this, the preferred edition containing a plethora of posters from World War I when the... Read More
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Inner Visions German Prints from the Age Of Expressionism
by Priester, Mary (Catalogue)
Portland: Portland Art Museum, 1992. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 165 pages. 28 x 21.5 cm. 137 illustrations. Select Bibliography.
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The Wood Gatherers
by Print
London: W. Allen, Nd. Very good. Color stipple engraving image 18 x 15 cm with sheet size 33 x 25 cm.
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The Defeat of the HIGH & MIGHTY Bailissimo Corbettino and his famed Celian Forces on the Plains of St. Martin
by [PRINT]
London: W. Humphry, 1785. Original Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. 24 x 33.5 cm. Fresh and bright color etching which appears to be Charles James Fox, prominent Whig statesman, noted as an anti-slavery campaigner, a supporter of the French Revolution, and a leading parliamentary advocate of religious tolerance and individual liberty. Printed on heavy stock by same... Read More
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The Toilet. From an Original Picture by Baudouin
by Print
Np: Np, Nd. Very good. Color stipple engraving image 26 x 24.5 cm. A popular subject of the period with a variety of interpretations by continental and British artists.
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The Act Directs
by 18th Century Print
London: J.W. Tomkins, 1791. Very good. Stipple engraved plate, image size 19.5 x 25 cm., mounted on board.
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Oval Color Engraving
by 19th Century Print
Np: Np, Nd. Very good. 21 x 13.5 cm. matted to board with adhesion marks to latter Board is 32. 24 cm. Image bright and clean.
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Asian Processional
by Asian Processional
Np: Np, Nd. wraps. The pair. Very good. Two paintings, each 28 x 65 cm. (image size) on silk and mounted on paper, depicting what appears to be a Royal processional with some characters represented carrying instruments, drums and banners. Colors are bright and sharp. Small stain upper left corner in paper backed margin of caravan moving left... Read More
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The Art Of The T'Ang Potter
by Prodan, Mario
London: Thames And Hudson, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light gray textured cloth front cover gilt illustration. Near fine in worn dust wrapper. 186 pages. 31 x 25 cm. 34 color plates, 120 photogravure illustrations and six diagrams. Bibliography, List of Color Plates and Index. Ursus Books label.
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Four Titles: By Auden, Wystan Hugh: Who's Who * Rimbaud * Gare du Midi * Orpheus
by Prokosch, Frederick (Illustrator)
Grasse: The Prometheus Press, 1984. First Editions. Wraps. Orig. acetate wrappers. Fine. 16 x 11.5 cm. Four leaves. Each of these poems in a limited edition of 5 copies, hand-illustrated, hand-bound by Frederick Prokosch, and each numbered and signed by Prokosch in red ink. Text in manuscript as issued, each with an original watercolor frontispiece mounted and tipped-in.... Read More
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Four Titles: Valery, Paul: Interieux * L'Abeille * La Ceinture * Vue
by Prokosch, Frederick (Illustrator)
Grasse: The Prometheus Press, 1984. First Editions. Wraps. Orig. acetate wrappers. Fine. 16 x 11.5 cm. Four leaves. Each of these poems in a limited edition of 5 copies, hand-illustrated, hand-bound by Frederick Prokosch, and each numbered and signed by Prokosch in red ink. Text in manuscript as issued, each with an original watercolor frontispiece mounted and tipped-in.... Read More
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World Architecture The Masterworks
by Pryce, Will
London: Thames & Hudson, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light gray boards. Fine in fine laminated dust wrapper. 319 pages. 30.5 x 24.5 cm. More than 350 photographs on high gloss stock present the finest buildings of civilization in the past 2000 years. Glossary. Index.
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Broadside Vol. 2
by New York. Oak Publications
New York: Oak Publicaitons, 1968. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. 96 pages. 29 x 21.5 cm. Signed copy front cover by Pete Seeger in red and Arlo Guthrie in black. Introduction by Gordon Friesen discusses America's topical folk song movement of the 1960's. This volume traces the anti-war protests of the Vietnam war... Read More
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Collections Of The New York Historical Society For The Years 1910-1911; City of New York Tax Lists 1695-1699 (Vol.I) and New York Tax Lists 1695-1699 And East Ward 1791 (Vol.II)
by New York Historical Society. Publications
New York: New York Historical Society, 1912. First editions. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Very good. 2 vols. 407 pages. 24.5 x 15.5 cm. Vol. 1 mostly unopened. Book label of Kings County Historical Society front cover Volume I paste down. Small dampstain Vol. I margin head not affecting text, otherwise very clean and fresh. Volume II with extensive... Read More
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Hard-A-Port Cut Plug
by MacLin-Zimmer-McGill Publishers
Np: MacLin-Zimmer-McGill, 1890. Stiff Boards. Orig. decorated light blue and white illustrated backs. Fine. Complete deck of 53 chromolithographic playing cards, 9.5 x 5.5 cm., including the "Little Joker." The Aces and numeral cards have the suit symbols superimposed over the costumes. Backs in blue and white depicting a sailor at the helm with the advertising line, "Smoke... Read More
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A Series of Ornamental Timber Gables, From Existing Examples in England and France, Of The Sixteenth Century
by Pugin, Augustus Welby
Cleveland: J.H. Jansen, 1925. Reprint. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated brown boards and cloth spine with cloth ties. Very good. 12 pages in text. 29 x 23 cm. Full-page plates drawn on stone by B. Ferrey with descriptive letter-press, by E.J. Willson. This was the last work he published. Pugin was draughtsman and drawing-master rather than an architect. He was... Read More
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Paris And Its Environs, Displayed In A Series of Views, From Original Drawings
by Pugin, Augustus Charles & Charles Heath
London: Jennings & Chaplin, 1831. Hardcover. Contemporary gilt lettered gilt lined three quarter morocco and dark brown cloth. Teg. Very good/Near fine. Pugin, Augustus Charles. 202 pages. 36 x 28.4 cm. 202 steel engraved views on 101 mounted sheets (India Proofs, each plate with two images) as issued with tissue guards. Published 1829-1931. Topographical and historical descriptions by... Read More
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Details Of Antient Timber Houses Of The 15th And 16th Centuries; Four works bound in one volume -- with Gothic Furniture In The Style Of The 15Th Century & Designs For Gold And Silversmiths & Designs For Iron & Brasswork In The Style Of The XVth And XVth Centuries
by Pugin, Augustus Welby
London: Ackermann & Co, 1836. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco and brown aubergine cloth. Near fine. Unpaginated. 29 x 23 cm. 102 engraved plates, four are partly colored titles which introduce the separate sections presenting 21, 24, 27 and 25 plates respectively, all etched by Pugin. Minor toning to front matter, interior contents very crisp and clean, early... Read More
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Pesn o Veshchem Olege (Song Of Oleg the Wise)
by Pushkin, Aleksandr & Viktor Vasnetzov
St. Petersburg: Ekspeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1899. Stiff Wraps. Orig. color printed cover. Very good/Near fine. Folio, 33 x 23 cm. Four color lithographed plates, decorative initials, and head- and tail-pieces by Vasnetsov. Six accordion-folded leaves, [leporello style] with a printed page as front cover and another as rear cover. Vasnetsov's most famous illustrated work, published on May... Read More
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Urban Space for Pedestrians; A Report of the Regional Plan Association
by Pushkarev, Boris with Jeffrey M. Zuppan
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Near fine in very good, slightly nicked dust wrapper. 162 pages. 28.5 x 22 cm. More than 100 photographs, plus graphs and charts. As the authors postulate, walking is not eccentric behavior. Signed presentation copy, "To Chris with affection Boris P.
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The World of Jean de Bosschere; With a letter of Paul Valery
by Putnam, Samuel
London: The Fortune Press, 1932. Hardcover. Orig. orange cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt. Near fine. Bosschere, Jean de. 160 pages. 22 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 695 of 1000. Printed on Kelmscott hand-made paper. Colored frontispiece woodcut of de Bosschere. Belgian born his Art Nouveau style was heavily influenced by the drawings of Aubrey Beardsley. He was... Read More
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