1994ref. 153765Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia 1994. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia between November 30 1993 and February 21 1994. Very Good plus in illustrated card wrappers with French flaps. Some creasing to front and rear wrappers. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia unknown books
2009ref. 153837New York New Haven: Whitney Museum of American Art / Yale University Press 2009. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition which opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art on September 17 2009 and closed at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum on September 12 2010. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Light bump to heel. Wrappers with light bumps to heel crown and top right corners and a light crease to bottom of front panel. Whitney Museum of American Art / Yale University Press unknown books
2006ref. 153591Beverly Hills CA: Gagosian Gallery 2006. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Gagosian Gallery between October 24 and December 9 2006. Near Fine with no dust jacket as issued. Light soiling and light bumps to corners of boards. Gagosian Gallery unknown books
1912ref. 168131912. Girls' Education Handwritten original essays on literary figures from a female high school student. 25 illustrations of literary historical figures and their homes including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow John Greenleaf Whittier Charles Dickens Paul Revere Sir Walter Scott and James Russell Lowell. c. 1912. Original black boards and red cloth spine. 84 pages. 9 3/4 x 8 inches. Illustration all 8 x 5 1/2 in. "Freshman English and Sophomore English Note-book. Mildred Benjamin" written on first page in blue pen. Handwritten biographical reports of all those with aforementioned portraits. Also includes incomplete entries for Tennyson and George Eliot. "John Greenleaf Whittier was born in Haverhill Massachusetts the house still stands in which Whittier was reared.Whittier was taken with illness while visiting at the home of his friend.he had a slight paralytic stroke which produced a difficulty in taking food o medicine and it was plain that he could not be removed to Annesbury where he had always hoped to die. He was conscious to the last and was grateful to everyone. He had little acute pain. He lay all night in peace and died in the morning."Charles Dickens: "The boy Charles was not strong but nevertheless before he was ten years old he was obliged to earn his own living. He was placed in a blacking warehouse an old ramshackle house near the Thames. The scenes in which he was brought up were the most degrading ones possible.During this time he spent much of his time in the reading room of the British Museum.In 1842 he made his first trip to America. Just before going he wrote Oliver Twist in which he exposed the abuses of the poor law system." Press clippings on final pages for articles on Charles Dickens and John Greenleaf Whittier. Images of Longfellow's birthplace in Maine Whittier's birthplace and homes in Massachusetts "Gadshill" Dickens's home Sir Walter Scott's estate and "Elmswood" Lowell's home in Cambridge MA. Final press clipping contains a chapter of Ralph D. Paine's novel The Cross and the Dragon published 1912. Cover and spine detached from pages. First and last page toned foxing on first portrait of Longfellow else clean. Very good condition. unknown books
1992ref. 88966Tokyo: National Museum of Art 1992. Paperback. Near Fine. color illustrations 141p. Softcover in original wrappers. 28 cm. Text in Japanese and also selectively in English. National Museum of Art paperback books
2003ref. 84747Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art / Lund Humphries 2003. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto 27.5cm; light gray cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in black on spine; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 185pp; colorful illustrations throughout. Foxing to edges of textblock with light marks to title page; Very Good. Dustwrapper has trivial surface wear and creases to flaps; Very Good. Exhibition dates 26 October 2003 to 16 February 2004 organized by National Gallery of Art Washington. Text by Grasselli curator of old master drawings at The National Gallery of Art Washington. Essays by collector and connoisseur Ivan E. Phillips art history college lecturer Kristel Smentek and senior paper conservator Judith C. Walsh. 84747. National Gallery of Art / Lund Humphries unknown books
1960ref. 84980New York: Simon and Schuster Inc 1960. First Edition. Enveloped A.L.s. by photographer to Harlan Kleiman laid in. Quarto 33.5cm; white cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 67-1831pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. Inscribed by photographer on front endpaper: "For Harlan Kleiman / Irving Penn". Enveloped autographed letter printed with Irving Penn Studios blind embossed header: "The things you showed me made my mind race. / IP". A Fine copy. Dustwrapper lightly tanned with shelf-soil 5" vertical tear to spine panel with 1" horizontal tears 0.5" tear to front panel and creases tiny chips and tears to spine ends and extremities; Good. Publisher's pictorial slipcase with shelf-wear and soil; Very Good. Inscribed to Harlan Phillip Kleiman screenwriter Broadway producer and co-founder of New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre. Penn a fashion and still life photographer with works published in Vogue magazine shares this photograph collection. Includes photographs of Maurice de Vlaminck Evelyn Waugh Carson McCullers and children. 84980. Simon and Schuster, Inc unknown books
1984ref. 53413Palermo: Sellerio Editore 1984. Quarto 34cm. Black cloth-covered boards titled in gilt on spine and front cover with applied pictorial label; 61pp text 120 unnumbered pages of plates. Illustrated in b&w in text 61 leaves of plates containing 187 color reproductions. Publisher's price sticker inside rear cover. Mild external wear; internally clean fresh and unmarked; Near Fine. Text entirely in Italian. A history of the Sicilian lemon exporting industry in the 19th and early 20th centuries richly illustrated with reproductions of crate labels stencils and marketing designs. A beautifully- produced book. Number 5 in publisher's series "I cristalli" a uniform series documenting various aspects of Sicilian cultural history. Uncommon. Sellerio Editore unknown books
1929ref. 82422London: The Fleuron Ltd 1929. First Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies this being copy no.222. Quarto 25.75cm; tan cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and decorations stamped in gilt on front cover; top edge gilt; publisher's patterned paper-covered slipcase; viii642pp; with color illustrations by Albert Rutherston. Gentle sunning to spine with a very shallow indentation to upper rear board edge resulting in a mild ripple to text at upper margin; some offsetting to endpapers a handful of faint foxed spots to half-title else clean throughout; about Near Fine. Slipcase is shelfworn a bit sunned with some partial splits and general tenderness along the joints; still sound but only Good to Very Good. The first and only printing of this collection of five essays. BROMER A20. 82422. The Fleuron Ltd unknown books
1954ref. 81101Norfolk CT: New Directions 1954. First American Edition. First Printing one of 2000 copies. Octavo 22.25cm; black cloth with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xvi23-464pp. Light wear along the lower board edges else a fresh very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $6.00 lightly edgeworn gently sunned at spine and front panel extremities with a few tiny tears and creases; Very Good much better than usually found. A substantial collection of Pounds essays and literary criticism covering three decades. According to Gallup Faber & Faber printed 5000 sets of sheets for New Directions; 2000 of them were bound in 1954 1000 in 1956 another 1000 in 1961 and the remaining 748 copies in 1966. Edited by T.S. Eliot who has provided a 7pp introduction. GALLUP A67b; GALLUP B72b. New Directions unknown books
1988ref. 9019326Minneapolis: Walker Art Center / MIT Press 1988. paperback. Near fine. Bound in the publisher's original illustrated wraps. Profusely illustrated throughout. Walker Art Center / MIT Press paperback books
1980ref. 9013650New York: Museum Of Modern Art 1980. paperback. Fine Condition. Museum Of Modern Art paperback books
1989ref. 9013588Newark NJ: Newark Museum 1989. Paperback. Fine Condition. Bound in publisher's original wrappers. Newark Museum paperback books
1965ref. 9013967New York: Abrams 1965. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. The rear inner hinge is weak. The dust jacket has minor chips and closed tears to the extremities. Errata slip tipped-in on front paste-down. Abrams hardcover books
1994ref. 9013969New York: McGraw-Hill 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1987ref. 9014221Boston: New York Graphic Society / Little Brown & Co 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. New York Graphic Society / Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
1996ref. 9014529New York: Thames and Hudson 1996. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. With 757 illustrations 216 in color. Bound in publisher's original navy blue cloth with the spine stamped in silver. Thames and Hudson hardcover books
1974ref. 9011951Greenwich Connecticut: New York Graphic Society 1974. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket is price clipped has a chip to the head of the spine and has other minor chips and closed tears to the extremities. New York Graphic Society hardcover books
1991ref. 9009322New York: Stewart Tabori & Chang 1991. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with the front cover stamped in blind and the spine stamped in gilt. The dust jacket has a small chip and a closed tear. Stewart, Tabori & Chang hardcover books
1998ref. 9008977New Haven: Yale University Press 1998. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Cloth with gilt letters on the spine color illustrations throughout. Yale University Press hardcover books
1993ref. 9008449New York: Abrams 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. 269 illustrations including 100 plates in color. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with the spine stamped in gilt and the front cover stamped in blind. The dust jacket's spine is sunned. Abrams hardcover books
1997ref. 9006765New York: Random House 1997. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 195 pages illustrated throughout in color. A historical survey of church architecture. Random House hardcover books
1994ref. 9006861New York: Abrams in association with the American Craft Museum 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 275 illustrations including 98 in color. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with the front cover stamped in blind and the spine stamped in gilt. Abrams in association with the American Craft Museum hardcover books
2001ref. 9004312Hanover: University Pres of New England 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in the publisher's original rust cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. University Pres of New England hardcover books
1801ref. 23544London: Printed at the Oriental Press by Wilson & Co. for Edward Harding 1801. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto pp 205 217 with two folding hand-colored maps and 47 engraved plates in a contemporary full calf binding with gilt rules spine in six compartments with red and black spine labels and gilt embellisment. Some rubbing to boards especially at joints and head of spine a little worming to boards. Binding sound scattered foxing but generally clean. The maps which are in very nice condition show Pennant's route from London to Dover and then from Dover to the Isle of Wight. "Thomas Pennant was a Welsh antiquarian and naturalist whose works were very popular in the eighteenth century. His reputation was built on his important natural history survey British Zoology first printed in 1766 and his accounts of two tours of Scotland undertaken in 1769 and 1772. Pennant made further tours in Wales and in England between 1773 and 1787 and his popularity among amateur naturalists and antiquarians resulted in the development of a comprehensive network of correspondents many of whom supplied him with additional information that he added to subsequent editions of his works. Aside from his 1783 book describing the antiquities on the road between Chester and London and his immensely popular account of the antiquities of London none of Pennant’s English tours were published during his lifetime. This account of his 1787 tour to the Isle of Wight was edited by his son David and published in 1801. Rather than heading directly to the island Pennant’s tour took in much of the south-east coast of England travelling first from London to Dover before traversing the coasts of Kent and Sussex" Royal Collection Trust. Printed at the Oriental Press by Wilson & Co. for Edward Harding hardcover books
