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1893Best.-Nr. 47874Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon & Sons Co 1893. First edition. Hardcover. 318pp. Octavo 22 cm Original brown cloth with gilt title to front cover and spine. Blind stamped decorative borders on front and rear covers. Decorative endsheets. Very good. Minor wear to edges surfaces corners. Large spot of fading on the top of front cover. The top edge of the rear board is subtly darkened. There is also a tiny stain on the rear board. A numerical paper label is mounted to the spine. Pages mildly age-toned. Black and white illustrations and photos. Includes: An epitome of the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints compiled by Andrew Jenson. George Q. Cannon & Sons Co hardcover books
2003Best.-Nr. 602823New York: The New-York Historical Society 2003. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalog. Quarto. 63pp. Fully illustrated. Pictorial wrappers. Wraps rubbed a couple of tiny bumps very good or better. With a letter tipped in to the title page Inscribed by Shanks. The New-York Historical Society unknown books
1905Best.-Nr. 19444Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Commission 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red buckram with gilt seal of Pennsylvania front cover. Teg. Very Good. 364 pages. 25 x 17 cm. Description of buildings art mines agriculture and transportation; black and white illustrations and catalogue of awards. Bookplate uncut spine slightly sunned crisp clean copy. Pennsylvania Commission hardcover books
1876Best.-Nr. 19386London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Black buckram Very good. 424 pages. 23 x 19 cm. Exhibitors' commercial guide. Ex-library dampstains at head not affecting text lacks title page clean copy. Eyre & Spottiswoode hardcover books
1988Best.-Nr. 322526San Francisco: Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries Inc 1988. Staplebound Wraps. Unpaginated fifteen consecutive plates in clear b&w exhibition photography plus editorial material about twenty pages altogether nice clean pamphlet in 11x8.5 inch semi-gloss black wraps. Slightest crimping along spinefold else fully sound clean and unmarked. Laid in find two stapled standard leaves bearing further descriptions and a chronology a staffer's calling card stapled with these. Women depicted are mostly peasant or rural types emphasis on motherhood. Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries Inc unknown books
1985Best.-Nr. 324689New York: Coe Kerr Gallery 1985. Paperback. Unpaginated perhaps 35p. displaying 45 numbered images most full-page; half in color; sketches shown vignette-size presswork on glazed alkaline paperstock and softbound in 11.5x8 inch frenchfold wraps signed on the half-title with brief inscription as "Jim Bama". Areas of damp-damage have noticeably affected lower corners of both front and rear covers and have caused mild adhesions to a half-dozen terminal leaves which we parted successfully any scarring is inconspicuous. Bama's work is just as stunning as Remington's with less range; these graphics are still portraits. With all faults a good good-only copy. Coe Kerr Gallery paperback books
2009Best.-Nr. 302398Dublin: Project Press 2009. Paperback. 95p. french-fold wraps profusely illus. old price sticker on rear wrap else very good exhibition catalog. One of 1000 copies. Project Press paperback books
1976Best.-Nr. 298294Washington DC: Smithsonian 1976. Pamphlet. 23p. wraps 9.25x9.25 inches very good condition. Smithsonian Institution Press publication no. 6217. Smithsonian unknown books
1991Best.-Nr. 292110San Francisco: Istituto Italiano di Cultura 1991. Pamphlet. Unpaginated slick pamphlet six fullpage color plates printed recto opposite brief captions a single page of introduction softbound in 12x8 inch gloss-black wraps decorated with a color reproduction that brings the total of plates to seven. Item shows mild edgewear faint pressure marks and the shadow of a small erasure to titlepage; a very good copy clean and sound. Istituto Italiano di Cultura unknown books
2015Best.-Nr. 292921New Haven: Artspace 2015. Pamphlet. 70p. 6x8.5 inches; slight handling soil on wraps else very good. Signed by Martha Lewis. Artspace unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 278360Hamburg Germany: Hans Christians Druckerei 1975. Staplebound. 34p. french-fold wraps 9x8.25 inches profusely illus. very good exhibition catalog. Hans Christians Druckerei unknown books
1993Best.-Nr. 265945Windsor Ontario: Art Gallery of Windsor 1993. Paperback. 85p. wraps 8.75x11 inches profusly illus. very good condition. Text in English and French. Catalogue for an exhibition of works by the multimedia artist. Art Gallery of Windsor paperback books
1983Best.-Nr. 257557Oakland CA / Alexandria: Museum of Fine Arts Alexandria Egypt printing arranged by Oakland Museum 1983. Pamphlet. 12p. translucent endsheets glazed alkaline paperstock with texts in English and Arabic five fullpage color reproductions and a couple tiny b&w. A staplebound oblong pamphlet in 8.5x10.5 inch plain printed wraps good copy but Ex Library with small sticker to front cover and a sloppily-applied rubberstamp "Oakland Museum Library" on title page at publisher's line. Ranes a Polish-born Parisian who having lived through WWII immigrated to the US in 1946. Museum of Fine Arts Alexandria Egypt (printing arranged by Oakland Museum) unknown books
1987Best.-Nr. 246351San Francisco: Asian Art Museum 1987. Pamphlet. 15p. captioned color exhibit photography on coated alkaline paperstock throughout softbound in 9x6 inch stapled self-wraps. Covers are mildly crimped and handled and a small light corner-tip crease affects every leaf. A bookdealer's half-erased penciled price and code slightly mar the second leaf. Quite sound and clean a good copy. ".focuses on Japanese lacquer from the long era of peace under the Tokugawa shogunate from 1615 to 1868. It was during this period that the technical sophistication of the medium reached its highest standard Asian Art Museum unknown books
1987Best.-Nr. 246352San Francisco: Asian Art Museum 1987. Pamphlet. 15p. captioned color exhibit photography on coated alkaline paperstock throughout softbound in 9x6 inch stapled self-wraps. Covers are a bit crimped and handled with small faint stains a tiny corner-tip crease affects every leaf and a bookdealer's half-erased pencilled price and code slightly mar leaf the second. Laid in is a museum-issued guide to the lacquering process thirty points printed on nice tan paper. A good copy. ".focuses on Japanese lacquer from the long era of peace under the Tokugawa shogunate from 1615 to 1868. It was during this period that the technical sophistication of the medium reached its highest standard Asian Art Museum unknown books
1907Best.-Nr. 10665315" x 9 ¾" color illustration from a 1907 newspaper. Attached at the bottom margin with tape to cardboard sheet slight margin creasing a couple of margin nicks and normal aging; otherwise very good. Colorful illustration of the Jamestown Exposition celebrating the 300-year anniversary of the town. It shows the Sea End of Godspeed Pier and the east side of Raleigh Square. You can see a dirigible anchored near the center of town. J.W. Pratt, books
1938Best.-Nr. 222981San Francisco: The Monitor 1938. Magazine. Section Two" only evidently the expo-dedicated portion of this issue of the long-lived Roman Catholic periodical. Folio magazine softbound of course stapled 17x11 illustrated wraps sepia cover drawing joins TI tower and Ferry Building images 40p. coated alkaline paperstock throughout with plenty of b&w illustrations and ads. Be warned find minimal Expo material most pix are of old Franciscan churches over boilerplate text. Item is bent along top and bottom margins packing problems for tall vulnerable thingie with crimpings and some creasing there's a half-inch food lump on cover that goes thru to verso a basically as-is good-only copy that would flatten nicely under weight. Pious boosterism; for instance PG&E took out an ad bannered "Electrical Miracles In Store For Exposition Visitors" referring to anticipated gorgeous lighting effects has a so-so b&w illustration linking lit-up nighttime SF to the nearby lit-up island. The Monitor unknown books
2006Best.-Nr. 221224Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library University of Toronto 2006. Paperback. 65p. coated paperstock high-definition reproductions of color and sepia prints softbound in 11.5x10 inch decorated wraps. A very nice clean copy. Graphic in the extreme somewhat enlivened by a terminal section of "medical caricature Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto paperback books
1939Best.-Nr. 208478Des Moines: Meredith Publishing Company 1939. Cover story announced there; cover illustration per se simply an indoor flower-arranger at work begins with a double-spread on pp20-21 with one half-page b&w photo and ten vignettes and a tiny map of central California thereafter comprised of 4 or 5 full columns of text scattered in the back of the magazine. Complete issue 88p with color wraps; front wrap is near fine back is dampstained with offset blue no bleed-through staples are exposed front and back and are quite rusty with a little migration; spine panel has inch-long chips at head and tail. As is a fair to good-only copy. Richardson's story records some talk with Julius L. Girod chief of the expo's Bureau of Horticulture but is mostly general tourist stuff. Meredith Publishing Company unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 185087Newark NJ: Firemen's Insurance Company 1939. 32p. coated paperstock with stock photos of the state the Bay Area and the Exposition. Softbound in 11x8.5 inch stapled glossy wraps a rather worn copy with multiple dog-ears. Perhaps ten pages on the Fair. Firemen's Insurance Company unknown books
1876Best.-Nr. 101959Small 3 1/2" x 5" oblong souvenir book embossed red cloth with gilt letters 24 accordion style panels with illustrations two double page. Some slight extremity wear internally bright and clean; very good plus. Somewhat scarce souvenir booklet with numerous illustrations of Philadelphia during the Centennial Exhibition. Illustrations include a panoramic view of Philadelphia Independence Hall the New Post Office Masonic Temple the United States Mint Girard College and the exhibition grounds for the Centennial Celebration. Geo. C. Renkauff, books
1982Best.-Nr. 118866Kansas City: Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art 1982. 65p. 11x11 inches introductions notes chronology footnotes b&w photos gift inscription limited to 3000 copies mild soiling to original pictorial wraps. Includes many of Weston's nudes and photos of Diego Rivera Orozco Kahlo etc. Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art unknown books
1915Best.-Nr. 008618NY: John Lane Co 1915. Soft cover. VG. 4to pictorial covers monthly issue of design/arts/architecture monthly this issue's most important features in our opinion illustrated articles on woodcut artist T. Stureg Moore wiith 2 fill page woodcuts and b&w images of more and the sculpture at the Panama Pacific Exposition illustrated w/ b&w photogrtaphs. Covers lightly soiled the rest near fine. John Lane Co unknown books
Best.-Nr. B257537-2Buffalo New York David Gray 1901. 96pp. 1 folding colored plan. Text illus. 4to. Orig. wraps. disbound. Buffalo, New York (David Gray), 1901. paperback books
Best.-Nr. B160259-2Washington D.C. 1981. 52pp. Prof. illus. Oblong 4to. Wraps. Washington, D.C., 1981. paperback books
