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1976rif. 37880Chicago: Gallery Black Swan 1976. 17 by 11 inches. Yellow stock printed in black. Some light handling wear else a fine example. Original poster for this musical performance that happened during the World Surrealist Exhibition with a group that consisted of three AACM members: George Lewis James Johnson and Douglas Ewart. Gallery Black Swan unknown books
1983rif. 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 titlepage 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
2005rif. 291432Jamesville NY: The Enamelist Society 2005. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. 80 pages with text as well as many captioned color photographic images. There are no marks in the book. Near Fine binding. The Enamelist Society unknown books
1905rif. 59157Cambridge MA: Houghton 1905. Large 8vo pp. xii 350. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt. TEG. Illustrated. Cover worn along hinge spine and part of cover faded o/w VG. (Houghton) unknown books
1950rif. 35807Montevideo: Asociacion de Impresores y Anexos del Uruguay 1950. First edition. Paper wrappers with spiral binding. A very good copy with faint soiling on wrappers plain cardboard slipcase lacking top edge and much worn. 29 pp. plates. Illus. with 22 color plates 3 folding and 5 b/w plates. 4to. No. 212 of 800 copies issued not for sale but for association members public libraries and public authorities with the card of Julio Speroni Vener Bibliotecario del Ministerio del Interior who wrote one of the articles entitled "Los precursores de la bibliografía uruguaya" tipped in. A second article "La Imprenta de la Patria Vieja 1815-1816" was by Juan E. Pivel Devoto. Many portraits advertisements some items printed on clear sheets overall an interesting item and somewhat unusual; in the U.S. only a partial copy the article by Speroni Vener is shown by OCLC at Texas. Also a copy is at Biblioteca de la AECI in Spain. Asociacion de Impresores y Anexos del Uruguay unknown books
1952rif. 179578Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha 1952. Softcover. Good shelfwear and soiling to wraps pages 1-6 have crinkling along edges. Text and illustrations are otherwise clear and clean. Red white and blue wraps with English and Japanese lettering on covers 10 16 pp bw illustrations. Text in English and Japanese. Includes list of works by country; France America Italy England Brazil Belgium and Japan. American artists include: Bernard Arnest Louis Bouche Alexander Brook Kenneth Callahan William Congdon Russell Cowles Joseph De Martini Adolph Gotlieb Karl Knaths Yasuo Kuniyoshi Joe Lasker John Marin Hans Moller Walter Murch James Penny Carl Pickhardt Jackson Pollock Henry Varnum Poor Abraham Rattner Wallace Reiss Sonia Sekula Ben Shahn Charles Sheeler Niles Spencer Theodoros Stamos Reuben Tam Bradley Walker Tomlin Franklin C. Watkins Max Weber Karl Zerbe and Sueo Serisawa. Mainichi Shinbunsha unknown books
1873rif. 177886Cincinnati: Cincinati Industrial Exposition 1873. Softcover. Good. front cover has tanning & dampstaining w/ elegant pen inscription; back cover scuffed. text-block detached from covers. title & closing pgs have old dampstaining shadows & foxing. interior clean. tan wrappers w/ red & black printing & black emblem. 110 pgs. Seven punched & string bound sections that are still firmly held. The majority of the pages have greyed with a few still bright & tan. Pages have occasional smudges and foxing but overall very clean. A nice collectible of Mid-Western American History. Cincinati Industrial Exposition unknown books
1900rif. 5747Boston: Noyes Platt & Company 1900. Hardcover. VG. Red cloth. 110 48 pp. 48 bw plates. Includes biographical paragraphs on every American artist who was represented at the 1900 Exposition. Lists 255 paintings 160 drawings and illustrations 41 miniatures 69 works of sculpture 56 architecture entries and 3 mural decorations. Quite rare. Noyes, Platt & Company hardcover books
1987rif. 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 pencilled 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
1987rif. 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
1938rif. 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
2006rif. 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
1939rif. 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
1893rif. 186002Chicago: the exposition; Printed in Germany 1893. Single long leaf of light cardstock about 6.5x35 inches long recto printed with heavily glazed b&w lithos and folded to 6.5x3.25 inches; images at either end are laid down on stiff cloth boards which enclose the concertina'd views. Upper boards is decorated with lady showing one breast and a cupid clutching a US shield-thingie. A poor-to-fair exemplar; the cardstock is quite acidic and fragile and while it supports individual images well enough has split away from both covers with one ragged loss and further splits are developing. Complete as called for with all faults. The scenes are exclusively of buildings little sailing craft negotiating the lagoon-grid one armored gunboat and trees with people shown as dots. the exposition; Printed in Germany unknown books
1939rif. 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
1938rif. 167358San Francisco: Popular Mechanics and G.G.I.E. Committee 1938. 12p 6.5x9.5 inches eight pages in colors some two-color some almost-full-colorvery good offprint booster campaign booklet get-em into the tent in stapled blue pictorial wraps stapled rusty title page a full-color illustration of a model of the South gardens with title above: Treasure Island of 1939" This specially bound reprint of an article from the may issue of Popular Mechanics Magazine is indicative of the nation-wide interest in the 1939 World's Fair on San Francisco Bay as demonstrated by one of America's major publications. Mostly distance views imaginary or enhanced including two of modellers reaching into their miniaturized domains. The most curious image is a multicolor aerial view of Treasure Island AFTER the exhibit building have been demolished and the whole artifice turned into radiating runways separated by huge green lawns: "When the fair is finished the man-made island will become the airport pictured here" --a bad idea that didn't get better. Popular Mechanics and G.G.I.E. Committee unknown books
1982rif. 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
1907rif. 15590Chicago: Laird & Lee 1907. Oblong. 8vo Illustrated with 216 views 32 in colors With a fold-out map of the exposition Generally a fine copy. Laird & Lee unknown books
rif. D17552Autograph diary written in pencil signed by Miss Elizabeth Woods of Bowling Green Kentucky. 135 pp. Well educated wealthy American woman's account of seeing Europe; mostly Paris France. Her Southern sensibilities were shocked at seeing a white woman at the same table with a black man. Turns out he was a minister from Haiti and the lady was his wife. Miss Woods saw the Paris Exposition several times; saw Sarah Bernhardt perform; saw President Kruger of South Africa; saw a street where Jews were not allowed to come out after 6pm; describes fancy balls and dinners; shopping for clothes.much of interest. Worn oil cloth binding. Numerous accounts of "charming" or "lovely" people. hardcover books
1907rif. 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
1893rif. 20760Chicago: Metcalf Stationery Company 1893. First Edition. 16 pp in original stapled wrappers. Delicate condition with a 1/4 x 1.5 inch chip missing from all pages in the volume not affecting text and an additional chip to the front wrapper. A scarce and detailed guide to the many features of the Moorish Palace at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. These included a palm garden "enhanced by groups of Arabs" a replica of the Alhambra a harem a labyrinth a cave a "monster kaleidoscope" and an extensive wax museum. The guide describes 60 figures and scenes appearing in the museum among them the Lincoln assasintation the fountain of youth Christ and the Samartian Martin Luther Sleeping Beauty Shakespeare Mozart Queen Victoria Pope Leo XIII Napoleon and George Washington. A separate room contained a diorama of the execution of Marie Antoinette which used the actual scaffold and guillotine that did the deed. Metcalf Stationery Company unknown books
1975rif. 47729n.p.: Imp. SERG/Ivry. Copyright by Centre National d'Arte et de Culture Georges-Pompidou. Bibliothéque publigue d'information 1975. 1st Printing. White thick paper leaves printed in black. Stapled. Text in French. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A Vg copy. Some light soiling and faint age toning. Edges rubbed corners bumped. Internallt clean and bright. 16 pp. Illustrated with black and white photgraphes. 12-1/2" x 9-1/4" An exhibition catalog. Imp. SERG/Ivry. Copyright by Centre National d'Arte et de Culture Georges-Pompidou. Bibliothéque publigue d'info unknown books
1905rif. 43816divers places: divers publishers 1905. Most white or buff cardstock illustrated to recto with printed address block to verso. Light general wear; occasional minor soiling; mix of used and unused cards. Many used cards posted and stamped 1905; some cards have writing to both sides. Many with old prices penciled thereon. Overall VG condition or better. 245 postcards 142 color 103 b/w including 25 duplicates. ~3-1/2" x 5-1/2" A large collection of used and unused postcards from the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exhibition in Portland Oregon held June 1 - October 14 1905. The archive includes color and b/w photographic and lithographic images of the fair's exhibits and the surrounding scenery as well as humorous illustrations and eight combination portraits in which a fairgoer's head has been photographed and printed on a cartoon body. Several of the color postcards have been neatly embellished with glitter. Partial series contained within the collection include three half-tone b/w reproductions of Lee Moorhouse photographs of Native American chiefs; six cards illustrated by Murray Wade signed in the plate; five monotone cards from "Colfax Week" three of which are the same image but in different colors; three b/w cards for the "Great Baltimore Fire on the Trail"; 12 color and b/w cards advertising a specific product a product's association with an exhibit or simply promoting an area business designated via printed information or stamp; a color image of the Forestry Building cropped and affixed to a hand-soldered wooden backing with an address block to the verso; and of course the many numbered images particular to each exhibit; in several cases the same image seems to have been used by two different publishers. Publishers include B. B. Rich Official Stationer Lewis and Clark Official Photograph Company E. P. Charlton & Co. Lewis and Clark Exposition Co. D. M. Averill and Co. and J. K. Gill Co. all of Portland OR; Edward H. Mitchell Pub. and Britton & Rey Lithographers of San Francisco; Frank S. Thayer Pub. Denver; A. Selige Pub. St. Louis; Tom Jones Pub. Cincinnati; and others. In most cases duplicates here are markedly different from their counterparts e. g. decorated with glitter sent from two different people etc. (divers publishers) unknown books
1939rif. 43914San Francisco: Southern Pacific Railroad 1939. White paper printed in black color illustration to front. Modest general wear and occasional minor soiling; minor spotting and toning to rear of two menus; light musty odor. VG. Bifolia. Menu fare printed to inner and rear pages. Different color illustration of one of the fair's exhibits to the front of each menu. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" Set of four promotional menus -- one breakfast two lunch one dinner -- each featuring a series of meal selections and a la carte options; little variance between the two lunch menus with the exception of the vegetable offering and front illustration. Beverages cigars and cigarettes playing cards and "dietetic service" notice remains the same for all menus and is printed on the last page of each. Southern Pacific Railroad unknown books
2013rif. 38455New York: The Grolier Club 2013. 1st printing. Stiff paper wrappers decorated with black and white image with blue accents. As New. Still in publisher's shrink-wrap. 4 5-182 2 pp. Intratextual b/w photographic images. 11" x 8" The Grolier Club unknown books
