1836167 p. Title page ruled in black and decorated with an American eagle. Numerous text woodcuts of animals and birds. Ruled in black throughout. XLib stamp of Lebanon County Historical Society on first fly leaf. Also a Spangler ownership in light pencil. Text mildly foxed. Front inner hinge cracked. 12mo. 170 mm. Original leather spine over paper covered boards. Hardbound. Very Good. S&S/AI 36486. PAIMP 25

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Fifty Contemporary American Artists: Opening Exhibition

1957This is an about very good hardcover copy in dark blue cloth boards with title in gilt on the front cover. Very clean inside and out. Top right corners of boards worn. Internally very clean, some handling of the pages, not crisp. This was the first catalog published by the Greenwich Gallery located in Greenwich Village, on 71 Washington Place, in the area around New York University, which itself surrounds Washington Square Park. The exhibition featured paintings and sculpture by 50 American contemporary artists. Many of them immigrants from Russia or Eastern Europe, many Jewish. The gallery intended to show American modern, but representational or figurative art. They included: Milton Avery, Saul Baizerman, Isabel Bishop, Byron Browne, Charles Burchfield, David Burliuk, Doris Caesar, Jose de Creeft, Philip Evergood, William Gropper, Chaim Gross, George Grosz, Edward Hopper, Leon Kroll, Jack Levine, Jacques Lipchitz, Georgia O'Keefe, Henry Varnum Poor, Larry Rivers, Ben Shahn, the Soyer brothers Raphael, Isaac and Moses, Abraham Walkowitz, Max Weber, Andrew Wyeth and William Zorach, among many others. Each artist gets two pages: one biographical information and a black & white illustration. Essay by A.L. Chanin. 10" high X 7" wide. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.

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TAYLOR IMPROVED UNIVERSAL STENOGRAPHY, Or a New and Practical System Of Short Hand Writing. A New Edition Enlarged & Improved.

183056 p. + Frontis and 6 Full Page Engraved Plates. Frontis and title page steel engraved by H. Midlane. Paper browned but not brittle. Inked ownership of Wm. Hitchcock, Longhborough, July 1845 on Frontis. Stamped ownership of M. F. Lobo on inside front wrap. 175mm. Original full blue paper wraps. Some loss at tail of spine. Moses Finzi Lobo was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies (1834). He came to Philadelphia about 1845, and lived there until his death (1904). He was a respected journalist, scholar, author, and leader in community affairs. His skill and knowledge of shorthand was exceptional, and he was frequently called upon to record scientific addresses, and other important events. He served as private secretary to the Superintendent of the Mint, before resigning that post to engage in literary work. We feel fortunate to be able to present Short-Hand books owned by him. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SHORTHAND

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