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2007ref. 136025Santa Fe NM: LewAllen Contemporary 2007. Softcover. G Ex-library with label and markings cover has separated from text block but all are present. Black & illus wraps French flaps. 32 pp. many color illus. A behind-the-scenes look at this unique installation by American artist Judy Chicago b. 1939. Includes a bio and article excerpts from Chicago and Lucy Lippard. LewAllen Contemporary paperback books
1986ref. 80471986. Softcover. VG but for title written on spine and small label on front cover. Tan wraps. 49 pp. 20 color plates. Includes artist's statement four-page essay by Julie Schimmel list of 20 plates the color plates of western landscapes and professional information. paperback books
1874ref. 103967London: Smith Elder & Company 1874. Hardbound. VG ex archival art library set with old labels on lower spine perforation stamps on both title pages. Clean tight and fresh look very nice on the shelf. Publishers decorated brown gilt embossed cloth. Vol. 1: XVI 466 pp. Vol. 2: XI 473 pp. Profuse line engravings within the text. Smith, Elder & Company hardcover books
1876ref. 103968Stuttgart: Von Ebner & Seubert 1876. Hardbound. VG ex archival art library set with old labels on lower spine perforation stamps on both title pages. Clean tight and fresh look very nice on the shelf. Half-leather with 4 raised bands deckled edges gilt embossed title. Vol. 1: XI 388 pp. Vol. 2: 459 pp. Profuse line engravings within the text. Text in German. A standard history in a lovely binding. Von Ebner & Seubert hardcover books
2000ref. 219062000. Softcover. VG. White wraps. 64 pp. Numerous mostly color plates. Includes a lengthy essay by Percy North which follows the artist's life and career. Also conatins a biographical chronology and many wonderful color plates. paperback books
1989ref. 1379New York: Berry-Hill Galleries 1989. Softbound. New to VG. Color illus. and olive wraps; 191 plates pp. 34 color 214 bw repros. A massive catalogue with 454 footnotes. Lengthy and very useful bibliography. Extensive biography of the artist written by his great-granddaughter Faith Andrews Bedford. Article detailing Benson Abbott Thayer and Dublin New Hampshire written by Susan C. Faxon. Article on the development of Benson's artistic style written by Bruce W. Chambers. Catalogue lists 94 works gathered for this exhibition held May 17 to June 24 1989. Berry-Hill Galleries paperback books
1983ref. 135341983. Softcover. VG. Black wraps. Appx. 100 pp. 94 color plates. Illustrated and annotated catalogue of 94 works by 19 artists with biographical information and wonderful color illustrations. paperback books
2006ref. 335213New York: St. Martin's 2006. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Some b/w illustrations. 338 pages. 8vo black cloth pictorial d.w. New York: St. Martin's 2006. First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. St. Martin's unknown books
2021ref. 71198Santa Fe: The Press at the Palace of the Governors 2021. Limited edition. Near Fine. Duodecimo 19.5 cm Covers made from paper handmade by John Koller and marbled by Thomas Leech. Work of the press done by Thomas Leech and James Bourland. Two tipped-in reproduced photographs. Eight tipped-in reproductions of Dorothy's linoleum block prints. An elegant fine press limited edition featuring the writing of Ernie O'Malley and the art of Dorothy Stewart. "Santa Fe has been a center for artists and writers over the years. Most of them hailed from elsewhere. This was true in 1927 for the Philadelphia-native artist Dorothy Newkirk Stewart 194-1955 and in 1930 for my father the Irish militant nationalist author and poet General Ernie O'Malley 1897-1957." - Cormac K H O'Malley Number 78 in an edition limited to only one hundred books. Bound in the style of the popular travel journals that letterpress printer James Bourland produced for Palace Press. The Press at the Palace of the Governors unknown books
1991ref. 344923St. Paul: Visual Arts Information Service 1991. Newspaper. 32p. folded tabloid newspaper very good condition on newsprint. Also: Revolution in the Service of the Marvelous Women Students & Artists for Black Art Liberation a centerfold poster by Ringgold. Visual Arts Information Service unknown books
1979ref. 620676Stockholm: Bonniers Junior 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Swedish edition. Translated by Rebecca Alsberg. Illustrated by the author. Small quarto. Text in Swedish. Glazed pictorial boards with dust jacket. Binding slightly cocked boards bowed and top corners of boards gently bumped a bright very good or better copy in a lightly tanned and modestly worn very good or better dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Jaques' first picture book as author and illustrator and still one of her best. Only two copies of this Swedish edition in OCLC both in Sweden. Bonniers Junior hardcover books
1878ref. 33208London: F.E. Longley 1878. Very Good. London: F.E. Longley n.d. ca. 1878. First Edition. Four volumes; slim 12mos 15cm; publisher's uniform pictorial paper-covered boards printed chromolithograph with publisher's device discretely mounted to each volume; illus. throughout including advertisements at front and rear of volume. Moderate wear to margins bottom inch of spine of "Random Sketches" and "Robert Vincent's Mistake" perished else a Very Good bright and sound collection. Titles include: 1. Mary Baskin. "The Deverill Revival / Beginning to Live; or The Ragged School Dinner." 2. Rev. Arthur Mursell. "Random Sketches." 3. Rev. James Yeames and Emilie Searchfield. "Hugh Bidston / A Tale of Self Sacrifice." 4. Rev. James Yeames and Mary Baskin. "Robert Vincent's Mistake / Caught by Guile." Small cache of four volumes in the Fireside Series which provided short and easy-to-consume morality tales packaged in cheap but jewel-like bindings. The rear cover of each volume is adorned with a vivid advertisement for Berlin Wool and German Needlework imported by M. Leader. Each volume is also adorned with advertisements for Fry's cocoa extract Sulphine supplement for indigestion and the Willcox and Gibbs sewing machine company. OCLC and Library Hub locate copies at Cambridge only of each title except "Random Sketches" which appears to be unrecorded as of June 2025. F.E. Longley unknown books
1937ref. 014849Farrar & Rinehart 1937. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In a Very Good Plus Jacket Small Chip in Heel. First Edition $2.00 on Flap. Very Rare Biblio-Mystery Excellent Fresh copy. Loosely Based on Ben Abramson and the Argus Bookshop of Chicago. Farrar & Rinehart Hardcover books
ref. 001276Crown 1992 Book. As New. Soft cover. F. As New/As New. First Edition. Galley/Proof. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ISBN:0-517-58767-X. Crown, 1992 Paperback books
ref. 001275Atheneum 1993 Book. As New. Soft cover. F. As New/As New. First Edition. Galley/Proof. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ISBN:1-56282-425-2. Atheneum, 1993 Paperback books
1942ref. 4611341942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A collection of five books from the poet Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. They included two Inscribed association copies one Signed copy of an unpublished poetry collection and a rare promotional flyer. All are first editions. Three are hardcovers with original or contemporary dustwrapers and two are paperback originals. Overall very good with moderate wear and some with dampstaining or soiling. Vilas 1878-1955 was a poet and playwright who graduated from Lewis Institute in Chicago and authored five collections of poetry and 14 plays. She read and lectures across the county and on radio in the Washington DC where she lived with her husband who was a prominent Milwaukee lawyer served on the Federal Trade Commission. The works here appear to have come from the Palmer family of Bethesda Maryland with three books inscribed or signed to them and two of them with notes from Vila in the text adding background or explaining the inspiration behind various poems. An interesting collection of poetry from a successful but now overlooked poet. List: Fiat Lux Let There Be Light: A Modern Mystery Play. New York: Samuel French 1922. Acting edition. Octavo. 26pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Good only with dampstain at the edges oxidation at the staples and splitting at the spine ends. The Drummer of Fyvie and Other Verse. New York and Reader Editions Inc. 1926. First edition. Octavo. 95pp. Very good gray boards with paper label in very good homemade marbled dust wrapper with the title in silver. Inscribed by the author: ‘To our dear new old friends The Palmer Family – This book. Please accept it as “the Guerdon of a grateful quest’ - Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. January 1942 Betheda -Maryland-.” Aromancy and Other Verse. Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company 1929. First edition. Octavo. 71pp. Near fine black cloth boards with gilt lettering in very good printed dustwrapper with some toning small stain and edgewear that including nicks and tears. Inscribed by the author: “For Richard Palmer with my affection and admiration Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. This little volume with notes in the margins!!! The last day of 1942-.” The text is marked in more than nine places with corrections notes or comments on the origin of the poem or the person who inspired it. Certificate of Flight. New York: Loker Raley 1939. First edition. Octavo. 79pp. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and spider web patterned acetate dustwrapper. Near fine with a tidemark affecting bottom corner of the text block in about very good dustwrapper toning chipping and splitting at the front flap fold. A collection of verse. OCLC locates two copies Yale and University of Miami. Flyer: Faith Vilas. New York: Helen M. Fowles 1942. Single quarto sheet folded once to make four pages. Near fine with horizontal crease and contemporary ink corrections. A flyer providing a biography of Vilas along with blurbs for “Certificate of Flight and Fiat Lux and a note listing her poetry readings on WWDC radio in Washington DC. Suggested Titles For Book. Rye New York: Mrs. Charles A. Vilas no date. Small quarto. Perfectbound in printed wrappers. 46pp. Fair condition with heavily spoiling several interior pages trimmed and rear wrap detached but present. A preliminary collection of previously published poetry for an intended book. The front wrap lists six possible titles and the first page is Signed by Vilas who has also annotated 10 pages. hardcover books
1935ref. 202567Grosset & Dunlap 1935. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Brown cloth boards with black lettering & decoration under Baldridge illustrated dust jacket. Very clean copy; DJ is faded at spine with some rubbing to rear panel. Early reprint from the plates of the first edition. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
1920ref. 79922Ottawa: J. De Labroquerie Tache. Very Good. 1920. Softcover. This bulletin is soft-bound in gray wrappers with black printing on the upper cover. The covers show light toning/soiling and light edge-wear. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations some in color. . J. De Labroquerie Tache paperback books
1974ref. 619008Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Richard Cuffari. 100pp. Light foxing on page edges near fine in a near fine lightly rubbed dust jacket. Doubleday & Company Inc hardcover books
1965ref. 2031291965. unbound. 2 pages front and back 11 x 8.5 inches no place no date circa 1965. Typed on plain paper with numerous handwritten corrections in part: ".This story you told me has no plot. And knowing WFB from old and his interest in young love and new plot and plenty of action I am rather alarmed. So if this doesn't suit the magazine no hard feelings." Signed "Faith" with handwritten postscript regarding a story submission. Natural folds paperclip impression in the top margin and a tiny chip on the upper left corner. Very good- condition. unknown books
1968ref. 144325New York: Viking 1968. hardcover. very good/very good. Extensively illustrated in both color and black & white. 320pp. large 8vo blue cloth d.w.; few minor spots of wear to dust wrapper. New York: The Viking Press 1968. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. Viking unknown books
ref. 145320hardcover. illus. 420pp. 8vo cloth. Port Washington: Kennikat Press 1971. vg unknown books
1923ref. 89467New York: H. W. Gray 1923. Second. hardcover. very good. 138pp. ads. 8vo cloth; bookplate pasted to front free endpaper. New York: H. W. Gray Company 1923. Second editionA very good copy. H. W. Gray unknown books
1940ref. 52591940. unbound. 2 pages front and back on plain typing paper 11 x 8.5 inches no place dated "Tuesday" no year circa 1940. Half-typed half-penciled autographed letter signed "Faith" discussing her difficulties with a particular assignment in part: ".You mustn't mind saying I don't think I can do a good John Smith out of this one. Its sic just that I did it the one way I saw it and feel sort of empty about it. And my personal feelings about how wise we were to go to war last time for ideals unrealized and how wise we would be this time save in defense of our country are still too mixed up and uncertain.But I am honest enough to know that I can't turn em out unless I feel em." unknown books
ref. 90044hardcover. illus. 100pp. 8vo cloth d.w.; pp. dogeared. Doubleday 1974. unknown books