The title, translated into English: Canton of Zurich Churches, Castles and Palaces for Recordings of Ludwig Schulthess. Hermann Escher dedicated as a Festschrift on his 60th birthday by friends and admirers. In academia, a Festschrift is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during his or her lifetime. Hermann Escher was the Director of the Central Library of Zurich. This is a large bound collection of mounted architectural drawings of Ludwig Schulthess, a Swiss engineer and draftsman. There are twenty pages of text in German, followed by 40 mounted images o... View More...
Oblong. Pictorial vinyl boards are clean and square with light rubbing and a bit of scuffing to corner tips. Unmarked pages are clean, crisp and bright. Binding straight and tight. 176 pages. "In sleepwalkers, the city becomes a living, breathing body merging with the diverse and constantly changing individuals who make up the city. The individuals in sleepwalkers, in turn, move beyond their physical selves and are transformed by their surroundings. Sleepwalkers investigates the new and evolving relationships of contemporary urban life. View More...
Hardcover, full black cloth with gilt lettering & decoration to cover, gold embossed dust jacket, 10" x 9-3/4". "Stock Certificate", essentially the colophon, signed by Barks laid in. A series of 40 tipped-in plates extending and rounding out Barks' great work with Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck. Blemish to edge of DJ, else fine. View More...
Decorated grey boards backed in maroon cloth with gilt titles on spine, 4to, not paginated, filled with drawings by Max Beerbohm; dust jacket's head and tail of spine repaired with scotch tape, now in mylar cover. Forty-six caricature drawings by Max Beerbohm, only eleven of which have appeared in a book previously. View More...
Heavy stock craft covers with mild edge wear. Unmarked pages are clean, crisp and bright. Binding straight and tight. All text in Chinese. Profusely illustrated in color. View More...
Signed by Rockwell Kent, limited edition, #73 of 200. Leather spine and corners with marbled paper-covered boards, printed endpapers, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, in original slipcase. Near fine condition with moderate fading and small ding to tail of spine, slipcase toned. -- Poetry by Ralph Pulitzer, son of Joseph Pulitzer, decorated by his friend Rockwell Kent. Despite the small print run, there are differences in the contents of some printings; this copy includes the poems "Strange Lady," "I Know Not" and "African Adieu. View More...
Full red cloth, large 4to, 224 pages, profusely illustrated in color. Lightly shelf worn dust jacket now in protective mylar cover. Large and heavy book. Extra shipping charges may apply. View More...
Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece portrait, 9-1/2" x 6-1/2", 580 pp. Volume 1 only. DJ price-clipped with mostly-closed tears to both panels, now in mylar. A clean and solid copy. Coomaraswamy was a Ceylonese philosopher and metaphysician who was "the groundbreaking theorist who was largely responsible for introducing ancient Indian art to the West" (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). View More...
Trade paperback, 8-1/2" x 7", 199 pp. White covers with some discoloration, minor crease to bottom front corner, owner's emboss to first page. An early book-length treatment of Lichtenstein, one of Pop Art's most prominent figures. View More...
Black cloth with silver titles, folio, 128 pages, color prints by Hopper throughout; boards sunned along top edge, pages lightly toned towards edges; dust jacket rubbed in places, now in mylar cover. Oversize, additional shipping charges may apply. View More...
Hardcover, illustrated paper-covered boards, 11-5/8" x 10". Backstrip split at front joint about 2" from top. Internally fine, bumping to corners. A good, solid reference copy. Extra postage required for international or priority shipping. View More...
Full white cloth binding with red lettering, illustrated transparent dust jacket, 17" tall, 217 pp. Clean text and solid binding, ex-library with usual markings including discard stamp, but not much wear at all. Extra postage required for international or priority shipping, boxed weight will be 7 pounds. View More...
Signed (name & date of 1946) by Evergood on front endpaper. Blue paper-covered boards under matching dust jacket, 10" x 8.25", 108 pp., two tipped-in color plates, the rest are b/w images. Fading to edges of DJ and boards. Evergood today is probably best remembered for his WPA work. View More...
First American edition, folio, 352 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black and white; scattered foxing to top edge of text block, edge worn dust jacket with short ragged tear at tail of spine, now in protective mylar cover. 269 illustrations, 177 in color. A chronicle of early travel photography. Large heavy book. Extra shipping charges may apply. View More...
Hardcover, full beige cloth with gilt lettering to spine, 11-3/4" x 9-1/4", 373 pp. Limited edition of 650 copies, this is #7. Additionally inscribed by author to art critic Frank Rinder. The inscription plus the low limitation number suggests a presentation copy. Toning to spine panel, additional owner's name & date (1962) to front endpaper. A catalog raisonne of J. M. W. Turner's collection of "original engravings in which his own powers of invention and design should be adequately expressed." Additional postage required for international or priority shipping. View More...
Paperback, 8" tall, 84 pp. Minor spine slant, light chip to bottom corner of front cover. Includes 10 color plates & 23 b/w reproductions of artwork by Robert Goodnough, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers and others. View More...
Green paper wrappers printed in black, sewn text block, 11 woodcut plates held in front flap, 12-1/4" tall. Lacks the John Greenwood plate, else complete, in-text illustrations by Gwen Raverat. Small tear to spine, light wear to edges of wraps foxing to title page and Sidney Gausen's "Sulya's Fifth Wife" plate, light other foxing. A nice piece, rarely found complete, but in this case including arguably the two best prints: Gill & Leighton, both of which are quite bright. View More...
First edition, ca 1971, full leather with gilt titles and decoration, 4to, 168 pages, signed, "Ed Quigley/1st edition" on front free endpaper, filled with illustrations by Ed Quigley in color and black and white; dust jacket shows wear, scotch tape repair near tail of spine on front cover, cup ring, toning and light rippling, now protected in a mylar cover. A handsome copy of a collection of art work by iconic artist of the west, Ed Quigley. 0 View More...
Burgundy cloth with gilt titles, 8vo, 228 pages, illustrated in black and white; boards are edge worn, especially to head and tail of spine, rubbed in places on rear cover, previous owner's bookplate adhered to front paste down, pages toned. A guide to photo-engraving, explained in fifty letters from Harry A. Groesbeck, Jr, President of the Walker Engraving Corporation, to his son. View More...
Folio, large soft cover in glossy pictorial covers, 24 color posters, printed on one side only; covers show mild scuffing and edge wear, internally clean, bright and sound. A very attractive copy. View More...
