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Buy the book: The Art of Buying Art Art Appraisals Services & Consulting: For Artists For Collectors Articles: For Artists For Collectors Product Reviews: Art Price References Recent Updates Support This Site Donor Links Site Expert	Richard H. Randall Jr., AMERICAN FURNITURE IN THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1965 Hardbound, 4to, illustrated, 276 pages,original clear plastic cover protector, slipcase. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FEP. Book is in fine condition, plastic protector near fine, slipcase very good. Bookplate of James Curtis Zipprich inside front cover. $285.00 No author, ROGER KUNTZ - NEW PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1964. Wraps, sm. sq. octavo, 12 pages, illustrated. Good condition overall. Figurative sculpture and paintings. $55.00 Arthur Dandelot, Maurice Emmanuel; CONCERT DE GALA AVEC LE CONCOURS DE I (IGNACE, IGNACY) PADEREWSKI, FEVRIER 23 ET 25, 1929 plus ORIGINAL PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH OF PADEREWSKI (2 items total), Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, 1929. Stiff wraps, quarto, 16 pages, illustrated, art deco style advertisements. Good overall. ORIGINAL PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH OF PADEREWSKI LAID IN. Photograph measures approximately 8 1/4 by 6 inches. Photo is not signed or stamped. $750.00 Evangeline J. Montgomery, SARGENT JOHNSON: RETROSPECTIVE, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, 1971. Wraps, illustrated, 35 pages, square octavo. Very good condition overall. Interior very clean. Rare exhibition catalogue on the important African-American sculptor Sargent Johnson. Includes illustrations, essay, bibliography, list of exhibitions. $225.00 Walter A. Nelson-Rees, PAINTINGS BY SELDEN CONNOR GILE (1982) - AND - PAINTINGS BY SELDEN CONNOR GILE, VOLUME II (1983), WIM Fine Arts, Oakland, California, 1982, 1983. TWO VOLUMES, wrappers, illustrated, oblong octavo, 71 & 36 pages respectively. Very good condition overall. These are BOTH VOLUMES of the original Selden Connor Gile shows at Sohlman Art Gallery in Oakland, CA. These are RARE, and together represent the most complete reference on the art of Selden Connor Gile, the two volumes combined illustrating over 150 works of art by the artist IN COLOR. SOLD Wanda M. Corn, THE COLOR OF MOOD, AMERICAN TONALISM, 1880-1910, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California, 1972. Wraps, square octavo, illustrated, 46 pages plus 14 pages of illustrations. Catalogue is in good condition overall however with substantial underlining on the first 9 pages, then sporadically after that, particularly toward the end. Some comments written in ink periodically, particularly toward the end of the catalogue. Neither comments or underlining affect the usability of the catalogue-- all information remains readily accessible. $185.00 Linda L. Cathcart, EDWARD RUSCHA, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1976. Wraps, oblong octavo, 40 pages, illustrated. Rubbing to front cover, interior very nice, clean. Other light signs of wear. Good-very good overall. $125.00 Joseph Albers, essay by Sheldon Nodelman, JOSEPH ALBERS, EMBOSSED LINEAR CONSTRUCTIONS, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California, 1969. Portfolio, oblong octavo. Contents include 4-page essay, order form, and maquettes (small versions), all embossed, of the eight prints in the series. Portfolio good; contents very good or better. $300.00 Yotis Skinas, VICTOR BRAUNER, Alexander Iolas, Paris, 1971. Stiff wraps, square octavo, approximately 95 pages, illustrated. Very good condition overall with only light signs of wear. No text except for dates and titles of paintings. Blindstamped colophon. #84 of 1000 copies. Printed on heavy paper. $185.00 Gordon Onslow-Ford, TOWARDS A NEW SUBJECT IN PAINTING , San Francisco Museum of Art, SF, California, 1948. Soft bound, quarto, 54 pages, illustrated. Fair to good condition overall, interior clean, nice; covers yellowed, top 3/4 inch of spine missing, small tear to bottom edge of front cover, several minor bends to cover. Limited to 1000 copies. $225.00 John Meighen, Felix Bonfils, ORIGINAL PHOTO ALBUM OF HOLY LAND, 56 PHOTOGRAPHS BY FELIX BONFILS, Likely hand assembled by John Meighen in 1913. Oblong large quarto photo album containing 56 mounted photographs by Felix Bonfils, many contemporary impressions dating from approximately 1913, some earlier albumen prints. Good condition overall. The album was likely either purchased or assembled by John Meighen to commemorate his trip to the Holy Land. Photographs are mounted to back and front of each page. Between those pages are mounted sheets of paper, about half of them containing narratives hand-written by John Meighan detailing his trip to the Holy Land, often relating to the subject matters of the individual photographs. Most photographs are in good or better condition. Some of the albumen photographs are faded. Email with any questions you might have. $1800.00 John Muir, editor, PICTURESQUE CALIFORNIA AND THE REGION WEST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS FROM ALASKA TO MEXICO (VOLUME 1 ONLY), J. Dewing Publishing Company, New York and San Francisco, 1887. Folio, hard bound, 192 pages plus numerous unpaginated plates. Covers detached but in restorable condition, spine not present. Interior complete, generally clean, and in good condition considering the state of the binding. There are occasional smudges and fingerprints at page corners particularly at the front of the book, pretty much ending by the first third of the book. All plates present. Plates include numerous photogravures (photo-gravure) and SIX ORIGINAL ETCHINGS. The etchings are Half Dome View from Moran Point by Thomas Moran; Interior of California Forest by Mary Nimmo Moran; Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite by James Fagan; University of California, Berkeley by George Spiel, After a Good Day's Sport by Stephen J. Ferris; Head Waters (headwaters) of the Sacramento by James Fagan; Trinity Peaks by Julian Rix. $1750.00 No author, BLOCK PRINT CALENDAR 1943, Chicago Society of Artists, Illinois, 1943. Oblong quarto, board covers, spiral bound, 55 pages, illustrated. Good condition overall with extremity wear to front cover, isolated small check marks next to certain dates, modest pencilled math calculation on inside back cover. Artists include Emil Armin, Fritzi Brod, Ethel Spears, A. Raymond Katz, Todros Geller, Frances Foy, others. $400.00 Oskar Fischinger, FILM-FLIP, A 3-SECOND PART OF MUTOSCOPE REEL NO. 1, Elfreide Fischinger, Los Angeles, California, 1970. 12mo, approximately 150 pages, stapled stiff wrap binding, illustrated. Interior good, cover fair (one bend and a small corner chip). This is a flip book of a portion of an abstract film created by Oskar Fischinger. The book is inscribed and signed by the publisher and artist's wife, Elfriede. Certainly published in a small edition. $300.00 Robert H. Johnston, HANS CHRISTENSEN, Bevier Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, circa 1970. Wraps, quarto, 18 pages, illustrated. Very good with light signs of wear. Christensen worked under Georg Jensen in the mid- 1940's/mid- 1950's (10 years) and came to America in 1954. $85.00 Tony Shafrazi, MOOGAMBO, Tony Shafrazi, No location (New York City), 1976. Wraps, 19 pages. Softbound, large quarto, approximately 50 pages, illustrated. Good condition overall; covers lightly rubbed. Limited to 1000 copies. $275.00 R.N. DeArmond, Editor, THE ALASKA JOURNAL, HISTORY AND ARTS OF THE NORTH - QUARTERLY, VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1 THROUGH VOLUME 2, NUMBER 2 (FIRST SIX ISSUES), Softbound, quarto, approximately 65 pages per issue. Good condition overall with typical signs of wear. (Also available are Volume 3, Nos. 1 & 2; Volume 4, Nos. 1, 2 &4; Volume 5, No. 1. Odd issues are $15 each except for Volume 4, No. 1 which is $50. This issue contains a feature titled "The Billiken" and one on Fred Machetanz, both well illustrated.) $120.00 Jermayne MacAgy, CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PAINTING, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1945. Wraps, 19 pages. Fair/good condition overall with typical signs of wear, ex-library, several library stamps. Significant show of contemporary American art with decent participation by California artists. $110.00 Thomas Carr Howe, Jr., Jermayne MacAgy, 2ND (SECOND) ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF PAINTING, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1948. Stiff wraps, illustrated, 47 pages. Stiff wraps, illustrated, 47 pages. Good/very good condition overall with light wear, previous owner's name (SF artist Clyde Seavey) inside front cover. Significant show of contemporary American art, heavy on California artists. $125.00 Alfred Frankenstein, FIRST SPRING ANNUAL EXHIBITION, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1946. Wraps, illustrated, 36 pages. Good/very good condition overall with light wear, several pencil marks on back cover. Significant show of contemporary American art, heavy on California artists. $125.00 Various authors, INDIAN PAINTING TODAY 1981, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay (Mumbai), India, 1981. Hardbound, octavo, dust jacket, illustrated (color plates of art tipped-in), 77 pages. Very good overall with light signs of wear. SIGNED AND DATED BY M.F. HUSAIN, POSTCARD-SIZE PHOTOGRAPH OF HUSAIN LAID IN. Artists include Paritosh Sen, M.F. Husain, Shanti Dave, Sunil Das, V.S. Gaitonde, Ram Kumar, N.S. Bendre, Paramjit Singh, Jehangir Sabavala, Bikash Bhattacharjee, more. Each entry includes brief bio, essay, portrait of artist, one tipped-in illustration in color of art. $375.00 Zetti E. Spreafico, OREFICERIA, METALLI, PIETRE, MARMI, LEGNI, PELLI, MATERIE PLASTICHE A LA 9TH TRIENNALE DI MILANO, Editoriale Domus, Milan, Italy, 1952. Softbound, octavo, illustrated, 122 pages. Good/very good condition overall with light signs of wear. Survey of contemporary decorative arts including clay, metal sculpture, jewelers arts, wood carving, bas relief, more. $210.00 Zetti E. Spreafico, AMBIENTI ARREDATI A LA 9TH TRIENNALE DI MILANO, Editoriale Domus, Milan, Italy, 1954. Softbound, octavo, illustrated, 114 pages. Very good condition overall with only light signs of wear. International survey of modern interiors and interior environments with designers often noted. Names include Finn Juhl, Hans Wegner, Borge Mogensen, Robin Day, Max Bill, Molgaard Nielsen, many more. $235.00 Cini Boeri & Carlo Pagani, QUADERNI DI DOMUS - LE TENDE NELLA CASA, Editoriale Domus, Milan (Milano), Italy, 1952. Stiff wraps, dust jacket, 100 pages, illustrated. Good condition overall, typical signs of wear. Interior clean, light fraying to edges of dust jacket. Pencil monogram on title page, ink architectural sketch on inside back cover. Curtain and curtain wall design, from interior and exterior perspectives; some traditional, most modern. $175.00 Hilde Reiss, editor, EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY, A GUIDE TO WELL DESIGNED PRODUCTS, NUMBER 14, SPRING 1950, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Issue Number 14. Softbound, illustrated, 16 pages. Good condition overall with typical signs of wear. Feature on useful objects like glass, ceramic, metal; feature on Alvin Lustig; also product review. $65.00 Multiple authors, ARTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA - III: ART IN FILM, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, 1958. Softbound, illustrated, 45 pages. Good condition overall with typical signs of wear. Interior clean. Artists include Preston Ames, Malcom Brown, Ed Carfagno, Randall duell, Mel Kaplan, Merle Pie, Maurice Ransford, more. $90.00 No author, ELEVENTH NATIONAL CERAMIC EXHIBITION, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Syracuse, New York, 1946. Softbound, sm. quarto, 32 pages, illustrated. Cover signed by one of the prizewinners of the exhibition, Eileen and Rossi Reynolds. Small clipping of prizewinners laid in. Good overall, interior clean. $125.00 No author, TWELFTH NATIONAL CERAMIC EXHIBITION, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Syracuse, New York, 1947. Softbound, sm. quarto, 40 pages, illustrated. Good overall with typical signs of wear, interior clean. $125.00 No author, THIRTEENTH NATIONAL CERAMIC EXHIBITION, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Syracuse, New York, 1948. Softbound, sm. quarto, 40 pages, illustrated. Good overall with typical signs of wear, interior clean. $125.00 No author, A DECADE OF CALIFORNIA COLOR, 1960-1970, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY, November 7-25, 1970. Illustrated portfolio wraps containing fourteen sheets, one for each artist in the show, each artist pictured on his respective sheet, and a title page. VG overall with light wear. Artists are from Los Angeles area and include Ed Ruscha, Ed Moses, Kenneth Price, Billy Al Bengston, Fred Eversley, Larry Bell, Patrick Hogan, Craig Kauffman, Charles Arnoldi, Robert Irwin, John McCracken, Peter Alexander, Dewain Valentine. $215.00 Sebastian Adler, introduction, JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, RECENT PAINTINGS, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY, 1974. Oblong quarto, stiff wraps, 6 pages, illustrated, very good condition overall, includes brief bio of the artist. John McLaughlin was one of the four Southern California abstract classicists. $50.00 Merle Schipper, KARL BENJAMIN, PAINTINGS FROM THE FIFTIES, Art Gallery, Seaver College, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, 1981. Oblong quarto, softbound, 18 pages, illustrated. Very good condition overall. Karl Benjamin was one of the four Southern California abstract classicists. $95.00 No author, PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, PROPERTIES OWNED AND OPERATED, TERRITORY SERVED; FINANCES, HISTORY, STATISTICS, Pacific Gas and Electric, No city (Probably San Francisco), CA, 1911. Sm. oblong quarto, blue-gray paper covered boards with navy lettering, 270 pages, illustrated, fold-out MAP. VG+ overall, interior NF, boards lightly shaken, fragile paper hinge beginning to separate on front board. Other light signs of wear to covers. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. There is a one-inch diagonal tear to the left edge of the map, not affecting image. An exceptionally nice copy of a very fragile and uncommon book. The book contains hundreds of photographs, all identified, of properties owned, operated, and served by PG&E including power houses, substations, warehouses, storage tanks, high rises, building complexes, etc, etc. both urban and rural. $600.00 Paul Vogt, others, SUBJEKTIVE FOTOGRAFIE, IMAGES OF THE 50'S, Fotografische Sammlung im Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, 1984. Scarce English edition. 174 pages, 4to, stiff wraps, illustrated. Good condition overall with corner bend far top right front cover, spine slightly cocked, other typical light signs of wear, interior very clean. $285.00 Jules Perahim, Vasile Kazar, Mircea Popescu, Mircea Deac, Dan Baran, editors, MILITANT GRAPHIC ART IN RUMANIA (ROMANIA), Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1963. Large quarto, 336 pages, illustrated, some tipped-in color plates, dustjacket, slipcase. Survey includes 394 illustrations, brief biographies of artists. Materials illustrated date from 1848 - circa 1961; most from 1921 - circa 1961. An exceptional copy of a book that appears to be rare in the marketplace. OCLC locates 5 copies. $845.00 No author, THE BUEGELEISEN & JACOBSON COUNTER BOOK OF CERTIFIED MUSICAL MERCHANDISE, Buegeleisen & Jacobson, New York, circa 1940's. Stiff wraps, quarto, illustrated, 242 pages plus additional pages offering various sheet music. Very extensive trade catalogue of musical instruments and accessories including a selection of early electric guitars and amplifiers. Good condition overall with light signs of wear. Interior clean. Tip of spine from someone pulling it off a shelf by the top of the spine. $235.00 Basil Taylor, introduction; CHARLES HOWARD, CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1956. Wraps, illustrated, 22 pages of text plus about 20 additional pages of illustrations. Very good condition overall with minor signs of wear to cover, several light pencil underlinings. Otherwise, interior very clean; lightly used. Excellent early reference on the artist. $165.00 Various authors, MINOTAURE NO. 5, Editions Albert Skira, Paris, 1934. Wraps, illustrated. Cover illustration by Francisco Bores, dance photographsy by Man Ray, additional photography article by Andre Breton with illustrations by Man Ray and Brassai, etc. Binding very loose, spine only about half present, small chip and several minor scratches to cover, interior clean. $325.00 Various authors, ARTS ET METIERS GRAPHIQUES PARIS, NUMBER 68, May 1939, Arts et Metiers Graphiques, Paris, 1939. Wraps, illustrated. Contains a linoleum cut by Henri Matisse printed on special paper, a fold-out woodcut by G. Lespinasse, a sample plate of a Jacques Makowsky decorative wrapper printed on "metal paper," and a Libis portrait of a woman printed in six colors by Makowsky, done for l'Oreal. Condition of magazine and prints is very good. Other early issues available. Please email with inquiries. $525.00 Various authors, ARTS ET METIERS GRAPHIQUES PARIS, NUMBER 50, December 1935, Arts et Metiers Graphiques, Paris, 1935. Wraps, illustrated. Contains a tipped-in fold out affiche of a Dubonnet A. M. Cassandre, printed by Courbet, tipped-in fold out brochure for Air France designed by Troy (foldout shows a cutaway interior of the plane), a tipped-in Marcel Natkin presentation page, a 4-page metallic Hymne de l'Imprimerie au Roy is laid in (several pages of the hymn are worn at one or two edge extremitiess). Condition is fair to good, chip at base of spine, prints are VG. Other early issues available. Please email with inquiries. $875.00 Various authors, ARTS ET METIERS GRAPHIQUES PARIS, NUMBER 6, July 1928, Arts et Metiers Graphiques, Paris, 1928. Wraps, illustrated. Contains a tipped-in affiche of a poster for LMS Best Way by A. Mouron Cassandre, printed by Courbet, an original aquatint by Alexeieff titled l'Oiseau, a tipped-in page specimen printed in "Futura" type face. Important French fine and commercial arts magazine. Spine reinforced, several rubber stamps of a previous owner, exterior condition fair plus. Condition of prints is VG. Other early issues available. Please email with inquiries. $475.00 No author, JEANNETTE MAXFIELD LEWIS, 1894-1982, Jan Holloway Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1989. Softbound, illustrated, octavo, 8 pages, VG+ overall, interior very clean. Uncommon. $45.00 Paul Mills, CONTEMPORARY BAY AREA FIGURATIVE PAINTING, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland CA, 1957. Softbound, illustrated, 24 pages, octavo, good overall with minor signs of wear to cover, interior very clean. Limited to 1000 copies. Laid in is a one-page typed letter from UC Berkeley Chancellor Glenn T. Seaborg to Walter Snelgrove asking to purchase a painting (yet to be painted), and stating that he is enclosing payment in advance of $250. Historically significant and desirable Oakland Museum show catalogue with an interesting associated letter. Snelgrove was one of the artists in the show. Very scarce. $300.00 Giuseppe Cantagalli, CANTAGALLI MAJOLICHE PER RIVESTIMENTI E DECORAZIONI EDILIZIE, Instituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche, Bergamo, circa 1910. Boards, string tie, octavo, 25 color plates, good overall, interior very clean. 25 chromolithographic plates of majolica tile designs, most plates with 6 separate designs, some plates with more. Plates printed on front of each page; back of each page blank. $325.00 Bonny B. Saulnier, JAMES WEEKS, Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1978. Softbound, illustrated, large octavo, 80 pages, VG+ overall, interior very clean. Superior copy of a scarce catalogue. $165.00 John Humphrey, JAMES WEEKS, San Francisco Museum of Art, SF, CA July 3-August 3, 1965. Softbound, illustrated, octavo, 12 pages, G-VG overall with light signs of wear. Very scarce. $110.00 No author, PAINTINGS, WATERCOLORS, AND DRAWINGS BY GEORGE B. LUKS, PROPERTY OF HIS ESTATE SOLD BY ORDER OF WILLIAM D. LUKS, EXECUTOR, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. New York, NY, April 5, 1950. Softbound, illustrated, 37 pgs, 90 works of art listed. VG overall, interior very clean. Light musty odor. Very scarce. $145.00 Clyde Forsythe (an appreciation), EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY F. (FRANK) TENNEY JOHNSON, N.A., 1874-1939, Biltmore Salon, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, 1941. Softbound, sm. octavo, green textured covers, 8 pages, 3 illustrations, 27 paintings listed. VG condition overall. Very scarce. $105.00 Pierre Naville, Benjamin Peret, Directors, LA REVOLUTION SURREALISTE (Arno Reprint Edition), Arno Press, New York, circa 1970. Hardbound, illustrated, approximately 300-400 pages. Very Good condition with only light signs of wear. This is a REPRINT of the complete 12 issue run of La Revolution Surrealiste magazine, originally published from 1924-1929 in Paris, France. This volume is also known as Arno Reprint Series of Contemporary Art No. 3. $500.00 John Entenza, editor, ARTS & ARCHITECTURE, OCTOBER 1949, VOLUME 66 #10, John D. Entenza, Los Angeles, California, 1949. Softbound, illustrated, large quarto, 50 pages. Covers show wear, some fraying to spine, light water stain in lower margin and along lower spine on first page (not affecting text or illustrations), interior otherwise clean. Four page illustrated article Furniture Showroom by Charles Eames -- the Los Angeles showroom, the first Herman Miller showroom on the West Coast. Also articles on Richard Neutra, Craig Ellwood and an article by Claire Falkenstein. Plus other articles. $210.00 Royal Cortissoz, ABBOTT H. THAYER MEMORIAL EXHIBITION (MEMORIAL EXHIBITION OF THE WORK OF ABBOTT HENDERSON THAYER), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1922. Softbound, octavo, approximately 90 pages, illustrated. Fair condition with edgewear to spine and covers, some corner page bends and other minor bends, other typical signs of wear. Interior clean. This copy INSCRIBED on front cover BY THAYER'S SON, Gerald H. Thayer. $325.00 Betty Turnbull, DAVID PARK, 1911-1960, A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, 1977. Quarto, stiff wraps, approximately 60 pages, illustrated. Very good condition overall. First major retrospective on the artist. Perhaps the most important artist affiliated with the Bay Area Figurative school of painting. One-page essay by Terry St. John about the show laid in. $320.00 Wolfgang Paalen, DYNATON 1951, A LONG ESSAY ON A NEW CONCEPT OF REALITY, San Francisco Museum of Art, SF, CA, 1951. THIS IS THE PROMOTIONAL FLIER AND ORDER FORM FOR THE BOOK (NOT THE ACTUAL BOOK). One page folded into three sections and then folded into three sections again-- designed to fit into an envelope. Very good condition. Contains exerpts from the book, three illustrations, table of contents, ordering instructions, and other miscellaneous details. Illustrations by Lee Mullican, Wolfgang Paalen, and Gordon Onslow-Ford. $90.00 Kenneth B. Sawyer, RECENT OILS BY WILLEM DE KOONING, Martha Jackson Gallery, NY, 1955. Wraps, 8 pages, illustrated. 4th one person show at a gallery, the first with Martha Jackson. Showed 14 paintings and 7 drawings-- most of women. Scarce early show catalogue. VG condition with only light signs of wear. $150.00 Rev. H. A. Henry (Rabbi Henry A. Henry), A SYNOPSIS OF JEWISH HISTORY FROM THE RETURN OF THE JEWS FROM THE BABYLONISH CAPTIVITY, TO THE DAYS OF HEROD THE GREAT, Towne & Bacon, San Francisco, CA, 1859, Hardcover. Sm. Octavo, pressed decorative green cloth binding, title and author's last name in pressed gold lettering on front cover; vii, 187 pp. Yellowing to front and rear free endpapers plus several pencilled numerical notations (fep and front pastedown), light bends periodically along edges of covers, other minor cover wear, interior clean, light periodic page bends, overall good. Henry A. Henry was the first Rabbi of San Francisco's first temple, Congregation Sherith Israel. Rare. $2000.00 L. Clarice Davis, PETER VOULKOS SCULPTURE, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 1965 Softbound, large square quarto, illustrated, 16 pages. Fair/good overall. Limited to 1000 copies. Corner bends to covers, chip along base of rear cover and also a one-inch tear. Interior clean. $110.00 Clement Greenberg, POST PAINTERLY ABSTRACTION, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 1964 Spiral bound, oblong, illustrated, approximately 75 pages. VG overall. Artists include Emerson Woelffer, Mason Wells, Frank Stella, Albert Stadler, Ludwig Sander, Raymond Parker, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, Ellsworth Kelly, Sam Francis, more. $110.00 David Berreth, Sterling Cook, ANNETTE COVINGTON: PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio, 1982 Softbound, illustrated, octavo, 52 pages. Good to very good condition overall. Interior clean. LIMITED TO ONLY 500 COPIES. $100.00 Donald Brewer, Norman L. Rice, EDGAR EWING, University of Southern California Galleries, Los Angeles, 1978 Softbound, illustrated, approximately 60 pages. Good overall with only light signs of wear. Numerous illustrations. Donors list laid in. Best reference on the artist. $90.00 Edgar M. Howell, HARVEY DUNN, PAINTER OF PIONEERS; MONTANA HERITAGE SERIES, NUMBER 15, Montana Historical Society, Helena, circa 1966 Softbound, illustrated, quarto, approximately 20 pages. Good condition. $50.00 Edmond Reuel Smith, THE JOHN D. BARROW ART GALLERY AT SKANEATELES, NEW YORK CATALOGUE, Skaneateles Library Association, Skaneateles, New York, 1908 Sm. octavo, flexible cloth binding, 57 pages, portrait illustration of the artist. Wear to top, bottom extremities of spine, interior clean, pencilled notations on inside front and back covers including previous owner's name (can be erased). Fair-good overall. Book concerns donation of this artist's paintings to the Skaneateles Library. Text includes poetry and quotes from various poems. 318 works of art catalogued. $150.00 Forrest Fenn, RALPH ALBERT (R. A.) BLAKELOCK, Fenn Galleries, Ltd., Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1977 Softbound, octavo, illustrated, approximately 6 pages. Fair to good condition overall with light wear, light bends. Interior clean. $45.00 Gunnar Bratvold, Editor, MOBILIA, MARCH 1957, VOL. 23, NO. 3; JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS IN DENMARK, Eriksholm, Snekkersten, Denmark, Dansk, 1957 Softbound, quarto, illustrated, 49 pages plus 40 pages of advertisements. Good minus overall, spine slightly cocked, some rubbing to covers, interior clean. Large illustrated article on the furniture of Poul M. Volther (Poul Volther), chair by Preben Thorsen, Swedish furniture fair review, chair by Peter Hjort. Text in Danish and English. Excellent modern furniture reference. $200.00 Hazel Bray, introduction, CALIFORNIA CERAMICS AND GLASS, 1974, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, 1974 Softbound, square octavo, illustrated, approximately 60 pages. Very good condition overall, light wear, interior clean. Minor foxing to white covers. Excellent reference that includes names of exhibitors, street and city addresses, and short biographical summaries of their careers. $85.00 Henry T. Hopkins, FIFTY PAINTINGS BY THIRTY-SEVEN PAINTERS OF THE LOS ANGELES AREA, UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, circa 1960 Softbound, illustrated, approximately 20 pages. Short bios. Artists include Edward Kienholz, Craig Kauffman, John Altoon, Robert Irwin, James Jarvaise, Jack Hooper, Oakar Fischinger, Peter Voulkos, Ary Arlon, more. $80.00 Herman Baron, introduction, DAVID BURLIUK, ACA (A.C.A.) Galleries, New York, circa 1948 Softbound, 12mo, illustrated, approximately 32 pages. Fair to good condition overall with several light bends and extremity wear to cover. Interior clean. Uncommon. $60.00 Inez Robb, ORVILLE BULMAN, RECENT PAINTINGS, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 1957 Softbound, octavo, illustrated, approximately 12 pages. Fair to good condition overall with typical signs of wear. Interior clean. Interesting as an American who owned two companies, but also painted, loved Haiti, and painted in Haitian artist style-- during the very formative years of the Haitian art movement. Uncommon. $50.00 John Coplans, others, ASSEMBLAGE IN CALIFORNIA, Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, 1968 Softbound, illustrated, 59 pages. VG overall. Artists include Wallace Berman, Edward Kienholz, George Herms, Bruce Conner, Fred Mason, Ben Talbert. Limited to 1000 copies. $90.00 John I. H. Baur, THEODORE ROBINSON 1852-1896, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, 1946 Softbound, illustrated, octavo, 95 pages. Good condition overall with light soiling to covers, light page bends, and other typical signs of wear. Interior clean. The definitive reference on the artist. Catalogue raisonne. $250.00 John I. H. Baur, THEODORE ROBINSON 1852-1896, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, 1946 Softbound, illustrated, octavo, 95 pages. Fair condition overall with light spotting to front cover, light dampstaining and rippling to the top margin of some pages, particularly to several of the illustrations. Interior clean otherwise; other typical signs of wear. The definitive reference on the artist. Catalogue raisonne. $175.00 Kynaston L. McShine Editor, INFORMATION, Museum of Modern Art MOMA, New York, 1970 Softbound, green covers, 207 pages, illustrated, quarto. Good condition overall with light edgewear to covers and edges of sping, other light signs of wear. Interior clean, binding tight, spine solid and intact. Artists include Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, John Baldessari, George Brecht, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Jan Dibbets, Hans Haacke, Douglas Huebler, Barry Flanagan, Ed Ruscha, Ettore Sottsass, Bernar Venet, Jeff Wall, many more. $335.00 Lawrence Alloway, SIX (6) MORE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1963 Softbound, octavo, illustrated, approximately 20 pages. Very good condition overall, interior clean. Early West Coast Pop Art catalogue. Artists include Mel (Melvin) Ramos, Wayne Thiebaud, Billy Al Bengston, Joe (Joseph) Goode, Edward (Ed) Ruscha, Phillip Hefferton. $95.00 Lorenz Eitner, CURRENT PAINTING AND SCULPTURE OF THE BAY AREA, Stanford University Museum, Stanford, CA, 1964 Softbound, illustrated, approximately 35 pages. Good overall. Artists include Wayne Thiebaud, Stephen de Staebler, Harold Paris, Wally Hedrick, William Wiley, Joan Brown, Elmer Bischoff, Nathan Oliveira, Manuel Neri. $75.00 Margaret Stainer, AGNES PELTON, Ohlone College Art Gallery, Fremont, CA, 1989 Softbound, illustrated, 39 pages. VG overall. SIGNED by Margaret Stainer-- author. $125.00 No author, HANDMADE PAPERS OF JAPAN, Intercontinental Inspection Services Ltd., Tokyo, circa 1960 Softbound, octavo, string ties, 57 tipped-in samples of paper with information about each paper including its origin, price per sheet, sheet size, and name. Cover and pages are lightly bent toward the upper and lower front corners, light spine fade. Good condition overall; binding tight. Paper samples are all in perfect condition. $850.00 Pearl S. Buck, foreward, EXHIBITION OF WATERCOLORS BY CHEN CHI, OCTOBER 16 TO 27, 1956, Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., New York, 1956 Softbound, illustrated, sm. octavo, approximately 20 pages. Good condition overall with several light bends. Interior clean. Uncommon. $75.00 Porter Butts, THE ART EXPERIENCE OF THE MIDDLE WEST FRONTIER, ART IN WISCONSIN, INCLUDING THE CATALOGUE OF THE 1936 WISCONSIN CENTENNIAL ART EXHIBITION, Madison Art Association, Madison, Wisconsin, 1936 Softbound, octavo, illustrated, 213 pages. Wear to covers, considerable wear to spine which is missing top and bottom extremities. 1/4 inch tear to edge of front cover and fep, other signs of wear including some page corner bends toward the end of the book, none affecting text or illustrations, pages yellowed. Condition fair. Interior is very nice, clean; binding tight. SOLD Richard J. Boyle, ROBERT F. BLUM, A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION, 1857-1903, The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1966 Softbound, octavo, illustrated, 28 pages. Very good condition. Interior clean. 180 works listed. $90.00 Van Deren Coke, KENNETH M. ADAMS, 1897-1966, Western Art Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1972 Softbound, octavo, illustrated, 38 pages. Very good condition. Interior clean. Good reference on the artist. $90.00 no author, HIGHTON HART & COLLEY GRILLES (GRILLS) & REGISTERS, Wm. Highton & Sons, Division of Hart & Colley Mfg. Co., New Britain, Connecticut, 1929 Softbound, quarto, illustrated, 48 pages. Good condition overall, interior clean. Very nice selection of grilles and grill designs with model names, numbers, prices, sizes, available metals. $150.00 A. Mervyn Davies, SOLON H. BORGLUM, A MAN WHO STANDS ALONE, A BIOGRAPHY, Pequot Press, Chester, Connecticut, 1974 Hardbound, dustjacket, 285 pages, illustrated. List of sculptures by the artist. Best reference on the artist. VG+ in a VG dustjacket with light wear. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. $330.00 Alan S. Bamberger, THE ART OF BUYING ART, Gordon's Art Reference, Phoenix, 2002 Softbound, octavo, 263 pages. New, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Excellent reference for buying, selling, collecting, appraising, pricing, researching art. $22.95 Alan S. Bamberger, THE ART OF BUYING ART, Gordon's Art Reference, Phoenix, 2002 Softbound, octavo, 263 pages. New, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Excellent reference for buying, selling, collecting, appraising, pricing, researching art. $22.95 Alan S. Bamberger, THE ART OF BUYING ART, Gordon's Art Reference, Phoenix, 2002 Softbound, octavo, 263 pages. New, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Excellent reference for buying, selling, collecting, appraising, pricing, researching art. $22.95 Alan S. Bamberger, THE ART OF BUYING ART, Gordon's Art Reference, Phoenix, 2002 Softbound, octavo, 263 pages. New, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Excellent reference for buying, selling, collecting, appraising, pricing, researching art. $22.95 Alan S. Bamberger, THE ART OF BUYING ART, Gordon's Art Reference, Phoenix, 2002 Softbound, octavo, 263 pages. New, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Excellent reference for buying, selling, collecting, appraising, pricing, researching art. $22.95 Alfonz Lengyel, THE LIFE AND ART OF ALEXANDER FINTA, HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN SCULPTOR, Hungarian Reformed Federation of America, Washington, D.C., 1964 Softbound, illustrated, 74 pages, octavo. Good overall with light wear. Only monograph on this sculptor. Rare. $150.00 Alfonz Lengyel, THE QUATTROCENTO, A STUDY OF THE PRINCIPLES OF ART AND A CHRONOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE ITALIAN 1400'S, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, Iowa, 1971 Softbound, octavo, 208 pages. Very good condition with light wear to covers. Good biographic and bibliography reference with biographies of all the major artists and architects of the period. $100.00 Allan Temko, HASSEL SMITH, PAINTINGS, 1954-1975, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, 1975 Softbound, illustrated, quarto, 16 pages. Good overall with typical signs of wear, light lower front corner bump, shadow of sticker removed from upper right front cover. Interior clean. $80.00 Amanda Jones, editor, ANTIQUES & (AND) FINE ART (MAGAZINE, VARIOUS ISSUES), Fine Arts Publishing, San Jose, November/December 1991 issue Softbound, illustrated, 144 pages. Good with minor signs of wear, interior clean. Numerous issues of this magazine, including complete years, are also in stock, priced at $25 per issue. Please inquire. $25.00 Betty Turnbull, THE LAST TIME I SAW FERUS, 1957-1966, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, 1976 Softbound, illustrated, approximately 70 pages. Good condition with light wear, interior clean, small tear to top edge of front cover (approximately 1/4 inch), other typical minor signs of wear. Best reference on influential Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. SOLD Charles Prentiss, Nikki Silva, ART AND ARTISTS IN SANTA CRUZ, A HISTORIC SURVEY, Santa Cruz City Museum, Santa Cruz, California, 1973 Softbound, illustrated, sm. quarto, 28 pages. Good overall with typical signs of wear, minor underlining (artist names) and several check marks, not affecting text or illustrations. Scarce. $80.00 David Berreth, Sterling Cook, ANNETTE COVINGTON: PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio, 1982 Softbound, illustrated, octavo, 52 pages. Good to very good condition overall. Interior clean. LIMITED TO ONLY 500 COPIES. $100.00 David Travers, editor, ARTS & ARCHITECTURE (CALIFORNIA ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE); 1966 COMPLETE YEAR; 12 ISSUES BOUND., Arts & Architecture, Los Angeles, 1966 Complete year of 1966, 12 issues, with covers, bound in a red buckram library binding. Ex-library, library stamps on cover of each issue. Fair to good condition overall. Interiors clean. Some light dampstaining along top edge of last pages of last issue. Articles on Fulvio Raboni, Herbert Ohl, Craig Ellwood, Lusk and Wallace, Leonardo Ricci, Frederick Emmons, A. Quincy Jones, Hugh Stubbins, John Follis, etc, etc, etc. $350.00 Dr. Lubos Jerabek, STARY ZIDOVSKY HRBITOV PRAZSKY, Tiskem Edvarda Leschingra, Nakladatel B. Koci, Frantiskovo Nabrezi, Praze, Prague, 1903 Hardbound, quarto, illustrated, 40 pages of text with approximately 20 pages of photographic illustrations, color photography photograph immediately following title page, possibly by Vacslava Jansky. Good condition overall, light spotting to title page, interior clean, other light signs of wear. Rare. $600.00 Edgar M. Howell, HARVEY DUNN, PAINTER OF PIONEERS; MONTANA HERITAGE SERIES, NUMBER 15, Montana Historical Society, Helena, circa 1966 Softbound, illustrated, quarto, approximately 20 pages. Good condition. $50.00 Elizabeth de Veer and Richard J. Boyle, SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW, THE LIFE AND ART OF WILLARD L. METCALF, Abbeville Press for Boston University, NY, 1987 Folio, dustjacket, 280 pages, illustrated. First edition. VG jacket; VG+ book. Light signs of wear, interior fresh, clean. The definitive monograph on Metcalf. Previous owner's rubber stamp on inside front cover. $425.00 Forrest Fenn, RALPH ALBERT (R. A.) BLAKELOCK, Fenn Galleries, Ltd., Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1977 Softbound, octavo, illustrated, approximately 6 pages. Fair to good condition overall with light wear, light bends. Interior clean. $45.00 Frank Perls, DAPHNIS AND CHLOE, A LOVE STORY TOLD IN FORTY-TWO LEGENDS AS ILLUSTRATED BY MARC CHAGALL IN HIS FORTY-TWO SIGNED AND NUMBERED COLOR LITHOGRAPHS, Frank Perls, Art Dealer, Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, 1966 Softbound, octavo, 18 pages, numbered 88/500 copies. Good overall with typical signs of wear. Catalogue for a show of all 42 of the signed numbered Chagall lithographs at the Perls Gallery. Includes the text explaining each lithograph, and an introduction by Perls. Scarce association item. $100.00 Frederick James Gregg, introduction, INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, 1913, Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Inc., New York, 1913 Softbound, tall sm. octavo, 105 pages plus several pages of advertising. Good condition overall with light wrinkling to covers, light discoloration. Interior clean. Generally accepted by art historians as the formal introduction of modern art to America. $2450.00 Gerald Nordland, RUTH ASAWA, A RETROSPECTIVE VIEW, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, 1973 Softbound, illustrated, approximately 30 pages. Good/very good condition with only light wear, interior clean. Includes illustrations of her very collectible wire sculptures. $150.00 Greg Saffell, editor, publisher, ART OF CALIFORNIA (MAGAZINE, VARIOUS ISSUES), Art Institute of California, Napa, July 1991 Issue Softbound, illustrated, 66 pages. Good with minor signs of wear, interior clean. Numerous individual issues of this magazine, including complete years, are also available at the price of $30 per issue. Please inquire. $30.00 Harley Earl introduction, STYLING, THE LOOK OF THINGS, PRODUCED WITH THE COOPERATION AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OF THE GENERAL MOTORS STYLING STAFF, General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Michigan, circa 1955 Softbound, illustrated, oblong quarto, approximately 60 pages. Very good overall with only light wear; interior clean. A fine example of graphic design and layout of the period, incorporating not only heyday Detroit automotive design, but design in general. $175.00 Harvey Jones, John Kelsey, CALIFORNIA WOODWORKING, AN EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY HANDCRAFTED FURNITURE, Oakland Museum, Oakland, 1980 Softbound, sm. folio, 16 pages, illustrated. Good overall. Artists include Eric Hansen, Sam Maloof, Don Braden, Garry Bennett, John Nyquist, Alan Marks, Martha Rising, Jim Bacigalupi, John Snidecor, Michael Chinn, Michael Graham, others. $75.00 Herman Baron, introduction, DAVID BURLIUK, ACA (A.C.A.) Galleries, New York, circa 1948 Softbound, 12mo, illustrated, approximately 32 pages. Fair to good condition overall with several light bends and extremity wear to cover. Interior clean. Uncommon. $60.00 Hjalmar Svensson, Albert Engstrom, Herman Seldener, others, MINNESALBUM OVER DODERHULTARN OCH HANS KONST, Oskarshamns, Bladets Boktryckeri, 1928 Hardbound, 112 pages, illustrated. Survey of woodcarvers in Scandanavia. Book is in fair condition only. Several newspaper articles about wood carving glued inside front cover and to front and back of title page. Several pages were stuck together in small places, only very slightly affecting text, several pages have small margin tears, other signs of wear. Book is an excellent reference on wood carving and the wood carvers art with many illustrations of carvings as well as of the artists. $235.00 Inez Robb, ORVILLE BULMAN, RECENT PAINTINGS, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 1957 Softbound, octavo, illustrated, approximately 12 pages. Fair to good condition overall with typical signs of wear. Interior clean. Interesting as an American who owned two companies, but also painted, loved Haiti, and painted in Haitian artist style-- during the very formative years of the Haitian art movement. Uncommon. $50.00 Insho Domoto, DOMOTO MUSEUM OF FINE ART, Domoto Art Museum, Kyoto, 1966 Large quarto, stiff silver wraps, approximately 30 pages, illustrated (color and black and white). The innaugural brochure for the museum which opened in 1966, commemorating its completion. Very good condition with light wear, clean interior. Also laid in is the catalogue- 2nd EXHIBITION OF INSHO DOMOTO (1967)- one page folded in thirds. Also laid in is a postcard of an Insho Domoto painting. Also a 1-page typed letter on hand made rice paper, SIGNED BY INSHO DOMOTO, dated 1967, talking about the completion of the museum and gifting a copy of the catalogue to the recipient. 4 pieces in all. All very good. $220.00 J. William Fulbright, Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr., FULBRIGHT DESIGNERS, AN EXHIBITION DEVELOPED IN COOPERATION WITH THE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Craftsmen's Council, New York, circa 1959 Softbound, illustrated, 14 pages. Good overall with light wear. Designers include Alice Adams, Emil Antonucci, Arline fisch, Laverne Design Group, Muriel Cooper, others. $50.00 James M. Hansen, EJNAR (ENJAR) HANSEN (1884-1965), James M. Hansen, Santa Barbara, 1984 Softbound, quarto, illustrated, 23 pages. Good overall with light signs of wear, minor cup mark on front cover. Best reference on the artist. $95.00 Jane Livingston, BILLY AL BENGSTON WATERCOLORS, 1974-1980, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981 Softbound, stiff metallic blue wraps, oblong octavo, approximately 36 pages, illustrated. Catalogue designed by Bengston. Very good, interior very clean. $80.00 Karl Blossfeldt, URFORMEN DER KUNST, Ernst Wasmuth A.G., Berlin (circa 1928) Hardbound, gold stamped blue-green cloth binding, illustrated, quarto, photogravure plates. This copy is ex-library, the binding is worn, hinges loose, spine frayed, split at bottom front, the great majority of the plates are clean, in good condition and suitable for framing. 3 plates have been removed, two of which are present (but with cut down margins). One plate has a library stamp in the margin. Total 119 plates present. This copy being sold as a breaker for purposes of framing the prints. SOLD Paul McCobb, DIRECTIONAL DESIGNS / PAUL MCCOBB, Directional Furniture Showrooms, New York, circa 1957 Softbound, illustrated, 14 pages, sm. octavo. Good condition overall, staple rust, one item checked in pen. On back cover quote: "This brochure is a brief cross-section of the new DIRECTIONAL catalogue- 112 page hard-cover volume..." Very scarce. $100.00 Pearl S. Buck, foreward, EXHIBITION OF WATERCOLORS BY CHEN CHI, OCTOBER 16 TO 27, 1956, Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., New York, 1956 Softbound, illustrated, sm. octavo, approximately 20 pages. Good condition overall with several light bends. Interior clean. Uncommon. $75.00 Richard J. Boyle, ROBERT F. BLUM, A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION, 1857-1903, The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1966 Softbound, octavo, illustrated, 28 pages. Very good condition. Interior clean. 180 works listed. $90.00 Sara Machetanz, THE OIL PAINTINGS OF FRED MACHETANZ, PAINTER OF THE ALASKAN SCENE, F. Lewis, Publishers, Ltd., The Tithe House, Leigh-on-Sea, England, 1980 Hardbound, quarto, dustjacket, illustrated, 71 pages of text, 49 pages of plates (a number of those pages containing 2 illustrations each) including some color tipped-on plates. ONE OF ONLY 750 COPIES. Book is very good plus, interior very clean; dustjacket has a chip out of the upper edge of the plain white back, light discoloration and other minor signs of wear. $425.00 Sidney Janis, ABSTRACT AND SURREALIST ART IN THE UNITED STATES, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, 1944 Softbound, octavo, 36 pages, illustrated. Good overall, interior clean, minor discoloration to cover, other light signs of wear, wrinkle down the center of one page (printing irregularity-- the text is printed right over the wrinkle). Significant early modernist catalogue. $150.00 Trinidad Simo, J SOROLLA (JOAQUIN SOROLLA Y BASTIDA) (2 VOLUME SET), Vincent Garcia Editores, S.A., Valencia, Spain, 1980 2 volumes, white cloth binding with dark red lettering, large quarto, volume 1 is illustrated with Spanish text (195 pages text, 130 unpaged illustrations-- some double paged and fold-outs), volume 2 is English text supplement (55 pages). Both volumes are in very good condition, hardly ever used. Neat rubber stamp of previous owner on inside front cover of each volume. $500.00 Van Deren Coke, KENNETH M. ADAMS, 1897-1966, Western Art Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1972 Softbound, octavo, illustrated, 38 pages. Very good condition. Interior clean. Good reference on the artist. $90.00 Wayne Thiebaud, VISION AND REVISION, HAND COLORED PRINTS BY WAYNE THIEBAUD, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1991 Hardbound, dustjacket, slipcased, illustrated, 1 of 100 copies specially signed and numbered in pencil by Thiebaud. This copy #58/100. Book/jacket near fine; slipcase has light rubbing and a light curving dampstain line along one outer edge measuring approximately 6 inches and extending in from the edge approximately 2 1/2 inches at the peak of the curve, NOT affecting either the cloth, the interior, or the book itself. $600.00 William LaGrille (La Grille), printed by Henry Evans, ASSEMBLAGE; NINE MOTIFS, The Porpoise Bookshop, Henry Evans, San Francisco, 1962 Folio, nine loose abstract woodcuts in color and black and white, title page, limitation page. Very good condition. LIMITED TO 1OO COPIES. Directions on the limitation page instruct the owner to cut the margins off of the prints and to assemble them in a particular order. $500.00 Yona Fischer, intro., THE ARTIST AND THE PHOTOGRAPH (II); CATALOG NUMBER 155 (CAT. NO.); SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 1976; 2ND (SECOND) TRIENNALE OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1976 Softbound, illustrated, oblong octavo, approximately 100 pages. Good condition overall, light corner bump to lower spine, light rubbing to covers, other typical signs of wear. Interior clean. Artists include Andy Warhol, William Wegman, Edward (Ed) Ruscha, Arnulf Rainer, Bruce Nauman, Gilbert and George, John Baldessari, Vito Acconci, Edward Keinholz, others. $150.00 no author, TWENTIETH ANNUAL DRAWING AND PRINT EXHIBITION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO ART ASSOCIATION, San Francisco Museum of Art, SF, 1956 Softbound, 8vo, 16 pages, illustrated. VG overall. Superior reference for Bay Area art and artists of the time period. $50.00 no author, TENTH ANNUAL DRAWING AND PRINT EXHIBITION, SAN FRANCISCO ART ASSOCIATION, San Francisco Museum of Art, SF, 1946 Softbound, 8vo, 20 pages, illustrated. VG overall. Previous owner's name on cover. Superior reference for Bay Area art and artists of the time period. $50.00 no author, CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE CERAMIC ART, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan, circa 1959 Softbound, illustrated, approximately 50 pages. Text in English and Japanese. Fair-good overall with lower spine bump, typical wear, binding tight, interior clean. $85.00 no author, THOMAS EAKINS, Babcock Art Galleries, New York, 1930 Softbound, 8 pages, illustrated, 20 works listed. Good condition. Scarce. $60.00 no author, RAAK LIGHTING ARCHITECTURE CATALOGUE 8, Raak Lighting Architecture, Amsterdam, circa late 1960's Softbound (stiff wraps), illustrated, 162 pages, octavo. Good condition overall with light wear. Interior clean. Contains sections on wall lights, ceiling lights, street and garden lighting, pendants, lustres, spots, floor lamps, table lamps, recessed fixtures. Very extensive. $145.00 no author, HEYWOOD BROTHERS AND WAKEFIELD COMPANY; COCOA MATS, MATTINGS, AND WAKEFIELD PORCH RUGS, Heywood Brothers and Wakefield Company, Gardner, Massachusettes, 1915 Softbound, illustrated, quarto, 16 pages. Good overall with light wear. One chip, not affecting text, out of each cover (approximately 1 inch to a side). Illustrations of mats and mat designs are in FULL COLOR-- unusual for such an early trade catalogue. 1916 price list of rugs and dimensions laid in. Very scarce. $110.00 no author, LE MOULIN DES CORBEAUX; KNOLL INTERNATIONAL (REPRINTED FROM L'OEIL, NO. 138, JUNE, 1966), Knoll Associates International, probably New York, 1966 Softbound, illustrated, quarto, 18 pages. Good overall with light wear, lower cover corner bends, interior clean. Interior featuring Knoll furnishings, decorations and works of art including a Harry Bertoia sculpture, Eero Saarinen chairs, Verner Panton wood units, Florence Knoll bench, etc. $90.00 no author, JANUS, EDWARD WORMLEY DESIGNS FOR DUNBAR, Dunbar Furniture Company, Berne, Indiana, circa 1957 Softbound, illustrated, lg. quarto, 8 pages. Fair-good overall with typical wear, and a fold line about 2 inches from the bottom edge of the brochure. Small photos of Janus pieces with measurements, product numbers, brief descriptions, materials. One page of text and a small photo of Wormley on the back cover. $90.00 no author, DUNBAR, THE JANUS HOUSE IN HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, EDWARD WORMLEY DESIGNS FOR DUNBAR REPRINTED WITH 2 ADDITIONAL PAGES FROM HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, DECEMBER, 1957, Dunbar Furniture Company, Berne, Indiana, 1957 Softbound, illustrated, lg. quarto, 12 pages. Fair-good overall with typical wear, several small cover edge tears, and a fold line about 2 inches from the bottom edge of the brochure. A number of the illustrations are in color. $90.00 no author, DUNBAR TODAY-AND-TOMORROW COLLECTION DESIGNED BY EDWARD WORMLEY, REPRINTED FROM HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, OCTOBER 1960, Dunbar Furniture Company, Berne, Indiana, 1960 Softbound, illustrated, lg. quarto, 6 pages. Fair overall with significant wear, several small cover edge tears, and a horizontal fold line at the center of the brochure. A number of the illustrations are in color. List of Dunbar showrooms on the back cover. $65.00 no author, DUNBAR, THE JANUS HOUSE, REPRINTED FROM INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE, CIRCA 1957, Dunbar Furniture Company, Berne, Indiana, 1957 Softbound, illustrated, lg. quarto, 6 pages. Fair-good overall with typical wear, and a fold line two inches from the bottom edge of the brochure. List of showrooms on the back cover. $75.00 no author, THE DOLL COLLECTORS OF AMERICA, INC. FIRST DOLL EXHIBITION, Winchester Public Library, Winchester, Massachusettes, 1938 Softbound, illustrated, 20 pages, 4to. Good condition overall, light wrinkling, light yellowing to edges of cover; interior clean. Illustrations of dolls in cases and in displays. Collectors noted, dolls identified. Several hundred dolls in the show. Also illustrations of newspaper clippings reviewing the show. Scarce. $145.00 no author, HANDICRAFTS OF JAPAN, 1961, Japan Export Trade Promotion Agency, no location, 1961 Softbound, illustrated, 46 pages, 4to. Good condition overall; interior clean. Items titled, but makers/companies/designers not identified. Scarce. $90.00 no author, CRAFT POTTERY OF JAPAN, 1959, Japan Pottery Design Center, Nagoya, Japan, 1959 Softbound, illustrated, 44 pages, 4to. Good-very good condition overall; interior clean. Kilns and potteries include Arita, Hasami, Koishihara, Bizen, Kyoto, Shigaraki, Kutani, Seto, Mino, Iga, etc. $90.00 no author, CHINESE WOODCUTS - PAPER CUT-OUTS, China Monthly Review, Shanghai, 1953 Softbound, stitched binding, oblong quarto, approximately 50 pages, illustrated. The first part of the book, a little over half, is comprised of woodcuts, many of a political nature, showing workers, and activities relating to the newly formed People's Republic of China. The second part of the book shows contemporary cut-outs. All artists' names are mentioned, all works of art titled. Book is fragile. Interior is clean, fresh. Paper label with title glued to front cover. Two fold-out pages are frayed at the outer fold-out edge and one along the bottom where the page line extends slightly below the body of the book. Fading and chipping to edges of front cover, and particularly along fragile paper spine. Other typical signs of wear. Overall, acceptable condition for a delicate book of this nature. $1250.00 no author, THINGS BEAUTIFUL (LIBBEY CUT GLASS), Libbey Glass Company, Toledo, Ohio, circa 1910's Grey wrappers, approximately 40 pages, octavo, illustrated. Very good condition. The first section of the catalogue talks about the company's history, the benefits of cut glass, and concludes with instructions on how to clean and maintain cut glass. The remainder of the catalogue shows cut glass pieces of all types, including stock numbers, dimensions, and prices. The most expensive piece is the Aztec punch bowl for $200. Most pieces are priced well under $100. $235.00 no author, BRONZES D'ART ET D'AMEUBLEMENT; MARBRE DE CARRARE; ANCIENNE MAISON F. DELARUE; GEORGES BOURGEOIS SR.; EDITEUR-FABRICANT, Georges Bourgeois, Paris, circa 1910 Oblong octavo, grey wrappers, illustrated, tissue guards between most pages. Good condition overall, interior clean, some tissue guards have folds, tears, one has an area of discoloration. The plates are all crisp and clean. Trade catalogue for this foundry. Multiple items per page with titles, stock numbers. Names of some sculptors are noted including Picault, Barye, Debut, Drouot, Moreau, Valton, others. $225.00 no author, ANTONIO FRILLI, ESTABLISHED 1860, MARBLE STATUARY, INTERIOR & GARDEN DECORATIONS, LIGHTING FIXTURES, LARGEST EXPORTERS OF MARBLE IN THE WORLD, MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL JURY OF AWARDS, P.P.I.E. (PANAMA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION), Antonio Frilli, Florence, 1915 Softbound, illustrated, octavo, approximately 30 pages. Good condition overall with typical signs of wear. Interior clean. Trade catalogue for the Antonio Frilli company published for the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, for the Italian Pavilion, Palace of Manufacturers. Sculptures are titled, priced, with dimensions. Sculptors are noted including E. Ceccarelli, Professor (Prof.) Torelli, A. Gory, A. Frilli, G. Bessi, Prof. Albano, Fattorini, A. Cambi. $165.00 no author, ATELIERS D'ART DE COURTRAI DE COENE FRERES, Ateliers d'Art de Courtrai de Coene Freres, Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, circa 1947 Softbound, oblong octavo, approximately 60 pages, illustrated. Trade catalogue for this furniture company showing individual pieces of furniture and complete interiors. Good condition overall with typical signs of wear, some fading to covers. Letter from the company dated 1949 and a three-fold brochure laid in. SOLD Arnold Genthe, OLD CHINATOWN, A PHOTOGRAPHIC CALENDAR FOR THE YEAR 1946, Mills College, Oakland, CA, 1946 Softbound, spiral binding, unpaged, illustrated. Fair condition with significant dampstaining, particularly towards the rear of the book. Dampstaining is along the lower edge of most pages extending about 1/4 the way up several of the pages at the rear. The Genthe images are unaffected for the most part and the interior of the calendar is very clean and unused. $150.00 Basil Gray, EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY CHANG DAI-CHIEN, Laky Galleries, Ltd., Carmel, California, 1967 Softbound, illustrated, approximately 32 pages. Good/Very good with light wear. $85.00 Betty Turnbull, THE LAST TIME I SAW FERUS, 1957-1966, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, 1976 Softbound, illustrated, approximately 70 pages. Very good condition with only light wear. Best reference on influential Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. $200.00 Charles Smith, forward by Carl O. Schniewind, ABSTRACTIONS, The Johnson Company, New York, 1939 Hardbound, octavo, illustrated, unpaged (approximately 60 pages). Good overall with light wear, pencil point-sized impression at the lower center margin of some pages. One color woodcut has a small professional repair, barely noticeable, at the point of the impression. Previous owner's name on front pastedown and fep. A bright clean copy overall. The book is notable for six ORIGINAL ABSTRACT COLOR WOODBLOCKS by Smith. Smith was a member of the American Abstract Artists group. Rare. Please inquire if you have any additional questions regarding condition. $1950.00 Daniel Robbins, CONTEMPORARY BOXES AND WALL SCULPTURE, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1965 Softbound, illustrated, approximately 30 pages. Limited to 1000 copies. Good condition. Artists include Joseph Cornell, Roy Lichtenstein, H. C. Westerman, Thomas Morin, Louise Nevelson, Sue Fuller, Robert Rauschenberg, Lucas Samaras, others. $75.00 Daniel Robbins, essay; John Zinsser, interview, LARRY POONS PAINTINGS 1963-1990, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York, 1990 Oblong quarto, 113 pages, illustrated, several fold-out plates, softbound. Possibly signed by Poons on front cover (but not sure)-- L Poons is written in black marker and underlined. Good condition with light signs of wear. $175.00 David Klein, EDOUARD CORTES, LE POETE PARISIEN DE LA PEINTURE, Klein Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 1999 Hardbound, dustjacket, illustrated, 247 pages. As new. Unused copy. $300.00 Donald S. McNeil, editor, WHO'S WHO IN THE JEWELRY INDUSTRY, Chilton Co., Radnor, PA, 1980 Hardbound, quarto, 230 pages. Who's who directory of jewelers, watchmakers, industry people, etc. Excellent reference for people researching period jewelry makers, designers, and the industry in general. VG+ with only very light wear. Almost like new $325.00 Francis Haar, PICTORIAL JAPAN, Photofinishing Plant, Japan Central Exchange, no location, no date (circa 1940's) 24 original photographs in a fabric-covered portfolio, one page of text. Each photograph is stamped on the back "PHOTO BY FRANCIS HAAR" and numbered corresponding to its title on the text page. The flap hinges of the portfolio are well worn, the top flap is detached, but present. The text page is wrinkled along the inner edge, yellowed, text not affected. The photographs are clean and fresh. Plate 1 has a corner bend, upper right; the next two plates have very light upper right corner bends, barely visible. Plate 2 also has a corner bend, extreme upper left. The photographs are in very nice condition overall with good contrast, very clean, and only very minor signs of wear other than those described. $750.00 Frank O'Hara, H. H. Arnason, ARSHILE GORKY DIBUJOS (DRAWINGS); ROBERT MOTHERWELL OBRAS SOBRE PAPEL (WORKS ON PAPER), Biblioteca Luis-Angel Araango del Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Columbia, 1968 Softbound, octavo, illustrated, approximately 30 pages. Good condition with chip to lower edge of rear cover, not affecting any text or illustrations. Illustrations include several tipped-in color plates. 55 works by Gorky, 94 works by Motherwell. $100.00 George Charles, Frans Masereel, FRANS MASEREEL PEINTRE (PAINTINGS), Pierre Vorms, Editeur, Galerie Billiet, Paris, 1929 Softbound, illlustrated, 16 pages. Fair condition, covers worn, particularly at corners, spine partially split, some wrinkling at edges of pages, interior relatively clean. A rare catalogue of Masereel paintings. $135.00 Herschel B. Chipp, UNITE AGAINST THE WAR, POSTERS FOR PEACE, SPEAK OUT AGAINST CAMBODIA, Western Star Press, Students for Peace, Kentfield, CA, 1970 Ten loose posters in a portfolio, 19 by 12 1/2 inches. Reproductions of protest posters made by Northern California Students, selected from a protest poster exhibition at the University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, in May 1970. Very good to near fine condition with only light wear. $500.00 Ivan d'Argence, EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY CHANG DAI-CHIEN, Laky Gallery, Carmel, 1970 Softbound, illustrated, 32 pages. Good with minor wear, small lower corner bends, last two pages. Scarce $85.00 J.W. Young, THE RISE OF LUNDMARK, MARINE PAINTER, J.W. Young, Chicago, 1924 Softbound, illustrated. 31 pages. F-G, moderate wear particularly where covers overhang text block; interior clean. Coastal scenes by Chicago artist Leon Lundmark. J.W. Young dealt in American art and operated a significant Chicago Gallery through the 1940's. SOLD Jean Charlot, Lester C. Walker, John Charlot, Lamar Dodd, JEAN CHARLOT, PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, AND PRINTS (FALL ISSUE, 1976, GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART BULLETIN), University of Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, 1976 Softbound, illustrated, 96 pages. Very good condition with only light wear. Comprehensive catalogue, excellent reference on the artist. $65.00 Jean Gebser, E. W. (ERNST WILHELM) NAY: ANALYSE EINES BILDES, GEH DURCH DEN SPIEGEL, FOLGE 10, 1957, Liebig, Galerie der Spiegel, Koln, 1957 Folio, approximately 26 pages, illustrated, mit einem doppelseitigen litho gedrukt von Mourlot, Paris. Limited to 150 copies with a double page lithograph printed by Mourlot, Paris. Disbound, but all pages present. Lithograph loose as issued. Light to moderate soiling to covers, rear cover bend, what appear to be tape marks on front and rear endpapers. Interior clean, light corner bump, lithograph is in good to very good condition with light extremity wear, light upper corner bump, signed and dated in the plate, 55 (1955). $600.00 Jean Gordon Lee, introduction, MING BLUE-AND-WHITE; AN EXHIBITION OF BLUE-DECORATED PORCELAIN OF THE MING DYNASTY, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1950 Softbound, illustrated, 72 pages. Fair-good condition with wear, particularly to cover, spine split at bottom, some soling, wrinkling and rubbing to covers. Interior clean with some page corner bends. 153 items in the show, all appear to be illustrated. Many were in private collections at the time. $125.00 Jerry Bywaters, JERRY BYWATERS, A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1976 Softbound, illustrated, 48 pages. Very good overall with light signs of wear. $95.00 John d. Underwood Barry (Dubarry), VENUS THROUGH THE LENS, A COLLECTION OF NUDES, Thorson's Publishers Ltd., London, 1942 (second printing 1943) Clothbound, quarto, illustrated, approximately 20 pages of text, 70 pages of photographs. Dustjacket, fair with chips, tape marks at extremities. Book is good or slightly better, interior clean, previous owner's name on FEP. Photo of woman in chains or handcuffs on cover. Nude photographs of women, text section contains some instruction on how photos were taken/developed. $265.00 Kay McEnroe, CALIFORNIA ANTIQUES & FINE ART MAGAZINE, JUNE/JULY 1986, HUBERT J. STOWITTS, AN ARTIST REDISCOVERED (COVER STORY), Fine Arts Publishing, San Jose CA, 1986 Softbound, illustrated, 58 pages. Good condition with typical signs of wear. Cover story about Stowitts, also articles on William Wendt, California watercolors, E. Gene Crain watercolor collector. $55.00 Lejaren Hiller, Underwood and Underwood, S. S. NIEUW AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE; PROUD FLAGSHIP OF N.A.S.M., A FAMOUS FLEET (UNDERWOOD AND UNDERWOOD, LEJAREN HILLER, Holland-America Line, New York, circa 1930's Softbound, oblong quarto, illustrated, 24 pages. Very condition with original mailing envelope (envelope has some yellowing, a bend in the flap, and other minor signs of wear. Elaborate posed color photographs by Hiller, some showing dozens of people, all in cruise settings such as dining, in rooms, dancing, lounging, etc. Clothing for models supplied, in many cases, by Bonwit Teller. $235.00 Leo Lionni, Sante Graziani, LEO LIONNI; PAINTER, DESIGNER, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusettes, 1959 Sm. octavo, 3 catalogues, approximately 15 pages each, one showing design and decoration (ceramics, exhibition design), one showing graphics, and one showing paintings; all contained in a folded paper cover with an introductory essay by Graziani. Good condition overall with tip of spine of paper cover missing, the 3 catalogues (apparently all issued) are in very good and clean condition. (4 pieces total) $135.00 Lilly Dache, PAINTING (PAINTINGS) BY TAISUKE HAMADA, Upstairs Gallery, no location, circa 1976 / 1977 Softbound, illustrated, approximately 50 pages, SIGNED BY ARTIST in English and Japanese. Very good condition with only light wear. $100.00 Marjorie Harth Beebe, ART AT POMONA, 1887-1987, A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, Pomona, CA, 1987 Softbound, illustrated, 88 pages, illustrated. Very good condition with light wear and rubbing to covers. $85.00 Maurice Dufrene, ENSEMBLES MOBILIERS, VOLUME 1, EXPOSITION INTERNATIONALE DE 1937, Editions d'Art Charles Moreau, Paris, 1937 Large folio (44.5 x 33 cm), illustrated, portfolio, 32 plates plus 4 pages text and list of plates. Light rubbing to portfolio, particularly along edges and at extremities, spine frayed at extremities. Interior very good or better with light yellowing to edges of text. Collotype plates are in superb condition considering the size of the portfolio. Some plates are protected by tissue guards which have yellowed; one plate has discolorations along the edges from contact with the tissue guard, not affecting the image. Designers and furniture makers include Jacques Adnet, Le Bucheron, Rinck, Louis Sognot, Andre Arbus, E. R. Lamy, Jean Dunand, Jean Royere. Sold Neil Znamierowski, DOROTHY LIEBES RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION SPONSORED BY THE TEXTILE FIBERS DEPARTMENT , E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & COMPANY, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, 1970 Softbound, square octavo, 36 pages, illustrated. G-VG overall; previous owner's name on title page. Liebes was commissioned to design fabrics for several Henry Dreyfuss projects including the Main Lounge of the S. S. Constitution and the Persian Room in the Plaza Hotel. Liebes lived and worked in San Francisco for a good portion of her career. $90.00 Rene-Yvon Lefebvre d'Argence, LIU KUP-SUNG, ONE MAN EXHIBITION, Laky Gallery, Carmel, California, 1974 Softbound, illustrated, approximately 6 pages. Very good condition with only light wear. $40.00 Richard Rombach, PREMIER EXHIBITION, AUGUST 1986, HUBERT JULIAN STOWITTS, AMERICAN, 1892-1953, PDA Gallery, Carmel, 1986 Softbound, 5 photocopied pages in a printed folder illustrated with a Stowitts painting. 2 page essay and 3 page price list of paintings and graphics in the show. Rare. Very good condition. $85.00 Robert S. Olpin, ALEXANDER HELWIG WYANT, 1836-1892, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, 1968 Softbound, illustrated, approximately 36 pages. Good condition with normal signs of rare. Remains of a thin paper label on the rear cover. $85.00 Sam Hunter, COLLAGES BY ROBERT MOTHERWELL, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1965 Softbound, octavo, illustrated, 10 pages. Good condition. Photograph of the artist by Alexander Liberman. 30 items in the show. $95.00 Thomas W. Leavitt introduction, 1949 / 1959 A DECADE IN THE CONTEMPORARY GALLERIES, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, 1959 Softbound, illustrated, 76 pages. Good-Very good. Upper corner bend to last several pages (minor). Superior reference for this time period, particularly for secondary artists. $90.00 V. L. McKernin, editor, JEWELERS' BUYERS GUIDE (JEWELERS) 1960, Sherry Publishing Co., Inc., A McKernin Publication, no location (probably New York), 1959 Hardbound, board covers, 509 pages, illustrated. Fair-good covers, interior good or better, fragile paper spine separated at hinges at several points, but spine all present. Interior clean, some yellowing to pages, rubbing to covers. A fantastic directory of and survey of jewelery of the time including directories of manufacturers, diwstributors, wholesalers, directory of identifying marks of jewelers and companies. An indispensible reference for dealers and collectors of vintage jewelry. Years 1961 and 1950-51 also available. Inquire for details. $385.00 Victor Hammer, FECHIN (NICHOLAI), Hammer Galleries, New York, 1961 Wrappers, oblong octavo, exhibition catalogue, 8 pages, illustrated. Good overall with light wear, traces of fold line where catalogue was once folded down the center. $60.00 no author, AMERICAN MASTER PHOTOGRAPHERS, A CONFIDENTIAL REPORT (ANTON BRUEHL, PHILIPPE HALSMAN, MARTIN MUNKACSI, ETC.), Trigon Press, New York, 1947 Stiff softbound, 20 pages, illustrated, quarto. Very good. This was apparently a prospectus for a series of books on famous photographers; none of which were apparently ever published. Photographers included Anton Bruehl, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Andreas Feininger, Toni Frissell, Philippe Halsman, Martin Munkacsi, Hoyningen-Guene, Fritz Henle, Yousuf Karsh, John Rawlings, W. Eugene Smith, and Ylla. All photographers' names and facsimile signatures appear the first page. $135.00 no author, AMERICAN ABSTRACT ARTISTS, SIX PIECES OF EPHEMERA, MOSTLY SHOW ANNOUNCEMENTS, SEVERAL LISTING THE ARTIST PARTICIPANTS, various publishers, mostly New York, 1940-1962 American Abstract Art, Galerie St. Etienne, NY, 1940 (designed by Herbert Bayer, ex lib); American Abstract Artists Annual, Chinese Gallery, Ltd., NY, 1948; AAA Fifteenth Annual Exhibition, 1950, Rose Fried Gallery, The Pinacotheca, 1950; AAA Annual 1953, Hacker Gallery, NY; AAA 14th Exhibition, New School for Social Research, 1950; AAA 26th Annual, IBM Gallery, NY, 1962. $175.00 no author, PAINTINGS BY RICHARD HAINES, Adele Bednarz Galleries, Los Angeles, 1969 Softbound, illlustrated, 4 pages, bio. Good condition. Scarce. $35.00 no author, SALVATORE MELI; L'OBELISCO, Istituto Grafico Tiberino, Roma, Rome, circa 1957 Softbound, 2 illustrations, 1 oblong page folded into thirds, list of one person and group shows, bio in English and Italian. Good condition with edge wear. 22 works listed. $40.00 no author, JOSEPH CORNELL, Pyramid Galleries Ltd., Washington, D.C., 1975 Softbound, illustrated, approximately 15 pages. Very good condition with only light wear. Photograph of the artist by Denise Hare. $50.00 no author, A CATALOGUE OF THE FIRST ANNUAL EXHUMATION (EXECUTION) OF THE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON FAKIRS, no publisher, Washington, D.C., 1904 Tall octavo, softbound, 24 pages, line drawing illustrations. Small stain at bottom of spine affecting the inner corner of all pages, not affecting text. 84 items in the show by some of America's most famous artists of the time (using fake names), including William Meritt Chase, Mary Cassatt, Arthur Parton, etc. Also includes by-laws, remarks, etc, all very humorous. Very rare. $235.00 no author (Gustave Baumann), GUSTAVE BAUMANN, 1888-1971, The Annex Galleries, Santa Rosa, 1981 Softbound, illustrated, 24 pages, illustrated. This was Annex Galleries first catalogue of prints for sale by Gustave Baumann. Annex represents the estate of Baumann. $50.00 Harvey Jones, John Kelsey, CALIFORNIA WOODWORKING, AN EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY HANDCRAFTED FURNITURE, Oakland Museum, Oakland, 1980 Softbound, sm. folio, 16 pages, illustrated. Good overall. Artists include Eric Hansen, Sam Maloof, Don Braden, Garry Bennett, John Nyquist, Alan Marks, Martha Rising, Jim Bacigalupi, John Snidecor, Michael Chinn, Michael Graham, others. $75.00 Sara Machetanz, THE OIL PAINTINGS OF FRED MACHETANZ, PAINTER OF THE ALASKAN SCENE, F. Lewis, Publishers, Ltd., The Tithe House, Leigh-on-Sea, England, 1980 Hardbound, quarto, dustjacket, illustrated, 71 pages of text, 49 pages of plates (a number of those pages containing 2 illustrations each) including some color tipped-on plates. ONE OF ONLY 750 COPIES. Book is very good plus, interior very clean; dustjacket has a chip out of the upper edge of the plain white back, light discoloration and other minor signs of wear. $425.00 Sidney Janis, ABSTRACT AND SURREALIST ART IN THE UNITED STATES, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, 1944 Softbound, octavo, 36 pages, illustrated. Good overall, interior clean, minor discoloration to cover, other light signs of wear, wrinkle down the center of one page (printing irregularity-- the text is printed right over the wrinkle). Significant early modernist catalogue. $150.00 no author, CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE CERAMIC ART, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan, circa 1959 Softbound, illustrated, approximately 50 pages. Text in English and Japanese. Fair-good overall with lower spine bump, typical wear, binding tight, interior clean. $85.00 No author, MONOGRAPHS OF AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE II.; THE STATE CAPITAL, HARTFORD, CONN.; RICHARD M. UPJOHN, ARCHITECT. Ticknor & Company, Boston, 1886. Portfolio with string ties containing 22 loose plates, folio. Cloth spine worn with splits, top string tie absent, paper board portfolio covers rubbed with some minor spotting, the number 310 is blind stamped in the margin of each plate, not affecting the images, remains of fragile paper flaps. Images are bright and crisp, some finger prints and other discolorations apparent in the margins of a number of the plates. Fair/good condition overall, considering the fragility. Rare. $1100.00 No author, MONOGRAPHS OF AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE III.; THE AMES MEMORIAL BUILDING (BUILDINGS), NORTH EASTON, MASS.; H. H. RICHARDSON, ARCHITECT. Ticknor & Company, Boston, circa 1886. Portfolio with string ties containing 23 loose plates, folio. Cloth spine worn, paper board portfolio covers worn with minor spotting, the number 311 is blind stamped in the margin of each plate, not affecting the images, remains of fragile paper flaps. Images are bright and crisp, some minor discolorations apparent in the margins of some plates. Fair/good condition overall, considering the fragility. Rare. $1350.00 No author, MONOGRAPHS OF AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE IV.; THE MEMORIAL HALL, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.; WARE & VAN BRUNT, ARCHITECTS. Ticknor & Company, Boston, 1887. Portfolio with string ties containing 14 loose plates, folio. Cloth spine worn, some splitting, paper board portfolio covers worn with minor spotting, string ties absent, the number 312 is blind stamped in the margin of each plate, not affecting the images, remains of fragile paper flaps. Images are bright and crisp, some minor discolorations apparent in the margins of some plates, some minor edge wear, one plate has a small margin chip. Fair/good condition overall, considering the fragility. Rare. $950.00 No author, MONOGRAPHS OF AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE V.; TRINITY CHURCH, BOSTON, MASS.; C. D. GAMBRILL AND H. H. RICHARDSON, ARCHITECT. Ticknor & Company, Boston, 1888. Portfolio with string ties containing 23 loose plates, folio. Cloth spine worn, some splitting, paper board portfolio covers worn with minor spotting, the number 313 is blind stamped in the margin of each plate, not affecting the images. Images are bright and crisp, two water spots and other minor discolorations apparent in the margins of some plates, not affecting images. Fair/good condition overall, considering the fragility. Rare. $1100.00 A. Portier and F. Poncetton, LES ARTES SAUVAGES AFRIQUE, Albert Morance, Paris, 1956 Portfolio with string ties containing 50 loose plates, several in color, and text, folio. Binding split on portfolio covers, impressions of paperclips on edges of plates (usually 2 paperclip impressions per image). Images themselves are clean, edgewear and/or soiling to extremities of some plates. Several notes in text section. Fair/good condition overall. $275.00 Adeline Adams, others, THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE OF ART, ART AND PROGRESS, THE ART OF MAXFIELD PARRISH, VOLUME 9, NUMBER 3, JANUARY 1918, American Federation of Arts, New York, 1918 Softbound, octavo, illustrated, approximately 40 pages. Very good overall with light wear, interior clean. This issue contains a major 18 page article on Parrish with 16 illustrations, featured on the cover. Also contains a short article on Thomas Eakins. $90.00 Alain Gruber, WELTLICHES SILBER, Verlag Berichthaus, Zurich, 1977 Hardbound, DJ, Slipcase, 344pages. Near fine. katalog der sammlung des Schweizerischen landesmuseums, Zurich. $190.00 Alan S. Bamberger, THE ART OF BUYING ART, Gordon's Art Reference, Phoenix, 2002 Softbound, octavo, 263 pages. New, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Excellent reference for buying, selling, collecting, appraising, pricing, researching art. $21.95 Alan S. Bamberger, THE ART OF BUYING ART, Gordon's Art Reference, Phoenix, 2002 Softbound, octavo, 263 pages. New, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Excellent reference for buying, selling, collecting, appraising, pricing, researching art. $21.95 Alan S. Bamberger, THE ART OF BUYING ART, Gordon's Art Reference, Phoenix, 2002 Softbound, octavo, 263 pages. New, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Excellent reference for buying, selling, collecting, appraising, pricing, researching art. $21.95 Alan S. Bamberger, THE ART OF BUYING ART, Gordon's Art Reference, Phoenix, 2002 Softbound, octavo, 263 pages. New, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Excellent reference for buying, selling, collecting, appraising, pricing, researching art. $21.95 Alan S. Bamberger, THE ART OF BUYING ART, Gordon's Art Reference, Phoenix, 2002 Softbound, octavo, 263 pages. New, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Excellent reference for buying, selling, collecting, appraising, pricing, researching art. $21.95 Albert Dorne and others, ART SCHOOL FOR EVERYONE- EVERYWHERE, Famous Artists Schools, Inc., Westport, CT, 1957 Wraps, quarto, illustrated, 52 pages. Very good condition overall with light corner bumps and other light signs of wear. 2 additional promotional pieces laid in. This is a substantial promotional piece that talks about all Famous Artists Schools courses, has numerous illustrations by and photographs of the artists who participated as instructors. Scarce. $150.00 Albert Gleizes, DU CUBISME ET DES MOYENS DE LE COMPRENDRE, Editions La Cible, Paris, 1921 Stiff wraps, 55 text pages, approximately 15 illustrations. 4th thousand. Cover soiling, wear. Staining to lower right hand corners of first 20 pages. Condition only fair, but considering the fragility and scarcity of the book, not overly disappointing. $125.00 Alessandro Pasquini and Fernando Tempesti, MARTINO MEUCCI, FOTOGRAFO A PRATO, 1868-1931, Palazzo Novellucci, Prato, 1980 Square large octavo, wraps, unpaged, 261 black and white illustrations. Good condition overall. Upper left corner bump, light edge wear, interior clean, other minor signs of wear. $135.00 Alfred Frankenstein, HOWARD HACK, THE WINDOW SERIES, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA 1967. Pictorial wraps, octavo, 19 pages, 6 bw illustrations. Light wear to covers, lower left corner of back cover bent, interior clean. Overall good. $40.00 Alfred Rohde, introduction, HAMBURGISCHE WERKKUNST DER GEGENWART, HERAUSGEGEBEN VOM KUNSTGEWERBENVEREIN ZU HAMBURG (2 PIECES), Verlagsbuchhandlung Broschek & Co., Hamburg, 1927 Softbound, octavo, illustrated, 133 pages. Good overall with typical cover wear, light cover bends. Interior clean, fresh. Illustrations of modern decorative arts, short bios of artists and craftsmen at rear of book. WITH a 19 page softbound booklet listing some hundreds of Hamburg architects, jewelers, ceramic artists, furniture makers, designers, and other craftsmen. $225.00 Alvin Johnson, NOTES ON THE NEW SCHOOL MURALS, New School for Social Research, New York, circa 1930 Softbound, octavo, illustrated, 20 pages. Fair to good overall, spine worn, glue spot inside front cover, possibly remains of a previous owner's address label, light wrinkling, light soiling to covers, interior clean. $100.00 Amanda Jones, editor, ANTIQUES & (AND) FINE ART (MAGAZINE, VARIOUS ISSUES), Fine Arts Publishing, San Jose, November/December 1991 issue Softbound, illustrated, 144 pages. Good with minor signs of wear, interior clean. We stock numerous issues of this magazine including complete years at the price of $25 per issue. Please contact us for availability at alanb @ artbusiness . com . $25.00 American Artists Group, ORIGINAL ETCHINGS, LITHOGRAPHS AND WOODCUTS BY AMERICAN ARTISTS, CATALOGUE NUMBER ONE, American Artists Group, NY, 1936 Softbound, illustrated, large 8vo, 45 pages. Museum accession markings on front cover, VG+ overall, clean interior. Limited to 5000 copies. Excellent bios of significant American print artists of the time period along with illustrations of their work. $150.00 An Artist, THE THEORY OF EFFECT EMBRACING THE CONTRAST OF LIGHTING AND SHADE OF COLOUR AND HARMONY, J. W. Moore, Philadelphia, 1851 Hardbound, sm. octavo, 144 pages, 10 pages advertisements, illustrated. Good condition, light foxing to a few pages, particularly at end of book, extremities of spine frayed, 1/8 inch missing at top of spine. Previous owner's name front pastedown, interior clean, nice. $325.00 Andre Georges, Jean Badovici, Jacques Greber, and others, L'ARCHITECTURE VIVANTE, SPRING AND SUMMER, 1924, Albert Morance, Paris, 1924 Portfolio, string ties, 36 pages text, 50 loose plates. Ex-lib, covers well worn, top of binding reinforced, plates clean and fresh with no library markings. Several plates in color including a beautiful plate showing a de Stijl architectural drawing in color of a small house by architect C. Van Eesteren and executed by Theo Van Doesburg. Color plates are lithographic or pochoir. SOLD Andre Verdet, Jean Cocteau, Peggy Guggenheim, LA FUCINA DEGLI ANGELI, VETRI DI ARTISTI CONTEMPORANEI, The J. & B. Weintraub Gallery, New York, circa 1963 Softbound, octavo, illustrated, 58 pages. Very good overall with minor wear, corner bend on cover, several prices written on cover. Interior clean, fresh. Contemporary glass pieces designed by famous artists including Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Jean Arp, Leger, Lurcat, others. SOLD Angeli de Carli Olivieri, ARREDAMENTI PER UFFICIO, Sperling e Kupfer, Milan, circa 1950's Stiff wrappers, dustjacket, 23 pages with approximately 35 pages of illustrations. Some yellowing and edgewear to dustjacket. Small bookplate and pencilled initials on FEP, interior clean with minor signs of wear. Good condition overall. Survey of contemporary Italian office furniture. $225.00 Anita J. Ellis and Kenneth R. Trapp, ROOKWOOD POTTERY, THE GLORIOUS GAMBLE, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York, NY, 1992. Softbound, quarto, 164 pages, illustrated in bw plus 97 color plates. Small bend in upper right corner of cover, VG. $150.00 Anna Margaret Sietsema, DAVID PARK, Maxwell Galleries, Ltd., San Francisco, CA, 1976. Gallery invitation, folded into quarters, 8vo, printed both sides, 5 illustrations. VG. Inside includes artist bio. $20.00 Anthony Bolonis, THE SILK-SCREEN PROCESS, A CIRCULAR PRESENTING THE TECHNIQUE OF THE SILK SCREEN AS A MEDIUM FOR THE CREATIVE ARTIST, DESCRIBING THE PRO-FILM AND OTHER METHODS EMPLOYED, ART CIRCULAR NO. 6, JULY 22, 1941, Federal Works Agency, Washington, D. C., 1941 Softbound, stapled mimeographed pages, illustrated, approximately 50 pages. Upper left corner bump, good condition overall, light wear. WPA Art project circular. $135.00 Antoine Schnapper, MIGNARD D'AVIGNON (1606-1668), Palais de Papes, Avignon, 1979 Hardbound, dustjacket, 176 pages, illustrated. One of 1500 copies. Condition is VG+ overall with minor signs of wear and a small piece of clear tape on the dustjacket, previous owner's four-letter name in ink on FEP. Very nice copy overall. $275.00 Arne Karlsen, FURNITURE DESIGNED BY BORGE MOGENSEN (MOBLER TEGNET AF BORGE MOGENSEN), Danish Architectural Press, Copenhagen, 1968 Hardbound, quarto, illustrated, 140 pages. Good overall with normal signs of wear. Definitive monograph on this furniture designer. $300.00 Arrive, Michel, PEINTURES, GRAVURES & DESSINS D'ALFRED JARRY, College de Pataphysique et Cercle Francais du Livre, France, 1968 Softbound, 125 pp. G/VG $135.00 Arthur Nicholas Hosking, THE ARTISTS YEAR BOOK, Art League Publishing Association, Chicago, 1906 Grey boards, cloth spine. Superior biographical dictionary for American artists active at that time. Listings are complete with exhibition histories, career data, addresses and contact information. Waterstaining to upper right corner of most pages not affecting text. A good solid usable copy. $200.00 Arturo Schwarz, HOMAGE TO, HOMMAGE A, OMAGGIO A ANDRE BRETON, Galleria Schwarz, Milan, 1967 Wraps, illustrated, 61 pages. Texts in Italian, French, English. Binding cocked, minor corner bumps and cover soiling, other minor signs of wear. Good condition overall. The bulk of the catalogue consists of an interview with Marcel Duchamp by Andre Parinaud. $60.00 B. H. Chamberlain (translated by), JAPANESE FAIRY TALE SERIES NO. 9, THE SERPENT WITH EIGHT HEADS, T. Hasegawa, 17 Kami Negishi, Tokyo, no date Softbound, crepe paper, silk ties, illustrated, 12 mo. Very good condition with light signs of wear. NO additional titles list on inside back cover. $225.00 Balzarotti, Rodolfo and Stabin, Angelo, THE PRODUCTION OF WILLIAM CONGDON, Jaca Book Publishers, Milan, 1969 Hardbound, dustjacket, some tipped-in color plates, 268 pages. VG/VG+ $125.00 Barbara Noah, Arlene Golant, THE SALVADOR DELI, Barbara Noah and Arlene Golant, no location, 1977 Sm. folio, one page folded into thirds, illustrated. Good overall with upper corner bends and other light signs of wear. Restaurant menu satire of modern art and artists. Dishes include Abstract Eggspressionism, Agnes Martini, Pablum picasso, Diebenkorn Flakes, Wayne Teapot, Spam Richardson, Vija Celmints, Larry Bell Peppers, Tanguy Barbecue Sauce, Ham on Ryman, many more. $100.00 Bernard Champigneulle, LES DEUX ILES, Maurice Darantiere, probably Paris, circa 1950 Softbound, octavo, 69 pages loose in portfolio style binding, illustrated with ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS by Jacques Broussard. Cover is in good condition, but with wear to spine. Contents clean and in very good condition. Limited edition numbered 39 of 250 copies. $150.00 Bernard Lamotte, PROUST PORTFOLIO, THE FRANCE OF MARCEL PROUST IN TWENTY-FIVE ETCHINGS SIGNED BY BERNARD LAMOTTE FROM PLATES ENGRAVED IN COPPER BY MR. LAMOTTE AND PRINTED BY HAND IN THE ARTIST'S STUDIO, Bernard Lamotte, no place, no date (circa 1950's) Folio, cloth box with red and gold leather inset title piece, one page folded with portfolio title and list of etchings. Portfolio contains 25 etchings, each in a folder and protected by a loose tissue guard. Each etching is pencil signed by Lamotte and numbered 42/100. Etchings are in fine condition; portfolio and title page are near fine with light signs of wear. Etching titles include Carlus, Odette, Swann, The Boy Marcel, Pairs: Swann in Odette's Salon, Paris: Le Boulevard Haussmann. Balbec (Deauville), The Steeple at Combray. Bernard Lamotte was an artist known for his scenes of life in Paris, born in France in 1903 and died in New York City in 1983 $1500.00 Bertel Hintze, Tapio Wirkkala, AN EXHIBITION OF FINNISH FINE AND APPLIED ARTS, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1952 Softbound, octavo, illustrated, 24 pages. VG overall with minor signs of wear. Interior clean. $45.00 Betty Turnbull, THE MOVIE SHOW, SEVEN STAGES OF HOLLYWOOD FROM SILENTS TO CINEMASCOPE, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Balboa, CA, 1969 Softbound, illustrated, approximately 40 pages. Unusual catalogue of loose sheets tied together with a shoe lace. Show contains stills, early equipment, related book and paper memorabilia. Limited to 1000 copies. VG+ $45.00 Bob Thomas and Walt Disney, MARAVILLAS DE LOS DIBUJOS ANIMADOS (THE ART OF ANIMATION), Ediciones Gaisa, S. L., Valencia, Spain, 1968 Hardbound, 188 pages, illustrated, quarto. Attractive pictorial board covers with picture of Walt Disney. VG condition overall with light signs of wear. The scarce spanish edition of THE ART OF ANIMATION. Collector's item. $225.00 Brassai, GRAFFITI, Chr. Belser Verlag, Stuttgart, 1960 Hardbound, dustjacket, 47 pages text, 105 illustrations. Minor yellowing to some pages, wear to extremities of dustjacket and along spine, book cocked slightly forward, white cloth cover clean, interior clean. VG overall. $850.00 Brenda Morrison, BOTKE-MCCOMAS-SEIDENECK (THE BOTKES, THE MCCOMASES, THE SEIDENECKS), Carmel Art Association, Carmel, CA 1988 Softbound, illustrated, sq. octavo, approx. 55 pages. VG/NF, interior clean. Almost like new. $75.00 Bruno Munari, TIC, TAC, AND TOC, World Publishing, Cleveland and NY, 1957 Hardbound, quarto, illustrated, unpaged. First English edition. Very good + condition, edges yellowed, very minor soiling to cover, other light signs of wear. Scarce in this condition. $300.00 Bruno Munari, WHO'S THERE? OPEN THE DOOR, World Publishing, Cleveland and NY, 1957 Hardbound, quarto, illustrated, unpaged. First English edition. Very good + condition, edges yellowed, very minor soiling to cover, other light signs of wear. Scarce in this condition. $300.00 C. G. Holme, DECORATIVE ART 1938, THE STUDIO YEAR BOOK, The Studio Limited, London, 1938 Hardbound, 144 pages, 32 pages of advertisements, quarto, illustrated. Extremity wear and some soiling to covers, foxing inside front cover, binding split between several pages, but solid overall. Interior clean, age yellowing to edges of pages, a good working copy overall. Some tipped-on color plates. $165.00 C.L. Bartholomew, Ed., A ROAD TO BIGGER THINGS, Federal School of Applied Cartooning, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1920. Pictorial wraps, quarto, 48 pages, illustrated. Covers and edges soiled, 2 corners bumped. Overall good. Numerous photos and bios of prominent American cartoonists, illustrators of the time including Clair Briggs, Windsor McCay, John McCutcheon. $70.00 Camille Mauclair, ALFRED JONNIAUX, No publisher, no location, 1943 Softbound, illustrated, 22 pages. SIGNED AND DEDICATED BY JONNIAUX. Exhibition catalogue. Minor spotting on cover, edgwear, overall signs of wear. Interior is good with a minor spot on several pages. Overall condition is good. $85.00 Carlo Mollino (preface), CARLO ENRICO RAVA, ARREDAMENTI, G. G. Gorlich, Milan, 1950 Softbound, square 4to, 131 illustrations of furniture and furniture in interiors. Original glassine cover protector has yellow age spots, cover itself and contents of book are very good with one small scuff to the spine. Very nice copy of a scarce book. Best period monograph on this designer. $400.00 Carlos Merida, ESTAMPAS DEL POPOL VUH, Graphic Art Publications, Mexico, 1943 Portfolio, string ties, folio, ten original color lithographs, ten tissue guards with text, one pertaining to each lithograph, folded title page/text introduction, number 345 of 1000 copies, signed by Merida. Cover has wear with water stain to 3 inch square area, lower right front cover, not affecting interior of cover or contents. Contents VG, clean, with light edgewear to several of the tissue guards, other minor signs of wear. Call for detailed explanation of condition. $2250.00 Carmen Marti de Misse, METODO SISTEMA MARTI CON REAL PRIVILEGIO EXCLUSIVO PARA APRENDER EL CORTE Y CONFECCION DE TODA CLASE DE CORSES PARA SENORAS Y NINAS, Feliu Y Susanna, Barcelona, circa 1900 Hardbound, illustrated, 71 pages, quarto. Pictorial pressed cloth and leatherette boards, art nouveau detailing. Fragile endpapers, front hinge split, but binding solid. Good overall, interior very clean, very nice condition considering the age and fragility. Directions for making 29 corsets, showing line drawing patterns and finished corsets, for women, children, and even a maternity corset for pregnant women. Rare. $485.00 Castor Seibel, A MEME LA PIERRE, FERNAND MOURLOT LITHOGRAPHIE, Pierre Bordas et Fils, Paris, 1982 Quarto, loose as issued in clamshell box, 34 pages, illustrated. Box is near fine, text/illustrations fine condition. Limited to 150 copies on Arches paper signed by Seibel and Mourlot, original Dubuffet cover lithograph printed by Mourlot, original Picasso drawings, not previously published, on title page and at close of book; tributes by many of the artists whose lithographs were printed by Mourlot. SOLD Charles M. Kurtz, Ed., ACADEMY NOTES, VOL.1 NO. 2, WITH PLATES IN COLOR AND TINT, The Matthews-Northrup Works, Buffalo, NY, July 1905. Pictorial wraps with string tie, 4to, 38 pages, illustrated. Plates showing gallery walls for inaugural loan exhibition at the Albright Art Gallery. VG. $50.00 Charles Simpson, PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE FIGURE, COLOUR AND MONOCHROME, American Photographic Publishing Company, Boston, 1938 Hardbound, octavo, DJ, 208 pages, illustrated in black and white and color. Minor foxing to several front and rear pages, minor wear and yellowing on spine of dustjacket, several markings on blank back of DJ. VG-VG+ overall. Nice copy. $185.00 Charlotte M. Salwey (Birch), FANS OF JAPAN, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., London, 1894 Large 4to, dustjacket, illustrated, 149 pages, including 10 chromolithographic plates. Front hinge starting, foxing to inside FEP and facing half-title, and inside REP and facing page. Contents and plates remarkably clean and fresh. Some foxing and minor wear to yellow pictorial cloth binding. Significant chips, particularly at spine extremities, and wear to dustjacket, but the illustrated front panel is almost completely intact. VG overall. Rare. $700.00 Christian Brinton, OFFICIAL EXHIBITION CATALOGUE, CONSTANTIN MEUNIER, 1831-1905, Avery Library, Columbia University, New York, 1914 Softbound, small octavo, 80 pages, illustrated. Good condition overall, interior clean, light signs of wear. 144 pieces in the show. Significant early reference on this artist. $250.00 Claire Freches-Thory and Rejane Bargiel-Harry, CAPPIELLO, 1875-1942, CARICATURES, AFFICHES, PEINTURES ET PROJETS DECORATIFS, Grand Palais, Paris, 1981 Softbound, oblong octavo, 191 pages, illustrated. Good condition overall wth light rubbing and wear to covers. Lignt corner bend, top front cover, rear bottom front corner, light wear to spine. Interior clean. Best reference on this important French poster artist. Over 400 illustrations. The closest thing to a catalogue raisonne. $275.00 Claude Roger-Marx, PREMIER EXPOSITION DU GROUPE DES PEINTRES-GRAVEURS INDEPENDANTS, Galerie Barbazanges, Paris, 1923 Softbound, sm. octavo, 23 pages. Good overall with light signs of wear, some prices penciled in. Text in French. 128 pieces in show. Artists include Marie Laurencin, Raoul Dufy, Georges Braque Maurice de Vlaminck, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Jules Pascin, Jean Marchand, Sonia Lewitzka, J. E. Laboureur, Charles Dufresne, others. Historically significant catalogue. $250.00 Clifford Gress-Wright, ROBERT CREMEAN, Esther-Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1961. Softbound, small 8vo, 16 pages, 19 B&W illustrations. Light soiling to cover, interior clean. Good overall. $25.00 Clinton Adams as interviewed by Van Deren Coke, CLINTON ADAMS, A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION OF LITHOGRAPHS, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, 1973 Softbound, small 4to, 32 pages, illustrated. VG+ condition. Adams worked with Lynton Kistler early in his career and Tamarind later. $75.00 Cyril G. E. Bunt, TUDOR & STUART FABRICS, F. Lewis Publishers Ltd., Leigh-on-Sea, England, 1961 Hardbound, dustjacket, 12 pages, 56 unpaginated illustrations. Book Near Fine; Dustjacket Near Fine. $250.00 David Malo, HAWAIIAN ANTIQUITIES, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 1951 Hardbound, dustjacket, illlustrated, 278 pages, first edition. Very good+ overall with light wear and spine fade to dustjacket, chip at the top of the spine. Previous owner's name on FEP. Uncommon in this condition. $125.00 Denman Waldo Ross, THE PAINTER'S PALETTE, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1919 Hardbound, diagrams, 41 pages. Wear to spine extremities and corners of covers, top 1/8 inch of spine missing, interior very clean. Good condition overall. $145.00 Diane Ghirado, FLETCHER BENTON 1975, Smith Andersen Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1975. Softbound, square 8vo, 12 pages, 5 illustrations, chronology. Covers lightly soiled, interior clean. Good. $30.00 Diane Moran, ASPECTS OF CALIFORNIA MODERNISM, 1920-1950, Federal Reserve Board Building, Washington, D. C., 1986 Softbound, 13 pages, 4to, illustrated. Good overall with light signs of wear. Artists include Knud Merrild, Conrad Buff, Lorser Feitelson, Charles Howard, Paul Landacre, others. $35.00 Diane Waldman, HOMAGE TO JOSEPH CORNELL, 1903-1972, Queens County Art and Cultural Center, New York, 1973 Softbound, octavo, approx 26 pages, illustrated. Good overall with light signs of wear, interior clean, 2 different addenda slips laid in. $65.00 Dieter Roth, DIETER ROTH PICTURES, ZUG (SWITZERLAND), Dieter Roth, Zug, Switzerland, 1973 Softbound, 73 pages, octavo, illustrated. Good overall with minor signs of wear and a small date stamp on the rear cover. #888/3000 copies, SIGNED BY ROTH. Catalogue of Roth's works that are available for sale, printed in Roth's handwriting. The artist was represented at that time by Dr. Philippe Buse of Hamburg, Germany. $150.00 Dode Trip and Sherburne Cook, WASHINGTON STATE ART AND ARTISTS, 1850-1950, Sherburne Antiques and Fine Art, Inc., Olympia, 1992 Hardbound, 185 pages. Fine condition. The best biographical reference for Washington artists. One of an edition of only 500 copies. $275.00 Don Woodford, LOCATIONS, Art Gallery, Cal State College, San Bernardino, 1981 Softbound, illustrated, sm. quarto, 32 pages. Covers rubbed, otherwise VG. Interior clean. Artists include Wade Saunders, Joe Fay, Judy Fiskin, Robert Landau, Leland Rice, Roland Reiss, others. $50.00 Donald Reichert, GERTRUD AND OTTO NATZLER CERAMICS, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA, 1970 Softbound, quarto, 12 pages, 2 color illustratons showing 5 pieces, 1 black and white illustration of the Natzlers. NF condition overall. 120 pieces listed, titled, serial numbers, dimensions. 107 pieces priced and for sale. $90.00 Donn Brannon, CALIFORNIA COLLAGE, College of the Siskiyous, Weed, California, 1981 Square 8vo, approx. 30 pages, illustrated. VG overall with light signs of wear. Artists include Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, Joseph Zirker, George Neubert $80.00 Doris Eff, FASHION IN COMBS, Doris Eff, Tucson, Arizona, circa 1979 Softbound, illustrated, quarto, approximately 60 pages. Good overall, sticker removal mark in upper right corner of front cover, interior nice and clean. Good reference. $165.00 Dorothy N. Stewart, HANDBOOK OF INDIAN DANCES, 1, NEW MEXICO PUEBLOS, INDIAN CEREMONIAL DANCES OF THE SOUTHWEST, Pictograph Press by Dorothy N. Stewart, Santa Fe, 1950 Softbound, illustrated, 8vo, first edition. Light wear to covers, interior clean. The rare original edition of this book containing 8 original color block prints illustrating different Indian dances (including the block print in the front cover). $2750.00 Douglas McClellan, WAYNE THIEBAUD, PAINTINGS AND WORKS ON PAPER, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA, 1976. Pictorial wraps, quarto, 8 pages, illustrated in bw. Remains of price sticker on back cover. VG. Essay by Douglas McClellan signed by McClellan. $50.00 E. Neville Rolfe, POMPEII PAST AND PRESENT, William Clowes and Sons, London, 1884 Pressed green cloth binding with simple gilt decorations, illustrated, 44 pages of text, numerous unpaginated original photographs. Extremity wear, interior good, spine cocked, overall G. Original contemporary photographs of Pompeii by E. Lauro; also contains photographs of drawings executed by Luigi Fischetti that show what Pompeii looked like before the volcanic interruption. $350.00 Earnest Elmo Calkins and introduction by Meredith Nicholson, FRANKLIN BOOTH, SIXTY REPRODUCTIONS FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, Robert Frank, New York, 1925 Hardbound, illustrated. Condition is VG/NF. Light spine fade, minor markings on binding, contents like new. This is an outstanding copy of a very scarce book and appears to be in virtually unread condition. $500.00 Ebria Feinblatt, PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BY JUNE WAYNE, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 1959. Pictorial wraps, small 8vo, 16 pages, B&W illustrations. Cover shows light wear, interior clean. Good. $30.00 Edgar Ewing, EWING, Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles, CA, circa 1954. Pictorical wraps, octavo, 4 pages, illustrated in bw. Light soiling to lower right corner of cover, upper left corner bumped. Overall VG. Includes "Edgar Ewing: His Creed in Art" by the artist. $20.00 Edited by Frank Shay, IRON MEN AND WOODEN SHIPS, Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, 1926 Hardbound, illustrated. Minor signs of wear, overall VG. ORIGINAL pen, ink and watercolor dustjacket of a dock scene with a man and a woman signed by Paul Horgan and dated 1933. Also inscribed by Peter Hurd and wife Henriette Wyeth to his father. Great Hurd/Horgan association item. Unique. $1200.00 Edited by Jean Dupuy, COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS, ART PERFORMANCES IN THE SEVENTIES, Performing Arts Journal Publications, NY, 1980 Hardbound, glassine wrapper, 245 pgs., illustrated. Extensive survey of the performance art scene in New York in the seventies. Dozens of artists and events recorded. Numerous photographs and essays. $200.00 Edited by Luigi Ballerini, ITALIAN VISUAL POETRY, 1912-1972, Finch College Museum, New York, 1972 Softbound, quarto, spiral bound, illustrated, 78 pages. Very good condition overall with light foxing to top of front cover and minor signs of wear. $75.00 Edmundo Desnoes, CUBAANSE AFFICHES, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1971 Softbound, illustrated, approximately 80 pages. Very good condition overall with minor signs of wear, abbraisaion to lower inch of spine. Essay in English-- The Poster in the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1970. 316 posters catalogued. Excellent reference. $90.00 Edward Henning, POPULAR IMAGES AND SENSIBILITY, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1968 Wraps, 12mo, illustrated, 16 pages. VG overall with light signs of wear. Uncommon catalogue featuring work of Jasper Johns, Wayne Thiebaud, Claes Oldenburg. $45.00 Edward Kienholz, EDWARD KIENHOLZ, MAIN WORKS FROM 1961 UP TO-DAY (OPERE PRINCIPALI DAL 1961 AD OGGI), Galleria Bocchi, S. A. S., Milan (Milano), 1974 Softbound, approximately 60 pages, illustrated, large oblong octavo. Black paper covers. Good condition overall with light signs of wear. Text in English and Italian. $140.00 Edwin Bower Hesser, William Henningsen, Paul Andrew Broady, LIVING ART MODELS, VOLUME 1, NUMBER 2, Dawn Publishing Company, New York, May-June 1929 Wraps, quarto, illustrated, approximately 50 pages. Good minus overall with minor wear and bends to covers, lower corner bump, wear to extremity of spine. Interior clean. Lower outside corners of two pages missing, not affecting images. Nude erotic photographs of women, most by Hesser, several each by Henningsen and Broady. Sold Elaine de Kooning, FRANZ KLINE MEMORIAL EXHIBITION, Washingtion Gallery of Modern Art, Washington D.C., 1962 Wraps, illustrated, 60 pages. Light soiling to covers, G-G+. $75.00 Eleanor Green, AL HELD, San Francisco Museum of Art, SF, 1968 Softbound, small quarto, illustrated, 24 pages. VG overall with light signs of wear. $40.00 Elisabeth T. Peters, GERALD COLLINS GLEESON, CALIFORNIA WATERCOLORIST, Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, 1990 Softbound, oblong octavo, illustrated, 32 pages. Very good overall with rubbing to front cover. Interior clean. $55.00 Elizabeth Ann McCauley, RAYMOND JONSON, THE EARLY YEARS, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, 1980 Softbound, illustrated, 32 pages, oblong quarto. Good overall, interior clean. Musty odor will likely dissipate over time. $75.00 Elizabeth Burris-Meyer, CONTEMPORARY COLOR GUIDE, HOW CONTROLLED COLOR CONTRIBUTES TO MODERN LIVING, William Helburn, New York, 1947 Hardbound, octavo, illustrated, 30 pages plus 30 color plates. Moderate soiling to covers, small chips to top and base of spine, 1/2 inch chips along edges at top of spine. Cover only fair. Interior g-vg crisp, clean. 30 pages of tipped on paint color samples of color combinations for various interiors. $300.00 Erich Preuss, REMEMBER THAT, Philipp Rauscher, Munich, circa 1950 Wraps, 63 pages, illustrated, oblong 8vo. 2 folding maps at rear. Good. "A guide through the memorial sites of the former Concentration Camp Dachau. Pictorial and written reports on the suffering and death of uncounted prisoners from all countries of the world." $250.00 Erin Younger, George C. Longfish, Joan Randall, CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN ART, Gardiner Art Gallery, Stillwater, OK, 1983 Softbound, oblong quarto, approximately 50 pages, illustrated. Good condition overall with minor soiling to covers, light corner bends, and other minor signs of wear. Interior clean. $55.00 Ester McCoy, ROOTS OF CALIFORNIA CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE, AN EXHIBITION OF THE WORK OF IRVING GILL, GREENE & GREENE, BERNARD MAYBECK, R. M. SCHINDLER, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, The Los Angeles Art Commission, LA, 1956 Softbound, oblong octavo, 20 pages, illustrated. VG overall with minor signs of wear, light spot on back cover, previous owner's name inside front cover. Early retrospective look at the work of these important California architects; possibly the first such show. $80.00 Eudorah M. Moore, DOROTHY S. BENRIMO, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, 1973 Wrappers, quarto, illustrated, 16 pages. Light soiling to white covers, several small paint spots on rear cover, interior clean, good condition overall. 41 items in the show. Portrait photograph of the artist in the catalogue is by Laura Gilpin. $50.00 Eugene Anderson and Stan Newcomb, HANS BURKHARDT, PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, STUDIES, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, circa 1966 Softbound, illustrated, 32 pages. G. Burkhardt was a significant Southern California modernist. $50.00 Eugene N. Anderson, JOHN PAUL JONES, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, 1967 Sm. square 8vo, approx. 36 pages, illustrated. VG overall with light signs of wear and several markings on front and rear cover. Interior clean. $35.00 Eula Harlacker, PLANTS OF THE SOUTHWEST IN BLOCK PRINT, Vocational Print Shop, El Paso, circa 1930's Softbound, quarto, illustrated with 12 original color block prints by students of the 2B art class at El Paso High School. Good condition overall with minor signs of wear, interior clean. Each block print is accompanied by one page of text by the artist. Block prints are initialled by the artists. Laid in is a Christmas postcard from El Paso High School, possibly illustrating a Harlacker drawing, pen-signed "Aunt Eula." $225.00 Eula Harlacker, EL PASO IN BLOCK PRINT, Vocational Print Shop, El Paso, circa 1930's Softbound, quarto, illustrated with 12 original block prints by students of the 2B art class at El Paso High School. Good condition overall with minor signs of wear, interior clean. Each block print is accompanied by one page of text by the artist. Most of the block prints are initialled by the artists. $225.00 F. A. Mercer, W. Gaunt, ART AND INDUSTRY, VOLUME 23, JULY-DECEMBER 1937, The Studio Ltd., London and New York, 1937 Hardbound, quarto, illustrated, 246 pages. Good overall, interior clean. Top right cover corner bump, minor signs of wear, light soiling to covers. Several articles on the Paris Exposition exhibition of 1937. Some color illustrations, mostly b&w. $175.00 Fabrizio Fiumi, Paolo Galli, Giorgio Birelli, Carlo Caldini, FIUMI, GALLI, BIRELLI, CALDINI, RICORDI DI ARCHITETTURA, ARCHITECTURAL MEMOIRS, "9999", Firenze, 1972 Softbound, pressed copper binding, large quarto, illustrated, 273 pages. Good overall with light signs of wear, fading to edges of pink pages, rubbing from copper covers on endpapers. Record of the artists' exhibitions in Italy, New York, Los Angeles, Japan, and other locations between 1966-71. $450.00 Fairburn, THE FAIRBURN SYSTEM OF VISUAL REFERENCES, SET 1, BOOKS 1-3: MALE FULL FIGURE, FEMALE FULL FIGURE, SITUATION POSES & HANDS, Fairburn Publications Limited, Vancouver, Canada, 1979, second edition Stiff blue plastic pictorial covers enclosing spiral bound leaves, small folio. BOOK I: MALE-FULL FIGURE, 200 pages. BOOK 2: FEMALE-FULL FIGURE, 200 pages. BOOK 3: SITUATION POSES & HANDS, 200 pages. Set 1 is THE ONLY one of the three Fairburn visual reference sets that is OUT-OF-PRINT. All three vols. VG with minor soiling to covers; interiors clean; subscription cards removed from front of books 1 and 3, but present in book 2 (this does not affect any content). The set contains thousands of illustrations of nude and clothed people photographed from consistent angles and heights for the use of professional graphic artists and figure painters in their depiction of the human figure. Intent is to provide stock angles that can be recombined into new composites. This second edition is substantially larger than the first edition and has many more pages of illustrations in each volume. $735.00 Felicien Rops, DREIUNDVIERZIG BRIEFE, Georg Muller Verlag, Munich, 1912 Grey boards, 85 pages. Condition VG+. $165.00 Fernand Mourlot and Castor Seibel, BRAQUE-PAULHAN, DEUX LETTRES DE JEAN PAULHAN ET QUATRE REPONSES DE GEORGES BRAQUE, Pierre Bordas et fils, Paris, 1984 Quarto, slipcase, loose as issued, 39 pages, illustrated. Near fine. #59 of 230 copies, initialled by Mourlot, also containing two Braque lithographs printed by Mourlot, signed in the plate by Braque, numbered and initialled in pencil by Mourlot. SOLD Florence Ludins-Katz and Elias Katz, ART & DISABILITIES, Florence Ludins-Katz and Elias Katz, Berkeley, 1983 235 photocopied pages, bound in clear plastic over wraps, "copy center" type binding, illustrated. Signed by both authors, #19 of 100 copies. Press release and workshop schedule laid in. Folds to plastic covers, triangular portion of rear cover missing. Good. Describes a model for producing art, sometimes referred to as "Creative Growth" or "Creativity Explored" and specifically focusing on "handicapped" artists. The procedures outlined in this book are now used around the country. This is the first publication by the movement's founders, the Katzes. $250.00 Florence N. Levy, AMERICAN ART ANNUAL, 1898, The Macmillan Company, NY, 1899 Hardbound, illustrated, 540 pages, 8vo. Very good condition with light signs of wear and inked name on fep. Volume One of this important reference containing artist biographies, information about art schools, museums, galleries, and more. Also contains photographs of artists, illustrations of American paintings, and more. $250.00 Foreward by Johan Langaard, EDVARD MUNCHS BREV FAMILIEN, Johan Grundt Tanum Forlag, Oslo, 1949 Grey wrappers, 309 pages. Minor wear, yellowing, spotting to covers, yellowing to spine. Interior clean. Good overall. Munch's family letters. Extensive footnotes and index. Text in Norwegian. $250.00 Francesco Clemente, UNTITLED, Francesco Clemente, Genoa, 1978 Orange wraps, illustrated, 18 pages. Good. #131 of 500 copies. The illustrations, including those in color, appear to be photocopies. Text in French and Italian. $150.00 Francisco Da'Antonio, EL ARTE INGENUO EN VENEZUELA, Compania Shell de Venezuela, Caracas, 1974 Hardbound, dustjacket, quarto, illustrated, 161 pages. Text in Spanish, English summary at rear. Folk and naive artists with artist bios. VG. $150.00 Frank O'Hara, Sam Hunter, others, ROBERT MOTHERWELL, A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, 1962 Wraps, illustrated, 32 pages. Minor paint smears on cover. Good-. Essays by Hunter, O'Hara, Motherwell, poem by Barbara Guest. $75.00 Frans Carlgren, RUDOLF STEINER, 1861-1925, The Goetheanum School of Spritual Science, Dornach, 1964 Oblong, wraps, small octavo, illustrated, 56 pages plus 32 unpaginated illustrations, second edition. Spine fade, slightly bent, minor signs of wear. Good overall. Text in English. $85.00 Frans Masereel, CAPITALE, 66 DESSINS, Editions du Sablier, Paris, 1935, First Edition Softbound, glassine protective wrapper, octavo, illustrated, unpaged, #78 of 1560 copies. Fair to good overall, binding intact, but pages sit flat when book is opened, interior clean. Top and bottom of spine missing. Very scarce. $225.00 Franz-Joachim Verspohl, JOSEPH BEUYS, DAS KAPITAL RAUM 1970-77, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, GmbH, Frankfurt, 1984 Softbound, octavo, 79 pages plus fold-out, illustrated. Very good overall with minor signs of wear and light foxing to front page and page edges. Interior and covers very clean. $60.00 Frederick Wight, THE ARTIST'S ENVIRONMENT: WEST COAST, Amon Carter Museum, Ft. (Fort) Worth, 1962 Softbound, illustrated, octavo, 132 pages. Fair-good overall, binding solid, interior clean. Outer paper covering spine missing at top 1/2 inch, edgewear to spine, gallery stamp inside front cover, other minor bends, signs of wear. $135.00 Gabriel Moulin, photographer, CHARLES CALDWELL DOBIE SITTING IN THE BOHEMIAN GROVE, CALIFORNIA (ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH), Gabriel Moulin, San Francisco, 1920 Original sepia-toned photograph measuring 8 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches showing Charles Caldwell Dobie seated next to a portrait painting of himself and another person, hanging on what appears to be a large redwood tree, in the Bohemian Club Bohemian Grove near Guerneville, California. Dobie wrote the Grove Play that year-- 1920. Inscribed verso, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Bohemia, July, 1920 and stamped Gabriel Moulin Photo, 153 Kearny, S. F. Cal. Good condition overall with a bend down 2/3 of the right edge, not affecting any significant portion of the image. $175.00 George Hansen, VESPERS BABY ROLAND, Paul Elder & Morgan Shepard, San Francisco, 1902 Softbound, octavo, illustrated, 24 pages, prospectus laid in. Light cover wear, several spots on front cover, interior clean. Good overall. Arts and crafts design on cover, handmade endpapers. Humorous photo essay showing captioned pictures of a baby in various poses. $135.00 George Luks, Introduction, EXHIBITION OF SCULPTURE BY GUTZON BORGLUM, Avery Library, Columbia University, New York, 1914 Softbound, small tall octavo, string tie binding, approximately 40 pages, illustrated. Light and inconspicuous museum stamp on blank backs of illustration pages and back of title page, not affecting contents or illustrations. Fair to good condition overall, moderate cover soiling not affecting contents, typical signs of wear, interior clean. 40 pieces in the show. Significant and uncommon early reference on this artist. $195.00 George Nelson, THE HERMAN MILLER COLLECTION, The Herman Miller Furniture Company, Zeeland Michigan, 1948 Oblong quarto, beige hardbound cloth boards, illustrated, 72 pages. Good overall, boards lightly shaken, binding slightly loose, previous owner's name on FEP. The first significant catalogue published by this important firm. $300.00 George W. Neubert, XAVIER MARTINEZ, Oakland Museum, Oakland, 1974 Softbound, illustrated, 71 pages. Good overall. Light page bends, spine fade. Interior clean. Significant California artist. Major reference on the artist. $200.00 George William Sheldon, RECENT IDEALS OF AMERICAN ART, D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1888, 1889, 1890 Folio, leather bound, gold lettering, illustrated, tooled spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 150 pages plus 75 unpaginated gravure plates with tissue guards. Tissue guard of frontspiece is folded with a several inch tear. Overall, this book is in exceptional condition with only light wear. The binding is excellent with only light signs of wear. $800.00 Georgianna M. Lagoria, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART OF THE SIXTIES, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, 1982 Softbound, 57 pages, quarto, illustrated. Good+ condition overall with light soiling to white covers, minor signs of wear. Clean interior. Limited to 2000 copies. $75.00 Gerald Nordland, EDWARD CORBETT, San Francisco Museum of Art, SF, 1969 Softbound, illustrated, sm. quarto, 24 pages. Good overall with light signs of wear. Remains of library sticker, upper left front cover. Interior clean. $55.00 Gerald Nordland, RAY PARKER, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D. C., 1966 Softbound, large octavo, illustrated, 24 pages. VG overall with minor signs of wear. Interior clean. $50.00 Gerhard Ruhm, Otto Mauer, Rudolf Klaus, etc., PETER BISCHOF, WERKVERZEICHNIS DER DRUCKGRAPHIKEN, 1956-1982, Verlag A. F. Koska, Vienna, Berlin, 1982 Hardbound, illustrated, 199 pages, catalogue raisonne, limited to 1000 copies $150.00 Gillo Dorfles, FONTANA, Alexander Iolas, NY, Paris, Geneva, circa 1960's Stiff textured wraps, octavo, approximately 20 pages, illustrated. Some soiling to cover with minor signs of wear. Interior fresh, clean. VG overall. Text in French. Photos by Mulas, Wolleh. This catalogue is a Fontana art object in and of itself containing brightly colored pages with areas cut out so that the reader can see through from one page to the next. $125.00 Gillo Dorfles, Guido Ballo, others, I NUOVI ARAZZI DI MISSONI (THE NEW TAPESTRIES BY MISSONI), Galeria del Naviglio, Milan (Milano), 1981 Softbound, 36 pages, illustrated, octavo. VG+ condition overall with only light signs of wear. $90.00 Giorgio Nicodemi, VETTORE ZANETTI ZILLA, PITTORE, Alfieri & Lacroix, Milan, 1949 Hardbound, quarto, illustrated, 199 pages. VG. $125.00 Giorgio Nicodemi, THE FIRST EXHIBITION IN AMERICA OF SCULPTURE BY MEDARDO ROSSO, Peridot Gallery, New York, 1959 Softbound, octavo, 22 pages, illustrated. VG condition overall with light signs of wear, interior clean. Previous owner's name stamped on back cover. New York Times article in the artist laid in at rear. $45.00 Giorgio Soavi, MISSONI 25, Arti grafiche Milanesi, Milan (?), circa 1980 Hardbound, 36 pages, illustrated, square large octavo. VG+ condition overall with only light signs of wear. 25 year survey exhibition of Missoni's work. Text in English and Italian. INSCRIBED BY MISSONI to California museum curator James Elliot in 1981. $160.00 Giovanni Mariacher, I VETRI DI MURANO (GLASSWARE OF MURANO), Carlo Bestetti, Milan, 1967 Hardbound, dustjacket, illustrated, black &white and color with some tipped-in color plates, 2