Binding: Decorated cloth boards

415 pages; numerous b&w illustrations. "Analysis of the characteristic elements in Expressionist art." Clean throughout within; binding tight. Boards worn at edges; spine rubbed of gilt titles.
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Color in Townscape for Architects, Desighners and Contractors; for City-Dwellers and Other Observant People.

By: Duttmann, Martina; Friedrich Schmuck; Johannes Uhl; John William Gabriel (Translated from the German by)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: San Francisco, W.H. Freeman : 1981

Edition: 1st U.S Edition

Seller ID: 001995

ISBN-13: 9780716713104

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Very Good

192 pages; 350 color plates. A beautiful book. A practical reference for the professional and a how-to for the amateur when faced with choosing color schemes.
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American Painted Furniture 1660-1880

By: Fales, Dean A., Jr.; Robert Bishop (Illustrations); Cyril I. Nelson (General Editor)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton and Co. : 1972

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 001431

ISBN-13: 9780525053873

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Fine

299 pages; 577 illustrations, including 148 color plates and 429 b&w photographs; Forewords by Nina Fletcher Little and Jean Lipman; endnotes; comprehensive bibliography; index; decorated endpapers. A highly regarded book in its field; a beautiful book by any standard. Almost as new; dustjacket with a closed tear and a crease in a corner of the front panel., otherwise clean and bright.
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Wonders of Italy

By: Fattorusso, Joseph

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Florence, Giuseppe Fattorusso : 1953

Edition: Eleventh Final Edition

Seller ID: 001614

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Very Good

615 pages; over 3000 photo-illustrations; some color watercolor reproductions; folded genealogical table of "Kings and Queens of Great Britian" (??) laid-in at the back. Densely packed: monuments, churches, palaces, artworks of all of Italy. Assembled by region: Piedmont, Liguria, Umbria, Campania, Sicily, etc.; towns and cities within regions. Clean and tight throughout.
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The Splendors of Asia: India, Thailand, Japan

By: Gary, Dorothy Hales (Photographs); Robert Payne (Text)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press : 1965

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 002260

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Very Good

157 pages; full-page b&w photographic plates throughout. A very attractive volume.
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Period Lighting Fixtures

By: Gould, G. Glen, Mr. & Mrs.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead, & Company : 1928

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 001369

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Very Good

274 pages; 121 b&w illustrations plus a color frontispiece. The Renaissance forward provides most examples in this work, yet attention is given to earlier periods. The book is divides by country of origin: Italy, Spain, France, England, America. Pages are very clean and white; text and illustrations are bright; foredges are spotted with foxing. Handsome blue boards with bright gilt titles and decoration. A slight lean to the binding which is otherwise sound. A portion of the dustjacket laid-in at the back.
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The World of Hirschfeld

By: Hirschfeld, Al; Lloyd Goodrich (introduction)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 001147

ISBN: 8109-0177-3

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Very Good

(1970). 233 pages; 189 illustrations, including 32 color plates; also includes several of the artist's early lithographs, including "The Nine Old Men of the United States Supreme Court (1932). Clean and tight throughout; light toning to the edges; head of the spine soiled.
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American Art Nouveau

By: Johnson, Diane Chalmers

Price: $55.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams : 1981

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 002075

ISBN-13: 9780810906785

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Very Good

312 pages; 394 illustrations. Chronology; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index. Thorough text; beautifully illustrated including many full-page color tipped-in plates. Nearly fine condition. Front panel of the dustjacket is faded unevenly.
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The Andean Republics: Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru

By: Johnson, William Weber

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Time Inc. : 1965

Seller ID: 002088

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Very Good

160 pages; maps and illustrations. A good perspective on the states' histories and a perspective from which to view them now.
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Needlepoint by Design: Variations on Chinese Themes

By: Lane, Maggie; Clare Boothe Luce (Foreword)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1970

Seller ID: 002484

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Fine

114 pages; numerous illustrations, color and b&w; all designs by the author. Clean throughout; tight binding.
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The Museum: One Hundred Years and The Metropolitan Museum of Art

By: Lerman, Leo; Thomas P.F. Hoving (Introduction)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press : 1969

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 002089

ISBN: 670-49563-8

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Very Good

400 pages; numerous illustrations, art and historical. An enjoyable read; an enjoyable browse: a perspective on the history of the nation and New York City as well as a detailed report on the Museum. Dustjacket corner is chipped.
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The Isles of Shoals Remembered : A Legacy from America's First Musicians' and Artists' Colony

By: Mason, Caleb (Introduced with text)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Charles E. Tuttle : 1992

Edition: First Printing

Seller ID: 003765

ISBN-13: 9780804817769

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Fine

not paginated. A daybook, or diary remembering the original 1901 daybook created for and presented to musician William Mason as a Christmas gift by his musical and artistic friends associated with the Isles of Shoals Colony. 53 of the original 365 creations are reproduced. Each month is lined and days numbered over a few pages interleaved with the reproductions, but days of the week are not named. Thus it works for any year.
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Rembrandt

By: Menpes, Mortimer, With an Essay on the Life and Work of Rembrandt by C. Lewis Hind

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Adam and Charles Black : 1905

Seller ID: 004156

ISBN: no

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Very Good

50 pp.+ 2 adverisements; 16 color plates laid-on with tissue guards; text and plates on heavy paper stock. Leaves unopened. First signature, including frontispiece and title page is loose. Boards are soiled and worn at spine extremeties. Inman calls for "top edges gilt"; these ar not. Leaves are unopened and page edges are uncut.
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Currier & Ives, Printmakers to the American People

By: Peters, Harry T.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co. : 1943

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004264

ISBN: no

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Very Good

41 pp. text followed by 191 plates, color and duotone (including the reproduced print on the front board. Clean throughout save for previous owner's namel on the front endpaper, neatly written. Light crease to some preliminary pages. Boards clean and bright, showing little wear.
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Needlepoint for Everyone

By: Picken, Mary Brooks and Doris White with Claire Valentine

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row : 1970

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 002483

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Very Good

218 pages; 120 drawings, 325 photographs, four pages of color illustrations, color endpaper illustrations.
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The Flowering of Art Nouveau

By: Rheims, Maurice

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams

Seller ID: 000954

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Very Good.

(1966) 450 pages; 12 color plates tipped in; 595 black and white illustrations. Comprehensive: architecture to heating to glass to religious art. Corner of half-title missing; staining to fore-edge and bottom edge; minor spotting to a few pages. Otherwise clean and tight. Acetate dustjacket lightly curled at the bottom.
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Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye

By: Smith, Charles Sprague

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, A. Wessels Company : 1902

Seller ID: 004262

ISBN: no

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Very Good

232 pages; many illustrations, each with tissue covers; frontispiece is loose. Clean throughout.
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he Enduring Crafts of Japan: 33 Living Treasures

By: Sugimura, Tsune (photographs by); Masataka Ogawa (text); Tsuneari Fukuda (introduction); Gordon B. Washburn (foreword)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Tokyo, Walker/Weatherhill - A Weathermark Edition : 1968

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004814

ISBN: no

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Very Good

230 pages; numerous full-page illustrations, some color, most b&w. Potters, weavers, dyers, Sendai weaver, Lacquer Maki-e, Choshitsu, Swordmakers, metal casters, Bamboo craftsman, Japanese doll craftsmen. Clean throughout, pages and illustrations bright; boards faded at edges and with light wear at the bottom of the spine. Dustjacket worn at edges; 1-inch paper loss at bottom.
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Great Tapestries: The Web of History from the 12th to the 20th Century

By: Verlet, Pierre; Michel Florisoone; Adolf Hoffmeister; Francois Tabard; Joseph Jobe (Edited); Peggy Rowell Oberson (Translated)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Edita S.A. Lausanne : 1965

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 001760

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Fine

280 pages; 185 b&w illustrations; 82 color; many of the color are tipped-in. The art, design and techniques of tapestry making from the Middle Ages to our time. The four authors each covers his own special period. A repaired tear in the jacket's front panel, no lost material. A beautiful book.
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Binding: Decorated cloth boards