Item 3559The Architectural Forum
New York: Time, Inc., 1938. spiral bound. 4to. 73pp. +108pp. Frank Lloyd Wright insert special. Volume 68 No. 1, January 1938. #03625.
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Item 1035National Gallery Illustrations Continental Schools
London: National Gallery, 1950. hardcover. 8vo 417pp. black and white reproductions of nearly eight hundred artworks in the National Gallery in London, UK. #01111.
Item 1045The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Atheneum, 1971. Monika Laimgruber. first American edition. hardcover. 4to. unpaginated. Richly illustrated telling of classic fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. #01121.
Item 1041Kings Don't Carry Money
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1981. Charles Barsotti. first edition. hardcover. 12mo (7.25" x 9.25") unpaginated. from front flap: "For more than twelve years cartoonist Charles Barsotti's drawings of kings, clowns, struggling artists, and small dogs have been cheering readers of The New Yorker. His desk and bar turns.....
Item 2317The Absence of Myth
London: Verso, 1994. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 211pp. from front flap: "'Surrealism', wrote Georges Bataille in 1945, 'has from the start given consistency to a "morality of revolt" and its most important contribution-- important perhaps even in the political realm-- is to have remained, in matters of morality, a revolution.'.....
Item 2157Making Collages
Chicago: Albert Whitman and Co., 1972. hardcover. 8vo 39pp. color and B/W photo illustrated guide to making collages. #02222.
Item 3321Chartres Cathedral
New York: WW Norton & Company, 1969. softcover. 8vo 278pp. Norton Critical Studies in Art History. see pictures for synopsis. #03386.
Item 3350Rural Japan
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. softcover. 4to unpaginated. see pictures for synopsis. #03416 OVERSIZE ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA S/H.
Item 264Good Taste
David McKay, 1978. Ingrid Allex. first edition. hardcover. Octavo 211pp. from front flap: "If you are facing the confusing experience of decorating or redecorating your home, you owe it to yourself to read Good Taste: How to Have It, How to Buy It. It could save you money and time.....
Item 3241The History of Popular Culture . . . Since 1815
New York: Macmillan Company, 1968. first thus. softcover. 8vo 390pp. stated first printing. see pictures for selection of contents. #03306.
Item 2017The Life of Benvenuto Cellini
New York: Liveright Publishing, 1942. Black and Gold Library, first thus. hardcover. 8vo 513pp. first thus. from front flap: "Characteristic of its splendidly gifted and barbarically untameable author ar the autobiographical memoirs which he composed, beginning them in Flroence in 1558--a production of the utmost energy, directness and racy animation.....
Item 3890The Life of Benvenuto Cellini
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. hardcover. 8vo 464pp. autobiography of Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith. #03956.
Item 3142Fair is Our Land
Chicago: Peoples Book Club, 1942. hardcover. 8vo 252pp. introduction by Donald Moffat. from Editor's Note: "This volume seeks to portray the beauty of the American countryside. It does not encompass the might of our cities nor the dynamic energy of our industry. That is a theme for a book in.....
Item 2416Parrish and Poetry
San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1995. Maxfield Parrish. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 95pp. from Preface: "Included in thsi volume are some of the most beloved and beset-remembered poems of all times, arranged in roughly chronological order and each accompanied by a painting by Maxfield Parrish--hence the title Parrish & Poetry. Despite.....
Item 1760The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
London: Folio Society, 2009. Folio Society. hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo 376pp. + 519pp. + 458pp. Second printing. This commemorative edition of the 1938 Edward MacCurdy compilation includes writing on almost every subject imaginable: anatomy, medicine, engineering, optics, architecture, hydraulics, botany and natural history. His personal notes offer insights into his passions.....
Item 260Touraine and Its Chateaux
Medici Society Limited, 1931. first thus. papercover in wraps. Octavo 203pp. #00285.
Item 2315Homo Aestheticus
New York: The Free Press, 1992. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 297pp. from front flap: "All human societies throughout history have given a special place to the arts. Even nomadic peoples who own scarcely any material possessions embellish what they do own, decorate their bodies, and celebrate special occasions with music.....
Item 2313The Infinity of Lists
New York: Rizzoli, 2009. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 408pp. color illustrations throughout. from front flap: "In this beautifully illustrated edition, Umberto Eco reflects on how the idea of catalogues has changed over the centuries and how, from one period to another, it has expressed the spirit of the times. His.....
Item 2039Style in Ornament
London: Oxford University Press, 1950. first edition. hardcover. 12mo 63pp. from Preface: "We take patterns too much for granted. We should learn to plunge our minds into them, as we do into the sea of poetry, and to receive as sharp an impression of an age from its ornament as.....
Item 1792Augustino Da Siena
Boston: David R. Godine, 1975. first edition. hardcover. 8vo nonpaginated. no. 537 of 750. from front flap: "To honor Alfred Fairbank on his eightieth birthday in 1975, David R. Godine in the United States and The Merrion Press in England have collaborated in publishing this facsimile of the rare and.....
Item 2450Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1946. Sarkis Katchadourian. hardcover. 8vo 132pp. from front flap: "The Rubaiyat is actually a series of quatrains, sparkling with witty epigrammatic observances on life and filled with exquisite, oriental imagery. A century ago, Edward Fitzgerald selected, adapted and lovingly translated the best of these stanzas.....
Item 2510Muriel Foster's Fishing Diary
New York: Viking Press, 1980. Muriel Foster. hardcover. 16mo. oblong. unpaginated. illustrated in color and b/w. includes publisher pamphlet. #02575.
Item 1123Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Trolley
New York: Weathervane Books, 1972. Fontaine Fox. first edition. hardcover. 4to 184pp. from front flap: "Fontaine Fox was one of the most popular American cartoonists of this century. For more than forty years his Toonerville Trolley cartoons were syndicated across the country. Dealing with everyday things and ordinary people, they.....
Item 3028A Manual of Engineering Drawing
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1941. Sixth Edition. hardcover. 8vo 622pp. Sixth edition, revised and enlarged, ninth impression. from Preface: "In the successive editions of this book the aim has been to keep abreast of modern engineering practice, adding new material in text and problems with each revision. Quoting from.....
Item 3397Buckminster Fuller to Children of Earth
Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1972. Cam Smith (photographs). first edition. softcover. 8vo unpaginated. Stated first edition. Compiled and photographed by Cam Smith. #03463.