Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 144 pages. 29.5 x 22 cm. 60 letters to and from Elizabeth, the first to her step mother Catherine Paar in Italian was written when she was ten years old -- a child prodigy, she spoke French and Italian as well..... More
New York: Eakins Press, 1973. Nadelman, Elie. First edition. 359 pages 31 x 23.5 cm. 215 plates of Nadelman's work including previously unpublished photographs supervised by the sculptor. Writings on Nadelman. Draft Catalogue Raisonne. Index. The first comprehensive presentation of the life and work of an important 20th century sculpture..... More
London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co, 1825. New Edition, Considerably Enlarged and Improved. Hardcover. 592 pages. Six engraved plates, three with hand coloring: two by Robert Cruikshank, one a large foldout of a boxing match, and one by Alken. Scattered light foxing, bookplate of Durell Hall. Index, Directions for Placing the..... More
New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1960. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Unpaginated. 25.5 x 20 cm. Host of black and white illustrations and large fold-out. FLW essay, "An Experiment In The Third Dimension," plus his original statements on his concept of the Guggenheim Museum. More
Np: Np, ca 1860. Cardboard Covers. 16.5 x 16.5 cm. Front cover with background lettering -- Prince of Wales, Royal Humane Society and Irving and Brown Coal Company. The interior four panel concertina-style (leporello) between card covers, etchings with aquatint in original hand coloring extending to 48 cm, depicting figures..... More
New York: J.W. Meyer and Company, ND. 292, 275 pages. 18 x 12.5 cm. Illustrations by G.W. Brenneman. Originally published 1896 by Brentano's. Bright, fresh set, Parts I-II, raised bands, spine panels lettered in gilt. More
East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. 159 pages. 19.7 x 14.8 cm. Limited edition, copy 12 of 106 printed on Japan Vellum, signed by Elbert Hubbard. Printed in red and black. This book contains a new style of title page border and ornamental initials composed of geometrical shapes--circles, diamonds..... More
Washington DC: Renwick Gallery of The Collection of Fine Arts, 1977-1978. First printing. Wraps. 60 pages. 26 x 21.5 cm. 69 entries many covering his interior furnishings. Host of black and white illustrations. More
Racine: Wright Manufacturing Company, Nd. First printing. Wraps. 4 pages. 18 x 28 cm. Photographs of the Johnson's Wax Administration Building. a promotional piece noting Wright Rubber Tile was selected for the FLW project. More
London & New York: A.R. Keller & Co., 1907. leather_bound. 21 x 14 cm. The Oxford Uniform Edition. Limited edition, copy 103 of 250. Title pages printed in red and black. Host of illustrations with lettered tissue guards by assorted artists, 48 in total, including Aubrey Beardsley who illustrates "The..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1930. Hardcover. 1104 pages. 18.5 x 13 cm. Large fold-out of Forsyte Family Tree. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt, maroon title labels, slight rubbing to corners. More
London: Robert Riviere & Son, Nd. Hardcover. 666, 719 pages. 17.5 x 12 cm. Extensive Index Of Names And Places. Frontispieces, interior contents fresh and clean. Rubbing to extremities, raised bands, panels decorated in gilt. More
London: Freemantle, 1892. Winchester Edition. leather_bound. 169, 232 pages. 26.5 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 39 of 150, signed by D.Y. Cameron and William Strang, with etchings in two states. Each volume with 15 full-page etchings with additional smaller illustrations (17 in Vol. 1 and 15 in Vol.II) on..... More
London: Smith Elder, 1913. Hardcover. 579, 579 pages. 19 x 13 cm. With portraits and facsimiles. Index. Bound by Baynton (Riviere) Bath. Correspondence herein printed exactly as it appears in the original letters. Bright, fresh set, backstrip in gilt floral Art Nouveau motifs. More
London & Glasgow: Sherwood, Neely, And Jones, 1822. First edition. Hardcover. 208 pages. 16.5 x 10.5 cm. Color etched frontispiece by I.R. Cruikshank after Smart. A memoir and warning to society not to be duped by "fashionable young men into the bosom of their families, as if nothing else was..... More
London & Glasgow: T.T. And J. Tegg and R. Griffin And Co., 1832. First edition. Hardcover. 414 pages. 21 x 14 cm. 25 weekly parts each weekly part with engraved illustration on the first leaf. Printed in double column. The work ‘gives a wealth of information on all kinds of..... More
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1841. First edition. Hardcover. 451 pages. 24 x 15.5 cm. Frontispiece, 69 plus 19 wood engraved illustrations. Downing is widely considered the be the greatest single figure in American horticulture, later influencing the work of Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux. Downing’s book is additionally..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1889. Hardcover. 514, 492 and 544 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. First published 1841. Warren's literary vanity was prodigious, though most of his novels were published anonymously. This work was one of the most sensationally popular novels ever published, though now forgotten. SADLIER 3304. The..... More
M. Arnold And Simpkin And Marshall, 1831. First edition. Hardcover. 59 pages. 16 x 10.5 cm. Directions for the placing of the plates, pasted to the back inside cover the original buff colored front wrapper cover priced at two shillings. Interior contents, plates and text remarkably clean and fresh. Marbled..... More
Perth: R. Morison And Son, 1792. First edition. leather_bound. (IV) 210 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Twenty engraved plates. A unique collection, in text and images, of the entomology studies from the leading authorities at the time. Most notable of the entomologists, Jan Swammerdam, who pioneered the use of the..... More
New York: Solomon Guggenheim Museum, 1953. First printing. Wraps. Unpaginated. Approx. 32 pages. 23.3 x 21.3 cm. Printed in red and black, extensively illustrated with photographs presenting an overview of FLW designs, from early to date. Small owner inscription front cover head. More
Np: Unity Universalist Church, (1942). First printing. Wraps. 4 pages. 11.5 x 15.5 cm. Celebrates Universalist Church opening on September 13, 1942 with a tribute to their pastor, Dr. Frank Durward Adams with his tipped in photograph. Back cover with tipped-in photograph of the church designed by FLW in 1906..... More
Urbana: University of Illinois, 1965. First printing. Wraps. Unpaginated, approx. 28 pages. 20.5 x 20.5 cm. Exhibition in Gallery of Architecture Building, Sept. 15 - Oct. 1, 1965 depicts his decorative art work, chairs in particular with a host of images, mostly photographs with scale model sketches matching the finished..... More
