Milwaukee Then And Now
San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 144 pages. 24 x 28.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color and black and white plates on glossy stock. Index. More
American Art
Benjamin West A Biography
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. West, Benjamin. First edition. Hardcover. 525 pages. Illustrated. Extensive Bibliography. Index. More
America in Bloom Great American Gardens Open to the Public; Introduction by Phoebe Cutler
New York: Rizzoli, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 225 pages. 29 x 23.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color plates printed on high gloss stock. List of Public Gardens represented. Public Garden Source List. Index. More
Glee: Painting Now
Ridgefield: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Approx. 60 pages in text. 16 x 13 cm. Color plates. Unique bi-fold presentation. More
The Architecture of MAXIMILIAN GODEFROY
Baltimore: John Hopkins Univ. Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 246 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. More than 100 illustrations. Index. Most of Godefroy's life in America, 1805-1819 was spent in Baltimore. KARPEL B1097a. "... describes Godefroy's masterful reconciliation of the blunt demands of the industrial age with the tastes of..... More
Covered Bridges Of The Middle
Brattleboro: Stephen Greene, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 120pages. 26 1/2 x 19 1/2 cm. More than 100 illustrations, diagrams and maps. More than 400 existing bridges located and described. Selected Bibliography. Glossary. Index. ROOS 252. "Basic history for Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, W. Virginia and Washington, DC." More
Covered Bridges Of The Middle West
Brattleboro: Stephen Greene, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 152 pages. 26 1/2 x 19 1/2 cm. More than 100 illustrations, diagrams and maps. Covers bridges in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas and Minnesota. Selected Bibliography. Glossary. Index. ROOS 252. More
Covered Bridges Of The Northeast
Brattleboro: Stephen Greene, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 121 pages. 26 1/2 x 19 1/2 cm. More than 100 illustrations, diagrams and maps. Roster of Builders. Selected Bibliography. Glossary. Index. ROOS 253. "Basic history and reference for New York, New Jersey and New England." Bookplate. More
Victorian Furniture Essays from a Victorian Society Autumn Symposium
Philadelphia: Victorian Society in America, 1983. Paperback. 254 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Profusely illustrated: photographs and prints. Owner inscription. More
Diane Arbus Magazine Work
New York: Aperture, 1984. Arbus, Diane. First edition. Hardcover. 175 pages. 29 x 24 cm. 151 black and white photographs. A collective portrait of sixties' style and culture. Bibliography, More
III Bienal De Arte Picotorico Cerveceria National De Panama
Panama City: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, 1996. First edition. Paperback. 86 pages. 10 x 9". Host of color plates -- photographs of excellent quality. Modern Panamian art, list of artists with biographies. Text in Spanish. More
Jacques Lipschitz: Sketches in Bronze
New York: Praeger, 1969. Lipschitz, Jacques. First edition. Hardcover. 195 pages. 4to, 161full-page plates. Photographs of the Maquettes by James Moore. Bibliography. A peek into Lipshitz's creative process. FREITAG 5661. Owner inscription. More
The Artist In America
New York: W.W. Norton, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 256 pages. Lavishly illustrated with color and black and white plates. A survey of 300 years of American Art with essays by experts. Introduction by Lloyd Goodrich. More
Thomas Cole
New York: Watson Guptill, 1981. Cole, Thomas. First edition. Cloth. 84 pages. 29 x 27 cm. 32 color plates and 12 black and white. Bibliography. Index. More
Thomas Hart Benton
New York: Abrams, 1973. Benton, Thomas Hart. First edition. leather_bound. 279 pages. 30 x 35 cm. Large, landscape 4to, Limited edition, copy 272 of 350 signed by Thomas Hart Benton. The artist celebrates the American experience; his father, a Tennessean served in the Confederate Army before removing to Missouri, where..... More
The Churches of Mexico 1530-1810
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 126 pages in text. Profusely illustrated with 163 plates, eight of which are in color, as well as thirty-six black and white figures. Photographs by Hugo Rudinger. Chronologies. Biographies of Architects. Glossary. Selective Bibliography. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER J250. "A first-rate book." More
The Cottage Builder's Manual
Worcester: Published by Z. Baker, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. 173 pages. 25 x 16 1/2 cm. 209 text figures and over 93 wood-engravings. HITCHCOCK 47. KARPEL B231. "A curious work with some very strange designs, most of which are based on some form of centralized plan: twelve-sided, hexagonal, octagonal, circular..... More
Francis Rattenbury and British Columbia; Architecture and Challenge in the Imperial Age
Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 391 pages. Copiously illustrated; more than 200 photographs, plans, drawings and maps. Bibliography. Index. The first major critical study of a Yorkshire born, Canadian architect who had a major influence and impact on the Canadian West. He was also chief..... More
The 19th century journals & paintings of William Pope
Toronto: M.F. Feheley, 1976. Pope, William. First edition. Hardcover. 175 pp. Thirty-six four-color plates with accompanying commentary by J. Fenwick Landsdowne. Index. Pope emigrated from Kent, England and settled in Port Ryerse, Ontario. Canada's first artist-naturalist, his watercolors are artistically comparable to those of his contemporary, Audubon. Selections from Pope's..... More
Cecil C. Bell
Kansas City: McGrew Color Graphics, 1976. Bell, Cecil C. First edition. Hardcover. 159 pages. 31 x 24 cm. Limited edition, one of 2000. Bell, an exuberant second generation Ash Can painter, a slightly younger contemporary of Reginald Marsh whose work recalls the early work of John Sloan, was a skilled..... More
Demons * Imps * & Fiends; Drawings By Leonard Baskin
Northampton: The Gehenna Press, 1976. Baskin, Leonard. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 29.5 x 21 cm. Limited edition, hand numbered copy 153 of 450 "printed on various interesting papers during the autumn of 1976." Printed by Harold McGrath. Nineteen, mostly full page portraits printed recto only on papers of various thickness and..... More
Bresdin To Redon six letters 1870 to 1881; Edited by Roseline Bacou translated by Seymour Wiener
Northampton: The Gehenna Press, 1969. Baskin, Leonard. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 26 x16 cm. Limited edition, copy 207 of 300 on Japanese paper with a double portrait of Bresdin and Redon etched by Baskin, and signed in the plate. Harold P. McGrath pressman with Gray Parrot Hancock Me small book..... More
Drawings For The Iliad
New York: Delphic Arts, 1963. Baskin, Leonard. Hardcover. Sixty black and white lithographs 26 1/4 x 20 inches each plate numbered in blind at plate bottom on Fabriano paper in an edition of ninety by the Meridian Gravure Company. Apparently an extra suite of plates not issued with a portfolio..... More
American Furniture 1620 to the Present
New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 561 pages. 26 x 23 cm. 100 color plates and 1300 black and white photos. Glossary and Index. More
The Navy Alphabet; Pictures by Harry Kennedy * Lettered by Charles Costello
Chicago & New York: George M. Hill Company, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 31.3 x 25.5 cm. 27 color plates printed recto only. First and only edition of this rare oversized fragile picture book. "A" is for Admiral George Dewey, the hero of the Battle of Manila Bay during the..... More