Benjamin West A Biography
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. West, Benjamin. First edition. Hardcover. 525 pages. Illustrated. Extensive Bibliography. Index. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. West, Benjamin. First edition. Hardcover. 525 pages. Illustrated. Extensive Bibliography. Index. More
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
New York: Crown, 1972. Wyeth, N.C. First edition. Hardcover. 336 pp. Voluminously illustrated in color and black and white. Foreword by Paul Horgan. Introduction by Edward Layton. This Catalogue Raisonne contains an invaluable 1200-entry, illustrated, complete bibliography, with detailed data on all N.C. Wyeth's pictures and published writings, etc. Index..... More
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
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
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
Boston: NP, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio, 40 x 54 cm. Twenty engravings printed recto only with tissue guards, on eighteen sheets. Engraved by the brothers, John and Seth Wells Cheney who studied in Europe. Seth opened a studio in Boston in 1841, earned well-deserved acclaim and credit for..... More
Philadelphia: Victorian Society in America, 1983. Paperback. 254 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Profusely illustrated: photographs and prints. Owner inscription. More
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
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
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
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
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1987. Kelly, Ellsworth. First edition. Hardcover. 200 pages. 29.5 x 23.5 cm. Kelly did not return to printmaking fervently until 1970. Illustrated with 159 color plates and 182 duotones. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, color and form. Chronology. Glossary. Bibliography. Index... More
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
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
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
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
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
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 fromPope's very..... More
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
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
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
Washington DC: Middendorf Gallery, 1989. Ray, Man. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Unpaginated. 28 x 21.5. 74 full page portraits. More
Baltimore: John Hopkins, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 568 pages. 25 1/2 x 21 1/2 cm. More than 1600 illustrations. Introduction by Alan Fern. Foreword by Carl Zigrosser. Bibliography. Geographical Index. Name Index. Approximately 12,000 prints from colonial times to the present representing the work of 1250 artists. KARPEL K301. "The..... More
Washington, DC: National Park Service, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 26 x 20 cm, approx. 64 pages in text printed recto only. Sixteen photographs, and drawings. Subject Index. Index of Architects, Builders, and Engineers. Georgetown Buildings. Bookplate. More