Ulysses. With an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. Matisse, Henri. First Edition thus. Number 398 of 1500 copiers, signed by... Read More about Ulysses. With an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert
Price: $5,000
Art, Architecture & Design
Rare books, prints and original works of art in the fields of performing arts, book illustration, gastronomy, decorative arts, and architecture. Featured works include original watercolors by Ludwig Bemelmans and works by the great masters of the Golden Age of book illustration. Also specializing in art works from America, Britain, France, and Japan.
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Henry Matisse a novel.
New York: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, 1971. First American Edition. Read More about Henry Matisse a novel
Price: $150
Archipenko: An Appreciation. Translated from the french by Mary Knoblauch.
New York: Société Anonyme, Inc, [1921]. First edition. Published in conjunction with the Archipenko exhibition held at the galleries of the Société Anonyme, Feb. 1-Mar. 15, 1921. Includes a translation of portion of Blaise Cendrar's La Tête, which was inspired by Archipenko and names him, describing his work as "Held..... Read More about Archipenko: An Appreciation. Translated from the french by Mary Knoblauch
Price: $450
A sketchbook of 30 detailled pencil drawings, primarily showing details of column ornamentation, apparently from museum specimens.
Germany: 1858. With the pencilled notation in upper corner of initial blanks of “Fr. Kimpler, Berlin 11 [ ] '58.” A card formerly associated with the piece had the name of “Trina N. Hempler” on it. Read More about A sketchbook of 30 detailled pencil drawings, primarily showing details of column ornamentation,...
Price: $350
Surveyer's Handbook
Traité du Nivellement, contenant la Théorie et la Pratique de cet Art. Avec la Description d'un nivellement nouvellement inventé.
Paris: Nicolas Langlois, 1688. First edition. Surveyer's Handbook. Bullet (1639-1716), "Architecte du Roy," was the author of the often reprinted L'ARCHITECTURE PRATIQUE (1691), which became a standard (v. Fowler, pp. 69-70) for the next 100 years. Bullet's Traité is similarly written in a spirit of pure practicality, treating that branch..... Read More about Traité du Nivellement, contenant la Théorie et la Pratique de cet Art. Avec la Description d'un...
Price: $2,250
The Colonial Architecture of Salem.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1919. Number 1129 of 1200 copies. Read More about The Colonial Architecture of Salem
Price: $150
Building Code, Paris 1748
Les Loix des Bâtiments, suivant la Coutume de Paris, Traitant de ce qui concerne les Servitudes réelles, les Rapports des...
N.p. [Paris?]: 1748. Building Code, Paris 1748. Read More about Les Loix des Bâtiments, suivant la Coutume de Paris, Traitant de ce qui concerne les Servitudes...
Price: $750
The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, Anterior to the Anglo-Norman Invasion; Comprising an Essay on the Origin and Uses of the...
Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1845. Second edition. Read More about The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, Anterior to the Anglo-Norman Invasion; Comprising an...
Price: $400
Autograph letter, signed. One page to Edward Biddle, Esq. " I have read with much delight your article in this...
Bristol, PA: 1913. Letter from Charles E. Scott, cashier of the Farmers National Bank of Bucks County, concerning an article written by Edward Biddle about the bank's architecture. "The only alteration of the interior was the conversion of the river front parlor into a banking room. A country director several..... Read More about Autograph letter, signed. One page to Edward Biddle, Esq. " I have read with much delight...
Price: $75
The American Home. Ellen D. Wangner, Editor.
Garden City, New York: Published by Doubleday, Doran & Compan, Inc, 1930-1947. Continuing the Garden & Home Builder. Read More about The American Home. Ellen D. Wangner, Editor
Price: $550
Fine Victorian Architectural Watercolor
Architectural rendering in watercolors of a wing of a Victorian gabled brick building, surrounded by trees, against an open sky...
probably English: Ca. 1870. Fine Victorian Architectural Watercolor. A skillful rendering, most likely professional, of a portion of a building, probably a school or similar institution. Read More about Architectural rendering in watercolors of a wing of a Victorian gabled brick building, surrounded...
Price: $750
Choix de Plans de Grandes Compositions Exécutées Présentant avec leur Jardins ou leur Entourage une Séries d'Ensembles de l'Antiqiuté de...
Paris: Auguste Vincent, Editeur, 1910. First edition. Here you get the plans for the Acropolis, the Forum, Versailles, etc. Read More about Choix de Plans de Grandes Compositions Exécutées Présentant avec leur Jardins ou leur...
Price: $400
American Buffalo.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1992. One of 400 copies signed by the author. Fine press edition of the play that made David Mamet’s name and garnered the Obie and the New York Drama Critics Circle awards, and two Tony nominations. An American classic. Read More about American Buffalo
Price: $275
Lysistrata.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1934. Picasso, Pablo. Limited edition, No 1452 of 1500 copies SIGNED BY PICASSO; prospectus laid-in. One of the most ribald works of antiquity, illustrated with Picasso’s magnificent etchings and drawings. This is “the only American publication with original Picasso etchings, which are among his..... Read More about Lysistrata
Price: $6,000
The Arkansas Traveler's Songster.
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [1864]. Sometimes known by the wrapper title: Arkansas Traveller's Song Book. Includes Mose Carr's “The Arkansas Traveller”. Read More about The Arkansas Traveler's Songster
Price: $450
Portrait photograph of Harold Arlen.
New York: May 17, 1960. Read More about Portrait photograph of Harold Arlen
Price: $2,600
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Armless Woman, Inscribed Photograph
[Original photograph portrait of Concha, an armless Mexican Woman].
ca. 1911. Armless Woman, Inscribed Photograph. Three quarters portrait of an armless Mexican woman named Concha. Miraculously, she has inscribed the verso in an elegant copperplate hand, “Cata: La cinceridad de mi cariño, se la demuestra el presente recuerdo de la ultima de tus amigas. Concha. Apetatitlán, 15 April de..... Read More about Original photograph portrait of Concha, an armless Mexican Woman
Price: $250
For and Against. Views on the International Exhibition held in New York and Chicago.
New York: Association of American Painters and Sculptors Inc, 1913. First edition. A collection of essays debating the merits of the artworks in the famous 1913 Armory Show of modern art, which was the first exhibition to bring Modernist art to America; it started in New York and toured Chicago..... Read More about For and Against. Views on the International Exhibition held in New York and Chicago
Price: $2,500
Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. First edition. Read More about Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy
Price: $150
Etching: 'saint Catherine's Belfry, Honfleur"
1932. Second state, one of 162 copies. French Church Series no. 34. Read More about Etching: 'saint Catherine's Belfry, Honfleur"
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Etching of the Herbert Lowell Dillon Gymnasium at Princeton, NJ.
Princeton, NJ: 1947. The total edition was 356 examples of which 53 were destroyed. A very detailed etching typical of the meticulous style of Arms, renowned for his prolific printmaking, specifically of Gothic architecture. Julian P. Boyd was a librarian (1940-52), and later history professor at Princeton University. His preservation..... Read More about Etching of the Herbert Lowell Dillon Gymnasium at Princeton, NJ
Price: $350
Etching: French Lace West Portal of the Main Façade of the Church of Notre-Dame, on the Place Notre Dame, Villefranche-en-Rouergue...
New York: The Society of American Etchers, Gravers, Lithographers and Woodcutters Inc. Second State. Read More about Etching: French Lace West Portal of the Main Façade of the Church of Notre-Dame, on the Place...
Price: $500
Original Drawing by Maitland Armstrong
Original drawing of a spacious domestic panelled hallway, stairwell and sunlit window.
n.p: n.d. Armstrong, David Maitland. Original Drawing by Maitland Armstrong. D. Maitland Armstrong [1836-1918] was born in Newburg, NY, attended Hartford's Trinity College, and studied art in Paris and Rome. He is best known for his decorative paintings, including interiors such as the one offered here (probably one of a...... Read More about Original drawing of a spacious domestic panelled hallway, stairwell and sunlit window
Price: $600
Hampton and Its Student by Two of Its Teachers With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, arranged by Thomas P. Fenner...
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. First Edition. Interesting inscription, "Purchased at a concert given by some of the students from Hampton .....Brooklyn" These concerts were a fund raising campaign for Virginia Hall. Read More about Hampton and Its Student by Two of Its Teachers With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, arranged by...
Price: $150
Sophie Arnould Actress and Wit.
Paris: Charles Carrington, 1898. One of 500 copies. Read More about Sophie Arnould Actress and Wit
Price: $200