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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London: Linotype & Machinery Ltd, 1929. One of 100 copies. Read More Item Details for A Distinguished Family of French Printers of the Sixteenth Century, Henri & Robert Estienne Add to Wish List
Item #52839
Price: $200
New York: The Vikiung Press, [1975]. First edition. Signed by Pete Kriendler, Sheldon Tannen & George Berns who were owners at time of this publication and were related to Jack & Charlie. Read More Item Details for "21" The Life and Times of New York's Favorite Club Add to Wish List
Item #376043
Price: $1,000
Abbey, Edwin Austin. Abbey was a prominent American illustrator, noted for his period drawings for Harper's and numerous literary volumes in the style of Hugh Thomson. "He was an important link with American drawing for British artists and was influential in introducing the taste for 18th century subjects and themes"..... Read More Item Details for Original pen, ink and pencil drawing, being a sketch of two men in Renaissance garb, a drawn sword and a man with a crossbow Add to Wish List
Item #376513
![Item #372176 INSTEAD/ INSTEAD OF. [Number] 2. March, 1948 [Periodical]. (Editor: Lionel Abel)....](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/372176_2.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742392283)
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(New York City): Instead/ (Lionel Abel), 1948. First edition. Issue Number 1 of 'Instead' was published as 'Brunidor portfolio' [No. 1], followed by issue No. 2, offered here, published as 'Instead Of ' 2 (in March of 1948). Read More Item Details for INSTEAD/ INSTEAD OF. [Number] 2. March, 1948 [Periodical]. (Editor: Lionel Abel) Add to Wish List
Item #372176
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Aberdeen, (Scotland): Printed for the Third Spalding Club, 1929. First edition. Read More Item Details for Bibliographica Aberdonensis: Being an Account of Books Relating to or Printed in the Shires of Aberdeen, Banff, Kincardine or written by Natives or Residents or by Officers Graduates or Alumni of the Universities of Aberdeen Add to Wish List
Item #217886
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1761. An invoice for whitening, ceiling repair, spotting, mending an oven; docketed for Mr. Waine's account on verso. Read More Item Details for Account for Painting "1761. Mr. William Waine to Thomas Etheridge, Dr;..." Add to Wish List
Item #249760
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Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1830. "Neue, unveränderte Ausgabe". Third (revised) edition (first published 1802 and 1817). Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (1756-1827) was a German physicist, amateur musician and instrument maker. Fascinated by the phenomenon of sound, Chladni estimated the speed of sound and is now famous for studying the vibrations..... Read More Item Details for Die Akustik Add to Wish List
Item #57724
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Carls[---indecipherable]: 1846. Read More Item Details for Choix d'airs pour une Flûte avec accompagnement de Guitare Add to Wish List
Item #243223
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(Carmel, California): Friends of Photography, (1978). First edition. Issued as Untitled 16. Contains a brief essay by James Alinder and an interview with Ansel Adams. Read More Item Details for Ansel Adams: 50 Years of Portraits Add to Wish List
Item #369700
Price: $2,500
Rochester: George Eastman House, 1959. First and only edition. Inscribed to Ed L. Gates by many of the photographers. Among them Ansel Adams, Minor White, James E. Durrell, Jr., Paul Caponigro, Gene Saunders, and Beaumont Newhall, the director of Eastman House. A handwritten note from Gene Saunders laid in presenting..... Read More Item Details for Photography at Mid-Century: Tenth Anniversary Exhibition Add to Wish List
Item #325040
Price: $750
New York: April 23, 1948. A fine and rare image (there are none of her in the Library of Congress) of one of the the great American ballerinas. Adams danced major roles in works by some of the century's greatest choreographers, including George Balanchine, Anthony Tudor, and Jerome Robbins. Later..... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Diana Adams in Anthony Tudor's ballet, SHADOW OF THE WIND Add to Wish List
Item #222423
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Frankfurt: Nikolaus Hoffmann for Jonas Rosa; Johann Georg Geyder for the widow of Jonas Rosa, 1618; 1620. First editions. Melchior Adams (c. 1575-1622) was one of the most important biographers of the savants (mostly German, Swiss, and Dutch) of the 16th century, and his meticulously researched biographies are an essential..... Read More Item Details for Decades du continentes Vitas Theologorum exterorum principum, qui Ecclesiam Christi Superiori seculo propagarunt et propugnarunt. [Bound with:] Vitae Germanorum medicorum qui seculo superiori, et quod excurrit, claverunt: congetae et ad annum usque MDCXX deductae Add to Wish List
Item #223074
Price: $3,750
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. First edition. With a full-page pen drawing on the fly leaf of Pugsley with a pet lizard, inscribed to author Nathaniel Benchley, “For Nat, Chas Addams, 1957.” Addams designed the jacket to Benchley’s children’s book The Visitors (1965). Read More Item Details for Nightcrawlers Add to Wish List
Item #249517
Price: $950
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First edition. Inscribed to author Nathaniel Benchley and his wife, “For Marg and Nathaniel with love, Chas Addams, New York, 1960.” Addams designed the jacket to Benchley’s children’s book The Visitors (1965). Read More Item Details for Black Maria Add to Wish List
Item #249521
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New York: Francis & Laurel, Stationers & Printers, 1871. First Edition. The museum first opened on February 20, 1872. Read More Item Details for Address of the Officers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the People of New York Add to Wish List
Item #313082
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New York: Published by Permission of George Ade [as] Music Supplement of Hearst's Chicago American, 1902. First edition; sheet music. This imprint unrecorded by OCLC (which locates a single holding with a "New York American and Journal" imprint) [South Florida]. Read More Item Details for MAN, MAN, FICKLE MAN! From 'The Sultan of Sulu,' The Operatic Satire by George Ade, As Sung by Gertrude Quinlan. (Music by Alfred G. Wathall) Add to Wish List
Item #345665
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1921-1923. Read More Item Details for Thirteen amateur pencil drawings on paper of Scenes of Mills in Adirondacks, Rochester "Genessee Lower Falls, Rand Powder Mills, Monroe Co., NY. (6), De Grasse River, Adirondacks (4) Add to Wish List
Item #242968
Price: $10,000
New York: Harmon Foundation, 1928-1931-1933-1935. First editions. Four programs for the important early exhibitions of African American art, including the 1928 first exhibition of works created exclusively by African-American artists. Artists from the first exhibition included Sargent Johnson, Aaron Douglas, A. R. Freelon, Helen Smith, Laura Wheeler Waring, Hale W...... Read More Item Details for [Four Harmon Foundation catalogues of African American artists, including the groundbreaking 1928 first exhibition] Add to Wish List
Item #353172
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Paris: Marcel Seheur, 1933. Number 684. The artsist was Jewish, Ukrainian 1894-1962). The book is inscribed to the Weslers by the artist in 1950. Read More Item Details for L'Art Et La Vie: Mane-Katz Add to Wish List
Item #267597
Price: $750
London & Paris: Rossange, Barthes and Lowell; Audot, Éditeur, 1829-1834. Read More Item Details for Museum of Painting and Sculpture, or Collection of Principal Pictures, Statues and Bas-Reliefs in the Public and Private Collections. Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture ou Recueil des Principaux Tableaux, Statues et Bas-Reliefs des Collections Publiques et Particulières de l'Europe Add to Wish List
Item #227532
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Palm Desert, CA: Desert Magazine, 1960. Second printing. Read More Item Details for Painters of the Desert Add to Wish List
Item #214297
Price: $250
New York: August 1911. Aitkin (1877-1956) was an early film producer and distributor during the silent film era, noted for his worth with Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith. The Western Film Exchange was founded in Milwaukee in July 1906 by John R. Freuler and Aitkin for the purpose of mass-producing..... Read More Item Details for Typed document signed, an agreement between Western Film Exchange of New York and Frank Meyer, concerning the terms of a loan Add to Wish List
Item #353283
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New York: Grolier Club & Piccolo Press, 2006. First edition. Designed by Joe Marc Freedman at The Sarabande Press. Read More Item Details for The Neale M. Albert Collection of Miniature Designer Bindings. With a Preface by Albert and an Essay by Priscilla Juvelis Add to Wish List
Item #302389
Price: $400
1843. Rare - the plate for this print remained private and was never used for a published edition. Read More Item Details for “A nun and a small peasant girl” entitled "From a Watercolour Sketch by E. Landseer" Add to Wish List
Item #14355
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[Berlin, Charlottenburg]: [c.1908]. Includes dated drawings of on the Spree River, as seen from the gardens behind the Fredericks Palace, Berlin (May 20, 1908) and King William's Hunting lodge in Grunwald (May 21, 1908), as well as statues, landscapes, and architecture in Charlottenburg and Grunwald. Read More Item Details for Album of 37 pencil drawings of German scenes with captions in English, early ones of Charlottenburg Add to Wish List
Item #249759