Original Self-Published Version
Counterblast
Toronto: McLuhan, 1954. First edition. Original Self-Published Version. The preliminary self-published edition of this text by McLuhan that... Read More about Counterblast
Price: $2,000
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Two Autograph Letters, Signed, One to Miss Luff (autograph request)and another to Mr. Harris (accepting dinner engagement).
Morgan Hall, Fairford, Gloucestershire: Nov 25, 1905 & March 10, 1906. Read More about Two Autograph Letters, Signed, One to Miss Luff (autograph request)and another to Mr. Harris...
Price: $150
Account for Painting "1761. Mr. William Waine to Thomas Etheridge, Dr;..."
1761. An invoice for whitening, ceiling repair, spotting, mending an oven; docketed for Mr. Waine's account on verso. Read More about Account for Painting "1761. Mr. William Waine to Thomas Etheridge, Dr;..."
Price: $125
Inscribed with Drawing of Pugsley
Nightcrawlers.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. First edition. Inscribed with Drawing of Pugsley. 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 about Nightcrawlers
Price: $3,750
Addams to a Little Admirer
Autograph Letter, Signed (Chas Addams), to Robert Black (sic Block).
[New York]: 27 October 1954. Addams to a Little Admirer. The great American cartoonist of the macabre writes: “Dear Robert, Thanks for your very kind letter. I’m glad that you like my pictures and I will try to do more of them. They’re all so special, that it isn’t easy..... Read More about Autograph Letter, Signed (Chas Addams), to Robert Black (sic Block
Price: $400
Inscribed
Black Maria.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First edition. Inscribed. 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 about Black Maria
Price: $950
Metroplitan Museum of Art
Address of the Officers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the People of New York.
New York: Francis & Laurel, Stationers & Printers, 1871. First Edition. Metroplitan Museum of Art. The museum first opened on February 20, 1872. Read More about Address of the Officers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the People of New York
Price: $150
INSCRIBED BY ARTIST
L'Art Et La Vie: Mane-Katz.
Paris: Marcel Seheur, 1933. Number 684. INSCRIBED BY ARTIST. The artsist was Jewish, Ukrainian 1894-1962). The book is inscribed to the Weslers by the artist in 1950. Read More about L'Art Et La Vie: Mane-Katz
Price: $150
Museum of Painting and Sculpture, or Collection of Principal Pictures, Statues and Bas-Reliefs in the Public and Private Collections. Musée...
London & Paris: Rossange, Barthes and Lowell; Audot, Éditeur, 1829-1834. Read More about Museum of Painting and Sculpture, or Collection of Principal Pictures, Statues and Bas-Reliefs in...
Price: $750
Painters of the Desert.
Palm Desert, CA: Desert Magazine, 1960. Second printing. Read More about Painters of the Desert
Price: $150
“A nun and a small peasant girl” entitled "From a Watercolour Sketch by E. Landseer"
1843. Rare - the plate for this print remained private and was never used for a published edition. Read More about “A nun and a small peasant girl” entitled "From a Watercolour Sketch by E. Landseer"
Price: $400
Album of 37 pencil drawings of German scenes with captions in English, early ones of Charlottenburg.
[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 about Album of 37 pencil drawings of German scenes with captions in English, early ones of Charlottenburg
Price: $900
India Company School, Hoe Copy
Album of Indian miniatures.
[India]: ca.1830. India Company School, Hoe Copy. Read More about Album of Indian miniatures
Price: $3,000
ONE OF 50
Pierre Alechinsky. 20 Jahre Impressionen. Oeuvrekatalog Druckgraphik.
Munich: Galerie van der Loo, [1967]. #28 of 50 with an original lithographic print, signed and numbered. ONE OF 50. Read More about Pierre Alechinsky. 20 Jahre Impressionen. Oeuvrekatalog Druckgraphik
Price: $350
Chinese Woman: a pencil portrait.
Alexander (1767-1816) was particularly noted for his pencil and watercolor portraits of Chinese people, of which this frontal bust drawing is a fine, typical example. Many of these derive from his lengthy stay in Peking, beginning in 1792; on his return to London he became a professor of art, and..... Read More about Chinese Woman: a pencil portrait
Price: $1,250
Les Nuits de Sibérie.
Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1928. #728 of 750 sur vélin de Rives. Illustrated edition of this book, which was first published in the same year, the largely autobiographical story of the revolutionary fighting in Vladivostock, pairing a Russian-French author, Kessel and the Russian-French artist, Alexeieff. Read More about Les Nuits de Sibérie
Price: $350
Sporting Discoveries or The Miseries of Shooting in a series of seven plates, being hints to young sportsmen by Ben...
London: Fuller, [1816]. First edition. 'First issue of a well drawn and finely coloured set of plates representing shooting accidents, not easily met with in perfect state' (Schwerdt). The plates each bear the publisher's name and date Feb. 1, 1816. Read More about Sporting Discoveries or The Miseries of Shooting in a series of seven plates, being hints to...
Price: $6,000
Frederic Remington and the Spanish-American War.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, [1971]. First edition, Number 57 of 150 copies, signed by the Author. Read More about Frederic Remington and the Spanish-American War
Price: $300
Cartoon drawing of mother and small boy bawling.
N.p: n.d. [c. 1910?]. Read More about Cartoon drawing of mother and small boy bawling
Price: $150
Hoe copy
Emblemata anniversaria Academiae Noribergensis, quae est Altorffii ... opus philologicum.
Nuremberg: Abr. Wagenman, 1617. First edition thus. Hoe copy. Described as "Editio II," this is actually an enlarged edition of a work original published in 1597, documenting prize medals made for students of the Altdorf academy in Nuremberg. "The most remarkable example of [emblems and numismatics coming together] is the..... Read More about Emblemata anniversaria Academiae Noribergensis, quae est Altorffii ... opus philologicum
Price: $1,750
Handcolored Plates
Leaf and Flower Pictures, and How to Make Them.
New York: Anson D. F. Randolph [John A. Gray, Printer and Stereotyper], 1857. First edition. Handcolored Plates. Read More about Leaf and Flower Pictures, and How to Make Them
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"The Express Messenger, November 1926." Portrait of a Pilgrim in Profile carrying a musket and turkey over his shoulder, below...
This fine illustration was done for "The Express Messenger", the employee magazine of American Railway Express, precursor to American Express. Read More about "The Express Messenger, November 1926." Portrait of a Pilgrim in Profile carrying a...
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Francois Boucher, avec la collaboration de Daniel Wildenstein. Peintures. Catalogue raisonneé.
Lausanne/ Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1976. First edition. Read More about Francois Boucher, avec la collaboration de Daniel Wildenstein. Peintures. Catalogue raisonneé
Price: $400
Anastatic Drawing Society, for the years 1855-57, and 1860. The Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society, for 1862, Vol. XI (1871), Vol...
Ashby-De-La-Zouch; (Vols. XXII & XXIII) Ipswich: S.H. Cowell, 1855-1889. “The object of the Society is to delineate remains of Antiquity; e.g. ancient Ecclesiastical, Military, and Domestic Edifices, Sepulchral Monuments, Fonts, Brasses, Stained Glass, Tiles, Armour, Dress, Jewellry, Plate Embroidery, Furniture, Carvings, Illuminstions of ancient MSS, Copies of rare Prints, Portraits..... Read More about Anastatic Drawing Society, for the years 1855-57, and 1860. The Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society,...
Price: $1,500