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Boston, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts, 1986. 8.5" wide by 11.75" tall. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Dust Jacket (protected by a removable Brodart sleeve) is not p… Mehr…

Boston, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts, 1986. 8.5" wide by 11.75" tall. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Dust Jacket (protected by a removable Brodart sleeve) is not price clipped (60.00). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Handsomely illustrated with 249 art reproductions, including 18 plates in full color. From the Dust Jacket: "This catalogue is the first to documents the collection of American figurative sculpture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from the early nineteenth century to post-World War II... Described here are 171 sculptures, including 70 in marble, 64 in bronze, 18 in plaster, and 19 in other materials... For each of the seventy known sculptors a biography gives a full account of the artist's origins, training, and career. Moreover, the professional lives of several sculptors -- such as Edward R. Thaxter, Philip Shelton Sears, Mary Orne Bowditch, and George Aarons -- are documented in detail for the first time. An appendix provides a ground-breaking technical analysis of the bronzes." Includes 11 works by Horatio Greenough, 15 by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and 6 or more each by William Wetmore Story, Cyrus Edwin Dallin, Bela Lyon Pratt, Victor David Brenner, Richard H. Becchia, and Katharine Lane Weems. Other artists included are: Chauncey Bradley Ives, Gaston Lachaise, Hiram Powers, Thomas Crawford, Olin Levi Warner, Daniel Chester French, Cyrus Edwin Dallin, Frederick William MacMonnies, etc. Bound in the original full black cloth, stamped in silver on the spine. Originally distributed by Northeastern University Press. . First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition./Near VG jacket (edge chips). xl, 488pp. ., Museum of Fine Arts, 1986, 4, Buffalo NY: Buffalo FIne Arts Academy/ Albright Art Gallery, 1949. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 29000 PB shelf. White-stamped slate blue bds. No names, clean text. Unblemished dust jacket w/ small old price sticker front flap. 1 of 3000 copies, with b/w photos of Jacques Lipchitz, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Georg Kolbe, Henri Rousseau, Christopher Wood, Horace Pippin, Miro, Andre Masson, et al, Buffalo FIne Arts Academy/ Albright Art Gallery, 1949, 5, London: Sotheby's, 1989. A beautiful copy that appears unread. Fine condition. NOT a library discard. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked -- apparently never read. 1989. First Edition. Unpaginated (but approx. 300 pages?]. Auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th & 17th November, 1989. For 129 incunabula and 109 16th century books, this auction catalogue gives unusually full, annotated descriptions including collation, provenance, and reference citations. Descriptions of the 15th century books are by Paul Needham, who states in the preface, "The Abrams collection of early printing reveals in many ways that it was formed by a calligrapher and graphic designer of distinction - a recent example of his work being Abrams Venetian, the unusually readable and graceful typeface in which this catalogue is printed." Beautifully illustrated with 148 color plates, 188 monochrome reproductions and 75 rubbings of binders' ornaments. Published @ £35. Bound in the original gilt-stamped maroon cloth, with a color illustraion mounted on the front cover. Oversize Hardcover. 8.5" wide by 12" tall. This large heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. . First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/No dust jacket, as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. Unpaged (1,130 priced enrties]. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., Sotheby's, 1989, 5, Boston and Cambridge: H. O. Houghton and Company and the Riverside Press, 1870. 8vo.  220 x 1540 mm., [8 ¾ x 6 inches].  xvi, 234 pp.  Wrappers detached from text block, spine chipped, edges cracked.  Housed in a clamshell box. With deaccession stamp of the University of Vermont. Useful as a reference copy only; priced in pencil with a few buyer's names included.  Complete catalogue of this important sale of American, which contains many 16th and 17th century early printed books relating to the New World.  The catalogue include Henry Stevens's descriptions of 2545 lot, many with informative annotations.  The "Explanatory" or preface to the catalogue provides a very good overview of the contents of the collection and the reason for its sale.  Of the sale McKay writes, "In April, 1870 came the Henry Stevens sale, with its interesting preface by Henry Stevens, Jr. . . George L. Mckay, American Book Auction Catalogues, 1540., H. O. Houghton and Company and the Riverside Press, 1870, 0, UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean, glossy laminated dark green vertically lined background with red/white+blue letters to upper panel+spine/ backstrip,author's b/w portrait photographic rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks,tears or splits present.Book is very slightly cocked.Top edges very lightly affected by faint, minimal,sporadic dust-soiling or foxing/spotting,fore-edges unaffected and generally bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean and near pristine - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - possibly an unread copy? Publisher's bright,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain blue cloth boards with a darker blue cloth blind spine with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to same,a blue+white striped headband and generally clean plain red endpapers with residual 'ghost' sellotape marks to top+bottom corners of both sets of free endpapers. Whatever previous protective covering was in place,is no longer in situ and there is also a further small,tiny pictorial black ink stamp to bottom,right-hand corner of the rear free endpaper.UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-463pp [paginated] includes 18 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a dedication. Magnus Pym,lifetime secret agent and presently counselor for certain unmentionable matters at the British Embassy in Vienna has vanished.It is believed that he has defected.The chase is on for a missing husband,a devoted father, and a secret agent. Want more Le CARRE titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS2 and 1001 Book You Must Read Before You Die and SIGNED catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the weight and value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **, LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1986., 5, Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, 1912. Paperback. Good -. [8], 111 p., 89 leaves of plates; 32 cm. Light green wrapper printed in black. Title page in red and black. Includes index. Descriptions of 162 pieces of furniture and art objects, part of the collection of French fashion designer and art collector Jacques Doucet (1853-1929), which were sold at auction in 1912. Stamp on first (blank) page: "Surplus Library of Congress Duplicate." Pencil notations throughout giving, presumably, the hammer price and winning bidder of each lot; the grand total written on p. 1 is 13,884,360 francs. Scarce. A heavy book; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority international. In Good- Condition: wrapper detached and soiled, with loss from edges of front wrapper; stain along spine edge of back wrapper; minor stain in gutters of final pages, without impacting text or illustrations; text block separating; text and plates are solid and clean other than pencil notations., Galerie Georges Petit, 1912, 2.5, New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1971. Paperback. Good (Light wear, foxing and discoloration to edges, Library of Congress red stamp on cover; price list may be stapled on ifc.; textblock edges are foxed and smudged; pages are clean; binding is solid.). White ill. wraps. 67 pp. Approx 60 bw ills. Descriptively annotated plates. 66 works by these two artists are listed and illustrated. Rare. Cover title might be construed as "American Painting and Folk Art by J. O. J. Frost of Marblehead and George E. Lothrop of Roxbury from the Collection of Betty & Albert L. Carpenter."Contains a history of the collection of Carpenter's Frost paintings by James H. Maroney Jr., followed by a biography of the painter, and then Notes on The Catalogue of 45 works by Frost. This is followed by a section devoted to the paintings of George Edwin Lothrop beginning on page 41 which also come from th Carpenter Collection. There is a biography of the painter followed by Notes on The Lothrop Catalogue. Then the paintings are presented in lots 46 - 66. This auction was held in Parke-Bernet Galleries, NY: April 2, 1971. Rare and vital reference on these two artists., Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1971, 2.5, First U.K. edition. B/w frontispiece and three full page illustrations. Publishers original blue cloth boards with blind stamped titles to front and bright gilt titles to spine. Binding tight and boards clean with slight rubbing to corners and spine ends. Light crease to spine strip. Light foxing to text block edge. Content clean and bright with just occasional fox spot in text. Crease to edge of page 5. Jacket clipped (price 3/6 net still present) with chipping to spine ends, small loss to folds, creasing and small tears to edges. Light foxing to inside jacket. Not ex-library. No labels, names, notes or inscriptions. 359 pp plus 14 publishers catalogue at back. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked., George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1937, 2.75, London: Sotheby's, 1989 4to (30.5 cm), 260 pp. Publisher's cloth gilt, illustration tipped in on the front board (binding slightly rubbed, top corners scuffed, blind collector's stamp on the front free endpaper). A price list is loosely inserted. This auction catalog documents a sale conducted in London on Thursday, 16th, and Friday, 17th November 1989. It comprises 238 entries, featuring incunabula and early printed books, including notable works such as Boccaccio's De claris mulieribus, Ulm, Johann Zainer, 1473 (GBP 286,000), Saint Augustine's De civitate Dei, Rome, Sweynheym and Pannartz, 1468 (GBP 88,000), and Cicero's Tusculanae questiones, Venice, Nicolaus Jenson, 1472 (GBP 93,500). The preface is written by Paul Needham, and rubbings of binding tools are appended., Sotheby's, 1989, 3, New York: Martino Publishing, 1999. 6 parts complete, bound in 2 books. HARDCOVER. Includes Index. BRAND NEW in perfect condition (just removed from the publisher's shrinkwrap so we could write this description). NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. 1999. First Martino printing. Facsimile reprint of the 5 auction catalogues (1878 to 1893) plus index and prices realized. A standard Americana reference. George Brinley (1817-1888) was one of America's greatest book collectors. The sale of his library, in 5 auctions from 1878 to 1893, realized a total of over $127,000. William Reese called it "A landmark sale of Americana and the greatest collection of American imprints ever formed." Described here, with many still useful notes and collations, are 9,498 lots of rare books, pamphlets and printed documents. Brinley's library included a BAY PSALM BOOK, the Erfurt copy of the GUTENBERG BIBLE, 275 choice examples of the writings of Richard, Increase and Cotton Mather, unusually strong runs of early almanacs, rare tracts, colonial histories, American Indian material, remarkable holdings on the South and the Old Northwest, etc. The catalogues were originally published in Hartford, Connecticut by Case Lockwood & Brainard. There were 5 auctions: Part 1, March 10, 1879 (vi, 306pp); Part 2, March 22, 1880 (xiv, 200pp); Part 3, April 4, 1881(xi, 179pp); Part 4, November 15, 1886 (xi, 254pp); Part 5, April 18, 1893 (viii, 159pp) + 80 page Index + 46 pages of prices realized. The cataloguer was apparently James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), since his name appears on the spine of each original volume [also because he is credited in the Library of Congress catalogue]. The comprehensive index, first published in 1893, was compiled by William Isaac Fletcher (1844-1917). The auctions were conducted by George Leavitt (parts 1-4) and C. F. Libbie (part 5). In this reprint the 5 parts + Index are consolidated into 2 HARDCOVER volumes. Included are sections on New France, Canada, The British Colonies to 1776, New England, The Middle and Southern States, The American Revolution, Washingtoniana, Franklin imprints, Quakers, Books Printed in Philadelphia and New York before 1750; Bibles, Catechisms and Primers, Mexico, The West Indies, Psalms and Hymns, Music, The Episcopal Church, Baptism and the Baptists, The Methodists, G. Whitefield, The Presbyterian Church, Unitarian Controversy, The Shakers, The Mormons, Thomas Paine's Works, Law and Government, Criminal Trials, Political Economy, Finance, Science and Art, Masonry and Anti-Masonry, Poetry, Drama, Popular Literature, Chap Books, Jest Books, Books for Children, Education, School Books, Slavery and Anti-Slavery, Almanacs, State Registers, Theological and Religious, Bibliography, American Indians; Captivities, Local History, Miscellaneous Tracts, Historical Sermons and Addresses, Privately Printed Books, Newspapers and Periodicals, Engravings, Portraits, Maps and Plans, etc. See: McKay 2488, 2621, 2740, 3383, 4164. Dickinson pp. 51-53. Uniformly bound in the original gilt-stamped gray cloth. 6.75" wide by 9" tall. This heavy 2 volume set will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments. But for media mail, you pay only our standard charge for 1 volume and we ship the second volume at no extra cost.. First Martino printing. Hardcover (heavy). New/No jackets, as issued. Illus. by We ship 2 volumes for cost of 1. Over 1,200 pages in 2 books. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., Martino Publishing, 1999, 6, New York: Martino Publishing, 1999. 6 parts complete, bound in 2 books. HARDCOVER. Includes Index. BRAND NEW in perfect condition. Both volumes are STILL SEALED in the publisher's clear plastic SHRINKWRAP. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. 1999. First Martino printing. Facsimile reprint of the 5 auction catalogues (1878 to 1893) plus index and prices realized. A standard Americana reference. George Brinley (1817-1888) was one of America's greatest book collectors. The sale of his library, in 5 auctions from 1878 to 1893, realized a total of over $127,000. William Reese called it "A landmark sale of Americana and the greatest collection of American imprints ever formed." Described here, with many still useful notes and collations, are 9,498 lots of rare books, pamphlets and printed documents. Brinley's library included a BAY PSALM BOOK, the Erfurt copy of the GUTENBERG BIBLE, 275 choice examples of the writings of Richard, Increase and Cotton Mather, unusually strong runs of early almanacs, rare tracts, colonial histories, American Indian material, remarkable holdings on the South and the Old Northwest, etc. The catalogues were originally published in Hartford, Connecticut by Case Lockwood & Brainard. There were 5 auctions: Part 1, March 10, 1879 (vi, 306pp); Part 2, March 22, 1880 (xiv, 200pp); Part 3, April 4, 1881(xi, 179pp); Part 4, November 15, 1886 (xi, 254pp); Part 5, April 18, 1893 (viii, 159pp) + 80 page Index + 46 pages of prices realized. The cataloguer was apparently James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), since his name appears on the spine of each original volume [also because he is credited in the Library of Congress catalogue]. The comprehensive index, first published in 1893, was compiled by William Isaac Fletcher (1844-1917). The auctions were conducted by George Leavitt (parts 1-4) and C. F. Libbie (part 5). In this reprint the 5 parts + Index are consolidated into 2 HARDCOVER volumes. Included are sections on New France, Canada, The British Colonies to 1776, New England, The Middle and Southern States, The American Revolution, Washingtoniana, Franklin imprints, Quakers, Books Printed in Philadelphia and New York before 1750; Bibles, Catechisms and Primers, Mexico, The West Indies, Psalms and Hymns, Music, The Episcopal Church, Baptism and the Baptists, The Methodists, G. Whitefield, The Presbyterian Church, Unitarian Controversy, The Shakers, The Mormons, Thomas Paine's Works, Law and Government, Criminal Trials, Political Economy, Finance, Science and Art, Masonry and Anti-Masonry, Poetry, Drama, Popular Literature, Chap Books, Jest Books, Books for Children, Education, School Books, Slavery and Anti-Slavery, Almanacs, State Registers, Theological and Religious, Bibliography, American Indians; Captivities, Local History, Miscellaneous Tracts, Historical Sermons and Addresses, Privately Printed Books, Newspapers and Periodicals, Engravings, Portraits, Maps and Plans, etc. See: McKay 2488, 2621, 2740, 3383, 4164. Dickinson pp. 51-53. Uniformly bound in the original gilt-stamped gray cloth. 6.75" wide by 9" tall. This heavy 2 volume set will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments. But for media mail, you pay only our standard charge for 1 volume and we ship the second volume at no extra cost.. First Martino printing. Hardcover (heavy). New/in publisher's shrinkwrap. Illus. by We ship 2 volumes for cost of 1. Over 1,200 pages in 2 books. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., Martino Publishing, 1999, 6, Philadelphia: George B. Woodman & Co, 1885. Softcover. Very Good. 24mo. 24pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Library stamp on front wrap, tiny chips on wraps, very good., George B. Woodman & Co, 1885, 3, Printed by Order of the Trustees, Longmans & Co. Used - Good. Two volume set. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less (usually same day). Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks, rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry., Printed by Order of the Trustees, Longmans & Co, 2.5<