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    Hardcover, 306 x 235 mm, bound in crimson cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine, marbled endpapers; pp.: [1-4] 5-112, illustrated in b/w and colour throughout. Title-page: (in floral frame) ART | and | FASHION | By | MARCEL VERTES | In Collaboration with Bryan Holme | {vignette} | THE STUDIO PUBLICATIONS INC. • NEW YORK AND LONDON || Imprint: Printed in the U.S.A. by The Plantin Press and Albert Davis, Samuel Faber, Colorist. Catalogue Raisonné: Vokaer № 43, p. 17. Contributors: Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist/author Holme, Bryan (American, 1913 – 1990) – co-author Davis, George (American, 1906 – 1957) – translator  
  • NEW
    Hardcover, 250 x 310 mm, black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, grey end papers, pictorial dust jacket; pp.: [1-8] 9-237 [3], illustrated in colour throughout. ISBN 0.8457.3150-5 Title-page (pictorial): The Beinecke Library OF YALE UNIVERSITY | Edited by Stephen Parks Architectural photography by Richard Cheek | Dedication photography by Ezra Stoller Collection photography by Stan Godlewski | With contributions by | Robert G. Babcock  Vincent Giroud  George A. Miles  Stephen Parks  Patrick L. Pinnell  Christa Sammons  Barbara A. Shailor  Patricia C. Willis  Marjorie G. Wynne  Timothy G. Young | Published by | The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library | Yale University | Distributed by | University Press of New England || Contents: Introduction The Building Ezra Stoller Dedication Portfolio Crossing Wall Early Manuscripts and Books Modern Books and Manuscripts The Collection of American Literature The Osborn Collection: English Manuscripts German Literature Collection Western Americana Collection Music in the Beinecke
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    Hardcover, 306 x 283 mm, pictorial cardboard, white lettering to front and spine, pictorial dust jacket, pictorial endpapers, pp.: [1-14] 15-224, illustrated in colour throughout. The 1st edition in 2000, published by The Pepin Press in Amsterdam. Title-page (white on black): Erotic Art of the Early Nineteenth Century | Romantique | {publisher’s device} | Bearsville, New York || ISBN 1-59020-000-4. Contents: Daydreams of the Juste Milieu: On the Historico-cultural Milieu of Erotic Lithographs The New Order of Love: Charles Fourier, the Unwavering Dreamer of Liberated Passions Achille Devéria and His School The Trader and the Policeman: Catalogues of Nineteenth Century Erotic Art The Blue Sofa On the Beginning and End of our Sexuality Soloists Duets Trios Quartets The Noble Orgy
  • NEW
    Hardcover, 310 x 230 mm, red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, brown endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, pp.: [1-5] 6-256, 348 illustrations, incl. 195 plates in full colour. Title-page: Edited by Lesley Hoskins | THE | PAPERED WALL | HISTORY • PATTERN • TECHNIQUE | {vignette} | Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers || Imprint: Copyright @ 1994 Thames and Hudson Ltd, London | Published in 1994 by Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, New York | A Times Mirror Company || ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0810937301 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0810937307 Contributor: Lesley Hoskins, editor, former Secretary of the UK's Wallpaper History Society, Specialist Curator at MoDA (The Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, Middlesex University).
  • NEW
    Hardcover, 252 x 260 mm, grey buckram with gilt lettering to spine, in a black pictorial dust jacket with white lettering; pp. [6] 1-185 [1] profusely illustrated in b/w plus 16 leaves of colour plates extraneous to collation, .e. total 112 leaves. Title-page (pictorial): JEWELLERY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD | Jack Ogden | RIZZOLI / NEW YORK || Imprint: Published in the United States of America by Rizzoli International Publications Inc. 712, Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10019 First published by Trefoil Books Ltd, 1982 ISBN 0 8478 0444 5 Contents Jewellery and the archaeologist
    • Gold and silver
    Gold; The sources of gold: Egypt and Nubia, Africa to the South of Nubia. Arabia, Russia, India and Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe; The composition of ancient gold items; Impurities; Changes in gold with time; Silver; The sources of silver: North Africa and Arabia, Western Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe; The composition of ancient silver.
    • Metals other than gold and silver
    Copper and copper alloys; Iron; Lead; Antimony; Tin; Platinum group metals.
    • Goldsmithing techniques
    Sheet metal; Raised sheet work; Cutting and pierced work decoration; Engraving; Wire; Ornamental wires; Chains; Soldering and granulation: Gold and silver, Base metals; Mechanical joining; Casting.
    • The gemstones
    Apatite; Azurite; Beryl: Emerald, Aquamarine; Breccia; Calcite; Chrysoberyl; Cordierite; Corundum: Sapphire, Ruby; Diamond; Dioptase; Feldspar; Fluorspar; Garnet; Gypsum; Hematite; Jade; Lapis lazuli; Lazulite; Malachite; Mica; Obsidian; Olivine; Opal; Porphyry; Pyrites; Quartz: Amethyst, Citrine, Rock crystal, Rose quartz, Smoky quartz, Bloodstone, Chalcedony, Chrysoprase, Cornelian and Sard, Jasper, Plasma, Banded Agates, Onyx; Serpentine, Steatite, Chlorite and related materials; Sodalite; Spinel; Topaz; Tourmaline; Turquoise; Zircon.
    • Organic gem materials
    Amber; Coral; Ivory and bone; Jet and lignite; Pearls; Shells; Tortoise shell; Threading materials for beads.
    • Glass, enamel and faience
    Glazed stone and faience; Glass: Glass beads, Glass inlays, Glass intaglios, Other glass jewellery; Enamel; The aging of glass; Egyptian blue; Etched Cornelian beads.
    • Ancient imitation and altered gemstones
    Man-made imitation gemstones; Altered or improved stones.
    • Stone working
    Chipping; Cutting; Abrasion.
    • Forgeries
    The materials; The techniques: Wire, Sheet metal work, Cutting, Solder joins; Style; Ageing fake jewellery; Glass; Distribution; Forgeries of engraved gems and seals.
    • The jeweller
    Supply and demand; The growth of the industry; The shop; The jeweller; The Guild.
    • Bibliography & references
    • Index to illustrations
  • NEW
    Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 235 x 165 mm, pp. [1-9] 10-176, 120 illustrations, incl. 109 in full colour, 3 maps, glossary, and timeline. An enveloped postcard to E. Varshavsky laid in. Text profusely marked with coloured highlighters. Title-page (pictorial): Art of Edo Japan | The Artist and the City 1615-1868 | Christine Guth | PERSPECTIVES | HARRY N. ABRAMS, INC. PUBLISHERS || Contents: NOTE TO THE READER Map: Japan during the Edo period INTRODUCTION: Mapping the Artistic Landscape
    1. The Artist and the City
    The Castle Town; Urban Culture; The Urban Artist
    1. Kyoto Artists
    Map: Kyoto; The Kano and Tosa Schools; Köetsu, Sotatsu, and Rinpa Design; Taiga, Buson, and the Literati Movement; The Maruyama-Shijo School; Individualists: Jakuchü, Shöhaku, and Rosetsu; The Yamatoe Revival
    1. Edo Artists
    Map: Edo; The Kano School and the Realm of the Official Artist; Developments in Woodblock Prints: 1660-1760; Developments in Polychrome Prints: 1765-1801; Further Developments in Woodblock Prints: 1801-68; Sakai Höitsu and Tani Buncho: Edo Ripa and Bunjinga
    1. Osaka and Nagasaki Artists
    Kimura Kenkadö and his Circle; Osaka Books and Prints; Nagasaki: Window on the World; Monk-Artists of the Öbaku Sect; Visiting Chinese Artists and their Pupils; Painters in the Western Manner
    1. Itinerant, Provincial, and Rural Artists; Itinerant Monk-Artists and Pilgrimage Art; Poet and Literati Painters; Provincial and Rural Artists
    GLOSSARY TIMELINE BIBLIOGRAPHY PICTURE CREDITS INDEX
  • NEW
    Hardcover, 290 x 240 mm, blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, grey endpapers, in a black and white pictorial dust jacket with white lettering, pp.: [1-5] 6-231 [232], with 114 plates. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Neue Galerie, NY, February 20—June 8, 2020. Title-page (white on black): MADAME D'ORA | Edited by Monika Faber | With preface by Ronald S. Lauder, foreword by Renée Price, | and contributions by Katrin Bomhoff Christian Brandstätter, Jean-Marc Dreyfus, | Monica Faber, Esther Ruelfs, Lisa Silverman, and Magdalena Vuković | PRESTEL | MUNICH • LONDON • NEW YORK | photoinstitut | BONARTES / MK&G / MUSEUM FÜR | KUNST UND GEWERBE | HAMBURG || Contributors: Kallmus, Dora [Madame d'Ora] (Austrian-Jewish, 1881 – 1963) – photographer Neue Galerie New York – museum of early twentieth-century German and Austrian art and design. Lauder, Ronald Steven (American-Jewish, b. 1944) – the owner of Neue Galerie.
  • Hardcover, 280 x 121 mm, glossy white pictorial cover with mahogany lettering, pp. [1] 2-210 [2]. Lettering on the cover: ITŌ MITSURU | NOBUIE-TSUBA | {vignette} | TRANSLATED BY MARKUS SESKO || Title-page: Nobuie Tsuba | 信家鐔 | Itō Mitsuru (伊藤満) | translated by Markus Sesko | © 2016 Itō Mitsuru | Copyright translation: Markus Sesko | Print and Publishing: Lulu Press, Inc. ||
  • Softcover, 183 x 133 mm, black wrappers with white lettering to front and spine, pp. [1-4] 5-205 [3]. Tamizdat. Title-page (1): ВЛАДИМИР | НАБОКОВ | ВОЗВРАЩЕНИЕ | ЧОРБА | АРДИС / АНН АРБОР | ARDIS / ANN ARBOR || Title page (2) Возвращенiе Чорба | Рассказы и стихи || Contributors: Ardis Publishing (Ann Arbor) – publisher Carl Ray Proffer (American, 1938 – 1984) – publisher Ellendea Proffer Teasley (b. 1944) – publisher Владимир Владимирович Набоков [Vladimir Nabokov] (Russian-American, 1899 – 1977) – author
  • Softcover, 215 x 140 mm, publisher’s grey wrappers, lettering in double-fillet frame to front, lettering to spine, pp.: [1-6] 7-268 [2]; tamizdat. Stamps: 1) РУССКАЯ БИБЛИОТЕКА, THE RUSSIAN LIBRARY, 14, SAWREY PLACE, BRADFORD; 2) Православная Церковь Покрова Пресв. Богородицы, Манчестер, Англия — The Orthodox Church of the Holy Virgin, Manchester, Eng.; 3) ДАР ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВА ИМЕНИ ЧЕХОВА при Восточно-Европейском Фонде. Title-page: ВЛАДИМИР НАБОКОВ | Другие берега | {publisher’s device} | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО ИМЕНИ ЧЕХОВА | Нью-Йорк • 1954 || Contributors: Издательство имени Чехова [Chekhov Publishing House] (NY) Владимир Владимирович Набоков [Vladimir Nabokov] (Russian-American, 1899 – 1977) – author
  • Hardcover album 387 x 300 mm, bound in orange half-calf over green paper with vertical black zig-zag and embossed gilt rings, by Isy Brachot of Brussels; includes a photographic portrait of D. H. Lawrence pasted to front green ffl verso, ms title-page, six pages of ms text with a woodcut portrait of the same to page 2, 27 plates (including eight double-page), one blank leaf followed by ten pages of ms text and back green ffl with text to recto, 49 leaves total, plates on thick wove paper, text on Canson & Montgolfier watermarked laid paper, all unpaginated; in a slipcase. The title page indicates: “Vertés, a fashionable and popular designer from 1940 to 1960 […] attempted to illustrate in 1959 the famous novel by D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover, but not getting along with his publisher, he sold his sketches for two thousand dollars to count Charles de Kerchove de Denterghem (1819 – 1882). Further, the t.p. reads: Les esquisses, lit-on encore sur cette page, furent reliées par Isy Brachot de Bruxelles. Elles furent classées par lui sans ordre, comme elles venaient. En préface figurent un bref résumé du roman, un historique des difficultés qu'il connut, un compte rendu de sa victoire finale. En postface sont transcrits, en langue originale, les scènes illustrées par Vertès dans l'ordre où elles se trouvent écrites, ainsi qu'une appréciation de l'art de Vertès. Michel Vokaer’s Bibliographie de Marcel Vertès (1967) does not mention this collection of sketches; however, it says that the artist had produced two test etchings for Lady Chatterley’s Lover around 1936, which remained unpublished. The gouaches were drawn in the US, and the texts accompanying them are in English, so one could suppose that the prospective publisher—who remains unknown—was American. Contributors: Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) David Herbert Lawrence (British, 1885 – 1930)
  • Four exhibition catalogues at Perls Galleries in NYC, coloured stiff laid paper wrappers, colour lettering, staples, b/w plates: September 22 - October 25, 1952, 8 pp; November 14 - December 24, 1955, 12 pp.; “The Nude” January 5 - February 7, 1959. 16 pp.; Portraits and Models November 20 - December 29, 1962, 12 pp. Size: 155 x 240 mm each.
  • Hardcover, 242 x 168 mm, quarter burgundy cloth over blue paper boards, outer edge untrimmed; pp.: [6] [1-4] 5-516 [2 colophon/blank] [6 blanks]. First published in France in 2000 as “Haussmann” by Librairie Arthème Fayard. Title-page: HAUSSMANN | ~ | His Life and Times, | and the Making of Modern Paris | MICHEL CARMONA | TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY PATRICK CAMILER | {publisher’s device} | Ivan • R • Dee | Chicago   2002 || Michel Carmona (French, b. 1940) Georges-Eugène Haussmann [Baron Haussmann] (French, 1809 – 1891)
  • Hardcover, 333 x 247 mm, black cloth with gilt facsimile to front board and gilt lettering to spine, aubergine dust jacket with white lettering and red facsimile over black panel to front and back, crimson endpapers, laid paper, unpaginated; pp.: [4] h.t./blank, t.p./imprint, [2] text by John Hollander, 61 leaves of plates; originally published in 1969 by Rhinoceros Press, New York, as a limited-edition portfolio with slipcase. Title-page: Fornicon | (in frame) BY TOMI UNGERER | GROVE PRESS  NEW YORK || Jean-Thomas [Tomi] Ungerer (French,1931 – 2019) John Hollander (American, 1929 – 2013)
  • The Colophon, A Book Collectors' Quarterly

    1. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Summer 1935, № 1, vol. 1. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1935. Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, paper boards, serial pictorial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 7-159 [160] [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | SUMMER 1935 | VOLUME I • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 1 | NEW YORK, N. Y. ||
    2. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Autumn 1935, № 2, vol. 1. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1935. (2 copies). Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, paper boards, serial pictorial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 167-315 [315] [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | AUTUMN 1935 | VOLUME I • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 2 | NEW YORK ||
    3. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Autumn 1936, № 1, vol. 2. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1936. Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, cloth serial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 7-157 [158] [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | AUTUMN 1936 | VOLUME II • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 1 | NEW YORK ||
    4. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Winter 1936, № 3, vol. 1. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1936. (2 copies) Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, paper boards, serial pictorial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 323-480 [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | WINTER 1936 | VOLUME I • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 3 | NEW YORK ||
    5. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Autumn 1937, № 4, vol. 2. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1937. Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, cloth serial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 487-628 [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | AUTUMN 1937 | VOLUME II • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 4 | NEW YORK ||
    6. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Summer 1938, № 3, vol. 3. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1938. Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, cloth new serial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 335-476 [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | SUMMER 1938 | VOLUME III • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 3 | NEW YORK ||
    7. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Autumn 1938, № 4, vol. 3. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1938. Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, cloth new serial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 483-632 [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | AUTUMN 1938 | VOLUME III • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 4 | NEW YORK ||  
  • Hardcover, 19 x 13.8 cm, crimson buckram with tan paper label with lettering to spine; printed on laid paper; pp.: ffl [i-vi] vii-x] 11-184, collation 8vo, 1-118 124, total 92 leaves. Title-page: AMERICAN ENGRAVERS | AND | THEIR WORKS | BY | W. S. BAKER | Collige et inscribe | PHILADELPHIA | GEBBIE & BARRIE PUBLISHERS | 1875 || Motto: Collige et inscribe [Collect and record, lat.] Contributors: William Spohn Baker (American, 1824 – 1897) – author. George Gebbie (American, 1832 – 1892) – publisher. George Barrie (American, 1843 – 1918) – publisher. George R. Bonfield (British-American, 1802 – 1898) – dedicatee.
  • Cardboard box 32 x 23.7 cm with lettering and vignette to front, lettering to spine, and Loomis facsimile and Titan publisher's barcode label to back.
    1. Title-page: Drawing | THE HEAD AND HANDS | BY | ANDREW LOOMIS | {vignette} ||
    Hardcover volume, 31.2 x 23.3 cm, olive buckram with olive lettering on the green label, green lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket, text to flaps; pp.: [1-6] 7-154 [155 plate] [5 blanks], ils. (photomechanical reproductions). Imprint: Drawing The Head And Hands | ISBN: 9780857680976 | Published by | Titan Books | A division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd. | 144 Southwark St. | London | SE1 0UP | This edition: October 2011 | 15 16 17 18 19 20 | © 1943 Andrew Loomis, 2011 The Estate of Andrew Looms. All rights reserved. | […] | Printed and bound in China. ||
    1. Title-page: FIGURE DRAWING | FOR ALL IT'S WORTH | ANDREW LOOMIS ||
    Hardcover volume, 31.2 x 23.3 cm, blue buckram with orange square vignette, orange lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket, text to flaps; pp.: [1-6] 7-204 [4 blanks], ils. (photomechanical reproductions). Imprint: Figure Drawing For All It's Worth | ISBN: 9780857680983 | Published by | Titan Books | A division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd. | 144 Southwark St. | London | SE1 0UP | This edition: May 2011 | 16|  © 1943 Andrew Loomis, 2011 The Estate of Andrew Loomis. All rights reserved. | […] | Printed and bound in China. || Andrew Loomis (American, 1892 – 1959)
  • Hardcover volume, 31 x 23.5 cm, peach cloth, with peach lettering to the green label on front board, green lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket, price unclipped ($4.95); text to flaps; pp.: [1-6] 7-154 [155 plate] [5 blanks], ils. (photomechanical reproductions); magazine clipping laid in. Title-page: Drawing | THE HEAD AND HANDS | BY | ANDREW LOOMIS | {vignette} | NEW YORK • THE VIKING PRESS || Imprint: COPYRIGHT © 1956 BY ANDREW LOOMIS | FIRST PUBLISHED BY THE VIKING PRESS IN JANUARY 1956 | PUBLISHED ON THE SAME DAY IN THE DOMINION OF CANADA | BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED | SECOND PRINTING 1958 | {two paragraphs of copyright statement} | LITHOGRAPHED IN U.S.A, BY W. S. KONECKY ASSOCIATES || Edition: 1st edition, 2nd printing. Andrew Loomis (American, 1892 – 1959)