Philadelphia: Ledger Job Printing, N.d. (ca 1860s). First Edition. An exceedingly uncommon early portrait of the celebrated African-American musical savant, apparently based on the 1865 photographic portrait by W.E. Germon. The image depicts a young Tom Wiggins (ca. 17 years old) seated beside an ornate piano in his customary costume..... More
Washington DC: SITES/University of Washington Press, 1990. First Edition. Quarto (30cm); red cloth in color pictorial dustwrapper; 281pp. Like New copy, still sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap; shrinkwrap is split along spine, with pinhole dent to dustwrapper in exposed section; small bumps to rear board. A lush showcase of Moscow's enduring artistic..... More
Wien: Galerie Phoenix, [1979]. First Edition. First printing. Oblong quarto (27.5 x 31cm.); printed flexible boards, natural tan color; [46pp]. A gallery book for Austrain painter Eduard Angeli; contains introductory text and biographical information (in German), and 17 color illustrated plates (unpaginated). Institutional stickers remain on first and final pages..... More
New York: Franklin H. Williams Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute, 1998. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28cm.); matte color pictorial paper wrappers; 177pp.; photo-illustrations throughout in color and b/w. Text block displays light handling wear and yellowing to margins, otherwise firm and sound, Fine. Wrappers also have light shelf wear..... More
![Hudibras. Plates I-XII (complete) [from] Hogarth Restored: the Whole Works of the Celebrated...](/pictures/medium/008381.jpg?v=1529353112)
London: T. Cook, 1806. Later Edition. The complete series, plates I-X uncut as issued. These are the Thomas Cook re-engravings, ca. 1806. Plate marks 21-1/4" x 14" on 24" x 17" sheets; printed on heavy wove paper. Occasional shallow chipping, soiling, & foxing to extremities; images fresh and unfoxed; Very..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. Reprint. Large octavo (24.5cm); dark blue decorative cloth, stamped in gilt; TEG; xi, 310pp, frontis., 30 plates. Spine sunned, gilt faded; boards gently worn and soiled, with rubbing along extremities; chipping w/ material loss at heel/crown of spine and leading corners. Bindings shaken; deckled..... More
New York: George Braziller, 1967. First Revised Edition. Quarto (27cm); red publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt on spine, in white pictorial dustwrapper; xix,111pp. Boards and dustwrapper have mild shelf wear, with some soiling and rubbing (especially to extremities); top edge creased and slightly rolled, inner flap price-clipped; textblock clean and..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1991. First Edition. First printing. Oblong octavo (24 x 28cm); foil-stamped grey publisher's cloth, in pictorial dustwrapper; 159pp. Light dust-soiling and shelf wear; sunning and edge rolling along inner wrapper extremities. Near Fine. Charles, Prince of Wales, reveals his artistic side in this book, which showcases..... More
![Catalogue of the Loan Collection of Pictures [English horror author Dennis Wheatley's copy]....](/pictures/medium/47372.jpg?v=1580342826)
London: [Corporation of London Art Gallery], 1895. Edition not stated. A directory of loaned artworks on exhibition at the Corporation of London Art Gallery, from April 23 to July 21, 1895. While the book does not contain pictures, each piece (and artist) is described to detail, along with the identity..... More
New Britain, CT: New Britain Museum of American Art, 1971. First Edition. Oblong octavo (15x22.75cm.); original pictorial staplebound wrappers; unpaged; chiefly color and black-and-white illus. Rear wrapper lightly foxed with some minor dust-soil, else Very Good or better. Exhibition catalog of the works of Ken Davies, known for his highly..... More
London: Tauris-Parke, 1992. First English Language Edition. First English language printing; originally published as "Images de Femmes" (Plon, 1992). Quarto (28.5cm.); black publisher's cloth boards with color pictorial dust jacket detailing "The Red Fish" by Klimt (1901-02); 189pp. Text block has yellowed along margins, otherwise clear and sound; Near Fine..... More
New York: Ives Washburn, 1930. First Thus. One of 150 hand-numbered copies on rag, with 12 mounted original wood engravings on rice paper by Ilse Bischoff, including frontispiece pencil-signed by the artist. Octavo. Vellum-backed blue cloth boards; paper spine label; 253pp. Vellum portion of binding browned and discolored; bit of..... More
[Original Manuscript: 1930]. Glintenkamp, along with his friend and contemporary Stuart Davis, was among the foremost disciples of Robert Henri, and inherited some of his mentor's Ashcan mannerisms; but he is perhaps best remembered as one of the original artists of the New York socialist/bohemian magazine The Masses, where his..... More
[Bologna]: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, [1990]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; lx,237pp.; color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, else Very Good and sound. Essays in English and Italian, the painting descriptions in Italian only. More
Annotated on verso in pencil, "Xmas 1945" - the hand is that of H. Richard Archer (1911-1978), collector, librarian, and a personal friend of Yavno's during the time they both resided in Los Angeles (ca 1945-1947). The current example came from Archer's collection, acquired directly by us about ten years..... More
ca 1930-35. A chilling image of a pistol-wielding African-American man fleeing the scene of a crime, leaving two white bodies lying in the street. It is unclear whether the scene is intended as a commentary on growing racial tensions in Harlem in the 1930s (possibly a direct reference to the..... More
ca 1930-35. An evocative New York waterfront scene, typical of Groth's social-realist work of the Depression era. Though best remembered as a wartime sketch-artist and book illustrator (he produced a number of titles for The Limited Editions Club, including the widely-praised LEC edition of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on..... More
ca 1930-35. An evocative New York street scene, typical of Groth's social-realist work of the Depression era. Though best remembered as a wartime sketch-artist and book illustrator (he produced a number of titles for The Limited Editions Club, including the widely-praised LEC edition of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on..... More
ca 1930-35. An evocative New York street scene, typical of Groth's social-realist work of the Depression era. Though best remembered as a wartime sketch-artist and book illustrator (he produced a number of titles for The Limited Editions Club, including the widely-praised LEC edition of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on..... More
![Text in Russian] Mir' Iskusstva / Russia's Age of Elegance. Omaha / Minneapolis / Princeton, 4...](/pictures/medium/34229.jpg?v=1529353759)
[St. Petersburg?]: Palace Editions, 2005. First English Language Edition. Folio (30.5cm.); publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards; 151pp.; illus. throughout. Just About Fine. Exhibition catalog issued by the State Russian Museum. More
London: A. & C. Black, 1908. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); decorated red cloth, linen grain, stamped in gilt; top edge gilt; vii, 117+[6]pp; frontis., 19 plates. Spine toned; boards mildly soiled, scratched, rubbed; spine heel bumped. Textblock comprehensively foxed, except plates (plates do show some yellowing); top edge soiled; ex..... More
Berlin: Fritz Gurlitt, 1920. First, Limited Edition. The very uncommon deluxe issue of this illustrated edition of short stories by noted Polish author and playwright, translated from the original Yiddish by Alexander Eliasberg. Includes the stories "Zwei Wege," "Der Glasscherben," "Der Kolonist," "Die vierfarbige Laterne aund die vier kleinen Hunde,"..... More
![Drawn to the Past [Inscribed & Signed]. Michael LEONARD](/pictures/medium/32390.jpg?v=1529353696)
London: Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd, [1991]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm.); original grey pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; unpaged; chiefly illus. Just About Fine. Inscribed and signed on title page: "For Benedict / with love from / Michael / Oct '97." Exhibition catalog of portraits inspired by various Old..... More
San Francisco: Chronicle, 1998. First Edition. Quarto (31cm); light brown publisher's cloth stamped in dark brown, in brown pictorial dustwrapper; 256pp. Dustwrapper has mild shelf wear, soiling and scratches; minor rolling and creasing to extremities; sticker residue on rear panel; interior pages faintly yellowing at margins, else clean and unmarked;..... More
![A Collection of Paintings by Luo Jian [Text in Chinese]. Luo Jian](/pictures/medium/46520.jpg?v=1572644916)
Hangzhou, China: [National Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art], 1993. First Edition. First printing. Square octavo (25 x 26cm); pictorial paper wrappers; unpaginated, 55 plates. Wrappers have handling wear, light rubbing and scratches; interiors creased in places, else clean and sound, Very Good or better. Showcases the works of calligrapher and painter..... More
