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
![Lithograph] Death of George Shifler - Born Jan 24 1825 - Murdered May 6 1844 - In Kensington....](/images/noimage.png)
Philadelphia: Wm Smith, [1844]. First Edition. A poignant image, depicting the first casualty of the 1844 Philadelphia Anti-Catholic riots, which roiled the city in both May and July of that year leaving dozens dead and hundreds wounded. As was the case in many other large cities on the Eastern seaboard... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1926. First American Edition. A romance of Egypt. Includes a full-page frontispiece, numerous illustrations and head- and tail-pieces after woodcuts by Eric Ravilious. Small octavo (19.5cm). Navy cloth with paper spine label; dustjacket; 275pp; illus. Spine leaning slightly; private library hand-stamp to front endpaper; general... More
![Città di Vicenza, Centenario dell'Unione all'Italia [Inscribed & Signed to Ben Shan]. Gino BARIOLI](/pictures/medium/31378.jpg?v=1529353654)
Vicenza: Museo del Risorgimento, 1966. First Edition. Slim square quarto (20cm.); original white decorative card wrappers printed in red, green, and black; unpaged; color and black and white plates throughout. Wrapper extremities a bit toned, minor dust-soil to rear wrapper, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed on upper... 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
![Mesa Verde [Limited Edition, Signed]. Evan S. CONNELL, Robert Therrien](/pictures/medium/31979.jpg?v=1529353676)
New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1992. First Edition. Limited to 150 copies of which this is no. 134. Folio (33cm.); decorative vegetable vellum embossed in gilt, two-toned (tan and purple) cloth slipcase; 24pp.; original water color and etching by Therrien bound in. Fine. A handsome production. More
New York: Cross River Press/Abbeville, 1986. First Edition. First printing. Large quarto (33.5cm); plum purple publisher's cloth boards with embossed text, in a color pictorial dust jacket featuring Sharron Hedges' "Julie's Coat" (1977) on the front and Nicki Hitz Edson's "Landscape Kimono" (1986) on the rear; 319pp. Text is a.... 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
Oxford: Printed at the University Press, by Samuel Collingwood and Co., 1840. Octavo (22cm.); contemporary full dark plum gilt-tooled morocco, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges gilt; 413,[3]pp. & unpaginated supplement with added title page: "A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes Used in... More
![Text in Russian] Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge / Nikolai Gay. Nikolai GE, Alla G. VERESHCHAGINA](/pictures/medium/34635.jpg?v=1529353780)
Leningrad: "Khudozhnik RSFSR" 1988. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket, matching cloth and paper-covered slipcase; 182pp. A hint of wear at jacket spine crown, minor soil to slipcase, else Fine. Catalogue raisonné of the Russian realist painter. 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
New York: American Artists Group, 1945-1946. Series issued by the American Artists Group, founded by Samuel Golden in imitation of the better-known Depression-era Associated American Artists, but in this case the prints sold were unlimited, unsigned, and dirt cheap, much to the dismay of other New York-based purveyors of fine... More
![Text in Russian] Studiia Voennykh Khudozhnikov Imeni M. B. Grekova. M. B. GREKOV, Tat'iana...](/pictures/medium/34633.jpg?v=1529353780)
Moskva: "Izobrazitel'noe Iskusstvo" 1989. First Edition. Quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; 231pp.; chiefly color illus. throughout. General shelf wear to jacket and cloth extremities, else Very Good and sound. Catalogue raisonné of the Soviet military and battle painter Mitrofan Borisovich Grekov. Text entirely in Russian. More
ca 1930-35. A spectacular large print demonstrating Groth's early mastery of aquatint technique -- a Bowery street scene peopled with the ghost-like figures of Depression-era down-and-outers, typical of Groth's social-realist work during the Great Depression. Though best remembered as a wartime sketch-artist and book illustrator (he produced a number of... 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
[Mexico City]: Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, [1981]. First Edition. Quarto (24.75cm.); original black decorative staplebound card wrappers; 56pp.; chiefly color illus. throughout. Wrappers rather rubbed along extremities and spine, small creases to both corners of upper wrapper. Good or better overall. Exhibition catalog of contemporary Nicaraguan painting, including artwork... More
