Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Woman.

Terra Museum of American Art, · 1984

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Evanston, IL, Terra Museum, 1984. VG lg sz PB. The Symposium: "Woman" was held in Cahn Auditorium at Northwestern University in Evenaston in 1984. Lecturers were. Dr. Linda Nochlin, Prof. of Art History City University of NY, and Dr. James M. Dennis, Chairman, Dept of Art Hist...

Important Vienna Secessionist Works of Art: New York Galleries Saturday, Nov. 19, 1983.

Sotheby, · 1983

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

NY, Sotheby Parke Bernet, (1983). VG lg sz PB. "We cannot and will not compete with cheap work", Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, founders of Wiener Werkstatte,. stated. From 1903 to 1931, the idealistic group of artists and craftsmen worked together in defiance of the poor s...

To Everything There Is a Season: the gardening year.

Cruso, Thalassa, · 1973

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Knopf, 1973. 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Cruso shares the pleasures she has experienced and problems faced season by season in her own garden and in her role. as "gardener-at-large" to thousands to TV viewers across the land. Practical hints on every aspect of gardening as well as...

Visions and Meditations in early Flemish painting.

Harbison, Craig, · 1985

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Simiolus Netherlands, (1985). G lg sz PB. In 19th century Flanders we find a religious art in which individual piety is the prime motivating force, not scholastic. disputation, transcendent ectasy or liturgical ritual, but a calculated, personal religious experience, the visio...

Jewish Themes/Contemporary American Artists July 15-16, 1986.

Jewish Museum, New York, · 1986

$27.00 (€24.50 | £20.44 | ¥4,312)

NY, Jewish Museum/Theological, (1986). VG lg sz PB.

Faux Finishes: decorating techniques in non-toxic materials.

Henry, Hildy, · 1986

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Santa Rosa, CA, Painting Peasants, (1986). VG lg sz PB.

Fourteen-Century Italian Altarpieces.

Christiansen, Keith, · 1982

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1982). VG lg sz PB. Readers of Edith Wharton may recall the protagonist of False Dawn, Lewis Roycie, who brought home such painters as Giotto,. Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, and Carpaccio. He opens a gallery of Christian art. Only two ge...

The Mystery of Form: April 6 through 29, 2000.

Magee, Alan, · 2000

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Hollis Taggart Galleries, (2000). VG lg sz PB. "We are symbols, and inhabit symbols, workmen, work, and tools, words and things, birth and death, all are emblems: but we. sympathize with the symbols, and being infatuated with the economical uses of things, we do not know t...

Gallerie of Women Artists: special focus on contemporary quilts: issue #9.

Gallerie, · 1990

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

N. Vancouver, BC, Canada, Gallerie Publications, 1990. VG lg sz PB. Women artists from across North America discuss their art, their lives, and their ideas in this beautiful and thought-. provoking publication.

Paintings 1966-1977.

Cleve Gray, essay by Thomas B. Hess, foreword by Robert T. Buck, Jr., · 1976

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Buffalo, NY, Albright Knox Art Gallery, (1976). VG lg sz PB. Begining photo shows Gray seated in the Threnody installation at the Neuberger Museum, SUNY at Purchase. Gray paints on raw cotton duck roughly 8 feet square. He graduated from Princeton Summa Cum Laude in 1940 and i...

Book of Common Prayer and Admministration of the Sacraments; and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church.

Protestant Episcopal Church, · 1850

$70.00 (€63.51 | £52.98 | ¥11,178)

NY, G. E. Eyre & W. Spottiswoode, (1850). G. Small sized book (2-1/4 x 4-3/4) rose colored with gilt lettering, all edges gilt, edges quite worn. gilt decoration. front cover, back cover embossed decoration, edge corners quite worn, back hinge cracked.

The Anatomy of Glory: Napoleon and His Guard: a study in leadership.

Brown, Anne S. K., adapted from the French of Henry Lachouque, · 1961

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Providence, RI, Brown Univ. Press, 1961. First edition. VG in VG DJ. Autographed by author Anne S. K. Brown on May 15, 1961. Of all his works, the Imperial Guard was Napoleon's finest creation. Molded from the flotsam of the French Revolution, this elite corps swept through Eu...

The Theory and Practice of Fencing.

F.R.G.S., · 1933

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

NY, Scribner (colophon), (1933). 1st ed. VG. Photo of author as frontis with facsimile signature. Orange binding with crossed swords on front, spine darkened, slight. edge wear. Appendix lists organizations and disciplines, duelling sword tests, periods of combat and rest, jud...

Handicrafts for the Handicapped.

Hall, Herbert J., M.D. and Mertice M. C. Buck, · 1916

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

NY, Mofft, Yard & Co, 1916. G. Brown binding, gilt lettering, stamp on endpapers, edge wear, bottom edges of beginning pages roughly cut.

Oeuvres Completes (in French) including a study of author, notes, list of historic persons and bibliography.

Villon, Francois, by M. Louis Moland, · 0

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Paris, Garnier Freres, nd. VG leather with gilt decorated spine with 5 raised bands. Red title band on spine.

The Unknown Quantity: a book of romance and some half-told tales.

Van Dyke, Henry, · 1912

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

NY, Scribner (colophon), 1912. 1st ed. VG. Frontis of merchant woman in long apron with barrels behind her "It did people good to buy of her." Book is dedicaated to. Dear Daughter Dorothea "Ray of light, song of joy, heart of love 1838-1912 (date of publication of this book) T...

What a Young Man Ought to Know: for the young men who ought to be pure and strong.

Stall, Sylvanus, D.D., · 1904

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Philadelphia, Vir Publishing Co, (1904). VG (gift quality). Chapter V "Evils to be shunned and consequences to be dreaded" abouot venereal disease or syphilis. Maroon binding, embossed. lettering on front cover and in gilt on spine, 15 photos of eminent men of the age who comm...

Encheiridion, translated by George Long.

Epictetus, a selection from the discourses of, with the Encheiridion, · 0

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Philadelphia, Altemus, nd. VG. Very little is known of the life of Epictetus. He was a native of Hierapolis in Phrygia. He was mentioned in the epistle of. Paul. He was a slave in Rome and his master was Epaphroditus, a profligate freedman of the Emperor Nero. In modern times ...

Yankee Dictionary: a compendium of useful and entertaining expressions indigenous to Hew England.

Haywood, Charles F., · 1963

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Lynn, MA, Jackson & Phillips, (1963). VG in VG DJ. Definitions to carry you back to an earlier day, some we can recall from school days or old settler days - the foot stove,. root cellar, loaf sugar, church stick, and well sweep. DJ price clipped.

The New McGuffey Third Reader.

N/A, · 1901

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, American Book Company, (1901). Fair. Green decorated binding somewhat mottled, beginning page edges damp stained as well as binding.