Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Art Israel 26 Painters and Sculptors

Seitz, William C. · 1964

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. 26 Israeli painters and sculptors are featured here in the volume that augmented the 1964 exhibition at the M.O.M.A. 88 pp., 84 illustrations. Bound handsomely in brown cloth, blind-stamp...

The Emergence of Jewish Scholarship in America: The Publication of the Jewish Encyclopedia

Schwartz, Shuly Rubin · 1991

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College Press, 1991. First Edition. . Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Thirteenth volume in the series, Monographs of the Hebrew Union CollegeA superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and cle...

Spertus College of Judaica Yemenite Manuscripts: An Illustrated Catalogue

Golb, Norman · 1972

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Chicago, Spertus College of Judaica Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. The publisher's dust jacket blurb notes that "The sudden flight of Jews from Yemen to Israel in 1949-50, brought their mainly handwritten books into circulation. Written in He...

The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection: Pre-Columbian Sculpture

Kubler, George · 1954

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. An early and extremely influential primer in pre-Columbian art and archaeological history. Handsomely bound in a greenish linen buckram cloth, measuring 8" x 11" i...

Pilchuck: A Glass School

Oldknow, Tina, ed. · 1996

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Seattle, Pilchuck Glass School, in association with the University of Washington Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Handsomely produced in association between the school and the university, edited by Tina Oldknow and who contributes several chapt...

Contemporary Drawings: Philadelphia I, Philadelphia II

Goodyear, Frank H. · 1978

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts / Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine exemplar of recent American illustrators' drawings, bound unusually in the rear panel of Philadelphia I comprises also the ...

A Treasury of Archaeological Bells

Spear, Nathaniel, Jr. · 1978

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, Hastings House, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine and gorgeously illustrated compendium of the archaeological discoveries of bells in ancient cultures such as the Lurs, Assyrians, Babylonians, Urarteans, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks,...

The Reality of Symbols: Studies in the Iconology of Netherlandish Art 1400-1800

Bedaux, Jan Baptist · 1990

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

The Hague, the Netherlands, Gary Schwarz, 1990. First English Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A probing, accessible study of iconography and iconology in early Northern Netherlandish art history, tracing out Erwin Panofsky's notion of "disguised symbolism." Autho...

Tribal Rugs: A Buyer's Guide

Allane, Lee · 1996

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, Thames and Hudson, 1996. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. 47 full color illustrations, 40 duotone drawings, and six maps. Volu...

Figures of ILL Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth Century France

Bernheimer, Charles · 1989

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An influential social history of prostitution, penned by an author whose work I have cited frequently. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardco...

Vienna and the Jews, 1867-1938: A Cultural History

Beller, Steven · 1993

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A superior copy inside and out of a probing social history of fin-de-siecle Vienna, Austria, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight bin...

The Writings of J. Frank Dobie: A Bibliography

McVicker, Mary Louise · 1968

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Lawton, Oklahoma, Museum of the Great Plai, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A bibliographer's bibliography, product of two decades of personal friendship with the subject and two decades of research. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised ti...

Arts de L'Oceanie

Leenhardt, Maurice · 1947

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Paris, France, Les Editions Du Chene, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Arts Du Monde series. Good condition overall, with scuffing to paper covered tips, edges,scratch to front cover, light bumping to spine head and foot...

Type & Typography: Highlights from Matrix--the Review for Printers & Bibliophiles

Randle, John and John D. Berry, ed. · 2003

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

West New York, New Jersey, Mark Batty Publisher, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Stated First Edition, a handsomely produced volume that was the first of a series of scholarly anthologies drawn from original articles published in MATRIX, edited and pr...

Literary Annuals and Gift Books: A Bibliography 1823-1903

Faxon, F.W., Eleanor Jamieson and Iain Bain · 1973

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Middlesex, England, Private Libraries Association, 1973. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine exemplar of the 1973 reprint of the 1912 true First Edition, with supplementary essays by Eleanore Jamieson and Iain Bain, and then the reprinting in facsimile of...

British Book Illustration Yesterday and to-Day

Salaman, Malcolm C.; Geoffrey Holme, ed. · 1974

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Book Tower, Detroit, Gale Research Company, 1974. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine exemplar of the reissue of the classic, true First Edition that was published in 1923. Bound handsomely in blue cloth, with still sharp and distinct lettering to spine. ...

The Arts of the French Book: 1900 - 1965. Illustrated Books of the School of Paris

Garvey, Eleanor M. and Peter Wick · 1967

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Dallas, Texas, Friends of the Dallas Public Library by Southern Methodist University Press, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Fine condition copy in First Edition state, illustrated in black-and-white and full-color photography of artworks with accompanying d...

Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century

Lewis, Roy Harley · 1985

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Arco Publishing, Inc., 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. First U.S. Edition, bound handsomely in tall quarto hardcover format, with a bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust ja...

Miniatures and Silhouettes of Early American Jews, Combining the Two Volumes Miniatures of Early American Jews and Shades of My Forefathers

London, Hannah Ruth · 1970

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Rutland, Vermont, Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A particularly fine example, First Edition Thus, bound handsomely in red linen cloth, lettered in gilt at spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very mino...

Modern British and American Private Presses, 1850-1965: Holdings of the British Library

Brown, P.A.H. · 1976

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

London, Published for the British Library By British Museum Publications, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. D.T. Richnell has written a Preface to this bibliography compiled by Mr. P.A.H. Brown of the British presses and American presses held by the Bri...