Historic Ornament Treatise On Decorative Art And Architectural Ornament; Historic,, Ancient, Medieval Art and Architecture AND Pottery, Metal-Work, Furniture, Textiles, Mosaics, Glass, Book-Decoration, &c., &c
by Ward, James
New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons & Chapman and Hall, 1898. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth decorated in leaf motifs. Very good. 2 vols. 409, 411 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Vol. I: 436 illustrations (Charles Scribner's Sons), Vol.II; 317 illustrations (Chapman and Hall). Modest intermittent toning Vol. I, Vol. II clean, slight crinkling to backstrip extremities.
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Pompeii A.D. 79; Treasure from the National Archaeologicial Museum, Naples
by Ward-Perkins, John Bryan & Amanda Claridge
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1978. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Very Good. 2 vols.. 221 pages. 29 x 21 cm. Copiously ilustrated in black and white. Bibliography.
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Madman's Drum
by Ward, Lynd
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated black boards with illustrated spine paper label. Near fine. Unpaginated. 21 x 15 cm. Bright, crisp copy, Ward's second woodcut novel of a total of six. The 118 wood engraved images portray a slave trader who steals a demon-faced drum from an African he murders, and the consequences that evolve for him and his family.
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Gods' Man
by Ward, Lynd
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Rebound in half black morocco and marbled boards, backstrip titled in silver with the top edge in matching silver treatment. Fine. Unpaginated. 21 x 15 cm. Ward's first woodcut novel. Limited editions, copy 46 of 400 signed by Lynd Ward, with an original wood cut on Japanese tissue, pulled by Ward laid-in, from blocks made for Gods' Man, and signed by him in pencil. The latter one... Read More
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Madman's Drum
by Ward, Lynd
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated black boards with clean, intact paper spine label. Fine in slightly nicked dust wrapper.. Unpaginated. 21 x 15 cm. Ward's second woodcut novel, a tale told in 120 woodcuts. Bright, fresh copy with $3.00 price inside front cover of dust wrapper, and critical reviews of the book inside back cover.
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The Writings
by Ward, Mary Augusta [Mrs. Humphrey Ward]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co, 1909. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco, light blue marbled endpapers and matching endpapers. Teg. Fine. 16 vols.. 21.5 x 16 cm. Autograph Edition, copy 96 of 750, signed by Mary A. Ward in Volume I. The author, born to a prominent Australian family removed to England when she was five years of age, her father was Tom Arnold (English Professor) and her uncle Matthew Arnold (English poet). Her sister Julia married Leonard Huxley,... Read More
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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art A Handbook of the Collection
by Ward, Roger & Patricia Fidler
NY: Hudson Hills, 1993. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 414 pages. 26 x 26 cm. Copiously illustrated in color and black and white. Index.
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The Isle Of Wight; The Photographic Illustrations by Russell Sedgefield And Frank M. Good
by Ware, J. Redding
London: Provost & Co., Successors To A.W. Bennett, 1869. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth, illustrated and decorated in gilt. Aeg. Very good. 182 pages. 22 x 17 cm. Twenty one photographs including the frontispiece, many are tinted and tipped-in. The author calls the island "a paradise of bees, flowers and invalids." Generally clean, bright copy, rubbing to backstrip extremities.
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Andy Warhol's Index Book
by Warhol, Andy
New York: Random House, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Black cloth, lensed pictorial grating mounted to front cover as issued. Near fine. Warhol, Andy. Unpaginated. 28 x 22 cm. With the assistance of Stephen Shore, Paul Morrissey, Ondine, and Nico. Factory photographs by Billy Name. Pop-ups and moveables entirely present and in working order (usual exception noted): Pop-up castle; Accordion noisemaker; Bi-plane; Chelsea Girls circular ad on spring; Geodesic paper "balloon" with string and rubber band inside balloon; Velvet... Read More
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Early American Wall Stencils Their Origin, History and Use
by Waring, Janet
New York: William R.Scott, 1950. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Very good in chipped dust wrapper, lacking paste-down.. 86 pages in text. Ninety-six photographs, six tipped-in color plates of stencilled wallpaper. Index. Originially published, 1937 in a limited edition of 800. This monograph covers geographically, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont and Maine. This volume reprints the sections of the book which record the history of the tool and its use in American wall decoration.... Read More
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Two Poems
by Warren, Robert Penn
[Winston-Salem, N.C.]: Palaemon Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. marbled boards, front cover paper label. Fine. 5 leaves. 17 x14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 5 of 200 signed by the author. Text printed in red and black.
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Love: Four Versions
by Warren, Robert Penn
[Winston-Salem, N.C.]: Palaemon Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter white cloth and marbled boards with spine paper label. Fine. 4 leaves. 26 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 2 of 200 signed by the author. Text printed in red and black.
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Snow Day
by Warren, Rosanna
[Winston-Salem, N.C.]: Palaemon Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth spine and marbled boards. Fine. 42 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 2 of 500 signed by the author on the title page. Some of these poems were printed in magazines previously. As new copy.
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Essays on Gothic Architecture
by Warton, T, et al.
London: J. Taylor, 1800. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary brown morocco, spine label lettered in gilt, marbled boards. Very good. 176 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Ten full-page engraved plates. Essays by T. Warton, J. Bentham, Captain Grosse, and J. Miller. Errata, 2 pp. adverts. Detailed explanatory text for each plate. Modest rubbing to extremities and surface of boards. FOWLER 438.
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1738 - John Singleton Copley - 1815
by Washington, DC. National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Museum
Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965. First edition. Paperback. Orig. blue wrappers. Fine. Copley, John Singleton. 142 pages. 103 color and black and white reproductions. Exhibition Sept. 18, 1965 -Mar. 6, 1966. Bibliography. Catalogue. FREITAG 1765. KARPEL H262. "....commemorates the 150th anniversary of Copley's death.
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Bird-Dieties in China
by Waterbury, Florance
Ascona: Artibus Asiae, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth lettered in gilt. Very good. 191 pages in text. Folio, 32 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 18 of 350. Sixty-one full page plates. extensive List of References, Index of Subjects and Places. In myths from China and Japan, the phoenix does not emerge from a fire but instead causes itself to be reborn during times of good fortune. Cultures in northern Europe and Asia credited birds with... Read More
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The Manuscripts Of Henry Savile Of Banke
by Watson, Andrew G.
London: Bibliograhical Society, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Fine.. 102 pages. 25 x 17 cm. Five plates; two are fold-outs. General Index. Index of Manuscripts and Printed Books. Oxford Bibliographical Society: for Year 1967.
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Guyana at the Crossroads
by Watson, Dennis & Christine Craig (Editors)
Coral Gables: Univ. of Miami North-South Center, 1992. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine.. 95 pp. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", this publication is a result of a seminar sponsored and organized by the Caribbean Resources Development Foundation[CARDEV]. The seminar invited government and anti-government factions in discussing the hope of seeing Guyana return to full democracy. Guyana's current free market approach appears to conflict with its continued tie to Cuba. Distributed by Transaction Publishers.
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The Nonesuch Dickens Retrospectus and Prospectus
by Waugh, Arthur
London: Nonesuch Press, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated navy cloth. Very good. 128 pages. 25 x 16.5 cm. Illustrated. Published under the editorial direction of Arthur Waugh, Hugh Walpole, Walter Dexter and Thomas Hutton. A lovely exemplar of Dickens and the Nonesuch Press with "Sample Pages.
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Late Reliques Of Old London
by Way, T(homas) R(obert)
London: George Bell & Sons, 1898. Hardcover. Orig. quarter vellum and brown cloth lettered in gilt, lacking original ties. Very good. 33 x 25.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 15 of 25 portfolios containing 24 hand-printed proofs signed in pencil by T.R. Way, and signed on the limitation notation by Way.. The first edition of 280 copies printed a year earlier were neither signed nor hand-printed. Laid-in, eight page booklet of "Short Notes taken from Mr. H.B. Wheatley's Descriptions"... Read More
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Lutyens Houses and Gardens
by Weaver, Lawrence
London: Country Life, 1921. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth spine and blue cloth, cover paper label. Very good. 203 pages. 22 x 14 cm. 144 black and white illustrations, including plans to scale. Index. The author notes in his preface that in 1913 in another work he stated, "the influence of Lutyens is good, strong and increasing," and follows with "Now that I look at domestic architecture from a somewhat wider angle, my conviction as to that influence has... Read More
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Houses And Gardens by E.L. Lutyens
by Weaver, Lawrence
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 2004. Hardcover. Orig. dark green cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 344 pages. 30 x 21.5 cm. 580 black and white illustrations printed on high gloss stock presents the variety of styles and designs by Lutyens that established his particularly British character. Many designs to scale. Index.
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Small Country Houses of To-Day; Vols 1-2
by Weaver, Sir Lawrence
London: Country Life, 1922. Hardcover. Orig. olive green cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt. 2 Vols. Very good. xv 222 & xv 212 pages. 29 x 22 cm. Volume I is the Third Edition Revised. Title pages printed in red and black. Host of illustrations printed on high gloss stock: photographs (interior and exterior), plats, and plans to scale. Indexes. Architects include Sir Reginald Blomfield, Baillie Scott, Guy Dawber et al. Interior contents of both volumes... Read More
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Lithographs of N. Currier and Currier & Ives
by Weaver, Warren A.
New York: Holport, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Very good. Currier & Ives. 159 pages. Illustrated with fifteen black and white plates. Chronology. Also, laid-in Supplement no. 12, twelve pages of additional Currier & Ives lithographs with prices. KARPEL K860. "The book contains a short historical introduction to Currier & Ives prints, followed by analphabetical listing of lithographs with recent (1925) sales prices.
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American Beauty The Rose In American Art,1800-1920
by Weber, Bruce
New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 1997. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 112 pages. 9 x 9". 58 color plates, 46 black and white illustrations, plus a host of text figures.
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