Spode: A History Of The Family, Factory, And Wares From 1733-1833
by Whiter, Leonard
London: Praeger, 1970. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige linen cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper.. 246 pages. 28 x 20 cm. 311 plates, nine in color, and nearly 350 drawings of Spode shapes. Marks. Bibliography. Index. The author was a senior executive at Spode with access to primary sources of information at the Spode factory.
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Philo White's Narrative Of A Cruize In The Pacific To South America And California On The U.S. Sloop-Of-War Dale 1841-1843; Edited by Charles L. Camp
by White, Philo
Denver: Old West Publishing, 1965. Hardcover. Orig. decorated green clean. Fine in nicked and chipped plain paper wrapper. 84 pages. 33 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 1000 copies. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Illustrated in color and black and white. Handsomely printed, bright, very clean copy.
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Architectural Treasures of Early America; Colonial Architecture In Massachusetts
by Whitehead, Russell F. & Frank Chouteau Brown
New York: Arno Press, 1977. Hardcover. Orig. red boards decorated in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 223 pages. 27.5 x 22 cm. Originally published in the White Pine Series. Hundreds of black and white photographs and measured drawings.
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Stanford White ALS & Portrait of latter, matted and framed [36 x 48 cm.] WITH Aline B. Saarinen ALS, 22 x 16.5 cm. laid-ln at rear sleeve of frame; Stanford White, American architect and partner in McKim, Mead & White
by White, Stanford
Np: Np, Np. Near fine condition, matted and gilt framed -- suitable for hanging. Letter 23 x 14 cm. [Stanford White] to [Marie] Anais [Casey], believed to have been romantically involved with by his biographer, Aline B. Saarinen. White's handwritten letter in ink reads, "My dear dear Anais what do you mean? You know my services are always at your disposal but in such a case as this I should feel very badly indeed if you did not... Read More
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New England Blockaded in 1814; The Journal of Henry Edward Napier Lieutenant in H.M.S. Nymphe
by Whitehill, Walter Muir (Editor)
Salem: Peabody Museum, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth spine and light gray boards front cover lettered in red with backstrip in gilt. Fine in darker blue fine slipcase with spine paper label. 88 pages. 26 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 23 of 60 on Laverstoke rag paper. Folding map. Laid-in four page publisher publication notice and four page advert of the Peabody Museum of available publications. Bright and fresh copy, almost as new. A tale... Read More
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Song Of The Open Road
by Whitman, Walt
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1990. Hardcover. Black half morocco and green cloth, leather gilt label on spine. Fine in fine black cloth slipcase. 52 pages. 27 x 27 cm. Limited edition, copy 13 of 500 illustrated with six photogravures by Aaron Siskind, and signed by him on the colophon. The book was set in English Monotype Scotch at Golgonooza Letter Foundry by Julia Ferrari and Dan Carr. The text was printed by Heritage Printers. Paul Taylor made... Read More
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On Snow Shoes To The Barren Grounds ; Twenty-Eight Hundred Miles After Musk-Oxen And Wood-Bison
by Whitney, Caspar
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth, pictorial front cover paper illustration. Teg. Very good. Remington, Frederic. 322 pages. 23 x 16 cm. An uncommon work by Whitney detailing his six month expedition across the Arctic Circle to hunt musk-oxen and wood-bison, with illustrations after Remington. Plates after paintings by Frederic Remington, plates after photographs, in-text illustrations. List of Illustrations. ARCTIC BIOGRAPHY 19410. Presentation copy to Lesley Peabody signed in ink by... Read More
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Stop, Miss; Illustrations by the Author
by Whitney Jr., Darrow
New York: Random House, 1957. First printing. Hardcover. Covers and Illustrated dust wrapper near fine with dj in clear plastic overwrapper. Unpaginated. Folio, 29 x 22 cm. All the drawings originally appeared in the New Yorker from 1949 through 1957. With original double page color drawing on the free endpapers inscribed to Ruth Balsom and signed by Darrow. Whitney Darrow Jr. was a prominent American cartoonist, who worked most of his career for The New Yorker, with some... Read More
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European Architecture in the 20th Century; Volume II: Part IIIThe Era of Functionalism 1924-1933
by Whittick, Arnold
New York: Philosophical Library, 1955. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in nicked dust wrapper. 271 pages. Voluminously illustrated with photographs, plans and drawings to scale -- XCII plates. Index. This set aims to present a balanced picture of 20th Century architecture in Europe, embracing all the main trends, new and experimental, traditional and conservative. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER J140. "Especially useful for ready information on lesser known architects." Bookplate.
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An Historical Survey Of The Ecclesiastical Antiquities Of France With A View To Illustrate The Rise And Progress Of Gothic Architecture In Europe
by Whittington, G.D.
London: J.Taylor, 1811. Second edition. Hardcover. Modern half brown morocco, marbled boards. Fine. xxiv, (2) 238 pages. 24.5 x 15 cm. Appendix, two publisher adverts at rear. The first try in English to review the progress of French and European studies of Medieval Architecture. Contents include some of the notable structures -- Notre Dame and other cathedrals. Brilliant copy raised bands, floral arabesques in compartments, interior pages bright and clean. The author, faculty member of St. John's College,... Read More
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The Founders And Builders Of The Oranges; Comprising A History Of The Outlying District of Newark, Subsequently Known As Orange, And Of The Later Internal Divisions, Viz: South Orange, West Orange, and East Orange; Also A History Of The Early Settlers Or Founders, And Those Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth And Prosperity, Known As The Builders. 1866-1896
by Whittemore, Henry
Newark: L.J. Hardham, Printer And Bookbinder, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Very good. 468 pages. 30 x 25 cm. Illustrated with full page portraits and a host of black and white prints. Provides a detailed account of family generational histories with their portraits whom the author notes as "founders." Personal Index. Title page printed in red and black. Interior contents pristine. Small front cover gauge.
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Writings
by Whittier, John Greenleaf
Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, 1894. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco, marbled boards and matching endpapers. Teg. Fine. 9 Vols. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Large Paper Edition, copy 125 of 400, containing the Writings (7 volumes), and Samuel T. Pickard's, Life and Letters (2 volumes) with the bookplates of C.L. Huntley. Whittier was perhaps best known for his Anti-Slavery position early in the 19th century, and as a founding member of the "Anti-Slavery Society," in 1833. He was... Read More
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The Complete Poetical Works Of John Greenleaf Whittier; Library Edition With One Hundred And Twenty-Six Illustrations
by Whittier, John Greenleaf
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin And Company, 1894. Hardcover. Orig. decorated black cloth. Teg. Fine. 656 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Comprehensive edition of his poetical works in an elegant binding, all full page plates with tissue guards. Spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt with large floral motifs. Appendix. Notes. Index of Titles.
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Guatemala The Land and the People
by Whitten, Nathan L.
NewHaven: Yale Univ. Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. Orig. decorated beige cloth. Fine in chipped dust wrapper.. 399 pp.
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A Descriptive Finding List Of Unstamped British Periodicals 1830-1836
by Wiener, Joel H.
London: Bibliograhical Society, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Fine.. 74 pages. 25 x 17 cm. Oxford Bibliographical Society: for Year 1968.
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Milestones of American Painting in Our Century
by Wight, Frederick S.
New York: Chanticleer Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Spine sunned. Orig blue cloth. Very good. 135 pages. With fifty illustrations, including twelve in color. Introduction by Lloyd Goodrich. General Bibliography. Index of Painters. Presentsworks by fifty outstanding painters of the period.
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Lithographs from the Tamarind Workshop
by Wight, Frederick S. (Text)
Los Angeles: Tamarind Lithography Workshop, 1963. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. 31 pp. Illustrated in black and white. A circulating exhibition organized by the UCLA Art Galleries 1962-63.
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Hints To Young Architects, Calculated To Facilitate Their Practical Operations; With Additional Notes, And Hints To Persons About Building In The Country by A;J. Downing
by Wightwick, George
New York: John Wiley, 1851. Second American Edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark brown cloth embossed in blind, backstrip decorated and lettered in gilt. Near fine. [50] 157 pages. 24 x 15 cm. Illustrated with woodcuts. First published 1846 in London. HITCHCOCK 1401. Scattered intermittent foxing heavier in the first few and last leaves. An early version of today's "How To" book, with the admonition "to employ the best professional service within one's reach, in the shape of an... Read More
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Select Examples of Architectural Grandeur In Belgium, Germany, And France: A Series Of Twenty-Four Sketches Drawn On The Spot; And Etched Under His Direction by John Le Keux, and Other Artists
by Wild, Charles
First edition: Henry G. Bohn, 1843. Second edition. Hardcover. Contemporary quarter roan spine and brown aubergine cloth. Very good. 16 pages in text. Folio, 38 x 28 cm. Full page etchings of prominent churches in countries mentioned in the tile. Text and illustrations exceptionally clean. Ex library with labels front cover pastedown, no exterior marks.
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The Paintings of Fragonard. Complete Edition
by Wildenstein, Georges
New York: Phaidon, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in chipped slipcase. Fragonard, Jean Honore. 339 pages. Small folio, 30 x 22 cm. 350 illustrations, eighteen in color. Translated from the French by C.W. Chilton and Mrs. A. Kitson.Bibliography. Index. Catalogue Raisonne. FREITAG 3067. LUCAS p145. RIGGS p79.
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A Woman Of No Importance
by Wilde, Oscar
London: John Lane, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Publisher's full mauve cloth stamped in gilt, spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Very good. 154 pages. 27.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition, one of 500 with 16 pages of advertisements at end (dated March 1894), Cover gilt design florets by Charles Shannon considerably influenced by his lifetime partner Charles Ricketts, both of whom produced work for the Doves Press. MASON 364. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's... Read More
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The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
by Wilde, Oscar
London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Orig. cream cloth and light brown cloth, spine darkened. Very good. 31 pages. 23 x 14 cm. One of a 1000 copies on handmade paper. The last edition to identify the author as "C.3.,3." -- Wilde was imprisoned in cell block C, landing C, Cell 3. This narrative, a tale of Charles Thomas Woodbridge's 1896 execution at Reading for the murder of his wife. Small owner signature free front endpaper, free... Read More
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The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
by Wilde, Oscar
London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter cream and light brown cloth, spine darkened. Very good. 31 pages. 23 x 14 cm. "Of this Edition eight hundred copies have been printed on hand-made paper, and thirty copies on Japanese vellum." The last edition to identify the author as "C.3.,3." -- Wilde was imprisoned in cell block C, landing C, Cell 3. This narrative, a tale of Charles Thomas Woodbridge's 1896 execution at Reading for the murder... Read More
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The Ides Of March
by Wilder, Thornton
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth lettered in gilt. Near fine in very good dust wrapper nicked head and foot. 198 pages. 20 x 15 cm. Wilder creates a study of Julius Caesar and of Rome during the last year of the latter's life. Signed by Wilder on title in ink, New Haven, Conn. Sept 1948. Wilder's study of life in pre-Christian Rome.
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The Modern Movement in Art
by Wilenski, R.H.
New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1957. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Very good in chipped dust wrapper. 216 pages. Two color plates, and sixty-six black and white monochrome plates. Index. In this edition updated with a new Preface of 12000 words in which the author reviews the recent developments of art discussed in earlier volumes. LUCAS p.38.
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