Coloured Pictures of Representative Flower Arrangements
by SOFU TESHIGAHRA
Tokyo: Ryofusha Publishing Co, 1954. Tall 8vo (10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches). 32 pp. 32 color prints mounted on card, each with facing text. Original gilt-lettered white boards; printed slipcase. Slipcase and covers soiled at edges, owner's name in ink on title. Reprint of the 1950 first edition, revised and enlarged to include five new works. The author founded the S getsu-ry school of ikebana flower arranging.
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Domestic Landscapes
by TEUNISSEN, Bert
Amsterdam: Artspace Witzenhausen; Hazazah; Fonds voor de Beeldende Kunsten; Mondriaan Desperado, 2006. First edition, number 96 of 400 copies. Some light rubbing to covers, internally clean and unmarked. 12 x 16 inches. Profusely illustrated in color. Spiral bound. Inscribed to a curator on the back cover. Includes four loose plates.
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The History of Pendennis. The Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy
by THACKERAY, William Makepeace
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1849. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 1/4-inch tear at top of front joint on vol. 1 and rear joint of vol. 2. 2 volumes, large 8vo. Illustrations on steel and wood by the author. Original gray-blue cloth, blocked in blind, spines gilt-lettered, unopened. First edition in book form. A fine, bright and unopened copy. Van Duzer 166. (BA).
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The Orphan of Pimlico. A Moral Tale of Belgravian Life
by THACKERAY, William Makepeace; Miss M. T. WIGGLESORTH
London: Smith Elder, 1876. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Text block partly cracked, rear joint split, other lighter wear at extremities. Folio. Illustrated by the author. Original green quarter morocco, smooth spine gilt-lettered, grey printed boards, top edges gilt. First edition.
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The Orphan of Pimlico. A Moral Tale of Belgravian Life
by THACKERAY, William Makepeace; Miss M. T. WIGGLESORTH
London: Smith Elder, 1876. Front endleaf, half-title and frontispiece detached in binding, some intermittent foxing throughout, overall a very good plus copy. Folio (32 x 24.5 cm). Illustrated by the author. Original green quarter morocco, smooth spine gilt-lettered, grey printed boards, top edges gilt. First edition, laid-in, autograph letter draft by Anne Isabella Ritchie, the eldest child of William Makepeace Thackeray, n.d., approximately 40 words, thanking the recipient for a recent offer, and discussing arrangements for lectures. With... Read More
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The Black Mountain Review, Nos. 1-7 [all published]
by THE BLACK MOUNTAIN REVIEW – Robert CREELEY, editor
Black Mountain, NC: Black Mountain College, 1957. Spine of issue 7 partly split, wrappers slightly smudged; issues 3 and 4 with small stains on wrappers. Otherwise a fine, clean set of this rare, complete periodical. Complete set of 7 issues, 4to and 8vo. Illustrated by FRANZ KLINE and RENÉ LAUBIÉS, the first four with cover illustrations by K. KITASONO, other illustrations by AARON SISKIND, J.ALTOON, D. RICE and E. CIRBETT. "It is difficult… to appreciate the excitement (in... Read More
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Agreement, and Back: Sequences
by ENSLIN Theodore
New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1969. 8vo. [96] pp. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. Jacket with one minor closed tear, spine slightly sunned. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Enslin on the front free endpaper.
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La photographie humaniste; 1930-1960 Histoire d'un mouvement en France
by THEZY, Marie de
Paris: Contrejour, 1992. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket with a one-inch closed tear to the front and minor edgewear. 9.75 x 12.5 inches. 239 pages. Text in French. Original boards in pictorial dust jacket. A collection of black and white photographs of scenes of Paris taken by various artists spanning the decades from 1930-1960.
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Catalogue of the More Important Books, Autographs and Manuscripts in the Library of George C. Thomas
by [THOMAS, George Clifford, collection]
Philadelphia: [Privately Printed], 1907. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small stain on rear cover, light wear at extremities, but a near-fine copy. 8vo. 86 pages. Frontispiece showing Thomas's library. Contemporary red hard-grained morocco, gilt-ruled and -lettered, top edges gilt, by Lippincott's, a presentation binding found on some copies. THE FIRST COPY. First edition of the catalogue of the private library of Philadelphia industrialist George C. Thomas (1839- 1909). (The compiler’s note is signed A. H. R.) Presentation copy,... Read More
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Cheyney Thompson: Metric, Pedestal, Landlord, Cabengo, Recit
by THOMPSON, Cheyney
Germany: Walther Konig Verlag, 2013. New in shrinkwrap. 12 x 9.5 inches. 200 pages. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth. First edition. "Cheyney Thompson has made the technology, production and distribution of painting the subject of his work. His Chronochromes (2009-2011) are composed using the color system devised by Albert H. Munsell in the early 1900s. Thompson grafts this system onto a calendar: each day is assigned a complementary hue pair, with every hour changing the value, and every month... Read More
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Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
by THOMPSON, Jennifer A.
New Haven and London: Philadelphia Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2019. As new. A beautifully illustrated survey of one of the best collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in the United States. Accompanies the exhibition held 16 April to 18 August 2019.
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Kay Thompson's Eloise
by THOMPSON, Kay and Hilary KNIGHT
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983. A fine copy. Folio. Original boards; dust jacket. Later printing. Inscribed by both the artist and author on the front free endpaper: "From Hilary Knight and ME, ELOISE!
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Eloise in Paris
by THOMPSON, Kay
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957. A very good copy in a bright jacket, price-clipped. Child's ownership name and date in year of publication on front endpaper. Folio. Illustrated by Hilary Knight. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, first printing.
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Eugene Field: A Study in Hereditary Contradictions
by THOMPSON, Slason
New York: Charles Scribner 's Sons, 1901. 2 volumes, octavo. Frontispiece and photographic plates. Contemporary plum morocco gilt, spine with acorn tool centered in 4 compartments, gilt-lettered in the remaining two, marbled boards, top edges gilt (slightly sunned, a few small chips at extremities). FIRST EDITION. An attractively-bound set.
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Martin Secker & Warburg: The First Fifty Years
by THOMSON, George Malcolm
London: Secker & Warburg, 1986. A fine copy; the glassene with a few chips and creases. 8vo (8 x 5 inches). 87 pages. Red cloth; original glassene. First edition.
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Illustrations of China and its people
by THOMSON, John
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1873. Skilful repairs to spines and corners, some uneven toning to vol. 1; some intermittent pale spotting (mainly to prelims), one leaf in vol. 2 with upper corner irregularly trimmed by binder, upper outer corners lightly bumped. Four volumes, folio (472 x 345 mm; 18.5 x 13.5 inches). 222 photographs on 96 plates, produced by the Autotype Mechanical Printing Process of Spencer, Sawyer, Bird and Co., London; with guards. Letterpress titles... Read More
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Eric Gill
by THORP, Joseph; Charles MARRIOTT
New York and London: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. First American. Hardbound. Very good with somewhat worn d.j. that lacks a chip at the spine and a large chip at the front. 4to. Cloth; dust jacket.
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Modern Methods in Marbling Paper. A Treatise for the Layman on the Art of Marbling Papers for Bookbinding and Other Decorative Uses, Including a Description of Several Practical Methods, with Illustrative Samples of Marbled Effects
by THRIFT, Tim
Winchester, MA: The Lucky Dog Press, 1945. First edition, one of 225 copies printed, bound and signed by the author. A fine copy preserved in its original box. 8vo (19 x 12.8 cm). Seven marbled specimens tipped in. Quarter red cloth, marbled boards, printed paper label on front cover, differing marbled endpapers. In the original decorated paper pull-off box (one joint split). Written for beginners to fill a void in available treatises on marbling at the time. A... Read More
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Lin Tianmiao: Bound Unbound
by TIANMIAO, Lin; Melissa Chiu; Guo Xiaoyan
Milan: Charta / Asia Society, 2013. A fine copy. 12 x 9.5 inches. 136 pages. 91 color illustrations. Pictorial boards. "One of only a few internationally recognized female artists from China, Lin Tianmiao (born 1961) is known for her innovative use of thread and embroidery as both medium and subject matter in her sculptures, photographs, videos and installations. When visiting China, after having lived in New York for most of her life, Tianmiao was reminded of the time... Read More
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Captain Jeff and the Squeeze Box
by TODT, Ruth K.
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, 1940. A bit frayed at extremities, child's penciled name and initials on endleaves. 8vo. Photographs by R. D. Richardson. Original tan cloth, photo-illustrated title panel mounted on cover. A photographically illustrated children's book about a marionette and his squeeze box, and his African American friend Binny.
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Autograph letter signed ("A. B. Toklas") to Geoffrey Parsons of The New York Herald Tribune, Paris, 16 June 1952
by TOKLAS, Alice B. (1877-1967)
One page, 8vo. Four lines in Toklas's fine, miniscule hand. On her stationary. In fine condition. Alice B. Toklas writes to Drue Parsons anticipating her upcoming visit. Parsons was married to Geoffrey Parsons, chief editorial writer of the New York Herald Tribune from 1924 to 1952. Toklas writes: “Virgil Thomson has just told me that you were kind enough to say that you would come to see me on Thursday afternoon. It will give me the greatest pleasure... Read More
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A Stone's Throw
by TOMASZEWSKI, Tomasz
Warsaw: Slanted Publishers, 2016. A near-fine copy with some light rubbing to wrappers. 8vo. Black-and-white photographs. Black wrappers.
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The Sea and the Jungle
by TOMLINSON, H. M.
London: Duckworth, 1912. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece. Large 8vo. Original dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, front cover with gilt vignette, top edges gilt; in a dark green cloth folding box. First edition of Tomlinson's first book, signed by him on the front free endpaper. The book recounts the voyage of a tramp steamer from Swansea across the Atlantic 2000 miles to Brazil, up the Amazon, and then back home in 1909-10. A very good to fine... Read More
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Maps & Map-Makers
by TOOLEY, R. V.
London: B. T. Batsford, 1952. 4to. 140 pp. Color frontispiece, and many black-and-white illustrations. Original cloth. Cloth lightly worn, head of spine rubbed, a few adhesions on rear cover. Second edition.
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Moor Born
by TOTHEROH, Dan
New York: Samuel French, 1937. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Some light soiling to wrappers. A nice copy. 8vo. Original yellow printed wrappers. New edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author to his wife on the front free endpaper: "The new edition, Helen dear, with many memories – Dan, Christmas 1941!" The printed dedication reads: "For Helen Who made this possible with her courage and faith." Totheroh's most famous works include his collaborations on the screenplays for... Read More
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