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Premiers Paysages. Les Leçons de Choses du Petit Coloriste
Paris: Henri Laurens, Editeur, [1911]. Quarto, original color pictorial paper boards, sixteen staple-bound pages. Includes seven color plates and seven matching uncolored plates, with two additional uncolored plates reproducing the color images printed on the boards. Light general foxing and toning.
Price: $2,800.00
Archive of original midcentury porcelain designs
Rome: Faro Disegni, circa 1940-1965. Collection of 168 original hand-colored designs for porcelain plates, each on a separate sheet, of various sizes: a group of 111 designs executed in pencil, ink, and watercolor on heavy paper, most measuring 14.5 x 13 inches, and a smaller group of 57 sketches, executed.....
Price: $2,500.00
Original gouache design for a botanical jacquard textile
France: 1933. Single sheet, constructed of two sheets of pre-printed “papier quadrillé” joined together, measuring 18.75 x 9.5 inches. Recto hand-painted in gouache in multiple colors, notes in pencil and ink; verso dated “28/7/33” with production notes in ink. Some soiling to verso.
Price: $150.00
Wrapping paper design for the Eifler Seed Company
Vienna: circa 1950. Original pen and watercolor design on single sheet of buff paper, measuring 16.5 x 12.5 inches. Adhesive residue from previous matting around unfinished edges.
Price: $750.00
"Hamburg" (wallpaper sample)
Bransche: Gebr. Rasch & Co., circa 1952. Pictorial wallpaper sample, printed in black and grey, measuring 15.5 x 18 inches. Stamped on verso: “RASCH WATERFAST / HAMBURG 1 / R2087 / $3.25 PER SINGLE ROLL.” Two short closed tears to top edge.
Price: $250.00
The Handmaid to the Arts. . . . A New Edition, with Considerable Additions and Improvements
London [York]: Printed for A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater; and for Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, York, 1796. Two twelvemo volumes, measuring 6.75 x 4 inches: xxv, [3], [25]-344; xx, [13]-324. Contemporary full tree calf, raised bands ruled in gilt, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt numerals.....
Price: $750.00
Commemorative card depicting Rochester's monument to Frederick Douglass
Rochester, New York: circa 1899. Single sheet, measuring 9.25 x 4 inches. Halftone image of the monument in Douglass Park above a printed quote by Douglass on recto; halftone portrait and text on verso. Edges lightly toned.
Price: $850.00
Slaves of Christo
(Brooklyn): Booklyn Artists Alliance, 2005. Side-stapled volume, measuring 7.25 x 4.5 inches: [3], 29, [4]. Original tan card wrappers printed letterpress in orange, black, and blue; orange felt square affixed to upper wrapper with brass fasteners; laser-printed text block with color illustrations on first and last pages. Three small staple.....
Price: $100.00
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Dalekohled aneb Kdo Neveri, at Tam Bezi [Binoculars, or Who Doesn't Want to Believe Can Leave]
Prague: Statní Nakladatelství Detské Knihy, 1966. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.5 inches: 167, [5]. Original white cloth stamped in tan, black and blue endpapers, top edge stained blue, glossy unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Title page printed in blue and black; nineteen full-page color collages. Light spotting to boards.....
Price: $150.00
Picture and Text
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1893. Single volume, measuring 5.75 x 4 inches: [viii], 175, [1]. Original dark green cloth decorated in gilt. Title page printed in red and black, tissue-guarded photographic frontispiece, seven black-and-white plates throughout text. Early owner signature to front free endpaper. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $125.00
With the V.A.D. Convoys in France, Flanders, Italy
[Cambridge]: [1921]. Collection of twenty-seven lithographs of varying sizes, ranging from 3 x 4.5 inches to 9.5 x 15 inches, printed on grey or white paper, some with additional hand-coloring, some with original mounts. Original list of thirteen plates, printed in red, signed and dated “1921” by Olive Mudie-Cooke in.....
Price: $12,500.00
Georgia O’Keeffe
New York: The Viking Press, (1976). Folio, measuring 16 x 11.75 inches: [228]. Original textured ivory cloth lettered in brown, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with 104 color plates, one folding, of O’Keeffe’s paintings; portrait of O’Keeffe by Dan Budnik. Presentation inscription from O’Keeffe to photographer Malcolm Varon.....
Price: $4,500.00
Audubon
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1936). Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 6.25 inches: [10], 342. Original blue cloth boards lettered in silver, original clipped typographic dust jacket. Twelve full-color plates after Audubon prints, black-and-white illustrations throughout text, biographer’s note and index at rear. Bookplate to front pastedown. Dust jacket.....
Price: $150.00
Calendar 1972
Tokyo: (Takum Craft Shop), 1972. Portfolio measuring 15 x 11.5 inches, original stiff mulberry paper wrappers, two pastedown stencil-dyed mulberry paper labels to front wrapper, pastedown table of contents to rear wrapper, twelve loose broadside sheets (one for each month), each stencil-dyed in multiple colors on mulberry paper, untrimmed.
Price: $550.00
Art In Advertising. Pitman Art Books No. 35
New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1961. Side-stapled volume, measuring 7.75 x 10.25 inches: [48]. Original color pictorial wrappers, black and white illustrations throughout text. Lightest edgewear.
Price: $50.00