ORIGINAL VINTAGE RUSSIAN TENNIS POSTER. 1977.
Riga: 1977. 33.5” x 21.5”. Original color lithograph.
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ONE CARELESS MATCH...YOURS? Remember- Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires! (Original Forest Service Poster).
US Department of Agriculture/ U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953. 18.5” x 13”. Original Fire Prevention poster, original offset lithograph on card stock. Light crease. Stamp, tape remnants and penciled number on verso.
“FOR THE TREE...IS MAN’S LIFE.” Deut. 20:19. Forests Give Us Wood, Water, Forage, Wildlife, Recreation. Let’s Protect them...Use Them Wisely. (Original Forest Service Poster).
US Department of Agriculture/ U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955. 18.5” x 13”. Original Fire Prevention poster, original offset lithograph on paper. Golden Anniversary of the Forest Service. 1905-1955. Stamp and penciled number on verso.
PREVENT FOREST FIRES. Crush Out Your Cigarette. (Original Forest Service Poster).
US Department of Agriculture/ U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946. 18” x 13”. Original Fire Prevention poster, original lithograph on paper. Light fold marks are lightly rubbed. Stamp and penciled number on verso.
A CATALOGUE OF AMERICAN WATERMARKS 1690-1835
New York: Garland Publishing, 1979. First edition thus. Hardcover. 11 1/4'' x 8 3/4''. 230pp. with index. Original green cloth has some light rubbing and a couple of bumps. A couple of tiny spots of foxing to fly-leaf.
ROUND TABLE SONNETS.
San Francisco: University Club, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. 9 3/4'' X 6 3/4''. 16pp. Edition limited to 100 copies. Corners bumped. Toning to endpapers. Paper over boards, vellum spine.
AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF CERTAIN NINETEENTH CENTURY PAMPHLETS.
London: Constable & Co. LTD, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. 9'' x 6''. 400pp. with index. General wear to original red cloth. Toning to pages. top edge gilt.
THE MISSISSIPPI AND OHIO RIVERS : CONTAINING PLANS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE DELTA FROM INUNDATION ; ...
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and co., 1853. First edition. Hardcover. 9 3/4'' x 6 3/4''. 367pp. with index. Three quarter black leather shows some wear and scuffing. With 12 plates, some folding. Some toning to pages. Previuos owners stamp on title-page.
STEAMER STORIES. An Annotated Bibliography of Steamship Fiction 1845-2012
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. 11 1/4'' X 9''. 481pp. with index. First edition. Minor spot of soiling to foredge, otherwise a fine book in a fine dustjacket.
HEART OF THE SOUTHWEST. A Selective Bibliography of Novels, Stories and tales Laid in Arizona and New Mexico & Adjacent Lands
Los Angeles. Dawson's Book Shop, 1955. First edition. Hard cover. 10'' X 6 3/4''. 42pp. with index. Fine book with toned and chipped dustjacket that has a two inch closed tear.
CATALOGUE OF TERRACOTTAS, Cypriote, Greek, Etrusco-Italian and Roman
Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1941. Portfolio. Portfolio. Soft cover book 106pp. text. 135 loose plates illustrating 972 pieces in black & white. Descriptive catalogue is toned on edges; plates are quite nice. Front panel of folding portfolio "hanging on by a thread". Covers darkened; ties present but worn. Plates fine; Book.....
EARLY NEAR EASTERN SEALS in the Yale Babylonian Collection
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. Hardcover. Quarto. 498pp. Incl. Seal Inscriptions, Concordance and Bibliography. Profusely illustrated with over 1200 examples pictured. Red cloth stamped in gold. Lightly bumped spine corner.
THE ART OF THE NOVEL: CRITICAL PREFACES.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Hardcover. Octavo. 348pp. Black cloth stamped in gilt, in dust jacket. This copy with gift inscription, "For Artie (ARTIE SHAW) with love from Rufus and Murray. September 27, 1952." Fly-leaf also has extensive pencil notes, plus small sheet of notes laid-in, consistent with Shaw's.....
KRISHNA AND ORPHEUS: The Great Initiates of the East and West.
London: William Rider & Son Ltd, 1909. Hardcover. 154pp. Red cloth stamped in gold. This copy from the library of American clarinetist and popular bandleader, ARTIE SHAW, with his ownership signature front paste-down. Spine is darkened, cracked and split at hinge and frayed at top. Toning to endpapers and edges.....
PIETRE DURE. The Art of Semiprecious Stonework.
Los Angeles. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 13 1/2'' X 10''. 264pp. with 204 color illustrations. First edition. Minor wear to dustjacket.
AESTHETICS, Lectures on Fine Arts. (Volume one)
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. Hardcover. Octavo. 611pp. Blue cloth, title stamped on spine in silver. This copy has pencil annotations, mostly to the title and contents pages, but some throughout the text as well. It was either used along with an audio tape, or used to create an audio tape.....
THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS
New York: Vanguard Press, 1932. Flexible boards. Octavo. 404pp. Incl index. Fourth Vanguard printing. This copy from the library of popular bandleader, ARTIE SHAW, with his ownership signature. Beige cloth over flexible boards, stamped in blue. Lightly and uniformly soiled. Spine a little faded, general wear. "A voracious.....
DER SCHÖNE AKT, Bildmäßige Aktphotographie - ihre Ästhetik und Technik. (The Beautiful Act. Pictorial Nude Photography, its Aesthetics and Technology)
Berlin: Verlag Guido Hackebeil, 1929. Hardcover. Sm. quarto. 123pp. text, plus 127 photographic plates of nudes. With list of photographers at rear. Text in German. Tan cloth stamped in black and red. Decorated endpapers. One page has minor crease down middle ( see photos). Photographers include, Lotte Herrlich, Leni Junghans.....
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
London: V & A PUBLICATIONS, 2004. first edition. Hardcover. 11 1/2'' X 10 1/8''. 225pp. with 367 colour plates, 20 black and white. First edition. Minor wear to dustjacket.
THE GREAT LADY DECORATORS. The Women Who Defined Interior Design, 1870-1955
New York: Rizzoli, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. 12 1/4'' X 9 1/4''. 288pp. with index. First edition. Minor rubbing top top of cloth.
DIE SCHONHEIT. (The Beauty)
Berlin: Verlag Der Schönheit, n.d. (1905). Hardcover. Lg. thick octavo. 768pp. plus 192pp. Supplement. Illustrated. Monochromatic illustrations reproduced from photographs, paintings, fashion drawings etc. Bound version of this monthly magazine for the year, 1905. Text in German. Pictorial blue cloth; Art Nouveau style decorated endpapers. This copy has been re-spined.....
THE CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY OF ARTISTS' SIGNATURES, SYMBOLS & MONOGRAMS.
London: George Prior Publishers, 1982. Hardcover. Thick quarto. 873pp. Enlarged and Revised edition. Blue cloth shows light wear; bottom corners lightly bumped. Illustrated. "Since it is not a supplement, it repeats all the original entries as well as providing basic information in perhaps an additional fifteen hundred entries..." Nice solid.....
PLEASE FOLKS, BE EXTRA CAREFUL THIS YEAR!. Remember- Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires. 1946. (Original Forest Service Poster).
US Department of Agriculture/ U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946. 11” x 21”. Original Fire Prevention poster, offset lithograph on card stock. Very light general wear. Stamp and a couple stains on verso.
SMOKEY SAYS- CARE WILL PREVENT 9 OUT OF 10 FOREST FIRES. The First Fire Prevention Poster Featuring Smokey the Bear. 1946. (Original Forest Service Poster).
US Department of Agriculture/ U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944. 20” x 14”. Original Fire Prevention poster, offset lithograph on paper. Four small edge tears, the largest about 1 1/4”. Pinholes and tears to corners. Light edgewear and mild fold line at center and mild corner crease. Tape repair and stamp.....
SMOKEY’S RULES: BE CAREFUL with matches, with smokes, with any fire- Remember Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires. 1961. (Original Forest Service Poster).
US Department of Agriculture/ U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961. 18” x 13”. Original Fire Prevention poster, offset lithograph on card stock. Light “9” impressed in margin, light surface wear.