London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1814. Two volumes. Quarto. Contemporary calf, spines gilt extra, rebacked at an early date with the original backstrips laid down. Illustrated with 115 plates (including the 33 plates of the Founders) most of them colored aquatints. Upper joint of first volume cracked (but cords remain.....
![USSR IN CONSTRUCTION A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE [Whole Number 11]. A. Alexandrov](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT76602.jpg?v=1593712592)
[Moscow: State Publishing House of Graphic Arts, November 1932. Folio (41.5 x 30cm). Typographic wrappers. Heavily illustrated with photographs. Corners a bit bumped, upper wrapper chipped at top corners. otherwise very good. Founded by Maxim Gorky and published in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1941 (and 1949), under the.....
New York & Greenwich: MOMA / New York Graphic Society, [1972]. 428,[1]pp. Large sq. octavo. Printed boards. Heavily illustrated in color and b&w. Book about fine, printed glassine wrapper with inserts tanned (as usual), with shallow loss at crown of spine. First edition, boardbound issue. A monumental work, associated with.....
Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, [1977]. Oblong octavo. Glossy boards. Frontispiece. Four hundred and forty-six black & white plates, maps, and diagrams. Reprint. Near fine, in good, but chipped, rubbed and torn dust jacket.
New York: Harper & Bros. [ 1955]. xxv,[3],315,[12]pp. Large octavo. Cloth and boards. Photographs. Unspecified printing of the first edition of this substantial work by the Harvard educated surrealist (a.k.a. Montague O'Reilly). Trace of foxing to endsheets, otherwise a very good copy in edgeworn dust jacket. Although there are no.....
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. Tall quarto. Cloth. Frontis, plates and diagrams. First edition. Gutters slightly tanned, ink name on pastedown, cloth sunned at edges, corners gently bumped, couple of spots to fore-edge, but near very good in heavily worn and chipped dust jacket.
New York: McGraw-Hill, [ 1957]. Cloth boards. Illustrations and photographs. First edition. Edges faintly foxed, but a very good copy in modestly used dust jacket.
London: Lund Humphries for the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1945. 40pp. Tall, narrow octavo. Spiral-bound printed wrappers. Photographs, plans, and renderings. Strangely, the architect/s responsible for the design are unidentified. Couple of corners bumped, covers lightly tanned, else very good.
Paris: Neuhaus, Lith. 1867. Double-spread decorated lithographed title and twenty lithographed line renderings. Folio (50 x 33.5 cm). Contemporary half red morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g. The pictorial title-spread lithographed on cream stock; the renderings are printed on gray stock. Trace of foxing to endleaves, toe of spine and edges.....
London: Country Life Limited, [ 1947]. Quarto. Gilt cloth. Photographs. Preface by Viscount Esher. First edition. Fine in very good, lightly used dust jacket with short, closed edge tear.
[ New York: Architectural League of New York, 1952. Tall quarto. Spiral-bound printed wrappers. Photographs. First edition. Covers lightly stained, covers bumped at the fore-edge, corners bumped, but a good or better copy.
New York: Informat Publishing, February 1973. Volume One number one. 98,[6]pp. Large quarto. Typographically decorated wrappers. Photographs and renderings (some in color). Edited by Peter Blake. Very good to near fine.
![PORTAIL DE LÉGLISE DE POMPIERRE (VOSAGES) [caption title]. Architecture, Georges Durand](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT70085.jpg?v=1593712452)
[Macon: Protat Frères / Extrait de la Gazette Archéologique, 1884]. Folio (325 x 255 mm). Printed self wrappers. Plate. Horizontal fold, mild creasing, dusting and foxing, short tear in one fore- edge; good. An author's extract, bearing Durand's signed presentation inscription. The doorway of the Church of St. Martin Pompierre.....
New York: Privately Printed, 1909. [2],71,[1]pp. plus frontis and 127 plates with interleaved captions. Large, thick quarto. Elegantly bound in full black morocco, raised bands, a.e.g., with blind-stamped pictorial panels on upper and lower boards, by Zaehnsdorf. Minor rubbing at tips, otherwise a fine copy. First edition. One of four.....
Milan, Rome, etc. Oct., Nov. & Dec. 1932, and April & Dec. 1933. VI:10, 11 & 12; XII: 4 & 12. Five issues. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Profusely illustrated. Bit of use and a few closed tears at overlap edges; wrappers of 1933 issues dust-soiled and a bit worn; internally, apart.....
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. vi,196pp. plus 53 (of 55?) plates (most double-spread), including one folding plate and two colored plates. Quarto. Contemporary three quarter calf and cloth. Illustrations. Binding extremities rather worn but sound, foldout 'example plate c' torn up one fold, without loss, closed tear and small.....
![ORIGINAL DESIGN FOR ART DECO CAKE PEDESTAL]. Art Deco Manufacturing Design](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT66075.jpg?v=1593712375)
[Westport, CT: N.d., but early 20th century]. White draughtsman's ink on charcoal cardstock, matted. 22 x 14" (55.9 x 35.6 cm). Near fine, but mat a trifle dusty. An expert design rendering of a silver elevated cake plate, shown in both frontal view and from overhead, graphically depicted in classic.....
![ORIGINAL DESIGN FOR ART DECO SILVER COFFEE SET]. Art Deco Manufacturing Design](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT66062.jpg?v=1593712375)
[Westport, CT. N.d., but early 20th century]. White draughtsman's ink, highlighted with a yellow-gold wash, on charcoal cardstock, matted. 11 x 14" (28 x 35.5 cm). Near fine, but the mat is rather soiled. A precise and expert design rendering of a silver coffee pot, sugar & creamer, and silver.....
![ORIGINAL DESIGN FOR ART DECO TURKEY BOOKEND]. Art Deco Manufacturing Design](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT66077.jpg?v=1593712375)
[Westport, CT. N.d., but early 20th century]. White draughtsman's ink on charcoal cardstock, matted. 15.5 x 10.5" (39.4 x 26.7 cm). Near fine, mat a bit dusty. A design, modeled for a bookend, of a turkey in three-quarter pose viewed from the right in a rest position, feathers unfurled, graphically.....
![ORIGINAL DESIGN FOR ART DECO TURKEY BOOKEND]. Art Deco Manufacturing Design](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT66076.jpg?v=1593712375)
[Westport, CT: N.d., but early. 20th century]. White draughtsman's ink on charcoal cardstock, matted. 14.75 x 19.75" (37.5 x 50.2 cm). Near fine. A playful design modeled for a bookend, of a turkey viewed from the left with puffed chest and lowered feathers, graphically depicted in classic Art Deco design.....
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, [1986]. xviii,261,[2]pp. Gilt cloth. Large octavo. Frontis and photographs. First edition. Near fine in lightly spine sunned dust jacket.
![PARKETT [Whole number 23]. Richard Artschwager, and, rne](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT77017.jpg?v=1593712623)
[Zürich: Parkett-Verlag AG, March 1990]. Whole number 23. Small quarto. Stiff pictorial printed wrapper. Heavily illustrated throughout. About fine. The ordinary issue of this number in collaboration with Artschwager, who requested the issue to be devoted to the theme of art and reason. Text in German and English, with essays.....
New York: Reinhold, [ 1953]. Tall quarto. Cloth. Profusely illustrated with pencil renderings. First edition. Extremities rubbed, else very good in lightly soiled, worn dust jacket with several large chips.
London: Thames and Hudson, [2000]. Large quarto. Boards. Frontispiece. 253 illustrations, 152 in color. Fine, in about fine pictorial dust jacket. First British edition. An in-depth study of graphic art in Germany during the years between the Franco-Prussian War and World War II, including the distinctive works of Henry van.....
London: Heywood Hill, 1940. Large octavo. Cloth. First edition. Foreword by Sacheverell Sitwell, descriptive text by M. Jourdain. Top edge dust marked, else near very good in somewhat rubbed and edgeworn pictorial dust jacket, with a creased tear in the upper panel.
