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Cummings, E. E.
50 Poems
New York, Universal Library,
1970, Wraps,
Condition: Very Good, White wraps, pink & orange e's. Clean white text. solidly pound 8 vo
(American, Poets, E.E., Cummings) Cat No. 195m.
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7.50
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Simon, Howard.
500 Years of Art in Illustration, from Albrecht Durer to Rockwell Kent
Garden City, New York, Garden City Publishing,
1949, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, Jacket: Very Good, Gathered in one large volume five centuries of art, from the beginning of printing to the present day, known and not well known book illustrators. An encyclodepia of book illustrators and their illustrations: Edmund Sullivan's, Rubaiyat; Phiz and Cruikshank illustrating Dickens; John Leech, "Punch"; Hans Sebald Behan, St. Matthew, Cain Slays His Brother (16th century); Hogarth, Gin Lane; Beadsley, Salome; Lepere, Nude Dancing; Alex Kravchenko, View of New York, and many others. Indispensable source of methods, techniques, and examples. From the the simple, naive lines of unknown artists of the 13th century to the clean cut lithographs of Rockwell Kent; intricate forms of Durer's engravings and Daumier's masterful works. Cruiksank, Toulouse-Lautrec, William Morris, Aubrey Beardsley, Holbein, Phiz, Auguste Lepere, Lucas Cranach The Elder, etc. Many plates full page. Tan cloth quarter spine, black and gilt title panel, black cloth boards. DJ maroon, yellow lettering, woodcut by Rockwell Kent. Flap corners clipped, upper and lower spine ends rubbed, small chips, closed tear to flap edge. Upper edge rear chipped, mild soiling to rear cover. New revised edition, price to rear cover. Very clean text, no markings, solidly bound. DJ in mylar. sm 4to, 476 pp
(Illustrators, Rockwell, Kent, Albrecht, Durer, Aubrey, Beardsly, Toulouse-Lautrec, William, Morris, Illustrator, Cruikshank, Lithographers, Illustration, Techniques, Engravers, 13th, Century, Engravings, 500, Years, In Art, Illustration, History, Of, Printing, Printing, History, Art, Of, Printing, Auguste, Lepere, Woodcuts, Hans, Waechtlin, Woodcuts, Woodcuts, 16th, Century, Lucas, Cranach, The Elder, Woodcuts, Book, Illustrators, Agnes, Miller, Parker, Edmund, Sullivan) Cat No. 2295.
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45.00
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Cobb, Irvin, S.
The Abandoned Farmers, His Humorous Account of a Retreat from the City To the Farm
New York, George H. Doran Company,
1920, First Edition Thus ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, Cobb,1876-1944, New York author, humorist, columnist. from Paducah, Ky. He wrote over 60 books, and is best known for his humorous stories of Kentucky local color. Brown cloth boards and spine, mild soil, illlustration to front board, brown lettering. Illustrated end papers, frontispiece. Few pages have lower closed edge tears from opening of uncut pages. First ed. Thus. t 8vo, 248 pages
(Humorists, Irvin, S., Cobb, Humorist, Vintage, Books, Farm, Life, Stories, American, Farm, Life, 1900's, Americana) Cat No. 1429.
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17.50
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Taylor, Jay L.B.
The ABC of Astronomy
New York, Vanguard Press,
1926, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Near Fine, A basic and easy to read essay on Astronomy, including short biographies of famous astronomers such as: Rene Descartes, Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, Claudius Ptolemy; in the chapter on the Development of Astronomy. Other chapters include: apparatus & measurements; the earth; sun; moon; stars; planets; satellites; locatins and motions; practical applications, books about and the summary. End papers beautifully illustrated in yellow. Brown cloth boards and spine, green lettering and blind stamped figure. Spine ends bumped, all else clean, tightly bound. 12 mo, 123 pp
(Astronomy, Books, The Abc, Of, Astronomy, Solar, System, History, Of, Astronomy, Instruments, Of, Astronomy, Rene, Descartes, Johannes, Kepler, Tycho, Brahe, Claudius, Ptolemy) Cat No. 3012.
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12.00
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Harris, Kenneth, Illustrated by Michael Peto Photographer.
About Britain
Boston, Houghton Mifflin,
1968, First American Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, Jacket: Good, Journalist Harris and photo journalist Michael Peto capture Britain's many moods and contrasts in 140 full page black and white plates. Harris describes how Britons govern themselves; what they think of themselves, their leaders, and the outside world; how they spend their spare time, their Sundays, their schooldays, their evenings; how they live and what they do. Among subjects discussed are the postwar policies of Britain, the welfare state, games and sport, religion, education, culture, and the mass media of press, radio and television. Peto's vivid photographs show this complex and self contradictory people at work and play. They also present the many faces of Britain's architecture, both historic and contemporary; the antique market on Portobello Road, The Rolls Royce works at Derby, the Olympia Dog Show, etc. Wonderful documented retrospective of England 1960's. White cloth boards and spine, red and blue lettering. DJ price clipped, white pictorial severa closed tears, mild soil. Clean text, tighly bound. In protective new brodart mylar. 4 to, 140 pages. First American Edition
(Photography, England, In The 1960's, Michael, Peto, Photographs, Photo, Journalism, Photographs, Of, London, Sixties, London, Social, Conditions, Of, England, 1960's) Cat No. 2117.
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24.50
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