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HENRI MATISSE: PAINTINGS & SCULPTURES IN SOVIET MUSEUMS. 199 pgs.
Color & black & white reproductions throughout. Cloth in dust jacket.
Folio. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, (1978). Fine condition in
like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $45.00.

EL GRECO. Unpaged. Color & black & reproductions of works of art
throughout. Black cloth, without dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Phaidon,
(1938). Good condition. $60.00.

Ruzicka, Jeannie. GUSTAVE DORE: ILLUSTRATIONS TO DON QUIXOTE. 127 pgs.
Illustrations throughout. Cloth in lightly chipped red dust jacket.
Quarto. NY: St. Martin's Press, (1974). 1st U.S. Edition. Fine
condition in near fine jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $35.00.


[Woolf] Lehmann, John. VIRGINIA WOOLF & HER WORLD. 128 pgs with
bibliography & index. Photos & facsimiles throughout. Cloth in chipped
yellow dust jacket. Imperial octavo. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
(1975). 1st U.S. Edition [so stated]. Near fine condition in very
good+ jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $35.00.

Leymarie, Jean et al. HENRI MATISSE. 207 pgs. Color & black & white
reproductions of works of art throughout. Cloth in tape-repaired white
dust jacket. Quarto. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.
1st Edition. Fine condition in good jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. $50.00.

Kostenevich, Albert. HIDDEN TREASURES REVEALED: Impressionist
Masterpieces & Other Important French Paintings Preserved by The State
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. 292 pgs. Color & black & white
reproductions of works of art, throughout. Cloth in dust jacket.
Quarto. (NY): Abrams, (1995). 1st Edition. Fine condition in like
jacket with protective mylar wrapper. In print 1998 @ $49.50. Our
price: $25.00.

[Exhibition Catalogue] MARY CASSATT, 1844-1926. 119 pgs with
bibliography. Color & blck & white reproductions of works of art,
throughout. Pictorial mustard paper wrappers. Quarto. Washington:
National Gallery of Art, (1970). Fine condition. $30.00.

Cohn, Amy (Compiler). FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA: A Treasury of American
Folklore & Folk Songs. 399 pgs with index. Illustrated, in color, by
11 Caldecott Medal & 4 Caldecott Honor Book Artists. Cloth in dust
jacket. Quarto. NY: Scholastic, (1993). 1st Edition Thus. Fine
condition in near fine jacket with protective mylar wrapper. In print
1998 @ $29.95. Our price: $15.00.

Sandler, Irving. THE TRIUMPH OF AMERICAN PAINTING: A History of
Abstract Expressionism. 301 pgs with bibliography & index. Color &
black & white reproductions of works of art, throughout. Cloth in
white dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Praeger, (1970). 1st Edition. Near fine
condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $30.00.

Bazin, Germain. THE LOOM OF ART. 328 pgs with index. Color & black &
white reproductions of works of art, throughout. Cloth in
tape-repaired dust jacket. Folio. NY: Simon & Schuster, (1962). Near
fine condition in fair jacket with protective mylar wrapper.
"Monumental interpretive history of the great visual arts of all
civilizations & all times." $75.00.

THE COMPLETE WORK OF RAPHAEL. 649 pgs. Color & black & white
reproductions of works of art, throughout. Cloth in chipped dust
jacket. Folio. NY: Reynal, (1969). 1st U.S. Edition. Fine condition in
good jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $115.00.

Schoenbaum, S. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A DOCUMENTARY LIFE. 273 pgs with
index. Facsimiles, several fold-outs. Marbled endpapers.
Gilt-decorative tan buckram in three-quarter dark brown morocco fine
binding. All edges gilt. Slipcased. Folio. NY: Oxford University Press
/ The Scolar Press, 1975. This Edition, printed on Goatskin Parchment,
& signed by the author, is limited to 200 copies. Fine condition.
$400.00.

Dubly, Henry-Louis. PONTS DE PARIS: A Travers Les Siecles. 205 pgs.
Photos & prints throughout. Pictorial cream cloth. Folio. (Paris):
Henri Veyrier, (1973). Inked inscription on front free endpaper;
otherwise, near fine condition. Text in French. Pictorial essay on the
many bridges of Paris. $50.00.

DONATELLO. 45 text pgs + 149 black & white reproductions of works of
art. Cloth in chipped dust jacket. Folio. NY: Phaidon, (1941). 1st
U.S. Edition. Fine condition in good+ jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. $50.00.

Spevack, Marvin. THE HARVARD CONCORDANCE TO SHAKESPEARE. 1,600 pgs.
Cloth in chipped white dust jacket. Folio. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1973. 1st Edition. Near fine condition in very good
jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $150.00.

Gaunt, William. THE GREAT CENTURY OF BRITISH PAINTING: HOGARTH TO
TURNER. 240 pgs with index. Color & black & white reproductions of
works of art, throughout. Color pictorial stiff paper wrappers.
Imperial octavo. (NY): Phaedon, (1978). 2nd Edition. Fine condition.
$20.00.

[Exhibition Catalogue] THE AGE OF CARAVAGGIO. 367 pgs. Color & black &
white reproductions of works of art, throughout. Color pictorial stiff
paper wrappers. Quarto. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art / Electa
International, (1985). Fine condition. $30.00.

Panofsky, Erwin. THE LIFE & ART OF ALBRECHT DURER. 317 text pgs with
bibliography & index + 325 reproductions of works of art. Cloth in
chipped dust jacket. Quarto. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 1955. 4th Edition. Near fine condition in good jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. $65.00.

Gaunt, William. THE RESTLESS CENTURY: Painting in Britain, 1800-1900.
255 pgs with bibliography & index. Color & black & white reproductions
of works of art, throughout. Color pictorial stiff paper wrappers.
Quarto. (NY): Phaidon, (1978). 2nd Edition. Fine condition. $30.00.


Stern, Harold. MASTER PRINTS OF JAPAN: UKIYO-E HANGA. 323 pgs with
bibliography & index. Color & black & white plates, including
fold-outs. Pictorial red paper wrappers. Quarto. NY: Abrams, no date
(c.1969?). Near fine condition. $50.00.

Schade, Werner. CRANACH: A FAMILY OF MASTER PAINTERS. 476 pgs. Color &
black & white reproductions of works of art, including fold-outs.
Cloth in pictorial black dust jacket with half-inch closed tear at
base of spine. Slipcased. Quarto. NY: Putnam's, (1980). 1st U.S.
Edition [so stated]. Fine condition in near fine jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. $125.00.

Mathers, Powys (Trans). THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS & ONE NIGHT.
Rendered into English from the Literal & Complete French Translation
of Dr. J.C. Mardus. 4 volumes. Cloth in cream printed dust jackets.
Octavo. NY: St. Martin's, (1974). 2nd printing. Inked inscription on
front free endpaper of 1st volume; otherwise, near fine condition in
like jackets with protective mylar wrappers. The Set: $125.00.

Wilkins, Ernest Hatch & Thomas Goddard Bergin (Editors). A CONCORDANCE
TO THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI. 636 pgs. Cloth in
tape-reinforced cream dust jacket. Imperial octavo. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1966. 2nd Printing. Fine condition in near
fine jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $75.00.

Jullian, Philippe & John Philips. THE OTHER WOMAN: A LIFE OF VIOLET
TREFUSIS, Including Previously Unpublished Correspondence with Vita
Sackville-West. 256 pgs with index. Photos. Cloth in dust jacket.
Octavo. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. 1st Edition. Inked inscription
on front free endpaper; otherwise, fine condition in very good jacket
with protective mylar wrapper. $28.50.

Chambers, E.K. ENGLISH LITERATURE AT THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES. 247
pgs with bibliography & index. Cloth in printed tan dust jacket.
Octavo. NY: Oxford University Press, (1947). Reprint Edition. Fine
condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $15.00.


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