Greyhavens Books-SALE LIST 17
Richard Smith
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P.O.Box 22513
Carmel, CA 93923 [USA]
The following is a periodic list of books currently offered for sale.
(Art/Drawing) Guptill, Arthur. DRAWING WITH PEN AND INK, AND A WORD
CONCERNING THE BRUSH. (NY, 1928) Large 4to. Cloth. Illustr. profusely.
Near Very Good (Light cover wear, soil; Dust Jacket flap pasted on
half-title; owners inscriptions on half-title, title page). Examples of
the work of dozens of noted illustrators. $75
(Art/Portrait-Painting) Lee, Cuthbert. CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PORTRAIT
PAINTERS: ILLUSTRATING AND DESCRIBING THE WORK OF FITY LIVING PAINTERS.
(NY, 1929) 9x12" Boards/cloth spine. Illustr. Fair/Good (Boards soiled;
spine lettering flaked off; foxing to endpapers). Printed by Wm.E.Rudge,
Mt.Vernon. George Luks is among the artists. Subjects include Anita Loos
(GENTLEMAN PREFER BLONDES), Joseph Pennell, King Alfonxo XIII, and
Joseph Conrad. $27.50
(Art/Jewish) Newman, Elias. ART IN PALESTINE: A STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT
OF CONTEMPORARY ART. (NY, 1939) Cloth. Illustr. Partial Dust Jacket
very worn, otherwise Very Good (slight cover wear, soil). Based on the
art exhibition at the Palestine Pavilion in the New York World's Fair,
this was the first book published in the United States about the work of
the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem. $75
(Art/Sculpture) Putnam, Brenda. THE SCULPTOR'S WAY, A GUIDE TO MODELLING
AND SCULPTURE. (NY, 1939) 8.5x11" Cloth. Illustr. Dust Jacket very
worn, otherwise Very Good. Exhaustive, and well-illustrated, treatise,
by a noted New York sculptor. $60
(Chocolate/Candy Manufacture) Clyne, Ernest. A COURSE IN CONFECTIONERY.
(Surrey, England, 1946) 160pp. Cloth. Illustr. Very Good (light cover
wear, soil). $25
(Dogs/Literature) Terhune, Albert Payson. TO THE BEST OF MY MEMORY. (NY,
1930) 1st ed. Cloth. Illustr. Near Good (some cover wear, soil).
Uncommon autobiography of the foremost American writer of fiction about
dogs. $35
(Dogs/Photography) Vesey-Fitzgerald, Brian. THE BEAUTY OF DOGS.
(NY/London, 1960) Cloth. Illustr.(photos) Dust Jacket very worn,
otherwise Very Good. 128 fine canine photographs by Jane Bown, J.Allan
Cash, Laelia Goehr, Adolf Morath, Michael Peto, W.Suschitzky, etc. $25
(Golf) Vaile, P.A. THE NEW GOLF. (NY, 1917) New revised ed. Cloth.
Illustr. Good+ (some cover soil; spine darkened, but stained; owners
inscription). Some 30 pages longer than the 1st ed. of 1916. $40
(Landscape Architecture) Cane, Percy. GARDEN DESIGN OF TO-DAY. (NY,
1936) Cloth. Illustr. Very Good (slightest wear; flyleaf darkening).
Examples taken from British estates. $40
(Landscape Architecture) Puckler-Muskau, Prince von. HINTS ON LANDSCAPE
GARDENING. (Boston/NY, 1917) Cloth/boards. Illustr. Very Good
(slightest cover wear; light cover soil; light wear, darkening to paper
spine label). Classic of landscape architecture, written in the 19th
century by a German nobleman with a passion for the gardening art.
Folding plans of his own estate are present in front and rear cover
pockets. $85
(Mexico) Priestley, Herbert Ingram. THE MEXICAN NATION, A HISTORY. (NY,
1923) Cloth. Illustr. Fair/Good. $25
(Numismatics/Archaeology) Mattingly, Harold. ROMAN COINS, FROM THE
EARLIEST TIMES TO THE FALL OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE. (London, 1927) Cloth.
Illustr.(64 pls.) Dust Jacket bit worn, otherwise near Very Good (light
silverfishing to front cover; foxing to prelims.; owners rumbberstamp on
DJ, pastedown). The author describes his book as the first major work on
this subject since 1865. $65
(Numismatics/Asia) Spadone, J.G. CATALOG OF MODERN JAPANESE, KOREAN,
MANCHUKUO COINS. (Tokyo, 1960) 1st ed. Boards. Near Very Good (Cover
edge-wear). $22.50
(Western Americana) Fiske, Elizabeth French. I LIVED AMONG THE APACHES:
AN APPRECIATION OF THE VIRTUES AND EMOTIONS OF THE INDIAN AMERICAN.
(Trail's End: Pasadena, CA, 1947) Cloth. Dust Jacket worn, stained,
otherwise Good (faint cover stain; front cover cloth somewhat loose near
joint). Inscribed by the author, whose husband served with the Interior
Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs in Arizona. $40
(Woman Novelist/Civil War association) Davis, Varina Anne Jefferson. THE
VEILED DOCTOR. (NY, 1895) Cloth. Fair/Good (cover wear, soil,
especially to spine; foxing to front endpaper; hinge bit tender). The
author was the daughter of Jefferson Davis, former President of the
Confederacy during the Civil War. This is one of the two scarce novels
she wrote before her premature death in 1898. $35
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