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Chicago: The Chicago Daily News, 1942 Book is in very good condition, first blank page has a nice dedicated full page illustration signed by Shoemaker. Has a waxy see through clear dust jacket, has chips and creases.

A darling group. 1962 Actueel Panorama, Pappa monkey with new born tripletts, magazine written in German. 1951 Lawson Wood Calendar written in English, Fillmore 0888 blotted out in the address on each of the 12 Monkey prints. A framed and matted print of a Cat watching a mouse hole, including the matted frame 12" x 10 1/2."

New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., Publishers, 2002 Book and dust jacket in very good condition.<p>

Red cloth boards very good,
Insicribed by Peter Max with heart drawing with a 9 in the middle.
The year he signed the book.<p>

Inside pages clean and unmarked, unclipped dust jacket.

London: The Press Art School Tudor Hall, Forest Hill I don't see a copyright date. There are six hand tipped plates illustrating six stages of "Ring time" by Lawson Wood.

Kept in a paper portfolio, wear to the spine and edges.
16" X 11". 12 Pages of text including the front title page. A tipped in
black and white print of Lawson Wood at in his studio? inside the title front page.

The spine of the portfolio is half torn off but the string is still attached to the inside text.

Laurys Station, PA: Garriques House, Publishers, 2000 Book and dust jacket in very good condition, signed by author.

1916 With Compliments C. E. Plant, Draper & Gents' Outfitter Calendar, illustrated by Lawson Wood dated 1916.

Complete 12 months, 2 months to each illustration. 16 1/2 inches long,
3 1/2 inch cardboard top attachment to 6 paper calendar illustrations
Top cardboard advertising half torn off. Calendar has bends from being
folded up or rolled up.

Funny Lawson Wood illustrations of mens colthing,

New York: Penn Prints A Portfolio of 8 Cat Prints 16" x 12" by Gladys Emerson Cook. Beautiful prints that could easily be framed. The cats look so real. One of my favorite cat artists. I love her art work.<p>

A little wear to the paper cover to the prints, the prints are in very good condition.

This is a book scrapbook lovingly dedicated to Cornelia Sturges.
Great Grandchild of Hannah Sue

Some original art work, poems and stories. A few pages upside down
Loosely string bound. 11 pages.

Lillian Baker Sturges has a professional status as a fiction and non fiction writer and editor. Lillian was born November 19, 1886 in Pennsylvania and passed away in May of1968 at the age of 81 in Pennsylvania. Lillian lived in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.

She wrote several children's books The Runaway Toys and The Goose Girl

She also wrote a book on hat pins published by Collector Books and a
book entitle Art Nouveau & Art Deco Jewelry, Creative and Collectible
Miniatures and 100 Years of Collectible Jewelry.

Vienna: Anton Schroll & Co., 1927 Folder containing 24 plates 2 in black and white the rest in color. Tipped in plate on the front cover which is detached at the spine. 12" x 10".

Paper portfolio with the loose plates with a 27 page soft cover booklet, darkening at the stapled spine. Black and white in text illustrations.

The front cover to the portfolio is loose from the folder containg the plates, two inches missing off the top right hand edge of the front cover and a bottom right hand corner bend.

Chicago: Sage Books, The Swallow Press Inc., 1972 This special edition of three hundred copies is numbered and signed by the editor and includes a lithograph especially executed for this book by
Peter Hurd. This being number 183 of 300. Tan cloth boards with red faux leather spine and corner tips in a black pebble faux leather slipcase.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1937 Boards in good plus condition, half inch worn off the bottom of the spine, lightly bumped corners. Dust Jacket, inch off the bottom and top of the spine. Edgwear and tears. Inside pages clean and unmarked

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 1999 Slick black cloth boards, very good. Dust jacket has some soil and dirt. Inside pages clean and unmarked.

Walter Foster Art Books: Walter T. Foster Book in very good plus condition, very light edge wear, inside pages clean and unmarked. Measures 13 1/2" x 10."

Paris, France, 1881 A very heavy book. I do not see a volume listed. (14" x 11 1/2") Real
leather spine and corner tips with red marbled paper cover to the front and back boards. End papers in a busy cloth look like design.

34 tipped in black and white plates that are attached to a white cloth spine.

Peintres & Sculpteurs in this volume:

Puvis De Chavannes
Benjamin Constant
Leon Couturier
Corot
Cossmann
Courbet
Cortazzo
Chatrousse
Chaplin
De Curzon
Elie Delaunay, (no tipped portrait, Page MIssing?)
Dupray
Armand Dumaresq
Detaille
Carolus Duran
Paul Dubois
H. Daumier
Gustave Dore
Diaz
Delacroix (H-Eugene)
Dubufe

Paris: Ludovic Baschet, 1881 Red leather spine and corner tips, marbled paper covered boards ( 14' X 11"). Solid binding, heavy cardboard engravings and tipped in prints, attached at the spine by white cloth like paper. In text drawings. Edge wear.<p>

<li> 1. JacQue (2)<p>
<li> 2. M T(?) Lobrichon (3)<p>
<li> 3. Jules Lefebvre (3)<p>
<li> 4. Jean-Paul Laurens (2)<p>
<li> 5. Eugene Lambert (2)<p>
<li> 6. Emile Levy (2)<p>
<li> 7. Lavieille <p>
<li> 8. Lepic<p>
<li> 9. Henri Levy<p>
<li> 10. Mathurnin Moreau<p>
<li> 11. Diogene Maillart (3)<p>
<li> 12. Adrien Marie(2)<p>
<li> 13. Charles Marchal (2)<p>
<li> 14. Antonin Mercie (2) <p>… Read More

Paris: Ludovic Baschet, 1881 Good or better condition. A very heavy book ( 14" x 11 1/2"), two inches thick. Red leather spine and corner tips with red marbled paper cover to front and back boards. End papers in a busy red cloth look like design.

34 full page cardboard titled plates. Pages not numbered. Broken cloth on corner tips and edge wear to the spine. Enforced plates at the spine with a thin paper cloth like tape on the back side of each plate at the spine. Binding solid and over all a nice looking book for its age.

Text in french and dated on the title page 1881. In text drawings and full page drawings in paper. The book weighs over 8 pounds.

Peintres & Sculptures:

Eugene Feyen
Th. Frere
Robert-Fleury
Edouard Frere
Fortuny
Fromentin
Henri Gervex
Guillemet
Jean Gautherin
L. Glaize
Gerome
J. Garnier
Henner
Hamon
Hanoteau
Harpignies
Ingres
Valery Jacoby
Jacquet
Jundt

Paris: Ludovic Baschet, 1881 Galerie Contemporaine Artistique Peintres & Sculpteurs

Good. No Jacket. Good or better condition. A very heavy book ( 14" x 11 1/2"), two inches thick. Red leather spine and corner tips with red marbled paper cover to front and back boards. End papers in a busy red cloth look like design. 34 full page cardboard tipped in titled plates. Pages not numbered. Broken cloth on corner tips and edge wear to the spine. Enforced plates at the spine with a thin paper cloth like tape on the back side of each plate at the spine. Binding solid and over all a nice looking book for its age. Text in french and dated on the title page 1881. In text drawings and full page drawings.<p>

<li> 1. Albert Aublet. (2)<p>
<li> 2. Jean-Joseph Bellel <p>
<li> 3. Jules Breton, (3) <p>
<li> 4. James Bertrand, (2) <p>
<li> 5. F. Arthur Bridgman, (2) <p>
<li> 6. Gustave… Read More

Albuquergue, New Mexico: Taos Editions, Ltd., 1987 Book in near fine condition, dust jacket very good, signed by R.C. Gorman, included one brochure stating you are cordially invited to meet R. C. Gorman at a book and poster signing party on Friday October 23rd, 1992, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Chicago: Sage Books, The Swallow Press Inc., 1969 This is a limited edition signed by the artist and hand bound is limited to five hundred copies of which this is number 28. Dark brown faux leather spine, tweed cloth covers, in a red slipcover.

Kansas City, MO: Trail West Publishers, 1973 Deluxe Bound Limited Edition. This being number 17 of 115. Signed across from title page by Gus Shafer. Included is a small long rectangle brochure entitled Halls presents the Sculpture of L. E. (Gus) Shafer. Faux leather covered boards in a slip case. Faint bowing of boards.