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New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Marjorie Content. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. 159 pp., and with essays by Ben Lifson, Richard Eldridge, and Eugenia Parry Janis. Lots of plates, a chronology of her life and career, being an examination of the life and work of art photographer Mjrjorie Content (1895-1984. Friend of and colleague to Georgia O'Keeffe, Jean Toomer, Kay Boyle, Alfred Stieglitz, Maxwell Anderson and many others.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: W.W. Norton, New York (1994), 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A brilliantly conceived little tome, edited expertly by Jill Quasha, who contributes an essay here, but also contributed to Ben Lifson and Richard Eldridge and Eugenia Parry Janis. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Replete with black-and-white and full-color photographs. [5], 6-159 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

San Diego: University Extension University of California, San Diego, 1978. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Joyce Kitchell. The first of the four Drury Lane murder mysteries, originally published as Barnaby Ross. Introduction and Checklist by Francis M. Nevins, Jr. "Ellery Queen" is the pen name of mystery fiction's most celebrated and durable writing duo: Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. They published 82 books together, this being #7 in the The Mystery Library series. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound handsomely in a two-tone, blue and black cloth. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations and photographs. xxviii [1], 320 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest… Read More

Paris, France: Galerie Louise Leiris, 1959. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Square 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Elie Lascaux. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy of an artist exhibit catalog, minor wear of covers, lbound in gate-fold. Little wear and tear to text-block, and with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Augmented by an original lithograph by Elie Lascaux, comprising front cover. Nearly square softcover format, measuring 6 1/2" tall by 6 3/4" wide, respectively. "Ce catalogue (no 9 - Serie A) a ete acheve d'imprimer sur les presses des Maitres-Imprimeurs Draeger Freres, le 10 Mars, 1959," nothing that "La lithographie original qui orne la couverture a ete imprimeriee par Mourlot Freres." List of distributors inside front flap, introductory essay by Raymond Queneau, then 63 illustrations, mostly black-and-white but four in color, printed on high-gloss paper. Exhibit check-list at rear. Text in French.Member,… Read More

Paris, France: Galerie Louise Leiris, 1959. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Square 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Elie Lascaux. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy of an artist exhibit catalog, minor wear of covers, lightly toned, bound in gate-fold. Little wear and tear to text-block, and with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Augmented by an original lithograph by Elie Lascaux, comprising front cover. Nearly square softcover format, measuring 6 1/2" tall by 6 3/4" wide, respectively. "Ce catalogue (no 9 - Serie A) a ete acheve d'imprimer sur les presses des Maitres-Imprimeurs Draeger Freres, le 10 Mars, 1959," nothing that "La lithographie original qui orne la couverture a ete imprimeriee par Mourlot Freres." List of distributors inside front flap, introductory essay by Raymond Queneau, then 63 illustrations, mostly black-and-white but four in color, printed on high-gloss paper. Exhibit check-list at rear. Text in… Read More

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A Winterthur book, being an outgrowth of a conference held at the Winterhur Museum in 1977 and published in stated First Edition three years later. Discussants at the conference discoursed upon trends in collecting, the Michigan Folk Art project, an anthropological perspective on art and artists, and much more. Contributors included the editors, and Beatrix T. Rumford, Marsha MacDowell and C. Kurt Dewhurst, Marion J. Nelson, George A. Kubler, Michael Owen Jones, and others. xvii [2], 1-376 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris, France: Memoires de Litteratures, 1808. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Exceedingly scarce in the trade, and available in only a small handful of academic libraries. Two articles, mostly in French but with snippets in Greek, published seemingly in First Edition state, and in structurally sound, attractive condition, having been disbound from a larger volume comprising contributions to the Memoires de Litteratures, a premiere social sciences and humanities journal founded in France by Armand-Gaston Camus in the 1790s. The first Memoire is pp. 315-394, still solidly together, string from binding slightly loose, with only mild sunning along edges of the rag paper, light foxing even lighter soiling thereto, else clean, unmarked. The 12-panel, laid in illustration at rear is titled "Plan et coupe du char funeraire qui transporta le corps d'Alexandre de Babylon en Egypte" (D'apres la description de Deorde de Sicile)." The Second Memoir is from pp.… Read More

Salt Lake City, Utah: Peregrine Smith, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine social history of the aboriginal village, the Spanish mission, and the Mexican ranch, before the Caucasian tourists came along to share this broken peninsula. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Frontis matter, 3-180 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.