Book Sales Specials - updated 7-13-09

THE ART OF THE WORLD
Illustrated in the Paintings, Statuary, and Architecture
of the World's Columbian Exposition
D Appleton and Company, New York: 1893-1895. First edition.

Edition DeLuxe, limited to 1,000 copies of which this is No. 784. A complete set of an artifact from the World Columbian Exposition Chicago: 1893.A complete ten-volume set bound in half purple cloth over green (faux reptile skin) with a gilt medallion of Columbus centered on each cover. Some rubbing and a few cracked hinges, but overall a very good set, with the text and plates with tissue guards complete  and in clean condition. $450

Library of Fly-Fishing Classics
from the Easton Press

Eighteen leather-bound titles, all in perfect condition, published 1995-1996.
Priced individually. Titles include:

  • Paul Schullery's, American Fly Fishing: A History - $30
  • George La Branche's The Dry Fly & Fast Water and The Salmon & the Dry Fly - $40
  • Romilly Fedden's Golden Days: From the Fishing-Log of a Painter in Brittany. - $75

From Leonard Baskin's
  Gehenna Press

  • The Seven Deadly Sins. Poems by Anthony Hecht and wood engravings by Leonard Baskin and signed by both. #47/300. 1958. $250
  • Thirteen Poems by Wilfred Owen. Drawings by Ben Shahn. In the slipcase. #191/400. 1956. $150
  • The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata, by Robert Burns. In a damaged slipcase. #62/300. 1963. $50
  • Between Wars and Other Poems by Anne Halley. Drawings by Leonard Baskin. In a dust jacket. #52/500. 1965. $7

DRAWINGS FOR DANTE'S INFERNO
Rico Lebrun (Italian-born American, 1900-1964) with essays by
John Ciardi and Leonard Baskin, who also designed the book.


One of Lebrun's last projects before his death, designs for a mural based on Dante's Inferno. Ciardi writes about the artist and his work; Baskin's essay is on the drawings. Each drawing is on a full page with the corresponding Canto from the Inferno on the facing page in a translation by Ciardi. Laid in are four original lithographs by Lebrun, each signed in the plate. From the Kanthos Press and published at the Stinehour Press
in a limited edition of 2,000 copies.
$190

EVERYONE IN DICKENS
Compiled and Edited by George Newlin
Three-volume Set (1995), each volume signed by the compiler

An unprecedented reference collection devoted to the characters and
non-fictional figures in Charles Dickens's complete body of work.
Set- $375

Volume I:
Plots, People and Publishing
Particulars in the Complete Works, 1833-1849

Volume II:
Plots, People and Publishing
Particulars in the Complete Works, 1850-1870

Volume III:
Characteristics and Commentaries,
Tables and Tabulations: A Taxonomy.

The Classicist
Volumes 1 to 7

The Classicist, published by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America, it is the only North American journal exclusively dedicated to the theory and practice of contemporary classicism in architecture, urbanism, and the allied arts. Launched in 1994,  the volunteer editorial committee has produced seven issues; the first three of which are out of print. All seven issues are at the book sale and are individually priced.

JAR Paris

This oversized book (13x10x3 inches)  depicts almost 400 jewelry creations of the American-born, Paris-based designer Joel Arthur Rosenthal. It was published in 2002 to coincide with the exhibition, “The Jewels of JAR Paris,” commencing November 2, 2002 at Somerset House, London. For an article on Rosenthal's work, go to: www.jckonline.com/article/CA6437940.html $950

Photographs of the dust-jacketed book,
which is in very good condition, are shown below. (photo credit: Larry Untermeyer)

 

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