Philip Pearlstein - A Retrospective
New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, Ltd., 1983. 0881680028. Inscribed and signed by Philip Pearlstein on half-title page. 275 pp. 4to. Softcover. More
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The World Opened Wide, 20th Century Russian Women Artists from the Collection of Thomas P. Whitney '37
Amherst, MA: Trustees of Amherst College, 2001. 0914337238. This book is inscribed with a birthday wish on the title page and signed "Tom and Faye." Without the last names I can only conjecture that it was Thomas P. Whitney and Faye DeWitt, organizer and presenter of this exhibition. First edition..... More
A Tolkien Bestiary
New York: Ballantine Books. Illustrated by Ian Miller, Michael Foreman, Allan Curless, Lidia Postma, John Blanche, Pauline Martin, Sue Porter, Linda Garland, Victor Ambrus, John Davis, and Jaroslav Bradac. 0345282833. First edition. 287 pp. 4to. Beige cloth. Spine stamped in black. A scholarly, definitive and enchantingly beautiful explanation of all..... More
Old Friends, Essays in Epistolary Parody
New York: Longmans,Green and Co. 205 pp. 12 mo. bound in green cloth with white paper (simulated leather) covered spine. Title page printed in red and black. Half-tone frontispiece picture of golfer titled "The Baron at St. Andrews," from an old painting in the club at St. Andrews, is believed..... More
The New England Tragedies
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1868. First Edition. 179 pp. 12 mo. bound in reddish brown cloth stamped in gold. Contains two plays: I. John Endicott and II. Giles Corey of the Salem Farms. More
Essays from the Spectator
London: William Tegg, nd. 575 pp. 8vo. green cloth stamped in gold and black. Frontispiece from wood engraving. From Preface: The present volume will be found to comprise, with some exceptions, which will be more particularly adverted to hereafter, the whole of the Essays contributed by Addison to the "Spectator."..... More
Glimpses of California and the Missions
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1919. 37 illustrations from drawings by Henry Sandham. Reprint. 292 pp. 8vo. Pictorial brown cloth stamped in gold. Publisher's note: The papers on California and the Missions, by the author of "Ramona," which are included in this volume were first published in 1883, and afterwards..... More
Let's Count Goats
New York: Beach Lane Books, imprint of Simon and Schuster's Children's Publishing Division, 2010. Illustrated by Jam Thomas. 9781442405981. Signed by Mem Fox on the title page. First edition. 4to. Glossy paper covered pictorial boards. For ages 2-6. Bright, colorful drawings accompanying the zany poetry make this an unforgettable read..... More
The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces; together with Rules; Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of Eloquence
Boston: Manning & Loring, 1812. Fifteenth Edition. 16 mo. 300 pp. Original leather binding. Notwithstanding the multiplicity of School Books now in use, it has been often suggested, that a Selection, calculated particularly for Dialogue and Declamation, would be of extensive utility in our seminaries. The art of Oratory..... More
Modern Agitators" or Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers
New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. First edition. 396 pp. 8vo. Blind stamped cloth cover. Contents: N. P. Rogers, Theodore Parker, Frederick Douglass, Ichabod Codding, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elihu Burritt, William Lloyd Garrison, John B. Gough, Charles G. Finney, Joshua R. Giddings, William Cullen Bryant, Lyman Beecher, E. H...... More
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