Promotional Poster for: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT The Masterworks by Wright, Frank Lloyd

Capra Press, Santa Barbara, 1980; First Edition, First Printing; Signed; oblong quarto, 297 pages; black leather; gilt titles. First printing of the updated 1980 edition of this study of Santa Barbara architecture from Spanish Colonial times to the present, with 150 additional photographs and many new buildings since the 1975 edition. Text by Herb Andree and Noel Young, sumptuously photographed by Wayne McCall. Includes architects’ biographies, a complete glossary, and alphabetical indexes of all the buildings, architects, and designers. Signed on the title page by Noel Young and Wayne McCall. Fine condition. Clean, crisp, bright, sharp. A sparkling copy.

Léon Arnoult: La Variabilité du Gout dans les Arts. Les phases ornamentales de la mode (The variability of taste in the arts. The ornamental phases of fashion). Printed and published by Devambez "À l'enseigne du masque d'Or". Paris, 1921. ARNOULT Léon - William ABLETT (1877-1937 illustrator). Preowned, Signed. A l'Enseigne du Masque d'Or, chez Devambez, 1921, in-4°, 87 pp + 7 plate illustrations, printed in 303 numbered copies. Sewn, original printed stiff wrapper over blind wrapper. Printed wrapper, interior fine, uncut and unopened copy. Two of the illustrations are mixed technique plates by William Ablett, one is signed in pencil by the artist: a circular engraving with a lithographic image printed on it and heightened with gold. Editorial paperback, Jacket with title to the framed flat, beautiful allegorical friezes, endpapers, eyelet, cover page with the same frieze (antique collection stamp). The quantity of circulation - 303 copies justified, and numbering - №120, a preface paper,… Read More

Seattle / New Haven: Henry Art Gallery / Yale, 2006 Signed on the title page by Maya Lin and dated 2006. Additionally signed by Lawrence Weschler, who contributed the Foreword. First edition / First printing. Off White cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The catalogue of Maya Lin's 2006 exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery. An attractive production. The cover is embossed with the artist's "Waterline.

London: Constable, 1953. First edition. Octavo. xii, 264 pp; color title page (same as dustjacket), numerous b/w photographs & drawings; index. Purple cloth with silver-lettered spine in dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine, a bright, crisp unmarked copy, erratum slip tipped in; unclipped jacket has touch of wear to spine ends, slight creasing at top of front panel. Bookseller label from Holliday Bookshop affixed to rear board. Written and illustrated by the artist Barbara Mildred Jones (1912-1978). Jones studied Mural Decoration at the Royal College of Art - where she became part of that distinctive group of artists and illustrators of whom John Piper, Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious and Edward Ardizzone are the best known.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Hollywood: Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1984. Vintage original 41 x 27"" (104 x 69 cm.) poster, USA. John Lurie, Eszter Balint, dir: Jim Jarmusch; Goldwyn. Unfolded, with just a couple of minute nicks in the blank left margin, JUST ABOUT FINE. Jim Jarmusch's first feature film, a landmark, surreal comedy laiden with dead- pan humor. There were two different posters for the movie -- this one, with a scene at a frigid Lake Erie, and another from the film's finale in Pensacola. There are numerous later repros of this poster on the market, but they measure 40 x 27"", and are printed only in black, whereas this poster is printed in black and brown.

Capra Press, Santa Barbara, 1980; First Edition, First Printing; Signed; oblong quarto, 297 pages; black leather; gilt titles. First printing of the updated 1980 edition of this study of Santa Barbara architecture from Spanish Colonial times to the present, with 150 additional photographs and many new buildings since the 1975 edition. Text by Herb Andree and Noel Young, sumptuously photographed by Wayne McCall. Includes architects’ biographies, a complete glossary, and alphabetical indexes of all the buildings, architects, and designers. Signed on the title page by Noel Young and Wayne McCall. Fine condition. Clean, crisp, bright, sharp. A sparkling copy.

Léon Arnoult: La Variabilité du Gout dans les Arts. Les phases ornamentales de la mode (The variability of taste in the arts. The ornamental phases of fashion). Printed and published by Devambez "À l'enseigne du masque d'Or". Paris, 1921. ARNOULT Léon - William ABLETT (1877-1937 illustrator). Preowned, Signed. A l'Enseigne du Masque d'Or, chez Devambez, 1921, in-4°, 87 pp + 7 plate illustrations, printed in 303 numbered copies. Sewn, original printed stiff wrapper over blind wrapper. Printed wrapper, interior fine, uncut and unopened copy. Two of the illustrations are mixed technique plates by William Ablett, one is signed in pencil by the artist: a circular engraving with a lithographic image printed on it and heightened with gold. Editorial paperback, Jacket with title to the framed flat, beautiful allegorical friezes, endpapers, eyelet, cover page with the same frieze (antique collection stamp). The quantity of circulation - 303 copies justified, and numbering - №120, a preface paper,… Read More

Seattle / New Haven: Henry Art Gallery / Yale, 2006 Signed on the title page by Maya Lin and dated 2006. Additionally signed by Lawrence Weschler, who contributed the Foreword. First edition / First printing. Off White cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The catalogue of Maya Lin's 2006 exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery. An attractive production. The cover is embossed with the artist's "Waterline.

London: Constable, 1953. First edition. Octavo. xii, 264 pp; color title page (same as dustjacket), numerous b/w photographs & drawings; index. Purple cloth with silver-lettered spine in dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine, a bright, crisp unmarked copy, erratum slip tipped in; unclipped jacket has touch of wear to spine ends, slight creasing at top of front panel. Bookseller label from Holliday Bookshop affixed to rear board. Written and illustrated by the artist Barbara Mildred Jones (1912-1978). Jones studied Mural Decoration at the Royal College of Art - where she became part of that distinctive group of artists and illustrators of whom John Piper, Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious and Edward Ardizzone are the best known.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Hollywood: Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1984. Vintage original 41 x 27"" (104 x 69 cm.) poster, USA. John Lurie, Eszter Balint, dir: Jim Jarmusch; Goldwyn. Unfolded, with just a couple of minute nicks in the blank left margin, JUST ABOUT FINE. Jim Jarmusch's first feature film, a landmark, surreal comedy laiden with dead- pan humor. There were two different posters for the movie -- this one, with a scene at a frigid Lake Erie, and another from the film's finale in Pensacola. There are numerous later repros of this poster on the market, but they measure 40 x 27"", and are printed only in black, whereas this poster is printed in black and brown.