Search Results: Arts, Crafts & Collectibles from Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1997. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Folio. 216 pp., illus. First printing. In original pictorial boards with dust jacket. A bright, fresh copy in a lightly shelfworn dust jacket with minor wear at the head of the spine. Very Good or better. This is a quite presentable copy of this collection.

Santa Barbara, CA: coldsweat, 1988. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto. [48] pp., illus. In printed wrappers. Some toning to the covers, but largely clean with limited shelfwear. A remarkably uncommon literary review from southern California. A product of its time and place and such, quite interesting.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. xviii, [2], 322 pp., illus. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Littleton on the title page. As issued in publisher's cloth-backed boards with dust jacket. A very fresh copy without notable wear.

Science Press, 2001. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Quarto. Short introduction in Chinese else the remainder of the volume is illustrated with color and black and white photographs--all identification in Chinese. Contents clean and binding sound; digital images can be made available upon request.

Deerfield, MA: Historic Deerfield, Inc, 2001. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Folio. [4], 165, [3] pp., illus. First edition. In publisher's blue cloth with dust jacket. An exceptionally bright copy, just removed from shrink wrap to be cataloged; no wear to speak of. Illustrations throughout.

East Hampton, NY: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2000. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. Quarto. 15, [1] pp., illus. Limited edition, one of 100 copies signed by Huehling, Gustafson, and Cunningham, from an edition of 510 copies. Bit of shelfwear to the covers, but internally, a very nice exhibition catalog.

Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2001. Soft Cover. Very Good+ binding. Folio. xii, 299 pp. First edition, thus, being a revised edition of the Handbook of Winterthur Interpreters. A very bright, fresh copy. Clean but for a previous owner name inside the front cover.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1928. Hard Cover. Good+ binding. Quarto. 123 pp., frontis, plates. First edition, first printing. As issued in green cloth with title in gold on the front cover and spine. Fraying at the corners and more significantly at the spine ends otherwise a Very Good copy; leaves are generally and evenly toned; all 48 plates are present as called for.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. ix, [3], 332 pp., plates, illus. First edition, first printing. In publisher's boards with dust jacket. A bright fresh copy. Illustrated throughout, including a section of color reproductions.

Munich: Prestel, 1994. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Folio. 2545, [3] pp., illus. First edition. Publisher's paper-over-boards binding with dust jacket. A fresh, clean copy; small scuff at the base of the spine where a bookstore's magnetic inventory control tag was removed; otherwise light shelfwear; some erasures have left a faint rubbed mark on the front free endpaper; contents are very clean and bright. Many full page color reproductions throughout.

Germany. Fantastic die-cut fold-out card. Bright printing, limited wear.

Maine State Museum, 1992. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Quarto. viii, 69 pp. First Edition. A bight copy in a lightly soiled dust jacket; clean. An Exhibition of Maine Britannia Ware and Silverplate, 1829-1941, in the Collections of the Maine State Museum, May 15, 1992 - May 15, 1993.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993. Spiral Bound. Very Good+ binding. Quarto. Spiral bound with paper-over-board covers. A clean bright copy with previous owner name inside the front cover. A wonderful book with reproductions of articles and reviews of Johns's work throughout the decades as well as come nice reproductions of Johns's art, some folding.

Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1948. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Quarto. xix, [1], 208 pp., frontis, plates. First edition, thus. In publisher's cloth, 30 color plates plus frontispiece. Only very light shelf-rubbing; spine and edges are just a trifle toned; contents clean and bright.

London: Henry Sotheran & Co, 1881. Full Leather. near Very Good binding. Quarto. xiv, 304 pp., plates. First edition. In publisher issued full red levant goatskin with stamping in gold on the front cover and titled and tooled in gold on the spine. Binding is stamp-signed by Sotheran on the front turn-in. A handsome binding on a stately work illustrated by 32 plates (many chromolithographs). Front hinge is just starting to separate, but holding well. Half title is chipped around the edges and laid in; the frontispiece (with contemporary gift inscription on the recto) must have detached at some point and was reinserted with the illustration facing forward rather than than the title page. All 32 plates present.

UK: Lund Humphries, 2004. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto. 160 pp., illus. First edition. In publisher's cloth but lacking the dust jacket. Light shelfwear to the covers; perimeter of the title page is a trifle soiled.

Exquisite Stone and Creations, 1999. Soft Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. ix, [1], 89 pp., illus. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Stevens on the title page. Stapled into stiff, printed wrappers. 8 pages of color illustrations, black and white illustrations throughout. A very nice copy with only trivial rubbing. Uncommon.

Broadside. Print. Image is 8" x 6" on and 11" x 7.5" sheet. Printed in black on cream paper, recto only. No date but Patri was active from the 1920s-1970s but this is early- to mid-20th century. A powerful print of a soldier holding a rifle behind a group of men, all looking over their shoulders with anger. One man is holding up the frame of a slumping woman. Near fine. Giacomo Patri was an Italian-born illustrator, painter, instructor who emigrated to San Francisco as a teen. He studied at The California School of Fine Arts. He taught at the California Labor School before it closed, a casualty of McCarthyism. In 1948 he founded his own school, the Patri School for Art Fundamentals which was aimed at teaching adults with no art background. An important artist and educator, today is perhaps most remembered for his 1940 wordless novel, White Collar: A Novel in Linocuts, a story of workers during the Depression.

Broadside. Print. Image is 9" x 5" on and 11" x 7.5" sheet. Printed in black on cream paper, recto only. No date but Patri was active from the 1920s-1970s but this is early- to mid-20th century. A very nice print in keeping with Patri's sympathies with workers. A striking image of the side of a ship with a large cargo net filling the frame. A pallet of boxes dangles from a hoist while men below observe and another on the ship leans over to watch. Near fine. Giacomo Patri was an Italian-born illustrator, painter, instructor who emigrated to San Francisco as a teen. He studied at The California School of Fine Arts. He taught at the California Labor School before it closed, a casualty of McCarthyism. In 1948 he founded his own school, the Patri School for Art Fundamentals which was aimed at teaching adults with no art background. An important artist and educator, today is perhaps most remembered for his 1940 wordless novel, "White Collar: A Novel in Linocuts," a story of workers during the Depression.

Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, Editeur, 1960. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Folio. 220, [1] pp., lithographs. First edition. As issued, in publisher's cloth with lithographed dust jacket; all original lithographs present as called for. Light foxing to the cloth at the top of both boards, otherwise and exceptionally nice binding, clean throughout; dust jacket has a 2" closed tear at the top of the rear panel and very light wear to the spine ends, but generally, very fresh in a slightly chipped acetate with a corresponding closed tear at the top of the back panel. A remarkable collection of Chagall's lithographs, and the first of six volumes issued. This volume with 12 original lithographs: the dust jacket, the frontispiece, and 10 additional lithographs inserted. A very nice copy.