A Reference Guide to Edmund Spenser.
333pp. 8vo, beige cloth. New York: Peter Smith, 1950. Very good. More
333pp. 8vo, beige cloth. New York: Peter Smith, 1950. Very good. More
New York: Currier & Ives, 1865. Print. Original lithograph. Sheet measures 14" x 10" This 1865 portrait of Abraham Lincoln was issued by Currier and Ives just after the president was assassinated on April 14, 1865. Based on a photograph taken in February 1864 by Anthony Berger, the 'rush' print was issued by Currier and Ives as a tribute to the former President available to mourners all across America. Many prints such as these were issued by Currier and Ives..... More
London: Collins, 1948. 4 color plates, 26 in black & white. 50 pages. Slim 8vo, blue pictorial boards, chipped & torn d.w. London, 1948. Very good copy in a poor dust wrapper. More
1819. Watercolor on paper. Measures 20 3/8" x 15 1/4" Original watercolor painting after the famous neoclassic engraving by Jean-Baptiste-Raphael-Urbaine Massard. Signed and dated 1819; Massard's engraving was published 1816. Chips to edges, repairs to bottom margin. More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989. Profusely illustrated, both in color and black and white. xii, 260pp. Thick 4to, stamped brown cloth, d.w. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1989). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 390 illustrations, including 212 in full color. xii + 380 pages. Short thick 4to, green cloth, very slightly sunned at edges, slightly edgeworn d.w. New Haven: Yale University Press, (2005). First edition. Near fine in near fine dust wrapper. Published on the occasion of the exhibition. More
Chicago: 1925. "Ives snubs his Nobel-nominated son Herbert!" Outstanding and exceedingly rare document, 1 page, 11 x 8.5 inches, Chicago, Illinois, no date, circa 1925 -- a questionnaire sent out by Funk & Wagnall's to notable Americans for inclusion in their Famous Family Series. Ives provides relevant information pertaining to his parents and children, in part: "...Large families on both sides, mostly male, and mostly married young and had numerous children. My father was one of eleven and my mother..... More
Upper Montclair: Lucy Fortune, 1932. Illustrated. xv, 336 pages. 8vo, tan cloth, soiled. Upper Montclair: Lucy Fortune, (1932). First Edition. A good copy. George Washington and all his headquarters during the American Revolution. Signed by the author. More
New York: Harison, 1901. Many photographic illustrations. 96 pages, small slim 8v0, decorative gray cloth. New York: William Beverley Harison, (1901). Near fine. More
London: Tate, 1996. Illustrated. 248pp., 4to, blue cloth, d.w.; closed tear to upper rear margin of dust wrapper. London: Tate Gallery Publishing, (1996). Revised edition. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
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