A Handbook on Chinese Art Symbols.
Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1958. Illustrated in color & in black & white. 67 pages. 8vo, spiral bound stiff wrappers, wrappers lightly soiled, otherwise very good. Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1972. More
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A Handbook on Chinese Art Symbols.
Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1958. Illustrated in color & in black & white. 67 pages. Slim 8vo, gray boards with red-stamped cover. Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1972. A fine copy. More
The Five Happinesses: Symbolism in Chinese Popular Art
New York: Weatherhill, 1973. Translated, annotated, and illustrated by Elaine Spaulding Atwood. Foreword by Arthur W. Hummel. 152 pages, small 4to, decorative red cloth, dust wrapper (dust wrapper rubbed and with some soiling to back panel). New York: Weatherhill, (1973). First English edition. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
Anthology of Pattern.
New York: Helblun, 1949. 181pp., many black & white and spot color illustrations. 4to, two-toned cloth (spine slightly darkened, else fine), slipcase. New York: William Helburn, 1949. Limited Edition. Very good (+). An un-numbered copy from an edition of 750. More
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1898. 19 volumes, title-pages with decorative red borders. 8vo. Publisher's deluxe binding, gold-decorated full blue crushed morocco, ornately gilt spines and covers, full finely tooled burgundy leather inside all covers, top edge gilt, deckled fore - and bottom edges. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company 1898-1918. Near Fine. Autograph Edition limited to 150 copies. Volume 1 signed by Maeterlinck on blank leaf. Previous owners bookplates, More
Psychology of the House
London: Thames & Hudson, 1977. With 111 illustrations in black and white. 144 pages slim small 4to. London: Thames & Hudson, 1977. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. With the ownership signature of Mildred Schmertz, editor in chief the the Architectural Review. More
Symbolism in Ancient Chinese Art
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1986. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs. 263 pages, tall 8vo, pictorial gray cloth. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1986. Near fine. More
Musical Instruments and Their Symbolism in Western Art
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. Illustrated. Small 4to, pictorial wrappers. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, (1979). Fine. Presentation copy to art historian Meyer Schapiro- "40 years ago you....gave excellent advice to a recent and destitute immigrant from Vienna which enabled him to establish a little niche in America. All this has not been forgotten..." More
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