January SALE! All books $100 and under are 30% off for the month of January in the folloowing subjects:
Browse Art Books on Sale
Browse Asian Art Books on Sale
Browse Books on Books on Sale
Browse Political Science Books on Sale
This sale excludes artists' books, private press, and items sold on consignment.
New York: Christie's, 1995. Paperback. First edition. Illustrated blue glossy paper wrappers with black title to spine and front cover. Slight fading to spine. Quarto sized. Fine. Illustrated. Includes 150 lots. Price list laid in. 108 pages. BOB/111816. Fine. More
Christie's, 1994. Paper Wrappers. 4to. Beige paper wrappers with black title to spine. Pristine interior filled with illustrations, some of which are in full color. Tight binding. 290 pages. BOB/072406. Fine. More
London: Christie, Manson & Wood Ltd, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to. Red cloth boards with gilt title and decoration to spine and boards. Bright, clean boards with sharp corners. Tight binding. Pristine interior with many color illustrations. 125 pp. BOB/022304. Fine. More
New York: Christie's, 1986. Paperback. Auction catalog. Prices realized inked in with list laid in. Illustrated grey paper wrappers with dark green title to grey spine panel and front cover. Size: quarto. Fine. 214 pages. Illustrated. Fine. More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, (1881). Hardcover. 8vo. Very Good in yellow cloth covered boards with black title to front board and gilt title to spine. Light rubbing and bumping to corners and spine ends, but a nice, bright copy overall. Index, 681 pages. Art. ART1/03281. Very Good. More
New York: Phoenix Book Shop, Inc., [1965]. Paperback. First edition. Tan side-stapled paper wrappers with black title to front cover. Lightly soiled. 36 pages. BOB/111716. Fine. More
Kent: Kent State University Press, 1st Edition, (1968). Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. No Dust jacket. Index, 145 pages. Literature. Bibliography. BOB1709071. Near Fine. More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Very minor wear to edges and spine ends. Very clean interior. Brief note in pen to rear free end page. Tight binding. Off-white dust jacket with red title front amd spine panels. Minor wear to edges/corners of jacket and minor fading/browning to spine panel. Index, 290 pages. BOB/033005. Near Fine / Very Good+. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935. Hardcover. VG in navy cloth; gold lettering on spine faded, partially legible; pp. 88. Political Science. POL208150. Very Good. More
Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc., 1948. Hardcover. First edition. Contributions by Robert Francis Wilberforce, Anne Kimball Tuell, Sister Mary Madeleva, Most Rev. John J. Wright. Light blue paper boards with gilt title to spine. In very good grey jacket, which is lightly soiled and sunned and price-clipped with small closed tear along from hinge. 72 pages. BOB/111116. Near Fine / Very Good. More
Detroit: Research Company, 1998. Hardcover. First edition. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 193. Light blue cloth boards with gilt and black title to spine and front cover. Folio. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. 451 pages. Illustrated. BOB/111616. Fine. More
Madrid: Instituto Diego Velazquez, Del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo. Very Good hardcover with slightly soiled white dustjacket. Several black and white reproductions. In Spanish. Spanish Art. ART/7192. Very Good / Very Good. More
Madrid: Instituto Diego Velazquez, del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good hardcover with slightly soiled white dustjacket. Several black and white reproductions. In Spanish. Spanish Art. ART/7192. Very Good / Very Good. More
[New York]: Privately printed, 1941. Hardcover. One of 500 copies printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press.Bound in quarter black cloth with orange and brown marbled paper boars. Quarter black cloth with marbled paper boards. Paper label to spine with gitl title. T.e.g. Light wear to bottom edges, unevenly sunned, otherwise very good. With Alshul's compliments slip laid in. 196 pages. BOB/103116. Very Good. More
Wellfleet Press / Easton Press, 2002. Hardcover. Bound in red leather boards with gilt title to spine and glossy illustrated pastedown of a Michelangelo painting to the front cover. Silk moire endpapers, ribbon bookmark bound in, and full edges gilt. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste down. Clean and bright with many full color illustrations. 443 pages. Oblong. ART/022216. Fine. More
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Hardcover. "This beautiful and passionate book emphasizes the learned court art of Benin, Dahomey, and the Kongo. A very interesting and unusual approach to the art of the continent that has been too easily situated outside of history" (Le Figaro). Fine in purple cloth boards with gilt title to spine. In fine dust jacket with purple spine panel titled in white. Size: quarto. 181 pages. African Art. ART/122916. Fine / Fine. More
Indiana, London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1978. Hardcover. Near fine in maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's name to top corner of front free end page. Else is clean and bright. Index, 306 pages. Books about books. BOB107260. Near Fine. More
New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1922. Paper Wrappers. SCARCE. 8vo. Beige paper wrappers with black title and decoration to front panel. Several large chips to edges of panels. Chipping/small tears to edges of some pages. Front wrapper has been repaired with tape along spine and top edge. Interior is very clean. Secure binding. 60 pages. BOB/042105. Good. More
Bruxelles: Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 1987. Paperback. Limited edition, #21 of 600 copies. Very good black and white illustrated paperback. Small 4to. Light creasing along spine. Clean interior, no foxing or staining. Illustrated with black and white photos. In French. Publisher's ephemera laid-in. 225 pages. Books on Books. BOB/11213. Very Good. More
Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, (1987). Paperback. 4to. in white paper wrappers with grey title to spine. Light wear to edges. Inscription from previous owner to front endpage, else clean. Laid-in brochure from exhibit. Index, 306 pages. ART/050912. Near Fine. More
Johannesburg: Anglo American Corporation of South Africa, (1960). Paperback. Grey side stapled paper wrappers with black title to spine. Interior is clean and bright. African History. AFR/120716. Very Good. More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985. Hardcover. Very good in off white cloth boards with black title to spine. Previous owner inscription to front free endpage and half title page - else the interior is clean. Filled with illustrations. No jacket. Index, 499 pages. BOB/093010. Very Good. More
New York: American Printing History Association, 2002. Hardcover. Fine in cloth boards. Pristine interior. 175 pages. BOB/060112. Fine. More
Princeton, The Pyne Press, 1972. Hardcover. Second printing. 4to. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Minor bump to bottom corner of boards. Pristine interior filled with illustrations in both black and white and full color. Illustrated price clipped dust jacket with black title to fronand spine panels. Minor creasing to bottom corner of dust jacket as a result of the bumping to the boards. Index, 275 pages. Asian Art. ASART708221. Near Fine in Very Good + DJ. More
Virginia Museum: Richmond, 1973. Paperback. 4toNear fine orange side staple paper wrappers with intricately illustrated cover (fashioned after John Hariot's 1590 exploration of the New World). Minor bumping to corners. Reproduction of book inside, with translated captions for engravings, 32 pages. Art Periodical. PER/9262. Near Fine. More