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1994UVERROG00DAArtisan 1994. Very Good. Verge Roger. Roger Verge's Vegetables in the French Style. New York: Artisan 1994. 255pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with subtly rubbed corners. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gently bumped edges and light rubbing. Artisan hardcover books
19572113Boston: Museum of Fine Arts 1957. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Quarto 12 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches; 320 x 240 mm 8 pages in stapled rust-colored wrappers with a woodcut laid in.<br /><br />Catalogue of an exhibition of works by Jan Cox with a woodcut laid in <b>signed</b> in pencil. The exhibition took place at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and featured more than 70 paintings gouaches drawings and lithographs. In the 1950s Cox 1919-1980 was head of the painting department at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. <br /><br />Cox was a founding member of the Jeune Peinture Belge artists' group and exhibited in New York at the Curt Valentin and Catherine Viviano galleries. <b>SCARCE WITH WOODCUT</b>. #102113 <br /><br /><p>CONDITION: Some edge wear to wrappers foxing creasing and soiling to internal pages along with some evidence of waterstaining. The signed woodcut has a couple of creases and ragged edges on two sides. About Very Good overall.</p> Museum of Fine Arts paperback books
19321180Philadelphia: Roland Swan Company 1932. First edition. First edition. In original green printed wrapper with portrait illustration by Violet Oakley. Lad-in is full-page holograph poem by Violet Oakley written on her Lower Cogslea stationary St. Georges Road Mt. Airy P.O. Philadelphia Pennsylvania." Poem begins "All day the Snow has fallen--- I sit beside the long long Window looking on the Garden and the Woods- grown old and hoary with precious silent fall of down from heaven's breast. All day I have been reading Secret Snow each page more beautiful- till tears brim over." And additional 13 lines round out the effusive poem perhaps meant originally for Ethel McKenzie in a letter or just a personal epithet. The poem was laid into the book which McKenzie presented to Oakley with and inscription on the front free fly: "To Violet Oakley from her dearest friend Gilbert McKenzie 1932." Book also contains frontispiece of a bust of McKenzie by Violet Oakley. Book is fine wrapper very good. The holograph poem written on very thin paper has been folded twice to fit in book and is near fine. <br/><br/> Roland Swan Company unknown books