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19651854NY: Reinhold Publishing Co 1965. Hardcover. VG/G=- pages are crisp and clean. Dust jacket has light soiling and wear tear in dj at top of spine. Color illustrated boards with black spine and gilt lettering; tan dust jacket with brown lettering; illustrated end pages xxiii 46 pp. 10 bw plates. Karpel I-1351 states ".Describes materials and procedures for portrait painting. Sully's handbook reveals many of the techniques used by himself and his contemporaries including Allston West Leslie and Trumbull in the preparation of varnishes canvases and flesh-tones." This copy is a reprint with a 23 page biographical introduction written by Faber Birren. The contents have been reset but the text is the same with minor spelling corrections. Reinhold Publishing Co hardcover books
190447226Paris: Felix Alcan 1904. First edition in French 8vo pp. 6 ii 408; original blue printed wrappers bound in contemporary quarter straight-grain morocco; very good and sound. <br/><br/> Felix Alcan unknown books
2007300698Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith 2007. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Extensively illustrated. with photographs by the author. 208 pages small 4to cloth d.w. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith 2007. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Gibbs Smith unknown books
199946552NY: Rizzoli 1999. Hardcover. Very good. 196pp. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. <br/><br/> Rizzoli hardcover books
199945831NY: Rizzoli 1999. Hardcover. Very good. 196pp. Slight spine lean else a very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. <br/><br/> Rizzoli hardcover books
199945049NY: Rizzoli 1999. Hardcover. Very good. 196pp. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. <br/><br/> Rizzoli hardcover books
1976150675Universal City: Universal Pictures 1976. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs for the 1976 film.<br/><br/>The employees of a Los Angeles car wash encounter a variety of strange and humorous customers over the course of their daily work including a Muslim revolutionary Bill Duke a power-hungry evangelist Richard Pryor with a singing entourage The Pointer Sisters and a man posing a potential bomb threat Irwin Corey. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Westlake Los Angeles. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus several with pinholes to the corners. Universal Pictures unknown books
1976150676Universal City: Universal Pictures 1976. Collection of seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1976 film. With mimeo snipes on the verso along with the stamp of a Canadian film distributor. <br/><br/>The employees of a Los Angeles car wash encounter a variety of strange and humorous customers over the course of their daily work including a Muslim revolutionary Bill Duke a power-hungry evangelist Richard Pryor with a singing entourage The Pointer Sisters and a man posing a potential bomb threat Irwin Corey. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Westlake Los Angeles. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Complete collation details available upon request. Universal Pictures unknown books
606To Miss Blake. "You have made the old man proud of the excellent Valentine you have sent him. It is the only one I have received during a long life - judge then how precious it is!" Sully then asks his correspondent "Why do you not cultivate the excellent talent for drawing." Signed "Thos. Sully." Tape repair on verso along center margin. unknown books
1848WRCAM45243Philadelphia 1848. 1p. plus integral blank leaf. Quarto on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor soiling. Very good. Letter written by American artist Thomas Sully to one John Zellay asking that he receive two cases on Sully's behalf until such time as he could claim them hopefully by the end of the month. Thomas Sully 1783- 1872 emigrated from England at the age of nine and grew up in Charleston. He learned painting from his brother Lawrence whose widow he subsequently married and from his brother-in-law Jean Belzons. He later studied with Benjamin West in London. He moved to various locations settling in Philadelphia in 1808 where he quickly became its leading portrait painter a position he held until his death. unknown books
184643653Charleston 1846. One page. 1 vols. 4to. Old folds else fine. One page. 1 vols. 4to. To Caroline Howard Gilman on Reading "Southern Matron" Interesting association between the American painter and one of the most popular of America's women authors of the 19th century Caroline Gilman 1794-1888 author of the immensely popular Southern novel Recollections of a Southern Matron 1838.<br/><br/>" . I have been delighted and profited by reading your 'Southern Matron.' The interesting story and episodes are the means of giving a full display of Southern manners and customs . / Sincerely your friend / and obedient servant / Thos Sully. unknown books
