A History of American Pewter
1973005212New York: Weathervane Books 1973. 246p. b/w illus. quarto format dj. Weathervane Books unknown books
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196927815no place noted: no publisher noted 1969. Softcover. VG- light wear to wraps. Blue stapled wraps. 60 pp. No ills. Comprehensive list of silver texts collections and collectors compiled by notable silver experts. One of 200 copies printed as an offprint of the 1969 Walpole Society Note Book for 1969. no publisher noted unknown books
28357MONTGOMERY Charles F. A HISTORY OF AMERICAN PEWTER. New York: Weathervane Books 1973. 8vo. Cloth spine boards dust jacket. x 246 pages. First edition. Illustrated study of American pewter from the late seventeenth to the mid nineteenth centuries featuring the Winterthur collection. Included is a catalogue of pewterer's maker's marks. Dust jacket rubbed else very good. unknown books
1973005212New York: Weathervane Books 1973. 246p. b/w illus. quarto format dj. Weathervane Books unknown books
197323402NY: Praeger Publishers 1973. Hardcover. VG- exlib with minimal markings. Tan cloth. 246 pp. Numerous bw plates. This book is part of the Decorative Arts Series edited by Graham Hood. A standard and still essential reference on this topic written by one of the well-known curators of Winterthur Museum. Praeger Publishers hardcover books
1966010770NY: Viking 1966. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. As New. 4to full niger morocco gilt. One of 200 copies SIGNED by the author. As new apparently unused copy in near fine cloth slipcase trimmed in morocco. Viking hardcover books
1966104956New York: Viking 1966. First. hardcover. very good/very good. 491 illustrations many in color. 497pp. Thick 4to blue cloth d.w. N.Y.: Viking 1966. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Viking unknown books
196613960NY: Viking Press 1966. Hardbound. VG. Brown leather gilt-embossed presentation copy leather-edged slipcase. 497 pp. Hundreds of bw illustrations. Foreword by Henry Francis Dupont background section on various fascinating aspects of furniture followed by catalogue sections on beds all manner of chairs chests of drawers clocks desks and bookcases fire screens looking glasses sofas all manner of tables unusual specialized and fancy furniture as well as helpful appendices of cabinetmakers' labels stamps and biographies. Contents as follows: The business of cabinetmaking -- Price books -- Woods used in American furniture 1790-1825 -- Upholstery and furnishing fabrics -- Conoisseurship and attribution -- Beds -- New England chairs: side chairs armchairs and chair-back settees -- New York chairs 1790-1805 -- New York chairs 1805-1825 -- Philadelphia and southern chairs -- Martha Washington or "Lolling" chairs -- Easy chairs -- Chests of drawers -- Clocks -- Desks and bookcases -- Fire screens -- Looking glasses -- Sofas and couches -- Card tables -- Drop-leaf and dressing tables -- Pier and side tables and sideboards -- Small tables and stands -- Work tables -- Unusual and specialized furniture -- Fancy furniture -- Details of carving -- Cabinetmakers' labels and stamps -- Cabinetmakers' biographies. Gorgeous autographed presentation copy excellent condition #169 out of 200 in the leather binding and accompanying slipcase. Viking Press unknown books
1966126928New York: Viking Press 1966. Hardcover. VG/G minor shelf wear dust jacket edges show wear. Blue cloth boards with gold gilt spine lettering and illustration blue and color pictorial dust jacket with gold lettering. 497 pp. Hundreds of bw illustrations. Signed by author. "In five chapters and twenty essays the author introduces the reader to the world of Federal furniture with emphasis on the way it was made and used in the new nation the art and mystery of connoisseurship and attribution and secrets of the cabinetmakers' price books which have never before been revealed. Here is not only an encyclopedia of American furniture of the Federal period but a mine of information for everyone interested in the social and cultural history of the formative years of the United States." - dust jacket description. Viking Press hardcover books
1970173706Portland ME: Anthoensen Press 1970. Paperback. VG. Gray stapled paper wraps with black lettering. 11 pp. BW portrait. "Two hundred copies have been reprinted from the Walpole Society Note Book by The Anthoensen Press Portland Maine." Anthoensen Press paperback books
1977194203NEW YORK WEATHERVANE BOOKS 1977 1977. DUST JACKET UNCLIPPED REPRINT VERY GOOD. Hardcover. NEW YORK, WEATHERVANE BOOKS [1977] hardcover books
1966WN29112New York: The Viking Press 1966. Blue cloth spine slightly sunned. Some slight shelfwear on bottom edges. Stain on top edge not affecting text. Book is clean and tight. Furniture pictured is from the Winterthur Museum whose founder Henry Francis du Pont authored the foreword. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Gilbert Ask. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. The Viking Press Hardcover books
196668124NY:: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. A few color mostly black and white photographs by Gilbert Ask throughout. First edition. Very near fine in like dust jacket. A bright clean and well preserved copy. . Viking, hardcover books
196648059NY: Viking 1966. First Edition. 4to pp. 497. Bibliography index. With a foreword by Henry Francis du Pont and photographs by Gilbert Ask. Over 525 illustrations some in color and information about individual cabinetmakers and their materials and manufacturing processes. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Edges slilghtly soiled o/w a nice copy in little chipped and scuffed dj. Very heavy. Viking unknown books
19761735Boston: New York Graphic Society 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 320 pages. Prefaces by Roy Strong and Alan Shestak. With forty-four color and 280 black and white illustrations. Fivee ssays by specialists in American Art at Yale University. Exhibition April 3 - September 26 1976. Index. New York Graphic Society hardcover books
1984UMONMON01MELBlanford Press 1984. Fine. Montgomery Brian. Monty's Grandfather: Sir Robert Montgomery GCSI KCB LLD 1809-1887. A Life's Service for the Raj. Poole: Blanford Press 1984. 140pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine with spine slightly askew and ends genlty bumped. Blanford Press hardcover books
1984UMONMON00MELBlandford Press 1984. Fine. Montgomery Brian. Monty's Grandfather: Sir Robert Montgomery GCSI KCB LLD 1809-1887. A Life's Service for the Raj. Poole: Blandford Press 1984. 140pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine with a small abrasion to fore edge of cover. Blandford Press hardcover books
99626New York: Holt. hardcover. very good. ix 367pp. 8vo red cloth. New York: Henry Holt and Company n.d. A veyr good copy.<br/><br/> Holt unknown books
194608561Germany: Printing and Stationary Services British Army of the Rhine 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Published for private circulation in the British Army of the Rhine. This book was presented to Colonel J S. Ross. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering spine and front cover. Near fine copy in a very good color illustrated dust jacket with chips to spine tips minimal edge wear. 158 pp. All foldout maps present. <br/><br/> Printing and Stationary Services, British Army of the Rhine hardcover books
1946121663New York: British Information Services 1946. 79 p. wraps in very good condition. British Information Services unknown books
196074559Socorro New Mexico: State Bureau of Mines. Very Good. 1960. First Edition. Pamphlet. soft-bound in gray wrappers with black printing to the upper cover. The spine is sunned. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and with illustrations but also with scattered foxing throughout. There is a folding geologic map and a regional location map in a pocket at the rear. . State Bureau of Mines unknown books
1821008722Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ballantyne and Co. for W. and C. Tait 1821. SCARCE in Fine Binding. With reproductions of title pages: The Cherrie and the Slae. Edinburgh 1597; and The Flyting betwixt Montgomery and Polwart. Edinburgh 1629. In fine contemporary binding stamp-signed James Toovey. Full Pebbled calf ornate gilt back marbled end papers all edges gilt. Near Fine light soiling to boards. Montgomery was a Scottish Jacobean courtier and one of the principal members of the Castalian Band a circle of poets in the court of James VI in the 1580s. . First Edition. Full Pebbled Calf . Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Printed by J. Ballantyne and Co. for W. and C. Tait Hardcover books
198612408San Francisco CA: Art Museum Association of America 1986. Softcover. VG- cover slightly worn. Teal wraps. vii 101 pp. 82 color plates. Illustrated catalogue listing of 82 works with five-page essay by Wayne Craven "Visions of America: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" six-page essay by Richard Martin "The Twentieth Century" and alphabetical index to the 82 artists. This catalogue is a cross-section of one of the most important little-known collections of American painting in the country. Lots of lovely color illustrations one to a page. Art Museum Association of America unknown books
19776191977. Softbound. VG. Wraps. 70 pp. 31 bw plates. Essay written by Adelyn Breeskin. 33 paintings 57 drawings listed. Mostly related to life in the Deep South. Includes list of exhibitions. RARE. paperback books
187151430Mobile AL: Printed at the Daily Register Office 1871. First edition. 8vo. 11 pp. Caption title: Anatomical and Physiological Reflections on Some Parts of the Eye. Inscribed by the "author" at the head of the front wrapper. Not in Owen. OCLC locates two copies Harvard-Countway National Library of Medicine. Original printed green wrappers removed; some light foxing but very good. <br/><br/> Printed at the Daily Register Office unknown books
1983141874Culver City CA: Mikas 1 1983. Fourth Draft script for the 1985 film. Here under the working title "Spooks." Laid in is a letter from Farkas' manager James Reed to Walter Kohner dated October 31 1983 <br/><br/>While ripping off ATMs using manipulated bank cards two engineers discover a plot of a shadow organization to crash the computers at the Federal Reserve Bank. They follow the trail all the way to Washington where the FBI will not take them seriously. <br/><br/>Set in Washington DC shot on location in DC as well as Virginia. <br/><br/>Velo binding with a clear front wrapper and black vinyl rear wrapper. Title page present dated November 1 1983 noted as FOURTH DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Michael Farkas. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Xerographically duplicated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with black velo binding. Mikas 1 unknown books
