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2014180460New York: The Monacelli Press 2014. Hardcover. VG/VG. Green boards with silver lettering on spine; color illustrated dust jacket; green spine with white lettering; 382 pp profusely illustrated in color. "A fully revised reissue updated and enhanced with new color photography of an influential work on American textiles and their British antecedents regarded as a classic text on both sides of the Atlantic. Printed Textiles was first published by Viking for the Winterthur Museum in 1970. A history of the cotton and linen textiles printed in Britain and America between 1700 and 1850 discussing their design methods of manufacture use and means of trade. Building on research that has come to light since 1970 and utilizing the technical and scientific expertise of the conservators and scientists at Winterthur and adding pieces acquired by the museum since 1970 Senior Curator of Textiles Linda Eaton presents a thorough and sweeping study enriched by the diverse approaches to material culture today. The book illustrated with 600 photographs offers a full appreciation of the beautiful fabrics that are an intimate part of the Winterthur Museum Collection"-- publisher's description. Contents include: The British Calico Printing Industry -- British Trade with North America -- The Use of Printed Furnitures in America and Britain -- Textile Printing in America -- Designers and Design -- The Chemistry and Technology of Calico Printing -- The Catalogue. The Monacelli Press hardcover books
1958133554Los Angeles and London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1958. Collection of four and two double weight vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1958 US film. Two stills are from the UK release with seller stamps on the versos. <br/><br/>Based on the novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw set during World War II this largely antiwar film follows two American soldiers played by Clift and Martin and a Nazi soldier played by Brando as they experience the various trials and hardship of war including the discovery of a concentration camp and antisemitism from both sides. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Germany France and San Diego California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches the UK stills are slightly smaller. US stills Near Fine one UK stilll with slight discoloration and a small piece of masking tape and cropping annotations on the verso else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
2013405175Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press 2013. In fine condition. 8vo. 233 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series and the seminars on which they are based brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one another's work. The outcome of each of these convergences is an extensive and "unpredictable conversation" on knotty and provocative issues about art. This fourth volume in the series Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic focuses on questions revolving around the concepts of the aesthetic the anti-aesthetic and the political. The book is about the fact that now almost thirty years after Hal Foster defined the anti-aesthetic there is still no viable alternative to the dichotomy between aesthetics and anti- or nonaesthetic art. The impasse is made more difficult by the proliferation of identity politics and it is made less negotiable by the hegemony of anti-aesthetics in academic discourse on art. The central question of this book is whether artists and academicians are free of this choice in practice in pedagogy and in theory" the publisher. <br/><br/> Penn State University Press hardcover books
1910RESSCOM00JNSouthwestern Company 1910. Very Good. Essig Montgomery F. Comprehensive Analysis of the Bible - Salesmans Copy. Nashville: Southwestern Company 1910. Salesmans Copy. 4to. Book condition: Very good with rubbed and bumped edges and boards showing slightly at corners. Text block is good clean and tight. The full edition of this book had 584 pp. but this sample copy has only about 150 non-continuous pages and illustrations. A Salesman's Copy showing different bindings available by virtue of the front and rear board in different styles. A sample of the full leather spine is mounted on front pastedown. Lined blank pages at rear of book for the salesman to write his orders. These pages have no orders written in them. A charming salesman's copy. Southwestern Company hardcover books
192816321928. FIELD R.M. With E.B. Bailey & L.W. Collet. PALEOZOIC SUBMARINE LANDSLIPS NEAR QUEBEC CITY. Reprinted for private circulation from "The Journal Of Geology" Vol. XXXVI No. 7 Oct.-Nov. 1928. 8vo. printed tan wraps; 38 pages. Illustrated. A reinterpretation of the Quebec and Levis submarine landslips in the earlier stages of the development and deformation of a geosyncline. Richard Montgomery Field was a charter member of the Academy of Arts and Science and was an internationally acknowledged geologist. He taught at Princeton University from 1923 to 1950 and was chairman of the Special Committee on Geophysical and Geological Study of Ocean Basins from 1932 to 1941. Signed presentation from Field to a fellow geologist on the front cover: "E.R. Barnsley with pleasant memories of 1928- R.M. Field." He has also penned "Princeton" beneath the subtitle. A scarce geological reprint! Very Good very tiny burn hole on front cover. $85.00. <br/><br/> paperback books
194608563Germany: Printing and Stationary Services British Army of the Rhine 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good-. Octavo. Published for private circulation in the British Army of the Rhine. This book was presented to Colonel J S. Ross. Bound in original red cloth with gilt lettering spine and front cover. Very good copy with minimal cover edge wear in a good- color illustrated dust jacket with chips short closed tears and piece missing rear panel of dust jacket. 158 pp. All foldout maps present. <br/><br/> Printing and Stationary Services, British Army of the Rhine hardcover books
195137039Watkins Glen NY: Century House 1951. Hardbound. Good/Poor tanning/staining to block edges tanning to page edges dust jacket has significant tears under the mylar cover. Grey cloth with purplish/blue lettering on spine purple and white illustrated dustjacket with mylar cover 104 pp. 50 bw reproductions. Introduction written by G.L. Freeman. "The arrangement of the drawings chosen is roughly chronological and in ech case the artist has added some vignette of candid comment or personal experience which helps to bring the character to life." -dust jacket. Century House hardcover books
190926857New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1909. First edition. Cloth. A good or better solid copy of this hard to find title boards foxed and worn at the edges but binding solid and leaves clean but for occasional marginal soiling. Unpaged 42 leaves. Illus. with 79 b/w plates frontis. Obl. folio 31 x 45 cm. James Montgomery Flagg 1877-1960 sold his first illustration to St. Nicholas Magazine at age 12. In this 1909 book we have a collection of his large drawings for Harper's Weekly. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1943WRCLIT75412Washington Providence Montauk etc. 1943. Thirteen pages on six quarto and octavo lettersheets one folded to quarter panels. Three in ink one in pencil. Folded for mailing otherwise fine accompanied by two envelopes addressed in his hand hastily torn open at one end. Four substantial boisterous opinionated and occasionally inebriated letters from Flagg to Willis Birchman addressed variously as "Kid" "Country Gentlemen" "Dear Temperamental Meringue" and "Will Bill" who became one of Flagg's frequent correspondents as a consequence of Birchman having featured Flagg in his 1937 book FACES & FACTS BY AND ABOUT 26 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS. One letter 4pp. in ink on letterhead of the Providence Biltmore consists of an account of a rather Cutty Sark driven meeting with "Cecil" likely film star Cecil Humphreys with whom he had a long association. Another letter 4pp. written on letterhead of Montauk Manor at Montauk Beach is in pencil and opens with an attractive pencil drawing of a beach scene with cars parked and facing out over the ocean; it relates chiefly to the circumstances of his stay at Montauk and is signed "Cap. Kidd." Another letter 4pp in ink on letterhead of the Hotel Raleigh relates to events surrounding a vague series of meetings in Washington DC involving representatives of the Australian and British governments stops at embassies a meeting with Sumner Welles etc. The last letter dated simply Friday 2pp. in ink is somewhat diffuse but mentions a pending trip to Washington and meetings there perhaps anticipating the stay mentioned in the letter above. Flagg 1877 - 1960 was in his time one of the most prolific and popular of American artists and illustrators. His best known work was one of the most widely distributed recruitment posters for the US military: the iconic image of Uncle Sam captioned "I Want YOU for U.S. Army" unknown books
1945WRCLIT68127New York 1945. Two pages in various colored crayons and pencils on recto and verso of quarto sheet of personal letterhead. Near fine. To "Dear Bill" i.e. Willis Birchman and appropriately captioned next to his name in the letterhead: "Goes Nuts in 3/4 War Time." Birchman was one of Flagg's frequent correspondents as a consequence of Birchman having featured Flagg in his 1937 book FACES & FACTS BY AND ABOUT 26 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS. A rather blunt letter much of it written in jingoistic jest and all in caps: "Have you ever thought of Chi-Chi-Renoir's enthralling stench for gay frolicking moments You have no idea of what it will do for you! But buy a war bond foist! Mail a bottle of Chi-Chi to your Nip Girl Friend - It will kill her! Suffer little Krauts to come unto me - Gen. McArthur's Batman ought to take those Greta Garbo specs off'n Doug when he's having his pitcha snapped. Howard Chandelier Twisty told some body to call me to do heads at Halloran - cant that old poopski mind his own wars! . Daily Telegraph of London wants me 1917 Brishday poster to hang in their N.Y. office - I gave the original to Lloyd George - so he died. .What do you think of my idea of killing myself and killing the screeching refugee next door first & A couple of cats! Monty." unknown books
1907WRCLIT84385New York 1907. Original charcoal on paper matted and framed under glass. Image size to edges of mat 32.5 x 28cm 12.75 x 11". Not examined out of frame a few minor background smudges but very good. A stern self-portrait by the artist in 3/4 profile with characteristic tousled hair and expansive eye brows. Inscribed by Flagg likely in the 1930s to his friend Willis Birchman: "Bill -- This is what I seemed to look like in a glass about the age of 30 - Monty." In 1937 Flagg appeared in and contributed an introduction to Birchman's FACES & FACTS BY AND ABOUT 26 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS. unknown books
500196pencil and charcoal portrait of actor Michael Whalen ca. 1931 boldly signed and captioned "Joe Shovlin." 16" x 12" matted. Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. paperback books
4420The drawing shows Flagg and fellow artist Harry Beckhoff watch a mouse draw. Flagg has written a caption at the top margin of the card above the figures of himself and Beckhoff. Referring to the green shirted mouse with pen in hand Flagg writes "He's my stooge - does my king size stuff." Below the art table he writes in red "Merry Xmas in purple 1950 to Harry X Handsome wife in green from Monty." A bright and appealing ink and water color holiday illustration. unknown books
1916WSTNL627New York: Literati 1916. Book has been rebound with pieces of the original spine and boards affixed to the new cloth and a portion of the original titling piece laid-in at the rear. This is curious pot-pourrit of pieces by the subsequently famous illustrator who did the Uncle Sam poster "I Want You". First Edition. Rebound in Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Author. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Trade. Literati Hardcover books
1914WST303New York: George H. Doran 1914. Bookplate. Split full length of lower joint. Spine ends chipped corners bumped. Spine titling piece chipped. A folio of Flagg sketches and caricatures with captions. . First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Author. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Trade. George H. Doran Hardcover books
1904WRCLIT60358New York: Life Publishing Company 1904. Small octavo. Pictorial boards printed in red and black. Illustrations by the author. Crown of spine very slightly worn otherwise near fine without dust jacket in later glassine wrapper. First edition. A relatively early collection in book form of Flagg's cartoon work accompanied by humorous verse. Life Publishing Company hardcover books
19156043471915. "J. Montgomery Flagg" in black fountain pen ink on his Thirty-three West Sixty-seventh Street letterhead March 25 1915. 8 1/2" x 11"; 2 separate leaves recto only. Fine. To Nichols who seems to be writing an article about becoming an illustrator: A long inspirational letter on becoming an artist and illustrator. Flagg thinks it unethical to talk about the "big" money to be made because it "incites the Kike and the trickster. . .and fills boarding houses and art schools with incompetents. . .Don't look upon illustration as a trade! . .It. . .takes more that the desire and determination and industry to become a good artist. . .it takes talent!". No Binding. Fine/No Jacket. unknown books
5001983/4 length seated pose ca. 1935 working on a drawing in his somewhat cluttered studio holding a pencil in his right hand and a cigarette in the left see Susan Meyer's "James Montgomery Flagg." page 12 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" short tear to lower right edge matted not signed. Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. paperback books
25349poster. Poster depicts a grave and humble Uncle Sam sans top hat asks us to help stop inflation. A list of 7 keys to hold down prices includes buying war bonds paying are share of taxes follow rationing rules and others. Printed in full color. 22 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches. One vertical and one horizontal fold otherwise fine. <br/><br/> unknown books
190921428Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co 1909. 1st edition. Presentation copy. Mustard cloth binding with pictorial designs stamped in orange and black. VG covers soiled/ edges rubbed/ corners frayed/ spine tanned. Text clean and tight. 282 pp. Color frontis and 23 drawings by James Montgomery Flagg. 8vo. 21cm x 14cm. <br/><br/> A.C. McClurg & Co hardcover books
1915280588New York 1915. unbound. very good-. 1 page 11 x 8.5 inches New York March 23 1915 to fellow illustrator Charles Olson asking for a contribution of a drawing in full: "Will you contribute to the souvenir menu for the Cobb dinner on April 25th -- Some little drawing of Cobb could I have it before next Tuesday Gibson has promised something so you'll be in good company -- I happen to be charwoman of the bloody menu 'community.'" Note: The above event took place in honor of Irvin S. Cobb for inclusion in a privately printed book consisting of "Friendly Tributes upon the Occasion of a Dinner Tendered in his honor at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel." Minor fraying at the right-hand margin and a tiny chip at the lower left corner; very good- condition.<br/><br/> American artist and illustrator best remembered for his depiction of Uncle Sam on recruiting posters during the First and Second World Wars.<br/><br/> unknown books
1960159643Watkins Glen NY: Century House 1960. Hardbound. G DJ has moderate wear and some missing material beneath the mylar cover; flyleaves are lightly foxed; pages are aging but are otherwise clear. Grey cloth with purple illustrated dus tjacket in mylar cover. 104 pp. 50 bw reproductions. On spine and cover: CELEBRITIES. Originally published in 1951 as "Celebrities" showcasing 50 portraits of famous people as rendered by American illustrator and cartoonist James Montgomery Flagg 1877-1960. This book has two titles pages one from 1951 and one from 1960 seeming to show that old copies were given the new page and re-released in reaction to the artist's death in 1960. The book and the dust jacket both carry the "Celebrities" title while the new title page says "Celebrity-Artist." With biography by G. L. Freeman. Here we have Barrymores and Roosevelts as well as Bob Hope Alfred Hitchcock Greta Garbo Emily Post Mickey Rooney Woodrow Wilson and more. A rare find. Century House hardcover books
1909158818CHICAGO A.C. MCCLURG & SON 1909 1909. ORIGINAL TAN PICTORIAL CLOTH; NO DUST JACKET FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. CHICAGO, A.C. MCCLURG & SON, 1909 hardcover books
12962Image size approximately 17 x 13 inches. 1 vols. Matted. James Montgomery Flagg. Image size approximately 17 x 13 inches. 1 vols. Charcoal Portrait by James Montgomery Flagg. A strong portrait a little larger than life size of a dark haired young woman in profile looking right her shoulders bare wearing an ornament on a ribbon around her neck. The subject is attractive but the artist has not idealized her: it is a candid and compelling rendering done with the typical bravura of the almost legendary American artist and illustrator.<br/><br/>A FINE EXAMPLE OF FLAGG'S PORTRATURE. unknown books
1932162870NY LONG & SMITH 1932 1932. ORIGINAL YELLOW CLOTH STAMPED IN RED; WITH THE RARE PRINTED CELLOPHANE DUST JACKET; ILLUSTRATIONS BY FLAGG FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. NY, LONG & SMITH, 1932 hardcover books
