The Wild Muse (Over 3,900 results)

Hard. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hard cover in original cloth. Text in Japanese. Folio, 10 1/2" x 13 3/4", 9 pp. text in Japanese, 54 one sided sheets of plates on heavy satin stock, plus 2 sheets of 27 plates of signatures and seals used by Sesshu. Plates have captions in English. Red cloth with black titles and designs. Some soiling and fade to the cloth, minor wear at the tips and spine ends. Very good. Fine internally. Size: Folio.

Seller Inventory # 008951

Hard. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in original pictorial cloth. Published NY: Albany, Weed-Parsons, 1897, first printing. 4to., 10" x 12 1/4", xviii+259pp., illustrated with folding map and numerous b/w plates, views and facsimilies. Teal green cloth with gilt titles and spine decorations, gilt and black stamped cover pictorial. Minor soil / rub to the cloth, light wear at spine ends. Very good plus - near fine internally. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 008949

Hard. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Chicago: Donahue, 1915. 4to., 9 1/4" 12 1/4", unpaginated, illustrated in full color throughout by F. Richardson. Green cloth with silver titles. Few fade spots to the cloth, short, closed tear on top edge of half title, touch of rub to the tips, else fine, binding tight, pages clean and bright in very good minus, clear acetate dust jacket. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 008950

Hard. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Signed first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Landmark Book Co., 1990, first printing. Folio, 10 3/4" x 12", 228pp., over 80 full-color plates, plus 200 b/w plates. Signed by artist on half title. Laid in are two 1946 autograph letters signed from the artist in Shiprock, New Mexico, where he created a series of 60 lithographs on the ceremonial dances of the Navaho, while residing on a Navaho reservation. Each letter is two pages - February 24, 1946 -Dear Gus; and November 19, in which he mentions a forthcoming book of his art with the text being written by John Collier, commissioner of Indian Affairs (later published as Patterns And Ceremonials Of The Indians Of The Southwest). Additionally, two half flyers for the artist's exhibition of Indian subjects - October 20 to November 7, (1947 or 1948) at Arthur H. Harlow Galleries, NYC are laid in. Book is fine in a fine dust jacket. The letters are very good with folds and slight loss along the edges. Flyers are good. Size: Folio. Signed By Artist.

Seller Inventory # 008948

Hard. Condition: Good Plus. 1st. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1903, Published in October, 1903. Large format folio, 15" x 14", published as a child's lapbook, as shown in the cover illustration. Green cloth backed paper covered boards, with color Smith drawing inset on front and rear covers. Recto printed sheets and seven exquisite, full page color plates - four by Green and three by Smith (plus her cover illustration), along with six headpiece drawings in orange and black by Smith, and six by Green. All plates are present. Stories and verses written for the pictures by Mabel Humphrey. Color process by noted printer Charles W. Beck, Jr., who would have a hand in other Smith publications. The book is very good internally and good plus overall. Pages and plates are clean with no writing or markings, colors and text are strong and sharp, binding is tight. There is wear along the edges and corners of the boards, some scuffing/soiling to covers, with one short, closed tear to the bottom margin of three plates and two of the text sheets. A significant book. Scarce. Size: Folio.

Seller Inventory # 008947

Hard. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in pictorial boards as issued. Published NY: Abrams, 2009, first printing. 4to., 9 3/4" x 11", 257pp., profusely illustrated with vintag photos and color reproductions. Pictorial boards and enpapers. Near fine. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 008078

Hard. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Acanthus, 1996, first printing. 4to., 8 3/4" x 11 1/4". Includes 'The Cabinet Maker's Assistant', 'A Series of Select and Original Modern Designs for Dwelling Houses' and 'A New and Concise Method of Hand-Railing'. Illustrated essay by Thomas Gordon Smith. Fine in fine dust jacket. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 008079

Hard. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Auckland, NZ: Bateman in association with Historical Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1997. Folio, 10 1/2" x 14 1/2", 290pp., illustrated with hundreds of maps, diagrams and graphs. Near fine in very good dust jacket with a closed tear and some edge curl. Size: Folio.

Seller Inventory # 007606

Hard. Condition: Very Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978, first printing. 8vo., x+518 pp., illustrated, Long inscription on f.l., tape residue outline on cover and dust jacket flap, slight sun fade to dj spine. Very good minus in dj frayed at the heel. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 003444

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. Stapled oblong 4to. wrappers. No publisher, no place, no date. 9" x 10 1/2." Unpaginated, [20 pp.] 15 illus. 12 full page color, 3 b/w. Essay by Davis Storey. A near fine copy. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 002670

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Praeger Publishers, Inc. with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1959, first printing. 4to., 9 1/4" x 11 3/4", 43pp. text plus 90 plates. Blind embossed blue cloth with silver titles. Gift inscription on half title, light foxing to endpages and edges of page block. Very good in very good dust jacket. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 008944

Hard. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2 volume set. Hard covers in dust jackets. Published Princeton: Princeton Univ Pr., 1970, second printing with corrections and a new preface. 4to's, 9" x 11 1/2", xxvii+334pp., illus with color plates; 123pp., plus 285 black and white plates. Black cloth with gilt titles. Near fine in very good dust jackets. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 008943

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. Consecutive run of the first 21 issues of The American Spectator, Volume 1, number 1 (November, 1932) through Volume 2, number 21 (July, 1934). 15 of the 21 issues have original wraparound bands. Each issue is one or more 22 1/2" x 35" sheet, printed 2 sides and folded to 16 pages. Published by Richard R. Smith and edited by George Jean Nathan, Ernest Boyd, Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell, and Eugene O'Neill. Articles include: Havelock Ellis - The Physician and Sex; Frank Swinnerton - English and American Publishers; Theodore Dreiser - The Great American Novel; Sean O'casey - Laurel Leaves and Silver Trumpets; Eugene O'Neill - Second Thoughts; Sherwood Anderson - To Remember; The Line-Up; Branch Cabell - Lament for Falstaff; Aldous Huxley - Alypius in a Brown Shirt; John Dos Passos - The Persian Merchant and the Red Army Soldier; Notes on the Back of a Passport; Mildred Cram - Author in Hollywood. Editorials include Nazi Germany and Hollywood. Toning to the paper, tenderness at some folds, one issue has old repair along the horizontal fold. Overall very good. Size: Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall.

Seller Inventory # 008946

Hard. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. Signed first edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY: Syracuse University Press, 1948, first printing. Folio, 10 1/2" x 14 1/4", 29pp. text plus 157 black and white plates. Signed by the artist on fly leaf. Dust jacket panels attached to rear flyleaf and pastedowm. Two brochures of Mestrovic Exhibition of Twenty-Five Panels, Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University laid in, along with NY Times article on the sculptor, 4-6-47, plus misc. related clippings from the era. Four holiday cards with Mestrovic images/themes from Chancellor and Mrs. William Pearson Tolley laid in, along with letter on Syracuse University letterhead. Tolley was Chancellor at Syracuse 1942-1969. Terracotta cloth with gilt titles, wear along edges, foxing to endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown, else very good. Size: Folio. Signed By Artist.

Seller Inventory # 008945

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st. First edition. Softcover. Published Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art/Dvir Publishing, 1991, first printing. Folio wrappers, 9 1/2" x 12 3/4", 239pp., profusely illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings and etchings of E.M Lilien. Text in English, translated from the Hebrew by Ahuvia Kahane. Light soiling to covers, minor corner bump. Very good plus, binding tight, papges bright. Size: Folio.

Seller Inventory # 008942

Hard. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Two volume set. First editions. Hard covers in original cloth and dust jackets. Published Berkely and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968, first printings. Folio, 10" x 13", Volume One - Catalog: xi+477pp; Volume Two - Plates: unpaginated, illustrated with 1,244 plates. Teal cloth with gilt titles. Roethlisberger's monumental work bringing together the entire corpus of authentic Lorrain' drawings, three-quarters of which are reproduced for the first time. A fine, set, clean, bright, unmarked in very good dust jackets with some edgewear, light soiling. Size: Folio.

Seller Inventory # 008938

Hard. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. First American edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Hatje Cantz/The Metropolitan Museum, 2008, first printing. Large 4to., 9 1/2" x 12 1/8", 480pp., 506 illustrations, with 470 in color. The life and works of Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) widely considered one of the most outstanding advocates of Realism. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 008940

Hard. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Volumes 1 and 2. Hard covers in original cloth and dust jackets. Volume 1- Published London: Lund Humphries, 1978, 541pp., translated by Ralph Manheim. Volume 2 - Published NY: George Wittenborn, 1973, first American edition, first printing, The Documents of Modern Art, Vol. 17; 454pp., translated by Heinz Norden. Both volumes matching square 4to's, 8 3/4" x 8 7/8", illustrated with numerous plates and reproductions, fold-outs, some tipped-in color plates. Gift inscription on fly leaf of volume 1, both volumes clean, bright unmarked, bindings strong and square. Very good plus in very good dust jackets with light edge fray. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 008941

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st. Signed first edition. Softcover in plain white wrappers and French flaps dust jacket designed by the artist. Published NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991, first printing. Oblong 4to. wrappers, 10 1/4" x 11 3/4", 202pp., illustrated with numerous color plates and 45 black and white text figures. This volume features more than 100 paintings, prints and drawings, constituting a mid-career survey of Winters' work. Signed by artist on half title: "Terry Winters, NYC, 3/15/92." Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Size: 4to. Signed By Artist.

Seller Inventory # 008939

Hard. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket . Published Boston: NY: Warner, 1988, first printing. 8vo., xi+280 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 004578

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 1st. First edition. Original and only issue of the journal. Published Tokyo: Japan Foreign Trade Federation, 1938. Text chiefly in English, with many articles in French or Spanish or both, full page ads in English. Folio, 10 1/2" x 13 3/4", 94pp., plus 4pp. printed covers, illustrated throughout with b/w photos and full color reproductions, 31" x 13 3/4" color fold-out, die cut page, 2 printed clear mylar overlays, exquisite full color front cover. Articles include: American-Japanese Trade; (Upcoming) New York World's Fair and Golden Gate International Exposition; Affairs in East Asia Moving from Military Campaign to Reconstruction; Nagoya; Locomotives and Rolling Stock; Japanese Toys; Menthol; Tea; Hats; Working Girls; Stone Lanterns; Aviation in Japan; Japan's Merchant Marine; The Oil and Fat Industry in Japan; Silk Carpets and Tapestries; Japanese Timepieces of Old; Japanese Fauna; Japanese Water Pets; Natural Camphor; Brushes. Top half of page 71 flap foldout missing, with tape repairs to page, fray and loss at the lower spine end, otherwise very good. Pages clean and bright, binding tight. Rare. Size: Folio.

Seller Inventory # 008936

Hard. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in original boards. Published NY: Dutton, 1946, first printing. Small 4to., 7 7/8" x 10 1/4", unpaginated. Pictorial boards and green cloth, pictorial endpapers. Spine cloth frayed, with split down the center of lower half, front inner hinge paper split, hinge still tight, wear at the tips and edges. Pages clean and bright, binding sound. Good plus. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 008935

Hard. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First edition. Original paper covered boards. Published NY: John Martin's Book House, 1923. 4to., 8" x 10 1/4", unpaginated, numerous illustrations. Pictorial blue and gray covers and paper spine over pale green cloth, blue and white pictorial endpapers, 2-color black and red half-title, frontis and title page, along with many 2-color pages of text and illustration. Wear at the board tips, spine ends and lower edges, pages toned. Very good, clean, unmarked with no writing, binding tight. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 008931

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Knopf, 1988, first printing. 4to., 10 1/4" x 11 5/8", x+290pp., 400 photographs, 275 in full color. Beige cloth with brown titles, beige endpapers. Pictured here are scarecrows and lampstands, hat forms and face jugs, weather vanes and whirligigs, toys, decoys, and carnival figures, icons, architectural embellishments, three-dimensional protraits, and more. Very good in very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 008925

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Perpetua Books, 1959, first printing. Small 4to., 7 1/2" x 10", 118pp., illustrated throughout with b/w drawings and photographs. Black cloth with gilt titles and design. Light foxing along edge of page block. Very good in worn, good, price-clipped dust jacket with old internal repair remnants. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 008933

Hard. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First edition. Original paper covered boards. Published NY: John Martin's Book House, 1924. 4to., 7 1/2" x 10 1/4", unpaginated, numerous illustrations and project patterns. Pictorial brown, green and black covers over burdundy cloth, 2-color pictorial endpapers, half-title, frontis and title page, along with four 2-color pages at rear. Wear at the board tips and some edges. Very good, clean, unmarked with no writing, pages bright, binding tight. Scarce. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 008930

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First American edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: George Braziller, 1959. Small 4to., 7 1/2" x 10", 111pp., illustrated with b/w drawings by Searle. Blue paper covered boards and black cloth with gilt titles. Mild foxing on edge of page block. Very good in very good dust jacket. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 008934

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Trade softcover. Published Italy: Olivetti & Co, no date. 4to. wrappers, 9" x 10 1/4", 138 pages, illustrated with plates, many in full color. Some moisture wrinkle to last couple of pages, else very good. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 008928

Hard. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st. First American edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Atheneum, 1967, first printing. 8vo., ix+479 pp., illustrated with b/w plates. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 008926

Hard. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: American Folk Art Museum / Harry N. Abrams, 2001, first printing. 4to., 9 1/2" x 11 1/4", 571pp., 778 illustrations, 419 in full color. With an essay by Ralph Esmerian. Signed by Esmerian on the half title. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles, blue endpapers. The preeminent private collection of American folk art now becomes public. Showcasing more than 400 outstanding works that comprise the Ralph O. Esmerian gift to the American Folk Art Museum in New York, this sumptuous volume celebrates American folk art in all its vibrant diversity. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Size: 4to. Signed.

Seller Inventory # 008923