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New Jersey:: Oxford University Press,, 1968. Wraps. Black wraps, illustrated, yellow lettering. Pale foxing to pre-title page. 360 pp. sm 8 vo. From the World of Art Series, a copiously illustrated book with 312 plates, 83 in color: St. John, Lindisfarne Gospels c. 700; St. Matthew, manuscript illustration of c. 800; Eagle flagon made for Abbot Sugar, mount c. 1140; Sullivan Wainwright Building, St. Louis 1890--1; Matisse, Negro Boxer, 1947, etc. With Chapters on: From the Cave to the City; The Impact of Christianity; The Gothic World; In a New Perspective; Perfect Manners; High Art and Low Nature; Facing up to Reality, etc. A compact illustrated course to major styles and most artists throughout Western Art. History of Western Art Levey, Matisse Negro Boxer, Louise Sullivan architecture

Boston:: Little, Brown, and Company,, 1952. First edition. Cloth. Tan cloth, photo illustration, brown lettering. DW not price clipped, white photo illustrated green spine. Mild chipping with various short (1/4 to 1/2 inch) closed tears. Clean, tightly bound. First Edition, stated. 139 pp, sm 4 to. In protective mylar jacket. A tribute to thirteen New England historic homes and the people who lived in them. Some are magnificent architectural showpieces, like Gore Place in Waltham Ma., and the John Brown (Merchant) House in Providence, R.I.. Mark A DeWolfe Howe, biographer and American Historian shows a book of deep appreciation for the people who occupied each house and created its special atmospher and character; accompanied by 50 illustrations of the houses and interiors, along with the frontispiece, Emily Dickinson House, Doorway. Chapters include: Adamses at Quincy; Lousia May Alcott; Bishop Berkeley at Whitehall; Anne Bradstreet: Tenth Muse; John Brown of Providence; Emily Dickinson; Christopher Gore of Gore Place; Hawthorne, Emerson, and the Old Manse; Sarah Orne Jewett, of the Pointed Firs Country; Longfellow and the Craigie House; Lowell's Elmwood; Maria Mitchell: Sky-Sweeper; The Lifetime Ride of Paul Revere Old Occupants. M.A. DeWolfe Howe New England Houses, Samuel Champerlain Historic Homes

New York:: Bernard Geis Associates,, 1963. First printing. Cloth. Red cloth boards, gold stamped title to spine, slight bumping to spine ends and corner, DW not price clipped, Hershfield illustration of Grouch in his famous posture, chasing girl. Yellow, red and black lettering. Rubbing and light bumping of extremities, two 1/2 inch closed tears to upper rear dw, flea bit chip to front upper joint end. Light soil to rear dw. Clean, tightly bound, in protective mylar jacket. First Print stated. Top edge green. 312 pp. Please click for image. . Inside Grouch's strange and hilarious world as the "Demon Lover". Five sections of his quick trigger thoughts on anything that engages his wacky, witty mind from polygamy to poker: L'Amour the Merrier, Groucho's romantic youth; The Unatural History of Love, from the cave to modern times, Grouch's perception; Social Notes from a Social Outcase, his office low-down on Social Life through six painful lessons; It Happened to Eight Other Guys, of various ill-assorted friends and relatives; Marxist Philosophy According to Groucho, an appropriate ending as Grouch expounds his pronouncements about thrift, luch, talent, etc. A comic genius that has yet to be rivaled. Illustrated throughout by Leo Hershfield. Memoirs of a Mangy lover first print, Grouch Marx first print,

New York:: Liveright,, 1973. First edition. Cloth. Purple cloth boards and spine silvered lettering, slight bumping ot spine ends. Various pages soft dogeared DW not price clipped, purple pictorial. Few tiny scratches to front dw, mild bumping to of edges, slight crease to front flap and lower rear edge, quarter inch closed tear to lower rear edge, flea bite chip at end. xxiii, 426 pp. Tall 8 vo. First Edition. Alice B. Toklas lifetime companion of Gertrude Stein was an impressive woman with a sharp intellect, and wit, shrewd protector of Ms. Stein, hostess, confident and master of the kitchen and garden. In these letters written after the death of Gertrude Stein her individuality shines along side of detailed her observations, and continuing devotion to Ms. Stein. A select collection was chosen for this book which are of biographical, literary, and of artistic significance. They reflect the era and circle of her life with Gertrude Stein full of their friendships, gossip, and world they surrounded themselves with of artists, musicians, and writers of the twentieth century: Thornton Wilder, Carl Van Vechten, Edith Sitwell, Anita Loos, Cecil Beaton, Bennet Cerf, Picasso, Hemmingway, Sartre, and many others. Over thirty photographs, facsimile letter, few drawings. Staying on Alone first edition, Alice B Toklas first edition, Letters Alice B Toklas

New York:: Modern Library,, 1950. Cloth. Red cloth boards and spine, black title panels a with gilt. DW black illustrated, price clipped. Mild rubbing of extremities, chips to head of spine, few tiny closed tears to lower spine and dw edges. Mild soil, rear wrap white, ad for Modern Library. Top edge black, previous owners sticker to front paste down, oblong. Crack to rear hinge between last two pages of ML titles. Solidly bound, clean. 936 pp., 12 mo. . Unabridged with an Introduction by Henry Grattan Doyle. A classic of 17th century literature, with a sweeping views of Spanish society, religion and politics. The romantic and chivalric adventures of an old idealistic Knight errant, and his servant Sancho Panza in a epic tale of satire and symbolic drama. Don Quixote Modern Library, Don Quixote De La Mancha, Don Quixote unabridges