[Rarebooks] FS: A NICE GROUP OF ART BOOKS

[Norman Kane]

VERY GOOD OR  BETTER IN THE ORIGINAL BINDINGS  UNLESS OTHERWISE DESCRIBED:

A SKETCH OF CHESTER HARDING, ARTIST, DRAWN BY HIS OWN HAND. EDITED BY HIS DAUGHTER MARGARET E. WHITE. 
NEW EDITION WITH ANNOTATIONS BY HIS GRANDSON W. P. G. HARDING. Boston, 1929. First of this new edition, with added illustrations and annotations. Quarto in original red cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Portrait plates with tissue guards.  A well-preserved copy. ("His portraits of American celebrities, ranging in time from Daniel Boone to [Gen.] W. T. Sherman, are now in most important collections"-DAB.)  $15.00

BALOG, James.  ANIMA.  Boulder: Arts Alternative Press, [1993].  SIGNED on title page by author/photographer, Balog.
4to, pictorial boards, in translucent (somewhat rippled) dust wrapper. Far-out color photography. $10.00

DATESMAN, JOAN.  COLLECTING QUIMPER. QUIMPER COLLECTIONS. Newtown, Pa., 1987.  Quarto, original cloth stamped in white, excellent copy  in pictorial d.w. (d.w. has several small tears.)  Colored illustrations throughout of this attractive pottery.  $10.00

ERNST MATTHES 1878-1918.  Privately printed, Hamburg, 1929. #51 of 70 copies only. Quarto in original designer  boards. Frontis-portrait (platinum print--small crease in tissue). 31 plates (13 in color). Presentation copy from Magdalene Blohm, with a two-page autograph letter signed from her presenting the book and saying "It was meant to keep the memory of my brother alive...It was never published... [&c.]" This gifted but ill-fated artist died in the World War in 1918. He spent the years 1901-11 in Paris. Insel Verlag published his "Scenes Parisiannes." RARE: OCLC locates only 2 copies: the Getty Museum & the Saxony State Library.  There was an exhibit of his work and a catalog at the Kunsthalle Bremen in 1972 and at Harvard in 1973.  $65.00

GERBER, William.  DIE BAUZUENFTE IM ALTEN HAMBURG.  Hamburg: Selbstverlag der Baugewerks-Innung, 1933.
Approximately 11-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches in white cloth with red lettering. Covers a little soiled and corners bumped. Includes many illustration plates and numerous text illustrations. Text is in German. Latter-day inscription with stamp on endpaper in German.  Architectural history of the Hamburg Building Guilds. $10.00

COLLECTION OF THE MOST REMARKABLE MONUMENTS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. (2 Volumes).  Naples, 1873.
4 volumes in 2, each with 60 plates. 4tos, half leather, rubbed. Bookplate.  The line drawings have occasional foxing.   $15.00

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