Category: Antiques and Home Decorating

The Estelle Doheny Collection from the Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library, St. John's Seminary, Camarillo, California, Sold on Behalf of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles; Part VI: Printed Books and Manuscripts Concerning William Morris and His Circle Which Will Be Sold on Friday, May 19, 1989 at 10:00 a.m.

By: Oyens, Felix de Marez; Needham, Paul; Becker; Christie's

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, Christie, Manson and Woods International Incorporated : 1989

Seller ID: 020437

Condition: Fine

Limited to 100 (unnumbered) copies. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. All edges gilt. Back cover of each volume has a gilt decoration that says, "Ex Libris Estelle Doheny." 8 1/2" x 12." 103 pages, complete. Multicolored and black and white plates, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact with minimal surface wear. Binding is tight. A fine copy. Each item has a brief description and specifications and some have an accompanying plate or illustration.
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Autograph Letters, Manuscripts and Documents of Three Centuries: Adams, Andre, Blake, Browne, Burns, Dickens, Eliot, Emerson, Queen Elizabeth, Franklin, Jefferson, Keats, Poe, Washington and Many Others; Comprising Selections from the Collection of the Late Oliver B. Barrett

By: Parke-Bernet Galleries

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Incorporated : 1950

Seller ID: 019580

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's light blue wrapper. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2." 293 pages, complete. Pages and covers are clean and intact. Prices written in pencil by a former owner in the page margins. Full Title reads: "Autograph Letters, Manuscripts and Documents of Three Centuries: Adams, Andre, Blake, Browne, Burns, Dickens, Eliot, Emerson, Queen Elizabeth, Franklin, Jefferson, Keats, Poe, Washington and Many Others; Comprising Selections from the Collection of the Late Oliver B. Barrett; Sold by Order of His Son Roger W. Barrett; Public Auction Sale, October 30 and 31 at 8 p. m. and November 1 at 2 and ...
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The Modern Priscilla. Vol. XXX, No. 9, November, 1916

By: Parrott, Isaiah C. (Editor)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, The Priscilla Publishing Company : 1916

Seller ID: 024749

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original publisher's white paper wrappers with staple binding. Color illustration on front cover of a woman with a downcast expression on her face being consoled by her husband. The object of her disappointment is in front of her, a burned turkey, with the caption, "Her First Turkey." 10 1/4" x 14." Fifty-six pages, complete. Illustrations in black-and-white and color, complete. Advertisements interspersed throughout, all of which are in black-and-white except the ones on the covers. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Pages and covers have light age toning and slight rippli...
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Cement and How to Use It; A Working Manual of Up-To-Date Practice in the Manufacture and Testing of Cement; The Proportioning, Mixing, and Depositing of Concrete, and its Application to all Forms of Concrete Construction, (continued)

By: Radford, William A., Editor

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Radford Architectural Company. (1910). Chicago. : 1910

Seller ID: 2056

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Illustrated cloth. Illustrations. Title continued: ".Plain and Reinforced; With Special Chapters on Concreting Tools and Machinery, Waterproofing, Working Rules, etc". The author provides a how-to book on the making and use of cement.
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The Star Toy Maker: Plans and Directions for Making All Sorts of Clever and Original Toys, Telephones, Kites, Cameras, Windmills, Railroads, etc., Illustrated from New Special Drawings, Any Bright Boy Can Work from These Plans, Every One Has Been Worked Out by a Boy

By: Read, Jack

Price: $37.50

Publisher: W.D. Boyce Co. : 1907

Seller ID: 018858

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original green wrappers. Illustrated with line drawings throughout. Detailed instructions. Printed inexpensively. Pages somewhat browned. 4 1/8 by 5 3/4 inches. 62 pages, complete.
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Lock, Stock and Barrel: The Story of Collecting

By: Rigby, Douglas; Rigby, Elizabeth

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, J. B. Lippincott Company : 1944

Seller ID: 023295

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Limited Edition, no. 171 of 500 copies. Original publisher's beige cloth-covered boards backed with dark blue leather in a blue paper-covered slipcase. Gilt lettering on book spine. Top edge gilt. Book measures 6 1/4" x 9 1/4." Slipcase measures 6 1/2" x 9 3/4." 570 pages, complete. Index in back. Front colophon: "This edition is limited to five hundred fifty numbered copies, five hundred of which are for sale, this is copy no. 171." Pages and covers virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Slipcase has slight rubbing. A Fine book in a Very Good slipcase. Monograph about c...
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The Enjoyment and Use of Color

By: Sargent, Walter

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1924. New York. : 1924

Seller ID: 2048

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Cloth. Illustrations, six in color. Ink signature on front end paper. The author writes about color: color sensations (on emotions, advancing and retreating colors, etc.); color values and intensities (qualities of white and black, etc.); compl imen tary colors (mixtures of paint); composite colors (artistic importance, etc.); color harmonies (brilliant colors not necessarily crude, etc.).
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Antique Die Cut Used in Scott Stamp Catalog - "Belgie Belgique; Zoutleeuw, Leau; 3F"

By: Scott

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Scott

Seller ID: 024374

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good

Original antique die cut of a Belgian stamp design in a black box with gilt lettering on top lid. The design shows St. Leonard's Church in Zoutleeuw, Leau, Belgium. Stamp value is 3F. Die cut is black with the design offset in gilt. Certificate of Authenticity (COA) on gilt paper card included. The COA confirms this die cut was used in the letterpress printing of the Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalog. No date, circa 1973. Box measures 4 1/4" x 2 1/4." COA measures 2" x 3 1/2." Die cut measures 1 1/4" x 3/4." Die cut, box, and Certificate of Authenticity are pristine and intact. A...
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The Charm of the Antique

By: Shackleton, Robert and Elizabeth

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Hearst International Library Co. : 1914

Seller ID: 7590

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

(1914). Publisher's green cloth. 65 photo illustrations, complete. 300 pages. Well written account of what and why to collect antiques.
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The Quest of the Colonial

By: Shackleton, Robert and Elizabeth

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company : 1923

Seller ID: 4957

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Slight chipping spine top and bottom. Illustrated with many photographs and decorations; color frontispiece. 425 pages. Front and rear end papers split at spine. Book plate and ink inscription front end paper. The authors write of their experiences searching for furniture and home accessories: The Finding of Old-Time Houses; The Country Auction; Buying Apparent Wrecks; Repairing and Polishing at Home; Fakes -- How to Recognize and Avoid Them; Finds in Unexpected Places; etc.
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Photographic Images and Related Material; Property of Various Owners; Sale Number 4295A; Exhibition from Saturday, October 27 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, October 31, 1979; Galleries Open Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday Through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Public Auction Thursday, November 1, 1979 at 2 p.m.; Friday, November 2, 1979 at 10:15 a.m. and 2 p.m.

By: Sotheby Parke Bernet, Incorporated

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Incorporated : 1979

Seller ID: 021866

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Original publisher's black and white wrappers with a reprinted photograph on the front cover. 8 3/4" x 9." 515 pages, complete. Numerous reprinted black and white photographs, complete. The photographs show many of the items on exhibit and for sale by auction. Estimates for each item in the back. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Slight wear to the covers, namely, small wrinkles and a small bit of rubbing. A Fine copy. This is a catalog accompanying an exhibition and auction of fine art photographs by prominent artists and photographers. The catalog doubles as an art book w...
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Jesso; Modeling for Modern Handicrafts

By: Tessin, Louise D.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Milton Bradley Company. (1923). Springfield, Massachusetts. : 1923

Seller ID: 2045

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Illustrated wrappers. Illustrations. The author describes Jesso and the many ways it can be used in making crafts; on plain smooth surfaces like mirrors which can then be painted, to achieve a basket weave effect, inlaid designs, stipple surface, dr ipped effect. Some designs included.
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Collection of Two Printed Promotional Ephemera from the Mars Grand Rug Co., 1922

By: The Mars Grand Rug Co.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: : 1922

Seller ID: 024653

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Collection of two original printed promotional ephemera from the Mars Grand Rug Company of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Printed in black ink on light beige paper. The two materials are in letter form (they are either a two-page letter or two separate letters but are likely a single letter). The latter page is signed in faint black ink by the company's treasurer, Ann Percelay (?). September 15, 1922. 8 1/2" x 11." Two pages. Pages are very clean and intact except for horizontal and vertical fold lines and a faint smudge in right margin on first page. Very Good copies. A collection of two p...
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The Book of Home Arts. Compliments of Jane Carson's Studio. Catalog No. 75.

By: Various

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, W.A. Maurer, Importer.

Seller ID: 10278

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Good

56 pages; illustrations; illustrated paper wrapper with title on the cover (8 3/4 x 11 1/4 inch). A W.A. Maurer catalogue with introduction and recommendations by Jane Carson Studio. Supplies for various home art projects from china painting to lamp shades. Tear to the last pages of (1 inch) of the catalogue.
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1926 Calendar - "Wing Kong Company. Wholesale Fruit and Produce. 406 I Street: Sacramento Produce Terminal. Sacramento, California."

By: Wing Kong Company

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Joliet, IL?, Gerlach Barklow Company? : 1926

Seller ID: 020379

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original calendar from 1926 for the Wing Kong Company that features a multicolored illustration by Adelaide Hiebel of a women seated in side profile on a picturesque beach who wears a fancy dress with pink roses on her lap. Illustration is adhered on backing and has a top mat with a gilt decorative border and gilt lettering. Calendar is unmarked and features the twelve months of the year. It is adhered at the bottom of the top mat. String also at the top of the mat. 13 1/2" x 19." Calendar and illustration are very clean and intact. Mat and backing are clean and intact overall. Minor t...
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William Winter: Auction Catalogs of His Library (Eight Catalogs)

By: Winter, William

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, The Walpole Galleries; J. C. Morgenthau and Company, Incorporated

Seller ID: 020714

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Eight catalogs, complete. Original publisher's beige wrappers with staple binding in a red slipcase. 1922-1932. Slipcase measures 7" x 9 3/4." Size of the catalogs/pamphlets range between 5 3/4" x 8 1/4" and 5 3/4" x 9." All pages of all catalogs, complete, with the exception of the 1927 catalog which has sections cut out on Pages 21-24; 55-56. Seven of the catalogs are published by The Walpole Galleries. The 1932 catalog is published by The New Gallery of J. C. Morgenthau & Co., Inc. The following are the titles, dates, and other specifications of each catalog. Catalog One: No. 230; ...
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Category: Antiques and Home Decorating