John Walker Guy Emerson (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Over-sized hardbound (folio). First edition: no later printings listed. Light wear to the binding. No slope, no twist from reading or improper shelving. No bumped corners. No broken hinges. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. Blind embossed name stamp on the lower right corner of the title page. No musty odor. No tobacco odor. No water damage. No soiling. Light sun fading. Lacks the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. [London]: Phaidon Press, 1961. 9.5" wide by 12.5" tall. Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (12.50). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Beautifully illustrated with 187 art reproductions, 100 in full-color. Original red cloth, gilt. First Printing of the First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. xxi, 217pp .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. xxii, 218pp, with 187 illustrations, 100 in in colour. DW has some wear & tears on the upper edge front panel. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Condition: MOLTO BUONO. Londra, Phaidon Press per The Samuel H.Kress Fondation cm.24x32, pp.XXII,218, 187 ill.bn.e col.nt. legatura ed. con titoli al piatto ant.e al dorso. Ex libris. Prefaz.di John Walker e Guy Emerson, commento di Charles Seymour Jr.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Various (illustrator). First edition. A first edition of this anthology of art from the Samuel H. Kress collection. One of the most important art collections in America, which contains over a thousand paintings and sculptures by masters from Italy, Spain, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Samuel Henry Kress (July 23, 1863September 22, 1955) was a businessman and philanthropist, founder of the S. H. Kress & Co. five and ten cent store chain. With his fortune, Kress amassed one of the most significant collections of Italian Renaissance and European artwork assembled in the 20th century. In the 1950s and 1960s, a foundation established by Kress would donate 776 works of art from the Kress collection to 18 regional art museums in the United States. 100 colour plates and 87 black and white plates. In the original publisher's cloth binding with the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Some rubbing to the extremities. Dustwrapper with minor edgewear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. book.