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Published by Kansas City, MO: H. Alfred Fowler, 1913., 1913
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Kansas City, MO: H. Alfred Fowler, 1913. 1913. Good. - Octavo, printed cream paper wraps. The covers are slightly darkened with 2 chips to the top edge. 23 leaves with several plates and illustrations throughout. Good. Includes a "List of Book-Plates by Sidney L. Smith", mention of a new bindery, bookplates by J. Smither, the preface to Caxton's "Le Morte d'Arthur", and more.Very scarcce.
Published by Archaeological Institute of America, Washington, D.C., 1921
Seller: Capricorn Books, Oakville, ON, Canada
Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. 268 pp + 284 pp, 10 7/8" H. Volumes XI (January-June 1921) and XII (July-December 1921), bound in one volume with brown leather spine and corners, teale blue cloth boards. Spine has five raised bands, gilt lettering/decorations (including college crest). Floral endpapers, red 'splatter' effect to text block edges. ** Ex-college library** Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions, drawings. Articles include: The Chaco Canyon and Its Ancient Monuments; What the Potsherds Tell; The Excavation of Chettro Kettle; What the War Cost France in Art Treasures; Playing Cards: Their History and Symbolism; The Memorials of Rome in the Italian Colonies; The Angel in American Sculpture; The Arts of Czechoslovakia (Folk Art / Architecture / Sculpture / Painting); Sir Moses Ezekiel, American Sculptor; Some Literary Bookplates; William Rush, The Earliest Native Born American Sculptor; The Investigation at Assos; The Broadmoor Art Academy; The Carillons of Belgium After the Great War; The Reconstruction of the Nashville Parthenon; Chicago as an Art Center (Plan of Chicago / Architecture / Monuments / Art Institute / Field Museum of Natural History / Eagle's Next Camp, etc.); Housekeeping in Primitive Hawaii; Debt of Modern Sculpture to Ancient Greece; Philip A. de Laszlo; Lorado Taft, Dean of Chicago Sculptors; Motherhood in American Sculpture; etc., etc. Three endpapers have a college library stamp or number, one edge tear archivally taped on a preliminary page - also on pages 19, 67 & 253, a small piece of paper with notation bound in at the first title page as an instruction to the binder, two creases down a blank rear page, some light finger marks/smudges in some page margins - mainly towards the rear of the book. a few pages with soft edge creases. light to moderate board edge wear/rubbing, handling marks on the board cloth, light fading to the leather spine colour. Not Signed.