Art, Photo, & Architecture from Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB

San Francisco: The Wine Advisory Board, 1942. Singe sheet 31 1/2" x 41", professionally mounted on linen to 35" x 44 3/4. Near fine, with some insignificant edge wear and old creases rendered nearly imperceptible by the professional backing.. Pictorial map. One of the more famous of the colorful pictorial maps by brilliant artist of the genre, Ruth… Read more about this item

New York: Brewer & Warren, 1930. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 281 pages. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Bound in coarse off-white cloth over boards with dark blue titles and ornaments to spin and upper board, dark blue topstain. scattered faint brown spotting to boards, rear endpaper browned along gutter, front. Jacket has some minor extremity… Read more about this item

1980. Original. Single sheet. Approximately 13 1/2" x 17. Fine condition. Pastel on paper. Untitled original art in pastels by award winning courtroom and journalistic sketch artist, Freda L. Reiter. The scene depicts an active Cuban cigar and rum market. <br /> <br /> Reiter studied drawing in Mexico City under Diego Rivera. She worked in Philadelphia and… Read more about this item

London: Oldburne, 1958. First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 222 pages. Bound in red cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine titles. No significant wear to book Jacket has a couple of short, cleanly closed edge tears, a few tiny rubs, and a hint of browning to edges of rear panel. Fine in a fine unclipped dust jacket.. Black… Read more about this item

(S.l.): The Walpole Society, 1929. Limited edition. Full cloth, octavo, xviii, 325 pages. Very good. Patch of browning on front pastedown, as if from removal of old bookplate. Rear pastedown in fact has an old bookplate so affixed. Minor extremity rubs.. Black and white plates. Useful reference that gives brief sketches of a wide variety of craftsmen and… Read more about this item

1941. #10 of 10. Photograph mounted on board. Photograph has some silvering, and the mount has some old dampstains.. Black and white photograph. 1931 Walker Evans photograph, sometimes known as "Bed and Stove, Truro, Massachusetts," printed by Evans in 1941 for the exhibition "American Photographs at $10" at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. SIGNED twice… Read more about this item

[New York?]: (Gill Engraving Company?), 1905. Near Fine. Framed original, black and white animated art piece depicting a colonial print shop and the arrival of a new hand screw press. Appears to be acrylic on artists' board.. One of a series of illustrations by E. M. Gill which were featured in Artemas Ward's advertising trade journal, "Fame," around… Read more about this item

Livorno/milan: Graphis Arte/Toninelli Arte, 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Folio. xiv, 133 pages. Near Fine in a Good Dust Jacket. B&w and Color Plates. One of 500 copies in English. Translation by Dermot T. Cooke. Introduction by Enzo Carli. Primarily a catalogue of Marini's work, with notes and captions. Red textured paper over boards with gilt stamped spine and… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1966. Softcover. Square quarto. 341, [2] pages. Very good with light extremity rubs, slight fading, and a faint vertical spine crease.. Black and white photographs. Kaprow's important book on the then emerging field of performance art. It has the special merit of documenting this movement from within, at the beginning, in… Read more about this item

[Liverpool]: [City of Liverpool], 1974. Single sheet. 20" x 28 7/8. Fine, with original fold creases.. This rarely seen poster of the Beatles was part of a promotional package commissioned by the City of Liverpool in 1974 to promote tourism based on the Beatles. Though the Beatles had been broken up for four years by the Liverpool began… Read more about this item