79 EASTON PRESS LEATHER BOUND BOOKS8079 EASTON PRESS LEATHER BOUND BOOKS80 leather bound books - 79 Easton Press and 1 Harvard Classics. 77 Easton Press The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written: Louisa May Alcott Little Women, Victor Hugo Les Miserables, Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Ralph Waldo Emerson The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover, Leo Tolstoy War & Peace, Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo, Jack London The Sea-Wolf, Henry James The Portrait of a Lady, Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book, Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray, Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac, Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin, Charles Dickens David Copperfield, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Faust, George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion and Candida, John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, Edward Fitzgerald Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Confucius The Analects of Confucius, Herman Melville Billy Budd and Benito Cereno, Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe, William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels, Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary, Bram Stoker Dracula, Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy, Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote, Henry David Thoreau Walden, Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Guy de Maupassant The Tales of Guy de Maupassant, George Eliot Silas Marner, Herman Melville Moby Dick, Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities, George Orwell Animal Farm, Aesop Aesop's Fables, Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer, Robert Browning The Poems of Robert Browning, Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales, William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, H.G. Wells The Time Machine, Homer The Iliad, St. Augustine The Confessions of St. Augustine, Henry Fielding Tom Jones, John Milton Paradise Lost, Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights, James Fenimore Copper The Last of the Mohicans, Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Aldous Huxley Brave New World, Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage, Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina, Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms, Richard F. Burton The Arabian Knights, Thomas Paine Rights of Man, Sir Walter Scott The Talisman, Machiavelli The Prince, Sophocles Oedipus the King, Joseph Conrad Lord Jim, Livy History of Early Rome, John Boccaccio The Decameron, Charles Dickens Great Expectations, Emily Dickinson Poems of Emily Dickinson, Virgil Aeneid, Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories, Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island, Walter Scott Ivanhoe, Homer The Odyssey, Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Ubervilles, Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh, Nathaniel Hawthorn The Scarlet Letter, Grimm's Fairytales, Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers; 1 Easton Press Greatest Books Ever Written: Herman Melville Moby Dick; 1 Easton Press Millenium Edition Harvard Classics Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays and English Traits; 1 Harvard Classics The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus and The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
RARE MESOPOTAMIAN TELL BRAK STONE DOUBLERARE MESOPOTAMIAN TELL BRAK STONE DOUBLE EYE IDOLAncient Near East, The Levant, Tell Brak, Middle Uruk Period, ca. 3700 to 3500 BCE. An abstract gray stone idol of conjoined figures carved with flat bodies surmounted by elliptical heads that each contain a pair of well defined, incised eyes under arched brows. Their bodies are plaque-like, square aside from sloping shoulders and a V-shaped depression carved below the head, giving the impression of a neckline. These idols were used for dedication to an all seeing god who watched over the populations of early Mesopotamia. They have been excavated from a building we call the Eye Temple; many are incised with multiple sets of eyes and other have "children" - smaller eyes and body carved on the body of the larger idol. Wide eyes meant attentiveness to the gods in Mesopotamian art, and the thought "two pairs of eyes are better than one" may have been applied to this intriguing pair! Size: 1.625" W x 1.5" H (4.1 cm x 3.8 cm); custom display stand included.
These "eye idols" were named in the 1930s by the British archaeologist Max Mallowan when excavating at the Tell Brak mound, where he found hundreds of small anthropomorphic items of similar form to this one - a simplified body topped by huge discs for eyes and no other discernible facial features. He named the place where he found them "The Temple of the Eyes." Archaeologists believe that these idols were placed there as offerings, as wide eyes meant religious attentiveness and devotion to the gods in Mesopotamian art.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 51.59.6
Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-private Brooklyn, New York, USA collection, acquired from David Libert at Time Machine Gallery, Queens, New York, USA, auction #4, 2004
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#170399
Condition:
One head is repaired with visible break line from neck to shoulder as shown. Surface wear to bodies with chips and small losses as expected with age. Great preservation to incised eyes and light mineral deposits.
RARE MESOPOTAMIAN TELL BRAK STONE DOUBLERARE MESOPOTAMIAN TELL BRAK STONE DOUBLE EYE IDOLAncient Near East, The Levant, Tell Brak, Middle Uruk Period, ca. 3700 to 3500 BCE. A petite and abstract gray stone idol of conjoined figures carved with flat bodies surmounted by elliptical heads that each contain a pair of well defined, incised eyes under arched brows. Their bodies are plaque-like, square aside from sloping shoulders and a V-shaped depression carved below the head, giving the impression of a neckline. These idols were used for dedication to an all seeing god who watched over the populations of early Mesopotamia. They have been excavated from a building we call the Eye Temple; many are incised with multiple sets of eyes and other have "children" - smaller eyes and body carved on the body of the larger idol. Wide eyes meant attentiveness to the gods in Mesopotamian art, and the thought "two pairs of eyes are better than one" may have been applied to this intriguing pair! Size: 1.625" W x 1.375" H (4.1 cm x 3.5 cm); 2" H (5.1 cm) on included custom stand.
These "eye idols" were named in the 1930s by the British archaeologist Max Mallowan when excavating at the Tell Brak mound, where he found hundreds of small anthropomorphic items of similar form to this one - a simplified body topped by huge discs for eyes and no other discernible facial features. He named the place where he found them "The Temple of the Eyes." Archaeologists believe that these idols were placed there as offerings, as wide eyes meant religious attentiveness and devotion to the gods in Mesopotamian art.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 51.59.6
Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-private Brooklyn, New York, USA collection, acquired from David Libert at Time Machine Gallery, Queens, New York, USA, auction #4, 2004
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Display stands not described as included/custom in the item description are for photography purposes only and will not be included with the item upon shipping.
#170399
Condition:
One head is repaired with visible break line from neck to shoulder as shown. Surface wear to bodies with chips and small losses as expected with age. Great preservation to incised eyes and light mineral deposits.
KATHRYN STEDHAM PAINTING - "SOUTH SHOULDERKATHRYN STEDHAM PAINTING - "SOUTH SHOULDER ECHO" (2018)...Kathryn Stedham (American, Contemporary). "South Shoulder Echo" oil on canvas, 2018. Signed on lower right as well as verso with title and date. A stunning Southwest landscape painting by Kathryn Stedham. Stedham blends figurative interpretation with abstraction, depicting a grand red rock precipice rising toward the big blue sky. Passages of verdant foliage dot the foreground and interrupt the rocky crags and ridges above, while feathery clouds emerge from the azure atmosphere. All is delineated with Stedham's gestural Alla Prima painting technique - a method where paint is applied wet on wet rather than letting the earlier layers dry, enabling the artist to capture brilliant light and color. A beautiful example of Kathryn Stedham's dazzling artistry set in a custom frame. Size (painting): 29.7" L x 35.5" W (75.4 cm x 90.2 cm) Size (frame): 35.875" L x 41.76" W (91.1 cm x 106.1 cm)
This painting was acquired from Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The following is Blue Rain's informative artist biography for Kathryn Stedham: "Moving to the West in 2005 was a life-changing event that brought Kathryn Stedham face-to-face with a true calling: painting the infinite spaces of the American Southwest. Little did she realize at the time, that this would combine two personal rudiments: painting and contemplation. Forever fascinated with stories about the West and Westward Expansion she explains, 'I would happily board a time machine, if there were such a thing, to experience first-hand this important period in American history and our connection to the land.'
Feeling an urgency to portray this space, rooting out the mystic snippets of a quickly vanishing landscape, Stedham seeks to capture its raw elegance in the rapidly changing light, vast distances, rugged escarpments, colorful mesas and hidden arroyos—to excavate the bones of existence in this terrain where the West is still wild and free and to be an explorer of this ineffable mystery.
Trained as an Academic Realist, Stedham began her career as a figurative painter. But her interest evolved, through a period of pure abstraction, into the gestural Alla Prima painting style for which she is known today. This approach combines representational landscape forms with an expressionistic modernist sensibility.
Stedham has exhibited as an artist for over 35 years and her paintings have been featured in public and private collections throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and Canada. She is a long-time student in the Sanbo lineage of Zen Buddhism. In addition to her studio practice, Stedham travels internationally, rides horses and teaches oil painting workshops. Stedham currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico."
Provenance: private Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA collection; ex-Hugh K. Terrell estate, representative Priscilla T. Bisher, , purchased from Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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#175543
Condition:
Painting is overall excellent. Signed on lower right and verso with title and date. Mounted in museum-quality frame which is also excellent save a few minute, nearly invisible scuffs. Fit with suspension wire and ready to display.
KATHRYN STEDHAM PAINTING - "GHOST RANCHKATHRYN STEDHAM PAINTING - "GHOST RANCH SHADOWS" (2020)...**First Time At Auction**
Kathryn Stedham (American, Contemporary). "Ghost Ranch Shadows" oil on canvas panel, 2020. Signed on lower right. A stunning painting of New Mexico's Ghost Ranch by Kathryn Stedham. Stedham blends figurative interpretation with abstraction in this piece, delineating verdant passages leading to the sublime cliffs of renowned Ghost Ranch beneath an azure sky. All is rendered with her gestural Alla Prima painting technique - a method where paint is applied wet on wet rather than letting the earlier layers dry, enabling the artist to capture brilliant light and color. While the scene depicts a site where ancient history has been unveiled via the discoveries of dinosaur fossils, Stedham interpreted it with a modern sensibility and a vibrant color palette that is fresh and current. A beautiful example of Kathryn Stedham's impressive artistry set in a custom frame. Size (painting): 30" L x 36" W (76.2 cm x 91.4 cm) Size (frame): 33.2" L x 39.2" W (84.3 cm x 99.6 cm)
This painting was acquired from Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The following is Blue Rain Gallery's informative artist biography for Kathryn Stedham: "Moving to the West in 2005 was a life-changing event that brought Kathryn Stedham face-to-face with a true calling: painting the infinite spaces of the American Southwest. Little did she realize at the time, that this would combine two personal rudiments: painting and contemplation. Forever fascinated with stories about the West and Westward Expansion she explains, 'I would happily board a time machine, if there were such a thing, to experience first-hand this important period in American history and our connection to the land.'
Feeling an urgency to portray this space, rooting out the mystic snippets of a quickly vanishing landscape, Stedham seeks to capture its raw elegance in the rapidly changing light, vast distances, rugged escarpments, colorful mesas and hidden arroyos—to excavate the bones of existence in this terrain where the West is still wild and free and to be an explorer of this ineffable mystery.
Trained as an Academic Realist, Stedham began her career as a figurative painter. But her interest evolved, through a period of pure abstraction, into the gestural Alla Prima painting style for which she is known today. This approach combines representational landscape forms with an expressionistic modernist sensibility.
Stedham has exhibited as an artist for over 35 years and her paintings have been featured in public and private collections throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and Canada. She is a long-time student in the Sanbo lineage of Zen Buddhism. In addition to her studio practice, Stedham travels internationally, rides horses and teaches oil painting workshops. Stedham currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico."
Provenance: Private Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA collection; ex-Hugh K. Tirrell estate, representative Priscilla T. Bisher, purchased at Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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#176364
Condition:
Painting is overall excellent and signed at the lower right. Also signed, titled, and dated on verso. Mounted in a beautiful custom frame with a lovely finish. Fit with suspension wire and ready to display.
KATHRYN STEDHAM PAINTING - ORPHAN MESAKATHRYN STEDHAM PAINTING - ORPHAN MESA (2021)Kathryn Stedham (American, Contemporary). "Desert Waves, Orphan Mesa" oil on canvas, 2021. Signed on lower right as well as verso with title and date. A stunning painting of Orphan Mesa in Georgia O'Keeffe's Ghost Ranch region of New Mexico by contemporary artist Kathryn Stedham. Masterfully blending figurative interpretation with abstraction, Stedham has captured the impressive red rock mesa rising toward the blues and greens of the big open sky as sunlight dramatically illuminates the topographical landscape. A band of shadows in the foreground contrasts with the luminous scene beyond. All is delineated with Stedham's gestural Alla Prima painting technique - a method where paint is applied wet on wet rather than letting the earlier layers dry, enabling the artist to capture brilliant light and color. A beautiful example of Kathryn Stedham's dazzling artistry set in a custom frame. Size (sight view): 22.125" L x 27.75" W (56.2 cm x 70.5 cm) Size (frame): 24.75" L x 30.7" W (62.9 cm x 78 cm)
This painting was acquired from Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The following is Blue Rain's informative artist biography for Kathryn Stedham: "Moving to the West in 2005 was a life-changing event that brought Kathryn Stedham face-to-face with a true calling: painting the infinite spaces of the American Southwest. Little did she realize at the time, that this would combine two personal rudiments: painting and contemplation. Forever fascinated with stories about the West and Westward Expansion she explains, 'I would happily board a time machine, if there were such a thing, to experience first-hand this important period in American history and our connection to the land.'
Feeling an urgency to portray this space, rooting out the mystic snippets of a quickly vanishing landscape, Stedham seeks to capture its raw elegance in the rapidly changing light, vast distances, rugged escarpments, colorful mesas and hidden arroyos—to excavate the bones of existence in this terrain where the West is still wild and free and to be an explorer of this ineffable mystery.
Trained as an Academic Realist, Stedham began her career as a figurative painter. But her interest evolved, through a period of pure abstraction, into the gestural Alla Prima painting style for which she is known today. This approach combines representational landscape forms with an expressionistic modernist sensibility.
Stedham has exhibited as an artist for over 35 years and her paintings have been featured in public and private collections throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and Canada. She is a long-time student in the Sanbo lineage of Zen Buddhism. In addition to her studio practice, Stedham travels internationally, rides horses and teaches oil painting workshops. Stedham currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico."
Provenance: Private Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA collection; ex-Hugh K. Tirrell estate, representative Priscilla T. Bisher, purchased from Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, July 28, 2021
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#175414
Condition:
Painting is excellent overall. Signed on lower right and verso with title and date. Mounted in museum-quality frame which is also excellent save a few minor scuffs and one minute nick that is difficult to see. Fit with suspension wire and ready to display.
ITALIAN POSTMODERN EYEGLASSES LIGHTEDITALIAN POSTMODERN EYEGLASSES LIGHTED MIRRORItalian Postmodern green painted steel illuminated mirror, c.1970s-1980s, in the form of a pair of eyeglasses, the lenses fitted with flat mirror plates, lighted from behind by two sockets, can be wall mounted or sit on a tabletop, paper label on back reading "la macchina del tempo" (the time machine), lighting in need of wiring, approx 9.5"h, 36"l
MARVEL CLASSICS AND MOVIE ADAPTATIONSMARVEL CLASSICS AND MOVIE ADAPTATIONS GROUP 1970s - 80s, (26) comics, including Labyrinth 1; Raiders of the Lost Ark 1, 2, and 3; Logan's Run 1, 4, and 7; Marvel Classics Comics 1 (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), 2 (The Time Machine), 3 (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), 4 (20,000 Leagues Under The Sea), 5 (Black Beauty), 7 (Tom Sawyer), 8 (Moby Dick), 9 (Dracula), 11 (Mysterious Island), 12 (The Three Musketeers), 15 (Treasure Island), 18 (The Odyssey); 20 (Frankenstein), 21 (Master Of The World), 22 (Food Of The Gods), 23 (The Moonstone), 25 (The Invisible Man), 26 (The Iliad), and 30 (The Arabian Nights).
LARRY STUART BELL (B. 1939): 9/11 ANDLARRY STUART BELL (B. 1939): 9/11 AND THE TIME MACHINE (DMX-C1)Larry Stuart Bell, 1939 9/11 and The Time Machine (DMX-C1), acrylic and screenprint on canvas 2001; signed, dated verso and inscribed "dmx-c1" verso acrylic and screenprint on canvas Dimensions: 42 x 42 in. (106.7 x 106.7 cm.) Provenance: Property from The Oppenheim Estate Collection Condition:
LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB, FAIRY TALES &LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB, FAIRY TALES & SCI FI (8) titles, each in slipcase, numbered and signed as indicated in (): 1) H.G. Wells, The Time Machine/War of the Worlds, 1964, #1063, (Joe Magnaini), w/newsletter; 2) Wells, The Invisible Man, 1967, #1063, (Charles Mozley); 3) Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1966, #1063 (Edward Wilson), w/newsletter; 4) Verne, Around the World in 80 Days, 1962, #1194 (Edward Wilson); 5) R. L. Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, 1952, #984, (Edward Wilson); 6) Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, 1942, #723, 2 vols., (Fritz Kredel); 7) Grimm's Fairy Tales, 4 vols. in separate slipcases, 1962, #1063, (Lucille Corcos); 8) The Complete Andersen, 6 vols. in 1 slipcase, 1949, #1337 (Fritz Kredel); 11.75"h x 8.5"w (largest)
(LOT OF 13) ONE SHELF OF HARDBOUND BOOKS(LOT OF 13) ONE SHELF OF HARDBOUND BOOKS WITH SLIP CASES BY HERITAGE PRESS (lot of 13) One shelf of hardbound books with slip cases by Heritage Press, including The Ambassador by Henry James; Aristotle Politics & Poetics; The Spy by James Fenimopre Cooper; Faust; The Lives of Twelve Ceasars; The Prisoner of Zenda; The Red and the Black; The War of the World/ The Time Machine by H.G. Wells; The History of Tom Jones by Hernry ; Eugene Onegin by Pushkin; The Book of Proverbs; Fathers & Sons and Gulliver's Travels.
SEVEN FOLIO SOCIETY FANTASY GENRE BOOKSSEVEN FOLIO SOCIETY FANTASY GENRE BOOKS Group of seven The Folio Society fantasy genre hardcover books comprising, George Raymond Richard Martin, "A Game of Thrones" (two volumes), 2019, Neil Gaiman, "American Gods", 2017, Neil Gaiman, "Anansi Boys", 2019, and H.G. Wells, Classics of Science Fiction, three volumes, "The Invisible Man", "The Time Machine", and "The War Of The Worlds", 2004. Provenance: From the Private Collection of Joel A. Katz, Atlanta, Georgia. Approx. "A Game of Thrones" h. 10", w. 7", d. 1.5".
Laszlo Fekete (1958 Hungary) Time MachineLaszlo Fekete (1958 Hungary) Time Machine Captured by White Women?1996-97Stoneware; ht. 13 wd. 10.5 dp. 8.5 in. Condition: Excellent original condition.
BACCARAT SULPHIDE PAPERWEIGHT OF ALEXANDERBACCARAT SULPHIDE PAPERWEIGHT OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT 1975. Together with a Caithness faceted ''Time Machine: Back to the Future'' paperweight edition 72/150 and four paperweights Condition: No Specific Condition Recorded - Sold As Is