Books & Related Artifacts & Collectibles

ARTIFACT: Circa 1944 Fighting Wings - A Pictorial History of Aerial Combat by Gilbert Paust and Milton Lancelot. This example is a 1st Edition and nearly every one of the 255 pages contains a photograph of aircraft in flight. The book is a wonderful...

ARTIFACT: This is 1942 publication by the United States Office of War Information entitled "Tale of a City". The short booklet is full of depressing black and white illustrations and the story of Warsaw's fall to the Nazis during World War II...

ARTIFACT: Great 1941 Anti-Nazi, Anti-German sensationalist novel: GERMANY MUST PERISH! by Theodore N. Kaufman. The bright orange novel depicts a black swastika in the center and reads: "GERMANY MUST PERISH". The top reads: "THE BOOK THAT HITLER FEARS",...

ARTIFACT: Great 1929 'The Golden Age of Aviation' book Aviation Stories by Jay Earle. The 1st Edition, 250 page hardcover contains over 25 illustrated chapters of stories and was published by Longmans, Green & Co. The front of the book shows an...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare signed first edition of "Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic ??? The Flight to the South Pole" by Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Byrd, a Virginia native with ties to John Rolfe and Pocahontas, was a United...

ARTIFACT: This is a first American edition of George Orwell's "Animal Farm". It was published in 1946, one year after the original publication in Britain. Orwell had a hard time finding any willing publishers for his controversial novel...

ARTIFACT: This is a copy of the "Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin Summer 1979". This copy of the quarterly bulletin focuses on "The Cloisters", a museum in Manahattan set up by American sculptor George Grey Barnard. Barnard installed French medieval...

ARTIFACT: This is a 2004 limited edition of the "Art Price Annual & Folk's Art Price Index", a French art guide published since 191The massive volume gives auction records, art market trends and a breakdown of sales by artist, media, and other...

ARTIFACT: This is a 2002 limited edition of the "Art Price Annual & Folk's Art Price Index", a French art guide published since 191The massive volume gives auction records, art market trends and a breakdown of sales by artist, media, and other...

ARTIFACT: 1978 1920's ??? 1930's Past Joys by Ken Botto published in association with Robert Briggs. "Ken Botto ??? painter, photographer, toy fanatic, miniaturist, gardener of memories" has used his talents to put together a beautiful photo book of...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1968 first edition of H. H. Arnason's "History of Modern Art". Arnason was Vice President for Art Administration for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and his catalog was the most comprehensive review of modern art when...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1913 edition of "Successful Fruit Culture" by Samuel T(aylor) Maynard. This book was published by Orange Judd Company of New York. The title was originally published in 190There are several black and white photographs and...