Richards Antiques
$2000.00
$2000.00
Complete set of Antiques Magazine (The Magazine Antiques) from 1922 to the present. Twenty-four of the years are in the green binders which used to be provided by the magazine. The rest are unbound. An immeasurably valuable resource for the scholar, dealer and collector. Huge and heavy are words appropriate to the size and contents of this set. In good condition. The buyer will need to arrange for pickup and delivery.
Richards Antiques
$300.00
$300.00
Full title is: American Silver 1655-1825 in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Boston by Kathryn C. Buhler. This two volume hardcover book was published in 1972 and came in a slipcase. The individual volumes never had dust jackets. This is an essential reference work if one is a serious collector of or dealer in early American silver. The illustration shows the front and back of the slipcase. This is a crisp new copy that has never been used.
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A "like new" copy of this handsome book, signed on title page by Brock Jobe, who organized the 1993 exhibit on which it is based and who edited the book. This is THE book on the subject. Full title is "Portsmouth Furniture: Masterworks from the New Hampshire Seacoast." Paperback edition.
Richards Antiques
$200.00
$200.00
Dust wrapper with original price of $2.50. Two small, clean tears on ffep (barely noticeable). An extraordinary copy I purchased in 1959.
Richards Antiques
$200.00
$200.00
This is a first edition of Philip Roth's famous Portnoy's Complaint, the author's fourth book, a comic novel, published in 1969. It was made into a movie of the same name in 1972, starring Richard Benjamin and Karen Black. Book in fine condition. Dustwrapper is unfaded with clipped corner but first issue price of $6.95 present (this is right for the first issue of this book). Also 2/69 date on rear flap. Very slightest bit of wear evident at top front of dw. An excellent copy of this rare state.
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LAST SET!!! Important auction catalogs from the sales of the caddy spoon collection of John Norie at Woolley and Wallis in Salisbury, England. Part I was on 20 April 2004 and Part II was on 28 July 2004. We have only one set remaining -- we still have a couple of extra copies of Part I, but only one full set. Better act fast!
All lots are illustrated in color. There were 448 lots in the sales...
Richards Antiques
$125.00
$125.00
First Edition, First Printing of this remarkable one-act play, written in 1941 but not performed until 1958 in Sweden and first published in 1959. Jason Robards played the lead when the play was first performed in New York City in 1964. This is a mint condition copy in dust wrapper (dust wrapper protected by mylar cover). O'Neill, considered by many to be America's greatest dramatist, won three Pulitzer Prizes and is the only American to have won the Nobel Prize for literature.
Richards Antiques
$125.00
$125.00
Privately printed in 1960, this is #111 of 500 printed. It reproduces inscriptions from Eugene O'Neill, America's greatest playwright, to his wife, Carlotta Monterey O'Neill. They inscriptions of on copies of books, photographs, love notes, etc. The originals were given by Carlotta O'Neill to the Yale Library for the Eugene O'Neill Collection. This copy was purchased when it was published. It is in "like new" condition...
Richards Antiques
$100.00
$100.00
By Sir Herbert Richmond, commandant of the Imperial Defence College from 1927-28, the book "explains in non-technical language and broad principles which underlie the problem of what is called Imperial Defence -- the defence of the interests, the territories and the persons of all the individuals comprising the British Empire." Scarce book, 21 illustrations...
Richards Antiques
$100.00
$100.00
First Edition of Arthur Miller's powerful adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic play An Enemy of the People. Viking Press, New York, 1951. Fine copy in fine unclipped dustwrapper showing original $2.50 price (wrapper in protective mylar cover).
Richards Antiques
$100.00
$100.00
Plain & Elegant Rich & Common Documented New Hampshire Furniture, 1750-1850 published in 1979 by the New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, based on a loan exhibition held in 1978. This is an important book on New Hampshire furniture, discussing pieces that are signed or have labels or reliable provenances such as manuscript bills. The text, fully illustrated, covers the usual details found in scholarly books: full descriptions, dimensions, and wood used...
Richards Antiques
$75.00
$75.00
Made in Bermuda: Bermudian silver, furniture, art & design by Graham, Laura T., et al. Bermuda National Gallery, 2000, First edition. Wraps. New. No dust jacket as issued.. Very interesting pamphlet that accompanied an exhibit at the Bermuda National Gallery from September 2000 to January 2001. Includes articles and illustrations...















