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James McNeill Whistler | A collection of antiquarian books

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James McNeill Whistler


A collection of books by and pertaining to James McNeill Whistler, including:


Campbell Dodgson, The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler. London: The Studio, Limited, 1922


Theodore Duret, Whistler. London: Grant Richards Ltd, 1917, 4to, original blue cloth, boards worn;


Arthur Jerome Eddy, Recollections and Impressions of James A. McNeill Whistler. London: Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1903, cloth over brown boards;


A.E. Gallatin, Whistler: Notes and Footnotes, and other Memoranda. New York and London: The Collector and Art Critic Co. and Elkin Mathews, 1907, 8vo, pink cloth;


A.E. Gallatin, Whistler's Pastels and Other Modern Profiles. New York and London: John Lane, 1913, new edition, 8vo, cloth;


A.E. Gallatin, Whistler's Art Dicta and Other Essays. Boston and London: Charles E. Goodspeed and Elkin Mathews, 1914, 8vo, marbled boards;


Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys To the Homes of Eminent Artists: Whistler. East Aurora, NY: self-published, 1902, number 208 of 940 copies, 4to, inscribed to Adolf Vögtlin from James Carleton Young, suede covers, deckle edges;


James Laver, Whistler. London: Penguin Books, 1942, 8vo, original wrappers, covers detached;


James Laver, Whistler. London: Faber and Faber, 1951, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, dust-jacket price-clipped and frayed at edges;


Mortimer Menpes, Whistler As I Knew Him. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904, 4to, original cloth, frontispiece loose, loss at spine;


Elizabeth Mumford, Whistler's Mother. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1940, first edition, 8vo, original boards, dust-jacket, dust-jacket worn;


Albert Parry, Whistler's Father. Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939, blue cloth and burgundy morocco, binding worn;


E.R. and J. Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler. London: William Heinemann, 1908, two volumes, number 92 of 150 copies signed by the publisher, folio, mustard gilt-ruled half morocco;


E.R. and J. Pennell, The Whistler Journal. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1921, autograph edition, small 4to, original vellum-backed buckram;


E.R. and J. Pennell, The Whistler Journal. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1921, small 4to, original boards;


Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of Works by James A. McN. Whistler with a Bibliography. London: Published under the authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921, small folio, original wrappers, wrappers worn at edges;


T.R. Way and G.R. Dennis, The Art of J. McNeill Whistler. London: George Bell and Sons, 1903, small 4to, original gilt-stamped cloth, boards stained, endleaves spotted;


Thomas R. Way, Memories of James McNeill Whistler. London: John Lane, 1912, two volumes, small 4to, gilt-stamped cloth (two copies), ink-stain to upper board of one volume, endleaves of other volume, spotted bindings worn;


Frederick Wedmore, Whistler and Others. London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1906, 8vo, gilt-stamped brown cloth, boards worn;


James McNeill Whistler, Nocturnes, Marines, & Chevalet Pieces. London: [Tite Street, Chelsea, 1878], small 4to, original wrappers;


James McNeill Whistler, Etchings and Dry Points. Venice. Second Series. London: Tite Street, Chelsea, [1883], small 4to, original wrappers;


James McNeill Whistler, "Notes"—"Harmonies"—"Nocturnes.". London: Tite Street, Chelsea, 1884, small 4to, original wrappers;


James McNeill Whistler, Mr. Whistler's "Ten O'Clock.". London: Chatto and Windus, 1888, small 4to, original wrappers (two copies);


James McNeill Whistler, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. London: William Heinemann, 1890, small 4to, gilt-tooled upper cover, deckled edges;


James McNeill Whistler, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. London: William Heinemann, 1890, number 42 of 250 copies, 4to, gilt-tooled upper cover, deckled edges;


James McNeill Whistler, The Baronet & the Butterfly, A Valentine with a Verdict. New York: R.H. Russell, 1899, number 82 of 250, signed by Whistler with his butterfly monogram, 4to, gilt-tooled upper cover, deckled edges, housed in green buckram slipcase;


James McNeill Whistler, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet & the Butterfly, A Valentine with a Verdict. Paris: Louis-Henry May, 1899, 4to, gilt-tooled upper cover, deckled edges;


[James McNeill Whistler], An Illustrated Catalogue of the Whistler Exhibition. London: Ballantyne Press, 1905, luxe edition, 4to, bookplates of Theodore Besterman and Cornelius Verheyden de Lancey, half mustard cloth over brown boards, deckled edges, spotting and browning to endleaves, boards lightly worn;


[James McNeill Whistler], An Illustrated Catalogue of the Whistler Exhibition. London: Ballantyne Press, 1905, third edition, 4to, bookplates of Theodore Besterman and Cornelius Verheyden de Lancey, unbound, lacking front free endpaper;


[James McNeill Whistler], Paintings, Drawings, Etchings & Lithographs. London: Ballantyne Press, 1905, third edition, small 4to, original wrappers, wrappers worn, loss to spine;


James McNeill Whistler, "Ten O'Clock": A Lecture by James A. McNeill Whistler. Portland, MN: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1920, 8vo, gilt-tooled upper cover;


James McNeill Whistler, James McNeill Whistler: An exhibition of paintings and other works, organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the English-speaking union of the United States. London: W.S. Cowell, 1960, 4to, original covers, back cover annotated;


Wilde v Whistler: an acrimonious correspondence on art between Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler. London: privately printed, 1996, the Estelle Doheny copy, one of 400, 4to, original wrappers, housed in quarter black morocco slipcase;


[with:]


A selection of ephemera pertaining to Whistler, including an annotated typescript of an undergraduate essay written by Christopher Cone, a transparency of a Whistler painting, two photographs of Whistler paintings,