Filter Books (1900-1940s)

**Warning some images are erotic and considered risqué. Sturgis Antiques is not responsible for these published images or how they may offend [...]

Selected Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne 
With Illustrations and Decorations by Harry Clarke 
Published by John Lane The Bodley [...]

THE MAKING OF CHAMPIONS IN CALIFORNIA by Dewitt Van Court and Walter V. Dobbs
Premier Printing Co: Los Angeles, CA nd (1926) Photos, 10.5 x 7.75, [...]

Mushrooms and Other Common Fungi 1915 US Department Of Agriculture Bulletin B&W Photos with New York State Agriculture Experiment Station Geneva New York, Circular [...]

Title: An Introduction To The Study of Costume From Nudity to Raiment
by Hilaire Hiler

W. & G. Foyle, London, 1929. [...]

Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington (1856–1915).
"The book describes his experience of working to rise up from [...]

A Treasury of American Prints Edited by Thomas Craven

This Hardback Spiral Bound was published in 1939 by Simon and Schuster. The Editor Thomas Craven was [...]

The armory show was pivotal art show in American, the show broke the statement academic realism and exposed people the the current art movements in [...]

Rare 1st edition Paperboard self published by the Author (Upton Sinclair)

Title: 100% The Story Of A Patriot
By: Upton [...]

Aller Retour New York by Henry Miller 1st Edition and a Limited Edition, numbered 112 out of 500 of this private press edition by Henry [...]

Verve Vol. V No. 19-20 Pablo Picasso 1948 Printed by Draeger Freres. 

A complete bound edition of Verve, dedicated to Picasso and his work [...]

3 Documents of Modern Art Series Books Wittenbon, Schultz Apollinaire, Kandinsky and Moholy-Nagy

The Documents of Modern Art Series of books were published by Robert [...]

The time of great change and looking inward, the New Deal which gives us the infrastructure the country greatly needed and helped pull America out [...]

Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology
Handbook of American Indian Languages 
By Franz Boas 
Published 1911
Part 1 [...]

Group of 17 Circa early 1900’s Japanese Herbal Botanical Medical Pages

17 pages of colored block printed botanicals. Each flower is black with color block [...]

The Hussy's Handbook Including Latins Are Lousy Lovers
By Helen Brown Norden 
1st Edition 3rd printing
hardback with dust [...]

Henry Miller, the man behind the banned book Tropic of Cancer, who gained notoriety in the US for his erotic and descriptive book of his [...]

Title: The Game of British East Africa
By: Capt. C. H. Stigand
Year: 1909
1st edition hardback with faux Aligator Skin and gold [...]

L'Art International D' Aujourd' Hui Sculpture 13 Folio was published by D'Art Charles Moreau In Paris 50 Plates 
Year: 1929

The complete set [...]

The rare George Grosz 30 Drawings and Watercolors Published by Erich Herrmann  Spiral Bound Edition 
Published by Erich S. Herrmann in New York& [...]

Maillol by John Rewald 1st ed Harback with Dustjacket Pub by Hyperion Press 1939

Oversized Edition Albrecht Durer by Jaro Springer With Tipped in Plates Published 1914 Muchen

The Etchings and Lithographs of Arthur B. Davies by Frederic Newlin Price Published by Mitchell Kennerley 1929 Signed by the Author 

A Study Book by Prentiss Taylor with hand written notes and tipped in art for the book "Why Birds Sing" by Jacques Delamain.

Why Bird Sing by Jacques Delamain 1st ed. hdbk 1931 Signed by Prentiss Taylor and Original Illustration for Book Dated 1931