Titled 'Naughty Puppy', number 8106, dated 2004 under the base with a blue inkstamp, measures 7.5 x 4.25 inches. With original box and fitted packing materials. Very good, no chips, cracks or repairs. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Titled 'Just Like New', number 6799, impressed number and dated 2000 under the base with a blue inkstamp, measures 7.5 x 3.5 inches. With original box and fitted packing materials. Very good, no chips, cracks or repairs. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Titled 'Endless Love' number 6585, hand signed and dated 09-07-02 under the base (possibly for Juan Aliena), marked with a blue inkstamp dated 1998, impressed number under the base, measures5 x 10.75 inches. With original box and fitted packing materials. Very good, no chips, cracks or repairs. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Titled 'Bath Time', number 6411, impressed number and dated 1996 under the base with a blue inkstamp, measures 5 x 4.25 inches. With original box and fitted packing materials. Very good, no chips, cracks or repairs. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Titled 'By the Seashore', number 6855, impressed number and dated 2001 under the base with a blue inkstamp, measures 9.5 x 5 inches. With original box and fitted packing materials. Very good, no chips, cracks or repairs. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Titled 'Love Nest' number 6291, hand signed and dated 09-07-02 under the base (possibly for Juan Aliena), marked with a blue inkstamp dated 1995, impressed number under the base, measures 9.5 x 9.75 inches. With original box, certificate and fitted packing materials. Very good, no chips, cracks or repairs. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Titled 'Little Peasant Girl - Pink', number 2332, impressed number and dated 1995 under the base with a blue inkstamp, measures 7.5 inches. With original box and fitted packing materials. Very good, no chips, cracks or repairs. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Includes Feb. 1930; Feb, March, Sept., Nov. 1931; Feb., April, May, Oct. 1932; Jan. 1933, June 1935, May 1937, Oct. 1938, Dec. 1941, April 1942, Sept. 1945. Old 14 x 11.25 inch sized issues. Normal toning, though in average - good condition overall. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Both volumes half-calf bound, six volumes in each, gold printed titles to spines. Measure 3 x 14 x 11.25 inches. Great set of Depression-era issues. Normal toning, though in good condition overall. Binding shows rubbing at edges and highlights, general shelf wear. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Includes a Pixie Records copy of Timothy Leary's 'LSD,' catalog number CA 1069, no inner sleeve, vinyl appears clean. Lot also includes an original Hanover Records copy of Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen, 'Poetry for the Beat Generation,' catalog HML 5000. Signed on reverse 'Best wishes! Steve Allen.' Tape reinforced corners on the Kerouac record. Vinyl appears excellent condition. Inner sleeve with tears and toning. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Autographs, drawing, photos and ephemera from the estate of Kansas City writer and photographer Bob Barrett (1943-2016) relating to his personal experience with Kansas City artist Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975). One of the more interesting pieces in this lot is a note written by Benton explaining to whomever it may concern why Bob Barrett is driving a car belonging to Benton's son across country. The wording of the letter suggests that the two, Barrett and Benton, were more acquaintances than they were close friends since Benton misspelled Bob's last name twice. But both had many friends and acquaintances so it's not surprising they crossed paths in Kansas City. And it's no surprise that Bob jumped at the chance for a cross-country adventure that included interaction with a famous artist that he admired. The letter reads, "To whom it may concern, This car 171-52 K, MASS. belongs to my son Thomas P. Benton of Gayhead, Martha's Vinyard (sic) Mass. It is being driven to Gayhead, at my request, by Mr. Robert Bartlett [sic] of Kansas City, MO. Also my son's request." The letter is signed by Benton and he provides a place for "Bartlett" to sign as well. An 11 x 9 inch map to the Benton home at Gayhead was drawn in pencil and torn from a coil bound pad and provided by Benton as well. Neither the map nor the letter is dated. This lot also includes a 1968 edition of "An Artist in America," 1968 third edition, signed by Benton and dedicated to Barrett in blue ballpoint on the half title (this time he gets the name right!). Green cloth, original dust jacket, 8vo; plus a funeral program for T.H. Benton's service in 1975, and a copy of the 'Eulogy to Tom Benton' by Lyman Field, also 1975. There are a number of images from Benton's funeral, related negatives, many images of Benton late in life including a large color profile image, 20 x 13.5 inches on slightly larger cloth covered cardboard, similar smaller black and white images from the same photo session, several images of Benton at work, ten black and white images of Benton in a tuxedo, images from Benton's funeral and his surviving wife and son. There is also a mounted image by Kansas City Star photographer William Kirk of Benton's last work 'Origins of Country Music' in the artist's studio, an empty chair nearby. It's signed by Kirk and dedicated to Bob Barrett. Plus a 6.25 x 6.75 inch halftone plate image of Benton posing with one of his works, possibly shot for the Kansas City Star, and an embossed poster for the awarding of the Thomas H. Benton Award to John Gardner by the Board of Governors of the Kansas City Art Institute, 22 x 17 inches. Interested parties should attend the inspection/preview open house on Wednesday, February 1 from 12 noon to 5pm to view all of the elements of this lot in person. Alternate inspection times are available by appointment. Additional images can be provided on request. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Includes 'A Northern Christmas' with Doug Capra foreword, Wesleyan, 1998; 'On Earth Peace,' 1942 NY American Artists Group; Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick' with Kent illustrations, NY, Garden City, 1937; 'The Complete Works of Shakespeare,' with Kent illustrations, NY, Garden City, 1936, DJ; two copies of 'Candide,' 1929 Literary Guild, one with dust jacket; 'Voyaging: Southward from the Straight of Magellan,' with Kent illustrations, NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924; 'Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska' with Kent illustrations, NY, Blue Ribbon Books, 1920, and NY Halcyon House, 1920, with dust jacket; 'Rockwellkentiana,' NY, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1933; 'The Canterbury Tales,' NY, Garden City, 1934, hardcover and dust jacket; 'The Mountains Wait' by Theodor Broch with illus. by Kent, St. Paul, Webb Book Publ. Co., 1943, cloth; 'Salmina,' NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1935, cloth; 'The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio,' illus. by Kent, NY, Garden City, 1949, cloth, with dust jacket; two copies of 'N by E,' both NY, Literary Guild, 1930. All show varying degrees of wear, from average to good condition generally. Each should be assumed to have some shelf wear and toning, bumped corners, some sun fading to spines or boards. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Includes 'A Northern Christmas' with Fridolf Johnson foreword, Random House 1983 with slipcase; 'The Complete Works of Shakespeare,' with Kent illustrations, NY, Garden City, 1936, DJ; two copies of 'Candide,' 1929 Literary Guild, one with dust jacket; 'Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska' with Kent illustrations, NY Halcyon House, 1920; 'Voyaging: Southward from the Straight of Magellan,' with Kent illustrations, NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924; Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' with illustrations by Kent, NY, Heritage Press, with slipcase; 'The Mountains Wait' by Theodor Broch with illus. by Kent, St. Paul, Webb Book Publ. Co., 1943, cloth; 'The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio,' illus. by Kent, NY, Garden City, 1949, cloth; 'Salmina,' NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1935, withdrawn library copy; 'This is My Own,' NY, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940 first; two copies of 'N by E,' NY, Brewer & Warren, 1930 and Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1978; Esther Shephard's 'Paul Bunyan,' illus. by Kent, NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1924, cloth, dust jacket; and 'It's Me O Lord,' autobiography of Kent, NY, Da Capo Press, 1977, cloth. All show varying degrees of wear, from average to good condition generally. Each should be assumed to have some shelf wear and toning, bumped corners, some sun fading to spines or boards. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Titled 'Little Peasant Girl - Blue', number 2331, impressed number and dated 1995 under the base with a blue inkstamp, measures 7.5 inches. With original box and fitted packing materials. Very good, no chips, cracks or repairs. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Titled 'A Little Romance', number 6630, impressed number and dated 1998 under the base with a blue inkstamp, measures 7.5 x 13 inches. With original box and fitted packing materials. Very good, no chips, cracks or repairs. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Titled 'Early Awakening', number 2369, impressed number and dated 1997 under the base with a blue inkstamp, measures 22.5 x 9.75 inches. With original box and fitted packing materials. Very good, no chips, cracks or repairs. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Titled 'Tropical Wonders', number 2445, dated 2001 under the base with a blue inkstamp, measures 12.5 x 9.5 inches. With original box and fitted packing materials. One broken and missing flower petal in the figure's hair. No other chips, cracks or repairs. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Titled 'Gabriela', number 2355, impressed number and dated 1996 under the base with a blue inkstamp, measures 14.5 x 9.5 inches. With original box, base and fitted packing materials. Very good, no chips, cracks or repairs. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Titled 'Serenity', number 2395, impressed number and dated 1998 under the base with a blue inkstamp, measures 19 x 13.75 inches. With original box and fitted packing materials. Very good, no chips, cracks or repairs. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Titled 'Venus', number 2128, impressed number and dated 1982 under the base with a blue inkstamp, measures 23.25 x 13 inches. With original box, base and fitted packing materials. Very good, no chips, cracks or repairs. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

A photographic journey across America during the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s as provided by photographer and writer Robert "Bob" Barrett of Kansas City, Missouri. This collection of mostly loose original black and white prints is comprised of thousands of remarkable images with themes ranging from political and cultural events and figures to counterculture events and figures to political demonstrations, burlesque shows and strippers, celebrities, architectural studies, advertising and commercial commissions, drama and theater, wildlife, notable locations, playful whimsical shots like a sign warning against bringing 'pot' into the United States or Bob Barrett smiling next to a food stand that announces "CRABS? Bob's Got 'Em!"; or Bob standing next to David Crosby and Joni Mitchell while Joan Bayez plays guitar and sings. And then there's Bob's companion and wife of 40 years Shifra Stein, the first woman to be hired by The Kansas City Star, interviewing icons of the period like Ray Charles, Kris Kristofferson, Milton Berle and many others. Shifra's position at the Star as reviewer of restaurants, concerts and other events around town put the pair in many interesting situations in the early 1970s. A best guess puts the number of photographs in this archive somewhere north of 10,000 separate prints. Some are duplicated, some bear Bob's stamp, some do not include credits. Without a doubt, Robert Barrett had his shutter finger on the pulse of Kansas City – and the country at large. He was a staff photographer at UMKC and a freelancer who contributed images and articles to dozens of magazines, newspapers and books. Bob's work documenting Art Deco architecture can be seen in “American Art Deco” by Alastair Duncan, 1986, NY, Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 4to. Inventorying all of the personalities and events covered in this archive has not been attempted. A few names and events covered and included in this massive history are Muhammad Ali, Jesse Jackson, Ray Charles (in concert and next to Bob and Shifra), Alice Cooper, Waylon Jennings, Country Joe McDonald (inscribed to Bob), Paul Newman, sitar master and friend of the Beatles Ravi Shankar, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, cartoonists Bill Mauldin & Bill Vaughan, producer George Benson, Alice Cooper in Kansas City ’78, Bob Hope, The Rolling Stones, Peter Frampton, Linda Ronstadt, tennis star Jimmy Connors, Kansas City Women’s Jazz Festival 1978, a very young George Brett dressed in Western wear leading a horse , Vincent Price, Bob and Slim Pickens selling Vacor Ratkiller, etc, etc, etc. Plus a series of images from the Big Sur Folk Festival (California, September 13-14, 1969) with David Crosby, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, etc. There is also a large group of oversize prints of the group of jazz musicians who gathered in Kansas City on September 30, 1977 to pay tribute to Count Basie. The group included Basie, Dave Brubeck, Buck Clayton, Max Roach, Ella Fitzgerald, Zoot Sims, Ossie Davis, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Joe Jones, and Eddie Baker, co-chair of the Parker Foundation. On the political and social side there are numerous examples including signed Ted Kennedy and signed George McGovern, activist Abbie Hoffman, anti-war activist Allen Ginsberg, psychologist and LSD-proponent Timothy Leary, Gerald Ford, Alan Wheat, Kit Bond, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, plus stark images from Kansas City’s race riots of the late 1960s and National Guard Troops on the streets of the Country Club Plaza. The archive also includes 1970s-era Kansas City Royals, Kansas City Chiefs’ players and game pictures, plus images from the Chief’s 1970 Super bowl Victory Parade, motor sports, tennis and more. There are many images of local social and cultural interest, including images from the early years of the Foolkiller Theater, the Burlesque Girls of KC’s Folly Theater, other adult themes, as well as the first show at the Freedom Palace on May 8, 1970 - complete with images of the headliner, Canned Heat - and more. Wildlife photography was another of Barrett’s fortes and there are many color and black & white examples, some professionally mounted on cardstock and with glass. The archive also includes a small amount of negatives. The vast majority of Barrett's negatives are now the property of the UMKC archive and out of circulation. The number of photographs in this archive is again estimated at 10,000 or more prints. ob Barrett's archive also includes copies of magazines and newspapers that included his work and articles as well as a mint copy of “American Art Deco” by Alastair Duncan, 1986, NY, Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 4to, hardcover and dust jacket. Inevitably there are duplicates of many images, as well as examples of Barrett’s work collected during various phases of publication, meaning mock-ups, contact sheets, and other aspects of graphic design. Interested parties should attend the inspection/preview open house on Wednesday, February 1 from 12 noon to 5pm in order to atte...more

Includes 'The Poems and Plays of Robert Browning,' NY, Modern Library, 1934, cloth, 8vo; 'Memoirs of A. Campbell,' vols. I & II, Philadelphia, J.B. Lippencott, 1870, both cloth, vol. I with missing spine and loose board. 'Dali: A Study of His Life and Work,' NY, Graphic Society, 1957, coffee table size, good condition with all color inserts; 'The Passing Show,' drawings by A.B. Wenzell, NY, P.F. Collier & Son, 1901, large format hardcover; 'Our Neighbors,' by Charles Dana Gibson, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905, long format hardcover. All show varying degrees of wear, toning and age, specific issues mentioned in the description. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Titled lower center 'Baja Behind', edition 22/50 lower left, signed lower right, framed. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Two works: 1) Serigraph titiled 'Three of a Kind… Crackers are Wild' lower center, edition 73/100 and dated 1979 lower left, signed lower right. 2) Serigraph titled 'Hommage au Fromage' lower center, edition 95/100 and dated 1980 lower left, signed lower right. Never framed. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more

Irish cemetery scene, 21.5 x 30 inches, unsigned, unframed. Shows some wear and age, good overall. We do not participate in Proxibid's Payment Network. Winning bidders will be invoiced via email with payment instructions with two hours of auction's end....more