Art

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st UK, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages of text. 638 photographs. Beautifully illustrating the Hungarian folk art and gives insight into the customs and lore of Hungarian peasantry. Folio. Gray cloth, decorated end papers. Small stain to dust jacket spine. Minute crinkling to spine bottom edge. A very clean, attractive and well preserved copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pace Gallery, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Square quarto, in gray card stock covers stamped in silver and black, 87 pages, color illustrations. Issued in conjunction with several 2013 exhibitions of unique map-based art created by American artist Maya Lin. With essays by Robert Storr and William Fox. Clean copy.

Softcover. Philadelphia PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art , 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 397 pages, 127 color plates, many bw plates. Issued in conjunction with a series of 1984 exhibitions. "The Dutch in the seventeenth century placed a premium on naturalistic accounts of their surroundings, be they in the form of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, or scenes of everyday life -- what we have come to call 'genre' painting. With this art, the painter recorded the look, the manners, the character of those quotidian events, which comprise day-to-day existence." This book features essays on both the artists and on life and culture during this time. The catalogue addresses 127 paintings: first, in color plates, and secondly, with lengthy annotations and small BW illus. The concluding bibliography is substantial. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with cloth covers. Color photographs throughout. Light staining on rear copyright page, otherwise Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New Haven, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. 55 B&w illustrations and 21 plates in full color. Debates the relationship between art, science and religion by exploring the 19th century landscape painters fascination with geology. Scarce. Pictorial boards, black cloth spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Like new. In original shrinkwrap.

Softcover. Canberra AU, National Portrait Gallery, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, small (6 1/4 X 6 1/4") exhibition catalog, 80 pages illustrated in color. Clean copy.

Softcover. Boom! Studios, 1st thus, 2011-2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 20 softcover volumes, like new, all pristine condition. Various artists, authors.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of approximately 100 b&w illustrations printed on a buff color, unpaginated, printed on one side only. The first collection ever published by the Society which was formed in 1901. Work by Frederic Remington, Joseph Pennell, Art Young, Harrison Fisher, Wallace Morgan, many others. In the rear of the book is a complete list of all the members with their addresses. Tan boards with a red cloth spine. Edges worn, internally clean, very good.

Hardcover. Pennsylvania, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1st, 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 176 pages. Light green cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, decorated endpapers, over 250 large glossy photographs, 10 in color. Extremely light wear to dust jacket; a very tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. GR, Hirmer/Mdm Salzburg Museum der Moderne, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 240 pages, color illustrations. Text in English and German. This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibitions 'Alex Katz. New York/Maine'. Clean, bright copy with minor bump to edges, corner.

Softcover. NY, Heavy Metal Publishing, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format. Color art by the grear Milo Manara. Very good condition.

Hardcover. Berlin, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 352 pages, 200 color plates. Paintings, drawings, and sculpture from every stage of the artist's career are included in the exhibition catalogue. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Softcover. New York, The Arts Publisher, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. 174 pages illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Black pictorial stiff wrappers with light wear and sun to covers. Light waviness due to moisture to upper edge of front cover, but not to pages. Overall a very nice, tight, clean copy. Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974) was one of the leaders of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. This beautiful volume is the only one that covers the full scope of Gottlieb's acheivement, including 124 of his finest paintings, sculptures, and works on paper.

Softcover. NY, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wraps. 39 pages, 15 b&w, 25 color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1996 exhibition. With a preface by Stuart P. Feld and a 7-page illustrated introduction by Gregory Hedberg. The 30 catalogue entries are annotated. Artists include Henry Inman, James McNeil Whistler, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, John Wellington, et al. Also includes Andy Warhol's portrait of John Lennon and Nelson Shanks portrait of Princess Diana.

Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright yellow price-clipped dust jacket. 18 pages of text, frontis portrait, plus 157 plates. All of the best drawings of Beardsley's early period, including the illustrations for "Salome". Reprinted from the second London edition of 1911. Previous owner's initials on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 238 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Covering the period from the Revolution to the beginning of World War II, this book considers Soviet avant-garde photography and film in the context of political history and culture. Three essays trace this generation of artists, their experiments with new media, and their pursuit of a new political order. A wealth of stunning photographs, film stills, and film posters, as well as magazine and book designs, demonstrate that their output encompassed a spectacular range of style, content, and perspective, and an extraordinary sense of the power of the photograph to change the world.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 80 pages, 67 illustrations, including 28 plates in full color. Maroon cloth with gilt title to spine. Blue pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to covers, else a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Munch/London/NY, Prestel, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. 656 pages. Published on the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Neue Galerie New York, this stunning volume celebrates the varied achievements of modern art history in the German-speaking world by examining historical developments in Austria and Germany from 1890 to 1940. Illustrated throughout with exquisite reproductions of the museum's holdings, this book considers the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche and his writings on the fine arts and examines the founding of the Secessionist artists' organizations in Germany and Austria. Insightful essays trace the emergence of Expressionism and abstraction, as well as the development of such movements as Dada and New Objectivity. Evolutions in architecture and design are appraised through the legacy of the Arts and Crafts movement, as well as the establishment of the Darmstadt Artists' Colony and the Wiener Werkstatte. The book also examines the role of the German Werkbund and the founding of the Bauhaus school. Finally, the book briefly addresses the horrific impact of the National Socialists' degenerate art campaign, which resulted in incalculable damage and led to the exile and death of artists and designers of the era. From well-known artists such as Otto Dix, Josef Hoffmann, Vasily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, and Egon Schiele, to lesser recognized but equally important figures, including Albert Birkle, Alfred Kubin, Felix Nussbaum, and Dagobert Peche, this book offers an authoritative and kaleidoscopic look at a crucial moment in history and a portrait of radical thought that changed forever the way we experience art in our lives. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 224 pages. The Dakota is arguably the best-known residential address in the world, home to dozens of New York City's most famous artists, performers, and successful executives. The rare sale of an apartment there, usually at jaw-dropping prices, is newsworthy, as is the financial and architectural health of the building itself, a landmark in every sense of the word.The first true luxury apartment house built in New York City, more than 130 years ago, the Dakota is still the gold standard against which all other apartment buildings are weighed. Historian Andrew Alpern tells the fascinating story of how the Dakota came to be, how Singer sewing magnate Edward Clark dared to build an apartment building luxurious enough to coax the city's wealthy from their mansions downtown for ultra-modern living on what was then the swamplands of the Upper West Side. Redrawn plans of the entire building, published here for the first time, show how Clark created apartments glamorous enough that they made living under a shared roof as acceptable in Manhattan as it already was in Europe's grand capitals, forever revolutionizing apartment life in New York City.

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 51 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photographs by Arthur Rothstein throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Softcover. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout with 50 plates in color and b&w. White pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, slight foxing to covers, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. UK, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white and color . Charming collection of personal letters written by beloved author Beatrix Potter. The collection begins with an 1893 letter to a young friend, Noel Moore, when the youngster was ill; Potter would go on to write many letters, most often to children (particularly to the family of her former governess, Annie Moore), told funny anecdotes about her pets and her holidays, and copiously illustrated them with witty drawings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 495 pages, color and b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder dot on top edge.

Hardcover. London, VIVAYS, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. "This volume, based on rarely seen Russian archives, traces the history of the silent film poster in Russia, starting with a poster designed by Paul Assaturov ("Stenka Razin", 1908) in the style of ancient naive Russian imagery to the latest advertise- ment for a silent movie by Yuri Pimenov from 1934. Full-page reproductions of 161 Russian silent film posters are presented here in chronological order - from the very beginning of the 20th century until the 1930s.

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 2nd pr., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 90 pages. Black & white examples of works by Kaethe Kollwitz. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Dust jacket shows lightwear with small chips and tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Robert M. McBride & Company, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, pictorial boards in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 128 pages. A collection of his b&w cartoons, Foreword by Frank Sullivan. Mild stain to dj, interior clean.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 416 pages in color. In June of 1938, Action Comics debuted with a new kind of comic book character on its cover: a costumed man with two identities, who possessed extraordinary strength and powers-a man able to protect the public when ordinary measures would not do. He was not the first super hero, but the Man of Steel would become the prototype for all super heroes thereafter.Superman's story, and those of Batman, Wonder Woman, and hundreds of other DC Comics characters, are all told in The Golden Age of DC Comics. The single most comprehensive book on the subject, this volume traces the company's first decades, from its pulp origins up to the comic book burnings of the McCarthy '50s in more than 400 pages bursting with comics, art, comics, photographs, and more comics. Also included is an exclusive interview with legendary artist Joe Kubert. Expanded from the Eisner Award-winning XL book, 75 Years of DC Comics, TASCHEN's series on DC Comics explores the origins of comics' most enduring legends and the behind-the-scenes, era by era. In a reader-friendly size, the books feature updated essays by author Paul Levitz and thousands of covers and interiors, original illustrations, photographs, film stills, and collectibles to bring the story lines, the characters, and their creators to vibrant life.Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 63 pages.; four pages, biographical information by Avis Berman with 4 etchings and photo of John and Dolly Sloan; 23 color plates with identifying information; additional 5 etchings plus those on inside covers; large photos of Sloan at easel. Catalogue to accompany joint exhibition by Gerald Peters and Kraushaar Galleries in New York. 2008.

Hardcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Black & white photographs by Hyman Edelstein. Preface by Archibald Macleish. Clean, tight copy. Price sticker on rear dust jacket.

Softcover. UK, PS Art Books, reprint, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Another iconic 52 page facsimile comic book reprinted to match the quality when first produced in 1947. Cover art by Alex Schomburg. The Beasts of Dr. Krafte starring Tygra. The Man-Killer on Mars text story starring Lance Lewis by Edward Hasset. Lance Lewis story. Fighting Yank story, art by Ken Battefield. Jefferson Jones story, art by Hal Sherman. Flash in the Pan text story by Charles S. Strong. The Death Boat starring Don Davis, art by Leonard Sansone. Clean, like new.

Softcover. San Francosco, San Francisco Comic Book Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Softcover, October 1971 First edition, first printing 50 cents original price. Mr. Natural (Fred Natural) is a comic book character created and drawn by 1960s counterculture and underground comix artist Robert Crumb. Mr. Natural #2 : "A Gurl in Hotpants" (with Flakey Foont), "Sittin' Around the Kitchen Table" (with Flakey Foont), "The Girlfriend" (with Flakey Foont), "Have you seen 'um lately?", "I am the greatest! Make way! Make Way!" (with the Snoid), "On the Bum Again, part two". Ccorner creases, mild wear.

Softcover. Williamstown, MA, Williams College Museum Of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 83 pages. Softcover. Extensive color and B&w illustrations throughout. Includes appendix of correspondence. Glue between cover and pages very loose. Some wear to covers. All pages clean and legible.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 303 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated primarily in black & white - one section in full color. Bottom corner of page 275 wrinkled with short tear. Dust jacket worn. Clean, tight copy.This is the landmark work on American artist Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904), the first catalogue raisonne. The narrative is accompanied by many examples of his work. The full catalogue of 402 items appears at the rear of the book, with light annotations and small BW illustrations. An updated edition was published in 2000; and this one is useful to consult in order to compare the differences.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 139 illustrations, 122 in color. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Knockabout, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages illustrated in color. Photos, art, 28 pages of new stories. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 575 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Fading to dust jacket spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London/NY, Hamlyn, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, black cloth with silver lettering, 96 pages, Illustrated profusely with 59 black-and-white and 40 color illustrations. Clean copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 48 pages, 75 cents cover price. B&w art by Shelton, Sheridan, Foolbert Sturgeon (Frank Stack), Richards, Bill Griffith, R. Diggs (Harry Driggs) & Justin Green. Clean copy.

Hardcover. UK, PS publishers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color and Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber Ltd., 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 435 pages. Hardcover. 256 black & white illustrations and 12 tipped-in full color plates. Fading to spine and along cover edges. No dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Shambhala, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, red & green patterned wraps. 142 pages with primarily b&w plates, select color & color frontispiece. Clean copy.

NY, Prestel, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 240 pages. For more than 30 years, Brian Dowling's studio was the birthplace of some of the most remarkable fashion photography ever created. In his Islington darkroom, using specialist analog equipment, Dowling shepherded amazing images from negative to paper captured by the likes of Anton Corbijn and Nick Knight. Dowling's BDI studio was also responsible for a number of technical innovations in color photography, paving the way for many of today's digital effects. This tribute to Dowling includes extensive interviews, commentary, testimonials from his clients, and numerous examples of iconic haute couture photographs that passed through his hands. In addition, a series of photographs specially commissioned for this volume demonstrate Dowling's groundbreaking techniques: cross-processing, masking, filtering, layering light, and color fades. Dowling's hands-on achievements and alchemic talents are showcased in this beautiful ode to fashion photography.

Softcover. Kansas City, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Softcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Oliphant's cartoon talents are marvelously displayed in this satire of the past year's news events. It's a hilarious look at life and the scandals that shape our political environs. Pulitzer Prize winner.

Softcover. New York, Strawberry Hill Book, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Softcover. Black & white drawings and photographs. Light wear along spine, cover edges. This is the softcover edition. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 283 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Sunfading to spine. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. 255 duotone photographs throughout. A tight copy.

NY, Penguin Press, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dj issued. Illustrated by Maira Kalman in color. The Elements of Style is a prescriptive American English writing style guide in numerous editions. The original was composed by William Strunk Jr., in 1918, and published by Harcourt, in 1920, comprising eight "elementary rules of usage", ten "elementary principles of composition", "a few matters of form", a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused", and a list of 57 "words often misspelled".

Softcover. Hanover NH, Steerforth Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Hardcover with sunned dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Clean and tight copy. Color and black and white photographs throughout.

Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 340 pages illustrated in color and b&w. A survey of works by German artist Gerhard Richter (born 1932), one of the most influential painters working today from every phase of Richter's career. ranging from photography-based pictures to gestural abstraction, and includes a rare interview with the artist. This was the catalog for the traveling exhibit 2002-2003 at The Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.