Art

Hardcover. Des Moines, Iowa, Wallace Homestead Book Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 123 pages. Illustrated throughout with wonderful black and white photographs, period advertisements, floorplans, houses, furniture, dinnerware and room designs. Small inscription on front fly leaf otherwise pages white and clean.

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages in color. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The Spirit returns for the third volume in this archival series! In it, Will Eisner's classic crimefighter of the 1940s continues to face off against enemy agents on the homefront. This volume includes an appearance by the sultry Silk Satin, as well as the Spirit's developing relationship with Police Commissioner Dolan and his beautiful daughter Ellen.

Hardcover. Paris, Braun & Cie, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Introduction by Jaime Sabartes. 24 full color plates. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 143 pages. 44 color, 59 bw plates. One of a series focusing on America's foremost artists from the colonial era to the present, this volume covers the work of American Impressionist, William Merritt Chase (1849-1916). Chase worked mainly in oil, but he also used watercolour and pastel, and produced prints. Includes bibliiographical references and index. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 344 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Presents the years 1959 and 1960 of the politically progressive, influential newspaper strip. This is the first time Pogo has been complete and in chronological order anywhere-with all 104 Sunday strips from these two years presented in lush full color for since their original appearance in Sunday newspaper sections. In Volume 6, Albert Alligator and Beauregard Bugleboy fend off a man-from-Mars, and Howland Owl investigates Communist espionage in the postal system. Then, it's election year and Okefenokee Swamp gets a new presidential candidate, Fremount the Bugboy. His campaign slogan, "Jes' Fine," sparks political debates about just who can and should be president - maybe even a woman! Clean copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Portrait Gallery, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. For this exclusive collection of postcards, David Bailey, one of the worlds most distinguished and distinctive photographers, has chosen a selection of images from his archive some familiar, others previously unseen. This box of 36 portraits, reminiscent of Baileys acclaimed Box of Pin - Ups (1965), demonstrates the extraordinary range of people that he has captured during his long career;

Hardcover. Providence RI, Brown University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original gray boards, large format. Non-paginated (43 pages). William Blake's illustrations for Robert Blair's 'The Grave'. Some rubbing and lightly bumped corners on covers. Spine/hinge paper with narrow paper separation on upper 4". Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Athens, Benaki Museum, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages, softcover exhibition catalog, b&w illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Sculpture, pottery, vases, jewelry and other art from ancient Greece and the Cycladic civilization. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, very good.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, reprint., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 44 pages including semi-glossy color covers and b/w interior. Saddle-stapled wraps, $1.25 cover price. This is one of the five small collections of those strips.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International Publications, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color photographs throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Reminder mark to bottom edge, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This exceptional album features over two hundred images by the most important modern and contemporary photographers, including David Bailey, Henry Clarke, Patrick Demarchelier, Karl Lagerfeld, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, David Sims, Bert Stern, Juergen Teller, Mario Testino, and Bruce Weber. This book features images from iconic Vuitton advertising campaigns from the 20s through to the present, with magazine editorials from publications including Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Interview, and others.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, in a lightly worn dust jacket. Non-paginated. Black & white cartoons by W. Miller, mostly from The New Yorker. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 96 pages, oblong format. This chapel in Italy's great city of art is home to a marvelous cycle of frescoes, composed by three 15th-century masters: Masaccio, Masolino, and Filippino Lippi. Under the supervision of Masaccio, they moved far beyond Giotto in creating figures more human, in spaces more realistic than ever, providing inspiration for succeeding artists like Leonardo and Michelangelo. More than 32 color plates. Short inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages plus color wraps. Staple bound, $2.00 cover price. Color art by Selton inside- "The Idiots Abroad", part 1. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. London, Tate Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 123 pages. Softcover. Extensive color photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. Paris, Editions Albert Morance, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 320 pages. Hardcover. Text in French. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings of decorative cast iron. Previous owners name and date written on front interior hinge flap. Dust jacket worn with tape repair, chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 265 pages, two-color comics throughout. Comics artist Archie Bongiovanni explores queerness in this shockingly frank and funny adult graphic novel. Best friends Chris, Jo, Elise, and Alex work hard to keep themselves afloat. Their regular brunches hold them together even as the rest of their lives threaten to fall completely apart. In an effort to avoid being the oldest gays at the party (like they are at every other queer event in Minneapolis), the crew decides to put on a new party called Grind!, a queer gathering specifically for folks in or over their dirty-thirties. Clean copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Apex Novelties, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Rick Griffin and S. Clay Wilson. Contributions by Griffin, Robert Crumb, Victor Moscoso, Wilson, Gilbert Shelton. First edition, first or second printing (50c cover price, first two printings depend on the thickness of the cover stock).

Hardcover. Hanover NH, UPNE, 1st, 2013, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 132 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. In an age of specialization it is amazing to find an artist who has mastered the complexities of painting both the urban landscape and the Maine wilderness. Joel Babb achieves all this with absolute clarity, attention to detail, and meticulous realism. His vision is very much of our time a contemporary dialogue between nature and culture. This first-ever overview of Joel Babb s work offers a full complement of his major paintings created over the past several decades and a compelling account of Babb s evolution as an artist by art critic Carl Little.

Hardcover. New York, New York University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Black & white illustrations. Faint foxing to edges. Includes Errata slip. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Whitney Museum of Art/Abrams, 1st, 1992, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 187 pages. Published to accompany a 1992-93 exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, this book deals with the full scope of Agnes Martin's art. It includes essays that place her work in the context of American and European 20th-century art and culture. Agnes Martin's paintings, constructions, and works on paper provide a link between the chromatic abstraction of artists such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, her generational and ideological peers, and the Minimalist vocabulary of the 1960s. This book reproduces works made between 1957 and 1967, and better-known paintings and constructions created since 1974. A selection of Martin's writings reveals the spiritual philosophy that sustains her painting. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Plume/New American Library, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages of b&w cartoons by Levin.

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Two years of the Sunday strips in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. The eleventh volume of Fantagraphics award-winning Prince Valiant series concludes our heroes' adventures in Cornwall, and marks the first appearance of Arvak the Red Stallion. At the Council of Kings, Prince Valiant stands alone in the decision to avoid a ruinous war. Val returns to Aleta, and the two are summoned to Camelot, where Queen Guinevere becomes jealous of Aleta's popularity. Meanwhile, Val leads a bloody campaign to secure the Eastern marches and learns the tragedies of war. As the book ends, Prince Valiant begins searching for Gawain. There may just be another adventure afoot. Bonus features include a gallery of Foster's rare and never-before-reprinted advertising art from the 1920s. Hal Foster's Prince Valiant is the most illustrious heroic saga ever written and drawn for the Sunday newspapers. In full, glorious, restored color, this is the finest reproduction of this enthralling, romantic adventure serial ever published. Full color illustrations throughout

Hardcover. Paris, Bernard Giovanangeli Editeur, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Hardcover. French text only. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Mad Cave Studios, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover , pictorial boards, 203 pages illustrated in color. Science fiction's most enduring icon Flash Gordon returns in newly restored editions, collecting his ongoing adventures on the mysterious planet Mongo. Reprints all of Alex Raymond's Sunday strips from January 19, 1941 to August 13, 1944, and includes an extensive essay examining his final years on the series by writer Doug Murray. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1st, 1975, Hardcover, purple cloth in an edgeworn dust jacket. An American figurative painter, specializing most often in paintings of female nudes, whose work incorporates elements of realist and abstract art. Text by Elizabeth Claridge. 158 pages. Some light peeling of laminate on dust jacket. Otherwise very good, clean copy.

Softcover. US, Kitchen Sink Press, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white comics throughout.

Hardcover. Chicago, Museum of Science and Industry, 1st Edition, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages. Hardcover. Bright dust jacket with minor edge & shelf wear. More than 100 ull color and b/w photographs throughout. Photographs by Barbara Karant. Clean, unmarked & tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black and white fantasy cartoon sketches, many scatological. 11" high X 8" wide, 443 pages. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. London, Anthony D'Offay Gallery, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Unpaginated (49 pages) with 29 illustrations 21 in color. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London 11 March-16 April 1988. Selected Biography and Bibliography. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Poster Auctions International, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Softcover. Color pictures throughout. Light edgewear to wrappers.

Softcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover published to accompany the exhibition, Church's Great Picture, The Heart of the Andes, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 5, 1993 - January 2, 1994. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. From 1940 to 1990, Los Angeles rapidly evolved into one of the most populous and influential industrial, economic, and creative capitals in the world. During this era, the region was transformed into a laboratory for cutting-edge architecture. Overdrive: L. A. Constructs the Future, 1940 - 1990 examines these experiments and their impact on modern design, reframes the perceptions of Los Angeles's dynamic built environment, and amplifies the exploration of the city's vibrant architectural legacy. The drawings, models, and images highlighted in the Overdrive exhibition and catalogue reveal the complex and often under-appreciated facets of Los Angeles and illustrate how the metropolis became an internationally recognized destination with a unique design vocabulary, canonical landmarks, and a coveted lifestyle. Clean copy. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Geneva, Albert Skira, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean, bright copy with tipped-in color plates throughout, 193 pages.

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 264 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Though we think of the 1960s and the early '70s as a time of radical social, cultural, and political upheaval, we tend to picture the action as happening on campuses and in the streets. Yet the rise of the underground newspaper was equally daring and original. Thanks to advances in cheap offset printing, groups involved in antiwar, civil rights, and other social liberation issues began to spread their messages through provocatively designed newspapers and broadsheets. This vibrant new media was essential to the counterculture revolution as a whole--helping to motivate the masses and proliferate ideas. Power to the People presents more than 700 full-color images and excerpts from these astonishing publications, many of which have not been seen since they were first published almost fifty years ago. From the psychedelic pages of the Oracle, Haight-Ashbury's paper of choice, to the fiery editorials of the Black Panther Party Paper, these papers were remarkable for their editors' fervent belief in freedom of expression and their DIY philosophy. They were also extraordinary for their graphic innovations. Experimental typography and wildly inventive layouts reflect an alternative media culture as much informed by the space age, television, and socialism as it was by the great trinity of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. Assembled by renowned graphic designer Geoff Kaplan, Power to the People pays homage in its layout to the radical press. Beyond its unparalleled images, Power to the People includes essays by Gwen Allen, Bob Ostertag, and Fred Turner, as well as a series of recollections edited by Pamela M. Lee, all of which comment on the critical impact of the alternative press in the social and popular movements of those turbulent years. Power to the People treats the design practices of that moment as activism in its own right that offers a vehement challenge to the dominance of official media and a critical form of self-representation.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. Green cloth hardcover with gilt illustration of lighthouse on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. In a lightly worn dust jacket. Green endpapers and color frontispiece. Edited by Milton S. Fox, book design by Nai Y. Chang. Numerous b/w and color plates (246 reproductions of Hopper's work, 88 in full color).

Softcover. Milwaukee, David Barnett Gallery, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog, 20 pages, b&w, 3 color plates. Masking tape over gallery logo on rear cover, with Falkman's phone number and address in her hand. Bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. No artist looms so large in Western consciousness and culture as Michelangelo Buonarroti, the most celebrated sculptor of all time. And no place on earth provides a stone so capable of simulating the warmth and vitality of human flesh and incarnating the genius of a Michelangelo as the statuario of Carrara, the storied marble mecca at Tuscany's northwest corner. It was there, where shadowy Etruscans and Roman slaves once toiled, that Michelangelo risked his life in dozens of harrowing expeditions to secure the precious stone for his Pieta, Moses, and other masterpieces. Many books have recounted Michelangelo's achievements in Florence and Rome. Michelangelo's Mountain goes beyond all of them, revealing his escapades and ordeals in the spectacular landscape that was the third pole of his tumultuous career and the third wellspring of his art. Eric Scigliano brings this haunting place and eternally fascinating artist to life in a sweeping tale peopled by popes and poets, mad dukes and mythic monsters, scheming courtiers and rough-hewn quarrymen. In showing how the artist, land, and stone transformed one another, Scigliano brings fresh insight to Michelangelo's most cherished works and illuminates his struggles with the princes and potentates of Carrara, Rome, and Medici Florence, who raised intrigue to a high art.

Hardcover. GR, Gestalten, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, hardcover, illustrated in color. A monograph on a popular German street artist who stencils images of women on buildings in Berlin. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. Munich, Williams College Museum of Art/Prestel, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 812 pages. Blue cloth slip case, 2193 illustrations including 100 color plates. Book still in shrink wrap, in excellent condition. If you think that Maurice Prendergast (1858-1924) only produced decorative park and beach scenes rendered in an abstract style, these two new volumes will set the record straight. Thanks in large part to the generosity of the Eugenie Prendergast Foundation, Mathews has produced a splendid exhibition catalog that surveys the career of the American Impressionist. She also labored for over six years as part of a team of art historians to create a monumental, ten-pound, slip-cased tome that documents the total artistic output of the two Prendergast brothers, Maurice and Charles, A Catalogue Raisonne. A good balance has been struck between the books. The exhibition catalog, of interest to both lay people and scholars, offers a chronological discussion of Maurice's ever-evolving style along with selected works represented by 130 glorious color plates. In contrast, the comprehensive catalogue raisonne , with its highly detailed essays by eight art historians, features 2200 illustrations, 100 of which are in color. All works discussed are represented by an image and catalog entry and range from the sketchbooks, monotypes, and applied graphics of Maurice to the carved and painted panels and sculpture of Charles (1863-1948). A Herculean achievement, the catalogue raisonne will long serve as a cornerstone in the arena of American art history reference.

Softcover. NY, Kouros Gallery, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 58 pages, color plates, b&w illustrations. Essay by David Pagel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Benton (1889-1975) is a painter shrouded in paradox and misapprehension. Though pigeonholed as a regionalist chronicler of the Midwest, many of his finest on-site pictures are of Southern blacks and poor whites. Remembered best are his folksy rural scenes and aggressively three-dimensional murals, but the public tends to forget that he ran through the gamut of modernist styles (he was Jackson Pollock's teacher) and that his brilliant abstract color experiments ally him with the modernist movement. Some of Benton's crowded murals of the 1930s reflect his leftist sympathies, yet critics reviled him as politically conservative. These contradictions are illuminated in this catalogue of a touring exhibition curated by Adams. The text stands on its own as a wholly engaging biography, offering an unbuttoned look at a pugnacious, often reckless, artist who valiantly sought to preserve a rural America that was vanishing before his eyes. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Damiani, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in publisher's shrink-wrap. Italian photographer Alex Fakso got his start at the age of 13, photographing his own works of graffiti on trains. Since then, Fakso has become a prominent personality in the underground world of street art. His latest project Fast or Die is a raw and honest portrayal of the often chaotic lives of subway graffiti artists from London to Tokyo.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Published to commemorate the Hall of Presidents in the National Portrait Gallery. Features reproductions of portraits of every American president from George Washington to Bill Clinton. Historical notes accompany each illustration. Near fine condition; comes in original shrinkwrap.

Softcover. Boston, Acme Fine Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 36 pages, color plates. Introduction by James Bennette, David Cowan. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, New York Review of Books, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover, pictorial cloth, no dust jacket issued. Collects Stamaty's manically detailed comic strips from the Village Voice. Introduction by Jules Feiffer. Originally published in 1980 as a paperback, this is a hardcover reprint. Light bump to bottom corner cover.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Black & white and color photographs throughout. City scenes have been chronicled in photographs since the early 1800s, but street photography as traditionally defined has captured a relatively narrow field of these images. Revolutionizing the history of street photography, Unfamiliar Streets explores the work of Richard Avedon (1923-2004), Charles Moore (1931-2010), Martha Rosler (b. 1943), and Philip-Lorca diCorcia (b. 1951), four American photographers whose careers in fashion, photojournalism, conceptual art, and contemporary art are not usually associated with the genre.Bussard's lively and engaging text, a timely response to a growing interest in urban photography, challenges the traditional understanding of street photography and makes original and important connections among urban culture, social history, and the visual arts, constructing a new historical model for understanding street photography. Illustrated with more than one hundred images, this book provides an interpretation of a compelling genre that is as fresh as its consideration of the city streets themselves, sites of commerce, dispossession, desire, demonstration, power, and spectacle.

Hardcover. MD, University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in near fine condition with dust jacket in very good condition (minor nicks to front upper edge and spine). 173 pp., 120 illustrations (33 in color), bibliographical references. Exhibition September 1-October 6, 1976, and at four subsequent venues.

Softcover. Bogota COL, Galeria Alfred Wild, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages with color photos of the Colombian artist's wood sculptures. Clean copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate, Revised Ed., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages. Many cans of tuna have been opened and emptied since the collection's first mostly black-and-white edition, in 1981; the revised edition adds more color art as well as coverage of classics including The Cat in the Hat, Bill the Cat, and pets penned by B. Kliban and Edward Gorey. The volume covers cartoon depictions of the cat dating back to 1100 B.C., though the bulk of the images date to the 20th century. Brief essays about printing, literature, contemporary society, and other historical facts are interspersed with the goods selections from the comics themselves. Editor Whyte is a publisher who founded the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco.

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Lund Humphries, Reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout. Tight copy. Power to the People presents the Israel Museum's major collection of propaganda posters from the early years of the Soviet Union, documenting one of the most interesting chapters in twentieth-century graphic design. Inspired by the traditional vernacular of political cartoons, by the lubok wood-cut technique of Russian folk art, and by the ideas of Futurism, the poster artists employed a new visual language to explain the results of the Revolution to the Soviet people. The Israel Museum's collection of Soviet propaganda posters is the largest museum collection of its kind outside Russia. This book illustrates the entire collection for the first time.