Softcover. New York, Associated American Artists, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 9 X 12" with illustrated wrappers. Published quarterly by the Associated American Artists, Inc. and features art work and sketches by Freeman. Sketches are either in black and white or two-tone color. Unpaginated with approximately 48 pages. Light edgewear, spine paper starting to peel at top and bottom, tan stain (coffee or tea?) to bottom of front cover, not affecting inside. otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated, b&w cartoons by Lorenz which originally ran in The New Yorker. Bright dust jacket, unclipped, with a touch of wear to bottom of spine.
1942, Book: Very Good, Color art of older farmer and young boy ready to feed their pigs, painting by Robert Riggs. 10 X 13" very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages. Black and white comic strips, light edgewear to spine edges, otherwise clean, tight copy. This climactic book of Gottfredson serials also finds Mickey plagued by Uncle Gudger, the one-man circus-and Gilhooley, the pitiless king of the leprechauns! Floyd Gottfredson and co-writer Bill Walsh infect Mouseton with the super-hi-tech of the Sputnik era.
Hardcover. London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1st, 1925, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 162 b&w plates by Beardsley with tissue guards. Introduction by C. Lewis Hind, a color plate featuring a caricature of Beardsley by Max Beerbohm. Gray dust jacket worn, chipped. This heavy book has been shaken, the signatures are loose. But it is complete and the interior pages are very good, despite the loose binding.
1912, Book: Very Good, Color portrail of Pocahontas with John Alden on bended knee by Harrison Fisher. 11 X 15", clean and bright. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover with black/white and some color comic strips throughout. Wet soiling residue on bottom of first half of pages, and on bottom page block, otherwise minimal wear on paper wrappers.
Softcover. NP, Portable Playhouse/privately printed, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 103 pages, b&w graphic novel. The story of a struggle between benevolent scientist Dr. Atom (intent on establishing a nuclear energy business), and evil mastermind Volcane, who wants a worldwide energy monopoly. Cream colored wrappers with light soil, 5 1/2 by 7 inches, stapled binding is tight. The art is of high quality. INSCRIBED BY ARTIST/AUTHOR on title page. Very scarce, unusual.
1959, Book: Very Good, Color art of woman holdout in smoky jury room by Norman Rockwell. 10 X 13", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Brodart covering dust jacket has two blue lines that bled through onto dust jacket. Internally clean and tight copy.
Softcover. New York , Bounty Books, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages, large format softcover. Features all the famous animated characters from the golden age of animation. Clean, tight copy.
1935, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon of various types at a typical summer resort hotel. Vintage Steig art. 8 1/2 X 11 1/2", clean, no label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 139 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. During the 1870s, rowing became a tremendously popular sport in the United States. An enthusiastic rower, the young Philadelphia-born Thomas Eakins painted, sketched and drew an extraordinary series of rowing pictures. His 24 rowing works are brought together and examined as a group in this beautiful book.
Hardcover. New York , Watson-Guptill, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, many illustrations in both color and b&w, text, notes, catalog of selected works, bibliography, index, near fine condition in a very good dust jacket, previous owner's inscription in front fly leaf otherwise clean.
1915, Book: Very Good, Color art of galloping soldiers on horseback by Edward Penfield. 10 X 13", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. Koln, Taschen, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 460 pages, without dust jacket, as issued. Clean, bright copy with hundreds of nudes and scantily-clad women in color and b&w photographs and illustrations.
Softcover. New York , Catalan Communications, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages illustrated in b&w by Manara. ADULT CONTENT
1899, Color art of colonial couple under mistletoe by Jessie Wilcox Smith. An early piece by this important American illustrator. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
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. Bruxelles, Dargaud , reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 48 pages illustrated in color by Jacobs. Clean, very good. FRENCH TEXT.
1929, Book: Very Good, Color art of woman holding terrier in her arms by McClelland Barclay. 10 X 13", label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Softcover. Hollywood CA, Frederick`s of Hollywood,, 1981, Book: Good, Softcover, 72 pages in color, Most illustration is photographic, some is by artists and illustrators. Lingerie, dresses, exotic wear for her (and him!), bras, panties, stockings, shoes, and the like. Moderate wear.
Softcover. Agoura CA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format with stapled binding, color wraps, b&w illustrations, 66 pages. Articles on the comic strips of John Held Jr., art of Jimmy Swinnerton, Joe Palooka by Ham Fisher, labor violence and cartoonists 100 years ago. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Sterling Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, the first 966 b&w daily strips that set the tone for the great superhero.
Hardcover. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 242 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Toronto , Dragon Lady Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers with staple binding. 42 pages of Smilin' Jack strips (9/6/39-3/14/40). Clean, very good.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Very Good in dust jacket with mild edgewear, chipping. Short tear with tape repair in reverse side. Folio. 236 pages, 35 full color and 150 black and white reproductions. Brown cloth in price clipped dust jacket. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. London, Souvenir Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 124 pages, sixty full-page cartoons in color and a glossary vividly explain the "esoteric, poetic and usually approximate descriptions" found in booksellers' catalogs.
Softcover. New York, Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Very clean copy, inside and out. From the back cover: "...a wickedly peceptive and daring book. It is also that worst of present-day literary evils, a real work of literature." This fresh and vivid portrait of the postwar Paris art world, written by a member of Picasso's circle, sheds original new light on the greatest of modern artists and on the most important and least-known of his loves, the alluring and formidable photographer and painter Dora Maar.
Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 30 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages. 100 plates (3 tipped-in color plates), including 37 examples by American artists. Survey of the art of the First World War by Allied artists from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France and the Netherlands, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, lithographs, and posters. Works by Maxfield Parrish, George Luks, George Bellows, Harvey Dunn, Paul Manship, Mahonri Young, William Orpen, C.R.W. Nevinson, James McBey, Paul Nash, G. Spencer Pryse, Edmund Dulac, Wyndham Lewis, Frank Brangwyn, Th.A. Steinlen, and others. Bibliography, p. 285-288. Handsome production, with decorations designed by Frederick W. Goudy and printed by William E. Rudge. Dark green boards with black cloth spine, bright gilt lettering on cover and spine. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover, light corner wear, mild bump to top of rear board.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. The story of Pierre Matisse, his father, Henri Matisse, his gallery in NY and the European artists he introduced to America. 415 pages. Color, black & white illust. Dj price clipped.
Hardcover. New York, Watson Guptill, 1st Ed., 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in 3 colors. 300 b&w illustrations, 24 in color. Profiles famous illustrators of the 1940s and includes their photo, examples of their work, a step-by-step demonstration of their working methods, and text written from interviews. Artists are: Constantin Alajalov, Boris Artzybasheff, John Atherton, Ernest Hamlin Baker, Walter Biggs, V. Bobri, Harrison Cady, Fred Cooper, Mario Cooper, Dean Cornwell, Gregory D'Alessio, Floyd Davis, Stevan Dohanos, Albert Dorne, Harvey Dunn, Carl Erickson, John Gannam, Glenn Grohe, George Giusti, Stuart Hay, Peter Helck, Earl Oliver Hurst, Walter Klett, Robert Lawson, Ervine Metzl, Wallace Morgan, William Oberhardt, Henry C. Pitz, George Price, Ray Prohaska, Robert Riggs, Leslie Ragan, Norman Rockwell, Martha Sawyers, Howard Scott, Amos Sewell, Donald Teague, Aldren A. Watson, Denys Wortman, and N. C. Wyeth. Top of spine has cloth frayed, rear edge of spine, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Toronto, Madison Press Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages illustrated in color. Offering a thrilling introduction to the underworld of stolen art, this investigation reveals the little-known story of modern art theft and shows how the legitimate art market, with its hyped auctions and landmark sales, has ignited criminal interest in these high-end pieces. The photographs, illustrations, and case studies give a fascinating and detailed behind-the-scenes account of the major thefts during the past hundred years?ranging from Edvard Munch's The Scream and looting during World War II and the Iraq wars to a brazen and bizarre theft of a two-ton bronze Henry Moore sculpture. A gallery lists the estimated value of each stolen piece, painting an overview of the cultural, historical, and economic losses. Clean copy, mild fade to spine.
Softcover. Milwaukee Art Museum and Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Biedermeier examines Biedermeier painting, furniture and decorative arts as a style and a cultural attitude. Visual arts of the period, which are still largely unstudied as distinct from Romanticism or the Nazarenes, are highlighted here in the work of Georg Friedrich Kersting and Eduard Gaertner. With nearly 300 outstanding examples of German, Austrian and Czechoslovakian paintings, furniture, related decorative arts and works on paper, this is a superb document of the innovative character of the period and its importance as a precursor to modernism.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus and Young, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Introduction by John Steinbeck. 175 pages of some of Capp's classic comic strips. Some edge wear to front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Winston Salem NC, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "Tea at The Ritz", photographed at the Ritz-Carlon, New York. 10" X 13", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Softcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Stiff glossy covers completely illustrated in color, folded flaps, perfect binding, essay by Ellen R. Goheen and photography by Wolfgang Volz, 150 illustrations with 70 in full color, with documents, plans and fabric from the exhibition. Mild rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Phaidon, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. This monograph explores the life and work of one of the most important artists in the history of the West, Raphael (1483-1520). Its scope covers Raphael's origins, his early influences, his important Urbino period and subsequently the extraordinary series of frescoes and portraits of his last phase in Rome. No dust jacket.
Softcover. Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. 90 pages, color and b&w illustrations. An exhibition catalog, not published in hardcover.
New York, American Tobacco Co., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "Cream of the crop", b&w art of D'Alvarez, Mexican opera singer, not credited. 10" X 13", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
1965, Book: Very Good, Color art of musicians with instruments entering concert setting by Arthur Getz, 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. NY, Dragonfly Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. The inspiring story of an Iraqi librarian's courageous fight to save books from the Basra Central Library before it was destroyed in the war.It is 2003 and Alia Muhammad Baker, the chief librarian of the Central Library in Basra, Iraq, has grown worried given the increased likelihood of war in her country. Determined to preserve the irreplacable records of the culture and history of the land on which she lives from the destruction of the war, Alia undertakes a courageous and extremely dangerous task of spiriting away 30,000 books from the library to a safe place. Told in dramatic graphic-novel panels by acclaimed cartoonist Mark Alan Stamaty, Alia's Mission celebrates the importance of books and the freedom to read, while examining the impact of war on a country and its people.
Hardcover. Hanover, NH, New England University Press, 1st Revised , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Revised and enlarged from the 1st Edition of 1993 with 13 new illustrations. SIGNED BY SABRA FIELD on the half-title page.
Louisville KY, Frankfort Distilleries, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "History in the making...for the 66th time", color photo of race horses being led onto track. 10 1/2 X 13 1/2", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
1967, Book: Very Good, Color art of skyscrapers with rooftop tree by Getz. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
New York, Putnam, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth hardcover, 289 pages. Illustrated with b&w drawings. Cover has light edgewear. Clean copy.
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