Art

Softcover. Toronto, Ontario Heritage Foundation, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, 201 plates in color and b&w. Softcover exhibition catalog in clean, bright condition. Photos with brief descriptions of folk art & artifacts representing many ethnic groups including Pennsylvania German work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Firefly Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Posters of the Canadian Pacific is a treasury of three hundred of the finest posters published by the company. They were displayed in Canadian Pacific offices and independent travel agencies worldwide from the 1880s until the 1970s. These posters enticed millions to visit and even settle in Canada. The posters span the years 1883-1973 with special focus on the Art Deco style posters of the 1920s and '30s. They focus on travel and leisure -- activities on ski slopes, golf courses, beaches, and luxury resorts. Other posters feature Canadian Pacific ocean liners in exotic locations around the globe such as the West Indies, Rio, Hawaii and the Orient.

Softcover. New York, Jill Newhouse, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, staple-bound pamphlet, with 47 black-and-white illustrations. Price list for works laid in. Light soiling, edge-wear, and shelf-wear to covers. A little foxing to top edge. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages plus color wraps. Staple bound, $2.00 cover price. Black and white art by Selton inside. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. UK, Sona Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 141 pages in color. Famous for the Birkin Bag and Silk Scarf and beloved by the great, the good and the uber glamorous - Hermes boasts an instantly recognizable signature style all of its own. This book, beautifully illustrated with images of some of the world's iconic fashion items, charts the story of Hermes origins and how the brand became the symbol of French luxury and craftsmanship and the influential, innovative haute couture power house it is today. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 263 pages. Louis Michel Eilshemius was a born poet-visionary. His paintings reveal a gift for lyrical expression, an ability to impart an unearthly, dreamlike quality to canvas, and an extraordinary originality. The abundant illustrations in this first comprehensive volume on the artist attest to the importance of his contribution to American art at the turn of the century. In his sensitive text, Paul J. Karlstrom illuminates the contradictions that provide the key to understanding Eilshemius's life and art. Thoroughly trained in the academic manner, Eilshemius later became known primarily as the painter of bizarre, 'primitive' nudes. His early paintings, landscapes influenced by the Barbizon school and Camille Corot, differ dramatically from his late works, which are naive and often disturbing fantasies. At his best, Eilshemius was a magician of the canvas, yet his unstable character and unrealistic ambitions prevented him from fully realizing his talent.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 391 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light yellowing and wear to dust jacket edges. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy. Full color looks at over 3277 New Yorker covers over 65 years.

Softcover. NY, Life Publishing, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 36 pages plus cover. Color cover by Garrett Price: A Quick Pick-Up. Magazine was once folded so a crease throughout. 3 color ads plus b/w cartoons by Al Frueh, Art Young, John Held, others.

Softcover. NY, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1st pbk., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 218 pages with 256 b&w illustrations. From cover: "describes the ideals that inspired an earlier generation to leave city and factory in order to practice crafts ranging from bookbinding and metalwork to furniture making." Mild curl to cover, otherwise very good, clean.

Hardcover. NY, Praeger Publishers, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 288 pages. 971 illustrations including 64 color plates. Previous owner's inscription, embossed stamp on front fly leaf, some edge wear on dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Konecky and Konecky, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. 54 color and 146 b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. A study of Morris's life through his own words and work. Contains extracts from his letters, poems, etc. Lavishly illustrated throughout with over 200 color plates. Many of the illustrations have never been reproduced before

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Dark blue cloth, 274 pages. Fully illustrated with reproductions of Father Point's paintings and drawings, most in full color. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Art Museum, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. 181pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Gray pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, else like enw.

Softcover. Rochester, NY, Home Institute, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled 2-color wrappers, 40 page booklet, b&w illustrations throughout. Not credited but presumed the author. Nice period drawings.

Hardcover. New Yory, Sterling, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Originally published in 1990 by Kitchen Sink Press. Color throughout. 208 pages.

Hardcover. NY, Neue Galerie, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Foreword by Ronald S. Lauder. More than 160 works illustrated in color. 123 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Springfield, MA, Pond Ekberg, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Limited edition. #219/500 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Blue cloth spine. blue paper boards, gilt titles. No dust jacket. Light wear around edges and spine, front cover slightly sunned with tape mark from old price-sticker. Bookplate. A nice, tight copy.

Softcover. 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. Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 176 pages. Text in English and German. Hardcover, pages. Thomas Zipp, born in 1966, studied under Martin Kippenberger in Frankfurt and then continued at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. His imagery blends New Age thought patterns with provocative spiritual irony: religion, cults, myths, drugs and violence. Achtung! Vision presents his paintings, drawings, collages and installations since 2003, including a number of very new and never-before-seen works.

Hardcover. Medford MA, Tufts University Art Gallery, 1st, 2014, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 155 pages. Many color and BW illustrations. Issued in conjunction with a 2014 exhibition of more than 60 of the prime, representative examples of works by important artists acquired, commissioned, and purchased by the University since its founding in 1852, Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 1981, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 84 pages. 32 dolor plates and 12 b&w illustrations. Wine red cloth, silver lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket with minimal edge wear. Nice, tight copy. Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 - February 11, 1848) was an English-born American artist. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's Hudson River School, as well as his own work, was known for its realistic and detailed portrayal of American landscape and wilderness, which feature themes of romanticism and naturalism.

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. Features SKELETON HAND September/October 1952 to July/August 1953 Issues 1-6 and also CLUTCHING HAND July/August 1954 Issue 1.

1930s, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "The girl I love-", photo-strip story. 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. Berkeley/Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 270 pages in color and b&w. The first major book to consider the life and work of Robert Arneson, A Troublesome Subject tells the fascinating story of how a high school art teacher transformed himself into an artist of international stature and ambition. Representing the full scope of Arneson's career in a rich survey of color reproductions, this book is at once a study of the trajectory of contemporary culture, the work of Robert Arneson, and the relationship between the two. It shows how Arneson's work articulated the crisis of narcissism that has defined American culture since 1970. Jonathan Fineberg develops his ongoing work toward a psychosocial history of art as he proceeds through Arneson's career-chronicling his early life, the formation of a personal style, and finding a unique subject matter in his famous post-1970 turn to self-portraiture. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Watson Guptill, 1st paperback., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages, color illustrations throughout. Minor edge wear otherwise, clean, tight and bright copy. A collection of the Fantasy illustration of the Victorian era. Includes the works of Rackham, Dulac, Beardsley and others. Beautifully illustrated, many in color.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. In 1972, underground cartoonists Joyce Farmer and Lyn Chevli produced Tits & Clits - a funny, rowdy, raucous underground comix series about female sexuality that one reviewer described as "the ultimate in vaginal politics" - and became the first American women ever credited with writing, drawing, and publishing their own comic books. A feminist answer to Zap, Tits & Clits quickly became an anthology showcase for other women cartoonists, featuring the work of Mary Fleener, Roberta Gregory, Krystine Kryttre, Lee Marrs, Carel Moiseiwitsch, Trina Robbins, Dori Seda, among others. Like other underground comix, Tits & Clits leaned into being lewd in order to satirize women's experiences with so-called sexual liberation. Featuring stories about birth control, abortion, menstruation, masturbation, and more, Tits & Clits featured intimate politics which occasionally clashed with contemporaneous feminist concepts about sex and sexuality. As Chevli put it: their work had something to offend everyone. (In 1973, conservative legal authorities in Orange County deemed their work pornographic and even threatened the two editors with arrest on obscenity charges.)Now, for the first time in half a century, a new generation of readers will be shocked, entertained, enlightened, and scandalized by the bold satirical cartoonists that comprised the band of sisters in Tits & Clits. In addition to reprinting the seven-issue run of the Tits & Clits series, this collection also includes in their entirety two classic solo comics from 1972 written and drawn by Farmer and Chevli - Abortion Eve and Pandora's Box. Also included is an introductory essay providing context to Tits & Clits' place in the history of women's cartooning by the book's editor, Samantha Meie

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, Ltd Ed., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a lightly worn dust jacket. "No. 880 of a Special Limited Numbered Edition of 1000 Copies" written in pen on the back of the half title. 85 pages of Bellmer's surreal, erotic artwork. No slipcase.

Hardcover. NY, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 529 pages. Material for this novel based on the life of Amedeo Modigliani is based on letters, family papers and interviews with the Modigliani family by the author. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers. 160 pages, 150 illustrations (50 in color), bibliography/exhibition list. A very colorful, well documented catalogue of this twentieth-century painter, best known for his "Overseas Highway" and his stark, solid colored industrial images from the 1930s.

Softcover. Schiffer, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. Harrison Fisher: Defining the American Beauty is the largest picturial guide to this popular artist ever produced. Nearly 450 color and black and white reproductions of his magazine covers and book illustrations document this important artist's career. Harrison Fisher enjoyed incomparable fame from 1905 to 1920, achieving celebrity status and holding the enviable position of national beauty judge. Fisher portrayed the American woman as an outgoing, lively personality, wealthy and healthy. She rode horses, played tennis, and motored in the new automobiles while holding court for admiring men. Fisher's portrayals of such beauties added market value to dozens of novels as well as hundreds of magazines which clamored for his art on both their covers and inside pages. With Fisher's work extremely hot on the collectibles market, new and seasoned buyers alike will benefit from the advice of antiques dealer and Price Guide author Bruce Magnotti.

Hardcover. Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 638 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Small stain on fore edge of textblock. Otherwise, a very clean, unmarked copy with minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Small tear to top edge of rear dust jacket cover. A tight copy. Black & white and color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 330 pages. A visually captivating history of the evolution of Glamour magazine and the brands legendary decades at the forefront of female empowerment in an incredible photographic volume For more than 80 years, Glamour has been the preeminent women's empowerment brand in America. But until now, no one has told the extraordinary story of its origins, the famous names who helped shape the magazine into the global powerhouse it is today, and Glamour's many historic firsts. Glamour was the first American fashion magazine to feature a Black cover star, the first to present Gloria Steinem's writing, and the first to feature groundbreaking reporting on reproductive rights. In a gripping journey, follow the group of women editors and journalists who spearheaded the magazine as World War II transformed the female landscape with over 7.5 million working women suddenly in the US workforce in 1940 and repositioned the title from charting Hollywood glamour to the magazine for the girl with a job.

Softcover. New York, Christie's Houston, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover auction catalog, 435 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London , Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light fraying, small tape repair on spine, to dust jacket. Color pictures throughout. Adhesive residue on back cover.

Hardcover. US, Gestalten, 1st, 2012-04-25, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Girl's Best Friends features work by outstanding jewelry designers including Ted Noten, Saskia Diez, byAMT, and Kelsey Quan; fashion labels such as Commune de Paris 1871; artists such as the duo Confettisystem; and a range of innovative designers from other disciplines. The most comprehensive showcase of the innovative jewelry being created today.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, light green cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. 209 pages with index, 4 color and 88 b&w plates. Foreword by Eleanor Roosevelt. Remnants of very worn, tape-repaired dust jacket. A study of the art created by Japanese-Americans placed in barracks during World War 2. Book is very good, tight and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Posters Please, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, auction catalogue with beautiful pictures of posters in color. An exceptional copy in the original title-blocked cloth.

Hardcover. 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Large oblong hardcover, 345 pages with 440 illustrations, including 68 plates in full color. Oblong folio. Cream cloth boards with blue titles to front and spine and a pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Paperclip imprints to front fly leaf, else like new.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with tanning to edges, 40 pages. 3 color, 28 b&w plates. Considers the life and work of American modernist Stuart Davis. (1892-1964) "Offers an informal account of Davis' career from its precocious beginning in the school of Robert Henri as a follower of The Eight through the impact of the Armory Show and the subsequent evolution of his work. The text is unique in that the artist, as far as possible, speaks for himself. James Johnson Sweeney has skillfully interwoven Davis' own terse and lively talk of pictures, places, people and esthetic theory with a running narrative and critical commentary."

Hardcover. San Diego, Sunbelt Publications, Revised Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 246 pages, color photographs and illustrations throughout, illustrated end paper. The Great Murals of Mexico's Baja California are one of the five greatest sites in the world for primitive rock art. They rank with those of southern France, northern Spain, northwest Africa, and outback Australia. These Great Murals, created by an unknown people, are without doubt the most distinctive trove of rock art in the Western Hemisphere. The site was unveiled to the modern world in the 1960s by adventure/mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner who brought in UCLA archaeologist Clement Meighan to validate the importance of his find. But it was not until the 1970s, when author/photographer Harry W. Crosby undertook a systematic search for the largely unknown works hidden in the mountains of central Baja that the scope and significance of the find became known. He documented his search and discovery of over 200 previously unreported rock art sites leading to the original publication of The Cave Paintings of Baja California by Copley Books in 1975 which first introduced this cave art to the general public. Since that time, Baja California's Great Murals have been designated a United Nations Heritage Site. This lavishly illustrated full-color account is greatly revised and expanded from the original edition and offers Crosby's unique perspective on the painted sites and painting styles found in different parts of the Great Mural area. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, Idea & Design Works/IDW, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Celebrating the centennial of cartoonist Milton Caniff's birth, IDW Publishing published a six-book series, collecting the entirety of Caniff's groundbreaking newspaper adventure strip Terry and the Pirates. The Sunday pages are reproduced in their original color, alongside the daily black-and-white strips. Volume One contains more than 800 consecutive strips, from the series' beginning in October 1934 through the end of 1936.

Hardcover. Milan IT, Edizioni L'archivolto (Acc), 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 187 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Although relatively short-lived, store window displays are a vital constituent of the daily scenery of today's cities, and offer an important outlet for disciplinary cross-pollination. Store-window design always involves defining a specific message that is conveyed using an array of means, including architecture and set-design, advertising and graphics, multimedia, and at times fine art, with the aim of firing the buyer's imagination while also transmitting a clear brand identity.

Softcover. Munich London NY, Prestel, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 200 pages. One of the most widely acclaimed of all living artists, David Hockney has, in some ways, been the victim of his own popularity. Frequently interpreted as the lightweight expression of a colorful personality, his work is in fact characterized by an underlying seriousness of purpose. This emerges with particular clarity from the fresh appraisal of the artist's oeuvre offered in this book.Each of the volume's six chapters, broadly chronological in sequence, is introduced by an essay that examines in depth certain aspects of Hockney's artistic practice. The complexity of his seemingly straightforward imagery is further elucidated in the commentaries accompanying each of the sixty-three carefully selected color plates. These encompass the period from 1960 to 1993, from work produced during the artist's student days at the Royal College of Art in London to his most recent paintings, informed by his experience of designing for the stage and by his experiments with photo-collage and fax art. Included are paintings being illustrated for the first time and others that have rarely been reproduced in colour. Numerous black-and-white illustrations of related works provide important reference material. An illustrated chronology and a selected bibliography conclude this lucid, authoritative account of Hockney's development.

Softcover. NY, Rizzoli/Cornell University, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 209 pages, oblong format. B&w illustrations and line drawings. Pictorial card covers. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Excellent copy of the First Edition, First Printing of this graphic novel in which Daniel Clowes presents scenes from the life of an awkward, crabby non-hero named Wilson. 77 pages, illustrated. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages, 125 b&w illustrations and 8 plates in full color. The first comprehensive study of Oscar Bluemner's life, art, and intellectual development. Cream cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Gray pictorial dust jacket with minor wear to edges, in protective brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 200 pages. This book collects his early gag cartoons for men's magazines; his wicked takes on Alice in Wonderland and the Wizard of Oz; and his slyly sexy fairy tales The Frog Prince,Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Hansel and Gretel - plus his raunchy version of Snow White. Wood, who garnered international fame as a premier parodist for Mad, also takes aim at comic-book and -strips icons in such stories as "Prince Violate," "Stuporman Meets Blunder Woman," "Flasher Gordon," "Starzan," and even his own character, Sally Forth. Wood's cartoon commentaries on sex and society are included, such as "The Sexual Revolution" and "Brave Nude World." Other rarities include "The Marquis de Sade Coloring Book," "Dragonella," and the complete run of all of his covers for the infamous Screw magazine. Black & white illustrations with some color.

Softcover. NY, Fordham University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 476 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. This volume gathers groundbreaking critical essays on Sabato (Simon) Rodia's renowned Watts Towers (Los Angeles, California) from diverse disciplinary perspectives, extensively highlighting his migration context as never before, as well as the Towers in the context of human and community development within the 'Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Dallas TX, Taylor Pub, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 150 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w. Traces the history of science fiction comics from the 1930s to the present, discussing characters and themes, the influence of television and film, and other topics.