Hardcover. NY, Viking Studio, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear, rubbing and scratching to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. UK, Book Sales, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 319 pages. A visual survey of all forms of propaganda used by Allied and Axis powers immediately before and during World War II.
Hardcover. New York , Metropolitan Books, 1st US, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 191 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Over the past decade, Joe Sacco has increasingly turned to short-form comics journalism to report from conflict zones around the world. Collected here for the first time, Sacco's darkly funny, revealing reportage confirms his standing as one of the foremost war correspondents working today. Journalism takes readers from the smuggling tunnels of Gaza to war crimes trials in The Hague, from the lives of India's "untouchables" to the ordeal of Saharan refugees washed up on the shores of Malta. And in pieces never published before in the United States, Sacco confronts the misery and absurdity of the war in Iraq, including the darkest chapter in recent American history-the torture of detainees.
Hardcover. London, Hawk Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. oversized hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to laminated boards. Color comics throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, A book of essays and cartoons given out by Volkswagen dealers to their customers. Contributions by artists and writers such as Charles Addams, Harry Golden, William Steig, Jean Shepherd, Virgil Partch, George Price, Roger Price, Charles Saxon and others. Photos of a number of the contributors. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st Edition, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 126 pages plus 50 plates. Vivid color illustrated tipped-in plates (vibrant, excellent condition) with captioned tissue guards, as well as b/w illustrations throughout. Plates glued to brown heavy stock. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine, gilt title and design embossed on front cover board. Some light spotting to boards and spine, bump to front cover board's right top corner (see image). Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages quite bright and unmarked. Scarce. In Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, J.M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as an infant, living a wild and secret life with birds and fairies in the middle of turn of the century London. This edition is beautifully illustrated by Rackham, one of the leading figures of the Golden Age of British book illustration.
Hardcover. China, Moko Press , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR with illustration on title page. 34 of 500 printed. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Yellowing to dust jacket edges and spine. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with wear to dust jacket edges. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. A tight copy. Explores Leger's writings and works in a variety of media including painting, film, theatre, decor, ceramic sculpture, and mosaic.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Design, 1st, 2023, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 223 pages illustrated in color. From longtime fashion director, consultant, media personality, and author, Hal Rubenstein, comes a lush, full color, illustrated guide to the most influential fashion on television from the 1950s to today, revealing the surprising ways our favorite shows have significantly reflected and often shaped the way we dress. From Mary Tyler Moore's capri pants on The Dick van Dyke Show and Emma Peel's dominatrix jumpsuit on The Avengers to Olivia Pope's trademark white trench on Scandal and Don Drapers' grey sharkskin suits on Mad Men Dressing the Part is a rich history of popular American fashion and culture in the modern age. In this gorgeous compendium, the longtime fashion director and expert identifies the most stylish television shows of the past 70 years, highlighting the ways they have affected and often inspired ordinary Americans' wardrobes. Combining his decades of fashion expertise and insider knowledge with lush photographs, archival sketches, fascinating interviews with over two dozen of television's best costume designers, commentary from showrunners and co-stars, and little-known backstories, Rubenstein reveals with insight and wit how television has shaped everyday fashion, guiding and often elevating how we dress. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Bloomsberg Press, 1st Edition, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gray cover boards, green quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. In beautiful condition. Spanning the years from 1938-1998, each of these 100 classic cartoons pack a time-lsss, powerful punch.
Hardcover. New York , Smithsonian/ Abrams, 5th pr., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Clean, bright copy. Large, oversize folio in a very good, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Chelsea House, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 215 pages. Color and black & white illustrations of comic art. Light rubbing to extremities. A colorful exploration of an engrossing subject with illustrations by artists such as Milton Caniff, John Byrne, Ron Embleton, Richard Corben, Burton Clarke, Chester Gould, Val Mayerik and many more.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 588 pages, several color plates. Before Picasso became Picasso-the iconic artist now celebrated as one of France's leading figures-he was constantly surveilled by the French police. Amid political tensions in the spring of 1901, he was flagged as an anarchist by the security services-the first of many entries in an extensive case file. Though he soon emerged as the leader of the cubist avant-garde, and became increasingly wealthy as his reputation grew worldwide, Picasso's art was largely excluded from public collections in France for the next four decades. The genius who conceived Guernica in 1937 as a visceral statement against fascism was even denied French citizenship three years later, on the eve of the Nazi occupation. In a country where the police and the conservative Academie des Beaux-Arts represented two major pillars of the establishment at the time, Picasso faced a triple stigma-as a foreigner, a political radical, and an avant-garde artist. Picasso the Foreigner approaches the artist's career and art from an entirely new angle, making extensive use of fascinating and long-overlooked archival sources. In this groundbreaking narrative, Picasso emerges as an artist ahead of his time not only aesthetically but politically, one who ignored national modes in favor of contemporary cosmopolitan forms. Remainder dot to top edge, otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Softcover. San Francisco, Golden Gate Publishing, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, comic book. Standard Format and Size. First Printing (75 cent cover price). Color illustrated covers with black/white interior art. Without page numbers. All work by R Crumb.
Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, illustrated with 247 plates, 37 in color. In publisher's shrinkwrap. Nobel Prize-winner Heaney introduces a volume that richly reflects every aspect of Hadzi's career, from intimate studio photographs to large architectural commissions. Hadzi's works in bronze and stone are powerfully abstract and expressionist, yet involved with the past as a literary and aesthetic source.
Hardcover. New York, National Academy of Design, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 246 pages. 62 B&w illustrations and 77 plates in full color. Black leatherette. silver lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Like new.
Hardcover. Leicester VT, Gala Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 218 pages. Includes 3 essays: Hiding in Plain Sight: Decoding the Homoerotic and Socio-Political Imagery of Grant Wood. Charles Sheeler and Albert Einstein: Pioneers in the Exploration of Spacetime!The Case for Reattributing George H. Durrie's "Genre" Paintings to James Goodwyn Clonney. Rear panel of dust jacket wrinkled otherwise very good, clean copy.
Softcover. NY, DC Comics, reprint, 2005-09, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Seven softcover volumes. Collects the earliest adventures of Batman and Robin as they battle a variety of villains including the Monk and the Joker. The early adventures of Batman including his very first appearance in Detective Comics and his first solo comic are included in Volume 1, the first of a series that prints every Batman story in order. While the dialogue and artwork and plots are very basic and crude which is normal for early comics, it does show how Batman started with the basic familiar origin story still there. The action is set in New York, not Gotham and the art is by Bob Kane, the original creator. The first 7 volumes in the series are offered here.
Hardcover. New York, Assouline, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 349 pages, color illustrations throughout. DVD included. Representing Jean-Paul Goude's life and work from the late 1960s up to the present, the book spans Goude's years at Esquire; his revolutionary work with Grace Jones, his videos for MTV and for Azzedine Alaia; his advertising work for Chanel, and more. With text and images by Goude himself, So Far So Goude is the definitive book on the work of an extraordinarily innovative, talented and unorthodox man. With more than 350 illustrations in full color, this book is a fascinating reference for anyone interested in fashion illustration, photography, and all other avenues of commercial design and advertising.
Hardcover. London, Wordsworth, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated with full color paintings by P.J. Redoute. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Duke University Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 381 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived experience, politics, race, and human agency. In essays that range from examinations of Benjamin's and Sigmund Freud's writings to the work of Kara Walker and Roland Barthes's famous Winter Garden photograph, the contributors explore what photography can teach us about the nature of the unconscious. They attend to side perceptions, develop latent images, discover things hidden in plain sight, focus on the disavowed, and perceive the slow. Of particular note are the ways race and colonialism have informed photography from its beginning. The volume also contains photographic portfolios by Zoe Leonard, Kelly Wood, and Kristan Horton, whose work speaks to the optical unconscious while demonstrating how photographs communicate on their own terms. The essays and portfolios in Photography and the Optical Unconscious create a collective and sustained assessment of Benjamin's influential concept, opening up new avenues for thinking about photography and the human psyche. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Penguin Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. Nice history of paperbacks from its early beginnings up to the mid 70's. Chapters on collecting. Many b&w stills + 111 color reproductions of covers & artwork. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CONNECTICUT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 255 pages, illustrated with 103 color and 262 b&w plates. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744-1818) was one of the most talented still-life painters of the French school. Her exquisite paintings, today located in some of the world's finest museums, were admired and collected by many of her contemporaries, including Marie Antoinette, who became the artist's most important patron.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages, 171 illustrations, 50 plates in color. The definitive monograph on Bishop. Like new in a bright, crisp dust jacket in a mylar protector.
Hardcover. NY, Lucas Books & Del Rey, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in gray boards with a black cloth spine. This lavish volume features more than six hundred examples of the art created for The Phantom Menace each a masterpiece in its own conceptual illustrations, sequential art, and brilliant, fully executed paintings. Digging deep into the exclusive Lucasfilm archives, The Art of Star The Phantom Menace details Episode 1's revolutionary use of traditional and high-tech media. Magnificent paintings that capture the exotic environments of Naboo, Tatooine, and Coruscant Key action sequences, including the Podraces on Tatooine and the riveting ground and space battles Fascinating insights and photos revealing the secrets of the artists at work The earliest conceptual drawings, following the evolution of Darth Maul, Qui-Gon Jinn, Queen Amidala, and Jar Jar Binks Exciting new poster art, created expressly for Episode 1. Clean copy, lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & CO, reprint, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Heavy soil on cloth covers. Previous owner's name on end paper. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED WITH SKETCH ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Spine shows small tears and soil/wear. Front hinge tender.
Softcover. Gloucester MA, Rockport Publishers, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. Sex sells. It?s one of the oldest and most effective tricks in the book. The challenge for graphic designers, however, is to incorporate sexuality into their work in ways that are classy rather than coarse, sensual rather than smutty, provocative rather than pornographic. This arresting volume shows how top graphic designers have leveraged the universal notion of sex to create attention-grabbing yet high-quality artistic work. Covering every medium, from print to the Web, Sex Graphics showcases images that incorporate sex in ways that range from subtle to clever to shocking. Some images hint at the act of sex itself; others flirt with humorous stereotypes. Some exude romantic overtones, and others, erotic ones. Some speak to adults, others to teens.
Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 87 pages. 32 color illustrations. Dark blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Very nice, clean and tight copy. Dust jacket edgewear on upper corner of spine. In good shape.
Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1998, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Lisa Rinna Melrose Place mom on cover & Pregnant Pictorial; sweet life of Ahmad Rashad; smartest women in porn; Patrick Moynihan inteview; Vanessa Gleason Miss September and more.
Hardcover. New Haven, New York Historical Society, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 964 pages. 2 Volumes. Hardcovers with dust jackets. Light rubbing to edges on dust jackets. Clean, tight copies with color pictures throughout.
Hardcover. Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 124 pages. Featuring eighty-two vintage postcards published beginning at the turn of the century, Postcards of the Night traces American cultural life as it was transformed by industrial strength and shifting demographics. The nation increasingly was growing more educated, upwardly mobile, and urban, and the nighttime postcard popularized this modernism for ordinary consumption. Coalitions of city planners and urban developers, politicians and the media utilized the picture postcard to strategize the role of the individual in the rise of the city. It was the birth of leisure and of travel, the new tourist city to which the postcard needed forcefully to speak, in ways that were equal part artifice and art.
Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 85 pages + prints. B&w illustrations. Blue leatherette, gilt lettering to spine. previous owner's inscription in front. Price clipped. Dust jacket with minor edge wear, somewhat sunfaded. Very nice, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 231 pages, richly illustrated, primarily in color. This book is filled with gorgeous color illustrations. 1486 species illustrated, nomenclature edited by Douglas Kent. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller Incorporated, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Heavy damage on 2 inches of bottom right corner. Otherwise, tight copy. Color pictures throughout. Endlessly experimenting with design, composition, and color, Hiroshige captured in these paintings, as no where else in his work, his poetic and idyllic sense of nature.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY SPIEGELMAN & MOULY AND JON SCIESZKA who did the introduction. The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics is an unprecedented collection of the greatest comics for children, artfully compiled by two of the best-known creators in publishing and the field of comics--Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly.This treasury created for young readers focuses on comic books, not strips, and contains humorous stories that range from a single-page to eight or even twenty-two pages, each complete and self-contained. The comics have been culled from the Golden Age of comic books, roughly the 1940s through the early 1960s, and feature the best examples of works by such renowned artists and writers as Carl Barks, John Stanley, Sheldon Mayer, Walt Kelly, Basil Wolverton, and George Carlson, among many, many others.Organizing the book into five categories (Hey, Kids!; Funny Animals; Fantasyland; Story Time!; and Wacky & Weird), Spiegelman and Mouly use their expertise in the area of comics to frame each catego
Hardcover. Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society, 1st, 1939-47, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes. 293+468 pages. B&w illustrations throughout both volumes. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Dust jackets in protective mylar cover, some pieces missing from spine and some dark age stains on vol. 2. Both copies excellent shape, volume 1 looks almost new, while volume 2 has aged gracefully. A very nice, tight and clean set.
Softcover. Ann Arbor, MI, Published for U. New Hampshire by University Microfilms International, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 255 pages. Biographical history of Paul Rosenfeld, his artistic, musical, and literary criticisms and his contemporaries. Slight bumping to corners, otherwise a tight and clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Price-clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Light soil to top pages, abrasion on title page. Black and white pictures throughout, some color.
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.
Hardcover. Tucson, University of Arozona, 1st, 1974, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Limited edition, 1/2500 copies. Green cloth with dark green title to spine. White pictorial dust jacket with minor wear to edges, else like new. 4 color, 147 bw plates. Catalogue at rear lists 184 works. Foreword by John I.H. Baur. Introduction by Martin H. Bush. Main essay by Sheldon Reich, with notes. Includes reproductions of many etchings. A terrific copy of this uncommon title.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 290 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Kiki was once the symbol of bohemian Paris. But if she is remembered today, it is only for posing for several now-celebrated male artists, including Amedeo Modigliani and Alexander Calder, and especially photographer Man Ray. Why has Man Ray's legacy endured while Kiki has become a footnote? Kiki and Man Ray met in 1921 during a chance encounter at a cafe. What followed was an explosive decade-long connection, both professional and romantic, during which the couple grew and experimented as artists, competed for fame, and created many of the shocking images that cemented Man Rays reputation as one of the great artists of the modern era. Remainder dot to top edge, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Westport CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wraps stapled. Articles on Stephen Bissette, Pavlov by Ted Martin, Off the Leash by W.B. Park, Bill Yates editor at King Features, others. 82 pages.
Hardcover. Newburyport Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. Richard Henry Arbib was considered one of the leading industrial designers in the United States in the years following World War II. By the 1950s, he had established himself as one of the true visionaries in his field, producing groundbreaking design concepts not only for automobiles, but for a range of products that included wristwatches, pens, boats and even personal helicopters--designs so innovative than many of them would still be considered advanced today. This book is an attempt to rediscover both the man and his extraordinary work. Combining a biographical essay and commentary by historian and collector Frederic A. Sharf with 35 never-before-seen drawings by Arbib, this is a revelatory look at one of the great artists of America's industrial history, and the first biographic study of his work.
Softcover. Buffalo / NY, Albright-Knox / Abbeville Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog. 156 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Shows nearly a hundred of the American artist's paintings, includes an interview with Motherwell, and discusses the development of his career. Red pictorial stiff wrappers. Slight wrinkle to back cover and minimal wear to edges, else like new.
Hardcover. London, Rodale Press, 1st thus, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, publisher's original cream and red pattern paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the black cloth spine. 36 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. A small (although not really a miniature) book containing an essay by James which was originally published in the Century Magazine in 1890. Illustrated with a portrait of Honore Daumier and 15 his caricatures. Mild foxing to endpapers otherwise clean.
Softcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with lightly soiled wrappers, internally clean. Light fraying to paper spine. Stated first printing on copyright page.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 255 pages, profusely illustrated. Wordless books - stories from the early part of the twentieth century told in black-and-white woodcuts - were imaginatively illustrated, powerful, and iconic, and as relevant to the world of today as they were when they were first published. Covers the period of 1918 through 1951, and includes the works of: Helena Bocho akova-Dittrichova, William Gropper, Milt Gross, Laurence Hyde, Frans Masereel, Otto Nuckel, Giacomo Patri, e.o plauen, Istvan Szegedi-Szuts, Myron Waldman, and Lynd Ward.
Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 201 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Minor wear to edges, slight wrinkle to lower front cover, else like new. This exhibition catalog explores the artist, his history, his views and his works in as comprehensive a fashion as any living artist could desire. Black and white and full-color plates on heavy coated paper. Essays by Mark Rosenthal and Richard Marshall. Exhibition travelled to Philadelphia, the Whitney in NY, Berkeley U. Art Museum, Walker Art Center and the Corcoran in Washington.
Softcover. NY, BisPublishers, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps with flaps. 393 pages. Infiltrate is a comprehensive collection of contemporary, cutting-edge New York design. It features established and emerging studios together with some extraordinary, little known companies and individuals. Each of the 30 ground-braking designers is interviewed and all artwork is captioned. Infiltrate is full of creative energy, experiments, challenging ideas and unexpected solutions. Clean copy.