Art

Hardcover. Oslo, Aschehoug & Co., 2nd Ed., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Large hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. Foreword by Donald Kuspit. Illustrated throughout in color with reproductions of the paintings plus many close-up details. 11" square, 346 pages with approximately 130 color and 65 b&w illustrations. Translated by Francesca M. Nichols. Old Master Existensialism: Odd Nerdrum's Paintings: Nerdrum paints isolated figures ensconced in their isolation. His style is at once completely modern with aspects of the surreal subtlety evident, yet he is reminiscent of the old masters for his superb draftsmanship and the dark earth colors he uses. There are 3 short tears repairs to rear dj panel, taped on reverse. Otherwise a bright, clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Washington D.C, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 225 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w and color. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 3rd Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Wrapper very good. One of the most chilling installments in the Love and Rockets series.

Hardcover. Dark Horse, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. First appearing in Al Capp's "Li'l Abner" comic strip in 1948, the oddly shaped (and happily edible) Shmoo became an overnight phenomenon, spawning an unprecedented merchandising frenzy in the late '40s and 50s. As part of the Dark Horse Archives series, ALL Shmoo comic book appearances are being collected for the first time ever in a deluxe hardcover edition! In addition to every issue of Shmoo Comics from 1949 and 1950, rare bonus stories, and Shmoo-centric advertisements from yesteryear, Al Capp's Complete Shmoo: The Comic Books features an introduction and annotations by certified Shmoo-ologist Denis Kitchen. A persistent presence in pop culture, the selfless Shmoo has served humanity for decades - mostly by offering itself as food - but also by entertaining and tickling our funny bones like no other creature can. Treat yourself to these hilarious adventures, featuring Washable Jones, Super Shmoo, Frankenshmoo, Fu Manshmoo and truly a cast of thousands! This archival collection sports a new cover by Peter Poplaski.

Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 306 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout, b&w frontispiece. Light edge wear, rubbing to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Park Service,, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 58 pages, The famous cartoonist of WW2's Willie and Joe fame offers his take on America's War for Independence. Small price sticker on cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NewYork, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering. Features 40 full-page etchings of Civil War scenes with commentary on opposite page.

Hardcover. NY, Mark Batty, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. The volume offers a significant selection from the run of Peel Magazine, which exposes the key influence in the recognition of urban stickers, in particular in the USA.A good overview of artists, thematic selections, are peppered with fair interviews, and other elements of urban culture such as decorated or tuned-up toys, or several forms of street art without losing much track of stickers as such.

Hardcover. Alexandria VA, Art Service International / Yale University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 263 pages. Comprehensive treatment of Grandma Moses, her life, work, significance, and with a Catalogue of her work. Illustrated in color. Designed for a major traveling exhibition of Moses' work, the hardcover copies were distributed by Yale. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages of text, 1478 b&w plates, 39 index pages. Two volume set, textured cloth covers, clean dustjackets, set shows little wear. Cardboard slipcase with paper chipping to edges.

Softcover. Long Beach CA, Tony Raiola, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 36 pages illustrated in b&w by Falk. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gutter cracked in preliminary pages. SIGNED ON HALF TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR. Dust jacket shows chipping and small tears. Small sticker on front end paper bottom.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 385 pages. While browsing the stacks of the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago some years ago, noted historian Neil Harris made a surprising discovery: a group of nine plainly bound volumes whose unassuming spines bore the name the Chicagoan. Pulling one down and leafing through its pages, Harris was startled to find it brimming with striking covers, fanciful art, witty cartoons, profiles of local personalities, and a whole range of incisive articles. He quickly realized that he had stumbled upon a Chicago counterpart to the New Yorker that mysteriously had slipped through the cracks of history and memory. Here Harris brings this lost magazine of the Jazz Age back to life. In its own words, the Chicagoan claimed to represent "a cultural, civilized, and vibrant" city "which needs make no obeisance to Park Avenue, Mayfair, or the Champs Elysees." Urbane in aspiration and first published just sixteen months after the 1925 appearance of the New Yorker, it sought passionately to redeem the Windy City's unhappy reputation for organized crime, political mayhem, and industrial squalor by demonstrating the presence of style and sophistication in the Midwest. Harris's substantial introductory essay here sets the stage, exploring the ambitions, tastes, and prejudices of Chicagoans during the 1920s and 30s. The author then lets the Chicagoan speak for itself in lavish full-color segments that reproduce its many elements: from covers, cartoons, and editorials to reviews, features--and even one issue reprinted in its entirety.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 434 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new condition. When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how -- years before music -- comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams Inc, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean copy with only minor edgewear. Some slight soiling to dust jacket edges. More than 150 illustrations, including reproductions of masterworks spanning the artist's entire career, accompany five critical essays that reveal Remington's complexity and brilliance.

Softcover. Brookville NY, Hillwood Art Museum, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wrappers, 44 pages. Full-color catalog featuring essays and images of traditional and contemporary African sculpture depicting mother and child. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Portland House, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated with 100 full-page color plates, each with multiple patterns; additional black & white figures. Originally published in 1867 by S. & T. Gilbert of London. Folio.

Hardcover. New York, Glitterati, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. illustrated in color and b&w. A visual survey of Black style from the 1940s through the 1970s. In publisher's shrinkwrap. This is the 2006 first printing with a different cover than the later reprint.

Hardcover. Milwaukee WI, Hal Leonard, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover, 319 pages. Lavishly illustrated with over 700 faithful reproductions of sheet music covers in color. Pictorial boards, issued without a dust jacket.

San Francisco, Last Gasp, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, a guide to the characters of the comic series presents information on the role in the strip of and real life models for Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, General Alcazar, Professor Calculus and others. Each is shown in early and late incarnations, b&w and color, with fascinating historical facts and tidbits. 131 pages include index and color throughout.

Hardcover. Croydon UK, Fonthill Media, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 160 pages. You might be surprised to learn that many of the consumer brands and products we enjoy today exist because of streetcar advertising. The Industrial Revolution of the early 1900's and a massive consumer audience riding over 50,000 streetcars in nearly 3,000 cities and towns in every state of the union provided a great opportunity for Barron Collier, a native of Memphis, Tennessee. He simply used streetcar advertising to bring these two forces together and created the largest streetcar advertising empire in the world. By age twenty-six, he was a millionaire and at one time had business offices in 70 cities with business interests in more than a thousand cities. Most of these advertising cards have remarkable color graphics; over 250 of them are included in this book for your viewing pleasure. While streetcar advertising is definitely not a major advertising medium today, the advertising community might be surprised to learn that the basic principles of consumer advertising have not changed that much in the last one hundred years. Investors might do well to review this book to see which companies are still producing these popular products and brands as they represent some of the most successful businesses in America today.

Softcover. London, Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Unpaginated, a collection of sticker art reproduced in color. Color illustrated wrappers. Today's stickers are the new flyers, a major means of street-based communications, and are used by the hippest advertising agencies and the most underground messengers alike. This is the first book to cover this latest street-art phenomenon, and features truly international coverage of the sticker scene.

Softcover. San Francisco, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrated thick wraps. appx. 44 pages, 12 color plates, half-tone frontispiece and color wraps. This exhibition was also held at the Alan Stone Gallery and Faggionato Fine Arts. The exhibition listed 6 works. Several short introductory essays by the various gallery owners.

Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Light edgewear to wrappers. Color comics throughout. The heretofore black-and-white Sunday Krazy Kat returned in full spectacular color in June 1935, collected here from then through 1936, with a flood of rare color extras and a revelatory essay by Jeet Heer.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1989, Book: Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear to bottom edge, rear cover. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Donna Mills on cover, centerfold Renee Tenison. Stories on sex inthe Cinema 1989 pictorial; abortion opinions; Donna Mills Knots Landing; interview with Garry Kasparov; solving the murder of Jimmy Hoffa; confessions of an SOB and more.

Softcover. Paris, Berggruen & Cie, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 28 pages, 23 color and b&w illustrations. The cover, which wraps around, is an original four-color lithograph made by Picasso for this exhibition booklet. French text, essay by Maurice Jardot. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Koln GR, Jablonka Galerie, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 28 pages with color and b&w plates. Exhibition catalog. Limited to 400 copies.

Hardcover. New York , E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 87 pages of b&w cartoons from The New Yorker. Dust jacket with light edgewear, unclipped. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 304 pages. 243 color and 181 duo-tone illustrations. Extensive bibliography included at the back. Showcases these works by American artist Robert Motherwell (1915-1991). "Provides a definitive study of the artist's work as a printmaker. It includes a catalogue raisonne of all his graphic work from 1943 through 1984, covering nearly 350 prints in virtually every medium: engraving, lithography, silkscreen, etching, aquatint, mezzotint, monotype, collage, and others. Each work is documented and reproduced, more than 200 of them in full color." Clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Sex, Rock 'N' Roll, & Optical Illusions is Victor Moscoso's first major, career-spanning retrospective, from his earliest poster work in 1966 to his most recent graphic experimentation. Optical Illusions contains his best posters that advertised bands playing in San Francisco's famous dance ballrooms of the time - the Avalon, the Matrix, and the Fillmore - as well as many of his Zap Comix contributions, and his solo comix work, many in Moscoso's signature color. This wide-ranging career retrospective - Moscoso's famous technique employing "vibrating colors" that he pioneered in his posters is impeccably reproduced with as much fidelity to the original as modern printing can achieve, his black-and-white and full color comix work is collected here for the first time - is an intense, vibrant, and revelatory experience. Introductions by Steve Heller and Milton Glaser.

Softcover. London, Imperial War Museums, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Posters of the First World War collects more than one hundred posters from America, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy that showcase renewed concern among the warring nations with national character and conduct.

Softcover. London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held from December 11, 1992-February 28, 1993..

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 419 pages. Saint-Gaudens was one of the major artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; his outstanding craftsmanship remains a tremendous influence on American sculpture to this day. Fifty-five b/w illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Assouline Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 80 pages. Surrealism remains a great inspiration for the fashion world. Designers embraced the ideals and aesthetics of such creative geniuses as Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Rene Magritte and Man Ray. With fun, amusing and extraordinary creations, they quickly began to unstitch the institutionalized notions of fashion, adding imagination, color and scandal to this ancient trade. Fashion & Surrealism is a testament to the fruitful infatuation that fashion has had with Surrealism, an infatuation that is still very visible in the works of contemporary designers such as Yves Saint Laurent, Jean Paul Gaultier and Serge Lutens.

Hardcover. NY, Weybright and Talley, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, lavender cloth with gilt tile on spine, 338 pages. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket but flaps laid-in.

Hardcover. NewYork, Viking Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. Covers lightly bowed.

Hardcover. Paris, Editions Denoel , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 120 pages. B&w cartoons by Sempe. French text.

Softcover. Kitchen Sink Press, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages. In 1945, World War II ended and a new age dawned. In Li'l Abner, Al Capp moved along with everyone else into this age, guiding vbhis immensely popular adventure strip into satire. At the top of his artistic and storytelling form, Capp was more than ready to greet the postwar era. In this book you'll meet Orson Waggon (Orson Welles), boy radio genius, who has a sensational idea: kill somebody during an actual broadcast --a somebody named Abner Yokum. Also in this volume: Timberwolf McHowl, Moonbeam McSwine (who prefers the company of pigs to men) gets a bath; Fleabrain, Lonesome Polecat, Barbara Seville and another wild Sadie Hawkins Day Race. Orson Welles parody and more! Introduction by Madeline Gardner, Al Capp's sister (with early family photos) and another fine intro by Dave Schreiner putting the year in historic context.12 x 9 horizontal format

Softcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated cardboard box housing twelve 11 x 14 inch color prints featuring illustrations from Joan Walsh Anglund's books, including Spring is a New Beginning, A Friend is Someone Who Likes You, Love is a Special Way of Feeling, and Christmas is a Time of Giving. All prints in excellent condition.

Softcover. Rockville ID, Rockville Republican, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled binding, a collection of b&w cartoons that ran in the Rockville Republican newspaper in Indiana depicting small town and rural life in the 1930s and 40s, much in the style of John McCutcheon. No date but last cartoon suggests it was 1943 and issued by the paper as a Christmas keepsake to it's readers. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with short repaired tear, 155 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Skippy was a comic strip drawn by Percy Crosby-considered by many to be one of the classics of the American newspaper strip. This excellent book contains a biography of Crosby as well as a generous selection from Skippy. Introduction by Jules Feiffer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages, color illustrations by Betsy Lewin, Brian Collier, Brian Selzneck, David Wiesner, Paul D. Zelinsky, Hilary Knight, David Shannon, others.

Hardcover. New York, Assouline, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 3 volumes in slipcase. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. For over a century Coca-Cola has been a touchstone of modern culture and a global icon. First sipped at an Atlanta soda fountain, the beverage has become an instantly recognizable symbol around the world, woven into people's lives and memories. This newest addition to Assouline's best-selling Memoire collection, Coca-Cola: Film, Music, Sports celebrates the iconic brand's broad-reaching influence in the domains of film, music, and athletics. With imagery of some of these industries' most revered names, and forewords penned by Ridley Scott, Quincy Jones, and LeBron James, these volumes explore the beverage's prominence in some of the greatest films of all time, its inspiration for legendary musicians of all genres, and its motivational support of athletes from the Olympics to professional sports.This slipcase set is a must-have accessory not only for collectors of Coca-Cola memorabilia but also for lovers of American culture everywhere.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial color wraps, $1.50 cover price, 48 pages in b&w by Shelton. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Santa Fe, Radius Books, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages in color. An artist's book of augmented portraiture, documenting the symbolism and material culture of the Biilukaa (Apsaalooke).Wendy Red Star (born 1981) made her first big move off the Crow reservation to attend Montana State University in Bozeman. During one of her study sessions she discovered an image of Medicine Crow, an Apsaalooke chief, in a random book in the university library. Enamored by his image, she made a xerox copy and kept the chief's image in her sketchbook. A decade later, in 2014, she revisited this image to create an exhibition at the Portland Art Museum titled Medicine Crow & the 1880 Crow Peace Delegation. Biilukaa builds upon this theme of researching historical photographs of Apsaalooke individuals and material culture, with the artist drawing on both her personal collection and works held in museums and archives across the country. Red Star notes, "Since the time I left the Crow reservation I have encountered my tribe's material cultural in every city I have exhibited or occupied. It is incredible that so much of my community's history and material culture is kept in the vaults of these institutions hundreds of miles away from their source." The text features interviews with the artist and members of her extended family, alongside new works of primarily collaged photography. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY/Cambridge MA, The Architectural History Foundation/The MIT Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This is the first complete biography of the inimitable society architect Addison Mizner, whose Spanish Revival buildings created a new style of resort architecture for Palm Beach and south Florida during the boom years of the 1920s. Clean 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 York, Rizzoli, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. First edition. A showcase of Groom's drawings, prints & inimitable urban sculpto-pictograms (in full-color).

Hardcover. NY, Picador, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 359 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w. Jon Schueler, the American abstract expressionist painter, worked on this book for 30 years. He writes about his struggle to uncover his artistic motivations and his conflict between solitude and intimacy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Columbia, Univeristy of Missouri Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages. B&W photography and illustrations throughout. pictorial dust jacket, slightly worn at corners and spine. Price clipped. Black boards with silver gilt title to spine. Frontispiece. Overall, a nice, clean copy.