Art

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, in original beige cloth with pictorial design to cover and title to spine in black. Classic humorous cartoons by the celebrated graphic illustrator. The author's 3rd book. 224 pages, 350 drawings, states first edition on copyright page. Mild darkening of spine. Otherwise a clean, very good copy.

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.

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages, hardcover. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Illustrated cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

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.

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.

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. Chrysalis, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages. Color illustrations throughout.

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. 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, 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. NY, Guggenheim Museum/Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 381 pages. A sumptuous photographic essay, which accompanies a new museum exhibition, celebrates the design genius of Armani, discussing his wide influence and the radical changes in fashion that he has inspired, tracing the evolution of his unique artistry. crease/wrinkle to front panel of dj otherwise very good. several pages with creases.

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, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages profusely illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

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, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 189 pages. "Not only is Andree Putman a wizard of design; she is also a muse that inspires timelessness." Jack Lang, former French Minister of Culture. Andree Putman was first cut above the rest when, twenty years ago, she conceived the first boutique hotel, the Morgan. She was also the one to open a new path for modern design, reinstating the importance of such major designers as Eileen Gray, Robert Mallet Stevens, Mariano Fortuny, and Jean-Michel Frank, among informed professionals. Since then, Putman's eclecticism has led her to embrace projects as diverse as the Guggenheim Museum, the Azzedine Alaia boutique and Peter Greenaway movie sets. Today, the designer's elegant and bold style is known throughout the world, from Los Angeles to Shanghai, a city where she created numerous projects. Andree Putman Style is a journey into the world of an uncommon designer, one which acquaints the reader with the influences and taste that inspired this amazing woman.

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. 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. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages. Color frontispiece, b&w illustrations. The Great Anti-War Cartoons by Craig Yoe offers a "hard-hitting but hopeful" collection spanning centuries of anti-war drawings by some of the best graphic artists, from Honore Daumier to R. Crumb and many others. As noted in the foreword, the works included in this compilation of responses to war come from both the left and the right, and this is indeed one of the strengths of this book. The insightful, thought-provoking introduction is delivered by none other than Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus and proves to be well worth reading in its own right.

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.

Softcover. Canada, Vancover Art Gallery, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages. Softcover with dust jacket. Light musty odor. Clean, tight copy otherwise. Black and white and color pictures throughout.

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. Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 189 pages. Blasphemy: Art that Offends is a prescient examination of the perpetually troubled, often explosive relationship between religion, politics and art. This book draws on a rich wealth of visual material, tracing both the history of blasphemy as a concept and re-positioning the term in the twenty-first century. Questions of censorship and freedom of expression are today extremely volatile, a fact evinced by the recent international backlash against the Danish newspaper Islamic caricatures and the murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh following the release of his notorious Submission. Blasphemy: Art that Offends provides a vital vantage point from which to view the complicated, compelling interrelations between religion, politics and the visual arts.

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. 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. New York, Macmillan Publishing, 1st , 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 312 pages, illustrated throughout with drawings in b&w. Black blind-stamped boards, brown cloth spine with gilt title. White pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to covers and spine, else a very nice, tight copy.

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. 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. Boston, MA, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. 134 black-and-white illustrations. Bibliography and index. Dust jacket slightly sun-faded. Examines Steiglitz's revolutionary role in the American avant-garde from the turn of the century to 1917. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Vertigo/DC Comics, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Graphic novel, 158 pages, art by Danijel Zezelj. Alik is a former Soviet soldier who has relocated to Coney Island only to become a gangland enforcer. He's haunted by memories of his past, and the only thing that soothes his angst is booze, heroin and his lover, the prostitute Marina. But as much as Alik encourages her to break away from the ganglord who owns her, Marina can't because of her daughter, who never leads the ganglord's side. So Alik comes up with a desperate plan to save all three of them, and in doing so, he'll find he's destined to repeat the past over and over again, including a past or two he might not even be aware he has, in a story that flashes from present- day run down Coney Island to the Russia of 10 years ago during the Second Chechen War to turn of the 20th century Coney Island, when the area was at its peak amusement park glory and wonder.

Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering to cover and spine, illustrated dust jacket, 90 tritone and 78 duotone illustrations, companion copy to "Charles Sheeler: Paintings and Drawings." Light wear to dust jacket; otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. Munich/NY, Prestel, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 296 pages, color illustrations and portraits throughout. Issued in conjunction with a 2014-2015 exhibition of portraiture rendered by Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918). "Despite a career that lasted less than a decade, Schiele is considered one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. A protege of Gustav Klimt, Schiele is celebrated for his singular style of draftsmanship, unusual use of color, and physically raw, often sexually provocative depictions of his sitters. Schiele's expressive style and controversial subject matter played an important role in the advancement of modernism in Europe. ... Both the catalogue and the exhibition are divided into six groupings of the artist's work: Family and Academy; Fellow Artists; Sitters and Patrons; Eros; Lovers; and Self-Portraits and Allegorical Self-Portraits. In addition, there is a section highlighting a traumatic and pivotal period in Schiele's life: his arrest and imprisonment during the spring of 1912. The color plates document the evolution of the artist's style, both pre- and post-imprisonment. Schiele's untimely death at the age of 28 adds a mythic quality to his abbreviated career." (dj) With five thematic and illustrated essays, and many illustrations. Clean copy.

Softcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 123 pages plus appendix, bibliography, etc. B&w and color illustrations throughout. Mild soil to back cover, small marks on fore-edge. Light rubbing to spine. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Steidl, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 148 pages. In this new monograph, Jamey Stillings (born 1955) synthesizes environmental interests with his longstanding fascination with the intersections of nature and human activity. In October 2010, Stillings began a three-and-a-half-year aerial exploration over what has become the world's largest concentrated solar power plant, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert of California. From the simple and stark terrain of the preconstruction landscape to the angular forms of the completed solar plant producing 392 megawatts of electricity on 14 square kilometers of public land, Stillings explores dynamic interactions between raw organic forms of nature and those defined by the project's precise geometric lines. Shot from a helicopter during first and last light, Stillings' black-and-white images intrigue with tight abstractions, oblique views of geologic and geometric forms, and broad open views of the dramatic desert basin.

Hardcover. New York, Abrams ComicArts, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Throughout his 25-year career, alternative cartoonist/screenwriter Daniel Clowes has always been ahead of artistic and cultural movements. Clowes has been praised for his emotionally compelling narratives that reimagine the ways that stories can be told in comics. The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist is the first monograph on this award-winning, New York Times-bestselling creator. It includes all of Clowes's best-known illustrations as well as rare and previously unpublished work, all reproduced from the original art.

Softcover. New York, David & Long , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 148 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light rubbing, soiling to wrappers. Spine slightly cocked. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 200 pages. This volume covers 1947 through 1949, and includes stories about women from all walks of life from French widows to American teenagers. Simon and Kirby invented the romance comics genre and explored all the flirtations, dalliances, and passions of the young men and women who populated their stories. Get swept away by the sheer delirium that these pages induced so long ago. These comics have been meticulously restored in order to produce one of the most striking and faithful reproductions of 1940s.

Softcover. Edinburgh, Luath Press Ltd, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. Color and b&w illustrations. In 1923 Charles and Margaret Mackintosh escaped Britain for France.Monsieur Mackintosh is the only book available on Mackintosh's years in France. With reproductions of 40 of his French paintings alongside photographs of the actual locations today, and images from the period 1923-1927, this is a comprehensive and pictorial account. Written in close collaboration with experts from Glasgow University, the National Gallery of Modern Art and the Glasgow School of Art, and edited by Professor Pamela Robertson, author and leading expert on Mackintosh, Monsieur Mackintosh includes new research and is written with the French and English translations side-by-side. Published to coincide with and accompany a major exhibition of Mackintosh's work in France Monsieur Mackintosh contains more than 250 images reproduced in full colour throughout.

Softcover. Lawrence KS, Spencer Museum of Art, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 300 pages, color illustrations. This extensive exhibition catalog explores humankind's deep connections and fascination with the plant kingdom through artworks from the Spencer Museum's permanent collection, a number of significant loans, and site-specific commissions by four artists-in-residence: Ackroyd & Harvey, Sandy Winters, and Mathias Kessler. The exhibition is organized through several themes: artists' studies of plant forms; historic and contemporary plant lore; ecological sustainability and biomechanical plant hybrids; plants in a post-human world; and works dealing with scientific research on how plants sense the world and communicate. One aim of the exhibition is to cultivate viewers' empathy for plants by addressing the tendency of humans to dismiss plants as a static backdrop to their fast-paced lives. Themes in Big Botany are explored further through an exhibition catalogue published by the Museum that includes short contributions from a variety of artists, curators, poets, philosophers, ecologists, and more. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Haase-Mumm Publishing, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 189 pages. #174 of 1, 000 copies signed by author. Biography and critical study of John Barber (1893-1965), American artist and contributor to the radical magazine The Masses. 16 color and 109 b&w plates. Bibliography and index.

Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Limited to 1300 copies in English, this being #521. Two volumes in a slipcase with a label. Dark blue cloth covers, top edge gilt, spines with maroon and gilt design. Vol. 1: The Paintings, 446 pages with 208 b&w plates, 19 b&w text illustrations and tipped-in b&w photo of Daumier by Nadar as frontispiece. Vol. 2: The Watercolours and Drawings, 619 pages with 325 b&w plates(most with multiple images), 31 text illustrations, tipped-in errata slip. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf of volume 1, otherwise clean, tight set. Slipcase is very good with some rubbing to blue cloth.

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 216 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Collects issues #12 through #16 of comic book "Tomb of Terror" published by Harvey from November 1953 to July 1954.

Hardcover. NY, Palgrave Macmillan , 6thpr., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 268 pages, color illustrations. Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock's drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million? Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work valuable while others are ignored.

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Company, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 141 pages. 33 B&W illustrations. No dust jacket. Pages uncut. Blue cloth. In good condition. Articles included in this tribute include: Julian Alden Weir, by Duncan Phillips; Weir The Painter, by Emil Carlsen; Weir, by Royal Cortissoz; Reminiscences of Weir, by Childe Hassam; The Tile Club, by J.B. Millet; Weir The Fisherman, by H. de Raasloff; A Letter, from Augustus Vincent Tack; A Letter from C.E.S. Wood; Lists of Paintings, which is 17 pages long, and lists paintings chronologically, and lists dimensions and owner. One of 712 copies with eight extra illustrations which were published by Phillips Publications as Publication No. 1.

Wales, Westmorland Gazette, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong green cloth covers, 80 lovely pen line drawings of the North Wales countryside with an Introduction by the artist. All text hand-lettered. Small printing, lacks dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 1. 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 265 pages, b&w illustrations. This first broad study of the relation between Vincent van Gogh's psychological development and his art stresses the creative rather than the pathological. chronology, section of black & white photographs, notes, selected references, index. Clean copy.