Art

Hardcover. NY, Society of Illustrators, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Fascinating insights into the lives and works of 82 top artists elected to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame make this an inspiring reference and art book. From illustrators such as N.C. Wyeth to Charles Dana Gibson to Dean Cornwell, Al Parker, Austin Briggs, Jon Whitcomb, Parrish, Pyle, Dunn, Peak, Whitmore, Leyendecker, Abbey, Flagg, Gruger, Raleigh, Booth, LaGatta, Frost, Kent, Sundblom, Erte, Held, Jessie Willcox Smith, Georgi, McGinnis, Harry Anderson, Barclay, Coll, Schoonover, McCay...the list of greats goes on and on. A deluxe production from 1997, in a handsome cloth slipcase with a mounted color plate of a nude, a special transparent dust wrapper, gold edging on all the pages, oversized square coffee table format. And of course, the highest quality reproduction all from original art. Profiles and major examples of each artist's work give a sweeping overview of the art of illustration for the last 130 years. 450 color illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st thus, 2008, Hardcover, pictorial boards. no dust jacket issued. Originally published in a different form in 1977 by Belier Press, this collection of comics by Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author/artist of "Maus," presents the seminal works that changed how comics are made and appreciated today. Revised and re-issued in 2008, with an introduction that's almost as long as the book it introduces, and certainly autobiographically intimate and daring. Clean, very good.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1969, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Exhibition catalogue for Bulgarian artist Christo. Illustrated with 71 reproductions of his often large-scale work, 3 of which are in shown in full color. Cloth bound book and dust jacket are in near fine condition; dust jacket has very slight wear some corners, book is very clean and new-looking.

Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Peter Smith, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 100 pages, b&w illustrations. A checklist of 387 paintings, lithographs, watercolors and drawings, with appendix including excerpts from Lane's will and bibliography. One of Wilmerding's first of many works, this is a pioneering monograph on the artist, best known for his luminous marine paintings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 208 pages, 174 color plates. Window-Shopping through the Iron Curtain presents a selection of more than 100 images of shop windows shot by David Hlynsky during four trips taken between 1986 and 1990 to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, East Germany, and Moscow. Using a Hasselblad camera, Hlynsky captured the slow, routine moments of daily life on the streets and in the shop windows of crumbling Communist countries.The resulting images could be still-lifes representing the intersection of a Communist ideology and a consumerist, Capitalist tool-the shop window-with the consumer stuck in the middle. Devoid of overt branding or calculated seduction, the shop windows were typically adorned with traditional yet incongruous symbols of cheer: homey lace curtains, paper flowers, painted butterflies, and pictures of happy children. Some windows were humble in their simple offerings of loaves and tinned fishes; others were zanily artistic, as in the modular display of military shirts in a Moscow storefront; and some illustrated intense professional pride, such as a sign in a Prague beauty salon depicting a pedicurist smiling fiendishly over an imperfect sole. The photographs are accompanied by essays by art historian Martha Langford and cultural studies specialist Jody Berland, as well as Hlynsky's own account of his time as a flaneur in the shopping plazas of the collapsing Soviet empire-"a vast ad-hoc museum of a failing utopia" that in 1989 began to close forever. No dj issued.

Hardcover. NY, Posters Please, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, catalog for poster auction held Sunday, May 2, 2004 featuring American show posters, PKZ posters, Olympic posters, International posters, books and periodicals. Bright, clean covers.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, dark red cloth/dark red DJ. 144 pp. 108 bw plates. All of Falconet's major works and attributions are illustrated in gravure, with many details. Includes a translation from the French of Falconet's Reflections sur la sculpture by Eda Mezer Levitine.

Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Maroon boards, [vi] 270 pages, no illustrations. Series: Library of American Art. This is the 1969 Da Capo reprint of the 1895 original; made possible by the Kennedy Galleries. This version is an unabridged republication of the first edition. No dust jacket, as issued. Light wear to lower edges and spine, overall a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Archie Comics, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 color pages illustrated by Bob Montana.

Hardcover. Watkins Glen, NY, Century House, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Purple leatherette, pictorial dust jacket. Like new. In shrinkwrap. Definitive biography of Louis Prang, Victorian color lithographer, artist, and art educator. Includes a checklist of Prang's chromolithographs, annotated bibliography, appendices, index. 16 full-page color plates, and countless illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket with light tanning to spine edge. Book is bound in textured brown boards with a gnome holding a lantern embossed in gilt on front. 212 pages, all in color, hundreds of illustrations, maps, and diagrams. First published in 1976 in the Netherlands titled Leven en werken van de Kabouter. Small inscription on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 525 pages, b&w illustrations. The first full-length biography of one of the fathers of American art. Light green cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover. Blue pictorial dust jacket with minor wear to spine and edges. Overall a very nice, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Terrific monograph on this important American artist. Includes 275 illustrations, most in color and with 4 double gatefolds. Dust jacket with light soiling on back cover.

Softcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. White glossy covers with b&w photographic plate of Louise Nevelson, perfect binding, introduction by John Canaday, profusely illustrated throughout with large b&w plates. Light rubbing to covers; otherwise a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, Whitney Museum of American Art]/Yale, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 249 pages, Illustrated throughout, including 386 in color. Publishers' oatmeal cloth with black and orange titles to spine and upper board, with pictorial endpapers, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket featuring Study for "Nighthawks". Clean and bright with no annotation or inscriptions. In-depth visual overview and study of the work of Edward Hopper (1882-1967), one of the greatest American artists of the twentieth century, and his working methods. Multiple illustrations on virtually every page, featuring working sketches, photos of the artist at work, notebooks and final artworks. A brilliant reference work to Hopper's art and methodology. Clean, like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Humanoids, Inc., 1st Ltd Ed., 2021, Book: Very Good, Visionary author, filmmaker, and philosopher Alejandro Jodorowsky has created -- along with some of the world's most singular and talented sequential artists -- an incredible Sci-Fi universe, full of love, revenge, intrigue, betrayal, and redemption: THE JODOVERSE. The Jodoverse's two cornerstone series are The Incal and The Metabarons, which together have sold over 5 million copies worldwide. This deluxe box set (two oversized books in one deluxe slipcase box) is limited at 1500 numbered copies.Book 1 contains the reference guide on The Incal, Deconstructing the Incal, which lifts the veil on many of the mysteries and secrets surrounding the seminal science-fiction graphic novel. This encyclopedic reference book is packed with fascinating insights from the creators, Jodorowsky and Moebius, alongside revealing text and rare and unseen preliminary illustrations. The book also contains the original 56 pages drawn by Moebius of the unfinished first version of the sequel story (After The Incal).Book 2 features the second reference guide to the Jodoverse, Deconstructing the Metabarons, focused on unveiling the secrets of the universe's fiercest warrior clan: the Metabarons. Book 2 also includes Weapons of the Metabaron, the seminal series' spin-off story recounting how the mightiest warrior in the universe built his arsenal of war and featuring A-list comics star Travis Charest's (Wildcats, WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Golden Age, and Star Wars comics covers) interpretation of The Metabarons' mythology. 376 total pages. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. A survey of the most original Southwestern Indian jewelers -- from traditional and contemporary silversmiths to exquisite lapidary artists to metalsmiths who create wearable art and objects.. Color photos by Addison Doty.

Softcover. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Mendel Art Gallery, na, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages. Foreword by Linda Milrod. Essays by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Donald B. Kuspit, Bruce W. Ferguson. 21 full page plates in color and b&w. Cover in black with blue lettering. Creasing across front and back covers as well as rubbing, otherwise a very good clean copy.

Hardcover. Brighton UK, Alpha Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 127 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. This book examines the extraordinary metamorphosis that has occurred in the presentation of the human face during the twentieth century. A series of essays charts the portraits which are the "Milestones" to that change, while the discussion that follows - "Changing Perceptions" - endeavours to identify its nature, its causes, and to show the manner in which the artists reveal this transformation when painting their sitters. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, quarto, 337 + 352 pages., indices, well illustrated in color and b&w. Organized by academic artists, folk artists, visiting foreign artists and artists of the Civil War, with detail biographical information on the artists, this has become an indispensable reference work. near fine copies in gilt decorated gray boards with terra-cotta cloth spines. Clean copies.

Hardcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 172 pages, filled with impressive folk art in full color on just about every page. Three essays on the collection by Marshall and Lynne E. Spriggs, High Museum of Art's Curator of Folk Art, Joanne Cubbs, the museum's first curator of folk art, and Lynd Roscoe Hartigan, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Forword by Michael E. Shapiro, director of the High Museum of Art. In a bright dust jacket.

Softcover. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Very light edge wear; else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London/NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 112 pages illustrated in color, b&w. Jenny Uglow narrates the story of Walter Crane, an intriguing and most prolific figure not only in illustration, but in political culture more broadly. Uglow expertly weaves a fascinating study of how Crane's art and politics developed from his childhood love of Pre-Raphaelite painting to the influences of Morris and William Blake on the journals, books, banners, pamphlets and postcards he went on to create as he forged a new style for the international socialist movement. Comprising a staggering range of visual material, Crane's images became a symbolic code that leapt over linguistic boundaries. This book is a brilliant record of an artist who blended styles and influences like no one before him. An exploration of the life and work of Walter Crane, the pioneering British socialist artist who transformed the illustration of children's books. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Princeto NJ, Princeton University Press, 3rd Ed., 1948, Book: Very Good, Hardcover set, Volume 1: The life and art of Albrecht Durer 311 pages. Volume 2: Handlist, Concordances, and Illustrations 208 pages. 325 Illustrations. A beautiful 2 volume set with detailed biography and detailed information on paintings, prints and drawings. Both volumes are cloth bound hardback with gilt lettering on front and spine of each volume. Previous owner's name on front fly leaves. Otherwise clean.

Softcover. US, Stichting Kunstboak , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 135 pages.Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Norbet Hostyn, curator of the Museum of Fine Art in Ostend, has produced a fascinating and comprehensive account of the world and ideas of the by turns celebrated and vilified James Ensor (1860-1949). He offers an illuminating introduction to the artist's life and oeuvre, accompanied by a selection of fifty representative works, each comprising a large, color reproduction and an art-historical commentary. It is the story of a striking and controversial painter who was initially the focal point of a new school, but later became an eccentric with a finely tuned sense of image and business.

Softcover. NY, Pace Gallery/Wilderstein, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog that is actually two catalogs published back to back (unusual format). One side is Maquettes for Monumental Sculpture and the other Wood Sculpture and Collages. Approx. 60 pages all together. B&W and color photography throughout. Sewn bindings with slight wear. Overall, a nice, clean copy.

Softcover. Hanover, Brandeis University Press, 1st pbk, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 338 pages, a study of Alice Neel and her paintings. Illustrated with b/w photographs and color plates, with notes, bibliography, and index. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Summit Books, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations through by Steadman. His take on the creation of the universe, man:- and, what we have done to the earth!

Softcover. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 16 full-page color plates; many other illustrations. Short-lived mid-nineteenth-century Baltimore artist who painted interior and exterior scenes usually of two or more people in some sort of exchange. Critics praise his composition and use of color.

Softcover. Mexico, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Articles in English and Spanish. 108 pages plus advertisements. Color illustrations throughout. Black pictorial cover with wear to edges and covers. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover 215 pages. Many illustrations, 78 in full color. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC September 22, 1996-January 26, 1997 and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA March 2-May 11, 1997. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Des Moines, Iowa, Wallace Homestead Book Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 123 pages. Illustrated throughout with wonderful black and white photographs, period advertisements, floorplans, houses, furniture, dinnerware and room designs. Small inscription on front fly leaf otherwise pages white and clean.

Softcover. New York, Harper Design, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Very good.

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.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 344 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Presents the years 1959 and 1960 of the politically progressive, influential newspaper strip. This is the first time Pogo has been complete and in chronological order anywhere-with all 104 Sunday strips from these two years presented in lush full color for since their original appearance in Sunday newspaper sections. In Volume 6, Albert Alligator and Beauregard Bugleboy fend off a man-from-Mars, and Howland Owl investigates Communist espionage in the postal system. Then, it's election year and Okefenokee Swamp gets a new presidential candidate, Fremount the Bugboy. His campaign slogan, "Jes' Fine," sparks political debates about just who can and should be president - maybe even a woman! Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, CA, IDW Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color and b&w illustrations by Milton Caniff throughout. Illustrated pastedowns and end papers. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In the third volume of The Complete Steve Canyon -- reprinting every strip from 1951 and 1952 -- new and old characters are paired off. Breck Nazaire and Dr. Deen Wilderness return. Steve meets the lovely Duchess of Denver and the sadistic Fungo; gets assigned to Eel Island, where he encounters crusty Colonel Index and his not-so-blushing bride; is sent to protect a government secret at Maumee University, only to reconnect with Summer Olson and meet her mysterious friend, Kate Subjekt; and eventually gets caught in the deep woods with Miss Mizzou and Roy Himmerskorn before coming face-to-face yet again with not only Summer, but the Copperhead herself -- Copper Calhoon!

Softcover. Hong Kong, Christie's Inc., 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 204 pages, photographs throughout with English and Chinese text. Very slight corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 143 pages. 44 color, 59 bw plates. One of a series focusing on America's foremost artists from the colonial era to the present, this volume covers the work of American Impressionist, William Merritt Chase (1849-1916). Chase worked mainly in oil, but he also used watercolour and pastel, and produced prints. Includes bibliiographical references and index. Clean copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, reprint., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 44 pages including semi-glossy color covers and b/w interior. Saddle-stapled wraps, $1.25 cover price. This is one of the five small collections of those strips.

Softcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 102 pages. Softcover. Extensive color illustrations by Adrian Tomine throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. New York, The Century Co., 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 219 pages, illustrations throughout, some color, gilt titles on red cloth board. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, minor edge wear and corner bumps, light edge fade, otherwise, clean and tight copy with bright pages.

Softcover. Athens, Benaki Museum, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages, softcover exhibition catalog, b&w illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Sculpture, pottery, vases, jewelry and other art from ancient Greece and the Cycladic civilization. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, very good.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages plus color wraps. Staple bound, $2.00 cover price. Color art by Selton inside- "The Idiots Abroad", part 1. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York, Rizzoli , 1st, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. B&w and color photographs throughout. Binding cracked between two pages. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Wilmington, DE, Delaware Art Museum, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 150 pages. Exhibition catalog. Mostly black-and-white, with some color, illustrations. Light sun-fade to spine. A little wear to bottom corner of front cover. Very good, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 96 pages, oblong format. This chapel in Italy's great city of art is home to a marvelous cycle of frescoes, composed by three 15th-century masters: Masaccio, Masolino, and Filippino Lippi. Under the supervision of Masaccio, they moved far beyond Giotto in creating figures more human, in spaces more realistic than ever, providing inspiration for succeeding artists like Leonardo and Michelangelo. More than 32 color plates. Short inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. San Francisco, Apex Novelties, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Rick Griffin and S. Clay Wilson. Contributions by Griffin, Robert Crumb, Victor Moscoso, Wilson, Gilbert Shelton. First edition, first or second printing (50c cover price, first two printings depend on the thickness of the cover stock).

Softcover. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.