Art

Softcover. New York, ACA Galleries , 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 70 pages. Softcover. Extensive color and b&w illustrations throughout by Moses Soyer. Some wear to spine and soil to back cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2003, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 102 pages. Dust jacket price-clipped. "The New Yorker" takes a second look at our most loved childhood stories and rhymes. Edited by Bobby Goldstein. Nice 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.

Softcover. NY, Stewart Tabori & Chang, reprint, 1997, Softcover, 169 pages, illustrated in color. An authority on Pompeii and the ancient Roman Empire takes readers on a tour of Pompeii, examining every aspect of the city and its people. This presentation of over 80 amazingly diverse works of erotic art from Pompeii and nearby Herculaneum accompanies a meticulous text which discusses the works in detail, emphasizing elements of composition, style, origin, and the mythological or real-life influences that inspired their creation. 159 color photos by Antonia Mulas.

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages in color. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The Spirit returns for the third volume in this archival series! In it, Will Eisner's classic crimefighter of the 1940s continues to face off against enemy agents on the homefront. This volume includes an appearance by the sultry Silk Satin, as well as the Spirit's developing relationship with Police Commissioner Dolan and his beautiful daughter Ellen.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes: Volume I, Copley in America, 244 pages. Volume II, Copley in England, 472 pages. Brown and blue cloth covers with gilt lettering to front and spine, blue slip case with b&w illustration, previous owner's pencil inscriptions to front endpapers of both volumes. 334 b&w plates to volume I, 334 b&w plates to volume II. Light wear to slip case and edges of covers; overall both volumes are clean, tight copies.

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. The Monacelli Press , 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 264 pages. Richard Filipowski (1923-2008) was among the most gifted polymaths in the annals of American modernism. Whether as a painter, sculptor, or designer of furniture and jewelry, Filipowski developed a lush, abstract, and amazingly consistent visual language that marks him among the finest figures of midcentury art and design. As a student at the Institute of Design (formerly the New Bauhaus) in Chicago, he quickly became a protege of founder Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, who featured several of Filipowski's works in his seminal text Vision in Motion (1947); Filipowski was the only student Moholy-Nagy called upon to join the faculty, where he taught alongside Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. Recruited by Gropius to develop a course in design fundamentals at Harvard, which remains a cornerstone of design pedagogy to this day, he would move to MIT where he taught for more than three decades, until his retirement in 1988.With a foreword by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's daughter Hattula, Richard Filipowski: Art and Design Beyond the Bauhaus is the first monograph of this master, who over the course of his career created a unique body of work in diverse media that has largely, until recently, been held in private collections due to his relative lack of compulsion to seek media attention or worldly rewards. But now through the efforts of the Filipowski family and new attention by design scholars--several of whom contribute essays here on Filipowski's graphic and painted works, sculpture, furniture, and position in design history--the work is being revealed to a new generation of aficionados. Richard Filipowski is a rich document of a life and career that is poised to reenter the canon of modernism.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 105 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by various artists throughout. Dust jacket price clipped. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 366 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Blue cloth cover with small gilt illustration embossed to front, gilt lettering embossed to front and spine, 270 b&w plates, appendix of supplemental b&w plates of art pieces described in collection. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper, 2 small squares of tape residue to opposite endpaper, light foxing evident of front and rear endpapers, light wear to cover. This extensive catalog is one of the finest for the study of colonial and early American furniture, painting, and the decorative of arts of the period of 1720-1820.This beautifully printed volume, set in Monotype Bembo and with full-tone collotype illustrations, established a high visual standard for furniture catalogs.

Singapore, Asiapac Books, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover 121 pages. The infamous and powerful eunuchs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties come to life in this graphic novel. Illustrated in b&w line.

Hardcover. Seattle, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, mostly b&w, some color, 472 pages. These erotic comics stories span 1968-1986. "The Man from Harlem" is Crepax's ode to boxer Joe Louis and jazz. In other tales, Valentina attempts to balance new relationships with lovers Bruno and Effi alongside the domestic life she shares with Phil. Bonnie and Clyde, Louise Brooks, and the globetrotting photographer Valentina (a movie and TV star herself!) take center stage in this collection of erotic comics stories.

Hardcover. New York, Abrams ComicArts, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by George Herriman throughout. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Clean, tight copy. Krazy Kat & the Art of George Herriman is a tribute to one of the most influential and innovative comic strips and creators of all time. This unique collection of rare art, essays, memorabilia, and biography highlights the career of the first genius of comics, George Herriman, and his iconic creations, Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse. During its 31-year run, Krazy Kat was enormously popular with the public, as well as influential writers, artists, and intellectuals of the time. This book includes original essays by Jay Cantor, Douglas Wolk, Harry Katz, Richard Thompson, Dee Cox (Herriman's granddaughter), Craig McCracken, Bill Watterson, and authorized reprints of two seminal essays on Herriman by Gilbert Seldes and E. E. Cummings, alongside newly discovered vintage essays by TAD, Summerfield Baldwin, and Toots Herriman. With Krazy Kat & the Art of George Herriman, Craig Yoe reveals this influential artist and writer for a whole

Hardcover. CA, Twelvetrees Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Original tan linen cloth hardcover in near fine condition and near fine slipcase. Unpaginated. There are 31 pages of color illustrations printed one side only with a blank page interleaved between the latter. Illustrated here are Brice's drawings on four by six inch index cards. The volume reproduces his original sketchbook, each card is sequenced and mounted on the page as they appear in the artist's original sketchbook. these were used to visualize and experiment with compositional elements for his large-scale paintings.

Hardcover. NY, Asia Society, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 121 pages, illustrated in b&w, some color. Dust with light edgewear, minor fade to spine. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front fly leaf. Errata pamphlet laid in.

Softcover. Auburn CA, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1987, 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 2. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 304 pages illustrated in color and b&w. A thought-provoking examination of the challenging and sometimes sinister roles that fashion has played in the history of cinema.

Hardcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A volume of the life and work of Arnold Friberg, includes 50 full-color plates and numerous b&w illustrations. 175 pages. Red cloth bound, some white dots on front and back covers. Well-bound, clean copy. Dust jacket shows signs of rubbing along edges and small tear along the back bottom left corner.

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

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, staplebound with $2.95 cover price. 32 pages illustrated in color by Shelton. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 168 pages. In The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay, Thierry Smolderen presents a cultural landscape whose narrative differs in many ways from those presented by other historians of the comic strip. Rather than beginning his inquiry with the popularly accepted "sequential art" definition of the comic strip, Smolderen instead wishes to engage with the historical dimensions that inform that definition. His goal is to understand the processes that led to the twentieth-century comic strip, the highly recognizable species of picture stories that he sees crystallizing around 1900 in the United States. Featuring close readings of the picture stories, caricatures, and humoristic illustrations of William Hogarth, Rodolphe Topffer, Gustave Dore, and their many contemporaries, Smolderen establishes how these artists were immersed in a very old visual culture in which images--satirical images in particular--were deciphered in a way that was often described as hieroglyphical. Across eight chapters, he acutely points out how the effect of the printing press and the mass advent of audiovisual technologies (photography, audio recording, and cinema) at the end of the nineteenth century led to a new twentieth-century visual culture. In tracing this evolution, Smolderen distinguishes himself from other comics historians by following a methodology that explains the present state of the form of comics on the basis of its history, rather than presenting the history of the form on the basis of its present state. This study remaps the history of this influential art form.

Hardcover. Boston, The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1st, 1973, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in near fine condition with dust jacket in very good condition (minor nicks and wear to back cover and edges). pp. xxv, 294; frontispiece portrait, title-page vignette, and 143 illustrations throughout the text, many full-page.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Quirk Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 255 pages. A hilarious spotlight on the strangest second bananas in superhero comics, including junior partners, animal assistants, and even heinous henchmen (sidekicks of the villain world). Complete with vintage art and publication details. Batman has Robin. Captain America has Bucky. And Yankee Doodle had Dandy. Being a superhero is hard work, which is why so many comics characters rely on a sidekick for help. Someone who can watch the hero's back, help search for clues, or, if nothing else, give the hero someone to talk to. But just as not every superhero achieves the glory of Batman, not all sidekicks are as capable as the Boy Wonder. In The League of Regrettable Sidekicks, author Jon Morris discusses some of the strangest iterations of the sidekick phenomenon, and in the process explores how important these characters were to comic book storytelling.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Twenty-six New Yorker cartoonists take on aging, retirement, death and the Great Beyond. George Booth, Edward Koren, Marisa Acocella Marchetto (creator of Cancer Vixen) and Gahan Wilson are among those confronting the Reaper. Some cartoons in the book have previously appeared in the New Yorker, but most are originals. Contributors range in age from their 30s to the 90-year-old Frank Modell. Various cartoons deal with the shock of baby boomers as their old age looms: Roz Chast depicts the body with a mind of its own, aging despite its owner's wishes; J.B. Handelsman draws an executive telling an older worker that the company encourages certain employees to die. But many of the cartoons celebrate the continuing vitality of seniors, such as Lee Lorenz's female astronaut who will be the first Gray Panther to walk on the moon. The hooded Grim Reaper is a continuing presence, but many cartoons are set in heaven or hell. In the back of the book, most of the contributors say who they would like to meet in the Great Beyond. In this life-affirming collection, even death can't halt the momentum of the human comedy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Gambit, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Fine in heavy cloth covered boards with a blue and gilt title block on the spine and a gilt facsimile of N.C. Wyeth's signature on the front board. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket although lightly soiled at the folds. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2", 858 pages, stated 1st edition. A fascinating insight into Wyeth's life, interspersed with photos and color reproductions.

Softcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 172 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Blue pictorial stiff wrappers. Covers slightly sunned and lightly worn around the edges. Writings in ink on front cover. Nice, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, The Drawing Centre, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 94 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Penone's sculptures, installations, and drawings are distinguished by his emphasis on process and his use of natural materials, such as clay, stone, metal, and wood. Exhibition catalog. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large format pictorial boards, 200 pages. In 1949, the ambitious Charles Biro - who had previously co-created the realistically brutal comic Crime Does Not Pay - edited and wrote an oversized comic aimed at adults, called Tops. Like several other radical adult comics projects that would follow, it proved to be a commercial failure and lasted only two Life magazine-sized issues. The original comics have since become a legendary holy grail among comics fans and historians, fetching as much as $6,000 on the collector's market: written about but rarely seen and never reprinted. Until now.Fantagraphics' Tops collects both issues of these oversized experimental comics in their entirety. Some of the best craftsmen working in comics at that time drew these pulpy, sexy, and melodramatic stories: Dan Barry, George Tuska, and others. It includes two stunning pre-EC crime tales illustrated by Reed Crandall, reminiscent of his Crime SuspenStories work. Actor Melvyn Douglas (believe it or not) takes the reader on a tour of utopia, entitled "How Would You Live Under A World Government?" - a positive spin on global Socialism! A treasure trove of fascinating and revelatory comics history for scholars and fans, this compilation includes an introduction by the editor, the historian and cartoonist Michael T. Gilbert, as well as several other essays providing background on the creation of the series and the publisher, editors, and cartoonists who realized it. It includes a chronicle in essay form of experimental, adult comics endeavors throughout the first half of the 20th century. Tops is a landmark work of historical importance and a mind-boggling reading experience from a bygone era meticulously restored and reproduced in a deluxe hardcover in its originally published dimensions. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. Princeton WI, Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Light musty odor.

Softcover. London, The Trustees of the British Museum / British Museum Press Ltd., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 brilliant pages, laden with illustrations of Assyrian art and artifacts from The British Museum collection. 215 color and 33 black and white illustrations in addition to one map. Beautiful full-color cover with minor wear at corners only. Illustrated title page and half-title page. Crisp text pairs nicely with this rich visual collection. In very good condition overall.

Softcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Uncover the origin of one of DC's wackiest heroes in this collection spanning the early days of Plastic Man! He can bounce, stretch, and crack wise, but can he save the day? And, more importantly, does he even want to? What business does a petty crook have playing superhero anyway? This volume collects Police Comics #1-36; Plastic Man #1-2. Patrick 'Eel' O Brian s life of crime just became a whole lot stranger! After an unfortunate accident leaves Eel s body transformed to have the properties of rubber, Plastic Man is born! But can Eel overcome his worst impulses and use his new abilities for good? Clean copy.

Softcover. Decatur IL, Illustrated Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages illustrated in color. The entire issue devoted to two illustrators: Jessie Wilcox Smith and John Schoenherr.

Hardcover. New York , Norton, 1st US, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, 98 pages. 13 graphic interpretations of Dylan's lyrics illustrated in color by various artists. No dust jacket issued. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth covers, large color-illustrated label pasted to front cover, profusely illustrated with color and b&w plates, top edge gilt. Slight rubbing and edgewear to covers, cloth lightly faded at edges, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black and white fantasy cartoon sketches, many scatological. 11" high X 8" wide, 443 pages. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, This new deluxe hardcover collects full-sized Sunday newspaper comics from 1919 through 1921 in a handsome archival collection. As the surreal comic strip continues into the 1920s, the likes of Joe Stork, Blind Pig, and Bum Bill Bee settle into the mesas of Coconino County. Brand-new readers and Herriman aficionados alike will find out what happens when Ignatz the Mouse's brick supplier runs out of stock, how Krazy Kat fares after taking up boxing, and what happens when a new "Katnippery" opens providing libations to the locals. Krazy & Ignatz 1919-1921 (Vol. 2) includes photographs, artwork, and introductory text by comic historians Bill Blackbeard and Michael Tisserand. Black & white illustrations. 184 pages.

Softcover. New York, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout.

Softcover. Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog, 216 pages. Color and B&W plates and photographs throughout. Some light soiling to wrapper. Otherwise a clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 2nd pr., 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 458 pages. Robert Crumb is often credited with single-handedly transforming the comics medium into a place for adult expression, in the process pioneering the underground comic book industry, and transforming the vernacular language of 20th-Century America into an instantly recognizable and popular aesthetic. Now, for the first time, Dan Nadel, delivers a "gripping and essential account" (The Boston Globe) of how this complicated artist survived childhood abuse, fame in his twenties, more fame, and came out the other side intact. Braiding biography with "cultural history and criticism...that honors the complexity of [its] subject, even, perhaps particularly, when it gets ugly" (Los Angeles Times), Crumb is the story of a richly complex life at the forefront of both the underground and popular cultures of post-war America. Including forty-five stunning black-and-white images throughout and a sixteen-page color insert featuring images both iconic and obscure. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust with light chipping. Many black-and-white illustrations throughout by Sloane, from old books to farm implements all listed and drawn alphabetically. 64 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Chartwell Books, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color, black and white pictures throughout. Despite the fact that she's famous now, Wonder Woman had humble beginnings among a slew of other female super heroes that had their inception in the 1940s, but were seen very little after then. Created during World War II to foil Axis plots and defeat Nazis, she still fights to this day for truth, honor, and the little guy. Wonder Woman: The War Years (1941-1945) details how she used her super speed, strength, and Golden Lasso of Truth during World War II to bring peace and justice to a turbulent world.

Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog. 92 pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout. White pictorial front cover with slight wear to spine an soiling to covers. Frontispiece. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Milwaukee, David Barnett Gallery, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog, 20 pages, b&w, 3 color plates. Long inscription by the sculptor on the inside front cover. Bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Prestel , 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 320 pages. This authoritative and generously illustrated book highlights Gustav Klimt's portrayals of women in his work. Klimt was a central figure in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, and a crucial link between nineteenth-century Symbolism and Modernism. His sensual portrayals of women are among his most celebrated works and the focus of this book. Highlights of the publication include Klimt's most important society portraits, such as Serena Lederer (1899); Gertrud Loew (1902); Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907); Mada Primavesi (1913); Elisabeth Lederer (1914-16); and Ria Munk III (1917). These works cover the gamut of Klimt's portrait style, from his early ethereal works influenced by Symbolism and the Pre-Raphaelite movement to his so-called "golden style," as well as his almost Fauvist depictions.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 228 pages. Long perceived as a side pursuit to his celebrated painting career, Henri Matisse's sculpture receives an overdue critical examination in this book. Beginning in 1906, soon after the artist acquired his first African sculpture, Matisse found inspiration in erotic and ethnographic photography, which had become inexpensively mass-produced thanks to advances in halftone technology. Working with these two radically different depictions of the body--one hand carved, the other mechanically made--was a foundational method for Matisse and crucial to the development of his pre-World War I abstraction. Far from a simple narrative of the artist "discovering" Africa, the highly original readings of Matisse's Sculpture plot new coordinates of study for early 20th-century primitivism. It examines the larger constructs of thought at the time, with a penetrating analysis of anthropology, popular erotica, and the visual culture of French colonialism. In addition, the book repositions Matisse's sculptural practice, particularly in regard to its investigations of race and sexuality, as a cornerstone of his prolific career.

Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Unpaginated, a series of tipped-in color plates. Blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Light edge wear to covers, spine darkened. Light yellowing to end papers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Loughborough UK, Loughborough University, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages. Color illustrations, essay by Dominique Nahas, Saul Ostrow. Interview by Mark Harris. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a small closed tear to front panel. 187 pages, 117 b.w. photos, index, bibliography, 187p., notes. A scholarly monograph, addressing our image of the Chinese artist, the painters' livelihood, studio & hand. A grand essay, giving us the kind of insights to really appreciate the full art of Chinese painters & paintings.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 440 pages. Hardcover in purple slipcase. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Gilt lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated with over 200 color plates. Tight copy. Prior to the invention of photography, European and American magazines used colorful prints to depict the latest fashion trends. These illustrations, known as "fashion plates," conveyed the cutting-edge styles embraced by the fashion-conscious elite and proved inspirational to the upwardly mobile. This lavishly illustrated book provides a comprehensive survey of 200 color plates from publications dating from 1778 to the early 20th century, accompanied by authoritative and fascinating texts. Organized chronologically and featuring both men's and women's garments, these lively and colorful vignettes not only are beautiful, but also deftly illustrate the evolution of fashion over time.

Hardcover. Monte-Carlo, Andre Sauret, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. French text. 156 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. Slightly warped. Foxing to top edge. Light edge wear to dust jacket; in brodart. Else a clean, tight copy.