Hardcover. London, PS publishers, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color and Black and white pictures throughout. Originally published in magazine form in All Top Comics 8-18, Tegra/Zegra Aug 1948 - Apr 1949, and Seven Seas Comics 1-6.
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. Buffalo NY, Firefly Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, pages illustrated in color and b&w. Hollywood Fashion explores the art and legacy of the cinematic costume designer, starting with the birth of the modern motion picture industry on a prime piece of California real estate known as Hollywood. Readers will discover how film clothing evolved from actors selecting items from their home wardrobes to outfits customized for their roles -- everything from suits of armor to ball gowns to office attire to lingerie, all created by a studio designer and a dedicated staff of costumers.
Hardcover. NY, Prestel, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with yellow band, 248 pages. This beautiful book focuses on the distinctive and expressive power of Jackson Pollock's figurative paintings, drawings, and prints; a rarely studied aspect of his artistic career. Jackson Pollock's name has become synonymous with the abstract drip paintings that he famously created on the floor of his studio. Before these paintings, from the 1930s to the late 1940s, Pollock created figurative works, studying at one time under the painter Thomas Hart Benton and with the Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Pollock took up figuration again after his famous drip paintings. This book starts with the early decades and also treats Pollock's re-adoption of the figuration after his renowned abstract paintings. The Figurative Pollock features 100 paintings and works on paper. From rolling landscapes to experiments in non-Western totemic painting to sketches and drawings fueled by Jungian analysis, the enormous range of Pollock's early and late work is presented here. Brimming with confidence and a sense of freedom, distinct yet so easily related to Pollock's most famous oeuvre, these works contribute to an understanding of how the artist found his voice.
Softcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 2nd, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers, Color, Black and white pictures throughout.
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.
Softcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 116 pages illustrated in color. Documents the superb and amazing Art Deco buildings of Miami Beach. Bright and beautiful full color photos feature mainly the exteriors of these gems. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Design, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 176 pages illustrated in color. Caroline Cox presents the various incarnations of the stiletto since its invention as a fantasy shoe brought to life by the flair and skill of shoemakers Vivier, Perugia, Ferragamo, and Jourdan in the early 1950s. Assertively modern, stilettos released women from the utilitarian wartime fashion of the 1940s, offering streamlined sophistication and glamour to women the world over. As the decade progressed the heel became saucier and higher, worn by starlets like Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. By the end of the 1950s the heel was being worn by "bad girls" and had become a weapon of female power. The 1970s took the stiletto's associations with sex and death and turned it into a fetish object, eulogized by artists Allen Jones and Eric Stanton. 1980s power dressers brought the stiletto back into the fashion arena, and today heels designed by Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin, Jimmy Choo, and Gina are the badge of celebrity status and fashion savvy. Mild wear to dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Cloth 3/4 spine cover with gilt lettering, with silver foil decoration and illustration on front. Remainder mark on bottom page block, Clean, otherwise unmarked copy with only minor wear to corners.
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. Berlin, Steidl, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 123 pages, 65 color plates. Documentary project on the prostitutes of Falkland Road, Bombay. Originally shot as a photo-essay for Geo magazine, which deemed it too raw for American audiences, it was picked up by Stern and run in September 1981. The first book-form edition was released the same year by Knopf. This second edition is 2.5 inches wider, allowing the photos to run un-cropped and has additional images. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. NY, Heavy Metal, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, color and b&w illustrations by Moebius. mild soil, rubbing to covers. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.
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.
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. 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.
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.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 384 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. In the 1940s Joe Simon and Jack Kirby started their partnership and created memorable characters such as Captain America and Sandman. This book includes artwork from Joe Simon's private archive, some of them have never been seen.
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.
Hardcover. Princeton University Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 288 pages. Crow re-evaluates Conner and other key figures-from Catholic activist Corita Kent to Black Panther Emory Douglas to ecological witness Bonnie Ora Sherk-as part of a generational cohort galvanized by resistance to war, racial oppression, and environmental degradation. Younger practitioners of performance and installation carried the mindset of rebellion into the 1970s and 1980s, as previously excluded artists of color moved to the forefront in Los Angeles. Mike Kelley, their contemporary, remained unwaveringly true to the late countercultural flowering he had witnessed at the dawn of his career. The result is a major new account of the counterculture's enduring influence on modern art. Clean copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Univ of Georgia Georgia Museum, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 360 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 74 color and B&W illustrations. Foreword by Andrew J. Crispo. Overall very tight and clean copy.
Softcover. NY, privately printed, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 83 pages, color illustrations. This book presents the street art of Richard Hambleton, showcasing 87 of his paintings photographed by Franc Palaia. The images capture the artist's work in New York City from 1981 to 1989, as well as his travels to Italy and Holland during that time. SIGNED BY PALAIA on the title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, translucent dust jacket, 240 pages. In late 1964 Andy Warhol commissioned young fashion photographer David McCabe to document his daily activities for one year. During the course of this project, whenever the artist called McCabe would come to meet him at The Factory, an opening, a party, a coffeeshop or any place where Warhol would decide that he wanted to be accompanied by the photographer and his camera. In the end, these images were never published, perhaps because they revealed more than the increasingly-famous Warhol was willing to share with the public. Hidden away for almost 40 years, the significant majority of these 400 duotone photos are now presented together for the first time to fulfill their original intention in an astounding tour de force of dynamic and often poignant realism: A Year in the Life of Andy Warhol. These images not only represent unique documentation of one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, but also provide a rare behind-the-scenes look at the New York art world at a time when Pop art was at its peak. McCabe's photographs are accompanied by the entertaining descriptions and reminiscences of Factory insider David Dalton, one of Warhol's first assistants.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Over 400 pages of original art collected over 50 years. In the mid-sixties, Glenn Bray was a kid with a lot of money -- his family owned a very successful hardware store chain -- and an appreciation for obscure art that was prescient to the point of being visionary; he was a fanboy-turned-tastemaker who elevated his private collecting into something that would influence the evolution of the comic medium. He became a loyal and passionate patron of artists who went largely ignored, like some mellow, SoCal Medici. It seems crazy today, but original comic art pages were still considered 'by-products' of printing and publication when Bray began purchasing the black-&-white illustration-boards from EC greats like Wolverton, Kurtzman, Davis, Feldstein, Wood and Elder. More importantly, his original art purchases and private commissions were key in fostering the careers of unknown artists in his own age bracket, particularly now legendary Underground greats like R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Robert Williams, Rick Griffin, and Gilbert Shelton. With a collection of original comic art and illustration spanning 6 decades, Bray has become vital to the work of establishing the official histories of comic art.
Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else very good.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Running Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Don Martin is of MAD Magazine's most recognized, most irreverent, and most influential artists. During his 32 years at MAD, he influenced a generation of writers and illustrators, and became known as "MAD's Maddest Artist." Don's ability to translate animated slapstick comedy to the printed page brought readers from around the world into his world, a world where hinged feet, enormous noses and low IQs ruled. Inside are over 200 of Martin's funniest and zaniest works from his lengthy career, along with every "GOOSH," " SPROING" and "POIT" that made his cartoons great. Also included in this one-of-a-kind collection is a generation of his color work, as well as his best portraits, posters and stickers created as bonuses for MAD Specials, and a foreword by longtime MAD editor Nick Meglin.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Black & white and color photographs throughout. City scenes have been chronicled in photographs since the early 1800s, but street photography as traditionally defined has captured a relatively narrow field of these images. Revolutionizing the history of street photography, Unfamiliar Streets explores the work of Richard Avedon (1923-2004), Charles Moore (1931-2010), Martha Rosler (b. 1943), and Philip-Lorca diCorcia (b. 1951), four American photographers whose careers in fashion, photojournalism, conceptual art, and contemporary art are not usually associated with the genre. Bussard's lively and engaging text, a timely response to a growing interest in urban photography, challenges the traditional understanding of street photography and makes original and important connections among urban culture, social history, and the visual arts, constructing a new historical model for understanding street photography. Illustrated with more than one hundred images, this book provides an interpretation of a compelling genre that is as fresh as its consideration of the city streets themselves, sites of commerce, dispossession, desire, demonstration, power, and spectacle.
Hardcover. New York, Walker and Company, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 91 pages, with illustrations throughout. Minor corner wear and previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. Buffalo NY, Albright-Knox Gallery, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 132 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran January 29 through March 12, 2005. Text by Douglas Dreishpoon, Nancy Princenthal, and Eleanor Heartney. Clean copy.
Layton UT, Gibbs Smith, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover with pictorial boards. 176 pages. A curated vintage ephemera tour of Las Vegas through the first half of the twentieth century as it blossomed out of the desert sands into an entertainment mecca. The story of early to mid-twentieth-century Las Vegas in its gilded age as told through a fun and diverse collection of old photos, picture postcards, matchbooks, ads, and other vintage ephemera. Featured are classic glimpses of Fremont Street and the world-renowned Las Vegas Strip, landmarks such as the Sands and Riviera hotel casinos, and the cream of Hollywood glitterati, including Frank, Sammy, Dino, and the Rat Pack. Author Peter Moruzzi's sharp, witty, and sometimes irreverent commentary accompanies the visual treats and provides a unique historical take on the evolution of this desert playground.
Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Lund Humphries, Reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout. Tight copy. Power to the People presents the Israel Museum's major collection of propaganda posters from the early years of the Soviet Union, documenting one of the most interesting chapters in twentieth-century graphic design. Inspired by the traditional vernacular of political cartoons, by the lubok wood-cut technique of Russian folk art, and by the ideas of Futurism, the poster artists employed a new visual language to explain the results of the Revolution to the Soviet people. The Israel Museum's collection of Soviet propaganda posters is the largest museum collection of its kind outside Russia. This book illustrates the entire collection for the first time.
Softcover. Bibliotheque de l'Image, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oversize softcover, 63 pages, French text with color illustrations throughout. Cover edge and spine fade and previous owner's embossed stamp on title page, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. British cartoonist Tom Gauld (Mooncop, You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, Goliath) has created countless iconic strips for The Guardian over the course of his illustrious career. A master of condensing grand, highbrow themes into one- to eight-panel comics, his weekly strips embody his trademark British humor while simultaneously opening comics to an audience unfamiliar with the artistry that cartooning has to offer. Funny but serious, these postcards allow Gauld to put his impressive knowledge of history, literature, and pop culture on full display-his impeccable timing and distinctive visual style setting him apart from the rest.
Hardcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 262 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Photographs throughout. Tight copy. The High and Lonesome Sound combines Cohen's vintage photos, film and musical recordings as well as an anecdotal text into a multimedia tribute to this underappreciated legend of American music whose every performance was, in Cohen's words, "not just a rendition of music, but a test of something to be overcome."
Hardcover. Rutland VT, Charles E. Tuttle, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 149 pages, illustrated throughout with over 70 plates including 44 in full color. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. In a lightly worn cardboard slipcase.
Hardcover. Kopenhagen, Forlaget Nytteboger, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, paper covered boards with red pattern, in a matching cardboard slipcase. Features 100 drawings of couples in various embraces by Hansen, 3 in color. Limited text in Norwegian/Swedish. No dust jacket. Spine lightly nicked, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Boston, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Featuring eighty-seven photographs, all drawn from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, that span nearly 150 years of image making.
Softcover. New York , Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 200 pages, illustrated throughout in color. A collection of the legendary graphic designer's best work over 40 years. Foreword by Milton Glaser. Like new.
Hardcover. Springfield MA, The Linweave Association, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light peach boards with a maroon cloth spine. A promotional piece for a paper company. Literary contributions by Dunsany, Masefield, Morley, Aiken and others. Color illustrations by T.M. Cleland, C.B. Falls, William Aylward, Richard Floethe, others. Boards with light soil, interior clean, bright.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 199 pages. The artists' books made in Russia between 1910 and 1915 are like no others. Unique in their fusion of the verbal, visual, and sonic, these books are meant to be read, looked at, and listened to. Painters and poets--including Natalia Goncharova, Velimir Khlebnikov, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, and Vladimir Mayakovsky--collaborated to fabricate hand-lithographed books, for which they invented a new language called zaum (a neologism meaning 'beyond the mind') that was distinctive in its emphasis on 'sound as such' and its rejection of definite logical meaning. At the heart of this volume are close analyses of two of the most significant and experimental futurist books: Mirskontsa (Worldbackwards) and Vzorval' (Explodity). In addition, Nancy Perloff examines the profound difference between the Russian avant-garde and Western art movements, including futurism. Still sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Paperback. San Francisco CA, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 283 pages, paperback. The first in-depth examination by a museum of this artist's career as a painter of war. Mild soiling to front and rear wraps. Slight bumping and rubbing to wraps. Many color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.
Softcover. PS Artbooks, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A true golden age masterpiece returns! Originally published by Fawcett Comics in 1941, this 100-page giant is now stunningly remade as a facsimile edition by PS Artbooks. Packed with thrilling adventures, America's Greatest Comics #1 features an all-star lineup of iconic heroes, including Captain Marvel, Bulletman, Spy Smasher, and more, battling evil in action-packed tales of courage and justice. With its dynamic stories and classic artwork, this meticulously restored edition captures the spirit of a bygone era. A must-have for collectors and fans of superhero history, this is vintage comic greatness at its finest! Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped in black, b&w cartoons by Gurney. SIGNED WITH A DRAWING OF A SMILING CAT BY GURNEY. An amusing look at pampered pets of all types with 150 very amusing drawings by the author.
Newport Beach CA, The Newporter Resort, 1986, This painting shows the dockside facilities on the property. Image size: 7* X 7", watercolor on texture white paper, signed. Unpublished.
Softcover. New York, Katonah Museum of Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 39 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy with color throughout. Light bend to top right corner.
Softcover. Houston, Art Magazine Publishers, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 178 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Articles and art by Joe Beeler, Frank Tenney Johnson, Don Mieduch, others. Clean copy.
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