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Karl Lagerfeld: Off the Recordby: Lagerfeld, Karl

Karl Lagerfeld: Off the Record
by: Lagerfeld, Karl

Hardcover. New York, Scalo, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. This is Lagerfeld's own album of the photographic stories and sequences that he has created over the last eight years. Shot in black and white, often with models and costumes, his photos are at once beautifully composed, stylish, sensuous, literate and full of fantasy.

Record # 360939

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Babysan: A Private Look At the Japanese Occupationby: Bill Hume

Babysan: A Private Look At the Japanese Occupation
by: Bill Hume

Softcover. Tokyo, Kasuga Boeki KK, 13th pr., 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 128 pages. A collection of b&w cartoons by Hume. Tanned pages are unmarked with b/w illustrations and jokes that didn't age well. More than a bit racist and chauvinistic. But very popular with the GIs of the period. One page torn, tape repaired.

Record # 387687

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The Posters of Achille Mauzan, 1883 1952: A Catalogue Raisonneby: Carnevale-Mauzan, Mirande

The Posters of Achille Mauzan, 1883 1952: A Catalogue Raisonne
by: Carnevale-Mauzan, Mirande

Softcover. NY, Poster Auctions International, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages in illustrated wrappers. Catalogue raisonne with color plates throughout.

Record # 351258

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They Drew as They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney's Golden Age: The 1930s by: Ghez, Didier

They Drew as They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney's Golden Age: The 1930s
by: Ghez, Didier

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages illustrated in color. As the Walt Disney Studio entered its first decade and embarked on some of the most ambitious animated films of the time, Disney hired a group of "concept artists" whose sole mission was to explore ideas and inspire their fellow animators. They Drew as They Pleased showcases four of these early pioneers and features artwork developed by them for the Disney shorts from the 1930s, including many unproduced projects, as well as for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and some early work for later features such as Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan.

Record # 353217

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Walking Your Octopus: A Guidebook to the Domesticated Cephalopod (SIGNED COPY)by: Kesinger, Brian

Walking Your Octopus: A Guidebook to the Domesticated Cephalopod (SIGNED COPY)
by: Kesinger, Brian

Hardcover. US, Baby Tattoo Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 64 pages. SIGNED book plate. A beautifully produced and richly illustrated book that showcases the day-to-day adventures of independent girl-about-town Victoria Psismall and her pet land octopus Otto. Thirty panoramic, full-page illustrations humorously chronicle the duo's home and social activities that include (among other things) bathing, biking, dating, cooking, playing croquet, and pumpkin carving. Accompanying text explains the "do"s and "don't"s of living with a large land octopus. The book's art is extremely detailed, and each illustration tells its own visual story. The Victorian era characters and period-influenced design elements combine to create a wonderful, collectible art-object for those who still value the classic elegance of ink-on-paper. The hardcover binding is plussed with two-layer embossing and spot varnish, and the interior is printed on extra heavy paper. An exquisite volume for lovers of books, art and pets.

Record # 352659

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Italian Art Deco: Graphic Design between the Warsby: Heller, Steven / Fili, Louise

Italian Art Deco: Graphic Design between the Wars
by: Heller, Steven / Fili, Louise

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 133 pages illustrated in color. This lavishly illustrated volume offers a unique survey of Italian commercial graphic design during a period of both creative artistic vitality and extreme political turmoil. The first English-language book to showcase the bold typography and streamlined imagery of modern Italian design motifs on commercial products of the day, this fascinating and important resource for designers, history buffs, and collectors includes a discussion of the Futurist influence on the Italian Art Deco style and the success of such individualized expression despite a ruthless Fascist regime. Clean copy.

Record # 387352

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The Golden Age of Batman: The Greatest Covers of Detective Comics from the '30s to the '50sby: Desris, Joe

The Golden Age of Batman: The Greatest Covers of Detective Comics from the '30s to the '50s
by: Desris, Joe

Hardcover. NY, Artabras Publishers, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. A review of all the Batman comics features 224 covers, ranging from the first issue of Detective Comics in 1939 to the mid-1950s.

Record # 351312

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Andy Warhol: Duty Freeby: Warhol, Andy and Vincent Fremont

Andy Warhol: Duty Free
by: Warhol, Andy and Vincent Fremont

Softcover. Koln GR, Jablonka Galerie, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog, 16 pages, eight color plates.

Record # 353042

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Pentothal Postcardsby: Lal, David C.

Pentothal Postcards
by: Lal, David C.

Hardcover. New Jersey, Mark Batty Publisher, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible pictorial boards. 190 pages. This extraordinary and innovative marketing campaign was the brainchild of Abbott Pharmaceutical Company. Over 170 different postcards from about 80 different countries were sent over the course of 14 years.

Record # 350315

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The Book of Weirdo: A Retrospective of R. Crumb's Legendary Humor Comics Anthology by: Cooke, Jon B.

The Book of Weirdo: A Retrospective of R. Crumb's Legendary Humor Comics Anthology
by: Cooke, Jon B.

Hardcover. Last Gasp, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 288 pages. Illustrated with photographs and back and white illustrations. Introduction by Drew Friedman. Fantastic reference work on the history and back story of the creation of R. Crumb's legendary humor comics anthology.

Record # 387449

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Postcards of the Night: Views of American Citiesby: Jakle, John A.

Postcards of the Night: Views of American Cities
by: Jakle, John A.

Hardcover. Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 124 pages. Featuring eighty-two vintage postcards published beginning at the turn of the century, Postcards of the Night traces American cultural life as it was transformed by industrial strength and shifting demographics. The nation increasingly was growing more educated, upwardly mobile, and urban, and the nighttime postcard popularized this modernism for ordinary consumption. Coalitions of city planners and urban developers, politicians and the media utilized the picture postcard to strategize the role of the individual in the rise of the city. It was the birth of leisure and of travel, the new tourist city to which the postcard needed forcefully to speak, in ways that were equal part artifice and art.

Record # 351383

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Comics: Between the Panelsby: Richardson, Mike

Comics: Between the Panels
by: Richardson, Mike

Hardcover. Milwaukie, OR, Dark Horse Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 500 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Features 670 illustrations and photos. This lavish volume takes an in-depth look at the history of comics in a manner decidedly unlike the dry timelines and profiles of most reference-style titles.Containing countless stories gleaned from over 150 interviews of comics industry veterans, Comics Between the Panels is loaded with more than half a century of insider information on the talented and eccentric creators who forged the comics industry and art form.

Record # 353089

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Petey & Pussyby: Kerschbaum, John

Petey & Pussy
by: Kerschbaum, John

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 126 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 350340

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The 1955 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting. Oct.-Dec. 1955by: N/A

The 1955 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting. Oct.-Dec. 1955
by: N/A

Softcover. Pittsburgh PA, Carnegie Institute, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated, but around 220 pages with 125 plates. Clean copy.

Record # 387881

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Charles Jamesby: Martin, Richard

Charles James
by: Martin, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Assouline, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Exploring the career of designer Charles James, this work looks at the way in which he revolutionized the fashions of the 1940s and 1950s with his designs, and above all his sculpted dresses.

Record # 351419

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George Bellows: Love of Winterby: Setford, David F

George Bellows: Love of Winter
by: Setford, David F

Softcover. West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. 26 color plates, 60 b&w illustrations. Softcover with light edgewear on wrappers. Published in conjunction with a major retrospective exhibition (opening at National Gallery of Art, Washington, in June 2012, then travelling to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in November 2012, before moving to Royal Academy of Arts.

Record # 352743

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The Paintings of J. M. W. Turner. Text + Plates (2 Volumes) by: Butlin, Martin / Joll, Evelyn

The Paintings of J. M. W. Turner. Text + Plates (2 Volumes)
by: Butlin, Martin / Joll, Evelyn

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, Revised Ed., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two large softcover volumes, one plates, the other text. 354, pages, 572 col & b./w. plates. Uniform softcovers (pictorial wrappers). 4to. In original simple cardboard slipcase. All very good, clean set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 386837

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Peter Arno's Sizzling Platterby: Arno, Peter

Peter Arno's Sizzling Platter
by: Arno, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, reprint, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 118 of Arno's b&w cartoons from The New Yorker. Clean, bright copy in a fair dust jacket. Clean copy.

Record # 396396

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Li'l Abner: Dailies, Vol. 23: 1957 Elvis in Dogpatchby: Capp, Al

Li'l Abner: Dailies, Vol. 23: 1957 Elvis in Dogpatch
by: Capp, Al

Softcover. Kitchen Sink Press, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. A great send-up of '50s youth culture and Elvis Presley parody (Daisy Mae almost marries Elvis!) Li'l Abner eats mud mushrooms and becomes the size of a blimp. The Lizard of Ooze menaces Manhattan in a spoof of '50s monster movies. And Fearless Fosdick goes to Paris. Moonbeam McSwine catches Tiny Yokum in the annual Sadie Hawkins Day Race. Also in this volume: Lower Slobbovia, Senator Jack S. Phogbound, Lonesome Polecat and Hairless Joe. Plus a surprise appearance by Phil Silvers (TV's Sgt. Bilko). And don't miss the very entertaining introduction by James Vance which focuses on "cartoonist feuds," a special form of publicity stunt mastered by Capp, pitting himself publicly against such fellow creators as Will Eisner (The Spirit), Allen Saunders (Mary Worth) and Milton Caniff (Steve Canyon). Harvey Kurtzman ultimately parodied the feud schtick in a "Hey Look!" strip reprinted here. [See the Volume 17 introduction for Capp's thinly-disguised attack on fellow cartoonist Ham Fisher.] Heavily ghosted during this period by Frank Frazetta.

Record # 351445

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L.A. Raw: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles, 1945-1980: From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthyby: Michael Duncan , Peter Selz, et al.

L.A. Raw: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles, 1945-1980: From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy
by: Michael Duncan , Peter Selz, et al.

Hardcover. 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 208 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Until recently, the figurative artists who dominated the Los Angeles art scene of the 1940s and 50s had largely been written out of art history. L.A. Raw is an attempt to right that wrong. Bringing together works by 41 artists in a variety of media, it traces a lineage that connects postwar figurative expressionism to the 1960s and 70s investigations of politics, gender and ethnicity in art. The featured artists include John Altoon, Wallace Berman, William Brice, Hans Burckhardt, Chris Burden, Cameron, Judy Chicago, Connor Everts, Llyn Foulkes, Charles Garabedian, David Hammonds, Robert Heinecken, John Paul Jones, Kim Jones, Ed and Nancy Kienholz, Rico Lebrun, Paul McCarthy, Arnold Mesches, Betye Saar, Ben Sakoguchi, Barbara Smith, James Strombotne, Jan Stussy, Edward Teske, Joyce Treiman, Howard Warshaw, June Wayne, Charles White and Jack Zajac. No dj issued, clean copy.

Record # 372399

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Several Short Stories from The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers - No. 7by: Shelton, Gilbert & Mayrides, Paul

Several Short Stories from The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers - No. 7
by: Shelton, Gilbert & Mayrides, Paul

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages plus color wraps. Staple bound, $2.00 cover price. Black and white art by Selton inside. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 374602

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Visions of City & Country: Prints and Photographs of Nineteenth-Century France by: Grad, Bonnie Lee & Riggs, Timothy A.

Visions of City & Country: Prints and Photographs of Nineteenth-Century France
by: Grad, Bonnie Lee & Riggs, Timothy A.

Softcover. Worcester MA, Worcester Art Museum, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 285 pages. 148 plates including 9 in color. Includes notes, bibliography, and catalogue. Minor edgewear to wrappers, clean copy.

Record # 396572

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Outlaw Animation: Cutting-Edge Cartoons from the Spike and Mike Festivalsby: Beck, Jerry

Outlaw Animation: Cutting-Edge Cartoons from the Spike and Mike Festivals
by: Beck, Jerry

Softcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. An entertaining collection celebrating the work of cutting-edge animation filmmakers features frame grabs, production stills, original artwork, behind-the-scenes photographs, and interviews from twenty-five years of teh Spike & Mike Festival of Animation, with works by Nick Park and Peter Lord of Aardman, John Lasseter, Craig McCracken, Mike Judge, and others.

Record # 351411

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Walter Crane as a Book Illustratorby: Crane, Walter

Walter Crane as a Book Illustrator
by: Crane, Walter

Softcover. New York, St. Martins Press , 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 pages. Softcover. Small marking to front cover. Otherwise clean copy with minor edgewear. 107 illustrations, including 16 in color. Walter Crane, artist of Kensington, was a man of many talents, but is possibly best known for his original and charmingly executed designs which made him the leading illustrator of children's books of the Aesthetic Movement period. In the face of the commercial vulgarity and ugliness of Victorian industrialised society, he created a delicate and escapist fairy world which, with its emphasis on spontaneity and mobility of line, and its clever use of background and colour, popularised a completely new style of tasteful book designs, and brought them within reach of everyone. The influence of Crane's work and his highly novel theories of design make him an important figure in nineteenth century art history. Rodney Engen, American-born painter and lecturer, discusses Crane's style and ideas in a study delightfully arranged after Crane's own rules and book design.

Record # 353321

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Judge Magazine: February 11 1928 - Bridge Numberby: N/A Jefferson Machamer (cover)

Judge Magazine: February 11 1928 - Bridge Number
by: N/A Jefferson Machamer (cover)

Softcover. NY, Judge Publishing Co., 1928, Book: Good, Softcover, 32 pages. Color cover art by Jefferson Machamer, "The Dummy". Color ads for Fatima and Marlboro cigarettes. B/w cartoons by Gardner Rea, Suess, others. Small tan spot to bottom edge.

Record # 374620

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Mondrian by: Frank Elgar

Mondrian
by: Frank Elgar

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Praeger, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. 208 indexed illustrations. Several full color reproductions. Translated from the French by Thomas Walton. 255 pages. "Elgar has made use of valuable information from Mondrian's contemporaries in his account of this dedicated artist.The plates show all the phases through which Mondrian's art passed, from the traditional landscapes and still lifes of his early years, through the more personal and more abstract works conceived in series, to the eventual emergence of his fully mature style." Three color plates/postcards of his art laid / paster on inside covers. Small name on front fy leaf. Otherwise clean.

Record # 396760

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Industrious Art, An: Innovation in Pattern & Print at the Fabric Workshopby: Boulton Stroud, Marion (editor)

Industrious Art, An: Innovation in Pattern & Print at the Fabric Workshop
by: Boulton Stroud, Marion (editor)

Hardcover. New York, W W Norton , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. Hardcover with clear plastic dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470417

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Threads of Time: African Textiles from the Traditional to the Contemporaryby: Lisa Aronson

Threads of Time: African Textiles from the Traditional to the Contemporary
by: Lisa Aronson

Softcover. Brookville, NY, Hillwood Art Museum, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Side-stapled, 42 pages. Full-color catalog featuring essays and images of traditional and contemporary African textiles.

Record # 379024

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Book Marks: An Artist's Card Catalog: Notes from the Library of My Mindby: Page, Barbara

Book Marks: An Artist's Card Catalog: Notes from the Library of My Mind
by: Page, Barbara

Bauer and Dean, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. This alluring blend of art book and autobiography will capture the imagination. At its heart are hundreds of captivating 3 x 5-inch artworks? intricate collages and drawings created on old library checkout cards, each one representing a book that left an indelible mark on artist Barbara Page. She began creating these illustrated "book marks" as a colorful way to remember titles she was currently reading. Before long, Page embarked on a decade-long art project recreating her reading history, starting with picture books from early childhood. Every artwork serves as a bookmark for a moment in time connected to a specific title, and, as a collection, they present over seventy years of literature, politics, thought, and culture-as colored by one woman's reading choices. Some images may evoke your own memories of a story. Others may feel like little puzzles that require reading or rereading a title to interpret the artistic references.

Record # 381247

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John Singer Sargent: His Portraitby: Olson, Stanley

John Singer Sargent: His Portrait
by: Olson, Stanley

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 309 pages. b&w illustrations. In this meticulous and witty work, Stanley Olson uncovers the complex nature of Sargent's life and stunning career. Probable ex-lib with label on spine but no other markings.

Record # 396777

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Winslow Homer, 1836-1910;: A selection from the Cooper-Hewitt Collection, Smithsonian Institutionby: Wilmerding, John et al.

Winslow Homer, 1836-1910;: A selection from the Cooper-Hewitt Collection, Smithsonian Institution
by: Wilmerding, John et al.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, 106 bw repros. Essay by John Wilmerding. Catalog, prepared by Elaine Evans Dee, lists 106 works. Includes Drawings, Oils, Etching and Wood Engraving. The vast majority of these drawings were found in Homer's studio after his death and given to the Cooper-Hewitt.

Record # 371271

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Living With Modern Sculpture: The John B. Putnam, Jr. Memorial Collection at Princetonby: Kelleher, Patrick J.

Living With Modern Sculpture: The John B. Putnam, Jr. Memorial Collection at Princeton
by: Kelleher, Patrick J.

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 144 pages, b&w illustrations. Cream cloth with gilt title to spine. Black pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Record # 605834

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DC Comics: Year By Yearby: Cowsill, Alan and Others

DC Comics: Year By Year
by: Cowsill, Alan and Others

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages, a visual history of the DC comics line from the 30s to the present, color illustrations throughout. No dj issued. In a bright, very good slipcase.

Record # 353242

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Maya Lin: Here and Thereby: Lin Maya; William L Fox; Robert Storr

Maya Lin: Here and There
by: Lin Maya; William L Fox; Robert Storr

Hardcover. NY, Pace Gallery, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Square quarto, in gray card stock covers stamped in silver and black, 87 pages, color illustrations. Issued in conjunction with several 2013 exhibitions of unique map-based art created by American artist Maya Lin. With essays by Robert Storr and William Fox. Clean copy.

Record # 396859

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Homes of Our Ancestors, Theby: Halsey & Tower, R. T. H. & Elizabeth

Homes of Our Ancestors, The
by: Halsey & Tower, R. T. H. & Elizabeth

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Volume to accompany the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. 302 pp. Features 20 color plates in addition to 217 other black/white illustrations (mostly photographs). Covers beginnings of New England through the Early Days of the Republic. Development of Interior Architecture and House Decoration from craftsmen influenced by old world style and the evolution.Shows significant wear due to age and water damage. Discoloration throughout, though text still entirely legible and color still vivid in the plates. Edges show significant wear as well. Prior owner's name and date (1929) written in ink twice inside the cover.

Record # 804819

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Matisse's Sculpture: The Pinup and the Primitiveby: McBreen, Ellen

Matisse's Sculpture: The Pinup and the Primitive
by: McBreen, Ellen

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.

Record # 352872

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House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collectionby: Davidson, Gail

House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection
by: Davidson, Gail

Hardcover. Washington DC, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1st, 2008-09-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Essays analyzing these beautiful, exquisitely detailed watercolors and their significance to the Museum's collection, accompanied by the watercolors and related objects from the permanent collection, document the evolution of the domestic interior in the nineteenth century, revealing the impact of economic, social, and political developments on the concept of the home.

Record # 350542

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Picturesque United States of America 1811 1812 1813 being a Memoir on Paul Svinin Russian Diplimatic Officer Artist and Author Containing Copious Excerpts from His Account of His Travels in America with Fifty two Reproductions of Wat

Picturesque United States of America 1811 1812 1813 being a Memoir on Paul Svinin Russian Diplimatic Officer Artist and Author Containing Copious Excerpts from His Account of His Travels in America with Fifty two Reproductions of Wat

Hardcover. NY, William Edwin Rudge, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 46 pages + 51 b&w plates (color frontispiece). Russian artist and diplomatic secretary Paul or Pavel Svinin (1787-1839) toured the northeastern United States in the early 1800s. Here are excerpts of his notes, details about the time and his trip, and 51 BW reproductions of landscapes he rendered along the way. Most of the paintings show scenes from Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Virginia and Maryland. Of interest to both cultural and art historians. With an introduction by R.T.H. Halsey. One of 1000 copies. Ex-lib with stamping, residue to endpapers, gilt lettering on spine faded, otherwise clean.

Record # 396856

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John Singer Sargentby: Ratcliff, Carter

John Singer Sargent
by: Ratcliff, Carter

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. 338 illustrations, including 113 plates in full color. Gives beautiful insight into the extravagant glamour of Sargent's society portraits, watercolors and Boston Murals. Folio. Purple cloth, gilt lettering to spine. previous owner's inscription on front edge paper. Very nice, clean and tight copy. Minor wrinkle to lower edge of dust jacket's spine, otherwise in near fine condition.

Record # 605161

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Historia del Arte Espanol Vol. I & IIby: Pellicer, Alejandro Cirici

Historia del Arte Espanol Vol. I & II
by: Pellicer, Alejandro Cirici

Hardcover. Spain, Editorial Labor, 1st , 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Spanish editions. 1,080 pages. Black & white photos, drawings. Both with 3/4 leather, spine with gilt lettering. Vol I with stain to endpapers. Vol. II page 1029 with bottom corner crease. Both with browning to black leather spines, bottom edgewear.

Record # 500121

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Masterpieces of the American West: - Selections from the Anschutz Collection by: Charles C. Eldredge (Introduction), Elizabeth Cunningham (Preface)

Masterpieces of the American West: - Selections from the Anschutz Collection
by: Charles C. Eldredge (Introduction), Elizabeth Cunningham (Preface)

Softcover. The Anschutz Collection, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 176 pages. An impressive collection of American West art by 128 different artists, with full color reproductions of a painting by each followed by a short biographical sketch of each. Small ink price in corner of front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 382194

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Fred Wilson: So Much Trouble in the World: Believe It or Not! by: Barbara Thompson /Mary K. Coffey /Jessica Hagedorn

Fred Wilson: So Much Trouble in the World: Believe It or Not!
by: Barbara Thompson /Mary K. Coffey /Jessica Hagedorn

Softcover. Hanover NH, Hood Museum of Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, French flaps, 75 pages with 36 figures and 12 color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 2005 exhibition / installation by American artist Fred Wilson (b. 1954). With essays by Barbara Thompson, Mary K. Coffey, and Jessica Hagedorn, and many fine views of the artist's creativity. Clean copy.

Record # 397246

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Drawing Near - Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collectionby: Fine, Ruth E

Drawing Near - Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection
by: Fine, Ruth E

Softcover. Los Angeles :, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 191 pages, illustrated throughout with numerous plates in b&w. Cream dye-cut textured wrappers. Light wear and staining to covers, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 401379

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Banksy: Wall and Pieceby: Banksy

Banksy: Wall and Piece
by: Banksy

Softcover. London, Century, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages. Banksy, Britain's now-legendary "guerilla" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world. Many color and b&w plates. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 381542

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Skippy Volume 1: Complete Dailies 1925-1927by: Crosby, Percy

Skippy Volume 1: Complete Dailies 1925-1927
by: Crosby, Percy

Hardcover. US, IDW Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 328 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Skippy debuted as a daily newspaper strip in 1925, and as a Sunday the following year, soon becoming a sensation, published in 28 countries and 14 languages. Crosby continued writing and drawing the feature until 1945. "Percy Crosby caught lightning in a bottle and learned how to draw with it," wrote Jules Feiffer in a 1978 appreciation. Milton Caniff marveled, "Boy, there's nothing faster than watching Skippy run the way Crosby drew him." Crosby was heralded as "the greatest apostle of motion in the field of art" by Edward Alden Jewell, art critic of the New York Times. His artwork has hung in the Louvre in Paris, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, and the Tate Gallery in London, among other venues, but it's his work as a cartoonist, as the creator of Skippy--the philosopher man-child--for which he's best known. Volume 1 includes every Skippy daily strip from the beginning--June 22, 1925 through the end of 1927--as well as the start of an extensive, ongoing biography of Percy Crosby by Jared Gardner, complemented by many photographs and rare artwork from the collection of the cartoonist's daughter, Joan Crosby Tibbetts.

Record # 350623

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The Passionate Collector: Eighty Years in the World of Artby: Neuberger, Roy/with Alfred and Roma Connable

The Passionate Collector: Eighty Years in the World of Art
by: Neuberger, Roy/with Alfred and Roma Connable

Hardcover. NY, John Wiley & Sons , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 170 pages, color illustrations. n The Passionate Collector: Eighty Years in the World of Art, you'll follow this fascinating financial figure and great patron of the arts from the streets of 1920s Paris to the museums of New York as he develops the eye of a connoisseur and begins to collect great contemporary art. Vivid detail puts you in the center of the action as Neuberger collects the brilliant artists of his time-Milton Avery, Jackson Pollock, Ben Shahn, Edward Hopper; works with legendary art dealers Paul Rosenberg, Betty Parsons, Sidney Janis, and Leo Castelli; and befriends avid collectors, including the incomparable Duncan Phillips. You'll follow Neuberger as he strives to further the cause of contemporary American artists by exhibiting, lending, and donating from his growing collection, and becoming an activist for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney. You'll also see how the Neuberger Museum of Art was created at the urging of Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and how it continues to fascinate art enthusiasts today. Clean copy.

Record # 397283

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William Blake at the Huntington: An Introduction to the William Blake Collection in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Calby: Essick, Robert

William Blake at the Huntington: An Introduction to the William Blake Collection in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Cal
by: Essick, Robert

Softcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Cover has minor wear to edges. Inside is bright and clean. Many color plates throughout. A nice copy. This book celebrates the art as well as the poetry of the great English poet William Blake. The Huntington Library has the most extensive collection of Blake's artwork in the world.

Record # 455386

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Krazy & Ignatz: The Complete Sunday Strips 1916-1924by: Herriman, George

Krazy & Ignatz: The Complete Sunday Strips 1916-1924
by: Herriman, George

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 9" X 12", 600 pages. B&w, color reprints throughout. The first volume of the limited-edition deluxe Krazy Kat hardcover. It collects the first batch of five Krazy & Ignatz soft cover books that Fantagraphics published, comprehensively compiling the years 1916 through 1924 under a hard cover. It's not a slipcase; it's a single hardcover book. The covers to the original five soft cover books are NOT included, but literally everything else is. No dj issued

Record # 361843

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13 Most Wanted Men: Andy Warhol and the 1964 World's Fair: Conversationsby: Ballon, Hilary

13 Most Wanted Men: Andy Warhol and the 1964 World's Fair: Conversations
by: Ballon, Hilary

Softcover. New York, Queens Museum, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages. Softcover. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This volume brings expert opinion and first-hand testimony to bear upon the events surrounding the creation and destruction of Andy Warhol's Thirteen Most Wanted Men at the 1964 New York World's Fair. The complex constellation of art, politics and gay life surrounding Warhol's mural and its painting-over comes alive in 13 interviews-with historian Hilary Ballon, critic Douglas Crimp, poet Diane di Prima, 1964 World's Fair head of television Albert Fisher, poet John Giorno, art historian Anthony Grudin, civil rights historian Felicia Kornbluh, former Warhol assistant and poet Gerard Malanga, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, art historian Richard Meyer, former Warhol assistant and photographer Billy Name, Rockefeller biographer Richard Norton Smith and architect and critic Mark Wigley. The interviews are introduced by the show's co-curator Larissa Harris, and accompanied by reproductions of all of the Thirteen Most Wanted Men; photographs of Warhol and the Fair by Factory regulars and photojournalists; and rarely seen archival documents from Warhol's Time Capsules.

Record # 353268

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Drawing is Thinkingby: Glaser, Milton

Drawing is Thinking
by: Glaser, Milton

Hardcover. NY, Overlook Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 223 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Award-winning artist Milton Glaser's Drawing Is Thinking explores language and communication through imagery. Introduction by Judith Thurman The drawings depicted here represent a range of subject matter taken from throughout Milton Glaser's career. They illustrate the author's commitment to the fundamental idea that drawing is not simply a way to represent reality, but a way to understand and experience the world.

Record # 397385

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