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ORIG VINTAGE 1920s BEECH-NUT PEANUT BUTTER ADby: N/A

ORIG VINTAGE 1920s BEECH-NUT PEANUT BUTTER AD
by: N/A

Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "Even youngsters recognize the difference", color art of mother handing out sandwiches to kids in snow. Not credited. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Record # 413458

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I Must Be Dreaming by: Roz Chast

I Must Be Dreaming
by: Roz Chast

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 118 pages. Ancient Greeks, modern seers, Freud, Jung, neurologists, poets, artists, shamans-humanity has never ceased trying to decipher one of the strangest unexplained phenomena we all experience: dreaming. Now, in her new book, Roz Chast illustrates her own dream world, a place that is sometimes creepy but always hilarious, accompanied by an illustrated tour through "Dream-Theory Land" guided by insights from poets, philosophers, and psychoanalysts alike. Illuminating, surprising, funny, and often profound, I Must Be Dreaming explores Roz Chast's newest subject of fascination-and promises to make it yours, too.

Record # 386695

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Image of the Indian and the Black Man in American Art, 1590-1900, Theby: Parry, Ellwood

Image of the Indian and the Black Man in American Art, 1590-1900, The
by: Parry, Ellwood

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 189 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with spine fading, light wear at corners, edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611835

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The Classic Cartoons - A Definitive Gallery of the Cartoon as Art and as Humorby: Cole (Editors), William/Mike Thaler

The Classic Cartoons - A Definitive Gallery of the Cartoon as Art and as Humor
by: Cole (Editors), William/Mike Thaler

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 336 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Includes cartoonists: John Held, Jr., Charles Keene, George Herriman, A. B. Frost, Peter Arno, Saul Steinberg, Charles Addams, Virgil Partch, William Steig, Gerald Scarfe, Shel Silverstein, Tomi Ungerer, and more. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with chipping along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 614084

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Wifredo Lam (Spanish Edition)by: Oria, Lucy Villegas

Wifredo Lam (Spanish Edition)
by: Oria, Lucy Villegas

softcover. Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages. Softcover with light fading to spine. Edgewear to corners, wrappers. Color pictures throughout. SPANISH TEXT.

Record # 470362

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Superman: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1 by: Otto Binder

Superman: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1
by: Otto Binder

Hardcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color throughout. Classic Superman stories from the Silver Age are collected together in this brilliant hardcover omnibus. Fans of the Man of Steel won't want to miss this stunning collection of some of the best tales of the 1950's and 1960's! Superman- The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1 contains stories from Action Comics #241-265 and Superman #122-137.

Record # 386916

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Owen Jones: Design, Ornament, Architecture, and Theory in an Age in Transitionby: Flores, Carol A. Hrvol

Owen Jones: Design, Ornament, Architecture, and Theory in an Age in Transition
by: Flores, Carol A. Hrvol

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages, color illustrations throughout. In publisher's shrinkwrap. Owen Jones was, and still remains, a highly influential force in the world of architecture and design. His prolific and impressive work--captured here in its various stages through drawings, architectural plans, and photographs--is as current, imaginative, and important now as when it first emerged more than 125 years ago. Owen Jones: Design, Ornament, Architecture & Theory in an Age in Transition fills a serious gap in the history of Victorian design. In his early career Jones was recognized as an authority on Oriental design. In the 1850s he was commissioned to decorate the interior of Joseph Paxton's magnificent World's Fair Crystal Palace in London. Other signature projects include St. James' Hall, the Crystal Palace Bazaar, Osler's Glass Shop, and Eynsham Hall at Oxford. In 1856 he completed his monumental Grammar of Ornament, which remains one of the most influential works on design ever published and is a source for many artists and designers today. More than just an architect, Jones' skills were applied to designing interiors, books, textiles, furniture, and carpet. His philosophy can most accurately be expressed in his words, "Form without color is like a body without a soul."

Record # 351115

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Vietnam Journal No. 3: Scorched Earthby: Lomax, Don

Vietnam Journal No. 3: Scorched Earth
by: Lomax, Don

Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 28 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 411216

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Fashion Image Revolutionby: Charlotte Cotton

Fashion Image Revolution
by: Charlotte Cotton

NY, Prestel, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 240 pages. For more than 30 years, Brian Dowling's studio was the birthplace of some of the most remarkable fashion photography ever created. In his Islington darkroom, using specialist analog equipment, Dowling shepherded amazing images from negative to paper captured by the likes of Anton Corbijn and Nick Knight. Dowling's BDI studio was also responsible for a number of technical innovations in color photography, paving the way for many of today's digital effects. This tribute to Dowling includes extensive interviews, commentary, testimonials from his clients, and numerous examples of iconic haute couture photographs that passed through his hands. In addition, a series of photographs specially commissioned for this volume demonstrate Dowling's groundbreaking techniques: cross-processing, masking, filtering, layering light, and color fades. Dowling's hands-on achievements and alchemic talents are showcased in this beautiful ode to fashion photography.

Record # 374956

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Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist by: Crumb (Ed.), R. and Aline

Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist
by: Crumb (Ed.), R. and Aline

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. Sophie Crumb's startlingly expressive drawings track her development as an artist from age two to twenty-eight. Sifting through dozens of their daughter's remarkable sketchbooks, our generation's most celebrated graphic artists have, with their only child, Sophie, now selected more than three hundred paintings and drawings that depict her artistic and psychological maturation. Revealing how an original artistic sensibility is both innate and nurtured, the book features six separate developmental stages, including Sophie's earliest drawings, the elaborate fantasy world of her childhood, her late adolescent rebellion, and her coming of age in the milieu of the Paris circus world and New York's "seventh circle of hell." The drawings from her early twenties-of tattoo artists, dangerous men-reflect a personal anguish that finally ends with her becoming a mother and creating a family of her own. Illuminating and intimate, this book is a dramatic yet subtle statement on the evolution of personality as seen through art. Four-color illustrations throughout

Record # 362099

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Delacroix Pastelsby: Johnson, Lee

Delacroix Pastels
by: Johnson, Lee

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages, 65 color plates. The only complete study of the artist's pastels. Like new in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 351157

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To Laugh That We May Not Weep: The Life And Art Of Art Youngby: Young, Art

To Laugh That We May Not Weep: The Life And Art Of Art Young
by: Young, Art

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 380 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. To Laugh That We May Not Weep is a sweeping career retrospective, reprinting -often for the first time in 60 or 70 years- over 800 of Young's timeless, charming, and devastating cartoons and illustrations, many reproduced from original artwork, to create a fresh new portrait of this towering figure in the worlds of cartooning and politics.

Record # 353160

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Peter Hurd: A Portrait Sketch from Lifeby: Horgan, Paul

Peter Hurd: A Portrait Sketch from Life
by: Horgan, Paul

Softcover. Austin, University of Texas Press, First, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 68 pages, profusely illustrated in b/w and color. Slight edgewear otherwise tight, clean copy.

Record # 806692

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The Art of Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace by: Jonathan Bresman

The Art of Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
by: Jonathan Bresman

Hardcover. NY, Lucas Books & Del Rey, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in gray boards with a black cloth spine. This lavish volume features more than six hundred examples of the art created for The Phantom Menace each a masterpiece in its own conceptual illustrations, sequential art, and brilliant, fully executed paintings. Digging deep into the exclusive Lucasfilm archives, The Art of Star The Phantom Menace details Episode 1's revolutionary use of traditional and high-tech media. Magnificent paintings that capture the exotic environments of Naboo, Tatooine, and Coruscant Key action sequences, including the Podraces on Tatooine and the riveting ground and space battles Fascinating insights and photos revealing the secrets of the artists at work The earliest conceptual drawings, following the evolution of Darth Maul, Qui-Gon Jinn, Queen Amidala, and Jar Jar Binks Exciting new poster art, created expressly for Episode 1. Clean copy, lacks dust jacket.

Record # 387004

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Malevich on Suprematism: Six Essays 1915 to 1926by: Malevich, Kazimir and Patricia Railing

Malevich on Suprematism: Six Essays 1915 to 1926
by: Malevich, Kazimir and Patricia Railing

Softcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa, 1st, 1999, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 115 pages, b&w illustrations. Paper wraps. Table of contents with black and white copies of Malevich's sketches and art work. Partial quote from the forward by Stephen Prokopoff "As the work of the principal theoretician of the extraordinary modernist development that occurred in Russia during the first quarter of the twentieth century, Malevich's writings provide an important entry to the understanding of its artistic production and to the thought that animated it."

Record # 351213

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Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake by: Peake, Mervyn, Gilmore, Maeve

Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake
by: Peake, Mervyn, Gilmore, Maeve

Hardcover. Woodstock NY, The Overlook Press, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 576 pages. 16 pages of black & white plates, 48 line-drawings in text (one double-page), dark grey endpapers. Excellent copy in fine unclipped pictorial dustwrapper with photographs of Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore on flaps. Peake's Progress is a selection, compiled by his widow, Maeve Gilmore, from every period of his work as a writer and draughtsman. It contains a remarkable work from childhood, "The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs;" the early "Mr. Slaughterboard," which foreshadows the "Titus" books; two plays, "The Wit to Woo" and "Noah's Ark;" a broadcast version of "Mr. Pye," and a generous selection of Peake's short stories, poems and nonsense verses and drawings-all of them adding new perspectives on this prolific and astonishingly original writer.Including a new preface written by Mervyn Peake's son, Sebastian, this edition of Peake's Progress is published to coincide with the centenary of Peake's birth.

Record # 353197

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The Chicago Architectural Club: Prelude to the Modernby: Wilbert Hasbrouck

The Chicago Architectural Club: Prelude to the Modern
by: Wilbert Hasbrouck

Hardcover. NY, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 640 pages, pofusely illustrated. In the late nineteenth century, Chicago -- the birthplace of modern architecture in the United States -- was a magnet for aspiring architects. The city was forced to rebuild after the destruction wrought by the Great Fire of 1871 and also to expand to accommodate a surge in the population. The seemingly endless demand for taller and more sophisticated buildings offered young draftsmen an unprecedented opportunity to influence the design of the American skyscraper. The Chicago Architecture Club: Prelude to the Modern documents the history of these draftsmen, the organization they founded, and its role in shaping architectural education and modern architectural practice.

Record # 361143

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Voyages & Visions: Nineteenth-Century European Images of the Middle East from the Victoria and Albert Museum by: Atil, Esin / Newton, Charles /Searight, Sarah

Voyages & Visions: Nineteenth-Century European Images of the Middle East from the Victoria and Albert Museum
by: Atil, Esin / Newton, Charles /Searight, Sarah

Hardcover. Smithsonian Institution / Victoria and Albert Museum, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Eighty-two watercolors and drawings selected from the extensive Searight Collection in London present a variety of 19th-century artists' encounters with the diverse cultures and dramatic lands of the fabled Ottoman Empire. Complementing the artworks are essays by experts in Middle Eastern studies elucidating the exchange of ideas and influences between East and West. Artists include Edward Lear, Luigi Meyer, David Roberts etc. 128 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 387282

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Francis Bacon: The Papal Portraits of 1953by: Davies, Hugh

Francis Bacon: The Papal Portraits of 1953
by: Davies, Hugh

Hardcover. San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 79 pages, 56 illustrations 50 in color. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from January 17-March 28, 1999. A previously unpublished interview with Francis Bacon by the author from August 13, 1973. Includes acknowledgments, checklist, and chronology.

Record # 351291

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Manhattan Classic: New York's Finest Prewar Apartmentsby: Lynch, Geoffrey

Manhattan Classic: New York's Finest Prewar Apartments
by: Lynch, Geoffrey

Hardcover. New York , Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 350751

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Best American Comics 2006, Theby: Pekar, Harvey (Editor)

Best American Comics 2006, The
by: Pekar, Harvey (Editor)

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color comics in center. Celebrating the best in graphic storytelling and literary comics, a diverse collection, guest edited by the award-winning author of The Quitter and American Splendor, features excerpts from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the Web, from Robert Crumb, Chris Ware, Kim Deitch, Jaime Hernandez, Alison Bechdel, Joe Sacco, and others.

Record # 352667

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Cezanneby: Cachin, Francoise

Cezanne
by: Cachin, Francoise

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 600 pages, illustrated throughout with 504 illustrations, including 242 plates in full color. Heavy oversized book. Light edgewear and faint tanning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. A definitive survey of the life and work of the Paul Cezanne follows the evolution of his art from drawing school in the 1860s to his death in 1906, providing more than six hundred reproductions of drawings, watercolors, paintings, and sketchbook pages that demonstrate his masterful artistic style. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 397344

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Millennium Mode: Fashion Forecasts from 40 Top Designers by: Schlachter, Trudy and others

Millennium Mode: Fashion Forecasts from 40 Top Designers
by: Schlachter, Trudy and others

Hardcover. New York , Rizzoli, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Full-color photo-illustrated paper over boards, backed in gilt-stamped cloth; clear plastic dust jacket with full-color illustrations on flaps; 4to; 112 pages, illustrated in full-color throughout. With contributions from Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Etro, Todd Oldham, Carolina Herrera, John Galliano, Oscar de la Renta, Sonia Rykiel, Manolo Blahnik, Philip Treacy, and others. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 351327

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Sarah Angelina Acland: First Lady of Colour Photographyby: Hudson, Giles

Sarah Angelina Acland: First Lady of Colour Photography
by: Hudson, Giles

Hardcover. Oxford, UK, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. An introduction to Acland's entire body of work, this volume contains more than two hundred previously unpublished examples of her photographs, spanning portraiture, studies of Oxford architecture, and landscape and garden photographs captured in Madeira, Portugal.

Record # 353051

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Betsy and Meby: Cole, Jack

Betsy and Me
by: Cole, Jack

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st thus, 2007-12-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 90 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Having mastered comic books and gag cartoons, in 1958 Jack Cole set his sights on the cartoonist's pot of gold--a syndicated newspaper strip. He hit the bull's-eye with Betsy and Me, a breezy domestic farce focusing on a middle-class urban couple and their smart-aleck genius son. Betsy and Me was an instant success and newpapers were lining up to buy it. Then, with only two-and-a-half month's worth of strips completed, Cole purchased a .22 caliber pistol and ended his life. For Betsy and Me, featuring city dweller Chet Tibbit's day-to-day stuggles and achievements, Cole stripped his style down to its bare essentials, creating a strip that sparkles with economy, wit, and charm. What gave the strip its edge, however, was Cole's innovative storytelling. As R.C. Harvey writes in his introduction, "Cole's storytelling manner was unique: the comedy arose from the pictures' contradicting the narrative prose. Cole's fatuous protagonist and narrator would say one thing in the captions accompanying the drawings, but the pictures of his actions showed the opposite, revealing [him] to be a trifle pretentious and wholly delusional." Harvey's intro also serves as a biographical sketch and sheds light on the circumstances surrounding Cole's suicide.

Record # 350317

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Art on the Edge: Creators and Situationsby: Harold Rosenberg

Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations
by: Harold Rosenberg

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with pages and covers in pristine condition. Like new, in shrinkwrap. Rosenberg's essays on modern art.

Record # 387553

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Li'l Abner: Dailies, Vol. 27: 1961by: Capp, Al

Li'l Abner: Dailies, Vol. 27: 1961
by: Capp, Al

Softcover. Kitchen Sink Press, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. In this first year of JFK / John F. Kennedy's presidency/ Capp turned his satirical sword on the Cold War. In a wild satire of international cultural exchange programs, Mammy Yokum flies to Moscow to drive Nikita Kruschev crazy with her Trumpappy. Back home Abigail van Homewrecker tells Daisy Mae that Li'l Abner is suffering from "marital restlessness." Fearless Fosdick retires! Plus: Lower Slobbovia, Senator Jack S, Phogbound, Kickapoo Joy Juice and more. The introduction is an excerpt from Al Capp's autobiographical "My Well-Balanced Life on a Wooden Leg," This is the LAST Li'l Abner volume published by Kitchen Sink Press. This is the final volume partially ghosted by fantasy master Frank Frazetta.

Record # 351398

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It Shouldn't Happenby: Don Freeman

It Shouldn't Happen
by: Don Freeman

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, wartime cartoon book showing the life of the enlistee (as a dog). One of the early Freeman efforts. Dust jacket edge worn, soiled, price-clipped.

Record # 363486

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Georges Braque: A Lifeby: Danchev, Alex

Georges Braque: A Life
by: Danchev, Alex

Hardcover. New York, Arcade Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 440 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A pioneer of modern art and founder of Cubism, Georges Braque was a creative genius and tireless innovator, constantly pushing back the boundaries of the possible. In this magisterial work, Alex Danchev taps a wide range of new sources to reveal the heart and mind of one who helped usher in the greatest revolution in the ways of seeing since the Renaissance and changed the face of modern art. Chapters include: "Memories in anticipation:" The Confirmed Painter, "Mon vieux Wilbourg:" The Encounter with Picasso, "If I should Ide Out There:" The Great War, The prong of the rade" : Late Braque. And much more.

Record # 350345

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Drawn from the Source: The Travel Sketches of Louis I Kahn by: Johnson, Eugene J. / Lewis, Michael J.

Drawn from the Source: The Travel Sketches of Louis I Kahn
by: Johnson, Eugene J. / Lewis, Michael J.

Softcover. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalogue featuring the famed architect's travel sketches along with photographs of the buildings he encountered and essays on their influence on his work. 11'' x 8.5''. In original dark orange pictorial wrappers. Illustrated throughout in black and white, some color, 136 pages. Spine sun faded.

Record # 396258

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Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace 1950-1954 Box Set: Vols. 1-2by: Ketcham, Hank

Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace 1950-1954 Box Set: Vols. 1-2
by: Ketcham, Hank

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcovers in a slipcase, 672 pages. A swell custom-designed case containing the first two volumes of Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace with strips from the years 1951 through 1954.

Record # 351426

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Pacific Standard Time : Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980by: Rebecca Peabody , Andrew Perchuk, et al.

Pacific Standard Time : Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980
by: Rebecca Peabody , Andrew Perchuk, et al.

Hardcover. US, Getty Publications, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Documents the burgeoning Southern Californian post-war art scene, with several essays following a more or less chronological order, and hundreds of illustrations of artworks, but also of art people (a wonderful 1963 photograph of Marcel Duchamp playing chess with a naked Eve Babitz in front of a replica of his Large Glass in Pasadena, photographs of artists working in their studios, etc). Some names are well known, others less so, but it is the versatility, the creativity and, above all, the richness and depth of this LA art scene that strike the reader-viewer through these richly illustrated pages. The birth of a genuine pop art in California (thanks to some of the most gifted artdealers in the US), of conceptual art, the creation of a new way of making sculpture, all those aspects are tackled in an informative and erudite (sometimes too erudite, though...)text that makes this book a more than valuable addition to the literature on post-war American art.

Record # 352750

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Art of Maurice Sendak, The - 1980 to the Present (SIGNED BY SENDAK & KUSHNER)by: Kushner, Tony and Maurice Sendak

Art of Maurice Sendak, The - 1980 to the Present (SIGNED BY SENDAK & KUSHNER)
by: Kushner, Tony and Maurice Sendak

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Hardcover with illustrations to endpapers. Navy cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Profusely illustrated in full page, full color illustrations beautifully presented, including fold out illustrations. Dust jacket with only minor wear. SIGNED BY BOTH SENDAK AND KUSHNER on half-title page. Clean copy.

Record # 750387

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Perspecta 16: The Yale Architectural Journal by: Kirk Train, David Spiker & Robert Jensen (Eds.)

Perspecta 16: The Yale Architectural Journal
by: Kirk Train, David Spiker & Robert Jensen (Eds.)

Softcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. This periodical issue contains an article by Vincent Scully about Frank Lloyd Wright; Recycling New York; interview with Cesar Pelli; Thirty museum plans, etc. Includes a fold-out sheet of various plans, 24x36 inches. Beige card covers with French flaps. Clean copy.

Record # 396392

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Peter Blake: Retrospectiveby: Grunenberg , Christoph

Peter Blake: Retrospective
by: Grunenberg , Christoph

Softcover. London, Tate Gallery, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 216 pages. A key figure in the history of British Pop Art, Blake is one of the most influential and original artists working in Britain today. Central to Blake's work since the 1950s has been his fascination with popular culture, ranging from music to Hollywood icons and wrestling stars. Perhaps his most famous engagement with Pop came with his design for the cover of The Beatles' album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. With this and other works he helped create a specifically British pop aesthetic that defined an era. A prolific artist, he has utilised a variety of media including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture and printmaking; this study focuses principally on his two-dimensional works and provides the first thorough survey of his paintings from the 1950s through to the present. It will include major icons of twentieth-century art, such as Self-Portrait with badges (1961), and Have a Nice Day, Mr Hockney (1981-3), but will also feature many lesser-known works including his recent, major work The Marcel Duchamp World Series.

Record # 351451

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Carl Barks Library, The (64 Volumes)by: Barks (Walt Disney), Carl

Carl Barks Library, The (64 Volumes)
by: Barks (Walt Disney), Carl

Softcover. Prescott AZ, Gladstone/Another Rainbow, reprints, 1992-95, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 softcover books, all illustrated in color by Barks. Title and numbers breakdown: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories No. 2 through 40, (missing only #1) then issue No. 46. Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures #1-4, 6-17, 22. Walt Disney's Gyro Gearloose # 1,3,4,5, & 6. Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge One Pagers #1&2 (complete). All 64 books in like new condition vary from 44 to 68 pages, printed on high quality paper.

Record # 411360

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Six Snappy Socceroos from the Archives of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers - No. 6by: Shelton, Gilbert

Six Snappy Socceroos from the Archives of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers - No. 6
by: Shelton, Gilbert

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1980, 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 # 374604

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Kommix by: Burns, Charles

Kommix
by: Burns, Charles

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards with a red cloth spine, color plates. Master cartoonist Charles Burns has never hidden his passion for comic books and pop culture from the 1950 and 1960s. Inspired by the romance, horror, and sci-fi comics of his youth, as well as the 1960s American underground, the author of Black Hole has created a collection of 80 original comic book covers that, through his own inimitable aesthetic, present an alternate universe of stories that never were, but that you will wish existed. The covers - some with otherworldly titles in alien letterforms, and others that riff on classic genres (Throbbing Hearts, Unwholesome Love) and eras (Drug Buddy, Huss) - each inspire a multitude of interpretations, build entire worlds, and suggest entire narratives that lie within their non-existent guts. This is Burns at his most playful, imaginative, and suggestive, using the format of the comic book to continue to explore many of the themes that run through all his longer-form work. Clean copy

Record # 396730

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Arshile Gorky: The Breakthrough Yearsby: Spender, Matthew,Auping, Michael,Ashton, Dore

Arshile Gorky: The Breakthrough Years
by: Spender, Matthew,Auping, Michael,Ashton, Dore

Softcover. NY, Albright-Knox Gallery, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, This solid, authoritative presentation of Gorky's pivotal art of the 1940s accompanies an exhibit of paintings and drawings showing this year at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., as well as Buffalo and Fort Worth. Biographical and art-historical essays by Auping, a Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth curator, as well as Dore Ashton and Matthew Spender summarize the critical consensus of Gorky, placing him between Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism in the development of 20th-century art. Excellent reproductions of the paintings and drawings in the show are supplemented by close-ups from several paintings, photographs of Gorky, and selections from Gorky's letters. While not a comprehensive or groundbreaking work, this volume is an excellent summary of or introduction to Gorky for both general and informed lay readers. Clean copy.

Record # 371118

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Freud at Work: In Conversation with Sebastian Smeeby: Freud, Lucian

Freud at Work: In Conversation with Sebastian Smee
by: Freud, Lucian

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 2nd Printing, 2006, 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. 125 full color plates. A rare insight into the mind of the greatest painter of our time. Usually reluctant to speak about his work, Freud has agreed to enter into a conversation on painting with writer Sebastian Smee. Photographs taken by Bruce Bernard and David Dawson.

Record # 353328

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Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraitsby: Lucian Freud, Jasper Sharp, et al.

Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits
by: Lucian Freud, Jasper Sharp, et al.

Hardcover. London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. No dj issued. In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them "revealing, telling, believable ... really shameless." It was advice that the artist was often to follow himself. Visceral, unflinching and often nude, Freud's self-portraits chart his biography and give us an insight into the development of his style. These paintings provide the viewer with a constant reminder of the artist's overwhelming presence, whether he is confronting the viewer directly or only present as a shadow or in a reflection. Freud's exploration of the self-portrait is unexpected and wide-ranging. In this volume, essays by leading authorities, including those who knew him, explore Freud's life and work, and analyze the importance of self-portraiture in his practice.

Record # 379593

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Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenbergby: Tomkins, Calvin

Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg
by: Tomkins, Calvin

Softcover. NY, Picador, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 318 pages. Calvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary art. While gazing at Rauschenberg's painting Double Feature, Tomkins felt compelled to make some kind of literal connection to the work, and it is in that sprit that "for the last forty years it's been [his] ambition to write about contemporary art not as a critic or a judge, but as a participant." Tomkins has spent many of those years writing about Robert Rauschenberg, whom he rapidly came to see as "one of the most inventive and influential artists of his generation." So it seemed natural to make Rauschenberg the focus of Off the Wall, which deals with the radical changes that have made advanced visual art such a powerful force in the world.Off the Wall chronicles the astonishingly creative period of the 1950s and 1960s, a high point in American art. In his in his collaborations with Merce Cunningham and John Cage, and as a pivotal figure linking abstract expressionism and pop art, Rauschenberg was part of a revolution during which artists moved art off the walls of museums and galleries and into the center of the social scene. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 396766

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The Image of Thomas Jeffersonby: Cunningham, Jr., Noble E.

The Image of Thomas Jefferson
by: Cunningham, Jr., Noble E.

Hardcover. Charlottesville, VA, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 185 pages. Black cloth cover with silhouette of Jefferson's head embossed to front and gilt lettering to spine, b&w illustrated dust jacket, 60 b&w figures, 8 b&w plates. Light wear to dust jacket; otherwise a very tight, clean copy.

Record # 604979

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Big-Time Golf (SIGNED COPY)by: Neiman, Leroy

Big-Time Golf (SIGNED COPY)
by: Neiman, Leroy

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, illustrated throughout in color. SIGNED BY ARTIST on half title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 361863

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Willem de Kooning: Paintings by: Sylvester, David; Shiff, Richard; Prather, Martha

Willem de Kooning: Paintings
by: Sylvester, David; Shiff, Richard; Prather, Martha

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Gallery /Yale University, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 231 pages, numerous color and bw plates. Catalogue of a de Kooning exhibition, organized by the National Gallery in association with the Tate Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This illustrated survey of de Kooning's paintings covers the period from 1938 through 1986. The catalogue, by curator Prather, is preceded by two critical essays: Sylvester's "Flesh Was the Reason" and Shiff's "Water and Lipstick: De Kooning in Transition." 12'' x 9.75''. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 382251

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Lucien Pissarroby: Meadmore, W. S.

Lucien Pissarro
by: Meadmore, W. S.

Hardcover. London, Constable & Company, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket, 252 pages including index. Illustrated in b&w and color. Biography of Lucien Pissarro, artist and son of Camille, and his family. With an introduction by John Rewald. Name on inside front cover (behind flap), chunk gone from rear panel of dust jacket.otherwise clean.

Record # 396847

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Hirshhorn, Medici from Brooklyn: A Biographyby: Hyams, Barry

Hirshhorn, Medici from Brooklyn: A Biography
by: Hyams, Barry

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages, b&w illustrations. White cloth spine, red boards. Pictorial dust jacket. For-edge rough cut. Light wear to edges and covers, slight bump to lower edge of spine, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606392

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Brenda Starr Volume Two: Good Girls, Cheesecake, and Other Delectable Thingsby: Iger, Jerry

Brenda Starr Volume Two: Good Girls, Cheesecake, and Other Delectable Things
by: Iger, Jerry

Hardcover. Pennsylvania, Hermes Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Featuring artwork by the legendary Jerry Iger Studio and Brenda Starr Creator Gale Messick, this volume presents the remaining four Brenda Starr Pre-Code books, issues #9-12, and the very mod and 1960's version of Brenda drawn and scripted by Dale Messick. In addition to presenting Brenda Starr stories, this reprint also boasts all of the scintillating back-up features.

Record # 353504

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20 Iconic Film Posters by Saul Bassby: Bass, Saul

20 Iconic Film Posters by Saul Bass
by: Bass, Saul

Softcover. London, Laurence King, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated cardboard covers, large format, 12 x 16". 20 removable posters ready for framing. The posters included are: The Man with the Golden Arm; Saint Joan; Love in the Afternoon; Bonjour Tristesse; The Big Country; Vertigo; Anatomy of a Murder; Exodus; Spartacus; The Magnificent Seven; Advise & Consent; The Cardinal; In Harm's Way; Bunny Lake is Missing; Seconds; Grand Prix; The Fixer; Such Good Friends; The Shining; Schindler's List.

Record # 353245

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Jacob et Abel Grimmer: Catalogue Raisonn?© (FRENCH EDITION)by: Bertier de Sauvigny, Reine de

Jacob et Abel Grimmer: Catalogue Raisonn?© (FRENCH EDITION)
by: Bertier de Sauvigny, Reine de

Hardcover. Bussels, Renaissance du Livre, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 398 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. French language.DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 396864

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