Hardcover. Croydon UK, Fonthill Media, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 160 pages. You might be surprised to learn that many of the consumer brands and products we enjoy today exist because of streetcar advertising. The Industrial Revolution of the early 1900's and a massive consumer audience riding over 50,000 streetcars in nearly 3,000 cities and towns in every state of the union provided a great opportunity for Barron Collier, a native of Memphis, Tennessee. He simply used streetcar advertising to bring these two forces together and created the largest streetcar advertising empire in the world. By age twenty-six, he was a millionaire and at one time had business offices in 70 cities with business interests in more than a thousand cities. Most of these advertising cards have remarkable color graphics; over 250 of them are included in this book for your viewing pleasure. While streetcar advertising is definitely not a major advertising medium today, the advertising community might be surprised to learn that the basic principles of consumer advertising have not changed that much in the last one hundred years. Investors might do well to review this book to see which companies are still producing these popular products and brands as they represent some of the most successful businesses in America today.
Softcover. London, Tate, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Softcover. Color and black and white pictures throughout. Light edgewear to wrappers.
Softcover. Chicago, Illinois, Mongerson Galleries, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 page catalog from October 1981 exhibition at The Mongerson Gallery. Numerous black and white prints and photographs. Brief artist biographies. Textured cover features color artwork and exhibits some wear, particularly along binding edge. Interior in near fine condition.
Softcover. San Diego CA, San Diego Museum of Art, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 86 pages, b&w illustrations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-36) and index. In 1916, George Wesley Bellows, a successful painter at the height of his artistic power, turned his considerable talent to the graphic medium of lithography. Over the next nine years, until his untimely death in January 1925, Bellows created nealry 200 lithographs - an impressive body of work unparalleled in the history of American art. While some of these lithographs appeared as illustrations in contemporary periodicals , and others were graphic versions of drawings and paintings he had previously made, the majority stood as independent works. Their subjects and styles span the breadth of Bellows's artistic vision. Light sticker residue to front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, The Cythera Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, hardcover in brown faux-leather, gilt lettering and decoration on cover and spine, no dust jacket. With illustrated title-page, 44 full-page drawings by Van Maele and decorated endpapers. A very good copy. Some of the most poignant yet bizarre erotic illustrations to come out of the turn of the century.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and Black and white pictures throughout. Brings together for the first time the artist's extraordinary eighty-two-year career, revealed in more than 360 of his iconic black-and-white and color drawings, illustrations, and photographs--his influences, his techniques, his evolution from his earliest works to his last drawings, and with a biographical text by David Leopold, Hirschfeld authority, who, as archivist to the artist, worked side by side with him and has spent more than twenty years documenting the artist's extraordinary output.
Hardcover. Sverdlovsk, Mid-Urals Publishing House, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Beautiful 2 volume set exploring the history and various uses and creations of Malachite. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. In pristine condition with original pictorial slip cover (slight edge-wear). Book 1: Poetics of Stone. Book 2:Chronicles Documents Commentaries. Text in Russian and English.
Hardcover. London, Tate Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards with an acetate dust wrapper, 304 pages. Warhol brought to the art world a unique awareness of the relationship that art might have with popular consumer culture and tabloid news, with celebrity, and with sexuality. Each of these themes is explored through visual dialogues between warhol and some sixty artists, among them John Baldessari, Vija Celmins, Gilbert & George, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Damien Hirst, Alfredo Jaar, Deborah Kass, Alex Katz, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland, Elizabeth Peyton, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman and Luc Tuymans. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Koln GR, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 'Z' on front white card wrappers. Fotos: Otto Nelson & Frank Oleski. 9 illustrations in color. Christiaan Karel Appel (1921- 2006) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. Clean copy.
Softcover. US, Kitchen Sink Press, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white comics throughout.
Softcover. Washington D.C., The Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog, 127 pages, 74 B&W plates throughout. Edgewear to cover. Small blemish to front of wrapper. Otherwise a very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 200 pages. Hardcover with translucent dust jacket. This retrospective study of the work and life of Robert Frank demonstrates the artistry, innovations, and magnificent images of the distinguished photographer in more than 350 photographs. The book was originally published by Yugensha in Tokyo in 1972. Remainder mark to top edge, dust jacket edgeworn, chipped. No marking, clean.
Hardcover. NY, Kodansha International, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 128 pages. Examines two Japanese artists' series of paintings which portray the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima. Illustrated in color and b&w. INSCRIBED BY JUNKERMAN, one of the editors, on the title-page. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Poster Auctions International, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Softcover. Color pictures throughout. Light edgewear to wrappers.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Viz, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 167 pages illustrated in color. This volume tells the entire story of the hit Disney animated feature film, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, and features color stills from the film. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. No artist looms so large in Western consciousness and culture as Michelangelo Buonarroti, the most celebrated sculptor of all time. And no place on earth provides a stone so capable of simulating the warmth and vitality of human flesh and incarnating the genius of a Michelangelo as the statuario of Carrara, the storied marble mecca at Tuscany's northwest corner. It was there, where shadowy Etruscans and Roman slaves once toiled, that Michelangelo risked his life in dozens of harrowing expeditions to secure the precious stone for his Pieta, Moses, and other masterpieces. Many books have recounted Michelangelo's achievements in Florence and Rome. Michelangelo's Mountain goes beyond all of them, revealing his escapades and ordeals in the spectacular landscape that was the third pole of his tumultuous career and the third wellspring of his art. Eric Scigliano brings this haunting place and eternally fascinating artist to life in a sweeping tale peopled by popes and poets, mad dukes and mythic monsters, scheming courtiers and rough-hewn quarrymen. In showing how the artist, land, and stone transformed one another, Scigliano brings fresh insight to Michelangelo's most cherished works and illuminates his struggles with the princes and potentates of Carrara, Rome, and Medici Florence, who raised intrigue to a high art.
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.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, William Edwin Rudge, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 73 pages. Dark gray cloth covers, gilt titles, b&w photographic frontispiece, top edge red. Clean covers with slight wear to corners, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very neat tight copy in great condition.
Softcover. The Hague, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 44 pages, exhibition catalog for the sculptor's work at the XVIII Venice Biennale, b&w illustrations. A conversation with the artist by Reinhard Niedermeier. Light fading to pink wrappers. Text in Italian and English. SIGNED BY VISCH on inside rear cover with his address and pnone number.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Benton (1889-1975) is a painter shrouded in paradox and misapprehension. Though pigeonholed as a regionalist chronicler of the Midwest, many of his finest on-site pictures are of Southern blacks and poor whites. Remembered best are his folksy rural scenes and aggressively three-dimensional murals, but the public tends to forget that he ran through the gamut of modernist styles (he was Jackson Pollock's teacher) and that his brilliant abstract color experiments ally him with the modernist movement. Some of Benton's crowded murals of the 1930s reflect his leftist sympathies, yet critics reviled him as politically conservative. These contradictions are illuminated in this catalogue of a touring exhibition curated by Adams. The text stands on its own as a wholly engaging biography, offering an unbuttoned look at a pugnacious, often reckless, artist who valiantly sought to preserve a rural America that was vanishing before his eyes. Clean copy.
Hardcover. US, Sansom Foundation, Inc., 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The painter William Glackens (1870-1938) and his friends were among the liveliest and most influential American artists of the opening decades of the twentieth century. Their continued importance in the history of American art is explored in this informative collection of essays. Colin Bailey chronicles the beginnings of Albert C. Barnes' unparalleled collection of modern art, as well as Glackens' role in forming it, and Avis Berman investigates the friendship of John Sloan, Robert Henri and John Butler Yeats. Carol Troyen examines George Bellows' war paintings and Richard J. Wattenmaker probes the relationship between Glackens' paintings and sketchbooks. H. Barbara Weinberg documents how the leading American Impressionists and members of The Eight dealt with the pressures of economic survival. This profusely illustrated publication is an essential reference for curators, collectors and historians.
Hardcover. New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 174 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Yellow cloth covers, dark yellow dust jacket, 207 b&w illustrated figures. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, light edgewear to covers, pages crisp and unmarked, tight binding.
Softcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages, color plates. With translucent dust wrapper. Mild ripple to pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, New York Review of Books, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover, pictorial cloth, no dust jacket issued. Collects Stamaty's manically detailed comic strips from the Village Voice. Introduction by Jules Feiffer. Originally published in 1980 as a paperback, this is a hardcover reprint. Light bump to bottom corner cover.
Softcover. Damiani, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in publisher's shrink-wrap. Italian photographer Alex Fakso got his start at the age of 13, photographing his own works of graffiti on trains. Since then, Fakso has become a prominent personality in the underground world of street art. His latest project Fast or Die is a raw and honest portrayal of the often chaotic lives of subway graffiti artists from London to Tokyo.
Softcover. Tokyo, Fuji Television Gallery, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, staple-bound, 24 pages; in English and Japanese. Illustrated in b&w. Crease to top corner/pages of catalog, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Books, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 512 pages plus index, b&w photographs, map end papers. Previous price sticker on back cover. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy. A unique reference for those interested in American heritage sculpture and architecture. This book was published in both paperback and clothbound editions. Photography by David Blume.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Aperient Press, 4th printing, 2001, Book: Very Good, 220 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Many full color illustrations and black & white sketches throughout. Tight copy. Yes, that's right, this fancy hardcover book reproduces tons of Coop's posters and stickers and thangs, all in color. Step right up. "While illustrating record covers and ads for Long Gone John Mermis of Sympathy for the Record Industry, Coop made the acquaintance of the popular poster artist Frank Kozik. With Frank's influence, Coop set off in a career direction that eventually put him on the same level enjoyed by the psychedelic poster artists (Griffin, Moscoso, Kelley & Mouse, etc.) three decades earlier. Doing poster work with name bands, like Rocket From The Crypt, Soundgarden, Nirvana, and the Lords of Acid, elevated Coop's public visibility, and with it his recognition. . But the number one, singular form of expression that regurgitated his name from ear-to-ear was his aptitude for emblematic imagery which began showing up on stickers. Common is the sight of plump female figures, in coy positions (sometimes femme devils), as pressure sensitive stickers, glaring off the back window of some young gentleman's primer grey old car (and a lot of new cars too). It is with this kind of exposure that the name Coop has come to typify art for many people who simply like visual stimuli. And, of course, this visual voice speaks just as clearly (but more permanently) in the form of tattoo design. As I mentioned in the beginning, Coop doesn't exploit the occult metaphysics of satanic malarkey. Why should he? This gifted wonder-boy is the devil himself." - from the forward by Robert Williams
Hardcover. Monaco, Christie's, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes in a green cloth slipcase. Both in bright dust wrappers. Large color photographs throughout. All very bright and clean.
Capetown SA, Fernwood Press/Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear 156 pages. Irma Stern (1894-1966) became a renowned artist in South Africa, the country she chose to live and paint the diversity of life and objects. She painted numerous portraits and still life and Rose to fame as one of their great artists. Herart works are exhibitted around the world, and this book is an attempt to shed some lights on Irma Stern?s life and her paintings. Printed on high quality stock, this oversized volume is jampacked with some of her finest works. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new copy still in publishers shrink wrap. Over 200 duotone images throughout. Tight copy. Born in Cork, Ireland, Frank Browne (1880-1960) was both a distinguished Jesuit and an accomplished photographer. At age 17, before commencing his studies for the priesthood, he embarked on a tour of Europe armed with a camera. Browne quickly discovered a strong affinity for photography, and continued to take photographs throughout his life. It was not until 1985, however-when Father Edward O'Donnell SJ discovered a large trunk in the Irish Jesuit Provincial's House and found it packed with negatives and photographs-that Browne was catapulted to international fame. Father Browne's remarkable life is recorded in the superb selection of images presented in this book. With wit and a sharp eye, he observed 20th-century Ireland; life as a Jesuit priest; his experience as a passenger on the first leg of the voyage of the Titanic in 1912; and his later travels throughout Europe, Egypt, Yemen, Ceylon, and Australia. This handsome, copiously illustrated volume offers a complete survey of the photographic work of an exceptional man.
Softcover. Bratenahl, OH, Cleveland stock images, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 78 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
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. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2016, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped its identity over the past hundred years. The blues have been one of the most ubiquitous but diverse elements of American popular music at large, and the visual art associated with this unique sound has been just as varied and dynamic. There is no better guide to this fascinating graphical world than Bill Dahl--a longtime music journalist and historian who has written liner notes for countless reissues of classic blues, soul, R&B, and rock albums. With his deep knowledge and incisive commentary--complementing more than three hundred and fifty lavishly reproduced images--the history of the blues comes musically and visually to life.
Hardcover. Chicago, Volland Company, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with brown cloth spine, unpaginated, but roughly 60 pages of 2-color cartoons from the noted artist and satirist. Each drawing is aptly accompanied by a short verse by Nesbit. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Preface by Jean Leymarie. Translated from the French by Sebastian Wormell. Vivid recollections of life at La Cannet and descriptions of the house and garden, accompanied by reproductions of related drawings and paintings. With 130 illustrations, 77 in color. Including 14 photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Light fading to dust jacket top edge and spine. Mild rubbing to dust jacket as well. A tight and clean copy.
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. Clover Press, 1st, 2022, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 11 X 14". The saga continues in Terry and the Pirates Volume 3, reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs! The Dragon Lady gets a bang out of her time with Papa Pyzon, but Terry, Pat, and Connie escape, only to have their first meeting with the lowest of the low, Tony Sandhurst-and is Pat in for a surprise when he meets Mrs. Sandhurst! Despite saving Sandhurst's miserable life on multiple occasions, Tony connives to bring charges against Pat. Friends and a former lover help acquit him, even as Connie finds a new ally, the gentle giant, Big Stoop. Burma and Captain Judas both make return appearances, and the year ends with Terry, Burma, and Connie assisting ragtag Chinese peasants, unaware a new menace grows near.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Getty Research Institute, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Art of the Defeat provides an unflinching look at the art scene in France during the German occupation. Black and white photographs throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter Publishing, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ex-Lib with usual markings and stamps on end papers and pages. Light edgewear on cover boards, and dust jacket is covered with plastic. Black and white and color illustrations throughout.
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, Knopf, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first biography of the epic life of one of the most important, enigmatic and private artists of the 20th century. Drawn from almost 40 years of conversations with the artist, letters and papers, it is a major work written by a well-known British art critic. This is an extremely intimate, lively and rich portrait of the artist, full of gossip and stories recounted by Freud to Feaver about people, encounters, and work. Freud's art was his life--"my work is purely autobiographical"--and he usually painted only family, friends, lovers, children, though there were exceptions like the famous small portrait of the Queen. With his later portraits, the subjects were often nude, names were never given and sittings could take up to 16 months, each session lasting five hours but subjects were rarely bored as Freud was a great raconteur and mimic.Small remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Koln GR, Jablonka Galerie, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, photographs and drawings in b&w by Warhol. Small format book for an exhibition held in Germany in the late 1990s. Dust jacket and book in excellent condition.
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.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and Black and white pictures throughout. Brings together for the first time the artist's extraordinary eighty-two-year career, revealed in more than 360 of his iconic black-and-white and color drawings, illustrations, and photographs--his influences, his techniques, his evolution from his earliest works to his last drawings, and with a biographical text by David Leopold, Hirschfeld authority, who, as archivist to the artist, worked side by side with him and has spent more than twenty years documenting the artist's extraordinary output.
Softcover. England, UK, FAB Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgwear to wrappers. Graphic Thrills Volume Two proudly assembles another stunning selection of debauched and innuendo-packed theatrical film posters, with glorious unabashed sexuality dripping from every page. These joyous and colourful odes to sultry sin were designed to hang in the lobbies and front windows of the porno theaters and grindhouses of yesteryear.
Softcover. Paris, Gimpel Fils , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog in red stapled wrappers. 14 pages with 7 color plates. Clean copy.