Art

Hardcover. Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 315 pages, b&w illustrations. Spine slightly cocked. Pictorial dust jacket with light sunfading to spine; edge wear and light rubbing near extremities. Clean text.

Hardcover. St. Ann's Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 130 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This first monograph on Fee accompanies two major gallery exhibitions in California. Fee has done editorial photography for such publications as Vanity Fair and Entertainment Weekly, but this publication focuses on his fine arts work from the past ten years. Fee physically manipulates his photographs and negatives in the darkroom, adding toners and chemical stains that result in beautiful glows of bronze and blue. This effect adds to a sense of decay in his dark, iconographic imagery of America, featured in the photos that make up the first half of this book. Also included are collaborations between Fee and Beat sculptor George Herms.

Hardcover. UK, PS Art Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Collects January 1951 - January 1952 (Issues 1 - 7). Witches Tales ran for 28 issues in the 1950s.

Hardcover. Ostfildern GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated paper-covered boards; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Paul Pfeiffer. 80 pages with 35 four-color plates and 2 black-and-white plates. Essays (in German and English) by Valeria Liebermann and Stefano Basilico. Conversation with the artist (in German and English) by Thomas Ruff. Includes a list of works, biography, list of awards, exhibition history and publications. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. Still wrapped in plastic. In great condition. Color photographs of Raimondi's artwork throughout. A nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. Tales exploring the supernatural featuring featuring Issues 12-18 from December 1952 to June 1953 of the ACG classic Forbidden Worlds. This third volume has been meticulously compiled from the original source material and painstakingly digitally restored.

Hardcover. New York , Rizzoli, 1st, 2008-10-14, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, profusely illustrated in color. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. In the current world of twentieth-century design collecting, the trend has shifted away from accessible, mass-manufactured modernist furniture and toward designs that were custom-made or produced in very limited editions, with emphasis on American studio design of the 1940s to the 1990s. In contrast to the mass-produced mid-century furniture by Knoll and Herman Miller, American studio designs of the same period focused on novel forms and exquisite craftsmanship. Ranging from the organic shapes of George Nakashima and Vladimir Kagan to metalworks by Paul Evans, these limited production designs were highly sought after in their days by original tastemakers and movie stars. In the last decade, a revival for these rare designs began with connoisseurs such as Tom Ford. Modern Americana is the first full survey of the designs of this prolific but forgotten period, bringing to life again the works of Samuel Marx, Billy Haines, Wendell Castle, T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Karl Springer, James Mont, and many others -- including J.B. Blunk, Michael Coffey, Wharton Esherick, Arthur Espenet Carpenter, Sam Maloof, Jack Rogers Hopkins, Paul Evans & Philip Lloyd Powell, Vladimir Kagan, George Nakashima, Silas Seandel, Charles Hollis Jones, Philip & Kevin LaVerne, Tommi Parzinger, Harvey Probber, Edward Wormley, John Dickinson, Arthur Elrod, and Paul Laszlo.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, yellow cloth covers with Pollock's signature stamped in black. 125 pages in color and b&w. About 20 pages of text by noted poet and playwright O'Hara, followed by over 80 reproductions, 16 in color. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 100 pages, colored paper over boards in lettered glassine wrapper. 10 3/4 x 9 1/4 " 27 pages of text, 89 illustrations - 12 in color. Introduction by Sheldon Reich. Lengthy essay by Larry Curry. Catalog lists 157 works. Selected bibliography. A significant exhibition. Glassine wrapper worn, frayed, book is clean, very good.

Hardcover. Clover Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 11 X 14". Reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs that were unavailable for previous books, this series is the ultimate edition of Caniff's masterpiece. We present the Sundays in an unmatched color fidelity and larger than they have ever before been reprinted. Vol. 1 collects all dailies and Sundays from the strip's beginning on October 22, 1934 through the end of 1935 in a deluxe 192 pages, 11" x 14", hardcover. "In the first few years of Terry and the Pirates, Milton Caniff invented the visual and textual language that defines the very vocabulary of all adventure and character-based comic art. It is the greatest adventure comic strip ever done--a genuine masterpiece of its artform."

Softcover. US, Picture This Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. Volume 1: Drawings. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Volume One focuses on Kley's ink drawings, and reprints for the first time a substantial selection of his illustration work for children's books and adult genre fiction, a side of Kley's career previously unexplored in other collections. This volume also includes a wide sampling of Kley's cartoons and magazine work, with newly collected examples taken directly from a variety of rare sources such as "Jugend," "Simplicissimus," and the historic "Der Orchideengarten" (the world's first fantasy fiction magazine). In all, more than 300 Kley illustrations and cartoons fill this first volume.

Hardcover. London, Art/Books, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with black decoration, 186 pages. A beautiful facsimile of the earliest English translation of Gauguin's frank and entertaining memoir, written just before he died, in which he reveals his most inner thoughts on art, life and love Unappreciated in his own lifetime, Paul Gauguin is now recognized as one of the giants of French post-Impressionism and a pioneer of early modernism. A rebel in both art and life, he rejected his bourgeois upbringing and comfortable stockbroker's job to devote his life to painting. Eventually, dismayed by the 'hypocrisy of civilization' and in search of a primitive idyll, he left his wife and children behind in Paris and took up residence in the South Seas, first in Tahiti and, later, in the Marquesas Islands. He would never return to Europe. In the final months of his life, he wrote this witty and revealing autobiographical memoir with the request that it be published upon his death. It first appeared in the original French in 1918, and was translated into English three years later. As his son Emile wrote in the preface, 'These journals are an illuminating self-portrait of a unique personality. They bring sharply into focus for me his goodness, his humor, his insurgent spirit, his clarity of vision, his inordinate hatred of hypocrisy and sham.' Wide-ranging and elliptical, these candid reflections reveal Gauguin's inner thoughts about many subjects, including frank views on his fellow artists back in Paris, his turbulent relationship with Van Gogh, and the charms of Polynesian women, while providing glimpses into his often far-from-idyllic life in the islands. This beautiful facsimile reproduces the first American translation of the journals, a rare limited edition privately published in New York in 1921 for a select group of subscribers. With full-page sketches by the artist, these entertaining and enlightening musings give us a unique insight into Gauguin the man and the artist. Clean copy.

Softcover. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. 40 color, 65 bw repros. photo. Issued in conjunction with a 1985 exhibition of Mary Cassatt's artwork. With an essay by Suzanne G. Lindsay. The illustrated catalogue presents 51 pieces, scattered throughout the text. A very well put-together catalogue.

Hardcover. NY, Skira Rizzoli, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. The first publication dedicated exclusively to Mark Rothko's art during the critical formative period of the 1940s. Examining the development and artistic exploration of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, this unprecedented volume presents the works of American artist Mark Rothko from the 1940s, a time when his most essential development as a painter occurred, dramatically and in a very compact space of time. During this period, Rothko moved from expressive figurative and surrealist canvases to more abstract multiform subjects and finally to his signature abstractions--luminous rectangles of color suspended in space. Richly illustrated with works by Rothko and his contemporaries, introduction by Todd Herman and essays by prominent Rothko scholars, this important new book deepens our understanding of Rothko's art during this vital period, and that of the mature works that emerged from it.

Hardcover. New York, Assouline Publishing, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Whenever the rich and famous are in Paris, they head for the city's most beautiful square, the Place Vendome. This evocatively written volume traces the square's history from its beginnings in the time of Louis XIV to its life in the twentieth century as Paris's center of fashion, jewelry, high finance, and art. From designers Chanel and Schiaparelli to European high society, Russian grand dukes, Indian maharajas, and celebrities from Lillie Langtry to Ernest Hemingway, a cast of extraordinary personalities have lent the Place Vendome an ineffable aura.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Bodleian Library, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. pictorial boards, 112 pages. This book celebrates the Bodleian Library's acquisition of Tom Phillips's archive of over 50,000 photographic postcards dating from the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which, thanks to the ever cheaper medium of photography, 'ordinary' people could afford to own their portraits. Each title in this series is thematically assembled and designed by the artist, the covers featuring a linked painting specially created for each title from Tom Phillips's signature work, A Humument. With an illuminating foreword by Eric Musgrave, 'Menswear' presents postcards of men in all manner of outfits, whether formal, practical or casual, dating from around 1900 up to c. 1949. Most of the subjects are posing for portraits, displaying both their individual style and an interpretation of the fashions of the time. The rich variety of accessories on display includes ties, gloves, pocket squares, walking sticks, canes, boutonnieres and spats. Clean copy.

Softcover. Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 151 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear, rubbing to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Phoenix AZ, Phoenix Art Museum, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 376 pages, illustrated in b&w, some color. Cover has sunning to areas, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. US, Harper, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 419 pages, photos in color and b&w. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.

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

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in a bright dust jacket. In this first biography of the great cartoonist, written with exclusive access to Addams's intimates and his private papers, we finally meet the man behind the famed cartoons and circling rumors. Here is his surprising childhood in New Jersey, the cartoon that offended the Nazis, the friend whose early death Addams long mourned. Here are his wives, the stories behind his most famous-and some of his most private-cartoons, and the Addams whom even his closest friends didn't know. With wit, humor, poignancy, and insight-enhanced by rare family photographs, classic and previously unpublished cartoons, and private drawings-Linda H. Davis paints an engaging and endearing portrait of a marvelous American original.

Softcover. Minneapolis MN, Walker Art Center, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Textured paper covers. A very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Pall Mall Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, very good copy in original pictorial cloth (designed by the artist), no dust jacket. Preface by Rene Char. 405 illustrations in monochrome, sepia & color. A remarkable record of the astonishing output of Picasso in his mid-eighties, featuring many of his favourite themes: 'the artist and his model, the sultan and his harem, the circus, the pastoral flute player, nude men and women engaged in the games of love'. Mild foxing to front endpapers, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 424 pages, color throughout. After becoming a professional comics artist in 1948 at the age of 17, by 21 Al Williamson was well-regarded enough as a Western and science-fiction illustrator to be recruited for the EC Comics staff roster - the absolute peak of the field in the 1950s, and a team rarely challenged since. After the Comics Code forced EC to reduce their business, Williamson found himself at the door of Atlas Comics, the largest employer of freelancers in the field.From 1955-60, Williamson would draw 99 stories for Atlas (both solo and with help by "Fleagle Gang" studio cohorts Angelo Torres and Roy Krenkel, plus Gray Morrow and Ralph Mayo) in mostly western and fantasy genres, with a smattering of war, romance and "jungle girl adventure". He flourished on Westerns, freely and loosely rendered four-page morality plays, many scripted economically by Stan Lee. With his extensive oeuvre subsequently based mostly in newspaper strips (including Flash Gordon, Secret Agent Corrigan, and the syndicated Star Wars, at George Lucas' own request), or working largely as an inker, his Atlas stories collectively are the largest single body of work Williamson would ever do as a primary creator for one company. Fantagraphics is proud to present this Al Williamson Artist Edition to finally showcase this distinct period of his remarkable career. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Kitchen Sink Press, 5th pr, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages. As World War II came to America, Al Capp moved his comic strip firmly into the realm of social satire. Meet the genial hustler. Available Jones, and Joe Btfsplk, world's worst jinx. Abner goes on a quest and Salomey is kidnapped by the Scraggs. While all this, and more, was going on, Capp found time to contribute artwork and time to the Defense and Treasury Departments, the Red Cross, and military hospitals. See it all in this volume of Al Capp's Li'l Abner.

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 344 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Gathers drawings and paintings by the modern Swiss artist, discusses the themes and techniques used in his work, and examines his influence on twentieth century art.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 320 pages illustrated in color by Liew. "Liew's graphic novel is a fascinating look at a cartoonist's growth over time and how his creative output reflects the culture around him, and Liew tells Chye's story in a way that only comic books can....A beautifully multidimensional portrait of the cartoonist, beginning with Chye's personal interpretation o the past before showing comics and sketches that provide further insight....The color palettes, the paper quality, the incorporation of photographs and sketches, they all combine with the text to provide a complex view of Charlie Chan Hock Chye that has a strong sense of history behind it." A 2017 Eisner Award Winner for Best Writer/Artist, Best US Edition of International Material--Asia, and Best Publication DesignWinner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2016A New York Times bestsellerAn Economist Book of the Year 2016An NPR Graphic Novel Pick for 2016A Washington Post Best Graphic Novel of 2016A New York Post Best Books of 2016A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016

Softcover. The Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog of decorative arts of The Art Institute of Chicago. 112 pages; 24 color plates. Text by Milo M. Naeve and Lynn Springer Roberts. In very good condition; no marks on cover.

Softcover. New York , Dover Publications, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages with color illustrations. DVD with bonus images. Selected from a national archive, these vivid poster images from the Works Progress Administration date from 1935 to 1943. Promoting public health, travel, and civic activities, this collection features works by such artists as Erik Hans Krause, Richard Halls, Jerome Henry Rothstein, and Katherine Milhous.

Hardcover. New York, Bounty Books, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 204 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Yellow cloth with gilt title to spine, light wear to edges and small stain to upper corner of front cover. Yellow pictorial dust jacket with slight wear to edges and upper edge of spine torn and chipped. Overall a nice, tight copy.

Softcover. Westport CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wraps stapled. Articles on Stephen Bissette, Pavlov by Ted Martin, Off the Leash by W.B. Park, Bill Yates editor at King Features, others. 82 pages.

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

Softcover. NY, Collier, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 287 pages. "The best of contemporary graphic literature -- a daring and most unusual anthology. Featuring the work of Art Spiegelman, Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar, the Hernandez Brothers, Matt Groening and Lynda Barry -- as well as 75 other contemporary artists with twenty stories appearing in English for the first time." Tall color pictorial wraps, mostly b/w cartoons with 16 page color section.

Softcover. Paris, E. Teriade, 1st wraps, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Includes: Original Cover by Bonnard, witing by Malraux, Valery, art by Matisse, Klee, Miro, Chagall, photos by Andre, Verger, others. Very good condition. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 44 pages of watercolors. Beautiful large sketchbook illustrating the works of the great Maurice Prendegrast. In association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where the Lehman Prendegrast collection resides. As new in original slipcase. Half white cloth binding over black leatherette boards. This sketchbook, kept primarily between 1895 and 1897, is an exquisite example of the working technique of a great American artist. In it, Prendergast experiments with pattern, shadow, and foliage, using the beautiful Boston Public Garden as his studio. The 88 pages of watercolors, pen and ink, and pencil drawings focus on the colorfully dressed women and children in the park, with glimpses of Victorian Boston outside. The sketchbook reproduced here in facsimile and handsomely boxed recalls his years of study in Paris, yet foreshadows his bold mature style.

Softcover. Paris, Sodicart and Carla Arigoni, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog, color illustrations, 130 pages. FRENCH TEXT. Clean, like new.

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

Softcover. Chicago, Good Taste Products, 2nd pr., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 87 pages, softcover with color illustrated wrappers. B&w comic art by O'Connell. Attention cocktail crowd! Looking at Mitch O'Connell's illustrations is like appreciating a dry martini: clean, crisp, retro. And you can almost smell the hair spray from all those beehive hairdos in this book. Good Taste Gone Bad is a collection of the best O'Connell illustrations, designs and comics. Be hip. Buy this book.

Softcover. London, Batsford, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 224 pages illustrated in color. Past is prologue in this stunning survey of vintage-inspired illustrations that employ classic styles of artistic expression for up-to-date effects. Organized by historical or cultural period, the book features hundreds of modern retro images, including pieces that incorporate the geometric beauty of Art Deco, the bold architectural lines of Soviet constructivist posters, and the graphic design of Blue Note's record sleeves. There are new perspectives on photorealism, comic art, and punk, as well. Hundreds of artists have contributed to this witty, exciting, and international collection. Clean copy.

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

Hardcover. NY, Society of Illustrators, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Fascinating insights into the lives and works of 82 top artists elected to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame make this an inspiring reference and art book. From illustrators such as N.C. Wyeth to Charles Dana Gibson to Dean Cornwell, Al Parker, Austin Briggs, Jon Whitcomb, Parrish, Pyle, Dunn, Peak, Whitmore, Leyendecker, Abbey, Flagg, Gruger, Raleigh, Booth, LaGatta, Frost, Kent, Sundblom, Erte, Held, Jessie Willcox Smith, Georgi, McGinnis, Harry Anderson, Barclay, Coll, Schoonover, McCay...the list of greats goes on and on. A deluxe production from 1997, in a handsome cloth slipcase with a mounted color plate of a nude, a special transparent dust wrapper, gold edging on all the pages, oversized square coffee table format. And of course, the highest quality reproduction all from original art. Profiles and major examples of each artist's work give a sweeping overview of the art of illustration for the last 130 years. 450 color illustrations.

Softcover. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. US, Moderne Kunst Nurnberg, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Small 4to, boards. This work looks at parallels between Conner's works as an artist and filmmaker. It depicts and discusses his drawings, oil and acrylic paintings, lithographs, prints, photograms and photographs, alongside three of Conner's best-known films: Breakaway (1966), Crossroads (1976), and Marilyn Times Five (1968-1973). Text in English. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

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

Hardcover. University of South Carolina Press, Supreme Council, Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages. " ...a fascinating journey through the history of Scottish Rite in America. This comprehensive pictorial history provides valuable insights into the critical role masons have played throughout our nation's history." b/w, sepia, & color plates throughout. In Valley of the Craftsmen, the story of "higher degree" Freemasonry is depicted through portraits, official papers, material objects, photographs, buildings, and stagecraft. Featuring many previously unpublished images, Valley of the Craftsmen begins with rare illustrations of the English and French philosophical sources that were projected upon an American landscape vitalized and transformed by the concept of fraternity. The story is framed by American popular culture and the serious private effort of individual men in small towns and expansive cities who were intent on developing a moral life in service to their communities. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, The Jewish Museum ; New Haven : Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Softcover. NY, Heavy Metal, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, color illustrations by Moebius. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Princeton University Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 288 pages. Crow re-evaluates Conner and other key figures-from Catholic activist Corita Kent to Black Panther Emory Douglas to ecological witness Bonnie Ora Sherk-as part of a generational cohort galvanized by resistance to war, racial oppression, and environmental degradation. Younger practitioners of performance and installation carried the mindset of rebellion into the 1970s and 1980s, as previously excluded artists of color moved to the forefront in Los Angeles. Mike Kelley, their contemporary, remained unwaveringly true to the late countercultural flowering he had witnessed at the dawn of his career. The result is a major new account of the counterculture's enduring influence on modern art. Clean copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. NY, Thames & Hudson;, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages. Fashion designer Peter Golding's comprehensive collection is a unique, insightful record of the 20th century's most exciting and productive periods of rock poster art and graphics. As part of the '60s and '70s fashion movement, Peter Golding's famous ACE boutique in London's Chelsea district brought him into regular contact with the biggest names in rock 'n' roll, and he went on to create one of the most comprehensive collections of rock 'n' roll graphics in existence. Showcasing the cream of this collection and more, Rock Graphic Originals is packed with vibrant poster art, logos, stage set designs, and promotional ephemera created for artists such as the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, The Doors, and many others.Barry Miles's concise introduction places the key protagonists and their work within their cultural and political context, while reflections from the artists themselves lend unique perspectives on their influences and methods. The book is punctuated throughout with special illustrated features on the social, political, and cultural phenomena that influenced the music scenes and design approaches of the period, including radical collective, The Diggers, US and UK underground comics, the psychedelic shops, and the legalize pot rallies. Rock Graphic Originals is a unique, insightful record of the 20th century's most exciting and productive periods of rock poster art and graphic design. 1,000 color illustrations . Remaider line on bottom edge.

Hardcover. New York , Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. Book and unprice-clipped pictorial dust jacket are without defects. A beautiful catalog of the great Ralph Esmerian collection of American folk art done when the 400 outstanding works were given to the American Folk Art Museum in New York. Outstanding plates followed by detailed descriptions.