Art

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #N08022, 244 pages, illustrated in color, fold-out plates. 61 lots. Clean copy.

1951, Book: Very Good, Color art of boy working on his butterfly collection by Stevan Dohanos. 10 X 13", small label. 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.

Softcover. Los Angeles, CA, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Inc., 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 118 pages. Softcover. Very clean, LIKE NEW in publishers shrinkwrap. Estranged for more than 50 years, Brooklyn-born identical twin brothers-the celebrated artists Joel-Peter Witkin and Jerome Witkin-are brought together for the first time in this publication recreating an exhibition at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles. Each of the artists' works from the critically acclaimed exhibition is fully illustrated in this volume, which also includes an audio CD of the historic first interview of the brothers together, as well as a selection of the initial reviews and interviews published through the mid-point of the exhibition's extended run.

Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Very good.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 123 pages, b&w illustrations, some color. Bright, clean copy.

1913, Two-color art of lady Sunday School teacher with two boy students by Chas A. MacLellan. 10 X 13", very good. 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.

Softcover. Italy , Coconino Press, Reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Softcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor creasing to dust jacket rear flap.

Hardcover. New York , Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. Oversized. Tan cloth cover, minor wear to edges. Dust jacket has light wear. Inside is nice and clean with 350 b&w drawings.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Carl Barks' very first Donald Duck stories! This is where it all started, as Carl Barks took control of Donald Duck's comic book adventures and began a series of clever, creative, complex, and comedic stories that would continue under his cartooning brilliance for more than 20 years -- and guarantee his place in comics history. Volume 1 in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library is, naturally, filled with firsts: Barks' first comic book story (starring Pluto), the first Donald Duck story created for an American comic book (and also the first to see Donald and his nephews go on a treasure hunt), Barks' first Donald 10-pager, Barks' first truly solo Donald Duck story, and Barks' first solo longer-form Donald Duck adventure ("The Mummy's Ring"). More than 200 pages of story and art, each meticulously restored and newly colored, Clean, bright copy.

1929, Book: Very Good, Color art of young woman feeding two squirrels on a branch by Neysa McMein. 10 X 13", very good. 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.

Softcover. New York, Associated American Artists, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 9 X 12" with illustrated wrappers. Published quarterly by the Associated American Artists, Inc. and features art work and sketches by Freeman. Sketches are either in black and white or two-tone color. Unpaginated with approximately 48 pages. Light edgewear, spine paper starting to peel at top and bottom, tan stain (coffee or tea?) to bottom of front cover, not affecting inside. otherwise clean.

Softcover. Moline, IL, Funnies publishing, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Black and white comic strips throughout by Phil Nowlan and Dick Calkins. Issue number 1, reprinting of comic strips from 1933-1934. Sticker on rear wrapper.

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth with dust jacket with red titles and illustration. 358 pages, 18 unnumbered leaves of b&w plates in rear. Ernest Kris began his celebrated multi-disciplinary career in the 1920s in Austria where he received a doctorate from the University of Vienna in art history. He then began work with Sigmund Freud as an editor of Imago Magazine while training as a psychoanalyst, later emigrated to England and then to the U.S. to escape the Nazis. In this book, Kris deals with the contributions of psychoanalysis to the study of art and to the psychology of the artist and his audience. There is also a large section on the art of the insane and chapters on the nature of comedy, the meaning of poetry and the problems of literary criticism. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

1930, Book: Very Good, Color art of woman in a big straw hat looking up at sky. Painting by Guy Hoff. 10 X 13", very good. 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.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages. Black and white comic strips, light edgewear to spine edges, otherwise clean, tight copy. This climactic book of Gottfredson serials also finds Mickey plagued by Uncle Gudger, the one-man circus-and Gilhooley, the pitiless king of the leprechauns! Floyd Gottfredson and co-writer Bill Walsh infect Mouseton with the super-hi-tech of the Sputnik era.

Hardcover. Paris, Christie's Paris, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages, illustrated throughout in color. French text. Light wear to lower edge of spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 276 pages. A coffee table retrospective commemorating Mort Walker's long and dedicated commitment to cartooning, spotlighting the anniversary of his most popular and beloved creation. In addition to the 75 Sunday pages reproduced from color syndicate proofs, 135 daily and Sunday strips scanned from original artwork, and close to 200 additional images, this beautifully designed volume, impeccably researched and written by his son Brian, also includes rare photographs, historic debut character appearances, syndicate promotional materials, posters, merchandise, personal drawings and memorabilia from the family archives, as well as biographical sketches and anecdotes. Clean copy.

1952, Book: Very Good, Color art of toddler rumagining through guests belongings while they party in the living room. Painting by Stevan Dohanos. 10 X 13", very good. 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.

Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover with black/white and some color comic strips throughout. Wet soiling residue on bottom of first half of pages, and on bottom page block, otherwise minimal wear on paper wrappers.

Hardcover. Prescott, AZ, Gladstone Publishing Ltd., 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fortieth anniversary edition of Uncle Scrooge compilation. With storybook paintings by Norman McGary and commentary by Geoffrey Blum. Black covers with gilt lettering on front and spine. Small abrasion to rear bottom spine edge, otherwise unmarked, clean and tight copy with light wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages, many b&w illustrations, some in color. Issued in conjunction with a 1980 exhibition featuring geometric artwork by American artist Myron Stout (1908-1987). Catalogue lists 54 works. Selected bibliography. Includes selections from his journals, and an essay by Sanford Schwartz. Light tanning to top edge of wrappers, clean copy.

Hardcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 263 pages,16 BW illus., 16 color plates. Takes us into the mind of American abstract painter Ethel Schwabacher (1903-1984). "Comparable to such important literary journals as those of Virginia Woolf and Anais Nin, Schwabacher's record will become a valuable resource for research into the creative process as well as the art history and theory of our time." Clean copy.

Hardcover. Augusta, Georgia, Morris Museum of Art, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 89 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO FRAN BULL BY WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY. Gilt edged page block, clean covers with inset painting and gilt lettering. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Flammarion, 1st English, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Catalog of a traveling exhibition first held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, subsequently held at various European museums. Translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre. Minor rubbing and fading to dust jacket, mostly to top edge. Slight bumping to corners. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 320 pages. A detailed look at the photographic processes pioneered by Man Ray in the 1920s and 30s, which resulted in groundbreaking portraits of many of his celebrated friends and lovers. Clean copy.

1925, Color art of little girl in red dress eating at the table by Jessie Wilcox Smith. 8 1/4 X 11 1/2". 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.

Hardcover. Tucson AZ, HP Books, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. A pictorial biography of one of Disney's most popular creations. Color and b&w illustrations, filmography and bibliography. Clean in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. US, Getty Publications, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Hardcover. NY, Tudor Publishing , 1st US, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, deep green cloth with gilt lettering. 164 pages, 110 plates. Covers modern French art of the early twentieth century in text and through black and white illustrations. Discusses such topics as Fauvism, Futurism, and popular art as well as specific French painters.

1975, Book: Very Good, Color illustration of floating water pitcher dousing individual by Saul Steinberg. 8 1/4 X 11 1/2", very good. 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.

Hardcover. Koln, Taschen, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 460 pages, without dust jacket, as issued. Clean, bright copy with hundreds of nudes and scantily-clad women in color and b&w photographs and illustrations.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics , 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 287 pages illustrated in color. Pulp horror classics from the 1950s! Revenge, ghosts, locked rooms and killer ants, taken from early Marvel Comics series Men's Adventures and Amazing Detective Cases. Clean copy.

1938, Book: Very Good, Color art of baby waking up at midnight by J. C. Leyendecker. 10 X 13", small label. 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.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 500 pages, b&w illustrations. In this second volume of his definitive biography of Pablo Picasso, John Richardson draws on the same combination of lively writing, critical astuteness, exhaustive research and personal experience that made a bestseller out of the first volume and vividly re-creates the artist's life and work during the crucial decade of 1907-1917--a period during which Picasso and Georges Braque invented cubism. Clean copy in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt & Co., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards, contains about 50 one-panel cartoons from the syndicated newspaper strip. The first Dennis collection. Light foxing/spotting to covers, clean copy otherwise.

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with numerous photographs and reproductions of Lancaster's cartoons. Remarkable biography of the multi-talented, multi-careered man, who was political diplomat, a satirical cartoonist, an author, an artist, an illustrator, a poet, a stage designer, and more. Lancaster's most famous cartoon characters are Mrs. Rajagojollibarmi, and Maudie Littlehampton.

Softcover. London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 2nd Ed., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 26 pages, stapled wraps, illustrated with b&w drawings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 202 pages, 102 b&w and 22 color plates. Clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.

1976, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon of holiday icons ready to feast by Saul Steinberg. 8 1/2 X 11 1/2", very good. 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.

Hardcover. NY, New Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, A collection of Dr. Seuss's political cartoons commenting on World War II. Featuring handsome, large-format reproductions of more than two hundred of Geisel's cartoons with commentary by Richard Minear.

Softcover. Yonkers, NY, Hudson River Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 125 pages, b&w illustrations. Light rubbing to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy. Issued in conjunction with a 1984 exhibition of drawings by Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900). With an essay by Elaine Evans Dee and foreword by Rick Beard. The annotated and illustrated catalogue presents 107 works. This is the only publication that examines in detail the preparatory studies of this master Hudson River School artist. Shows Church's drawings that were intended to provide preliminary detail for his oil paintings. The extensive notations on the drawings themselves are clear evidence of this intent. This provides a special insight into the processes of artistic creation as employed by one of 19th century American's greatest landscape painters.

Hardcover. Boston, The Atlantic Monthly Press , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 349 pages., profusely illustrated. In the first section, the six sketchbooks that relate to the scholarly essays are reproduced in full and in sequence, exactly as Picasso created them. The images in the second section have been taken from thirty of the finest sketchbooks. The final section is a CATALOGUE RAISONNE, which fully describes all 175 extant sketchbooks and features one image from each. A landmark volume, revealing for the first time the full glory of Picasso's hidden sketchbook masterpieces in over 700 color, duotone, and black-and-white reproductions, representing Picasso's astounding range and diversity. A clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 168 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Fantagraphics's third volume collecting Segar's original Popeye (Thimble Theatre) covers 1932-1934 includes the never-republished extra-large strips set at the Chicago World's Fair and an insightful scholarly essay by Donald Phelps.

Softcover. New York, Tudor Publishing, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 104 pages, 24 color and 76 b&w plates. The first 4 pages, including the paper wrapper, have a crease down the center. Otherwise a very good copy of this scarce book.

Hardcover. NY, Albert & Charles Boni , 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original light gray cloth hardcover with gilt & green lettering on the spine and the front cover. 340 pages, 8 b&w plates including frontis self-portrait. No dust jacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Souvenir Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 124 pages, sixty full-page cartoons in color and a glossary vividly explain the "esoteric, poetic and usually approximate descriptions" found in booksellers' catalogs.

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 89 pages. Front board features reproduction of front cover of artist's original work. Illustrated in color throughout. Dust jacket with light wear. Slight yellowing to edges. Clean inside. Splendid reproduction of works from Kiefer's trip to Norway.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on I. Klein, David Low, Jack Markow, Zim autobiography, The Katzenjammer Kids, Rafael deSoto pulp cover artist, Grim Natwick, others.

Softcover. New York, Harper and Row, 5th pr., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with black and white drawings by Roz Chast. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to paper edges.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages. 100 plates (3 tipped-in color plates), including 37 examples by American artists. Survey of the art of the First World War by Allied artists from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France and the Netherlands, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, lithographs, and posters. Works by Maxfield Parrish, George Luks, George Bellows, Harvey Dunn, Paul Manship, Mahonri Young, William Orpen, C.R.W. Nevinson, James McBey, Paul Nash, G. Spencer Pryse, Edmund Dulac, Wyndham Lewis, Frank Brangwyn, Th.A. Steinlen, and others. Bibliography, p. 285-288. Handsome production, with decorations designed by Frederick W. Goudy and printed by William E. Rudge. Dark green boards with black cloth spine, bright gilt lettering on cover and spine. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover, light corner wear, mild bump to top of rear board.