Art

Hardcover. Boston NY, Bulfinch, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, 83 color plates, 53 duotone plates. Foreword by David Levy. Rivers, one of the original Pop artists on the 1950s art scene, is known for his bold and eclectic style. Inspired by sources as diverse as the impressionists, Napoleon, and Hollywood movies, Rivers' work shows a keen sense of history and an adventurous spirit.

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 10 x 12". 187 pages. 77 b&w, 77 color plates. The major monograph on American modernist Marsden Hartley (1877-1943). In addition to insightful and sensitive text, there is included a chronology, index, list of exhibitions, collections and selected bibliography. Wonderful color plates. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Dark Horse, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages in color. Since making his spooktacular cartoon debut in "The Friendly Ghost," Casper has become one of the most enduring and best-loved characters in the world. Now, in celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of Casper's comics debut, Dark Horse is proud to announce the publication of a special hardcover of not one, but two full-length, complete Casper comic books in sparklingly restored full color! Beginning with Archer St. John's 1949 first issue of Casper the Friendly Ghost, this sixtieth anniversary edition continues with Harvey Comics' premier edition of Casper from 1952. You'll thrill as timid Casper - defying his fellow ghosts' dictum that ghosts must scare people - makes friends with a host of cute kids and furry animals in two tales that will touch your heart and tickle your funny bone!

Hardcover. UK, PS Artbooks, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. Collects February 1952 to January 1953.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 203 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Don Herold. Light wear to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages. Detailed practical advise on becoming your own interior designer. Fully illustrated in color with photographs by Christopher Drake. Clean copy.

Softcover. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 167 pages. Along with cutting-edge art, literature, and jazz music of 1920s Paris, there was also experimental new dance, exemplified by the Ballets Suedois, the "Swedish Ballet." Choreographed almost entirely by Jean Bsrlin but visualized by 32 painters from 11 nationalities, it boasted costumes and backdrops from the likes of Fernand LZger, Gssta Adrian-Nilsson (GAN), Nils Dardel, and Gerald Murphy, with music by Erik Satie and even Cole Porter, in 23 ballets produced during the company's brief, brilliant existence. Illustrated with 78 archival photos and sketches and 67 color reproductions of posters and production paintings, this catalog is as much an art book as it is a dance history, with works seldom seen in over 80 years.

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, 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 issues #16 through #20 of comic book "Adventures Into the Unknown" published by ACG from February to June 1951.

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 174 pages. This catalog, featuring 130 b&w illustrations and 40 color plates cover almost all of Graves major paintings. This is a very nice and clean copy. Dust jacket in good shape and binding tight. Scarce in hardcover.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 453 pages, b&w illustrations. At the turn of the century, an unprecedented attack on women erupted in virtually every aspect of culture: literary, artistic, scientific, and philosophic. Throughout Europe and America, artists and intellectuals banded together to portray women as static and unindividuated beings who functioned solely in a sexual and reproductive capacity, thus formulating many of the anti-feminine platitudes that today still constrain women's potential. BramDijkstra's Idols of Perversity explores the nature and development of turn-of-the-century misogyny in the works of hundreds of writers, artists, and scientists, including Zola, Strindberg, Wedekind,Henry James, Rossetti, Renoir, Moreau, Klimt, Darwin, and Spencer. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Northampton MA, Kitchen Sink, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 110 pages. Collects the daily strips from August 11,1935 - August 1, 1937.

Hardcover. US, Antique Collectors Club Dist, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Throughout the 1960s and 70s John Bates dominated the British fashion scene with a unique brand of style and innovation. No other designer had such a comprehensive influence on what the UK wore.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Takes us away from Sargent's famous society portraits and enters a world of open air studies and landscape paintings. Includes exerpts from Sargent's travel diaries. Light gray cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Beautiful, clean, crisp and tight copy in MINT condition. Looks brand new.

Softcover. Beverly MA, Rockport, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexibound, 312 pages, profusely illustrated in color. Brand Bible is a comprehensive resource on brand design fundamentals. It looks at the influences of modern design going back through time, delivering a short anatomical overview and examines brand treatments and movements in design. You'll learn the steps necessary to develop a successful brand system from defining the brand attributes and assessing the competition, to working with materials and vendors, and all the steps in between. The author, who is the president of the design group at Sterling Brands, has overseen the design/redesign of major brands including Pepsi, Burger King, Tropicana, Kleenex, and many more. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Franklin Bowles Galleries, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog, 128 pages illustrated in color. Features over 150 works of art on paper by the famous Playboy illustrator.

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury USA, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Readers can't get enough of Roz Chast. Together, these cartoons, which originally appeared in The New Yorker, Scientific American, Redbook, and other publications, constitute a spot-on record of our increasingly absurd existence. The book is a powerful reminder of how lucky we are to have Roz Chast among us to tackle some of the toughest themes of the times with uproarious humor: genetically altered mice, birthday parties from hell, and comfort drinks in the age of insecurity.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. 330 illustrations, including 150 plates in full color. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Beautiful pictorial dust jacket. A very clean, tight and crisp copy. Like New.

Softcover. NY, Ten Americans: Masters of Watercolor , 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, the catalogue of an exhibition at the Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, May 16 - June 30, 1974. Features the work of 10 artists: Milton Avery (15 works), Charles Burchfield (14 works), Charles Demuth (20 works), Arthur Dove (15 works), Winslow Homer (14 works), Edward Hopper (16 works), John Marin (19 works), Maurice Prendergast (13 works), John Singer Sargent (14 works), Andrew Wyeth (18 works). With 52 color Illustrations and 106 in black and white. Clean copy.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages. A quarterly anthology of literary comics. Contributors include Eleanor Davis, Ray Fenwick, Paul Hornschemeier, Sophie Crumb, Jonathan Bennett, Tom Kaczynski, others.

Hardcover. New York , Tekhne, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages of text, 292 plates, almost all in b&w, some color. Blue cloth covers with gilt design. INSCRIBED BY ARCIPENKO on the page following the title. One page has been carefully excised and laid back in (plate #33-35). Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 525 pages, b&w illustrations. The first full-length biography of one of the fathers of American art. Light green cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover. Blue pictorial dust jacket with minor wear to spine and edges. Overall a very nice, clean copy.

Hardcover. Petaluma CA, Cameron, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 176 pages in color. Beginning in the late 1960s, graphic artist David Edward Byrd pioneered the iconic visual styles that have come to define rock 'n' roll graphics. Byrd created poster, concert, and album art for Jimi Hendrix, the Who, Lou Reed, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, Traffic, Van Halen, the Grateful Dead, the 1969 Woodstock Festival, and KISS, among others. In fact, the 1968 poster that Byrd created for the Jimi Hendrix Experience was voted #8 in the Top 25 Rock Posters by Billboard. Beyond this, he created the iconic imagery for many Broadway shows, including Follies, Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar, Little Shop of Horrors, and more. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated. The cartoonist's first book is rich with his portrayal of people's foibles, goofs, and misinterpretations, as seen originally in the New Yorker, Playboy, and Punch. Introduction bu Whitney Balliett. Dust jacket with small tape repair, price-clipped.

Softcover. US, Top Shelf Productions, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 285 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. As the NATO bombs fell on his hometown of Pancevo in 1999, Serbian cartoonist Aleksandar Zograf used his diary comics and e-mail to reach out to the world and offer a glimpse at the effects of the attacks. Over the weeks and months of the war, Zograf documented not only how the bombings shattered the lives of his friends and neighbors, but also how the routine of daily life remained unchanged. The most recent attacks on Pancevo's oil refinery are contrasted with the latest local soccer matches -- and American propaganda flyers are as likely to fall from the sky as American comics are to arrive in the mail.

Hardcover. The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 261 pages illustrated throughout in b&w. Pictorial boards with black title to spine. Tan dust jacket, with light wear to edges and small closed tears to front cover, else a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. B&w cartoons about life in 60's suburbia first published in the Saturday Evening Post.

Softcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, approx. 64 pages. Color illustrated wrappers, stapled. B&w cartoons by Dunn illustrating a collection of some of the world's worst jokes - the 'knock-knocks'. Nice condition, paper has tanned and is brittle. Whitman #801.

Hardcover. US, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Lucian Freud, perhaps the world's leading portrait painter, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. Gayford describes the process chronologically, from the day he arrived for the first sitting through to his meeting with the couple who bought the finished painting, and he vividly conveys what it is like to be on the inside of the process of creating a work of art. As Freud completes his portrait of Gayford, so the art critic produces his own portrait of the artist, giving a rare insight into Freud's working practice. Through their wide-ranging conversations, the reader learns not only about Freud's choice of models, lighting, setting, pose, and colors, but also about his likes and dislikes, his encounters and experiences, and the ways in which he approaches his relationship with each portrait subject. Gayford records Freud's observations on the work of Michelangelo, Vermeer, Titian, Chardin, Goya, van Gogh, Mondrian, and his great contemporary Francis Bacon. The book is full of revealing anecdotes about the people Freud has met in the course of his long career, including Max Ernst, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, George Orwell, W. H. Auden, Greta Garbo, and his grandfather Sigmund Freud.

Softcover. Houston, TX, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. 93 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. White stiff wrappers, black/red titles. Light wear to edges and spine, front cover slightly sunned, small tear to spine, else a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 256 pages, Index. Maroon cloth, stamped in gilt. Copiously illustrated with watercolors by Karl Bodmer. Map on endpapers. The Firsthand Account of Prince Maximilian's Expedition Up the Missouri River, 1833-34. Wonderful color plates by Swiss-born Bodmer accompany extracts from Maximilian's text, enhanced by historical background from Thomas and Ronnefeldt. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 7 1/2" x 10 1/2", twenty-four page exhibition catalog is bound in stapled wrappers and is in VG+ condition. B&W reproductions and photographs. Foreword by William S. Lieberman, Curator of Prints for MOMA.

Hardcover. New York , Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 384 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. In the 1940s Joe Simon and Jack Kirby started their partnership and created memorable characters such as Captain America and Sandman. This book includes artwork from Joe Simon's private archive, some of them have never been seen.

Softcover. New York, Coe Kerr Gallery & Wittenborn Art Books,, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout with 65 plates in color and b&w. White pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear and foxing to covers and spine, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, Idea & Design Works, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oversize format, pictorial boards, 157 pages, color throughout. Continuing the Eisner Award-winning series of the rare Archie newspaper strips by Bob Montana, we turn our attention to his remarkable, full-color Sunday pages. Archie''s Sunday Best is the first-ever collection of the late 1940s and early 1950s Sundays. Montana is approaching the peak of his creative juices in these pages, which feature classic Archie themes and characters. The cartoonist draws on the facts, fantasy, feelings, and fun of his own high school days in Haverhill, Massachusetts. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONY.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, The Print Mint, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover First Edition July 1970. .50 cent printed price. (28 pages.) Close to near fine in stapled pictorial printed wrappers. Text mildly toned.

Hardcover. Milan, Artvera's, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover without dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This one-of-a-kind book brings the work of German Expressionist artist Friedrich Karl Gotsch (1900-1984) to a larger, well-deserved audience. Gotsch, whose paintings are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, trained at the Dresden School of Fine Arts in the early 1920s and was inspired by the works of Oskar Kokoschka and Edvard Munch. While his early paintings follow a straightforward Expressionist style, he truly came into his own after World War II, when his work became distinct and easily recognizable: The energy, contrasting primary colors, vivid outlines, and free brushwork combine to produce powerful, spellbinding images. In addition to stunning color reproductions of his work, this book includes essays on Gotsch's art and life, illuminating the artist's creative development and the cultural milieu and influences that inspired him.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 177 pages of text followed by black & white examples of the illustration work of Isaac Cruikshank. Dust jacket worn with small tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art , 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with blue cloth spine. In 1860 James McNeill Whistler and Joanna Hiffernan met and began a significant professional and personal relationship. Hiffernan posed as a model for many of Whistlers works, including his controversial Symphony in White paintings, a trilogy that fascinated and challenged viewers with its complex associations with sex and morality, class and fashion, academic and realist art, Victorian popular fiction, aestheticism and spiritualism. This luxuriously illustrated volume provides the first comprehensive account of Hiffernan's partnership with Whistler throughout the 1860s and 1870s a period when Whistler was forging a reputation as one of the most innovative and influential artists of his generation. A series of essays discusses how Hiffernan and Whistler overturned artistic conventions and sheds light on their interactions with contemporaries, including Gustave Courbet, for whom she also modeled. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Boatner Norton Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Illustrated with black & white examples of works by Robert Crumb - 4 pages in full color.

Hardcover. New York , Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Blue boards stamped in white, in an edgeworn dust jacket. 140 pages of b&w cartoons from the New Yorker.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Clean, bright copy with similar dust jacket. 243 plates, mainly in color, charts. Contains many little-known works of art from the First Fleet landing in New South Wales in 1788, and from the early years of settlement. Chronology, Bibliography. Size: 13 3/4" x 10".

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardccover, pictorial boards, 290 pages in color. In the late 1940s, the first half of the Venus series from Marvel Comics predecessors Timely and Atlas Comics was published as a lighthearted romance comic about the goddess Venus taking a job on Earth at a beauty magazine. Never a company to miss a trend, Atlas began introducing more science fiction elements in the 1950s, and eventually turned Venus' dating adventures into a straight-out horror anthology. Collected here, 70 years later and for the first time ever, is that swift-changing second half of the 19-issue run. Future Marvel stars Bill Everett (seven issues) and Werner Roth (three issues) take Venus to heights of four-color weirdness and pre-Code horror ghastliness. Everett in particular is given free rein and seizes the opportunity: writing, drawing, and lettering twenty ghoulish and goofy masterpieces, including classics like "Hangman's House," "The Day Venus Vanished," "The House of Terror," "The Sealed Spectors," Tidal Wave of Terror," and the phantasmagorical "Cartoonist's Calamity!" These stories showcase the brilliant draftsmanship and storytelling of Everett, one of the giants of the 1940s and '50's comic book industry. His slick, fluid line rendered at Timely/Atlas, from his seminal god-child Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, to the atomic age Marvel Boy, is some of the finest pre-Code horror this side of E.C.'s Graham Ingels. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Frank Tousey, 1st, 1906, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Stapled wraps in color, worn, chipping, short tears to margins of cover but not affecting image. Cover art is bright. Owner's name written in ink above masthead. 30 pages, cheap pulp paper. Offered for cover art.

Softcover. Milan, Skira, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 217 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. In publisher's shrinkwrap. A tribute to the world renowned phenomenon of Made in Italy on the occasion of two memorable dates: the fiftieth anniversary of the first Italian fashion show (Florence, 1951) and the fortieth anniversary of the International Furniture Show (Milan, 1961). The book, devoted to fifty years of Italian fashion and design, examines the complex mosaic of Made in Italy divided into different aspects and themes.

Softcover. New York, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center/NYU, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with full color and black & white examples of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Light toning to edges. Gallery sheet with biographical information and list of other objects by Tiffany laid in. Clean, unmarked copy. Uncommon.

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st thus, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 214 pages, b&w illustrations. In this volume Rocco Sinisgalli presents a new English translation and critical examination of Alberti's seminal text. Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most important humanist scholars of the Italian Renaissance. Active in mid-fifteenth-century Florence, he was an architect, theorist, and author of texts on perspective and painting. Alberti's On Painting is a cardinal work that revolutionized Western art. In this volume, Sinisgalli reverses the received understanding of the relationship between the Italian and Latin versions of Alberti's treatise by demonstrating that Alberti wrote it first in Italian and then translated it into a polished Latin over the course of several decades. This volume is richly illustrated to help demonstrate how Alberti understood optics and art.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill Company, 1st, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with green cloth covers and gilt lettering. Color illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy throughout. Heavy stock pages, gutter cracked in several places. Glue repair abrasion on first chapter. Cover boards clean with minimal wear.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 203 pages, approximately 200 color plates. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st English, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 527 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name and brief inscription on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Peter Pauper Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Small hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A lovely little book containing poems and short essays about nature. Beautiful woodcuts in color by Eric Carle. One of the award-winning children's illustrator's early books. small ownership stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.