Art

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers with mild soil, illustrated throughout in b&w and color. An early title by the famous illustrator featuring satirical cartoons combined with photographic collage. Clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Bologna, Italy, Damiani, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, White cloth covers with gilt lettering and color picture on front. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Holy Works is the culmination of Andres Serrano's vision of Christian iconography, reinterpreted photographically for the present. Serrano's intention with these works is not to recreate specific medieval or renaissance religious paintings, nor to invest them with the iconoclasm that made his name in the 1980s, but rather to renew the genre of sacred portraiture: "Rather than destroy sacred icons," says the artist, "I reinvent and reinforce them." Serrano's subjects for this series are selected from among his friends and acquaintances, emphasizing (like Caravaggio before him) the ordinariness of human features. The genres and themes are familiar, and Holy Works includes a "Last Supper" and a "Stations of the Cross" (rendered as a triptych panel), as well as bolder portrayals typical of Serrano--a "Blood Madonna" and a "Chinoise Madonna," for example. This volume is Serrano's major statement of his religious and artistic belief.

Hardcover. New York, Applause, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 343 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings (one section in full color). Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 167 pages. Over 100 etchings, woodcuts, lithographs, and serigraphs by New Mexicans or relating to New Mexico, are accompanied by a review of the art over the past century. Clean copy.

Softcover. New Haven / Washington DC, Yale University Art Gallery/National Gallery of Art, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcver, pictorial wraps, 312 pages. This is the catalog for an exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery, 1984, consisting of 43 folding screens designed by European and American artists from about 1870 to the present were on view. The exhibition was organized by Michael Komanecky of Yale University and by Virginia Butera. Mild sunning to edges of wrappers otherwise clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics Books, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages. Softcover. Extensive color and b&w illustrations by R. Crumb throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. New York, DIA/Merrell, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Illustrated in full color. A bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, MFA Publications , 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages in color and b&w Barbra Streisand, Natalie Wood, Arlene Francis, Diahann Carroll, Joan Rivers, Mamie Eisenhower, Barbara Bush, Louise Nevelson... What these women have in common is that all were dressed by Scaasi. From his meteoric rise on Seventh Avenue in the late 1950s through his heyday in the boom decade of the 1980s, Arnold Scaasi has remained one of the most distinctive and successful designers in American fashion. With his signature combination of elegance, flamboyance, surprising colors and fabrics, and finely honed craftsmanship, Scaasi is both a bold American original and a couturier in the grand European tradition. Arnold Scaasi: American Couturier presents the best of Scaasi's fashions in a handsomely packaged, fluidly organized volume. Alongside sumptuous portraits of more than three dozen outfits, the book features numerous period photographs; sketches, notes and clippings from Scaasi's personal archives, most of them never before published; and interviews with Scaasi's famous clients, such as Joan Rivers, Mary Tyler Moore and Diahann Carroll, conducted specifically for this volume. A feast for fashion watchers and design aficionados alike, American Couturier contains all the glamour and thrill that for decades have been synonymous with the Scaasi label. Clean copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. Chicago, Bijou Publishing Empire, 2nd pr., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages with semi-glossy color covers, and b/w interior. Cover by Robert Crumb. Stories and art by Robert Crumb, Jay Lynch, Justin Green, and Skip Williamson. Saddle-stapled wraps. Light shelfwear.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Design, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color photographs throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A stunning anthology of the work of visionary stylist Lori Goldstein, whose interpretations of fashion and beauty have produced some of the most groundbreaking and iconic images in fashion and popular culture.Lori Goldstein: Style Is Instinct publishes for the first time in book form the work of one of the world's most highly regarded stylists. With a foreword by Steven Meisel, it features more than eighty astounding images that she created in collaboration with the world's finest photographers--including Annie Leibovitz, Mario Testino, Bruce Weber, Meisel, and many others--for fashion editorials, renowned advertising campaigns, and award-winning music videos. This striking volume captures Goldstein's personal credo, which has come to define her work--"everything goes with anything"--and displays her signature style, from her unique way of mixing and matching print and color to how she uses clothes to create images that go beyond glamour to the metaphysical, spiritual, and natural worlds.Four distinctive chapters--"The Sickness," "The Divine," "Harmonious Discord," and "Pop"--present these imaginative realms in alluring visual detail, accompanied by numerous personal anecdotes that provide insight into Goldstein's process of styling and her creative power, as well as the worlds of fashion, celebrity, and advertising. They highlight her talent for pushing beyond the edge of convention to create moments of individuality that transcend the norm as well as influence and transform our views on fashion, beauty, and popular culture. The publication of this extraordinary collection is a landmark in fashion and image making.

Softcover. Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 383 pages. Softcover. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Covers show light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.Essays by various art historians in the field.

Softcover. Southampton, NY, The Parrish Art Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Tan covers with little wear; only a few minor scratches and marks. Spine is faded and creased. Clean and crisp pages with descriptions of artists along with reproductions of their work. Catalogue of a traveling exhibition, with 65 works by Chase, Duveneck, Ferris, Gifford, Monks, the Moran family, Parrish, Platt, Weir, Whistler, and many more artists. Extensively documented. 62 pages.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 52 pages including semi-glossy color covers and b/w interior. Saddle-stapled wraps, 75 cent cover price. Fat Freddy's Cat first appeared in "underground comix" in 1969 in various underground newspapers, usually under Shelton's Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic strip. This is one of the five small collections of those strips. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. London, Tate Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 224 pages, b&w illustrations. Provides new Latin American-centric scholarship, not only about surrealism's impact on the region but also about the region's impact on surrealism. It reconsiders the relation between art and anthropology, casts new light on the aesthetics of 'primitivism,' and makes a strong case for Latin American artists and writers as the inheritors of a movement that effectively went underground after World War II.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Part III of Pope-Hennessy's Introduction to Italian Sculpture. 3 Volumes - Plate Volume - non-paginated. Illustrated with black & white plates. Bump at top of spine. Dust jacket age darkened, wear along edges. Clean, tight copy. Text Volume - 126 pages. Black & white illustrations. Bottom right corner bumped. Dust jacket age darkened, wear along edges. Clean, tight copy. Catalogue Volume - 183 pages. Dust jacket age darkened, wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Da Capo Press, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 449 pages, b&w illustrations. Man Ray was the quintessential modernist figure - painter, sculptor, photographer, filmmaker, poet, and philosopher. One of the most fascinating of the Surrealists who transformed the Paris art world during the 1920s, Man Ray was an enigma - a Dadaist who revered the Old Masters, an anarchist pursued by wealthy patrons. Driven to make his mark in as many art forms as possible, he struggled bitterly to win acceptance as a painter even as his skill as a photographer brought him world wide fame. Remainder line to bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Softcover. San Francisco, San Francisco Comic Book Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Color pictorial covers, pages. Robert Crumb cover. 50 cents cover price. Art by Rory Hayes, Willy Murphy, Iim Osborne, S. Clay Wilson, Jay Lynch, Trina, Justin Green, Rory Hayes, Joel Beck, Kim Deitch, Robert Williams, Back cover has some paper loss to image

Hardcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Cartoonist Winsor McCay (1869-1934) is rightfully celebrated for the skillful draftmanship and inventive design sense he displayed in the comic strips Little Nemo in Slumberland and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. McCay crafted narratives of anticipation, abundance, and unfulfilled longing. This book explores McCay's interest in dream imagery in relation to the larger preoccupation with fantasy that dominated the popular culture of early twentieth-century urban America.McCay's role as a pioneer of early comics has been documented; yet, no existing study approaches him and his work from an art historical perspective, giving close readings of individual artworks while situating his output within the larger visual culture and the rise of modernism. From circus posters and vaudeville skits to department store window displays and amusement park rides, McCay found fantastical inspiration in New York City's burgeoning entertainment and retail districts. Wide Awake in Slumberland connects McCay's work to relevant children's literature, advertising, architecture, and motion pictures in order to demonstrate the artist's sophisticated blending and remixing of multiple forms from mass culture. Studying this interconnection in McCay's work and, by extension, the work of other early twentieth-century cartoonists, Roeder traces the web of relationships connecting fantasy, leisure, and consumption. Readings of McCay's drawings and the eighty-one black and white and color illustrations reveal a man who was both a ready participant and an incisive critic of the rising culture of fantasy and consumerism.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 146 pages of text followed by large section of black & white photographic illustrations. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Dust jacket worn, with chipping along edges, fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Boston, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 116 pages, 68 color, 14 b&w plates. Indochina Arts Project of the William Joiner Foundation. Essays by Quach Van Phong. Tran Viet Son, Lucy R Lippard and David Kunzle. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London/NY, John Lane/ Harper & Brothers, 1st UK, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with embossed rules, gilt decoration and lettering. The letter code D-D appears on copyright page, probable first English edition. B&w halftones throughout, 306 pages plus additional pages with index, synoptic tables. Small signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Well preserved copy.

Softcover. Santa Monica, CA, Smart Art Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog. 34 items. Published for an exhibition of Burroughs' paintings from 1987 to 1996. Text and art by Burroughs, with color and B/W reproductions. Additional texts by Timothy Leary and Benjamin Weissman. No hardback issued. A scarce Burroughs title, in mint condition. 52 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor to wrappers.

Softcover. Hartford, Blue Star, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Softcover. Measures: 15" H X 11" W. Black & white illustrations by Jeff Jones. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Adults only. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black & white illustrations throughout on every page. 11" high X 8" wide, 448 pages. The perfect tribute to the world's favorite dirty old man. It spans the years 1982 to 1989, a period when the artist was comfortably ensconced in rural California, raising his young daughter Sophie, who appears throughout this volume. But Crumb was still Crumb, declaring in one drawing, above a lovingly rendered tree, "As I get older I get more twisted, convoluted, depraved, cynical, embittered, self-centered, jaded, debauched, ruthless, greedy, conceited, set-in-my-ways, long-winded, absent-minded, prejudiced, closed-minded, misanthropic, nervous..." To prove this self-flagellating analysis he fills the pages with his signature perversions (in country settings), scathing social commentary, cruel self-portraits, experimental cubism... and some lovely sylvan landscape. His mastery of the Rapidograph pen is at its zenith here in his 40s, Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. NY, Heavy Metal, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, color and b&w illustrations by Moebius. mild soil, rubbing to covers. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Softcover. US, Kitchen Sink Pr (Nrt), reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white comics throughout.

Hardcover. Leicestershire, England, Matador, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 262 Pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise, clean, tight copy. Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Villard Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong 6-5/8 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in color pictorial white boards. [140] unnumbered pages, with full-page illustrations of Edward Koren's cartoons. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Heavy Metal, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 96 pages, illustrated throughout by Moebius. 'Featuring "The Black Incal", "The Incal's Ball", "The Honorable Major Orphodite", "Ah Those Technical Technos", "Meta Baron", "Moebius: His Art", "The White Nightmare", "One of 4,070 Variations on 'The' Theme", "A Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That", "An Adventure of John Watercolor", "Wounded Knee", "The Detour", and "Afloat".' This Heavy Metal special brings together many pages of Moebius comics in one volume, featuring a introduction by Federico Fellini. Page 3 has some small notations at top of page otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York , Poster Auctions International, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Softcover. Color pictures throughout. Light edgewear to wrappers.

Hardcover. London, Jupiter Books, First Edition, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 31 pages text followed by 130 plates. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Frontis photograph of the artist, L. S. Lowry, Stockport, Winter 1962. Full page, full color & bw plates throughout. Dust jacket with wear & toning to edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Tall vertically oblong folio (14 1/2" ) board book. Speigelman addresses his personal experiences in New York during the attack on the twin towers as he, his wife and daughter walked in New York. He decided on this large format, almost elephant folio sized, board book in his unique graphic illustrated style. A unique attempt at coming to grips with the tragic and frightening events of nine eleven. DUE TO SIZE, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Grand Avenues tells the riveting story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant and the creation of Washington D.C.--from the seeds of his inspiration to the fulfillment of his extraordinary vision.L'Enfant's story is one of consuming passion, high emotion, artistic genius, and human frailty. As a boy he studied drawing at the most prestigious art institute in the world. As a young man he left his home in Paris to volunteer in the army of the American colonies, where he served under George Washington. There he would also meet many of the people who would have a profound impact on his life, including Alexander Hamilton and James Monroe. And it was Washington himself who, in 1791, entrusted L'Enfant with the planning of the nation's capital--and reluctantly allowed him to be dismissed from the project eleven months later. The plan for the city was published under another name, and for the remainder of his life L'Enfant fought for recognition of his achievement. But he would not live to see that day, and a century would pass before L'Enfant would be given credit for his brilliant design. Scott W. Berg recounts this tale, richly evocative of time and place, with the narrative verve of a novel and with a cast of characters that ranges from Thomas Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers to the surveyor who took credit for L'Enfant's plans, the assistant who spent a week in jail for his loyalty to L'Enfant, and the men who finally restored L'Enfant's reputation at the beginning of the twentienth century.

Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Softcvoer, Light edgewear to wrappers. Color and Black and white comics throughout. Trailing the success of the movie based on Clowes' graphic novel Ghost World (1997) comes this collection of shorter stories from his alternative comic book Eightball. Many of the pieces are tirades, albeit entertaining ones, about things Clowes despises (perhaps the comic should have been called Hateball). "On Sports" details his contempt for professional athletics, and "Art School Confidential" is an expose of pretentious, talentless poseurs. This approach is carried to its logical peak in "I Hate You Deeply," a litany of the "types" that annoy Clowes, from "fashion plates" to "crybabies, whiners, and sensitive people." Clowes puts his misanthropy in abeyance for slice-of-life stories in which he ruminates during a stroll around his neighborhood or fantasizes about his fellow passengers on a subway. Worthwhile enough, these earlier stories merely presage Clowes' far-more-impressive recent work in which cynicism is presented more subtly, leavened with sympathy, and voiced by well-developed characters. If these pieces lack the heft of Clowes' longer, more ambitious efforts, the best of them are still masterful miniatures.

Hardcover. London, William Heinemann , 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Green cloth, gilt lettering and design. Slightly darkened spine, minor spotting. Minor foxing to first few pages. 50 black & white caricatures.

Softcover. NY, Stephen Haller Gallery, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages, 12 color plates of the artist's paintings. Essay by Joyce B. Korotkin. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London , Bell & Daldy, reprint, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in 3/4 polished leather with marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering, raised bands. Engraved title and twelve full-page engraved plates and 116 engravings on wood by Cruikshank. 277 pages, humorous essays and commentary throughout by various writers. Reprint of the 1845 Edition.

Hardcover. Univ of Georgia Georgia Museum, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 360 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., & Da Capo Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Biography of painter Gilbert Stuart. Contains 7 black/white illustrations; 6 are reproductions of Stuart's work, and one is a portrait of the artists himself. Very good condition; brown cloth with gilt lettering, corner of the back cover bumped. This edition is an unabridged republication of the first edition published in Cambridged, Massachusetts, in 1932. It is reprinted by arrangement with Harvard University Press.

Softcover. NY, Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages with color illustrations. Introduction by Carter Ratcliff. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Over 400 pages of original art collected over 50 years. In the mid-sixties, Glenn Bray was a kid with a lot of money -- his family owned a very successful hardware store chain -- and an appreciation for obscure art that was prescient to the point of being visionary; he was a fanboy-turned-tastemaker who elevated his private collecting into something that would influence the evolution of the comic medium. He became a loyal and passionate patron of artists who went largely ignored, like some mellow, SoCal Medici. It seems crazy today, but original comic art pages were still considered 'by-products' of printing and publication when Bray began purchasing the black-&-white illustration-boards from EC greats like Wolverton, Kurtzman, Davis, Feldstein, Wood and Elder. More importantly, his original art purchases and private commissions were key in fostering the careers of unknown artists in his own age bracket, particularly now legendary Underground greats like R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Robert Williams, Rick Griffin, and Gilbert Shelton. With a collection of original comic art and illustration spanning 6 decades, Bray has become vital to the work of establishing the official histories of comic art.

Hardcover. Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Study of American artists influenced by Dada and their relationship with American avant-garde. 283 pages, 94 black/white illustrations. Cloth bound book in near fine condition, only sign of wear is slight discoloration to the top edges of pages (light spotting), not visible when reading the book.

Softcover. Ketchum, Idaho, Computer Lab, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages illustrated in b&w.

Hardcover. Leipzig, E.A. Seemann, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 132 pages of German text followed by 264 b&w plates. A catalog of nature studies by the artist, mostly botanical. Cclean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 170 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Many color illustrations throughout. Jasper Johns most popular works spanning 1950 through 1960. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The definitive study of the painter.

Softcover. Bennington VT, North Bennington Indepent Artists Space, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 16 pages, 5 color plates. Essay by Ron Morosan. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Andy Warhol (1928-1987) remains an icon of the 20th century and a leading figure in the Pop Art movement. He also was an obsessive collector of things large and small, ordinary and quirky. Since 1994, The Andy Warhol Museum has studied and safeguarded the artist's archive encompassing hundreds of thousands of these objects, at turns strange, amusing, and poignant. From this array, many of these items have been researched and described in this book for the first time. For the myriad fans of Warhol and his quixotic world, as well as those who never understood the artist before, this volume is essential and unforgettable. Written by Matt Wrbican, the foremost authority on Warhol's personal collection, A is for Archive features curated selections from this collection, shedding light on the artist's work and motivations, as well as on his personality and private life. The volume is organized alphabetically, honoring Warhol's own use of a whimsical alphabetical structure: "A is for Autograph" (a selection of signed objects, many of which influenced his most popular works), "F is for Fashion" (featuring his collections of cowboy boots, neckties, and jackets), "S is for Stamp" (works of art by Warhol and others relating to stamps and mailed items), and "Z is for Zombie" (a grouping of photographs and ephemera of Warhol in various disguises: drag, robot, zombie, clown). The book also features an insightful essay by renowned art critic and Warhol biographer Blake Gopnik.

Hardcover. New York, Cupples & Leon, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Publisher's cloth-backed boards illustrated in color, 86 pages of b&w cartoons reprinted from the New York Herald Tribune, most dated 1927. Light use to edges of boards; tight and sound, no markings.