Art

Hardcover. London, Methuen, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 256 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Ernest Howard Shepard was an English artist and book illustrator, best remembered for his charming illustrations of the beloved anthropomorphic animals in The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh. This fascinating study of Shepard, detailing his childhood, education and artistic development, is richly illustrated throughout with his works. Clean copy.

Softcover. Koln GR, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 'Z' on front white card wrappers. Fotos: Otto Nelson & Frank Oleski. 9 illustrations in color. Christiaan Karel Appel (1921- 2006) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. Clean copy.

Softcover. US, Poster Auctions International, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Softcover. Color pictures throughout. Light edgewear to wrappers.

Softcover. Evansville, Evansville Museum of Arts & Science, First Edition, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Softcover SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY ARTIST to title page. Bright illustration to covers with french flaps, published to accompany the exhibition of the same title held at the Evansville Museum of Arts & Science, Evansville, Indiana, April 22 - May 27, 1990 among other touring locations.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 200 pages. Meticulously and lovingly restored, this Eisner Award-nominated series showcases one of the most renowned and celebrated comic strips in the art form's history. This exquisite, generously sized volume finishes up the 1920s collecting the acclaimed and groundbreaking Krazy Kat Sunday strips in an archival hardcover edition. Volume 5 in the series. Mostly b&w, some color. A bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Kodansha International, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 128 pages. Examines two Japanese artists' series of paintings which portray the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima. Illustrated in color and b&w. INSCRIBED BY JUNKERMAN, one of the editors, on the title-page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color comics in center. Celebrating the best in graphic storytelling and literary comics, a diverse collection, guest edited by the award-winning author of The Quitter and American Splendor, features excerpts from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the Web, from Robert Crumb, Chris Ware, Kim Deitch, Jaime Hernandez, Alison Bechdel, Joe Sacco, and others.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2003, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 102 pages. Dust jacket price-clipped. "The New Yorker" takes a second look at our most loved childhood stories and rhymes. Edited by Bobby Goldstein. Nice copy.

Softcover. Milano, Edizioni di Vanni Scheiwiller, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog, unpaginated (122 pages). Text in Italian, English, Spanish. Many b&w photos of the sculptor's work. Clean copy.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 2nd pr., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 126 pages .Continues the multi-volume series comprising the complete works of the legendary cartoonist, one of America's most original, trenchant, and uncompromising satirists. This volume features work from 1976 and 1977. Some color, mostly b&w. Clean, bright copy

Softcover. West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. 26 color plates, 60 b&w illustrations. Softcover with light edgewear on wrappers. Published in conjunction with a major retrospective exhibition (opening at National Gallery of Art, Washington, in June 2012, then travelling to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in November 2012, before moving to Royal Academy of Arts.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes: Volume I, Copley in America, 244 pages. Volume II, Copley in England, 472 pages. Brown and blue cloth covers with gilt lettering to front and spine, blue slip case with b&w illustration, previous owner's pencil inscriptions to front endpapers of both volumes. 334 b&w plates to volume I, 334 b&w plates to volume II. Light wear to slip case and edges of covers; overall both volumes are clean, tight copies.

Softcover. Boston, Pucker Gallery, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 24 pages illustrated in color. A selection of the Nova Scotia artist's ceramic work, mostly beautifully designed vases. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, NBM Publishing, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 129 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Russell. In this volume, Russell's classic adaptations of Richard Wagner's Parsifal from the legend of the Holy Grail, Ariane & Bluebeard by Maeterlinck and Dukas, "The Clowns" taken from I Pagliacci by Leoncavallo, as well as two songs by Mahler: "The Drinking Song of Earth's Sorrow" and "Unto This World." Clean copy.

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. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 366 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Blue cloth cover with small gilt illustration embossed to front, gilt lettering embossed to front and spine, 270 b&w plates, appendix of supplemental b&w plates of art pieces described in collection. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper, 2 small squares of tape residue to opposite endpaper, light foxing evident of front and rear endpapers, light wear to cover. This extensive catalog is one of the finest for the study of colonial and early American furniture, painting, and the decorative of arts of the period of 1720-1820.This beautifully printed volume, set in Monotype Bembo and with full-tone collotype illustrations, established a high visual standard for furniture catalogs.

Softcover. Copenhagen, Court Gallery, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages illustrated in b&w.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From its first issue in April, 1970, the National Lampoon blazed like a comet, defining comedy as we know it today. To create Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, former Lampoon illustrator Rick Meyerowitz selected the funniest material from the magazine and sought out the survivors of its first electrifying decade to gather their most revealing and outrageous stories. The result is a mind-boggling tour through the early days of an institution whose alumni left their fingerprints all over popular culture: Animal House, Caddyshack, Saturday Night Live, Ghostbusters, SCTV, Spinal Tap, In Living Color, Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons--even Sesame Street counts a few Lampooners among its ranks. 320 pages, mostly color.

Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Over 100 of Diane Arbus' early photographs in black and white. Tight copy. Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most distinctive and provocative artists of the twentieth century. Her photographs of children and eccentrics, couples and circus performers, female impersonators and nudists, are among the most recognizable images of our time. This book is the definitive study of the artist's first seven years of work, from 1956 to 1962. Drawn primarily from the rich holdings of the Metropolitan Museum's Diane Arbus Archive--a remarkable treasury of photographs, negatives, appointment books, notebooks, and correspondence--it is an essential contribution to our understanding of Arbus and her oeuvre.

Hardcover. CA, Twelvetrees Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Original tan linen cloth hardcover in near fine condition and near fine slipcase. Unpaginated. There are 31 pages of color illustrations printed one side only with a blank page interleaved between the latter. Illustrated here are Brice's drawings on four by six inch index cards. The volume reproduces his original sketchbook, each card is sequenced and mounted on the page as they appear in the artist's original sketchbook. these were used to visualize and experiment with compositional elements for his large-scale paintings.

Softcover. Hamilton NJ, Grounds for Sculpture, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages, profusely illustrated in color. Essay by Michael Brenson. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cape Town, Planet Paul, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 318 pages including appendix. A celebration of the South African artist Paul du Toit who died of cancer in 2014. Clean, bright copy illustrated in color.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a b&w cartoon featuring the Toonerville Trolley gang. Blue cloth spine. Clean and sharp. No credits, commentary or date but undoubtedly reprinted from his syndicated strip Toonerville Folks. There is an ink inscription on the front fly leaf dated 1922. In great overall condition, now protected by an acetate dust jacket.

Hardcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A volume of the life and work of Arnold Friberg, includes 50 full-color plates and numerous b&w illustrations. 175 pages. Red cloth bound, some white dots on front and back covers. Well-bound, clean copy. Dust jacket shows signs of rubbing along edges and small tear along the back bottom left corner.

Softcover. NY, Modern Art Foundry, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Stapled softcover exhibition catalog, 16 pages illustrated in color. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Curt Valentin, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 150 pages, 67 illustrations (frontispiece in color). A greatly expanded version of the catalogue published the previous year for the exhibition of Picasso's lithographs from 1945-1947.

Softcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Color photographs throughout. This combination of portraiture, still-life and landscape photography mirrors the eclectic influences and materials which Ghesquiere synthesizes in his collections a bold, unconventional flow whereby innovation unceasingly rejuvenates tradition.

Hardcover. Boston, The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1st, 1973, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in near fine condition with dust jacket in very good condition (minor nicks and wear to back cover and edges). pp. xxv, 294; frontispiece portrait, title-page vignette, and 143 illustrations throughout the text, many full-page.

Hardcover. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages. Illustrated with black & white portraits and paintings. When Peter Paul Rubens died in 1640 he left an indestructible reputation as one of the world's great painters. In every sense Baroque, his paintings have a wonderful fluidity, a powerful sensuality, a beauty and richness of color and texture. His prolific output included some 1,300 paintings (compare this with Leonardo's twenty and Vermeer's thirty-six) as well as books of engravings, architectural drawings, and sketches. He also left a beautiful young wife, a vast personal fortune, a palatial house in Antwerp, and collections of old masters, antiquities, precious stones, and silver work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W.W Norton/Whitney Museum, 7th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Hopper is generally considered the major twentieth-century realist. Such paintings as House by the Railroad, Early Sunday Morning, and Nighthawks seem to embody the very character of our time. Yet few people have penetrated the mask of Hopper's public image. Here, Gail Levin has gone beyond the standard evaluations of the man and his work to investigate the authentic identity of the artist and the way his personality informed his art. She has uncovered aspects of Hopper's life (and even unknown works) that provide the first comprehensive view of the artists early development. The fascinating and often poignant story of Hopper's long struggle for recognition gives new insight into his later pessimism. A complex man is revealed, introspective and intellectual, yet romantic, illuminating the many levels of meaning in the paintings of his maturity. In addition to Hopper's watercolors and oil paintings, there are study drawings for his major works and documentary photographs illuminating all phases of his life. 280 color and 220 black-and-white illustrations.

Softcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Adieu Saigon covers a varied range of imagery from Saigon, where Depardon photographed two wars and, on visits as recent as 2014, the unrecognizable, globalized city now called Ho Chi Minh. Depardon's work bears witness to a city in transition.

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.

Hardcover. Underwood Books, 1st, 2008, Hardcover in a pictorial slipcase. Fantasy art's most popular painter was also one of the most popular comic book illustrators during the industry's golden age. Telling Stories: The Classic Comic Art of Frank Frazetta celebrates the rare and largely forgotten stories created five decades ago by this iconic artist. These jungle adventures, true-life tales of heroism, and dreamy love stories not only exhibit the skill of a master craftsman but also provide tantalizing glimpses of where the young artist's career would ultimately take him. This collection includes his complete Thunda tales and best romance works like "Untamed Love," "Empty Heart," "A Love of My Own," "The Wrong Road," and "Too Late for Love." These romance stories, often overlooked, feature some of Frazetta's finest works with shapely women, nude statues, and implied sensuality. Also featured are his heroic works such as Heroic Comics, White Indian, and the long-running series ME, alongside Squeeze Play, his one and only solo-drawn story for EC. Additionally, there are rare SF stories such as Captain Comet and Judy of the Jungle, along with his best and most obscure late 1940s works. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Clover Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 11 X 14". Volume 2 of this landmark series-reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs-features the iconic 1936 daily and Sunday adventures, which continue their separate paths until the end of August when the stories-and cast of characters-are happily united once and for all.In the Sunday Saga, Pat and Cap'n Blaze have it out across a checker board! Then things get really hot when the Dragon Lady and her men lay siege to Blaze's encampment! A twist of fate puts Pat in charge of the Dragon Lady's forces, but they're mistaken for soldier-of-fortune pirates when the Chinese Army storms their position. It takes timely intervention from a surprising source to gain their freedom.Meanwhile, in the Daily Saga, fists fly when Terry, Connie, and Pat are taken prisoner by the insidious Captain Judas-and sparks fly when the boys have their first meeting with beautiful, blonde Burma! The famous strips from March 16-21 steamed up the national audience and became one of the most imitated sequences in comic strip history. Later, cat claws are unsheathed against the backdrop of plague on the planation run by Stan and Wendy Wingate, Burma takes a dive, and with the daily and Sunday strips integrated into a unified storyline the boys once again confront the Dragon Lady before running afoul (accent on the foul!) of Papa Pyzon.

Softcover. London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrapper edges. 90 color plates, 10 black and white illustrations. This definitive and lavishly illustrated biography is the first to trace Kauffer's life and showcase his best work-posters, book illustrations, and theater designs.

Softcover. London, The Trustees of the British Museum / British Museum Press Ltd., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 brilliant pages, laden with illustrations of Assyrian art and artifacts from The British Museum collection. 215 color and 33 black and white illustrations in addition to one map. Beautiful full-color cover with minor wear at corners only. Illustrated title page and half-title page. Crisp text pairs nicely with this rich visual collection. In very good condition overall.

Softcover. Cincinnati OH, North Light Books, 6th pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, color illustrations throughout. In 17 projects, this book details literally every component of drawing the figure -- from choosing materials to creating a setting. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Pictorial boards with die-cut window and front mechanism very good. Still in publisher shrinkwrap. introduction by Adam Gopnik. Goldberg (1883 - 1970) was the most famous cartoonist of his time, best known for his comical inventions, which were syndicated in daily newspapers throughout the world. Author Jennifer George celebrates all aspects of her grandfather's career, from his very first published drawings in his high school newspaper and college yearbook to his iconic inventions, his comic strips and advertising work, and his later sculpture and Pulitzer Prize - winning political cartoons. Also included are essays by noted comics historians, rare photographs, letters, memorabilia, and patents, many reproduced here for the first time.

Newport Beach CA, The Newporter Resort, 1986, Book: Very Good, Boating view #2. McMullan's painting gives one the sense of experiencing boating and sailing on the bay. A bayside, modern adobe-style resort in the background. Image size: 6" X 7", watercolor on texture white paper, signed. Unpublished.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth covers, large color-illustrated label pasted to front cover, profusely illustrated with color and b&w plates, top edge gilt. Slight rubbing and edgewear to covers, cloth lightly faded at edges, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, André Emmerich Gallery, 1st, 1990, Softcover with deckle fore-edge. Oblong format. 12 full page images in color printed on rectos only, captions on versos. Exhibition April 26 - May 19, 1990 of 14 works (two of which were not illustrated). Laid in is a price list with works sold. Clean copy.

NY, Hat & Beard Press, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 9 X 12", 196 pages. Beckman mixes her rare, early b&w photos of graffiti artists with splashes of color by celebrated urban artists. This unique collaboration creates an exciting expression of original hip-hop culture. SIGNED BY BECKMAN WITH A SKETCH OF A CAMERA on title page. Very scarce in a small printing.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Studio, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap, though part of shrink-wrap is slightly torn. A collection of photographs taken in Memphis brings to life the legends of blues, jazz, rock and roll, and soul, including W.C. Handy, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, and others.

Softcover. Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog, 216 pages. Color and B&W plates and photographs throughout. Some light soiling to wrapper. Otherwise a clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. London/NY, Chelsea House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 274 pages. 378 illustrations, including many hand-mounted color plates. Catalogue raisonne of drawings and prints from 1958 to 1960. Folio. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. A very clean, crisp and attractive copy in excellent condition. Small ownership sticker on front fly leaf. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace And Company , reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. 424 pages, 10 tipped-in color plates & 48 double-sided b/w plates. index. This book is an attempt to tell the story of modern French painting as developed by the Impressionists and subsequent adventurers in the last hundred years in Paris. No date, most likely early 1950s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams Inc, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean copy with only minor edgewear. Some slight soiling to dust jacket edges. More than 150 illustrations, including reproductions of masterworks spanning the artist's entire career, accompany five critical essays that reveal Remington's complexity and brilliance.

Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog. 92 pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout. White pictorial front cover with slight wear to spine an soiling to covers. Frontispiece. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth, 143 pages, color frontis., b&w plates. A pioneering exhibition, with essay and catalogue by James Thrall Soby and Dorothy C. Miller. The exhibition checklist cites 213 works by 121 artists, and nearly all are names you would recognize. More than 100 pieces are pictured here. One of 7500 copies. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 208 pages, 46 four-color plates, and 100+ b&w reproductions. The first fully illlustrated major study of the artist, considered one of the greatest painters of the American scene. Burchfield (1893-1967) 'painted 'the haunting lights and shadows of small-town America. He evolved 'quite alone anmd independently' in Ohio and New York, painting nostalgic fantasies, dreary small-town life; fanciful & poetic landscapes. Clean copy.