Hardcover. New York, W W Norton , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. Hardcover with clear plastic dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Universe / Vendome, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A illustrated survey of the career and influence of a master of design showcases some of his most famous and influential works, including the Coca-Cola bottle and truck, the package for Lucky Strike cigarettes, and the Studebaker automobile.Clean copy.
Hardcover. Middletown Conn. , Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 283 pages, 94 black/white illustrations. Study of American artists influenced by Dada and their relationship with American avant-garde. Orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket shows light wear and rubbing along edges and faded spine, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
Softcover. Idea & Design Works/ IDW, 1st thus, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers. EC Comics, under the guidance of publisher Bill Gaines, was--according to the editor of this collection--the greatest line of comics ever done. This once-in-a-lifetime Artist's Edition collects more than 140 EC covers by their best and brightest talents. The luminaries included in this gigantic (12 x 8 inches!) tome include-Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, Graham Ingels, Al Williamson, Johnny Craig, Frank Frazetta, Jack Davis, Al Feldstein, and more! Each cover in this collection has been scanned from the original art. While appearing to be in black and white, these images were scanned in COLOR, enabling the reader to see all the subtle nuances that make original art unique. Blue pencil notations, zip-a-tone, Duoshade, whiteout-all of these and more are clearly visible.
Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, 106 bw repros. Essay by John Wilmerding. Catalog, prepared by Elaine Evans Dee, lists 106 works. Includes Drawings, Oils, Etching and Wood Engraving. The vast majority of these drawings were found in Homer's studio after his death and given to the Cooper-Hewitt.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 336 pages. An exploration of the ways in which some of the most influential artists of the 19th and 20th centuries used photography in their painting and sculpture. Paintings, sculpture and photographs by such artists as Bonnard, Degas, Gauguin, Moreau, Munch, Picasso and Rosso are discussed and reproduced. Illustrated in color and B/W, index. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Neshannock PA, Hermes Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color throughout.
Hardcover. Munich, Hirmer Publishers, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 288 pages. Oscar Munoz: Invisibilia is Colombian artist Oscar Munoz's first retrospective in the United States. Addressing the entire span of Munoz's career--from the 1970s to 2020--this exhibition catalog is the most substantive book on Oscar Munoz's work in English to date. Invisibilia includes artworks ranging from Munoz's early charcoal drawings to his later conceptual photographic, video, and installation works. The bilingual catalog includes essays in both Spanish and English from a diverse cadre of scholars who offer fresh takes on Munoz's best-known works and illuminate his more obscure experiments. It also features interviews with the artist as well as a recent text he has written on his practice. A comprehensive chronology charts Munoz's artistic evolution alongside the development of the artistic scene in Cali, Colombia, where he began his career and continues to live and work, rooting the artist's works in their cultural and historical context. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Volume to accompany the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. 302 pp. Features 20 color plates in addition to 217 other black/white illustrations (mostly photographs). Covers beginnings of New England through the Early Days of the Republic. Development of Interior Architecture and House Decoration from craftsmen influenced by old world style and the evolution.Shows significant wear due to age and water damage. Discoloration throughout, though text still entirely legible and color still vivid in the plates. Edges show significant wear as well. Prior owner's name and date (1929) written in ink twice inside the cover.
Softcover. Paris, Editions Hazan, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 273 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This landmark publication broadens our understanding of Blumenfeld's innovations, reuniting all the media used by the artist throughout his long career: drawing, photography, photomontage, and collage. The motifs of his experimental, sometimes overtly political, black-and-white photographs appear alongside numerous self-portraits and celebrity portraits, as well as the fashion photographs for which he is most known. Presenting some 150 images, this book provides a fresh understanding of Blumenfeld's photography for the commercial worlds of fashion and advertising.
Hardcover. US, Angelika Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 304 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. New York-based German photographer Anna Bauer took pictures of the fashion scene's personalities backstage after the shows in Paris, Milan, London and New York using a heavy large-format camera and black-and-white Polaroids. It's remarkable how natural the models, designers, investors, critics, stylists and fashion photographers look in these pictures, with which Anna Bauer not only captures their surface, but also their souls.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. 338 illustrations, including 113 plates in full color. Gives beautiful insight into the extravagant glamour of Sargent's society portraits, watercolors and Boston Murals. Folio. Purple cloth, gilt lettering to spine. previous owner's inscription on front edge paper. Very nice, clean and tight copy. Minor wrinkle to lower edge of dust jacket's spine, otherwise in near fine condition.
Hardcover. London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, reprint, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 284 pages. Vol I only. Red cloth with gilt designs and titles, all edges gilt. Covers with edge wear and soiling, small tears to cloth near spine. Damp stain spots on front a rear covers. End pages with foxing, otherwise clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrinkwrap. A deep dive into the history of the illustrated book jacket, tracing its development across the twentieth century, reflecting some of the most iconic designs of the era.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 96 pages illustrated with color photos. The book is a photo-journey through the 1970s and documents some of the unusual homes that were constructed during that decade. The pictures include both the interior and exterior of the homes. Boericke had the wonderful opportunity to speak with the owners - many of whom asked to remain anonymous (probably because they lacked formal permission to build!). The handmade houses pictured and described in this book are exactly that - handmade. They reflect the free spirit of the people who lived in them. All of the homes were built with love and the material that was used was either worked by hand using hand tools and all-wood joints or was salvaged from other buildings that were being taken down. Many of the buildings include mismatched doors, windows, and other fixtures that give them a very artsy and eclectic look while the use of tree branches, metal sculpting, and unusual plumbing and lighting add to the overall feel of the buildings themselves. Mild warp to covers, no marking.
Softcover. Los Angeles :, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 191 pages, illustrated throughout with numerous plates in b&w. Cream dye-cut textured wrappers. Light wear and staining to covers, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 2nd pr., 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 197 pages. Forged explores art forgery from ancient times to the present. In chapters combining lively biography with insightful art criticism, Jonathon Keats profiles individual art forgers and connects their stories to broader themes about the role of forgeries in society. From the Renaissance master Andrea del Sarto who faked a Raphael masterpiece at the request of his Medici patrons, to the Vermeer counterfeiter Han van Meegeren who duped the avaricious Hermann G?ring, to the frustrated British artist Eric Hebborn, who began forging to expose the ignorance of experts, art forgers have challenged "legitimate" art in their own time, breaching accepted practices and upsetting the status quo. They have also provocatively confronted many of the present-day cultural anxieties that are major themes in the arts. Keats uncovers what forgeries --and our reactions to them-- reveal about changing conceptions of creativity, identity, authorship, integrity, authenticity, success, and how we assign value to works of art. The book concludes by looking at how artists today have appropriated many aspects of forgery through such practices as street-art stenciling and share-and-share-alike licensing, and how these open-source "copyleft" strategies have the potential to make legitimate art meaningful again. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Cover has minor wear to edges. Inside is bright and clean. Many color plates throughout. A nice copy. This book celebrates the art as well as the poetry of the great English poet William Blake. The Huntington Library has the most extensive collection of Blake's artwork in the world.
Hardcover. Running Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. MAD Magazine was an indispensable part of 'growing up' for 1950s/60s kids. The humor was witty, leg-pulling and hilarious. The art work, to this day, was of the highest order. Top cartoonists such as Jack Davis, Don Martin, Bob Clarke etc. graced it's pages for many years. Top of the rank must be Mort Drucker, whose caricatures of film and TV stars are second-to-none. Some of his very best work, dating from 1957 to 2009, is included in this hefty volume. The reproductions are slightly larger than the magazine format and excellent for studying the line-work of this remarkable artist. Included is a fascinating discussion between Mort and former MAD editor Nick Meglin.
Hardcover. London, Art / Books Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A tight copy. Terence Donovan was one of the foremost photographers of his generation--among the greatest Britain has ever produced. He came to prominence in London as part of a postwar renaissance in art, fashion, graphic design and photography, and--alongside David Bailey and Brian Duffy (photographers of a similar working-class background)--he captured and helped create the Swinging London of the 1960s. Donovan socialized with celebrities and royalty, and found himself elevated to stardom in his own right, and yet, despite his success and status, there has never been a serious evaluation of Donovan's fashion work: he allowed no monographs to be published during his lifetime. Terence Donovan Fashion is therefore the first publication of his fashion photographs. Arranged chronologically, and with an illuminating text by Robin Muir (ex-picture editor of Vogue), the book considers Donovan in the social and cultural context of his time, showing how his constant experimentation not only set him apart, but also influenced generations to come. Designed by former art director of Nova magazine and Pentagram partner David Hillman, and with images selected by Hillman, the artist's widow Diana Donovan and Grace Coddington, creative director of American Vogue, this volume is indisputably a landmark publication in the history of fashion photography.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 223 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Introduction by Judith Thurman. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 296 pages, numerous b&w illustrations and 32 plates in full color. Blue pictorial stiff wrappers. Minor bump to lower edge, else like new.
Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Remainder marks on top edge at spine. Light wear. Clean, unmarked 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.
Softcover. Hartford CT, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art/ Yale University, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 334 pages, 106 full-page color plates. Issued in conjunction with 2003-2004 exhibitions featuring work by American modernist Marsden Hartley (1877-1943). Gathers together the most recent scholarship on Hartley's work. Includes a chronology of his life, with a full catalogue entry accompanying each painting. With essays by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Amy Eillis, Patricia McDonnell, Wanda M. Corn, Jonathan Weinberg, Bruce Robertson, Donna M. Cassidy, Randall R. Griffey, Carol Troyen, Stephen Kornhauser, and Ulrich Birkmaier. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Posters Please, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, this catalog profiles: American show posters; (Buffalo Bill, circus, sideshow banners & minstrel posters); New Yoprk Central Railway, Mistinguett; international posters; books & periodicals. Color illustrated.
hardcover. NY, Knopf , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 448 pages. Black & white photos and illustrations. Like new. Purely out of artistic ambition, Armenian-American abstract painter Gorky (1895-1948; born in Turkey as Vostanig Adoian) fabricated a new identity, complete with an Ivy League education and personal histories with master artists, on arriving in the United States. Spender (Within Tuscany), who is married to Gorky's oldst daughter, unhesitatingly exposes the painter's many "tall tales." He also assesses Gorky's difficulty in arriving at his own aesthetic until late in life in terms of both the artist's ties to the artistic patriarchs of the previous generation, the Surrealists (including Breton, Duchamp and Brancusi) and his complex status as a forerunner who eventually became alienated from the New York Abstract Expressionists (particularly de Kooning and Rothko). Spender derives much information from anecdotal sources, including an interview with de Kooning, and assumes a chatty tone in dealing with other artists. But he becomes increasingly less sympathetic to Gorky, whose last years are presented from the perspectives of Spender's wife and her mother. Nonetheless, painting constantly despite failing health, family problems and critical indifference, Gorky's frustrations are heartbreaking. Equally compelling is the window opened on New York's art scene when it was still a small clique. Gorky was so in love with the "artist" archetype that he not only lied about himself but also plagiarized anecdotes, artistic statements, love letters and possibly even his own suicide note. Spender preserves the personal dimensions of his subject while demonstrating that the painter should have adopted a youthful declaration. "I shall be a great artist or if not a great crook"as his motto. 90 b&w illustrations.
Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2nd pr., 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy. Color, black and white pictures throughout. Showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors. Editor Jeff Smith--creater of the classic comic Bone, a comedy/adventure about three lost cousins from Boneville--has culled the best stories from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and web comics to create this cutting-edge collection. Color and b&w illustrations.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 383 pages. Illustrated with black & white plates. A vivid picture of French art and society in the revolutionary years of the mid-nineteenth century. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Clean, tight copy. Dust jacket spine faded.
Hardcover. San Diego CA, Idea & Design Works/ IDW, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 319 pages. Color and b&w strips from the newspapers between 1927 and 1929. Little Orphan Annie -- the original female comics hero -- takes on chiseling business men and a gang of thieves, armed only with her sharp wit and a good left hook. Then she helps her surrogate parents by nursing "Daddy" Warbucks to health and helping save the Silos' family farm. And only that little chatter-box could become a cross between Robinson Crusoe and Dr. Doolittle when she and Sandy are shipwrecked on a deserted island.
Softcover. US, Laurence King, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 318 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. The album cover is a subject of perennial interest among graphic designers. Sleeve design remains a popular subject for college projects, and many young working designers aspire to design for the music industry. Revealing state-of-the-art contemporary music graphics, Cover Art By: is packed with more than 400 examples of sleeve art. As well as CD and album covers, the insides of CD booklets and the backs of vinyl sleeves are shown. The book opens with an in-depth essay reviewing the current scene, then focuses on the work of 30 international designers/labels who are the most influential in the field, making this a must-have for designers and students, as well as music industry professionals and fans.
Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 257 pages, This lavishly illustrated volume is the first comprehensive publication on the Brooklyn Museum's internationally renowned historic costume collection. The nearly 25,000-object collection comprises fashionable women's and men's garments and accessories from the 18th through the 20th century.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 354 pages. Color and b&w illustrations. From one of Britain's most respected and acclaimed art historians, art critic of The Guardian--the galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition: the master Leonardo da Vinci, commissioned by the Florentine Republic to paint a narrative fresco depicting a famous military victory on a wall of the newly built Great Council Hall in the Palazzo Vecchio, and his implacable young rival, the thirty-year-old Michelangelo. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 303 pages. Color illustrations, index and appendices. Introduction by Margit Rowell; essay by Joseph Jacobs. A groundbreaking retrospective of art from "off the beaten path" sculpture features spectacular images from a wide variety of American artists and craftspeople, in a study that includes everything from religious totems and antique trade signs to hand-carved canes.
Hardcover. US, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. From its founding in 1875, the firm of Liberty has been a byword for high-quality design. Arthur Lasenby Liberty, its founder, set out to transform the appearance of dress and interior decoration; that sense of energy and excitement remains integral to the house, making Liberty a world-recognized name. This account and celebration is divided into chronological sections. It begins with the early emporium and ends with a survey of the institution's influence on post-war aesthetics and design. The Arts and Crafts Movement found Liberty's associated with leading craftsmen-designers. After World War I its textiles continued the famous lines of prints. Now, in keeping with its role as innovator, the firm continues to commission designers and to promote both traditional and avant-garde furniture and artifacts. This history of a unique enterprise reflects in microcosm major developments in taste from the late 19th-century to the present.
Hardcover. London, Conrad/Octopus, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. Join the Design Museum, the world's leading museum in contemporary design, on a guided tour of the 50 most important dresses in social history and design. Filled with pages of beautiful clothes, and the famous faces (and bodies) that put them on the world stage -including Wallis Simpson, Jackie Kennedy, Twiggy and Cher and, of course, Princess Di-this fun volume shares fascinating appraisals of what gave the 50 most important garments their iconic status.
Hardcover. Bonn GR, Weidle Verlag, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 92 pages, color plates. Essay by John Yau and an interview with the artist. Clean copy.
Hardcover. West Plains MO, Russ Cochran, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two folio-size volumes in a slipcase. Covers reproduced in color, stories in b&w. Numbers 1-12. Notes and comments Edited by John Benson and Written by John Benson, Bill Mason and Bhob Stewart.
Softcover. El Cajon CA, Blackthorne Publishing, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes, 72 pages each, illustrated in b&w. Reprints of the comic strip that featured a investigative reporter and his Indian sidekick, Chief Wahoo. These cover the mid-1940s. Clean, bright copies.
1930, Book: Very Good, Color painting of freighting wagons by Maynard Dixon. 9 X 12" 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, The Museum of Modern Art, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unpaginated. Reprint Edition of a work originally published by MOMA in 1967. Limited to 2500 numbered copies though this copy is unnumbered on the limitation/colophon page. Bound in half tan cloth over gray paper-covered boards with titles stamped in red on spine. Illustrated by 30 artists, who had known the poet, to accompany the poems. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, fine in fine dust jacket. (10 1/2" X 12 1/4"). Color and b&w illustrations throughout. n celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the Summer of Love, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum has launched a major exhibition examining how rock & roll came of age in the late Sixties and influenced everything from fashion and art to politics and literature. I Want to Take You Higher expands on that exhibit, showcasing the infamous icons of the era - from John Lennon's Sgt. Pepper uniform to Janis Joplin's hand-painted Porsche. A host of revealing new interviews offer never-before-published tales from the land of psychedelic wonder. Country Joe McDonald, Allen Ginsberg, Grace Slick, Mickey Hart, Donovan, Bob Weir and members of the influential bands Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape and many others contribute fresh perspectives on now-legendary events. I Want to Take You Higher also features posters, paraphernalia and an illustrated time line (just in case you forgot), as well as classic and previously unpublished images from the greatest rock photographers of the era: Jim Marshall, Baron Wolman, Robert Whitaker, Michael Cooper, Herb Greene, Bob Seidemann and others.
Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages illustrated in color. The latest (and possibly last) issue of the greatest magazine devoted to EC comics ever published. Co-edited by Grant Geisman and John Benson, this issue includes previously unpublished interviews with Gene Colan and Russ Heath, a lavishly illustrated critical study of Atlas' Kurtzman-inspired war comics by Benson, a Kurtzman remembrance by R.O. Blechman, an astounding reprint of The Hartford Courant's campaign against "salacious and depraved" comics (i.e., EC), 12 page spread of Jack Davis's Coca-Cola advertising images, and much much more. An essential historical feast for EC fans.
Softcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 190 pages. The Manual of St-Germain-des-Pres is a "guide" to the legendary creative and intellectual playground of mid-20th-century Paris. With boundless energy and a delicious sense of humor, Boris Vian takes readers on a star-studded romp through the underground culture of jazz clubs, Left Bank cafes, surrealist and existentialist literature, and the various eccentrics and artists that made up this legendary scene. Paris in the '50s was an incredible place and time: With the end of the war, everything seemed possible. The list of luminaries Vian ran with, and who are captured here in previously unpublished photographs, includes Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Juliette Greco, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet, Jacques Prevert, and Jean Cocteau. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Abbeville, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, b&w and color illustrations, photo end papers. A very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 63 pages.; four pages, biographical information by Avis Berman with 4 etchings and photo of John and Dolly Sloan; 23 color plates with identifying information; additional 5 etchings plus those on inside covers; large photos of Sloan at easel. Catalogue to accompany joint exhibition by Gerald Peters and Kraushaar Galleries in New York. 2008.