Art

Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 1st, 2020, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 242 pages. A finely wrought coming-of-age memoir about the author's relationship with her beloved grandfather Joe Simon, cartoonist and co-creator of Captain America. In the 1990s, Megan Margulies's Upper West Side neighborhood was marked by addicts shooting up in subway stations, frequent burglaries, and the "Wild Man of 96th Street," who set fires under cars and heaved rocks through stained glass church windows. The world inside her parents' tiny one-bedroom apartment was hardly a respite, with a family of five-including some loud personalities-eventually occupying the 550-square-foot space. Salvation arrived in the form of her spirited grandfather, Daddy Joe, whose midtown studio became a second home to Megan. There, he listened to her woes, fed her Hungry Man frozen dinners, and simply let her be. His living room may have been dominated by the drawing table, notes, and doodles that marked him as Joe Simon the cartoonist. But for Megan, he was always Daddy Joe: an escape from her increasingly hectic home, a nonjudgmental voice whose sense of humor was as dry as his farfel, and a steady presence in a world that felt off balance. Evoking New York City both in the 1980s and '90s and during the Golden Age of comics in the 1930s and '40s, My Captain America flashes back from Megan's story to chart the life and career of Rochester-native Joe Simon, from his early days retouching publicity photos and doing spot art for magazines, to his partnership with Jack Kirby at Timely Comics (the forerunner of Marvel Comics), which resulted in the creation of beloved characters like Captain America, the Boy Commandos, and Fighting American. My Captain America offers a tender and sharply observed account of Megan's life with Daddy Joe-and an intimate portrait of the creative genius who gave us one of the most enduring superheroes of all time.

Softcover. Seattle, Bay Press, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A clean, unmarked softcover book with a tight binding. 87 pages. 7"w x 8 1/4"h. Photographer Sophie Calle follows strangers on the street and photographs them. Translated by Dany Barash and Danny Hatfield. B&w illustrations. Light fading on cover at spine edge otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Madison, WI, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume dedicated to the rural art originating in Wisconsin. Discusses 30 different artists and contains illustrations (color and black/white) of their pieces. Good condition; cloth bound book shows some wear on the edges of the covers. No dust jacket. Commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the University of Wisconsin by means of the work of rural Wisconsin artists such as Ambrose G. Ammel, Joan Arend, John M. Black, WIlliam H. Boose, Frances Burt, Frank H. Engebretson, Francis D. Grady, Louis Grebetz, Rachel Gertrude Grimm, Lois Ireland, Arthur Johnson, and many more.

Softcover. Durham NH, University of New Hampshire, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, square format, 78 pages, 13 text-illustrations, catalogue of 72 items depicted and described, credits.

Softcover. Los Angeles, UCLA Fowler Museum , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in bright wrappers, 446 pages. This abundantly illustrated anthology brings together 16 essays by scholars, artists, and ritual experts who examine the sacred arts of Haitian Vodou from multiple perspectives. Among the many topics covered are the 10 major Vodou divinities, the paintings of Hector Hyppolite, the multimedia pieces of Pierrot Barra, sequined bottles and sequined flags, and the work of the Brooklyn Priestess Mama Lola. Like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, D.A.P.//La Fabrica , 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. America's first female war correspondent, Margaret Bourke-White was also something of a media star, with the portrait of her decked out in flying gear, camera in hand, about to set off on a bombing raid, being a favorite pin-up among U.S. forces. Focusing on the work Bourke-White made in the 1930s and 40s in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union and the U.K., Moments in History presents 150 classic photographs alongside revelatory extracts from letters and publications in periodicals. Bourke-White traveled to the USSR when the first Five-Year Plan was being implemented; she documented the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, and the Allied bombing of Germany. In the summer of 1945 she was commissioned by Life to make a photographic record of the destroyed German cities. She was present at the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp and the Leipzig-Thekla forced labor camp. She recorded the partition of India and the Korean War, and one of her most famous pictures of this period is "Gandhi," which shows the subject at his spinning wheel. Also included in the catalogue are some of the word-picture sequences Bourke-White did for Fortune and Life, as well as extracts from her correspondence with personalities from the worlds of politics and culture, such as Winston Churchill and Georgia O'Keeffe. Bourke-White wanted to be the "eyes of the age," and her pictures testify to (as she put it) her "unquenchable desire to be present when history is being made."

Hardcover. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Illustrated history of the Yale's 1969 architectural competition. 117 pages, illustrated fully with black/white photographs and drawings, mostly full-page. Book is cloth bound and in near fine condition, dust jacket is in good condition: bottom of the spine and few edges show wear, small rip on the back at the top edge and small stain on the back as well.

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.

Softcover. Milwaukee WI, Kitchen Sink Press, 3rd pr., 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 3rd printing (stated at bottom of inside front cover). 50 cent cover price. Color illustrated cover with black/white interior art. 32 pages and covers. This Crumb classic includes, "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot", "Angelfood McDevilsfood in Backwater Blues", "Maryjane", and more. Light wear, crease to top outside corner.

Hardcover. Heidelburg, Kehrer Verlag, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. "For her series No Sleep, Hee Jin Kang photographs mattresses abandoned on the streets of New York City, mostly in Brooklyn. Kang's work reveals the unexpected beauty and strangeness of these found urban still lifes. The discarded beds are pathetic, monolithic, and architectural." The photographer's first monograph. 60 color plates.

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publishing, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Artist Harvey Dinnerstein writes about his personal approach to and process of painting. 144 pages, 80 color and 58 black/white reproductions of his work at various stages. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, very clean copy; dust jacket has slight wear and a few creases around the edges.

Hardcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. The 1960s saw a revolution in fashion that was born, like most things new and hip in that era, of youth rebellion in the streets. For the first time, designers didn't dictate the trends. Instead, the latest looks trickled up into the top fashion houses (Halston and Yves Saint Laurent among them), by way of bohemian boutiques and avant-garde labels with names like Granny Takes a Trip and Cosmic Couture, and musicians like the Beatles, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Defying easy definition but becoming an international phenomenon all the same, hippie fashion twisted and turned from trippy to retro and crafty to ethnic. The accompanying idea that one can express a personal style with clothing went against everything about the previous generation's notion of matching suits or ladylike ensembles dictated by social class or profession. Sumptuous photography, dynamic design, and far-out images from the era make Hippie Chic a must-have book that goes past peace signs and patchouli to unearth how hippies forever changed the way fashion functions. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. Milwaukee WI, Kitchen Sink, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, color illustrated cover with black/white interior art. For sale to adults only. 36 pages with 75 cents cover price. With plain overwrap hiding outrageous cover still attached, some slight wrinkling.

Hardcover. Flagstaff AZ, Northland Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, original dark blue cloth stamped with a wolf and rattler in silver on front cover and lettered in silver on spine. Fine/pictorial dust jacket (lightly rubbed). Half folio. Illustrated Contains articles and check lists on, amongst many, Peter Hurd, N. C. Wyeth, Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell, Maynard Dixon, Edward Borein and Will James.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1969, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None,

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.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 28 pages, $2 cover price. B&w art by Gilbert Shelton. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Hermes Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in very good condition. Dust jacket with tear to lower edge of back cover and slight edgewear to spine, still very good. 246 pp., 26 b&w illustrations. Biography written by close friend of the artist.

Hardcover. Terra Uitgeverij, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 248 pages. In the 60s and 70s, Amsterdam was the epicentre of new cultural development and a magnet for national and international celebrities. Dutch photojournalists Hans Sabel and Henk Daniels were on site to capture all events and advancements. 30 years of photojournalism has resulted in an archive of around 150,000 negatives. In cooperation with the heirs of the archive a selection of images has been brought together in this book. It offers many previously unpublished images, from Jacques Brel, Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Charles Aznavour, Elizabeth Taylor and Dutch celebrities like Johan Cruyff, princess Beatrix and prince Bernhard to Willeke Alberti. Starring Amsterdam is a unique photographic document from Amsterdam at a time when the city is alive and buzzing like never before. With a foreword by James Worthy and text by Joost Bastmeijer. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. NY, Prestel, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. This book of 22 detachable vintage cycling posters captures the sport's style and speed throughout the years.Dating from the late 19th-century to the 1970s, this collection features vintage posters from cycling's most iconic brands--such as Bianchi and Peugeot--as well as races--such as the now-defunct Peace Race, the Olympics, and Paris-Brest-Paris. Featuring artwork by A. M. Cassandre, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and other significant names in design history, alongside extraordinary works from lesser known artists and designers, each impeccably reproduced poster is detachable from the spine, ready for framing. The reverse side of each image includes information about the artist and subjects depicted, and a brief introduction offers an overview of the origins, rise and development of the posters. Spanning decades and continents, these striking full-color posters celebrate the beauty of cycling and are the perfect gift for bicycle enthusiasts.

Hardcover. US, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Benjamin Blom, reprint, 1972, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 65 pages. Reissue of rare 1930 first edition. Brown cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, illustrated profusely with over 50 b&w plates. Copy still packaged in original shrinkwrap, never opened; in excellent condition.

Softcover. Paris / London, Paul Holberton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 216 pages in color. Jean Helion (1904-1987) became a leading member of the international Abstraction-Creation group in the early 1930s. He then took abstraction to New York, where he advised the avant-garde collector A. E. Gallatin on purchases for his Gallery of Living Art, a crucial influence on the early phases of the developing New York School. In France after World War II, however, he evolved a unique language of painting, employing people and objects that are both contructivist and naturalistic--his own language of signs populated by shop-window dummies, newspaper readers, and startling nudes. In his return to figuration he may be compared to his close friends Balthus and Alberto Giacometti, even though his style is unique. This book is the first in English on the artist for some thirty years. Mild crease to front cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. New York, Vintage Books/Random House, 1st thus, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. Reveals everything Ogilvy has learned about which advertising techniques sell and which don"t sell. Illustrated with 185 advertisements and TV commercials from all over the world in color and b/w . Superbly written and splendidly controversial, the book is as witty and outspoken as the man who wrote it. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Softcover. Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog of William M. Harnett's still-life paintings. 334 pages; 223 illustrations, including 52 in full color. Edited by Doreen Bolger, Marc Simpson, and John Wilmerding. Light scratching to covers, else a tight, clean copy.

Softcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. Mostly b&w with some color. Catalogue of a traveling exhibition to be held at the Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University and other institutions, March 27, 1978 to November 18, 1979. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2014, Hardcover in pictorial boards with a red cloth spine, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) flew to Beijing (via Hong Kong) in 1982, recording his impressions in brief journal entries while also photographing. His presence in China electrified Beijing's avant-garde, and his photographs record both his own delight in encountering the city's artists and their delight i30 color plates. Text in English and Chinese. Clean copy, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. New York, Penguin Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Large-format softcover. Black and white art by Burns throughout. Light edgewear to paper wrappers.

Softcover. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Very light edge wear; else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Casterman, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. FRENCH TEXT. The history of Pratt's most famous character told in pictures and words. Illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.

Softcover. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in bright pictorial wrappers, 212 pages. With a catalogue of selected buildings and a checklist of the architecture and projects of Frank Furness. Illustrated with b&w photos and plans. Small ink notation on title apge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Atria, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Here is a cornucopia of 104 dead-on drawings and eye-opening ruminations on all things bookish, writerly, and readerly, courtesy of The New Yorker's renowned stable of cartoonists, including Charles Barsotti, Roz Chast, Ed Koren, J.B. Handelsman, Jack Ziegler, and Victoria Roberts.

Softcover. New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Approx. 130 pages. 123 plates. B&W illustrations throughout. Green cover with slight wear and fading. Slight soiling to edges. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Schirmer Mosel, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket,, 171 pages. Since the 1970s Cindy Sherman (born in Glen Ridge, NJ, in 1954) has caused a stir in the art world with her photographic self-stagings. From the beginning, Neither her subjects nor her artistic realization of acting as the director, photographer, and performer of her motifs have lost their relevance to this day. Quite the contrary: her multilayered examination of themes of identity and social cliches are hot topics in our age of increasingly public gender and transgender discussions. Entitled 'The Cindy Sherman Effect', an exhibition organized by Kunstforum Wien explores the influence of Cindy Sherman?s work on artists such as Sophie Calle, Pipilotti Rist, Sarah Lucas, Gillian Wearing, Candice Breitz, Zanele Muholi, Markus Schinwald, Douglas Gordon, Samuel Fosso and many more. Clean copy, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages, b&w drawings throughout. The Compleat Cannon reprints the entirety of cartoonist Wally Wood's classic sex and violence strip from the 1960s. Super-spy John Cannon is the American's answer to James Bond, fighting the Cold War with a license to kill.Wally Wood is of course the legendary cartoonist known for his contributions to the original Mad magazine. Always regarded as one of comics' great craftsmen, Cannon is simply one of the most beautiful strips ever produced. Featuring outrageous parodies of pop culture icons of the time, the Cold War, and the secret agent genre, Cannon is Wood at his most gregarious and incisive, working on one of the few projects in his career where he had no editorial constraints.Like Fantagraphics' The Compleat Sally Forth, also by Wood, this oversized collection includes a section of never-before-seen Cannon ephemera in the form of sketches, notes and annotated information about the strip.

Hardcover. New York, Poster Auctions International, INC, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 448 lots. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Foxing and soiling to top edge, covers slightly warped. Gilt decoration on green cloth covers, Corners lightly bumped.

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 119 pages, mostly illustrated in color. Essays by Paul Schimmel and Lisa Phillips. Illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued.

Softcover. Dallas TX, Adams-Middleton Gallery, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 24 pages illustrated in color. Second brochure laid-in, all text, 4 pages. An exhibition catalog of the Spanish sculptor's work.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 263 pages. Color plates throughout. Five essays by contributors. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Suffolk, UK, ACC Publishing Group Ltd, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, fresh, unmarked copy. Black and white images throughout. A collection of photographs from the early sixties taken by John Petty. Tight copy.

Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Very good.

Softcover. NY, Sindin Galleries, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 24 pages illustrated in b&w. Text by Judith Hancock de Sandoval. Wrappers lightly rubbed otherwise very good, clean.

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. Heidelberg, Germany, Kehrer Verlag, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Many color photographs of secret marijuana growing communities. Published under the pseudonym "H. Lee" to protect those whom she photographed.

Softcover. Hong Kong, Christie's Inc., 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 204 pages, photographs throughout with English and Chinese text. Very slight corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Nohra Haime Gallery, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages, color cover, b&w photos of his sculpture inside. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Mesquite TX, Vanguard Productions, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. This book is devoted solely to the artist's single, most beloved venue, Book Cover Art. By focusing on this specific area, the book boasts room enough to feature every single one of Frazetta's famous and highly collectable illustrated book covers, beautifully and authentically reproduced at a larger size on a page to itself. All are presented in chronological order which, gives readers a unique ability to follow Frazetta's evolution as an artist. Accompanying text includes commentary, original publication titles, publishers, dates, and rare quotes from the artist himself. For this Definitive Reference to feature the Complete Collection of Frazetta's decades of book cover illustrations, in a single beautifully produced volume, is a dream come true for Frazetta fans, art and book collectors and historians alike.

Hardcover. Chicago, McClure, Phillips and Co., 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray illustrated boards with brown cloth spine. A collection of b&w cartoons from two Chicago papers. Unpaginated, about 150 cartoons printed on one side only. Clean, tight copy with some light wear to covers at corners.