Art

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 243 pages, 150 b&w plates. Illustrated covers, perfect binding, divided into seven sections organized by historical period, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Mild rubbing to covers, very minor markings to bottom of page block, front top right corner creased; otherwise a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Apex Novelties, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft cover with stapled binding, color covers with b/w internal illustrations, 28 pages. Crumb's contributions include a Mr. Natural episode followed by a "Mr. Natural's Quiz Page"; & a lengthy piece, "The Adventures of Fuzzy the Bunny," which is a collaboration with his brother Charles, a tragic but inspirational figure in Robert's life. Subtitled the "Special Business Executive Issue!" on front cover. Mild wear, rubbing.

Softcover. NY, Street and Smith, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Stapled wraps in color, worn, insect damage to top outer corner. Cover art is bright with only tiny paper loss to corner. 30 pages, cheap pulp paper.

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 88 pages. 33 full page color plates. The first full-scale, illustrated study of John Twachtman's life and work, taking the artist's "dramatic transformation from dark to light" to the surface. Pictorial dust jacket with minor edgewear. Brown cloth. A very nice, clean and crisp copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, red cloth covers with an acetate dust jacket. 164 pages with 50 illustrations including 24 plates in full color. Text by Deborah Eisenberg. Jennifer Bartlett creates her most personal paintings, all made between 1991 and 1992. Here, in each work, the unflinching presence of time is carefully, conspicuously monitored by a clock - light gray for day, dark gray for night. But motifs, color combinations, even certain images variously recur throughout the 24 paintings, shaking us up, causing us to realize that even the most seemingly casual, intimate scenes (a child's bedroom, a bathroom, the garden fish pond) are the trappings of much larger concerns.Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, unknown, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 116 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Red cloth. pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy in shrinkwrap. In this landmark volume we see the photo-realist painter at work and the works themselves in progress, together with many superb reproductions of her completed paintings.

Softcover. Northampton MA, Tundra, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover folder. A series of 8 individual full color plates from a talented line-up of artists, including Moebius, Frank Kelly Freas, Leo Duranona, Will Eisner, Eric Shanower, Kevin O'Neill, Mike Zeck. Jaime Hernandez & Michael Zulli , which depict scenes from a story by R.J.M. Lofficier. This edition is part one of a six part series. Portfolio, 8 illustrated plates, Title plate, & 4 page story Booklet.

Hardcover. East Sussex, Ammonite Press, 1sr, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages, color photographs throughout. No dust jacket as issued. Large, heavy folio. Black cloth with cover label photo. "Arrested" is the biography of idiosyncratic London-based photographer and film director Jim Lee. Lee established a portfolio photographing bands such as the Kinks and the Who and later became in demand as a fashion photographer, notably working with "Vogue" editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Lee's earlier photographic work is included in a permanent collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Born in 1945 to parents who were both MI5 operatives, Lee's life has followed anything but a conventional route. Dyslexia and an independent spirit saw Lee at the age of just seventeen emigrate to Australia where his passion for photography was kindled. Rescued from fighting in the Vietnam war by his parents' intervention, Lee returned to the UK and began to establish a portfolio photographing bands. As his reputation grew, Lee became in demand as a fashion photographer for magazines during the late sixties and seventies. He collaborated with some of the most influential fashion designers, including Yves St Laurent and Gianni Versace, and his work appeared in "Elle", "The Sunday Times Magazine", "Harpers & Queen" and "The New York Times".

Hardcover. FR, Dupuis, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 46 pages illustrated in color by Michetz. FRENCH LANGUAGE, graphic novel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Koln, Taschen, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 460 pages, without dust jacket, as issued. Clean, bright copy with hundreds of nudes and scantily-clad women in color and b&w photographs and illustrations.

Hardcover. London, Knockabout/Palmano Bennett, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, b&w illustrations by Bolland, 112 pages. Bright, clean copy.

Softcover. Caldwell, NJ, Heritage Committee of The First Presbyterian Church at Caldwell, 1st Edition, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Soft cover. Vivid color illustrations throughout. Wrapper in beautiful condition. pages have just a touch of tanning around edges, otherwise clean and bright. Binding tight. In excellent shape. "Part of Daugherty's legacy to us is the sixty works in this book entitled 'In His Image'. These paintings were done in the period 1940 to 1960. They are executed in a powerful, emotional mood."

Softcover. Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 282 pages, b&w illustrations. Bryson analyses the evolution of narrative styles (rather than the successive artistic styles of baroque, rococo and neo-classical) and concludes that there is an 'inner evolution in the image as a pattern of information'. He analyses the work of LeBrun, Watteau, Greuze, David etc. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 144 pages First American edition, first printing. Cartoons which appeared in London's Daily Express since 1939. The author/artist presents the full sweep of his wit and a vivid retrospective view of our world during the angst-haunted 40s and 50s in England. Dustjacket with light edgewear.

Softcover. Guerneyville CA, Eclipse Comics, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Jones. Part 2 of 4. ADULT CONTENT. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York, Museum of the American Indian, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 529 pages, illustrated in b&w, some fold-out plates. Light tan paper wraps, clean and tight. Light wear to cover edges and corners.

Hardcover. Seymour CT, Greenwich Workshop Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped with gilt letters, 144 pages. Deluxe limited edition. one of 110 copies. SIGNED by the artist. No slipcase, no enclosed print. Bright, clean copy of this realistic painter's work. Most depict the Apache natives of Arizona.

Hardcover. New York , Grove Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color comic art by Peelleart, red boards, Dust jacket with repaired tears. Mildly erotic French comic, with English text by Richard Seaver.

Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 84 pages. English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Very good. International graphic design magazine based out of Switzerland. No longer in print. Cover illustration by Andrzej Dudzinski. In Graphis magazine Issue 242, you'll find articles on: IBM--Design, Business & Education, by Steven Heller; Fourth Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, by Philip E. Risbeck, Fort Collins, Colorado; Conception and Design of the USA Annual Reports 1983/84, by Richard A. Lewis, New York.

Softcover. Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. 90 pages, color and b&w illustrations. An exhibition catalog, not published in hardcover.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Last Gasp Eco-Funnies, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Comic Book. Standard Format and Size. First Printing. This is the #2 issue of the series, published December 1977 with a washtub on the cover. Cover price $1.00. Art by R. Crumb and his longtime girlfriend, Aline Kominsky.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. One of the most prolific and successful artists of the Golden Age of American Illustration, J. C. Leyendecker captivated audiences throughout the first half of the 20th century. Leyendecker is best known for his creation of the archetype of the fashionable American male with his advertisements for Arrow Collar. These images sold to an eager public the idea of a glamorous lifestyle, the bedrock upon which modern advertising was built. He also was the creator instantly recognizable icons, such as the New Year's baby and Santa Claus, that are to this day an integral part of the lexicon of Americana and was commissioned to paint more Saturday Evening Post covers than any other artist. Leyendecker lived for most of his adult life with Charles Beach, the Arrow Collar Man, on whom the stylish men in his artwork were modeled. The first book about the artist in more than 30 years, J. C. Leyendecker features his masterworks, rare paintings, studies, and other artwork, including the 322 covers he did for the Post. With a revealing text that delves into both his artistic evolution and personal life, J. C. Leyendecker restores this iconic image maker's rightful position in the pantheon of great American artists.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1990, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 247 pages with 105 plates (many color)."Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin, and Claude Lorrain were the masters of ideal, or heroic, landscape painting in the seventeenth century. In this original and highly sophisticated book, Margaretha Lagerlof interprets these paintings in a new way, examining them from four perspectives relevant to their contemporaries - those of drama, rhetoric, utopianism, and metaphysics."

Softcover. Washington D.C, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 225 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w and color. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsberg Press, 1st Edition, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gray cover boards, green quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. In beautiful condition. Spanning the years from 1938-1998, each of these 100 classic cartoons pack a time-lsss, powerful punch.

Hardcover. Kansas City, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages. Everyone who grew up entertained, provoked, and enlightened by Dr. Seuss books will love this big, color-saturated volume covering 70 years of published and private art by the master of smart, loopy fun. Here are examples of Theodor Geisel's clever, now ironic advertising work, including a rambunctious campaign for Flit, an insecticide containing DDT. Geisel's political cartoons and magazine illustrations are animated by his phenomenal gift for line and color, mischievous humor, and humanitarian values. It is thrilling, too, to see the original drawings for Green Eggs and Ham and other Seuss classics. But the big discoveries in this bountiful and redefining volume are his "Midnight Paintings," surreal watercolors, oils, and acrylics featuring tiny figures in a vast, labyrinthine world, and private versions of his expressive characters, especially the Cat, his alternate identity. Geisel's vibrant, trippy, hilarious, and poignant art plays on Hieronymus Bosch, M. C. Escher, and Persian miniatures. Every creature, plant, architectural marvel, object, and landscape is wriggling, leaping, flying, arcing, tilting, and rolling. When he dives into abstraction, he plunges into a deep chromatic sea, while his taxidermic sculptures prove just how real his sweet and goofy invented critters were to him. Spectacular reproductions and excellent, if episodic, commentary map Geisel's exuberant, world-altering artistic journey on what he would call "long wiggled roads" into "weirdish wild space."

Hardcover. New York , DC Comics, 1st thus, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Reprints early Superman stories in which the Man of Steel deals with corrupt officials, black-marketeers, and costumed villains with occasional help from Lois Lane. Issues 5-8 of Superman comics. Color illustrations. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Park Service,, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 58 pages, The famous cartoonist of WW2's Willie and Joe fame offers his take on America's War for Independence. Small price sticker on cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. The Monacelli Press , 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 264 pages. Richard Filipowski (1923-2008) was among the most gifted polymaths in the annals of American modernism. Whether as a painter, sculptor, or designer of furniture and jewelry, Filipowski developed a lush, abstract, and amazingly consistent visual language that marks him among the finest figures of midcentury art and design. As a student at the Institute of Design (formerly the New Bauhaus) in Chicago, he quickly became a protege of founder Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, who featured several of Filipowski's works in his seminal text Vision in Motion (1947); Filipowski was the only student Moholy-Nagy called upon to join the faculty, where he taught alongside Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. Recruited by Gropius to develop a course in design fundamentals at Harvard, which remains a cornerstone of design pedagogy to this day, he would move to MIT where he taught for more than three decades, until his retirement in 1988.With a foreword by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's daughter Hattula, Richard Filipowski: Art and Design Beyond the Bauhaus is the first monograph of this master, who over the course of his career created a unique body of work in diverse media that has largely, until recently, been held in private collections due to his relative lack of compulsion to seek media attention or worldly rewards. But now through the efforts of the Filipowski family and new attention by design scholars--several of whom contribute essays here on Filipowski's graphic and painted works, sculpture, furniture, and position in design history--the work is being revealed to a new generation of aficionados. Richard Filipowski is a rich document of a life and career that is poised to reenter the canon of modernism.

Hardcover. Philadelphia PA, Running Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two large hardcover volumes in a slipcase, 1200 pages. For the first time ever, here is the complete collection of every piece of art Don Martin published in MAD throughout his extraordinary thirty-year tenure (1957-1987). With all of Martin's strips, covers, posters, and stickers--presented in chronological order--it is nothing less than a masterpiece of comic genius. Complementing Martin's opus of published works are letters, sketches, and rare photos providing an in-depth look at the artist at work. Plus, scattered throughout are notes and original illustrations--commissioned for this volume--paying tribute to the artist and penned by MAD's most-notable personalities, including Al Jaffee, Mort Drucker, Jack Davis, Sergio Aragones, and more. Volume 1, covers 1956-1974 and Volume 2, covers the years 1974-1988. Both volumes are in an excellent condition, excellent binding and internally clean. Like new.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 345 pages. This volume includes a pig with an ominous resemblance to Nikita Khrushchev and a scruffy goat who looks exactly like Fidel Castro. Both assure Okefenokeeans that a one-party system is the way to go; all will be well economically, they explain, because "the shortage will be divided amongst the peasants." Other storylines spotlight Kelly's remarkable cast: Pogo Possum, Albert Alligator, Howland Owl, "Churchy" LaFemme, Beauregard Bugleboy, Porky Pine, Miz Ma'm'selle Hepzibah, Deacon Mushrat, and so many others. All 104 Sunday strips from those two years are included, with supplementary features (including comprehensive annotations and index) by comics historians R.C. Harvey, Maggie Thompson, and Mark Evanier. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages of text, 1478 b&w plates, 39 index pages. Two volume set, textured cloth covers, clean dustjackets, set shows little wear. Cardboard slipcase with paper chipping to edges.

Softcover. New York, Wm. H. Wise, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Comic strips by Clare Briggs that originally appeared in the New York Herald-Tribune. This being one volume of a seven volume set. Light wear to cover corners and edges. Clean, tight copy. Pebbled flexible cloth covers. Clean.

Hardcover. Paris, Editions Albert Morance, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 320 pages. Hardcover. Text in French. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings of decorative cast iron. Previous owners name and date written on front interior hinge flap. Dust jacket worn with tape repair, chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. AU, Lannoo, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages. A glimpse into the private world of an interior designer.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 434 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new condition. When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how -- years before music -- comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 30 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Prestel, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with yellow band, 248 pages. This beautiful book focuses on the distinctive and expressive power of Jackson Pollock's figurative paintings, drawings, and prints; a rarely studied aspect of his artistic career. Jackson Pollock's name has become synonymous with the abstract drip paintings that he famously created on the floor of his studio. Before these paintings, from the 1930s to the late 1940s, Pollock created figurative works, studying at one time under the painter Thomas Hart Benton and with the Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Pollock took up figuration again after his famous drip paintings. This book starts with the early decades and also treats Pollock's re-adoption of the figuration after his renowned abstract paintings. The Figurative Pollock features 100 paintings and works on paper. From rolling landscapes to experiments in non-Western totemic painting to sketches and drawings fueled by Jungian analysis, the enormous range of Pollock's early and late work is presented here. Brimming with confidence and a sense of freedom, distinct yet so easily related to Pollock's most famous oeuvre, these works contribute to an understanding of how the artist found his voice.

Softcover. NY, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. For the aspiring artist who wants to become an expert comic book inker, The DC Comics Guide to Inking Comics is the definitive, one-stop resource!Americas leading comic book publisher brings its superstar creators and classic characters to the third in an authoritative series of books on how to create comics. Legendary comic book inker Klaus Janson uses DCs world-famous characters-including Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman-to demonstrate an array of inking techniques, covering such topics as using textures, varying line weights, creating the illusion of three-dimensionality, and working with light and dark. Jansons lively, step-by-step instructions are informative, exciting-and clear enough for even beginners to follow. In addition, every technique shown in this guide conforms to actual industry standards.The perfect how-to on everything from basic inking materials to storytelling techniques, this one-stop sourcebook is packed with a wealth of tested techniques, practical advice, and professional secrets for the aspiring comic artist.

Hardcover. New York, Glitterati, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. illustrated in color and b&w. A visual survey of Black style from the 1940s through the 1970s. In publisher's shrinkwrap. This is the 2006 first printing with a different cover than the later reprint.

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The 1940s ushered in an era of musical experimentation and innovation at the Walt Disney Studios. For this volume, author Didier Ghez has unearthed hundreds of enchanting images--from early sketches to polished concepts for iconic features--by five exceptional artists who shaped the style of the Studio's animation during this period of unbridled creativity. With evocative descriptions and excerpts from the artists' journals and autobiographies, this magnificent collection offers a rare look at the visionaries who breathed life into some of the most beloved films of our time.

Softcover. US, University of Kentucky Art Museum, na, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 page catalog of the January 25-March 15, 1981, exhibition at the University of Kentucky Art Museum. Numerous black and white illustrations. Five color plates. Mild crease on front and back cover. No marking. Kentucky's Resident-painters: From the Ante-Bellum Era to World War I by Arthur F. Jones; In Pursuit of Success: Kentucky and the Visiting Artist, 1805-1865 by Bruce Weber; Selected Bibliography; Catalog Entries; Illustrations.

Softcover. Northampton MA, White Star Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 86 pages, exhibition catalog. Full of b&w plates. . Catalogue of works from the Charles Derby collection of African art. 136 pieces are pictured and described in brief. With an introduction by Derby, an exhibition checklist, and addendum.

Softcover. London, Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Unpaginated, a collection of sticker art reproduced in color. Color illustrated wrappers. Today's stickers are the new flyers, a major means of street-based communications, and are used by the hippest advertising agencies and the most underground messengers alike. This is the first book to cover this latest street-art phenomenon, and features truly international coverage of the sticker scene.

Softcover. London, Academy Editions, 1st pbk, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 130 pages, 8 color plates, 114 b&w illustrations. Quentin Bell justifies his study of Victorian painters and graphic artists not as a revivalist, but as an historian who feels the need to "exhibit the evidence" of a period not adequately covered by others. The chapters are: the age of fragmentation; the Teutonic influence; hard-edged Pre-Raphaelism; Academy notes; low art; from Rossetti to Art Nouveau; the New English Art Club; Sickett & the post-impressionists. Bookplate on inside front cover, small stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Scalo, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. This is Lagerfeld's own album of the photographic stories and sequences that he has created over the last eight years. Shot in black and white, often with models and costumes, his photos are at once beautifully composed, stylish, sensuous, literate and full of fantasy.

Softcover. Baltimore MD, Maryland Historical Society, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial wraps with color illustration and white lettering; 173 pages. 45 color, 88 b&w plates. Exhibition catalogue lists 83 extensively annotated works, and a Supplemental Catalogue lists an additional 13 works. Selected bibliography and short-list of titles. Each essay includes extensive notes. The definitive work on the early Afro-American portrait painter. Published to accompany the exhibition held in Baltimore, MD: Maryland Historical Society, Sept. 26, 1987 to Jan. 3, 1988, three other locations. Scarce. Previous owner's stamp and bookplate, short inscription on inside front cover. Related clipping, brochure laid in.

Softcover. Paris, Berggruen & Cie, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 28 pages, 23 color and b&w illustrations. The cover, which wraps around, is an original four-color lithograph made by Picasso for this exhibition booklet. French text, essay by Maurice Jardot. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Washington, National Gallery of Art, 2nd printing, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 519 pages. Softcover. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent, in beautiful condition. Pages clean and bright, unmarked. Binding tight. Published to accompany exhibition: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 5/1-7/31/88; The Art Institute of Chicago, 9/17-12/11/88; Grand Palais, Paris, France, 1/10-4/20/89.

Hardcover. US, Baby Tattoo Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 64 pages. SIGNED book plate. A beautifully produced and richly illustrated book that showcases the day-to-day adventures of independent girl-about-town Victoria Psismall and her pet land octopus Otto. Thirty panoramic, full-page illustrations humorously chronicle the duo's home and social activities that include (among other things) bathing, biking, dating, cooking, playing croquet, and pumpkin carving. Accompanying text explains the "do"s and "don't"s of living with a large land octopus. The book's art is extremely detailed, and each illustration tells its own visual story. The Victorian era characters and period-influenced design elements combine to create a wonderful, collectible art-object for those who still value the classic elegance of ink-on-paper. The hardcover binding is plussed with two-layer embossing and spot varnish, and the interior is printed on extra heavy paper. An exquisite volume for lovers of books, art and pets.