Art

Softcover. NY, Dover, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. Harrison Fisher's portraits of healthy, poised, active, and confident women set the standard for the concept of American beauty during the early years of the twentieth century. The artist enjoyed enormous popularity from 1905 to 1920, serving as a judge in nationwide beauty contests and maintaining a celebrity status that was unparalleled for an illustrator. This original publication recaptures the images that made Fisher famous, compiling his very best black-and-white and color illustrations for Cosmopolitan, The Saturday Evening Post, and The Ladies Home Journal as well as for books and other publications. The successors to the stylish Gibson Girls created by Charles Dana Gibson, Fisher's idealized women reflect an aspirational degree of wealth and social ease. They ride horses, play tennis, swim, go motoring in newfangled automobiles, and graciously bask in the admiration of attractive young men. These century-old images from a moment in our country's cultural history will appeal to enthusiasts of graphic art and illustration as well as to students of American art and popular culture.

Softcover. Switzerland, Parkett Verlag, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Heavy paper covers in a bright color dust jacket. 209 pages, color and b&w illustrations, bilingual text - German and English. Sigmar Polke (born 1941) recently completed a series of 12 windows for the Grossmunster cathedral in Zurich, setting new standards for the mutual relationship between art and church. One group of seven Romanesque windows shows luminous mosaics of thinly sliced agate, some of it artificially colored, to produce pulsating blocks of back-lit color. Says Marina Warner, "The interior of rocks opens not only on unexpected colors... on once imprisoned now scintillating rays and gleams, but it also tunnels into the past, into the distant past of geological and cosmological millennia." For the remaining five windows, Polke designed images of figures from the Old Testament, based on medieval illuminations, which have themselves undergone transformation in the course of their long journey through time. Polke's figures now appear as radiantly contemporary icons created in colored glass, using a variety of traditional and customized techniques devised especially for this project. Minor wear to dj, lacks blue wrap-around band with title, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A Knopf , 1st, 1971, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial gray cloth with gilt title to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Light wear and sun to covers and spine, else a very nice, tight copy.

Softcover. Northampton MA, Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages. In 1960, Li'l Abner featured the return of one the wildest women ever to stalk the comics page when the sexy WOLF GAL armed the animal kingdom and declared war on the entire human race! Ten years before the first Earth Day, Al Capp delighted readers with this wild environmental fable, and horrified Fearless Fosdick fans with a tragic tale in which the rock-jawed detective gets fired from the force. Also in this volume, Capp skewered the rich and famous with a satire of Park Avenue plastic surgeons .

Hardcover. New Delhi, privately printed/Pasang Wangdu, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 282 pages., profusely illustrated throughout in color and black and white painting schematics. Parallel text in English and Tibetan. Private printing. Ribbon marker, clean copy. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. US, Sansom Foundation, Inc., 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The painter William Glackens (1870-1938) and his friends were among the liveliest and most influential American artists of the opening decades of the twentieth century. Their continued importance in the history of American art is explored in this informative collection of essays. Colin Bailey chronicles the beginnings of Albert C. Barnes' unparalleled collection of modern art, as well as Glackens' role in forming it, and Avis Berman investigates the friendship of John Sloan, Robert Henri and John Butler Yeats. Carol Troyen examines George Bellows' war paintings and Richard J. Wattenmaker probes the relationship between Glackens' paintings and sketchbooks. H. Barbara Weinberg documents how the leading American Impressionists and members of The Eight dealt with the pressures of economic survival. This profusely illustrated publication is an essential reference for curators, collectors and historians.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages. Presenting a new type of graphic fiction from a legendary family in American cartooning. Underground cartoonist Kim Deitch has recruited his entire cast of siblings to produce a unique, all-new "picto-fiction" pocket book. Deitch's Pictorama leads off with Kim's comic "The Sunshine Girl." Then it's time for Seth's prose short story "Children of Aruf," about a man and his dog... in a world where dogs talk. Third up is "Unlikely Hours," a paranoid picto-story about a conspiracy of sentient rats written by Seth and illustrated by Kim. Next comes "The Golem," once again written by Seth and decorated with a series of superb pencil illustrations by Simon, a prose novella about the mythical Jewish monster/protector. Kim wraps with "The Cop on the Beat, the Man in the Moon and Me," one last comic - this one autobiographical. The book features an introduction by the Academy Award-winning animator, cartoonist and illustrator Gene (Tom and Jerry) Deitch, who happens to be the proud father of the author.

1908, Book: Very Good, Two-color art of running girl in black bathing suit by James Montgomery Flagg. 10 X 13", small label. 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. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial cardboard covers, unpaginated. Over 250 b&w cartoons from the 40s: Syd Hoff, Soglow, Dave Breger, Ali, E. Simms Campbell, many others. No periodicals credited so assumed their first appearance. In a worn dust jacket with light soil, chipping.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Brodart covering dust jacket has two blue lines that bled through onto dust jacket. Internally clean and tight copy.

1917, Book: Very Good, Color art of woman in black hat seated before window by Neysa McMein. 11 1/2 X 14 3/4", mild crease, still 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. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 114 pages. Creator of the mono-maniacal Wile E. Coyote and his elusive prey, the Road Runner, Chuck Jones has won three Academy Awards and been responsible for many classics of animation featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd. Who better to do Chuck Jones than Hugh Kenner, master wordsmith and technophile, a man especially qualified to illuminate the form of literacy that Jones so wonderfully executes in the art of character animation? A Flurry of Drawings reveals in cartoon-like sequences the irrepressible humor and profound reflection that have shaped Chuck Jones's work. Unlike Walt Disney, Jones and his fellow animators at Warner Brothers were not interested in cartoons that mimicked reality. They pursued instead the reality of the imagination, the Toon world where believability is more important than realism and movement is the ultimate aesthetic arbiter.

1935, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon of little girl thanking dad for her birthday gift of a doll. Art by William Steig. 8 1/4 X 11 1/2", 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.

1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Woman in high-backed chair, sewing patch work, art by Neysa McMein. 10 1/2 X 13 1/2", 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.

1952, Book: Very Good, Color art of toddler rumagining through guests belongings while they party in the living room. Painting by Stevan Dohanos. 10 X 13", 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.

Softcover. London, Korero Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 576 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to wrappers. A celebration of the stunning and stylistically varied headline lettering that existed before the advent of phototypesetting or the computer. Collects more than 4500 examples

1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Theatrical Number, "Not in the Cast", art by James Montgomery Flagg. 8 1/2 X 11", 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.

1931, Book: Very Good, Color art of small boy dressed in blue holding the American flag by Jessie Wilcox Smith. 8 1/4 X 11 1/2". 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. np, privately printed, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt title and illustration, 127 pages. Issued as a Christmas keepsake for the artist's friends, a gathering of b&w cartoons selected by Ding from over 16,000 done in his career. No date but he was in his middle eighties when it was published, so 1960-61 most likely. Clean, bright copy with gift greeting from him and his wife Penny tipped onto the front fly leaf. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. No dust jacket. Profusely illustrated throughout in black & white and color. 433 pages. This book examines the technical and aesthetic experimentation that went into printmaking, workshop practices, and the material and social contexts of print production, and it gives the fullest account ever written of the ways in which Renaissance prints were produced, distributed, and acquired. David Landau and Peter W. Parshall pose a range of practical questions about the production of prints. They investigate, for example, what materials were used, how they were acquired, and how a Renaissance printmaker's workshop operated. They explore the evidence that individual prints were beginning to be esteemed as works of art rather than as inexpensive substitutes for them, and the relationship between prints made to be collected and those of a more ephemeral nature intended for a wider audience. They discuss how prints were valued during the period, including the relative value of woodcuts to engravings, and engravings to etchings. And they investigate how prints evolved in relation to the pictorial arts of the Renaissance generally. Clean, bright copy. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalogue of Alfred Thompson Bricher. Softcover, 103 pages; plates in black & white; chronology. Cover: "A Pensive Moment" (color). In very good condition.

Softcover. Escondido, CA, California Center for the Arts, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 148 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrapper edges. Only 1000 copies made. 62 plates, 36 in color & 53 illustrations. The first comprehensive monograph on the seven-decade career of the "passionate humanist" Harry Sternberg. His work runs the gamut from closely observed glimpses of life in New York in the 1920s and 1930s , through the WPA era, to metaphorical images of terror and hope and lyrical landscapes. Judaica is the strongest influence. "Exhibition checklist" (pp. 102-107); "Public collections and murals" (pp. 108-109); "Chronology" (p. 110-21) includes 39 illustrations; "Exhibition history" (pp. 122-33); "Bibliography" (pp. 134-47)

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 129 photographs in full color. Using a range of natural materials, Andy Goldsworthy "creates outdoor sculpture that manifests, however fleetingly a sympathetic contact with the natural world. Before they disappear, or as they disappear, Goldsworthy records his works in the superb color photographs that are the subject of this book" (dj flap).

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, color illustrations. Still in publishers shrink-wrap. Rear cover of dust jacket shows some bubbles/de-lamination. Otherwise like new. Retrospective of Brunhoff's paintings (watercolors) that show the detail, the richness and the finnesse of the original's.

Softcover. New York, Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1982 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. A history of the classic VW ad campaign that began in 1959. Profusely illustratedClean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color photographs throughout. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Gilt titles on spine. Minor shelf wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. A collection of 250 glamorous images chronicle the simultaneous evolution of fashion photography and fine jewelry, featuring extraordinary photographs that range from Richard Avedon's portrait of Elizabeth Taylor bedecked in cultured pearls to Scavullo's photograph of Paloma Picasso wearing her own jewelry designs.

Softcover. London, Marvel Comics, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 49 pages illustrated in color by Ian Gibson. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Richmond, VA, University of Virginia Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 93 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. In an evocative blending of words and images, painter-photographer Carol Burch-Brown and poet David Rigsbee offer a depiction of trailers and their inhabitants. The understated imagery of Burch-Brown's 48 photos implies rather than proclaims the living conditions of these mobile-home dwellers, while Rigsbee's meditative, autobiographical essay parallels and illuminates the subjects and chronicles family histories with trailers.

Softcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages. 3 color, 28 bw plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1987 exhibition featuring examples of silver pieces crafted by Tiffany and Company. With an essay by Charles H. Carpenter Jr. INSCRIBED BY CARPENTER on the title page. The exhibition catalogue cites more than 70 pieces, and nearly half are pictured here. Clean copy.

NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black design, unpaginated. 224 original cartoons and drawings of George Price; including excerpts from Price's diary recounting his daily antics working for the New Yorker, Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post. Bump to bottom corner of front cover, otherwise clean, very good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. US, IDW Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover issued w/o a dust jacket. Jack Cole's often overlooked horror work finally gets the hardcover treatment. The stories hit many of the usual horror themes, and a few unique ones, with many based in the crime genre. Cole brings his own outlook to the idiom; casually violent and gruesome, with kinetic artwork and splash panels/pages that will knock your socks off.Offered chronologically, the earlier stories outshine most of the later ones. The best ones are "borrowed" from a couple of "Weird Tales" authors- "Custodian of the Dead" (Henry Kuttner's "Graveyard Rats") and "The Corpse That Wouldn't Die" (Clark Ashton Smith's "The Return of the Sorcerer"). Cole's own stories are pretty original, compared to the mostly ho-hum output of contemporaries like Stan Lee's ATLAS line, and he doesn't try to imitate the EC horror comics like 99% of the rest of the field did. Some of the stories are ludicrous and will make you roll your eyes ("Goddess of Murder" especially), but it's refreshing to see a different take on the comic book horror story.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 600 pages, illustrated throughout with 504 illustrations, including 242 plates in full color. Large heavy book. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Bijou Publishing Empire, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 50 cents cover price, 32 pages, some pages with wear, mild wrinkles, cover starting to split at spine top 2 inches. Cover art by Crumb, inside stories by Jay Lynch, R. Crunb, Justin Green, Jay Kinney.

NY, Harper and Brothers, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Woman with her little girl strolling by the ocean with a vintage convertible behind them. Art By Koerner. 10 X 13".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. New York, Praeger, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 117 pages of text followed by black & white plates. Minor age darkening along top edge. Dust jacket worn along edges - now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. US, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012-06-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages, 175 color illustrations. Hardcover, like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Softcover. New York, National Arts Club, 1st wraps, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, tan paper wraps with brown decoration. 72 pages. 7 tipped-in B&W plates. The past year, rules and membership list of the private New York artist's club. Members included famous artists like George Bellow. Scarce. Paperback.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 356 pages, 27 b&w illustrations, index. Black cloth spine over blue boards, spine label. SIGNED BY BEAUX on the title page and dated June 1st 1931. Scarce thus.

Hardcover. New York , Random House, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, approx. 150 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Selections from 20 years' of periodical and newspaper cartoons, chiefly caricaturing political figures of the era; with the artist's 1-page foreword.

Hardcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press/Phaidon, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Some agewear to dust jacket, but no rips and still shiny. Previous owner inscription on title page. A touch of foxing to back pages, but doesn't affect text. In very good condition.

Softcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 350 pages, color illustrations. Eighty-two comic artists are featured, varying greatly in age, experience, and style. Each artist is introduced with a few paragraphs including some biographical material and quotations regarding their style, influences, and approach to their work, followed by approximately four large pages per artist of previously unpublished doodle or draft drawings from their sketchbooks, totaling 700 individual illustrations.

Softcover. New York, Independent Curators International, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages with color illustrations throughout. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This exhibition catalog explores the theme of space exploration in art.

Softcover. Hanover NH, Steerforth Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers.

1964, Book: Very Good, Color art by Getz of evening diners by large open window. 8 3/4 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 THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Softcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 110 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. The "nasty, negative, misanthropic" comic genius proves he has a sweet side.Cute little kittens, angels, and babies? Flowers, ice cream cones, and German boy bands? Coming from, supposedly, the creepiest and most pessimistic artist of his generation? Yes indeed, there is a "sweeter side" to R. Crumb. These delectable illustrations-whether depicting Bernie the Cat pawing for his master's affection, the timeworn beauty of a French village cul-de-sac, or a quiet night chez Crumb-wonderfully exemplify the many tender moments that have, until now, played second fiddle to the cult icon's more raunchy sketches. Now Crumb harkens back to his humble American beginnings as a Cleveland greeting card illustrator, when his innate knack for the grotesque had to be suppressed for the perennial appeal of "cute." The result is this cheery and blue-skied world, where readers of every conceivable personality type, age group, even sexual persuasion can finally enjoy the artist's momentary lapse from naughty to nice. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout

Softcover. New York, Peter T. Tunney , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. Extensive color photographs throughout. Illustrated end papers. Mild soil to back cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

1967, Book: Very Good, Color art by Getz of barman lowering awning on city street. 8 3/4 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 THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Rockport Publishers, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Work from a diverse pantheon of internationally known designers captures the fluidity, the sensitivity and the art of designing with type. These stylists and practitioners of typographic virtuosity provide a range o work which has individuality, attitude and graphic flair. Collectively they demonstrate the power of type in contemporary design.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1991, Large hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Uncommon monograph regarding British ornithological painter Basil Ede with contributions by H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Walter H. Annenberg, and Jack Warner plus an essay by Robert McCracken Peck. Includes 103 color plates including one foldout as well as 15 b/w illustrations. Clean copy.

1964, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon of city sophisticates buying produce from country folk. 8 3/4 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 THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.