Art

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 85 pages + prints. B&w illustrations. Blue leatherette, gilt lettering to spine. previous owner's inscription in front. Price clipped. Dust jacket with minor edge wear, somewhat sunfaded. Very nice, clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Vintage Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 101 pages. Interview with American artist, David Salle by Peter Schjeldahl. 65 pages of text (interview) as well as color and black & white plates by Salle. In very good condition. Cover is a black & white photograph of David Salle.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages. A quarterly anthology of literary comics. Contributors include Tim Hensley, Ray Fenwick, Paul Hornschemeier, Sophie Crumb, Jim Woodring, Kurt Wolfgang, others.

Softcover. US, 21 Pub, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. During his lifetime, Francis Bacon maintained that he painted directly onto canvas without the benefit of preparatory studies. Since his death in 1992, however, several groups of works on paper have come to light, offering amazing new insights into Bacon's working methods and personal obsessions. "Bacon's Eye" showcases a unique collectiion of works on paper that were bundled up and given by the artist to his friend Barry Joule just prior to his death. This collection includes a remarkable album of 70 oil sketches that relate to his work from the '50s and '60s, as well as over 900 "working documents": images torn from books, magazines and newspapers that have been painted and sketched over, revealing an artist's-eye-view of some of the most important people and events of the 20th century. As of yet, these works have not been officially recognized as being by Bacon. Permission to to show these works alongside finished paintings was denied by the Bacon Estate. The gallery, 21 Publishing, and a host of Bacon experts firmly believe in the authenticity of these works. This book, along with an exhibition at the Barbican Gallery in London, are a means of allowing the public to judge for itself. Edited by Georgia Mazower. Foreword by John Hoole. Introduction by Mark Sladen. Essay by Mark Sladen.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society, 1st, 1939-47, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes. 293+468 pages. B&w illustrations throughout both volumes. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Dust jackets in protective mylar cover, some pieces missing from spine and some dark age stains on vol. 2. Both copies excellent shape, volume 1 looks almost new, while volume 2 has aged gracefully. A very nice, tight and clean set.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacker with a closed tear. 297 pages, color plates. Robert Rauschenberg is a work of collaborative oral biography that tells the story of one of the twentieth century's great artists through a series of interviews with key figures in his life-family, friends, former lovers, professional associates, studio assistants, and collaborators. The oral historian Sara Sinclair artfully puts the narrators' reminiscences in conversation, with a focus on the relationship between Rauschenberg's intense social life and his art. The book opens with a prologue by Rauschenberg's sister and then shifts to New York City's 1950s and '60s art scene, populated by the luminaries of abstract expressionism. It follows Rauschenberg's eventual move to Florida's Captiva Island and his trips across the globe, illuminating his inner life and its effect on his and others' art.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, 90 pages. Humorous verse describing famous plays, illustrated with black and white drawings by Rea Irvin. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket is present but poor condition. Book itself is clean and bright.

Hardcover. London, Prion, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 368 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Tucson, University of Arozona, 1st, 1974, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Limited edition, 1/2500 copies. Green cloth with dark green title to spine. White pictorial dust jacket with minor wear to edges, else like new. 4 color, 147 bw plates. Catalogue at rear lists 184 works. Foreword by John I.H. Baur. Introduction by Martin H. Bush. Main essay by Sheldon Reich, with notes. Includes reproductions of many etchings. A terrific copy of this uncommon title.

Hardcover. Paris, Hachette, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 48 pages illustrated in color. FRENCH LANGUAGE, graphic novel. Clean copy.

Softcover. Paris, Books & Co., 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 169 pages. A volume on French Art Nouveau design, architecture and interior decoration. Features designs by Emile Galle, Alphonse Mucha, Paul Signac and others. Color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 438 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. Buffalo / NY, Albright-Knox / Abbeville Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog. 156 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Shows nearly a hundred of the American artist's paintings, includes an interview with Motherwell, and discusses the development of his career. Red pictorial stiff wrappers. Slight wrinkle to back cover and minimal wear to edges, else like new.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, A book of essays and cartoons given out by Volkswagen dealers to their customers. Contributions by artists and writers such as Charles Addams, Harry Golden, William Steig, Jean Shepherd, Virgil Partch, George Price, Roger Price, Charles Saxon and others. Photos of a number of the contributors. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 102 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Cover boards bound in tan cloth, gilt title on spine. In beautiful condition. More than a biography of an important western artist, it is a saga of the times as related through an artist's eyes, along with a timely account of the artist's life on the frontier.

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages, 175 b&w cartoons by Lorenz that ran in the 1980s. Illustrated wraps.

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 201 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Minor wear to edges, slight wrinkle to lower front cover, else like new. This exhibition catalog explores the artist, his history, his views and his works in as comprehensive a fashion as any living artist could desire. Black and white and full-color plates on heavy coated paper. Essays by Mark Rosenthal and Richard Marshall. Exhibition travelled to Philadelphia, the Whitney in NY, Berkeley U. Art Museum, Walker Art Center and the Corcoran in Washington.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press , 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 311 pages, b&w illustrations. In the 1930s and 1940s, English fashion houses, spurred by economic and wartime crises, put London on the map as a major fashion city. In this book, Michelle Jones examines the creation of a London-based couture industry during these years, exploring how designer collaboration and the construction of specific networks and narratives supported and shaped the English fashion economy. Haute couture-the practice of creative made-to-measure womenswear-was widely regarded as inherently French. Jones shows how an English version emerged during a period of economic turbulence, when a group of designers banded together in a collective effort to shift power within the international fashion system. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Edition, 1992, 102 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cream cover boards, decoration in brown on front cover, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket price-clipped, excellent. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. Go climb a tree, cats! it's the year of the dog--thanks to the 101 inimitable cartoons in this book, a whole glorious, uproarious world of dogs from more than sixty-five years of The New Yorker.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press : Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 379 pages. Like new in publishers shrink wrap. Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) has been tackling the challenge of self-portraiture throughout his prolific career. What began as an unorthodox investigation of the genre has become a masterful engagement spanning five decades. In this extraordinary compilation, which includes hundreds of previously unpublished pictures, we follow the famous photographer through the years as his personal and creative lives unfold and intertwine. Produced to the highest production standards and featuring over 400 duotone images--from his first self-portraits, taken with cable release in hand, to recent images of the photographer with his family and extended network of friends--In the Picture explores Friedlander's various guises throughout a rich and colorful life.

Hardcover. London, Gordon Fraser, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Full color and black & white examples of fine Victorian book design. Some light foxing to preliminary pages and to blue cloth cover. Clean, tight copy. Traces the evolution of publishers' bindings from the printed paper wrappers which were normal at the beginning of the nineteenth century (when most purchasers of books had them bound by their own bookbinder), through the introduction of cloth by Pickering in about 1820, and on through the heyday of gold and coloured blocking down to the end of the Victorian period. This book will be invaluable to book collectors, bibliophiles, and dealers in rare books.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 288 pages, color & b/w plates, sources, index.

Softcover. Princeton WI, Kitchen Sink, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Softcover, color cover art by R. Crumb. 32 b&w pages with art by Justin Green, Joel Beck, others. Stories by Harvey Pekar, Ted Richards.

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 478 pages, hardcover. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Illustrated covers. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A collection of comics from the 60s - the early 80s, with numerous stories, several covering Shade and another short lived character of his, Stalker.

Softcover. Sarasota FL, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Non-Paginated. About 40 pages with 23 black & white illustrations. Some light spotting along top edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 426 pages plus 322 b&w plates in rear of book. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean and bright.

Hardcover. New York , Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Blue boards stamped in white, in an edgeworn dust jacket. 140 pages of b&w cartoons from the New Yorker.

Hardcover. London, Osprey Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 134 pages, a collection of 250 illustrations from the archives of the Illustrated London News. Black cloth spine and boards, no dust jacket issued.

Softcover. Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts/Smithsonian, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages. Softcover. Catalog for Exhibition February 23-May 13, 1973. Black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Lewiston ME, Bates College, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog, 40 pages illustrated in color. A twenty year retrospective, May 20-August 26, 1990, Museum of Art, Olin Arts Center, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York, St. Martins, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Softcover with light edge wear to paper wrappers. Black and white line cartoons throughout by author. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages, color illustrations throughout. In publisher's shrinkwrap. Owen Jones was, and still remains, a highly influential force in the world of architecture and design. His prolific and impressive work--captured here in its various stages through drawings, architectural plans, and photographs--is as current, imaginative, and important now as when it first emerged more than 125 years ago. Owen Jones: Design, Ornament, Architecture & Theory in an Age in Transition fills a serious gap in the history of Victorian design. In his early career Jones was recognized as an authority on Oriental design. In the 1850s he was commissioned to decorate the interior of Joseph Paxton's magnificent World's Fair Crystal Palace in London. Other signature projects include St. James' Hall, the Crystal Palace Bazaar, Osler's Glass Shop, and Eynsham Hall at Oxford. In 1856 he completed his monumental Grammar of Ornament, which remains one of the most influential works on design ever published and is a source for many artists and designers today. More than just an architect, Jones' skills were applied to designing interiors, books, textiles, furniture, and carpet. His philosophy can most accurately be expressed in his words, "Form without color is like a body without a soul."

Hardcover. Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 340 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs, 2 fold-outs in rear. Dust jacket spine faded, light wear to corners, edges. Clean, tight copy.

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.

Softcover. Kansas City, Andrews McMeel, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Tight copy. Cartoons by Cullum.

Softcover. Milwaukee WI, Haggerty Museum of Art, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, illustrated in color. Essays by Octavio Paz, Andre Breton and Sabine Eckman. Like new.

Softcover. New York, Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 147 pages. Softcover. Full color illustrations. Light bump to top right corner. Clean, unmarked copy.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1998, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Baywatch Babes on fold-out cover. This month articles feature: Navy flier shows her stuff, breaks the Playboy barrier; Interview with Paul Reiser; Nascar, history of the sexual revolution, 60 to 69 (make love not war), playmate Anne Randalll and more.

Softcover. Canada, Vancover Art Gallery, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages. Softcover with dust jacket. Light musty odor. Clean, tight copy otherwise. Black and white and color pictures throughout.

Hardcover. Prion, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages. In terms of both words and images the world had never seen the like of the American comic book. They were bizarre, morbid, lurid, risque and bursting with subconscious desires of burgeoning youth culture. By the time 1954 arrived their were 500 different comics being published by 35 different companies, selling over 60 million copies a month between them. This is the history of the era and the art it produced. The book looks at the pioneers of the comic book and the comic's founding links with sleazy pulp magazines; the campaign for censorship; the fraught relationship between the comic book artists and their publishers; how what they did was rarely recognized as art at the time - and of course the comics themselves.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Deborah Caplan & Associates, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. Black and white comics by Matt Groening. True first edition - stated first printing December 1985 0n copyright page. Measures 12" X 12". Bright, clean copy.

Softcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 386 pages, b&w illustrations. The four essays in this volume constitute Derrida's most explicit and sustained reflection on the art work as pictorial artifact, a reflection partly by way of philosophical aesthetics (Kant, Heidegger), partly by way of a commentary on art works and art scholarship (Van Gogh, Adami, Titus-Carmel). The illustrations are excellent, and the translators, who clearly see their work as both a rendering and a transformation, add yet another dimension to this richly layered composition. Indispensable to collections emphasizing art criticism and aesthetics.

Hardcover. Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with black and white illustrations by Heath Robinson.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pages. Before Spider-Man, the legendary comic-book artist Steve Ditko drew horror comics that were not yet hobbled by the Comics Code Authority (adopted in Oct. '54). These graphic stories featured bloodshed, dismemberment and the ugly ends of the lives of the twisted inhabitants of Steve Ditko's imagination. Following up on Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko, Blake Bell's 2008 best-selling critical retrospective of Ditko's career, The Best of Steve Ditko Vol. 1 will, for the first time, feature spectacular full-color reprints of every story from those first two years of his career. Beginning with Ditko's very first story, readers will see the initial works of an artist already at a level of craftsmanship that exceeded most of his peers'. The book will also feature editor Bell's insightful historical notes.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue grey pictorial slipcase with ink smudging on bottom, with fold-out illustrations accordion style from west side to east side and folds out the other side for eastside to westside view of city. Light wear to slipcase, otherwise very good condition.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with pages and covers in pristine condition. Like new, in shrinkwrap. Rosenberg's critial essays on the theatre. Originally published in 1970. CONTENTS: The stages: geography of action; A psychological case; From play acting to self; Criticism-action; Actor in history; Guilt to the vanishing point; Missing persons. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 140 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Lightly faded on spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front inside wrapper.

Softcover. Poster Auctions International, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 148 pages. Nowhere are we given a more profound glimpse into the dawning stages of women's emancipation than in turn-of-the-century posters. In this revealing book with 206 full-color posterswe are presented with women stepping out of the confining traditional roles which they were cast and exercising their new-found liberation. We see them taking to the roads on bicycles, getting behind the wheel of automobiles, hoisting an aperatif, attending a ball unescorted and we are provided with glimpses into women's burgeoning, nascent sexual freedom. This volume features all the top artists of the period: Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Grasset, Chret, Mucha, De Feure, Cappiello, Steinlen, Grn, Pal, Bradley, Penfield and others. These lively images not only reflected their time, but did much to inspire this new-found freedom.

NY, Harry Abrams, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages, 575 illustrations, more than 100 plates in color. Like new condition.

Softcover. Fabrica, Deicide Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Classic Italian film poster art is renowned as being among the most accomplished, creative and dynamic of its kind. From the post-war period through to the 1980s, Italian artists consistently produced posters with sumptuously stunning designs and imagery '' not least in the Western genre, where the invention of the ''Spaghetti Western'' gave abrasive new life to a dying form of cinematic narrative. ULTRA WILD WEST collects more than 80 film poster designs by a wide range of acclaimed Italian artists, in full-color, full-page reproductions showcasing some of the world''s most innovative and eye-blasting graphic artwork, enhanced by rare production photographs which bring the book''s total images to over 100. Clean, like new.