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Pentothal Postcardsby: Lal, David C.

Pentothal Postcards
by: Lal, David C.

Hardcover. New Jersey, Mark Batty Publisher, 1st, 2005-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible pictorial boards. 190 pages. This extraordinary and innovative marketing campaign was the brainchild of Abbott Pharmaceutical Company. Over 170 different postcards from about 80 different countries were sent over the course of 14 years.

Record # 350314

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The Concise British Flora in Colourby: W. Keble Martin

The Concise British Flora in Colour
by: W. Keble Martin

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 231 pages, richly illustrated, primarily in color. This book is filled with gorgeous color illustrations. 1486 species illustrated, nomenclature edited by Douglas Kent. Clean copy.

Record # 387433

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High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the MEtropolitan Museum of Artby: Reeder, Jan Glier

High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the MEtropolitan Museum of Art
by: Reeder, Jan Glier

Softcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 368872

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ORIGINAL VINTAGE MAGAZINE COVER:  New Yorker July 24 1965 -  scenic view from patio   by: Beatrice Szanton (Illust.)

ORIGINAL VINTAGE MAGAZINE COVER: New Yorker July 24 1965 - scenic view from patio
by: Beatrice Szanton (Illust.)

1965, Book: Very Good, Color art of patio overlooking vacation coastline by Szanton, 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.

Record # 384054

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Isle of 100,000 Gravesby: Vehlmann, Fabien

Isle of 100,000 Graves
by: Vehlmann, Fabien

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, ISoftcover, graphic novel llustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 350337

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Jongkind's Universe by: Hefting, Victorine

Jongkind's Universe
by: Hefting, Victorine

Softcover. Woodbury NY, Barron's , 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 90 pages, color illustrations. English language edition. Paintings of France and Holland by Dutch artist, Johan Barthold Jongkind [1819-1891]. A volume in the series, 'Les Carnets de dessins'. Clean copy.

Record # 396779

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First Ladies of the Poster: The Gold Collectionby: Gold, Laura

First Ladies of the Poster: The Gold Collection
by: Gold, Laura

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.

Record # 351416

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Horrible: An Account of the Sad Achievements of Progressby: Ungerer, Tomi and Art (Intro) Buchwald:

Horrible: An Account of the Sad Achievements of Progress
by: Ungerer, Tomi and Art (Intro) Buchwald:

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers with mild soil, illustrated throughout in b&w and color. An early title by the famous illustrator featuring satirical cartoons combined with photographic collage. Clean, no dust jacket.

Record # 374170

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Ingres (Drawing Gallery) by: Prat, Louis-Antoine

Ingres (Drawing Gallery)
by: Prat, Louis-Antoine

Softcover. Milano, 5 Continents , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 96 pages. Considered one of the greatest French draughtsmen of all time, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867). left thousands of preparatory drawings for his paintings, along with an incomparable series of almost five hundred graphite portraits that have always been deemed the highest expression of his genius. The Louvre collection offers excellent examples of these two aspects of Ingres' graphic activity; each work is accompanied by a brief comment. Clean copy.

Record # 383841

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George Price's Characters by: Price, George

George Price's Characters
by: Price, George

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and repaired dust jacket. A collection of 200 Price cartoons, mostly from The New Yorker. 96 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 396395

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Lil Abner: Meets the Shmoo, 1948, Vol. 14by: Capp, Al

Lil Abner: Meets the Shmoo, 1948, Vol. 14
by: Capp, Al

Softcover. Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. The most popular of Capp's hundreds of distinctive characters was the Shmoo. This lovable little creature loved mankind so much that it would sacrifice itself and turn into a ham steak, a gallon of milk or a dozen eggs: whatever its owner desired. Its whiskers made nice toothpicks and its eyes could be recycled as buttons. Most important, a Shmoo could reproduce faster than a rabbit. Thus, if you had one Shmoo, you were set. You didn't need to work at all. Thus did the apparent book for mankind become its curse and the powers that be decreed that all Shmoos must be exterminated. Capp's insightful morality tale was so popular that it spawned an unprecedented merchandising bonanza. Two introductions, by David Schreiner and by science fiction writer Harlan Ellison, are illustrated with various Shmoo toys manufactured. The large back cover photograph shows a selection of Shmoo merchandise in color from the Denis Kitchen collection. Also featured in this volume: Flying Sausages (parody of "Flying Saucers," a term first coined a few months earlier; Fearless Fosdick, Nightmare Alice, Salomey, Adam Lazonga, Moonbeam McSwine, Cousin Weak-Eyes and Marryin' Sam.

Record # 351444

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Morris Graves; Vision of the inner Eyeby: Kass, Ray

Morris Graves; Vision of the inner Eye
by: Kass, Ray

Softcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 174 pages. This catalog, featuring 130 b&w illustrations and 40 color plates cover almost all of Graves major paintings. This is a very nice and clean copy.

Record # 372395

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The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers - No. 9by: Shelton, Gilbert & Mayrides, Paul

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers - No. 9
by: Shelton, Gilbert & Mayrides, Paul

Softcover. Auburn CA, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages plus color wraps. Staple bound, $2.00 cover price. Color art by Selton inside- "The Idiots Abroad", part 2. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 374601

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Greek Art of the Aegean Islandsby: Dietrich von Bothmer

Greek Art of the Aegean Islands
by: Dietrich von Bothmer

Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 238 pages. Illustrated profusely in b&w and 16 plates in color. An exhibition sponsored by the government of the Republic of Greece and the Musee du Louvre. Metalwork, bronze, clay, marble: all manner of objects 4th millennium B.C. to 4th century B.C.

Record # 396569

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Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Lifeby: Davis, Linda H.

Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life
by: Davis, Linda H.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in a bright dust jacket. In this first biography of the great cartoonist, written with exclusive access to Addams's intimates and his private papers, we finally meet the man behind the famed cartoons and circling rumors. Here is his surprising childhood in New Jersey, the cartoon that offended the Nazis, the friend whose early death Addams long mourned. Here are his wives, the stories behind his most famous-and some of his most private-cartoons, and the Addams whom even his closest friends didn't know. With wit, humor, poignancy, and insight-enhanced by rare family photographs, classic and previously unpublished cartoons, and private drawings-Linda H. Davis paints an engaging and endearing portrait of a marvelous American original.

Record # 351528

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Letterheads: 100 Years of Great Design 1850 - 1950by: Cabarga, Leslie

Letterheads: 100 Years of Great Design 1850 - 1950
by: Cabarga, Leslie

Softcover. San Francisco , Chronicle Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A history of American typography and graphic design throughout the industrial age. 200 color illustrations throughout.

Record # 353319

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The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers No. 11by: Shelton, Gilbert & Mayrides, Paul

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers No. 11
by: Shelton, Gilbert & Mayrides, Paul

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, staplebound with $2.95 cover price. 32 pages illustrated in color by Shelton. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 374619

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Seeing and Not Believing: The Photography of Allan Chasanoff by: Monika Sziladi

Seeing and Not Believing: The Photography of Allan Chasanoff
by: Monika Sziladi

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 169 color plates. An introduction to the postmodern photographs of Allan Chasanoff, whose work interrogates and subverts the notion of photography as a truthful record of the real. From the 1960s onward, Allan Chasanoff (1936-2020) maintained a daily photographic practice, producing tens of thousands of images that pushed the limits of the medium and questioned its reliability as a document of reality. Preferring to experiment away from the art world, Chasanoff rarely exhibited his photographs, his art remaining unknown to all but a select circle of friends and collaborators. This catalogue is the first to survey his beguiling work. Monika Sziladi, Chasanoff's archivist, contributes an outline of the artists life and practice, tracing the development of his art from his early experiments with light, shadow, and color in his lens-shot photographs to his late-career foray into 3D printing, which he viewed as the latest frontier of photography. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 396752

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Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870sby: Conrads, Margret C.

Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s
by: Conrads, Margret C.

Hardcover. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages. illustrated mainly in color. Black cloth. Brand new copy still in original shrink wrap. Beautifully illustrated dust jacket. Gives an insight to Homers artistic growth trough the eyes of his critics.

Record # 605079

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Raymond Loewy and Streamlined Designby: Tretiack, Philippe

Raymond Loewy and Streamlined Design
by: Tretiack, Philippe

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.

Record # 379022

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White Towersby: Hirshorn, Paul; Izenour, Steven

White Towers
by: Hirshorn, Paul; Izenour, Steven

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press , reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. An interesting look at the first hamburger chain of restaurants White Towers. Includes numerous black and white images. The pioneering hamburger chain founded in 1926, never felt the need for advertising; it depended on its instantly recognizable building to say it all 189 pages, clean copy.

Record # 381246

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Turn: The Journal of an Artistby: Truitt, Anne

Turn: The Journal of an Artist
by: Truitt, Anne

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 214 pages. A follow up of Truitt's journal "Daybook." The author continues the exploration of her life as an artist, a woman, and a mother, focusing on the constant interplay between daily activities and choices and the broader context of history and ideas. Clean copy.

Record # 396776

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Kenwood: Paintings in the Iveagh Bequestby: Bryant, Julius

Kenwood: Paintings in the Iveagh Bequest
by: Bryant, Julius

Hardcover. Swindon, English Heritage, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 434 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The Iveagh Bequest at Kenwood House in Hampstead, London, is one of the world's great private art collections assembled by an individual. In quality it challenges the Frick collection in New York, with whose eponymous collector Iveagh was in competition for acquisitions during the great age of the industrial barons on both sides of the Atlantic, and the Wallace collection in London. They all saw collecting great art - much as the oligarchs of today - as ultimate status symbols.

Record # 460590

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The Artist and the Camera: Degas to Picassoby: Kosinski, Dorothy M.

The Artist and the Camera: Degas to Picasso
by: Kosinski, Dorothy M.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 336 pages. An exploration of the ways in which some of the most influential artists of the 19th and 20th centuries used photography in their painting and sculpture. Paintings, sculpture and photographs by such artists as Bonnard, Degas, Gauguin, Moreau, Munch, Picasso and Rosso are discussed and reproduced. Illustrated in color and B/W, index. Clean copy.

Record # 373370

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Basquiat: Boom for Realby: Dieter Buchhart (editor), Eleanor Nairne (editor), Lotte Johnson (co-author)

Basquiat: Boom for Real
by: Dieter Buchhart (editor), Eleanor Nairne (editor), Lotte Johnson (co-author)

Hardcover. New York, Prestel, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 294 pages, 259 color and 53 b&w illustrations. Focuses on Jean-Michel Basquiat's extraordinary breadth of influences, from graffiti to bebop jazz to Hollywood cinema, this exciting new survey charts his ground-breaking career. This work accompanied a major exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery.

Record # 353234

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Anne Truitt in Japanby: Lovatt, Anna / Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt in Japan
by: Lovatt, Anna / Anne Truitt

Hardcover. NY, Matthew Marks Gallery, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, brown-grey boards with white lettering; 139 pages, richly illustrated, in color. Created on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York from September 11th through October 23, 2015. This catalogue focuses on the formative drawings that Anne Truitt (1921-2004) made while living in Tokyo from 1964 to 1967, a pivotal moment for her, both artistically and intellectually. Though she later destroyed the sculptures she produced there (all in aluminum, a material she ultimately found unsuited to her intentions), this process of discovery was essential to the clarification of her sculptural vision. The innovations she developed in Japan, many in the form of drawings, would profoundly inform her lifelong practice. Clean copy.

Record # 396858

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Little Lulu On Paradeby: Marge (Marjorie Hendersen Buell)

Little Lulu On Parade
by: Marge (Marjorie Hendersen Buell)

Hardcover. NY/Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, black & white, 2-color cartoons from the Saturday Evening Post. Bright cardboard covers, clean, sharp. Dust jacket with edgewear, soil. Presumed first edition, price of 50 cents on front flap and *Little Lulu and Her Pals* only Lulu book listed on rear flap.

Record # 371318

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Erwin Blumenfeld: Photographs Drawings and Photomontagesby: De Paume, Jeu

Erwin Blumenfeld: Photographs Drawings and Photomontages
by: De Paume, Jeu

Softcover. Paris, Editions Hazan, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 273 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This landmark publication broadens our understanding of Blumenfeld's innovations, reuniting all the media used by the artist throughout his long career: drawing, photography, photomontage, and collage. The motifs of his experimental, sometimes overtly political, black-and-white photographs appear alongside numerous self-portraits and celebrity portraits, as well as the fashion photographs for which he is most known. Presenting some 150 images, this book provides a fresh understanding of Blumenfeld's photography for the commercial worlds of fashion and advertising.

Record # 352847

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House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collectionby: Gail S Davidson Floramae McCarron Cates Charlotte Gere

House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection
by: Gail S Davidson Floramae McCarron Cates Charlotte Gere

Hardcover. Washington DC, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Essays analyzing these beautiful, exquisitely detailed watercolors and their significance to the Museum's collection, accompanied by the watercolors and related objects from the permanent collection, document the evolution of the domestic interior in the nineteenth century, revealing the impact of economic, social, and political developments on the concept of the home.

Record # 350541

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Trunk Piecesby: Jacki Apple

Trunk Pieces
by: Jacki Apple

Softcover. Rochester NY, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 50 pages. b&w illustrations. Decorative red/black endpapers. Floral patterned front endpapers. Very clean copy, small amount of wear evident around spine. Limited to 300 softcover copies. Clean.

Record # 396796

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Herbert Ferberby: Goossen, E. C.

Herbert Ferber
by: Goossen, E. C.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 228 pages. Burgundy cloth cover with gilt pictorial and lettering to cover, and lettering to spine, acetate-protected color-illustrated dust jacket, 119 full-color illustrations and 128 b&w illustrations. Book in excellent condition; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 804718

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John Leech's Pictures of Life & Character: from the Collection of "Mr Punch" Vol Iby: Leech, John

John Leech's Pictures of Life & Character: from the Collection of "Mr Punch" Vol I
by: Leech, John

Hardcover. London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, reprint, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 284 pages. Vol I only. Red cloth with gilt designs and titles, all edges gilt. Covers with edge wear and soiling, small tears to cloth near spine. Damp stain spots on front a rear covers. End pages with foxing, otherwise clean and tight.

Record # 809343

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Men's Adventure Magazines: In Postwar America by: Max Allan Collins , Rich Oberg, et al.

Men's Adventure Magazines: In Postwar America
by: Max Allan Collins , Rich Oberg, et al.

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 352 pages. Paying homage to the American periodicals of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s that documented outrageous exploits, this hefty, comprehensive guide is packed full of colorful cover art, sumptuous sample spreads, and enlightening essays.

Record # 369876

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Norman W. Lewis, et al.by: Bill Hodges Gallery

Norman W. Lewis, et al.
by: Bill Hodges Gallery

Softcover. NY, Bill Hodges Gallery, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages with color and b&w plates throughout. Includes the work of Norman Lewis, Charles Alston, Milton Avery, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthe, Edward Clark, Sam Gilliam, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Charles White, Kehinde Wiley, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and more.

Record # 397240

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Marsden Hartleyby: Haskell, Barbara

Marsden Hartley
by: Haskell, Barbara

Softcover. New York, Whitney Museum & University of New York Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages illustrated throughout with plates in color and b&w. White pictorial stiff wrappers with light wear and some yellowing to back cover, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 605708

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Decoration and Furniture of English Mansions During the 17th and 18th Centuriesby: Lenygon, Francis

Decoration and Furniture of English Mansions During the 17th and 18th Centuries
by: Lenygon, Francis

Hardcover. New York , Scribners, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, B&W plates, many tipped-in. Beveled boards, slight warp to covers, 215 pages.

Record # 175101

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Forbidden Worlds: Volume 7: American Comics Group Collected Worksby: N/A

Forbidden Worlds: Volume 7: American Comics Group Collected Works
by: N/A

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 7. 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 350614

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Revealing Art by: Kieran, Matthew

Revealing Art
by: Kieran, Matthew

Hardcover. London/NY, Routledge, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 280 pages with index. Color and b&w illustrations. Why does art matter to us, and what makes it good? Why is the role of imagination so important in art? Illustrated with carefully chosen color and black-and-white plates of examples from Michaelangelo to Matisse and Poussin to Pollock, Revealing Art takes us on a compelling and provocative journey. Kieran explores some of the most important questions we can ask ourselves about art: how can art inspire us or disgust us? Is artistic judgement simply a matter of taste? Can art be immoral or obscene, and should it be censored? He brings such abstract issues to life with fascinating discussions of individual paintings, photographs and sculptures, such as Michelangelo's Pieta, Andres Serrano's Piss Christ and Francis Bacon's powerful paintings of the Pope. He also suggests some answers to problems that any one in an art gallery or museum is likely to ask themselves: what is a beautiful work of art? and can art really reveal something true about our own nature? Clean copy.

Record # 397282

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Ellsworth Kellyby: Goossen, E. C

Ellsworth Kelly
by: Goossen, E. C

Softcover. New York, MOMA, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 127 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers; yellowing to spine. Else a clean, tight copy. Illustrated with eighty-four reproductions, eighteen of which are in color, as well as fifty-one reference illustrations. Bibliography. Index.

Record # 451378

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MAD's Greatest Artists: Mort Drucker: Five Decades of His Finest Works by: Drucker, Mort

MAD's Greatest Artists: Mort Drucker: Five Decades of His Finest Works
by: Drucker, Mort

Hardcover. Running Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. MAD Magazine was an indispensable part of 'growing up' for 1950s/60s kids. The humor was witty, leg-pulling and hilarious. The art work, to this day, was of the highest order. Top cartoonists such as Jack Davis, Don Martin, Bob Clarke etc. graced it's pages for many years. Top of the rank must be Mort Drucker, whose caricatures of film and TV stars are second-to-none. Some of his very best work, dating from 1957 to 2009, is included in this hefty volume. The reproductions are slightly larger than the magazine format and excellent for studying the line-work of this remarkable artist. Included is a fascinating discussion between Mort and former MAD editor Nick Meglin.

Record # 361840

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13 Most Wanted Men: Andy Warhol and the 1964 World's Fair: Conversationsby: Ballon, Hilary

13 Most Wanted Men: Andy Warhol and the 1964 World's Fair: Conversations
by: Ballon, Hilary

Softcover. New York, Queens Museum, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages. Softcover. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This volume brings expert opinion and first-hand testimony to bear upon the events surrounding the creation and destruction of Andy Warhol's Thirteen Most Wanted Men at the 1964 New York World's Fair. The complex constellation of art, politics and gay life surrounding Warhol's mural and its painting-over comes alive in 13 interviews-with historian Hilary Ballon, critic Douglas Crimp, poet Diane di Prima, 1964 World's Fair head of television Albert Fisher, poet John Giorno, art historian Anthony Grudin, civil rights historian Felicia Kornbluh, former Warhol assistant and poet Gerard Malanga, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, art historian Richard Meyer, former Warhol assistant and photographer Billy Name, Rockefeller biographer Richard Norton Smith and architect and critic Mark Wigley. The interviews are introduced by the show's co-curator Larissa Harris, and accompanied by reproductions of all of the Thirteen Most Wanted Men; photographs of Warhol and the Fair by Factory regulars and photojournalists; and rarely seen archival documents from Warhol's Time Capsules.

Record # 353267

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Paintbox on the Frontier: The Life and Times of George Caleb Binghamby: Alberta Wilson Constant

Paintbox on the Frontier: The Life and Times of George Caleb Bingham
by: Alberta Wilson Constant

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y Crowell, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 193 pages including index, illustrated with 34 reproductions, some in color. George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) who painted his world as it really was, everyday people in their everyday lives. His family was one of the early pioneer settlers, moving to the frontier in 1819. George began is art career painting tavern signs, later graduating to portraits, views of everyday life and "river paintings". He also was a Missouri politician, holding several important offices. Clean copy.

Record # 397372

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Ballets Suedois (The Swedish Ballet)by: Hager, Bengt

Ballets Suedois (The Swedish Ballet)
by: Hager, Bengt

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st U.S., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 303 pages. With 264 illustrations, 145 in color. Oversized. Silver cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to corners and edges. White cardboard slipcase. Inside is bright and clean. A beautiful copy. Lavish look at Swedish Ballet, 1920-25, with ballet-by-ballet analysis.Glossary of names, list of illustrations, numerous b/w and color illustrations, b/w decorated endpapers; gray boards/silver decoration.

Record # 455421

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Regions of the Great Heresy - Bruno Schulz - A Biographical Portraitby: Ficowski, Jerzy

Regions of the Great Heresy - Bruno Schulz - A Biographical Portrait
by: Ficowski, Jerzy

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Remainder marks on top edge at spine. Light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 614462

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Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered (National Gallery of Art, Washington)by: Jr., Arthur K. Wheelock/E. Melanie Gifford, et al.

Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
by: Jr., Arthur K. Wheelock/E. Melanie Gifford, et al.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 320 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Jan Lievens (1607-1674) was one of the most fascinating and enigmatic Dutch artists of the 17th century. Daring and innovative as a painter, printmaker, and draftsman, he created powerful character studies, genre scenes, landscapes, formal portraits, and religious and allegorical images that were widely praised and valued during his lifetime. This beautiful book, the first overview of the full range of Lievens' career, features more than 50 paintings-many of them newly discovered in private collections-and more than 75 prints and drawings, providing a reassessment of his place in the history of art.

Record # 350567

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Degas: The Nudes by: Richard Thomson

Degas: The Nudes
by: Richard Thomson

Hardcover. NY, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. 226 illustrations, 50 in color, "Nudes comprised more than 20 percent of Degas' subject matter. His typical unclothed female is a slightly plump middle-class lady at her bath. Yet the French artist explored nudity in many guises. The symbolic figures of his Medieval War Scene and David and Goliath suggest vulnerable, naked humanity. Then there are the prostitutes of his brothel pictures, salaciously or humorously observed. There are women in meditative poses, asleep, dancing and, infrequently, making love to other women. There is a bit of the voyeur in Degas' images, but as British art historian Thomson shows, the painter transcended his own conventional categories of 'nice' bourgeois women and 'fallen' lower-class whores. His explorations of the nude in charcoal, pastel, oil and sculpture exude empathy, even nobility." Clean copy.

Record # 397555

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Poster Allure Xxx: Poster Auctions International, Incby: Rennert, Jack (Editor)

Poster Allure Xxx: Poster Auctions International, Inc
by: Rennert, Jack (Editor)

Hardcover. NY, Posters Please, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrations throughout.

Record # 351751

Price: $30.00 
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From A High Place - A Life Of Arshile Gorkyby: Spender, Matthew

From A High Place - A Life Of Arshile Gorky
by: Spender, Matthew

hardcover. NY, Knopf , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 448 pages. Black & white photos and illustrations. Like new. Purely out of artistic ambition, Armenian-American abstract painter Gorky (1895-1948; born in Turkey as Vostanig Adoian) fabricated a new identity, complete with an Ivy League education and personal histories with master artists, on arriving in the United States. Spender (Within Tuscany), who is married to Gorky's oldst daughter, unhesitatingly exposes the painter's many "tall tales." He also assesses Gorky's difficulty in arriving at his own aesthetic until late in life in terms of both the artist's ties to the artistic patriarchs of the previous generation, the Surrealists (including Breton, Duchamp and Brancusi) and his complex status as a forerunner who eventually became alienated from the New York Abstract Expressionists (particularly de Kooning and Rothko). Spender derives much information from anecdotal sources, including an interview with de Kooning, and assumes a chatty tone in dealing with other artists. But he becomes increasingly less sympathetic to Gorky, whose last years are presented from the perspectives of Spender's wife and her mother. Nonetheless, painting constantly despite failing health, family problems and critical indifference, Gorky's frustrations are heartbreaking. Equally compelling is the window opened on New York's art scene when it was still a small clique. Gorky was so in love with the "artist" archetype that he not only lied about himself but also plagiarized anecdotes, artistic statements, love letters and possibly even his own suicide note. Spender preserves the personal dimensions of his subject while demonstrating that the painter should have adopted a youthful declaration. "I shall be a great artist or if not a great crook"as his motto. 90 b&w illustrations.

Record # 201967

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Art of the Simon and Kirby Studio, Theby: Evanier, Mark

Art of the Simon and Kirby Studio, The
by: Evanier, Mark

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 384 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. In the 1940s Joe Simon and Jack Kirby started their partnership and created memorable characters such as Captain America and Sandman. This book includes artwork from Joe Simon's private archive, some of them have never been seen.

Record # 352695

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The Gentleman Says It's Pixies: Collier's Cartoons By Gardner Rea by: Gardner Rea

The Gentleman Says It's Pixies: Collier's Cartoons By Gardner Rea
by: Gardner Rea

Hardcover. NY, Robert M. McBride & Company, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 80 pages. Introduction by Ogden Nash. Edited by Gurney Williams. Rea's cartoons for Colliers, he also contributed heavily to the New Yorker. Paper starting to peel from spine, otherwise clean, sound copy.

Record # 397780

Price: $15.00 
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