Art

1971, Book: Very Good, Color art by Steinberg of NY city streets populated with his iconic figures. 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. Kunsthalle Bremen & Verlag Fred Jahn, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black cloth with dust jacket. Text in German by numerous contributors. illustrated checklist to the exhibition. 170 pages with 69 four-color plates and numerous b/w reference illustrations. GERMAN LANGUAGE.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Presents selections from comic books from 1938 to 1955 that feature the adventures of characters such as Superman, Batman, Pogo, Captain Marvel, and Donald Duck. A list of comics included: Action Comics #1 (First appearance of Superman); Detective Comics #29 (Origin of Bat-man); All-American Comics #20-#14 (First appearance of the Red Tornado, and other Red Tornado stories); Police Comics #1 and #13 (First appearance of Plastic Man, and Woozy Winks); Captain Marvel Adventures #100 (Captain Marvel Battles the Plot Against the Universe); Sub-Mariner #4 (Dr. Dimwit by Basil Wolverton); Tessie the Typist #8 (Powerhouse Pepper by Basil Wolverton); Jingle Jangle Comics #5, 24#, (The Pie-faced Prince by George Carlson); Little Lulu Four Color 74 and Little Lulu #38, #40, #80; Walt Disney's Christmas Parade #1 (Donald Duck Christmas story by Carl Barks); Animal Comics #1, Pogo Possum #3, #8 (Pogo the Possum and Gang by Walt Kelly); The Spirit supplements August 10, 1941, September 5, 1948, September 11, 1949 (Great Spirit stories by Will Eisner); The EC Collection (Frontline Combat No. #4, Two-Fisted Tales #25, Mad #4 (Superduperman vs. Captain Marbles), Mad # 18, Impact #1).

Softcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, December 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 236 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. A very clean, tight copy. Resulting from a groundbreaking, four-venue exhibition, Theme & Improvisation features exquisite color reproductions of works from Kandinsky's abstract oeuvre as well as of works by thirty-eight remarkable American artists - some world-renowned, others less well known. Based on important new research into the art of the American avant-garde, and illustrated with many beautiful, often revelatory works of art, this book points the way to a new interpretation of the art of the first half of the twentieth century.

Softcover. Gloustershire UK, Tempus, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages illustrated in color and b&w. A collection of the British artist's drawings of archaeological sites as well as a sampling of his illustrations from the many historical books he has illustrated. Mild crease to book. Clean.

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.

Hardcover. UK, PS Artbooks, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. Collects July/August 1951 to March/April 1952, issues 1-5.

Hardcover. New York, Arno Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, 2 volumes complete. 331 + 404 pages with 354 plates. Originally printed by Doubleday, Doran in 1929. In this edition the color illustrations are reproduced in black-and-white.. Cream colored boards. Light smudging to covers and edges. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 375 pages. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Martin Kemp examines the major optically oriented examples of artistic theory and practice from Brunelleschi's invention of perspective and its exploitation by Leonardo and Durer to the beginnings of photography. In a discussion of color theory, Kemp traces two main traditions of color science: the Aristotelian tradition of primary colors and Newton's prismatic theory that influenced Runge, Turner, and Seurat. His monumental book not only adds to our understanding of a large group of individual works of art but also provides valuable information for all those interested in the interaction between science and art. "This beautifully made volume . . . shows us the unity of the visual study of nature-the exalted mutual task of Renaissance science and art."-Scientific American. Clean copy. NOTE: Due to weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages of single and multiple panel humorous cartoons with sports and leisure themes.

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 216 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Collects issues #12 through #16 of comic book "Tomb of Terror" published by Harvey from November 1953 to July 1954.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, December 1, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Black cloth cover, embossed design, very little wear. Dust jacket has very slight wear to some edges. Die-cut slipcase has some edgewear. 343 illustrations, 333 are in full color. A bright and clean copy.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped with white lettering, decoration. Delightfully illustrated history of interior design and furniture. 48 pages, 2-color art throughout by the authors. Small library stamp on title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 600 pages. Henry Frick, remembered by art lovers today for his splendid collection of old-master paintings by Rembrandt, Bellini, and others that make up New York's Frick Museum, was one of the 19th century's worst robber barons. Brutal with workers, he never hesitated to hire mercenary armies to kill railway and mine strikers. Frick's was such a bloody and vicious climb to a pot of gold that his descendents have been understandably reluctant to allow historians full access to his papers. Finally, his great-granddaughter, Martha Sanger, a noted steeplechase and hunting enthusiast, decided to write about the life of her ancestor, and was allowed full use of the archives.Sanger's publisher, Abbeville, has done her proud with a luxuriously produced volume in which Sanger offers many theories about why Frick bought certain works of art. And although art historians may dismiss her black-and-white analyses of a collector's motivations--based, as she admits, on her own years in psychoanalysis--they at least reflect how Frick's own family saw him. Among the reproductions are famous pictures by Goya, Greco, and Gainsborough, but also many others rarely reproduced, perhaps because they are typically bad-taste 19th-century art, showing that even Frick bought some duds. Whether or not he acquired paintings, as Sanger asserts, because they reminded him of a daughter who died in early childhood, Frick was still a major historical figure, and his life needs this kind of voluminous treatment in order to complement harsher portraits by professional historians like Samuel Schreiner, who subtitled his own 1995 book from St. Martins Press The Gospel of Greed.

Hardcover. New York , Rizzoli, 1st, 2008-10-14, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, profusely illustrated in color. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. In the current world of twentieth-century design collecting, the trend has shifted away from accessible, mass-manufactured modernist furniture and toward designs that were custom-made or produced in very limited editions, with emphasis on American studio design of the 1940s to the 1990s. In contrast to the mass-produced mid-century furniture by Knoll and Herman Miller, American studio designs of the same period focused on novel forms and exquisite craftsmanship. Ranging from the organic shapes of George Nakashima and Vladimir Kagan to metalworks by Paul Evans, these limited production designs were highly sought after in their days by original tastemakers and movie stars. In the last decade, a revival for these rare designs began with connoisseurs such as Tom Ford. Modern Americana is the first full survey of the designs of this prolific but forgotten period, bringing to life again the works of Samuel Marx, Billy Haines, Wendell Castle, T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Karl Springer, James Mont, and many others -- including J.B. Blunk, Michael Coffey, Wharton Esherick, Arthur Espenet Carpenter, Sam Maloof, Jack Rogers Hopkins, Paul Evans & Philip Lloyd Powell, Vladimir Kagan, George Nakashima, Silas Seandel, Charles Hollis Jones, Philip & Kevin LaVerne, Tommi Parzinger, Harvey Probber, Edward Wormley, John Dickinson, Arthur Elrod, and Paul Laszlo.

Softcover. Switzerland, AVA Publishing, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Cover has very little wear. Many color illustrations throughout. Bright and clean. A tight copy.

Hardcover. Secaucus NJ, Chartwell Books, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. Catalogue of the posters by Gloria Picazo. 119 posters reproduced in full color. 269 pages. Thick 4to, beige boards. Inscription on front fly leaf, therwise clean. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, unpaginated. Foreword by Wolcott Gibbs. Dust jacket faded. George Price (1901-1995) was an American cartoonist. Price started doing cartoons for The New Yorker magazine in 1929. He continued contributing to the New Yorker well into his eighties, displaying a talent for both graphic innovation (many of his cartoons consisted of a single, unending line) and for a wit that somehow combined the small issues of domestic life with a topical sensibility.

Hardcover. US, The Mainstone Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A stunning example of how a digital process, overseen by a keen and aesthetic team, can rejuvenate an artist's work. This as new first edition thus reveals the wonderful craft of Ravilious as if he had just completed the blocks. A great tribute to a fine engraver.

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson Potter, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 682 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Features over 750 illustrations, including 300 in full color. Light edgewear to dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY/Boston, Twelve, reprint, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 841 pages, b&w illustrations, index. Spanning the mid-1970s until just a few days before his death in 1987, THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES is a compendium of the more than twenty thousand pages of the artist's diary that he dictated daily to Pat Hackett. In it, Warhol gives us the ultimate backstage pass to practically everything that went on in the world-both high and low. He hangs out with "everybody": Jackie O ("thinks she's so grand she doesn't even owe it to the public to have another great marriage to somebody big"), Yoko Ono ("We dialed F-U-C-K-Y-O-U and L-O-V-E-Y-O-U to see what happened, we had so much fun"), and "Princess Marina of, I guess, Greece," along with art-world rock stars Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francis Bacon, Salvador Dali, and Keith Haring. Warhol had something to say about everyone who crossed his path, whether it was Lou Reed or Liberace, Patti Smith or Diana Ross, Frank Sinatra or Michael Jackson. A true cultural artifact, THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES amounts to a portrait of an artist-and an era-unlike any other.

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. Comprehensive catalogue of Reginald Marsh's prints. Illustrated with black/white reproductions of all known prints by Marsh. Also includes biographical text on the artist. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, dust jacket is in very good condition with small closed tear on the back. Marsh was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Crowded Coney Island beach scenes, popular entertainments such as vaudeville and burlesque, women, and jobless men on the Bowery are subjects that reappear throughout his work.

Softcover. US, 21 Pub, 1sat, 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. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 180 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w with a few color plates. Light shelf-wear, rubbing and soil to dust jacket. Internally very good.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics , 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in a cardboard slipcase. An irresistible alchemy of screwball comedy, tender romance, and rags-to-riches fantasy, Elsie Crisler Segar's newspaper comic strip, starring Popeye the sailor man, captivated readers of the Roaring Twenties and beyond. In this third volume, Popeye and company set sail in search of buried treasure but must contend with the malevolent Sea Hag and her spine-chilling sidekick, Alice the Goon. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Amon Carter Museum , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 480 pages. Illustrated with 119 plates (some color), b/w text drawings and photos + 1 map (3 panel fold-out). 4to. Catalogue Raisonne by Karen Reyn.

Softcover. US, Top Shelf Productions, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 285 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. As the NATO bombs fell on his hometown of Pancevo in 1999, Serbian cartoonist Aleksandar Zograf used his diary comics and e-mail to reach out to the world and offer a glimpse at the effects of the attacks. Over the weeks and months of the war, Zograf documented not only how the bombings shattered the lives of his friends and neighbors, but also how the routine of daily life remained unchanged. The most recent attacks on Pancevo's oil refinery are contrasted with the latest local soccer matches -- and American propaganda flyers are as likely to fall from the sky as American comics are to arrive in the mail.

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 199 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Text and Commentaries by Erte. Introduction by Alistar Duncan. Edited by Marshall Lee. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with very faint tanning to upper edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy. Lavishly illustrated with full page color plates/ photographs by Lee Boltin depicting multiple views of forty-one bronze sculptures by the author. A fabulous cataloguing of Erte's evocative art deco sculpture.

London, National Gallery, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 71 pages illustrated in color. A key member of the Hudson River School, Frederic Church (1826-1900) rose to fame as the creator of some of America's most iconic landscape paintings. He also traveled abroad extensively, making trips to Jamaica, South America, Europe, and the Middle East. At home and away, Church made numerous plein air oil sketches of the landscapes he saw, some magnificent, some humble, many of them later subjects for his full-scale paintings. Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch features some thirty sketches Church executed during his career. Many of these wonderful works come from Olana, the artist's magnificent home overlooking the Hudson River. As Andrew Wilton's essay explains, these informal and often spontaneous sketches played a vital role in the practice and pedagogy of landscape painting in American art just as they did in European art of the 19th century. Clean copy.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. A quarterly anthology of literary comics. Contributions by Andrice Arp, Tim Hensley, Anders Nilsen, Paul Hornschemeier, Sophie Crumb, others.

Hardcover. US, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Lucian Freud, perhaps the world's leading portrait painter, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. Gayford describes the process chronologically, from the day he arrived for the first sitting through to his meeting with the couple who bought the finished painting, and he vividly conveys what it is like to be on the inside of the process of creating a work of art. As Freud completes his portrait of Gayford, so the art critic produces his own portrait of the artist, giving a rare insight into Freud's working practice. Through their wide-ranging conversations, the reader learns not only about Freud's choice of models, lighting, setting, pose, and colors, but also about his likes and dislikes, his encounters and experiences, and the ways in which he approaches his relationship with each portrait subject. Gayford records Freud's observations on the work of Michelangelo, Vermeer, Titian, Chardin, Goya, van Gogh, Mondrian, and his great contemporary Francis Bacon. The book is full of revealing anecdotes about the people Freud has met in the course of his long career, including Max Ernst, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, George Orwell, W. H. Auden, Greta Garbo, and his grandfather Sigmund Freud.

Hardcover. New York, Gallery Books, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 390 pages, illustrated throughout in color. INSCRIBED BY YOSHIDA on half title page. Large, very heavy book. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Tahiti, Pacific Comics Club, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four softcover volumes that cover the Rip Kirby comic strip for a full year, Dec. 5 1949 through Dec. 23 1950. Color wraps, daily strips in b&w. Titles: "White Inferno", "Gunpowder Dreams", "Buried Treasure", "The Missing Nightingale." Clean copies.

Hardcover. NY/London, Sotheby's Parke Bernet, Revised Ed., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 376 pages. 26 illustrations in color, and 420 in black and white. Originally published in 1979. John Harris was one of England's leading Architectural Historians at the time this book was written. He was curator of the Drawing Collection for RIBA. (Royal Institute of British Architects). Each section introduces a period such as: the Age of Estate Cartographers and the Garden Converstations, The Country House and Sporting Art: John Wootton, Peter Tillemans and Others, Caneletto and the Architectural Topographers, Gainsborough and the Picturesque, The Art of Turner and Constable. Harris comments on the artists , their style and pictures.

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.

Hardcover. US, Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to heavy cardboard covers, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. St, Paul MN, 3M Books, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 48 pages of text plus 57 full page plates. Black and white and color collotype reproductions. The drawings of Hans Holbein the Younger in the court of Henry VIII. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Methuen, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 49 pages. Color comics from the French satirist. First translation from French by Fiona Cleland.

Hardcover. Milan, Artvera's, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover without dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This one-of-a-kind book brings the work of German Expressionist artist Friedrich Karl Gotsch (1900-1984) to a larger, well-deserved audience. Gotsch, whose paintings are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, trained at the Dresden School of Fine Arts in the early 1920s and was inspired by the works of Oskar Kokoschka and Edvard Munch. While his early paintings follow a straightforward Expressionist style, he truly came into his own after World War II, when his work became distinct and easily recognizable: The energy, contrasting primary colors, vivid outlines, and free brushwork combine to produce powerful, spellbinding images. In addition to stunning color reproductions of his work, this book includes essays on Gotsch's art and life, illuminating the artist's creative development and the cultural milieu and influences that inspired him.

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 549 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This book presents a survey of Chinese painting from the eighth to the 14th century, a period during which the nature of China's pictorial art changed dramatically. Illustrated by works in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the author begins by describing the advent toward the end of the Bronze Age of figural representation in Chinese art, and next traces the development of Chinese landscape painting from the third to the tenth century. He then moves on to discuss the art of the Sung dynasty, when the imperial government was increasingly absolute and repressive. In this period artists shifted from a realistic rendition of nature to more symbolic representation of single flowers, rocks and trees. By the time of the Yuan dynasty, following the Mongol conquest of 1279, objective representation in art had been replaced by imagery that drew on the artist's inner response to his world. Because it was believed that the meaning of a painted subject, made complex by personal and symbolic associations, could no longer be expressed without language, the painter began to inscribe poems and incorporate calligraphy in his works, the multiple relationships among word, image and calligraphy forming the basis of a new art. At this stage Chinese art entered its richest and most diverse stage f development.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 286 pages. 120 plates and 106 B&W text illustrations. Portrait frontispiece. Light brown cloth cover. Foxing to edges. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, New York Public Library, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 108 pages. A collection of b&w drawings by Al Frueh. An index of performers and plays in rear. An incredible artist whose work is rarely collected. Quite scarce. Very good, clean. Forward by Brendon Gill.

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. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, 164 illustrations (76 in color). Essays by Henry Adams, Kathleen A. Foster, Henry A. La Farge, H. Barbara Weinberg, Linnea H. Wren, and James L. Yarnall. John La Farge was not only a painter of still lifes and landscapes in watercolor and oil, but he created extraordinary decorative schemes and revolutionary stained glass art for some of the country's most impressive churches and mansions as well.

Hardcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Collects stories from classic Spirit adventures in which a murdered detective fights crime from beyond the grave. July 1949-December 1949. The stories in the latest volume of vintage Spirit exploits catch the masked crime fighter nine years into the series. Eisner, ever inventive, was still finding ways to keep things fresh, and a four-week arc sees the hero wandering exotic Pacific islands. There are some signs that Eisner may have been wearying of his headliner. In many tales here, including the celebrated "Ten Minutes," which counts down the final moments of a young man's life, the Spirit barely makes an appearance. As always, Eisner's much-imitated "cartoon noir" style finds him moving seamlessly from broad humor to high melodrama. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st paperback, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 129 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper very good. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. A touch of soil (shelfwear) to edges.

Softcover. Milan, Skira, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 217 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. In publisher's shrinkwrap. A tribute to the world renowned phenomenon of Made in Italy on the occasion of two memorable dates: the fiftieth anniversary of the first Italian fashion show (Florence, 1951) and the fortieth anniversary of the International Furniture Show (Milan, 1961). The book, devoted to fifty years of Italian fashion and design, examines the complex mosaic of Made in Italy divided into different aspects and themes.

Hardcover. Chicago, Art Media Resources, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to cover boards, otherwise clean bright copy. Color pictures throughout. 12x12x1 dimensions. Numbering over 250 works spanning nearly 1500 years, the Dewey collection of ancient Chinese tomb sculpture is exceptional for its breadth and outstanding quality. Representing nearly all figural types, stylistic traditions and themes, it provides a comprehensive visual record with fascinating insights into the customs and fashions, inventions and superstitions of ancient China's ruling elite during the golden age of the Great Silk Road.

Hardcover. NY, The New Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 280 pages. Dedicated readers and fans of Theodor Seuss Geisel, or Dr. Seuss, know of Seuss's fascinating, long-forgotten career as a political cartoonist for the New York daily newspaper PM during World War II. Dr. Seuss, however, was only one of a number of distinguished cartoonists whose work appeared in PM. In Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War, we discover an astonishing treasure trove of over three hundred incisive political cartoons by Seuss as well as a cohort of other legendary cartoonists of the time, including Saul Steinberg, Al Hirschfeld, Arthur Szyk, Carl Rose, and Mischa Richter. These fascinating cartoons offer a totally different picture of the war, both at home and abroad. Sure to fascinate and surprise readers across the generations, Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War lets readers ?time travel to a remarkable time when editorial cartoons really mattered". Clean copy.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Last Gasp, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover The Summer, 1982 issue of the famed Weirdo comics series, created by Robert Crumb, his wife Aline and others, featuring a beautiful, color collage front cover with a border of "girlie" photos and a full color rear drawing by Aline Kominsky Crumb; contributors include Terry Boyce, Norman Dog, a fabulous, four page piece by Robert, entitled Trash:What Do We Throw Away, a funny 4-page, photo piece called Untamed Passion For Pasta, Jeff John, Fried Nuts by Robert, and a terrific Drew Friedman piece called Joe Franklin Is A Dream Walkin' and Old Bud Abbott, also by Drew; a wonderful issue, this is the true first printing, in stapled wrappers.