Art

Hardcover. NY, Walker and Company, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w and with 17 full color plates. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, dust jacket edge wear and minor foxing on top and fore edge. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

NY, ADC Publications, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Bright, clean copy. Profusely illustrated in b&w and color. NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Getty Research Institute, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Color photographs throughout. California Video presents the first comprehensive survey of the history of video art in California. Since the late 1960s

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on Milton Caniff & real people, editorial cartoons from the Sacramento Bee, Hanna-Barbera animation, Fenton by David Wiley, Frank Johnson of Jiggs and Maggie, others.

Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth stamped in gilt. Oblong folio, 306 pages, 13" x 12". 256 illustrations, thirty color plates. Comprehensive survey and critical evaluation of the contributions made to the theater by major painters and sculptors of the twentieth century, such as Chagall; Schlemmer; Toulouse-Lautrec; the German Impressionists; Picasso; Calder; Kandinsky; Dada; and Dali, etc. Bibliography. List of Exhibitions. Index. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dustjacket, mild wear to covers. DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 173 pages, 125 illustrations, including 48 tipped-in color plates. In blue tweed covers with gilt lettering, errata slip laid in. There is a brighter sticker shadow on front panel of dust jacket where the rest of the white has age-toned. A clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrinkwrap. Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) proudly described his monumental painting Prometheus Bound as first among "the flower of my stock." This singular work demonstrates how Rubens engaged with and responded to his predecessors Michelangelo and Titian, with whom he shared an interest in depictions of physical torment. The Wrath of the Gods offers an in-depth case study of the Flemish artist's creative process and aesthetic, while also demonstrating why this particular painting has appealed to viewers over time. Many scholars have elaborated on Rubens's affinity for Titian, but his connection to Michelangelo has received far less attention. This study presents a new interpretation of Prometheus Bound, showing how Rubens created parallels between the pagan hero Prometheus and Michelangelo's Risen Christ from the Sistine Chapel's Last Judgment. Christopher D. M. Atkins expands our understanding of artistic transmission by elucidating how Rubens synthesized the works he saw in Italy, Spain, and his native Antwerp, and how Prometheus Bound in turn influenced Dutch, Flemish, and Italian artists. By emulating Rubens's composition, these artists circulated it throughout Europe, broadening its influence from his day to ours.

Softcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 87 pages, b&w and color photographs. Price sticker on rear wrapper. Top left corner slightly bumped. Else a clean, tight copy. "This photographic journal records the collaboration of Robert Motherwell and his studio assistants in the creation of the artist's monumental painting Reconciliation Elegy, a commission for the East Building, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C."

Softcover. First Second, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes in a pictorial slipcase, pages. The Boxers & Saints Boxed Set from Gene Luen Yang, one of the greatest comics storytellers alive, brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing work. In two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose village is abused and plundered by Westerners claiming the role of missionaries. Little Bao, inspired by visions of the Chinese gods, joins a violent uprising against the Western interlopers. Against all odds, their grass-roots rebellion is successful.But in the second volume, Yang lays out the opposite side of the conflict. A girl whose village has no place for her is taken in by Christian missionaries and finds, for the first time, a home with them. As the Boxer Rebellion gains momentum, Vibiana must decide whether to abandon her Christian friends or to commit herself fully to Christianity.

Hardcover. New York , Phaidon, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 286 pages, original rust colored cloth with gilt design. 270 illustrations, many in color including fold-out plates. Tipped-in color frontispiece, endpaper maps and charts in rear. Clear acetate dust jacket in very good condition. Slipcase is worn and cracked.

Hardcover. Cleveland, OH, The World Publishing Company, Reprint, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with chipping and wear to dust jacket edges. An otherwise tight copy.

UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt decoration, lettering, 56 pages plus 111 b&w plates. This 1927 book presents an accessible guide to Gothic foliage sculpture, aimed at visitors to ancient English churches. 186 pages total. Decorative bookplate inside front cover otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages. 176 b&w and color plates, fold outs. Biography of Ernst Trova, self-taught painter and contemporary sculpture artist, known especially for his series entitled Falling Man. White cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt design on front, Very nice, clean and well preserved copy. Looks as good as new.

Softcover. New York, Multiples Inc & Lois and Michael K. Torf , 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages, paperback. Hundreds of b&w photographs documenting the personal belongings in LeWitt's living and working space in New York City in 1980. Fascinating look into the private life of one of the pioneers of minimal and conceptual art. Age toning to spine. Light rubbing, slight soiling, and mild age toning to wraps. Unmarked. Very scarce. A tight copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, Reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. In addition to being one of the seven, original Zap Comix contributors, Robert Williams's influence on alternative art is immeasurable. From his endeavors to broaden the possibilities for young artists to gain exposure sprang the well-known art chronicle, Juxtapoz magazine.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 233 pages. Profusely illustrated with 189 drawings, including 32 in color. Red, black, and white illustrated dust jacket with clear plastic guard. Introduction by Lloyd Goodrich (of New York's Whitney Museum). Dust jacket spine with light fading, previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Pictorial binding with silver lettering on cover and spine in good condition, still glossy, with minor wear. 461 Items illustrated in color. Prices Realized Sheet laid in. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a slipcase. 64 color plates, 100 b&w Illustrations. A compilation of Jaques' work. Gilt flock of geese fying on front board and gilt lettering to spine. Foreword by Roger Tory Peterson. Book and slipcase clean, excellent condition.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphic Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Orange cloth boards. Comic strips by McCay reproduced in color. Nice, crisp copy in a dust jacket.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 184 pages. This is the sequel to caricaturist Drew Friedman's collection of portraits of famous comics creators.Spanning the birth of the industry to its first few decades, this book has approximately 100 full-color portraits of the legends of American comic books-publishers, editors, and artists. Its subjects are popular and obscure, men and women, and it includes several pioneering artists of color. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Watson-Guptill , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Based on close collaboration with the world renowned graphic designer. It examines the ideas and creative process behind Greiman's influential work, features 120 color photographs, presents a chronology of career and milestones, and includes work for SCI-Arc, Nicola, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, and Cal State Student Union. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Montpelier VT, Friends of the Vermont State House, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Intimate Grandeur is a 120-page celebration of the historic seat of Vermont state government. Illustrated with exquisite photographs and dozens of historic paintings and drawings. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York , Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Softcover exhibition catalog. The Stenberg brothers, like their contemporaries Aleksandr Rodchenko and El Lissitzky, were artists of immensely varied interests and eclectic skills. They were sculptors, architects, and stage and costume designers, and were enamored of the film and montage theories developed in the suddenly burgeoning Soviet film industry. As seen in this book's superb color plates, they brought to film poster design an extraordinary compositional dynamism, originality, and contrast of scale, employing many of the artistic conventions of the Constructivist movement to great effect.

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Portrait Gallery/Princeton University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Accompanied exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Illustrated. First major publication to focus on the development of silhouettes, gathers leading experts to shed light on the surprisingly complex historical, political, and social underpinnings of this ostensibly simple art form. This richly illustrated volume explores likenesses of everyone from presidents and celebrities to everyday citizens and enslaved people. Ultimately, the book reveals how silhouettes registered the paradoxes of the unstable young nation, roiling with tensions over slavery and political independence. Primarily tracing the rise of the silhouette in the decades leading up to the Civil War, Black Out also considers the ubiquity of the genre today, particularly in contemporary art. Historical research and four contemporary artists: Kara Walker, Kristi Malakoff, Kumi Yamashita, and Camille Utterback. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. NY, Pantheon, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes in a cardboard slipcase. Vol. 1: My Father Bleeds History, Vol. 2: And Here My Trouble Began. Slipcase has some light rubbing, books are clean and bright. A brutally moving work of art--widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written--Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author's father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.

Softcover. Park Forest IL, Ken Pierce, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages illustrated in b&w by Romero. Edited by Catherine Yronwode. From the British newspaper strip which ran in the London Daily Express starting in 1981. Color wrappers, clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages, b&w drawings throughout. The Compleat Cannon reprints the entirety of cartoonist Wally Wood's classic sex and violence strip from the 1960s. Super-spy John Cannon is the American's answer to James Bond, fighting the Cold War with a license to kill.Wally Wood is of course the legendary cartoonist known for his contributions to the original Mad magazine. Always regarded as one of comics' great craftsmen, Cannon is simply one of the most beautiful strips ever produced. Featuring outrageous parodies of pop culture icons of the time, the Cold War, and the secret agent genre, Cannon is Wood at his most gregarious and incisive, working on one of the few projects in his career where he had no editorial constraints.Like Fantagraphics' The Compleat Sally Forth, also by Wood, this oversized collection includes a section of never-before-seen Cannon ephemera in the form of sketches, notes and annotated information about the strip.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 223 pages. 357 illustrations, including 93 plates in full color. Catalogue Raisonne of Galle's work including list of exhibitions of his glass. Gray cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Gray dust jacket in mylar cover, color slightly sunfaded around edges. Cosmetic paper-split between front board and endpaper, not affecting binding, Very nice clean copy.

Hardcover. Canada, Art Gallery of Windsor, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Light smudging to top page block (may be remainder mark), otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to corners. French text AND English text.

Hardcover. Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with black and white illustrations by Heath Robinson

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 88 pages, INSCRIBED BY CHRISTO on title page to "Eeva annd Elvia" dated 1986. Color and black & white photographs throughout, light dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Softcover. Paris, Nathan Image, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Unpaginated. Approximately 175 pages, mostly color reproductions of Avery's storyboard drawings from his glory years at Warner Bros. and MGM. FRENCH TEXT. This lavishly illustrated reference is shot from the original storyboards of Avery's various cartoons shorts. These are annotated by Avery in pencil. For any fan of American cartoon shorts & Tex Avery in particular, this is an essential guide.

Softcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Gathered here for the first time in book form are 130 extraordinary illustrations, with 32 pages in full color, including Norman Rockwell, Vargas' pin-ups, Remington's gunfighters, Parrish's landscapes etc. Nice tight binding. Clean. Light crease to cover at bottom front corner.

Softcover. Toronto , Dragon Lady Press, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers with staple binding. 65 pages of b&w Dick Tracy strips: Dick Tracy meets Splitscreen (5/14/82-8/25/82) and The Land of Plenty (12/25/83-4/29/84. Clean, very good.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. The meaning of a painted portrait and even its subject may be far more complex than expected, Tamar Garb reveals in this book. She charts for the first time the history of French female portraiture from its heyday in the early nineteenth century to its demise in the early twentieth century, showing how these paintings illuminate evolving social attitudes and aesthetic concerns in France over the course of the century.

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. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 81 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Very good. Swiss Posters 1976. Kodak Colour Calender Contest, 1977. Fred Otnes. 1.international Animated Film Festival in Ottawa. Trends in Jewellery Design in Europe.

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

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 738 pages, Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was arguably the world's greatest sculptor, known for such works as "The Thinker, The Kiss, The Hand of God" and dozens of others. Beautifully written and illustrated, "Rodin" is the definitive biography of a man whose influence on sculpture was as profound as Michelangelo's. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 124 pages. MF Cardamone creates artwork that harks back to centuries past but is deeply rooted in the present. Her cultural and sociological commentary, delivered in words and images, reveals her sly sense of humor and love of all things botanical. An artist fluent in various media, including painting, sculpture, and limited-edition clothing, Cardamone discovered her passion for plants when she restored a garden at her seventy-five-year old farmhouse near Philadelphia. She enrolled in the Barnes Foundation Arboretum School and learned to collect specimens and create herbarium sheets, documenting the many medicinal uses of plants along with their history and landscaping potential. She picked up old books of botanical illustration, and herbals from a time when a pharmacist might prescribe a homemade tea to cure whatever ailed you. When her studies expanded to medical QiGong and Hatha yoga, her artwork took on a spiritual dimension. Cardamone begins with a plant specimen and watercolor paper, then turns to gouache, pen and ink, and digital imagery. She balances the scientific aspect of her work with a large dose of humor in the selection and placement of cultural icons from the plant's home environment. 

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Boatner Norton Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Illustrated with black & white examples of works by Robert Crumb - 4 pages in full color.

Softcover. Washington DC, U.S. Navy, 1st, 1943-44, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Sixteen softcover manuals, 18 to 32 pages each, each illustrated with b&w cartoons and 2-color cover wrappers by Osborn. All are 2-hole punched for binders (not present). A few dust soiled covers, otherwise very good. The titles are: "Oxygen Sense", "G" Sense", "Arctic Sense", "Aleutian Sense", "Shark Sense", "Gunnery Sense", "Manners Sense", "Dunking Sense", "Patrol Sense", "Prisoner Sense", "Security Sense", "Parachute Sense", "Recognition and Identification Sense", "Flat-Hatting Sense", "Taxi Sense", "Fuel Saving Sense".

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 231 pages in color. Before focusing on tales of justice via superheroes under the Marvel banner, the publisher covered ground-level crime across a range of comics titles and true-crime magazines. Under the Timely imprint from 1947, and Atlas from 1951, up to eleven graphic series including Justice Comics, Official True Crime Cases, All-True Crime, Crime Cases, Crime Can't Win, Crime Must Lose, and Crime Exposed all muscled each other and competitors for space on the newsstands. For the first crime-themed volume in Fantagraphics' ongoing project to restore and resurrect pre-Marvel pulp classics, the Atlas Library has selected a book that debuted as the genre peaked, just before a Senate hearing and the institution of the Comics Code banned the use of the word "Crime" from even appearing in a comic's title. Escaping that fate, Police Action had a seven-issue run of violent and noir-ish morality plays, pitting the officers of the law against the forces of urban malevolence, and was produced by the cream of the Atlas freelance roster, including Joe Maneely, Robert Q. Sale, Gene Colan, Art Peddy, Mort Lawrence, Werner Roth and Bob Powell. Rounding the volume off, also presented is a post-Code one-shot, Police Badge #479, a snapshot of the industry's attempts to adapt to new strictures on the genre: here we view "our boys in blue" in the fight against rank corruption, highlighting the work of Don Heck and Joe Maneely. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. Petaluma CA, Cameron Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with wrap-around band. 224 pages in color. The first treatment of his extraordinary domain that is not an authorized product of his studio. From clothing and advertising to the world of fine art, the reach of this "street artist" extends to all aspects of society; yet given his great success, he is also the target of critics and detractors. He has challenged conventions, formulas, paradigms, and traditional borders that make many uncomfortable, spurring consistent debate over the legitimacy of his artwork, the authenticity of his background, and the ethics of his design processes. By reflecting on the many layers of being an antimodern artist, we learn much about both the current state of the art world and Fairey's influence on it. Featuring a wide variety of remarkable color photographs and a Foreword by Robbie Conal, Shepard Fairey Inc. gives us a fresh, objective understanding of the work of this astonishing artist.

Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 7 1/2" x 10 1/2", twenty-four page exhibition catalog is bound in stapled wrappers and is in VG+ condition. B&W reproductions and photographs. Foreword by William S. Lieberman, Curator of Prints for MOMA.

Hardcover. Hermes Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Music inspired, science fiction and fantasy combined in a way that revolutionized poster art of the Psychedelic 1960's-era. Famous for his rock posters, The Psychedelic Rock Art of Carl Lundgren, a Detroit, Michigan based artist, showcases his posters which were as important to the Detroit Music and Art history as were the music legends themselves; The Who, Jefferson Airplane and Pink Floyd to name a few. The book's forward is written by Mitch Ryder, who was lead vocalist of a Detroit 1960's rock group The Detroit Wheels. The introduction is by Russ Gibb, a former radio personality and rock promoter from Dearborn, Michigan, who played a major role in the late sixties/early seventiesMotor City music scene.

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Tan cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. A light smudge to foreedge. Pages unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. Issued in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 1, 2002-January 5, 2003.

Softcover. New York , Ira Spanierman Gallery, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 88 pages, illustrated throughout with numerous plates in b&w and 19 plates in full color. French folded pictorial wrappers. Lovely copy. like new.