Art

Hardcover. Columbia MO, University of Missouri Press,, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, b&w plates. Dust jacket price-clipped, clean copy.

Hardcover. Kent OH, Kent State University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 387 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked in a bright dust jacket. The Lincoln images, originally appearing in such publications as Budget of Fun, Comic Monthly, New York Illustrated News, Phunny Phellow, Southern Punch, and Yankee Notions, significantly expand our understanding of the evolution of public opinion toward Lincoln, the complex dynamics of Civil War, popular art and culture, the media, political caricature, and presidential politics. Lincoln, appealed to illustrators because of his distinctive physical features. (One could scarcely conceive of a similar book on James Buchanan, his immediate predecessor.) Despite ever-improving techniques, Lincoln pictorial prominence competed favorably with any succeeding president in the nineteenth century.

Softcover. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout with 50 plates in color and b&w. White pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, slight foxing to covers, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. Rockland ME, Farnsworth Art Museum, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 91 pages. Beautiful full-color illustrations throughout - several historical photographs of Nureyev. Clean copy.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, color plates. Reflects Goldsworthys lifelong interest in the landscape of the British Isles, its history, and the people who work on it, 'Enclosure' is a collection of ephemeral work that relates to sheep, including a spectacular series of large sheep paintings--made by the hoof-prints of sheep. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks.

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 2nd pr., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 90 pages. Black & white examples of works by Kaethe Kollwitz. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Dust jacket shows lightwear with small chips and tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. UK, PS Artbooks, reprint, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers. A facsimile reprint from 1940, 68 pages. Color art by C.C. Beck, Pete Costanza et al. The origin and first adventures of Captain Marvel (issue #1 was an ashcan). Young Billy Batson discovers the magical word that transforms him into the mighty Captain Marvel. Includes the first appearance of these back-up strip stars, most who would get their own title: Spy Smasher, Ibis, Golden Arrow, Dan Dare, Scoop Smith and Lance O'Casey. First appearance of arch villain Sivana. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Society of Illustrators, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Fascinating insights into the lives and works of 82 top artists elected to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame make this an inspiring reference and art book. From illustrators such as N.C. Wyeth to Charles Dana Gibson to Dean Cornwell, Al Parker, Austin Briggs, Jon Whitcomb, Parrish, Pyle, Dunn, Peak, Whitmore, Leyendecker, Abbey, Flagg, Gruger, Raleigh, Booth, LaGatta, Frost, Kent, Sundblom, Erte, Held, Jessie Willcox Smith, Georgi, McGinnis, Harry Anderson, Barclay, Coll, Schoonover, McCay...the list of greats goes on and on. A deluxe production from 1997, in a handsome cloth slipcase with a mounted color plate of a nude, a special transparent dust wrapper, gold edging on all the pages, oversized square coffee table format. And of course, the highest quality reproduction all from original art. Profiles and major examples of each artist's work give a sweeping overview of the art of illustration for the last 130 years. 224 pages, 450 color illustrations.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages, color and b&w cartoon art. Brunetti focuses on very recent works by contemporary artists engaged in presenting a world of rapid and unpredictable change. The book presents contemporary art comics produced by 75 artists, along with some classic comic strips and other related fine art and historical materials. Very good in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Black & white photographs by Hyman Edelstein. Preface by Archibald Macleish. Clean, tight copy. Price sticker on rear dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket, 319 pages, b&w illustrations. Biography of one of England's greatest painters and engravers. Shelfworn, a nice reading copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 208 pages, 174 color plates. Window-Shopping through the Iron Curtain presents a selection of more than 100 images of shop windows shot by David Hlynsky during four trips taken between 1986 and 1990 to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, East Germany, and Moscow. Using a Hasselblad camera, Hlynsky captured the slow, routine moments of daily life on the streets and in the shop windows of crumbling Communist countries.The resulting images could be still-lifes representing the intersection of a Communist ideology and a consumerist, Capitalist tool-the shop window-with the consumer stuck in the middle. Devoid of overt branding or calculated seduction, the shop windows were typically adorned with traditional yet incongruous symbols of cheer: homey lace curtains, paper flowers, painted butterflies, and pictures of happy children. Some windows were humble in their simple offerings of loaves and tinned fishes; others were zanily artistic, as in the modular display of military shirts in a Moscow storefront; and some illustrated intense professional pride, such as a sign in a Prague beauty salon depicting a pedicurist smiling fiendishly over an imperfect sole. The photographs are accompanied by essays by art historian Martha Langford and cultural studies specialist Jody Berland, as well as Hlynsky's own account of his time as a flaneur in the shopping plazas of the collapsing Soviet empire-"a vast ad-hoc museum of a failing utopia" that in 1989 began to close forever. No dj issued.

Hardcover. New York , Abrams, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. Illustrated in color throughout. A survey of the many murals in the (now rapidly gentrifying) Mission District, the barrio Latino of San Francisco, combining elements of Mexican mural painting, surrealism, pop art, urban punk, and graffiti.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 303 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated primarily in black & white - one section in full color. Bottom corner of page 275 wrinkled with short tear. Dust jacket worn. Clean, tight copy.This is the landmark work on American artist Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904), the first catalogue raisonne. The narrative is accompanied by many examples of his work. The full catalogue of 402 items appears at the rear of the book, with light annotations and small BW illustrations. An updated edition was published in 2000; and this one is useful to consult in order to compare the differences.

Softcover. Old Westbury NY, The Feminist Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 237 pages, b&w illustrations. A generation after her death, German artist Kathe Kollwitz won a reputation as one of the great graphic artists of the 20th Century. Concentrating on the more 'democratic' media--especially etchings, lithographs, posters, and woodcuts, as well as sculpture and bronze reliefs--Kollwitz always created for the people, rather than for the upper class collector. This original paperback is generously illustrated with many striking, seldom-seen reproductions from private collections, assembled in one volume for the first time. Name on front fly leaf, inscription on title page. Otherwise clean.

Softcover. New York, NY, National Academy of Design, 1st, 1985?, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 95 pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout. Introduction By Annette Blaugrund. Red pictorial cover with wear to spine and slight soiling to covers. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Collage has a relatively short, but incredibly rich history. The popularity of collage is on the increase again, partly as a result of such postmodernist concerns as pluralism, multiplicity and hybridity. This book features works by international artists Picasso, Schwitters and Ernst, through to Hannah Hoch, Martha Rosler, John Stezaker, Richard Hamilton, Layla Curtis, David Salle, Eduardo Poalozzi, Javier Rodriguez, Robert Rauschenberg, Mimei Thompson, David Thorpe, Fred Tomaselli and many more.

Hardcover. New York, NYUP, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 303 pages. Hardcover. 246 black & white illustrations, 6 in color. Light wear to dust jacket at corners, edges. Clean, tight copy. Raphael (The Wrightsman Lectures, Delivered Under the Auspices of the New York University Institute of Fine Arts) [Oct 01, 1979].

Hardcover. Milan, Silvana Editoriale, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz's (b. 1973, USA) first major European survey presents a sequence of installations drawing on architecture, cultural artifacts and cuisine to tell stories of social ritual, conflict and loss. It encompasses work considering the citizen visionaries of post Soviet Hungary, Middle Eastern Beatles fans and the stonecarvers of Afghanistan, with Rakowitz's casts of players and objects revealing the legacy of colonization, modernism and globalism. The artist's life-size replica of the gigantic lamassu, one of two monumental winged bulls that once guarded the gates of Nineveh in Iraq, currently features on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth. This recreation of an ancient mythological creature is made from everyday date syrup cans and is part of an epic endeavour to recreate all 7,000 objects looted from the Iraq Museum in 2003, as well as those destroyed more recently at archaeological sites like Nimrud, also presented here. Text in English and Italian. Short closed tear to dj corner. otherwise like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Coral Gables FL, Herald Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 271 pages. B&w cartoons throughout by Morin. The Miami Herald's Jim Morin has created some of the best editorial cartoons in the business: Political cartoonists distill opinions about power and culture into art and commentary with the sharp points of their pens. How does an artist who has produced over the past 40 years some of the best cartoons among editorial cartoonists in the business generate the ideas for a relentless stream of sharp political and social commentary? During and after Election 2016, the remarkable artist's pen of Jim Morin produced a steady stream of Donald Trump cartoons that both delighted and infuriated followers, depending upon their side of the Donald Trump divide. This book of best cartoons by Jim Morin is both funny and poignant. It is a nostalgic journey through the last 40 years of the comedy and reality of our world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with cloth covers. Color photographs throughout. Light staining on rear copyright page, otherwise Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Roma, Paolo Buggiani, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Full color handpainted covers, with cutout window exposing image of Paolo Buggiani. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Brief text in English. Light wear to covers. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Munich, Hirmer Publishers, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 288 pages. Oscar Munoz: Invisibilia is Colombian artist Oscar Munoz's first retrospective in the United States. Addressing the entire span of Munoz's career--from the 1970s to 2020--this exhibition catalog is the most substantive book on Oscar Munoz's work in English to date. Invisibilia includes artworks ranging from Munoz's early charcoal drawings to his later conceptual photographic, video, and installation works. The bilingual catalog includes essays in both Spanish and English from a diverse cadre of scholars who offer fresh takes on Munoz's best-known works and illuminate his more obscure experiments. It also features interviews with the artist as well as a recent text he has written on his practice. A comprehensive chronology charts Munoz's artistic evolution alongside the development of the artistic scene in Cali, Colombia, where he began his career and continues to live and work, rooting the artist's works in their cultural and historical context. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. Munich London NY, Prestel, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 200 pages. One of the most widely acclaimed of all living artists, David Hockney has, in some ways, been the victim of his own popularity. Frequently interpreted as the lightweight expression of a colorful personality, his work is in fact characterized by an underlying seriousness of purpose. This emerges with particular clarity from the fresh appraisal of the artist's oeuvre offered in this book.Each of the volume's six chapters, broadly chronological in sequence, is introduced by an essay that examines in depth certain aspects of Hockney's artistic practice. The complexity of his seemingly straightforward imagery is further elucidated in the commentaries accompanying each of the sixty-three carefully selected color plates. These encompass the period from 1960 to 1993, from work produced during the artist's student days at the Royal College of Art in London to his most recent paintings, informed by his experience of designing for the stage and by his experiments with photo-collage and fax art. Included are paintings being illustrated for the first time and others that have rarely been reproduced in colour. Numerous black-and-white illustrations of related works provide important reference material. An illustrated chronology and a selected bibliography conclude this lucid, authoritative account of Hockney's development.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of approximately 100 b&w illustrations printed on a buff color, unpaginated, printed on one side only. The first collection ever published by the Society which was formed in 1901. Work by Frederic Remington, Joseph Pennell, Art Young, Harrison Fisher, Wallace Morgan, many others. In the rear of the book is a complete list of all the members with their addresses. Tan boards with a red cloth spine. Edges worn, internally clean, very good.

Softcover. New York, Strawberry Hill Book, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Softcover. Black & white drawings and photographs. Light wear along spine, cover edges. This is the softcover edition. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Ames IA, University Museums at Iowa State, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 398 pages. Mainly b&w illustrations with a small color section in center. In 1927, President Raymond Hughes began planning aesthetic improvements to the Iowa State campus. In 1933, at the depth of the Great Depression, and in an act that dramatically illustrates his artistic commitment, he began discussion with Grant Wood and Christian Petersen for each to create a significant mural cycle for the Iowa State College campus in Ames. The federal New Deal s Public Works of Art Project began in 1934 and offered a grand opportunity to employ artists in executing Grant Wood s painted mural for the library, When Tillage Begins, Other Arts Follow, and Christian Petersen s sculpted mural for the Dairy Industry Building, The History of Dairying. This book presents the first history of the Public Works of Art Project in Iowa and the first in-depth examination of the Grant Wood and Christian Petersen murals at Iowa State College. It also discusses the co-operative painting group that Grant Wood developed and illuminates the collaborative nature of the Iowa Project among its artists, as well as between the State University of Iowa in Iowa City and Iowa State College in Ames. Clean, like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Hacker Art Books, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 98 pages of text followed by 90 b&w plates with captions on opposite page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Berlin, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 352 pages, 200 color plates. Paintings, drawings, and sculpture from every stage of the artist's career are included in the exhibition catalogue. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Hardcover with sunned dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Clean and tight copy. Color and black and white photographs throughout.

Hardcover. GR, Hirmer/Mdm Salzburg Museum der Moderne, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 240 pages, color illustrations. Text in English and German. This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibitions 'Alex Katz. New York/Maine'. Clean, bright copy with minor bump to edges, corner.

Hardcover. NY/Beijing, Chambers Fine Arts, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover copy in black boards with the artists' name embossed in darker black on the front cover, in a bright red dust jacket, with some edge-wear. This is the most complete catalog of Lu Shengzhong's works to date. The catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the University at Albany Art Museum. Text In English and Chinese. Essays by a dozen scholars. Biographical sketch. 34 page illustrated chronology, records Lu Shengzhong's artworks from 1980 to 2005. Illustrated throughout in color, some black & white, vintage photographs. 11" high X 8" wide, 155 pages.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 238 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Covering the period from the Revolution to the beginning of World War II, this book considers Soviet avant-garde photography and film in the context of political history and culture. Three essays trace this generation of artists, their experiments with new media, and their pursuit of a new political order. A wealth of stunning photographs, film stills, and film posters, as well as magazine and book designs, demonstrate that their output encompassed a spectacular range of style, content, and perspective, and an extraordinary sense of the power of the photograph to change the world.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, First Edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Hardcover. Ivory boards with black printed titles to mustard cloth spine. Dust jacket with moderate toning & light wear to edges. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Illustrations in bw throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Softcover. NY, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wraps. 39 pages, 15 b&w, 25 color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1996 exhibition. With a preface by Stuart P. Feld and a 7-page illustrated introduction by Gregory Hedberg. The 30 catalogue entries are annotated. Artists include Henry Inman, James McNeil Whistler, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, John Wellington, et al. Also includes Andy Warhol's portrait of John Lennon and Nelson Shanks portrait of Princess Diana.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Indiana Historical Society, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 209 pages. A revised edition of a book first published in 1966, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Biography of Theodore Steele, a popular regional artist from Indiana who specialized in landscapes as well as portraits. Clean copy.

Softcover. Montreal , Drawn & Quarterly, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Softcover. Extensive b&w illustrations by Michel Rabagliati throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Rabagliati`s strip "Paul: Apprentice Typographer" was one of the highlights of 1999`s Drawn & Quarterly anthology, and his first comic book Paul in the Country won the 2000 Harvey award for Best New Talent. This, his first graphic novel, is a sweet, unsentimental story about being a teenager and Rabagliati's crisp retro-modern 1950s drawing style. Paul Has a Summer Job continues the story of Paul, a Quebecois teenager in the 1970s, as he experiences the first conflicts of responsibility with his desire to be free.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Frederick A. Praeger , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 195 pages. 182 black-and-white illustrations. Quarto Format. Plates; Chronology; Bibliography. Foreword by Jacques Lipchitz.

Hardcover. Munch/London/NY, Prestel, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. 656 pages. Published on the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Neue Galerie New York, this stunning volume celebrates the varied achievements of modern art history in the German-speaking world by examining historical developments in Austria and Germany from 1890 to 1940. Illustrated throughout with exquisite reproductions of the museum's holdings, this book considers the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche and his writings on the fine arts and examines the founding of the Secessionist artists' organizations in Germany and Austria. Insightful essays trace the emergence of Expressionism and abstraction, as well as the development of such movements as Dada and New Objectivity. Evolutions in architecture and design are appraised through the legacy of the Arts and Crafts movement, as well as the establishment of the Darmstadt Artists' Colony and the Wiener Werkstatte. The book also examines the role of the German Werkbund and the founding of the Bauhaus school. Finally, the book briefly addresses the horrific impact of the National Socialists' degenerate art campaign, which resulted in incalculable damage and led to the exile and death of artists and designers of the era. From well-known artists such as Otto Dix, Josef Hoffmann, Vasily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, and Egon Schiele, to lesser recognized but equally important figures, including Albert Birkle, Alfred Kubin, Felix Nussbaum, and Dagobert Peche, this book offers an authoritative and kaleidoscopic look at a crucial moment in history and a portrait of radical thought that changed forever the way we experience art in our lives. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Titan, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket. B&w strips throughout, 276 pages. Once again, Flash Gordon battles the forces of repression and evil on the planet Mongo - only this time it's on a daily basis! In 1940, top illustrator Austin Briggs began the first Flash Gordon daily strip, running as a counterpoint to Alex Raymond's classic Sunday page. In this first of a two volume set, Flash, Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov are caught in a web of spies, political groups, alien tribes and freedom fighters as they struggle against the despotic ruler of Mongo, Ming the Merciless. Briggs' Flash Gordon art and story compare favorably to Raymond's acclaimed work on Sunday. For action and adventure, it's Flash Gordon - every day of the week! (September 8, 1908 - October 10, 1973) he began providing illustrations for the classic pulp magazine Blue Book before becoming an assistant to the legendary Alex Raymond on Flash Gordon. In 1940 he took over the daily Flash Gordon strip from Alex and stayed on it until 1944. He was a profile illustrator and created illustrations for books and magazines such as Readers Digest and The Saturday Evening Post. He was one of the founding faculty for the Famous Artists School.

Hardcover. Germany, Moderne Kunst Nurnberg, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The animated films of Nathalie Djurberg (born 1978) won the artist a Silver Lion at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Her films animate figurines made of cloth and plasticine in a puppet/marionette theater of macabre sexual intrigue. Here, Djurberg's films are accompanied by Hans Berg's musical compositions.

Hardcover. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Published to accompany an exhibition celebrating the prints of Jasper Johns. Includes 106 reproductions (43 color, many full-page) of pieces by Johns. Also contains many statements by the artist within the essay by Riva Castleman. Near fine condition, only slight wrinkling on the dust jacket.

Hardcover. UK, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white and color . Charming collection of personal letters written by beloved author Beatrix Potter. The collection begins with an 1893 letter to a young friend, Noel Moore, when the youngster was ill; Potter would go on to write many letters, most often to children (particularly to the family of her former governess, Annie Moore), told funny anecdotes about her pets and her holidays, and copiously illustrated them with witty drawings. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Monacelli Press,, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 272 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. The roadside sign has become an American icon: a glowing neon symbol of the golden age of the open road. Yet signs are complex pieces of design, serving not only as physical markers but also as cultural, political, and economic ones. In American Signs, Lisa Mahar traces the evolution of motel signs on Route 66 in a distinctive visual approach that combines text, images, and graphics. American Signs reveals the rich vernacular traditions of motel sign-making in five eras, spanning from the late 1930s through the 1970s. The motel signs of the early 1940s, for instance, reflect vernacular traditions dating back at least a century, while examples from the later years of the decade reveal a culture newly obsessed with themes. America's fascination with newness and technological progress is manifested in 1950s motel signs. Finally, in the 1960s, a turn toward simplicity and the use of new, modular technologies allowed motel signs to address the needs of a mass society and the beginnings of a national, rather than regional, aesthetic for motel signs.

Hardcover. Norristown, PA, Comico, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. Extensive color illustrations by Mitch O'Connell throughout. 1 out of 2000 copies. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a very good plus dust jacket. 192 pages. Color frontispiece, color photographs, illustrations, diagrams, bibliography, index. The dust jacket has very minor edgewear. A photographic look at some of the earlier churches built in North America.

Hardcover. NY, Robert M. McBride & Company, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, pictorial boards in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 128 pages. A collection of his b&w cartoons, Foreword by Frank Sullivan. Mild stain to dj, interior clean.

Berkeley CA, Print Mint, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 52 pages including semi-glossy color covers and b/w interior. Saddle-stapled wraps, 75 cents cover price. Crumb leads off with "What Gives?", a 10-pager. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Neshannock PA, Hermes Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Softcover. Extensive color and b&w illustrations by Jaro Fabry throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. During the Golden Age of Hollywood no illustrator chronicled the great stars, pin-ups and good girls better than Jaro Fabry-he was even engaged to one of the era's hottest starlets! His artwork graced such magazines as Colliers, Harpers, and The New Yorker. Now see his behind the scenes illustrations of Hollywood nightlife in the 1930s through the early 1950s together with glamorous and alluring pin-ups and good girls. The style and romance of this by-gone era are captured in the over 220 full color illustrations presented in this definitive monograph. See finished artwork, drawings, covers, and documentary artwork in this tribute to the Golden Age of Hollywood. The cover features actress and sex symbol Lana Turner!