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Shoes: Fashion and Fantasy by: McDowell, Colin

Shoes: Fashion and Fantasy
by: McDowell, Colin

Hardcover. London , Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light fraying, small tape repair on spine, to dust jacket. Color pictures throughout. Adhesive residue on back cover.

Record # 4450228

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Girl's Best Friends: Creative Jewelry Designby: Klanten, R.

Girl's Best Friends: Creative Jewelry Design
by: Klanten, R.

Hardcover. US, Gestalten, 1st, 2012-04-25, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Girl's Best Friends features work by outstanding jewelry designers including Ted Noten, Saskia Diez, byAMT, and Kelsey Quan; fashion labels such as Commune de Paris 1871; artists such as the duo Confettisystem; and a range of innovative designers from other disciplines. The most comprehensive showcase of the innovative jewelry being created today.

Record # 350570

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Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps by: Eaton, Allen H.

Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps
by: Eaton, Allen H.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, light green cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. 209 pages with index, 4 color and 88 b&w plates. Foreword by Eleanor Roosevelt. Remnants of very worn, tape-repaired dust jacket. A study of the art created by Japanese-Americans placed in barracks during World War 2. Book is very good, tight and clean.

Record # 397635

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Posters Va-Va-Voomby: Rennert, Jack (Editor)

Posters Va-Va-Voom
by: Rennert, Jack (Editor)

Hardcover. NY, Posters Please, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, auction catalogue with beautiful pictures of posters in color. An exceptional copy in the original title-blocked cloth.

Record # 351755

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Life and Works of Winslow Homer, Theby: Hendricks, Gordon

Life and Works of Winslow Homer, The
by: Hendricks, Gordon

Hardcover. 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Large oblong hardcover, 345 pages with 440 illustrations, including 68 plates in full color. Oblong folio. Cream cloth boards with blue titles to front and spine and a pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Paperclip imprints to front fly leaf, else like new.

Record # 605659

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Stuart Davis by: Sweeney, James Johnson

Stuart Davis
by: Sweeney, James Johnson

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with tanning to edges, 40 pages. 3 color, 28 b&w plates. Considers the life and work of American modernist Stuart Davis. (1892-1964) "Offers an informal account of Davis' career from its precocious beginning in the school of Robert Henri as a follower of The Eight through the impact of the Armory Show and the subsequent evolution of his work. The text is unique in that the artist, as far as possible, speaks for himself. James Johnson Sweeney has skillfully interwoven Davis' own terse and lively talk of pictures, places, people and esthetic theory with a running narrative and critical commentary."

Record # 379613

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Cave Paintings Of Baja California: Discovering the Great Murals of an Unknown People by: Harry W. Crosby

Cave Paintings Of Baja California: Discovering the Great Murals of an Unknown People
by: Harry W. Crosby

Hardcover. San Diego, Sunbelt Publications, Revised Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 246 pages, color photographs and illustrations throughout, illustrated end paper. The Great Murals of Mexico's Baja California are one of the five greatest sites in the world for primitive rock art. They rank with those of southern France, northern Spain, northwest Africa, and outback Australia. These Great Murals, created by an unknown people, are without doubt the most distinctive trove of rock art in the Western Hemisphere. The site was unveiled to the modern world in the 1960s by adventure/mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner who brought in UCLA archaeologist Clement Meighan to validate the importance of his find. But it was not until the 1970s, when author/photographer Harry W. Crosby undertook a systematic search for the largely unknown works hidden in the mountains of central Baja that the scope and significance of the find became known. He documented his search and discovery of over 200 previously unreported rock art sites leading to the original publication of The Cave Paintings of Baja California by Copley Books in 1975 which first introduced this cave art to the general public. Since that time, Baja California's Great Murals have been designated a United Nations Heritage Site. This lavishly illustrated full-color account is greatly revised and expanded from the original edition and offers Crosby's unique perspective on the painted sites and painting styles found in different parts of the Great Mural area. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 397813

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The Complete Terry and the Pirates, Vol. 1: 1934-1936by: Caniff, Milton

The Complete Terry and the Pirates, Vol. 1: 1934-1936
by: Caniff, Milton

Hardcover. San Diego, Idea & Design Works/IDW, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Celebrating the centennial of cartoonist Milton Caniff's birth, IDW Publishing published a six-book series, collecting the entirety of Caniff's groundbreaking newspaper adventure strip Terry and the Pirates. The Sunday pages are reproduced in their original color, alongside the daily black-and-white strips. Volume One contains more than 800 consecutive strips, from the series' beginning in October 1934 through the end of 1936.

Record # 351634

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Window Displays/ Vetrine: Zoom Seriesby: Pietro, Silvio San

Window Displays/ Vetrine: Zoom Series
by: Pietro, Silvio San

Hardcover. Milan IT, Edizioni L'archivolto (Acc), 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 187 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Although relatively short-lived, store window displays are a vital constituent of the daily scenery of today's cities, and offer an important outlet for disciplinary cross-pollination. Store-window design always involves defining a specific message that is conveyed using an array of means, including architecture and set-design, advertising and graphics, multimedia, and at times fine art, with the aim of firing the buyer's imagination while also transmitting a clear brand identity.

Record # 350396

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David Hockney: Paintingsby: Paul Melia , Ulrich Luckhardt, et al.

David Hockney: Paintings
by: Paul Melia , Ulrich Luckhardt, et al.

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.

Record # 372547

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The Cornell Journal of Architecture: Vol 4by: Imran Ahmed and Merritt W Bucholz (Ed.)

The Cornell Journal of Architecture: Vol 4
by: Imran Ahmed and Merritt W Bucholz (Ed.)

Softcover. NY, Rizzoli/Cornell University, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 209 pages, oblong format. B&w illustrations and line drawings. Pictorial card covers. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 397877

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Wilsonby: Clowes, Daniel

Wilson
by: Clowes, Daniel

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Excellent copy of the First Edition, First Printing of this graphic novel in which Daniel Clowes presents scenes from the life of an awkward, crabby non-hero named Wilson. 77 pages, illustrated. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 351695

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Oscar Bluemnerby: Hayes, Jeffrey R.

Oscar Bluemner
by: Hayes, Jeffrey R.

Hardcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages, 125 b&w illustrations and 8 plates in full color. The first comprehensive study of Oscar Bluemner's life, art, and intellectual development. Cream cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Gray pictorial dust jacket with minor wear to edges, in protective brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Record # 805415

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Cons De Fee: The Erotic Art Of Wallace Woodby: Wood, Wallace

Cons De Fee: The Erotic Art Of Wallace Wood
by: Wood, Wallace

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 200 pages. This book collects his early gag cartoons for men's magazines; his wicked takes on Alice in Wonderland and the Wizard of Oz; and his slyly sexy fairy tales The Frog Prince,Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Hansel and Gretel - plus his raunchy version of Snow White. Wood, who garnered international fame as a premier parodist for Mad, also takes aim at comic-book and -strips icons in such stories as "Prince Violate," "Stuporman Meets Blunder Woman," "Flasher Gordon," "Starzan," and even his own character, Sally Forth. Wood's cartoon commentaries on sex and society are included, such as "The Sexual Revolution" and "Brave Nude World." Other rarities include "The Marquis de Sade Coloring Book," "Dragonella," and the complete run of all of his covers for the infamous Screw magazine. Black & white illustrations with some color.

Record # 369421

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Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development by: Luisa Del Giudice

Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development
by: Luisa Del Giudice

Softcover. NY, Fordham University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 476 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. This volume gathers groundbreaking critical essays on Sabato (Simon) Rodia's renowned Watts Towers (Los Angeles, California) from diverse disciplinary perspectives, extensively highlighting his migration context as never before, as well as the Towers in the context of human and community development within the 'Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative. Clean copy.

Record # 398024

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Science Fiction Comics: The Illustrated Historyby: Benton, Mike

Science Fiction Comics: The Illustrated History
by: Benton, Mike

Hardcover. Dallas TX, Taylor Pub, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 150 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w. Traces the history of science fiction comics from the 1930s to the present, discussing characters and themes, the influence of television and film, and other topics.

Record # 351735

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Verve - Artistic and Literary Quarterly - Vol 1  No. 4 January-March 1939by: Verve

Verve - Artistic and Literary Quarterly - Vol 1 No. 4 January-March 1939
by: Verve

Paperback. Paris, E. Teriade, 1st wraps, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, This issue includes: Cover by Rouault; Essays by Sartre, Henri Michaux, Lorca, Rilke; Art by Derain, Matisse; Photos by Brassi, Barna, Bill Brandt. Others. Small bump to bottom edge corner still Exceptional condition

Record # 125394

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Women in Control: Iron Fist, Velvet Gloveby: Utley, Larry

Women in Control: Iron Fist, Velvet Glove
by: Utley, Larry

Softcover. San Francisco, CA, Larry Utley, 1st, April 30, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Adults only. 117 pages, color photographs throughout. Light rubbing, edge wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451601

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Agnes Martin by: Barbara Haskell, Anna Chave, Rosalind Krauss

Agnes Martin
by: Barbara Haskell, Anna Chave, Rosalind Krauss

Hardcover. NY, Whitney Museum of Art/Abrams, 1st, 1992, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 187 pages. Published to accompany a 1992-93 exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, this book deals with the full scope of Agnes Martin's art. It includes essays that place her work in the context of American and European 20th-century art and culture. Agnes Martin's paintings, constructions, and works on paper provide a link between the chromatic abstraction of artists such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, her generational and ideological peers, and the Minimalist vocabulary of the 1960s. This book reproduces works made between 1957 and 1967, and better-known paintings and constructions created since 1974. A selection of Martin's writings reveals the spiritual philosophy that sustains her painting. Clean copy.

Record # 398143

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Carl Andre: Sculpture 1959-1977by: David Bourdon; Barbara Rose

Carl Andre: Sculpture 1959-1977
by: David Bourdon; Barbara Rose

Softcover. NY, Jaap Rietman, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages. Profusely illustrated in b&w. Essay by David Bourdon, with additional text by Barbara Rose. Designed by Richard S. Haymes. With a chronology, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the substantial catalogue published in conjunction with a 1978 circulating American Museum retrospective exhibition of sixteen sculptures and sculptural installations executed between 1959 and 1977 by minimal pioneer Carl Andre. Clean copy.

Record # 371552

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Plastic Man Archives, The - Volume 3by: Cole, Jack

Plastic Man Archives, The - Volume 3
by: Cole, Jack

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover 216 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Plastic Man encounters a number of zany villains, including Fargo Freddie, the volcanic man; Froggy Fink, underworld killer; Elmer Body, the body-possessing nobody; and others. Jack Cole was one of the true geniuses of the comic book art form. Here we have some great examples of his masterwork, Plastic Man. Plastic Man and his sidekick Woozy Winks are two of the greatest characters of the Golden Age of comics. Jack Cole's odd outlook on life, and his sometimes dark sense of humor, make these among the best of the superhero comics of the era. Highly recommended to superhero fans, especially those who don't them too seriously.

Record # 352312

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A Lesson in Art & Life: The Colourful World of Cedric Morris & Arthur Lett Haines by: Hugh St. Clair

A Lesson in Art & Life: The Colourful World of Cedric Morris & Arthur Lett Haines
by: Hugh St. Clair

Hardcover. London, Pimpernel Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 216 pages, color plates. Interest in mid-20th century British artists and the world they inhabited is growing internationally--prices are rising and exhibitions proliferate. This biography focuses on the couple who were at the centre of the Modern British art scene: Cedric Morris (1889-1982) and Arthur Lett-Haines (1894-1978). Both men studied in Paris in the 1920s where they absorbed the work of the French Post Impressionists, Cubists and Surrealists. Later in London, Morris became a sought-after painter of flowers, birds and landscapes, and a friend of Augustus John and Ben Nicholson. Lett was hailed as Britain's first Surrealist. They gave fabulous parties attended by the cream of creative London. Morris and Haines founded the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Suffolk, attended by Lucian Freud and Maggi Hambling. The atmosphere was described as 'robust and coarse, exquisite and sensitive all at once, also faintly dangerous.' The conversation was sometimes bawdy and bitchy but never boring. Lett-Haines, who ran the school, was a superb cook who swapped recipes with Elizabeth David. Cedric Morris became an award-winning plantsman and poppy iris breeder. He was an acknowledged influence on Beth Chatto, amongst others. like new.

Record # 380132

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Felicien Rops, Graphics, Irreverent and Erotic by: Felicien Rops, Lee Revens, J. K. Huysmans

Felicien Rops, Graphics, Irreverent and Erotic
by: Felicien Rops, Lee Revens, J. K. Huysmans

Hardcover. NY, Land's End Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 1968 stated on both the cover and copyright pages. 13 x 9.5 inches, black cloth with gilt design and lettering to the cover and spine. 288 pages. Wrapped in a worn and chipped dust-jacket with a nude illustration in black and white covering the lower 2/5 of the cover. This book provides a selection of Rops' graphics with notes on his life by Lee Revens. Felicien Rops (1833 1898) was a prominent figure in 19th-century Belgium. His art is characterized by satirical, demonic, and erotic themes, often challenging societal norms and hypocrisy. Rops works hold a mirror to contemporary society, exposing its repressive standards and moral contradictions. His art oscillates between sensuality, death, and satanism, making him a key figure in the late 19th-century decadent movement. No markings.

Record # 398085

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John Hassall: The Life and Art of the Poster Kingby: Lucinda Gosling

John Hassall: The Life and Art of the Poster King
by: Lucinda Gosling

Hardcover. London, Unicorn Publishing Group , 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 208 pages. A biography of British commercial illustrator John Hassall, "The Poster King," with one hundred color illustrations. In the early twentieth century, John Hassall (1868-1948) was one of Britain's best-known, highest-profile artists. Though he worked across a variety of disciplines, it was his commercial art for travel companies, political causes, and well-known brands that made him a household name. With bold lines, flat colors, and an engaging, cheery style, Hassall created some of the most famous and influential designs of the era. A century after his heyday, Lucinda Gosling presents an exploration of John Hassall's life, his art, and his legacy. Including photographs of his family and studio, the story behind his iconic "Jolly Fisherman" poster, and previously unpublished material from Hassall's archive at the University of Essex--including artwork, sketches, letters, diaries, and photographs--this is an unprecedented account of the artist's life and work.

Record # 371588

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Margaret Bourke- White: moments in historyby: Quimby, Sean

Margaret Bourke- White: moments in history
by: Quimby, Sean

Hardcover. New York, D.A.P.//La Fabrica , 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. America's first female war correspondent, Margaret Bourke-White was also something of a media star, with the portrait of her decked out in flying gear, camera in hand, about to set off on a bombing raid, being a favorite pin-up among U.S. forces. Focusing on the work Bourke-White made in the 1930s and 40s in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union and the U.K., Moments in History presents 150 classic photographs alongside revelatory extracts from letters and publications in periodicals. Bourke-White traveled to the USSR when the first Five-Year Plan was being implemented; she documented the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, and the Allied bombing of Germany. In the summer of 1945 she was commissioned by Life to make a photographic record of the destroyed German cities. She was present at the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp and the Leipzig-Thekla forced labor camp. She recorded the partition of India and the Korean War, and one of her most famous pictures of this period is "Gandhi," which shows the subject at his spinning wheel. Also included in the catalogue are some of the word-picture sequences Bourke-White did for Fortune and Life, as well as extracts from her correspondence with personalities from the worlds of politics and culture, such as Winston Churchill and Georgia O'Keeffe. Bourke-White wanted to be the "eyes of the age," and her pictures testify to (as she put it) her "unquenchable desire to be present when history is being made."

Record # 352350

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Hira Mandiby: Knoth, Robert

Hira Mandi
by: Knoth, Robert

Hardcover. US, Mets & Schilt, 2008-09-10, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Small, square and orange. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Illustrated in b/w and color throughout. - Hira Mandi (literally Diamond Market) is the tangled maze of backstreets and alleys hat is the red light district of Lahore (the second largest city in Pakistan) and is as famous in South Asia as the Amsterdam red light district is throughout the West. Hira Mandi is a portrait of the unknown world of Pakistan's transsexual and homosexual subculture.

Record # 350023

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R. Crumb. Sketchbook Vol. 6. 1998??"2011by: Crumb, R. (Robert)

R. Crumb. Sketchbook Vol. 6. 1998??"2011
by: Crumb, R. (Robert)

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. "Silly Fool Comics" fills the final page in this sixth volume, with a devilish creature telling the anguished Crumb, "YOU Will Soon Be DEAD!" He was a mere 67, but in his self-absorbed Crumbish way was obsessing about death, when not making intimate and loving portraits of his wife Aline and all the other women who'd tormented his libido since boyhood. Most impressive in this book are his historic tableau, some single page, others multi-page strips, including Piers the Ploughman of 14th century England, My Secret Life by "Walter," Rough Women of the Dark Ages and The Apache Dance, from a 1930s Parisian postcard. His Rapidographed cross hatching is superb as ever and we are treated to long screeds displaying his undimmed brilliance at analyzing the human condition, in a morbid but nonetheless amusing way. One could say there are no surprises in content, as Crumb has produced a consistent body of work over the last 40, if not 50, years, yet each page is also jarringly different from the one before, due to his personal juxtaposition of images. So much is packed in you can spend an hour and find you're only a quarter of the way through, with Crumb bemoaning his mortality, while continuing to prosper, every few pages. A fine stand-alone volume, and must-have completion for the sketchbook set.

Record # 398331

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Prince and Mrs. Charming - Cartoons by W. Millerby: Miller, W.

Prince and Mrs. Charming - Cartoons by W. Miller
by: Miller, W.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, in a lightly worn dust jacket. Non-paginated. Black & white cartoons by W. Miller, mostly from The New Yorker. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610497

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No Sleepby: Ames, Jonathan Kang, Hee Jin

No Sleep
by: Ames, Jonathan Kang, Hee Jin

Hardcover. Heidelburg, Kehrer Verlag, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. "For her series No Sleep, Hee Jin Kang photographs mattresses abandoned on the streets of New York City, mostly in Brooklyn. Kang's work reveals the unexpected beauty and strangeness of these found urban still lifes. The discarded beds are pathetic, monolithic, and architectural." The photographer's first monograph.

Record # 352381

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The Girls of Mel Ramos by: Claridge, Elizabeth; Ramos, Mel

The Girls of Mel Ramos
by: Claridge, Elizabeth; Ramos, Mel

Hardcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1st, 1975, Hardcover, purple cloth in an edgeworn dust jacket. An American figurative painter, specializing most often in paintings of female nudes, whose work incorporates elements of realist and abstract art. Text by Elizabeth Claridge. 158 pages. Some light peeling of laminate on dust jacket. Otherwise very good, clean copy.

Record # 375393

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The History of Provincetown (SIGNED COPY)by: Susan Baker

The History of Provincetown (SIGNED COPY)
by: Susan Baker

Hardcover. Burlington VT, Verve Editions, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BAKER on the blank page opposite the half-title. "Don't be dissuaded by the title. This colorful book is an endearing visual description of one of the nation's most eclectic towns by a resident whose specialty is humorous art--a medium that actually does justice to Provincetown. It's filled with inside jokes (the man who applauded for hours at nothing; the harbormaster who dived off the wharf after his false teeth, which fell out when he was arguing with some tourists), and gossip about the celebrities who have lived in P'town (Sinclair Lewis, Tennessee Williams, Jackson Pollock, Norman Mailer). The History of Provincetown is dedicated "to those who came, couldn't park, and left." -- Boston Magazine, June 1999. Clean copy.

Record # 398538

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Thomas Waterman Wood PNA:1823-1903 by: Lipke, William

Thomas Waterman Wood PNA:1823-1903
by: Lipke, William

Softcover. Montpelier VT, Wood Art Gallery, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Color illustrated wraps, 63 pages. 36 bw repros. Lists 79 works exhibited. Essay by William Lipke. Exhibition held at Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vt., Sept. 11-Oct. 5. Includes bibliographical references. Clean copy.

Record # 371716

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Waiting For Food Number 3: More Restaurant Placemat Drawings  by R. Crumbby: Crumb, Robert

Waiting For Food Number 3: More Restaurant Placemat Drawings by R. Crumb
by: Crumb, Robert

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, unpaginated. B&w illustrations by Crumb. "Yo! People! Here's yet another book of placemat drawings done while sitting in restaurants. Wow, doesn't this guy ever stop drawing?? Hey, now I have a good reason for making artwork on placemats. I'm no longer simply doodling to pass the time 'til the food arrives. I'm earning money while waiting to be served! I'm getting paid for it! Can you imagine??" (from R. Crumb's forward)

Record # 352418

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Longing for Darkness Kamante's Tales from Out of Africa. With original Photographs 1914-1931by: Beard (Editor), Peter; Kamante

Longing for Darkness Kamante's Tales from Out of Africa. With original Photographs 1914-1931
by: Beard (Editor), Peter; Kamante

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Price-clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Light soil to top pages, abrasion on title page. Black and white pictures throughout, some color.

Record # 369318

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Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New Worldby: Borchardt-Hume, Achim (Editor)

Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World
by: Borchardt-Hume, Achim (Editor)

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 190 pages, Includes chronology, footnotes, selected bibliography, list of exhibited works, index. Profusely illustrated with color and b&w prints. This beautifully illustrated book highlights the contrasts and correspondences in the lives and work of two of Modernism's greatest innovators, Josef Albers (1888-1976) and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1947). Beginning in the 1930s, Albers and Moholy-Nagy each developed a rigorously abstract language that condensed art to its visual fundamentals: line, color, texture, light, and form. This language experienced a creative explosion during their Bauhaus years, when both artists moved freely between media and disciplines. Essays by leading scholars follow the artists' separate paths through to their emigration to the United States, where each continued to push tirelessly the conventions of artistic practice--Albers at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and then at Yale University, and Moholy-Nagy in Chicago at the New Bauhaus School and the Institute of Design. As highly influential teachers, Albers and Moholy-Nagy became important catalysts for the transmission of Modernist ideas from Europe to America.

Record # 351827

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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Complete Murphy Anderson Sundays 1958-1959by: Anderson, Murphy

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Complete Murphy Anderson Sundays 1958-1959
by: Anderson, Murphy

Hardcover. US, Hermes Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 352480

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Giovanni Pisano Sculptorby: Ayrton, Michael/Henry Moore/Ilario Bessi

Giovanni Pisano Sculptor
by: Ayrton, Michael/Henry Moore/Ilario Bessi

Hardcover. New York, Weybright and Talley, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with 370 black & white plates and a color frontispiece. Introduction by Henry Moore. Photographs by Ilario Bessi in collaboration with Henry Moore. Brown canvas, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover blocked in gilt with publishers' device, Dust jacket with light surface wear to back cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611838

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Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismoby: Jacoby, Annice (Editor)

Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo
by: Jacoby, Annice (Editor)

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.

Record # 351882

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The Art of the Literary Posterby: Allison Rudnick

The Art of the Literary Poster
by: Allison Rudnick

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2024, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages illustrated in color. An exploration of late nineteenth-century American literary posters. a vibrant genre at the vanguard of modern commercial art and graphic design spurred by innovations in printing technology, the modern poster emerged in the 1890s as a popular form of visual culture in the United States. Created by some of the best-known illustrators and graphic designers of the period including Will H. Bradley, Florence Lundborg, Edward Penfield, and Ethel Reed these advertisements for books and high-tone periodicals such as Harper's and Lippincott's went beyond the realm of commercial art, incorporating bold, stylized imagery and striking typography. This book, based on the renowned Leonard A. Lauder Collection, explores the craze for literary posters, which became sought after collectibles even in their day. It offers new scholarly perspectives that address the aesthetic sophistication and modernity of the literary poster; the impact of early experiments in the field of advertising psychology; the expanded opportunities for women artists, who played an important role in advancing the so-called poster style; and the printmaking techniques that artists employed in this novel art form. A lively survey of a little-known but highly influential period in graphic design,

Record # 396670

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What It Isby: Barry, Lynda

What It Is
by: Barry, Lynda

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 4th printing, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 210 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to covers, else a clean, tight copy. How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry's compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. What It Is demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or to remember. Composed of completely new material, each page of Barry's first Drawn & Quarterly book is a full-color collage that is not only a gentle guide to this process but an invigorating example of exactly what it is: "The ordinary is extraordinary."

Record # 350390

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Paris Undergroundby: Archer, Caroline

Paris Underground
by: Archer, Caroline

Hardcover. New York , Mark Batty Publisher, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 192 pages. Color photos of the Paris Metro features signs, graffitti, artworks, architecture. The text is in English.

Record # 351927

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Mort Walker's Private Scrapbookby: Walker, Mort

Mort Walker's Private Scrapbook
by: Walker, Mort

Hardcover. US, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 323 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 350374

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Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind's Eyeby: Bernstein, Roberta

Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind's Eye
by: Bernstein, Roberta

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 170 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Many color illustrations throughout. Jasper Johns most popular works spanning 1950 through 1960. Tight copy.

Record # 352930

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Joe Eula: Master of Twentieth-Century Fashion Illustrationby: Horyn, Cathy

Joe Eula: Master of Twentieth-Century Fashion Illustration
by: Horyn, Cathy

Hardcover. New York, Harper Design, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The first published collection of the work of Joe Eula, oe of the 20th century's greatest fashion illustrators. Brings 200+ gorgeous b/w and full-color sketches and finished illustrations; sheds light on Eula's development as an artist, and his contributions to the worlds of fashion, design and arts and entertainment.

Record # 351991

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FREDERICK CARL FRIESEKE: The Evolution of an American Impressionistby: Nicholas Kilmer , David Sellin, et al.

FREDERICK CARL FRIESEKE: The Evolution of an American Impressionist
by: Nicholas Kilmer , David Sellin, et al.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. The color-drenched gardens and sun-dappled nudes by Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874-1939) have long been loved by admirers of American Impressionism, and his paintings are treasured in museum collections across the country. This beautiful and comprehensive volume--with more than one hundred color and almost eighty black-and-white plates--is the most ambitious ever devoted to his work. It is being published in conjunction with a major retrospective of the artist's work.A biographical overview and a detailed chronology by the artist's grandson, including charming vintage photographs, provide much new information and correct several misconceptions about Frieseke's life and career. Three invaluable essays by leading scholars discuss the diverse stages of his work and place it in art historical context, detailing his experience as a student at Whistler's atelier in Paris and as a central member of the group of American expatriates who settled in Giverny, France, near the French master Monet. The book's groundbreaking scholarship casts new light on Frieseke, American Impressionism, and the art world at the turn of the last century.

Record # 361526

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The Silent Traveller in San Franciscoby: Chaing Yee

The Silent Traveller in San Francisco
by: Chaing Yee

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. Author, artist, and poet Chiang Lee found in San Francisco the poetic beauty similar to his much-loved Chinese landscape. His view is keen and original as he wanders with his notepad and records his quizzical, quiet observations. Illustrated with 16 of the author's full color paintings, and over 50 of his black and white drawings, Clean copy.

Record # 382109

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Infinite Ice: The Arctic and the Alps from 1860 to the Presentby: Schroder, Klaus Albrecht

Infinite Ice: The Arctic and the Alps from 1860 to the Present
by: Schroder, Klaus Albrecht

Hardcover. US, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Photographs of glaciers and Arctic regions have existed almost as long as photography itself, as a function of documentary and mapmaking endeavors. As early as the 1860s, the medium was used to assess topology, capturing Arctic landscape at a distance and at close quarters, or producing stereoscopic images or panoramas. Glaciologists needed photographs to be taken year after year in order to assess the growth or contraction of the ice, and today repeat photography has become a valuable tool for documenting and demonstrating the real effects of global warming. In Infinite Ice, historical images are reproduced alongside the responses of contemporary artists who have addressed photography and landscape--for example, long, nighttime exposures by Darren Almond, aerial photographs by Olafur Eliasson or panoramic views by Walter Niedermayr. Featuring approximately 100 images, this volume presents a broad variety of glacial photography from 1860 to the present.

Record # 352033

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The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comicsby: Denis Kitchen , Paul Buhle , et al.

The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics
by: Denis Kitchen , Paul Buhle , et al.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Harvey Kurtzman discovered Robert Crumb and gave Gloria Steinem her first job in publishing when he hired her as his assistant. Terry Gilliam also started at his side, met an unknown John Cleese in the process, and the genesis of Monty Python was formed. Art Spiegelman has stated on record that he owes his career to him. And he's one of Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner's favorite artists. Harvey Kurtzman had a Midas touch for talent, but was himself an astonishingly talented and influential artist, writer, editor, and satirist. The creator of MAD and Playboy's "Little Annie Fanny" was called, "One of the most important figures in postwar America" by the New York Times. Kurtzman's groundbreaking "realistic" war comics of the early '50s and various satirical publications (MAD, Trump, Humbug, and Help!) had an immense impact on popular culture, inspiring a generation of underground cartoonists. Without Kurtzman, it's unlikely we'd have had Airplane, SNL, or National Lampoon. The Art of Harvey Kurtzman is the first and only authorized celebration of this "Master of American Comics." This definitive book includes hundreds of never-before-seen illustrations, paintings, pencil sketches, newly discovered lost E.C. Comics layouts, color compositions, illustrated correspondence, and vintage photos from the rich Kurtzman archives

Record # 361608

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ORIGINAL VINTAGE MAGAZINE COVER: Saturday Evening Post - August 9 1930 - Flapper in a straw hatby: Guy Hoff (Illust.)

ORIGINAL VINTAGE MAGAZINE COVER: Saturday Evening Post - August 9 1930 - Flapper in a straw hat
by: Guy Hoff (Illust.)

1930, Book: Very Good, Color art of woman in a big straw hat looking up at sky. Painting by Guy Hoff. 10 X 13", 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 THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Record # 382814

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Coney Island: 40 Yearsby: Stein, Harvey

Coney Island: 40 Years
by: Stein, Harvey

Hardcover. Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white photographs throughout.

Record # 353531

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