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John Sloan: A Painter's Lifeby: Brooks, Van Wyck

John Sloan: A Painter's Life
by: Brooks, Van Wyck

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in very good condition. Dust jacket with tear to lower edge of back cover and slight edgewear to spine, still very good. 246 pp., 26 b&w illustrations. Biography written by close friend of the artist.

Record # 805472

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Phantom, The: The Sea Horse 1/22/1940-7/27/1940by: Falk, Lee and Ray Moore

Phantom, The: The Sea Horse 1/22/1940-7/27/1940
by: Falk, Lee and Ray Moore

Softcover. Long Beach CA, Tony Raiola, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages illustrated in b&w by Falk. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 411205

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In the Darkness of the Night: A Bruno Munari Artist's Bookby: Bruno Munari

In the Darkness of the Night: A Bruno Munari Artist's Book
by: Bruno Munari

Hardcover. NY, Princeton Architectural Press, reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. First published in Italy in 1956, Bruno Munari's In the Darkness of the Night tells the tale of an interconnected, intimate yet expansive journey across three settings--in the darkness, through a meadow, and into a mysterious cave--through a spellbinding combination of paper stocks, transparencies, cutouts, and simple but lively characters. This timeless artist's book, available in a new English edition, is a must-have for Munari fans, designers, bibliophiles, and lovers of exceptional book design.

Record # 374957

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Wally Wood: Eerie Tales of Crime & Horrorby: Wally Wood (edited by J. David Spurlock)

Wally Wood: Eerie Tales of Crime & Horror
by: Wally Wood (edited by J. David Spurlock)

Softcover. Miami FL, Vanguard Publishing, 2nd pr., 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, glossy pictorial wrappers, 207 pages. Color art throughout. This contains the complete collection of non-EC, 1950s crime and horror comics by Wally Wood. Some of the highlights are: Captain Steve Savage; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; Sabu the Elephant Boy; Frank Buck; Martin Kane; Fu Manchu; and many, many more. Clean copy.

Record # 386914

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Way We Wore, The: Black Style Thenby: McCollom (Ed.), Michael

Way We Wore, The: Black Style Then
by: McCollom (Ed.), Michael

Hardcover. New York, Glitterati, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages illustrated in color and b&w. A visual survey of Black style from the 1940s through the 1970s. In publisher's shrinkwrap. Featuring snapshots of over 150 black men and women's most unforgettable "style moments", the book includes personal photographs taken from the author's own family and circle of friends including Oprah Winfrey, James Baldwin, Iman, Naomi Campbell, Tyra Banks, Tracy Reese, Patrick Kelly, Kimora Lee, Bobby Short, Bethann Hardison, and Portia LaBeija, among countless others. This is the 2006 first printing with a different cover than the later reprint.

Record # 351123

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Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believeby: Murphy, Cullen

Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe
by: Murphy, Cullen

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Illustrated with never-before-seen photographs, cartoons, and drawings, Cartoon County brings the postwar American era alive, told through the relationship of a son to his father, an extraordinarily talented and generous man who had been trained by Norman Rockwell. Cartoon County gives us a glimpse into a very special community-and of an America that used to be.

Record # 353149

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Peter Hurd: A Portrait Sketch from Lifeby: Horgan, Paul

Peter Hurd: A Portrait Sketch from Life
by: Horgan, Paul

Softcover. Austin, University of Texas Press, First, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 68 pages, profusely illustrated in b/w and color. Slight edgewear otherwise tight, clean copy.

Record # 806692

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The Fairest One of All: The Making of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfsby: J.B. Kaufman and Diane Disney Miller

The Fairest One of All: The Making of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
by: J.B. Kaufman and Diane Disney Miller

Hardcover. Weldon Owen , 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages. In 2012 Disney celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Snow White movie, a beloved classic and an important milestone in film history. This book, created with the Walt Disney Family Foundation, run by Walt's daughter, is an exploration of the making of the film that includes never-before-published facts and art. This book is the first to reconstruct that process in exacting detail, with the loving attention it deserves from an internationally noted film scholar. Author J.B. Kaufman spent years researching the film's history, interviewing participants, and studying the marvelous archival art that appears in these pages. The result is a work that can be appreciated equally as a piece of film history and as a collectable art book, a joy for anyone who loves film, animation, and the magical world that Walt Disney created.

Record # 362094

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Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Artby: Breuer, Karin and others

Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art
by: Breuer, Karin and others

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 203 pages, approximately 200 color plates. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 351163

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Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dollsby: Pacelli, Maria Luisa and Patricia Hickson (Ed.)

Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls
by: Pacelli, Maria Luisa and Patricia Hickson (Ed.)

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press/Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, 148 color plates. A landmark examination of iconic and provocative portraits by Warhol and Mapplethorpe, presented side by side and in depth for the first time.

Record # 353186

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Gilbert & George: Intimate Conversations with Francois Joquetby: Jonquet, Francois

Gilbert & George: Intimate Conversations with Francois Joquet
by: Jonquet, Francois

Hardcover. London, Phaidon, 1st, 2005, Hardcover, 360 pages. A compelling insight into Gilbert & George's everyday enigma. The artists' unfailing politeness, consideration for others and open nature exert an irresistible charm. But it's Jonquet's walks with G & G around their home patch of Spitalfields that shed new light on the work, lavishly illustrated with accompanying personal photos.

Record # 361141

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Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again by: Miller, Frank & Varley, Lynn

Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again
by: Miller, Frank & Varley, Lynn

Softcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st pbk, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 248 pages in color. The Dark Knight Strikes Again is Frank Miller's follow-up to his hugely successful Batman: the Dark Knight Returns, one of the few comics that is widely recognized as not only reinventing the genre but also bringing it to a wider audience.Set three years after the events of The Dark Knight Returns, The Dark Knight Strikes Again follows a similar structure: once again, Batman hauls himself out of his self-imposed retirement in order to set things right. However, where DKR was about him cleaning up his home city, Gotham, DKSA has him casting his net much wider: he's out to save the world. The thing is, most of the world doesn't realize that it needs to be saved--least of all Superman and Wonder Woman, who have become little more than superpowered enforcers of the status quo. So, the notoriously solitary Batman is forced to recruit some different superpowered allies. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 387001

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STEVE DITKO OMNIBUS. VOLUME TWO : STARRING THE HAWK AND THE DOVEby: Ditko, Steve

STEVE DITKO OMNIBUS. VOLUME TWO : STARRING THE HAWK AND THE DOVE
by: Ditko, Steve

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages, hardcover. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Illustrated cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 351006

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Discovery of America, Theby: Steinberg, Saul

Discovery of America, The
by: Steinberg, Saul

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. Introduction by Arthur C. Danto. 196 color and b/w illustrations, 56 of which first appeared in The New Yorker.

Record # 353211

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Power to the People: The Graphic Design of the Radical Press and the Rise of the Counter-Culture, 1964-1974by: Kaplan, Geoff

Power to the People: The Graphic Design of the Radical Press and the Rise of the Counter-Culture, 1964-1974
by: Kaplan, Geoff

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 264 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Though we think of the 1960s and the early '70s as a time of radical social, cultural, and political upheaval, we tend to picture the action as happening on campuses and in the streets. Yet the rise of the underground newspaper was equally daring and original. Thanks to advances in cheap offset printing, groups involved in antiwar, civil rights, and other social liberation issues began to spread their messages through provocatively designed newspapers and broadsheets. This vibrant new media was essential to the counterculture revolution as a whole--helping to motivate the masses and proliferate ideas. Power to the People presents more than 700 full-color images and excerpts from these astonishing publications, many of which have not been seen since they were first published almost fifty years ago. From the psychedelic pages of the Oracle, Haight-Ashbury's paper of choice, to the fiery editorials of the Black Panther Party Paper, these papers were remarkable for their editors' fervent belief in freedom of expression and their DIY philosophy. They were also extraordinary for their graphic innovations. Experimental typography and wildly inventive layouts reflect an alternative media culture as much informed by the space age, television, and socialism as it was by the great trinity of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. Assembled by renowned graphic designer Geoff Kaplan, Power to the People pays homage in its layout to the radical press. Beyond its unparalleled images, Power to the People includes essays by Gwen Allen, Bob Ostertag, and Fred Turner, as well as a series of recollections edited by Pamela M. Lee, all of which comment on the critical impact of the alternative press in the social and popular movements of those turbulent years. Power to the People treats the design practices of that moment as activism in its own right that offers a vehement challenge to the dominance of official media and a critical form of self-representation.

Record # 352664

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English Churchyard Memorialsby: Burgess, Frederick

English Churchyard Memorials
by: Burgess, Frederick

Hardcover. London, Lutterworth Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 326 pages. Many b&w plates of sepulchral monuments across England. Small ownership sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 387266

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Naked Vinyl: Classic Album Cover Art Unveiledby: O'Brien, Tim

Naked Vinyl: Classic Album Cover Art Unveiled
by: O'Brien, Tim

Softcover. Chrysalis, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 351302

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Jean Patou: A Fashionable Life by: Polle Emmanuelle and Francis Hammond (photographer)

Jean Patou: A Fashionable Life
by: Polle Emmanuelle and Francis Hammond (photographer)

Hardcover. Paris, Flammarion, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, folio. This original, illustrated monograph recounts haute couture designer Jean Patous charmed life and career during the apex of 20th-century glamour, and is drawn from extensive research into previously unpublished family archives. 250 color plates. Remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise tight, clean copy.

Record # 353193

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Betsy and Meby: Cole, Jack

Betsy and Me
by: Cole, Jack

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st thus, 2007-12-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 90 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Having mastered comic books and gag cartoons, in 1958 Jack Cole set his sights on the cartoonist's pot of gold--a syndicated newspaper strip. He hit the bull's-eye with Betsy and Me, a breezy domestic farce focusing on a middle-class urban couple and their smart-aleck genius son. Betsy and Me was an instant success and newpapers were lining up to buy it. Then, with only two-and-a-half month's worth of strips completed, Cole purchased a .22 caliber pistol and ended his life. For Betsy and Me, featuring city dweller Chet Tibbit's day-to-day stuggles and achievements, Cole stripped his style down to its bare essentials, creating a strip that sparkles with economy, wit, and charm. What gave the strip its edge, however, was Cole's innovative storytelling. As R.C. Harvey writes in his introduction, "Cole's storytelling manner was unique: the comedy arose from the pictures' contradicting the narrative prose. Cole's fatuous protagonist and narrator would say one thing in the captions accompanying the drawings, but the pictures of his actions showed the opposite, revealing [him] to be a trifle pretentious and wholly delusional." Harvey's intro also serves as a biographical sketch and sheds light on the circumstances surrounding Cole's suicide.

Record # 350316

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Heart Throbs September 1969 No. 121by: N/A

Heart Throbs September 1969 No. 121
by: N/A

Softcover. NY, DC Comics, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wraps, 32 pages, 15 cents cover price. Mild crease, edgewear to cover.

Record # 387354

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Giorgio Armaniby: Armani, Giorgio

Giorgio Armani
by: Armani, Giorgio

Hardcover. NY, Guggenheim Museum/Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 381 pages. A sumptuous photographic essay, which accompanies a new museum exhibition, celebrates the design genius of Armani, discussing his wide influence and the radical changes in fashion that he has inspired, tracing the evolution of his unique artistry. crease/wrinkle to front panel of dj otherwise very good. several pages with creases.

Record # 351355

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Window in Photographs, Theby: Hellman, Karen

Window in Photographs, The
by: Hellman, Karen

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. The Window in Photographs includes more than eighty color plates spanning the history of photography, all drawn from the J. Paul Getty Museum's permanent collection.

Record # 353072

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Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Worksby: Kaufmann, David

Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Works
by: Kaufmann, David

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 118 pages, illustrations in color. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. In Telling Stories, David Kaufmann focuses on Philip Guston's controversial figurative paintings of the late 1960s and 1970s. He looks at the early critical reception of these works to see what the artist was actually doing and, at another level, to investigate the odd alchemy of artists and their audiences. Grounding his historical approach in careful readings of the paintings, Kaufmann pays close attention to Guston's intense and complicated relationship to Judaism. At the same time, by situating Guston in the context of the fashions of the New York art world, Kaufmann provides unique insight into the workings of that world at the moment when the strictures of artistic modernism began to fade.

Record # 350344

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Starstruck: Vintage Movie Posters from Classic Hollywoodby: Ira M. Resnick, Martin Scorsese (Foreword)

Starstruck: Vintage Movie Posters from Classic Hollywood
by: Ira M. Resnick, Martin Scorsese (Foreword)

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. A one-of-a-kind collection of movie posters spanning fifty years, from silent films to Cinemascope For four decades film historian Ira M. Resnick has been amassing a superb collection of 2,000 vintage movie posters and 1,500 stills, which has never before been published. Starstruck: Vintage Movie Posters from Classic Hollywood features the best of Resnick's collection, with vivid reproductions of 250 posters and forty stills from the golden age of Hollywood, 1912 to 1962. In a moving introduction, Resnick relates how his love of vintage movie art translated into a career as a collector and the founder of the Motion Picture Arts Gallery, the first gallery devoted exclusively to the art of the movies. Resnick's firsthand account offers entertaining anecdotes about how he managed to acquire such stellar film artwork, as well as historical information about the stars and films shown on the pieces he collected. Guiding the reader through the best posters and stills of his collection, Resnick provides a tour of cinematic history, starting in the silent film era and continuing up to Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). By showcasing several posters for each performer--such as Lillian Gish, the Marx Brothers, Marilyn Monroe, John Barrymore, and Audrey Hepburn--Resnick offers a unique method of charting the evolution of each movie star's career. Still like new in publisher's shrinkwrap. NOTE: Due to size and weight DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 387451

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Putman Styleby: Gerschel, Stephane

Putman Style
by: Gerschel, Stephane

Hardcover. NY, Assouline, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 189 pages. "Not only is Andree Putman a wizard of design; she is also a muse that inspires timelessness." Jack Lang, former French Minister of Culture. Andree Putman was first cut above the rest when, twenty years ago, she conceived the first boutique hotel, the Morgan. She was also the one to open a new path for modern design, reinstating the importance of such major designers as Eileen Gray, Robert Mallet Stevens, Mariano Fortuny, and Jean-Michel Frank, among informed professionals. Since then, Putman's eclecticism has led her to embrace projects as diverse as the Guggenheim Museum, the Azzedine Alaia boutique and Peter Greenaway movie sets. Today, the designer's elegant and bold style is known throughout the world, from Los Angeles to Shanghai, a city where she created numerous projects. Andree Putman Style is a journey into the world of an uncommon designer, one which acquaints the reader with the influences and taste that inspired this amazing woman.

Record # 351402

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Early Christian & Byzantine Architectureby: Krautheimer, Richard

Early Christian & Byzantine Architecture
by: Krautheimer, Richard

Hardcover. London, Penguin Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. 390 pages, 192 bw plates at rear plus line diagrams and maps. No slipcase.

Record # 374076

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The Adventures of Fat Freddy's Cat by: Gilbert Shelton

The Adventures of Fat Freddy's Cat
by: Gilbert Shelton

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 3rd pr., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format with yellow pictorial covers. Some light fading to spine, a few small ink notations on inside rear cover, otherwise bright, clean copy. Originally published in 1977 in this format, this is the revised and enlarged edition of August 1982.

Record # 374583

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Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifestoby: Miren Arzalluz

Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto
by: Miren Arzalluz

Hardcover. Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Epoque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, bobbed their hair, put them in bathing suits and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced the little black dress; trousers for women; costume jewelry; the exquisitely comfortable suit that became her trademark. Early in the Roaring Twenties, Chanel made the first ever couture perfume - No. 5 - presenting it in the famous little square-cut flagon that, inspired by Picasso and Cubism, became the arch symbol of the Art Deco style. No. 5 remains the most popular scent ever created. This volume, published to accompany a landmark exhibition in Paris, traces the birth and evolution of Chanel's timeless style. Specially commissioned photographs by Julien T. Hamon showcase the clothing, while essays by fashion historians illuminate a period, an event or a theme. Rare archival documents, including portraits of Gabrielle Chanel herself, round out the book. Remainder line on bottom edge otherwise clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 387942

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The Great Anti-War Cartoonsby: Yoe, Craig

The Great Anti-War Cartoons
by: Yoe, Craig

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages. Color frontispiece, b&w illustrations. The Great Anti-War Cartoons by Craig Yoe offers a "hard-hitting but hopeful" collection spanning centuries of anti-war drawings by some of the best graphic artists, from Honore Daumier to R. Crumb and many others. As noted in the foreword, the works included in this compilation of responses to war come from both the left and the right, and this is indeed one of the strengths of this book. The insightful, thought-provoking introduction is delivered by none other than Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus and proves to be well worth reading in its own right.

Record # 351430

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Great English Housesby: Chamberlin, Russell

Great English Houses
by: Chamberlin, Russell

Hardcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1wt, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages. full blue cloth, silver lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W and color photographs and reproductions. A visual tour of the great country English houses through the ages. Clean copy.

Record # 372380

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Six Snappy Socceroos from the Archives of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers - No. 6by: Shelton, Gilbert

Six Snappy Socceroos from the Archives of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers - No. 6
by: Shelton, Gilbert

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages plus color wraps. Staple bound, $2.00 cover price. Black and white art by Selton inside. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 374603

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Prince Valiant and the Golden Princess: Book 5 by: Hal Foster, Max Trell (Text By)

Prince Valiant and the Golden Princess: Book 5
by: Hal Foster, Max Trell (Text By)

Hardcover. NY, Nostalgia Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 128 pages, b&w art. This book presents Foster's original drawings in a new format that works well for the book, doing away with the original text in the margins for new expanded text enhanced by Max Trell. So it reads more like a illustrated book that a comic strip. To see Foster's draftsmanship in the inked form without color allows you to really appreciate the quality of his artistry. Another nice treat in the book are the special educational front endpapers, titled "Knightly Arms & Armor", drawn by Foster.

Record # 396405

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Blasphemy: Art That Offendsby: Plate, S. Brent

Blasphemy: Art That Offends
by: Plate, S. Brent

Hardcover. Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 189 pages. Blasphemy: Art that Offends is a prescient examination of the perpetually troubled, often explosive relationship between religion, politics and art. This book draws on a rich wealth of visual material, tracing both the history of blasphemy as a concept and re-positioning the term in the twenty-first century. Questions of censorship and freedom of expression are today extremely volatile, a fact evinced by the recent international backlash against the Danish newspaper Islamic caricatures and the murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh following the release of his notorious Submission. Blasphemy: Art that Offends provides a vital vantage point from which to view the complicated, compelling interrelations between religion, politics and the visual arts.

Record # 351456

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Katy Grannan: The Ninety Nine and The Nineby: Grannan, Katy (Photographer)

Katy Grannan: The Ninety Nine and The Nine
by: Grannan, Katy (Photographer)

Hardcover. San Francisco, Fraenkel Gallery, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Two volumes in slipcase. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The result of three years of work in California's Central Valley, Katy Grannan's new series The 99 features large-scale color portraits and black-and-white photographs. Grannan's recent photographs are set in the parched landscape and forgotten towns along Highway 99, including Modesto, Fresno and Bakersfield. In her intensely vivid color portraits, the artist works at midday when the sun is direct and the heat is unrelenting, presenting each individual, often simultaneously heroic and vulnerable, against stark, white backgrounds. In the black-and-white photographs, many of her subjects re-appear on Modesto's South 9th Street and along the banks of the Tuolumne River. Everyday rituals, small interactions and moments of beauty on the fringes of society are depicted in detail, conferring significance to what is often overlooked. This large-format, two-volume, slipcased monograph gathers this series for the first time.

Record # 353310

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Life Magazine Automobile Number: January 7 1926by: N/A Garrett Price (cover)

Life Magazine Automobile Number: January 7 1926
by: N/A Garrett Price (cover)

Softcover. NY, Life Publishing, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 36 pages plus cover. Color cover by Garrett Price: A Quick Pick-Up. Magazine was once folded so a crease throughout. 3 color ads plus b/w cartoons by Al Frueh, Art Young, John Held, others.

Record # 374621

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Modern Worlds: Austrian and German Art, 1890-1940by: Price, Renee / Lauder, Ronald S./Peters, Olaf/ Staggs, Janis

Modern Worlds: Austrian and German Art, 1890-1940
by: Price, Renee / Lauder, Ronald S./Peters, Olaf/ Staggs, Janis

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.

Record # 397345

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Skyscraper Primitives: Dada and the American Avant-Garde, 1910-1925by: Tashjian, Dickran

Skyscraper Primitives: Dada and the American Avant-Garde, 1910-1925
by: Tashjian, Dickran

Hardcover. Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Study of American artists influenced by Dada and their relationship with American avant-garde. 283 pages, 94 black/white illustrations. Cloth bound book in near fine condition, only sign of wear is slight discoloration to the top edges of pages (light spotting), not visible when reading the book.

Record # 804815

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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead The Writers & Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Greatby: Meyerowitz, Rick

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead The Writers & Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great
by: Meyerowitz, Rick

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From its first issue in April, 1970, the National Lampoon blazed like a comet, defining comedy as we know it today. To create Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, former Lampoon illustrator Rick Meyerowitz selected the funniest material from the magazine and sought out the survivors of its first electrifying decade to gather their most revealing and outrageous stories. The result is a mind-boggling tour through the early days of an institution whose alumni left their fingerprints all over popular culture: Animal House, Caddyshack, Saturday Night Live, Ghostbusters, SCTV, Spinal Tap, In Living Color, Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons--even Sesame Street counts a few Lampooners among its ranks. 320 pages, mostly color.

Record # 378949

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William Morris by Himself - Designs and Writingsby: Naylor (Ed.), Gillian

William Morris by Himself - Designs and Writings
by: Naylor (Ed.), Gillian

Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. A study of Morris's life through his own words and work. Contains extracts from his letters, poems, etc. Lavishly illustrated throughout with over 200 color plates. Many of the illustrations have never been reproduced before

Record # 602334

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Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by: King, Ross

Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
by: King, Ross

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury , 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards with wrap-around dust jacket band with title. 403 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Claude Monet's water lily paintings are among the most iconic and beloved works of art of the past century. Yet these entrancing images were created at a time of terrible private turmoil and sadness for the artist. The dramatic history behind these paintings is little known; Ross King's Mad Enchantment tells the full story for the first time and, in the process, presents a compelling and original portrait of one of our most popular and cherished artists. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 396762

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Eskimo Artby: Burland, Cottie

Eskimo Art
by: Burland, Cottie

Hardcover. New York, Hamlyn Publishing Group, Ltd., 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated guide to historical and modern Eskimo art. 96 pages, illustrated with more than 100 photographs, both color and black/white (many full-page). Book and dust jacket are in very good condition, dust jacket shows some light edge wear.

Record # 805388

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The New Emerging from the Old - Lu Shengzhong: Works 1980- 2005 by: Shengzhong, Lu

The New Emerging from the Old - Lu Shengzhong: Works 1980- 2005
by: Shengzhong, Lu

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.

Record # 373368

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Batman: The Sunday Classics 1943 - 1946by: Kane, Bob

Batman: The Sunday Classics 1943 - 1946
by: Kane, Bob

Hardcover. New Yory, Sterling, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Originally published in 1990 by Kitchen Sink Press. Color throughout. 208 pages.

Record # 353243

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Michael Rakowitz by: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Michael Rakowitz
by: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

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.

Record # 396835

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Maurice Prendergast: The Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbookby: Oklahoma Museum of Art

Maurice Prendergast: The Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook
by: Oklahoma Museum of Art

Softcover. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Museum of Art, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 21 pages plus 44 b&w and color plates. Rubbing, creases to wrappers. Slightly wrinkled near spine. Previous price sticker on back cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 401853

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New World, The: The First Pictures of America... With Contemporary Narratives of the French Settlements in Florida 1562 1565 and the English Colonies in Virginia 1585 1590 by:

New World, The: The First Pictures of America... With Contemporary Narratives of the French Settlements in Florida 1562 1565 and the English Colonies in Virginia 1585 1590
by:

Hardcover. New York , Duell Sloan and Pearce, Revised Ed., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 292 pages. Maps on endpapers. Beige cloth with gilt titles. Drawings made by John White and Jacques Le Moyne and engraved by Theodore De Bry. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 410563

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Thomas Zipp: Achtung! Visionby: Loers, Veit

Thomas Zipp: Achtung! Vision
by: Loers, Veit

Hardcover. Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 176 pages. Text in English and German. Hardcover, pages. Thomas Zipp, born in 1966, studied under Martin Kippenberger in Frankfurt and then continued at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. His imagery blends New Age thought patterns with provocative spiritual irony: religion, cults, myths, drugs and violence. Achtung! Vision presents his paintings, drawings, collages and installations since 2003, including a number of very new and never-before-seen works.

Record # 350545

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From Klimt to Klee: Masterworks from the Serge Sabarsky Collection by: Serge Sabarsky; Renee Price

From Klimt to Klee: Masterworks from the Serge Sabarsky Collection
by: Serge Sabarsky; Renee Price

Hardcover. NY, Neue Galerie, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Foreword by Ronald S. Lauder. More than 160 works illustrated in color. 123 pages. Short closed tear to dust jacket in rear. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 396861

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Monotypes of Maurice Prendergast, The: A Loan Exhibitionby: N/A

Monotypes of Maurice Prendergast, The: A Loan Exhibition
by: N/A

Softcover. New York, David & Long , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 148 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light rubbing, soiling to wrappers. Previous price sticker on back cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 401850

Price: $12.00 
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Batman: The Sunday Classics 1943-46by: Kane, Bob

Batman: The Sunday Classics 1943-46
by: Kane, Bob

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics/Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 209 pages. Hardcover with slipcase. Illustrated with full color reproductions of classic Batman strips from 1943-1946. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 511875

Price: $35.00 
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