Art

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Bunker Hill Publishing Inc, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. In the 80 images throughout this book, Haas has forced Nature to do his bidding. Still, Haas's trees are portraits of Los Angeles in all its complexity and quirkiness, and his views of individual trees reveal much about their surroundings and the humans with whom they share their habitat.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Studio, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. SIGNED BY BASKIN on the front fly leaf. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket, a clean, tight copy.

1964, Book: Very Good, Art of ballet dancer done with black brush line by Birnbaum. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead , 1st, 2001-11-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 198 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Filled with fame, fortune, tragedy, excess, betrayal, and salvation, a powerful glimpse into the life of Picasso and his first family, as told by his granddaughter, reveals his controlling ways and alcoholism that led to the destruction of their family and how she learned to come to terms with the blessings and curses of the Picasso legacy.

Softcover. New Haven, NJ, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages, numerous b&w illustrations. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, else a nice, clean copy.

1976, Book: Very Good, Color art of woman making coffee in kitchen as dog watches. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. Boston, Davis Godine, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 188 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket with only light wear. Clean tight copy. Color pictures throughout. Fine art and fine bookmaking meet in this full color selection of 77 books from Europe and the Americas. The authors select, and comment upon, the "best of both worlds": books whose pages reveal the best graphic work of the past century; artwork from the hands of masters as diverse as Braque, Calder, Dine, Hockney, Mapplethorpe, Matisse, Maillol, Picasso, Oldenburg and Rivers-coupled with memorable texts orchestrated by the best designers, printers, and binders.

Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, Inc, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy with wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Bright illustrations by Guy Peellaert throughout.

1970, Book: Very Good, Color art of cruise ship in Caribbean port by Martin. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. London, The Library Association, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. Ex-Lib with usually markings and stamping on end papers, copyright, etc. Light edgewear to cover boards, fray on spine and corners, otherwise good copy.

Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 299 pages, 193 illustrations, 150 in color. Clean copy in a bright dust jacket with a mild crease to the dust jacket. Werner Hofmann vividly demonstrates Caspar David Friedrich's extraordinary ability to reproduce the natural world in faithful detail, while at the same time imbuing it with spiritual and religious significance. Caught between the near and the distant, the finite and the infinite, his human figures find a space in which to engage in the thoughtful contemplation of nature and the divine. Carefully placing the artist in a wider context, Hofmann examines contemporary judgments and influences on Friedrich's work. The beautiful illustrations include many of Friedrich's drawings and watercolors as well as over ninety of his works in oils.

1972, Book: Very Good, Color art by Le-Tan of indoor cat resting in red room. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

1918, Book: Very Good, Color art of two gils knitting socks for the war effort with flag flying overhead. Illustration by Maginel Wright Enright. 10 X 13", light address stamp. 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.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. This volume, the most comprehensive assessment of Chuck Close's work yet published, accompanied a mid-career retrospective exhibition that opened at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, on February 25, 1998. A leading figure in the New York art world since the early 1970s, Close has recently concentrated on portraits of his artist friends and colleagues, characterized by colorful patterning and vivid brushwork. Subjects include Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Alex Katz, Kiki Smith, Lucas Samaras, and Lorna Simpson. Here, more than 90 paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs are reproduced, along with details and comparative illustrations.

New York, American Radiator Co., 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "A last look at a well-dressed friend" color art by Dean Cornwell, 9" X 12", Very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying 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.

1973, Book: Very Good, Color art of lakefront marina in the dead of winter by Hubbell. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Softcover. London, V & A Publications, 1st pbk, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 191 pages. Containing over 100 masterpieces from a major collection, this volume traces the history of European sculpture, from the early-Christian period through to the beginning of the 20th century. Highlights include the medieval ivories, works by many of the Italian Renaissance masters, English 18th-century pieces, such as Roubillac's statue of Handel and sculptures by Rodin. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 28 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

R.J. Reynolds Co., 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "I like especially the fragrant mildness", color photograph of socialite Mrs. Nicholas Biddle. 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.

1972, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon of motorcycle police leading a political parade. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, illustrated throughout with 700 illustrations, including 194 in full color. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 155 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in orange cloth, gilt title on spine, all excellent. Dust jacket unclipped, has small puncture near spine on front cover (patched from inside a with tape, see image), otherwise very good. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition. Hassrick's illuminating discussion of Russell's work, based on much new research, is set against the backgrond of the artist's experiences in the West.

Hardcover. Paris, Denoel, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 123 pages of b&w cartoons by Sempe, originally published in 1964. Green cloth covers with fading to spine. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, very good. French language but most of his cartoons are wordless.

1968, Book: Very Good, Color art by Martin of rowboats sitting on shore in the moonlight. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. New York , Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations. Unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear.

Hardcover. London, Jupiter Books, First Edition, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 31 pages text followed by 130 plates. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Frontis photograph of the artist, L. S. Lowry, Stockport, Winter 1962. Full page, full color & bw plates throughout. Dust jacket with wear & toning to edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Larkspur Landing, Lapis Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 157 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Wrinkling to bottom right corner of page 147/148. Dust jacket with light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

1968, Book: Very Good, Color art of apple tree in blossom against a red barn. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

1936, Book: Very Good, Color art of lady hiding in water as lifeguard in boat holding swimsuit seeks swimmer. Watercolor by Oliver Hurst. 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.

Softcover. New York , Monacelli Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages, color illustrations throughout by Robert Risko. These celebrity caricatures are instantly recognizable -- recognizable both as unmistakable portraits of famous subjects and as examples of Risko's bold and fluid style. Risko's career was launched in 1978 when Andy Warhol gave him an assignment for Interview magazine. Since then he has drawn likenesses of hundreds of notables from the worlds of film, television, politics, and culture. In addition to countless images for Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and other major magazines, Risko has illustrated book jackets, video covers, movie posters, and CD packages. Very good plus.

Hardcover. Cologne, Dumont Buchverlag, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 363 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This volume provides an extensive survey of painting in Austria from 1900-1930, with Egon Schiele as the focal point, through a representative selection of over 100 works by Schiele and 23 of his contemporaries from the collection of Dr. Rudolf Leopold. Contributions by: Antonia Hoerschelmann, Rudolf Leopold, Klaus Albrecht Schroder, Harald Szeemann, and Patrick Werkner. 139 color plates and 59 b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Quirk Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 255 pages. A hilarious spotlight on the strangest second bananas in superhero comics, including junior partners, animal assistants, and even heinous henchmen (sidekicks of the villain world). Complete with vintage art and publication details.Batman has Robin. Captain America has Bucky. And Yankee Doodle had Dandy. Being a superhero is hard work, which is why so many comics characters rely on a sidekick for help. Someone who can watch the hero's back, help search for clues, or, if nothing else, give the hero someone to talk to. But just as not every superhero achieves the glory of Batman, not all sidekicks are as capable as the Boy Wonder. In The League of Regrettable Sidekicks, author Jon Morris discusses some of the strangest iterations of the sidekick phenomenon, and in the process explores how important these characters were to comic book storytelling.

1945, Book: Very Good, Color art of boy carrying books and lunch pail toward white schoolhouse by John Falter. 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.

Softcover. Milano, Arte Contemporanea, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog of the Italian sculptor's work. Limited to 777 copies. Text in English and Italian with an essay by Enrico Gariboldi and a poem by Pier Carlo Bontempi. Includes numerous color illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Sterling Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Laminated pictorial boards, 204 pages, non-matching DJ, illustrated endsheets. With an Introduction by Roger Stern. Strips all in color. In the late thirties, when Superman was making his ground-breaking debut in comic books, his legend was simultaneously being propagated in Sunday newspapers.Collected in this deluxe edition are the first three years of the classic Sunday Superman comic strips as written and illustrated by the Man of Steel's creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster.In these timeless tales, the Man of Steel challenges saboteurs and racketeers, saves runaway trains and plummeting planes, defeats giant robots and begins his lifelong rivalry with his greatest nemesis, Lex Luthor.

1972, Book: Very Good, Color art by Steinberg of man in between Before and After. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

1930, Book: Very Good, Color painting of galloping pony express rider by Maynard Dixon. 9 X 12" very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying 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.

Softcover. Seattle WA, Seattle Art Museum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 235 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Red end papers. Marking on copyright page. Light edge wear to wrappers. Very light foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, NBM, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 111 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Reprint volume no. 2 of collected Terry and the Pirates color Sunday comic strip.

Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Honoring Time magazine's seventy-fifth anniversary, this collection of seventy-five works of art commisioned for the magazine's covers features Andrew Wyeth's portrait of Eisenhower, Warhol's study of Michael Jackson, and other images by Ben Shahn, Roy Lichtenstein, and other artists.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated, b&w cartoons by Price from the New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, etc. Dust jacket with light fade to blue, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Scalo, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 104 pages. Selected as the United States representative to the 2001 Venice Biennale, the sculptor and installation artist Robert Gober has, thanks to several major museum exhibitions in recent years, established himself as perhaps the most important artist of his generation, thanks to his symbolically charged re-creations of everyday objects that he makes into installations that question the ideals and values of childhood, family, home, and religion. This catalogue presents his work for the United States pavilion at the Biennale.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran & Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, unpaginated. Foreword by Robert Benchley. Green boards with b&w pictorial, black cloth spine with green stamped title, profusely illustrated with b&w New Yorker cartoons. Spine cloth separated and loose from binding but very repairable. lLght rubbing and edgewear to boards, previous owner's signature front endpaper, pages crisp and unmarked.

Softcover. Belgium, Ludion , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 255 pages, color illustrations throughout. Clean copy.

Harper & Brothers, Harper's Weekly, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Full-page pen and ink drawing of a golfer putting ball. One in a series by E.W. Kemble, himself a golf enthusiast. Approx. 10 X 13".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.

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & CO, reprint, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Heavy soil on cloth covers. Previous owner's name on end paper. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED WITH SKETCH ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Spine shows small tears and soil/wear. Front hinge tender.

Hardcover. Philadephia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Text in English with contributions by Carlos Basualdo, Erica F. Battle, Marco De Michelis, and Michael R. Taylor. Includes numerous illustrations, most in color. A very near fine copy in illustrated boards. Bruce Nauman (b 1941) has assembled a mesmerizing body of work that encompasses video, installation, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and neon. This work explores the interconnections among several specific themes that have recurred prominently throughout four decades of Nauman's work.

Softcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st, 2004, Foftcover, Continuing DC Comics' decades series devoted to the Caped Crusader, this volume looks at the Dark Knight's beginnings! Featuring Batman stories from BATMAN #7, 15, 20, 31, 37, 47, 48, 49, DETECTIVE COMICS #27, 33, 38, 49, 80, REAL FACT COMICS #5, STAR-SPANGLED COMICS #70, and WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #30, this volume includes Batman's first appearance and the debut of Robin, the first telling of his origin, and the debuts of the Joker, Two-Face, Catwoman and the Mad Hatter. 192 pages in color. Clean and bright but has a smoke odor.

1932, Book: Very Good, Color art by H.J. Soulen of Oriental warrior with sword and shield. 10 X 13", small label. 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.

Softcover. Toronto CA, McClelland and Stewart, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages, 125 color, 135 black & white. Published in conjunction with an exhibition. "A major study of the artistic traditions of Canada's Native peoples and of their place in the cultures and belief systems in which they originated. Here, for the first time, is Native Canadian work from museums and private collections around the world. The works, and the essays that describe their contexts, bring to life the spiritual and aesthetic identity of the craftspeople and their societies. From richly ornamented costumes displaying the wealth of their owners to practical techologies that enabled the peoples to thrive in their environments, these treasures reflect Native life at the time of contact with Europeans." Clean copy.