Art

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.

Hardcover. Medford MA, Tufts University Art Gallery, 1st, 2014, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 155 pages. Many color and BW illustrations. Issued in conjunction with a 2014 exhibition of more than 60 of the prime, representative examples of works by important artists acquired, commissioned, and purchased by the University since its founding in 1852, Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 1981, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 84 pages. 32 dolor plates and 12 b&w illustrations. Wine red cloth, silver lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket with minimal edge wear. Nice, tight copy. Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 - February 11, 1848) was an English-born American artist. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's Hudson River School, as well as his own work, was known for its realistic and detailed portrayal of American landscape and wilderness, which feature themes of romanticism and naturalism.

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. Features SKELETON HAND September/October 1952 to July/August 1953 Issues 1-6 and also CLUTCHING HAND July/August 1954 Issue 1.

1930s, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "The girl I love-", photo-strip story. 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.

Hardcover. Berkeley/Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 270 pages in color and b&w. The first major book to consider the life and work of Robert Arneson, A Troublesome Subject tells the fascinating story of how a high school art teacher transformed himself into an artist of international stature and ambition. Representing the full scope of Arneson's career in a rich survey of color reproductions, this book is at once a study of the trajectory of contemporary culture, the work of Robert Arneson, and the relationship between the two. It shows how Arneson's work articulated the crisis of narcissism that has defined American culture since 1970. Jonathan Fineberg develops his ongoing work toward a psychosocial history of art as he proceeds through Arneson's career-chronicling his early life, the formation of a personal style, and finding a unique subject matter in his famous post-1970 turn to self-portraiture. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Watson Guptill, 1st paperback., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages, color illustrations throughout. Minor edge wear otherwise, clean, tight and bright copy. A collection of the Fantasy illustration of the Victorian era. Includes the works of Rackham, Dulac, Beardsley and others. Beautifully illustrated, many in color.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. In 1972, underground cartoonists Joyce Farmer and Lyn Chevli produced Tits & Clits - a funny, rowdy, raucous underground comix series about female sexuality that one reviewer described as "the ultimate in vaginal politics" - and became the first American women ever credited with writing, drawing, and publishing their own comic books. A feminist answer to Zap, Tits & Clits quickly became an anthology showcase for other women cartoonists, featuring the work of Mary Fleener, Roberta Gregory, Krystine Kryttre, Lee Marrs, Carel Moiseiwitsch, Trina Robbins, Dori Seda, among others. Like other underground comix, Tits & Clits leaned into being lewd in order to satirize women's experiences with so-called sexual liberation. Featuring stories about birth control, abortion, menstruation, masturbation, and more, Tits & Clits featured intimate politics which occasionally clashed with contemporaneous feminist concepts about sex and sexuality. As Chevli put it: their work had something to offend everyone. (In 1973, conservative legal authorities in Orange County deemed their work pornographic and even threatened the two editors with arrest on obscenity charges.)Now, for the first time in half a century, a new generation of readers will be shocked, entertained, enlightened, and scandalized by the bold satirical cartoonists that comprised the band of sisters in Tits & Clits. In addition to reprinting the seven-issue run of the Tits & Clits series, this collection also includes in their entirety two classic solo comics from 1972 written and drawn by Farmer and Chevli - Abortion Eve and Pandora's Box. Also included is an introductory essay providing context to Tits & Clits' place in the history of women's cartooning by the book's editor, Samantha Meie

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, Ltd Ed., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a lightly worn dust jacket. "No. 880 of a Special Limited Numbered Edition of 1000 Copies" written in pen on the back of the half title. 85 pages of Bellmer's surreal, erotic artwork. No slipcase.

Hardcover. NY, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 529 pages. Material for this novel based on the life of Amedeo Modigliani is based on letters, family papers and interviews with the Modigliani family by the author. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers. 160 pages, 150 illustrations (50 in color), bibliography/exhibition list. A very colorful, well documented catalogue of this twentieth-century painter, best known for his "Overseas Highway" and his stark, solid colored industrial images from the 1930s.

Softcover. Schiffer, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. Harrison Fisher: Defining the American Beauty is the largest picturial guide to this popular artist ever produced. Nearly 450 color and black and white reproductions of his magazine covers and book illustrations document this important artist's career. Harrison Fisher enjoyed incomparable fame from 1905 to 1920, achieving celebrity status and holding the enviable position of national beauty judge. Fisher portrayed the American woman as an outgoing, lively personality, wealthy and healthy. She rode horses, played tennis, and motored in the new automobiles while holding court for admiring men. Fisher's portrayals of such beauties added market value to dozens of novels as well as hundreds of magazines which clamored for his art on both their covers and inside pages. With Fisher's work extremely hot on the collectibles market, new and seasoned buyers alike will benefit from the advice of antiques dealer and Price Guide author Bruce Magnotti.

Hardcover. Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 638 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Small stain on fore edge of textblock. Otherwise, a very clean, unmarked copy with minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Small tear to top edge of rear dust jacket cover. A tight copy. Black & white and color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 330 pages. A visually captivating history of the evolution of Glamour magazine and the brands legendary decades at the forefront of female empowerment in an incredible photographic volume For more than 80 years, Glamour has been the preeminent women's empowerment brand in America. But until now, no one has told the extraordinary story of its origins, the famous names who helped shape the magazine into the global powerhouse it is today, and Glamour's many historic firsts. Glamour was the first American fashion magazine to feature a Black cover star, the first to present Gloria Steinem's writing, and the first to feature groundbreaking reporting on reproductive rights. In a gripping journey, follow the group of women editors and journalists who spearheaded the magazine as World War II transformed the female landscape with over 7.5 million working women suddenly in the US workforce in 1940 and repositioned the title from charting Hollywood glamour to the magazine for the girl with a job.

Softcover. New York, Christie's Houston, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover auction catalog, 435 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.