Hardcover. Los Angeles, Taschen, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, tan cloth in a bright dust jacket. Folio. 672 pages. This is the original large format edition: 17.5 x 11.75 inches and 2.5 inches thick and weighing in at nearly 20 lbs. "This groundbreaking book covers every aspect of Diego Rivera's Career and brings together in a single volume comprehensive information about his murals, both in Mexico, and beyond, with a host of hitherto unknown details also includes a wide selection of over 200 easel paintings, numerous drawings and sketches, period photographs and documents (some of them previously unpublished) from both private and public collections to complete this lavish publication. This especially heavy book will require additional charges for priority. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Los Angeles, circa 1980, Book: Very Good, A valentine greeting drawn with pen and color markers on white paper stock and signed 'Bill M." Approx. Bill Melendez was a animator who started at the Disney Studios in the late 30s and later became famous for directing the Peanuts animated specials for TV in the 1970s. The recipient of the card, Flanzy Lewis, was a reporter for Rona Barrett's Hollywood Magazine who interviewed Melendez.
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.
Softcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st thus, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, One of the most popular and critically acclaimed graphic novels of all time and illustrated by an exemplary selection of the medium's most gifted artists, Sandman weaves a spellbinding tapestry that fuses modern myth with the timeless narratives of history and folklore. Here, in the domain of the Endless, epic stories unfold stories that transcend the boundaries of life and death. With stunning visuals crafted by a handpicked cadre of the industry's most talented artists, including Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, and Kelley Jones, with spectacular guest art by Chris Bachalo, Colleen Doran, Charles Vess, and Michael Zulli. Volume 1 spans 'The Sandman' issues #1-20 and collects the pivotal story arcs 'Preludes and Nocturnes,' 'The Doll's House,' and 'Dream Country.' It also includes the historic 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' the first comic book ever to receive the prestigious World Fantasy Award. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Washington DC/NY, National Gallery of Art/Abrams, 1st, 1986, Softcover, large exhibition catalog, white wraps, 367 pages. Profusely illustrated with color and bw plates. A coherent group of major paintings representing that period when Matisse gave up his primary artistic residence in Paris to watch him settle in Nice. First as a temporary visitor and then as a permanent citizen, we watch him respond to the Mediterranean and the constancy of its light. Bookplate on inside fron cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy. Heavy volume. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Fraenkel Gallery, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Two volumes in slipcase. Both very clean, unmarked copies. Only minor edgwear to slipcase. 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.
NY, Harper & Bros., 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color painting of a seated woman in a black evening gown, holding her pearl necklace. Painting by Walter Tittle. 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, Abrams Image, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge of textblock. Rubbing to rear. An otherwise very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Revealing an unprecedented, intimate look at Ryan Adams and his band the Cardinals through the evocative photography of lead guitarist, Neal Casal. An intensely personal collection of 200 photographs, Casal has captured the exhilaration of the stage and studio while sometimes exposing the solitary aspects of the creative process and life on the road. With an introduction by Ryan Adams and an afterword by legendary musician Phil Lesh, this collection will be revered by fans and is the official documentation of the beloved band.
Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 279 pages. William Glackens was one of the most influential American painters in the first decades of the twentieth century. From his beginnings as a witty magazine artist-illustrator in Philadelphia and New York to his participation in the forward-thinking group of artists dubbed The Eight, Glackens was a perceptive interpreter of his surroundings. Glackens, one of the most versatile and popular artists of his time, assimilated the lighthearted modern French themes of spirited cafes and bustling parks and resorts in such canvases as Chez Mouquin (1905) and Sledding, Central Park (1912). An admirer of the more traditional figure painting of the Impressionist Renoir, his name also became closely linked to the modern artists who exhibited their works at the famous Armory Show of 1913, which Glackens helped organize. This important study, the first major monograph on Glackens, includes an insightful essay by Dr. William Gerdts and a complete catalog, introduced by curator Jorge Santis, describing the incomparable holdings of the Glackens Collection of the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. With a chronology, bibliography, and index, this profusely illustrated volume is sure to become the standard reference on Glackens for historians and collectors of twentieth-century art. Clean,bright copy.
NY, Harper and Brothers, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two-color art of Uncle Sam greeting Woodrow Wilson by C. Budd. Approx. 10 X 12". 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. Washington, Prestel, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Softcover. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This book pays tribute to the mature work of Stuart Davis, a distinctly American artist who adapted European modernism to reflect the sights, sounds, and rhythms of popular culture. Beginning in 1921, a series of creative breakthroughs led Davis away from figurative painting and toward a more abstract expression of the world he inhabited. Drawing upon his admiration for Cezanne, Leger, Picasso, and Seurat, Davis developed a style that would evolve over the next four decades to become a dominant force in postwar art. His visionary responses to modern life and culture both high and low remain relevant more than 50 years after his death. Focusing on the images and motifs that became hallmarks of his career, this book features approximately 100 works-from his paintings of tobacco packages of the early 1920s, the abstract Egg Beater series, and the WPA murals of the 1930s, to the majestic works of his last two decades. The authors take a critical approach to the development of Davis's art and theory, paying special attention to the impact his earlier work had upon his later masterpieces. They also discuss Davis's unique ability to assimilate the lessons of Cubism as well as the imagery of popular culture, the aesthetics of advertising, and the sounds and rhythms of jazz-his great musical passion. Informed by previously unpublished primary documents, the detailed chronology is, in effect, the first Davis biography. Together, these elements create a vital portrait of an artist whose works hum with intelligence and energy.
Hardcover. NY, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 128 pages, b&w illustrations, some color. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Robert Silver Associates, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Shows award winning posters, promotional material, newspaper advertising, packaging, magazine and television advertising, illustrations, book covers, and editorial art. 820 pages. The Art Directors Club of New York:
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This book features specially commissioned photographs of an extraordinary, newly formed collection of fashionable handbags that date from the 16th century to the present day. It has been acquired for exhibition in the first museum devoted to the handbag, in Seoul, South Korea. The project is a commission undertaken by experimental exhibition-maker Judith Clark, whose innovative practices are revealed in Handbags.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format, pictorial boards, 319 pages illustrated in b&w. Royston Campbell Crane (1901-1977), who signed his work Roy Crane, created the comic-strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy, and Buz Sawyer. His work continues to inspire cartoonists today. A collection of his classic Captain Easy and Wash Tubbs. The very best of the indispensable daily comic strip adventures featuring Wash running a dinky railroad in a comic-opera version of Eastern Europe, the gripping narrative of Easy waging total war against The Phantom King, battles with pirates in the South Seas, and the harrowing story of Easy and Wash as prisoners on the infamous Devil's Island. Clean copy.
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. Hanover, Brandeis University Press, 1st pbk, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 338 pages, a study of Alice Neel and her paintings. Illustrated with b/w photographs and color plates, with notes, bibliography, and index. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , Praeger Publishers, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 172 pages, profusely illustrated with nearly 200 color and b&w plates of Nevelson's work. Dark blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Slight edgewear and rubbing to jacket, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 182 pages. The Reverend Howard Finster was twenty feet tall, suspended in darkness. Or so he appeared in the documentary film that introduced a teenaged Greg Bottoms to the renowned outsider artist whose death would help inspire him, fourteen years later, to travel the country. Beginning in Georgia with a trip to Finster's famous Paradise Gardens, his journey--of which The Colorful Apocalypse is a masterly chronicle--is an unparalleled look into the lives and visionary works of some of Finster's contemporaries: the self-taught evangelical artists whose beliefs and oeuvres occupy the gray area between madness and Christian ecstasy. With his prodigious gift for conversation and quietly observant storytelling, Bottoms draws us into the worlds of such figures as William Thomas Thompson, a handicapped ex-millionaire who painted a 300-foot version of the book of Revelation; Norbert Kox, an ex-member of the Outlaws biker gang who now lives as a recluse in rural Wisconsin and paints apocalyptic visual parables; and Myrtice West, who began painting to express the revelatory visions she had after her daughter was brutally murdered. These artists' works are as wildly varied as their life stories, but without sensationalizing or patronizing them, Bottoms--one of today's finest young writers--gets at the heart of what they have in common: the struggle to make sense, through art, of their difficult personal histories. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 516 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. This volume documents Fenn's prolific career from the 1860s until his death in 1911. Sue Rainey also recounts his adventurous sketching trips in the western United States, Europe, and the Middle East, which enhanced his reputation for depicting far-flung places at a time when the nation was taking a more prominent role on the world stage.
Softcover. Springfield, MA, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, vintage exhibition catalog, 87 pages, b&w illustrations, color frontispiece. Small tear on spine. Else a clean, tight copy.
1945, Book: Very Good, Color art of mother hanging wash as children play in yard. Painting by John Falter. 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.
Hardcover. Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white photographs throughout.
1908, Book: Very Good, Two-color art by Guernsey Moore. 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.
Hardcover. Cleveland, OH, The World Publishing Company, Reprint, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with chipping and wear to dust jacket edges. An otherwise tight copy.
Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on the Dallas comic strip, Preston Blair on the animation in Fantasia, Hank Ketcham, editorial cartoonist Duncan Macpherson, Tex Avery, Jay Darling (Ding), Johnny Hart, Grim Natwick, others.
1952, Color art of grandad with kids carrying pumpkins through hatstacks 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. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 178 pages, color illustrations. Offers a look at the life and work of Luis Melendez, one of eighteenth-century Europe's greatest still-life painters. This catalogue details thirty of Luis Melendez's wonderful still-life paintings beautifully presented with new insights about Melendez's life, the everyday objects in his paintings, and the materials and methods he used in creating these works.
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.
Book: Very Good, Color portrait of Lucinda, heroine of a fictional story. Painting by Howard Chandler Christy. 11 X 14", very good. Year unknown but in 19-teens. 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. 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.
Softcover. Paris, Musee D'art Moderne De La Ville De Paris, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages, illustrated in color and b&w, French text. Softcover exhibition catalog with dust jacket.
1939, Color art of turkey awaiting his fate as farmer sharpens ax, Painting by J. C. Leyendecker. 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. New York, Grove Press, 1st , 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. 14 pages of text, with eighty-four drawings and sixteen watercolors by Grosz throughout. Introduction by Henry Miller. Moderate foxing on fabric covers. Clean, tight internally.
Hardcover. New York , Arts, Inc., 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 164 pages, 128 illustrations, 57 in color, including many tipped-in. Bright dust jacket with price-clipped flap. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.
1980, Color cartoon of wife taking photo of proud husband in his garden by Charles Saxon. 8 1/4 X 11 1/2", 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. New York , Abrams, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 illustrations, including 29 mounted color plates. 328 pages. Thick 4to, green cloth stamped in yellow. Dust jacket with light edgewear.
1917, Book: Very Good, Color art of soldier with rifle standing in falling snow by Edward Penfield. 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. NY, Guggenheim Mueum, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two large softcover volumes, 894 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Thick 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers, matching pictorial slipcase. Published in conjunction with a show that ran June 4 through September 12, 1999. Text by Jacques Baron, Timothy Baum, Rosalind Kraus, Jose Pierre, Werner Spies, Jean Toulet and with an interview by David Sylvester. Includes numerous color and black and white images along with biographies of the various artists. Volumes and slipcase clean, VG+.
Hardcover. Rockville Centre NY, Heavy Metal, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 46 pages illustrated in color by Manara. ADULT CONTENT
Hardcover. Shambhala, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 174 pages, color plates. Little known during his lifetime, the Japanese biologist and artist Iwasaki Tsuneo (1917-2002) created a strikingly original and exquisitely intricate body of modern Buddhist artwork. His paintings depict themes ranging from classical Buddhist iconography to majestic views of our universe as revealed by science--all created with the use of painstakingly rendered miniature calligraphies of the Heart Sutra, one of the most important scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism. In this groundbreaking book, Paula Arai presents over fifty of Iwasaki's paintings, elucidating their Buddhist contexts and meanings as well as their intimate connections to Iwasaki's life as a war survivor, teacher, scientist, and devout Buddhist practitioner. Having been posthumously recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Iwasaki's paintings are sure to be regarded as an innovative and heartfelt contribution to the artistic legacy of twentieth-century Buddhism.
Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2009, Softcover, 238 pages in color. Over 200 pages of pre-Spiderman, pre-comics code, horror comics by Steve Ditko.
Hardcover. Paris, Casterman, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 68 pages illustrated in color by Rossi. Clean, very good. FRENCH TEXT.
1938, Book: Very Good, Color art of an elf and squirrel squaring off over acorns. Illustration by Maginel Wright Barney. 10 X 13", printed address in top left side, 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. London UK, Winsor & Newton Ltd., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 page booklet, light gray wrappers. First published in 1892 it covers all technical aspects and chemistry of the manufacturer's oil and watercolor paints. No date, probably 1970s.
Softcover. Agoura CA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format with stapled binding, color wraps, b&w illustrations, 66 pages. Articles on Little Orphan Annie (1937 episode), Fontaine Fox and The Toonerville Trolley, Hi and Lois by Mort Walker and Dik Browne. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Centro Metropolitano, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers stamped in gilt with a photographic label on front. A study of the Mexican artist's sculpture. Illustrated in b&w and color, 194 pages plus index. Clean copy.
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