Art

Hardcover. US, Archie Comics, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 157 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to boards with slight bump to lower edge of spine. Clean, tight copy. A beautifully designed celebration of over 70 years of comic book covers featuring America's reigning cartoon high school icons: Archie, Betty, Veronica and friends. Featuring beautiful full-color artwork by fan favorite artists Dan DeCarlo, Harry Lucey, Bob Montana, Dan Parent and many more in a deluxe, oversize hardcover edition, The Art of Archie: The Covers goes behind the scenes on the all-time best comic book covers in Archie's history with an insider's look at their inspiration, creation and ongoing cultural legacy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Tall vertically oblong folio (14 1/2" ) board book. Speigelman addresses his personal experiences in New York during the attack on the twin towers as he, his wife and daughter walked in New York. He decided on this large format, almost elephant folio sized, board book in his unique graphic illustrated style. A unique attempt at coming to grips with the tragic and frightening events of nine eleven. DUE TO SIZE, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Pasadena CA, Pasadena Museum of California Art, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 149 pages, illustrated in color. Bright, clean copy in similar dust jacket. Catalog of an exhibition organised by the Pasadena Museum of Californian Art and held there and at the Gibbes Museum, Charleston, South Carolina, in 2005-6. The book presents 77 works, reproduced in excellent colour as half and full page plates, including nudes, figures and urban and rural landscapes. William Gerdts offers a scene-setting Introduction after which Solon provides an in-depth study of the artist's life and work. This includes his marriage, travels abroad including Europe, Panama and Mexico, experience as an aerial photographer in the Great War, return to Southern California and life in Pasadena, a region that was recommended for health reasons, and a final decade marked by ill-health that contributed to the general decline in his reputation outside of the local art community.

Softcover. New York, Derrydale Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 149 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w and color illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 52 pages including semi-glossy color covers and b/w interior. Saddle-stapled wraps, 75 cent cover price. Fat Freddy's Cat first appeared in "underground comix" in 1969 in various underground newspapers, usually under Shelton's Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic strip. This is one of the five small collections of those strips. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 326 pages, illustrated in color, b&w. How Constructivist artists in Russia between 1923 and 1925 developed a counterproposal to capitalism's commodity fetish by producing objects meant to be "comrades" in the creation of an egalitarian socialist culture. Very good in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. US, PM Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, color illustrations. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A declaration of love to Peter Kuper's adoptive city in which he has lived since 1977, this diary is a vibrant survey of New York City's history. Through Kuper's illustrations, this book depicts a climb to the top of the Brooklyn Bridge, the homeless living in Times Square, roller skaters in Central Park, the impact of September 11, the luxury of Wall Street, street musicians, and other scenes unique to the city. With comics, illustrations, and sketches, this work of art portrays everything from the low life to the high energy that has long made people from around the world flock to the Big Apple.

1938, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon of doorman brining last leaf to man burning leaves. 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 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. West Plains MO, Russ Cochran, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 5 volumes in a slipcase. The complete run, color covers, inside art in b&w line. All very good. In full color pictorial slipcase replicating the classic EC comic numbers 17 thru 46, each with full color pictorial boards as well as the front cover of each comic issue printed in full color as well.

Hardcover. Germany, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 104 pages.Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. There are no smoking cowboys swinging their lassoes or bare-breasted blondes on heavy motorcycles in this droll collection of highly expressive drawings and watercolors. Au contraire, the inventive shapes and joyful colors recall children's drawings or paintings by the mentally ill. Half-figures of indeterminate gender with staring eyes, big ears and frizzy hair smirk challengingly at the viewer, offering an inventory of possibilities, many of which later find their way into Prince's joke paintings of the same period. This extraordinary little book presents these funny yet sinister works to a larger public for the first time, and allows readers to discover a new side of Richard Prince's oeuvre.

Hardcover. UK, PS Artbooks, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. American Comics Group. June/July 1950 - January 1951 Issues 11-15. Foreword by Paul Di Filippo.

Hardcover. New York , Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 305 pages plus bibliography. The richest collection outside of Cyprus of Cypriot antiquities. Built up by General Luigi Palma di Cesnola as the first director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he acquired most of the art between 1879 and 1900 with works dating from 2500 B.C. to A.D. 300. Over 450 color images with map of the regions from which the art was acquired, this represents an essential item for a knowledge of the art of Cyprus in antiquity in all its forms.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Benton (1889-1975) is a painter shrouded in paradox and misapprehension. Though pigeonholed as a regionalist chronicler of the Midwest, many of his finest on-site pictures are of Southern blacks and poor whites. Remembered best are his folksy rural scenes and aggressively three-dimensional murals, but the public tends to forget that he ran through the gamut of modernist styles (he was Jackson Pollock's teacher) and that his brilliant abstract color experiments ally him with the modernist movement. Some of Benton's crowded murals of the 1930s reflect his leftist sympathies, yet critics reviled him as politically conservative. These contradictions are illuminated in this catalogue of a touring exhibition curated by Adams. The text stands on its own as a wholly engaging biography, offering an unbuttoned look at a pugnacious, often reckless, artist who valiantly sought to preserve a rural America that was vanishing before his eyes. Clean copy.

Softcover. Canada, The History Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages, softcover. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. New York , Grove Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, introduction by Stephen King and personal reminiscences by Forrest J. Ackerman, Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison and Peter Straub. This volume contains over 500 of the finest vintage film posters of the genres covering a span of nearly 75 years. In a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Abrams, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages, 173 illustrations, 131 in color. Although he is now seen as a progenitor of the "naive" style, during his lifetime Edward Hicks (1780-1849) was known only as a devout, impoverished Quaker minister who liked to paint. With a few exceptions, his extant body of work is made up of 62 "Peaceable Kingdom" pictures, based on Isaiah's biblical prophecy. Although these paintings, known for their charmingly wide-eyed and sensuous beasts, use potent color and effective design, they are technically unsophisticated and repetitive in the extreme. But they contain a powerfully serene devoutness, a mood probably expressed in compensation for Hicks's guilt about an avocation viewed as frivolous by other Quakers. As the popularity of folk art boomed in the early 20th century, Hicks's homely visions were popularized and became the focus of scholarly attention, and this work is probably the best to date. Weekley, the director of museums at Colonial Williamsburg, shrewdly considers Hicks's "secular" life and art through the filter of his intense piety and copiously illustrates her large-format book with brilliant color plates.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 2nd printing, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 147 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Softcover. US, Stichting Kunstboak , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 135 pages.Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Norbet Hostyn, curator of the Museum of Fine Art in Ostend, has produced a fascinating and comprehensive account of the world and ideas of the by turns celebrated and vilified James Ensor (1860-1949). He offers an illuminating introduction to the artist's life and oeuvre, accompanied by a selection of fifty representative works, each comprising a large, color reproduction and an art-historical commentary. It is the story of a striking and controversial painter who was initially the focal point of a new school, but later became an eccentric with a finely tuned sense of image and business.

Softcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover,

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, 164 illustrations (76 in color). Essays by Henry Adams, Kathleen A. Foster, Henry A. La Farge, H. Barbara Weinberg, Linnea H. Wren, and James L. Yarnall. John La Farge was not only a painter of still lifes and landscapes in watercolor and oil, but he created extraordinary decorative schemes and revolutionary stained glass art for some of the country's most impressive churches and mansions as well.

Softcover. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Softcover. Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum Department of Art, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog, 120 pages. Color and B&W plates throughout. some B&W photos of artist throughout. Light soiling to wrapper and slight bending to bottom right corner. Some light edge wear. Otherwise a tight and clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated boards, 528 pages. Closely based on Haring's own concept for the monograph he wanted to publish before his untimely death, this volume represents more than a decade of research and contains a wealth of unpublished photographic and written material including drawings, studio photographs, and journal entries. From chalk drawings deep in the New York City subways to murals in Pisa and Berlin; collaborations with William Burroughs and the famous body painting of Grace Jones, this book follows the incredible trajectory of Keith Haring's artistic career: how a young man from a small town in rural Pennsylvania came to revolutionize the art world--and the course of art history--within little more than a decade. An incredibly prolific artist, Keith Haring created countless bold, provocative, endearing, and unforgettable images that continue to inspire artists--and delight children--worldwide. Tracing the arc from his early subway "tags" to his poignant work on social issues as diverse as AIDS, illiteracy and apartheid, this visually stunning book is the definitive work on Keith Haring.

Hardcover. Madison WI, Borderland Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The title comes from the cover image, a building named as such. "Created as a poetic and visual journey, spans twenty-five years and four continents. These striking photographs capture 'found text': The sometimes mysterious, occasionally humorous, often cryptic presence of words in the everyday landscape. In Koch's lyrical sequencing, the images reveal obscure and eccentric voices in their various and distinctive roles on the daily stage of the world around us.

Hardcover. Birmingham AL, University of Alabama Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. William Christenberry is enjoying wide exposure of his artistic body of work. Since the early 1960s, he has plumbed the regional identity of the American South, primarily centering on his early home in the Black Belt counties of Alabama, His poetic elucidation of Southern vernacular landscape and architecture using the media of photography, drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, and miniaturization reveals how history, the very story of place, is at the heart of his lifelong project.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Graphic novel in boxed set, comprising 14 discrete books, booklets, magazines, newspapers and pamphlets. Unopened, still in shrink wrap. Follows the inhabitants of a three-flat Chicago apartment house: a thirty-year-old woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life; a couple who wonder if they can bear each other's company for another minute; and finally an elderly woman who never married and is the building's landlady. 246 pages.

Hardcover. New York, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 168 pages. 84 black and white photos. Edited by: Sharon Helgason Gallagher. "Lee Friedlander`s exploration of one of photography`s most enduring genres began almost by chance, in the late 1970s, when a teacher colleague at Rice University in Houston lined up a regular schedule of nude models for his students. Almost immediately, Friedlander found that he preferred to photograph the models at their homes, and ingeniously deployed household objects such as bedside lamps, potted plants and sofa fabrics to play off against the angular poses of the models and the emphatic framing of the overall composition. "

Hardcover. NY, Tudor - Shorewood, 1st , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Commentary by Regina Shoolman. Color and b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with tape repairs, piece gone from rear panel. Book is clean, bright, very good.

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. New York, Doubleday Graphic Novels, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 153 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Jason Little throughout. clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Krause, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. A loving look back at the comic books of the Silver Age era.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Scarce Motherwell catalogue, for the show at Princeton University Art Museum, January 5 - February 17 1973; introduction by Sam Hunter, texts by Harry B. Titus, Peter S. Rohowsky, and Deborah P. Strom; b&w plate illustrations throughout.

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 51 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photographs by Arthur Rothstein throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber Ltd., 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 435 pages. Hardcover. 256 black & white illustrations and 12 tipped-in full color plates. Fading to spine and along cover edges. No dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Neshannock PA, Hermes Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages. Included in this volume are two more years of the strip, from 1934 to 1936 and features five complete adventures. Volume Four also features a special 16-page introductory essay by noted science-fiction writer and pop culture historian Ron Goulart, and an afterword detailing interesting details about the history of the strip and its impact on science fiction.

Hardcover. NY, Watson Guptill, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 161 illustrations (8 color plates), 232 pages. Dust jacket with front flap creases otherwise very good.

Softcover. Vancouver, Marion Scott Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 172 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, New York / South Street Seaport Museum, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, illustrated throughout in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. Newport Beach CA, Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, softcover exhibition catalog, illustrated in color and b&w. Essay by Betty Turnbull. Clean, tight copy. David Park, an artist who fused representational figuration with abstract expressionism and was one of the creators of the Bay Area Figurative style is featured here in a career retrospective exhibition containing work from throughout his life.

Hardcover. Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout. Herman Miller, the leader in modern twentieth-century furniture manufacture, was a totally design-oriented company. Known best for Eames and Nelson furniture designs, showrooms, and interiors, they also produced outstanding graphic design. Mid-century and later advertisements, drawings, brochures, catalogs, posters, and wall panels are shown in this visually exciting new book. Photos of award-winning and other graphic designs are all from the Herman Miller Archives. This beautiful book is a must for anyone with an interest in modern furniture, graphics, or twentieth century design in general.

Hardcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, lots # 501- 618. The jewels and personal possessions of the Honorable Clare Boothe Luce, (1903-1987). Editor, playwright, Congresswoman, war correspondent, ambassador and more, Luce was one of the most versatile and accomplished women of her time. A biography and photos of Luce are included, along with photos and descriptions of 618 lots of jewelry, ornamented boxes, and other precious objects that she had collected. Prices realize list laid in. Clean copy.

Hardcover. 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in near fine condition (some discoloration to black laminated covers). 112 pages, b/w and color illustrations of fashion from 1907 to 1967. Annotated catalogue of an exhibition from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York held at the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 180 pages illustrated in b&w, some color. The life & work of a 19th century American folk artist Brings together for the first time all of Stock's extant papers-his will, one lengthy letter to his brother, various newspaper notices concerning him, and his remarkable journal written sometime after 1846. In addition, it includes reproductions of all known surviving Stock paintings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 179 pages, with photographs throughout by Martha Swope. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Softcover. New York, NY, National Academy of Design, 1st, 1985?, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 95 pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout. Introduction By Annette Blaugrund. Red pictorial cover with wear to spine and slight soiling to covers. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. University of Nebraska, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with minor fading to edges, b&w illustrations, 179 pages. Contemporary feminist critics have often described Surrealism as a misogynist movement. In Automatic Woman, Katharine Conley addresses this issue, confirming some feminist allegations while qualifying and overturning others. Through insightful analyses of works by a range of writers and artists, Conley develops a complex view of Surrealist portrayals of Woman. Conley begins with a discussion of the composite image of Woman developed by such early male Surrealists as Andre Breton, Francis Picabia, and Paul Eluard. She labels that image "Automatic Woman"--a term that comprises views of Woman as provocative and revolutionary but also as a depersonalized object largely devoid of individuality and volition. This analysis largely confirms feminist critiques of Surrealism. The heart of the book, however, examines the writings of Leonora Carrington and Unica Zurn, two women in the Surrealist movement whose works, Conley argues, anticipate much contemporary feminist art and theory. In concluding, Conley shows how Breton's own views on women evolved in the course of his long career, arriving at last at a position far more congenial to contemporary feminists.

Hardcover. London, Max Parrish, 7th pr., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, illustrated in b&w by Ronald Searle. Dust jacket with light soil, price-clipped. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf.

Softcover. New York, N.Y. (21 E. 70th St., Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light wear and rubbing to spine with slight tear to upper edge. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalogue featuring the Hispanic art of the American Southwest. 118 pages, 21 black/white plates, 105 other black/white illustrations of pieces, and 36 black/white photographs of featured artists. Good condition, some soiling/light discoloration on the cover, top right corner bent.