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Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty: True Fictions, False Realitiesby: Smithson, Robert with others

Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty: True Fictions, False Realities
by: Smithson, Robert with others

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press/Dia Art Foundation, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 208 pages, b&w and color plates. Essays and interview with the artist, bibliography, pictorial boards. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 351149

Price: $70.00 
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Marcel Rochas: Designing French Glamourby: Rochas, Sophie

Marcel Rochas: Designing French Glamour
by: Rochas, Sophie

Hardcover. New York, Flammarion, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean copy still in publishers shrink-wrap, however shrink wrap has been torn at bottom edge for a remainder mark to bottom edge of textblock and a small tear near top edge. The first fashion monograph on Marcel Rochas, a key twentieth-century women's wear designer, written by his daughter. Fashion designer Marcel Rochas (1902-1955) made considerable and enduring contributions to the world of fashion; his legacy has inspired a range of contemporary designers. In this lavish monograph, his daughter, Sophie Rochas, provides an intimate first-hand account that includes her childhood memories and rare access to the family's private archives. She provides insight into her father's talents as an innovative designer, communications genius, revered socialite, attentive father, and demanding husband, as well as the style influences that inspired him.

Record # 353170

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Tintin and Co.by: (Herge), Farr, Michael

Tintin and Co.
by: (Herge), Farr, Michael

San Francisco, Last Gasp, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, a guide to the characters of the comic series presents information on the role in the strip of and real life models for Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, General Alcazar, Professor Calculus and others. Each is shown in early and late incarnations, b&w and color, with fascinating historical facts and tidbits. 131 pages include index and color throughout.

Record # 360904

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Auto Adsby: Stern, Jane

Auto Ads
by: Stern, Jane

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Features 100 B&W and color automobile ads from 1905-1976. Clean copy.

Record # 362111

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Images of the Native Americanby: Dixon, Maynard

Images of the Native American
by: Dixon, Maynard

Hardcover. San Francisco CA, California Academy of Sciences, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages, an exhibition catalog with 43 color plates. Essays by Donald Hagerty, Dan Dixon, Ansel Adams, others. INSCRIBED BY DAN DIXON (the artist's son) on front fly leaf. Embossed white cloth covers in a matching slipcase. 8 page exhibition brochure listing 118 works is laid in.

Record # 351188

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Max Beckmann: The Still Lifesby: Schick, Karin and Hubertus Gassner (editors)

Max Beckmann: The Still Lifes
by: Schick, Karin and Hubertus Gassner (editors)

Hardcover. New York, Prestel, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, No dj, as issued. 197 pages with 184 color illus. and several bw archival photos. Presenting work from every stage of the versatile artist's career, this book is the first to focus solely on Max Beckmann's still lifes. Featuring nearly eighty paintings and watercolors, this volume covers a half-century of the artist's forays into the genre. With several essays. Published to coincide with the exhibition held at the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, from September 2014 to January 2015. Bottom corners bumped otherwise like new.

Record # 353200

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Biedermeier: The Invention of Simplicityby: Hans; Klaus Albrecht Schroder; Laurie Winters; et al. Ottomeyer

Biedermeier: The Invention of Simplicity
by: Hans; Klaus Albrecht Schroder; Laurie Winters; et al. Ottomeyer

Softcover. Milwaukee Art Museum and Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Biedermeier examines Biedermeier painting, furniture and decorative arts as a style and a cultural attitude. Visual arts of the period, which are still largely unstudied as distinct from Romanticism or the Nazarenes, are highlighted here in the work of Georg Friedrich Kersting and Eduard Gaertner. With nearly 300 outstanding examples of German, Austrian and Czechoslovakian paintings, furniture, related decorative arts and works on paper, this is a superb document of the innovative character of the period and its importance as a precursor to modernism.

Record # 361183

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The Complete Crepax: American Stories: Volume 5by: Guido Crepax

The Complete Crepax: American Stories: Volume 5
by: Guido Crepax

Hardcover. Seattle, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, mostly b&w, some color, 472 pages. These erotic comics stories span 1968-1986. "The Man from Harlem" is Crepax's ode to boxer Joe Louis and jazz. In other tales, Valentina attempts to balance new relationships with lovers Bruno and Effi alongside the domestic life she shares with Phil. Bonnie and Clyde, Louise Brooks, and the globetrotting photographer Valentina (a movie and TV star herself!) take center stage in this collection of erotic comics stories.

Record # 374542

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The Posters of Achille Mauzan, 1883 1952: A Catalogue Raisonneby: Carnevale-Mauzan, Mirande

The Posters of Achille Mauzan, 1883 1952: A Catalogue Raisonne
by: Carnevale-Mauzan, Mirande

Softcover. NY, Poster Auctions International, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages in illustrated wrappers. Catalogue raisonne with color plates throughout.

Record # 351258

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Hogan's Alley: Magazine of the Cartoon Arts No. 21by: Heintjes, Tom(Editor)

Hogan's Alley: Magazine of the Cartoon Arts No. 21
by: Heintjes, Tom (Editor)

Softcover. Atlanta, GA, Bull Moose Publishing, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrapper edges. Slight creasing on bottom right corner of front wrapper. Black and white illustrations throughout. Includes a rare, long, previously unpublished interview from 1937 with the artist, George Herriman.

Record # 352945

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Busy, Busy World of Richard Scarry, The by: Risom, Ole & Walter Retan

Busy, Busy World of Richard Scarry, The
by: Risom, Ole & Walter Retan

Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages profusely illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 460167

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Playboy Magazine May 1997 Vol. 44 No. 5 by: Hefner, Hugh M. (Ed.)

Playboy Magazine May 1997 Vol. 44 No. 5
by: Hefner, Hugh M. (Ed.)

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1997, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear to bottom of rear cover 10 pages in rear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Claudia Schiffer on cover. Full of beautiful women as always including supermodels.Highlights: Lynn Thomas as Miss May, Donald Trump Article, Saul Bellow interview, 20 Questions for Lucy Lawless, and more.

Record # 387323

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The Golden Age of Batman: The Greatest Covers of Detective Comics from the '30s to the '50sby: Desris, Joe

The Golden Age of Batman: The Greatest Covers of Detective Comics from the '30s to the '50s
by: Desris, Joe

Hardcover. NY, Artabras Publishers, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. A review of all the Batman comics features 224 covers, ranging from the first issue of Detective Comics in 1939 to the mid-1950s.

Record # 351312

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The Art of Frank C. McCarthyby: Kelton, Elmer

The Art of Frank C. McCarthy
by: Kelton, Elmer

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with some minor shelfwear to dust jacket. This beautiful book is a spectacular overview of McCarthy's exciting Western work, presenting colorful paintings from his fine art career. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 353054

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Tim Headby: Catherine Lampert, Alastair Mowat, Marco Livingston

Tim Head
by: Catherine Lampert, Alastair Mowat, Marco Livingston

Softcover. London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held from December 11, 1992-February 28, 1993.

Record # 350332

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Atlas Comics Library No. 3: In the Days of the Rockets!by: Joe Maneely /Hank Chapman /Mike Sekowsky

Atlas Comics Library No. 3: In the Days of the Rockets!
by: Joe Maneely /Hank Chapman /Mike Sekowsky

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. In the vein of earlier comics-to-multimedia stars Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, Atlas Comics launched their own pulp hero in 1951, looking ahead to the futuristic year 2000. Across five issues of Space Squadron (and one of Space Worlds), headline talents including George Tuska, Werner Roth and Allen Bellman (with back-up features by Joe Maneely, Christopher Rule, George Klein and Vern Henkel) showed Captain Jet Dixon and his Space Squadron blasting into action, facing cosmic threats like "The Armada of Death," "The Space Demons," "Terror from the Deep," "The Temptress of Jupiter," and "The Midnight Horror." Come 1953, Hank Chapman and Joe Maneely gazed further into the future, envisioning the distant year 2075 and the adventures of Speed Carter, Spaceman. Scripted throughout by Chapman, Maneely launched and drew the first three issues before handing off one issue each to Mike Sekowsky, George Tuska and Bob Forgione, with back-up features by John Romita, Maneely, and Bill Savage. As other aspects of the Atlas line leaned into the peak of pre-Code horror, the Captain of the Space Sentinels and young cadet Johnny Day battled monstrous aliens with stories including "The Space Trap," "A Slaughter in Space," "Die, Spaceman, Die," and "The Thing in Outer Space." Unseen in 70 years, scanned in high resolution, restored to perfection and packaged as one extra-sized, beautiful hardcover volume, In the Days of the Rockets! will open a wormhole to the early cold-war four-color era of futuristic science fantasy.

Record # 387413

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Postcards of the Night: Views of American Citiesby: Jakle, John A.

Postcards of the Night: Views of American Cities
by: Jakle, John A.

Hardcover. Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 124 pages. Featuring eighty-two vintage postcards published beginning at the turn of the century, Postcards of the Night traces American cultural life as it was transformed by industrial strength and shifting demographics. The nation increasingly was growing more educated, upwardly mobile, and urban, and the nighttime postcard popularized this modernism for ordinary consumption. Coalitions of city planners and urban developers, politicians and the media utilized the picture postcard to strategize the role of the individual in the rise of the city. It was the birth of leisure and of travel, the new tourist city to which the postcard needed forcefully to speak, in ways that were equal part artifice and art.

Record # 351383

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Akira Vol. 1 No. 8by: Otomo, Katsuhiro

Akira Vol. 1 No. 8
by: Otomo, Katsuhiro

Softcover. New York , Epic Comics, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages, softcover comic book format. Illustrated throughout in color by Otomo. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 411139

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Paul Klee ( 1879-1940 ) Works From the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Dusseldorfby: Brownson, Ronald

Paul Klee ( 1879-1940 ) Works From the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Dusseldorf
by: Brownson, Ronald

Softcover. Canada, Vancover Art Gallery, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages. Softcover with dust jacket. Light musty odor. Clean, tight copy otherwise. Black and white and color pictures throughout.

Record # 369022

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Donatello by: Goldscheider, Ludwig

Donatello
by: Goldscheider, Ludwig

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press , 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oatmeal buckram boards with brown lettering. No dj. 46 pages followed by 149 beautifully reproduced full-page b&w plates, then 3 pages of Index of Museums. Donatello, master of sculpture in both marble and bronze, one of the greatest of all Italian Renaissance artists, the greatest Florentine sculptor before Michelangelo. Clean copy. DUE TO SIZE, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 387598

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Charles Jamesby: Martin, Richard

Charles James
by: Martin, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Assouline, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Exploring the career of designer Charles James, this work looks at the way in which he revolutionized the fashions of the 1940s and 1950s with his designs, and above all his sculpted dresses.

Record # 351419

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Werner Koch: Retrospective 1956-2012by: Baleka, Johann

Werner Koch: Retrospective 1956-2012
by: Baleka, Johann

Hardcover. US, Kerber, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Dual language English and German. Spanning a half-century of painting, this comprehensive catalogue is published on the occasion of the seventy-fifth birthday of Werner Koch (born 1937), who lived for many years in the legendary Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan. Koch is known for his works based on newspapers and pop imagery, and his drawings done on colorful backgrounds.

Record # 352757

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Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland: An Illustrated Journey Through Time (Disney Editions Deluxe)by: Salisbury, Mark

Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland: An Illustrated Journey Through Time (Disney Editions Deluxe)
by: Salisbury, Mark

Softcover. New York, Disney Editions, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Nearly 60 years after Lewis Carroll's literal masterpiece Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was first published, a new filmmaker named Walt Disney created a silent film about a little girl named Alice and her adventures in Cartoonland. The pilot launched a 56-episode series and led Disney down a rabbit hole to form a company that would go on to become synonymous with fairy tales-including making further versions of the Alice story with the beloved 1951 animated film, the more-recent live-action versions, and several iconic Disney Park experiences. Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland: An Illustrated History delves behind-the-scenes of those whimsical worlds.

Record # 353017

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Klimowski Poster Book by: Klimowski, Andrzej

Klimowski Poster Book
by: Klimowski, Andrzej

Hardcover. London, SelfMadeHero, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 128 pages. In the mid-1970s, Klimowski's fearlessly original artwork caught the eye of leading Polish theatre and film companies, for whom he designed some of the period's most influential and iconic posters. The London-born artist, who moved to Poland at a time when many East Europeans dreamed of going West, went on to create posters for works by filmmakers and playwrights from Scorsese to Altman, Beckett to Brecht. Drawing on folk art, Polish Surrealism and the work of his mentor at the Warsaw Academy, Henryk Tomaszewski, Klimowski uses techniques including photomontage and linocut to create posters that are filled with metaphor, drama and originality. The Klimowski Poster Book compiles the best of his Polish work, while also tracing his career after his return to London, where he remains Emeritus Professor of Illustration at the Royal College of Art. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 396293

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Li'l Abner: Dailies, Vol. 23: 1957 Elvis in Dogpatchby: Capp, Al

Li'l Abner: Dailies, Vol. 23: 1957 Elvis in Dogpatch
by: Capp, Al

Softcover. Kitchen Sink Press, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. A great send-up of '50s youth culture and Elvis Presley parody (Daisy Mae almost marries Elvis!) Li'l Abner eats mud mushrooms and becomes the size of a blimp. The Lizard of Ooze menaces Manhattan in a spoof of '50s monster movies. And Fearless Fosdick goes to Paris. Moonbeam McSwine catches Tiny Yokum in the annual Sadie Hawkins Day Race. Also in this volume: Lower Slobbovia, Senator Jack S. Phogbound, Lonesome Polecat and Hairless Joe. Plus a surprise appearance by Phil Silvers (TV's Sgt. Bilko). And don't miss the very entertaining introduction by James Vance which focuses on "cartoonist feuds," a special form of publicity stunt mastered by Capp, pitting himself publicly against such fellow creators as Will Eisner (The Spirit), Allen Saunders (Mary Worth) and Milton Caniff (Steve Canyon). Harvey Kurtzman ultimately parodied the feud schtick in a "Hey Look!" strip reprinted here. [See the Volume 17 introduction for Capp's thinly-disguised attack on fellow cartoonist Ham Fisher.] Heavily ghosted during this period by Frank Frazetta.

Record # 351445

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Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470'sby: Rubin, Patricia Lee

Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470's
by: Rubin, Patricia Lee

Hardcover. London, National Gallery London, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 360 pages. Softcover with dust jacket. Slight soiling to dust jacket. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 353300

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Further Adventures of Those Fabulous Furry Freak Brothersby: Gilbert Shelton

Further Adventures of Those Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
by: Gilbert Shelton

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial color wraps, $2 cover price, 48 pages in b&w by Shelton. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 374614

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Walt Disney's Donald Duck "Mystery of the Swamp": The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library Vol. 3by: Barks, Carl

Walt Disney's Donald Duck "Mystery of the Swamp": The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library Vol. 3
by: Barks, Carl

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 215 pages in color. From the Everglades to the Grand Canyon, danger and intrigue at every turn! Carl Barks' first foray into his signature series of adventures in lost civilizations takes the Ducks deep into the Everglades, where they find themselves bedeviled by the enigmatic Gneezles, who have escaped detection from outsiders since the days of Ponce de Leon - and want to keep it that way. The fun comes fast and furious as Donald invents a radar detector to track the nephews, the boys open their own detective agency, an ice-skating race, a water-skiing race, the nephews fall into the Grand Canyon, and Donald decides to build the largest kite in the world! Plus: Barks's only Mickey Mouse mystery, Mickey Mouse and Riddle of the Red Hat. Clean copy.

Record # 396500

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Outlaw Animation: Cutting-Edge Cartoons from the Spike and Mike Festivalsby: Beck, Jerry

Outlaw Animation: Cutting-Edge Cartoons from the Spike and Mike Festivals
by: Beck, Jerry

Softcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. An entertaining collection celebrating the work of cutting-edge animation filmmakers features frame grabs, production stills, original artwork, behind-the-scenes photographs, and interviews from twenty-five years of teh Spike & Mike Festival of Animation, with works by Nick Park and Peter Lord of Aardman, John Lasseter, Craig McCracken, Mike Judge, and others.

Record # 351411

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An Atlas of Geographical Wonders: From Mountaintops to Riverbeds A Selection of Comparative Maps and Tableauxby: Bailly Jean Christophe; Besse Jean Marc; Grand Philip

An Atlas of Geographical Wonders: From Mountaintops to Riverbeds A Selection of Comparative Maps and Tableaux
by: Bailly Jean Christophe; Besse Jean Marc; Grand Philip

Hardcover. NY, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st US, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth covers, oblong format. This is the first book to catalog comparative maps and tableaux that visualize the heights and lengths of the world's mountains and rivers. Produced predominantly in the nineteenth century, these beautifully rendered maps emerged out of the tide of exploration and scientific developments in measuring techniques. Beginning with the work of explorer Alexander von Humboldt, these historic drawings reveal a world of artistic and imaginative difference. Many of them give way--and with visible joy--to the power of fantasy in a mesmerizing array of realistic and imaginary forms. Most of the maps are from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection at Stanford University.

Record # 381663

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Charles Sheeler: The Photographsby: Stebbins, Jr., Theodore E. and Norman Keyes, Jr.

Charles Sheeler: The Photographs
by: Stebbins, Jr., Theodore E. and Norman Keyes, Jr.

Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering to cover and spine, illustrated dust jacket, 90 tritone and 78 duotone illustrations, companion copy to "Charles Sheeler: Paintings and Drawings." Light wear to dust jacket; otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Record # 512689

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Bill Ward: The Fantagraphics Studio Editionby: Bill Ward /Alex Chun (Editor)

Bill Ward: The Fantagraphics Studio Edition
by: Bill Ward /Alex Chun (Editor)

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2024, Hardcover, very large format-15 X 19", 176 pages. Bill Ward's glamour girls were the staples of countless men's and humor magazines, where they shared the pages with cult models like Bettie Page, Tina Louise, and Julie Newmar, and cartoons by fellow "good girl" artists such as Archie's Dan Decarlo and Playboy's Jack Cole. Imagine if you will, an innocent but stunning young woman boasting wildly exaggeratedly Barbie-like proportions poured into a wisp of lingerie or clingy cocktail dress and adorned in diamond necklaces and opera-length gloves, all perched on top of a pair of dangerously high stiletto heels, and you've got the recipe for the quintessential Bill Ward glamour girl. What set Ward apart-and above-his talented contemporaries in terms of sheer image-making was his use of the conte crayon. When drawn on simple newsprint stock, this potent combination created Ward's trademark gossamer sheen on his women's thigh-high stockings. This Fantagraphics Studio edition showcases the best of Ward's Humorama work and includes a healthy number of what became known as his "telephone girls." Tame by today's standards, Ward's telephone girls were always caught in candid moments when they just happened to be talking on the phone dressed in gossamer lingerie in innocently provocative poses. And did they ever talk on the phone when they weren't in bed? The majority of the images in this volume were drawn between 1955 and 1965 when Ward was at the height of his skill. They have been scanned in super high-solution from original art and reproduced to highlight every sheen and accentuate every curve to its fullest. The book not only reproduces more than 150 of Ward's most beautifully rendered illustrations, but also serves as a time capsule to a more innocent moment in pop culture when these images were shocking. The Fantagraphics Studio Edition also features an introduction by fashion/style icon and burlesque superstar Dita Von Teese. Like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 396738

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Industrious Art, An: Innovation in Pattern & Print at the Fabric Workshopby: Boulton Stroud, Marion (editor)

Industrious Art, An: Innovation in Pattern & Print at the Fabric Workshop
by: Boulton Stroud, Marion (editor)

Hardcover. New York, W W Norton , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. Hardcover with clear plastic dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470417

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The Drawings Of Hans Holbein In The Collection Of His Majesty The King At Windsor Castleby: Parker, K T.

The Drawings Of Hans Holbein In The Collection Of His Majesty The King At Windsor Castle
by: Parker, K T.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 62 pages plus 85 plates. Gift dedication signed by 8 people on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean and tight.

Record # 373504

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Art of Daniel Clowes, The: Modern Cartoonistby: Clowes, Daniel

Art of Daniel Clowes, The: Modern Cartoonist
by: Clowes, Daniel

Hardcover. New York, Abrams ComicArts, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Throughout his 25-year career, alternative cartoonist/screenwriter Daniel Clowes has always been ahead of artistic and cultural movements. Clowes has been praised for his emotionally compelling narratives that reimagine the ways that stories can be told in comics. The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist is the first monograph on this award-winning, New York Times-bestselling creator. It includes all of Clowes's best-known illustrations as well as rare and previously unpublished work, all reproduced from the original art.

Record # 353417

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The Graphic Arts: Modern Men and Modern Methods. The Scammon Lectures for 1920 published for the Art Institute of Chicagoby: Pennell, Joseph

The Graphic Arts: Modern Men and Modern Methods. The Scammon Lectures for 1920 published for the Art Institute of Chicago
by: Pennell, Joseph

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 315 pages. B&w illustrations throughout.Compilation of lectures given by Pennell in 1920 on the print-making methods and techniques used by artists of the day. Very good in light brown cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Hinge cracked at title page, light wear to cloth at top and bottom of spine. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 396772

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Winslow Homer, 1836-1910;: A selection from the Cooper-Hewitt Collection, Smithsonian Institutionby: Wilmerding, John et al.

Winslow Homer, 1836-1910;: A selection from the Cooper-Hewitt Collection, Smithsonian Institution
by: Wilmerding, John et al.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, 106 bw repros. Essay by John Wilmerding. Catalog, prepared by Elaine Evans Dee, lists 106 works. Includes Drawings, Oils, Etching and Wood Engraving. The vast majority of these drawings were found in Homer's studio after his death and given to the Cooper-Hewitt.

Record # 371271

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Striptease: From Gaslight To Spotlightby: Glasscock, Jessica

Striptease: From Gaslight To Spotlight
by: Glasscock, Jessica

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. illustrated throughout. Very clean and tight copy. Striptease is the history of unapologetic fun aimed not at the head, not at the heart or even the stomach, but south of all three. Beginning with the birth of the striptease in the mid-19th century and culminating with its garish heyday in the 1950s, this book charts the evolution of the infamous bump and grind, which is, at its simplest, a pretty girl in a pretty dress ... and then not. The only fully illustrated book available on the subject, Striptease tells the history of this provocative form of stagecraft from its birth in vaudeville and burlesque through the "take it all off" attitude for which the term "striptease" was coined. Along the way, the book highlights such performers as Isadora Duncan, Loie Fuller, Maud Allen, Gypsy Rose Lee, Tempest Storm, and Blaze Starr. The witty and well-informed text is illustrated with an array of titillating images, including never-before-published ephemera and illicitly photographed performances in progress. Whether revealing ankles or breasts, playing peek-a-boo or going the full monty, Striptease pays tribute to the women who made a vocation of their sex appeal and shimmied their way into American culture.

Record # 455699

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Monsieur Mackintosh: The travels and paintings of Charles Rennie Mackintosh in the Pyrenees Orientales 1923-1927by: Robin Crichton

Monsieur Mackintosh: The travels and paintings of Charles Rennie Mackintosh in the Pyrenees Orientales 1923-1927
by: Robin Crichton

Softcover. Edinburgh, Luath Press Ltd, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. Color and b&w illustrations. In 1923 Charles and Margaret Mackintosh escaped Britain for France.Monsieur Mackintosh is the only book available on Mackintosh's years in France. With reproductions of 40 of his French paintings alongside photographs of the actual locations today, and images from the period 1923-1927, this is a comprehensive and pictorial account. Written in close collaboration with experts from Glasgow University, the National Gallery of Modern Art and the Glasgow School of Art, and edited by Professor Pamela Robertson, author and leading expert on Mackintosh, Monsieur Mackintosh includes new research and is written with the French and English translations side-by-side. Published to coincide with and accompany a major exhibition of Mackintosh's work in France Monsieur Mackintosh contains more than 250 images reproduced in full colour throughout.

Record # 378052

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Flemish Painting, from the 16th to the 18th Century: Relaying Ideas from Erasmus to Diderot by: Voldere. Florence De & Maxime Hennequet (Contributor) & Daphne Dorel (

Flemish Painting, from the 16th to the 18th Century: Relaying Ideas from Erasmus to Diderot
by: Voldere. Florence De & Maxime Hennequet (Contributor) & Daphne Dorel (

Hardcover. Turin, Umberto Allemandi & Co., Revised Ed., 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages, Illustrated throughout in color. Real 'honest men', the Brueghels took part in the intellectual epic of their day which, from humanism to the spirit of the Enlightenment, brought about a renewal in thought and laid the foundations of Modernity. Through the human adventure of the Brueghel dynasty, progressing from obscure beginnings to recognition by the very greatest, Florence de Voldere introduces us to the genius of these men who created the Flemish aesthetic identity. Voldere takes us through the Renaissance in Flanders in the form of a story in pictures. Through this approach based on a dynamic reading of the paintings, this book shows the crucial role of art at one moment of civilization, and opens up some decidedly novel perspectives for interpreting Flemish art. Clean, like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 396853

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Homes of Our Ancestors, Theby: Halsey & Tower, R. T. H. & Elizabeth

Homes of Our Ancestors, The
by: Halsey & Tower, R. T. H. & Elizabeth

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Volume to accompany the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. 302 pp. Features 20 color plates in addition to 217 other black/white illustrations (mostly photographs). Covers beginnings of New England through the Early Days of the Republic. Development of Interior Architecture and House Decoration from craftsmen influenced by old world style and the evolution.Shows significant wear due to age and water damage. Discoloration throughout, though text still entirely legible and color still vivid in the plates. Edges show significant wear as well. Prior owner's name and date (1929) written in ink twice inside the cover.

Record # 804819

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Begin With Bailey by: Bailey , David and George Hughes

Begin With Bailey
by: Bailey , David and George Hughes

Hardcover. London , J. M Dent & Sons , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 221 pages. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Includes extensive notes and documentation accompanying every photograph. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 350980

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Tomb of Terror: Vol 3: Harvey Horror Collected Worksby: Von Sholly, Pete

Tomb of Terror: Vol 3: Harvey Horror Collected Works
by: Von Sholly, Pete

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 216 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Collects issues #12 through #16 of comic book "Tomb of Terror" published by Harvey from November 1953 to July 1954.

Record # 350557

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Changing Perceptions: Milestones in Twentieth-Century British Portraitureby: Elizabeth Cayzer

Changing Perceptions: Milestones in Twentieth-Century British Portraiture
by: Elizabeth Cayzer

Hardcover. Brighton UK, Alpha Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 127 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. This book examines the extraordinary metamorphosis that has occurred in the presentation of the human face during the twentieth century. A series of essays charts the portraits which are the "Milestones" to that change, while the discussion that follows - "Changing Perceptions" - endeavours to identify its nature, its causes, and to show the manner in which the artists reveal this transformation when painting their sitters. Clean copy.

Record # 396875

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John Singer Sargentby: Ratcliff, Carter

John Singer Sargent
by: Ratcliff, Carter

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. 338 illustrations, including 113 plates in full color. Gives beautiful insight into the extravagant glamour of Sargent's society portraits, watercolors and Boston Murals. Folio. Purple cloth, gilt lettering to spine. previous owner's inscription on front edge paper. Very nice, clean and tight copy. Minor wrinkle to lower edge of dust jacket's spine, otherwise in near fine condition.

Record # 605161

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Minimalism and Fashion: Reduction in the Postmodern Eraby: Dimant, Elyssa

Minimalism and Fashion: Reduction in the Postmodern Era
by: Dimant, Elyssa

Hardcover. New York, Harper Design, 2nd printing, 2010-10-26, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages, hardcover illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Examines the minimalist movement in fashion while addressing its confluence with and divergence from similar currents in art, architecture, and design. Organized by decade, the text explores the evolving relationships and influences between fine art and the art of sartorial minimalism.

Record # 350515

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Black Cat Mystery: Vol 3: Harvey Horror Collected Worksby: Various

Black Cat Mystery: Vol 3: Harvey Horror Collected Works
by: Various

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 3. 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 350609

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Modern Times: British Prints, 1913-1939 by: Farrell, Jennifer

Modern Times: British Prints, 1913-1939
by: Farrell, Jennifer

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 200 pages. A look at the artistic and technical innovation of British printmaking from World War I to the eve of World War II, as artists from the Grosvenor School and beyond harnessed an emerging modernist style. This richly illustrated volume reintroduces rare print works from the collection of Leslie and Johanna Garfield into the narrative of modernism, demonstrating their relationship to other movements such as Cubism, Futurism, and Constructivism. Essays explore how artists turned to printmaking to alleviate trauma, memorialize their wartime experiences, and capture the aspirations and fears of the twenties and thirties. Special attention is given to the linocut technique revolutionized by Claude Flight and his students at London's Grosvenor School of Modern Art. Highlighted as well are the pioneering works of artists such as C. R. W. Nevinson, Sybil Andrews, Cyril E. Power, Paul Nash, Edward Wadsworth, Edith Lawrence, Ursula Fookes, and Lill Tschudi. In their quest to promote a more democratic art, these artists created innovative graphics that portrayed in subject, form, material, and technique the dynamic era in which they lived. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 397217

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Drawing Near - Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collectionby: Fine, Ruth E

Drawing Near - Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection
by: Fine, Ruth E

Softcover. Los Angeles :, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 191 pages, illustrated throughout with numerous plates in b&w. Cream dye-cut textured wrappers. Light wear and staining to covers, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 401379

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Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection Vol. 3: 1937 - The Return of Normandie Drakeby: Milton Caniff/Dean Mullaney (Editor)

Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection Vol. 3: 1937 - The Return of Normandie Drake
by: Milton Caniff/Dean Mullaney (Editor)

Hardcover. Clover Press, 1st, 2022, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 11 X 14". The saga continues in Terry and the Pirates Volume 3, reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs! The Dragon Lady gets a bang out of her time with Papa Pyzon, but Terry, Pat, and Connie escape, only to have their first meeting with the lowest of the low, Tony Sandhurst-and is Pat in for a surprise when he meets Mrs. Sandhurst! Despite saving Sandhurst's miserable life on multiple occasions, Tony connives to bring charges against Pat. Friends and a former lover help acquit him, even as Connie finds a new ally, the gentle giant, Big Stoop. Burma and Captain Judas both make return appearances, and the year ends with Terry, Burma, and Connie assisting ragtag Chinese peasants, unaware a new menace grows near.

Record # 380608

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