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Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages. A quarterly anthology of literary comics. Contributors include

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 440 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The first biography in more than twenty years of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is also the first to make extensive use of the artist's private correspondence to tell the story of his life and work. This engaging personal history dispels the popular notion of Whistler as merely a combative, eccentric, and unrelenting publicity seeker, a man as renowned for his public feuds with Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin as for the iconic portrait of his mother. The Whistler revealed in these pages is an intense, introspective, and complex man, plagued by self-doubt and haunted by an endless pursuit of perfection in his painting and drawing. In his beautifully illustrated and deeply human portrayal of the artist, Daniel E. Sutherland shows why Whistler was perhaps the most influential artist of his generation, and certainly a pivotal figure in the cultural history of the nineteenth century. Whistler comes alive through his own magnificent work and words, including the provocative manifestos that explained his bold artistic vision, sparked controversy in his own time, and resonate to this day.

Softcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 87 pages, b&w and color photographs. Price sticker on rear wrapper. Top left corner slightly bumped. Else a clean, tight copy. "This photographic journal records the collaboration of Robert Motherwell and his studio assistants in the creation of the artist's monumental painting Reconciliation Elegy, a commission for the East Building, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C."

Softcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 227 pages, b&w illustrations. A self-made woman with no formal art training, Rose O'Neill (1875-1944) was not only hugely financially successful through her illustration work and the production of Kewpie dolls, but also through her exhibited drawings and sculpture in solo shows in Paris and New York. Kewpie made her a famous figure commercially, but few recognize her today as a serious artist and a political subversive who expressed sympathy for minorities, suffragettes, and victims of intolerance and who struggled with her own expression in a male-dominated field. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 82 pages. pre-World War II collection of satire on history, man and current events. Periwinkle linen-lilke cloth with bright red cover lettering and decoration. Day illustrates his humorous verse with Thurber-like cartoons. Nice dustjacket with light edgewear, mild tanning, unclipped.

Hardcover. New York , Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 384 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. In the 1940s Joe Simon and Jack Kirby started their partnership and created memorable characters such as Captain America and Sandman. This book includes artwork from Joe Simon's private archive, some of them have never been seen.

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

Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. 322 pages. 100 B&W and color plates and 56 B&W illustrations. Pictorial dust jacket with edgewear. Light brown cloth. Auction stamp on front pastedown. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. A generous collection of b&w cartoons by Dedini whose work was featured in The New Yorker, Esquire and in Playboy. Dust jacket is a bit worn, light chipping. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Milan, Artvera's, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover without dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This one-of-a-kind book brings the work of German Expressionist artist Friedrich Karl Gotsch (1900-1984) to a larger, well-deserved audience. Gotsch, whose paintings are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, trained at the Dresden School of Fine Arts in the early 1920s and was inspired by the works of Oskar Kokoschka and Edvard Munch. While his early paintings follow a straightforward Expressionist style, he truly came into his own after World War II, when his work became distinct and easily recognizable: The energy, contrasting primary colors, vivid outlines, and free brushwork combine to produce powerful, spellbinding images. In addition to stunning color reproductions of his work, this book includes essays on Gotsch's art and life, illuminating the artist's creative development and the cultural milieu and influences that inspired him.

Softcover. London, Christie's, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 280 pages, color photographs throughout. Light edge wear, rubbing to wrappers. Bottom right cover corners slightly bent. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press , 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 311 pages, b&w illustrations. In the 1930s and 1940s, English fashion houses, spurred by economic and wartime crises, put London on the map as a major fashion city. In this book, Michelle Jones examines the creation of a London-based couture industry during these years, exploring how designer collaboration and the construction of specific networks and narratives supported and shaped the English fashion economy. Haute couture-the practice of creative made-to-measure womenswear-was widely regarded as inherently French. Jones shows how an English version emerged during a period of economic turbulence, when a group of designers banded together in a collective effort to shift power within the international fashion system. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. , 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine, all excellent. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. More than one hundred reproductions--58 in full-color--bring to life this quintessentially American artist and the dramatic and colorful imagery that has become part of America's epic story.

Hardcover. New York , Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Blue boards stamped in white, in an edgeworn dust jacket. 140 pages of b&w cartoons from the New Yorker.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International Publications, 1st, July 16, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages, color illustrations throughout. Light edge wear to dust jacket; small tear on rear cover. Else a very clean, tight copy. A showcase of Groom's drawings, prints & inimitable urban sculpto-pictograms (in full-color).

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 288 pages, color & b/w plates, sources, index.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Last Gasp, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 44 pages, created by Robert Crumb, his wife Aline, and others; with a color front and rear cover by Crumb, work entitled Uncle Bob's Mid-Life Crisis (eight pages), Robert Williams, a photo piece called Slaves Of The Comicbook Factory, Jeff John, Trashman by the legendary Spain, Dori Seda, C.P.Grimsley, and others; this true first printing, in stapled wrappers.

Softcover. Milan, Skira, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 217 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. In publisher's shrinkwrap. A tribute to the world renowned phenomenon of Made in Italy on the occasion of two memorable dates: the fiftieth anniversary of the first Italian fashion show (Florence, 1951) and the fortieth anniversary of the International Furniture Show (Milan, 1961). The book, devoted to fifty years of Italian fashion and design, examines the complex mosaic of Made in Italy divided into different aspects and themes.

Softcover. Amsterdam, Ludion Ghent/Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oversized softcover. Published with the the exhibition "Hieronymus Bosch" at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, September-November 2001. Minor wear to corners and edges of cover. Inside is bright and clean. Many color illustrations throughout. A nice copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 426 pages plus 322 b&w plates in rear of book. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean and bright.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 2nd pr., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 36 pages, including semi-glossy color covers, and b/w interior. 2nd printings have a glossy cover, with ORANGE beer cans on the cover. Stories and art by Gilbert Shelton, R. Crumb, Shary Flenniken, Lora Fountain, Gary Frutkoff, Bobby London, and J.A. Smith. Saddle-stapled wraps.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 203 pages, approximately 200 color plates. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY, Applause Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 343 pages, hardcover with dut jacket. Drawings and photographs throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Over 400 Hirschfeld drawings and photographs - many never before collected. Includes essays by Whoopi Goldberg, Arthur Miller, Mel Gussow, Kurt Vonnegut, Grace Mirabella, Louise Kerz Hirschfeld and more! Commentary by Hirschfeld throughout.

Softcover. Lewiston ME, Bates College, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog, 40 pages illustrated in color. A twenty year retrospective, May 20-August 26, 1990, Museum of Art, Olin Arts Center, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Gingko Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, b&w illustrations. Pictorial boards. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Known as Toast in graffiti circles and Atalier in graphic design circles, Ata Bozaci is recognized as an artist, draftsman, illustrator, and graffiti artist. This Swiss-based dynamo is also known as one of the pioneers of three dimensional graffiti art. The link between these different artistic or design modes is a pictorial language that is based on the reduction of images and ideas to the essential - black ink on white surfaces. In order to preserve the character of his work and to create an object that is more than just a direct documentation of his work, the book was constructed with paper stock similar to that of his sketchbooks and all of his work printed exclusively using black ink on white paper. The book is organized into three main organizing chapters: Graffiti, Sketches, and Illustrations. Graffiti focuses on Styles & Characters, 3-D Styles and Living Letters, Sketches is divided into the categories Animals and People and the last section, Illustrations is devoted to Portraits and the commercial Grafics work that appears under the label Atalier.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages, illustrated throughout with 120 plates, including 51 in full color. Minor sunning to dust jacket spine and light wear to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. For the aspiring artist who wants to become an expert comic book inker, The DC Comics Guide to Inking Comics is the definitive, one-stop resource!Americas leading comic book publisher brings its superstar creators and classic characters to the third in an authoritative series of books on how to create comics. Legendary comic book inker Klaus Janson uses DCs world-famous characters-including Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman-to demonstrate an array of inking techniques, covering such topics as using textures, varying line weights, creating the illusion of three-dimensionality, and working with light and dark. Jansons lively, step-by-step instructions are informative, exciting-and clear enough for even beginners to follow. In addition, every technique shown in this guide conforms to actual industry standards.The perfect how-to on everything from basic inking materials to storytelling techniques, this one-stop sourcebook is packed with a wealth of tested techniques, practical advice, and professional secrets for the aspiring comic artist.

Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 307 pages. Softcover with light edgewaer to paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages. Illustrated in color, b&w.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Spanierman Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 151 pages, illustrated throughout with plates in full color. Illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued. Light wear to edges of spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1998, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Baywatch Babes on fold-out cover. This month articles feature: Navy flier shows her stuff, breaks the Playboy barrier; Interview with Paul Reiser; Nascar, history of the sexual revolution, 60 to 69 (make love not war), playmate Anne Randalll and more.

Softcover. Kansas City, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover with only light wear to paper wrappers. Cartoons throughout in black and white by Lorenz. Remainder mark on top.

Hardcover. NY, Vendome Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. Beene by Beene is a journey through Geoffrey Beene's life in fashion, a 40-year exploration that was, by turns, visionary, witty, irreverent, iconic, and timeless. His work was of such powerful clarity, such complete complicity between form and function that it actually teaches us-as all works of art do-how to look. A defining American artist, Geoffrey Beene towers in his field.Pamela A. Parmal provides a chronological survey of Mr. Beene's career as a fashion designer and discusses the evolution of his work. Chapters focus on themes or influences-Woman, Body, Fabric, Comfort, Geometry, Sport, Culture-that were a constant source of inspiration to the designer. Beene won the attention and admiration of other artists, and here we see his work through the eyes of renowned photographers and illustrators, even filmmakers and choreographers.

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.

Softcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 386 pages, b&w illustrations. The four essays in this volume constitute Derrida's most explicit and sustained reflection on the art work as pictorial artifact, a reflection partly by way of philosophical aesthetics (Kant, Heidegger), partly by way of a commentary on art works and art scholarship (Van Gogh, Adami, Titus-Carmel). The illustrations are excellent, and the translators, who clearly see their work as both a rendering and a transformation, add yet another dimension to this richly layered composition. Indispensable to collections emphasizing art criticism and aesthetics.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 4th pr., 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 314 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Oversized. Moderate wear to dust jacket, creasing to front fly leaf. Color images throughout. Moderate wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY SPIEGELMAN & MOULY AND JON SCIESZKA who did the introduction. The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics is an unprecedented collection of the greatest comics for children, artfully compiled by two of the best-known creators in publishing and the field of comics--Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly.This treasury created for young readers focuses on comic books, not strips, and contains humorous stories that range from a single-page to eight or even twenty-two pages, each complete and self-contained. The comics have been culled from the Golden Age of comic books, roughly the 1940s through the early 1960s, and feature the best examples of works by such renowned artists and writers as Carl Barks, John Stanley, Sheldon Mayer, Walt Kelly, Basil Wolverton, and George Carlson, among many, many others.Organizing the book into five categories (Hey, Kids!; Funny Animals; Fantasyland; Story Time!; and Wacky & Weird), Spiegelman and Mouly use their expertise in the area of comics to frame each catego

Softcover. Hirmer Verlag Gmbh, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 174 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Text in German. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with pages and covers in pristine condition. Like new, in shrinkwrap. Rosenberg's critial essays on the theatre. Originally published in 1970. CONTENTS: The stages: geography of action; A psychological case; From play acting to self; Criticism-action; Actor in history; Guilt to the vanishing point; Missing persons. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Casterman, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Laminated cover boards. FRENCH TEXT. Clean, tight copy with color comics drawings throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Firefly Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Posters of the Canadian Pacific is a treasury of three hundred of the finest posters published by the company. They were displayed in Canadian Pacific offices and independent travel agencies worldwide from the 1880s until the 1970s. These posters enticed millions to visit and even settle in Canada. The posters span the years 1883-1973 with special focus on the Art Deco style posters of the 1920s and '30s. They focus on travel and leisure -- activities on ski slopes, golf courses, beaches, and luxury resorts. Other posters feature Canadian Pacific ocean liners in exotic locations around the globe such as the West Indies, Rio, Hawaii and the Orient.

Hardcover. US, Book Sales, rep, 1996-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with small tear and light de-lamination to rear cover. Clean, tight copy. Portrays the remarkable work of one of the greatest glass designers and makers ever to work, Rene Lalique, including the best of his work and the continuing production of his atelier.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 290 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Kiki was once the symbol of bohemian Paris. But if she is remembered today, it is only for posing for several now-celebrated male artists, including Amedeo Modigliani and Alexander Calder, and especially photographer Man Ray. Why has Man Ray's legacy endured while Kiki has become a footnote? Kiki and Man Ray met in 1921 during a chance encounter at a cafe. What followed was an explosive decade-long connection, both professional and romantic, during which the couple grew and experimented as artists, competed for fame, and created many of the shocking images that cemented Man Rays reputation as one of the great artists of the modern era. Remainder dot to top edge, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Italy, Fabbri Editori, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 138 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Italian text. Color pictures throughout. Light wear to cover edges. Previous owner's bookplate on front end cover.

Hardcover. San Diego, Idea & Design Works/IDW, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages, color and b&w illustrations. April Kane has come to China and Terry Lee's life will never be the same! Milton Caniff's newspaper classic shifts into high gear with stories featuring the villainous Sanjak, the outrageous Singh-Singh and the mysterious Hu Shee. This volume also features the first appearance of the pivotal character Raven Sherman. Containing more than 100 lovingly-restored color Sunday pages and over 700 total comic strips.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. "A commercial artist who started out sketching in the 1930s for pulp magazines, Lovell advanced to the glossier "slicks" in the 1950s and has since specialized in Old West, Plains Indian, and Civil War themes. He here presents from that long career his best canvases, among them his famed depictions of Lee's surrender". Gorgeous color plates.

Hardcover. London, Rodale Press, 1st thus, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, publisher's original cream and red pattern paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the black cloth spine. 36 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. A small (although not really a miniature) book containing an essay by James which was originally published in the Century Magazine in 1890. Illustrated with a portrait of Honore Daumier and 15 his caricatures. Mild foxing to endpapers otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 184 pages. This is the sequel to caricaturist Drew Friedman's collection of portraits of famous comics creators.Spanning the birth of the industry to its first few decades, this book has approximately 100 full-color portraits of the legends of American comic books-publishers, editors, and artists. Its subjects are popular and obscure, men and women, and it includes several pioneering artists of color. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Disney Editions, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Featuring the art and artists used to plan and map out Disney's many classic animated films, a collection of "storyboard" images offers a fascinating retrospective of the company's history of animation, from Snow White to The Hunchback of Notre Dame.