Art

Hardcover. New York, Asia Society/Creative Time, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Accordion binding. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Commissioned to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Central Park, Cai's Light Cycle fireworks display lit the New York sky with a circle of explosions on a September night in 2003. This 24-page accordion book documents it all from planning to performance, executed by the famous Grucci fireworks family. Separating the book's hardbound cloth covers reveals a continuous folded sheet with reproductions of Cai's gunpowder drawings (made by burning scant gunpowder on paper) on one side and photographs of the event and text on the other. In an interview, the artist compares his drawings to "love-making" and explains some technical aspects of his displays, such as a computer chip in each explosive shell.

Softcover. New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 629 pages. B&w and color images throughout. Slight shelf wear to covers. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Softcover. Wien, mumok/ICA/Dancing Foxes Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 60 pages. Softcover. Previous owners name and date on title page. Illustrated with full color photography. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text. In the oeuvre of New York artist Moyra Davey (born 1958), literature and writing are as significant as photography, film and video. In her latest text, Burn the Diaries, Davey considers the work of French playwright and political activist Jean Genet, while examining fugitive moments from her own life. An essay by her childhood friend and reading companion Alison Strayer, written in response, reflects on Davey's themes. The publication is part of a group of new works--also including photographs, a film and an installation of her signature mailers, which Davey sends to family, friends and acquaintances--that illuminate the relationship between image and language. This volume can be read both as an artist's book and a catalogue to accompany the exhibition at Mumok, Vienna, and the ICA, Philadelphia, in 2014.

Harper & Brothers, Harper's Weekly, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Full-page pen and ink drawing of a golfer waiting to tee off One in a series by E.W. Kemble, himself a golf enthusiast. Approx. 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. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This catalogue presents 59 masterful Italian drawings from the late 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries: working drawings, preparatory sketches, and finished compositions that have been added in recent years to the private collection of Jean and Steven Goldman. In her essays, Jean Goldman assesses the collection within the context of Mannerism and the role of drawing in the business of art. She and Nicolas Schwed coauthor detailed entries on the works' attributions, subjects, and functions, complete with documentation including provenance, bibliography, exhibition history, and comparative illustrations. The catalogue presents the work of more than forty artists, some of whom, such as Giorgio Vasari and Pietro da Cortona, were major figures, and others who were virtually unknown. Together, these magnificent works trace the rise and evolution of Mannerism in Italy.

Softcover. New York, Nantier Beall Minoustchine, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Softcover. First volume of reprinting, covering 1924-1925. With an introduction by Bill Blackbeard. An unmarked, clean and tight copy with only light edge wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics , 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 144 pages. Never-before-published Prince Valiant art by the strip's legendary creator, Hal Foster, collected in a series of six annotated portfolio volumes. Part sketchbooks, part biography, part tutorial, part memoir. Hal Foster's Prince Valiant Sketchbooks is an unprecedented look into Foster's personal life and creative process during his final nine years on the strip. It's also a fascinating look behind the curtains as Foster coached and interacted with his chosen successor: John Cullen Murphy. Produced with the full permission and participation of the Foster and Murphy families, this series is a testament to author and Prince Valiant historian Brian M. Kane's research prowess and determination to bring Hal Foster's creative process to light. This uniquely intimate view of Foster's creative process is a long-awaited dream come true for Prince Valiant fans. With an illustrated bookplate SIGNED BY EDITOR KANE. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

NY, Harper and Brothers, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color vignette of a court jester serenading a parrot on his mandolin. Art by C.F. Nash. Approx. 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 Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Klein surveys the history of Matisse's portraits and their sitters, with attention to the details of the financial transaction or other agreement that caused the painting to be made. An analysis of Matisse's self-portraits is also provided. Klein works chronologically, detailing the artist's developing style, but remains attached to his biography as well, with many quotes about Matisse or his works from contemporary sources. This volume is well illustrated with b&w and color plates.

Hardcover. Washington DC/New Haven CT, National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. First major survey of Homer's watercolor career, part of a celebration of the 150th anniversary of Winslow Homer's birth. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Unmarked. Bright and clean. A tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hudson Hills, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A chronology, bibliography, and listing of exhibitions, collections, and commissions complete this comprehensive treatment of an important second-generation abstract expressionist, and one of the first of a generation of influential women artists to emerge in the second half of the 20th century. More than 100 color plates, foreward by Erik H. Neil, and essay by Michael Plante. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

NY, Oldetyme Distillers, 1956, Book: Very Good, Peter Arno cartoon in color of Santa in kilts delivering Grand Macnish Scotch Whiskey. 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. London, Titan Books , 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. In his own words, this is the life of Joe Simon, one of the most important figures in comics history, and half of the famous creative team Simon and Kirby. Joe Simon co-created Captain America, and was the first editor in chief of Marvel Comics (where he hired Stan Lee for his first job in comics). 

Hardcover. New York, Prestel, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 496 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Last Gasp, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 48 pages in color. A catalog of Gary Baseman's "I Melt in Your Presence" solo art show in San Francisco. Baseman's paintings reflect an oozing, sexual frenzy and dripping, cream-filled energy. This large-format hardcover collector's edition features beautiful reproductions of Baseman's nude studies in mixed media and his paintings such as "Dripping With Desire." Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY due to size.

1947, Book: Very Good, Frustrated painter waits while wife mulls color choice. Art by Stevan Dohanos. 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. New York, Plume/Penguin Group, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 218 pages. Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, his adventures, his enemies, his allies, and his long-suffering sweetheart and eventual mate, Tess Truehart, live again in the one book that traces his entire crime-fighting career; enriched by a wealth of original classic strips in black-and-white, with 24 pages of color. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 248 pages illustrated in color. Displays Everett's brilliant cartooning and energetic storytelling growing by leaps and bounds. Never-before-reprinted, beautifully restored, full-color stories from one of comic books' greatest visionaries and accomplished artists. This book also includes an introduction about the man, his art, the history of the era, and his relationship with Marvel Comics.

1948, Book: Very Good, Color art of vacationing family crowded on to porch during rainy weather. Painting by Stevan Dohanos. 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. Australia, T & G Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color photographs throughout. Max Pam is one of Australia's most important contemporary photographers. His success is based on a body of provocative and compellingly intimate images of people from all over the world. This substantial publication with notes gives an emotional, sometimes lyrical, provocative, always intimate portrait of the artist as much as the people and places he has witnessed.

Softcover. London, The Hayward Gallery, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Catalog to accompany Bridget Riley's exhibition Paintings and drawings 1951-71 at The Hayward Gallery, 20 July - 5 September 1971 organized by The Arts Council. Introduction and biographical note by Bryan Robertson. Clean copy.

1929, Book: Very Good, Color art by John LaGatta. 8 1/2 X 11", 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. London, Titan, 1st Titan, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy. Color illustrations throughout. From the very beginning in 1934, these are the original adventures of the famous comic strip detective - collected in full for the very first time! Mandrake is a master of hypnosis, whose ability causes his opponents to encounter wild illusions, giving the heroes the upper hand in a fight. His enemies cover a broad spectrum, including gangsters, mad scientists, alien creatures, and characters from other adventures. His greatest ally is Lothar, "Prince of the Seven Nations" who gave up his crown to join Mandrake in his globe-trotting adventures. They are accompanied by the beautiful Narda, princess of a European nation and Mandrake's romantic interest.

Hardcover. NY, Collins Design, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 255 pages, color and b&w illustrations. An in-depth study on sign display, interviews with design firms and sign experts reveal the inspiration behind their work. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

1905, Book: Very Good, Color art of Santa embracing woman surrounded by holly wreath by Hassmann. 10 X 13", mild crease to page. 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. Russia, Contemporary Art Museum, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 514 pages. Only 2000 copies printed. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 147 pages, 85 reproductions of Holbein's exquisite portrait drawings, tipped-in color frontispiece. Dust jacket with chipping to top and bottom of spine otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Somogy Editions D'Art , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Full color exhibition catalogue of the new retrospective exhibition of Saint-Gaudens' work, the first in Europe since 1900. Venues include the Muse des Augustins, in Toulouse (February 2-May 30, 1999), and the Muse national de la Cooperation Franco-Americaine, at Blrencourt (June 26-October 18, 1999). The artwork covers Saint-Gaudens' entire career, from the cameos done during his youth, to sophisticated portrait reliefs, public monuments and coins. The essays contribute new scholarship on the sculptor's career and art, including his decorative art designs for Tiffany's, personalized pencil caricatures for friends, and the development of the monument to Charles Stewart Parnell in Dublin, the last public monument Saint-Gaudens saw to completion.

Hardcover. Minneapolis MN, Walker Art Center/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 152 pages. No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published. Boards, bibliography, color and B&W reproductions and photos of Close's amazing self-portraits.

Softcover. Williamstown, MA, Prestel & Williams College Museum of Art, 1st, 1990, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 193 pages, illustrated throughout numerous illustrations in b&w and 139 plates in full color. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Minor edgewear to covers, else like new.

Hardcover. NY, Abelard-Schuman , 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth cover. No dust jacket. 171 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Cory, Adams & Mackay, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 84 pages. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket shows heavy wear and rubbing, laminate is coming off the paper of the dust jacket. Moderately soiled. Cover boards are clean, internally clean and tight. There are 4 color plates tipped in; Black and white illustrations throughout.

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, 1at, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 253 pages, b&w and color illustrations, illustrated end paper. Bottom front left corner slightly bumped. Light marks to bottom edge. Else a very clean, tight copy. The book includes essays by five noted authorities: Linda Norden discusses Hesse's early career in New York following her years as a student of Josef Albers; Maria Kreutzer writes on Hesse's work in Germany in the mid-sixties, when she moved from two to three dimensions; Robert Storr places Hesse in relation to the central American artistic concerns of the 1960s, focusing on her links to such artists as Jasper Johns, Sol LeWitt, and Claes Oldenburg; Anna Chave analyzes Hesse's mature work in light of contemporary feminist theory on authorship and subjectivity; and Maurice Berger examines Hesse's radical and personal approach to the sculptural object following her rejection of painting. In addition, Helen Cooper draws on the artist's extensive diaries, notebooks, and correspondence for a chronology detailed as much as possible in Hesse's own words.

1925, Color art of little girl in violet holding bouquet of flowers by Jessie Wilcox Smith. 8 1/4 X 11 1/2". 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. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Foreword by Thomas S. Buechner. Color plates of paintings, b/w reproductions of caricatures. 206 pages. Levine, 1926-2009, was an American artist and illustrator. He studied at the Pratt Institute and served in the Army after World War II. Many of his paintings of garment workers were destroyed in a 1968 fire. He later became a political illustrator, and his caricatures often appeared in the New York Review of Books. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Naples, Banco Di Napoli, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 542 pages, Illustrated in color and b&w. Clean and tight copy.

1935, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon of little girl thanking dad for her birthday gift of a doll. Art by William Steig. 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. NY, Random House, Revised Ed., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 292 pages, in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Clean copy. First published in 1960, this is the 1988 revised edition of the classical work by Lieberman, friend of artists. Includes photos not used in the 1960 edition.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1982, 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 Bill Mauldin and Pat Oliphant, Dick Wingert, Zim autobiography, animator Nancy Beiman, editorial cartoonist Daniel Fitzpatrick, others.

1938, Book: Very Good, Color art 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. Hunt Valley MD, Hermes Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Large hardcover, 160 pages of color comics reproduced from the Sunday comics of the 40s. Beautiful condition.

Hardcover. New York, Abrams/Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 343 pages, illustrated throughout in color with brief biographies of artists. Very good, unmarked, in a bright dust jacket.

1909, Book: Very Good, Two color art of bear sniff at leaning totem pole by Charles Livingston Bull. 10 X 13". Mild soil. 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, Metropolitan Museum of Art, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 257 pages, This lavishly illustrated volume is the first comprehensive publication on the Brooklyn Museum's internationally renowned historic costume collection. The nearly 25,000-object collection comprises fashionable women's and men's garments and accessories from the 18th through the 20th century.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press , 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 76 pages of text plus 162 pages of b&w plates featuring work by this Swedish sculptor. Rust colored cloth with gilt type on spine. Light fraying to bottom of spine otherwise very good.

1980, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon by Saul Steinberg. 8 1/2 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. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages, color illustrations by Betsy Lewin, Brian Collier, Brian Selzneck, David Wiesner, Paul D. Zelinsky, Hilary Knight, David Shannon, others.

Softcover. New York , National Lampoon, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format. Unpaginated, illustrated in color and b&w by various artists. Because of raunchy material, this comic publication had limited distribution, hard to find.

Hardcover. Secaucus NJ, Poplar Books, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, blue cloth covers in a bright dust jacket. Thick, heavy book, 527 pages, 1580 illustrations including 60 in color, bibliography, concordances, index and list of owners. This book contains complete title-catalog of all paintings and the most comprehensive catalog of the watercolors ever published including over 1500 items in public and private collections. Catalog Raisonne. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Paris FR, Paris-Musees, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible cloth covers, profusely illustrated, 463 pages, FRENCH TEXT. "This well-illustrated catalogue provides a fine review of the early years of the German Expressionist movement through a presentation of some 400 paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures by members of the Brucke in Dresden (Heckel, Kirchner, Mueller, Pechstein, Schmidt-Rottluff and Nolde) , the Blaue Reiter artists in Munich (Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee, Macke, Marc, Munter and Werefkin) and Berlin painter Ludwig Meidner. Sixteen wide-ranging essays are supplemented by detailed entries for most of the exhibited works, a selection of texts and letters by the featured artists, and a chronology of important cultural and political events in Dresden, Munich and Berlin from 1905 to 1914." Clean copy.