Hardcover. Charlottesville, NC, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 140 pages + 163 b&w prints. Monograph of a painter who carried the standard of realism through the 20th century while the artistic movement raced toward abstraction. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and white pictorial dust jacket. Like new, in shrinkwrap.
Softcover. San Francisco, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Softcover, plastic comb binding, Soft white and color illustrated wraps with gray and black lettering. Color plates. Interior pages printed on thick, gray paper. Includes text by Stephen Wirtz. INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST on the inside cover. Created to announce the exhibition "Harold Paris: The 26 Days of John Little", held from February 7 through March 8, 1978 at Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, CA. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 410 pages, b&w, color illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. Painting Culture tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic "dot" paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought by upscale galleries and collectors. Since the early 1970s, Fred R. Myers has studied--often as a participant-observer--the Pintupi, one of several Aboriginal groups who paint the famous acrylic works. Describing their paintings and the complicated cultural issues they raise, Myers looks at how the paintings represent Aboriginal people and their culture and how their heritage is translated into exchangeable values. He tracks the way these paintings become high art as they move outward from indigenous communities through and among other social institutions--the world of dealers, museums, and critics.
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.
Hardcover. Boston, The Taylor Press, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 285 pages. Brown cloth covers, b&w frontispiece. Previous owner's bookplate to blank endpaper, light wear to covers, edges and spine; overall a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large format, pictorial boards, 160 pages. The definitive collection of comics and illustration from 1892 to 1942 by James Swinnerton, one of the founding fathers of the American comic strip. This sumptuous volume covers Swinnerton's six-decade career in comics, from his beginnings as a sports/editorial cartoonist for William Randolph Hearst in San Francisco to his years in the America's Southwest desert, where his love for the land and its people came through in his comics and illustration. Jimmy! includes an illustrated biography and essays by co-editor Michael Tisserand and Eddie Campbell. The comic strips in this volume are carefully restored to their original colors and printed at near-full size. Swinnerton lovers will be delighted by the richness and variety of the works seen here. Those new to this uniquely American artist will likely join the growing numbers who appreciate his important role in the history of the comics. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. A one-of-a-kind collection of movie posters spanning fifty years, from silent films to Cinemascope For four decades film historian Ira M. Resnick has been amassing a superb collection of 2,000 vintage movie posters and 1,500 stills, which has never before been published. Starstruck: Vintage Movie Posters from Classic Hollywood features the best of Resnick's collection, with vivid reproductions of 250 posters and forty stills from the golden age of Hollywood, 1912 to 1962.In a moving introduction, Resnick relates how his love of vintage movie art translated into a career as a collector and the founder of the Motion Picture Arts Gallery, the first gallery devoted exclusively to the art of the movies. Resnick's firsthand account offers entertaining anecdotes about how he managed to acquire such stellar film artwork, as well as historical information about the stars and films shown on the pieces he collected. Guiding the reader through the best posters and stills of his collection, Resnick provides a tour of cinematic history, starting in the silent film era and continuing up to Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). By showcasing several posters for each performer--such as Lillian Gish, the Marx Brothers, Marilyn Monroe, John Barrymore, and Audrey Hepburn--Resnick offers a unique method of charting the evolution of each movie star's career. Still like new in publisher's shrinkwrap. NOTE: Due to size and weight DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Assouline, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Lost Fish is a stunning collection of antique illustrations featuring endangered marine life, published by luxury book publisher Assouline. With over 200 detailed illustrations, this book offers a unique opportunity to appreciate the beauty of life underwater while reflecting on the changing aquatic environment. The illustrations are taken from the nineteenth-century scientific anthology of The Count de Lapecede, a leading authority on aquatic species at the time. Through these intricate prints, readers are reminded of the fragility of our environment and provided with a visual history. The ornate details and lavish colors pay homage to the fleeting species of the ocean and serve as a poignant reminder of the importance of conservation. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Justin Duerr, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. large oversize volume. Crowley was an artist who created the "Wigglemuch" over 100 years ago. Hi intricate and obsessive drawings and sculptures have not been seen in many years. This book has loads of color and b&w drawings and paintings and photographs of sculptures along with biographical details.
Newport Beach CA, The Newporter Resort, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, This painting features the cupola on the main building which was used as a architectural signature in the advertising. Image size: 3* X 2 1/2", watercolor on texture white paper, unsigned. Published.
Hardcover. New York , William E. Rudge's Sons, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 187 pages, b&w illustrations, 2-color designs. Tan cloth with gilt title front, spine and back.
...and Ferdinando-Laude, Jean. Softcover. Paris, Cahiers d'Art, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 123 pages. Many bw and some color illustrations. Sommaire: Christian Zervos, 'Jeune peinture et Critique' ; Dora Vallier, 'Braque, la Peinture et Nous' ; Antonio Frova, 'Peinture romaine en Bulgarie' ; Jacques Dupin, 'Giacometti sculpteur et peintre' ; Franco Russoli, 'La restauration de la Cene de Leonard' ; Christian Zervos 'Images de Picasso peintes cette annee' ; Germain Bazin, 'Variations museologiques' ; Ferdinando Reyna, 'Des origines du ballet' ; Dora Vallier, 'La XXVII Biennale de Venise' ; Christian Zervos, 'Expositions' ; Jean Laude, 'Livres d'art'. FRENCH TEXT. Minor wear to spine otherwise a clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, oblong format, color illustrations throughout. 1932 saw the launch of Disney's second-ever original comic strip, the full-color weekly Silly Symphonies, and with it came the debut of Bucky Bug, a daring, rhyming, mischievous squirt whose escapades took him from brutal birds of prey to the terrifying trenches of the Great Flyburg War! With his brave lady friend June and bumpkin pal Bo, Bucky even travels to a mixed-up Mother Goose Land... where a not-so-merry Old King Cole has mayhem on his mind!In this Disney reprint collection, readers can follow all of Bucky's adventures and the Symphonies Sunday sagas that followed, which also includes Donald Duck's debut as the barnyard's spoilt brat in "The Wise Little Hen"... and further tales of golden age Silly Symphony cartoon stars: egotistical Max Hare, slow-but-sure Toby Tortoise, and that awful bandit Dirty Bill (who "never took a bath, and he never will!").
Hardcover. New York, Bulfinch, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Remainder mark to textblock. Hockney's Pictures is the first definitive "retrospective" to show the evolution and diversity of Hockney's prolific paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, and photography, including new and published works. The pieces, presented thematically, are selected and organized by David Hockney himself, and track Hockney's lifelong experiments in ways of looking and depicting. With 325 illustrations, accompanied by extensive quotes from the artist himself that illuminate the passionate thinking behind the work, Hockney's Pictures is destined to become a classic.
Softcover. Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 225 pages. 8 plates, B&W photographs throughout. pictorial cover with slight bending of back bottom corner and slight wear to spine. Frontispiece. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Los Angeles, Frederick S Wight Art Gallery, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. B&w and color illustrations. Issued in conjunction with several 1977-1978 exhibitions featuring the work of Italian artist Alberto Burri (1915-1995). The entire book is an illustrated essay by Gerald Nordland that serves as a good introduction to the man and his craft. Also includes a chronology and an expansive exhibition history. Faint crease to front cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. UK, self-published, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. "A careful study of an ancient craft, peculiar to the County of Cornwall, that of carving Family Portraits in Slate." Foreword by Dorothy Dudley. 184 pages, many b&w illustrations. Clean.
Hardcover. Lewes, DE, GILES, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrinkwrap. Over 140 color illustrations. Provides analysis of this single panel painting of St. Francis, rendered by Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Bellini
Softcover. Memphis, TN, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 206 pages. With newspaper clipping slipped in. Illustrated in B&W and color. overall tight and clean copy. The narrative essays chart the routes taken by the American painters as they progressed from their experience at French communities to the re-establishment of their careers on native soil. Also included with the essays are the vivid artwork of these painters.
Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Half cloth covers, oatmeal buckram with gray paper, sepia lettering on spine. O'Hara's poems coupled with 30 different artists in loose sheets. In a cloth folio, in a slipcase with a gray paper label. Number 692 from an edition of 2500 copies. Edited by Bill Berkson. A beautifully produced collection that includes poems by Frank O'Hara paired with illustrations by Nell Blaine, Norman Bluhm, Joe Brainard, John Button, Giorgio Cavallon, Allan D'Arcangelo, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Niki de Saint Phalle, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Michael Goldberg, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Al Held, Jasper Johns, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Alex Katz, Lee Krasner, Alfred Leslie, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Reuben Nakian, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, and Jane Wilson. Previous owner's small sticker on inside cover, otherwise clean, bright. The cloth slipcase with light soil, foxing.
Softcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st pbk., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps. Lavishly illustrated in color. Includes an illustrated chronology by Terry Friedman. Goldsworthy works with natural materials such as stone, leaves, grass, and more to evoke the passage of time, the ebb and flow of life, daylight to dark, life to death. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Paris, Flammarion, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, folio. This original, illustrated monograph recounts haute couture designer Jean Patous charmed life and career during the apex of 20th-century glamour, and is drawn from extensive research into previously unpublished family archives. 250 color plates. Remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise tight, clean copy.
Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Very good. Swiss Posters 1976. Kodak Colour Calender Contest, 1977. Fred Otnes. 1.international Animated Film Festival in Ottawa. Trends in Jewellery Design in Europe.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, Taschen, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, tan cloth in a bright dust jacket. Folio. 672 pages. This is the original large format edition: 17.5 x 11.75 inches and 2.5 inches thick and weighing in at nearly 20 lbs. "This groundbreaking book covers every aspect of Diego Rivera's Career and brings together in a single volume comprehensive information about his murals, both in Mexico, and beyond, with a host of hitherto unknown details also includes a wide selection of over 200 easel paintings, numerous drawings and sketches, period photographs and documents (some of them previously unpublished) from both private and public collections to complete this lavish publication. This especially heavy book will require additional charges for priority. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 160 pages. Known for his cool, clean, comics-inspired pictorial language, Julian Opie has been one of the leading figures in contemporary British art since the early 1980s. Equally at home in museum settings--like Tate Modern, the ICA Boston and MCA Chicago, where he has mounted recent one-person exhibitions and projects--and in collaboration with mainstream rock bands like Blur and U2, his work crosses media and genres with quiet, computer-assisted abandon. In the early days, Opie transgressed the boundaries between painting and sculpture by applying paint to the everyday articles he used in his steel objects. More recently he has experimented with digital technologies in the applied arts. Now, he is probably best-known for his hypnotically low-tech moving images generated by LCD and LED technologies. This volume assembles a representative collection of portraits, half-length figures and new works that draw from the motifs of baroque portraiture.
Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. This catalogue accompanies a major exhibition devoted to Vasily Kandinsky, held at the Neue Galerie from 3 October, 2013 until 10 February, 2014. It explores the evolution of his work from the Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus years. During this period, Kandinsky developed his revolutionary abstract style and began to move beyond conventional easel painting.
Hardcover. Geneva, Switzerland, Nagel Publishers, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 146 pages, with color plates and illustrations. 789 of 3000 limited edition first printing. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Minor foxing throughout in text areas, but illustrations are unaffected. Some creased color plates. Tight binding and overall good condition.
Softcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st thus, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, One of the most popular and critically acclaimed graphic novels of all time and illustrated by an exemplary selection of the medium's most gifted artists, Sandman weaves a spellbinding tapestry that fuses modern myth with the timeless narratives of history and folklore. Here, in the domain of the Endless, epic stories unfold stories that transcend the boundaries of life and death. With stunning visuals crafted by a handpicked cadre of the industry's most talented artists, including Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, and Kelley Jones, with spectacular guest art by Chris Bachalo, Colleen Doran, Charles Vess, and Michael Zulli. Volume 1 spans 'The Sandman' issues #1-20 and collects the pivotal story arcs 'Preludes and Nocturnes,' 'The Doll's House,' and 'Dream Country.' It also includes the historic 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' the first comic book ever to receive the prestigious World Fantasy Award. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Santa Fe NM, Museum of New Mexico Press, 2nd pr, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps. Foreword by George Kubler. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. 127 pages. 81 artists interpret this masterpiece of 19th century Spanish Franciscan architecture. Map of Taos laid in. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams Inc, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Facsimile replica of David Hockney's sketchbook. Unpaginated Hardcover. Comes with 31 page explanatory softcover that accompanies hardcover, both in slipcase. Very clean, tight hardcover with marble leather boards. Yellowing to softcover wrapper edges, otherwise clean and unmarked. Minor soiling and wear to slipcover. Slight yellowing around edges. Color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. New York, State University of New York, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, illustrated throughout. Dust jacket edge wear and fade, minor rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.Here at long last is the study of the life and paintings of Ralph Earl, the colorful eighteenth-century American artist whose pictures hang in the great galleries but about whom relatively little has appeared in print. A pioneer landscapist in a day when portraiture was the vogue, a Tory in Revolutionary New England, he nevertheless captured the stance and spirit of the new nation in the first decades after the Revolution. He portrayed the merchants and civic leaders of the time, often with their families, in their homes, orchards, business establishments--and the result is a record of post-Revolutionary American dress, design, and decoration as well as face and figure. Professor Goodrich has tracked down and assembled forty-one of Earl's paintings for this book, providing the first opportunity of viewing the artist's work as a body. The pictures range from a youthful re-creation of the Battle of Concord, through portraits done in England (whence he fled during the Revolution and which enabled him to absorb the techniques of the great eighteenth-century English portraitists), to his invaluable paintings of General von Steuben, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, and other figures in the young United States.
London, Hooper and Company, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hooper Touring Limousine featured in color. From The Illustrated London News. Approx. 9 X 12".PLEASE NOTE The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. New York, Assouline, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 3 volumes in slipcase. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. For over a century Coca-Cola has been a touchstone of modern culture and a global icon. First sipped at an Atlanta soda fountain, the beverage has become an instantly recognizable symbol around the world, woven into people's lives and memories. This newest addition to Assouline's best-selling Memoire collection, Coca-Cola: Film, Music, Sports celebrates the iconic brand's broad-reaching influence in the domains of film, music, and athletics. With imagery of some of these industries' most revered names, and forewords penned by Ridley Scott, Quincy Jones, and LeBron James, these volumes explore the beverage's prominence in some of the greatest films of all time, its inspiration for legendary musicians of all genres, and its motivational support of athletes from the Olympics to professional sports.This slipcase set is a must-have accessory not only for collectors of Coca-Cola memorabilia but also for lovers of American culture everywhere.
Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 279 pages. William Glackens was one of the most influential American painters in the first decades of the twentieth century. From his beginnings as a witty magazine artist-illustrator in Philadelphia and New York to his participation in the forward-thinking group of artists dubbed The Eight, Glackens was a perceptive interpreter of his surroundings. Glackens, one of the most versatile and popular artists of his time, assimilated the lighthearted modern French themes of spirited cafes and bustling parks and resorts in such canvases as Chez Mouquin (1905) and Sledding, Central Park (1912). An admirer of the more traditional figure painting of the Impressionist Renoir, his name also became closely linked to the modern artists who exhibited their works at the famous Armory Show of 1913, which Glackens helped organize. This important study, the first major monograph on Glackens, includes an insightful essay by Dr. William Gerdts and a complete catalog, introduced by curator Jorge Santis, describing the incomparable holdings of the Glackens Collection of the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. With a chronology, bibliography, and index, this profusely illustrated volume is sure to become the standard reference on Glackens for historians and collectors of twentieth-century art. Clean,bright copy.
NY, Harper and Brothers, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustration of a little girl trying on her mother's hat as dog examines hat boxes. Art by George Barratt, 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. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 528 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Sunfading to spine. Otherwise a very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Over 500 comic strips published between 1956 through 1966. SIGNED BY JULES FEIFFER ON HALF TITLE PAGE.
Hardcover. New York, Brentano's Publishers, reprint, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages. 1 of 1000 copies. Color and b&w illustrations by the subject throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Illustrated frontispiece. Decorative stain to top edge. Edge wear to top and bottom edge. Minor stains and shelf wear. Foxing throughout. Otherwise, clean tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 128 pages, b&w illustrations, some color. Clean copy.
NY, Harper and Brothers, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two color sketch of a woman by R. Crosby. 10 X 13".PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. Renowned as the world's leading female fashion photographer from the 1930s to the 1960s, Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989) was acclaimed for her fashion photographs, still lifes, and portraits.This book is the first comprehensive retrospective on this important photographer. In addition to her fashion images, the 200 photographs gathered here include Louise Dahl-Wolfe's experimental color work and black-and-white portraits of such luminaries as Mae West, Cecil Beaton, Josephine Baker, Christian Dior, Orson Welles, Isamu Noguchi, and others. In sum, they evoke a glamorous and unforgettable era.
Softcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams , reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages, softcover with French flaps. A major contribution to the social and art history of Paris in the early 20th century. Heavily illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Minor rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format, pictorial boards, 319 pages illustrated in b&w. Royston Campbell Crane (1901-1977), who signed his work Roy Crane, created the comic-strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy, and Buz Sawyer. His work continues to inspire cartoonists today. A collection of his classic Captain Easy and Wash Tubbs. The very best of the indispensable daily comic strip adventures featuring Wash running a dinky railroad in a comic-opera version of Eastern Europe, the gripping narrative of Easy waging total war against The Phantom King, battles with pirates in the South Seas, and the harrowing story of Easy and Wash as prisoners on the infamous Devil's Island. Clean copy.
NY, The Art Directors Club, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, no dust jacket issued. 540 pages with 1002 examples of award-winning graphic art. Clean copy. NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Chipping and age toning to dust jacket edges. Foxing to textblock fore edge. Inside clean and unmarked. This retrospective study of the work and life of Robert Frank demonstrates the artistry, innovations, and magnificent images of the distinguished photographer in more than 350 photographs.
Hardcover. Czech Republic, Kant, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 264 pages. Venturing across five decades of American culture, this landmark book explores how modern graphic design emerged in the United States and how it became an intrinsic feature of the country's identity. Author and design professor Christopher Long tells this story in a wholly new way, exposing many long-forgotten figures and movements and resurrecting the debates and conceptions that were integral to the new art. In a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who helped shape the very look of the modern age, Modern Americanness offers a sweeping story of the country's visual culture and its distinctiveness across a variety of designed objects: magazine covers, food labels, event posters, chapbooks, advertisements, propaganda and much more. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.