Art

Softcover. US, Brooklyn Museum Bookshop, 1st, 1992-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, When Sam Taylor-Johnson (born 1967) climbed the famous mirrored staircase of Chanel's headquarters at 31 rue Cambon, Paris, she did not quite know what to expect. Her destination was Coco Chanel's private apartment on the second floor; her mission, to photograph it.

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 222 pages in color and b&w. Tony Sarg (1880-1942), an American artist born in Guatemala to a diplomatic family, first achieved professional success as an illustrator in London and New York. But in the 1920s, he gained even greater renown for his touring puppet shows based on classic tales like Alice in Wonderland and Robinson Crusoe. Fusing the time-honored craft of traditional marionette shows with a playful modern sensibility, Sarg's productions were foundational to American puppetry: Jim Henson can be considered a direct artistic descendant. Yet this was only one facet of Sarg's varied accomplishments: he was also a pioneer in animated films and children's books, and, as a longtime designer for Macy's, he invented the gigantic balloons used in the firm's Thanksgiving Day Parade. (He also employed one of his parade balloons in the famous Nantucket Sea Serpent hoax of 1937.) This abundantly illustrated volume, published to coincide with a major exhibition organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum, is the first to survey Tony Sarg's protean career. It brings together imagery and artifacts from numerous public and private collections, and includes special sections on Sarg's long association with the island of Nantucket and his influence on American puppetry. Tony Sarg: Genius at Play will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in the history of popular culture. Claen copy.

Softcover. University of Illinois Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 165 pages. This remarkable volume collects Bodmer's studio art: a series of compositions he created in his Paris studio. These images, thirteen of them previously unpublished, are augmentations of the artist's expeditionary sketches and watercolors. 12 color plates, 32 b/w plates, 16 B/W in-text figures.

Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 1st, 2020, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 242 pages. A finely wrought coming-of-age memoir about the author's relationship with her beloved grandfather Joe Simon, cartoonist and co-creator of Captain America. In the 1990s, Megan Margulies's Upper West Side neighborhood was marked by addicts shooting up in subway stations, frequent burglaries, and the "Wild Man of 96th Street," who set fires under cars and heaved rocks through stained glass church windows. The world inside her parents' tiny one-bedroom apartment was hardly a respite, with a family of five-including some loud personalities-eventually occupying the 550-square-foot space. Salvation arrived in the form of her spirited grandfather, Daddy Joe, whose midtown studio became a second home to Megan. There, he listened to her woes, fed her Hungry Man frozen dinners, and simply let her be. His living room may have been dominated by the drawing table, notes, and doodles that marked him as Joe Simon the cartoonist. But for Megan, he was always Daddy Joe: an escape from her increasingly hectic home, a nonjudgmental voice whose sense of humor was as dry as his farfel, and a steady presence in a world that felt off balance. Evoking New York City both in the 1980s and '90s and during the Golden Age of comics in the 1930s and '40s, My Captain America flashes back from Megan's story to chart the life and career of Rochester-native Joe Simon, from his early days retouching publicity photos and doing spot art for magazines, to his partnership with Jack Kirby at Timely Comics (the forerunner of Marvel Comics), which resulted in the creation of beloved characters like Captain America, the Boy Commandos, and Fighting American. My Captain America offers a tender and sharply observed account of Megan's life with Daddy Joe-and an intimate portrait of the creative genius who gave us one of the most enduring superheroes of all time.

Hardcover. Scranton PA, International Textbook Company, reprint, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, thin black textured cloth covers with embossed titles, gilt lettering on spine, marbled endpapers, 104 pages. With drawings, illustrations, a few in color, diagrams, a few as foldouts, questions and exorcises, and index. Clean, bright copy.

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.

Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. This intellectual tour de force draws on interviews with such key artists as Jean-Jacques Lebel, Mimi Parent, and Jean Benoit, and uses primary sources to advance our knowledge of the work of the better-known Surrealists, from Hans Bellmer to Meret Oppenheim. The Second World War, the Algerian War, and May 1968 are related in new ways to surrealism as a major countercultural force throughout this critical period in French history. By documenting the ways in which the Surrealists used sound, lighting, special effects, and performance art to create a living, theatrical environment, Dr. Mahon sheds new light on topics central to understanding art in our time.

Hardcover. Gibbs Smith, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Thomas Molesworth, were he alive today, would be both proud and amazed at the influence his Shoshone Furniture Company and the Cody artists' colony he inspired would have on his old hometown and the Western Design movement seventy-two years after he started producing furniture. Based on nearly two decades of buying, selling, pursuing, and researching Molesworth furniture, Terry Winchell has created a definitive book that covers all spectrums of Molesworth's work, including the influence of the other artists who made his style unique, as well as stylistically and financially successful. The fact that Molesworth's furniture career spanned thirty-plus years speaks for itself. An excellent guide for collectors of Molesworth's work, this book is also an invaluable resource for fans of the Western Design movement.

Hardcover. Camden, SC, The Sporting Heritage Collection/Live Oak Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 184 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Limited edition, #142/2300. Green leather with gilt decoration, lettering to front and spine with top edge gilt and ribbon marker. No dust jacket issued. Color frontispiece of tiger, 35 color plates (from paintings) and some color photos, 137 black-and-white plates (etchings and engravings). Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green boards with beige buckram spine, black lettering on spine and front cover. 425 pages with index. The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks. Diagrams by the author and numerous illustrations, colored lithographs and collotype reproductions from ancient examples. Gutter cracked at half-title page, previous owner's name otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 557 pages, b&w and color illustrations. In this brilliant second and final volume of the definitive biography of Lucian Freud--one of the most influential, enigmatic and secretive artists of the twentieth century--William Feaver, the noted art critic, draws on years of daily conversations with Freud, on his private papers and letters and on interviews with his friends and family to explore the intimate life of Freud, from age forty-five to his death in 2011 at the age of eighty-nine. The final forty years of Freud's life were a period of increasing recognition and fame, and of prodigious output. He was obsessed with his art, and with the idea of producing paintings that "astonish, disturb, seduce, convince." He was equally energetic and ambitious in his private life. This book opens with his dramatic affair with Jacquetta Eliot, which led to some of his most intimate portraits and to the start of two important, lifelong friendships, with Jane Willoughby and Susanna Chancellor. Freud talks about his art at all stages, how it changed in the seventies and his first retrospective in London in 1974. Small remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. In 1945, a previously unknown Vermeer was discovered by the Allied Art Commission in the collection of Hermann Goering. The question arose: where - and how - did Goering acquire it? From the investigation came a story that rocked the art world. The trail finally led to Han van Meegeren, an obscure painter who had sold seven authenticated Vermeers over a number of years. Faced with a possible death sentence for collaborating in a sale of a national treasure to the Nazis, van Meegeren insisted he had not helped the Nazi cause: he had painted all the Vermeers himself. Needless to say, nobody believed him - until he proved he was telling the truth by painting still another Vermeer, before the eyes of an astonished jury. Here, with 24 pages of illustrations, is the story of the audacious forger who fooled the most eminent art critics, yet failed to impress them with his own paintings. Lord Kilbracken offers an exhaustive study of van Meegeren's background - his motives , his two marriages, and all the pieces of the puzzle that go to make up an understandable complex human being. With fascinating detail he also makes it clear exactly how the incredibly bold deception was executed - and why it worked. The result is an eminently readable true account that has all the narrative excitement of a thriller. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, Tudor Publishing Co., reprint, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 308 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Yellow cloth with red title on spine. Pictorial tan dust jacket with light wear to edges and spine and some sunfading to back cover. Overall a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry Abrams, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 336 pages, 575 illustrations, more than 100 plates in color. A comprehensive survey of fifty years of comics explores how such characters as Buster Brown, Krazy Kat, and Li'l Abner reflected societal attitudes and changes in the first half of the twentieth century, providing in-depth biographies of twenty-one influential comic creators and featuring rare original depictions of those creator's work. Lacks dust jacket but a clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 229 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Andrzej Klimowski has already produced two intriguing graphic novels that have combined his skill as a poster designer with his exceptional narrative gifts. Both were stories without words. In his third novel, which alternates text and pictures, he has become more ambitious.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Taschen, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. This book brings together Salgado's photos of Africa in three parts. The first concentrates on the southern part of the continent (Mozambique, Malawi, Angola, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia), the second on the Great Lakes region (Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya), and the third on the Sub-Saharan region (Burkina Faso, Mali, Sudan, Somalia, Chad, Mauritania, Senegal, Ethiopia). Texts are provided by renowned Mozambique novelist Mia Couto, who describes how today's Africa reflects the effects of colonization as well as the consequences of economic, social, and environmental crises. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York , Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages, 91 illustrations in color and b&w. In a bright, clean dust jacket. Introduction by John A Williams. "The numerous large illustrations of Bearden's drawings, paintings, and collages from 1940 to the present, give depth to this portrait of an unusually fine American artist." 91 illustrations of the artist's work, including 46 in full color: one four-page spread over two folding pages, and one folding two-page spread. Chronology. List of exhibitions. Bibliography. Silver-blocked blue-cloth-covered boards with facsimile signature on front board. DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York , Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 277 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to glassine dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Nearly three hundred reproductions of the famous illustrator's work over the years, including finished illustrations, sketches, penned fantasies, and stage-set designs, are accompanied by an account of Sendak's life and career.

Hardcover. US, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Super Genius, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 180 pages. Everyone knows Superman, but not everyone knows the story of two youngsters from Cleveland who created Superman. Based on archival material and original sources, "Truth, Justice, and the American Way: The Joe Shuster Story" tells the story of the friendship between writer Jerry Siegel and illustrator Joe Shuster, and puts it into the wider context of the American comicbook industry. Told in graphic novel format in color.

Softcover. New York, Metro Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 272 page, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London , Bell & Daldy, reprint, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in 3/4 polished leather with marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering, raised bands. Engraved title and twelve full-page engraved plates and 116 engravings on wood by Cruikshank. 277 pages, humorous essays and commentary throughout by various writers. Reprint of the 1845 Edition.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Full color and black & white illustrations by Edward Gorey. Price clipped dust jacket shows light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. US, Taschen, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 239 pages, color illustrations. A pictorial journey through Havana with author Julio Perez Hernandez, a professor of Architecture in Havana, & lavish photographs by Gianni Basso.

Softcover. New York , Harmony Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large softcover, 10.5 X 14", not paginated. White lettering on a pictorial cover. A very good copy of this collection of twenty-four of Maurice Sendak's favorite posters and pictures reproduced in full color. This is an oversize book and may require additional shipping charges.

1967, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon by Arno of gossiping ladies as their dogs dish the dirt as well. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. Germany, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A new pictorial hardcover book with no dust jacket. Text is in German. Features the multimedia works of Robin Rhode, including photography, performance art, film and sculpture..

Softcover. Evansville, Evansville Museum of Arts & Science, First Edition, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Softcover SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY ARTIST to title page. Bright illustration to covers with french flaps, published to accompany the exhibition of the same title held at the Evansville Museum of Arts & Science, Evansville, Indiana, April 22 - May 27, 1990 among other touring locations.

1967, Book: Very Good, Color art by Martin of playground surface with hopscotch pattern. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 345 pages. 272 black and white illustrations and frontispiece in color. Folio 14" x 10 1/4". Sturdy blue textured cloth stamped in gilt on spine. 3 Appendices: 1. Intro to English edtion of 1749 Albinus's "Table of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body". 2. text of "The Anatomy of the Horse". Good dust jacket worn at edges, closed tears.

Softcover. New York, Associated American Artists, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, spiral bound with illustrated wrappers. Published quarterly by the Associated American Artists, Inc. and features art work and sketches by Freeman. This issue has sketches of Carl Sandburg among other local individuals. Sketches are either in black and white or two-tone color. Unpaginated with approximately 28 full page sketches. Light edgewear, clean.

1974, Book: Very Good, Color art of two kids climbing monkey bars on playground by Charles Martin. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 88 pages, includes 40 color plates, (32 full page), as well as 19 b&w illustrations. Introductory biographical essay by author. Clean and well bound in blue cloth, very good condition. Dust jacket shows a little bit of wear around edges.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages. Black and white comic strips, light edgewear to spine edges, otherwise clean, tight copy. This climactic book of Gottfredson serials also finds Mickey plagued by Uncle Gudger, the one-man circus-and Gilhooley, the pitiless king of the leprechauns! Floyd Gottfredson and co-writer Bill Walsh infect Mouseton with the super-hi-tech of the Sputnik era.

1977, Book: Very Good, Color art of pale blue roses by Simpson. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Softcover. New York, MOMA, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Some light fading, spotting to cover edges. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Prestel, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. Roland Penrose met Lee Miller's lips a year before he met the rest of her - in a painting by Man Ray. It was a fitting introduction for two artists who were linked by an art movement that delighted in chance encounters. Together they forged a life joined by a common cause - surrealism. This illustrated joint biography tells the story of how a fashion model turned photographer and an English Quaker turned art collector and surrealist painter influenced modern art with their vision and passion, and created a life together that was in itself a work of art.

New York, American Radiator Co., 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "A last look at a well-dressed friend" color art by Dean Cornwell, 9" X 12", Very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

1970, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon of couple watching TV in a house shaped like a television. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Softcover. New York, Workman Publishing, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated, A collection of b&w cartoons that previously appeared in various publications. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Munich, Prestel Verlag, 1st Edition, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages. Hardcover published to accompany the exhibition William Wegman - Hello Nature, at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, July 13 - October 21 2012. Features works by Wegman, Kevin Salatino, Padgett Powell, Diana Tuite. Full color, full page illustrations throughout. Dust jacket in very good condition. Clean, unmarked copy.

R.J. Reynolds Co., 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "I like especially the fragrant mildness", color photograph of socialite Mrs. Nicholas Biddle. 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.

1976, Book: Very Good, Color art by Mihaesco of indoor plants with lights. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

1925, Color art of little girl in red dress eating at the table 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.

Softcover. Agoura CA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format with stapled binding, color wraps, b&w illustrations, 66 pages. Articles on Little Orphan Annie (1937 episode), Fontaine Fox and The Toonerville Trolley, Hi and Lois by Mort Walker and Dik Browne. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Denoel, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 123 pages of b&w cartoons by Sempe, originally published in 1964. Green cloth covers with fading to spine. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, very good. French language but most of his cartoons are wordless.

1976, Book: Very Good, Color art by Degen of clown and circus pony performing. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Crowell, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935), was one of the most prominent female illustrators in the United States during the Golden Age of American illustration. She illustrated stories and articles for clients such as Century, Collier's Weekly, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's, McClure's, Scribners, and the Ladies' Home Journal. Four appendices give detailed listings of the appearance of Smith's illustrations in books, magazine covers, posters, etc. Bibliography. Notes. Index. With a lightly worn dust jacket that's been price-clipped. Previous owner's inscription on front fly lead, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Berkeley, Print Mint, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 7 x 5", 36 pages including semi-glossy wraparound color covers, with b/w interior. Features: Abracadabra by Crumb & Moscoso; 'The Unsolicited Brochure' with Dumpy & the Grenade Hearted Broccoli by S. Clay Wilson and Robt Williams; Wonder Wart-Hog Takes a Brief Sojurn in Outer Space by Gilbert Shelton with S. Clay Wilson and Robert Williams; Beyond the Exorcist by Spain; and A Bug Story by Moscoso and Crumb. 75 cents red sticker over previous printed price.