Hardcover. San Francisco, Walt Disney Family Museum, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages, illustrated in color and b&w throughout. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 299 pages, 193 illustrations, 150 in color. Clean copy in a bright dust jacket with a mild crease to the dust jacket. Werner Hofmann vividly demonstrates Caspar David Friedrich's extraordinary ability to reproduce the natural world in faithful detail, while at the same time imbuing it with spiritual and religious significance. Caught between the near and the distant, the finite and the infinite, his human figures find a space in which to engage in the thoughtful contemplation of nature and the divine. Carefully placing the artist in a wider context, Hofmann examines contemporary judgments and influences on Friedrich's work. The beautiful illustrations include many of Friedrich's drawings and watercolors as well as over ninety of his works in oils.
Hardcover. New York, R. H. Russell, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of black & white cartoons by Gibson. Oblong cardboard covers with beveled edges, cloth spine. Some spotting to front cover foredge. Front hinge tender. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. New York, R. H. Russell, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of black & white cartoons by Gibson. Oblong cardboard covers with beveled edges, cloth spine. Clean, unmarked pages.
Softcover. Greenwich CT, Fairview Printers, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, glossy pictorial stiff wraps, softcover; 187 pages plus index; black and white illustrations and photographic illustrations; very good.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Running Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages in binder format spiral binding. Include replicas of collectibles from DC comics. Clean, tight copy. very little wear.
Hardcover. US, Acatos Editions, 1st, 2002-01-01BBI, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 330 pages. INSCRIBED BY ARTIST to Dick Clark and his wife Betty. Clark was Bentons art instructor in the late 50s. Light shelf-wear and sun-fade to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. US, Rizzoli, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 319 pages, illustrated throughout with 235 illustrations, including 150 in full color. Faint soil to fore edge. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Small tear on front end paper.
Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Softcover with black/white and some color comic strips throughout. Clean, tight copy with only light edgewear to paper wrappers.
Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover with black/white and some color comic strips throughout. Wet soiling residue on bottom of first half of pages, and on bottom page block, otherwise minimal wear on paper wrappers.
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.
Hardcover. New York, Kodansha, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Dust jacket shows light edgewear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Rutland VT, Charles E. Tuttle, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Illustrated with 190 pages of Cruikshank's drawings. Clean copy in a bright dust jacket. the author's third art monograph, reproducing Cruikshank's illustrations of Dickens, Ainsworth, Sterne, Smollett, and others, with extensive commentary and context. 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.
Hardcover. New York/London, Alpine Fine Arts, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Some edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Internally very good. Catalogue raisonne. Translated by Robert Bononno and Pamela Barr.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages including index. Paintings by Robert Gillmor and Peter Hayman, foreword by Roger Tory Peterson. Dust jacket with fading, light edgewear at spine. 61 full-page color plates.
Softcover. New York, New Modern Age Book, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Soft cover with heavy chipping on fragile paper wrappers. Front gutter shows separating. 65 black and white drawings by Luis Quintanilla.
Softcover. New York, National Cartooonists Society, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 183 pages. Spiral bound softcover with light browning to paper wrappers. Black and white cartoons, and text throughout, tight copy.Album of the National Cartoonists SocietyCompilation of over 350 biographies, photos and drawings of America's best loved cartoonists of 1965 including Walt Disney, Charles Schulz, Al Capp, Hank Ketch
Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Black and white comic illustrations throughout. Tight copy.
Softcover. Atglen, PA, Schiffer , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 pages. Softcover with light edge wear to paper wrappers. Color pictorial guide throughout. Includes price guide.
Hardcover. San Diego, CA, IDW Publishing , 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only 4 small dings on spine edge.
Hardcover. North Dighton, MA, JG Press, 2nd, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white photos and Color drawings. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.
Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st U.K., 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. The English Edition. Dust jacket w/ light edgewear chips. Price-clipped. Light soil on top of page block.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Brodart covering dust jacket has two blue lines that bled through onto dust jacket. Internally clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Augusta, Georgia, Morris Museum of Art, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 89 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO FRAN BULL BY WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY. Gilt edged page block, clean covers with inset painting and gilt lettering. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Arts, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover. Interesting binding; soft cover with heavy boards attached to front and back on paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to said heavy boards.
Softcover. CA, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Faded on spine. Tight copy with light edgewear to corners.
Softcover. New York, Museum for African Art, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 263 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Exhibition catalog, 9x12", color and b&w photographs of the art and culture of the Bamana people. Tight copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st , 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. 14 pages of text, with eighty-four drawings and sixteen watercolors by Grosz throughout. Introduction by Henry Miller. Moderate foxing on fabric covers. Clean, tight internally.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 368 pages. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. For 50 years, Playboy magazine has showcased the world's best and brightest cartoonists. Their spectacular stable of artists includes luminaries such as Buck Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and hundreds of others. More than 450 color cartoons feature sweet young things, terrible tarts, winsome wives, suitors, and studs -- a riotous chronicle of five decades of Playboy cartoons.
Hardcover. London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 298 pages in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear. 267 B&W photos of artists, studios, art dealers, art educators; 101 color plates of artworks. This is a densely illustrated look at the early 1960s art scene in London, with visits to 81 painters and sculptors (including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Grahm Sutherland, Francis Bacon, R.B. Kitai, David Hockney, Bridget Riley). There are treks to art schools and places where art is sold. A large heavy volume which may require extra postage. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
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. New York , Random House, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, approximately 150 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Selections from 20 years' of periodical and newspaper cartoons, chiefly caricaturing political figures of the era; with the artist's one-page foreword.
NY, Abbeville Press, 2nd pr., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 204 pages with 11 full color Mickey Mouse comic stories from the 1930s. Artwork and Introduction by Floyd Gottfredson. Bright yellow dust jacket featuring Mickey has some fading on spine.
Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Life and art of John Marin; editor Cleve Gray includes writings by Marin himself to accompany the biographical text and reproduced works. 176 pp. Features 20 color and 99 black/white illustrations. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, previous owner's name, date, and location written inside the cover in pencil. Dust jacket is in good condition, with tear and creasing on the back and light stain on the front.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. David Macaulay's large format architectural volumes are always instructive in their detail. This volume amps up that opportunity. On the 25th anniversary of the his publication, "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction", Macaulay published this volume literally illustrated with the step-by-step development of that book. So, here are the quick drawings, smudges, early drawing drafts, hand-written and typed copy, reproduction proofs, revision notes, and more. Intriguing.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. David Macaulay's large format architectural volumes are always instructive in their detail. This volume amps up that opportunity. On the 25th anniversary of the his publication, "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction", Macaulay published this volume literally illustrated with the step-by-step development of that book. So, here are the quick drawings, smudges, early drawing drafts, hand-written and typed copy, reproduction proofs, revision notes, and more. Intriguing.
Softcover. Agoura CA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 147 pages, b&w illustrations. Dickie Dare was a comic strip syndicated by AP Newsfeatures. Launched July 31, 1933, it was the first comic strip created by Milton Caniff before he began Terry and the Pirates.. Edited with introduction by Rick Marschall. Light stains to front cover, inside clean, very good.
Hardcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 364 pages, b&w illustrations. A reprint of the classic survey published in 1947. In a bright dust jacket, clean.
Hardcover. Tucson AZ, HP Books, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. A pictorial biography of one of Disney's most popular creations. Color and b&w illustrations, filmography and bibliography. Clean in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 139 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. During the 1870s, rowing became a tremendously popular sport in the United States. An enthusiastic rower, the young Philadelphia-born Thomas Eakins painted, sketched and drew an extraordinary series of rowing pictures. His 24 rowing works are brought together and examined as a group in this beautiful book.
Softcover. NY, Universe, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated (approx. 110 pages), illustrated in color throughout. A catalog for an exhibition organized by Peter T. Tunney which first ran in Milan in 1997. One-page Introduction by Beard, essay by Owen Edwards. Extremely scarce. Color illustrated wraps, like new condition.
Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, PictureBox, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards, 79 pages. Mainly color illustrations. "Photographer and filmmaker Cheryl Dunn has been one of America's foremost chroniclers of the underground scene since the mid-1990s. This first retrospective looks at the worlds of street art, graffiti and life on the creative margins from an appreciative insider's point of view. Also included is a DVD documenting the scene imported to Tokyo and focused on 13 artists in particular." Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Ludion/ D.A.P., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 167 pages with color and b&w photographs & illustrations. Red cloth boards. Dustjacket. A nice crisp copy. Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti. Includes notes and acknowledgements. Rene Magritte, the Surrealist artist, began experimenting with photography at any early age. This book studies the ways in which the photographic medium played a constant role in Magritte's social and artistic life.
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.
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