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Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Eldon Dedini has been one of Playboy's most recognizable full-page gag cartoonists. With a masterful watercolor technique that burlesques a broad range of subjects, from East and West Coast urban and suburban adult-hipster to classical Japanese erotic prints, Dedini's most personal cartoons rely on mythology and legend. They evoke a bucolic sexually-liberated paradise that leaves his readers lingering over the imagery long after the gag registers. The Art of Playboy's Eldon Dedini is the first retrospective collection of his work, and gathers in one volume the most sophisticated, elegant, and funny gag panels of the past six decades.

Hardcover. London, Collins Design, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 223 pages, covers 100 years of shoe history, from Andre Perugia's designs for society women in the 1920s to the red-soled shoes from Christian Louboutin favored by celebrities. This book explores the key designers, technical developments and cultural influences that shaped shoe fashions.

Hardcover. NY, Barnes & Noble, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Large collection of Gahan Wilson's wonderfully weird cartoons. It includes the entire contents of two previously published works: Gravedigger's Party and Monster Party. Nice reproductions with an introduction by Wilson and a brief "about the author" page.

Softcover. Princeton WI, Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers, a collection of daily strips of the comic caveman created by Hamlin.

Hardcover. NY, Villard, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, 159 pages, color illustrations. Gliding through the daydreams and realities of a young woman searching for definition, "Life with Mr. Dangerous" showcases acclaimed cartoonist Paul Hornschemeier's gift for deadpan humor and dead-on insight with a droll aftertaste--an unlikely but welcome marriage of the bleak and the hopeful.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 253 pages, color illustrations. Bibliography and index. Thomas Chimes is one of the most important artists to emerge in Philadelphia since World War II. Tracing the stylistic evolution of Chimes's idiosyncratic art, this book presents a long-overdue survey of his five-decade career: canvases combining landscape imagery with symbols such as crucifixes (late 1950s-mid-1960s); mixed-media constructions set within finely crafted metal boxes (late 1960s-early 1970s); his best-known works, a series of forty-eight intimate sepia-toned panel portraits of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers and artists that are placed within oversized wood frames (1973-78); and the enigmatic 'white paintings' of the past two decades.

Hardcover. NY, New Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, A collection of Dr. Seuss's political cartoons commenting on World War II. Featuring handsome, large-format reproductions of more than two hundred of Geisel's cartoons with commentary by Richard Minear.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st US, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 200 pages, color illustrations. This book argues that Bacon created many of the most central memorable images of his career in the 1950s. It deals with Bacon the man and the painter through the significant developments in his art and through his letters to Erica Brausen, Robert Sainsbury and Lisa Sainsbury.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Glazed pictorial boards, 176 pages, a collection of early cartoons and illustrations by the creators of the Berenstain Bears.

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.

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 Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages, color & b/w plates, text illustrations, notes, bibliography. This book looks closely at the whiz kid of graphic novelists whose 'Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth' (2000) inspired praise from critics & readers alike, and demonstrated that Ware's graphic novels challenged traditional definitions of literature. Here is the career, the work methods, and the graphic innovations, which include pullout, flip-up, and three-dimensional insertions, along with cut-out-and-assemble paper projects that require construction by readers.

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages, color & b/w plates, text illustrations, notes, bibliography. This book looks closely at the whiz kid of graphic novelists whose 'Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth' (2000) inspired praise from critics & readers alike, and demonstrated that Ware's graphic novels challenged traditional definitions of literature. Here is the career, the work methods, and the graphic innovations, which include pullout, flip-up, and three-dimensional insertions, along with cut-out-and-assemble paper projects that require construction by readers.

Hardcover. Koln GR, Taschen, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Huge hardcover volume in cardboard case with handle. Covering her complete works to date, and all of her exciting new work from Dubai to Guangzhou. This massive monograph clearly demonstrates the progression of Hadid's career - including not only buildings but also furniture and interior designs - with in-depth texts, spectacular photos, and her own drawings. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 308 pages. Foreword by Jimmy Breslin. B&w and color illustrations throughout. This first volume introduces such enduring supporting characters as Porkypine, Churchy LaFemme, Beauregard Bugleboy, Seminole Sam, Howland Owl, and many others. And for Christmas, 1949, Kelly started his tradition of regaling his readers with his infamously and gloriously mangled Christmas carols.

Softcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible covers, 540 pages, 1,500 illustrations in full color. A visual survey of the scientific developments and cultural significance of robots documents the history of automatons, androids, and other forms of artificial intelligence, both of the fictional and real-world arenas, in a volume that features interviews with scientists, doctors, toy creators, science-fiction writers, and more.

Hardcover. NY, Sterling Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Laminated pictorial boards, 204 pages, non-matching DJ, illustrated endsheets. With an Introduction by Roger Stern. Strips all in color. In the late thirties, when Superman was making his ground-breaking debut in comic books, his legend was simultaneously being propagated in Sunday newspapers.Collected in this deluxe edition are the first three years of the classic Sunday Superman comic strips as written and illustrated by the Man of Steel's creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster.In these timeless tales, the Man of Steel challenges saboteurs and racketeers, saves runaway trains and plummeting planes, defeats giant robots and begins his lifelong rivalry with his greatest nemesis, Lex Luthor.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 120 pages, b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 952 pages. Traces Caniffs life from the cradle to the grave, marking the milestones in the development of the comic strip (Steve Canyon, and Terry and the Pirates) that Caniff established. Caniff reshaped the medium and set standards by which all storytelling strips were subsequently judged. Although Caniff adapted to changing fashions, he is best known for innovations such as his impressionistic chiaroscuro drawing style that suggested reality economically with shadow rather than with detail. The book examines the artistic innovations and work routines of a nationally distributed cartoonist whose career was central the development of the artform, marking along the way the milestones in the development of comic strip artistry that Caniff established. B&w illustrations.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large softcover, 124 pages, color and b&w illustrations. The seventh volume in this distinguished series focuses entirely on one of comics' most esteemed and influential creators: artist, writer and editor Harvey Kurtzman, whose complete Comics Journal interviews are collected in this oversized, lavishly illustrated full-color edition.

Softcover. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. Contributors include: Philippe Dupuy Charles Berberian, Albert Chartier, Michel Robagliati, Alberto Manguel, R. Sikoryak.

Hardcover. NY, Sterling Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, the first 966 b&w daily strips that set the tone for the great superhero.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 168 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Fantagraphics's third volume collecting Segar's original Popeye (Thimble Theatre) covers 1932-1934 includes the never-republished extra-large strips set at the Chicago World's Fair and an insightful scholarly essay by Donald Phelps.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 168 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Fantagraphics's second volume of the acclaimed hit series collecting the entirety of E.C. Segar's original Popeye (a.k.a. Thimble Theatre) comic strips begins with a foreword by Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker, and continues with an introduction by noted film and cartooning critic Donald Phelps. This second volume features work from 1930 to 1932, and most notably includes the debut of Segar's second greatest character: J. Wellington Wimpy, which stands as a one-of-a-kind icon some 70 years after his creation - the most likeable lowdown cad ever to grace the comics page. Popeye Volume 2 includes the stories: "Clint Gore" (continued from the cliffhanger last volume); "A One-Way Bank," in which Popeye opens a bank that allows withdrawals but no deposits; a long war story featuring King Blozo that begins with "The Great Rough-House War"; and "Skullyville," which wraps up the daily strips for this volume.

Hardcover. NY, Horace Liveright, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, vintage b&w cartoons by Arno. Black cloth covers, lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. Verba Volant, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 480 pages, 796 b/w & 12 color illustrations. A showcase of the Architecture & Decorative arts of the Art Deco period. Originally published in 1930, in Italy, under the title 'Le Arti d'Oggi' the book is divided into six sections - Architecture, Interiors, Metalwork, Ceramics, Glasswork & Fabrics. A superb pictorial reference for anyone interested in the art & design of the 1920 art deco period.

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.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 90 pages, 37 plates. Internationally acclaimed artist Will Barnet reveals never-before-seen early drawings that profoundly influenced the direction of his career.These intimate drawings portraying Central Park during the Great Depression have never been exhibited or published-until now. The drawings have been stored in Will Barnet's studio for decades, always serving as a reference and source of inspiration for later projects (like the etchings included here) but never coming to light as an independent body of work.

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 392 pages, 684 illustrations, 664 in color. Text in English, German and French. Large volume, pictorial covers, no dust jacket issued. Menu Design is an omnibus showcasing the best examples of this graphic art. With nearly 800 examples, illustrated in vibrant color, this deluxe volume not only showcases this extraordinary collection of paper ephemera but serves as a history of restaurants and dining out in America. An introduction on the history of menu design by graphic design writer Steven Heller and extended captions by culinary historian John Mariani accompany the menus throughout the book.

Hardcover. US, NBM Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 110 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Opper was already a quite successful cartoonist/illustrator for the prestigious Puck magazine when William Randolph Hearst lured him out to create a comic strip for the New York Journal. While a step down from (relatively) high to low brow, Opper jumped at the chance and out came ?Happy Hooligan" an un-heroized vagrant who ends up very badly at the end of each strip, no matter how much good he might mean. His perennial demise surely went on to inspire Wile E. Coyote or Mr. O, especially as his own cowardice and unworthiness contributes to his hilarious woes. This second entry in ?Forever Nuts' presents a collection of the better early full color Sundays. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, NBM, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Early b&w comic strips. Mutt and Jeff was the first successful daily comic strip; before it, the funnies were Sunday features. It debuted in 1907, however, as A. Mutt, limning the follies of lanky racetrack gambler Augustus Mutt. Diminutive sidekick Jeff appeared the following year to form a partnership that lasted until the strip's overdue demise in 1983. Mutt and Jeff was the first strip to essay weeks-long story lines, such as a trip to Mexico to join Pancho Villa's revolution. Compared to better-remembered strips of the era, Mutt and Jeff was crudely drawn, yet it captured the nation's fancy. Despite its significance in comics history, Mutt and Jeff is scantly regarded today. By the mid-1920s, Fisher handed creative duties over to ghosts to free up time for the playboy lifestyle that the strip's sizable revenues allowed him. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Milwaukie WI, Dark Horse Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 2. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Presenting the second in a series that collects, in chronological order, all the Sunday pages of the celebrated newspaper strip! Discover the abundant wonder and dazzling beauty in the world--as seen through the eyes of creator Frank King and his beloved characters, Walt and Skeezix--in some of Gasoline Alley's most artistically imaginative art! Reprinted in full color, this giant-sized volume collects every Gasoline Alley Sunday strip from 1923 through 1925. Hardcover, 128 pages, 16 X 12". Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Cologne GR, Taschen, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 245 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. An extensive collection of hand-illustrated shop window designs from 1938 to 1950. These spectacular, often grandiose plans for grocery stores, shoe shops, beauty salons, bakeries, and more are reminders of a time when stores were sacred shrines for the congregation of American shoppers - impressive and even slightly intimidating, just like the future itself.

Softcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages. Why did Frankie say "Relax"? Did anyone really want to hurt Boy George? And why didn't anybody walk in L.A.? This Ain't No Disco can't answer all these head-scratchers, but it does bring the New Wave era back with page after totally awesome page of 300 of the best album covers. This rad collection includes covers from the late 1970s to the mid-'80s and will have true believers of a certain generation totally spazzing. New Wave was defined as much by style, fashion, and graphic design as the music itself witness the ruffled cuffs and heavy makeup of the New Romantics, the skinny ties and peg-pants of the neo-Mods, and the unsettling robotic personae of Devo and Gary Numan. Bursting with wild hairstyles, futuristic typography, pastel shapes, and outlandish clothing, these are the album covers that defined an era and continue to influence music and fashion styles today. A nostalgic trek with a mental soundtrack, This Ain't No Disco will inspire readers to don those rubber bracelets once again and proclaim, "Let's dance this mess around!"

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright yellow paper covered boards printed and decorated in black. Illustrated endpapers. 146 pages, Penfield's graphic impressions of Spain, including the bull fights. With 28 tipped-in color illustrations of various sizes throughout the text. A very good or somewhat better copy spine a bit soiled, edges a bit dusty but overall a handsome copy.

Hardcover. New York , Watson Guptill, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages illustrated throughout with 175 b&w illustrations and 70 plates in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Souvenir Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 124 pages, sixty full-page cartoons in color and a glossary vividly explain the "esoteric, poetic and usually approximate descriptions" found in booksellers' catalogs.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2011, Hardcover, 288 pages. Nostalgia in Vogue celebrates the popular and poignant coming-of-age memoir columns that have been enchanting Vogue readers since 2000. This elegant volume collects a wonderful selection of Vogue's famous "Nostalgia" columns and the stunning photographs that accompanied them. Writers, designers, models, and celebrities share coming-of-age stories based on a rich range of themes from fashion to art, Hollywood, music, childhood, work, and love, each triggered by an extraordinary photograph from Vogue's history.With a host of intriguing characters and stories, and images by legendary photographers such as Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Henry Clarke, Helmut Newton, Horst P. Horst, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Nostalgia in Vogue is both a visual treat and a fascinating read. Whether told from the point of view of a budding movie star or a teenager straining to make sense of the sophisticated adult world, each entry offers a unique slice of life sharply evocative of time and place. Nostalgia in Vogue is a must for devotees of fashion, pop culture, photography, and literary memoir and reaches across a readership of all ages. Text by Eve Macsweeney with a Foreword by Anna Wintour and essays by Joan Didion, Margaret Atwood, Patti Smith, Edmund White, Karl Lagerfeld, Carly Simon, John Galliano, Ann Packer, Anjelica Huston, Nora Ephron, A. M. Homes, and others.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2011, Hardcover, 288 pages. Nostalgia in Vogue celebrates the popular and poignant coming-of-age memoir columns that have been enchanting Vogue readers since 2000. This elegant volume collects a wonderful selection of Vogue's famous "Nostalgia" columns and the stunning photographs that accompanied them. Writers, designers, models, and celebrities share coming-of-age stories based on a rich range of themes from fashion to art, Hollywood, music, childhood, work, and love, each triggered by an extraordinary photograph from Vogue's history.With a host of intriguing characters and stories, and images by legendary photographers such as Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Henry Clarke, Helmut Newton, Horst P. Horst, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Nostalgia in Vogue is both a visual treat and a fascinating read. Whether told from the point of view of a budding movie star or a teenager straining to make sense of the sophisticated adult world, each entry offers a unique slice of life sharply evocative of time and place. Nostalgia in Vogue is a must for devotees of fashion, pop culture, photography, and literary memoir and reaches across a readership of all ages. Text by Eve Macsweeney with a Foreword by Anna Wintour and essays by Joan Didion, Margaret Atwood, Patti Smith, Edmund White, Karl Lagerfeld, Carly Simon, John Galliano, Ann Packer, Anjelica Huston, Nora Ephron, A. M. Homes, and others.

Hardcover. Prestel Publishing/ Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 286 pages, color illustrations. This catalogue reveals the myriad ways Warhol immersed himself in the music of his time. Tracing back to Warhol's introduction to music through the musical comedies. songs and soundtracks of his youth. this book opens with Warhol's portraits of the great films stars of his childhood. As the fascinating essays collected in this volume discuss. Warhol's renowned portraits of pop music icons such as Mick Jagger. Debbie Harry and Grace Jones are just one manifestation of his interest in music. Warhol collaborated with choreographer Merce Cunningham. served as producer for the Velvet Underground. incorporated music into his films. produced video-clips. designed dozens of record albums. filmed live concerts and created multimedia spectacles. Although never a musician himself. Warhol appropriated the imagery of a pop icon for some of his most arresting and haunting self portraits.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 219 pages. This book documents the work of designer Brooks Stevens. It includes 250 illustrations of designs by Stevens and his firm, many in color, detailed studies of individual designs, interpretative essays, and several key writings by Stevens himself. Believing that an industrial designer "should be a businessman, an engineer, and a stylist, in that order," Stevens created thousands of ingenious and beautiful designs for industrial and household products-including a clothes dryer with a window in the front, a wide-mouthed peanut butter jar, and the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2002, Hardcover, 301 pages, 450 color illustrations. This groundbreaking book, the most comprehensive survey ever assembled, takes America's vernacular art out of the antiques arena and specialty museum and into today's art world. Presents hundreds of newly identified and never-before-published objects, from carnival figures to religious toterns, from antique trade signs to spectacular examples of hand-carved canes.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, A comic-book classic with timely resonance: Blazing Combat was an American war-comics magazine published by Warren Publishing from 1965 to 1966. Written and edited by Archie Goodwin , with artwork by such industry notables as Gene Colan , Frank Frazetta , John Severin , Alex Toth , Al Williamson, Russ Heath, Reed Crandall, and Wally Wood , it featured war stories in both contemporary and period settings, unified by a humanistic theme of the personal costs of war, rather than by traditional men's adventure motifs. What proved to be the most controversial were stories set during the then-contemporary Vietnam War; one such story caused key distributors to stop selling the title. Fantagraphics softcover edition of the sold-out 2011 hardcover, magnificently printed and bound, of these stories, superbly reproduced from the original printer's film negatives.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. Nineteen essays, by a diverse group of historians and others who experience and study Gilbert's buildings in their professional lives, detail the intricate relationship between Gilbert's work and the long-standing tradition of public architecture in America.This volume examines Gilbert's work in five unique categories: the building of a national practice, an evaluation of his Minnesota State Capitol as "a defining moment" in American civic architecture, his New York career, his response to civic ideals in his plans for towns and universities, and his work in the public domain. Illustrations, some in color.

San Francisco, Last Gasp, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, a guide to the characters of the comic series presents information on the role in the strip of and real life models for Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, General Alcazar, Professor Calculus and others. Each is shown in early and late incarnations, b&w and color, with fascinating historical facts and tidbits. 131 pages include index and color throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. The poet John Ashbery wrote of Rudy Burckhardt in 1980: "Before there was an underground, there was Rudy Burckhardt. The genial, Swiss-born jack-of-all-trades and master of several has remained unsung for so long that he is practically a subterranean monument." Since that time Burckhardt's reputation has steadily grown - as photographer, filmmaker, and painter - beyond Manhattan's downtown community of artists in which he lived and worked. For six decades Rudy Burckhardt (1914-1999) was a discreet, but enduring, and ultimately important figure in New York's avant-garde art world. Author Phillip Lopate, a long-time friend of the photographer, provides an insightful and thought-provoking homage to the quiet brilliance of a national treasure. And the poet and curator, Vincent Katz, has contributed an essay further elaborating on Burckhardt's photographic achievement. Illustrated with almost three hundred photographs, Rudy Burckhardt presents the remarkable depth and range of the artist's work. The book will fascinate anyone interested in the New York art world and offers a revelation for all those interested in photography.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 125 pages, 81 tritone and 56 four-color illustrations of a combination of Penn's photographs, drawings, and sketches.

Hardcover. Koln GR, Taschen, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two large hardcovers in a slipcase, Volume 1: African wildlife photos, Volume II: biography. 494 pages. Text in English. French & German. As a photographer, collector, diarist and writer, U.S. born Peter Beard has fashioned his life into a work of art; the illustrated diaries he kept from a young age evolving into a serious career as an artist. He first visited Africa as a teenager and his documenting of the plight of starving animals, including elephants and rhinos, has continued to highlight the problems facing conservationists. This special edition is based on the original limited Collector's Edition which sold out on publication. NOTE: THIS LARGE HEAVY SET UNAVAILABLE FOR SHIPPING OUTSIDE THE U.S.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 128 pages. During the early 80s, New York's Lower East Side was a hotbed of creative activity. Unknown artists were synthesizing the fertile ground at the legendary New York nightclubs Studio 54, the Mudd Club, Club 57, Palladium, and Danceteria while on their way to international fame and acclaim. Among those emerging were Madonna, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Grace Jones, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Vincent Gallo, Anna Sui, Exene Cervenka, Kid Creole, and Diego Cortez. Maripol was part of a collective of artists, graffiti writers, street dancers, and performers who all thrived together in the explosive downtown eccentricity. As an image maker and stylist for Madonna during her "Like a Virgin" days, jewelry designer, art director, and producer Maripol relentlessly documented the movers and shakers of the early 80s scene through the lens of her instant Polaroid SX-70. Collected for the first time in Maripolarama, Maripol's photographs vividly depict the extraordinary personalities that inhabited the "forever" hip, arty Manhattan clubland during the post-punk era when hip hop was in its earliest stages and graffiti covered the landscape. Whether it's Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry, Basquiat, or Madonna modeling a bright pink wig, Maripolarama provides lively and inspiring insight into a time long gone.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages, pictorial boards. A lighthearted exploration of pop culture's fascination with gag and practical joke novelty items celebrates the history of the industry, exploring the originality, if tastelessness, of such items as the Whoopee Cushion, the artificial ink spot, and the rubber chicken.