Softcover. New York, St. Martins, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Softcover with light edge wear to paper wrappers. Black and white line cartoons throughout by author. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom page block. Tight copy with minimal wear to edges. Light rubbing to top edge. Light marking and sticker residue on rear dust jacket.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill Company, 1st, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with green cloth covers and gilt lettering. Color illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy throughout. Heavy stock pages, gutter cracked in several places. Glue repair abrasion on first chapter. Cover boards clean with minimal wear.
Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gutter cracked in preliminary pages. SIGNED ON HALF TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR. Dust jacket shows chipping and small tears. Small sticker on front end paper bottom.
Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 398 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Cloth covers with stamped decoration on spine. Light soil, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 79 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A graphic novel of the German artist's life, b&w art by author. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, United Publishers, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Cartoon illustrations in black and white. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy with moderate fraying to cover edges.
Softcover. New York, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. Spine cracked on sencond page. Library embossed stamp on front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy. Minor wear on edges.
Softcover. New York, Bernard Danenberg Galleries, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 36 pages. Softcover with moderate soil to paper wrappers. Black and white photos throughout. Moderate darkening to wrappers.
Softcover. New York, David McKay Company, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Color and b&w illustrations throughout. Paper wrapper disconnected from stapled booklet. Paper wrappers show creases and light soil. Adhesive residue on top fore corner.
Softcover. New York, New York Review of Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paper wrapper covering a 1983 calendar featuring each month a drawing of different authors by David Levine. Clean, tight copy. Wrappers lightly faded on reverse.
Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & CO, reprint, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Heavy soil on cloth covers. Previous owner's name on end paper. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED WITH SKETCH ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Spine shows small tears and soil/wear. Front hinge tender.
Softcover. San Diego, Green Tiger Press, 2nd printing, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 100 pages. Softcover with dust jacket. Light and minor wear to cover edges. Color and black and white pictures throughout.
Softcover. Kansas City, Andrews McMeel, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Tight copy. Cartoons by Cullum.
Hardcover. New York, Quill William Morrow, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with paper wrappers. Black and white drawings by Callahan throughout. Tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Quill William Morrow, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Illustration in black and white by Callahan. Tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Noonday Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. Illustrations by Steig. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Bulfinch Press , 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 108 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight copy. Illustrations/comics throughout in black and white by Charles Barsotti. Remainder mark on top page block.
Softcover. Kansas City, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover with only light wear to paper wrappers. Cartoons throughout in black and white by Lorenz. Remainder mark on top.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light soil to covers. Black and white illustrations by various artist. Tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Avon, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Light soil to pages. Tight copy.
Hardcover. US, David Zwirner Books , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Still in publisher's shrink wrap.
Softcover. New York, Harpercollins, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Softcover with minor wear to edges. Color artwork throughout. Clean.
Softcover. Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy with black and white photographs throughout.
Hardcover. CA, Pomegranate Art Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with moveable parts. Based on Maxfield Parrish's paintings. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Washington, DC, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight copy with minor wear to edges. Previous owner's notes in pencil near rear end paper.
Hardcover. New Haven, New York Historical Society, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 964 pages. 2 Volumes. Hardcovers with dust jackets. Light rubbing to edges on dust jackets. Clean, tight copies with color pictures throughout.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Griffin, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color pictures of vintage christmas postcards. Clean, tight copy with no wear to covers.
Softcover. Canada, Vancover Art Gallery, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages. Softcover with dust jacket. Light musty odor. Clean, tight copy otherwise. Black and white and color pictures throughout.
Hardcover. NewYork, Viking Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. Covers lightly bowed.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 4th pr., 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 314 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Oversized. Moderate wear to dust jacket, creasing to front fly leaf. Color images throughout. Moderate wear to edges.
Hardcover. Barcelona, Spain, Syzygy, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Hardcover with padded covers. Color pictures throughout of Fran Bull sculptures. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
Softcover. North Clarendon, VT, Periplus, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages. Softcover with little to no wear on edges. Clean, tight copy with color pictures throughout. Includes CD. Absolut Sequel is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller, Absolut Book. This companion volume provides a definitive illustrated history of the last ten years of one of the most successful ad campaigns in history. Since Absolut Book's release, the Absolut advertising campaign has broadened its scope from movies to websites and gone global with its international reach. The clever ads found in Absolut Sequel are organized into themes including Cities, Artists, Writers, Album Covers, Collectors, Movies, and the Internet. This is the ultimate collection of the last ten years of Absolut ads, many never before seen, including controversial advertising created, but never used in print. Absolut Sequel is sure to make readers fall in love with the ads, and the vodka, all over again. As Goran Lundquist, president of Absolut, says about the Absolut sensation, "the consumers drink the ads as much as they drink the vodka."
Softcover. Middlebury, VT, Middlebury College Museum of Art, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Color pictures throughout. In 1899 Gustav Klimt's painting Nuda Veritas shook up the Austrian public with what many deem to be the painter's most political exploration of the nude female body. Klimt's provocative allegory challenged viewers to consider their own beliefs about the relationship between the nude (female) body and contemporary morality; this "naked truth" was shocking. Transcending accusations of pornography, Klimt's work paved the way for artistic examinations of the nude body as the site through which questions of freedom, desire, beauty, nature, culture, power, and their antonyms could be represented and negotiated. Taking these ideas as one critical point of departure, this volume and the accompanying exhibition feature selected prints, drawings, and watercolors by Klimt, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann and Kathe Kollwitz, among others. It explores the conceptions of the human body and the manner of its visualization in the period leading up to and following the First World War, which changed the world's notions of flesh and blood forever.
Hardcover. New York, National Gallery of Art/Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with mniior wear to edges. Color photos throughout. Christo and Jeanne-Claude have created some of the most visually breathtaking works of the twentieth century. From early wrapped objects to monumental outdoor projects such as The Umbrellas, Japan-U.S.A., 1984-91 and Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95, the artists have used fabric - wrapped, draped, and folded over, around, and through natural and constructed forms - to transcend the traditional bounds of painting, drawing, sculpture, and architecture. This volume spanning forty years of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's remarkable career accompanies an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art of sixty-one works from the collection of Dorothy and Herbert Voqel, whose relationship with the artists dates to 1971. The wonderful breadth of works presented in color and discussed here includes several early packages, models for large-scale public works, preparatory drawings and collages for projects in urban and rural sites, and photographs of the completed projects.
Hardcover. Washington, Smithsonian Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color and black and whote photos throughout. Clean, tight copy. The Smithsonian holds more than 13 million images spanning over 150 years of taking and collecting photographs. This largely unknown body of photography (most never before published) represents nothing less than the Smithsonian's effort, in the name of all Americans, to describe and comprehend the world. Open anywhere in these pages to be plunged into the history of our modernity, and see what the Smithsonian deemed important to document and preserve. The famous, the infamous, and the never-before-seen are here in a remarkable "democracy of images": Amelia Earhart, Abraham Lincoln, P.T. Barnum and Tom Thumb, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Lucille Ball, Greta Garbo, Babe Ruth; the earliest views of the moon and the earliest panoramic view of Damascus; rare Native American photography; views of Asia, Africa, and the American West; photographs of early flight, and much, much more. By recording the act of seeing, and of what was seen, both photography and the Smithsonian have shaped our sense of ourselves, as individuals, as a people, and as a country.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket issued. Like new in publisher's shrink wrap. Clean, tight copy. One of the greatest American painters of the 19th century, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) also maintained a deep engagement with photography throughout his career. Focusing on the important, yet often-overlooked, role that photography played in Homer's art, this volume exposes Homer's own experiments with the camera (he first bought one in 1882). It also explores how the medium of photography and the larger visual economy influenced his work as a painter, watercolorist, and printmaker at a moment when new print technologies inundated the public with images. Frank Goodyear and Dana Byrd demonstrate that photography offered Homer new ways of seeing and representing the world, from his early commercial engravings sourced from contemporary photographs to the complex relationship between his late-career paintings of life in the Bahamas, Florida, and Cuba and the emergent trend of tourist photography. The authors argue that Homer's understanding of the camera's ability to create an image that is simultaneously accurate and capable of deception was vitally important to his artistic practice in all media. Richly illustrated and full of exciting new discoveries, Winslow Homer and the Camera is a long-overdue examination of the ways in which photography shaped the vision of one of America's most original painters.
Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride & Company, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Paper on covers chipping lightly at corners, spine and edges. Clean, tight copy. Black and white and color illustations along with letters.
Hardcover. San Rafael, CA, Insight Editions, 2nd, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Laminated boards. Color illustrations throughout. Clean, tight copy. n a world of rascally rabbits, megalomaniacal ducks, and stuttering pigs, what defines greatness? This question was posed to thousands of cartoon fans, historians, and animators to create The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons, the definitive Looney Tunes collection. Jerry Beck and the Cartoon Brew team of animation experts reveal the amusing anecdotes and secret origins behind such classics as "What's Opera, Doc?," "One Froggy Evening," and "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 th Century." Featuring more than 300 pieces of original art from private collectors and the Warner Bros. archives, The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons settles the debate on the best of the best, and poses a new question: Is your favorite one of the greatest?
Hardcover. US, Prestel Pub, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 218 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color prints throughout. Minor wear on corners. Hokusai was one of the great masters of the Japanese woodblock print. His exquisite compositions and dynamic use of colour set him apart from other printmakers, and his unequalled genius influenced both Japanese and a whole generation of Western artists. This book reproduces the artist's finest works in plates that convey the full variety of his invention, each of which is provided with an informative commentary. In his introduction, Hokusai expert Matthi Forrer traces the artist's career and defines his place in relation to his contemporaries and to the history of Japanese art. Examining all genres of the artist's prolific output - including images of city life, maritime scenes, landscapes, views of Mount Fuji, bird and flower illustrations, literary scenes, waterfalls and bridges - "Hokusai: Prints and Drawings" provides a detailed account of the artist's genius.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil on dust jacket covers. Clean, tight copy. Pictures throughout.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller Incorporated, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Heavy damage on 2 inches of bottom right corner. Otherwise, tight copy. Color pictures throughout. Endlessly experimenting with design, composition, and color, Hiroshige captured in these paintings, as no where else in his work, his poetic and idyllic sense of nature.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller Incorporated, 1st, 1986, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color pictures throughout. landscapes. Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, actually composed of 118 splendid woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art. The series contains many of Hiroshige's best-loved and most extraordinary prints. Like Venice and Florence in the 14th and 15th centuries, or Paris in the age of the Impressionists, the city of Edo, with its superb landmarks and its festive display of elegant urban life, exerts a special and compelling fascination. Hiroshige revealed the panorama of his city's activities with subtle and vivid visual anecdotes: fireworks seen from the river, fashionable geishas on parade, the kabuki district at night, intimate moments in the gardens and teahouses. It is a tour de force of artistic vision and printmaking craftsmanship. This edition has been reproduced from an exceptionally fine, first-edition set in the Brooklyn Museum of Art to insure maximum fidelity to the original prints. Henry Smith ex-plains the world of Edo in its twilight before the Meiji Restoration and the beginnings of a modern urban society. Each plate is accompanied by a commentary that discusses its artistic and cultural interest in detail. For anyone interested in Japan, the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo is perhaps the finest guide and one of the greatest legacies imaginable.
Hardcover. Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with black and white illustrations by Heath Robinson
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