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Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution by: Ro, Ronin
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Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution
by: Ro, Ronin

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury USA, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 296 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 350287

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Elle Humour by: Doucet, Julie
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Elle Humour
by: Doucet, Julie

Hardcover. New York, Gingko Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated throughout in color. Minor wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Renowned cartoonist Julie Doucet has created a unique, mass produced artist's book. Printed on a half dozen different papers in eight colors, this amalgamation of drawing, collage, painting, and narrative is a visionary meditation on love and its discontents.

Record # 350290

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Elle Humour by: Doucet, Julie
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Elle Humour
by: Doucet, Julie

Hardcover. New York, Gingko Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated throughout in color. Minor wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Renowned cartoonist Julie Doucet has created a unique, mass produced artist's book. Printed on a half dozen different papers in eight colors, this amalgamation of drawing, collage, painting, and narrative is a visionary meditation on love and its discontents.

Record # 350291

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Elle Humour by: Doucet, Julie
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Elle Humour
by: Doucet, Julie

Hardcover. New York, Gingko Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated throughout in color. Minor wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Renowned cartoonist Julie Doucet has created a unique, mass produced artist's book. Printed on a half dozen different papers in eight colors, this amalgamation of drawing, collage, painting, and narrative is a visionary meditation on love and its discontents.

Record # 350292

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Elle Humour by: Doucet, Julie
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Elle Humour
by: Doucet, Julie

Hardcover. New York, Gingko Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated throughout in color. Minor wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Renowned cartoonist Julie Doucet has created a unique, mass produced artist's book. Printed on a half dozen different papers in eight colors, this amalgamation of drawing, collage, painting, and narrative is a visionary meditation on love and its discontents.

Record # 350293

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Horace Dorlan by: Klimowski, Andrzej
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Horace Dorlan
by: Klimowski, Andrzej

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.

Record # 350295

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Donatello among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy by: Lazzaro, Claudia
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Donatello among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy
by: Lazzaro, Claudia

Softcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 304 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This ambitious collection treating the Italian Fascists appropriation of the past for political purposes focuses on the role of the visual in the aim of fusing the past and the modern world in Mussolini"s Italy. With contributions by art historians.

Record # 350300

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Norma Jeane: Body Proxy by: Carmine, Giovanni (Ed.)
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Norma Jeane: Body Proxy
by: Carmine, Giovanni (Ed.)

Hardcover. US, JRP|Ringier, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 192 pages, no dust jacket issued. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The artistic persona Norma Jeane (her birth, says the artist, coincided with Marilyn Monroe's death) presents a series of mind-bending but nevertheless elegantly simple projects in this volume. Gatefold images separate substantial essays and explanations of works, one of which involves a riderless motorcycle that starts and revs when approached, and another a couch that releases pheromones when sat on.

Record # 350308

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Norma Jeane: Body Proxy by: Carmine, Giovanni
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Norma Jeane: Body Proxy
by: Carmine, Giovanni

Hardcover. New York, JRP|Ringier, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 192 pages, no dust jacket issued. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The artistic persona Norma Jeane (her birth, says the artist, coincided with Marilyn Monroe's death) presents a series of mind-bending but nevertheless elegantly simple projects in this volume. Gatefold images separate substantial essays and explanations of works, one of which involves a riderless motorcycle that starts and revs when approached, and another a couch that releases pheromones when sat on.

Record # 350309

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Red Grooms by: Livingstone, Marco
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Red Grooms
by: Livingstone, Marco

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. First edition. A showcase of Groom's drawings, prints & inimitable urban sculpto-pictograms (in full-color).

Record # 350313

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Pentothal Postcards by: Lal, David C.
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Pentothal Postcards
by: Lal, David C.

Hardcover. New Jersey, Mark Batty Publisher, 1st, 2005-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible pictorial boards. 190 pages. This extraordinary and innovative marketing campaign was the brainchild of Abbott Pharmaceutical Company. Over 170 different postcards from about 80 different countries were sent over the course of 14 years.

Record # 350314

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Pentothal Postcards by: Lal, David C.
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Pentothal Postcards
by: Lal, David C.

Hardcover. New Jersey, Mark Batty Publisher, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible pictorial boards. 190 pages. This extraordinary and innovative marketing campaign was the brainchild of Abbott Pharmaceutical Company. Over 170 different postcards from about 80 different countries were sent over the course of 14 years.

Record # 350315

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Betsy and Me by: Cole, Jack
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Betsy and Me
by: Cole, Jack

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st thus, 2007-12-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 90 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Having mastered comic books and gag cartoons, in 1958 Jack Cole set his sights on the cartoonist's pot of gold--a syndicated newspaper strip. He hit the bull's-eye with Betsy and Me, a breezy domestic farce focusing on a middle-class urban couple and their smart-aleck genius son. Betsy and Me was an instant success and newpapers were lining up to buy it. Then, with only two-and-a-half month's worth of strips completed, Cole purchased a .22 caliber pistol and ended his life. For Betsy and Me, featuring city dweller Chet Tibbit's day-to-day stuggles and achievements, Cole stripped his style down to its bare essentials, creating a strip that sparkles with economy, wit, and charm. What gave the strip its edge, however, was Cole's innovative storytelling. As R.C. Harvey writes in his introduction, "Cole's storytelling manner was unique: the comedy arose from the pictures' contradicting the narrative prose. Cole's fatuous protagonist and narrator would say one thing in the captions accompanying the drawings, but the pictures of his actions showed the opposite, revealing [him] to be a trifle pretentious and wholly delusional." Harvey's intro also serves as a biographical sketch and sheds light on the circumstances surrounding Cole's suicide.

Record # 350316

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Betsy and Me by: Cole, Jack
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Betsy and Me
by: Cole, Jack

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st thus, 2007-12-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 90 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Having mastered comic books and gag cartoons, in 1958 Jack Cole set his sights on the cartoonist's pot of gold--a syndicated newspaper strip. He hit the bull's-eye with Betsy and Me, a breezy domestic farce focusing on a middle-class urban couple and their smart-aleck genius son. Betsy and Me was an instant success and newpapers were lining up to buy it. Then, with only two-and-a-half month's worth of strips completed, Cole purchased a .22 caliber pistol and ended his life. For Betsy and Me, featuring city dweller Chet Tibbit's day-to-day stuggles and achievements, Cole stripped his style down to its bare essentials, creating a strip that sparkles with economy, wit, and charm. What gave the strip its edge, however, was Cole's innovative storytelling. As R.C. Harvey writes in his introduction, "Cole's storytelling manner was unique: the comedy arose from the pictures' contradicting the narrative prose. Cole's fatuous protagonist and narrator would say one thing in the captions accompanying the drawings, but the pictures of his actions showed the opposite, revealing [him] to be a trifle pretentious and wholly delusional." Harvey's intro also serves as a biographical sketch and sheds light on the circumstances surrounding Cole's suicide.

Record # 350317

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Elias Rivera by: Lucie-Smith, Edwards
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Elias Rivera
by: Lucie-Smith, Edwards

Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Very large hardcover in jacket, about 12 x 14, contains numerous full-color illustrations of Rivera's works. Excellent monograph.

Record # 350319

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Elias Rivera by: Lucie-Smith, Edwards
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Elias Rivera
by: Lucie-Smith, Edwards

Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Very large hardcover in jacket, about 12 x 14, contains numerous full-color illustrations of Rivera's works. Excellent monograph.

Record # 350320

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Christenberry: Reconstruction: The Art of William Christenberry by: Stack, Trudy Wilner
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Christenberry: Reconstruction: The Art of William Christenberry
by: Stack, Trudy Wilner

Softcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to wrappers, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Essays by Trudy Wilner Stack and Allen Tullos was published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition of the same name. Christenberry's paintings, photography, sculpture and instal lations address the Southern identity. They describe and examine the social and material culture of the deep South.

Record # 350321

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Old Jewish Comedians: A BLAB! Storybook by: Friedman, Drew
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Old Jewish Comedians: A BLAB! Storybook
by: Friedman, Drew

Hardcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 350323

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Double Trouble-The Patchett Collection (2 volumes) by: Armstrong, Elizabeth and Ralph Rugoff
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Double Trouble-The Patchett Collection (2 volumes)
by: Armstrong, Elizabeth and Ralph Rugoff

Softcover. San Diego CA, Smart Art Pr, 1st, 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes. Light shelf-wear, rubbing and sunning to wrappers. Text in English and Spanish. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 3 Mexican and 2 Spanish institutions, June 1998 - February 2000; notable for the interview of the collector, Tom Patchett, by Rugoff (volume 2) as well as the illustrative matter.

Record # 350329

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Francis Bacon by: GOWING, Lawrence
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Francis Bacon
by: GOWING, Lawrence

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 187 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 350331

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Tim Head by: Catherine Lampert, Alastair Mowat, Marco Livingston
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Tim Head
by: Catherine Lampert, Alastair Mowat, Marco Livingston

Softcover. London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held from December 11, 1992-February 28, 1993.

Record # 350332

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Tim Head by: Catherine Lampert, Alastair Mowat, Marco Livingston
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Tim Head
by: Catherine Lampert, Alastair Mowat, Marco Livingston

Softcover. London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held from December 11, 1992-February 28, 1993..

Record # 350333

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

CBGB by: Assorted; Hernandez Jaime Illustrator; BB Chuck Illustrator;
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CBGB
by: Assorted; Hernandez Jaime Illustrator; BB Chuck Illustrator;

Softcover. US, BOOM! Studios, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, graphic novel Illustrated throughout in color. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 350334

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

CBGB by: Assorted; Hernandez Jaime Illustrator; BB Chuck Illustrator;
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CBGB
by: Assorted; Hernandez Jaime Illustrator; BB Chuck Illustrator;

Softcover. US, BOOM! Studios, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, graphic novel Illustrated throughout in color. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 350335

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Isle of 100,000 Graves by: Vehlmann, Fabien
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Isle of 100,000 Graves
by: Vehlmann, Fabien

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, graphic novel Illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 350336

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Isle of 100,000 Graves by: Vehlmann, Fabien
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Isle of 100,000 Graves
by: Vehlmann, Fabien

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, ISoftcover, graphic novel llustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 350337

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Petey & Pussy by: Kerschbaum, John
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Petey & Pussy
by: Kerschbaum, John

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 126 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 350340

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Works by: Kaufmann, David
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Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Works
by: Kaufmann, David

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 118 pages, illustrations in color. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. In Telling Stories, David Kaufmann focuses on Philip Guston's controversial figurative paintings of the late 1960s and 1970s. He looks at the early critical reception of these works to see what the artist was actually doing and, at another level, to investigate the odd alchemy of artists and their audiences. Grounding his historical approach in careful readings of the paintings, Kaufmann pays close attention to Guston's intense and complicated relationship to Judaism. At the same time, by situating Guston in the context of the fashions of the New York art world, Kaufmann provides unique insight into the workings of that world at the moment when the strictures of artistic modernism began to fade.

Record # 350344

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Georges Braque: A Life by: Danchev, Alex
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Georges Braque: A Life
by: Danchev, Alex

Hardcover. New York, Arcade Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 440 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A pioneer of modern art and founder of Cubism, Georges Braque was a creative genius and tireless innovator, constantly pushing back the boundaries of the possible. In this magisterial work, Alex Danchev taps a wide range of new sources to reveal the heart and mind of one who helped usher in the greatest revolution in the ways of seeing since the Renaissance and changed the face of modern art. Chapters include: "Memories in anticipation:" The Confirmed Painter, "Mon vieux Wilbourg:" The Encounter with Picasso, "If I should Ide Out There:" The Great War, The prong of the rade" : Late Braque. And much more.

Record # 350345

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Rebel, Rebel: Anti-Style by: Duffty, Keanan
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Rebel, Rebel: Anti-Style
by: Duffty, Keanan

Softcover. New York, Universe, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 143 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. The chapters cover: jeans & pants; T-shirts & hoodies; shirts & blouses; jackets; formal wear; dresses & skirts; footwear; accessories; hair, makeup & body art; David Bowie.

Record # 350346

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Bauhaus, Modernism and the Illustrated Book by: Bartram, Alan
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Bauhaus, Modernism and the Illustrated Book
by: Bartram, Alan

Hardcover. US, The British Library, 1st, 2004-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Explores the influence of the Bauhaus and modernism on typography and book design. 159 pages Size: 9 x 9 1/2 "

Record # 350348

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

More Old Jewish Comedians: A BLAB! Storybook by: Friedman, Drew
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More Old Jewish Comedians: A BLAB! Storybook
by: Friedman, Drew

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008-, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 350350

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

No Sin / No Future: Ryan McGinness by: McGinness, Ryan
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No Sin / No Future: Ryan McGinness
by: McGinness, Ryan

Hardcover. Corte Madera CA, Gingko Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. The latest limited edition from Ryan McGinness - No Sin/No Future follows the trajectory of the artist's book Project Rainbow (2003, Gingko Press). A collection of snapshots, sketches, and scans, all extracted with a discerning eye from the artist's studio archives. Sketchbook notes collide with paintings-in-progress and combine with vectors and bitmaps to create a dense site-specific visual concoction that provides unprecedented insight into how this artist's mind works and the mental processes that deliver his unique style. The work of Ryan McGinness has exercised great influence in graphic design and visual art circles, and is collected by venerable institutions around the world including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The edition is limited to 2500 copies.

Record # 350351

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Jane Freilicher by: Kertess, Klaus
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Jane Freilicher
by: Kertess, Klaus

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2004-11-16, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 175 pages, illustrated throughout with 150 illustrations, including 120 plates in full color. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 350364

Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00 

Gloria F. Ross and Modern Tapestry by: Hedlund, Ann Lane
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Gloria F. Ross and Modern Tapestry
by: Hedlund, Ann Lane

Hardcover. US, Other Distribution, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover with dust jacket, 378 pages. Gloria F. Ross (1923-1998) described her work as the translation of paint into wool. She was deeply committed to reinventing the centuries-old art of tapestry, particularly championing the handmade in contemporary art. This remarkable book, written by textile scholar Ann Lane Hedlund, draws from rare unpublished archives to unravel the evolution of Ross's modern tapestries and to illuminate the significance of her creative partnerships. Gloria F. Ross and Modern Tapestry features the collaborative work of 28 acclaimed modernist painters and sculptors, including Helen Frankenthaler (Ross's sister), Kenneth Noland, and Louise Nevelson, with several dozen traditional-yet-innovative weavers in France, Scotland, and the Southwestern United States. Brief biographies of the artists, letters, notes, sketches, and photographs illustrate the practical and aesthetic challenges that occupied Gloria Ross for over three decades.

Record # 350370

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Once upon a Fairy Tale: Four Favorite Stories by: Foundation, Starbright
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Once upon a Fairy Tale: Four Favorite Stories
by: Foundation, Starbright

Hardcover. NY, Viking Juvenile, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 350371

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Mort Walker's Private Scrapbook by: Walker, Mort
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Mort Walker's Private Scrapbook
by: Walker, Mort

Hardcover. US, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 323 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 350374

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland by: Stuart, Amanda Mackenzie
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Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland
by: Stuart, Amanda Mackenzie

Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 419 pages, photos in color and b&w. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 350377

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by: McCloud, Scott
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
by: McCloud, Scott

Softcover. US, Kitchen Sink Press, 2nd printing, 1993-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 215 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 350386

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Erwin Blumenfeld: Nothing but a Berliner: Dada Montages 1916-1933 by: Adkins, Helen
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Erwin Blumenfeld: Nothing but a Berliner: Dada Montages 1916-1933
by: Adkins, Helen

Hardcover. Ostfildern GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2009-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, 227 photographic illustrations, including 97 in color. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap. Most people are unfamiliar with Blumenfeld's early work, the often bitingly satiric Dada photomontages and collages he produced between 1916 and 1933. This book, put together by Helen Adkins, renowned expert on the Berlin Dada movement, is the first to provide a study and a survey of these early works. Blumenfeld did not intend for these works to be shown publicly, as they were primarily personal gifts to his friends and acquaintance, or were enclosed in love letters to his fiancee.

Record # 350388

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

What It Is by: Barry, Lynda
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What It Is
by: Barry, Lynda

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 4th printing, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 210 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to covers, else a clean, tight copy. How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry's compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. What It Is demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or to remember. Composed of completely new material, each page of Barry's first Drawn & Quarterly book is a full-color collage that is not only a gentle guide to this process but an invigorating example of exactly what it is: "The ordinary is extraordinary."

Record # 350390

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Cover Art By:: New Music Graphics by: Shaughnessy, Adrian
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Cover Art By:: New Music Graphics
by: Shaughnessy, Adrian

Softcover. US, Laurence King, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 318 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. The album cover is a subject of perennial interest among graphic designers. Sleeve design remains a popular subject for college projects, and many young working designers aspire to design for the music industry. Revealing state-of-the-art contemporary music graphics, Cover Art By: is packed with more than 400 examples of sleeve art. As well as CD and album covers, the insides of CD booklets and the backs of vinyl sleeves are shown. The book opens with an in-depth essay reviewing the current scene, then focuses on the work of 30 international designers/labels who are the most influential in the field, making this a must-have for designers and students, as well as music industry professionals and fans.

Record # 350393

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

The Best American Comics 2008 by: Abel, Jessica and Lynda Barry
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The Best American Comics 2008
by: Abel, Jessica and Lynda Barry

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 324 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This newest edition to the Best American Series--"A genuine salute to comics" (Houston Chronicle)--returns with a set of both established and up-and-coming contributors. Editor Lynda Barry and and brand new series editors Jessica Abel and Matt Madden--acclaimed cartoonists in their own right-- have sought out the best stories culled from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the Web to create this cutting-edge collection "perfect for newbies as well as fans"--The San Diego Union Tribune. This newest volume features luminaries like Chris Ware, Seth, and Alison Bechdel alongside Paul Pope's "Batman" and beloved daily cartoonists like Matt Groening.

Record # 350394

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Fashion Show: Paris Style by: Ward, Susan
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Fashion Show: Paris Style
by: Ward, Susan

Hardcover. Boston , MFA Publications, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 223 pages, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 145 illustrations. Both a historical overview and an up-to-the-minute spectacular, "Fashion Show" explores the ever-fascinating world of Paris couture-the history of the Paris fashion industry from its beginnings through the mid-twentieth century.

Record # 350395

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Window Displays/ Vetrine: Zoom Series by: Pietro, Silvio San
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Window Displays/ Vetrine: Zoom Series
by: Pietro, Silvio San

Hardcover. Milan IT, Edizioni L'archivolto (Acc), 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 187 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Although relatively short-lived, store window displays are a vital constituent of the daily scenery of today's cities, and offer an important outlet for disciplinary cross-pollination. Store-window design always involves defining a specific message that is conveyed using an array of means, including architecture and set-design, advertising and graphics, multimedia, and at times fine art, with the aim of firing the buyer's imagination while also transmitting a clear brand identity.

Record # 350396

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Bumperhead by: Hernandez, Gilbert
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Bumperhead
by: Hernandez, Gilbert

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 120 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear to covers, else a clean, tight copy. The Love and Rockets author, Gilbert Hernandez, returns with Bumperhead, a companion book to Marble Season. Whereas Marble Season explored the exuberant and occasionally troubled existence of the wide-eyed preteen Huey, Bumperhead zeroes in on disaffected teenhood with its protagonist, Bobby. Bumperhead follows Bobby, a young slacker who narrates his life as it happens but offers very little reflection on the events that transpire. He lives in the moment exclusively and is incapable of seeing the world outside of his experiences. He comes of age in the 1970s, making a rapid progression through that era's different subcultures and in a short period of time segues from a stoner glam rocker to a drunk rocker to a speed-freak punk. He drifts in and out of relationships with friends, both male and female. Life zooms past him. Hernandez's approach captures the numbness and raw undirected anger and passion of a young man who waits for life to happen to him, not noticing all the while that it is happening. Subtle and thought-provoking, Bumperhead is a fascinating read.

Record # 350399

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Paul Klee by: Lanchner, Carolyn
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Paul Klee
by: Lanchner, Carolyn

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 344 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Gathers drawings and paintings by the modern Swiss artist, discusses the themes and techniques used in his work, and examines his influence on twentieth century art.

Record # 350401

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Gasoline Alley: The Complete Sundays Volume 2 1923-1925 by: King, Frank
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Gasoline Alley: The Complete Sundays Volume 2 1923-1925
by: King, Frank

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".

Record # 350404

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

Art of Maurice Sendak, The by: Lanes, Selma G.
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Art of Maurice Sendak, The
by: Lanes, Selma G.

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.

Record # 350407

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

Prince Valiant Volume 2: 1939-1940 (Vol. 2) by: Foster, Hal
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Prince Valiant Volume 2: 1939-1940 (Vol. 2)
by: Foster, Hal

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. For 35 years, Hal Foster created epic adventure and romantic fantasy in his legendary Sunday strip, Prince Valiant. Realistic in its visual execution and noble in its subject, depicting a time in which the fabled warriors of history and legends fought together for the greater good, it remains one of the great masterpieces of the medium. In this second volume, Prince Valiant helps his father reclaim his throne in kingdom of Thule; fights alongside King Arthur; is made a knight of the Round Table; battles the Huns; sets off with Sir Gawain and Tristam of Arthurian legend fame; and is thrown off-course from Sicily; adventure follows him everywhere. Fantagraphics is proud to present these strips, which, thanks to the use of original proof sheets and advances in printing technology, are even brighter and crisper than when they were originally published 70 years ago. Foster's work, painterly and sweeping, is finally treated to the grand depiction it deserves.

Record # 350415

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 


  

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