Used, Rare & Out-of-Print Art Books

Softcover. NY, Pantheon, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes in a cardboard slipcase. Vol. 1: My Father Bleeds History, Vol. 2: And Here My Trouble Began. Slipcase has some light rubbing, books are clean and bright. A brutally moving work of art--widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written--Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author's father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.

Hardcover. New York, PaceWildenstein, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only edgewear. Full page color photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, reprint, undated/c1880, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. History of the art of engraving within a European context. Undated, published c1880. Illustrated with 34 black/white reproductions of engravings. Good condition; pages have gilt edges, cloth bound book has some wear to the edges and introductory pages lightly spotted from age.

Softcover. Milano, La Bibliofila, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, limited to 2,000 numbered copies, this is number 93, printed on Fabriano paper. 8vo. 9 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches. 175 pages. Double-page title page with elaborate calligraphic borders, illustrated throughout; text clean, unmarked. Illustrated wrappers; binding square and tight, very minor shelf wear; very light foxing on page block. This is a catalog of 72 calligraphy books listed chronologically and divided by nationality assembled by Carla C. Marzoli. Catalogued and Described with upwards of 210 illustrations and an Introduction by Stanley Morison. An invaluable resource for both the collector and the book seller. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, digest size. Articles on Norman Rockwell (The People's Painter) and Milton Caniff (Secrets of a Comic Strip Artist). Nice copy. Wrap-around cover illustrations by Stan Eckman.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 158 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout. Explores O'Keeffe's unmatched accomplishments in still-life painting in two essays accompanied by reproductions of her work and photographs of her studios.

Hardcover. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Illustrated history of the Yale's 1969 architectural competition. 117 pages, illustrated fully with black/white photographs and drawings, mostly full-page. Book is cloth bound and in near fine condition, dust jacket is in good condition: bottom of the spine and few edges show wear, small rip on the back at the top edge and small stain on the back as well.

Hardcover. Potomac MD, Glenstone Foundation, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 136 pages. Published in conjunction an exhibition that ran April 2011 through January 2013. Features texts by Jack Bankowsky and Emily Wei Rales. Includes color illustrations of works by Robert Gober, Damien Hirst, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Jeff Wall, and others. Clean copy.

Philadelphia, Saturday Evening Post, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, His date bowling a strike as he looks amazed. Painting by George Hughes. Approx 9 X 12". No label.PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This publication presents the first in-depth survey of the Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection of Indian Drawings, which was recently acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exceptional collection, which has never previously been published, consists of 65 works on paper created between the 16th and 19th centuries.

Hardcover. Atlanta, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Written by fresco painter Jean Charlot on the subject of 3 particular murals he painted during his year as artist-in-residence at the University of Georgia. 222 pages, illustrated with 178 (mostly black/white, few color) plates. Introduction by Lamar Dodd and photography by Eugene Payor. Cloth bound book is in good condition, some light stains on the cover, a few pages stick. Dust jacket shows slight edge wear.

Softcover. Houston TX, Janie C. Lee Gallery, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in light tan wrappers. 10 color plates, 16 pages. For an exhibition November-December 1980. Clean copy.

Softcover. Salt Lake City, Gibbs Smith, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 160 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Trailer Travel showcases the rich visual history of America's enduring fascination with life on the road. Beautifully reproduced color and black-and-white images culled from public archives and the private collections of passionate trailerites vividly document the travel trailer?s storied past. This engaging volume offers a look at motor-camping trips in the early 1900s, the unparalleled innovations in trailer design during the thirties, rare and unique trailer models and interiors, and an extensive array of bold and graphic promotional material, literature, and postcards that illustrate the undeniable attraction of living on wheels.

Softcover. New York, Vintage Books/Random House, 1st thus, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. Reveals everything Ogilvy has learned about which advertising techniques sell and which don"t sell. Illustrated with 185 advertisements and TV commercials from all over the world in color and b/w . Superbly written and splendidly controversial, the book is as witty and outspoken as the man who wrote it. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. (Library of American Art Series) 1971 reprint of the original 1926 edition. 110 pages. b&w illustrations. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Light wear and unfortunate paper-clip impressions to upper edge of some pages. Still a nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Something Else Press , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket that's price-clipped. White cloth with green top edge. With the business card tucked into glassine envelope to front end paper. A selection by Odenburg and Emmett Williams of texts, graphic materials and photos from 1961-62. Includes photographs by Robert R. McElroy. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge, Komatik Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format. In 1917, while still in art school, Edward Shenton joined Company B, 103rd Engineers of the Pennsylvania National Guard. He stocked up on art materials, including many canvas-bound sketchbooks and a watercolor set, and went off to train and fight. Much of the war he witnessed made their way into his sketchbooks. When Ed returned home, no one wanted to hear about the war, much less see images of the horrors of battle. He went back to art school and his sketches were put away and forgotten. He had a brilliant career as an illustrator. His drawings graced the cover of Scribner's Magazine for ten years and embellished books by, among others, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolf.Edward Shenton had a long career as an outstanding illustrator, author, and teacher and, after a very full life, died at the age of eighty-two. Nine decades after they were put away, his son came across Ed's sketchbooks and he and I decided that they, along with his father's wartime story, had to be shared with the world.

Hardcover. Chicago, Swallow Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 86 pages. Collection of 116 black-and-white & 26 color plates showing the satirical political cartoonist at his best. Introduction by Jessica Mitford. Bright, clean cop in a price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Eakins Press , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 1/3075 copies. 359 pages, 215 plates in sepia. Beige cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket with clear acetate cover. Small tears to plastic cover, otherwise like new.

Softcover. Paris, G. San Lazzaro, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Folio; magazine; 64 pages, with black and white illustrations. Several essays. B&w plates throughout. FRENCH TEXT. Spine paper chipping.

Cluett Peabody Co., circa 1946, Book: Very Good,

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Wear to dust jacket edges. Clipping to dust jacket folds. Previous owners inscription and minor soiling to front flyleaf. Some rubbing to dust jacket front and rear covers. Light foxing to fore edge of text block. Inside clean and unmarked. A tight copy.

Softcover. New York, American Art Association, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 150 pages. Reprint of 1926 auction catalog. Orange wrappers with black titles, perfect binding, profusely illustrated with b&w plates, foreword by Dana H. Carroll. Slight rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #NY7676. 204 pages illustrated in color, 334 lots. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price clipped dust jacket with a short closed tear to rear panel. Writer and cartoonist Ted Geisel was a successful illustrator for humor magazines before he became children's book author Dr. Seuss. In 1925, he had graduated from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, then developed comic masterpieces for a dozen years. The contents herein were drawn from those collections. Collected are essays of surrealism and literary nonsense including confessions on spying on General Grant during the Civil War; Cartoon essays supported by art creatures: Piscozooavistical Studies of Boids and Beasties; 17 full-page cartoon fantasies; Cartoon advertisements for Flit insecticide.

Softcover. Eugene, OR, University of Oregon Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout.

Softcover. Wilmington, DE, Delaware Art Museum, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 235 page catalog. Includes 167 artists. Numerous b&w and color illustrations, most of which are accompanied by biographical text on artist. Some mild wear on back cover. Else is very good.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, oblong format, 188 pages illustrated in color. Long before television and the internet, entertainment was often a performance at the local grange or Town Hall. Since there wasn't much money for costumes or props, the plays relied on all-purpose scenic backdrops - painted canvases of local scenes and interest. And they were often glorious. Many of these minor masterpieces of vernacular art still survive and are presented in all their glory in this richly illustrated book celebrating the colorful and memorable painted curtains that graced the stages of countless New England towns. A remarkable team of conservators from "Curtains Without Borders" has overcome a century of dirt, damage, and neglect to restore hundreds of these historic theater curtains. This book presents exquisite photographs of these enormous pieces of art that have been hidden away and neglected for too long. Bump to top corner, causing mild crease to pages. Otherwise bright and clean.

1949, Book: Very Good, Color art of cleaning woman eyeing clock ticking down to midnight by Constantine Alajalov. 10 X 13", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. New York, D.A.P./The National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Covered here are works by some 40 artists made in the period from circa 1916, when the Cabaret Voltaire was founded in Zurich, to 1926, by which time most of the Dada groups had dispersed or significantly transformed. The city sections bring together painting, sculpture, photography, collage, photomontage, prints and graphic work.Relying on dynamic design and vivid documentary images, Dada takes us through these six cities via topical essays and extensive plate sections; an illustrated chronology of the movement; witty chronicles of events in each city center; a selected bibliography; and biographies of each artist--accompanied by Dada-era photographs.

Hardcover. London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, reprint, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 284 pages. Vol I only. Red cloth with gilt designs and titles, all edges gilt. Covers with edge wear and soiling, small tears to cloth near spine. Damp stain spots on front a rear covers. End pages with foxing, otherwise clean and tight.

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #N08024, 364 pages, illustrated in color, 446 lots. Clean copy.

1927, Color art by Jay Hyde Barnum of lady in formal dress surrounded by male suitors. 10 X 13", small label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

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. Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 225 pages. 8 plates, B&W photographs throughout. pictorial cover with slight bending of back bottom corner and slight wear to spine. Frontispiece. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Berlin GR, Stiftung Weimarer Klassik, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 148 pages, very richly illustrated with color illustrations depicting Friedrich Neitzsche. German text. Clean copy.

1933, Book: Very Good, Color art of woman in profile wearing headscarf playing the accordian by Herbert Paus. 9 X 12", small label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

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. Boston, Marshall Jones Company, Limited, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 165 pages. Limited edition, #988/1500. Tissue guard. B&W photographs throughout. Some minor surface wear to covers. Overall tight and clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 130 pages, b&w comic art by Hernandez. Ten years in the making (and torn from the pages of the legendary Love and Rockets), Jaime Hernandez's graphic novel skillfully weaves two generations of his beloved characters into a satisfying story of love - both young and middle-aged. Life Drawing darts primarily between the youthful Tonta and the venerable Maggie. Tonta has a crush on her art teacher, Ray, as well as an axe to grind with an older woman in the neighbourhood. When Tonta finds that the woman, Maggie, is married to Ray, things get complicated. And Tonta does not handle complications well. Life Drawing showcases Hernandez's brilliant talent for character, weaving relationships, rejections, infidelities, and adventures. Clean copy.

1940, Book: Very Good, Color art of maternity ward nurse signaling it's twins by John Hyde Phillips. 10 X 13", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

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. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Spine faded. Else very good.

Hardcover. London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped with gilt lettering. 144 pages plus ads in rear. Back and white diagrams and 46 vibrant tipped-in color plates. Light wear to top and bottom of spine cloth otherwise a clean, bright copy.

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

Hardcover. Seattle, Wa, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, 242 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy. Color illustrations throughout by Carl Barks. Donald and his nephews visit an Old West ghost town that was suddenly abandoned when the sheriff vanished while in hot pursuit of a passel of outlaws. Now the remains of the town are haunted - and it's up to the plucky nephews to solve the mystery of "The Ghost Sheriff of Last Gasp" before it's too late! Then, Donald is made stationmaster for a tiny out-of-the-way railroad station, but his first delivery is 10,000 baby turkeys - and they're all hungry! And when the Coast Guard announces it found the wreck of a steamship that sank with Uncle Scrooge's gold on board, the race is on to recover it ahead of Scrooge's rivals. Scrooge hustles Donald and the nephews into his private submarine - but it's Christmas Eve, and the boys are afraid Santa won't be able to find them to deliver their presents. The boys appeal to Uncle Scrooge, but - well, his name is Scrooge.Plus lots more stories with Barks favorites, including the wacky inventor Gyro Gearloose, the irritatingly lucky Gladstone Gander, and the ever-glamorous and sensible Daisy Duck. Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of outrageous hijinks, preposterous situations, and all-around cartooning brilliance. Over 200 pages of stories, each meticulously restored and newly colored. Insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Heritage Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 107 pages. Color illustrations throughout. Decorative stain to top edge. Wear, chipping, rubbing to dust jacket. Spine of dust jacket sightly faded. Else a tight copy.

Hardcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico Press, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 107 pages. A collection of Georgia O'Keeffe's major drawings done between 1915 and 1963. Each drawing is accompanied by the artist's comments, usually on how, why, where or when she made the drawing. Originally published in 1974 in a signed limited edition of 100 copies. Edited by Doris Bry. Clean copy.

1932, Book: Very Good, Color art of little girl rocking her doll crib by Jessie Wilcox Smith. 8 1/4 X 11 1/2". PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. Montreal/NY, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, unpaginated. Lulu Moppet is an outspoken and brazen young girl who doesn't follow any rules. A reissue series of Lulu's suburban hijinks: she goes on picnics, babysits, and attempts to break into the boys' clubhouse again and again. The cartoonist John Stanley's expert timing and constant gags made these stories unbelievably enjoyable, which made Marge's Little Lulu a defining comic of the postwar period. First released in the 1940s and 1950s as Dell comics, Little Lulu as helmed by Stanley remains one of the most entertaining works in the medium.