Used, Rare & Out-of-Print Art Books

Hardcover. New York, Harper, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. A graphic novel based on Christie's famous mystery.

Softcover. US, Block Museum/Northwestern Univ., 1st, 1988-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 321 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Contains works by Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Mueller, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Light edgewear to wrappers, faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages, color photographs. Pictorial French fold wrappers. 'American photographer Paul Outerbridge created shimmering "artifical paradises.' From Cubist still life images to nudes, his sensitivity to light and shadow and pioneering use of color transformed everyday scenarios into near-abstract compositions. This unique aesthetic helped him seductively champion the expressionistic, as much as commercial, potential of color photography.' Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. NY, Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 1975`, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 140 pages. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Full color and black & white examples of works by Jiri Kolar. Foxing to cover edges, and to top edge. Clean, unmarked pages.

Softcover. London, Tate Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages. Softcover. Extensive illustrations and photographs throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics, 2nd, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Stein & Day, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. Quarter bound in publisher's gray cloth over brick boards, gilt lettering on brown panel on spine, author's facsimile signature, gilt, on cover, green endpapers, 457 pages with 164 black & white plates and 39 black & white line drawings. Red top edge. Corners a bit rubbed. Dust jacket with edgewear, closed tear.

Softcover. Hong Kong, The Urban Council, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 146 pages. Illustrated in b&w, some color. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Sasquatch Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Color drawings. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. 84 color prints. A tight copy. Willem de Kooning is a masterful painter whose huge canvases are charged with enormous energy. The publication of this beautiful book, which presents eighty of de Kooning's finest paintings and painted works on paper from the early 1940s to the 1980s. Organized thematically and chronologically, the book focuses on de Kooning's most noteworthy and original painted achievements.

Softcover. London, Tate Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages illustrated in color. J.M.W. Turner was a fascinating and enigmatic figure. Both astonishingly prolific and extraordinarily innovative, he is widely seen as the greatest British landscape painter of them all, anticipating and surpassing the Impressionists in his dramatic interpretations of the effects of light and color. "The Turner Book" goes beyond the usual interpretations of the artist, revealing the extraordinary self-belief and ambition that allowed him to continue steadfastly with his experimentation in the face of hostile critical attack. The book examines in detail key works and the techniques by which Turner realized them and features revealing extracts from his notebooks, travel journals and poetry. Beautifully illustrated with both famous and unknown works and ranging over the entire course of the artist's career, this is the essential guide to Turner's life and work. Clean copy.

Softcover. Taschen, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial stiff wraps, approx. 150 pages, many color photos by Wolfgang Volz

Hardcover. Germany, Moderne Kunst Nurnberg, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The animated films of Nathalie Djurberg (born 1978) won the artist a Silver Lion at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Her films animate figurines made of cloth and plasticine in a puppet/marionette theater of macabre sexual intrigue. Here, Djurberg's films are accompanied by Hans Berg's musical compositions.

Hardcover. Lebanon NJ, Vanguard, 2nd Pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. In his 60-year career, Carmine Infantino practised nearly every job in the field of comics, for a "Who's Who" list of publishers. But Infantino will always be remembered as the personification of DC Comics' Silver Age. Infantino helped to resurrect a dying comics industry in 1956 as the artist who launched the Silver Age with his co-creation, the Flash, and remains the best remembered Flash artist of all-time. Infantino proved one of the all-time, great sci-fi artists with his elegant, cityscaped Adam Strange. The only sci-fi comic to rival the sales of Adam Strange was Star Wars, to which Infantino also contributed. In 1964, Infantino became indispensable to the Batman legacy. He, with editor Julius Schwartz, saved the Caped Crusader's comics from impending cancellation with the "New Look Batman." Infantino also redesigned the Batmobile and with Schwartz, created Batgirl. This is Infantino's own history of comics with co-author J. David Spurlock, through Infantino's experiences, from the industry's primordial, Golden Age, through his artistic achievements, corporate years at DC Comics, and post-corporate years including his animation work, teaching, return as a top artist to DC, and Batman newspaper strip. Foreword by Joe Kubert. Afterword by Jim Steranko. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Raleigh NC, TwoMorrows Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 191 pages. Don Heck remains one of the legendary names in comics, considered an "artist's artist," respected by peers, and beloved by fans as the co-creator of Marvel Comics characters Iron Man, Hawkeye, and Black Widow, and for his long stint on Marvel Comics' team book The Avengers. In Don Heck: A Work of Art, author John Coates has meticulously researched and chronicled information on Don's storied 40-year career, including his time at DC, Dell, Gold Key, and as "ghost" artist on Lee Falk's The Phantom newspaper strip. From personal recollections from Don's surviving family, long-time friends, and industry legends, to rare interviews with Heck himself (where he discusses his career, artistic technique, triumphs, frustrations, and love of drawing), this book is full of insight into - and first-hand anecdotes from - the early days of Marvel Comics. It also features an unbiased analysis of sales on Don's DC Comics titles, an extensive art gallery (including published, unpublished, and pencil artwork), a Foreword by Stan Lee, and an Afterword by Beau Smith. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, revised ed., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. burgundy cloth boards w/ blue & gilt spine plate, 133 pages with color plates & 100 pages of bw plates.

Hardcover. Norristown, PA, Comico, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. Extensive color illustrations by Mitch O'Connell throughout. 1 out of 2000 copies. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Crescent Books, 1st American, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. 125 color and 325 B&W illustrations. light edgewear to both the book and dust jacket. Light soiling to some pages.

Softcover. NY, Christie's, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wraps, 34 pages. BW & color illus. Issued in conjunction with an auction of Edward Hopper's painting "Blackwell's Island." Offers historical background with substantial text and archival and contemporary photographs Includes related works by fellow artists Robert Henri, Georgia O'Keeffe, George Wesley Bellows, and additional paintings by Hopper. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 679 pages, b&w illustrations. Georgia O'Keeffe is arguably the 20th century's leading woman artist. Coming of age along with American modernism, her life was rich in intense relationships -- with family, friends, and especially noted photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Her struggle between the rigorous demands of love and work resulted in extraordinary accomplishments. Her often-eroticized flowers, bones, stones, skulls, and pelvises became extremely well known to a broad American public. The New York Times Book Review named this richly detailed and moving biography a Notable Book of the Year. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Exhibition catalog with 180 illustrations, 158 in full color. Measures 12x14.5 inches. Introduction by Nancy J. Troy and contributions by Mary E. Davis, Caroline Evans, Jared Goss, Heather Hess, Caroline Rennolds Milbank, and Kenneth E. Silver. Paul Poiret (French, 1879-1944) dominated haute couture in the first decade of the twentieth century. The catalogue features photographs of a number of garments by Paul Poiret, as well as pochoir prints by graphic artists, who created deluxe albums of Poiret's designs for his elite clients.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Vol. 1: Slaves and Liberators, 379 pages with 156 b&w, 40 color illustrations. Vol. 2: 306 pages, 131 b&w, 52 color illustrations. Both volumes like new, shrinkwrapped in cardboard slipcases. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Bussels, Renaissance du Livre, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 398 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. French language.DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 52 pages including semi-glossy color covers and b/w interior. Saddle-stapled wraps, 75 cent cover price. The main art on the cover is the same as #2 in the series. The rest is all new. This is one of the five small collections of those strips. Small ink notation at top of copyright page otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 446 pages, 295 color and 220 b&w illustrations. Like new with dust jacket. In shrink wrap.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 280 pages. Jerelle Kraus, whose thirteen-year tenure as Op-Ed art director far exceeds that of any other art director or editor, unveils a riveting account of working at the Times. Her insider anecdotes include the reasons why artist Saul Steinberg hated the Times, why editor Howell Raines stopped the presses to kill a feature by Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau, and why reporter Syd Schanburg-whose story was told in the movie The Killing Fields-stated that he would travel anywhere to see Kissinger hanged, as well as Kraus's tale of surviving two and a half hours alone with the dethroned peerless outlaw, Richard Nixon.All the Art features a satiric portrayal of John McCain, a classic cartoon of Barack Obama by Jules Feiffer, and a drawing of Hillary Clinton and Obama by Barry Blitt. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages plus color wraps. Staple bound, $2.00 cover price. Black and white art by Selton inside. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. UK, PS publishers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color and Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. Charlottesville, VA, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 185 pages. Black cloth cover with silhouette of Jefferson's head embossed to front and gilt lettering to spine, b&w illustrated dust jacket, 60 b&w figures, 8 b&w plates. Light wear to dust jacket; otherwise a very tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. Cobb CA, First Glance Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 176 pages. Color plates throughout. small sticker on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, Judge Publishing Co., 1928, Book: Good, Softcover, 32 pages. Color cover art by Jefferson Machamer, "The Dummy". Color ads for Fatima and Marlboro cigarettes. B/w cartoons by Gardner Rea, Suess, others. Small tan spot to bottom edge.

Softcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 2nd, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers, Color, Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 44 pages of watercolors. Beautiful large sketchbook illustrating the works of the great Maurice Prendegrast. In association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where the Lehman Prendegrast collection resides. As new in original slipcase. Half white cloth binding over black leatherette boards. This sketchbook, kept primarily between 1895 and 1897, is an exquisite example of the working technique of a great American artist. In it, Prendergast experiments with pattern, shadow, and foliage, using the beautiful Boston Public Garden as his studio. The 88 pages of watercolors, pen and ink, and pencil drawings focus on the colorfully dressed women and children in the park, with glimpses of Victorian Boston outside. The sketchbook reproduced here in facsimile and handsomely boxed recalls his years of study in Paris, yet foreshadows his bold mature style.

Hardcover. Geneva, Skira, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 115 pages with tipped-in color plates. publisher's textured white cloth, red lettering on spine, Skira "S", red, embossed on cover. Translated by James Emmons. Chronological Survey. Bibliography. Index. The first title in "The Taste of Our Time" Series. No dust jacket, a clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Park Forest IL, Ken Pierce, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, b&w art. Reprinting of the 1937, 1941 and 1942 Abbie an' Slats comic strip. Introduction by Herb Galewitz. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. 338 illustrations, including 113 plates in full color. Gives beautiful insight into the extravagant glamour of Sargent's society portraits, watercolors and Boston Murals. Folio. Purple cloth, gilt lettering to spine. previous owner's inscription on front edge paper. Very nice, clean and tight copy. Minor wrinkle to lower edge of dust jacket's spine, otherwise in near fine condition.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y Crowell, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 193 pages including index, illustrated with 34 reproductions, some in color. George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) who painted his world as it really was, everyday people in their everyday lives. His family was one of the early pioneer settlers, moving to the frontier in 1819. George began is art career painting tavern signs, later graduating to portraits, views of everyday life and "river paintings". He also was a Missouri politician, holding several important offices. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Cythera Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, hardcover in brown faux-leather, gilt lettering and decoration on cover and spine, no dust jacket. With illustrated title-page, 44 full-page drawings by Van Maele and decorated endpapers. A very good copy. Some of the most poignant yet bizarre erotic illustrations to come out of the turn of the century.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st us, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Small red dot remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages. b&w and color illustrations. Pictorial dust jacket. Decorative endpapers. Minor edge wear. A very nice. clean and tight copy.

Softcover. Hartford CT, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art/ Yale University, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 334 pages, 106 full-page color plates. Issued in conjunction with 2003-2004 exhibitions featuring work by American modernist Marsden Hartley (1877-1943). Gathers together the most recent scholarship on Hartley's work. Includes a chronology of his life, with a full catalogue entry accompanying each painting. With essays by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Amy Eillis, Patricia McDonnell, Wanda M. Corn, Jonathan Weinberg, Bruce Robertson, Donna M. Cassidy, Randall R. Griffey, Carol Troyen, Stephen Kornhauser, and Ulrich Birkmaier. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Heavy Metal, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 96 pages, illustrated throughout by Moebius. 'Featuring "The Black Incal", "The Incal's Ball", "The Honorable Major Orphodite", "Ah Those Technical Technos", "Meta Baron", "Moebius: His Art", "The White Nightmare", "One of 4,070 Variations on 'The' Theme", "A Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That", "An Adventure of John Watercolor", "Wounded Knee", "The Detour", and "Afloat".' This Heavy Metal special brings together many pages of Moebius comics in one volume, featuring a introduction by Federico Fellini. Page 3 has some small notations at top of page otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Chartwell Books, 3rd pr., 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color, black and white pictures throughout. For more than 75 years, through countless comics, television, and movies, Batman has been a symbol of strength and perseverance. He was created in 1939, on the brink of World War II -- a volatile time, when we needed a hero most. Who better to come to the rescue than the Caped Crusader? For the first time, Batman: The War Years 1939-1945 details The Dark Knight's involvement in the war and his fight against some very real villains.

Hardcover. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 142 pages. 21 b&w illustrations. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, light wear to extremities. Yellow dust jacket edge wear with a few small sealed up tears. Price clipped. A nice, tight copy.

Softcover. Baltimore MD, International Exhibitions Foundation, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Black illustrated wraps. 95 pages. Numerous b&w plates. Accompanying a loan exhibition from the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, this catalogue includes an introduction by E. Maurice Bloch, prints by such artists as Albers, Altoon, Asawa, Celmins, Cremean, Diebenkorn, Frasconi, Townley and many more, as well as a bibliography. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Royal Academy Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 314 pages, color plates. From Jacob Epstein to Sarah Lucas, this magnificent book explores sculpture in Britain over the last 130 years. Including works by varied artists such as Frederic Lord Leighton, Alfred Gilbert, Eric Gill, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Anthony Caro, Richard Long, and Damien Hirst, the book highlights the dialogues between British and international sculpture, examines the importance of the country's landscape as a location and medium, and looks at the perennial choice faced by the sculptor between figuration and abstraction. Sculpture has changed dramatically in the last century. This compelling book documents these seismic shifts. Remainder dot on bottom edge, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. Other Distribution, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in publisher's shrink-wrap. 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

Hardcover. The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 261 pages illustrated throughout in b&w. Pictorial boards with black title to spine. Tan dust jacket, with light wear to edges and small closed tears to front cover, else a very nice, clean, tight copy.