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Adventures into the Unknown: Volume 5: American Comics Group Collected Works by: Malcolm Poynter
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Adventures into the Unknown: Volume 5: American Comics Group Collected Works
by: Malcolm Poynter

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Collects issues #21 through #25 of comic book "Adventures Into the Unknown" published by ACG from July to November 1951.

Record # 350559

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Adventures into the Unknown: Volume 6 - ACG Collected Works by: N/A
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Adventures into the Unknown: Volume 6 - ACG Collected Works
by: N/A

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Collects December 1951 - April 1952 Issues 26-30. Foreword by David Tosh.

Record # 350560

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Adventures into the Unknown: Volume 7 - ACG Collected Works: by: Peter Crowther (Foreword)
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Adventures into the Unknown: Volume 7 - ACG Collected Works:
by: Peter Crowther (Foreword)

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Weird, Mysterious and Spine-tingling tales featuring Issues 31-36 from May - October 1952.

Record # 350561

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

The Art of Archie: The Covers by: Gorelick, Victor
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The Art of Archie: The Covers
by: Gorelick, Victor

Hardcover. US, Archie Comics, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 157 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to boards with slight bump to lower edge of spine. Clean, tight copy. A beautifully designed celebration of over 70 years of comic book covers featuring America's reigning cartoon high school icons: Archie, Betty, Veronica and friends. Featuring beautiful full-color artwork by fan favorite artists Dan DeCarlo, Harry Lucey, Bob Montana, Dan Parent and many more in a deluxe, oversize hardcover edition, The Art of Archie: The Covers goes behind the scenes on the all-time best comic book covers in Archie's history with an insider's look at their inspiration, creation and ongoing cultural legacy.

Record # 350563

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered (National Gallery of Art, Washington) by: Jr., Arthur K. Wheelock/E. Melanie Gifford, et al.
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Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
by: Jr., Arthur K. Wheelock/E. Melanie Gifford, et al.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 320 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Jan Lievens (1607-1674) was one of the most fascinating and enigmatic Dutch artists of the 17th century. Daring and innovative as a painter, printmaker, and draftsman, he created powerful character studies, genre scenes, landscapes, formal portraits, and religious and allegorical images that were widely praised and valued during his lifetime. This beautiful book, the first overview of the full range of Lievens' career, features more than 50 paintings-many of them newly discovered in private collections-and more than 75 prints and drawings, providing a reassessment of his place in the history of art.

Record # 350567

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Girl's Best Friends: Creative Jewelry Design by: Klanten, R.
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Girl's Best Friends: Creative Jewelry Design
by: Klanten, R.

Hardcover. US, Gestalten, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Girl's Best Friends features work by outstanding jewelry designers including Ted Noten, Saskia Diez, byAMT, and Kelsey Quan; fashion labels such as Commune de Paris 1871; artists such as the duo Confettisystem; and a range of innovative designers from other disciplines. The most comprehensive showcase of the innovative jewelry being created today.

Record # 350569

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Girl's Best Friends: Creative Jewelry Design by: Klanten, R.
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Girl's Best Friends: Creative Jewelry Design
by: Klanten, R.

Hardcover. US, Gestalten, 1st, 2012-04-25, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Girl's Best Friends features work by outstanding jewelry designers including Ted Noten, Saskia Diez, byAMT, and Kelsey Quan; fashion labels such as Commune de Paris 1871; artists such as the duo Confettisystem; and a range of innovative designers from other disciplines. The most comprehensive showcase of the innovative jewelry being created today.

Record # 350570

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

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. NY, 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, tight copy.

Record # 350571

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

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. US, Harper, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 419 pages, photos in color and b&w. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 350572

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Sticky Monsters by: Mortensen, John Kenn
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Sticky Monsters
by: Mortensen, John Kenn

Hardcover. London, Random House UK, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. In the vein of the great Edward Gorey and Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are, an irresistible little book of monster drawings, all on office stationery. John Kenn Mortensen's pen is full of wonderfully creepy monsters which crawl onto sticky yellow note pads when darkness falls. Here we have collected some of the best monster drawings in a delectable hardback edition.

Record # 350573

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Chance In Hell by: Hernandez, Gilbert
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Chance In Hell
by: Hernandez, Gilbert

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Gilbert Hernandez's first original graphic novel from Fantagraphics follows on the heels of his acclaimed graphic novel, Sloth, from DC's Vertigo Comics in 2006. Chance in Hell tells the story about a little orphan girl who lives in the slum of slums. Nobody knows who she is or where she's from, but her fellow shantytown inhabitants collectively look over her. The three-act story follows our heroine as she is adopted by a decent man who raises her well, and she eventually marries a kind, well-to-do man, only to discover that she can't relate to the good life and the comforts it provides. This is the first in a series of standalone stories depicting the fictional filmography of Gilbert's Love and Rockets character, the B-movie actress Fritz. Hernandez wowed critics in 2003 with his epic work, Palomar, collecting more than 20 years of groundbreaking comics called "the most substantive single work that the comics medium has yet produced," by Booklist. Chance in Hell further establishes Hernandez as one of the great cartoonists of our age.

Record # 350574

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Chance In Hell by: Hernandez, Gilbert
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Chance In Hell
by: Hernandez, Gilbert

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Gilbert Hernandez's first original graphic novel from Fantagraphics follows on the heels of his acclaimed graphic novel, Sloth, from DC's Vertigo Comics in 2006. Chance in Hell tells the story about a little orphan girl who lives in the slum of slums. Nobody knows who she is or where she's from, but her fellow shantytown inhabitants collectively look over her. The three-act story follows our heroine as she is adopted by a decent man who raises her well, and she eventually marries a kind, well-to-do man, only to discover that she can't relate to the good life and the comforts it provides. This is the first in a series of standalone stories depicting the fictional filmography of Gilbert's Love and Rockets character, the B-movie actress Fritz. Hernandez wowed critics in 2003 with his epic work, Palomar, collecting more than 20 years of groundbreaking comics called "the most substantive single work that the comics medium has yet produced," by Booklist. Chance in Hell further establishes Hernandez as one of the great cartoonists of our age.

Record # 350575

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Untitled: Portraits of Australian Artists by: Payes, Sonia
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Untitled: Portraits of Australian Artists
by: Payes, Sonia

Hardcover. Melbourne, Macmillan Art Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Explores the elements of the lives, idiosyncrasies & creative processes of 60 Australian artists photographed over a 2 year period. Includes artists such as John Olsen, Jeffrey Smart, Robert Jacks, etc.

Record # 350579

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

John Bates: Fashion Designer by: Lester, Richard and Marit Allen
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John Bates: Fashion Designer
by: Lester, Richard and Marit Allen

Hardcover. US, Antique Collectors Club Dist, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Throughout the 1960s and 70s John Bates dominated the British fashion scene with a unique brand of style and innovation. No other designer had such a comprehensive influence on what the UK wore.

Record # 350589

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Modern Americana: Studio Furniture From High Craft to High Glam by: Iovine, Julie and Todd Merrill
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Modern Americana: Studio Furniture From High Craft to High Glam
by: Iovine, Julie and Todd Merrill

Hardcover. New York , Rizzoli, 1st, 2008-10-14, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, profusely illustrated in color. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. In the current world of twentieth-century design collecting, the trend has shifted away from accessible, mass-manufactured modernist furniture and toward designs that were custom-made or produced in very limited editions, with emphasis on American studio design of the 1940s to the 1990s. In contrast to the mass-produced mid-century furniture by Knoll and Herman Miller, American studio designs of the same period focused on novel forms and exquisite craftsmanship. Ranging from the organic shapes of George Nakashima and Vladimir Kagan to metalworks by Paul Evans, these limited production designs were highly sought after in their days by original tastemakers and movie stars. In the last decade, a revival for these rare designs began with connoisseurs such as Tom Ford. Modern Americana is the first full survey of the designs of this prolific but forgotten period, bringing to life again the works of Samuel Marx, Billy Haines, Wendell Castle, T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Karl Springer, James Mont, and many others -- including J.B. Blunk, Michael Coffey, Wharton Esherick, Arthur Espenet Carpenter, Sam Maloof, Jack Rogers Hopkins, Paul Evans & Philip Lloyd Powell, Vladimir Kagan, George Nakashima, Silas Seandel, Charles Hollis Jones, Philip & Kevin LaVerne, Tommi Parzinger, Harvey Probber, Edward Wormley, John Dickinson, Arthur Elrod, and Paul Laszlo.

Record # 350592

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

John Bates: Fashion Designer by: Lester, Richard
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John Bates: Fashion Designer
by: Lester, Richard

Hardcover. US, Antique Collectors Club Dist, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Throughout the 1960s and 70s John Bates dominated the British fashion scene with a unique brand of style and innovation. No other designer had such a comprehensive influence on what the UK wore.

Record # 350594

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Out of the Night: Volume 2 - American Comics Group Collected Works by: Forshaw, Barry
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Out of the Night: Volume 2 - American Comics Group Collected Works
by: Forshaw, Barry

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 2. 240 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. Complete Issues #7-12. It was the tail end of the heyday - one might say Golden Age - of the horror comics, the final years of pre-code comics. OUT OF THE NIGHT brought more mature, sophisticated, high-quality creative horror to the newsstands. Featuring some of the best artwork in the genre, including Al Williamson in the early issues, OUT OF THE NIGHT was one of American Comics Group's top entries in to the world of the vampire, werewolf, ghost, undead and mysterious entities. The series lasted 17 exciting issues.

Record # 350603

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Out of the Night: Volume 3 - American Comics Group Collected Works by:
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Out of the Night: Volume 3 - American Comics Group Collected Works
by:

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 3. 208 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 350604

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Chamber of Chills: Volume 2: Harvey Horrors Collected Works by: N/A
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Chamber of Chills: Volume 2: Harvey Horrors Collected Works
by: N/A

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2012-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 2. 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 350605

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Chamber of Chills November 1952 - September 1953 Issues 14-19: 3: Harvey Horror Collected Works by: Edwards, Les
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Chamber of Chills November 1952 - September 1953 Issues 14-19: 3: Harvey Horror Collected Works
by: Edwards, Les

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Volume 3. 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 350606

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Black Cat Mystery: Volume 1: Harvey Horrors Collected Works by: N/A
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Black Cat Mystery: Volume 1: Harvey Horrors Collected Works
by: N/A

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 1. 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 350607

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Black Cat Mystery: Vol 3: Harvey Horror Collected Works by: Various
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Black Cat Mystery: Vol 3: Harvey Horror Collected Works
by: Various

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 3. 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 350609

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Black Cat Mystery: Volume 4: Harvey Horrors Collected Works by: N/A
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Black Cat Mystery: Volume 4: Harvey Horrors Collected Works
by: N/A

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 4. 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 350610

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Forbidden Worlds: American Comics Group Collected Works by: Unknown
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Forbidden Worlds: American Comics Group Collected Works
by: Unknown

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 4. 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 350611

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Forbidden Worlds: Volume 5: American Comics Group Collected Works by: n?A
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Forbidden Worlds: Volume 5: American Comics Group Collected Works
by: n?A

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 5. 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 350612

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Acg Collected Works - Forbidden Worlds Volume 6 by: Forshaw, Barry
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Acg Collected Works - Forbidden Worlds Volume 6
by: Forshaw, Barry

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 6. 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 350613

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Forbidden Worlds: Volume 7: American Comics Group Collected Works by: N/A
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Forbidden Worlds: Volume 7: American Comics Group Collected Works
by: N/A

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 7. 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 350614

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Skippy Volume 1: Complete Dailies 1925-1927 by: Crosby, Percy
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Skippy Volume 1: Complete Dailies 1925-1927
by: Crosby, Percy

Hardcover. US, IDW Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 328 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Skippy debuted as a daily newspaper strip in 1925, and as a Sunday the following year, soon becoming a sensation, published in 28 countries and 14 languages. Crosby continued writing and drawing the feature until 1945. "Percy Crosby caught lightning in a bottle and learned how to draw with it," wrote Jules Feiffer in a 1978 appreciation. Milton Caniff marveled, "Boy, there's nothing faster than watching Skippy run the way Crosby drew him." Crosby was heralded as "the greatest apostle of motion in the field of art" by Edward Alden Jewell, art critic of the New York Times. His artwork has hung in the Louvre in Paris, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, and the Tate Gallery in London, among other venues, but it's his work as a cartoonist, as the creator of Skippy--the philosopher man-child--for which he's best known. Volume 1 includes every Skippy daily strip from the beginning--June 22, 1925 through the end of 1927--as well as the start of an extensive, ongoing biography of Percy Crosby by Jared Gardner, complemented by many photographs and rare artwork from the collection of the cartoonist's daughter, Joan Crosby Tibbetts.

Record # 350623

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

George Barbier: Master of Art Deco: Fashion, Illustration and Graphic Design(English and Japanese Edition) by: Unno, Hiroshi
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George Barbier: Master of Art Deco: Fashion, Illustration and Graphic Design(English and Japanese Edition)
by: Unno, Hiroshi

Softcover. US, PIE International, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Most of text in English and Japanese with portions in Japanese only. 256 pp. ; 200 color illustrations.

Record # 350626

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

The Lost Art of Heinrich Kley, Volume 1: Drawings by: Kley, Heinrich
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The Lost Art of Heinrich Kley, Volume 1: Drawings
by: Kley, Heinrich

Softcover. US, Picture This Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. Volume 1: Drawings. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Volume One focuses on Kley's ink drawings, and reprints for the first time a substantial selection of his illustration work for children's books and adult genre fiction, a side of Kley's career previously unexplored in other collections. This volume also includes a wide sampling of Kley's cartoons and magazine work, with newly collected examples taken directly from a variety of rare sources such as "Jugend," "Simplicissimus," and the historic "Der Orchideengarten" (the world's first fantasy fiction magazine). In all, more than 300 Kley illustrations and cartoons fill this first volume.

Record # 350627

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Ravilious: Wood Engravings (British Wood Engravers) by: Russell, James
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Ravilious: Wood Engravings (British Wood Engravers)
by: Russell, James

Hardcover. US, The Mainstone Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A stunning example of how a digital process, overseen by a keen and aesthetic team, can rejuvenate an artist's work. This as new first edition thus reveals the wonderful craft of Ravilious as if he had just completed the blocks. A great tribute to a fine engraver.

Record # 350629

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Party After You Left, The by: Chast, Roz
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Party After You Left, The
by: Chast, Roz

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury USA, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Readers can't get enough of Roz Chast. Together, these cartoons, which originally appeared in The New Yorker, Scientific American, Redbook, and other publications, constitute a spot-on record of our increasingly absurd existence. The book is a powerful reminder of how lucky we are to have Roz Chast among us to tackle some of the toughest themes of the times with uproarious humor: genetically altered mice, birthday parties from hell, and comfort drinks in the age of insecurity.

Record # 350632

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Adventures of Jodelle, The by: Bartier, Pierre any Guy Peellaert
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Adventures of Jodelle, The
by: Bartier, Pierre any Guy Peellaert

Hardcover. New York , Grove Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color comic art by Peelleart, red boards, Dust jacket with repaired tears. Mildly erotic French comic, with English text by Richard Seaver.

Record # 350635

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Shoe Lust by: Roojen, Pepin Van
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Shoe Lust
by: Roojen, Pepin Van

Softcover. US, Pepin Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Text in French, German and English. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. SHOE LUST contains a stunning collection of the best and most extraordinary modern shoe designs. Included are profiles and interviews with cutting-edge designers from all over the world.

Record # 350639

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist by: Crumb, Sophie
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Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist
by: Crumb, Sophie

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 350640

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist by: Crumb, Sophie
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Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist
by: Crumb, Sophie

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 350641

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Women: Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, Willem de Kooning by: Bronfen, Elisabeth
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Women: Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, Willem de Kooning
by: Bronfen, Elisabeth

Hardcover. US, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 348 pages, 169 illustrations. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The depictions and roles of women in the paintings of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Max Beckmann (1884-1950) and Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) typically give rise to conversations and presumptions about machismo and misogyny. Of course, these artists' portrayals of women cannot be dismissed so easily, and in fact all offer highly nuanced explorations of the theme. This publication explores their depictions of women as more than painterly projections of male longing and desire, treating them as reflections of social and political conflicts and upheavals. Contributions from art historians, sociologists and artists approach the figures of women in these bodies of work from a variety of perspectives: for Picasso, as a catalyst for a confrontation with the artist's own life and history; for Beckmann, as completely independent themes; and for de Kooning, as the force that makes artistic expression itself possible.

Record # 350643

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals by: Delson, Susan
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Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals
by: Delson, Susan

Hardcover. Munich, Prestel Publishing, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 219 pages, color illustrations. Circle of Animals features twelve enormous bronze animal heads, each depicting a segment of the Chinese zodiac. Ai Weiwei's first piece of public art, it is an extraordinary accomplishment in its own right. But as this book explains, the origins and motivation behind the piece are as compelling as the work itself. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Record # 350646

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals, 2006-2013 by: Hamlin, Janet
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Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals, 2006-2013
by: Hamlin, Janet

Hardcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 171 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. In 2006, Janet Hamlin went to Guantanamo as a courtroom sketch artist to serve as a visual witness to the courtroom proceedings and provide worldwide media with artwork drawn during them. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 350647

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Happy Hooligan (Forever Nuts: Classic Screwball Strips) by: Opper, Frederick Burr
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Happy Hooligan (Forever Nuts: Classic Screwball Strips)
by: Opper, Frederick Burr

Hardcover. US, NBM Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 350649

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Happy Hooligan (Forever Nuts: Classic Screwball Strips) by: Opper, Frederick Burr
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Happy Hooligan (Forever Nuts: Classic Screwball Strips)
by: Opper, Frederick Burr

Hardcover. US, NBM Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages, hardcover illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 350650

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Pissarro's People by: Brettell, Richard R.
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Pissarro's People
by: Brettell, Richard R.

Hardcover. New York , Prestel, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, profusely illustrated, hardcover in a bright, dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Record # 350652

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

George Lois: The Esquire Covers by: Lois, George
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George Lois: The Esquire Covers
by: Lois, George

Hardcover. New York , Assouline Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages, color illustrations. At the forefront of American advertising's creative revolution in the 1960s, George Lois was hand-picked by magazine editor Harold Hayes to visually convey that Esquire--a proponent of that era's New Journalism--was on the cutting edge of American culture. In 2008, New York City's Museum of Modern Art acquired a wide range of George Lois's groundbreaking, often controversial Esquire covers for its permanent collection. This fascinating catalogue presents the original exhibit, with additional covers and images from Lois's private collection, including photos of the designer at work and out-takes of the shoot that resulted in Andy Warhol "drowning" in one of his own tomato soup cans. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Record # 350653

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Carroll Dunham Prints: Catalogue Raisonne, 1984-2006 (Addison Gallery of American Art) by: Kemmerer, Allison N.
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Carroll Dunham Prints: Catalogue Raisonne, 1984-2006 (Addison Gallery of American Art)
by: Kemmerer, Allison N.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Widely known for his vibrant paintings that employ a variety of styles--including abstraction, figuration, pop, and cartoon--Carroll Dunham (b. 1949) is also one of the most prolific printmakers of his generation. An integral part of his artistic process, Dunham's prints combine the spontaneity and drama of his paintings with the careful premeditation demanded of the medium. His imagery--which shares the wickedly cartoony semi-abstractions of his paintings--is transformed, refined, and often intensified in his graphic work. Carroll Dunham Prints documents the artist's entire print archive--which includes nearly 300 lithographs, etchings, drypoints, linocuts, wood engravings, screenprints, digital prints, and most recently, monotypes--the majority of which have never before been published. The authors examine the significance of printmaking to Dunham's overall oeuvre, his innate sensitivity toward the systematic materials and procedures of printmaking, his inventive approach to this process, and the evolution of his imagery. It also features an insightful essay by Dunham that discusses his journey as a printmaker and his discoveries of the medium.

Record # 350656

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Bacon's Eye: Works on Paper Attributed to Francis Bacon from the Barry Joule Archive by: Sladen, Mark/John Hoole, et al.
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Bacon's Eye: Works on Paper Attributed to Francis Bacon from the Barry Joule Archive
by: Sladen, Mark/John Hoole, et al.

Softcover. US, 21 Pub, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. During his lifetime, Francis Bacon maintained that he painted directly onto canvas without the benefit of preparatory studies. Since his death in 1992, however, several groups of works on paper have come to light, offering amazing new insights into Bacon's working methods and personal obsessions. "Bacon's Eye" showcases a unique collectiion of works on paper that were bundled up and given by the artist to his friend Barry Joule just prior to his death. This collection includes a remarkable album of 70 oil sketches that relate to his work from the '50s and '60s, as well as over 900 "working documents": images torn from books, magazines and newspapers that have been painted and sketched over, revealing an artist's-eye-view of some of the most important people and events of the 20th century. As of yet, these works have not been officially recognized as being by Bacon. Permission to to show these works alongside finished paintings was denied by the Bacon Estate. The gallery, 21 Publishing, and a host of Bacon experts firmly believe in the authenticity of these works. This book, along with an exhibition at the Barbican Gallery in London, are a means of allowing the public to judge for itself. Edited by Georgia Mazower. Foreword by John Hoole. Introduction by Mark Sladen. Essay by Mark Sladen.

Record # 350660

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Bacon's Eye: Works on Paper Attributed to Francis Bacon from the Barry Joule Archive by: Sladen, Mark
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Bacon's Eye: Works on Paper Attributed to Francis Bacon from the Barry Joule Archive
by: Sladen, Mark

Softcover. US, 21 Pub, 1sat, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. During his lifetime, Francis Bacon maintained that he painted directly onto canvas without the benefit of preparatory studies. Since his death in 1992, however, several groups of works on paper have come to light, offering amazing new insights into Bacon's working methods and personal obsessions. "Bacon's Eye" showcases a unique collectiion of works on paper that were bundled up and given by the artist to his friend Barry Joule just prior to his death. This collection includes a remarkable album of 70 oil sketches that relate to his work from the '50s and '60s, as well as over 900 "working documents": images torn from books, magazines and newspapers that have been painted and sketched over, revealing an artist's-eye-view of some of the most important people and events of the 20th century. As of yet, these works have not been officially recognized as being by Bacon. Permission to to show these works alongside finished paintings was denied by the Bacon Estate. The gallery, 21 Publishing, and a host of Bacon experts firmly believe in the authenticity of these works. This book, along with an exhibition at the Barbican Gallery in London, are a means of allowing the public to judge for itself. Edited by Georgia Mazower. Foreword by John Hoole. Introduction by Mark Sladen. Essay by Mark Sladen.

Record # 350661

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958 (SIGNED COPY) by: Archipenko, Alexander and Fifty Art Historians
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Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Archipenko, Alexander and Fifty Art Historians

Hardcover. New York , Tekhne, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages of text, 292 plates, almost all in b&w, some color. Blue cloth covers with gilt design. INSCRIBED BY ARCIPENKO on the page following the title. One page has been carefully excised and laid back in (plate #33-35). Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 350663

Price: $350.00
Price: $350.00 

The Complete Color Polly & Her Pals: Series 1 - The Surrealist Period by: Sterrett, Cliff and Rick Marschall (Ed.)
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The Complete Color Polly & Her Pals: Series 1 - The Surrealist Period
by: Sterrett, Cliff and Rick Marschall (Ed.)

Hardcover. Princeton WI, Remco/Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages in color, black cloth covers, bright and unclipped dust jacket. Introduction by Art Spiegelman. Cliff Sterrett was one of the outstanding newspaper cartoon artists in the formative period of this 20th Century art: a skilled draftsman, borderline (and sometimes over the line) surrealist, and humorist. Polly and Her Pals is now considered one of the masterpieces of American comic strips of the Interwar period, both for its graphic qualities and its storytelling and humor. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 350664

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

En Guerre: French Illustrators and World War I by: Harris, Neil and Teri J. Edelstein
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En Guerre: French Illustrators and World War I
by: Harris, Neil and Teri J. Edelstein

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Library, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 144 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. With 2014 marking the one-hundredth anniversary of the commencement of World War I, En Guerre offers a fresh, thought-provoking exploration of the impact of the Great War as viewed through the lens of French graphic illustration of the period. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of these illustrations at the University of Chicago Library's Special Collections Research Center, this catalog draws from illustrated books, magazines, and prints to present a wide range of perspectives on themes essential to a deeper understanding of the war in France: patriotism, nationalism, propaganda, and the soldier's experience, as well as the mobilization of the French national home front as seen through fashion, music, humor, and children's literature. With a text by noted historians Neil Harris and Teri J. Edelstein and featuring more than one hundred reproductions of the vivid and colorful work of French illustrators, En Guerre reaffirms the persuasive role that art can play in the service of political and military power.

Record # 350672

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Art of Pin-Up, The by: Hanson, Dian
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Art of Pin-Up, The
by: Hanson, Dian

Hardcover. New York, Taschen, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 546 pages, illustrated in color. Pin-up art, defined as drawings or paintings of pretty girls that stop short of frank nudity, was produced between 1920 and 1970, and much of it was discarded by publishers and calendar companies after printing. In this title, each chapter contains period calendars, vintage prints, and original model photos, documenting the artists' creative process. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 350676

Price: $250.00
Price: $250.00 


  

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