Used, Rare & Out-of-Print Art Books

Softcover. Venice FL, Mill Pond Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light gray wrappers with gilt lettering. 109 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Illustrated in color with Bateman's wonderful wildlife paintings. Faint soil to covers, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Kansas City, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover with only light wear to paper wrappers. Cartoons throughout in black and white by Lorenz. Remainder mark on top.

Softcover. Kitchen Sink Press, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages. In 1945, World War II ended and a new age dawned. In Li'l Abner, Al Capp moved along with everyone else into this age, guiding vbhis immensely popular adventure strip into satire. At the top of his artistic and storytelling form, Capp was more than ready to greet the postwar era. In this book you'll meet Orson Waggon (Orson Welles), boy radio genius, who has a sensational idea: kill somebody during an actual broadcast --a somebody named Abner Yokum. Also in this volume: Timberwolf McHowl, Moonbeam McSwine (who prefers the company of pigs to men) gets a bath; Fleabrain, Lonesome Polecat, Barbara Seville and another wild Sadie Hawkins Day Race. Orson Welles parody and more! Introduction by Madeline Gardner, Al Capp's sister (with early family photos) and another fine intro by Dave Schreiner putting the year in historic context.12 x 9 horizontal format

Softcover. New York, Abbeville, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 154 pages, color illustrations throughout. Very light wear to corners. Else a very clean, tight copy. Mary Cassatt's paintings and prints have long been treasured as some of the finest examples of Impressionist art. A rebel by the Victorian standards of her time, Mary Cassatt moved from the art schools of staid Philadelphia to the boulevards of Paris, where the young Impressionist movement was flourishing. Degas, her friend and mentor, encouraged her involvement in the new art movement.Cassatt's luminous, observant, and innovative works-chiefly interiors with women and children-helped define Impressionism and have been compared to Raphael's paintings for their beauty and dignity. Frank Getlein, noted art critic and historian, has selected 72 of Cassatt's finest works, each reproduced here in full color. His accompanying text relates the intimate details of her life to her paintings while clearly defining her relation to fellow artists and her place in modern art.

Softcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate, Revised Ed., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages. Many cans of tuna have been opened and emptied since the collection's first mostly black-and-white edition, in 1981; the revised edition adds more color art as well as coverage of classics including The Cat in the Hat, Bill the Cat, and pets penned by B. Kliban and Edward Gorey. The volume covers cartoon depictions of the cat dating back to 1100 B.C., though the bulk of the images date to the 20th century. Brief essays about printing, literature, contemporary society, and other historical facts are interspersed with the goods selections from the comics themselves. Editor Whyte is a publisher who founded the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco.

Hardcover. Barcelona, Spain, Syzygy, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Hardcover with padded covers. Color pictures throughout of Fran Bull sculptures. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in a bright dust jacket. In this first biography of the great cartoonist, written with exclusive access to Addams's intimates and his private papers, we finally meet the man behind the famed cartoons and circling rumors. Here is his surprising childhood in New Jersey, the cartoon that offended the Nazis, the friend whose early death Addams long mourned. Here are his wives, the stories behind his most famous-and some of his most private-cartoons, and the Addams whom even his closest friends didn't know. With wit, humor, poignancy, and insight-enhanced by rare family photographs, classic and previously unpublished cartoons, and private drawings-Linda H. Davis paints an engaging and endearing portrait of a marvelous American original.

Hardcover. US, Taschen, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, b&w and color photographs. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy. Profusely illustrated with color and b&w erotic photography: fetishistic activitites, BDSM, leather, whipping, strap-on, heels, sexual torture, etc. Adults only.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 183 pages. This beautiful book examines the art of Pieter de Hooch, one of the most famous and innovative painters of Holland's Golden Age. It discusses de Hooch's position in Dutch genre painting, his favorite themes and their cultural context, his artistic development, and his approach to narration. The book was the catalogue for an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford. A 75-page text covering the artist's life and techniques and themes of his work is followed by nearly 100 pages presenting plates of works in the show; eight entries bring the catalog raisonne up to date. Sutton has achieved the rare feat of creating a work that is both a significant addition to scholarship and a reader-friendly introduction for those not already familiar with the artist. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with red covers. Lightly soiled. Black and white wordless cartoons by Soglow.

Softcover. London, Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2008, Softcover, 190 pages, decorated wrappers. Now the world's foremost blues, rockabilly, soul and rock 'n' roll reissue label, Ace Records has been responsible for unearthing lost classics and neglected pioneers for over three decades, and provided some of the finest and most influential records of the post-war era. Illustrated with many unseen archive photographs dating back to the 1920s, rare artwork and newspaper clippings. Written by established music journalist and author David Stubbs.

Hardcover. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 193 pages, 8 color and 100 b&w plates. Examines the approach of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their associates to the natural world. It is the first serious examination of the consequences of the Pre-Raphaelite creed of 'exact truth to nature', which led to the ever increasing importance of natural detail in Pre-Raphaelite school of landscape painting. Following a discussion of the developing interest in the precise depiction of nature by the Pre-Raphaelites from 1848 to 1851, chapters on individual artists, many hitherto almost forgotten, trace the history of the Pre-Raphaelite landscape in the 1850s and 1860s and its relation to earlier and later art in England and abroad. Much new light is cast on Ruskin's central role as theorist, patron, and critic of mid Victorian art.

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 118 pages. Ancient Greeks, modern seers, Freud, Jung, neurologists, poets, artists, shamans-humanity has never ceased trying to decipher one of the strangest unexplained phenomena we all experience: dreaming. Now, in her new book, Roz Chast illustrates her own dream world, a place that is sometimes creepy but always hilarious, accompanied by an illustrated tour through "Dream-Theory Land" guided by insights from poets, philosophers, and psychoanalysts alike. Illuminating, surprising, funny, and often profound, I Must Be Dreaming explores Roz Chast's newest subject of fascination-and promises to make it yours, too.

Softcover. Caldwell, NJ, Heritage Committee of The First Presbyterian Church at Caldwell, 1st Edition, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Soft cover. Vivid color illustrations throughout. Wrapper in beautiful condition. pages have just a touch of tanning around edges, otherwise clean and bright. Binding tight. In excellent shape. "Part of Daugherty's legacy to us is the sixty works in this book entitled 'In His Image'. These paintings were done in the period 1940 to 1960. They are executed in a powerful, emotional mood."

Softcover. New York , Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages, exhibition catalog includes intaglios, lithographs, screenprints, woodcuts, and linoleum cuts by the artist.

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large softcover, 287 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. A very clean, tight copy. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Centre, New York. Illustrated card covers with long inside flaps, minimal wear. An exhaustive compilation of the best graphic work of Steinberg covering his life in advertising, graphic design and fine arts.

Softcover. Milwaukee, Dark Horse Comics, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 231 pages, color art throughout. Fully remastered in magnificent digital color, this far-out volume includes twenty unbelievable tales from a stellar collection of writers and artists- Jack Oleck, Al Feldstein, Wally Wood, Bernard Krigstein, Joe Orlando, Jack Davis, Roy G. Krenkel, and Al Williamson. Featuring a foreword by Mark Evanier!. Incredible Science Fiction issues #30-#33 and Weird Science-Fantasy issues #30 -#33.

Hardcover. NY, Watson Guptill, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages. Publisher's full blue cloth, silver lettering on spine and front cover, contains 80 color plates and 28 black & white illustrations. Looks at the working methods of American artist Charles Pfahl (b. 1946), and includes "step-by-step photographic demonstrations of paintings in progress, with detailed technical captions showing how each step is painted."

Hardcover. NY, Posters Please, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 272 pages. Color illustrations throughout, very clean and tight copy. American adman and image-maker George Lois (b. 1931) was a leader of the Creative Revolution of the 1960s and is the mind behind an astonishing array of branding campaigns and unforgettable magazine covers during his fifty-year career. Illustrated with the original ads and images, $ellebrity presents the stories behind the ads, explaining how each ad was conceived and produced, and the unexpected pitfalls, scuffles, and friendships that ensued.

Softcover. Northampton MA, White Star Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 86 pages, exhibition catalog. Full of b&w plates. . Catalogue of works from the Charles Derby collection of African art. 136 pieces are pictured and described in brief. With an introduction by Derby, an exhibition checklist, and addendum.

Softcover. San Diego, CA, IDW Publishing, 1st Edition, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Softcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR. Created, written, drawn and colored by Palle Schmidt. Color illustrations throughout. Clean and tight copy, inside and out.

Softcover. Archie Comics, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages illustrated in color by Bob Montana. Clean, very good. This volume moves Archie into perhaps the era that Archie is most associated with, especially by early baby-boomers; the era when Rock-n-Roll first made its influence known on Archie and the gang...the era of sock hops, malt shops and cruising. This trade paperback highlights the entire Archie gang in a collection of hilarious and nostalgic stories, brimming with 1950's allure.

Softcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1st, June 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 77 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. A catalog published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at The Art Museum, Princeton University, and the Wadsworth Atheneum in 1990. Appendix, bibliography, exhibition catalogue, chronology. Foreword by Allen Rosenbaum, 12 color plates and numerous other illustrations and photographs. ; Oblong 4to 11" - 13".

Softcover. Baltimore MD, Maryland Historical Society, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial wraps with color illustration and white lettering; 173 pages. 45 color, 88 b&w plates. Exhibition catalogue lists 83 extensively annotated works, and a Supplemental Catalogue lists an additional 13 works. Selected bibliography and short-list of titles. Each essay includes extensive notes. The definitive work on the early Afro-American portrait painter. Published to accompany the exhibition held in Baltimore, MD: Maryland Historical Society, Sept. 26, 1987 to Jan. 3, 1988, three other locations. Scarce. Previous owner's stamp and bookplate, short inscription on inside front cover. Related clipping, brochure laid in.

Hardcover. Chicago, Haase-Mumm Publishing, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 189 pages. #174 of 1, 000 copies signed by author. Biography and critical study of John Barber (1893-1965), American artist and contributor to the radical magazine The Masses. 16 color and 109 b&w plates. Bibliography and index.

Softcover. Archie Comics, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of stories from the "Golden Age" of Archie Andrews and his friends. Color comics in color. Softcover.

Softcover. Huntington NY, Heckscher Museum, 1st, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover,143 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Binding is cracked on page 62. Minor wear to wrappers. Neat, clean copy. This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition The Art of Thomas Anshultz, organized by Randall C. Griffith, Guest Curator; Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York. The exhibition was on view from September 3rd through November 20, 1994. The book contains the monograph Thomas Anshultz Artist and Teacher, 28 color plates, and numerous black and white reproductions of art from throughout Anshultz's career.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in red. A bright clean copy of this annual collection. B&w cartoons by various artists from the top magazines of the day. Still funny. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. Ann Arbor MI, UMI Research Press, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 315 pages. Issued w/o a dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Barcelona SP, FKG. , reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Facsimile edition. Folio. Cloth binding, 191 pages. In 1834 the leading scholars of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, led by Professor A.L.G. Bayle, compiled a remarkable atlas of exquisite anatomical drawings. It immediately became a benchmark work in international medical and scientific communities, praised not only for its scientific value but also for the artistry of the color plates. This large facsimile volume features 94 color plates, 11 x 15 inches, labeled in English, German, French, and Dutch.

Hardcover. NY, Independent Curators Incorporated, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Board covers with a red label on front. Non-paginated, ca 50 pages. B&w illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Loyola CA, Loyola Marymount University, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 79 pages. Full-page illustrations, mostly b&w but many in color. Clean, bight copy.

Hardcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 172 pages, filled with impressive folk art in full color on just about every page. Three essays on the collection by Marshall and Lynne E. Spriggs, High Museum of Art's Curator of Folk Art, Joanne Cubbs, the museum's first curator of folk art, and Lynd Roscoe Hartigan, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Forword by Michael E. Shapiro, director of the High Museum of Art. In a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 416 pages, illustrated throughout with 445 illustrations including 200 plates in full color. Previous owner's initials on half title page. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalogue featuring the famed architect's travel sketches along with photographs of the buildings he encountered and essays on their influence on his work. 11'' x 8.5''. In original dark orange pictorial wrappers. Illustrated throughout in black and white, some color, 136 pages. Spine sun faded.

Hardcover. University of Washington Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 285 pages. Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence includes essays by eight distinguished art historians examining the ways in which Jacob Lawrence's art speaks so powerfully to different audiences. It is the first multi-author, in-depth probe of the artist's entire career: the nature of his work, his education, the critical climate in which he worked, and his use of materials and techniques. It reproduces, in full color, more than 200 works, most of which have not been published in color, or at all, in other books on the artist.

Softcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 130 plates, color and duotone. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This beautifully produced volume features original, unpublished images by Annie Leibovitz, Richard Misrach, Sally Mann, William Wegman, Lee Friedlander, Mary Ellen Mark, Lynn Davis, Hope Sandrow, William Christenberry, Fazal Sheikh, Karen Halverson, and Terry Evans.

Hardcover. Philadelphia PA, Philadelphia Museum Of Art, 1st, 2000-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 198 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket with two faint damp stains to front panel. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, The Brooklyn Museum, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, numerous b&w illustrations throughout. Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum November 1972-February 1973. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Slight wear and rubbing around edges and spine, front cover lightly sunned, else a nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams , 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Large hardcover volume in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. The author and illustrator gives his special imaginative touch to the most famous animal story through more than two hundred full-color paintings and a lively text. This is the larger first US printing, not the 1992 reprint in a smaller format. Clean, like new.

Softcover. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Softcover. US, Brooklyn Museum Bookshop, 1st, 1992-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps. Beautiful reproductions of paintings and drawings throughout, with 12 color plates. Pages are crisp and clean, binding is tight. 126 pages. Catalogue of the exhibition held March 28 to May 14, 1972, at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Hardcover. London, Sotheby's, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, 84 pages. The catalogue for an auction of a group of the original drawings Blake did to illustrate Blair's poem "The Grave," in 1805. These drawings had been lost, were recently re-discovered and were auctioned by Sothebys. The catalogue is of 20 lots, and theis essay by Bialler surveys the history and scholarship surrounding the works.

Softcover. London , Tate Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages. Softcover. Extensive color photographs and illustrations throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Gilt titles on cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. New York, Prestel Publishing, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 452 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color pictures throughout. Black covers with gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's signature and bookplate on front flyleaf. Light wear and rubbing to dust jacket. This excellent catalog of the 1990-1991 exhibition in Venice and Washington is a work of permanent value. Featuring essays by 16 authorities, primarily Italian and American, on every aspect of the art of Titian (Tiziano Vecelli, c. 1490-1576), the quintessential Venetian artist of the high Renaissance, the work transcends the limits of spatial and temporal exhibition to summarize and extend current scholarship. At the same time, the text is accessible, well translated, and aimed at a broad audience. Many of the works in the exhibit were conserved or cleaned, so the book features fresh illustrations and a hefty amount of technical discussion of specialist interest.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2024, Hardcover, very large format-15 X 19", 176 pages. Bill Ward's glamour girls were the staples of countless men's and humor magazines, where they shared the pages with cult models like Bettie Page, Tina Louise, and Julie Newmar, and cartoons by fellow "good girl" artists such as Archie's Dan Decarlo and Playboy's Jack Cole. Imagine if you will, an innocent but stunning young woman boasting wildly exaggeratedly Barbie-like proportions poured into a wisp of lingerie or clingy cocktail dress and adorned in diamond necklaces and opera-length gloves, all perched on top of a pair of dangerously high stiletto heels, and you've got the recipe for the quintessential Bill Ward glamour girl. What set Ward apart-and above-his talented contemporaries in terms of sheer image-making was his use of the conte crayon. When drawn on simple newsprint stock, this potent combination created Ward's trademark gossamer sheen on his women's thigh-high stockings. This Fantagraphics Studio edition showcases the best of Ward's Humorama work and includes a healthy number of what became known as his "telephone girls." Tame by today's standards, Ward's telephone girls were always caught in candid moments when they just happened to be talking on the phone dressed in gossamer lingerie in innocently provocative poses. And did they ever talk on the phone when they weren't in bed? The majority of the images in this volume were drawn between 1955 and 1965 when Ward was at the height of his skill. They have been scanned in super high-solution from original art and reproduced to highlight every sheen and accentuate every curve to its fullest. The book not only reproduces more than 150 of Ward's most beautifully rendered illustrations, but also serves as a time capsule to a more innocent moment in pop culture when these images were shocking. The Fantagraphics Studio Edition also features an introduction by fashion/style icon and burlesque superstar Dita Von Teese. Like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Phoenix AZ, Phoenix Art Museum, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 376 pages, illustrated in b&w, some color. Cover has sunning to areas, otherwise clean.