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Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright Surveys the work of 131 contemporary artists, lavishly illustrated. 100 color, and 297 black and white plates. Bibliography, index. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 255 pages. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Second paperback printing. Bright and clean. Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543), one of the most versatile and admired painters of the Northern Renaissance, trained under his father in Augsburg and then worked for leading patrons in Switzerland before settling in England as Court Painter to Henry VIII. To commemorate the five-hundredth anniversary of the artist's birth, Oskar Batschmann and Pascal Griener offer this richly illustrated book the first comprehensive monograph on the artist to appear in more than forty years which is a major advance in our understanding of Holbein's contribution to European art.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 358 pages, color and b&w illustrations. What we call classical art did not simply appear in ancient Rome, or in the Renaissance, or in the eighteenth-century Academy. Endlessly repackaged and revered or rebuked, Greek and Roman artifacts have gathered an amazing array of values, both positive and negative, in each new historical period, even as these objects themselves have reshaped their surroundings. Vout shows how this process began in antiquity, as Greeks of the Hellenistic period transformed the art of fifth-century Greece, and continued through the Roman empire, Constantinople, European court societies, the neoclassical English country house, and the nineteenth century, up to the modern museum. Clean copy.

Hardcover. University Park PA, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 295 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Beginning in the 1730s, Heather Minor tells us, Rome "began to resemble one huge construction site," with a series of ambitious and expensive new building campaigns that transformed the face and substance of the city. From renovations of the Santa Maria Maggiore and San Giovanni in Laterano and the restoration of the Arch of Constantine to the creation of the Capitoline Museum and the establishment of the papacy's Calcografia, the push for reform not only renewed papal and Church identity but also revived Italian culture as a whole. Based on extensive archival research and full of fascinating stories about the often stormy theological and intellectual debates central to the attempts at reform, The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome brings to life the personalities of architects, theologians, and intellectuals and links the extensive architectural programs with powerful shifts in the intellectual climate of the time. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 287 pages. FRENCH TEXT. Illustrated in b&w, some color. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Milwaukie WI, Dark Horse Comics, 1st, 2021, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 96 pages. A collection demonstrating the effectiveness of the comics medium for telling the most personal of stories--the autobiography. Showcasing some of the first published autobiographical stories from living-legend artists, mainstream greats, and young "indie" up-and-comers!Featuring stories by Will Eisner, William Stout, Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon, Stan Sakai, Sergio Aragones, and many more of comics' top talent! Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 738 pages, Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was arguably the world's greatest sculptor, known for such works as "The Thinker, The Kiss, The Hand of God" and dozens of others. Beautifully written and illustrated, "Rodin" is the definitive biography of a man whose influence on sculpture was as profound as Michelangelo's. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Collects stories from classic Spirit adventures in which a murdered detective fights crime from beyond the grave. July 1949-December 1949. The stories in the latest volume of vintage Spirit exploits catch the masked crime fighter nine years into the series. Eisner, ever inventive, was still finding ways to keep things fresh, and a four-week arc sees the hero wandering exotic Pacific islands. There are some signs that Eisner may have been wearying of his headliner. In many tales here, including the celebrated "Ten Minutes," which counts down the final moments of a young man's life, the Spirit barely makes an appearance. As always, Eisner's much-imitated "cartoon noir" style finds him moving seamlessly from broad humor to high melodrama. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Collects stories from classic Spirit adventures in which a murdered detective fights crime from beyond the grave. July 1947-December 1947. Color art by Eisner. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press , 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 311 pages, b&w illustrations. In the 1930s and 1940s, English fashion houses, spurred by economic and wartime crises, put London on the map as a major fashion city. In this book, Michelle Jones examines the creation of a London-based couture industry during these years, exploring how designer collaboration and the construction of specific networks and narratives supported and shaped the English fashion economy. Haute couture-the practice of creative made-to-measure womenswear-was widely regarded as inherently French. Jones shows how an English version emerged during a period of economic turbulence, when a group of designers banded together in a collective effort to shift power within the international fashion system. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Design, 1st, 2023, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 223 pages illustrated in color. From longtime fashion director, consultant, media personality, and author, Hal Rubenstein, comes a lush, full color, illustrated guide to the most influential fashion on television from the 1950s to today, revealing the surprising ways our favorite shows have significantly reflected and often shaped the way we dress. From Mary Tyler Moore's capri pants on The Dick van Dyke Show and Emma Peel's dominatrix jumpsuit on The Avengers to Olivia Pope's trademark white trench on Scandal and Don Drapers' grey sharkskin suits on Mad Men Dressing the Part is a rich history of popular American fashion and culture in the modern age. In this gorgeous compendium, the longtime fashion director and expert identifies the most stylish television shows of the past 70 years, highlighting the ways they have affected and often inspired ordinary Americans' wardrobes. Combining his decades of fashion expertise and insider knowledge with lush photographs, archival sketches, fascinating interviews with over two dozen of television's best costume designers, commentary from showrunners and co-stars, and little-known backstories, Rubenstein reveals with insight and wit how television has shaped everyday fashion, guiding and often elevating how we dress. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, Idea & Design Works, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oversize format, pictorial boards, 157 pages, color throughout. Continuing the Eisner Award-winning series of the rare Archie newspaper strips by Bob Montana, we turn our attention to his remarkable, full-color Sunday pages. Archie''s Sunday Best is the first-ever collection of the late 1940s and early 1950s Sundays. Montana is approaching the peak of his creative juices in these pages, which feature classic Archie themes and characters. The cartoonist draws on the facts, fantasy, feelings, and fun of his own high school days in Haverhill, Massachusetts. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONY.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 372 pages, color plates throughout. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering.A comprehensive survey of the work of this most influential Florentine artist and teacher Andrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435-1488) was one of the most versatile and inventive artists of the Italian Renaissance. He created art across media, from his spectacular sculptures and paintings to his work in goldsmithing, architecture, and engineering. His expressive, confident drawings provide a key point of contact between sculpture and painting. He led a vibrant workshop where he taught young artists who later became some of the greatest painters of the period, including Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Lorenzo di Credi, and Domenico Ghirlandaio. This beautifully illustrated book presents a comprehensive survey of Verrocchio's art, spanning his entire career and featuring some fifty sculptures, paintings, and drawings, in addition to works he created with his students. Through incisive scholarly essays, in-depth catalog entries, and breathtaking illustrations, this volume draws on the latest research in art history to show why Verrocchio was one of the most innovative and influential of all Florentine artists.Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Small white sticker on dj spine, otherwise like new. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

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.

Softcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 350 pages, color illustrations. Eighty-two comic artists are featured, varying greatly in age, experience, and style. Each artist is introduced with a few paragraphs including some biographical material and quotations regarding their style, influences, and approach to their work, followed by approximately four large pages per artist of previously unpublished doodle or draft drawings from their sketchbooks, totaling 700 individual illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 270 pages. David Duncan was an accomplished photojournalist who covered World War II and the Korean War. He later joined Life magazine. He was a close friend of Picasso and was the only person allowed to photograph Picasso's private collection. Issued for the 80th birthday of the artist, the book is a recollection of Picasso's work between 1895-1960. The photographic reportage was shoot by Duncan in Villa La Californie in Cannes on the French Riviera, where Picasso was living with his wife Jacqueline. The book contains many illustrations, tipped in color plates, photographs of Picasso, and black and white illustrations, the text is reach of anecdotes and presents a fine portrait of Picasso's life through his work and time. Clean, no markings. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Silkworm Books/Buppha Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 430 pages with b&w and color plates. This comprehensive and attractive reference is divided into four parts: the historical and cultural background; the analysis of Northern Buddha images, including iconography, style, techniques, and dating; the types of Northern Buddha images; and associated Buddhist sculpture, such as footprints and mythical creatures. The Buddha images are classified by style and date, using those images with inscribed dates as the armature around which to cluster the undated statues. The images are analyzed in detail and placed in their historical, cultural, and religious context. Richly illustrated with photographs and line drawings, this volume is an indispensable reference and guide to Buddha images and other Buddhist sculpture of Northern Thailand. Clean copy.

Softcover. 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Article: Beyond the Blue: The Art of Maxfield Parrish, 11 page article, color illustrations. Related newspaper articl laid-in. Clean, sharp copy.

Softcover. Raleigh NC, TwoMorrows Publishing, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 126 pages. Working With Ditko takes a unique and nostalgic journey through comics' Bronze Age, as editor and writer Jack C. Harris recalls his numerous collaborations with legendary comics master Steve Ditko! It features never-before-seen preliminary sketches and pencil art from Harris' tenure working with Ditko on The Creeper, Shade the Changing Man, the Odd Man, the Demon, Wonder Woman, Legion of Super-Heroes, The Fly, and even Ditko's unused redesign for Batman! Plus, it documents their work on numerous independent properties, and offers glimpses of original characters from Ditko's drawing board that have never been viewed by even his most avid fans! This illustrated volume is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to experience the creative comic book process by one of the industry's most revered creators, as seen through the eyes of one of his most frequent collaborators! Bright, clean copy.

Softcover. Raleigh NC, TwoMorrows, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Softcover, staoled, 80 pages. Issue devoted to Edmond Hamilton, science fiction author. "Writer of Two Worlds" by Glen Cadigan. Iiiustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.

Softcover. IDW/Idea & Design Works, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, the smaller (8 1/4 X 12") Artisan Edition. Collects more than 140 EC covers by their best and brightest talents. The luminaries included in this elegant tome include: Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, Graham Ingels, Al Williamson, Johnny Craig, Frank Frazetta, Jack Davis, Al Feldstein, and more. Each cover in this collection has been scanned from the original art. While appearing to be in black and white, these images were scanned in COLOR, enabling the reader to see all the subtle nuances that make original art unique. Blue pencil notations, zip-a-tone, Duoshade, whiteoutall of these and more are clearly visible. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Clover Press , 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. The saga continues in Terry and the Pirates Volume 8, reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs. Pat Ryan's bittersweet reunion with the entire Sandhurst family including young daughter Merrily is cut short when they are captured and placed in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. Even worse, human weasel Tony Sandhurst is revealed as an Axis conspirator! Pat revs up an escape for Normandie, Merrily, and himself, but their path to freedom intersects with the Dragon Lady. When the Sandhurst women find themselves on their own behind enemy lines, their privations finally end in the same U.S. Army camp hospital where Terry Lee is recuperating! Terry has happy encounters with nurse Taffy Tucker and aviator Flip Corkin, and a less-pleasant encounter with the conniving redhead known only as Rouge! This tabloid-sized Volume 8 containing the 1942 dailies and Sundays is an unparalleled upgrade that no Terry fan can afford to pass up. Sill in publisher's shrinkwrap. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 5th Ed., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue glossy boards with gilt lettering, beige cloth spine, 319 pages. No dust jacket. Lavishly illustrated with color, black and white photographs. Many rooms illustrated were by well-known interior designers and belonged to the rich and famous of the 1940s. Valuable reference for movie or live theatre sets featuring interiors in the 50's, whether traditional or modern. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, The New Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 280 pages. Dedicated readers and fans of Theodor Seuss Geisel, or Dr. Seuss, know of Seuss's fascinating, long-forgotten career as a political cartoonist for the New York daily newspaper PM during World War II. Dr. Seuss, however, was only one of a number of distinguished cartoonists whose work appeared in PM. In Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War, we discover an astonishing treasure trove of over three hundred incisive political cartoons by Seuss as well as a cohort of other legendary cartoonists of the time, including Saul Steinberg, Al Hirschfeld, Arthur Szyk, Carl Rose, and Mischa Richter. These fascinating cartoons offer a totally different picture of the war, both at home and abroad. Sure to fascinate and surprise readers across the generations, Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War lets readers ?time travel to a remarkable time when editorial cartoons really mattered". Clean copy.

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. On November 18, 1928, the world's most famous Mouse made his very first public debut. Today, we celebrate 90+ years of Mickey in one of the most expansive illustrated publications on the Disney universe. Starting with the first sketches of a character who was almost named Mortimer, we trace the career of Walt Disney's and Ub Iwerks's most famous creation, one met with an explosion of worldwide popularity preceded only by the earlier successes of Charlie Chaplin.With unlimited access to Disney's vast historical collections as well as public and private collections, the authors bring Mickey's success story to life: concept art, story sketches, background paintings, and animation drawings as well as historical photographs trace the origins and evolution of such timeless favorites as Steamboat Willie, The Band Concert, and Brave Little Tailor. They also follow Mickey as he builds on this legendary library of short cartoons by appearing in two historic feature-length films, Fantasia and Fun and Fancy Free.Extensive archival research sheds new light on little-known chapters of Mickey's career, the origins of the Mickey Mouse Club, and his use as a patriotic icon during World War II. Along the way, we encounter the work of all major Mickey artists in both film and comics, including such greats as Ub Iwerks, Win Smith, Ferdinand Horvath, Fred Moore, Floyd Gottfredson, Carl Barks, Manuel Gonzales, Paul Murry, Romano Scarpa, Giorgio Cavazzano, Byron Erickson, and Cesar Ferioli.Mickey Mouse has left an indelible mark on everyday culture as well as high art, becoming a favored subject for Pop artists such as Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Roy Lichtenstein.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 288 pages, color & b/w plates, sources, index.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 588 pages, several color plates. Before Picasso became Picasso-the iconic artist now celebrated as one of France's leading figures-he was constantly surveilled by the French police. Amid political tensions in the spring of 1901, he was flagged as an anarchist by the security services-the first of many entries in an extensive case file. Though he soon emerged as the leader of the cubist avant-garde, and became increasingly wealthy as his reputation grew worldwide, Picasso's art was largely excluded from public collections in France for the next four decades. The genius who conceived Guernica in 1937 as a visceral statement against fascism was even denied French citizenship three years later, on the eve of the Nazi occupation. In a country where the police and the conservative Academie des Beaux-Arts represented two major pillars of the establishment at the time, Picasso faced a triple stigma-as a foreigner, a political radical, and an avant-garde artist. Picasso the Foreigner approaches the artist's career and art from an entirely new angle, making extensive use of fascinating and long-overlooked archival sources. In this groundbreaking narrative, Picasso emerges as an artist ahead of his time not only aesthetically but politically, one who ignored national modes in favor of contemporary cosmopolitan forms. Remainder dot to top edge, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art , 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with blue cloth spine. In 1860 James McNeill Whistler and Joanna Hiffernan met and began a significant professional and personal relationship. Hiffernan posed as a model for many of Whistlers works, including his controversial Symphony in White paintings, a trilogy that fascinated and challenged viewers with its complex associations with sex and morality, class and fashion, academic and realist art, Victorian popular fiction, aestheticism and spiritualism. This luxuriously illustrated volume provides the first comprehensive account of Hiffernan's partnership with Whistler throughout the 1860s and 1870s a period when Whistler was forging a reputation as one of the most innovative and influential artists of his generation. A series of essays discusses how Hiffernan and Whistler overturned artistic conventions and sheds light on their interactions with contemporaries, including Gustave Courbet, for whom she also modeled. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Mineola NY, Calla Editions, reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Designers, collectors, and Art Nouveau aficionados will treasure this original collection of 100 plates of decorative full-color graphics. These authentic images are reproduced from the now extremely hard-to-find periodical La decoration artistique, which was published in Paris during the decade before World War I. They constitute some of the rarest and best material printed during the Art Nouveau period, and these uncommonly graceful and appealing illustrations are now available in this beautifully designed hardcover edition. The dazzling array of images includes headpieces, typographical banners, and other sinuous designs bursting with parrots and peacocks, vines and flowers, and other natural motifs. Examples include storefront signage for bakeries and cafes; decorative friezes of theatrical masks and grapevines; borders of flowers, books, and birds; stenciled decorations for fire screens; and corner and ceiling ornaments. An essential acquisition for any library or collector of Art Nouveau graphics and illustration, this volume promises to provide a lasting source of inspiration and pleasure. Clean copy.

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. Oxford UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages. Much has been written about John Constable and his innovative paintings that inspire every succeeding generation of naturalistic artists, but there are few straightforward accounts of this English artist's life and works. Cormack's monograph links biographical detail and scholarly appraisal together in a way that goes beyond the previously most pertinent biography, Graham Reynold's Constable (London: Grenada, 1977). He focuses on the growth of Constable's career rather than new revelations. The book benefits from the inclusion of almost 300 illustrations, with one-third in color. All the major works are shown, plus many that have not been published much in the past. A few flaws are noted: some color reproductions are overbright, there is no chronology to assist readers. Yet this is a solid work and should be considered for large public and all academic libraries covering 19th century art and/or British painting. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 3rd printing, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 255 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. a Clean, tight copy. Third printing of this large trade paperback published for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis for the 1982 exhibition. Illustrated with 205 b&w and color plates.

Hardcover. New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 52 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with tape repaired tears along edges, areas of fading. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1990, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 247 pages with 105 plates (many color)."Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin, and Claude Lorrain were the masters of ideal, or heroic, landscape painting in the seventeenth century. In this original and highly sophisticated book, Margaretha Lagerlof interprets these paintings in a new way, examining them from four perspectives relevant to their contemporaries - those of drama, rhetoric, utopianism, and metaphysics."

Softcover. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, Revised Ed., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three softcover volumes, complete set. Clean, tight trade paperbacks with unmarked interior and text. Straight uncreased spines; like new. b&w illustrations. Indexed. xxiv, 411; xviii, 477; xvi, 567 pages. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, In Painting as an Art, which began as the 1984 Andrew Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., philosopher Richard Wollheim transcended the boundaries and habits of both philosophy and art history to produce a large, encompassing vision of viewing art. Wollheim had three great passions--philosophy, psychology, art--and his work attempted to unify them into a theory of the experience of art. He believed that unlocking the meaning of a painting involved retrieving, almost reenacting, the creative activity that produced it.In order to fully appreciate a work of art, Wollheim argued, critics must bring to the understanding of a work of art a much richer conception of human psychology than they have in the past: "Many [critics] . . . make do with a psychology that, if they tried to live their lives by it, would leave them at the end of an ordinary day without lovers, friends, or any insight into how this came about." Many reviewers have remarked on the insightfulness of the book's final chapter, in which Wollheim contended that certain paintings by Titian, Bellini, de Kooning, and others represent the painters' attempts to project fantasies about the human body onto the canvas. Light fading to dj spine. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, Rizzoli , 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 258 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Initials on front fly leaf, otherwise tight and clean copy.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st pbk, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 282 pages. 113 color plates, 47 in b&w. The painters who came to be known as the Hudson River School - Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Frederic Edwin Church, Jasper Cropsey, Sanford Robinson Gifford, and others - found inspiration in our young country's natural wonders and were the first to paint many of its still-wild vistas. As America was settled and the wilderness receded, their successors - most notably Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran - carried their quest for the sublime to the Far West, communicating its breathtaking grandeur in brilliant views of Rocky Mountain peaks, roaring waterfalls, and vast canyons. Within a single generation these artists established the dramatic approach to American landscape painting that is celebrated in this stirringly beautiful book. The freshness of their vision, the intensity of their invention, and the energy of their execution were all born of the urgency these artists sensed in the life of America itself. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.

Hardcover. UK, PS Artbooks, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, unpaginated. Color comics from the 1940s, all by Basil Wolverton, featuring Space Patrol and Spacehawk. Clean, like new.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 426 pages plus 322 b&w plates in rear of book. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean and bright.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardccover, pictorial boards, 290 pages in color. In the late 1940s, the first half of the Venus series from Marvel Comics predecessors Timely and Atlas Comics was published as a lighthearted romance comic about the goddess Venus taking a job on Earth at a beauty magazine. Never a company to miss a trend, Atlas began introducing more science fiction elements in the 1950s, and eventually turned Venus' dating adventures into a straight-out horror anthology. Collected here, 70 years later and for the first time ever, is that swift-changing second half of the 19-issue run. Future Marvel stars Bill Everett (seven issues) and Werner Roth (three issues) take Venus to heights of four-color weirdness and pre-Code horror ghastliness. Everett in particular is given free rein and seizes the opportunity: writing, drawing, and lettering twenty ghoulish and goofy masterpieces, including classics like "Hangman's House," "The Day Venus Vanished," "The House of Terror," "The Sealed Spectors," Tidal Wave of Terror," and the phantasmagorical "Cartoonist's Calamity!" These stories showcase the brilliant draftsmanship and storytelling of Everett, one of the giants of the 1940s and '50's comic book industry. His slick, fluid line rendered at Timely/Atlas, from his seminal god-child Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, to the atomic age Marvel Boy, is some of the finest pre-Code horror this side of E.C.'s Graham Ingels. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 271 pages. Journey into the mind and creative process of one of the most celebrated anime directors working today with The Man Who Leapt Through Film: The Art of Mamoru Hosoda. Written by renowned animation critic and historian Charles Solomon (The Art of WolfWalkers) and featuring exclusive interviews alongside hundreds of never-before-seen sketches, storyboards, background paintings, character designs, and concept art, this is the ultimate companion piece to Hosoda's work. Writer/director/animator Mamoru Hosoda's work includes Belle (2021), the Academy Award-nominated Mirai (2018); The Boy and the Beast (2015); Wolf Children (2012); Summer Wars (2009); and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006). He is the cofounder of Studio Chizu, one of Japan's premier animation studios. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 256 pages illustrated in b&w. This volume of Craig's crime and horror work collects comics stories he wrote and drew for Vault of Horror, Shock SuspenStories, and Crime SuspenStories, as well as the complete collection of all his "Dateline" stories from Extra!. In our title story, a reporter stranded in a Louisiana bayou seeks shelter in a seemingly abandoned mansion, only to discover and fall in love with a beautiful woman living there. He wants to be with her, and she wants to be with him; there's only one way that can happen. Also: Craig's murder masterpiece, "Understudies," in which two lovers conspire to remove their respective spouses, in a twisted twist recalling The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity; and his signature horror story "...All Through the House" (twice adapted to film - for 1972's Tales From the Crypt movie and HBO's 1989 Tales From the Crypt pilot episode). Plus, the debut of EC's enigmatic horror hostess, Drusilla, and a look at the work of EC artists Harry Harrison, Howard Larsen, Sheldon Moldoff (Moon Girl) as well. Thirty-one stories in all, with essays and commentary by EC experts. Introduction by Grand Master crime novelist Max Allan Collins. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, DK Publishing, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 72 pages. Embark on an amazing, visually dazzling adventure across the Golden Age of DC Comics history! The Golden Age heralded the birth of the Super Hero, and DC Comics paved the way. From the big bang debut of Superman in 1938 to the sensational arrival of the Amazon Princess, Wonder Woman in 1942, the face of comics books was to change forever. Profusely illustrated in color. Clean, bright copy.

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.

Hardcover. New York , DC Comics, 1st thus, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Reprints early Superman stories in which the Man of Steel deals with corrupt officials, black-marketeers, and costumed villains with occasional help from Lois Lane. Issues 5-8 of Superman comics. Color illustrations. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

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. Rutland VT, Charles E. Tuttle, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Thick card covers with integral color printed dust jacket, 32 pages, on thick art paper, 12 large tipped-in plates - 2 b/w and 10 color. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. H. Freeman & Co., 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket with fading to spine, 354 pages. 411 illustrations (254 in color). "The book contains the complete set of numbered symmetry drawings and two Escher Notebooks (1941-1942) in which he explored the world of symmetry patterns and regular division of the plane." [From the dust wrapper copy]. Clean copy.