Used, Rare & Out-of-Print Art Books

Harper & Brothers, Harper's Weekly, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Full-page pen and ink drawing of a golfer putting ball. One in a series by E.W. Kemble, himself a golf enthusiast. Approx. 10 X 13".PLEASE NOTE The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. London, V&A Publications, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Soiling and wear to dust jacket edges. Light yellowing to inside pages. Small tears to dust jacket rear. An otherwise tight copy. 97 color plates, 80 black and white illustrations. In 1947, Christian Dior?s ?New Look? was greeted with both shock and delight, making headlines around the world. Accompanying the exhibition opening at the Victoria and Albert Museum in September 2007, this lavish book focuses on Parisian and British couture between 1947 and 1957, the decade Dior hailed as fashion?s ?golden age.? The ?New Look? symbolized a new femininity. The full skirts and hourglass silhouettes were considered highly decadent, synonymous with luxury and prosperity, in marked contrast to the austerity of the WWII years. Nevertheless, the ?New Look? caught the public imagination and ushered in a period of remarkable creativity. The Golden Age of Couture features stunning gowns and exquisite tailoring from Dior as well as from such designers as Balenciaga, Balmain, and Givenchy, along with evocative photographs by the likes of Richard Avedon and Cecil Beaton.

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publishing, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Artist Harvey Dinnerstein writes about his personal approach to and process of painting. 144 pages, 80 color and 58 black/white reproductions of his work at various stages. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, very clean copy; dust jacket has slight wear and a few creases around the edges.

Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog. Introduction by John J. McKendry and texts by Robert Motherwell and Diane Kelder. Slim small quarto. Illustrated in black and white. Spine a bit tanned and wrappers with minor soil. The exhibition was held October 24 - December 3, 1972 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

NY, Harper & Brothers, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Painting of little girl enticing squirrel in tree holding a nut. Art by Arthur Dove. Approx. 10 X 13".PLEASE NOTE The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. New York, Whittlesey House, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, approx. 250 b&w cartoons gathered from the Saturday Evening Post in the mid-forties. Cartoonists include Gardner Rae, Ted Key, Barbara Shermund, Chon Day, George Price, many others. Bright and clean, dust jacket present with spine chipping.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1970, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None,

Softcover. NY, Shapolsky Publishers, 2nd Ed., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 196 pages, b&w photos throughout. Introduction by Thomas Hess. Fred McDarrah (1926-2007) was a photojournalist, author, and staff photographer for the Village Voice known for documenting the Beat Generation and the New York art world. The present work is a vital document of an exuberant moment in cultural history. Clean copy.

NY, Watson-Guptill , 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Folio, unpaginated. Profusely illustrated with nearly 900 advertisements, designs, photographs etc. Hardcover, bound in original cloth with dustjacket. In excellent condition. No markings. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Horace Liveright, 6th pr., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, unpaginated. A collection of early Arno cartoons from the New Yorker, 1926-29. Clean, tight copy. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 182 pages, 62 color plates (including 9 gatefolds) and 150 illustrations in b&w and duotone. Monograph of Edward Ruscha, icon of the funky, laid-back world of Californian modern art. Yellow cloth, gilt lettering and unfortunate, but small ink-stains to spine. Pictorial dust jacket with light wear and some sun-fading to spine. Overall a very neat, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, National Portrait Gallery, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 160 pages, color illustrations. Published to coincide with the first ever exhibition dedicated to Constable's portraits, this book will present new scholarship and argue that many of these unexplored paintings are worthy of close attention, both for their contribution to the history of portraiture and for the insights they bring to a painter of international acclaim. Constable's sitters make up a 'Jane Austen' world, belonging to the middle and upper ranks of early nineteenth century provincial society: clergymen and their wives, landed gentry and families wealthy from trade. Clean copy.

Softcover. Decatur IL, Illustrated Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 80 pages. Two long profiles on illustrators Frank McCarthy and Paul Bransom, All in color.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two volume set. Hardcovers with dust jackets. Both in beautifully illustrated slipcase. Minor fraying to slipcase edges. Hardcovers both clean and unmarked. Color illustrations throughout.

Softcover. Philadelphia, The Schwarz Gallery, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. This 130 page catalog is beautifully printed in full color and features still-life paintings from 1795 to 1954. The cover features "Cutlet and Vegetables" by Raphaelle Peale. The cover has a few minor blemishes and the interior pages exhibit slight wear. The book includes the original cover-letter from Robert Schwarz.

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #7731, 261 pages, illustrated in color, 276 lots. Clean copy.

1937, Book: Very Good, Color painting of blonde woman in a red blouse against blue background by John LaGatta. 10 X 13", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Softcover. New York, Associated American Artists, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, spiral bound with illustrated wrappers. Published quarterly by the Associated American Artists, Inc. and features art work and sketches by Freeman. This issue has sketches of the Columbus Circle area of the city. Sketches are either in black and white or two-tone color. Unpaginated with approximately 28 full page sketches, some fold-outs. Light edgewear, clean.

Softcover. Munich, Germany, Saint Louis Art Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog, 482 pages, many illustrations, over 100 in color. Extensive survey of paintings, drawings, watercolors and prints. Includes biography, bibliography and the index of names and paintings. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Haus der Kunst, Munich February 25-April 23, 1984 which moved on to St. Louis and Los Angeles. Clean. bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 126 pages illustrated in color. In this intimate and profound portrait, the former Metropolitan Museum director elicits extended and revealing dialogue from the artist, revealing the philosophy and spirit of his art.

1943, Book: Very Good, Color art of plant worker finding Father's Day cake in lunch box. Painting by Howard Scott. 10 X 13", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. Seattle, Wa, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy. Color illustrations throughout by Carl Barks. Uncle Scrooge sends Donald and the nephews to the jungle; the nephews solve a Western ghost mystery; and there are 10,000 hungry baby turkeys to deliver.Donald and his nephews visit an Old West ghost town that was suddenly abandoned when the sheriff vanished while in hot pursuit of a passel of outlaws. Now the remains of the town are haunted - and it's up to the plucky nephews to solve the mystery of "The Ghost Sheriff of Last Gasp" before it's too late! Then, Donald is made stationmaster for a tiny out-of-the-way railroad station, but his first delivery is 10,000 baby turkeys - and they're all hungry! And when the Coast Guard announces it found the wreck of a steamship that sank with Uncle Scrooge's gold on board, the race is on to recover it ahead of Scrooge's rivals. Scrooge hustles Donald and the nephews into his private submarine - but it's Christmas Eve, and the boys are afraid Santa won't be able to find them to deliver their presents. The boys appeal to Uncle Scrooge, but - well, his name is Scrooge.Plus lots more stories with Barks favorites, including the wacky inventor Gyro Gearloose, the irritatingly lucky Gladstone Gander, and the ever-glamorous and sensible Daisy Duck. Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of outrageous hijinks, preposterous situations, and all-around cartooning brilliance. Over 200 pages of stories, each meticulously restored and newly colored. Insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Softcover. N. P., Privately Printed, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in stapled wrappers, 25 pages. 1/750 copies. Minor wear to covers, else a lovely little pamphlet in excellent shape. An address given to the Friends of the Brown University Libraries.

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #N08022, 244 pages, illustrated in color, fold-out plates. 61 lots. Clean copy.

1927, Two-color art of woman with gypsy headscarf by W.T. Benda. 10 X 13", small label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Softcover with black/white and some color comic strips throughout. Clean, tight copy with only light edgewear to paper wrappers.

Softcover. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 62 pages. 69 B&W plates. White pictorial cover with slight soiling to spine and back cover. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Santa Susana Press, Ltd. Ed., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, unnumbered, one of 198. 32 pages, one hundred ninety-nine copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom. Designed by Ward Ritchie. Navy blue cloth with gilt stamping. Clean copy.

1926, Book: Very Good, Color art: "Peter Minuet buys the Delaware River lands from the Indians for a brass kettle and a few trinkets, March 1638". Painting by Stanley Arthurs. 10 X 13", small printed address. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Brodart covering dust jacket has two blue lines that bled through onto dust jacket. Internally clean and tight copy.

Softcover. Memphis, TN, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 206 pages. With newspaper clipping slipped in. Illustrated in B&W and color. overall tight and clean copy. The narrative essays chart the routes taken by the American painters as they progressed from their experience at French communities to the re-establishment of their careers on native soil. Also included with the essays are the vivid artwork of these painters.

Hardcover. Neshannock PA, Hermes Press, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 203 pages. What made many of the great adventure comics of the 1960s so attractive were their fantastic painted covers by artist George Wilson. Wilson also turned in hundreds of painted covers for paperback books that range from The Phantom and Flash Gordon to romance, adventure and war titles, all illustrated in the extensive survey of his work. Unlike the majority of comic book covers of the era, Wilson's covers harkened back to the era of pulp magazines and were spectacularly eye-catching. He turned in efforts for literally hundreds of comics titles - this important monograph on the artist provides examples of every genre he worked in. Presented are cover paintings scanned from the original artwork from Classics Illustrated, The Twilight Zone, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Doctor Solar, Magnus Robot Fighter, Turok, Son of Stone, Star Trek, Korak, Son of Tarzan, Mighty Samson, Brothers of the Spear, Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery, Space Family Robinson, Dark Shadows, and The Occult Files of Doctor Spektor to name but a few. This new art book focuses on over 300 examples of his cover art accompanied by an introduction by famed artist Joe Jusko, an exhaustive essay by Anthony Taylor and the only interview Wilson ever gave. Clean copy.

1951, Book: Very Good, Color art of Washington in his boat crossing the Delaware River. Painting by Tom Lovell. 10 X 13", label shadoe not affecting art. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 364 pages, b&w illustrations. A reprint of the classic survey published in 1947. In a bright dust jacket, clean.

Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Very good. Swiss Posters 1976. Kodak Colour Calender Contest, 1977. Fred Otnes. 1.international Animated Film Festival in Ottawa. Trends in Jewellery Design in Europe.

Hardcover. NY, Orion Press/ Trianon Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 180 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. 112 pages of photos, 3 fold-outs. The definitive study of the 12th-century French sculptor, responsible for almost all the sculpture and reliefs in the medieval cathedral in Burgundy. Spine cracked at preliminary spread before title page. No markings, clean copy.

1938, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon of doorman brining last leaf to man burning leaves. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. Koln, Taschen, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 460 pages, without dustjacket, as issued. Clean, bright copy with hundreds of nudes and scantily-clad women in color and b&w photographs and illustrations.

Hardcover. Geneva, Switzerland, Nagel Publishers, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 146 pages, with color plates and illustrations. 789 of 3000 limited edition first printing. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Minor foxing throughout in text areas, but illustrations are unaffected. Some creased color plates. Tight binding and overall good condition.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 251 pages in color. With bold imagery and an ear tuned to the music of Homers epic poem, Gareth Hinds reinterprets the ancient classic as its never been told before. Retells, in graphic novel format, Homer's epic tale of Odysseus, the ancient Greek hero who encounters witches and other obstacles on his journey home after fighting in the Trojan War. Clean copy.

1931, Book: Very Good, Color art of a smiling little girl wearing a bonnet decorated with fall leaves by Jessie Wilcox Smith. 8 1/4 X 11 1/2". PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages. 151 illustrations, including 51 plates in full color, displaying beautiful realistic as well as surrealistic paintings. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, State University of New York, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, illustrated throughout. Dust jacket edge wear and fade, minor rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.Here at long last is the study of the life and paintings of Ralph Earl, the colorful eighteenth-century American artist whose pictures hang in the great galleries but about whom relatively little has appeared in print. A pioneer landscapist in a day when portraiture was the vogue, a Tory in Revolutionary New England, he nevertheless captured the stance and spirit of the new nation in the first decades after the Revolution. He portrayed the merchants and civic leaders of the time, often with their families, in their homes, orchards, business establishments--and the result is a record of post-Revolutionary American dress, design, and decoration as well as face and figure. Professor Goodrich has tracked down and assembled forty-one of Earl's paintings for this book, providing the first opportunity of viewing the artist's work as a body. The pictures range from a youthful re-creation of the Battle of Concord, through portraits done in England (whence he fled during the Revolution and which enabled him to absorb the techniques of the great eighteenth-century English portraitists), to his invaluable paintings of General von Steuben, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, and other figures in the young United States.

1975, Book: Very Good, Color illustration of floating water pitcher dousing individual by Saul Steinberg. 8 1/4 X 11 1/2", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black design, unpaginated. 224 original cartoons and drawings of George Price; including excerpts from Price's diary recounting his daily antics working for the New Yorker, Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post. Bump to bottom corner of front cover, otherwise clean, very good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Monaco, Christie's, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes in a green cloth slipcase. Both in bright dust wrappers. Large color photographs throughout. All very bright and clean.

Softcover. NY, Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog, 12 color plates. February 7 - March 9, 1991. Introduction by Elizabeth Frank. Plates, biography, bibliography. Clean copy.

1938, Book: Very Good, Color art of baby waking up at midnight by J. C. Leyendecker. 10 X 13", small label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Eldon Dedini has been one of Playboy's most recognizable full-page gag cartoonists. With a masterful watercolor technique that burlesques a broad range of subjects, from East and West Coast urban and suburban adult-hipster to classical Japanese erotic prints, Dedini's most personal cartoons rely on mythology and legend. They evoke a bucolic sexually-liberated paradise that leaves his readers lingering over the imagery long after the gag registers. The Art of Playboy's Eldon Dedini is the first retrospective collection of his work, and gathers in one volume the most sophisticated, elegant, and funny gag panels of the past six decades.

Softcover. Bratenahl, OH, Cleveland stock images, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 78 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.