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The Atlas Artist Edition No. 2: Al Williamson the City That Time Forgot and Other Stories by: Al Williamson /Dr Vassallo (Editor)
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The Atlas Artist Edition No. 2: Al Williamson the City That Time Forgot and Other Stories
by: Al Williamson /Dr Vassallo (Editor)

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 424 pages, color throughout. After becoming a professional comics artist in 1948 at the age of 17, by 21 Al Williamson was well-regarded enough as a Western and science-fiction illustrator to be recruited for the EC Comics staff roster - the absolute peak of the field in the 1950s, and a team rarely challenged since. After the Comics Code forced EC to reduce their business, Williamson found himself at the door of Atlas Comics, the largest employer of freelancers in the field. From 1955-60, Williamson would draw 99 stories for Atlas (both solo and with help by "Fleagle Gang" studio cohorts Angelo Torres and Roy Krenkel, plus Gray Morrow and Ralph Mayo) in mostly western and fantasy genres, with a smattering of war, romance and "jungle girl adventure". He flourished on Westerns, freely and loosely rendered four-page morality plays, many scripted economically by Stan Lee. With his extensive oeuvre subsequently based mostly in newspaper strips (including Flash Gordon, Secret Agent Corrigan, and the syndicated Star Wars, at George Lucas' own request), or working largely as an inker, his Atlas stories collectively are the largest single body of work Williamson would ever do as a primary creator for one company. Fantagraphics is proud to present this Al Williamson Artist Edition to finally showcase this distinct period of his remarkable career. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 397820

Price: $180.00
Price: $180.00 

Scaasi: American Couturier by: Parmal, Pamela A.
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Scaasi: American Couturier by: Parmal, Pamela A.Scaasi: American Couturier by: Parmal, Pamela A.

Scaasi: American Couturier
by: Parmal, Pamela A.

Hardcover. Boston, MFA Publications , 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages in color and b&w Barbra Streisand, Natalie Wood, Arlene Francis, Diahann Carroll, Joan Rivers, Mamie Eisenhower, Barbara Bush, Louise Nevelson... What these women have in common is that all were dressed by Scaasi. From his meteoric rise on Seventh Avenue in the late 1950s through his heyday in the boom decade of the 1980s, Arnold Scaasi has remained one of the most distinctive and successful designers in American fashion. With his signature combination of elegance, flamboyance, surprising colors and fabrics, and finely honed craftsmanship, Scaasi is both a bold American original and a couturier in the grand European tradition. Arnold Scaasi: American Couturier presents the best of Scaasi's fashions in a handsomely packaged, fluidly organized volume. Alongside sumptuous portraits of more than three dozen outfits, the book features numerous period photographs; sketches, notes and clippings from Scaasi's personal archives, most of them never before published; and interviews with Scaasi's famous clients, such as Joan Rivers, Mary Tyler Moore and Diahann Carroll, conducted specifically for this volume. A feast for fashion watchers and design aficionados alike, American Couturier contains all the glamour and thrill that for decades have been synonymous with the Scaasi label. Clean copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 397823

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword - Book 1 by: Milo Manara
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Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword - Book 1
by: Milo Manara

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 76 pages in color. The first half of Milo Manara's two-volume epic biography of the hot-tempered Italian master painter. It depicts Caravaggio's early years in Rome as he struggles to capture truth on canvas, only to have his art condemned to be burned by the Church. He then is forced to flee the city when he kills a man in righteous fury over the death of a prostitute. Discover the bawdy, swashbuckling life of one of the greatest painters in history through Manara's passionate, personal tribute to his artistic idol, Michelangelo Merisi, whom the world would come to know as Caravaggio.

Record # 397824

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Alley Oop Meets Julius Caesar 1949-1950 by: V. T, Hamlin
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Alley Oop Meets Julius Caesar 1949-1950 by: V. T, HamlinAlley Oop Meets Julius Caesar 1949-1950 by: V. T, Hamlin

Alley Oop Meets Julius Caesar 1949-1950
by: V. T, Hamlin

Softcover. Acoustic Learning, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 287 pages in b&w and color, 13 X 10". Julius Caesar has been beaten by the Britons and only Alley can come to the rescue, as he dons armor and becomes a warrior! Back in the modern day, Doc Wonmug is targeted by international gangsters! These stories and more are in this big oversized book, presenting two full years of daily strips and 78 color Sundays. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 397825

Price: $120.00
Price: $120.00 

Loulou & Yves: the Untold Story of Loulou De La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent by: Petkanas, Christopher
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Loulou & Yves: the Untold Story of Loulou De La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent
by: Petkanas, Christopher

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 495 pages, color and b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder dot on top edge.

Record # 397827

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Startling Comics - Issue 48 - Facsimile Edition by: Alex Schomburg (Illust.)
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Startling Comics - Issue 48 - Facsimile Edition
by: Alex Schomburg (Illust.)

Softcover. UK, PS Art Books, reprint, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Another iconic 52 page facsimile comic book reprinted to match the quality when first produced in 1947. Cover art by Alex Schomburg. The Beasts of Dr. Krafte starring Tygra. The Man-Killer on Mars text story starring Lance Lewis by Edward Hasset. Lance Lewis story. Fighting Yank story, art by Ken Battefield. Jefferson Jones story, art by Hal Sherman. Flash in the Pan text story by Charles S. Strong. The Death Boat starring Don Davis, art by Leonard Sansone. Clean, like new.

Record # 397830

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the literary punks, renegade artists...and rock 'n' roll glitter queens who revolutionized culture by: McLeod, Kembrew
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Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the literary punks, renegade artists...and rock 'n' roll glitter queens who revolutionized culture
by: McLeod, Kembrew

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages, b&w illustrations. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The 1960s to early '70s was a pivotal time for American culture, and New York City was ground zero for seismic shifts in music, theater, art, and film-making. The Downtown Pop Underground takes a kaleidoscopic tour of Manhattan during this era and shows how deeply interconnected all the alternative worlds and personalities were that flourished in the basement theaters, dive bars, concert halls, and dingy tenements within one square mile of each other. Author Kembrew McLeod links the artists, writers, and performers who created change, and while some of them didn't become everyday names, others, like Patti Smith, Andy Warhol, and Debbie Harry, did become icons. Ambitious in scope and scale, the book is fueled by the actual voices of many of the key characters who broke down the entrenched divisions between high and low, gay and straight, and art and commerce -- and changed the cultural landscape of not just the city but the world.

Record # 397834

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey by: Edward Gorey
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From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey
by: Edward Gorey

Hardcover. NY, New York Review Of Books , 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. On the envelopes of letters sent to a dear friend, the famed artist and writer Edward Gorey drew dozens of original illustrations now collected in this volume along with marvelously playful selections from the correspondence, all never before seen by the public until now. When Tom Fitzharris met Edward 'Ted' Gorey in 1974, the two quickly struck up a friendship. Over the next year Gorey sent a total of fifty letters to Fitzharris. Every envelope Fitzharris received was illustrated by Gorey, and filled with surprises: typewritten letters with news and opinions from Gorey's life, handwritten note cards with unexpected quotes, sketches, inside jokes, and a host of other joyous miscellany. Assembled here for the first time, these envelopes and their contents deliver all the humor, imagination, gossip, and wonder that came with being Edward Gorey's pen pal. Clean copy.

Record # 397838

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

American Comics: A History by: Jeremy Dauber
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American Comics: A History
by: Jeremy Dauber

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 570 pages. An in-depth history of the American comic strip. From the Civil War era art of Thomas Nast, to the moral panic of the 1950's, the 'Super Hero Boom' of the 60's and 70's, to the rise of complex story telling in graphic novel format. 570 pages with Index, 6-1/2" X 9-1/2". Remainder dot on top of text block, otherwise clean.

Record # 397839

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Nudnik Revealed! by: Deitch, Gene
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Nudnik Revealed!
by: Deitch, Gene

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Hardcover without dust jacket. Extensive color and b&w illustrations throughout. Slight stains to front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy. Inspired by a real-life incident -getting his tie caught in a moving Moviola editing machine- Gene Deitch, cartoonist, animator, memoirist, renaissance man, created Nudnik, his Everyman character, a cross between Candide and Godot. The star of 12 Paramount-produced animated shorts that ran in theatres as an opening to the main movie in 1964 and 1965, Nudnik was one of Deitch's most creatively personal and commercially successful creations in a long career of innovative and successful work, including the award-winning animated versions of Jules Feiffer's Munro and Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. Nudnik is the well-intentioned, kind, cheerful, but bumbling naf, inspired by and reflecting such archetypal characters as Jackie Gleason's Poor Soul, Charlie Chaplin's Tramp, and Charles Schulz's Charlie Brown. He never gets a break, can't do anything right, but somehow muddles through, dignity more or less intact. Nudnik Revealed! finally collects all of Deitch's original drawings, sketches, model sheets, storyboards, and color set-up that he drew during the Nudnik production season of 1964-1965, all reproduced from original art, showcasing his lively pencil line and his slick, authoritative pen and ink work. Deitch, a born storyteller and one of the great raconteurs of comics and animation, accompanies the copious examples of art with a running commentary by turns, funny, spirited, and chock full of historical insights.

Record # 397842

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Hippie Chic by: Whitley, Lauren D.
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Hippie Chic
by: Whitley, Lauren D.

Hardcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. The 1960s saw a revolution in fashion that was born, like most things new and hip in that era, of youth rebellion in the streets. For the first time, designers didn't dictate the trends. Instead, the latest looks trickled up into the top fashion houses (Halston and Yves Saint Laurent among them), by way of bohemian boutiques and avant-garde labels with names like Granny Takes a Trip and Cosmic Couture, and musicians like the Beatles, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Defying easy definition but becoming an international phenomenon all the same, hippie fashion twisted and turned from trippy to retro and crafty to ethnic. The accompanying idea that one can express a personal style with clothing went against everything about the previous generation's notion of matching suits or ladylike ensembles dictated by social class or profession. Sumptuous photography, dynamic design, and far-out images from the era make Hippie Chic a must-have book that goes past peace signs and patchouli to unearth how hippies forever changed the way fashion functions. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 397843

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Lost Battles Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance by: Jones, Jonathan
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Lost Battles Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance
by: Jones, Jonathan

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 354 pages. Color and b&w illustrations. From one of Britain's most respected and acclaimed art historians, art critic of The Guardian--the galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition: the master Leonardo da Vinci, commissioned by the Florentine Republic to paint a narrative fresco depicting a famous military victory on a wall of the newly built Great Council Hall in the Palazzo Vecchio, and his implacable young rival, the thirty-year-old Michelangelo. Clean copy.

Record # 397856

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Painter's Eye: Notes and Essays on the Pictorial Arts by: James, Henry

The Painter's Eye: Notes and Essays on the Pictorial Arts
by: James, Henry

Hardcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with white lettering on spine. 276 pages. Between 1868 and 1897 Henry James wrote a number of short essays and reviews of artists and art collections; these essays were published in magazines such as "Atlantic Monthly" and "Harper's Weekly" and in newspapers such as the "New York Tribune". They included James' comments on Ruskin, Turner, Whistler, Sargent, and the Impressionists, among many others. Thirty of these essays were collected and first published in a modern edition in 1956, accompanied by John Sweeney's introduction which sketched James' interests in the visual arts over a period of years, focusing on the ways in which painting and painters entered his work as subjects. Susan Griffin's new foreword places James' observations in a contemporary context. Some of the novelist's judgements will seem wrong to today's readers: he was very critical of the Impressionists, for example, but all of these essays bear the stamp of James' critical intelligence, and they tell us a great deal about his development as a writer during those years. Bight, clean copy.

Record # 397868

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Raphael: The Stanza Della Segnatura, Rome by: Beck, James
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Raphael: The Stanza Della Segnatura, Rome
by: Beck, James

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 95 pages. Oblong format. 33 color plates of the artist's fresco in the Vatican. Other b&w illustrations. Recognizing the precocious talent of Raphael, then age twenty-six, Pope Julius II commissioned the artist in 1509 to paint four monumental murals and numerous smaller scenes that gave visual form to the enlightened world of the Renaissance. Guided by the leading scholars of his day, Raphael chose themes that glorified the four branches of learning required for a general education, particularly that of a pope: Theology, Poetry, Jurisprudence, and Philosophy. The painting of the latter, perhaps best known today as "The School of Athens," shows Plato and Aristotle striding through a vast, open hallway and flanked by scientists and philosophers of the ancient world; rediscovered in the Renaissance, they hold a convention where they discuss issues that will inspire a new age. Short inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397874

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Brancacci Chapel, Florence by: Andrew Ladis
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The Brancacci Chapel, Florence
by: Andrew Ladis

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 96 pages, oblong format. This chapel in Italy's great city of art is home to a marvelous cycle of frescoes, composed by three 15th-century masters: Masaccio, Masolino, and Filippino Lippi. Under the supervision of Masaccio, they moved far beyond Giotto in creating figures more human, in spaces more realistic than ever, providing inspiration for succeeding artists like Leonardo and Michelangelo. More than 32 color plates. Short inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397875

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Cornell Journal of Architecture: Vol 4 by: Imran Ahmed and Merritt W Bucholz (Ed.)
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The Cornell Journal of Architecture: Vol 4
by: Imran Ahmed and Merritt W Bucholz (Ed.)

Softcover. NY, Rizzoli/Cornell University, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 209 pages, oblong format. B&w illustrations and line drawings. Pictorial card covers. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 397877

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Romanesque Art by: Zarnecki, George

Romanesque Art
by: Zarnecki, George

Hardcover. NY, Universe Books, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt titles. 196 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Discusses the history of the movement and shows examples of architecture, sculpture, metalwork, ivories, stained glass, wall paintings, and book illuminations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 397884

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

American Painter-Etcher Movement, The by: Mareen C. O'Brien & Patricia C.F. Mandel
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American Painter-Etcher Movement, The
by: Mareen C. O'Brien & Patricia C.F. Mandel

Softcover. Southampton, NY, The Parrish Art Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Tan covers with little wear; only a few minor scratches and marks. Spine is faded and creased. Clean and crisp pages with descriptions of artists along with reproductions of their work. Catalogue of a traveling exhibition, with 65 works by Chase, Duveneck, Ferris, Gifford, Monks, the Moran family, Parrish, Platt, Weir, Whistler, and many more artists. Extensively documented. 62 pages.

Record # 397918

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Decade of Decorative Arts, A: The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago by: Milo M. Naeve and Lynn Springer Roberts
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Decade of Decorative Arts, A: The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago
by: Milo M. Naeve and Lynn Springer Roberts

Softcover. The Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog of decorative arts of The Art Institute of Chicago. 112 pages; 24 color plates. Text by Milo M. Naeve and Lynn Springer Roberts. In very good condition; no marks on cover.

Record # 397919

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Giotto: The Scrovegni Chapel, Padua by: Cole, Bruce
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Giotto: The Scrovegni Chapel, Padua
by: Cole, Bruce

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated with b/w and color images throughout. 119 pages. Oblong format. The Scrovegno Chapel is reknown for a fresco cycle by Giotto, completed around 1305 and an important masterpiece of Western art. In 2021, the chapel was declared part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of 14th-century fresco cycles composed of 8 historical buildings in Padua city centre. The Scrovegni Chapel contains the most important frescoes that marked the beginning of a revolution in mural painting and influenced fresco technique, style, and content for a whole century. Short inscription on front fly leaf. Dust jacket with minor wear. Clean copy.

Record # 397921

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Twentieth Century Type Designers: New Edition by: Carter, Sebastian
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Twentieth Century Type Designers: New Edition
by: Carter, Sebastian

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 2nd Ed., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages. Since its first publication in 1987, this book has become a standard reference work for typographers, designers and students alike. This new edition includes an examination of the latest technological developments in design and composition of type, and introduces the work of some of the more recent designers to have made their mark in the 20th century. Profiles of a new generation of typographers working in the latter half of the 20th century, such as Matthew Carter, Sumner Stone and others, bring the book up to date. Working with entirely different tools than their predecessors, they reflect the new typography in varying degrees. Filmsetting and digital typesetting have brought new opportunities - as well as new disciplines. Clean copy.

Record # 397974

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Dali by: Gomez De Liano, Ignacio
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Dali
by: Gomez De Liano, Ignacio

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 139 illustrations, 122 in color. Clean copy.

Record # 397975

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Reason and Folly: The Prints of Francisco Goya by: Heckes, Frank
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Reason and Folly: The Prints of Francisco Goya
by: Heckes, Frank

Softcover. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. The great Francesco Goya was pivotal to the development of European art. His engagement with dreams and fantasy link him to the Romantic era while his skeptical view of society, his questioning of the strictures of the Church and State, reflect Enlightenment attitudes familiar to contemporary viewers. His humane and shocking portrayal and denunciation of war still evokes an understanding and immediate response. This publication looks at the motivations of his art, to shine the light of Reason on human relations, and explores his patrons, his career and the times in which he lived. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397977

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Man Ray by: Man Ray
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Man Ray by: Man RayMan Ray by: Man Ray

Man Ray
by: Man Ray

Hardcover. NY, Cameo / Abrams, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 64 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Clean copy.

Record # 397983

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Paintings by: Stan Rice
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Paintings
by: Stan Rice

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, pages. Vivid, passionate, primitive - 113 paintings by the poet Stan Rice. Here, his canvases explore the terrain of his poetry, as he captures the familiar and the mythical, the magical and the everyday. Here are legendary beasts, card players; images inspired by Greek myths, Bible stories, nursery rhymes. Some pay homage to objects - others to living things. They belong to no contemporary school. They are at once childlike, ironic, and darkly humorous - paintings that attest to the original vision of a talented poet and painter.

Record # 397987

Price: $45.00
Price: $45.00 

Affectionately, Marcel: The Selected Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp by: Naumann, Francis M. and Hector Obalk, Marcel Duchamp.
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Affectionately, Marcel: The Selected Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp
by: Naumann, Francis M. and Hector Obalk, Marcel Duchamp.

Hardcover. Ghent, Ludion Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 406 pages, b&w plates. Marcel Duchamp left behind a large volume of correspondence, more than a thousand documents forming a valuable archive of primary source materials on one the 20th Century's most important cultural figures. In his letters, Duchamp writes about his latest plans, works in progress, concepts such as the 'ready-made,' his passion for chess, the mundane details of life, as well as extraordinary ideas. The letters are reproduced in their entirety along with chronological and biographical data illuminating the circumstances behind the letters. Clean copy.

Record # 397993

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Andrea Belag: New York/Koln by: Andrea Belag and John Lau
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Andrea Belag: New York/Koln
by: Andrea Belag and John Lau

Hardcover. Bonn GR, Weidle Verlag, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 92 pages, color plates. Essay by John Yau and an interview with the artist. Clean copy.

Record # 398007

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Duncan Grant: A Biography by: Frances Spalding
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Duncan Grant: A Biography
by: Frances Spalding

Softcover. London, Pimlico , reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 570 pages. The life of the painter and designer Duncan Grant spanned great changes in society and art from Edwardian Britain to the 1970s from Alma-Tadema to Gilbert and George. This authoritative biography combines an engrossing narrative with an invaluable assessment of Grant's individual achievement and his place within Bloomsbury and in the wider development of British art.

Record # 398017

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development by: Luisa Del Giudice
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Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development
by: Luisa Del Giudice

Softcover. NY, Fordham University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 476 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. This volume gathers groundbreaking critical essays on Sabato (Simon) Rodia's renowned Watts Towers (Los Angeles, California) from diverse disciplinary perspectives, extensively highlighting his migration context as never before, as well as the Towers in the context of human and community development within the 'Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative. Clean copy.

Record # 398024

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Mimosa by: Archie Bongiovanni
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Mimosa
by: Archie Bongiovanni

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 265 pages, two-color comics throughout. Comics artist Archie Bongiovanni explores queerness in this shockingly frank and funny adult graphic novel. Best friends Chris, Jo, Elise, and Alex work hard to keep themselves afloat. Their regular brunches hold them together even as the rest of their lives threaten to fall completely apart. In an effort to avoid being the oldest gays at the party (like they are at every other queer event in Minneapolis), the crew decides to put on a new party called Grind!, a queer gathering specifically for folks in or over their dirty-thirties. Clean copy.

Record # 398033

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The League of Regrettable Sidekicks: Heroic Helpers and Malicious Minions from Comic Book History! by: Morris, Jon
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The League of Regrettable Sidekicks: Heroic Helpers and Malicious Minions from Comic Book History!
by: Morris, Jon

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Quirk Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 255 pages. A hilarious spotlight on the strangest second bananas in superhero comics, including junior partners, animal assistants, and even heinous henchmen (sidekicks of the villain world). Complete with vintage art and publication details. Batman has Robin. Captain America has Bucky. And Yankee Doodle had Dandy. Being a superhero is hard work, which is why so many comics characters rely on a sidekick for help. Someone who can watch the hero's back, help search for clues, or, if nothing else, give the hero someone to talk to. But just as not every superhero achieves the glory of Batman, not all sidekicks are as capable as the Boy Wonder. In The League of Regrettable Sidekicks, author Jon Morris discusses some of the strangest iterations of the sidekick phenomenon, and in the process explores how important these characters were to comic book storytelling.

Record # 398037

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews 1902-1918 by: Apollinaire, Guillaume and LeRoy C Breunig (Ed.)
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Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews 1902-1918
by: Apollinaire, Guillaume and LeRoy C Breunig (Ed.)

Softcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 1st pbk., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 546 pages, b&w illustrations, Apollinaire champions Picasso, Braque, Cezanne, Delaunay, Duchamp, Rousseau ,cubism, surrealism, and much more. Clean copy.

Record # 398048

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Man Ray: American Artist by: Baldwin, Neil
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Man Ray: American Artist
by: Baldwin, Neil

Softcover. NY, Da Capo Press, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 449 pages, b&w illustrations. Man Ray was the quintessential modernist figure - painter, sculptor, photographer, filmmaker, poet, and philosopher. One of the most fascinating of the Surrealists who transformed the Paris art world during the 1920s, Man Ray was an enigma - a Dadaist who revered the Old Masters, an anarchist pursued by wealthy patrons. Driven to make his mark in as many art forms as possible, he struggled bitterly to win acceptance as a painter even as his skill as a photographer brought him world wide fame. Remainder line to bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Record # 398055

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

You Can Only Yell At Me for One Thing At a Time: Rules for Couples by: Marx, Patricia & Roz Chast
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You Can Only Yell At Me for One Thing At a Time: Rules for Couples by: Marx, Patricia & Roz ChastYou Can Only Yell At Me for One Thing At a Time: Rules for Couples by: Marx, Patricia & Roz Chast

You Can Only Yell At Me for One Thing At a Time: Rules for Couples
by: Marx, Patricia & Roz Chast

Hardcover. NY, Celadon Books, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 141 pages, illustrated in color by Chast. An illustrated collection of humorous love and relationship advice from New Yorker writer Patricia Marx, with illustrations from New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. Clean copy.

Record # 398078

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Felicien Rops, Graphics, Irreverent and Erotic by: Felicien Rops, Lee Revens, J. K. Huysmans
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Felicien Rops, Graphics, Irreverent and Erotic
by: Felicien Rops, Lee Revens, J. K. Huysmans

Hardcover. NY, Land's End Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 1968 stated on both the cover and copyright pages. 13 x 9.5 inches, black cloth with gilt design and lettering to the cover and spine. 288 pages. Wrapped in a worn and chipped dust-jacket with a nude illustration in black and white covering the lower 2/5 of the cover. This book provides a selection of Rops' graphics with notes on his life by Lee Revens. Felicien Rops (1833 1898) was a prominent figure in 19th-century Belgium. His art is characterized by satirical, demonic, and erotic themes, often challenging societal norms and hypocrisy. Rops works hold a mirror to contemporary society, exposing its repressive standards and moral contradictions. His art oscillates between sensuality, death, and satanism, making him a key figure in the late 19th-century decadent movement. No markings.

Record # 398085

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

The Fantastic Engravings of Wendel Dietterlin by: Dietterlin, Wendel
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The Fantastic Engravings of Wendel Dietterlin
by: Dietterlin, Wendel

Softcover. NY, Dover Publicastions, 1st pbk, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Reprint; The 203 Plates & Text of His Architectura published in 1598. Late Renaissance and early Baroque architectural ornament. Clean copy.

Record # 398086

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Gaudi by: Lara Vinca Masini
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Gaudi
by: Lara Vinca Masini

Hardcover. London/NY, Hamlyn, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, black cloth with silver lettering, 96 pages, Illustrated profusely with 59 black-and-white and 40 color illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 398087

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time by: Jenny Uglow
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Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time
by: Jenny Uglow

Softcover. NY, Picador/Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 398 pages, Illustrated in color and b&w. In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts-streamlined, full of movement and brilliant color, summing up the hectic interwar years. Yet at the same time, they looked back to medieval myths and early music, to country ways that were disappearing from sight. Jenny Uglow's Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time traces their struggles and triumphs, conflicts and dreams, following them from Suffolk to London, from the New Forest to Vancouver Island. This is a world of futurists, surrealists, and pioneering abstraction, but also of the buzz of the new, of machines and speed, of shops and sport and dance, shining against the threat of depression and looming shadows of war. Remainder dot to top edge otherwise like new.

Record # 398120

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Stan Lee: A Life in Comics by: Liel Leibovitz
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Stan Lee: A Life in Comics
by: Liel Leibovitz

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 179 pages. From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a meditation on the deeply Jewish and surprisingly spiritual roots of Stan Lee and Marvel Comics Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created--Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four--occupy Hollywood's imagination and production schedules, generate billions at the box office, and come as close as anything we have to a shared American mythology. This illuminating biography focuses as much on Lee's ideas as it does on his unlikely rise to stardom. It surveys his cultural and religious upbringing and draws surprising connections between celebrated comic book heroes and the ancient tales of the Bible, the Talmud, and Jewish mysticism. Clean copy.

Record # 398121

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Francis Bacon Collection by: Florez, Fernando Castro
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The Francis Bacon Collection by: Florez, Fernando CastroThe Francis Bacon Collection by: Florez, Fernando Castro

The Francis Bacon Collection
by: Florez, Fernando Castro

Hardcover. Bologna IT, Scripta Maneant Editori, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 455 pages. From a private collection in Italy, these previously unpublished works by Francis Bacon are presented here in thematic sections, each of which is preceded by a short introductory text. Nearly 700 drawings, pastels, and collages were gifted by Bacon over the course of many years to his close friend, Italian journalist Cristiano Lovatelli Ravarino. His commentary is included here, along with texts by noted art historians Edward Lucie-Smith and Fernando Castro Florez, and an authentication report from Ambra Draghetti, graphological consultant to the Court of Bologna. The works were photographed expressly for this publication. TEXT IN ENGLISH & ITALIAN. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 398123

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

Hollywood Fashion: 100 Years of Hollywood Icons by: Nancy J. Hajeski
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Hollywood Fashion: 100 Years of Hollywood Icons by: Nancy J. HajeskiHollywood Fashion: 100 Years of Hollywood Icons by: Nancy J. Hajeski

Hollywood Fashion: 100 Years of Hollywood Icons
by: Nancy J. Hajeski

Hardcover. Buffalo NY, Firefly Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, pages illustrated in color and b&w. Hollywood Fashion explores the art and legacy of the cinematic costume designer, starting with the birth of the modern motion picture industry on a prime piece of California real estate known as Hollywood. Readers will discover how film clothing evolved from actors selecting items from their home wardrobes to outfits customized for their roles -- everything from suits of armor to ball gowns to office attire to lingerie, all created by a studio designer and a dedicated staff of costumers.

Record # 398124

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Starring Amsterdam: Celebrities in Amsterdam During the Roaring 1960s and 1970s by: Daniels Sabel
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Starring Amsterdam: Celebrities in Amsterdam During the Roaring 1960s and 1970s
by: Daniels Sabel

Hardcover. Terra Uitgeverij, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 248 pages. In the 60s and 70s, Amsterdam was the epicentre of new cultural development and a magnet for national and international celebrities. Dutch photojournalists Hans Sabel and Henk Daniels were on site to capture all events and advancements. 30 years of photojournalism has resulted in an archive of around 150,000 negatives. In cooperation with the heirs of the archive a selection of images has been brought together in this book. It offers many previously unpublished images, from Jacques Brel, Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Charles Aznavour, Elizabeth Taylor and Dutch celebrities like Johan Cruyff, princess Beatrix and prince Bernhard to Willeke Alberti. Starring Amsterdam is a unique photographic document from Amsterdam at a time when the city is alive and buzzing like never before. With a foreword by James Worthy and text by Joost Bastmeijer. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 398125

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

In Memory Of My Feelings by: O'Hara, Frank (Bill Berkson, Editor)
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In Memory Of My Feelings
by: O'Hara, Frank (Bill Berkson, Editor)

Hardcover. NY, The Museum of Modern Art, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unpaginated. Reprint Edition of a work originally published by MOMA in 1967. Limited to 2500 numbered copies though this copy is unnumbered on the limitation/colophon page. Bound in half tan cloth over gray paper-covered boards with titles stamped in red on spine. Illustrated by 30 artists, who had known the poet, to accompany the poems. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear.

Record # 398140

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Elaine Kurtz: Alluvial Paintings by: Elaine Kurtz
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Elaine Kurtz: Alluvial Paintings
by: Elaine Kurtz

Softcover. Washington DC, The Corcoran Gallery Of Art, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in stapled gray wraps 24 pages, color plates. Introduction by Paige Turner. Clean, like new exhibition catalog.

Record # 398141

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Larry Rivers: Later Works by: Yau, John/Tibor de Nagy Gallery
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Larry Rivers: Later Works
by: Yau, John/Tibor de Nagy Gallery

Hardcover. NY, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, unpaginated, illustrated in color. Introduction by John Yau. Clean, bright copy of this exhibition catalog.

Record # 398142

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Agnes Martin by: Barbara Haskell, Anna Chave, Rosalind Krauss
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Agnes Martin by: Barbara Haskell, Anna Chave, Rosalind KraussAgnes Martin by: Barbara Haskell, Anna Chave, Rosalind Krauss

Agnes Martin
by: Barbara Haskell, Anna Chave, Rosalind Krauss

Hardcover. NY, Whitney Museum of Art/Abrams, 1st, 1992, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 187 pages. Published to accompany a 1992-93 exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, this book deals with the full scope of Agnes Martin's art. It includes essays that place her work in the context of American and European 20th-century art and culture. Agnes Martin's paintings, constructions, and works on paper provide a link between the chromatic abstraction of artists such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, her generational and ideological peers, and the Minimalist vocabulary of the 1960s. This book reproduces works made between 1957 and 1967, and better-known paintings and constructions created since 1974. A selection of Martin's writings reveals the spiritual philosophy that sustains her painting. Clean copy.

Record # 398143

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Giuseppe Penone: The Imprint of Drawing by: de Zegher, Catherine (Ed.)
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Giuseppe Penone: The Imprint of Drawing
by: de Zegher, Catherine (Ed.)

Softcover. NY, The Drawing Centre, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 94 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Penone's sculptures, installations, and drawings are distinguished by his emphasis on process and his use of natural materials, such as clay, stone, metal, and wood. Exhibition catalog. Clean copy.

Record # 398147

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Man Ray: 360 Degres de Libertes by: Man Ray and Arturo Schwarz
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Man Ray: 360 Degres de Libertes
by: Man Ray and Arturo Schwarz

Softcover. Paris, Sodicart and Carla Arigoni, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog, color illustrations, 130 pages. FRENCH TEXT. Clean, like new.

Record # 398154

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

As Seen by Both Sides: American and Vietnamese Artists Look at the War by: Thomas C. David (Ed.)
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As Seen by Both Sides: American and Vietnamese Artists Look at the War
by: Thomas C. David (Ed.)

Softcover. Boston, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 116 pages, 68 color, 14 b&w plates. Indochina Arts Project of the William Joiner Foundation. Essays by Quach Van Phong. Tran Viet Son, Lucy R Lippard and David Kunzle. Clean copy.

Record # 398155

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Edvard Munch: Mirror Reflections by: Patricia G. Berman
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Edvard Munch: Mirror Reflections
by: Patricia G. Berman

Softcover. The Norton Gallery of Art, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 122 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Here the Norton Gallery of Arts Museum shows the exhibition of works by the distinguished Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch. For him, art must do nothing less than reveal the essential human condition. Having emerged as an accomplished Naturialist painter in the 1880s, he rejected Naturalism in his artistic manifesto of 1889-90. He began to paint images reflecting the stormy human psyche, and arranged his paintings into friezes to better communicate their meaning. At his death in 1944, his legacy included several thousand oil prints, reams of drawings, literary fragments, photographs and sculpture. Light sticker residue to front cover otherwise clean and bright.

Record # 398159

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 


  

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