Softcover. NY, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Essay by Donald Kuspit, text in English, French and German. Mild crease to top corner of pages, clean copy.
Softcover. South Hadley MA, Mount Holyoke College, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 56 pages. Many black and white photos, exhibition checklist, glossary, index, notes, bibliography. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of copper jewelry, sculptures, vessels, musical instruments, stools and other African decorative arts. Mild rubbing to wrappers, clean copy.
Softcover. Montpelier VT, Laughing Bear, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages, color photos throughout. A collection of various artworks, collages, sculptures and constructions by the artist. INSCRIBED BY LEVIN on the title page. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 24 pages with color photos of the artist's sculptures. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Bogota COL, Galeria Alfred Wild, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages with color photos of the Colombian artist's wood sculptures. Clean copy.
Softcover. Hamilton NJ, Grounds for Sculpture, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages, profusely illustrated in color. Essay by Michael Brenson. Clean copy.
Softcover. Montpelier VT, Wood Art Gallery, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 63 pages illustrated in b&w. Lists 79 works exhibited. Thomas Waterman Wood was an American painter born in Montpelier, Vermont. Essay by William Lipke. Exhibition held at Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vt., Sept. 11-Oct. 5; the Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, N.H., Oct. 14-Nov. 12; and the Wiggin Gallery, Boston Public Library, Nov. 16-Dec. 10, 1972. Includes bibliographical references. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, profusely illustrated in both color and black and white. 300 pages. 4to, glossy pictorial wrappers. Extensive monograph of artist's life and work. Published to accompany the exhibition held in NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, February 29 to June 2, 1996; two additional venues. Two exhibition mailings laid in, one addressed to film director Bob Rafelson. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, Rizzoli, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 251 pages, illustrated in color. Accompanies a major touring exhibition on the history of ceramic art in the second half of the twentieth century. Illustrated with more than 250 color photographs, Color & Fire explores the roles of key artists and the major stylistic movements they developed during the decades of pioneering innovation. Based on the premise that the history of studio ceramics can be regarded as a series of breakthroughs or milestones, Color & Fire highlights the moments when talented artists came together to produce work in clay that challenged traditions and promoted aesthetic freedom. Small sticker on front thanking a museum member for their support.
Hardcover. London, Merrell Publishers, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages, 200+ color illustrations. The first of a three-part series that explores the creativity and productivity of Native American artists. This volume "focuses on the work of nearly ninety of the most exciting and innovative artists of the region, working in a variety of media, from clay to glass, from fiber to jewelry, and from metal to wood, as well as mixed media." (flap).
Softcover. NY, Neuberger Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 36 pages. Numerous color plates. Essay by Patricia Philips, lavish illustrations. Published to accompany the exhibition at Neuberger Museum of Art from January 27 - May 5, 2002. Mild fade to spine edge on cover. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Denise Bibro Fine Art, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 32 pages, 11 color plates. SIGNED BY SPEYER on the front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Antwerp, Bernard Blondeel, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 36 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Exhibition catalog of sculptures and drawings. Clean copy.
Softcover. Daegu Korea, Byuk-A Gallery, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 38 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Laid in essay on the Korean sculptor by You Hong June, "A Dialogue with Image and an Aesthetic of Stone". Clean copy.
Softcover. Provincetown MA, Provincetown Art Association, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled, 12 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Biography by Kathryn Lee Smith, the artist's granddaughter. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Ten Speed Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 283 pages. In collaboration with award-winning historian and comic artist Joel Christian Gill, this stunningly illustrated graphic-novel adaptation of Dr. Kendi's groundbreaking Stamped from the Beginning explores, with vivid clarity and dimensionality, the living history of America, and how we can learn from the past to work toward a more equitable, antiracist future. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Rutland VT, Charles E. Tuttle, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 149 pages, illustrated throughout with over 70 plates including 44 in full color. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. In a lightly worn cardboard slipcase.
Softcover. Salem MA, Peabody Museum, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog. 36 pages illustrated throughout in b&w. Gray paper wrappers. Front cover lightly sunned, slight wear to edges, else a very nice, tight copy.
Softcover. New Haven, New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages in color illustrated wrappers. 45 b&w illustrations from a catalogue of 227 works in the collection. Preface by Robert R. MacDonald. Clean, tight copy
Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of American Art / Harper & Row, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog. 187 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Black/white pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear around edges and spine, else like new.
Softcover. Burlington VT, The Wascowmium, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 36 pages, color illustrations. Essay by Mark Waskow. INSCRIBED BY MCGARRELL on the title page. Clean copy.
Softcover. Hong Kong, unknown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Chinese text. Clean copy.
Softcover. Wasgington DC, International Arts & Artists, 1sy, 2005, Book: Very Good, Softcover in a bright dust jacket, 75 pages. Color illustrations. Clean copy.
Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 75 pages illustrated in color. In his insightful and engrossing lecture, Leo Steinberg surveys and critiques the work of Robert Rauschenberg, one of the great American post-war artists. He also discusses his own experience as a critic in the exciting and turbulent art world of New York in the 1950s and 1960s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Shelton CT, The Greenwich Workshop Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages. Illustrated with 69 full color reproductions of the art of Mort Kunstler, some double page. First edition, first printing - stated and with full number line. America's premier Civil War artist, Mort Kunstler, is joined by the nation's leading Civil War historian, Dr. James I. Robertson, Jr., in this extraordinary visual history of the Civil War's dramatic first two years. A companion history to the motion picture of the same name, Gods and Generals is based on the best-selling Jeff Shaara novel, and surveys a crucial period in the War Between the States through incomparable art-work and a matchless narrative. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, New York Review Comics, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 280 pages. Before Charles Johnson found fame as a novelist and won the National Book Award for Middle Passage in 1991, he was a cartoonist, and a very good one. Taught via correspondence course by the comics editor Lawrence Lariar, mentored by the New Yorker cartoonist Charles Barsotti, and inspired by the call of the poet Amiri Baraka to celebrate and depict Black life in America, Johnson crafted some of the fiercest and funniest cartoons of the twentieth century. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Mad Cave Studios, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Flash Gordon: Classic Collection Volume 4 reprints the Flash Gordon Sunday strip from 1944-1948. Color illustrated. Flash Gordon returns for another thrilling space-bound adventure as the original guardian of the galaxy, battling to save us all from a host of sinister super-villains determined to dominate, destroy, and wreak havoc--including the fierce and seductive Storm Queen of Valkir! Don Moore was the writer of the Flash Gordon, taking over scriptwriting duties from strip creator Alex Raymond in August 1935. Moore was a former pulp editor. Austin Briggs worked for a while at an advertising agency then became an assistant to the cartoonist Alex Raymond on Flash Gordon and succeeded him on Secret Agent Corrigan. In 1940 he drew a Flash Gordon Daily strip which he stayed on until about 1944. He drew the prestigious Flash Gordon Sunday strip from 1944 until 1948. He was one of the founding faculty for the Famous Artists School. In 1969 he was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Clover Press, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 164 pages. The saga continues in Terry and the Pirates Volume 11, reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs! It's a new year of reunions, not resolutions--Terry and Pat join forces! They connect with the Dragon Lady--and with Terry's old flame, Hu Shee! Terry, Hotshot Charlie, and Hu Shee cross paths with swashbuckling pirate Johnny Jingo, in turn joining Terry's old friend April Kane before a new encounter with Nazi collaborator Papa Pyzon! Papa is exactly who he seems, yet his henchman, Mr. Hutch, may have a different trick up his sleeve. Meanwhile, the trick up April's sleeve is less successful, positioning Terry to weather a wintry storm with the delightful Fob Cobb and the prune-faced Ilse Grosse-Nach. This tabloid-sized Volume 11 contains all the 1945 dailies and Sundays. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Dunlop Art Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 169 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and French. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages. Illustrated with black & white portraits and paintings. When Peter Paul Rubens died in 1640 he left an indestructible reputation as one of the world's great painters. In every sense Baroque, his paintings have a wonderful fluidity, a powerful sensuality, a beauty and richness of color and texture. His prolific output included some 1,300 paintings (compare this with Leonardo's twenty and Vermeer's thirty-six) as well as books of engravings, architectural drawings, and sketches. He also left a beautiful young wife, a vast personal fortune, a palatial house in Antwerp, and collections of old masters, antiquities, precious stones, and silver work. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Adelson Galleries., 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with heavy paper slipcase. Contains 15 loose 12x12" color plates and a folded sheet featuring a photo of the artist and a short essay by Warren Adelson. A 16th plate called for in the list of paintings is missing. Plates on heavy stock, bright and clean, slipcase shows wear.
Softcover. Site Santa Fe, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 75 pages. Color and b&w illustrations. Mona Hatoum is recognized as one of the most significant figures in contemporary art. Her work addresses political conflict, the physical body, and feminist issues in a surrealistic style and with a minimalist aesthetic. This thought-provoking artist uses diverse methods and works in various media, including installation, video, sculpture, and performance art. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Springfield MA, The Linweave Association, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light peach boards with a maroon cloth spine. A promotional piece for a paper company. Literary contributions by Dunsany, Masefield, Morley, Aiken and others. Color illustrations by T.M. Cleland, C.B. Falls, William Aylward, Richard Floethe, others. Boards with light soil, interior clean, bright.
Softcover. San Francisco, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Softcover, plastic comb binding, Soft white and color illustrated wraps with gray and black lettering. Color plates. Interior pages printed on thick, gray paper. Includes text by Stephen Wirtz. INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST on the inside cover. Created to announce the exhibition "Harold Paris: The 26 Days of John Little", held from February 7 through March 8, 1978 at Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, CA. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Buffalo NY, Charles Rand Penney, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in illustrated wraps, 80 page book with black & white illustrations. Small stamp on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Disney Editions, Revised Ed., 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, illustrated in color. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. While the literary Pooh continues to win new generations of fans, an on-screen Pooh was destined to expand the appeal of the Hundred-Acre Wood. In 1961, Walt Disney acquired the exclusive film rights to Milne's Pooh stories. Since then, The Walt Disney Company has produced numerous shorts, features, and television shows about the Silly Old Bear, and that tradition continues with the release of the 2011 film, Winnie the Pooh. Winnie the Pooh: A Celebration of the Silly Old Bear is a tribute to the wonder of Pooh, from his origin and literary success to his brilliant animated career and continued popularity. This is his story; but, moreover, it is his art--including more than 200 illustrations that detail the evolution of Pooh and his friends from stuffed toys to animated characters.
Hardcover. London, Harrison and Sons, 1st, 1869, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, dark green cloth with maroon and gilt labels on spine. Originally published in blue wrappers, here bound in hardcovers. Vol. 1: 307 pages, Vol. 2 309-642 pages. Profusely illustrated including 2 color chromolithographs, several color folding reproductions, at least one b&w engraved lithograph and hundreds of wood engravings. Compiled by a committee of the Council of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Inscription on wrapper cover in Vol. 1, light pencil marking in margins to about 20 pages, otherwise clean, tight set.
Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 118 pages. SIGNED BY CHAST on the blank prelim page. 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 Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 160 pages. Published to accompany a touring exhibition during 2002 / 2004. Features reference to figures such as Richard Avedon, Everett Shinn, George W. Bellows, Pablo Picasso, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Paul Manship, Morris Louis, Ralston Crawford, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and many others. Color and b&w photos.
Hardcover. NY, Narry H. Abrams, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in pictorial boards with acetate dust jacket. 112 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Presents all the existing work of Piero della Francesca. Includes 64 color plates and 111 black-and-white illustrations. Introduction by Peter Murray. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 4th pr., 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Bechdel's celebrated autobiography in the form of a graphic novel. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and the family baby-sitter. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive. Interweaving between childhood memories, college life and present day, and through narrative that is equally heartbreaking and fiercely funny, Alison looks back on her complex relationship with her father and finds they had more in common than she ever knew. Clean copy.
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