Used, Rare & Out-of-Print Art Books - pg. 78 including Christie's Alexander Calder: Lily of Force by: Christie's

Softcover. NY, Christie's, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 71 pages with 49 illustrations 31 in color. Stiff Illustrated wraps. Essay by William Paton. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Fischer Fine Art Limited, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Small format softcover, 40 pages illustrated in b&w and color, one fold-out color plate. Clean copy.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Frederick S Wight Art Gallery, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. B&w and color illustrations. Issued in conjunction with several 1977-1978 exhibitions featuring the work of Italian artist Alberto Burri (1915-1995). The entire book is an illustrated essay by Gerald Nordland that serves as a good introduction to the man and his craft. Also includes a chronology and an expansive exhibition history. Faint crease to front cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Utica NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Museum of Art, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 212 pages. Very good condition with thick card covers, printed with graphic design by Ivan Chermayeff. Contents includes information about the exhibit and The Henry Street Settlement Creative Arts Center, color reproductions of American and European works, and articles and memorabilia about the artists and the Armory shows. Related ephemera laid in. Owner's bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Sarasota FL, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 151 pages. Catalogue of an exhibition held May 14-July 18, 1982 at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. 151 pages: illustrations, some color.

Hardcover. NY, Something Else Press , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket that's price-clipped. White cloth with green top edge. With the business card tucked into glassine envelope to front end paper. A selection by Odenburg and Emmett Williams of texts, graphic materials and photos from 1961-62. Includes photographs by Robert R. McElroy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Duell, Sloan And Pearce, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 8.5 inch square hardback in brick red cloth, 275 pages including bibliography and index. Contains speeches and lectures as well as articles from the Architectural Record, Architectural Forum, and Architect's Journal. Clean copy.

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.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Company, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 381 pages, b&w illustrations. VOLUME 2 ONLY of a scarce set on the life and works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), an American Beaux-Arts sculptor who is best known for his statues commemorating Abraham Lincoln and Union officers of the Civil War, including Robert Gould Shaw, William Tecumseh Sherman, and John Logan. Edited by his only child, Homer (1880-1953), an artist and museum administrator in his own right. Owner's bookplate on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket, 230 pages illustrated with b&w photos. A series of articles by Francoise Choay, Herbert Read, Marcel Breuer, and others, on the role of man-made objects in 20th-Century society. Small owner's sticker on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 113 pages, b&w illustrations. When architects create a landscape or building, when artists depict a landscape, and when poets write of nature, they recreate certain aesthetic elements observed in nature. Jay Appleton asserts in an insightful analysis that these aesthetic values in landscape are not found in an elevated philosophy of aesthetics or in a culturally bound artistic symbolism but in the biological and behavioral needs that we share with other animals. Thus, the aesthetics of landscape may be approached through other areas of human experience and science, especially the natural and behavioral sciences. They are expressed in symbolism drawn from a primal habitat in which all animals seek survival. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format. Replete with photographs and reproductions of Tony Smith's work. 200 pages including 237 illustrations (108 in color), Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Exhibition History. Tony Smith (1912-1980) was an American sculptor, architect, and painter best-known for his abstract, large-scale sculptures. As an architect, he worked with Frank Lloyd Wright and founded his own architectural firm during the 1940s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn, price-clipped dust jacket. 248 pages, b&w illustrations, conversations with Albers, Albright, Calder, Davis, Dickinson, Duchamp, Gabo, Graves, Hofmann, Hopper, Kline, Lipchitz, Noguchi, O'Keefe, Shahn, Smith, and Tobey. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Tampa Museum of Art/ D Giles Ltd, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 172 pages illustrated in color. This is a fascinating exploration of the incredible body of artwork produced at Graphicstudio, a print atelier based at the University of South Florida. Since its foundation in 1968, the studio has developed an international reputation, and this volume features over ninety modern artworks by thirty-four Graphicstudio artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Keith Edmier, Alex Katz, Guillermo Kuitca, Roy Lichtenstein, Christian Marclay, Vik Muniz, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Kiki Smith, Janaina Tschape, and Theo Wujcik. It features interviews with current and past Graphicstudio directors as well as artists, including former Graphicstudio master printer Theo Wujcik. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth, 143 pages, color frontis., b&w plates. A pioneering exhibition, with essay and catalogue by James Thrall Soby and Dorothy C. Miller. The exhibition checklist cites 213 works by 121 artists, and nearly all are names you would recognize. More than 100 pieces are pictured here. One of 7500 copies. Clean copy.

Softcover. Sarasota, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, red wrappers, 94 pages, 34 color plates. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of John Chamberlain's work which ran from January 28 to March 27, 1983. Postcard for the art show laid in. Rear cover has some chipping to red ink causing some white spots. Internally clean, bright.

Softcover. Bennington VT, Bennington Museum, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Includes selected writings by the artist. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 217 pages. White cloth stamped with maroon lettering. This is a very good copy of the First American edition of this extraordinary oversize folio volume that reproduces Duchamp's handwritten notes and drawings in facsimile in the original French with English translations. The acetate dust jacket is not present. Mild fraying to top of spine, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Half cloth covers, oatmeal buckram with gray paper, sepia lettering on spine. O'Hara's poems coupled with 30 different artists in loose sheets. In a cloth folio, in a slipcase with a gray paper label. Number 692 from an edition of 2500 copies. Edited by Bill Berkson. A beautifully produced collection that includes poems by Frank O'Hara paired with illustrations by Nell Blaine, Norman Bluhm, Joe Brainard, John Button, Giorgio Cavallon, Allan D'Arcangelo, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Niki de Saint Phalle, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Michael Goldberg, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Al Held, Jasper Johns, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Alex Katz, Lee Krasner, Alfred Leslie, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Reuben Nakian, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, and Jane Wilson. Previous owner's small sticker on inside cover, otherwise clean, bright. The cloth slipcase with light soil, foxing.

Hardcover. London, Ernest Benn, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, four volume set complete. Matching gray-brown buckram cloth with gilt front cover decoration and gilt spine lettering. Set from architect Albert Kahn's library with his pencil signature on each fly leaf. Vol. 1 Text, cxlvi plus 168 page index with detailed descriptions of plates. B&w frontispiece. Vol. II Plates 1-205. Vol. III Plates 206-421. Volume IV Plates 422- . Small stickers on bottom of spine. An exceptional set and reference. Very heavy volumes. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 598 pages, b&w and color illustrations. In 1827 the young Edward Lear (1812-1888) began to draw 'for bread and cheese'; later he became a renowned wildlife and landscape artist and, later still, the author of the famous limericks and songs. Reproducing many of his paintings and drawings, Jenny Uglow's critically acclaimed biography describes Lear the artist, traveler, writer of nonsense verse and self-appointed exile, and aims to discover 'how the layers are laid down, how they overlap and twist like strata' in a strange contradictory life of art and nonsense. Clean copy.

Softcover. Paris, G. San Lazzaro, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Folio; magazine; 64 pages, with black and white illustrations. Several essays. B&w plates throughout. FRENCH TEXT. Spine paper chipping.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a plain tanned dust jacket with just the title and author printed on spine. Navy blue cloth with gilt stamping on spine. 214 pages, many b&w diagrams including one fold-out. A lauded scholar of art history and theory as well as a prominent art collector, Denman Waldo Ross earned his bachelors and Ph.D. at Harvard where he served as a lecturer on art and design. Copyright page states 1912, no date on title page so probably an early reprint. Light pencil notations to blank pages in rear, owner's name on front fly leaf. Otherwise a bright 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.

Hardcover. Nieuwkoop , B. de Graaf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth covers with gilt lettering, 159 pages with b&w diagrams and illustrations. Subjects include: The base of perspective illussions, third dimension, euclid, anamorphoses, the concave surface of the retina, Schickhardt's problem, eccentric positions of the observer's eye, rotations of the eyeball, visual size, pleudo-perspective, axial construction, rebirth of central perspective, Leon Battista Alberti, Paolo Uccello, the oblique position, Piero della Francesca etc.

Hardcover. NY, William Helburn, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with silver stamping. Folio, 9 1/4 X 13 1/2". 80 plates printed on one side only, most in color. No date given but appears to be late 20s/1930. With architect Albert Kahn's ownership signature in pencil on front fly leaf. Covers with edgewear but interior is clean and bright. Bookplate on inside front cover. Scarce. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Tokyo/NY, Kodansha USA, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover with a dust jacket, 152 pages. Highlights over 130 outstanding examples from the vast holdings of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Strikingly original and sumptuously colored, the ukiyo-e in these pages recapture the spirit of the period in which they were created. Here can be found the glamorous courtesans of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters, the flamboyant vigor of kabuki theater, and the diversities of the Japanese landscape. Clean copy

Softcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 271 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Textiles were the Incas' most prized possessions. Their first gifts to European strangers were made not of gold and silver, but of camelid fibre and cotton. They believed that the highest form of weaving was created expressly for the sun, which they considered the greatest of the celestial powers. This book uses this image to symbolize Andean tradition as a whole and documents the collection of ancient and Colonial Andean textiles in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which is among the most comprehensive of its kind in the world. Described and illustrated here, in many cases for the first time are the finest examples from the collection: weavings of astonishing virtuosity with striking geometric designs, elaborate carpets and covers, mantles, tunics, featherwork, woven shoes with metal decoration and intriguing figural sculptures with tapestry faces - representing the major cultures of the pre-Columbian period as well as the achievements of Spanish Colonial times. Mild wear to outer wraps, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Unpaginated (15 pages). Stiff wraps (stapled card wraps) with onionskin cover bearing author name, title, and gallery name on the onionskin, which is then superimposed over red, blue, black and white card cover. B&w illustrations. Onionskin wrapper torn along spine.

Hardcover. NY, Minton, Balch & Co. , 7th pr., 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 178 pages. Price-clipped, clean copy.

Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, Privately Published, 4th Ed., 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Principles and Methods of Expression in the Pictorial Representation of Common Objects, Interiors, Buildings and Landscapes. Hardcover, gray-green boards with a dark green cloth spine. 175 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. Boards with light edge wear. Otherwise a good clean, tight copy of an early edition of this drawing-technique classic first published in 1908. "This book presents essentially the course of study in Freehand Perspective and Sketching as developed during its teaching at Pratt Institute." Name on front fly leaf, pencil sketches on blank two pages in rear. Clean internally.

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages, b&w illustrations. Ray Lambert's exhaustive study of John Constable's landscapes and relevant writings reveal Constable's high level of engagement with ideas on art and aesthetics and the decisive consequences for his style of painting. Constable's texts clearly predict his views. They also give an indication of the artist's knowledge of scientific, poetic, and aesthetic ideas that were relevant to the creation of a serious landscape art as well as a theory of landscape. Remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, E. Weyhe, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large folio, ( over 12" - 15" tall ), red cloth stamped in gilt. 56 pages of German text, comprising introduction and detailed catalogue of plates, the origins of objects (textiles, ceramics and wood) which demonstrate the origins and continued use of traditional design in the folk arts of Europe. Followed by 132 color plates of the objects mostly from Eastern Europe, most pasted in. First published in Germany in 1926, this appears to be the first US edition produced the same year. Architect Albert Kahn's copy with his ownership signature in pencil and date of 1926 on the front fly leaf. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Taschen, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, tan cloth in a bright dust jacket. Folio. 672 pages. This is the original large format edition: 17.5 x 11.75 inches and 2.5 inches thick and weighing in at nearly 20 lbs. "This groundbreaking book covers every aspect of Diego Rivera's Career and brings together in a single volume comprehensive information about his murals, both in Mexico, and beyond, with a host of hitherto unknown details also includes a wide selection of over 200 easel paintings, numerous drawings and sketches, period photographs and documents (some of them previously unpublished) from both private and public collections to complete this lavish publication. This especially heavy book will require additional charges for priority. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #N07835. 284 pages illustrated in b&w and color, 727 lots. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #N07835. 264 pages illustrated in color, lots 301-502. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #NY7676. 204 pages illustrated in color, 334 lots. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #NY7698. 164 pages illustrated in color, 335 lots. Clean copy.

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

Softcover. London, Sotheby's, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #LO1292, 170 pages, illustrated in color, 264 lots. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Sotheby's, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #LO6034, 212 pages, illustrated in color, 248 lots. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Sotheby's, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #LO1291, 219 pages, illustrated in color, 264 lots. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #N08127, 412 pages, illustrated in color, 469 lots. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Sotheby's, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #L05006, 252 pages, illustrated in color, 367 lots. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #N08183, 156 pages, illustrated in color, 202 lots. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Sotheby's, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #L03231, 202 pages, illustrated in color, 236 lots. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Sotheby's, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #L05007, 170 pages, illustrated in color, many fold-out plates. 49 lots. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #N08125, 180 pages, illustrated in color, 61 lots. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st thus, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, One of the most popular and critically acclaimed graphic novels of all time and illustrated by an exemplary selection of the medium's most gifted artists, Sandman weaves a spellbinding tapestry that fuses modern myth with the timeless narratives of history and folklore. Here, in the domain of the Endless, epic stories unfold stories that transcend the boundaries of life and death. With stunning visuals crafted by a handpicked cadre of the industry's most talented artists, including Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, and Kelley Jones, with spectacular guest art by Chris Bachalo, Colleen Doran, Charles Vess, and Michael Zulli. Volume 1 spans 'The Sandman' issues #1-20 and collects the pivotal story arcs 'Preludes and Nocturnes,' 'The Doll's House,' and 'Dream Country.' It also includes the historic 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' the first comic book ever to receive the prestigious World Fantasy Award. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Carus Gallery, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Text by Lewis Kachur. 1982 staple-bound softcover published by the Carus Gallery, New York. 19 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white reproductions. Mild fade to red covers at spine edge. Clean copy.