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Tatlin s Dream: Russian Suprematist and Constructivist Art 1910-1923 by: Nakov, Andrei B.
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Tatlin s Dream: Russian Suprematist and Constructivist Art 1910-1923
by: Nakov, Andrei B.

Softcover. London, Fischer Fine Art Limited , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 92 pages. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Fischer Fine Art gallery from November 1973 to January 1974. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Including works by Annenkov, Archipenko, Baranoff-Rossine, Bogomazov, Burljuk, Ermilov, Exter, Goncharova, Kliun, Larionov, Lentulov, Lissitzky, Malevich, Matsiushin, Popova, Puni, Rodchenko, Rozanova, Bakst, Chagall, Csaky, Kadar, Kandinsky, and Moholy-Nagy. Clean copy.

Record # 399624

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Suspended Worlds: An Illustrated History of New England Theater Scenery by: Christine Hadsel
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Suspended Worlds: An Illustrated History of New England Theater Scenery
by: Christine Hadsel

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, oblong format, 188 pages illustrated in color. Long before television and the internet, entertainment was often a performance at the local grange or Town Hall. Since there wasn't much money for costumes or props, the plays relied on all-purpose scenic backdrops - painted canvases of local scenes and interest. And they were often glorious. Many of these minor masterpieces of vernacular art still survive and are presented in all their glory in this richly illustrated book celebrating the colorful and memorable painted curtains that graced the stages of countless New England towns. A remarkable team of conservators from "Curtains Without Borders" has overcome a century of dirt, damage, and neglect to restore hundreds of these historic theater curtains. This book presents exquisite photographs of these enormous pieces of art that have been hidden away and neglected for too long. Bump to top corner, causing mild crease to pages. Otherwise bright and clean.

Record # 399628

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Marcel Breuer: Bauhaus Tradition, Brutalist Invention by: Bergdoll, Barry / Beyer, John H.
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Marcel Breuer: Bauhaus Tradition, Brutalist Invention
by: Bergdoll, Barry / Beyer, John H.

Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wrappers, 48 pages illustrated in color and b&w.

Record # 399634

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: A Conversation with Andrew Wyeth by: Thomas Hoving
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Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: A Conversation with Andrew Wyeth
by: Thomas Hoving

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.

Record # 399635

Price: $38.00
Price: $38.00 

Edward Hopper in Vermont by: Bonnie Tocher Clause
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Edward Hopper in Vermont
by: Bonnie Tocher Clause

Hardcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 214 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Edward and Jo Hopper first discovered Vermont in 1927, making day trips from the Whitney Studio Club's summer retreat for New York artists in Charlestown, New Hampshire. In 1935 and 1936 the Hoppers again traveled to Vermont, this time from their summer home in Cape Cod, in Edward's continuing search for new places to paint. During these quests they identified the White River and what Edward considered to be Vermont's "finest" river valley, and they returned there for longer visits in 1937 and 1938, boarding at Robert and Irene Slater's Wagon Wheels farm in South Royalton. These "vacations" were a change from the usual tempo of their lives, a break from the studio-bound easels, canvas, and oils, an opportunity to paint something different, to be in a new place and paint en plein air. Over the course of Vermont sojourns, Edward Hopper produced some two dozen paintings, watercolors that are among the most distinctive of his regional works, strongly characterized by place. In this accessible volume, Bonnie Tocher Clause tells the story of the Hoppers' visits to Vermont, their stays on the Slater farm, and their introduction to farm life. She locates the sites shown in Hopper's Vermont paintings, identifies two watercolors not previously recognized as Vermont scenes, and traces the development of Hopper's singular interpretations of the Vermont landscape. Clean copy.

Record # 399651

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

George Tooker by: Cozzolino, Robert; Marshall N. Price & M. Melissa Wolfe
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George Tooker
by: Cozzolino, Robert; Marshall N. Price & M. Melissa Wolfe

Hardcover. Merrell, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers with silver lettering. 191 pages, color plates. The first representative overview of Tooker's work for thirty years, provides a much-deserved and comprehensive examination of the scope of his art. In essays comprising new research and offering fresh insights, it explores his passion for composition, his spirituality and his exploration of identity. Featuring superb reproductions of more than eighty of the artist's timeless images, the book also enables readers to see the unexpected ways in which Tooker's work echoes what has been considered avant-garde in American art and to appreciate the depth of his resonant, prescient imagery. A major new study of one of America's most influential modern painters. Clean copy.

Record # 399665

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

In My Grandfather's House by: Poortvliet, Rien
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In My Grandfather's House
by: Poortvliet, Rien

Hardcover. New York, Harry Abrams, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight, clean copy with Illustrated heavily by author. Previous owner's marking on half title page. The illustrator of "Gnomes" imaginatively captures his own heritage in a stunning visual recreation of his family, ranging from an eight-year-old cowherd in the 1600s up through the present day. Color throughout.

Record # 399666

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, illustrations and Murals by: Allen, Douglas & Allen, Douglas Jr.
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N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, illustrations and Murals
by: Allen, Douglas & Allen, Douglas Jr.

Hardcover. NY, Bonanza Books, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 335 pages, gilt-stamped maroon cloth. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Unabridged and still the best biography/bibliography/oeuvre catalogue on this American master illustrator and painter. Includes all modes of work: books, periodicals, newspapers, posters, calendars, advertisements, etc. Clean copy.

Record # 399667

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

I Paint What I See by: Wilson, Gahan
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I Paint What I See
by: Wilson, Gahan

Softcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 126 pages, 100 b&w cartoons by Wilson reprinted from various magazines. In illustrated wrappers with light shelf wear.

Record # 399668

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Charles Burchfield's Seasons by: Davenport, Guy
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Charles Burchfield's Seasons
by: Davenport, Guy

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Charles Burchfield's Seasons offers a wealth of visionary art rendered in his personal abstract stylistic shorthand that vividly expresses the moods and sounds of light and wind. Accompanied by quotations from Charles Burchfield's Journals, the color plates in this book resonate with the artist's vibrancy. Clean copy.

Record # 399670

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Staging Fashion, 1880-1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke by: Majer, Michele (Editor)
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Staging Fashion, 1880-1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke
by: Majer, Michele (Editor)

Softcover. NY, Bard Graduate Center, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Although Jane Hading (1859-1940), Lily Elsie (1886-1962), and Billie Burke (1884-1970) gained fame as stage actresses, their popular appeal also rested on their ability to cultivate a glamorous appearance. Their careers illustrate the early transformation of actresses into marketable commodities whose celebrity status depended on the consumption of their images. This celebrity, in turn, was used to market an array of beauty and fashion goods to women striving to emulate them. The three women featured in Staging Fashion exemplify the factors that ensured success for 20th-century actresses. Each of these women was dressed by a leading couturier (or several couturiers), both onstage and offstage. In major cities such as New York, Paris, and London, actresses depended on exquisite, custom-made gowns both to secure principal roles and to maintain popularity. Their physical beauty, which was consistent with elite notions of class and race, was depicted on postcards and in popular fashion and theatre magazines and newspapers. Finally, these actresses developed distinct "personalities," which were conveyed by their stage roles and in numerous photos and articles.

Record # 399674

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

The Suit: Form, Function and Style by: Christopher Breward
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The Suit: Form, Function and Style
by: Christopher Breward

Hardcover. London, Reaktion Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. The story of this most familiar garment, from its emergence in western Europe at the end of the seventeenth century to today. Suit-wearing figures such as the Savile Row gentleman and the Wall Street businessman have long embodied ideas of tradition, masculinity, power and respectability, but the suit has also been used to disrupt concepts of gender and conformity. Adopted and subverted by women, artists, musicians and social revolutionaries through the decades - from dandies and Sapeurs to the Zoot Suit and Le Smoking. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 399675

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Joseph Pennell's Pictures of War Work in America by: Joseph Pennell
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Joseph Pennell's Pictures of War Work in America
by: Joseph Pennell

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with a pastedown on front cover with title and illustration. Offers a powerful visual record of the United States' contribution to World War I. This collection of lithographs by renowned artist Joseph Pennell provides a unique glimpse into the nation's war effort, focusing on the crucial role of American industry. Previous owner's note on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 399678

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Sotheby's: European Sculpture & Works of Art 900-1900 - London 9 July 2002 by: Sotheby's
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Sotheby's: European Sculpture & Works of Art 900-1900 - London 9 July 2002
by: Sotheby's

Softcover. London, Sotheby's, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #L02231, 186 pages, illustrated in color, fold-out plates. 174 lots. Clean copy.

Record # 399687

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale - London 3 February 2004 by: Sotheby's
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Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale - London 3 February 2004
by: Sotheby's

Softcover. London, Sotheby's, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #L04002, 116 pages, illustrated in color, fold-out plates. 57 lots. Clean copy.

Record # 399688

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale - London 21 June 2004 by: Sotheby's
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Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale - London 21 June 2004
by: Sotheby's

Softcover. London, Sotheby's, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #L04007, 208 pages, illustrated in color, fold-out plates. 60 lots. Clean copy.

Record # 399690

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Sotheby's: European Sculpture Early Furniture & Works of Art Amsterdam 11 June 2003 by: Sotheby's
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Sotheby's: European Sculpture Early Furniture & Works of Art Amsterdam 11 June 2003
by: Sotheby's

Softcover. Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #AM0890, 142 pages, illustrated in color, 377 lots. Clean copy.

Record # 399691

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art - Part Two New York November 5 2004 by: Sotheby's
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Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art - Part Two New York November 5 2004
by: Sotheby's

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #N08024, 364 pages, illustrated in color, 446 lots. Clean copy.

Record # 399692

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art - Part One New York May 6 2004 by: Sotheby's
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Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art - Part One New York May 6 2004
by: Sotheby's

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #N07990, 176 pages, illustrated in color, fold-out plates. 152 lots. Clean copy.

Record # 399693

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art - Part One New York November 4 2004 by: Sotheby's
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Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art - Part One New York November 4 2004
by: Sotheby's

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.

Record # 399694

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art - Part One New York May 3 2005 by: Sotheby's
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Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art - Part One New York May 3 2005
by: Sotheby's

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #N08089, 216 pages, illustrated in color, fold-out plates. 65 lots. Clean copy.

Record # 399695

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art - Day Sale London 22 June 2004 by: Sotheby's
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Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art - Day Sale London 22 June 2004
by: Sotheby's

Softcover. London, Sotheby's, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #L04008, 276 pages, illustrated in color, 319 lots. Clean copy.

Record # 399696

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art - Evening Sale London 23 June 2003 by: Sotheby's
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Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art - Evening Sale London 23 June 2003
by: Sotheby's

Softcover. London, Sotheby's, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #L03004, 132 pages, illustrated in color, fold-out plates, 35 lots. Clean copy.

Record # 399697

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Sotheby's: Antiquities New York June 13 2002 by: Sotheby's
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Sotheby's: Antiquities New York June 13 2002
by: Sotheby's

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #N07812, 184 pages, illustrated in color, 287 lots. Clean copy.

Record # 399698

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art - Part One New York November 4 2004 by: Sotheby's
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Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art - Part One New York November 4 2004
by: Sotheby's

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.

Record # 399699

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art - Part Two New York November 6 2004 by: Sotheby's
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Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art - Part Two New York November 6 2004
by: Sotheby's

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #N07936, 316 pages, illustrated in color, 376 lots. Clean copy.

Record # 399700

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Sotheby's: Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Art Morning / Including Property from the Collection of Arthur G. Altschul New York November 8 2006 by: Sotheby's
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Sotheby's: Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Art Morning / Including Property from the Collection of Arthur G. Altschul New York November 8 2006
by: Sotheby's

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Sale #N08241, 360 pages, illustrated in color, 311 lots. Clean copy.

Record # 399701

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country [book & CD] by: Crumb, Robert; Calt, Stephen; Nevins, Richard; Jasen, David
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R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country [book & CD]
by: Crumb, Robert; Calt, Stephen; Nevins, Richard; Jasen, David

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Introduction by Terry Zwigoff. Includes Bonus Music CD Selected and Compiled by R. Crumb. Bright, clean & tight copy, 240 pages. "Anyone who knows R. Crumb's work as an illustrator knows of his passion for music. And all those who collect his work prize the 'Heroes of the Blues, Early Jazz Greats, and Pioneers of Country Music' trading card sets he created in the early to- mid-1980s. Now they are packaged together for the first time in book form, along with an exclusive 21-track CD of music selected and compiled by Crumb himself (featuring original recordings by Charley Patton, Dock Boggs, Jelly Roll Morton, and others). A brief biography of each musician is provided, along with a full-color original illustration by Crumb.

Record # 399703

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Arthur Dove: A Reassessment by: Pensler, Alan
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Arthur Dove: A Reassessment
by: Pensler, Alan

Hardcover. Seattle/New York, Lucia Marquand and D.A.P., 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. offers a fresh look at the art, life and literature of seminal American modernist painter Arthur Dove (1880-1946). It also introduces Dove's long-forgotten biographer Suzanne Mullett Smith, who worked with Alfred Stieglitz and the artist from 1943 to 1944 assembling a chronicle of Dove's art and life as well as a catalogue raisonne. By examining previously unpublished material, this volume explores the differences between Dove's public and private personas, especially the development of his art while living in Westport, Connecticut, from 1910 to 1920; his successful career as a chicken farmer; his complex relationship with his family; and the impact of his Christian background on some of his best-known works. 239 pages, 100 pages of large color plates. 47 color figures in text section. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 399704

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

William Glackens by: William H. Gerdts, Jorge H. Santis (Contributor)
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William Glackens
by: William H. Gerdts, Jorge H. Santis (Contributor)

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 279 pages. William Glackens was one of the most influential American painters in the first decades of the twentieth century. From his beginnings as a witty magazine artist-illustrator in Philadelphia and New York to his participation in the forward-thinking group of artists dubbed The Eight, Glackens was a perceptive interpreter of his surroundings. Glackens, one of the most versatile and popular artists of his time, assimilated the lighthearted modern French themes of spirited cafes and bustling parks and resorts in such canvases as Chez Mouquin (1905) and Sledding, Central Park (1912). An admirer of the more traditional figure painting of the Impressionist Renoir, his name also became closely linked to the modern artists who exhibited their works at the famous Armory Show of 1913, which Glackens helped organize. This important study, the first major monograph on Glackens, includes an insightful essay by Dr. William Gerdts and a complete catalog, introduced by curator Jorge Santis, describing the incomparable holdings of the Glackens Collection of the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. With a chronology, bibliography, and index, this profusely illustrated volume is sure to become the standard reference on Glackens for historians and collectors of twentieth-century art. Clean,bright copy.

Record # 399706

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Hirschfeld's Sondheim: A Poster Book by: Leopold, David, Illustrator: Hirschfeld, Al
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Hirschfeld's Sondheim: A Poster Book
by: Leopold, David, Illustrator: Hirschfeld, Al

Softcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, This handsome volume presents 25 favorite Al Hirschfeld portraits drawn from Stephen Sondheim's musicals. The art prints in this oversize poster book can be easily removed and framed, making it an ideal gift for Sondheim fans. This first volume in a series of deluxe Hirschfeld poster books contains art drawn from life before the opening night of each of Sondheim's productions. On the reverse side are rare, ancillary images from the archives, as well as an introduction by Bernadette Peters, an essay by Ben Brantley, and text by David Leopold, Hirschfeld's archivist and creative director of the Al Hirschfeld Foundation. Hirschfeld's images capture the essence of the performances even better than the photographs of the shows. All of Sondheim's best-known plays are included--West Side Story, Follies, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, and Sunday in the Park with George. Clean copy.

Record # 399707

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Burn the Diaries by: Davey, Moyra/Alison Strayer
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Burn the Diaries
by: Davey, Moyra/Alison Strayer

Softcover. Wien, mumok/ICA/Dancing Foxes Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 60 pages. Softcover. Previous owners name and date on title page. Illustrated with full color photography. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text. In the oeuvre of New York artist Moyra Davey (born 1958), literature and writing are as significant as photography, film and video. In her latest text, Burn the Diaries, Davey considers the work of French playwright and political activist Jean Genet, while examining fugitive moments from her own life. An essay by her childhood friend and reading companion Alison Strayer, written in response, reflects on Davey's themes. The publication is part of a group of new works--also including photographs, a film and an installation of her signature mailers, which Davey sends to family, friends and acquaintances--that illuminate the relationship between image and language. This volume can be read both as an artist's book and a catalogue to accompany the exhibition at Mumok, Vienna, and the ICA, Philadelphia, in 2014.

Record # 399712

Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00 

Fur F. N. Nietzsche in der bildenden Kunst der letzten 30 Jahre by: Stiftung Weimarer Klassik
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Fur F. N. Nietzsche in der bildenden Kunst der letzten 30 Jahre
by: Stiftung Weimarer Klassik

Softcover. Berlin GR, Stiftung Weimarer Klassik, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 148 pages, very richly illustrated with color illustrations depicting Friedrich Neitzsche. German text. Clean copy.

Record # 399729

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

The Natural Way to Paint: Rendering the Figure in Watercolor Simply and Beautifully by: Charles Reid
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The Natural Way to Paint: Rendering the Figure in Watercolor Simply and Beautifully
by: Charles Reid

Hardcover. NY, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 142 pages illustrated in color. Charles Reid's latest book is the culmination of his organic approach to painting. Reid's aim is to show artists how to achieve a natural-looking, painterly style within the context of a progressive, step-by-step format. Each aspect of developing the figure is clearly demonstrated.

Record # 399753

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

SOME BOOKS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY PAUL LANDACRE by: Ritchie, Ward / Paul Landacre
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SOME BOOKS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY PAUL LANDACRE
by: Ritchie, Ward / Paul Landacre

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.

Record # 399757

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by: Kate Beaton
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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
by: Kate Beaton

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 430 pages illustrated in b&w by Beaton. Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times best-selling cartoonist of Hark A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beatons, a tight-knit seaside community. After university, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush, part of the long tradition of East Coast Canadians who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, what the journey will actually cost Katie will be far more than she anticipates. Beaton's natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime Albertan backdrop of wildlife, Northern Lights, and Rocky Mountains. Her first full length graphic narrative, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is an untold story of Canada: a country that prides itself on its egalitarian ethos and natural beauty while simultaneously exploiting both the riches of its land and the humanity of its people. Clean copy.

Record # 399770

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

The English Dreamers: A Collection of Pre-Raphaelite Paintings by: Larkin, David (Ed.)
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The English Dreamers: A Collection of Pre-Raphaelite Paintings
by: Larkin, David (Ed.)

Softcover. NY, Peacock Press/Bantam Book, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 92 pages, 40 color plates, 5 text illustrations. Introduction by Rowland Elzea. A collection of vibrantly colorful reproductions of the paintings which preceded Surrealism by Victorian dream artists who combined illusion with reality. Each facing page shows a painting, with the following being its title, artist, date, and location. Includes such well-known paintings as "The Lady of Shallot", "The Escape of the Heretic", "Ophelia", and similar works. Mild wrinkle to top edge of last 8 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 399772

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Alexander Liberman: Painting and Sculpture 1950-1970 by: Alexander Liderman
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Alexander Liberman: Painting and Sculpture 1950-1970
by: Alexander Liderman

Softcover. Washington DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages illustrated in b&w, some color. Clean copy.

Record # 399781

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Niagara: Two Centuries of Changing Attitude 1697-1901 by: Jeremy Elwell Adamson
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Niagara: Two Centuries of Changing Attitude 1697-1901
by: Jeremy Elwell Adamson

Softcover. Washington DC, Cororan Gallery of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 167 pages illustrated in color and b&w. A pictorial history of Niagara Falls. Three essays on the iconic landmark. Front bottom corner with a light dog-ear crease, otherwise clean.

Record # 399782

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

At Home in Manhattan: Modern Decorative Arts 1925 to the Depression by: Karen Davies
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At Home in Manhattan: Modern Decorative Arts 1925 to the Depression
by: Karen Davies

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 123 pages, b&w illustrations, some color. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 399783

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Gordon House Editions, 1961-1981 (SIGNED COPY) by: Baro, Gene
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Gordon House Editions, 1961-1981 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Baro, Gene

Softcover. Pittsburgh PA, Museum of Art/Carnegie Institute, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 53 pages, 5 color plates, many b&w illustrations. A complete catalogue of his graphic prints selected by Gene Baro. SIGNED BY HOUSE in pencil on front cover. Exhibition catalog.

Record # 399786

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Eric Fischl: Paintings by: Fischl, Eric/ Ferguson, Bruce W.; Ammann, Jean-Christophe; Kuspit, Donald B.
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Eric Fischl: Paintings
by: Fischl, Eric/ Ferguson, Bruce W.; Ammann, Jean-Christophe; Kuspit, Donald B.

Softcover. Saskatoon, Mendel Art Gallery , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages. Exhibition catalog. Features essays by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Donald B. Kuspit, Bruce W. Ferguson. Includes 21 plates with 14 in color. A very good plus copy in wrappers. This is a catalog of an exhibition organized to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the artist's first one-man show, and contains over 30 black and white and color plates and well as the "Eric Fischl's To Whom Does it Belong" by Jean-Christophe Ammann; "Voyeurism, Eric Fischl's Vision Of The Perverse" by Donald B. Kuspit; and, "Corrupting Four Probes Into A Body Of Work" by Bruce W. Ferguson.

Record # 399787

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Eric Fischl: Paintings by: Fischl, Eric/ Ferguson, Bruce W.; Ammann, Jean-Christophe; Kuspit, Donald B.
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Eric Fischl: Paintings
by: Fischl, Eric/ Ferguson, Bruce W.; Ammann, Jean-Christophe; Kuspit, Donald B.

Softcover. Saskatoon, Mendel Art Gallery , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages. Exhibition catalog. Features essays by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Donald B. Kuspit, Bruce W. Ferguson. Includes 21 plates with 14 in color. A very good plus copy in wrappers.

Record # 399788

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Arthur G. Dove by: Wight, Frederick S.
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Arthur G. Dove
by: Wight, Frederick S.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 96 pages illustrations (some color), portrait. 23 color, 39 bw plates. The first significant look at the artwork of American modernist Arthur G. Dove (1880-1946). With a foreword by Duncan Phillips, and a lengthy illustrated essay by Wight. Includes a collections history, exhibitions history, and a sizable selected bibliography. Clean copy.

Record # 399789

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Jim Dine by: Gordon, John
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Jim Dine
by: Gordon, John

Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wraps with die-cut heart in front cover. 98 pages. 99 color & bw plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1970 exhibition of work by American pop artist Jim Dine (b. 1935). With opening essays and an artist statement. The catalogue addresses 126 works, and quite a few are pictured here. Includes a lengthy bibliography and exhibition history. Clean.

Record # 399791

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Folk Embroidery of the USSR by: Klimova, Nina T.
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Folk Embroidery of the USSR
by: Klimova, Nina T.

Hardcover. NY, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 128 pages, b&w illustrations, some color. Clean copy.

Record # 399792

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art by: Murase, Miyeko
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Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art
by: Murase, Miyeko

Hardcover. NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, maroon cloth with gold lettering, 464 pages with 449 illustrations, including 320 color plates. The Mary Griggs Burke collection is the largest and most comprehensive outside Japan. The selections in this volume are arranged chronologically and includes astonishing and rare pieces. The collection provides an overview of the development of Japanese art over the centuries. A beautiful catalogue with excellent reproductions and extensive text. Like new condition. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 399795

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Hal Foster's Prince Valiant Sketchbooks: An Illustrated Memoir:Volume 1 by: Hal Foster / Brian Kane (Ed.)
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Hal Foster's Prince Valiant Sketchbooks: An Illustrated Memoir:Volume 1
by: Hal Foster / Brian Kane (Ed.)

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics , 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 144 pages. Never-before-published Prince Valiant art by the strip's legendary creator, Hal Foster, collected in a series of six annotated portfolio volumes. Part sketchbooks, part biography, part tutorial, part memoir. Hal Foster's Prince Valiant Sketchbooks is an unprecedented look into Foster's personal life and creative process during his final nine years on the strip. It's also a fascinating look behind the curtains as Foster coached and interacted with his chosen successor: John Cullen Murphy. Produced with the full permission and participation of the Foster and Murphy families, this series is a testament to author and Prince Valiant historian Brian M. Kane's research prowess and determination to bring Hal Foster's creative process to light. This uniquely intimate view of Foster's creative process is a long-awaited dream come true for Prince Valiant fans. With an illustrated bookplate SIGNED BY EDITOR KANE. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 399797

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Life Drawing by: Jaime Hernandez
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Life Drawing
by: Jaime Hernandez

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 130 pages, b&w comic art by Hernandez. Ten years in the making (and torn from the pages of the legendary Love and Rockets), Jaime Hernandez's graphic novel skillfully weaves two generations of his beloved characters into a satisfying story of love - both young and middle-aged. Life Drawing darts primarily between the youthful Tonta and the venerable Maggie. Tonta has a crush on her art teacher, Ray, as well as an axe to grind with an older woman in the neighbourhood. When Tonta finds that the woman, Maggie, is married to Ray, things get complicated. And Tonta does not handle complications well. Life Drawing showcases Hernandez's brilliant talent for character, weaving relationships, rejections, infidelities, and adventures. Clean copy.

Record # 399798

Price: $38.00
Price: $38.00 

Comic Book Apocalypse! by: David J. Hogan
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Comic Book Apocalypse!
by: David J. Hogan

Hardcover. Atglen PA, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 255 pages. illustrated in color. Explore the rise and fall of pre-Code comics with 500 covers revealing America's cultural shifts, censorship, and controversy. From 1940 to 1955, American society and culture underwent dramatic changes, including the introduction of the Comics Code in October 1954, which heavily impacted comic books. The Code aimed to moderate comic content in response to public opinion, including such topics as juvenile delinquency, wartime sentiment, teenage sex, drugs, violent crime, and more. While compliance was technically voluntary, most publishers followed its strict rules. Those who didn't faced ruin when wholesalers and distributors refused to handle noncompliant comics, returning them unopened to publishers, who soon self-destructed. Comic Book Apocalypse! explores this downfall through 500 examples of pre-Code cover art, highlighting why some deemed the Code necessary. The book also examines who decided what content was acceptable, demonstrating how pre-Code comics reflect the larger story of 1950s America. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 399799

Price: $90.00
Price: $90.00 


  

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Our art shelves gather used, rare and antiquarian titles spanning painting, sculpture, illustration and the lives of individual artists. You will find monographs, exhibition catalogues and richly illustrated studies, from J.G. Links on Canaletto to Terence Doherty's The Anatomical Works of George Stubbs.

Alongside the old masters, the collection reaches into American and wildlife art, including Mildred D. Ladner's William de la Montagne Cary: Artist on the Missouri River and J.F. Lansdowne's Birds of the Northern Forest. Editions range from later reprints to scarce first printings and cloth-bound hardcovers, with plates and reproductions that make many of these volumes collectible in their own right.

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