Used, Rare & Out-of-Print Art Books

1937, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon of celebrities arriving at the Metropolitan Opera by Constantine Alajalov. 8 1/2 X 11 1/2", clean, no label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. NY, Powerhouse Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages, color illustrations. The history of American comics through the stories of comics' most important and influential creators -- tracing the medium's journey all the way from its beginnings as junk culture for kids to its current status as legitimate literature and pop culture. Featuring artists such as Jerry Siegel, Will Eisner, Jerry Robinson, Al Jaffee, Neal Adams, Peter Kuper, Stan Lee and many more.

Softcover. Moline, IL, Funnies publishing, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Black and white comic strips throughout by Phil Nowlan and Dick Calkins. Issue number 1, reprinting of comic strips from 1933-1934. Sticker on rear wrapper.

Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages, many b&w illustrations, some in color. Issued in conjunction with a 1980 exhibition featuring geometric artwork by American artist Myron Stout (1908-1987). Catalogue lists 54 works. Selected bibliography. Includes selections from his journals, and an essay by Sanford Schwartz. Light tanning to top edge of wrappers, clean copy.

1914, Book: Very Good, Color art of Indian soldier on horseback by Edward Penfield. 10 X 13", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Softcover. Rochester, NY, Home Institute, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled 2-color wrappers, 40 page booklet, b&w illustrations throughout. Not credited but presumed the author. Nice period drawings.

Hardcover. Paris, Christie's Paris, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages, illustrated throughout in color. French text. Light wear to lower edge of spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Amsterdam, Schetern & Giltay, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards, 190 pages. A collection of b&w (a few 2-color) political cartoons preceding WW I. Dutch text. Scarce.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 320 pages. A detailed look at the photographic processes pioneered by Man Ray in the 1920s and 30s, which resulted in groundbreaking portraits of many of his celebrated friends and lovers. Clean copy.

1901, Two color art of party with woman descending stairs by George Gibbs. 11 X 15", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages, color illustrations by Betsy Lewin, Brian Collier, Brian Selzneck, David Wiesner, Paul D. Zelinsky, Hilary Knight, David Shannon, others.

Hardcover. Prescott, AZ, Gladstone Publishing Ltd., 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fortieth anniversary edition of Uncle Scrooge compilation. With storybook paintings by Norman McGary and commentary by Geoffrey Blum. Black covers with gilt lettering on front and spine. Small abrasion to rear bottom spine edge, otherwise unmarked, clean and tight copy with light wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title stamped on spine and decoration on front cover. Black endpapers. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning from age, but still in excellent condition. Pages' outer edges are very slightly tanned, but otherwise clean. This is a beautiful volume that examines an artist's technique, while also telling a story through word and paint brush, about the German immigrants with whom he was living.

Hardcover. NY, Tudor Publishing , 1st US, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, deep green cloth with gilt lettering. 164 pages, 110 plates. Covers modern French art of the early twentieth century in text and through black and white illustrations. Discusses such topics as Fauvism, Futurism, and popular art as well as specific French painters.

1932, Color portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Lion side-by-side. Illustration by Lynn Bogue Hunt. 10 X 13", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. NY, Horace Liveright, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, vintage b&w cartoons by Arno. Black cloth covers, lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Flammarion, 1st English, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Catalog of a traveling exhibition first held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, subsequently held at various European museums. Translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre. Minor rubbing and fading to dust jacket, mostly to top edge. Slight bumping to corners. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Watson Guptill, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Beautiful copy of this detailed study of the American illustrator. Color, black & white plates. 206 pages. In a bight, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics , 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 287 pages illustrated in color. Pulp horror classics from the 1950s! Revenge, ghosts, locked rooms and killer ants, taken from early Marvel Comics series Men's Adventures and Amazing Detective Cases. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 209 pages, fine fold over card covers. Color throughout. This volume exhibits a remarkable collection of select original works spanning six decades, providing a comprehensive look at his career and including all of his vintage Saturday Evening Post covers. This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition by the same title, on view at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, England. SIGNED LETTER FROM EDITORS laid in as well as related ephemera, articles.

Hardcover. Prestel Publishing/ Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 286 pages, color illustrations. This catalogue reveals the myriad ways Warhol immersed himself in the music of his time. Tracing back to Warhol's introduction to music through the musical comedies. songs and soundtracks of his youth. this book opens with Warhol's portraits of the great films stars of his childhood. As the fascinating essays collected in this volume discuss. Warhol's renowned portraits of pop music icons such as Mick Jagger. Debbie Harry and Grace Jones are just one manifestation of his interest in music. Warhol collaborated with choreographer Merce Cunningham. served as producer for the Velvet Underground. incorporated music into his films. produced video-clips. designed dozens of record albums. filmed live concerts and created multimedia spectacles. Although never a musician himself. Warhol appropriated the imagery of a pop icon for some of his most arresting and haunting self portraits.

Hardcover. US, Getty Publications, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st , 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Small text drawings, 20 black & white plates in rear. Hardcover, 126 pages. Dust jacket edgeworn, 1/2 of spine gone.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt & Co., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards, contains about 50 one-panel cartoons from the syndicated newspaper strip. The first Dennis collection. Light foxing/spotting to covers, clean copy otherwise.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY CHRYSSA on the front fly leaf. 55 illustrations, 12 in color. Early monograph on the Greek-born American sculptor who works with emitted light sources. Scarce signed copy. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 71 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Essay by Kevin J. Avery. "The wide variety of selections from Frederic Edwin Church's collection of his own paintings shows the master in all phases of his career, in sketches and finished paintings, depicting the breadth of his subjects and the high technical skills that established him as an eminent and influential artist in his own time. As works he held on to or reacquired and kept in his house during his lifetime, they embody the heart of his artistic vision and convey a deeply personal slant. As pictures he hung and lived with at Olana, they tell the larger story of that extraordinary place and are as illuminating when seen in context as on their own."

Softcover. Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 199 pages illustrated in color. This book provides a new way of thinking about eighteenth-century French art and visual culture by prioritizing production over reception. Abandoning the ideologically driven discourse that distinguished fine from decorative art between the 1690s and 1770s, The Mobile Image reveals how the two have been inextricably bound from the earliest stages of artistic instruction through the daily life of painters' workshops. In this study, author David Pullins defines artisanal and artistic means of learning, seeing, and making through a system of "mobile images": motifs that were effectively engineered for mobility and designed never to be definitive, always awaiting replication and circulation. He examines the careers of Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and Francois Boucher, situating them against a much broader cast of actors--such as printmakers, publishers, anonymous studio assistants, and architects, among others--to place eighteenth-century painting within a wider context of media and making. clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, reprint, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 118 of Arno's b&w cartoons from The New Yorker. Clean, bright copy, no dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Scala, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. The diversity of New York City's people, cultures, religions, and backgrounds make it the indicator of American sexuality. It is black, white, gay, straight, rich, poor, rough, and tender all at once. From Margaret Sanger's dissemination of birth control to the Stonewall riot of 1969, New York City has repeatedly seen its sexual dynamics changed and American and international culture follow suit. Published to coincide with the much-anticipated opening of the Museum of Sex in New York, NYC Sex features conversations between major cultural figures and historians on sexual topics, including Grady T. Turner on "Sodom on the Hudson"; Martin Duberman and Joan Nestle on queers; Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Xaviera Hollander, and Tracy Quan on whores; Karen Finley, Luc Sante, Gene Simmons, and Art Spiegelman on the underground; and Vanessa del Rio, Legs McNeil, and Annie Sprinkle on porn. And what's a book about sex without pictures? In between the steamy conversation, NYC Sex posts photographs by Mapplethorpe, Ferrato and Gatewood; 19th-century drawings and photographs; film stills; posters; magazine pin-ups; and images of sex symbols past and present. It's a treat the whole family can enjoy. NYC Sex is the official book of the inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Sex, which will open in New York in September.

Softcover. New York , Tom Doherty, 1st, 1994 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 287 pages, in excellent condition. A cartoon collection from the master of macabre.

Hardcover. San Francisco , Pomegrante Artbooks, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, XV pages + 36 plates in full color. Light blue cloth, blue pictorial dust jacket. Light edgewear to jacket, else like new

Hardcover. NY, Glitterati Incorporated, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Beautiful monograph on artist Don Bachardy with portraits of people associated with Hollywood: directors, writers and actors. Also included are several abstract works. Introductions by Armistead Maupin, Don Bachardy and Tom Ford. Includes portraits of: Charlotte Rampling, Henry Fonda, Mia Farrow, Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Katherine Hepburn, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Lemmon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Matthew Modine, Tim Robbins, Julianne Moore, Andie McDowell, Tom Waits, Madeleine Stowe, Simon Callow, Patrick Swayze, Brooke Shields, Melanie Griffith, Joan Rivers, Stockard Channing, Jon Voight, Jane Fonda, Joan Collins, Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Barbara Streisand, Natalie Wood, Marlene Dietrich, John Gielgud, Gore Vidal, John Huston, Ian McKellen, and many, many more. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Dark Horse, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. First appearing in Al Capp's "Li'l Abner" comic strip in 1948, the oddly shaped (and happily edible) Shmoo became an overnight phenomenon, spawning an unprecedented merchandising frenzy in the late '40s and 50s. As part of the Dark Horse Archives series, ALL Shmoo comic book appearances are being collected for the first time ever in a deluxe hardcover edition! In addition to every issue of Shmoo Comics from 1949 and 1950, rare bonus stories, and Shmoo-centric advertisements from yesteryear, Al Capp's Complete Shmoo: The Comic Books features an introduction and annotations by certified Shmoo-ologist Denis Kitchen. A persistent presence in pop culture, the selfless Shmoo has served humanity for decades - mostly by offering itself as food - but also by entertaining and tickling our funny bones like no other creature can. Treat yourself to these hilarious adventures, featuring Washable Jones, Super Shmoo, Frankenshmoo, Fu Manshmoo and truly a cast of thousands! This archival collection sports a new cover by Peter Poplaski.

Softcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st wraps, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. SIGNED BY KOREN on title-page. Black & white illustrations by Edward Koren. Red remainder mark on top edge at spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Unpaginated, a collection of b&w cartoons previously published in The Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, The New Yorker and Esquire. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Softcover. Paris, Librairie Floury, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, gray wrappers with black and red lettering, 213 pages. Illustrated with black & white plates. Small tears at foot and crown of paper spine. Clean, tight copy. FRENCH TEXT.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 3009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. Like an around-the-world vacation through resort locations and timeless fashions, the history of resort clothing is fashion at its most fun. Crossing continents, styles, and generations, the book travels through the tradition of vacation style, taking a visually stunning trip from early beach pajamas by Chanel and Schiaparelli to sailor stripes, to Pucci and Pulitzer prints, and, of course, to the bikini. Resort Fashion features rare photographs and never-before-published images by photographer legends, including Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Toni Frissell, Norman Parkinson, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Helmut Newton, and Scavullo. The fashions showcase renowned designers from the past and present who have contributed their unique touch to resort wear, including Claire McCardell, Michael Kors, Rodarte, and many more. From Palm Beach to Montego Bay to St. Tropez, this book celebrates resort wear's vibrant history with an allure that extends beyond runways to the most exotic, far-flung destinations.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 182 pages, hardcover illustrated in color and b&w. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, reveals that great design and great style were consistent elements in the work of American's best fashion designers. Patricia Mears introduces many great forgotten figures, as well as many familiar names: work by lesser-known figures such as Jessie Franklin Turner, Ronaldus Shamask, and Charles Kleibecker is discussed alongside pieces by more celebrated creators, such as Halston and Charles James; work by designers of the past is juxtaposed with that of present-day designers such as Rick Owens, Yeolee Teng, and Maria Comejo.

Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Limited to 1300 copies in English, this being #521. Two volumes in a slipcase with a label. Dark blue cloth covers, top edge gilt, spines with maroon and gilt design. Vol. 1: The Paintings, 446 pages with 208 b&w plates, 19 b&w text illustrations and tipped-in b&w photo of Daumier by Nadar as frontispiece. Vol. 2: The Watercolours and Drawings, 619 pages with 325 b&w plates(most with multiple images), 31 text illustrations, tipped-in errata slip. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf of volume 1, otherwise clean, tight set. Slipcase is very good with some rubbing to blue cloth.

Hardcover. NY, Andrews McMeel, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Alley Oop's color time-traveling adventures continue! Come with Alley as he crashes into the War in the Pacific, becomes a screen star in Hollywood's Golden Age, and more! 139 never-before-reprinted strips are presented in this oversize hardcover (12' x 16'), covering 1942 through August 1944, featuring a foreword from former Alley Oop writer Carole Bender. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Detroit MI, Stabur Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 144 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. With the illustrated paper covered slipcase. The full-color jacket art by him was done expressly for this publication. Includes a checklist of his works: comic books, humor magazines, other magazines (Playboy, Esquire, etc), books, advertising, misc. prints, etc. All quotes in the book are from interviews conducted by the author.

Hardcover. US, Dark Horse, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Elephant folio, hardcover, 104 pages in color. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. One of comics' greatest artistic achievements gets its due in this deluxe 15" x 20" hardcover collecting the first two years of Tarzan Sunday strips by Hal Foster! Beautifully restored and printed at giant size, this first volume in Dark Horse's comprehensive collection of Foster's Tarzan Sundays reprints over one-hundred strips on high-quality paper and in eye-popping color, replicating when they first appeared! Includes a historical essay on Tarzan and Foster by comics scholar, Mark Evanier.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on Frank Modell, political cartoonist Carey Orr, Alley Oop, interview with Mort Gerberg, others.

1964, Book: Very Good, Color art by Getz of evening diners by large open window. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Softcover. Zach Feuer Gallery, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 70 pages. Priya Bhatnagar in Flash Art has written "Threatening to unravel pop culture's abstractions, Hawkins's images call into question the socially coded nature of its identities, icons, meanings and values while contesting its homogenization of beauty and fashion. Joel Sternfeld's foreword calls this survey of recent work "an achievement of the first magnitude." Inviting friends and strangers in Nepal to pose for the camera, Blue Eyes includes three photographic series and three video projects that reveal the ubiquity of American media culture while underscoring certain behaviors as they pertain to global capitalism and race. Each image investigates the experience of cultural imperialism as seen through the eyes of those living in the developing world. Hawkins highlights the visual dialogue that comprises consumer and popular culture and asks the viewer to consider a world of differences increasingly veiled by surface similarities.

Softcover. Rome, Libreria dello Stato, 1st, 1992-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 429 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Folio. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Hong Kong, Christie's, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 260 pages, hundreds of lots illustrated in color.

1967, Book: Very Good, Color art by Getz of barman lowering awning on city street. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages. The starting point for Erik Niedling's Formation series is a rediscovered collection of 1920s glass negatives containing photographs of plants. Niedling studied the plates, reproduced them and made new, large-format prints. Are these images positives or negatives, documents or works of art, historical materials or new artistic creations?

Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Twelvetrees Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 180 pages, 73 illustrations (48 in color), bibliography, index. Published in an edition of 3, 000 copies.