Softcover. Charlottesville, Va., University of Virginia Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 123 pages. Exhibition catalog. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light wear/crease to spine, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, N.Y. (21 E. 70th St., Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light wear and rubbing to spine with slight tear to upper edge. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, N.Y., Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 67 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light rubbing to edges of spine, minor sun-fade to rear cover. Clean, tight copy. This is the catalog for an unusual exhibition of rare original plasters, most of which were used by foundries to cast in bronze, held at Hirschl & Adler Galleries in New York from March 3 through April 14, 1990. Plasters "frequently represent the last stage of the artist's involvement in the fabrication of a work. . . . plasters have singular qualities: they have a warmth, a beauty, and an approachability, even vulnerability, not often found in the harder media of stone and bronze."
Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Rocky Neck Art Colony, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages illustrated throughout with over 130 plates in color. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover163 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to wrappers, with small crease to front cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Spanierman Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 112 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Illustrated, laminated boards, no dust jacket issued. Clean, tight copy. This is a beutifully produced catalog of a NY retrospective for the Australian/British/American painter Hayley Lever (1876-1958). His painting also crossed boundaries including elements of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism & Tonalism. Perhaps it was this refusal to sit in one box that accounts for his being so nearly forgotten. There are many lovely pictures here, mostly of St Ives & the coasts of New England.
Hardcover. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 180 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w with a few color plates. Light shelf-wear, rubbing and soil to dust jacket. Internally very good.
Softcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 305 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and sun-fade to spine. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Clean, tight copy. Briefly traces the career of this contemporary American architect and shows examples of his houses, apartment buildings, libraries, museums, schools, hotels, churches, and conference centers.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Spanierman Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 151 pages, illustrated throughout with plates in full color. Illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued. Light wear to edges of spine, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Burlington VT, Shelburne Museum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 58 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light wear and rubbing to spine, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Lancaster PA, Phillips Museum, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 89 pages. Text in Chinese and English. Illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Stony Brook, N.Y., Museums at Stony Brook, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Some wear and sun-fade to spine and covers, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, N.Y., Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 63 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. NY, Independent Curators Incorporated, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Board covers with a red label on front. Non-paginated, ca 50 pages. B&w illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Watson Guptill, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages illustrated throughout with 175 b&w illustrations and 70 plates in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, New York / South Street Seaport Museum, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, illustrated throughout in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, color illustrations. Still in publishers shrink-wrap. Rear cover of dust jacket shows some bubbles/de-lamination. Otherwise like new. Retrospective of Brunhoff's paintings (watercolors) that show the detail, the richness and the finnesse of the original's.
Hardcover. New York, Abrams, Revised Ed., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 296 pages, illustrated throughout with 80 plates in full color and numerous illustrations in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The author, Frederic G. Renner, was a good friend of the artist, and devoted nearly 35 years to collecting and studying Russelliana.
Hardcover. London/ New York, Dorling Kindersley, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 312 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. A year by year overview of critical science fiction works (and movies and TV series), and a synopsis of all the major writers of serious,quality science fiction up to the mid-1990s (when the book was published). An invaluable reference for the avid science fiction fan, especially one who wishes to learn about the many overlooked, but decent, writers of yesteryear.
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages illustrated throughout with 156 plates including 74 in full color. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Large folio. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Follows the artist from his birth in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1892, through the 1980's. Beautiful color plates include costume design, magazine covers (Harper's Bazar), sculpture, vases, mirrors, medallions, jewelry, labels, bottles, playing cards, watches.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton Studio, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, illustrated throughout with 176 plates in full color. Additional text by Ray Perman and David Rogath and photographs by Daniel Kramer. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Romain de Tirtoff, who worked under the pseudonym Erte (the French pronunciation of his initials), was a celebrated artist and designer who produced 250 covers for "Harper's Bazaar" as well as fashion designs for some of the world's most glamorous stars, and costume & set designs for Hollywood and stage productions.
Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 199 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Text and Commentaries by Erte. Introduction by Alistar Duncan. Edited by Marshall Lee. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with very faint tanning to upper edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy. Lavishly illustrated with full page color plates/ photographs by Lee Boltin depicting multiple views of forty-one bronze sculptures by the author. A fabulous cataloguing of Erte's evocative art deco sculpture.
Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton - New York, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, profusely illustrated throughout in full color. Large folio. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A stunning showcase of Erte"s graphics completed at the time of publication with an additional 27 graphics added since the first edition (Erte at Ninety). Erte was a leading light in the Art Deco style and this book belongs in the library of anyone with an interest in the genre.
Softcover. Vancouver, Marion Scott Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 172 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 600 pages, illustrated throughout with 504 illustrations, including 242 plates in full color. Large heavy book. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 228 page, illustrated throughout with 126 plates in b&w. Lightly bumped corners and mild shelf-wear, else a clean, tight copy. Artists include: James McNeill Whistler, Joseph Pennell, Albert Sterner, Margaret Lowengrund, Tatyana Grosman, June Wayne, George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Rockwell Kent, and others.
Hardcover. Cologne, Dumont Buchverlag, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 363 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This volume provides an extensive survey of painting in Austria from 1900-1930, with Egon Schiele as the focal point, through a representative selection of over 100 works by Schiele and 23 of his contemporaries from the collection of Dr. Rudolf Leopold. Contributions by: Antonia Hoerschelmann, Rudolf Leopold, Klaus Albrecht Schroder, Harald Szeemann, and Patrick Werkner. 139 color plates and 59 b&w illustrations.
Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, illustrated throughout with 700 illustrations, including 194 in full color. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Brooklyn Museum : exclusively distributed by H. N. Abrams, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Previous owner's blind stamp on front end paper. Light edgewear, rubbing and creasing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 416 pages, illustrated throughout with 445 illustrations including 200 plates in full color. Previous owner's initials on half title page. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum Of Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout with 112 color plates and 55 b&w reproductions. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. A catalogue to accompany an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A beautiful publication examining Italian Maiolica. An essential reference work for historians, collectors, and anyone with an interest in ceramics.
Hardcover. London, National Gallery , 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with small scratch on front cover. Clean, tight copy. With over 150 illustrations and an in-depth chronology, this beautifully produced and comprehensive book surveys Velazquez's entire career and explores his universal popularity. Fascinating essays by world-class Velazquez scholars address the artist's life and technique, examining his studies in Seville and Italy to his final great works at the court of Philip IV.
Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 499 pages, profusely illustrated throughout with 562 plates, including 148 in full color. Previous owner's blind stamp on front end paper. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Studio Vista, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 313 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, light tanning to end papers, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art : distributed by H. N. Abrams, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 221 pages, illustrated throughout with 165 plates, including 89 in full color. Light edgewear, rubbing and soil to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages with 100 b&w illustrations and 19 plates in full color. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to price clipped dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Gallery Books, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 390 pages, illustrated throughout in color. INSCRIBED BY YOSHIDA on half title page. Large, very heavy book. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Hacker Art Books, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 269 pages, illustrated throughout with 119 plates in color. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 199 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Large oversized book. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Nice, tight copy. The works of one of the most popular printmakers in America. This work covers scenes from around the world and illustrated 170 of the artist's detailed silkscreen prints and paintings plus 10 of his color etchings.
Hardcover. Woodbridge, Suffolk, Antique Collectors Club Dist, rep, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 455 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. Hirmer Verlag Gmbh, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 174 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Text in German. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. Swindon, English Heritage, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 434 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The Iveagh Bequest at Kenwood House in Hampstead, London, is one of the world's great private art collections assembled by an individual. In quality it challenges the Frick collection in New York, with whose eponymous collector Iveagh was in competition for acquisitions during the great age of the industrial barons on both sides of the Atlantic, and the Wallace collection in London. They all saw collecting great art - much as the oligarchs of today - as ultimate status symbols.
Hardcover. New York, Aurora, 1st, Aurora, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 459 pages, 1430 illustrations, including 705 plates in full color. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with small scratch to front cover. Excellent reference copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia PA, Philadelphia Museum Of Art, 1st, 2000-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 198 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket with two faint damp stains to front panel. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 408 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. University Park, Pennsylvania State Univ Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes in bright dust jackets. Professor Armi posits that the great third abbey at Cluny is the building where regional masons of different traditions first combined their talents to develop a new design, and that the artisans responsible for the masonry also created its sculpture. Volume I Text, 204 pages; Volume II contains 238 b/w Illustrations.
Hardcover. US, Taschen, 1st, 1999-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Picture Book Studio, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Illustrated throughout with 114 posters in color. Light shelf-wear and scratching to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge and end papers, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. US, University of California Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light sun-fade and edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Independent Spirits brings to vivid life the West as seen through the eyes of women painters from 1890 to the end of World War II. Expert scholars and curators identify long-lost talent and reveal how these women were formidable cultural innovators as well as agitators for the rights of artists and women during a period of extraordinary development.
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 "Primary models: American plasters, 1880-1945 by: Menconi, Susan E")
 "Rocky Neck Art Colony, 1850-1950 by: Curtis, Judith A.")
 "Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane by: Wilmerding, John")
 "Hayley Lever by: Lowrey, Carol")
 "Thomas Moran: Watercolors of the American West by: Clark, Carol")
 "Charles Moore: Buildings and Projects 1949-1986 by: Johnson, Eugene J.")
 "Willard Metcalf: Yankee Impressionist (1858-1925) by: Boyle, Richard J. (Contributor)")
 "Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family by: Nancy Mowll Mathews; Jay E. Cantor")
 "William Adam, 1689-1748 A life and times of Scotland's universal architect by: Gifford, John")
 "Embracing the Uncarved Wood: Sculptural Reliefs from Shandong, China by: Kent, Richard K. and Christopher Zhu")
 "William Sidney Mount: Works in the collection of the Museums at Stony Brook by: Cassedy, David")
 "Benton's America: Works on paper and selected paintings : January 19 to March 2, 1991 by: Dreishpoon, Douglas")
 "From the Collection of Sol LeWitt by: Miller-Keller Et. al., Andrea")
 "James Montgomery Flagg by: Meyer, Susan E.")
 "Ship, Sea & Sky: The Marine Art of James Edward Buttersworth by: Grassby, Richard B.")
 "Art of Babar: The Work of Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff by: Weber, Nicholas Fox")
 "Charles, M. Russell: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture in the Amon Carter Museum by: Renner, Frederic G.")
 "Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia by: Clute, John")
 "Erte: My Life, My Art - An Autobiography by: Erte")
 "Erte: The Last Works: Graphics / Sculpture by: Estorick, Eric")
 "Erte: Sculpture by: Erte")
 "Erte at Ninety-Five: The Complete New Graphics by: Lee, Marshall (Editor)")
 "Vision and Form: The Norman Zepp / Judith Varga Collection of Inuit Art by: Zepp, Norman")
 "Cezanne by: Cachin, Francoise")
 "American lithographers, 1900-1960: The artists and their printers by: Adams, Clinton")
 "Egon Schiele: The Leopold Collection, Vienna by: Leopold, Rudolf")
 "Wiener Werkstatte: Design in Vienna 1903-1932 by: Schweiger, Werner")
 "Haitian Art by: Stebich, Ute")
 "Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky by: Munroe, Alexandra")
 "Italian Renaissance Ceramics by: Watson, Wendy M.")
 "Velazquez by: Carr, Dawson W.")
 "Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550 by: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.")
 "Graphic Art of Edvard Munch, The by: Timm, Werner")
 "Clyfford Still by: O'Neill, John P.")
 "Odilon Redon by: Hobbs, Richard")
 "Ukiyo-E: 250 Years of Japanese Art (SIGNED COPY) by: Yoshida, Susugu/Roni Neuer")
 "Miro's Posters by: Corredor-Matheos, Jose")
 "Thomas McKnight's World: A Vision of Earthly Happiness by: McKnight, Thomas")
 "Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators, The by: Horne, Alan")
 "Corot - L'Armoire secrete, Eine Lesende im Kontext: Katalog zur Ausstellung Winterthur, Sammlung Oskar Reinhart >Am Romerholz by: Reinhard-Felice, Mariantonia")
 "Kenwood: Paintings in the Iveagh Bequest by: Bryant, Julius")
 "Folk Art in the Soviet Union by: Razina, T. M. (Tat?eiiana Mikhaaeilovna)")
 "Alice Neel by: Temkin, Ann")
 "Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair by: Art, National Museum of American (U.S.)")
 "Masons and Sculptors in Romanesque Burgundy: The New Aesthetic of Cluny III (2 Volumes) by: Armi, C. Edson")
 "Japanese Prints by: Fahr-Becker, Gabriele")
 "Goines Posters by: Goines, David")
 "Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945 by: Trenton, Patricia")