Hardcover. Neshannock PA, Hermes Press, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 254 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Mort Walker, the "Dean of American Cartooning," left behind a legacy that extended far beyond his Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois fame. For the first time ever, Hermes Press and Bill Janocha (Walker's assistant) present a rare selection of gags and art from Walker's early years, before Beetle-mania took over the world. This historical book contains examples of the work he did prior to Beetle Bailey, and explores the evolution of his style and showcases his many gags, from his early comics in Showme magazine to the work he did for the Saturday Evening Post. This tome also contains historical essays detailing his life and career, up until his death in 2018 as written by Janocha. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, DK, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 224 pages. Meticulously researched and expertly written, The DC Book is packed with stunning, painstakingly selected artwork, illuminating infographics, and incisive, specially curated essays that shed new light on the ever-evolving DC Multiverse. From the world's finest Super Heroes such as Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, to iconic villains like the Joker, Lex Luthor, and Darkseid, to mythic realms like Apokolips and Themyscira, to cosmic energies like The Source and The Speed Force, The DC Book explores the key concepts, characters, and events that have defined and shaped DC Comics over the past 80 years. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Liveright/Norton, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 318 pages. Transporting readers directly into the ring, artist Youssef Daoudi and poet Adrian Matejka intersperse dramatic boxing action with vivid flashbacks to reveal how Jack Johnson, the self-educated son of formerly enslaved parents, reached the pinnacle of sport-all while facing down a racist justice system. Through a combination of breathtaking illustrations and striking verse, Last on His Feet honors a contentious civil rights figure who has for more than a century been denied his proper due. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Clover Press, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 164 pages. The saga continues in Terry and the Pirates Volume 9, reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs. Flip Corkin schools Joe Jitsu in good ol' American know-how before he schools Terry about the ins-and-outs of being a fighter pilot. The October 17th Sunday page--as Terry earns his wings and Flip delivers "The Pilot's Creed"--is so powerful it was read into the Congressional Record. Before that can happen, wily Rouge abducts Taffy Tucker and gives her amnesia before slipping away! Taffy is in safe hands, however, when she falls under the wing of Connie, Big Stoop, and Navy Lieutenant Pat Ryan! Taffy's reunion with her memory and with Flip coincides with the arrival of Flight Lieutenant Tote Bonny and Grett Murmur, while Terry investigates the French Captain Midi, whom some find almost--hypnotic. This tabloid-sized Volume 9 containing the 1943 dailies and Sundays is an unparalleled upgrade for collectors. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial covers with a die-cut hole for title. 316 pages in color and b&w. Perfect Nonsense tells the complete story behind one of the most innovative and under-rated Golden Age artists, classic children's illustrators, and nonsense poets in American history. For more than 50 years, George Carlson created thousands of distinctive and dynamic cartoons, comics, riddles, and games that thrilled both children and adults with their fanciful spirit and nonsensical humor. Perfect Nonsense focuses on Carlson's prolific work as a gag cartoonist, children's illustrator, commercial designer, and art instructor from 1907 to just before World War II. Decades before his celebrated Jingle Jangle Comics, Carlson forever altered the nature of children's publishing during his tenure as chief artist and designer for the pioneering children's pulp, John Martins Book. Carlson turned the magazine itself into a toy, filled with seasonal games, holiday cut-outs, curious crosswords, graphic exercises, puzzles, riddles, rebuses, and more. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Clarkson Potter, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 223 pages in b&w. In honor of the magazine's 100th birthday, this celebratory collection captures the brilliantly quirky personalities behind some of The New Yorker's most iconic cartoons. Filled with striking portraits by world-renowned photographer Alen MacWeeney, captivating profiles by long-time New Yorker contributor Michael Maslin, and a sampling of each artist's work, these pages offer an exclusive peek inside the creative brains of over fifty prominent cartoonists, both seasoned and newly minted. From legends like Roz Chast and Jack Ziegler to contemporaries like Liana Finck and Jeremy Nguyen, this landmark volume is a beautiful homage to the artists who have long brought joy, humor, and satire to our lives. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Theodore B. Donson Ltd, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover stapled catalog, 44 pages, b&w plates. An exhibition of the artist's lithographs from the the French impressionist 1901-1927. Introduction by Theodore Donson. Small corner crease to last 2 pages. Clean copy. Price list laid in.
Hardcover. NY, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with sunning to spine, 144 pages illustrated in color. Shows examples of urban and rural landscapes, discusses the composition, light, and colors of each work, and looks at the effects of season and time of day on a scene. With a small exhibition catalog laid in with 7 color plates from 1990. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, MOMA, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, 54 color illustrations. Published to accompany a major retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this volume considers Burton's career as an artist and filmmaker. It narrates the evolution of his creative practices, following the current of his visual imagination from his earliest childhood drawings through his mature oeuvre. Illustrated with works on paper, moving-image stills, drawn and painted concept art, puppets and maquettes, storyboards, and examples of his work as a graphic artist for his nonfilm projects, this publication sheds new light on Burton and presents previously unseen works from the artist's personal archive. Clean copy.
Softcover. Yonkers NY, Fordham University Press , 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 175 pages illustrated in color. It was not until the first decade of the twentieth century, as artists like Robert Henri and John Sloan turned their attention to the urban scene, that American art shifted its focus from bucolic landscapes to the cities, the towns, the crowds, especially the raucous urban scene of Manhattan--by then the nation's most important metropolis. This movement away from painting the land to painting the life on the street is often seen as a clean break with the depiction of the landscape, and with landscape painting generally as a mainstay of American art in the face of European Modernism. However, artists continued to paint the Hudson River, as well as its tributaries, the Harlem and East rivers, and the great harbor of New York City into which they flowed. What was different was their approach. Having jettisoned the romantic ideals of their forebears, artists like Henri and Sloan, and later, Georgia O'Keeffe, George Ault, Edward Hopper, and Preston Dickinson, celebrated the changing way of life along the city's waterfront. As the century progressed, they did so with sharper focus and with ideals borrowed from the Machine Age. Instead of majestic mountain ranges, their subjects were the arching bridges, swinging cranes, and streamlined ocean liners resting in the harbor. These artists took the elements of the Sublime, combined them with Modernism's interest in structure and form, and applied them to the manmade industrial one--thereby creating a new visual vocabulary for the twentieth century: the Industrial Sublime. Clean copy.
Softcover. Paris, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beau, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes in a plain cardboard slipcase. 239, 105 pages, illustrated in color. FRENCH TEXT. An exhibition of sketches held at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; These works were winners of the one-day sketching competitions held there beginning in 1816; Contains works by Felix-Henry Auvray, Francois-Xavier Dupre, Gustave-Rodolphe-Clarence Boulanger, Andre Giroux, Theodore-Pierre-Nicolas Maillot, Horace Vernet, Henri Lehmann, and many others. Clean set.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, Chronicle Chroma, 1st, 2022, Hardcover, pictorial boards, horizontal format. 240 pages illustrated in color. Renowned husband-and-wife illustrators Alice and Martin Provensen created dozens of beloved children's books over the span of seven decades, many of which appeared on the New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year lists. The Art of Alice and Martin Provensen showcases hundreds of their well-known illustrations, as well as many never-before-seen paintings, drawings, and exquisite sketchbooks from their travels around the world. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, Chronicle Chroma, 1st, 2022, Hardcover, pictorial boards, horizontal format. 240 pages illustrated in color. Renowned husband-and-wife illustrators Alice and Martin Provensen created dozens of beloved children's books over the span of seven decades, many of which appeared on the New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year lists. The Art of Alice and Martin Provensen showcases hundreds of their well-known illustrations, as well as many never-before-seen paintings, drawings, and exquisite sketchbooks from their travels around the world. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Graphis Inc., 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages in color. Graphis Poster 2024 takes you on an enriching journey through diverse regional influences and examples of creative excellence. It delves into a wide variety of themes, spanning concerts, environmental and social issues, cinema, theater, arts, dance, exhibitions, and much more, all distilled into powerful and captivating poster designs. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Mountain View CA, Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 398 pages. Beautifully illustrated with numerous color and black-and-white plates. Original art deco two-tone cloth stamped in black and gilt and publisher's paper label laid on. Clean yellow and white patterned end papers. The page block is tight and straight and illustrated throughout in attractive color and b&w designs, patterns, drawings and figures. Previous owner's name, mild stain on dedication page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 326 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Philip de Laszlo (1869-1937) was the pre-eminent portrait artist working in Britain between 1907 and 1937. He painted nearly 3,000 portraits, including those of kings and queens, four American presidents and members of the European nobility. This title gives an account of both his life and his work. Laid in is a printout of email exchanges between the author and previous owner revealing some of his research methods. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press. , 1st , 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated in black & white, 5 color plates. 487 pages + 646 photos, 16 plates in rear. Previous owner's inscription, bookplate on front pastedown. End papers tanned.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2nd pr., 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover,163 black and white plates illustrating Milles' sculptures. Oversized. A comprehensive book on the foremost sculptor of Sweden, Carl Milles (1875-1955). Beautiful black and white photographs of his stone and bronze sculpture - mostly depicting commissions in the U.S. as he was a professor at Cranbrook and a permanent resident in the U.S. Clothbound, In very good condition, Index. Dust jacket torn along bottom edges with a large chunk missing from top of spine. Tape repairs to reverse of dust jacket. Some slight yellowing to pages, but all plates are in very good condition.
Hardcover. Spain, Editorial Labor, 1st , 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Spanish editions. 1,080 pages. Black & white photos, drawings. Both with 3/4 leather, spine with gilt lettering. Vol I with stain to endpapers. Vol. II page 1029 with bottom corner crease. Both with browning to black leather spines, bottom edgewear.
Hardcover. Milwaukie, OR, Dark Horse Comics, Inc. , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardbound, 72 pages. Illustrated by David Dorman. INSCRIBED BY BISSETTE with drawing on title page. Dust jacket with Brodart cover. This exquisitely produced, Smythe-sewn, embossed hardcover volume features an Aliens tale written by today's master of horror comics, Steve Bissette, accompanied by 24 full-color paintings by the most sought-after painter in the field, Dave Dorman. An Alien has been detected on board a space station orbiting Earth, and a crack extermination team sets out to destroy it. The success of their mission depends on one man's sinister secret. The story is presented in the traditional text format accompanied by full-page color paintings by Dorman. This book also features a dust jacket illustrated by Dorman.
hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 2nd, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. 139 pages. Contains numerous color plates tipped-in. Also contains black & white prints. Some rubbing to corners and spine edge. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, soiling, small tears.
New York, Collectors Editions Ltd., reprint , nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 375 pages. Corners lightly bumped. Entries comprise 863 illustrated books and 1251 caricatures and separate prints. Bibliographic collations are provided for the illustrated books with some annotations. Prints are arranged by title with imprints noted, a statement of any signature, and with a short description.
Hardcover. London , Royal Academy of Arts, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 206 pages. Contains color illustrations of Edvard Munch's artwork. Dust jacket with small bump to rear corner. Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 243 pages. Black & white illustrations by Cole. Bookseller's label and previous owner's signature on front end paper. Light rubbing to corners, spine.
Austin, Texas, Marion Kooagler McKay Art Institute, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 106 pages. Illustrated with color, black & white sketches. Introduction by John Palmer Leeper. Dust jacket with edgewear to bottom edges, closed tear.
Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 220 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket missing chunk at top of spine and on back top edge - now protected with clear plastic cover.
Hardcover. New York, Felicie, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 285 pages. Lavishly Illustrated with 300 color and 50 black & white plates. Previous owners stamp embossed on title page. Light sun fading along top edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Chelsea House, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 215 pages. Color and black & white illustrations of comic art. Light rubbing to extremities. A colorful exploration of an engrossing subject with illustrations by artists such as Milton Caniff, John Byrne, Ron Embleton, Richard Corben, Burton Clarke, Chester Gould, Val Mayerik and many more.
Hardcover. New York, Crescent Books, 1st American, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. 125 color and 325 B&W illustrations. light edgewear to both the book and dust jacket. Light soiling to some pages.
Hardcover. New York, Congreve Publishing Co., 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 144 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with works by Jones in full color. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Paper Tiger, 2nd pr., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages, color illustrations by Rowena Morrill, very clean, tight copy, like new. Always feminine, often erotic, and usually tinged with irony: fantasy artist Rowena takes modern dilemmas and presents them in a fanciful and powerful fairytale world. Above all, she paints extraordinary images of women. Over 100 artworks and insightful commentary show the influences behind this artist who has done covers for--among others--Anne McCaffrey, Issac Asimov, Piers Anthony, Madeleine L'Engle, Samuel, R. Delaney, and even National Lampoon!
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover set. Volume I: 558 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of works by Hogarth. Dust jacket quite worn along edges with some tape repair to small tears. Clean, tight copy. Volume II: 557 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of works by Hogarth. Fore-edge shows slightest foxing. Dust jacket worn along edges with small tears and creases. Clean, tight copy. NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT AND SIZE, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, DC Comics/Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 209 pages. Hardcover with slipcase. Illustrated with full color reproductions of classic Batman strips from 1943-1946. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York , Monacelli Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages, color illustrations throughout by Robert Risko. These celebrity caricatures are instantly recognizable -- recognizable both as unmistakable portraits of famous subjects and as examples of Risko's bold and fluid style. Risko's career was launched in 1978 when Andy Warhol gave him an assignment for Interview magazine. Since then he has drawn likenesses of hundreds of notables from the worlds of film, television, politics, and culture. In addition to countless images for Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and other major magazines, Risko has illustrated book jackets, video covers, movie posters, and CD packages. Very good plus.
Hardcover. New York , Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Autobiography, bibliography. Book designed by Rauschenberg. Acetate dust jacket with chip to top of spine, small tear to rear panel at bottom. Otherwise crisp, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages, 91 illustrations in color and b&w. In a bright, clean dust jacket. Introduction by John A Williams. "The numerous large illustrations of Bearden's drawings, paintings, and collages from 1940 to the present, give depth to this portrait of an unusually fine American artist." 91 illustrations of the artist's work, including 46 in full color: one four-page spread over two folding pages, and one folding two-page spread. Chronology. List of exhibitions. Bibliography. Silver-blocked blue-cloth-covered boards with facsimile signature on front board. DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering to cover and spine, illustrated dust jacket, 90 tritone and 78 duotone illustrations, companion copy to "Charles Sheeler: Paintings and Drawings." Light wear to dust jacket; otherwise a tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages. Red cloth cover with embossed title and gilt lettering to spine, acetate-protected color-illustrated dust jacket, 301 illustrations with 100 in full color. Book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 157 pages. Color illustrated dust jacket, 9 color plates, numerous b&w illustrations. Book still sealed in original plastic, never opened; in excellent condition.
Softcover. Brunswick ME, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 222 pages, color illustrated wrappers. Black and white, color plates. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Universityof Pennsylvania Press , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 411 pages, b&w illustrations. A guide to over 1,000 documents relating to the artist and his family. Like new in a dust jacket protected by a mylar cover.
Hardcover. Southport, CT, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. A companion book to Mathews' definitive biography of Cassett. 357 pages, Comprehesive retrospective of the American artist Mary Cassatt, which includes a scholarly introduction, a wealth of texts and letters by Cassatt as well as by her contemporaries (including Zola, Degas, Pissarro), a chronology and genealogy, detailed bibliography, hundreds of archival photos, and 118 color plates of her paintings. Still in shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 235 pages, illustrated with 300 duotone, 56 color plates. A scholarly study of surrealism's influence on fashion from the 1920s through the 1980s. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Vol. 1: Slaves and Liberators, 379 pages with 156 b&w, 40 color illustrations. Vol. 2: 306 pages, 131 b&w, 52 color illustrations. Both volumes like new, shrinkwrapped in cardboard slipcases. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 202 pages, b&w photographs by Charles C. Withers. Very good copy in a clean, bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, National Academy of Design, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 246 pages. 62 B&w illustrations and 77 plates in full color. Black leatherette. silver lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Like new.
Softcover. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1991, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Gray pictorial paper covers. Very light wear to corners, otherwise like new.
Softcover. Boston MA, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 86 pages, mostly b&w ilustrations, 5 color plates. Exhibition catalog, introduction by Theodore Stebbins, Jr.Related clippings, reviews laid in.
Hardcover. NY, Art Director's Club/Book Service Co., 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages plus ads. A wonderful collection of commercial art from 1925. Color art by Walter Biggs, Henry Raleigh, Edward Wilson, Merritt Cutler, others. Many b&w examples of illustration and photography from the period. Two-color boards with matching label on front. Excellent, clean condition. Small chips missing at top and bottom of spine causing dime size paper loss (smaller at bottom). Foxing to top edge. Light edgewear to boards. Scarce.
Record # 600585
Price: $80.00
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