Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, inc, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 308 pages. color illustrations throughout. This VERY LARGE volume gives insight into the world of a realist, who's paintings have fascinated, and often shocked the public for more than fifty years. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Near fine copy, small tear to dust jacket otherwise as good as new. The first book devoted to the life and work of American painter Ivan Albright. Foreword by Jean Dubuffet. 173 plates, 83 of which are in color.
Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 225 pages. 56 b&w illustrations and 73 plates in full color. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st UK, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages of text. 638 photographs. Beautifully illustrating the Hungarian folk art and gives insight into the customs and lore of Hungarian peasantry. Folio. Gray cloth, decorated end papers. Small stain to dust jacket spine. Minute crinkling to spine bottom edge. A very clean, attractive and well preserved copy.
Softcover. New York, Hastings House Publishers, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Beautifully illustrating the folk art of Europe in two parts, Part one containing textile such as fabrics, rugs and embroidery, while part two deals with ceramics, metals, wood and other materials. Color and b&w illustrations throughout. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, nice pictorial dust jacket, all in very nice, clean and crisp condition. Plain cardboard slipcase.
Hardcover. London/NY, Chelsea House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 274 pages. 378 illustrations, including many hand-mounted color plates. Catalogue raisonne of drawings and prints from 1958 to 1960. Folio. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. A very clean, crisp and attractive copy in near fine condition. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, 224 pages illustrated in color and b&w throughout. Foreword by John Kenneth Galbraith. Folio. Brown leatherette. Like new, in original shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 87 pages. 32 color illustrations. Dark blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Very nice, clean and tight copy. Dust jacket edgewear on upper corner of spine. In good shape.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. 338 illustrations, including 113 plates in full color. Gives beautiful insight into the extravagant glamour of Sargent's society portraits, watercolors and Boston Murals. Folio. Purple cloth, gilt lettering to spine. previous owner's inscription on front edge paper. Very nice, clean and tight copy. Minor wrinkle to lower edge of dust jacket's spine, otherwise in near fine condition.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Takes us away from Sargent's famous society portraits and enters a world of open air studies and landscape paintings. Includes exerpts from Sargent's travel diaries. Light gray cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Beautiful, clean, crisp and tight copy in MINT condition. Looks brand new.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1980 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. 121 illustrations in full color. The first comprehensive publication of Jamie Wyeth's work. Contains many of his well known portraits of such subjects as John F. Kennedy, Lincoln Kirstein and Andy Warhol. Blue cloth. Minor tear to front cover of dust jacket, otherwise a very clean, tight and crisp copy.
Hardcover. Austin, TX, University of Texas, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Captures the best of Windberg's work with 50 of his finest paintings splendidly reproduced and illustrates the tranquity of the hillsides, meadows, harbors and shores of his beloved Lone Star State. Brown leather-like cover, gilt lettering to spine. Beautiful pictorial dust jacket with some edgewear. Very clean, tight and crisp copy.
Hardcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 115 pages. 30 color reproductions throughout. Beautifully illustrating the skills of this remarkable man, accompanying each of his paintings with notes describing techniques employed, many with revealing comments by the artist himself. Dark blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, color slightly faded at edges. Pictorial dust jacket with light edge wear and faint smudges to front cover. Tight binding.
Hardcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Press, revised, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 107 pages. B&W and color plates. Illustrates beautifully the contemporary Southwest on canvas with vibrancy and refreshing perspective. Light blue pictorial cloth, silver lettering to spine. Dust jacket with minor wrinkles and smudges. Dust jacket folded off-center, otherwise a nice, clean and tight copy. "This comprehensive, expanded volume on Stefan and his work contains forty full-color reproductions of oils along with numerous black-and-white drawings, a panorama of the Southwest and a tribute to a fine painter."
Hardcover. Hingham, MA, Pierce Galleries, 1st, 1980, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 253 pages. b&w illustrations and color plates throughout. Documents Tarbell's journey from being labeled "just a Boston painter" to being one of the most sought-after, outspoken, teachers in the country. Black leatherette, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. In mint condition. Looks brand new.
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 242 pages. B&w and color prints. Lavishly illustrated catalog presenting a fascinating cultural history of an idyllic vision of California that still figures prominently in the American imagination. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Copy in mint condition, looks brand new.
Hardcover. Detroit, MI, Wayne State University Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Black cloth, silver lettering to front cover and spine. A nice copy, in a worn dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Small piece missing from lower right corner of dust jacket, minor tears. Slight staining to edges.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 228 pages. B&w and color illustrations throughout. Text and photos tells the stories behind the numerous homes and public buildings of Newport R.I. Brand new copy, still in original shrink wrapping. In mint condition.
Hardcover. Princeton, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. B&w illustrations. White cloth. beautiful pictorial dust jacket. A lovely copy without tears and bumps. Looks almost brand new.
Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Two hardcover volumes. 339 pages+ plates, 238 pages. 197 illustrations in b&w and color throughout. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spines. Small sealed up tears to front cover of Evolution of an Artist, small chip missing from back dust jacket cover of Catalogue Raisonne. Price clipped. Clean and tight set.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 223 pages. 357 illustrations, including 93 plates in full color. Catalogue Raisonne of Galle's work including list of exhibitions of his glass. Gray cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Gray dust jacket in mylar cover, color slightly sunfaded around edges. Cosmetic paper-split between front board and endpaper, not affecting binding, Very nice clean copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. 55 B&w illustrations and 21 plates in full color. Debates the relationship between art, science and religion by exploring the 19th century landscape painters fascination with geology. Scarce. Pictorial boards, black cloth spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Like new. In original shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. New York, Fox, Duffield & Co, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Unpaginated. 39 full page b&w plates of drawings by A. B. Frost, accompanied by verse by Wallace Irwin, introduction by Joe Chandler Harris, small b&w illustrated figures throughout, monotone illustration to cover. Covers have noticeable wear, faded, wear to cloth spine, water stains to right edge of pages, dark markings to back cover, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper, some pages partially separated from binding.
Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 85 pages + prints. B&w illustrations. Blue leatherette, gilt lettering to spine. previous owner's inscription in front. Price clipped. Dust jacket with minor edge wear, somewhat sunfaded. Very nice, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages. b&w and color illustrations. Pictorial dust jacket. Decorative endpapers. Minor edge wear. A very nice. clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. 330 illustrations, including 150 plates in full color. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Beautiful pictorial dust jacket. A very clean, tight and crisp copy. Like New.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 226 pages 66 b&w illustrations and 82 plates in full color. White cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Like new, in shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Oakland, CA, WIM, 1st, 1981, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 85 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. The first complete survey of Nicholson's paintings and life, with a catalog of her currently known works. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Yellow pictorial dust jacket with fading to spine edge, small closed tear to back cover and light edge wear. A very nice, clean and well preserved copy.
Hardcover. Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages. b&w illustrations throughout. Brings together for the first time all of Stock's extant papers-his will, one lengthy letter to his brother, various newspaper notices concerning him, and his remarkable journal written sometime after 1846. In addition, it includes reproductions of all known surviving Stock paintings. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. yellow pictorial dust jacket, minor wear to spine. Like new. A very nice, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Burt Franklin, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Reprint of the original 1898 edition. 15 b&w plates. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Oblong. Spine somewhat loose, not affecting binding. Small stains near spine, else a very nice copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. 75 b&w illustrations and 8 plates in full color. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, edges lightly worn. Pictorial dust jacket, spine and back cover slightly stained and worn, otherwise a very nice, tight and well preserved copy.
Hardcover. Huntington, NY, Black Oak Publishers, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages. b&w illustrations throughout. Completes the cataloguing of Wengenroth's prints which began with "The Lithographs of Stow Wengenroth, 1931-1972", also by the Stuckeys. Cream cloth, light staining to upper edge. Pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket with light edge wear to back cover, otherwise a very nice, tight and well preserved copy.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, C. E. Goodspeed & Co , Revised, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, New Edition, Illustrated with three volumes. 391+403+418 pages. 174 b&w full-page illustrations. Ruff cut paper edges. Dark green cloth, some bumps to corners. No dust jackets as issued. Light edge wear, otherwise a very nice, tight set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwich House, Reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. 185 photographs, including more than 100 in full color. Brown leatherette. gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Minor wear to edges, otherwise like new. Journeys through the world of Carl Faberge to explore some of his elaborate and exquisite gold pieces and to provide information on his craftsmen, art, and aristocratic patrons.
Softcover. New York, Thumbtack Books, 1st softcover, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large softcover. Unpaginated. Full page black and white illustrations, text by Rosalie Gomes, red cover with illustration. Light wear to cover; overall a tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Massachusetts, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 470 pages. Brown cloth cover, color illustrated dust jacket, 113 color and 206 illustrations. Still in original shrink wrap; book in excellent condition. American artists have been inspired by Italy since the 1760s, when Benjamin West, the first American painter to travel there, was drawn to the ancient Roman ruins and magnificent Renaissance architecture, statuary, and frescoes. This intriguing, superbly illustrated book is the first to explore the fascination Italy held for the American artist from West's time to the eve of World War I.The unique sense of the past found in Italy, where tangible evidence exists of a continual civilization from antiquity to the present, lured countless American artists to its cities, towns, and countryside. Painters from West and Copley in the eighteenth century to Cole, Inness, Whistler, Sargent, and Prendergast in the nineteenth century were inspired to create many of their finest works in Italy, as were American sculptors such as Hiram Powers and Harriet Hosmer and writers from Washington Irving to Henry James.This in-depth study includes 319 illustrations, of which 113 are reproduced in full color, many of works that have not previously been published. Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., John Moors Cabot Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Professor of Art History at Boston University, provides a broad overview of the American perception of Italy and the unique role that Italy played in the formation of American art.
Hardcover. Flagstaff, Arizona, Northland Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 132 pages. Dark brown cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, numerous color and b&w plates of Russell's oils, drawings, watercolors, bronzes and illustrated letters. Light wear to dust jacket; overall a tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. Pennsylvania, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1st, 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 176 pages. Light green cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, decorated endpapers, over 250 large glossy photographs, 10 in color. Extremely light wear to dust jacket; a very tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in near fine condition (some discoloration to black laminated covers). 112 pages, b/w and color illustrations of fashion from 1907 to 1967. Annotated catalogue of an exhibition from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York held at the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society, 1st, 1939-47, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes. 293+468 pages. B&w illustrations throughout both volumes. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Dust jackets in protective mylar cover, some pieces missing from spine and some dark age stains on vol. 2. Both copies excellent shape, volume 1 looks almost new, while volume 2 has aged gracefully. A very nice, tight and clean set.
Hardcover. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 142 pages. 21 b&w illustrations. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, light wear to extremities. Yellow dust jacket edge wear with a few small sealed up tears. Price clipped. A nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Hudson River Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 136 pages. Hardcover with lightly rubbed dust jacket. B&w and color illustrations throughout. The first comprehensive and fully illustrated study of two of the most important 19th-century American marine painters; twins John and James Bard. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Blue pictorial dust jacket, edge wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 525 pages, b&w illustrations. The first full-length biography of one of the fathers of American art. Light green cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover. Blue pictorial dust jacket with minor wear to spine and edges. Overall a very nice, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 216 pages+63 b&w prints of the Hudson River artists. Green cloth, gilt titles to front and spine. Pictorial dust jacket only good and price clipped. Still a nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Large oblong hardcover, 345 pages with 440 illustrations, including 68 plates in full color. Oblong folio. Cream cloth boards with blue titles to front and spine and a pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Paperclip imprints to front fly leaf, else like new.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 181 pages with 177 illustrations, including 50 plates in full color. Oblong folio. With an introduction by Thomas Hart Benton. Focuses on the life and art of the great American artist, George Caleb Bingham. Green cloth with silver lettering to spine and decoration in silver on front cover. Pictorial dust jacket with minor rubbing to lower edge of front cover. Beautiful copy.
Hardcover. New York, Tudor Publishing Co., reprint, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 308 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Yellow cloth with red title on spine. Pictorial tan dust jacket with light wear to edges and spine and some sunfading to back cover. Overall a tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley, Ca, Ten Speed Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. Illustrated throughout with full-color and b&w prints, including full-color fold-outs. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket with illustrations to back and front. "THE MASTERWORKS stands as the authoritative collection of Parrish's best works. Compiled by long-time Parrish expert and curator Alma Gilbert...." New copy, in shrinkwrap.
Softcover. New York, Da Capo, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 14 pages + 100 prints in b&w. Green pictorial stiff wrappers with some wear to spine and slight rubbing to covers, otherwise a nice, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Whitney Museum & University of New York Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages illustrated throughout with plates in color and b&w. White pictorial stiff wrappers with light wear and some yellowing to back cover, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
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