Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st revised, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. An illustrated guide to collecting colorplate bird books. 52 full-page color illustrations, 180 pages. A reprint of the 1953 edition with a revised text. An excellent reference book.
Hardcover. NY/London, Lippincott/Heineman, 1st , n.d. (1912), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 16 tipped-in color plates with black & white drawings of dogs opposite. Minor soil to cardboard covers.
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. Washingtonb, DC, Philip Wilson, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A hardcover exhibition catalog. 75 color, 70 black & white illustrations, 240 pages. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.
Paperback. Minneapolis, Art Instruction Inc., 1st wraps, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, large format. Rubin was a journeyman illustrator of the 40's & 50's whose work appeared in many ads & magazine stories. Short biography. Color, black & whtie illust. 32 pages. Light water stain to top corner otherwise very good,
Hardcover. NY, Ungar, 1st Eng. transl., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 76 pages. Transl. from German by Max Born. Black & white cartoon drawings by Busch. Decorative stain to top edge. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, closed tear.
New Heven, Dumont/Yale Univ. Press, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color, black & white illustrations. 365 pages. Scholarly essays on the four artists.
Paperback. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 1st wraps, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large softcover, 160 pages. Work by Miriam Katin, Nicholas Robel, Canadian war posters, a tribute to Herge (creator of Tintin) in comic strip form, 30 vintage Gasoline Alley Sunday strips, all color.
Hardcover. New York , St Martins/Christies, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 236 pages. Illustrations in color, b&w. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket. Everyone knows the beauty and value of Tiffany glass lamps, vases and windows. But few know that the masterful pieces fron the Tiffany Studios would not have been possible without Arthur Nash, developer of the now-priceless Favrile glass, and his son Leslie, director of the Studio's division of glassmaking, pottery and enamel. Leslie's memoirs, along with notes and references, tell the unfiltered and refreshing story of the Studio's heyday, and substantially expand our knowledge, and his photos comprise the largest collection of here-to-fore unseen images of the studio's earliest pieces. This historical find is an event in the decorative arts world and will appeal to both collectors and museums.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Collins, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. Hardcover. Color cartoons by Steig. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. 90 pages, color and b&w illustrations. An exhibition catalog, not published in hardcover.
Hardcover. London, Mitchell Beazley, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.144 pages. Illustrated with color photos by Dave Young.
Hardcover. NY, Hugh Lauter Levin, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 100 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. The planning and sketches for the famous installation that took place in 2005. Many black and white and color photographs. Bibliography.
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."
Hardcover. Bangkok, Muang Boran Publishing House, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Navy blue cover boards (excellent), gilt title on spine and front cover board. Pages unmarked, clean. Dust jacket unclipped, has some slight shelfwear. In very good, colorful condition. Text in Thai and English. 94 pages of color photographs and 7 pages of b/w photographs of 14th-18th century mural paintings at this revered site.
Softcover. Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art Washington, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages. Softcover. National Gallery of Art publications from exhibition laid in. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. In beautiful condition. Wrapper bright and excellent. Pages clean, binding good. Catalogue to accompany exhibition held from February 7, 1991-May 9, 1982.
Hardcover. London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, Reprint, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Tope edge dyed. Original bookstore's price stamp on front flyleaf. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages unmarked. Spine straight. "The handling of pigments in oil, tempera, watercolor & in mural painting, the preparation of grounds & canvas, & the prevention of discoloration, together with the theories of light & color applied to the making of pictures, all described in a practical & non-technical manner."
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Tan cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. A light smudge to foreedge. Pages unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. Issued in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 1, 2002-January 5, 2003.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., 4th Edition, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover. Color and black & white illustrations throughout. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and design on front cover board. Dust jacket price clipped, a touch of agewear. Top edge dyed green.
Hardcover. Flagstaff, Arizona, Northland Press, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 98 pages. INSCRIBED BY PERCEVAL with personal note to previous owner from him and his wife. Cover shows very light wear and soiling. Internally clean. Beautiful color and black & white sketches of Navajos and Arizona landscape. With a descriptive text by Clay Lockett.
Paperback. Paris, E. Teriade, 1st wraps, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, This issue includes: Cover by Rouault; Essays by Sartre, Henri Michaux, Lorca, Rilke; Art by Derain, Matisse; Photos by Brassi, Barna, Bill Brandt. Others. Small bump to bottom edge corner still Exceptional condition
Softcover. Paris, E. Teriade, 1st wraps, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Includes: Original Cover by Matisse; Writing by Dos Passos, Lorca, Malraux, Gide, Michaux; Art by Maillol, Leger, Klee, Miro, Matisse; Photos by Guichard, Brassai, Man Ray. Others. Despite minor short cover tear along spine, exceptional condition.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcovers in a red cloth slipcase. Vol. 1: 234 illustrations., 76 in color, 356 pages. Vol. 2: 307 illustrations, 79 in color, 366 pages. Translated from French by Jean Stewart. Clean set. Some plates, and some photo panoramas, are foldout. A labor of love for the poet who knew Matisse well, and who worked for 27 years on this project. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Limited to 1,200. 137 plates, 80 pages of commentary & description, minor chipping to dust jacket .
Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Translated from French by Eveline Byam Shaw. Many b&w gravure plates, tipped-in color plates, 168 pgs. previous owner's inscription front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Hanover, NH, New England University Press, 1st Revised , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Revised and enlarged from the 1st Edition of 1993 with 13 new illustrations. SIGNED BY SABRA FIELD on the half-title page.
Hardcover. New York , Princeton University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 158 pages with 4 color plates. 132 black & white photos. 11 line illustrations.
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.
Softcover. San Francisco , Apex Novelties, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled, single-issue anthology underground comic created by Robert Crumb and a collection of other artists. Spiegelman's first appearance of Maus, his Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel of the holocaust. SIGNED BY SPIEGELMAN on top page of his story. 7 x 10 comic book in color wraps with other art, cover by Crumb. Unique and rare.
Hardcover. NY, Lippincott , 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Light edgewear to dust jacket. The illustrator of Winnie the Pooh recalls his London childhood.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with Anniversary gold sticker on it. Introduction by Maurice Sendak. Presents several adventures of Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and Pluto illustrated with drawings from animated films made in the Disney Studios during the 1930"s.
hardcover. NY, Knopf , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 448 pages. Black & white photos and illustrations. Like new. Purely out of artistic ambition, Armenian-American abstract painter Gorky (1895-1948; born in Turkey as Vostanig Adoian) fabricated a new identity, complete with an Ivy League education and personal histories with master artists, on arriving in the United States. Spender (Within Tuscany), who is married to Gorky's oldst daughter, unhesitatingly exposes the painter's many "tall tales." He also assesses Gorky's difficulty in arriving at his own aesthetic until late in life in terms of both the artist's ties to the artistic patriarchs of the previous generation, the Surrealists (including Breton, Duchamp and Brancusi) and his complex status as a forerunner who eventually became alienated from the New York Abstract Expressionists (particularly de Kooning and Rothko). Spender derives much information from anecdotal sources, including an interview with de Kooning, and assumes a chatty tone in dealing with other artists. But he becomes increasingly less sympathetic to Gorky, whose last years are presented from the perspectives of Spender's wife and her mother. Nonetheless, painting constantly despite failing health, family problems and critical indifference, Gorky's frustrations are heartbreaking. Equally compelling is the window opened on New York's art scene when it was still a small clique. Gorky was so in love with the "artist" archetype that he not only lied about himself but also plagiarized anecdotes, artistic statements, love letters and possibly even his own suicide note. Spender preserves the personal dimensions of his subject while demonstrating that the painter should have adopted a youthful declaration. "I shall be a great artist or if not a great crook"as his motto. 90 b&w illustrations.
Hardcover. New York, Artisan, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by William Steig. Introduction by John Updike. A study of the life and work of the eminent cartoonist, New Yorker cover artist, and humorist. Steig also served as art director of the New Yorker.
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 202 pages. Black & white photography. Color and black & white artwork by Diego Rivera. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Remainder mark on bottom book edge.
Lawrence, KS, Spencer Museum of Art, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 158 pages. Black & white illustrations throughout. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Yellow cover boards, no dust jacket. Black & white cartoons selected by the editors of the Saturday Evening Post.
Softcover. Forestville, CA, Eclipse Books, 1st wraps, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 222 pages. Black & white illustrations by Frank Frazetta. A reprint of his 1952-53 daily adventure strip. Paperback edition with color illustrated wrappers.
Hardcover. Novato, CA, Underwood Miller, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 147 pages. Black & white illustrations by Virgil Finlay. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.
Paperback. Long Beach, CA, Pacific Comics Club, 1st wraps, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. Black & white illustrations by Frank Robbins. Daily strips Feb. 10 1947 to Nov. 15 1947. Clean.
Hardcover. New York, Schocken Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages. Color and black & white illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Dust jacket has light edgewear.
Hardcover. New York, Funk Wagnalls, 4th pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 110 pages. Black & white illustrations by Eric Sloane. Dust jacket heavily chipped. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.
New York, Putnam, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth hardcover, 289 pages. Illustrated with b&w drawings. Cover has light edgewear. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY KOREN on title-page. A collection of his New Yorker drawings.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY KOREN on title-page. Small white-out of old ink price on front fly leaf, remainder mark to top edge.
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. London, Bradbury & Evans, 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 full page engravings of Leech's 19th century political cartoons. 3/4 leather front cover (detached) deletes "Early" from title. Back cover mostly detached, but good internally. Shipping extra for this volume.
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