Hardcover. Westport CT, Greenwood Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, no dj issued, 198 pages including index, 5 maps. The author looks back over the hundred years that have passed since Perry opened up Japan and forward to the future of our relationship with Japan. He deals with the problems of Japan's rearmament and of its economic survival. First published in 1953.
Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 120 pages. This book probes the origins of Japanese-American postwar relations by looking closely at the people and the thinking that surrounded the final contract for peace.
Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light fading to spine, 305 pages, b&w illustrations. Notes, bibilography, index. Highly informed opinions concerning most of the controversial aspects of the Allied occupation of Japan and the adjustment of Japanese politicians to the democratic process. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Woodbury NY, Barron's , 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 90 pages, color illustrations. English language edition. Paintings of France and Holland by Dutch artist, Johan Barthold Jongkind [1819-1891]. A volume in the series, 'Les Carnets de dessins'. Clean copy.
Softcover. Old Westbury NY, The Feminist Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 237 pages, b&w illustrations. A generation after her death, German artist Kathe Kollwitz won a reputation as one of the great graphic artists of the 20th Century. Concentrating on the more 'democratic' media--especially etchings, lithographs, posters, and woodcuts, as well as sculpture and bronze reliefs--Kollwitz always created for the people, rather than for the upper class collector. This original paperback is generously illustrated with many striking, seldom-seen reproductions from private collections, assembled in one volume for the first time. Name on front fly leaf, inscription on title page. Otherwise clean.
Softcover. Seoul Korea, Taewon Publishing , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 85 pages. McGrane's historical analysis presents a lucid overview of events during the crucial years of Japanese intervention and occupation during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Some sunning to wraps, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chez Rene' Pean, 1st thus, 1680, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 648 pages. Hardcover. Brown leather bound cover boards (age wear-see images) with faded gilt title on spine and raised bands. Front cover board completely separated from spine with front flyleaf. Previous owner's notes on preliminary page, dated "1694 16 November". Dark brown dyed edges. Tanning to pages (some partially detached from spine) from age. A few stray ink marks on pages. Christian devotions in French text.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Ben Williams. A Whitman Tell-a-Tale book #2615. Winsome vintage children's book about a young helicopter that saves the day when he rescues a shipwrecked doctor. Wear and chipping to paper at spine, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, Constable & Company, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket, 252 pages including index. Illustrated in b&w and color. Biography of Lucien Pissarro, artist and son of Camille, and his family. With an introduction by John Rewald. Name on inside front cover (behind flap), chunk gone from rear panel of dust jacket.otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Munich, Prestel Verlag, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, pages. "Born Dora Kallmus (1881-1963), the Austrian fashion and portrait photographer who went by the moniker Madame d'Ora was the most acclaimed portraitist of fin de siecle Vienna. After relocating to Paris in the 1920s, she opened one of the most stylish Art Deco portrait studios where her models included Pablo Picasso, Josephine Baker, and Collette, among many others. This book, accompanying the largest exhibition devoted to Madame d'Ora ever presented in the United States, includes sections focusing on the different periods of the photographer's life, from her early upbringing as the daughter of Jewish intellectuals in Vienna, to her days as a premier society portraitist, through her survival during the Holocaust." Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Munich, Prestel Verlag, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, pages. "Born Dora Kallmus (1881-1963), the Austrian fashion and portrait photographer who went by the moniker Madame d'Ora was the most acclaimed portraitist of fin de siecle Vienna. After relocating to Paris in the 1920s, she opened one of the most stylish Art Deco portrait studios where her models included Pablo Picasso, Josephine Baker, and Collette, among many others. This book, accompanying the largest exhibition devoted to Madame d'Ora ever presented in the United States, includes sections focusing on the different periods of the photographer's life, from her early upbringing as the daughter of Jewish intellectuals in Vienna, to her days as a premier society portraitist, through her survival during the Holocaust." Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Softcover. Hanover NH/ New York, Hood Museum of Art/Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 282 pages. with 82 color plates and 270 halftones. Catalogue to accompany the centerpiece exhibition of a year-long celebration commemorating the Hood's 20th anniversary and its permanent collection. Thorough text accompanies each plate, and the essay material includes an overview of the collection. Clean, like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPIG ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A Stokes, 1st US, 1938, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, green cloth with faded gilt title on spine, 320 pages. Black and white illustrations and a color frontispiece by Isobel and John Morton Sale. Cloth dulled, faded on spine, otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, color illustrations by Marc Simont. A variety of hats afford Martin many adventures. Clean copy, book club edition, no dust jacket.
Softcover. Springfield MA, The George Walker Vincent Smith Art Museum, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages. 11 sepia tone plates. Catalog lists and describes 125 works in the exhibition by Parrish. Chronology. Introduction by Donald Reichert, essay extracted from an article by Coy L. Ludwig which appeared in the Art Journal, Winter 1965-66. Published to accompany the exhibition held in Springfield, MA , January 23-March 20.
Hardcover. NY, Pace Gallery, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Square quarto, in gray card stock covers stamped in silver and black, 87 pages, color illustrations. Issued in conjunction with several 2013 exhibitions of unique map-based art created by American artist Maya Lin. With essays by Robert Storr and William Fox. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Milan, Silvana Editoriale, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz's (b. 1973, USA) first major European survey presents a sequence of installations drawing on architecture, cultural artifacts and cuisine to tell stories of social ritual, conflict and loss. It encompasses work considering the citizen visionaries of post Soviet Hungary, Middle Eastern Beatles fans and the stonecarvers of Afghanistan, with Rakowitz's casts of players and objects revealing the legacy of colonization, modernism and globalism. The artist's life-size replica of the gigantic lamassu, one of two monumental winged bulls that once guarded the gates of Nineveh in Iraq, currently features on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth. This recreation of an ancient mythological creature is made from everyday date syrup cans and is part of an epic endeavour to recreate all 7,000 objects looted from the Iraq Museum in 2003, as well as those destroyed more recently at archaeological sites like Nimrud, also presented here. Text in English and Italian. Short closed tear to dj corner. otherwise like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 434 pages with b&w illustrations. Unique in its comprehensive coverage, this book describes the major vegetation types from the arctic tundra of Alaska and Canada to the tropical forest of Central America. This original detailed summary provides the reader with a sense of the species composition, architecture and environment of each ecosystem. Each chapter opens with a map of North America that delineates the specific geographic area discussed within the following text. Some basic topics covered include paleobotany, autecological behaviour, nutrient cycling, and productivity. In addition to the basic biology of the ecosystems, environmental issues and management problems are addressed. Notes on areas for future research conclude each chapter. Comprehensive bibliographies provide references to additional details published in the technical literature. Mild crease to front cover and first 5 pages, otherwise very good, clean copy.
Hardcover. Munich, Hirmer Publishers, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 288 pages. Oscar Munoz: Invisibilia is Colombian artist Oscar Munoz's first retrospective in the United States. Addressing the entire span of Munoz's career--from the 1970s to 2020--this exhibition catalog is the most substantive book on Oscar Munoz's work in English to date. Invisibilia includes artworks ranging from Munoz's early charcoal drawings to his later conceptual photographic, video, and installation works. The bilingual catalog includes essays in both Spanish and English from a diverse cadre of scholars who offer fresh takes on Munoz's best-known works and illuminate his more obscure experiments. It also features interviews with the artist as well as a recent text he has written on his practice. A comprehensive chronology charts Munoz's artistic evolution alongside the development of the artistic scene in Cali, Colombia, where he began his career and continues to live and work, rooting the artist's works in their cultural and historical context. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Washington DC /London, Smithsonian/Giles, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 366 pages including index. E. Carmen Ramos addresses the whole issue of the definition of "Latino art" and how this emerged within the context of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s as American artists of Latino descent (Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and, more recently, Dominican) began to give a tangible face to their culture and history. Highlights include an installation altar by Amalia Mesa-Bains, the "recycled" films of Raphael Montanez Ortiz, and a 1960 geometric painting by Carmen Herrera. Other notable artists include Olga Albizu, Melesio "Mel" Casas, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Margarita Cabrera, Enrique Chagoya, Teresita Fernandez, Ken Gonzales-Day, Luis Jimenez, Ana Mendieta, Pepon Osorio, Sophie Rivera, Freddy Rodriguez, and John M. Valadez, among many others. Color illustrations explore how one group of Latin American artists express their relationship to American art, history and culture. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Pittsfield MA, The Berkshire Museum, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 70 pages. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, BC Ed., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, color art by Keats. Archie's cat is missing the day of the pet show - but all turns out well in the end. Vibrant, full-color illustrations fill every page. Oblong format, unpaginated. Clean book club edition.
Hardcover. Machester, England, Manchester University Press, 1st thus, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages. Hardcover. "Of this edition only 450 copies have been printed for sale...". "Publication of the University of Manchester No. CCIX, English Series No. XX". Pages offset and some untrimmed. Former library volume with bookplate/stamps/labels expected. Green cloth bound cover boards (some agewear), gilt title on spine (slightly faded), cloth separation at spine. Pages and edges have some tanning from age, doesn't affect text. Binding good. Spine straight. Pages unmarked.
Hardcover. NY, William Edwin Rudge, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 46 pages + 51 b&w plates (color frontispiece). Russian artist and diplomatic secretary Paul or Pavel Svinin (1787-1839) toured the northeastern United States in the early 1800s. Here are excerpts of his notes, details about the time and his trip, and 51 BW reproductions of landscapes he rendered along the way. Most of the paintings show scenes from Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Virginia and Maryland. Of interest to both cultural and art historians. With an introduction by R.T.H. Halsey. One of 1000 copies. Ex-lib with stamping, residue to endpapers, gilt lettering on spine faded, otherwise clean.