Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, Privately Published, 4th Ed., 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Principles and Methods of Expression in the Pictorial Representation of Common Objects, Interiors, Buildings and Landscapes. Hardcover, gray-green boards with a dark green cloth spine. 175 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. Boards with light edge wear. Otherwise a good clean, tight copy of an early edition of this drawing-technique classic first published in 1908. "This book presents essentially the course of study in Freehand Perspective and Sketching as developed during its teaching at Pratt Institute." Name on front fly leaf, pencil sketches on blank two pages in rear. Clean internally.

Hardcover. South Bend IN, St. Augustine's Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 225 pages. Widely recognized as a classic account of the circumstances, issues, and consequences of Galileo's tragic confrontation with the theologians. Langford's book is cited in much of the Galileo literature of the past three decades, and it has been in print continuously since 1971. The present text is the third edition, updated and expanded with a survey of the most important advances in recent Galileo studies. In it, Langford assesses the validity of his own account while making the modifications dictated by recent scholarship.

Softcover. Bennington VT, Bennington Museum, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Includes selected writings by the artist. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Tampa Museum of Art/ D Giles Ltd, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 172 pages illustrated in color. This is a fascinating exploration of the incredible body of artwork produced at Graphicstudio, a print atelier based at the University of South Florida. Since its foundation in 1968, the studio has developed an international reputation, and this volume features over ninety modern artworks by thirty-four Graphicstudio artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Keith Edmier, Alex Katz, Guillermo Kuitca, Roy Lichtenstein, Christian Marclay, Vik Muniz, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Kiki Smith, Janaina Tschape, and Theo Wujcik. It features interviews with current and past Graphicstudio directors as well as artists, including former Graphicstudio master printer Theo Wujcik. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st thus, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in blue cloth covers with a color label on front cover. Top edge gilt. First illustrated edition with 10 color plates and 2-color spot drawings by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Light rubbing to cover pastedown. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format. Includes 16 full page color illustrations printed on glossy card stock; black and white photograph of Frankenthaler on verso of title page. Catalog for exhibition held Nov. 30 - Dec. 31, 1983. Clean copy.

Softcover. Houston TX, Janie C. Lee Gallery, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in light tan wrappers. 10 color plates, 16 pages. For an exhibition November-December 1980. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 28 pages, 14 color plates, gives sizes and medium for each. Exhibition catalog for October 4 - November 3, 1984. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Horizon Press, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Second Enlarged Edition with a corrected text and 24 additional photographs. This enlarged edition (the first edition was published in 1965) has photographs by Levitt made in New York City in the 1940s. Essay by James Agee. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 4th pr., 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY HARRIS AND EGGERS on the title page. If you had to name a statue, any statue, odds are good you'd mention the Statue of Liberty. Have you seen her? She's in New York. She's holding a torch. And she's in mid-stride, moving forward. But why? In this fascinating and fun take on nonfiction for kids, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the powerful message of acceptance that is essential of an entire country's creation. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, MJF Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 166 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Photographs by Sid Avery. Clean, tight copy. An interesting collection of black and white photographs, presenting Hollywood Celebrities of the fifties and sixties in various scenes. e.g. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in their kitchen cooking breakfast, Debbie Reynolds with her children playing at home.

Hardcover. Venice, Marsilio, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly sunned dust jacket. Lovely retrospective of Italian fashion. 151 pages, 277 illustrations, many in color. ITALIAN TEXT. Small sticker, pencil marking to front endpapers, otherwise clean. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Half cloth covers, oatmeal buckram with gray paper, sepia lettering on spine. O'Hara's poems coupled with 30 different artists in loose sheets. In a cloth folio, in a slipcase with a gray paper label. Number 692 from an edition of 2500 copies. Edited by Bill Berkson. A beautifully produced collection that includes poems by Frank O'Hara paired with illustrations by Nell Blaine, Norman Bluhm, Joe Brainard, John Button, Giorgio Cavallon, Allan D'Arcangelo, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Niki de Saint Phalle, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Michael Goldberg, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Al Held, Jasper Johns, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Alex Katz, Lee Krasner, Alfred Leslie, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Reuben Nakian, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, and Jane Wilson. Previous owner's small sticker on inside cover, otherwise clean, bright. The cloth slipcase with light soil, foxing.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcovers in a black cloth slipcase. Josef Albers's masterwork, Interaction of Color, is one of the most influential books on color ever published. Originally issued in 1963 as a limited-edition set of commentary and 150 silkscreened color plates, the book introduced generations of students, artists, designers, and collectors to Albers's unique approach to complex principles. This beautiful edition brings Interaction back into classrooms and studios and onto bookshelves, where it will find an eager new audience. It replicates Albers's revolutionary exercises, explaining concepts such as color relativity and vibrating and vanishing boundaries through the use of color, shape, die-cut forms, and movable flaps that illustrate his astonishing demonstrations of the changing and relative nature of color. Also included for the first time are studies from the Albers archive, produced by the artist's students in the early 1960s. Clean set.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a die-cut window. 180 pages with b&w photos. SIGNED BY NORMAN in a shaky hand on the front fly leaf. ALSO a signed note ("Dorothy") on her stationary taped to the rear endpapers. Newspaper review of book laid in.

Hardcover. Chicago, International Harvester Company, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth with light yellow lettering on front cover, 259 pages, b&w photos. A report by the International Harvester Company that followed a trip to China. The Chinese government invited 25 American firms to help advance the country's agriculture programs. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a translucent dust jacket with 5 cut-outs enclosed (as called for), jacket with the usual darkening to edges and spine; The catalog for the 1972 major exhibition at MOMA, providing an excellent survey of modern Italian design and associated radical architectural movements. With articles on the history of modern Italian design by Portoghesi, Benevolo, and Gregotti, and articles on architecture by Celant and Tafuri. 430 pages with 520 photographic images and illustrations of which 124 are in color offering a kaleidescopic yet comprehensive vision of Italian design, objects and environments. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Dublin, M. H. Gill and Son, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, price-clipped dust jacket. 463 pages. numerous b&w illustrations. Described as "Original Edition With a Continuation of the Journal in New York and Paris, a Preface, Appendices and Illustrations". The Journal of an Irishman who fell foul of English rule in the mid-19th century, was transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and escaped. No date but probably late 1940s. Mild musty odor.

Hardcover. Seattle, Eastland Press, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 251 pages with fold-out diagram in rear. Meridian therapy is a school of Japanese acupuncture which is distinguished by its emphasis on the classics, its utilization of the five-phase points in treating the root of disease, and the importance which it attaches to palpatory skills in diagnosis and point location. Japanese Classical Acupuncture: Introduction to Meridian Therapy is noted for the clarity and simplicity of its style, and is the most highly regarded introduction to this subject in Japan. The theoretical and historical basis, diagnostic framework and treatment strategies of meridian therapy are discussed in detail. The author provides a step-by-step introduction to pulse and abdominal diagnosis, and explains how to incorporate the concepts and techniques of meridian therapy into other styles of acupuncture. The text is interwoven with case histories and anecdotes from the author's lengthy practice. Extensively edited in collaboration with the author to fit the needs of Western acupuncturists, this book opens the door to Japanese classical acupuncture for Western practitioners. Small ownership stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Sarasota, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, red wrappers, 94 pages, 34 color plates. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of John Chamberlain's work which ran from January 28 to March 27, 1983. Postcard for the art show laid in. Rear cover has some chipping to red ink causing some white spots. Internally clean, bright.

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages, b&w illustrations. Ray Lambert's exhaustive study of John Constable's landscapes and relevant writings reveal Constable's high level of engagement with ideas on art and aesthetics and the decisive consequences for his style of painting. Constable's texts clearly predict his views. They also give an indication of the artist's knowledge of scientific, poetic, and aesthetic ideas that were relevant to the creation of a serious landscape art as well as a theory of landscape. Remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper, 2nd pr., 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 265 pages, b&w illustrations. The first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America. Throughout his life, Charlie Parker personified the tortured American artist: a revolutionary performer who used his alto saxophone to create a new music known as bebop even as he wrestled with a drug addiction that would lead to his death at the age of thirty-four. Drawing on interviews with peers, collaborators, and family members, Kansas City Lightning recreates Parker's Depression-era childhood; his early days navigating the Kansas City nightlife, inspired by lions like Lester Young and Count Basie; and on to New York, where he began to transcend the music he had mastered. Clean copy.

Softcover. Williamstown MA, Williams College Museum of Art , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Softcover, Catalogue of the exhibition, based on Marguerite Yorcenar's essay "Antigone, or the Choice from Fires". Contains an interview with Smith, exhibition list, and select bibliography. 88 pages, b&w, some color illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London/NY, John Lane Company, 3rd Ed., 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt design and lettering, top edge gilt. 180 pages, color frontis. In this historical romance, Katrina Trask brings to life the story of King Alfred's Jewel, a precious gem from the time of the Anglo-Saxon monarchs. The novel follows the jewel's journey through the centuries, and the lives of the people who owned and cherished it, from medieval times to the present day. Clean copy.