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Hardcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, quarto, 337 + 352 pages., indices, well illustrated in color and b&w. Organized by academic artists, folk artists, visiting foreign artists and artists of the Civil War, with detail biographical information on the artists, this has become an indispensable reference work. near fine copies in gilt decorated gray boards with terra-cotta cloth spines. Clean copies.

Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 259 pages with bibliography, index. Illustrated with vintage and contemporary photographs. First published in 1985, author Liebs' work established the 20th Century roadside landscape as a subject for serious study. Liebs traces the transformation of commercial development as it moved from centralized town main streets outward along street car line and highways (with old gas stations, small restaurants, motels, and truck stops) to the "miracle miles" and shopping malls of today. This, the first softcover edition, contains new commentary by the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Stillwater MN, Voyager Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 158 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. A tribute to the elk, one of the most popular game animals in the U.S. Featured are writings by some of the outstanding authors in American outdoor literature, including the former editor in chief of Field & Stream and Outdoor Life, Clare Conley; Hal Borland, a longtime writer for the New York Times; Jack Ward, former head of the U.S. Forest Service; and even Teddy Roosevelt. The collection of elk-hunting stories is excellent to read, and the accompanying photographs are truly breathtaking.

Hardcover. New York, Gotham, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 453 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Illustrated endpages and flyleaves. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. La Fabrica, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 391 pages, profusely illustrated. This excellent catalog contributes a wealth of new information, providing a valuable contribution to our understanding of Man Ray. The treasure trove of images and objects collected here is drawn from the large archives of the Man Ray Trust in Long Island, New York, and includes little known early works, documents and objects from his private life, working drawings and sketches for major works as well as innumerable familiar masterpieces.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. A history of slavery in America, written for children, and focusing on those who escaped slavery and on the Underground Railroad. Includes stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Josiah Henson, and others.

Hardcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. As a photographer for Life and Fortune magazines, Margaret Bourke-White traveled to Russia in the 1930s, photographed the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1938, and recorded the liberation of Buchenwald at the end of WWII. In 1949, Life sent her to South Africa to take photographs in a country that was becoming racially polarized by white minority rule. Life published two photo-essays highlighting Bourke-White's photographs, but much of her South African work remained unpublished until now. Here, these stunning photographs collected by Alex Lichtenstein and Rick Halpern offer an unparalleled visual record of white domination in South Africa during the early days of apartheid. In addition to these powerful and historically significant photographs, Lichtenstein and Halpern include two essays that explore Bourke-White's artistic and political formation and provide background material about the cultural, political, and economic circumstances that produced the rise and triumph of Afrikaner nationalism in South Africa. This richly illustrated book brings to light a large body of photography from a major American photographer and offers a compelling history of a reprehensible system of racial conflict and social control that Bourke-White took such pains to document.

Hardcover. West Chester PA, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 199 pages. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST/POTTER MARGARET TAFOYA on the title page. Foreword by Rick Dillingham. Illustrated throughout with black & white and color photography. Bibliography. Index. This beautiful book presented in large format tells the story of Margaret Tafoya and her contributions to Tewa Pueblo pottery. The book explores her life, pottery making techniques, the Tafoya family and descendants, and the history of the Pueblo people. clean copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 287 pages. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket issued. This beautifully illustrated book-the definitive volume on American sculptor Mark di Suvero-features more than two hundred images of his most important works, interspersed with short texts by the artist and by other writers who have inspired his art-making practice, plus a contribution by Francois Barre. Humanist in approach and populist in sensibility, di Suvero's sculpture is accessible, inviting, and inclusive. Praised in particular for his monumental assemblages incorporating steel and wood, di Suvero emerged as a superstar in the 1960s. He was the first living artist to show his sculpture at the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, and the first honored with three major exhibitions at Storm King Art Center. His distinctive, bold pieces can be found in museums and public collections all over the world, and he continues to be the subject of numerous exhibitions both in the United States and in Europe. Mark di Suvero: Dreambook is a celebration of his artistic oeuvre and of his long, distinguished career. 

Hardcover. NY, Skira Rizzoli, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. The first publication dedicated exclusively to Mark Rothko's art during the critical formative period of the 1940s. Examining the development and artistic exploration of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, this unprecedented volume presents the works of American artist Mark Rothko from the 1940s, a time when his most essential development as a painter occurred, dramatically and in a very compact space of time. During this period, Rothko moved from expressive figurative and surrealist canvases to more abstract multiform subjects and finally to his signature abstractions--luminous rectangles of color suspended in space. Richly illustrated with works by Rothko and his contemporaries, introduction by Todd Herman and essays by prominent Rothko scholars, this important new book deepens our understanding of Rothko's art during this vital period, and that of the mature works that emerged from it.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear to covers. Sticker on rear dust jacket over bar code.

Softcover. New York , Abrams, 1st wraps, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Houston Museum of Art. Clean, bright copy

Hardcover. Harrison , Robert Alan Green, Reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 179 pages. Illustrated with early American Silversmiths identification marks. This reprint edition limited to 1000 copies. Light wear to edges of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Marlon Brando (1924-2004) is an icon in the history of American cinema. When he passed away in 2004, The New York Times remember 'the rebellious prodigy who electrified a generation and forever transformed the art of screen acting... a truly revoluntionary presence.' From his beginnings in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) to his mythic performances The Godfather (1972) and Apocalypse Now (1979), Brando, who worked with such famous film stars as Elizabeth Taylor and Al Pacino, and such leading directors as Elia Kazan, John Huston and Francis Ford Coppola, has become a benchmark for other actors. Clean 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.

Softcover. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout with 50 plates in color and b&w. White pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, slight foxing to covers, else a very nice, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout with 30 plates in full color. White pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to spine, slight wrinkle to back cover, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Softcover. Burlington VT, Shelburne Museum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 58 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light wear and rubbing to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

hardcover. NY, American Heritage Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Color illusat. by Masha. Light musty odor to book. Dust jacket with light wear, soil to rear panel.

Hardcover. Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Biography and critical analysis of American painter and portraitist Mather Brown. 297 pages illustrated with 9 full-color plates and 160 other black/white reproductions of paintings. Book is in near fine condition, very slight bumping at the ends of the spine. Dust jacket shows some rubbing and edge wear.

College Park MD, University of Maryland, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover exhibition catalog, 173 pages, illustrated in b&w, several color plates. INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILMERDING, art historian and author, from his library. Bright, clean copy in very good dust jacket.

Softcover. Williamstown, MA, Prestel & Williams College Museum of Art, 1st, 1990, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 193 pages, illustrated throughout numerous illustrations in b&w and 139 plates in full color. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Minor edgewear to covers, else like new.

Hardcover. San Diego, Thunder Bay Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 144 pages illustrated in color. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHORS on the half-title page. Maxfield Parrish has long been considered one of the greatest American illustrators of the 20th century. In the early 1920s, when his works Garden of Allah and Daybreak were reproduced as art prints, he quickly became one of the best known artists in America with his art images appearing on posters, calendars, magazine covers, and book illustrations. His unmistakable paintings, characterized by "Parrish Blue" water and skies, luminescent rocks and hills, and exquisite young women in flowing classical robes, are infused with a romantic Eden-like quality so entrancing that reproductions are as enthusiastically received today as the prints were when they first appeared. A wonderful selection of his work with brilliant reproductions. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Edison NJ, The Wellfleet Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, large oblong volume, 448 pages illustrated in color. First printing of arguably the finest work in print on the life and work of Maxfield Parrish. SIGNED on the title page by both Cutlers, founders of the National Musem of American Illustration. Maxfield Parrish's images achieved remarkable popularity and critical acclaim when they appeared on the covers of countless periodicals and books making him the most celebrated illustrator of the first half of the 20th century as well as incredibly famous and immensely wealthy. Clean copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.