Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Color and b&w illustrations by Frank King throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp on cover. Illustrated end papers and pastedowns. Include appendix of historical sketches. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Weldon Owen, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Personal Art and Artifacts from The Walt Disney Family Museum chronicles the legacy of the legendary American artist, storyteller, filmmaker, and visionary through iconic objects that represent his life and career. Profusely illustrated with over 250 images in color and b&w. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by various artists throughout. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 48 pages, color illustrations by Brian Selznick.SIGNED by illustrator Selznick. No dj as issued. The pioneering team that brought you Caldecott Honor Book The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins lends their vision, flair, and unique style to Walt Whitman--poet, American icon, Civil War hero.Did you know that poet Walt Whitman was also a Civil War nurse? Devastated by his country dividing and compelled to service by his brother's war injury, Walt nursed all soldiers--Union and Confederate, black and white. By getting to know them through many intense and affecting experiences, he began to see a greater life purpose: His writing could give these men a voice, and in turn, achieve his highest aspiration--to capture the true spirit of America. Dramatic, powerful, and deeply moving, this consummate portrait of Whitman will inspire readers to pick up their pens and open their hearts to humanity.
Softcover. New York, St. Martins Press , 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 pages. Softcover. Small marking to front cover. Otherwise clean copy with minor edgewear. 107 illustrations, including 16 in color. Walter Crane, artist of Kensington, was a man of many talents, but is possibly best known for his original and charmingly executed designs which made him the leading illustrator of children's books of the Aesthetic Movement period. In the face of the commercial vulgarity and ugliness of Victorian industrialised society, he created a delicate and escapist fairy world which, with its emphasis on spontaneity and mobility of line, and its clever use of background and colour, popularised a completely new style of tasteful book designs, and brought them within reach of everyone. The influence of Crane's work and his highly novel theories of design make him an important figure in nineteenth century art history. Rodney Engen, American-born painter and lecturer, discusses Crane's style and ideas in a study delightfully arranged after Crane's own rules and book design.
Softcover. New York, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 117 pages, b&w illustrations. Very light edge wear; else a very clean, tight copy. 10 color, 99 bw plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1980 exhibition featuring works of American artist Walter Gay (1856-1937). With a substantial illustrated essay by Gary A. Reynolds, a brief chronology and selected bibliography. The annotated and illustrated catalogue addresses 90 pieces.
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. Dresden, Verlag der Kunst, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 211 pages. Illustrated with 140 black & white photographs by Walter Rosenblum. Red remainder stamp on bottom edge. Text in English and German. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill & London, The University Of North Carolina Press,, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 297 pages. illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Oblong folio. Light gray cloth with gilt title to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Minor wear to covers, else like new. The 15x11.5" format accommodates 160 color and 12 b&w illustrations, many of them decidedly horizontal, and accompanying text laid out in two wide (5.5") columns. Before photography, Washington, DC was the subject of numerous engravings, aquatints, and lithographs which were published separately as well as in newspapers and magazines, souvenir booklets, and guidebooks and brochures. A selection of these illustrations depicting buildings or districts, views from public structures, and bird's-eye views is presented along with descriptions of Washington from contemporary published works by journalists, architects, travelers, politicians, and others. Nine chapters review successive periods of growth and identify events that shaped the city's character.
Hardcover. New York , Clarion Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by the author. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. 358 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The most comprehensive and deluxe monograph on Wayne Thiebaud, a celebrated and active American artist, spanning the length of his career, from the mid-1950s to the present. Wayne Thiebaud is one of the world's most popular and respected painters. Born in 1920, he has lived for most of his life in Sacramento, with much of his youth spent in Long Beach; Southern California, in particular Laguna Beach, remains an area of great sentimentality. For this book he has selected the works himself, an act of autobiography in a sense. At age 94, he looked back over his life and his work, rich with breakthroughs in painting and masterful individuality. This deluxe volume, with more than 200 illustrations, covers Thiebaud's career as a painter and draftsman from 1959 to 2014. It features many of the still lifes of pies, cakes, desserts, candies, and other objects--lusciously painted, brightly colored, perfectly composed, and gently comic--for which he is best known. Such works brought national recognition in 1962 with a seminal exhibition at the Allan Stone Gallery in New York, attracting rave reviews and, to the discomfort of the artist himself, leading critics to see him as part of the Pop Art movement. The other artistic genres that he cultivated most avidly since then are landscape and cityscape, with special interests in the Sacramento River valley and San Francisco. New essays by a wide range of writers give a fresh perspective on his life and work.
Softcover. Worcester MA, American Antiquarian Society, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. 141 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Tan stiff wrappers. Covers and spine slightly sunned, small stain to for-edge, dog-ears to upper page-corners. A nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press , 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in 2-colors by Daugherty. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Indianapolis IN, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 212 pages with 129 color plates. Foreword by James K. Ballinger. Wonderful work by the Arizona artist who started his career as an illustrator in New York for magazines like the Saturday Evening Post. The subject is primarily the American Indian. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, illustrated with 50 early photographs and sketches. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rubbing, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Art Intitute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 251 pages illustrated in color. The extraordinary life of a captivating American artist, beautifully illustrated with his dreamlike drawings Much of Joseph Elmer Yoakum's story comes from the artist himself--and is almost too fantastic to believe. At a young age, Yoakum (1891-1972) traveled the globe with numerous circuses; he later served in a segregated noncombat regiment during World War I before settling in Chicago. There, inspired by a dream, he began his artistic career at age seventy-one, producing some two thousand drawings over a decade. How did Yoakum gain representation in major museum collections in Chicago and New York? What fueled his process, which he described as a "spiritual unfoldment"? This volume delves into the friendships Yoakum forged with the Chicago Imagists that secured his place in art history, explores the religious outlook that may have helped him cope with a racially fractured city, and examines his complicated relationship to African American and Native American identities. With hundreds of beautiful color reproductions of his dreamlike drawings, it offers the most comprehensive study of the artist's work, illuminating his vivid and imaginative creativity and giving definition and dimension to his remarkable biography. Clean copy. NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Young Readers;, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. A lunar guide describes the folkloric names of twelve moons according to Native American tradition and showcases their defining characteristics in short verse and beautifully detailed hand-colored woodcuts. SIGNED BY AZARIAN.
Hardcover. New York , Atheneum, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. SIGNED on title page, also INSCRIBED on copyright page by Lewin. A look at Brazil's Pantanal marsh describes the various types of creatures who inhabit it, from the South American caiman, to the world's largest rodent, to storks, egrets, and herons.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Illustrated with full color photographs of group portraits. Dust jacket with a few small chips along edges - dust jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Newtown CT, The Taunton Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 266 pages. The past has left behind only scattered clues that, on their own, provide little insight into how the people of early America lived and the details of their daily lives. The photographs in this book, the deeply informed narrative that accompanies them, and the eyewitness accounts of daily life that the author weaves throughout, provide a fresh perspective on our early American ancestors and the places they called home. This book is about how their houses and their life in them, from the wealthy to the impoverished, from New York City to the small farms and plantations of the South, from coastal fishing towns to the Western frontier of Indiana and Kentucky. The stories focus on the remarkably vivid differences from one part of the country to the next, class and culture, and the realities of everyday life for American families. These stories twine around a wide selection of HABS photographs of early houses, covering the variety and evolutions of house styles -- not by labeling the style but by explaining the style in the context of everyday life. Richly illustrated with handsome black-and-white photography of old houses from the Library of Congress Historic American Building Survey (HABS) collection and supplemented with period woodcuts, engravings, drawings, paintings, artifacts, and maps, the book is printed on a 4-color press for a depth of tone. Sidebar excerpts from diaries, journals, and letters inject graphic eyewitness descriptions, adding an additional layer of insight. The book also includes sidebars called Still Standing that traces the history of specific houses, from their origins to the present and includes information on the original family, how the house has evolved over the centuries, and how it's used today.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 440 pages, colo and b&w illustrations. The first biography in more than twenty years of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is also the first to make extensive use of the artist's private correspondence to tell the story of his life and work. This engaging personal history dispels the popular notion of Whistler as merely a combative, eccentric, and unrelenting publicity seeker, a man as renowned for his public feuds with Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin as for the iconic portrait of his mother. The Whistler revealed in these pages is an intense, introspective, and complex man, plagued by self-doubt and haunted by an endless pursuit of perfection in his painting and drawing. In his beautifully illustrated and deeply human portrayal of the artist, Daniel E. Sutherland shows why Whistler was perhaps the most influential artist of his generation, and certainly a pivotal figure in the cultural history of the nineteenth century. Whistler comes alive through his own magnificent work and words, including the provocative manifestos that explained his bold artistic vision, sparked controversy in his own time, and resonate to this day.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with soil, major chipping, tape repair. 128 pages. Frontispiece illustrated by Lee Haynes. Many illustrations in b/w, a few indicate B. Stevenson as artist, the rest are not specifically identified. Illustrated end papers. Seventeen chapters telling of the growth and experiences of a young American Indian boy.- his adventures are closely interwoven with the habits, customs and beliefs of his people.
Hardcover. NY, GP Putnam And Sons, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. his counting book has so much going for it that the inexplicable and jarring turn it takes at number seven is disappointing. Its most outstanding feature is Laroche's artwork-a mixture of drawing, painting, and paper-cutting on a variety of surfaces-that offers exquisite detail, from white-capped waves to feathery moth antennae to architectural features on the carefully rendered buildings. And there are more delights to this book: an afterword on the history of lighthouses; a key to the 11 found in the book; and handsome endpapers that list American lighthouses in continuous rows, state by state.
Hardcover. New York, G.H. Buek, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong light beige cloth with gilt title and decoration. Non-Paginated. Illustrated with 288 clean full color plates. Front and rear hinges cracked but holding with spine cloth. Light wear to covers. Originally published in parts as a Botanical Fine Art Weekly publication.