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Frank Duveneck: American Master by: Aronson, Julie (Editor), and Burns, Sarah (Contributions by), and Dombrowski, Andre (Contributions by)
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Frank Duveneck: American Master by: Aronson, Julie (Editor), and Burns, Sarah (Contributions by), and Dombrowski, Andre (Contributions by)Frank Duveneck: American Master by: Aronson, Julie (Editor), and Burns, Sarah (Contributions by), and Dombrowski, Andre (Contributions by)

Frank Duveneck: American Master
by: Aronson, Julie (Editor), and Burns, Sarah (Contributions by), and Dombrowski, Andre (Contributions by)

Hardcover. D Giles Ltd, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. This is the first major publication in more than 30 years devoted to Duveneck, one of the most influential and widely respected late-nineteenth century American artists.Beloved to his students, Duveneck was lauded by many Gilded Age luminaries such as James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Henry James. Yet a century after his death, he is largely known only for asingle, brilliant painting, The Whistling Boy. By contextualizing his work in the artistic, cultural and social milieus of the time, this publication offers diverse perspectives on Duveneck's life, work, subjects and reputation. The essays span his beginnings as a painter of dark realism to his later impressionistic work and examine his significance as a printmaker and draftsman. The lavishly illustrated volume includes a chronology and selected bibliography. irst half of the book consists of essays which detail the artists uneven life. Numerous photos, drawings and a few great close ups. The second half of the book consists of the catalog. 128 catalog images, mostly paintings with some drawings and pastels. All in color.

Record # 380089

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Frank Lloyd Wright-The Lost Years, 1910-1922: A Study of Influence by: Alofsin, Anthony
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Frank Lloyd Wright-The Lost Years, 1910-1922: A Study of Influence
by: Alofsin, Anthony

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 397 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Slight crease to dust jacket front flap, slight dent to rear cover upper corner, else a clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 457125

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works by: Co, Francesco Dal and Kurt Forster
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Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works
by: Co, Francesco Dal and Kurt Forster

Hardcover. New York, Monacelli, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 616 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 10.2 x 2 inches. Profusely illustrated with stunning photos, plans, sketches, models of his complete works and projects, project register, biography, exhaustive bibliography, and illustration credits. This first major monograph on Gehry's work contains more than 250 buildings and projects designed throughout his 40-year career.

Record # 404926

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Frank Schoonover: Illustrator of the North American Frontier by: Frank Earle Schoonover and Cortlandt Schoonover
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Frank Schoonover: Illustrator of the North American Frontier
by: Frank Earle Schoonover and Cortlandt Schoonover

Hardcover. NY, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Frank Schoonover, one of the giants of the Golden Age of American Illustration, was renowned for his scenes of life on the western frontier of America and Canada. Schoonover captured the flavor of the west and northwest in his dramatic outdoor compositions which depicted cowboys, Indians, trappers, Eskimos - the people and way of life that he knew, loved, and painted first hand. His keen sense of observations, coupled with his vivid documentary style, made his illustrations powerful paintings in themselves. They are now exhibited and collected for their own sake, independent of the books they illustrated, as unforgettable documents of a legendary way of life. Like the other great painter/illustrators of the Brandywine School -he was a student of Howard Pyle and a contemporary of such notables as N. C. Wyeth and Harvey Dunn - Schoonover was passionate about the portrayal of the American past. Although he lived most of his life in the Brandywine River area of Pennsylvania and Delaware, his commitment to the frontier dominated his work. A natural love for adventure and a yearning to find his own style sent him initially to the Canadian northwest, where he took naturally to the challenge of frontier life. Living among the Indians, canoeing, traveling by dogsled, and fending for himself brought authentic flavor to his paintings which illustrated many popular books and stories of adventure - most of which are now forgotten, although the paintings endure. This handsome collection is the first full-scale illustrated study of Schoonover's work, not only rediscovering the paintings of a major artist, but providing an important visual document of frontier life. 208 pages. 10 1/2 X 11 1/4. 48 color plates. 150 black-and-white illustrations. Chronology. Index.

Record # 379760

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Frank Schoonover: Illustrator of the North American Frontier by: Frank Earle Schoonover and Cortlandt Schoonover
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Frank Schoonover: Illustrator of the North American Frontier
by: Frank Earle Schoonover and Cortlandt Schoonover

Hardcover. NY, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Frank Schoonover, one of the giants of the Golden Age of American Illustration, was renowned for his scenes of life on the western frontier of America and Canada. Schoonover captured the flavor of the west and northwest in his dramatic outdoor compositions which depicted cowboys, Indians, trappers, Eskimos - the people and way of life that he knew, loved, and painted first hand. His keen sense of observations, coupled with his vivid documentary style, made his illustrations powerful paintings in themselves. They are now exhibited and collected for their own sake, independent of the books they illustrated, as unforgettable documents of a legendary way of life. Like the other great painter/illustrators of the Brandywine School -he was a student of Howard Pyle and a contemporary of such notables as N. C. Wyeth and Harvey Dunn - Schoonover was passionate about the portrayal of the American past. Although he lived most of his life in the Brandywine River area of Pennsylvania and Delaware, his commitment to the frontier dominated his work. A natural love for adventure and a yearning to find his own style sent him initially to the Canadian northwest, where he took naturally to the challenge of frontier life. Living among the Indians, canoeing, traveling by dogsled, and fending for himself brought authentic flavor to his paintings which illustrated many popular books and stories of adventure - most of which are now forgotten, although the paintings endure. This handsome collection is the first full-scale illustrated study of Schoonover's work, not only rediscovering the paintings of a major artist, but providing an important visual document of frontier life. 208 pages. 10 1/2 X 11 1/4. 48 color plates. 150 black-and-white illustrations. Chronology. Index. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 361134

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Frederic Remington: Selected Letters by: Remington Frederic and Allen P. Splete and Marilyn D. Splete (Eds.)
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Frederic Remington: Selected Letters
by: Remington Frederic and Allen P. Splete and Marilyn D. Splete (Eds.)

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated with drawings. Index. Bibliography. 487 pages. Remington, a prolific letter writer, was also an inveterate doodler. Many of these previously unpublished drawings are a part of this collection. Correspondence includes notes to his family and correspondence with President Theodore Roosevelt, Owen Wister, Poultney Bigelow, Francis Parkman, Elizabeth Custer and others. Clean copy.

Record # 381766

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Frederic Whitaker; An Illustrated Biography of one of America's Foremost Watercolorists by: Lovoos, Janice
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Frederic Whitaker; An Illustrated Biography of one of America's Foremost Watercolorists
by: Lovoos, Janice

Hardcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 115 pages. 30 color reproductions throughout. Beautifully illustrating the skills of this remarkable man, accompanying each of his paintings with notes describing techniques employed, many with revealing comments by the artist himself. Dark blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, color slightly faded at edges. Pictorial dust jacket with light edge wear and faint smudges to front cover. Tight binding.

Record # 605176

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Frida Kahlo by: Lozano, Luis-Martin
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Frida Kahlo
by: Lozano, Luis-Martin

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. In his beautifully illustrated survey of Frida Kahlo's work, Lozano (art history, Iberoamerican Univ., Mexico City) explores her life and paintings in a series of essays that range from a poetic study by noted Mexican cultural critic Carlos Monsiv is to a short, prosaic piece written in 1943 by her husband, Diego Rivera, to an academic essay by Lozano himself. The common thread is how Kahlo's pre-Columbian background helped her find her own identity in the world and in the artist circles she frequented. To create a portrait of a woman so talented yet so tortured, Lozano uses Kahlo's own stunning images, offering high-quality reproductions of some of Kahlo's most famous works as well as some of her lesser-known pieces. Previously unseen photos of Kahlo at work in her studio are also included. The detail and clarity of the images is incredible, allowing the reader to explore each painting thoroughly.

Record # 367643

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Future a la Carte by: Theresa A. Morse
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Future a la Carte
by: Theresa A. Morse

Hardcover. NY, David McKay, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket. 167 pages illustrated by Ruth Sheetz. The Morse's became innkeepers on Martha's Vineyards, leaving city life in New York. This is the story of Beach Plum Inn. Light tanning to front fly leaf where newspaper clipping was laid in, otherwise clean.

Record # 385546

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Gabriel De Saint : Aubin 1724-1780 by: Bailey, Colin B.
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Gabriel De Saint : Aubin 1724-1780
by: Bailey, Colin B.

Softcover. US, Somogy Art Publishers , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Softcover with little to no wear on edges. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Bringing the famed Parisian illustrator to light, this biography centers on Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, who studied at the prestigious Royal Academy but failed to win the coveted Prix de Rome. The study relates that the subject reacted to this disappointment by throwing aside all hopes of a traditional artistic career and hastening out into the thoroughfares of Paris to sketch everything in sight, living an errant, bohemian existence and succumbing increasingly to an obsession with drawing. Detailed and engaging, this recollection demonstrates that, despite his personal eccentricities, Saint-Aubin was employed as an artist all his life.

Record # 369024

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

George Grosz: An Autobiography by: Grosz, George
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George Grosz: An Autobiography
by: Grosz, George

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Publishing, 1st , 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 312 pages, illustrated throughout with drawings in b&w. Black blind-stamped boards, brown cloth spine with gilt title. White pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to covers and spine, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 606260

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Georges Braque, Life and Work by: Zurcher, Bernard
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Georges Braque, Life and Work
by: Zurcher, Bernard

Hardcover. US, Rizzoli, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 319 pages, illustrated throughout with 235 illustrations, including 150 in full color. Faint soil to fore edge. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Small tear on front end paper.

Record # 354020

Price: $300.00
Price: $300.00 

Gianlorenzo Bernini (Masters of Art Series) (INSCRIBED COPY) by: Charles Scribner III
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Gianlorenzo Bernini (Masters of Art Series) (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Charles Scribner III

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 128 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with small crumbled tear to rear cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 397754

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Gilbert & George: Intimate Conversations with Francois Joquet by: Jonquet, Francois
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Gilbert & George: Intimate Conversations with Francois Joquet
by: Jonquet, Francois

Hardcover. London, Phaidon, 1st, 2005, Hardcover, 360 pages. A compelling insight into Gilbert & George's everyday enigma. The artists' unfailing politeness, consideration for others and open nature exert an irresistible charm. But it's Jonquet's walks with G & G around their home patch of Spitalfields that shed new light on the work, lavishly illustrated with accompanying personal photos.

Record # 361141

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Gilbert & George: Intimate Conversations with Francois Joquet by: Jonquet, Francois
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Gilbert & George: Intimate Conversations with Francois Joquet
by: Jonquet, Francois

Hardcover. London, Phaidon, 1st, 2005, Hardcover, 360 pages. A compelling insight into Gilbert & George's everyday enigma. The artists' unfailing politeness, consideration for others and open nature exert an irresistible charm. But it's Jonquet's walks with G & G around their home patch of Spitalfields that shed new light on the work, lavishly illustrated with accompanying personal photos.

Record # 362100

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Gitta: Hidden Child of the Holocaust (SIGNED COPY) by: Rosenzweig, Gitta, and Fuller, Martha (Editor)
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Gitta: Hidden Child of the Holocaust (SIGNED COPY)
by: Rosenzweig, Gitta, and Fuller, Martha (Editor)

Softcover. Santa Monica CA, Gitta Rosenzweig , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 421 pages, illustrated with b&w, color photographs. A self-published memoir chronicling her family's past during the Holocaust. The author was raised in a Catholic orphanage in Poland, later immigrated to America and later returned to trace her parent's history. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 375235

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Glorious Visions: John Soane's Spectacular Theater by: Furjan, Helene
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Glorious Visions: John Soane's Spectacular Theater
by: Furjan, Helene

Hardcover. London, Routledge, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 198 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Focusing on the house and museum and its considerable collections of architectural fragments, models, drawings folios and publications, this book is about thirteen Lincoln's Inn Fields in London, England, built in the early 1800s by the renowned eighteenth-century architect Sir John Soane. The book maps the influences, references, connections, extensions, and productions at play in Soane's house-museum. The house, still a public museum, was highly original in its period, and it continues to influence and impress architects and historians alike. Today's visitor is confronted by a dense, complex series of spaces, a strange aCCU1mulation of rooms, objects and effects. This book examines the ways in which Soane enlisted light, shadow, color, fiction and narrative, vistas, spatial complexity, the fragment, and the mirror to produce a spectacular space. No dj issued, clean copy.

Record # 386020

Price: $65.00
Price: $65.00 

Gonzo: Hunter S. Thompson by: Thompson, Hunter S,
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Gonzo: Hunter S. Thompson
by: Thompson, Hunter S,

Hardcover. New York, Ammo, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, many b&w and color photographs. A visual biography accompanied by excerpts from Thompson's work. Introduction by Johnny Depp, edited by Steve Crist and Paul Norton. Illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued.

Record # 351174

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Good Queen Bess: The Story of Elizabeth I of England by: Stanley, Diane and Peter Vennema
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Good Queen Bess: The Story of Elizabeth I of England
by: Stanley, Diane and Peter Vennema

Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated biography of England's Queen Elizabeth I, written for young readers. Art by Diane Stanley. Clean copy.

Record # 383626

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 
 

Gordon Craig by: Craig, Edward
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Gordon Craig
by: Craig, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 398 pages. Illustrated with 24 pages of black & white photographs. Light foxing to page fore edges. Light wear to price clipped dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606664

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Green Leaves From Whitingham Vermont: A History of the Town by: Jillson, Clark
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Green Leaves From Whitingham Vermont: A History of the Town
by: Jillson, Clark

Hardcover. Worcester, MA, Clark Jillson, 1st, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth. 244 pages. Illustrated frontispeice. Illustrated chapter headings. B&w illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Foxing throughout, otherwise clean tight copy.

Record # 857284

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Gropius: An Illustrated Biography of the Creator of the Bauhaus by: Isaacs, Reginald
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Gropius: An Illustrated Biography of the Creator of the Bauhaus
by: Isaacs, Reginald

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 344 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations. Like-new.

Record # 512049

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Growing Up Italian in Chicago (SIGNED COPY) by: Newman, Lea Bertani Vozar
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Growing Up Italian in Chicago (SIGNED COPY) by: Newman, Lea Bertani VozarGrowing Up Italian in Chicago (SIGNED COPY) by: Newman, Lea Bertani Vozar

Growing Up Italian in Chicago (SIGNED COPY)
by: Newman, Lea Bertani Vozar

Softcover. Bennington, VT, Bertani Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers, 90 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO IRVING ADLER on front fly leaf, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 457142

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Gustave Courbet: His Life and Art by: Jack Lindsay
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Gustave Courbet: His Life and Art
by: Jack Lindsay

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 383 pages. Illustrated with black & white plates. A vivid picture of French art and society in the revolutionary years of the mid-nineteenth century. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Clean, tight copy. Dust jacket spine faded.

Record # 397798

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00