Softcover. NY, Prestel, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. This book of 22 detachable vintage cycling posters captures the sport's style and speed throughout the years.Dating from the late 19th-century to the 1970s, this collection features vintage posters from cycling's most iconic brands--such as Bianchi and Peugeot--as well as races--such as the now-defunct Peace Race, the Olympics, and Paris-Brest-Paris. Featuring artwork by A. M. Cassandre, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and other significant names in design history, alongside extraordinary works from lesser known artists and designers, each impeccably reproduced poster is detachable from the spine, ready for framing. The reverse side of each image includes information about the artist and subjects depicted, and a brief introduction offers an overview of the origins, rise and development of the posters. Spanning decades and continents, these striking full-color posters celebrate the beauty of cycling and are the perfect gift for bicycle enthusiasts.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams Image, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages illustrated in color. Brought to you by the subscription club of the same name, Vinyl Me, Please: 100 Albums You Need In Your Collection is a vibrant visual guide to curating must-have records for any music lover's shelf. Celebrating artists as varied and influential as Bikini Kill, Aretha Franklin, Wilco, and beyond, each entry includes an album's artwork, a short essay from a contributing music writer, and further suggestions to help you expand your taste and build your collection. This sleek compendium even includes recipes for possible cocktail pairings to complete your listening experience. Perfect for both new collectors and die-hard wax-spinners, Vinyl Me, Please revels in the album as art form and exudes the style, expertise, and passion that all crate-diggers share.
Hardcover. Milwaukee WI, Hal Leonard, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover, 319 pages. Lavishly illustrated with over 700 faithful reproductions of sheet music covers in color. Pictorial boards, issued without a dust jacket.
Softcover. AVA Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Cover has very little wear. Color and b&w illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A small hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket, as new. 132 pages in color. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson;, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The best pages from the sensational photo magazine published in France in the 1920s and 1930s. Established in Paris in 1928, VU combined stunning photography with dynamic layouts and first-rate reporting, creating a revolution in journalism and setting the stage for future photo magazines like Life, Stern, and Paris Match. For a weekly magazine that only published 665 issues (21 March 1928 -- 5 June 1940) VU left behind a remarkable legacy as revealed in these pages. There are eight main chapters: Page layouts; Faces; Photo stories; Photomontages; The rise of Hitler; Sensation and spectacle; Image innovations; Covers and each is crammed with spreads and covers from the magazine and lots of them are big enough to read the stories and captions (assuming you know French). VU was created by publisher Lucien Vogel with editor Carlo Rim and art editor Alexander Liberman (who became US Vogue's art editor and later creative director of Conde Nast) as a general interest picture weekly, some years before Life and Look in the US and Picture Post in Britain. They all took advantage of developing technologies of the day like wire transmission of photos and rotogravure printing. VU was the first though to use photos in a very creative way, especially with cover montages created by Liberman, no doubt influenced by Russian magazines of the twenties designed Rodchenko, Tellingater, Lissitzky and Stepanova.
Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2009, Hardcover, 320 pages. The best pages from the sensational photo magazine published in France in the 1920s and 1930s.Established in Paris in 1928, VU combined stunning photography with dynamic layouts and first-rate reporting, creating a revolution in journalism and setting the stage for future photo magazines like Life, Stern, and Paris Match.VU covered a wide and eclectic range of subjects including politics, world affairs, social issues, discoveries, exploration, the arts, sports, and entertainment. It intended to be an illustrated journal of the week's events-a movie newsreel on paper-and published work by some of the most important photographers of the time: Robert Capa, Andre Kertesz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Man Ray, and more.This book gathers some of the best work from more than 600 issues of VU: covers, double-page spreads, and complete reports. It provides both a record of the prewar world of the twenties and thirties, and an unparalleled history of photojournalism in the early twentieth century. 200+ b&w illustrations
Hardcover. NY, Collins Design, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 255 pages, color and b&w illustrations. An in-depth study on sign display, interviews with design firms and sign experts reveal the inspiration behind their work. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Thames and Huson, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Published to accompany an exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum, this book features more than 250 superb full-color illustrations of hard-hitting propaganda and groundbreaking graphic art. It encompasses iconic images such as Alfred Leete's "Your Country Needs You" as well as additional material drawn from the world of advertising and documentary photographs of posters in situ.Through posters, the author examines the social, political, ethnic, and cultural aspirations of America, Britain, Ireland, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, Austria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. Covering topics as diverse as advertising in World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, Germany and Occupied Europe in World War II, anti-nuclear campaigns, and Vietnam, the book is comprehensive and highly analytical, yet accessible. 300 illustrations, 250 in color.
Softcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 154 pages. Illustrated with color plates on book jacket art by Minor. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, January 25, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages with 60 color and 117 b&w plates. Still wrapped in plastic. Oversized. A bright, beautiful copy. This comprehensive book brings together nearly two hundred illustrations from Ore, The Inland Printer, The Chap-Book, Collier's Weekly, and other periodicals, books advertisements, and ephemera. Adding to the volume's reference value are an extensive list of Bradley's published works, bibliography, lists of public collections and exhibitions, and an appendix reprinting his "Primer of Ornament and Design," including previously unpublished material.
Hardcover. Oak Knoll Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 216 pages, no dj issued. Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) is widely regarded as one of the masters of book, magazine, and graphic design during the Art Nouveau period. This extensive work also contains a biography of Bradley, a bibliography, and author, title, and publisher indices.
Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson , 1st, 2023, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in partial red dust jacket. The last book completed by William Klein within his lifetime: A landmark retrospective encompassing Klein's legacy of creativity across photography, filmmaking, painting, book design, graphic design and beyond. Photographer. Filmmaker. Artist. Designer. To master one of those disciplines would be a lifetime achievement for any creative individual, yet William Klein's career was celebrated in each of them over the last eight decades. Klein was one of the great image makers of the 20th century and one whose work remains an enduring creative influence on the work of contemporary artists, photographers and filmmakers. With over 250 images, this career retrospective explores the late William Klein's entire creative and artistic arc. Directed by Klein himself, from the selection of content to book design, this large-format publication looks back at his uncompromisingly creative lifetime, showcasing Klein's prolific and relentlessly innovative contribution to the world of photography, art, design and filmmaking. Published in association with a major retrospective at the International Center of Photography, this book is a comprehensive take on his career. Minor wear to cover, a small gouge to the top front edge, remainder line on bottom edge. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. A study of Morris's life through his own words and work. Contains extracts from his letters, poems, etc. Lavishly illustrated throughout with over 200 color plates. Many of the illustrations have never been reproduced before
Hardcover. Milan IT, Edizioni L'archivolto (Acc), 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 187 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Although relatively short-lived, store window displays are a vital constituent of the daily scenery of today's cities, and offer an important outlet for disciplinary cross-pollination. Store-window design always involves defining a specific message that is conveyed using an array of means, including architecture and set-design, advertising and graphics, multimedia, and at times fine art, with the aim of firing the buyer's imagination while also transmitting a clear brand identity.
Hardcover. London/NY, The Studio Ltd., 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with white stamping. 192 pages, 150 beautiful b&w woodcuts from the era. Review slip laid in, former copy of American illustrator Aldren Watson with his stamp on half-title page. Minor fraying to top of cloth spine.Otherwise a tight, clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury USA, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light wear to jacket, else like new. Tight, clean copy. Award-winning illustrator and graphic designer Nigel Holmes depicts the things we do every day like you've never seen them before. From how to hang a picture to how to tie a knot in a cherry stem with your tongue, form how to pour a beer to how to change a diaper, from how to keep a low-cut dress in place to how to French inhale, Nigel Holmes's striking diagrams will entertain and educate.
Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Celebrates the artistry and graphic design that transformed Joseph Pulitzer's New York World at the turn of the twentieth century, presenting a wide array of cartoons, caricatures, typography, photography, drawings, maps, and other artwork from a variety of legendary illustrators.
Softcover. Stackpole Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 147 pages, color illustrations. Published during the war's centennial, this is the story of the First World War through forty propaganda posters. Essays explain each poster, unpacking the visual imagery and setting the poster within the military, political, social, and cultural history of the war. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , Duo Press LLC, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. New York City has never been more whimsical than in this visual narrative that uses wire-art sculptures to explore the Big Apple. Everything starts with a paper clip that unfolds to create some of New York's most famous symbols, including the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Empire State Building. A lively text accompanies the striking visuals, and six pages of information chronicle everything needed to know about the included attractions and landmarks. SIGNED by author and illustrator on front fly leaf.
Softcover. Gloucester MA, Rockport Publishers, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. Sex sells. It?s one of the oldest and most effective tricks in the book. The challenge for graphic designers, however, is to incorporate sexuality into their work in ways that are classy rather than coarse, sensual rather than smutty, provocative rather than pornographic. This arresting volume shows how top graphic designers have leveraged the universal notion of sex to create attention-grabbing yet high-quality artistic work. Covering every medium, from print to the Web, Sex Graphics showcases images that incorporate sex in ways that range from subtle to clever to shocking. Some images hint at the act of sex itself; others flirt with humorous stereotypes. Some exude romantic overtones, and others, erotic ones. Some speak to adults, others to teens.
Hardcover. New York, MTV, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, unpaginated. White cloth covers, 11 1/2 by 13 1/2 inches, with black stamped lettering on front. A promotional piece produced by MTV for advertisers promoting their Free Your Mind campaign. 28 artists contributed poster designs: Paul Davis, Gary Panter, Calef Brown, George Lois, others. Clean copy. No dust jacket issued.