Hardcover. Spokane, WA, Arthur H. Clark Company, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 343 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Covers bound in red, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Dust jacket unclipped. Dust jacket has a touch of fading, otherwise no rips, in very good condition. Very clean inside and out.

Hardcover. Bologna IT, Alessandro Editore, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards. 64 pages illustrated in color by Juillard. ITALIAN TEXT. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Casterman, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial glossy boards. Color art by author. FRENCH LANGUAGE graphic novel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 406 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations. Clean, tight copy. How Le Corbusier's first trip to the United States shaped his critique of the country and affected both his work and the diffusion of his ideas. Le Corbusier's first trip to the United States in 1935 is generally considered a failure because it produced no commissions. The experience nevertheless had a profound effect on him, both personally and professionally. Sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Le Corbusier promoted his ideas through a lecture tour, exhibition, and press conferences, as well as in meetings with industrialists, housing reformers, New Deal technocrats, and editors. His lectures were watershed events that advanced the cause of European modernism. Yet he returned to France empty-handed and published a bittersweet account, Quand les Cathedrales etaient blanches: Voyage au Pays des Timid Personnes (When the Cathedrals Were White: Journey to the Country of Timid People), which faulted America for lacking the courage to adopt his ideas.

Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, This slip-cased, oversized book, weighing 20 pounds and containing over 2000 illustrations, summarizes the life and work of the most important modern architect of the 20th century: the legendary, controversial, and confrontational Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier was not exclusively an architect but an artist (painter and sculptor), urbanist, author, furniture designer, world traveler, and media figure. What is most impressive in this volume are the huge-scale photographs drawn from the Le Corbusier archives at the Fondation Le Corbusier in France. These photographs are personal, professional, indicative, anecdotal, illustrative, and symbolic of the entire saga of Le Corbusier's life and career over 60 years. They make this book an absolute gold mine for anyone wanting to understand and steep themselves in the spirit and character of this greatest modern architect of the last century. The written material is also first-rate: Jean-Louis Cohen, France's best-known historian of modern architecture, contributes an informative introduction, and Tim Benton, a well-known British architectural historian, writes opening texts for individual chapters. Recommended for architecture and art libraries as well as public libraries with serious art collections.--Peter S. Kaufman, Boston Architectural Ctr. NOTE; DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT THIS VOLUME CANNOT BE SHIPPED OUTSIDE THE U.S.

Hardcover. Woodbury NY, Barron's, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 102 pages, b&w illustrations. Black cloth covers in a brght dust jacket. Clean, no markings.

Softcover. Venice, Cataloghi Marsilio, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 140 pages. TEXT IN ITALIAN. A catalog of drawings and architectural watercolor sketches done by Le Corbusier on a trip to Italy in 1907. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe, India, and America. He was a pioneer in studies of modern high design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities. (1907) - Catalogo della Mostra. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages. The City of Refuge complex--commissioned by the Salvation Army as part of its program to transform social outcasts into spiritually renewed workers--represents a significant confluence of design principles, technological experiments, and attitudes on reform. It also provides rare insights into the work of one of the twentieth century's greatest architects, Le Corbusier. Brian Brace Taylor draws on extensive archival research to reconstruct each step of the architect's attraction to the commission, his design process and technological innovations, the social and philosophical compatibility of the Salvation Army with Le Corbusier's own ideas for urban planning, and finally, the many modifications required, first to eliminate defects and later to accommodate changes in the services the building provided. Throughout, Taylor focuses on Le Corbusier's environmental, technological, and social intentions as opposed to his strictly formal intentions. He shows that the City of Refuge became primarily a laboratory for the architect's own research and not simply a conventional solution to residents' requirements or the Salvation Army's program.

Softcover. Paris, Des Deux Coqs D'or , reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 12 pages stapled. Illustrated in color by Richard Scarry. French language book, art probably lifted from Animals of Farmer Jones published in the US in the 1950s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Editions Albert Morance, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 320 pages. Hardcover. Text in French. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings of decorative cast iron. Previous owners name and date written on front interior hinge flap. Dust jacket worn with tape repair, chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Paris, Librairie Floury, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, gray wrappers with black and red lettering, 213 pages. Illustrated with black & white plates. Small tears at foot and crown of paper spine. Clean, tight copy. FRENCH TEXT.

Softcover. Paris FR, Centre National de la Photo Graphie, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 unnumbered pages, 40 b&w plates. FRENCH TEXT. The panoramic photography of Jacques-Henri Lartigue, taken between 1922 and 1929; the catalogue for an exhibition. Wonderful work. Text by Michel Frizot. Unpaginated, 40 full-page duo-toned b&w plates; 11 x 10.25 inches. Bibliography, chronology, exhibitions list.

Hardcover. Bruxelles, Dargaud , reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 48 pages illustrated in color by Jacobs. Clean, very good. FRENCH TEXT.

Hardcover. Bruxelles, Dargaud , reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 56 pages illustrated in color by Jacobs. Clean, very good. Volume 2 only of 3. FRENCH TEXT.

Hardcover. Paris, Casterman, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Laminated cover boards. FRENCH TEXT. Clean, tight copy with color comics drawings throughout.

Softcover. Westlake Village CA, Acme/ Fantagraphics, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages illustrated in color by Rossi.

Softcover. Philadelphia, William S. & Alfred Martien, 1st, 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 page booklet, blue wrappers. Two black lines on front cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Powerhouse Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages, color illustrations. The history of American comics through the stories of comics' most important and influential creators -- tracing the medium's journey all the way from its beginnings as junk culture for kids to its current status as legitimate literature and pop culture. Featuring artists such as Jerry Siegel, Will Eisner, Jerry Robinson, Al Jaffee, Neal Adams, Peter Kuper, Stan Lee and many more.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale School of Architecture/Norton, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 194 pages illustrated in color and b&w. The fifth in a series documenting the Edward P. Bass Visiting Fellowship in Architecture at Yale, this book chronicles the collaboration of Fellow Chuck Atwood, the former vice chairman of Harrah's board of directors, with Davenport Visiting Professor David M. Schwarz, assisted by Brook Denison and Darin Cook. Focusing on Las Vegas's lack of pedestrianism, they asked the students to investigate vital urban sites around the world and then apply theses lessons learned to the automobile-centric Strip. The students met with Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, Harrah's CEO Gary Loveman, and private-equity managers David Bonderman and Marc Rowman as they devised ways to transform the world's premiere themed playground into a livable and pedestrian-oriented city. Documents the development of plans for a campus of resorts on the Las Vegas Strip by a studio of ten Yale students. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Assouline, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 400 pages. Illustrated in color, b&w. Very good flexi-cover (no dustwrapper as published) This book has chapters on skin stories; a planetary symbolism, the stuff of heroes, the black leather jacket, rebel rock, the age of ideals, leathersex, the body is staged, the triumph of accessories, leather in transformation.

Hardcover. NY, Modern Library, 1st thus, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, this is the first edition in the Illustrated Modern Library series, 410 pages with Index of First Lines & About the Artist in rear, blank endpapers. quarter green cloth over boards covered in pastel decorative green paper, with red title box to spine, edged & lettered in bright gilt. Housed in a green cardboard slipcase with a color illustration pasted to the front. Minor wear to corners of slipcase. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean copy.

Softcover. Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery University of Rochester, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Softcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Music's confrontation with modernity has been difficult, and has often involved the artist leaving his country for political and social reasons. In the company of a range of performers,this work reflects the difficulties encountered and the audiences' often reluctant attitude towards them.

Hardcover. London, Sherwood and Co., Later Edition, 1825, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 463 pages. Hardcover. Reprint edition dated 1825 - "A New and Improved Edition, Adapted to the Present State of Science by C. F. Partington". Illustrated with black & white drawings, diagrams. Body of book rebound in current covers at some point. Front hinge cracked, cloth tape along spine is weak, with faint remains of title label. Top 2" of title page missing. Light to moderate foxing to some plates/pages. Sold 'As-Is'.

Hardcover. New Haver CT, Yale University , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages, 59 plates in duotone, large format. Friedlander ventures into new territory, turning his eye to the rarefied world of fashion and revealing precisely what is commonplace about it: behind the glamorous spectacle of the runway are many people hard at work. The photographs, commissioned by the 'New York Times Magazine,' were taken in 2006 during New York Fashion Week, when the artist spent time backstage at the Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Zac Posen, Oscar de la Renta, and Proenza Schouler shows. The resulting images, many of which are published here for the first time, depict a flurry of toiling stylists, dressers, makeup artists, photographers, and models--all of them preparing, but not quite prepared, for an image to be taken.

Hardcover. New York, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 168 pages. 84 black and white photos. Edited by: Sharon Helgason Gallagher. "Lee Friedlander`s exploration of one of photography`s most enduring genres began almost by chance, in the late 1970s, when a teacher colleague at Rice University in Houston lined up a regular schedule of nude models for his students. Almost immediately, Friedlander found that he preferred to photograph the models at their homes, and ingeniously deployed household objects such as bedside lamps, potted plants and sofa fabrics to play off against the angular poses of the models and the emphatic framing of the overall composition. "

Softcover. Prestel, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. Roland Penrose met Lee Miller's lips a year before he met the rest of her - in a painting by Man Ray. It was a fitting introduction for two artists who were linked by an art movement that delighted in chance encounters. Together they forged a life joined by a common cause - surrealism. This illustrated joint biography tells the story of how a fashion model turned photographer and an English Quaker turned art collector and surrealist painter influenced modern art with their vision and passion, and created a life together that was in itself a work of art.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale rose boards with photo label on front cover. Over one hundred of the most outstanding photographs taken by photographer, model, and surrealist muse Lee Miller, Introduced to photography at an early age, Lee Miller honed her craft in Paris, where she associated with the Surrealists and avant-garde artists including Jean Cocteau and Picasso. Together with Man Ray she accidentally discovered the distinctive technique of solarization to create mesmerizing halo effects. After establishing her own photographic studio in New York, where she became a prominent commercial photographer, she then moved to the Middle East and Europe before becoming the official war photographer for Vogue, a period during which she took many of her most iconic photographs. This evocative book collects Lee Miller's most famous documentary, fashion, and war works, as well as photographs of Miller, all carefully compiled by her son the photographer Antony Penrose, with a foreword by actress Kate Winslet, Cllean copy.

Softcover. Northampton MA, Tundra, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover folder. A series of 8 individual full color plates from a talented line-up of artists, including Moebius, Frank Kelly Freas, Leo Duranona, Will Eisner, Eric Shanower, Kevin O'Neill, Mike Zeck. Jaime Hernandez & Michael Zulli , which depict scenes from a story by R.J.M. Lofficier. This edition is part one of a six part series. Portfolio, 8 illustrated plates, Title plate, & 4 page story Booklet.

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Polity, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 231 pages. Few philosophers have left a legacy like that of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He has been credited not only with inventing the differential calculus, but also with anticipating the basic ideas of modern logic, information science, and fractal geometry. He made important contributions to such diverse fields as jurisprudence, geology and etymology, while sketching designs for calculating machines, wind pumps, and submarines. But the common presentation of his philosophy as a kind of unworldly idealism is at odds with all this bustling practical activity. In this book Richard. T. W. Arthur offers a fresh reading of Leibniz's philosophy, clearly situating it in its scientific, political and theological contexts. He argues that Leibniz aimed to provide an improved foundation for the mechanical philosophy based on a new kind of universal language. His contributions to natural philosophy are an integral part of this programme, which his metaphysics, dynamics and organic philosophy were designed to support. Rather than denying that substances really exist in space and time, as the idealist reading proposes, Leibniz sought to provide a deeper understanding of substance and body, and a correct understanding of space as an order of situations and time as an order of successive things. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Koln GR, Taschen, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages. One remarkable woman, five remarkable careers: Leni Riefenstahl is the exception to the rule. From dancer to actress to film-maker to photographer to diver, she has excelled in each field and is one of the most important and controversial artists of the 20th century. Her contributions to the art and technique of film-making were vast, most notably in her epochal film "Olympia" (1938). Critically acclaimed during the 1930's for her work under the Hitler administration and harshly criticized after the war, Riefenstahl surged on, completing the famous "Tiefland" in 1954. In the 1960s and 70s she traveled to Africa and extensively photographed East Africa and the Nuba tribes in Sudan, publishing three books. Ready for yet another change, she took up deep-sea diving at the age of 71, beginning a new chapter as an underwater photographer.Though she has attracted much attention throughout her life and has been the subject of many books, articles, and films, Leni Riefenstahl Five Lives is the first book to showcase her entire career in pictures. Produced in collaboration with Riefenstahl herself, the book includes her most famous images as well as many previously unpublished pictures from her private archives.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages. The definitive biography of Leni Riefenstahl, the woman best known as "Hitler's filmmaker," one of the most fascinating and controversial personalities of the twentieth century. It is the story of huge talent and huger ambition, one that probes the sometimes blurred borders dividing art and beauty from truth and humanity. Relying on new sources--including interviews with her colleagues and intimate friends, as well as on previously unknown recordings of Riefenstahl herself--Bach gives us an exceptional work of historical investigation that untangles the past and is also an objective but unsparing appraisal of a woman of spectacular gifts corrupted by ruthless personal ambition.

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st thus, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 214 pages, b&w illustrations. In this volume Rocco Sinisgalli presents a new English translation and critical examination of Alberti's seminal text. Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most important humanist scholars of the Italian Renaissance. Active in mid-fifteenth-century Florence, he was an architect, theorist, and author of texts on perspective and painting. Alberti's On Painting is a cardinal work that revolutionized Western art. In this volume, Sinisgalli reverses the received understanding of the relationship between the Italian and Latin versions of Alberti's treatise by demonstrating that Alberti wrote it first in Italian and then translated it into a polished Latin over the course of several decades. This volume is richly illustrated to help demonstrate how Alberti understood optics and art.

Hardcover. Charlottesville, NC, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 140 pages + 163 b&w prints. Monograph of a painter who carried the standard of realism through the 20th century while the artistic movement raced toward abstraction. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and white pictorial dust jacket. Like new, in shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Monteal, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 345 pages plus 8 pages in rear. Large, hardcover exhibition catalog profusely illustrated with DaVinci's drawings. Some color fade to the dust jacket spine otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, First Edition, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 599 pages. Hardcover. Wine cloth boards with gilt titles to spine & illustrated, sepia toned endpapers. Profusely illustrated in full color & black & white, images beautifully presented to accompany text. Bright dust jacket with marginal wear. Clean & unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, First Edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Hardcover. Ivory boards with black printed titles to mustard cloth spine. Dust jacket with moderate toning & light wear to edges. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Illustrations in bw throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated cardboard covers, illustrated throughout in color by Byrd, 48 pages. Famous in his time as a painter, prankster, and philosopher, Leonardo da Vinci was also a musician, sculptor, and engineer for dukes, popes, and kings. What remains of his work-from futuristic designs and scientific inquiry to artwork of ethereal beauty-reveals the ambitious, unpredictable brilliance of a visionary, and a timeless dreamer.Robert Byrd celebrates this passionate, playful genius in a glowing picture book replete with the richness and imagination of Leonardo's own notebooks. Twenty lavish spreads, including side drawings, supplemental texts, and quotes from Leonardo's writings, highlight distinct periods and make the master's art, jokes, explorations, and inventions wonderfully vivid and accessible. A striking tribute to an irrepressible mind and to the potential within all who are curious.

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 440 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket and slipcase. Full color and black & white illustrations. Beautiful copy with light sunning to dust jacket spine, Clean, tight copy. The technical problems with the Last Supper began as soon as Leonardo started to paint it. He jettisoned the traditional fresco technique of applying paint to wet plaster, a method unsuited to Leonardo's slow and thorough execution, and created the work instead with an experimental technique that involved painting directly on the dry plaster. With this renegade method, Leonardo rendered one of the most enduring painting techniques volatile and unstable. Added to this initial complication have been centuries of pollution, tourists, candle smoke, and the ravages of age, not to mention food fights in the refectory staged by Napoleonic soldiers and Allied bombs in 1943. By the middle of the twentieth century, the Last Supper was in desperate need of a complete restoration.Pinin Brambilla Barcilon was chosen to head this twenty-year project, and Leonardo, The Last Supper is the official record of her remarkable effort. It first documents the cleaning and removal of the overpainting performed in the other attempts at restoration and then turns to Barcilon's meticulous additions in watercolor, which were based on Leonardo's preparatory drawings, early copies of the painting, and contemporary textual descriptions. This book presents full-scale reproductions of details from the fresco that clearly display and distinguish Leonardo's hand from that of the restorer. With nearly 400 sumptuous color reproductions, the most comprehensive technical documentation of the project by Barcilon, and an introductory essay by art historian and project codirector Pietro C. Marani that focuses on the history of the fresco,

Hardcover. NY, Johnson Reprint Corporation, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages, illustrated with 22 color plates and 177 in b&w. Contents: 1). Preface. 2). Major events in Leonardo's life. 3). The river. 4). The fiction. 5). Hercules. 6). Leda. 7). Bacchus. 8). Epilogue. 9). Bibliography. 10). Index. Smaller ownership sticker on inside front cover otherwise bright and clean.

Softcover. NY, McKee Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 48 pages illustrated in color. Essay by Randy Rosen.

Hardcover. New York, Felicie, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 285 pages. Lavishly Illustrated with 300 color and 50 black & white plates. Previous owners stamp embossed on title page. Light sun fading along top edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Franklin Bowles Galleries, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog, 128 pages illustrated in color. Features over 150 works of art on paper by the famous Playboy illustrator.

Softcover. St. Paul MN, Minnesota Museum of Art, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages. Paintings; Drawings; Watercolors; Prints 1949 - 1975. 50 color and b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. Bruxelles, Dargaud, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 48 pages illustrated in color by Jacobs. Clean, bright copy. FRENCH TEXT.

Hardcover. Bruxelles, Dargaud, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 48 pages illustrated in color by Jacobs. Clean, bright copy. FRENCH TEXT.

Softcover. Paris, Nathan Image, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Unpaginated. Approximately 175 pages, mostly color reproductions of Avery's storyboard drawings from his glory years at Warner Bros. and MGM. FRENCH TEXT. This lavishly illustrated reference is shot from the original storyboards of Avery's various cartoons shorts. These are annotated by Avery in pencil. For any fan of American cartoon shorts & Tex Avery in particular, this is an essential guide.

Softcover. Bibliotheque de l'Image, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oversize softcover, 63 pages, French text with color illustrations throughout. Cover edge and spine fade and previous owner's embossed stamp on title page, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Leningrad, Aurora Art Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages. Brown cloth w/ color pictorial label on front. Color pictorial slipcase shows minor edgewear. Text in French, captions next to pictures also in English. Beautiful color plates throughout. Tight, clean, unmarked.

Hardcover. FR, Dargaud, 1st thus, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 48 pages illustrated in color. FRENCH LANGUAGE, graphic novel. Clean copy.