Softcover. Minneapolis, MN, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog. 90 pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout. Black pictorial cover with slight wear to spine and both covers. Very slight spotting to top edge. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color art by Jon Muth. Here is the rare book that not only expresses a parent's love for their child, but offers a hope for what that love will become. It begins with a wish at bedtime, as parents hold their children tight and hope their love will cradle them, safe and sound. It continues through the day their children have grown up, proud and strong, and can pass that love on to someone else. This is a book that goes beyond a parent's "I love you" to the generous wish that our children will make the world a better place. A gentle, poetic text is illustrated in soft gouache-and-watercolor washes that depict scenes in the life of a boy from infancy, when his mother and father hold him close, to adulthood, when he is a parent himself. Clean copy.
Softcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Chief Joseph's exhausted words of surrender, 'Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever', are the accepted end of the Nez Perce War of 1877, in which several bands of Nez Perce attempting to find a new home outside their diminished Idaho reservation clashed with the U.S. military (and occasionally other Indians) along the Clearwater and Big Hole Rivers, and finally at the foot of the Bear Paw Mountains. However, a number of Nez Perce escaped transportation to Indian Territory with Joseph and continued their flight to Canada, with perhaps a hundred eventually joining Sitting Bull's Lakota."I Will Tell of My War Story" reproduces, describes, and discusses a remarkable series of drawings by an anonymous Indian artist who fought with Chief Joseph and later reached Canada. The drawings, in red, blue, and black pencil, include portraits of principal participants in the war, battle scenes, and views of Nez Perce camp life and celebrations during the war and after. The drawings are preserved in a small pocket ledger labeled 'Cash Book' on the front, which was acquired by Indian Agent Charles D. Warner in the 1880s. It was willed by him to a family living in northern Idaho, and is now in the collection of the Idaho State Historical Society. Scott Thompson worked closely both with the owners and with members of the Nez Perce community in preparing his manuscript. Thompson's detective work and research methods to identify Nez Perce and other parties pictured in the Cash Book make fascinating reading. He is careful to point out what is speculation and what has been documented or attested to by experts on dress, weapons, ceremony, and other aspects of Native culture. The Cash Book drawings are unique in several ways. They are one of very few firsthand pictorial records of the Nez Perce War, representing an even scarcer record of this war as seen from the Indian viewpoint. They contain invaluable historical and ethnographic information not only explicit in the form of military and Native dress, regalia, and quite graphic battle scenes, but also implicit. The drawings reveal an important stage of cultural adaptation as shown by the mixture of white and Native goods combined in Nez Perce material culture during the 1870s and 1880s, and by the artist's assimilation of white/European drawing techniques such as texture and perspective. The artist combined these drawing techniques with Native art traditions to make exceptionally effective pictorial communications. Scott M. Thompson is an art teacher at Chase Middle School in Spokane, Washington.
NY, Simon & Schuster, reprint, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 347 pages. The author was the Moscow correspondent for the New York Times starting in 1920 through the rise of Stalin. A first hand account of Russian history. Clean copy.
Hardcover. US, Titan Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 192 pages, b&w illustrations. Larry Brown was a running back who played for the NFL's Washington Redskins from 1969 to 1976. An eighth-round draft pick out of Kansas, Brown defied several odds to make the Redskins out of training camp, and then, suddenly, as the team's starting running back. Brown went on to post two 1,000-yard rushing seasons as an integral part of the Redskins' football revival, started with Vince Lombardi in 1969 and then, after Lombardi's 1970 death, carried on by George Allen in 1971. Small tape repair to dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Balzer & Bray, 3rd pr., 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, color art by Jim McMullan. "This boisterous story pays homage to the importance of fire fighters-and their engines-while maintaining plenty of action and a sense of fun." -- School Library. Clean copy.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #814. Cover art by Milton Charles. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company,, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrated boards, 64 pages illustrated with b&w cartoons by Dunn. A homorous look at the stress and comedy of impending fatherhood. Cardboard cover has wear at extremities, clean internally.
Hardcover. Guilford CT, Backbeat, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 304 pages, b&w illustrations. Phil Ochs is known primarily as a songwriter; however, his oeuvre extends far beyond that--to short stories, poetry, criticism, journalism, and satire, all of which are included in I'm Gonna Say It Now: The Writings of Phil Ochs, which represents the majority of what Ochs wrote outside of his large circle of songs. This comprehensive tome presents another side of the famous topical songwriter, showcasing his prose and poetry from across the full span of his life.From prizewinning stories and clear-eyed reporting while a journalism major in college to music criticism, satires, and political pieces written while part of the burgeoning folk scene of New York City in the early 1960s and during the tumultuous Vietnam War era; from sharp and lyrical poems (many previously unpublished) to reviews, features, and satires written while living in Los Angeles and the final, elegiac coda writings from near the end of his life--I'm Gonna Say It Now presents the complete picture. The book includes many rare or nearly impossible to find Ochs pieces, as well as previously unpublished works sourced from the unique holdings in the Ochs Archives at the Woody Guthrie Center. Additionally, never-before-seen reproductions from Ochs's journals, notebooks, and manuscripts provide a closer look at the hand of the artist, giving a deeper context and understanding to his writings. Never before published photographs of Ochs bestow the visual cherry on top.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Very good in a nice dust jacket with fading to spine. Novel about a high school senior who is facing the military draft and his conflicting feelings. Milton Glaser art on dust jacket.
Softcover. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Tape repair on top spine. Previous owner's bokplate on inside front wrapper. Tight copy. Black and white pictures throughout.
Softcover. Germany, Gert and Mareidi , 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages, Softcover with paper wrappers. 170 b/w and 12 color photographs. Front wrapper APPEARS to be removed from spine, lacking publisher glue. Text block tight. Previous owner's signature on front wrapper.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 317 pages. Michael Allen's latest work on the profoundly influential Florentine thinker of the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino, will be welcomed by philosophers, literary scholars, and historians of the Renaissance, as well as by classicists. Ficino was responsible for inaugurating, shaping, and disseminating the wide-ranging philosophico-cultural movement known as Renaissance Platonism, and his views on the Sophist, which he saw as Plato's preeminent ontological dialogue, are of signal interest. This dialogue also served Ficino as a vehicle for exploring a number of other humanist, philosophical, and magical preoccupations, including the theme of man the artist and creator.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 100 + black & white illustrations, 219 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight copy. 40 of Baskin's interpretive essays on artists from the 14th to 20th centuries, with Baskin's "portraits-in-homage" of each artist: Rembrandt, Goya, Soutine, etc.
Softcover. Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum Department of Art, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog, 120 pages. Color and B&W plates throughout. some B&W photos of artist throughout. Light soiling to wrapper and slight bending to bottom right corner. Some light edge wear. Otherwise a tight and clean copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1990, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 247 pages with 105 plates (many color)."Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin, and Claude Lorrain were the masters of ideal, or heroic, landscape painting in the seventeenth century. In this original and highly sophisticated book, Margaretha Lagerlof interprets these paintings in a new way, examining them from four perspectives relevant to their contemporaries - those of drama, rhetoric, utopianism, and metaphysics."
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 453 pages, b&w illustrations. At the turn of the century, an unprecedented attack on women erupted in virtually every aspect of culture: literary, artistic, scientific, and philosophic. Throughout Europe and America, artists and intellectuals banded together to portray women as static and unindividuated beings who functioned solely in a sexual and reproductive capacity, thus formulating many of the anti-feminine platitudes that today still constrain women's potential. BramDijkstra's Idols of Perversity explores the nature and development of turn-of-the-century misogyny in the works of hundreds of writers, artists, and scientists, including Zola, Strindberg, Wedekind,Henry James, Rossetti, Renoir, Moreau, Klimt, Darwin, and Spencer. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red illustrated boards, no dust jacket, lovely full page color illustrations. Pages crisp, clean and unmarked. Early printing, mid-50s, 16 titles on rear cover starting with Yertle the Turtle. This is the tall 12x9 retail edition; not the smaller book club edition. Copyright page has the Redbook reference that was removed in the bookclub editions. This copy has the original illustration of 2 Seuss characters with a black complexion from the fictional African island of Yerka; which has since become objectionable; also stereotypical drawings of Asian characters. The top 2 inches of the cardboard spine is missing. Binding sound. One of the six discontinued Seuss titles.
Hardcover. Boston, The Stratford Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 295 pages, with black & white illustrations throughout, foreword by Richardson Wright, gilt top edge and relevant 1930 article from Horticulture Magazine laid-in. Dust jacket has corner and spine chip with some edge fade, previous owner's signature on title page, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Softcover. Gent, Netherlands, Museum Voor Schone Kunsten, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Dutch text. 160 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Frontispiece portrait, many plates & text-illustrations, essays, catalogue of 136 items depicted & described, bibliography, list of exhibitions. Light edge wear, rubbing to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Milan, A. Mondadori, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 6 unnumbered pages including the inside of both covers. Publisher's thick pictorial boards backed in white cloth-patterned paper & saddle stapled Lightly soiled, edges slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. A nice example with all flaps and concealed color illustrations in perfect working order. Laid in is a typed English translation of the text. Bruno Munari was "one of the most celebrated names in twentieth century Italy in graphic designing who fundamentally altered the landscape of many fields of visual arts, futurism and modernism He is credited for his contribution to industrial design, sculpture, painting, literature, film and concrete art." A collector's copy of this scarce title.
Softcover. NY, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Essay by Donald Kuspit, text in English, French and German. Mild crease to top corner of pages, clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 267 pages. Minor spine edge wear. Cover corners lightly bent. Front cover lightly curved. Front and back flyleaf yellowed. Crease on frontispiece. Spotting throughout index, half title page, full title page and book edges. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Co, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 549 pages. Tan cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, b&w illustrations, comprehensive reference work on Western American art. Light wear to dust jacket; overall a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Mineola NY, Dover, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 72 pages. A comprehensive home furnishings catalog from the height of the popularity of Mission design, reprinted from a rare original, illustrating and describing 400 items from beds and highboys to arm chairs and kitchen cabinets, many designed to be shipped knocked-down for reassembly at home. With invaluable information on woods, finishes, upholstery, colors, more. Catalogue issued by the Come-Packt Furniture Company of Ann Arbor and Toledo in 1912. Introduction by Victor Linoff. Color plate at rear showing finishes and colors of furniture and cusion materials.; 9 x 12 ". Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st thus, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black and gilt, beveled boards, 89 pages, all edges gilt. Printed on heavy glossy stock. The frontispiece is an etching of Holmes by S.A. Schoff with a tissue guard. There are many wonderful illustrations throughout the book by 20 artists, including Howard Pyle, W.L. Tayor and W. Smedley. CLEAN COPY.
Softcover. np (Chicago), np, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Softcover magazine, 32 pages plus 2-color illustrated stapled wraps. Features plans for The Penquin Ice Racer shown on cover. Lead article on "Shattering the Lowly Atom". Paper tanning, still very good.
Softcover. Decatur IL, Illustrated Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages illustrated in color. The entire issue devoted to two illustrators: Jessie Wilcox Smith and John Schoenherr.
Softcover. Decatur IL, Daniel Zimmer, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 80 pages, color plates throughout. An issue devoted entirely to Austin Briggs and his illustrations.
Softcover. St Louis MI, Daniel Zimmer , 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Softcover. Extensive color illustrations by various artists throughout. Feature on John Gannam. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Softcover. St. Louis MO , Daniel Zimmer , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Softcover. Extensive color illustrations by J. C. Leyendecker throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Softcover. Decatur IL, Illustrated Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages illustrated in color. Articles feature Neysa McMein, J.F. Kernan and Robert O. Reid.
Softcover. Decatur IL, Illustrated Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 80 pages illustrated in color. Covers the life and work of this iconic American illustrator.
Softcover. The Illustrated Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, color illustrations. In this issue: the brilliant work of Saul Tepper, illustrated profusely with original paintings and rare tear sheets. Next up the work of James Avati, and his paperback cover paintings for the novels of William Faulkner. The final feature Gum's Graphics concerns the packaging design and illustrations for chewing gum over the years. Book reviews, exhibitions and events, and more round out the issue.
Softcover. The Illustrated Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, color illustrations. Feature the work of EARL MORAN, known for his luscious pin-up illustrations, and notable for his work with the young Marilyn Monroe. The second feature showcases the work of the brilliant editorial cartoonist THOMAS NAST, who needs no introduction. The final article is the second part of an ongoing series, HOW THE WEST WAS SOLD featuring early illustrations from the Western frontier. Book reviews, exhibitions and events, and more round out the issue.
Softcover. Decatur IL, Illustrated Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. Includes a 31 page tribute to the black artist Elmer Simms Campbell. Many color illustrations. Two other articles on illustrators Joe De Mers and Alex Redmond.
Softcover. Decatur IL, Illustrated Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 80 pages. Two long profiles on illustrators Frank McCarthy and Paul Bransom, All in color.
Softcover. Decatur IL, Illustrated Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 80 pages. Two long profiles on illustrators Frank McCarthy and Paul Bransom, All in color.
Softcover. Decatur IL, Illustrated Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 80 pages. Two long profiles on illustrators Robert Meyers and Bernard D'Andrea, both from the 1950s and 60s. All in color.
Hardcover. NY, United Book Guild, 1st thus, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with pasted-on illustrated title. A handsome volume of 21 full-page black and white plates of Blake's illustrations, accompanied by 'The Doctrine of Job' by S. Foster Damon on facing pages. Mild musty smell. Name stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Vol. 1: Slaves and Liberators, 379 pages with 156 b&w, 40 color illustrations. Vol. 2: 306 pages, 131 b&w, 52 color illustrations. Both volumes like new, shrinkwrapped in cardboard slipcases. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 189 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with spine fading, light wear at corners, edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Bloomsbury, 1st UK, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 441 pages. An analysis of the cinematic work of Ingmar Bergman by the director himself. Using scripts, working notes and memory, he comments on his failures as well as his successes; the themes that bind his work together; his concerns and anxieties; and on the relationship between his life and art. Clean copy.
Softcover. Minneapolis MN, Walker Art Center, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Textured paper covers. A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, The Free Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Color illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. A touch of foxing on spine, otherwise clean inside. Binding tight, in great shape.
Hardcover. San Francisco CA, California Academy of Sciences, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages, an exhibition catalog with 43 color plates. Essays by Donald Hagerty, Dan Dixon, Ansel Adams, others. INSCRIBED BY DAN DIXON (the artist's son) on front fly leaf. Embossed white cloth covers in a matching slipcase. 8 page exhibition brochure listing 118 works is laid in.
Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. Graciela Iturbide was born in Mexico City in 1942. She began to study film-making in the late 1960s at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematograficos. While assisting Manuel Alvarez Bravo in the early 1970s, she studied photography, and soon devoted herself to the art. This subtle yet powerful book of photographs blends evocative scenes from the many subcultures of Iturbide's native Mexico with the artist's own deeply personal, and oftentimes Surrealistic, vision. B&w photos throughout.