Softcover. NY, John Martin's Bookhouse Dodd Mead, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of stories and verse illustrated in black and red by various artists. In unusually sharp, clean condition. Illustrated cardboard covers with very minor wear to corners.
Softcover. Wilmington, DE, Delaware Art Museum, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 150 pages. Exhibition catalog. Mostly black-and-white, with some color, illustrations. Light sun-fade to spine. A little wear to bottom corner of front cover. Very good, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, Univ of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 86 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Minor shelf wear on front cover. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 88 pages. Tan cloth covers, black stamped titles, laminate dust jacket with color illustration, 32 full-page color plates, chronology. Light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, clean covers, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Bologna IT, Damiani, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, Foreward by Tilda Swinton. As a newly active photographer in the 1990s, Shand Kydd fell into the party and opening scene of the Young British Artists, or YBAs, and participated in that crowd's growth and success by documenting his friends, including Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst. About 200 exposures in strict black-and-white capture art-society luminaries like Gilbert and George, Sam Taylor-Wood, Nan Goldin, Richard Prince, Juergen Teller, Maurizio Cattelan and Tracey Emin. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers, no dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. NY/London, Frederick Warne and Company, reprint, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in blue cloth covers stamped in black with a color pastedown illustration. Fabulous color plates (all present) and b/w drawings by Brooke. Originally published in 1935. Dust jacket with light edgewear. tanning to edges. Book is clean and bright.
Paperback. Long Beach, CA, Pacific Comics Club, 1st wraps, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. Black & white illustrations by Frank Robbins. Daily strips Feb. 10 1947 to Nov. 15 1947. Clean.
Softcover. Bloomington, IN, Author House, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 161 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout. Tight and clean copy.
Hardcover. Springfield MA, Mcloughlin Bros., 1st thus, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated paper on oblong boards with bright colors and no fading or scuffing visible. Contains five children's nursery stories and one Bible story: The Three Little Pigs, Little Black Sambo, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow-White and the Seven Dwars, Three Billy Goats Gruff, and Noah's Ark. All pop-ups in working order. blue cloth spine has separated from binding and is a little loose but doesn't effect pop-ups. Two small tape shadows on last spread. Overall good plus.
Springfield, MA, Milton Bradley, 1st , 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with yellow lettering. Previous owner's inscription on prelim page. Chipping to lettering on spine otherwise very good. Color frontis, b&w plates. Colorful map of West Indies on endpapers.
Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 201 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Minor wear to edges, slight wrinkle to lower front cover, else like new. This exhibition catalog explores the artist, his history, his views and his works in as comprehensive a fashion as any living artist could desire. Black and white and full-color plates on heavy coated paper. Essays by Mark Rosenthal and Richard Marshall. Exhibition travelled to Philadelphia, the Whitney in NY, Berkeley U. Art Museum, Walker Art Center and the Corcoran in Washington.
Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury USA, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 782 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Features black & white illustrations by Portia Rosenberg. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, American Federation of Arts, 1st, 1961, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Catalogue of the sculpture of Jose de Rivera, with a chronology and introductory essay. Approximately 50 pages, illustrated with 15 black/white plates in addition to several other illustrations. Small cloth bound book is in near fine condition, dust jacket is slightly faded on the spine but in very good condition.
Softcover. np, self-published, 1st, 2003, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Gray and b&w illustrated wraps with black lettering. 82 pages. B&W and color illustrations. "This catalogue includes the graphic works of Josef Jackerson made during the 1975-1983 period, categorized into series by theme or manner of execution. Light wear, musty odor.
Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 152 pages. A fabulous facsimile of an almost unknown masterpiece by Joseph Cornell, presented in a box, along with a volume of essays and an interactive DVDOne of Joseph Cornell's favorite pastimes was to meander through the used bookstalls of lower Manhattan, sorting through old books, magazines, postcards, photos, and other ephemera in search of items to spark his creative impulses. Sometime in the early 1930s he came upon the Journal d'Agriculture Practique (Volume 21, 1911), a voluminous handbook of advice for farmers. Though he was very much an urban creature, he adored French culture of that period, and the book was filled with charming black and white engraving and photographs of pigs, horses, vegetables, and farm machinery. Over time Cornell altered and reinvented many of the pages in the Journal. He inserted collages, photomontages, and occasional drawings; he crossed out words in the text and made French puns with others. Hand-colored engravings, cutouts, and lift-ups intricately transport the reader from page to page. The dazzling elegance of Cornell's work on the Journal has rarely been viewed. It was discovered in his basement studio soon after his death in 1972 and is now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Due to its fragility, the work is not well known, even among Cornell scholars. Now, in a unique venture, sixty of the most extraordinary pages have been re-created in virtual facsimile, with cutouts, glue-ons, and other unique handmade details. Included in a specially designed box are a DVD of the entire work, including pop-up commentaries, and a volume of illustrated essays on the Journal and Cornell's artistic practice. 103 illustrations
Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Ashgate Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 752 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Gilt lettering on spine. Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 532 pages, b&w photos. Minor wear to dust jacket, small closed tear. The life story of Josephine Baker, the outrageous entertainer who dared to become the first black sex symbol of the 20th century. Collected voices of men and women, over the decades, who shared the stage with Josephine. Clean copy
Hardcover. Woodstock VT, privately printed/Elm Tree Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 21 pages illustrated in red and black by Peg Schaeffer Gruver. An animal story set in rural New England. Illustrated gray boards in a glassine dust jacket that's tanned and chipped. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Baltimore MD, Maryland Historical Society, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial wraps with color illustration and white lettering; 173 pages. 45 color, 88 b&w plates. Exhibition catalogue lists 83 extensively annotated works, and a Supplemental Catalogue lists an additional 13 works. Selected bibliography and short-list of titles. Each essay includes extensive notes. The definitive work on the early Afro-American portrait painter. Published to accompany the exhibition held in Baltimore, MD: Maryland Historical Society, Sept. 26, 1987 to Jan. 3, 1988, three other locations. Scarce. Previous owner's stamp and bookplate, short inscription on inside front cover. Related clipping, brochure laid in.
Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1903 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1903 and 1904) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1903: 373 pages plus 13 full-page b&w and color plates. Part two for 1904: 354 pages plus 14 b&w (including 2 fold-outs). Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine.
Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1905 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1905 and 1906) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1905: 382 pages plus 13 full-page b&w plates and 1 color fold-out. Part two for 1906: 303 pages plus 16 b&w and 2 color plates. Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine.
Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1913 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1913 and 1914) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1913: 410 pages plus 22 full-page b&w plates. Part two for 1914: 362 pages plus 20 b&w plates. Plus a 164 page catalogue of lantern slides in the Society's collection. Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine.
Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1915 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1915 and 1916) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1915: 290 pages plus 9 full-page b&w plates. Part two for 1916: 417 pages plus 9 b&w plates. Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine. Chip to calf at top of spine.
Hardcover. New York, Collins Brother & Co, 1st, 1845, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages. Hardcover, full leather with black band on spine. Heavy wear to tan leather edges. Water staining throughout bottom half pages, heavy foxing and tanning. bottom corners bumped. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf and end paper. Front end paper has previous owner's name pasted on small piece of paper bottom corner. Binding tight for age of copy.