Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, textured beige cloth, moderately soiled. No edition or printing stated on copyright page. Illustrated with 32 pages of b/w photographs, as well as endpaper maps, red and black frontispiece illustration. The story of the trip Auden and Isherwood made to China during its war with Japan, prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Includes 32 pages of photographs, as well as several sonnets and one long poem by Auden. Narrative written by Isherwood. There is a tan stain that goes across pages 68-69, that looks like a rorschach test. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Paragon House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 274 pages. Black cloth spine over brown boards. First published in 1925.
Hardcover. NY, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages. Includes 87 color plates, 13 duotones and 17 black and white illustrations. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. "Joyce Treiman, one of the finest American painters of the late twenteith century , was also one of the most individualistic, combining virtuosic draftsmanship and expressive brushwork wth a lifelong devotion to painting the human figure in images that are direct, visceral, and sensuous."
Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop Publishing, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black and gilt. 339 pages, b&w frontis. Bright copy with name on front fly leaf.
Austin, Texas, Marion Kooagler McKay Art Institute, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 106 pages. Illustrated with color, black & white sketches. Introduction by John Palmer Leeper. Dust jacket with edgewear to bottom edges, closed tear.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has Caldecott emblem sticker on front. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black and white drawings illustrated by Van Allsburg. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has Caldecott emblem sticker on front. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black and white drawings illustrated by Van Allsburg. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Rand McNally, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 255 pages. Foreword by Kermit Roosevelt. Color plate and black & white illustrations by Paul Bransom and Don Nelson. Green covers with gold lettering and paper color illustration on front cover. Light green top edge. Marking, soiling to cover. Internally clean, light yellowing at edges of pages.
Hardcover. New York , Doubleday Doran and Co., reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 305 pages, dark green cloth with gilt lettering on cover with a black decoration of a sailing boat. This is the uncommon 1928 reprint, notable for the 35 b&w illustrated plates by different artists but not credited. The chapter decorations are by John Lockwood Kipling. The book is square and clean, the spine gilt has faded, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Color Illustrations by Richard Floethe. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Price clipped dust jacket with light soil, closed tear at top back edge.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 274 pages. Ex-library with a stamp on front fly leaf and a scar to rear endpaper where pocket was removed. The covers have light tape marks where dust jacket was attached to book. Otherwise clean. Junius and his father travel "over far" - back to the Caribbean to rescue his grandfather and to reclaim their lost heritage.
Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2008-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. In the early 1950s, Berlin-born photographer Jurgen Schadeberg captured Nelson Mandela, (then a young attorney), singer Miriam Makeba and the nightlife in Sophiatown, a dynamic black neighborhood in Johannesburg. Revealing the poverty endemic to the majority of South Africa's black population became Schadeberg's chief focus. He arrived there in 1950, at the advent of apartheid, to work for Drum, the first magazine for black readers. In 1964, when Drum was banned, Schadeberg left South Africa for Europe and the United States, creating a body of portraits unique in their ability to cut across race, class and social standing. In 1994, Schadeberg created an iconic image of Nelson Mandela, by then the first black President of South Africa, standing at the window of his former prison cell on Robben Island, where he had been detained on charges of conspiracy from 1964-1982. Schadeberg, whose work has been highly influential to younger artists, now lives and works near Paris. This substantial volume collects 250 images from across his career.
Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Just Above Midtown, or JAM, was an art gallery and self-described laboratory for experimentation led by Linda Goode Bryant that foregrounded African American artists and artists of color. Open from 1974 to 1986, it was a place where an expansive idea of contemporary art flourished and debate was cultivated. The gallery offered early opportunities for artists recognized as pivotal figures in late-20th-century art-including David Hammons, Butch Morris, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O'Grady and Howardena Pindell-as well as a nonhierarchical approach to art that welcomed artists without stylistic proscription.Published in conjunction with the first museum exhibition to focus on this visionary gallery and its ongoing impact, Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces showcases rarely seen material from JAM's history-artworks, ephemera and photographs-that collectively document the gallery's communal and programmatic activities. This richly illustrated, jacketed paperback catalog includes essays that contextualize JAM and consider its legacy, a conversation between Goode Bryant and Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, a complete exhibition chronology written by MoMA and Studio Museum staff with nearly 50 annotated entries, and excerpts from oral histories with JAM staff and artists conducted especially for this project. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, Garden City, 1st Thus, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Full color and black & white illustrations by J. M. Gleeson and Paul Bransom. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday Page & Co., reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages, dark green cloth with black decoration, b&w drawings by Kipling. Top and bottom of spine cloth with light fraying. Otherwise clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 3rd, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 217 pages. Library edition sticker shadow on dust jacket spine. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 3rd Pr., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 217 pages. Library Edition with spine sticker (NOT EX-LIB). Young adult science fiction novel, the first in a trilogy, and at the time one of the few novels for young readers in the genre to feature black characters and by a black author. The book won a Coretta Scott King honor in 1979.
Hardcover. Israel, Yeshivat Kol Yehuda, Reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 2nd pr., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 90 pages. Black & white examples of works by Kaethe Kollwitz. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Dust jacket shows lightwear with small chips and tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, die-cut dust jacket. 319 pages, 95 color plates and many additional images in color and black and white. Color plates and checklist of 95 works in the exhibition, six essays, a chronology and selected bibliography. This volume presents abstract Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). It reproduces scores of recently rediscovered paintings that had languished for decades in Soviet museums and in private collections. The author provides new details on Kandinsky's life and art, discussing his little-known experimental stage plays which strove for a synthesis of all the arts, and his friendships with Paul Klee, Arnold Schonberg and composer Thomas de Hartmann. Clean, like new.
Softcover. NY, Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, large paperback exhibition catalogue, many illustrations in color and black and white, includes a Selected Bibliography, has a faint crease on the front cover, the binding is tight and clean and the contents are fine; 268 pages.
Hardcover. Minneapolis MN, Walker Art Center, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, publisher's light-brown cloth over boards, stamped lettering, and illustration to the spine, and boards. Richly illustrated in black-and-white and color throughout. "Deploying an acidic sense of humor, Walker examines the dialectics of pleasure and danger, guilt and fulfillment, desire and fear, race and class. This landmark publication, which is sure to win international design awards, accompanies Walker's first major American museum survey. It features critical essays by Philippe Vergne, Sander L. Gilman, Thomas McEvilley, Robert Storr and Kevin Young, as well as an illustrated lexicon of recurring themes and motifs in the artist's most influential installations by Yasmil Raymond, more than 200 full-color images, an extensive exhibition history and bibliography." Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scalo, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. This is Lagerfeld's own album of the photographic stories and sequences that he has created over the last eight years. Shot in black and white, often with models and costumes, his photos are at once beautifully composed, stylish, sensuous, literate and full of fantasy.
Hardcover. New York, Scalo, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. This is Lagerfeld's own album of the photographic stories and sequences that he has created over the last eight years. Shot in black and white, often with models and costumes, his photos are at once beautifully composed, stylish, sensuous, literate and full of fantasy.