Art American

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell , 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 178 pages, with illustrations by the author and photographs throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Rocky Neck Art Colony, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages illustrated throughout with over 130 plates in color. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth, 143 pages, color frontis., b&w plates. A pioneering exhibition, with essay and catalogue by James Thrall Soby and Dorothy C. Miller. The exhibition checklist cites 213 works by 121 artists, and nearly all are names you would recognize. More than 100 pieces are pictured here. One of 7500 copies. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate Communications, 1st US, October 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oversized. Black cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges and corners. Inside is bright and clean, many b&w photographs throughout. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Press, revised, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 107 pages. B&W and color plates. Illustrates beautifully the contemporary Southwest on canvas with vibrancy and refreshing perspective. Light blue pictorial cloth, silver lettering to spine. Dust jacket with minor wrinkles and smudges. Dust jacket folded off-center, otherwise a nice, clean and tight copy. "This comprehensive, expanded volume on Stefan and his work contains forty full-color reproductions of oils along with numerous black-and-white drawings, a panorama of the Southwest and a tribute to a fine painter."

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 197 pages + index, illustrated throughout in b&w. Maroon cloth spine, black boards. Pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to edges and spine, slight scratch to front cover, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 202 pages, 102 b&w and 22 color plates. Clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. Madison, WI, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume dedicated to the rural art originating in Wisconsin. Discusses 30 different artists and contains illustrations (color and black/white) of their pieces. Good condition; cloth bound book shows some wear on the edges of the covers. No dust jacket. Commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the University of Wisconsin by means of the work of rural Wisconsin artists such as Ambrose G. Ammel, Joan Arend, John M. Black, WIlliam H. Boose, Frances Burt, Frank H. Engebretson, Francis D. Grady, Louis Grebetz, Rachel Gertrude Grimm, Lois Ireland, Arthur Johnson, and many more.

Softcover. Denver, Denver Art Museum, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages, 95 color plates. Softcover exhibition catalog. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages, 120 illustrations including 54 plates in full color. Nice clean copy with tight binding and flawless dust cover. Printed in association with The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Hardcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 298 pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout. Nice clean copy with tight binding and dust jacket in good condition. Preface by David M Sokol. This is the definitive study of one of America's major artists and inventors, Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872). It covers his prodigious achievements in painting and technology, his passionate cultural ambitions, and his key role in the historic development of American art. The book imaginatively combines intellectual biography with interpretation of more than one hundred pictures. Three chapters consider Morse's most extraordinary artistic achievements: The House of Representatives, The Gallery of the Louvre, and The National Academy of Design. In a final chapter on the electromagnetic telegraph, an invention that imprinted his name on our language, there is a special discussion of the conceptual relationship between artistic and mechanical inventions.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Takes us away from Sargent's famous society portraits and enters a world of open air studies and landscape paintings. Includes exerpts from Sargent's travel diaries. Light gray cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Beautiful, clean, crisp and tight copy in MINT condition. Looks brand new.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Takes us away from Sargent's famous society portraits and enters a world of open air studies and landscape paintings. Includes exerpts from Sargent's travel diaries. Light gray cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Beautiful, clean, crisp and tight copy in MINT condition. Looks brand new.

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 88 pages. 32 plates in full color. Takes us past the image of Sargent, portrait painter of Edwardian and Georgian high society, and views instead his vast talent as a watercolorist. Blue cloth, silver lettering to spine and front color. Price clipped. Previous owner's inscription in front. Pictorial dust jacket with two minor sealed up tears, otherwise a very clean, tight and crisp copy.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International Publications, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 202 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive color photographs throughout. Introduction by Liz Smith. Related articles laid-in. Light shelf wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. With former New York Times fashion editor Morris, fashion designer Scaasi looks back over his glittering career. Born Arnold Isaacs, the son of a Montreal fur merchant, he first made his mark in 1955 when, at the age of 20, he revolutionized the American fashion industry with luxurious imported fabrics and dramatic designs featuring almond-shaped coats and split-level jackets. Changing his name to Scaasi (Isaacs spelled backwards), he quickly rose to fame, first with ready-to-wear creations and later with extravagant couture for women willing to spend $6000 -$20,000 for a dress-stars such as Joan Crawford, Barbra Streisand and Elizabeth Taylor; socialites Charlotte Ford, Blaine Trump and Brooke Astor. First ladies from Mamie Eisenhower to Barbara Bush have been dressed by him. Replete with 100 color photographs of models and celebrities wearing the designer's exuberant clothes, this lavish book, which includes brief descriptions of Scaasi's working methods and accounts of his friendships with his affluent clients, provides a tantalizing glimpse of the world of high fashion.

Hardcover. Boston, MFA Publications , 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages in color and b&w Barbra Streisand, Natalie Wood, Arlene Francis, Diahann Carroll, Joan Rivers, Mamie Eisenhower, Barbara Bush, Louise Nevelson... What these women have in common is that all were dressed by Scaasi. From his meteoric rise on Seventh Avenue in the late 1950s through his heyday in the boom decade of the 1980s, Arnold Scaasi has remained one of the most distinctive and successful designers in American fashion. With his signature combination of elegance, flamboyance, surprising colors and fabrics, and finely honed craftsmanship, Scaasi is both a bold American original and a couturier in the grand European tradition. Arnold Scaasi: American Couturier presents the best of Scaasi's fashions in a handsomely packaged, fluidly organized volume. Alongside sumptuous portraits of more than three dozen outfits, the book features numerous period photographs; sketches, notes and clippings from Scaasi's personal archives, most of them never before published; and interviews with Scaasi's famous clients, such as Joan Rivers, Mary Tyler Moore and Diahann Carroll, conducted specifically for this volume. A feast for fashion watchers and design aficionados alike, American Couturier contains all the glamour and thrill that for decades have been synonymous with the Scaasi label. Clean copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Eight two-color illustrations plus dust jacket art in color by Thomas (Hart) Benton. True account of a young school teacher in the Tennessee mountains. With a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear. Scarce in this condition.

Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 672 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Studio, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. SIGNED BY BASKIN on the front fly leaf. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket, a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Studio, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear, rubbing and scratching to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Columbia SC, Univ of South Carolina Pr, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 111 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 238 pages. The first artist to journey into the heart of the Rocky Mountains, Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874) executed more than 100 watercolor and pen-and-ink sketches during an expedition to accompany Scottish nobleman William Drummond Stewart. Strong examines how Miller tailored his work to suit the specific needs and interests of local American audiences and explores how his paintings helped promote a vision of Scottish aristocratic identity.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, in a edgeworn dust jacket, 270 pages. Color frontis, 115 b&w plates. Considers the life and work of American artist (and soldier) Seth Eastman (1808-1875). Follows his dual career at the Military Academy, and in Florida, Minnesota, Texas, and Washington. Includes a chronology and a fairly well-detailed checklist of works - oils, water colors, drawings, and lithographs and engravings after Eastman. The authoritative work on this fascinating artist.

Hardcover. Springfield, MA, Pond Ekberg, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Limited edition. #219/500 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Blue cloth spine. blue paper boards, gilt titles. No dust jacket. Light wear around edges and spine, front cover slightly sunned with tape mark from old price-sticker. Bookplate. A nice, tight copy.