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Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospectiveby: Hopps, Walter & Davidson, Susan

Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective
by: Hopps, Walter & Davidson, Susan

Softcover. New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 629 pages. B&w and color images throughout. Slight shelf wear to covers. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855829

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Robert Rauschenberg:An Oral History by: Sara Sinclair (editor), Peter S. Bearman (editor), Mary Marshall Clark (editor)

Robert Rauschenberg:An Oral History
by: Sara Sinclair (editor), Peter S. Bearman (editor), Mary Marshall Clark (editor)

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacker with a closed tear. 297 pages, color plates. Robert Rauschenberg is a work of collaborative oral biography that tells the story of one of the twentieth century's great artists through a series of interviews with key figures in his life-family, friends, former lovers, professional associates, studio assistants, and collaborators. The oral historian Sara Sinclair artfully puts the narrators' reminiscences in conversation, with a focus on the relationship between Rauschenberg's intense social life and his art. The book opens with a prologue by Rauschenberg's sister and then shifts to New York City's 1950s and '60s art scene, populated by the luminaries of abstract expressionism. It follows Rauschenberg's eventual move to Florida's Captiva Island and his trips across the globe, illuminating his inner life and its effect on his and others' art.

Record # 385902

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Robert Rauschenbergby: Forge, Andrew and Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg
by: Forge, Andrew and Robert Rauschenberg

Hardcover. New York , Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Autobiography, bibliography. Book designed by Rauschenberg. Acetate dust jacket with chip to top of spine, small tear to rear panel at bottom. Otherwise crisp, clean copy.

Record # 512178

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Rockwell Portrait, A - An Intimate Biography by: Walton, Donald

Rockwell Portrait, A - An Intimate Biography
by: Walton, Donald

Kansas City, Sheed Andrews and McMeel, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 285 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color and black & white photos and Illustrations. Clean, tight copy. Dust jacket has small chip missing on front bottom.

Record # 201253

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Rodin by: Elsen, Albert E.

Rodin
by: Elsen, Albert E.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company/MOMA, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 228 pages illustrated in b&w, some color. Although falling well short of a definitive biography, this treatment of Rodin is chronologically sound, contains some evocative photographs, and a good bibliography, and serves as a solid point of departure for the student of monumental sculpture, and of turn-of-the-20th century French art. Biographical Outline, Selected Bibliography, List of Illustrations, and Index; [Notes] at the end of most topics. Clean copy.

Record # 385822

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Rodin: A Biographyby: Grunfeld, Frederic V.

Rodin: A Biography
by: Grunfeld, Frederic V.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 738 pages, Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was arguably the world's greatest sculptor, known for such works as "The Thinker, The Kiss, The Hand of God" and dozens of others. Beautifully written and illustrated, "Rodin" is the definitive biography of a man whose influence on sculpture was as profound as Michelangelo's. Clean copy.

Record # 386047

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Romare Bearden - Photographs by Frank Stewartby: Stewart, Frank/David C. Driskell/Ruth Fine

Romare Bearden - Photographs by Frank Stewart
by: Stewart, Frank/David C. Driskell/Ruth Fine

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.

Record # 455381

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Romare Beardenby: Stewart, Frank(photographer)

Romare Bearden
by: Stewart, Frank(photographer)

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate Communications, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 136 pages, b&w photos of the artist at work. Foreword by David Driskell, introduction by Ruth Fine.

Record # 373442

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Romare Beardenby: Stewart, Frank(photographer)

Romare Bearden
by: Stewart, Frank(photographer)

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate Communications, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 136 pages, b&w photos of the artist at work. Foreword by David Driskell, introduction by Ruth Fine.

Record # 352438

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Romare Beardenby: Stewart, Frank

Romare Bearden
by: Stewart, Frank

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate Communications, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 136 pages, b&w photos of the artist at work. Foreword by David Driskell, introduction by Ruth Fine.

Record # 352439

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Roy G. Krenkel, Father of Heroic Fantasy: A Centennial Celebrationby: Damsits, AndrewSteven, Barry Klugerman

Roy G. Krenkel, Father of Heroic Fantasy: A Centennial Celebration
by: Damsits, AndrewSteven, Barry Klugerman

Hardcover. San Diego, CA, IDW Publishing, 1st Edition, 2019, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Decorated cover boards. Pages, clean and unmarked, bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition. Krenkel's work is showcased like never before, offering old devotees the opportunity to see a beloved artist in a fresh light, and to introduce new generations to a master's work.

Record # 369448

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Rubens and His Circle: Studies by Julius S. Held (INSCRIBED)by: Lowenthal, Anne W., David Rosand, John Walsh Jr.

Rubens and His Circle: Studies by Julius S. Held (INSCRIBED)
by: Lowenthal, Anne W., David Rosand, John Walsh Jr.

Softcover. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages including plates. (INSCRIBED) Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper has a touch of age yellow, otherwise very good. A small bit of soil on bottom edge. In very good condition.

Record # 30988

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Rubens: A Porraitby: Oppenheimer, Paul

Rubens: A Porrait
by: Oppenheimer, Paul

Hardcover. NY, Cooper Square Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 432 pages. The most popular painter of his day, yet an artist whose reputation has fluctuated among art scholars and critics of the succeeding centuries, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is chiefly remembered today for his large canvases of sensual gardens, religious scenes, and voluptuous "Rubenesque" women. In Oppenheimer's account of his life, Rubens emerges not only as a talented painter but also as an intellectual with a unique conception of beauty that proved very influential and ahead of his time. Oppenheimer explores Rubens' ideas as he tells the story of his life, which included years as a diplomat, and illuminates his response to the humanism of the Renaissance in which he lived.

Record # 361245

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Saatchi & Saatchi: The Inside Storyby: Fendley, Alison

Saatchi & Saatchi: The Inside Story
by: Fendley, Alison

Hardcover. NY, Arcade, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Red gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Follows the rise and fall of Iraqi-born Jewish brothers from London, Charles and Maurice Saatchi, who created some of the most memorable ad campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s, and then in 1994 were ousted from their firm by an American shareholder revolt.

Record # 53940

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Saint-Gaudens and the Gilded Era by: Tharp, Louise Hall

Saint-Gaudens and the Gilded Era
by: Tharp, Louise Hall

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 419 pages. Saint-Gaudens was one of the major artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; his outstanding craftsmanship remains a tremendous influence on American sculpture to this day. Fifty-five b/w illustrations throughout.

Record # 387741

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Salvatore Ferragamo Evolving Legend 1928-2008by: Ferragamo, Salvatore

Salvatore Ferragamo Evolving Legend 1928-2008
by: Ferragamo, Salvatore

Hardcover. Milan/London, Skira/Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This book is the catalogue of an exhibition that took place at the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art (29 March-7 May 2008) to celebrate the eighty-year anniversary of the company. Photographs, sketches, and drawings explore design processes and showcase shoes, handbags, and accessories --a magnificent selection of fashion works embodying social and cultural changes over time. Illustrated with b&w and color photos. Includes bibliography and three essays.

Record # 350416

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Samuel F.B. Morseby: Kloss, William

Samuel F.B. Morse
by: Kloss, William

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

Record # 605031

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Samuel F.B. Morseby: Staiti, Paul J.

Samuel F.B. Morse
by: Staiti, Paul J.

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.

Record # 605032

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Sarah Angelina Acland: First Lady of Colour Photographyby: Hudson, Giles

Sarah Angelina Acland: First Lady of Colour Photography
by: Hudson, Giles

Hardcover. UK, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Pictures throughout. Sarah Angelina Acland (1849-1930) is one of the most important photographers of the late Victorian and early Edwardian periods. Born to a preeminent English family, Acland first gained note as a portraitist whose illustrious subjects--among them two prime ministers, the physicist Lord Kelvin, and the noted art critic John Ruskin--were visitors to her family's Oxford home. Yet it was through her work in the thenfledgling field of color photography that Acland achieved her greatest acclaim. When her color photographs were shown at the Royal Photographic Society in 1905, many considered them to be among the finest work produced in the new medium. An introduction to Acland's entire body of work, this volume contains more than two hundred previously unpublished examples of her photographs, spanning portraiture, studies of Oxford architecture, and landscape and garden photographs captured in Madeira, Portugal. Additional images include four unrecorded portraits by Lewis Carroll of Acland and her brothers--shed light on the work of her contemporaries, including acquaintances and artistic influences like Carroll and Julia Margaret Cameron. A fascinating look at the earliest days of color photography, this book also offers a glimpse into the lives of an influential English family and its circle of friends.

Record # 352673

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Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapesby:  AdelsonWarren

Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes
by: AdelsonWarren

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.

Record # 605162

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Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapesby:  AdelsonWarren

Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes
by: AdelsonWarren

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.

Record # 371871

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Saul Steinberg: A Biographyby: Bair, Deirdre

Saul Steinberg: A Biography
by: Bair, Deirdre

Hardcover. NY, Nan A. Talese, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 732 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. From National Book Award winner Deirdre Bair, the definitive biography of Saul Steinberg, one of The New Yorker's most iconic artists.

Record # 350200

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Saul Steinberg: A Biographyby: Bair, Deirdre

Saul Steinberg: A Biography
by: Bair, Deirdre

Hardcover. New York, Nan A. Talese, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 732 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. From National Book Award winner Deirdre Bair, the definitive biography of Saul Steinberg, one of The New Yorker's most iconic artists.

Record # 350201

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Saul Steinberg: Illuminationsby: Joel Smith and Charles Simic

Saul Steinberg: Illuminations
by: Joel Smith and Charles Simic

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press;, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. Saul Steinberg (1914-99) described himself as a "writer who draws," thus inspiring curator Smith to characterize Steinberg's brilliantly satiric drawings as "illuminations," thus linking his work to illuminated manuscripts and, given Steinberg's love of literature, to a particular favorite, Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations. Smith also explores Steinberg's mission to illuminate the overlooked and the absurd. In the biographical sections of his beautifully crafted critique, Smith affectingly recounts Steinberg's life as a Jew in anti-Semitic Romania and an architecture student in Fascist Milan whose distinctive cartoons served as his ticket out of Nazi Europe and onto the pages of the New Yorker. Both Smith and renowned poet Charles Simic associate Steinberg's fascination with documents with his harrowing refugee experiences, while Simic, a fellow immigrant from the Balkans and a friend of Steinberg's, offers striking insights into the artist's comic sensibility. Both commentators reflect on the great change in Steinberg's work after 1960, as his images turned hallucinatory and nightmarish, his protest against tyranny more intense. As instantly recognizable as Steinberg's kinetic, punning, and slyly skewering art is, there hasn't been a comprehensive Steinberg book in years, making this outstanding volume invaluable in its reclamation of Steinberg's agile, philosophic, and category-defying art.

Record # 362459

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Schulz and Peanuts: A Biographyby: Michaelis, David

Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
by: Michaelis, David

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.

Record # 357908

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Secret Door, The: The Story of Kate Greenawayby: Newcomb, Covelle

Secret Door, The: The Story of Kate Greenaway
by: Newcomb, Covelle

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co, reprint, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. 162 pages. The story of the life of Kate Greenaway and her work with illustrating. In very good condition, some yellowing to edges of pages. The dust jacket is laminated, but cover is a bit yellowed. Minor bumping to corners, otherwise a very clean and tight copy. Small label at bottom of dj spine.

Record # 807636

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Secret History of Wonder Woman, Theby: Lapore, Jill

Secret History of Wonder Woman, The
by: Lapore, Jill

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 3rd pr., 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 410 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Clean, bright copy in a similar unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 350780

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Seventy Light Years: A Life in the Moviesby: Young, Freddie

Seventy Light Years: A Life in the Movies
by: Young, Freddie

Hardcover. London/New York , Faber and Faber, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 164 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.

Record # 350082

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Seventy Light Years: A Life in the Moviesby: Young, Freddie

Seventy Light Years: A Life in the Movies
by: Young, Freddie

Hardcover. London/New York , Faber and Faber, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.

Record # 350081

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Ship, Sea & Sky: The Marine Art of James Edward Buttersworthby: Grassby, Richard B.

Ship, Sea & Sky: The Marine Art of James Edward Buttersworth
by: Grassby, Richard B.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, New York / South Street Seaport Museum, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, illustrated throughout in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 459883

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Sir Christopher Wren A.D. 1632-1723: Bicentenary Memorial Volumeby: Royal Institute of British Architects

Sir Christopher Wren A.D. 1632-1723: Bicentenary Memorial Volume
by: Royal Institute of British Architects

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stroughton, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, blue cloth covers with gilt design. Color frontispiece portrait of the famous English architect. Illustrated with 12 color plates, 91 b&w plates (some fold-outs). Top edge gilt, clean copy with the scarce light blue dust jacket that has light edgewear with coat-of-arms on front panel, title on spine.

Record # 407205

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Sir Winston Churchill's Life Through His Paintingsby: David Coombs with Minnie S. Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill's Life Through His Paintings
by: David Coombs with Minnie S. Churchill

Hardcover. Delray Beach FL , Levenger Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Limited Edition. #414 of 1500. Absolutely gorgeous copy in like slipcase, full-leather No dust jacket, as issued. 256 pages, 535 illustrations, most in color, + index. Soldier, writer, and politician, Winston Churchill was perhaps an unlikely painter. Nonetheless he proved both a prolific and passionate one. Churchill first took up painting during the First World War. Foreword by Mary Soames, Churchill's daughter. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 381898

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Sketch of Chester Harding, Artist, A: Drawn By His Own Handby: White, Margaret E.

Sketch of Chester Harding, Artist, A: Drawn By His Own Hand
by: White, Margaret E.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1970, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 805223

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Skippy and Percy Crosby - The Life and Work of a Great American Cartoonistby: Robinson, Jerry

Skippy and Percy Crosby - The Life and Work of a Great American Cartoonist
by: Robinson, Jerry

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with short repaired tear, 155 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Skippy was a comic strip drawn by Percy Crosby-considered by many to be one of the classics of the American newspaper strip. This excellent book contains a biography of Crosby as well as a generous selection from Skippy. Introduction by Jules Feiffer. Clean copy.

Record # 396555

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Society of Illustrators: Famous American Illustrators by: Arpi Ermoyan

Society of Illustrators: Famous American Illustrators
by: Arpi Ermoyan

Hardcover. NY, Society of Illustrators, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Fascinating insights into the lives and works of 82 top artists elected to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame make this an inspiring reference and art book. From illustrators such as N.C. Wyeth to Charles Dana Gibson to Dean Cornwell, Al Parker, Austin Briggs, Jon Whitcomb, Parrish, Pyle, Dunn, Peak, Whitmore, Leyendecker, Abbey, Flagg, Gruger, Raleigh, Booth, LaGatta, Frost, Kent, Sundblom, Erte, Held, Jessie Willcox Smith, Georgi, McGinnis, Harry Anderson, Barclay, Coll, Schoonover, McCay...the list of greats goes on and on. A deluxe production from 1997, in a handsome cloth slipcase with a mounted color plate of a nude, a special transparent dust wrapper, gold edging on all the pages, oversized square coffee table format. And of course, the highest quality reproduction all from original art. Profiles and major examples of each artist's work give a sweeping overview of the art of illustration for the last 130 years. 224 pages, 450 color illustrations.

Record # 371592

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Society of Illustrators: Famous American Illustrators by: Arpi Ermoyan

Society of Illustrators: Famous American Illustrators
by: Arpi Ermoyan

Hardcover. NY, Society of Illustrators, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Fascinating insights into the lives and works of 82 top artists elected to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame make this an inspiring reference and art book. From illustrators such as N.C. Wyeth to Charles Dana Gibson to Dean Cornwell, Al Parker, Austin Briggs, Jon Whitcomb, Parrish, Pyle, Dunn, Peak, Whitmore, Leyendecker, Abbey, Flagg, Gruger, Raleigh, Booth, LaGatta, Frost, Kent, Sundblom, Erte, Held, Jessie Willcox Smith, Georgi, McGinnis, Harry Anderson, Barclay, Coll, Schoonover, McCay...the list of greats goes on and on. A deluxe production from 1997, in a handsome cloth slipcase with a mounted color plate of a nude, a special transparent dust wrapper, gold edging on all the pages, oversized square coffee table format. And of course, the highest quality reproduction all from original art. Profiles and major examples of each artist's work give a sweeping overview of the art of illustration for the last 130 years. 450 color illustrations.

Record # 371591

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Somehow a Past: The Autobiography of Marsden Hartley by: Hartley, Marsden

Somehow a Past: The Autobiography of Marsden Hartley
by: Hartley, Marsden

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with brown cloth spine. 246 pages, Includes black and white illustrations, appendices, chronology, index. "Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), the American modernist painter, was also a prolific writer who published dozens of essays and reviews and several volumes of poetry and prose. Yet the revealing memoir he wrote about his own life and relationships has remained unpublished until now." Transcribed from Hartley1s own handwritten manuscripts, this edition is accompanied by photographs (some never before published), notes, and an introduction discussing Hartley1s fascination with autobiography in the context of his struggle with notions of self-representation in art. Susan Ryan also describes the circumstances surrounding the composition of Somehow a Past, and explains the distinctions between this original version and two later ones also in the Beinecke Library. Clean copy.

Record # 384796

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Sonia Delaunay 1885-1979: A Retrospectiveby: Buckberrough, Sherry A.

Sonia Delaunay 1885-1979: A Retrospective
by: Buckberrough, Sherry A.

Softcover. Buffalo, NY, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, reprint, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 236 pages. Softcover with paper wrapper. Light musty odor. Tight copy. Color pictures throughout.

Record # 369018

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Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist by: Crumb (Ed.), R. and Aline

Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist
by: Crumb (Ed.), R. and Aline

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. Sophie Crumb's startlingly expressive drawings track her development as an artist from age two to twenty-eight. Sifting through dozens of their daughter's remarkable sketchbooks, our generation's most celebrated graphic artists have, with their only child, Sophie, now selected more than three hundred paintings and drawings that depict her artistic and psychological maturation. Revealing how an original artistic sensibility is both innate and nurtured, the book features six separate developmental stages, including Sophie's earliest drawings, the elaborate fantasy world of her childhood, her late adolescent rebellion, and her coming of age in the milieu of the Paris circus world and New York's "seventh circle of hell." The drawings from her early twenties-of tattoo artists, dangerous men-reflect a personal anguish that finally ends with her becoming a mother and creating a family of her own. Illuminating and intimate, this book is a dramatic yet subtle statement on the evolution of personality as seen through art. Four-color illustrations throughout

Record # 362099

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Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artistby: Crumb, Sophie

Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist
by: Crumb, Sophie

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 350640

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Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artistby: Crumb, Sophie

Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist
by: Crumb, Sophie

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 350641

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Sporting Art of Frank W. Benson, Theby: Bedford, Faith Andrews

Sporting Art of Frank W. Benson, The
by: Bedford, Faith Andrews

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages, oblong hardcover illustrated in color and b&w. Frank Benson, a pivotal artist of the American Impressionist movement had three great loves in his long and productive life: his family, his art, and the sporting life. As a boy, Benson dreamed of being an ornithological illustrator. In mid-life, after an extremely successful career as a portraitist, he returned to the wildfowl and sporting subjects that were his lifelong passion. Over the next forty years, in etching, lithography, watercolor, and oil and wash, he portrayed birds beloved since childhood, scenes of his hunting and fishing expeditions, and still lives of incomparable delicacy. Whether painting a hunter setting out decoys, a wash of geese by moonlight, a watercolor of a companion poised to gaff a salmon, or an etching of a group of ducks silently gliding in for a landing, Benson conveyed the joy and beauty of a sportsman's life.

Record # 350481

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Stan Lee: A Life in Comics by:  Liel Leibovitz

Stan Lee: A Life in Comics
by: Liel Leibovitz

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 179 pages. From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a meditation on the deeply Jewish and surprisingly spiritual roots of Stan Lee and Marvel Comics Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created--Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four--occupy Hollywood's imagination and production schedules, generate billions at the box office, and come as close as anything we have to a shared American mythology. This illuminating biography focuses as much on Lee's ideas as it does on his unlikely rise to stardom. It surveys his cultural and religious upbringing and draws surprising connections between celebrated comic book heroes and the ancient tales of the Bible, the Talmud, and Jewish mysticism. Clean copy.

Record # 398121

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State Fair: The Last Living Munchkin From the Wizard of Oz and Other Storiesby: Chadbourne, Christopher (Photographer)

State Fair: The Last Living Munchkin From the Wizard of Oz and Other Stories
by: Chadbourne, Christopher (Photographer)

Hardcover. Heidelberg, Germany, Kehrer Verlag, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Many color photographs throughout. Tight copy. "State Fair" is filled with captivating images. Christopher Chadbourne takes you on a journey filled with interesting characters, vibrant colors, and memorable moments - all compiled from years of photographing the goings-on at this uniquely American institution. Chadbourne knows state fairs and has an uncanny ability to catch often peculiar scenarios as people mingle, eat, and participate in this once a year event.

Record # 352938

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State Fair: The Last Living Munchkin From the Wizard of Oz and Other Storiesby: Chadbourne, Christopher (Photographer)

State Fair: The Last Living Munchkin From the Wizard of Oz and Other Stories
by: Chadbourne, Christopher (Photographer)

Hardcover. Heidelberg, Germany, Kehrer Verlag, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Many color photographs throughout. Tight copy. "State Fair" is filled with captivating images. Christopher Chadbourne takes you on a journey filled with interesting characters, vibrant colors, and memorable moments - all compiled from years of photographing the goings-on at this uniquely American institution. Chadbourne knows state fairs and has an uncanny ability to catch often peculiar scenarios as people mingle, eat, and participate in this once a year event.

Record # 352939

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Stitches: A Memoir (SIGNED COPY)by: Small, David

Stitches: A Memoir (SIGNED COPY)
by: Small, David

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY SMALL on half-title page. David Small, a best-selling and highly regarded children's book illustrator, comes forward with this unflinching graphic memoir. Remarkable and intensely dramatic, Stitches tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who awakes one day from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he has been transformed into a virtual mute-a vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot. From horror to hope, Small proceeds to graphically portray an almost unbelievable descent into adolescent hell and the difficult road to physical, emotional, and artistic recovery.

Record # 351596

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Strange Case of Edward Gorey, Theby: Theroux, Alexander

Strange Case of Edward Gorey, The
by: Theroux, Alexander

Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 68 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Black and white illustrations by Gorey. Tight, clean copy.

Record # 368484

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Stranger on the Earth: a Psychological Biography of Vincent Van Goghby: Albert J. Lubin

Stranger on the Earth: a Psychological Biography of Vincent Van Gogh
by: Albert J. Lubin

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 265 pages, b&w illustrations. This first broad study of the relation between Vincent van Gogh's psychological development and his art stresses the creative rather than the pathological. chronology, section of black & white photographs, notes, selected references, index. Clean copy.

Record # 397309

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Superman: The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Heroby: Tye, Larry

Superman: The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero
by: Tye, Larry

Hardcover. New York , Random House, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 409 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 350815

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Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time by: Jenny Uglow

Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time
by: Jenny Uglow

Softcover. NY, Picador/Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 398 pages, Illustrated in color and b&w. In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts-streamlined, full of movement and brilliant color, summing up the hectic interwar years. Yet at the same time, they looked back to medieval myths and early music, to country ways that were disappearing from sight. Jenny Uglow's Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time traces their struggles and triumphs, conflicts and dreams, following them from Suffolk to London, from the New Forest to Vancouver Island. This is a world of futurists, surrealists, and pioneering abstraction, but also of the buzz of the new, of machines and speed, of shops and sport and dance, shining against the threat of depression and looming shadows of war. Remainder dot to top edge otherwise like new.

Record # 398120

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