Rome, Franca May, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black cardboard slip-case is VG with some wear. This is a written essay by the Italian author, Soavi of the art and world of Jean-Michel Folon. There are many full page full-color plates of the artist's paintings and serigraphs. This is also a visual essay (via color photos) of the farm in Burcy, near Paris, where the artist has his home and atelier. In all, twenty-eight of the artist's works are reproduced, most either taking up a full page, and some as two-page spreads.
Hardcover. Santa Fe, Arena Editions, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Hardcover. Bright purple fabric covered covers with gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Mylar covered dust jacket in good shape. Very clean inside. Former bookseller price tag on front flap. "Out of print". From the front flap: "This definitive retrospective monograph encompasses the period 1972 though 1997, and includes images from every genre Cratsley has pursued."
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR. Light wear to cover. Dust jacket has some some wear and bumped edge. Beautiful color illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Coward McCann, 1st US, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 224 pages. Translated from French by Marion Saunders. Black & white illustrations by Lucile Blanch, winner of French award for juvenile fiction. Dj chipped, worn.
Softcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white photographs throughout. The center of the art world before the war, Paris fired the Nazis' greed. The discovery of more than 1,500 prized paintings and drawings in a private Munich residence, as well as a recent movie about Allied attempts to recover European works of art, have brought Nazi plundering back into the headlines, but the thievery was far from being limited to works of art. From 1942 onwards, ordinary Parisian Jews-mostly poor families and recent immigrants from Eastern Europe-were robbed, not of sculptures or paintings, but of toys, saucepans, furniture, and sheets. Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews tells how this vast enterprise of plunder was implemented in the streets of Paris by analyzing images from an album of photographs found in the Federal Archives of Koblenz. Brought from Paris in 1945, the photographs were cataloged by the staff of the Munich Central Collecting Point. Beyond bearing witness to the petty acts of larceny, these images provide crucial information on how the Germans saw their work. They enable us to grasp the "Nazi gaze" and to confront the issue of the relation between greed and mass destruction.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. For this beautiful anthology of six masterpiece Wonder Tales, Marine Warner invited the collaboration of five writers with a special sympathy for the French stories they render here in burnished, cunning, and amusing English. "The White Cat", "The Subtle Princess", "Bearskin", "Starlight", The Counterfeit Marquise", and "The Great Green Worm" are as unforgettable today as they were when they were first published centuries ago. Translated by Gilbert Adair, John Ashbery, Ranjit Bolt, A.S. Byatt and Terence Cave. with small black and white drawings by Sophie Herxheimer. Clean copy.
Softcover. Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 282 pages, b&w illustrations. Bryson analyses the evolution of narrative styles (rather than the successive artistic styles of baroque, rococo and neo-classical) and concludes that there is an 'inner evolution in the image as a pattern of information'. He analyses the work of LeBrun, Watteau, Greuze, David etc. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Skira, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 168 pages. Yves Clerc, a French painter born in 1947, has ammassed a body of work of over 240 very large and colorful canvases. This publication presents about 100 of them, mostly dedicated to the interpretation of well-known portraits, but also to flowers in vases, "fashion accessories" such as handbags and shoes, nudes, stuffed animals, and adorned women with enormous gowns.
Hardcover. NY, Skira, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 168 pages. Yves Clerc, a French painter born in 1947, has ammassed a body of work of over 240 very large and colorful canvases. This publication presents about 100 of them, mostly dedicated to the interpretation of well-known portraits, but also to flowers in vases, "fashion accessories" such as handbags and shoes, nudes, stuffed animals, and adorned women with enormous gowns.
Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket. Also small tear with piece missing from dust jacket bottom fore edge front. The photographer Pierre Yves-Petit, who called himself "Yvon," wandered the streets of Paris between the world wars looking for the moment when the shifting light and clouds would perfectly reveal the city?s ephemeral, iconic beauty. The dramatic images of the city and its people that he made during those years would become the most popular postcards in France. Yvon?s Paris reproduces more than one hundred of his loveliest images, many made from recently discovered glass negatives.