Softcover. Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 151 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear, rubbing to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, New York Museum of the American Indian, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, leaflet of the Museum of the American Indian, account of a rare blanket, thought to be woven of dog hair, of the Salish Indians along with discussion of technique. Very good condition, bound between stiff card wraps.
Softcover. Paris, Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages. Softcover. French text only. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper. Illustrated with beautiful full color and black & white examples of religious art and artifacts of Tibet and Nepal. Slight toning to page edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover black cloth with silver lettering. 410 pages. 32 pages of color plates; near 1000 black-and-white photographs. Bibliography and index. Authoritative guide to the collections at the University of British Columbia. Clean copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. "A commercial artist who started out sketching in the 1930s for pulp magazines, Lovell advanced to the glossier "slicks" in the 1950s and has since specialized in Old West, Plains Indian, and Civil War themes. He here presents from that long career his best canvases, among them his famed depictions of Lee's surrender". Gorgeous color plates.
Hardcover. New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 52 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with tape repaired tears along edges, areas of fading. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 155 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in orange cloth, gilt title on spine, all excellent. Dust jacket unclipped, has small puncture near spine on front cover (patched from inside a with tape, see image), otherwise very good. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition. Hassrick's illuminating discussion of Russell's work, based on much new research, is set against the backgrond of the artist's experiences in the West.
Hardcover. Seattle, Salisbury Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Book with original wrap around band on cover. A nice copy.
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Prestel, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 408 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Large oversized book. Devi, the Great Goddess of India is beautiful, beneficent, terrifying, all-powerful, and glorious. Ubiquitous in India's social and spiritual fabric, she has, over the millennia, been painted, sculpted, carved, and wrought from silver and bronze in a myriad of shapes and forms. Devi: The Great Goddess brings together one hundred and twenty of these diverse examples of Devi and a group of distinguished essayists who explore facets of Devi worship and tradition, including ritual, architecture, literature, history and contemporary issues such as feminism and gender politics. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This publication presents the first in-depth survey of the Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection of Indian Drawings, which was recently acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exceptional collection, which has never previously been published, consists of 65 works on paper created between the 16th and 19th centuries.
Hardcover. NY, Coward McCann, 1st US, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a colorful edgeworn dust jacket with tanning to edges, 240 pages. 9 color plates, 12 b&w illustrations and 13 line drawings by Lear. No date, bound from English sheets, circa early 1950s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Berlin, Steidl, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 123 pages, 65 color plates. Documentary project on the prostitutes of Falkland Road, Bombay. Originally shot as a photo-essay for Geo magazine, which deemed it too raw for American audiences, it was picked up by Stern and run in September 1981. The first book-form edition was released the same year by Knopf. This second edition is 2.5 inches wider, allowing the photos to run uncropped and has additional images.
Hardcover. India, Mapin Publishing Group, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages, color and b&w illustrations. This very visual work features the religious and historical significance of feet and footwear in Indian culture as reflected in the civilization's art, sacred writings, and literature. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.
Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 263 pages. Color plates throughout. Five essays by contributors. Clean copy.
Softcover. London , Thames & Hudson, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout with accompanying notes. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Softcover. Minneapolis, MN, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog. 90 pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout. Black pictorial cover with slight wear to spine and both covers. Very slight spotting to top edge. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 189 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with spine fading, light wear at corners, edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, A. C. McClurg and Co., reprint, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages, 254 illustrations in color and b&w. First published in 1914, this is the 1934 reprint. Light yellow cloth with two-color design. Previous owner's signature, date on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, very good.
Softcover. Rutland VT, Charles E. Tuttle, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Thick card covers with integral color printed dust jacket, 32 pages, on thick art paper, 12 large tipped-in plates - 2 b/w and 10 color. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., Reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 454 pages. Softcover with moderate wear to edges, creases to cover & spine. Light foxing throughout & to top edge. Toning to edges. Includes drawings in bw by the author, decorating his letters, memoirs. Over 20 additional portraits in black & white. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Flagstaff, Arizona, Northland Press, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 98 pages. INSCRIBED BY PERCEVAL with personal note to previous owner from him and his wife. Cover shows very light wear and soiling. Internally clean. Beautiful color and black & white sketches of Navajos and Arizona landscape. With a descriptive text by Clay Lockett.
Softcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Color illustrated softcover, 120 full color plates. Very light wear to cover; overall a very clean, tight copy.
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.
Softcover. New York, Hudson Hills, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 130 pages, color and b&w photographs. Exhibition catalogue dedicated to the contemporary Navajo artist and her weaving of Chant Rugs; a majority of the 83 textiles (shown in color plates) that have been selected are a well-balanced demonstration of the very finest weaving skills of any period in Navajo history.
Softcover. Hong Kong, Christie's Inc., 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 204 pages, photographs throughout with English and Chinese text. Very slight corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. A survey of the most original Southwestern Indian jewelers -- from traditional and contemporary silversmiths to exquisite lapidary artists to metalsmiths who create wearable art and objects.. Color photos by Addison Doty.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 344 pages. Includes the following essays: Painted and Block-Printed Cloths, Cloths Decorated with Gold & Silver Leaf / Roller-Printed Cloths, Tie-Dyed Cloths / Woven Cloths & Embroideries / History of Indian Textiles, by Zahid Sardar / etc. Color illustrations throughout. Foreword and afterword by Kokyo Hatanaka; Clean, bright copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with some minor shelfwear to dust jacket. This beautiful book is a spectacular overview of McCarthy's exciting Western work, presenting colorful paintings from his fine art career. Color illustrations throughout.
Softcover. Toronto CA, McClelland and Stewart, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages, 125 color, 135 black & white. Published in conjunction with an exhibition. "A major study of the artistic traditions of Canada's Native peoples and of their place in the cultures and belief systems in which they originated. Here, for the first time, is Native Canadian work from museums and private collections around the world. The works, and the essays that describe their contexts, bring to life the spiritual and aesthetic identity of the craftspeople and their societies. From richly ornamented costumes displaying the wealth of their owners to practical techologies that enabled the peoples to thrive in their environments, these treasures reflect Native life at the time of contact with Europeans." Clean copy.
Hardcover. New Delhi, India, Lustre Press, Roli Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Stunningly photographed, this album offers a rarely seen view of the snow-clad peaks, mysterious lakes, massive glaciers, and fascinating people of the Himalayas.
Softcover. Omaha, Nebraska, Center for Western Studies, Joslyn Art Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalogue featuring art by Karl Bodmer dedicated to the American Western frontier and its exploration by the German Prince Maximilian of Wied. 103 pages with 69 illustrations, 34 of which are color plates. Very good condition, light rubbing on the covers, otherwise a very bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 196 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In Yamuna Walk, photographer and multimedia artist Atul Bhalla documents a five-day trek along the sacred Yamuna River as it passes through his home city of New Delhi, India. Through his vivid and haunting photographs, Bhalla explores the myriad ways that modern life along the Yamuna is shaped by water, from the rural outskirts of the city to the polluted landscape of urban Delhi. Climbing over fences, crossing concrete overpasses, and navigating between blooming fields and piles of waste on his journeys, Bhalla also shows the diverse marks of human development that can be read in the image of the river.