Hardcover. New York, Praeger, 1st US, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 64 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Introduction and Translation by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy. Dust jacket with chunk of paper missing at top of spine, some additional lesser chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. New York, Watson - Guptill, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Illustrated with black & white examples of pen and ink drawing and brush techniques. Previous owners signature on front endpaper and bookplate on inside front cover. Light wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Perfect Nonsense tells the complete story behind one of the most innovative and under-rated Golden Age artists, classic children's illustrators, and nonsense poets in American history. For more than 50 years, George Carlson created thousands of distinctive and dynamic cartoons, comics, riddles, and games that thrilled both children and adults with their fanciful spirit and nonsensical humor

Hardcover. Nieuwkoop , B. de Graaf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth covers with gilt lettering, 159 pages with b&w diagrams and illustrations. Subjects include: The base of perspective illussions, third dimension, euclid, anamorphoses, the concave surface of the retina, Schickhardt's problem, eccentric positions of the observer's eye, rotations of the eyeball, visual size, pleudo-perspective, axial construction, rebirth of central perspective, Leon Battista Alberti, Paolo Uccello, the oblique position, Piero della Francesca etc.

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 332 pages with 145 color plates, 151 b&w illustrations. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. London, Pall Mall Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, very good copy in original pictorial cloth (designed by the artist), no dust jacket. Preface by Rene Char. 405 illustrations in monochrome, sepia & color. A remarkable record of the astonishing output of Picasso in his mid-eighties, featuring many of his favorite themes: 'the artist and his model, the sultan and his harem, the circus, the pastoral flute player, nude men and women engaged in the games of love'. Mild foxing to front endpapers, otherwise clean. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Softcover. Paris, Berggruen & Cie, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 28 pages, 23 color and b&w illustrations. The cover, which wraps around, is an original four-color lithograph made by Picasso for this exhibition booklet. French text, essay by Maurice Jardot. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, R.H. Russell, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. A collection of 84 black & white cartoons by Gibson. Oblong, 1/2 cloth and cardboard covers. Rear panel has scuffing tears to paper over boards. Interior very good.

Hardcover. NY, William Edwin Rudge, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 46 pages + 51 b&w plates (color frontispiece). Russian artist and diplomatic secretary Paul or Pavel Svinin (1787-1839) toured the northeastern United States in the early 1800s. Here are excerpts of his notes, details about the time and his trip, and 51 BW reproductions of landscapes he rendered along the way. Most of the paintings show scenes from Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Virginia and Maryland. Of interest to both cultural and art historians. With an introduction by R.T.H. Halsey. One of 1000 copies. Ex-lib with stamping, residue to endpapers, gilt lettering on spine faded, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 261 pages illustrated throughout in b&w. Pictorial boards with black title to spine. Tan dust jacket, with light wear to edges and small closed tears to front cover, else a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. Comprehensive catalogue of Reginald Marsh's prints. Illustrated with black/white reproductions of all known prints by Marsh. Also includes biographical text on the artist. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, dust jacket is in very good condition with small closed tear on the back. Marsh was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Crowded Coney Island beach scenes, popular entertainments such as vaudeville and burlesque, women, and jobless men on the Bowery are subjects that reappear throughout his work.

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. Comprehensive catalogue of Reginald Marsh's prints. Illustrated with black/white reproductions of all known prints by Marsh. Also includes biographical text on the artist. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, dust jacket is in very good condition with small closed tear on the back. Marsh was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Crowded Coney Island beach scenes, popular entertainments such as vaudeville and burlesque, women, and jobless men on the Bowery are subjects that reappear throughout his work.

Hardcover. San Diego, CA, Idea & Design Works, LLC, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 328 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A lavish book devoted to the most important political satire and cartoon magazine in American history. Published from 1877 to 1918, Puck was regularly a major political battleground and is credited with single-handedly thwarting the third-term ambitions of Ulysses Grant in 1880 and electing Grover Cleveland to the presidency in 1884. Puck did it with art-lavish, color, full-page and two-page center-spread cartoons. It was the first American magazine to publish color lithographs on a weekly basis and, for nearly forty years, was a training ground and showcase for some of the country's most talented cartoonists, led by its co-founder, Joseph Keppler. This retrospective contains nearly 300 full-color plates.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 128 pages. Having created one of the most expansive and remarkable casts of characters of any cartoonist who ever lived (under the umbrella of the ongoing Love and Rockets comic book series), acclaimed graphic novelist Jaime Hernandez -- Will Eisner Hall of Famer; Eisner, Harvey, Ignatz, and PEN Award winner; L.A. Times Book Prize winner; and on a very short list of contenders for the title of America's Greatest Living Cartoonist -- has been privately amassing a body of work that no one else has ever seen for over 40 years. Until now. Creating a Love and Rockets-adjacent world, set in the heyday of 1960s and '70s women's wrestling and lucha libre, Queen of the Ring is a best-of book spotlighting the women who are often ignored in pro wrestling in 125 full color illustrations: pin-ups, action shots, fake wrestling magazine covers, all presented in a deluxe hardcover that echoes the lucha libre magazines of the 1960s.

Hardcover. New York, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages. color and duotone illustrations and b&w photos throughout. Beautifully illustrating the art of one of Americas most popular artist, Navaho R. C. Gorman. Photography by Chuck Henningsen. SIGNED BY GORMAN on titlepage. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front. A very attractive and well preserved copy.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black and white fantasy cartoon sketches, many scatological. 11" high X 8" wide, 443 pages. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black & white illustrations throughout on every page. 11" high X 8" wide, 439 pages. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black and white fantasy cartoon sketches, many scatological. 11" high X 8" wide, 439 pages. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black and white fantasy cartoon sketches, many scatological. 11" high X 8" wide, 443 pages. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black & white illustrations throughout on every page. 11" high X 8" wide, 448 pages. The perfect tribute to the world's favorite dirty old man. It spans the years 1982 to 1989, a period when the artist was comfortably ensconced in rural California, raising his young daughter Sophie, who appears throughout this volume. But Crumb was still Crumb, declaring in one drawing, above a lovingly rendered tree, "As I get older I get more twisted, convoluted, depraved, cynical, embittered, self-centered, jaded, debauched, ruthless, greedy, conceited, set-in-my-ways, long-winded, absent-minded, prejudiced, closed-minded, misanthropic, nervous..." To prove this self-flagellating analysis he fills the pages with his signature perversions (in country settings), scathing social commentary, cruel self-portraits, experimental cubism... and some lovely sylvan landscape. His mastery of the Rapidograph pen is at its zenith here in his 40s, Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. "Silly Fool Comics" fills the final page in this sixth volume, with a devilish creature telling the anguished Crumb, "YOU Will Soon Be DEAD!" He was a mere 67, but in his self-absorbed Crumbish way was obsessing about death, when not making intimate and loving portraits of his wife Aline and all the other women who'd tormented his libido since boyhood. Most impressive in this book are his historic tableau, some single page, others multi-page strips, including Piers the Ploughman of 14th century England, My Secret Life by "Walter," Rough Women of the Dark Ages and The Apache Dance, from a 1930s Parisian postcard. His Rapidographed cross hatching is superb as ever and we are treated to long screeds displaying his undimmed brilliance at analyzing the human condition, in a morbid but nonetheless amusing way. One could say there are no surprises in content, as Crumb has produced a consistent body of work over the last 40, if not 50, years, yet each page is also jarringly different from the one before, due to his personal juxtaposition of images. So much is packed in you can spend an hour and find you're only a quarter of the way through, with Crumb bemoaning his mortality, while continuing to prosper, every few pages. A fine stand-alone volume, and must-have completion for the sketchbook set.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. "Silly Fool Comics" fills the final page in this sixth volume, with a devilish creature telling the anguished Crumb, "YOU Will Soon Be DEAD!" He was a mere 67, but in his self-absorbed Crumbish way was obsessing about death, when not making intimate and loving portraits of his wife Aline and all the other women who'd tormented his libido since boyhood. Most impressive in this book are his historic tableau, some single page, others multi-page strips, including Piers the Ploughman of 14th century England, My Secret Life by "Walter," Rough Women of the Dark Ages and The Apache Dance, from a 1930s Parisian postcard. His Rapidographed cross hatching is superb as ever and we are treated to long screeds displaying his undimmed brilliance at analyzing the human condition, in a morbid but nonetheless amusing way. One could say there are no surprises in content, as Crumb has produced a consistent body of work over the last 40, if not 50, years, yet each page is also jarringly different from the one before, due to his personal juxtaposition of images. So much is packed in you can spend an hour and find you're only a quarter of the way through, with Crumb bemoaning his mortality, while continuing to prosper, every few pages. A fine stand-alone volume, and must-have completion for the sketchbook set.

Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 188 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black & white illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. New York, New York University Press, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages. Hardcover. 246 illustrations in black & white. 6 full page, full color illustrations. Red cloth covers with gilt titles to spine. Bright dust jacket with tears to edges. Clean, unmarked copy.