Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 233 pages. Profusely illustrated with 189 drawings, including 32 in color. Red, black, and white illustrated dust jacket with clear plastic guard. Introduction by Lloyd Goodrich (of New York's Whitney Museum). Dust jacket spine with light fading, previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chesterfield MA, Chameleon Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Bright salmon cloth, bright salmon flyleaves, color illustrations. dust jacket, 260 pages. 140 color illustrations, 60 in b&w. Considers the life and work of American artist John George Brown (1831-1913). Treats Brown"s overall career and themes; his rural scenes and those of his contemporaries; his masterpiece, a view of New York City"s dockworkers and the subject matter for which he is best known, the New York City bootblack. This is the first lengthy treatment of his life and career. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 2nd pr., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Price clipped dust jacket shows minor wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title stamped on spine and decoration on front cover. Black endpapers. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning from age, but still in excellent condition. Pages' outer edges are very slightly tanned, but otherwise clean. This is a beautiful volume that examines an artist's technique, while also telling a story through word and paint brush, about the German immigrants with whom he was living.

Hardcover. GR, Gestalten, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, hardcover, illustrated in color. A monograph on a popular German street artist who stencils images of women on buildings in Berlin. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

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.