Hardcover. NewYork, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering. Features 40 full-page etchings of Civil War scenes with commentary on opposite page.
Wales, Westmorland Gazette, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong green cloth covers, 80 lovely pen line drawings of the North Wales countryside with an Introduction by the artist. All text hand-lettered. Small printing, lacks dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, Inc, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy with wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Bright illustrations by Guy Peellaert throughout.
Hardcover. Prestel, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, large volume in a slipcase, 736 pages. This stunning volume delves into the extraordinary illustrated notebooks of Alexander von Humboldt's journeys through the Americas, which reveal the graphic musings of an intrepid explorer, a writer and philosopher, and the father of the environmental movement. On occasion of the 250th anniversary of Humboldt's birth, the drawings from these diaries are now available in a large format, slip-cased edition. Structured thematically, the 450 illustrations have been painstakingly reproduced, complete with handwritten notes, ink stains and water spots. Humboldt drew everything he saw--Incan ruins, electric eels, the transit of Mercury, silver mines, and ocean currents. In addition to being remarkably well preserved, these drawings offer tremendous insight into Humboldt's prescient observations. Featuring commentary by a renowned expert on Humboldt's work, this breathtaking volume will bring to life one of history's most accomplished thinkers. Still sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 280 pages. Jerelle Kraus, whose thirteen-year tenure as Op-Ed art director far exceeds that of any other art director or editor, unveils a riveting account of working at the Times. Her insider anecdotes include the reasons why artist Saul Steinberg hated the Times, why editor Howell Raines stopped the presses to kill a feature by Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau, and why reporter Syd Schanburg-whose story was told in the movie The Killing Fields-stated that he would travel anywhere to see Kissinger hanged, as well as Kraus's tale of surviving two and a half hours alone with the dethroned peerless outlaw, Richard Nixon.All the Art features a satiric portrayal of John McCain, a classic cartoon of Barack Obama by Jules Feiffer, and a drawing of Hillary Clinton and Obama by Barry Blitt. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. New York, New Modern Age Book, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Soft cover with heavy chipping on fragile paper wrappers. Front gutter shows separating. 65 black and white drawings by Luis Quintanilla.
Softcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog, 165 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. INSCRIBED BY MARGARET & RAYMOND (HOROWITZ) TO JOHN WILMERDING, art historian and author. Also laid in is the business card of JOHN K. HOWAT - curator of this exhibition at the Metropolitan. Tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Loring & Mussey, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers. A collection of full-page gag cartoons of a somewhat risque nature. The first book by this author/illustrator (full name Clarence William Anderson), who later became well known for his books about horses, which he also illustrated. Clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Koln GR, Jablonka Galerie, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, photographs and drawings in b&w by Warhol. Small format book for an exhibition held in Germany in the late 1990s. Dust jacket and book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. Koln GR, Jablonka Galerie, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, photographs and drawings in b&w by Warhol. Small format book for an exhibition held in Germany in the late 1990s. Dust jacket and book in excellent condition.
Softcover. New York, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 342 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers otherwise Clean, unmarked copy in very good condition.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 256 pages. Philosophical and biographical accounts of Antonin Artaud's late visual work, all reproduced in color. Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)-stage and film actor, director, writer, and visual artist-was a man of rage and genius. Expelled from the Surrealist movement for his refusal to renounce the theater, he founded the Theater of Cruelty and wrote The Theater and Its Double, one of the key twentieth-century texts on the topic. Artaud spent nine years at the end of his life in asylums, undergoing electroshock treatments. Released to the care of his friends in 1946, he began to draw again. This book presents drawings and portraits from this late resurgence, all in color. Accompanying the images are texts by by Artaud's longtime friend and editor Paule Thevenin and the philosopher Jacques Derrida. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, The Print Mint, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 8.25 x 10.75", 52 pages, including semi-glossy color cardstock covers, and b/w interior. An anthology comic. Cover art by Robert Crumb. Frosty the Snowman and His Friends, script and art by Robert Crumb; Frosty and friends plot to throw bombs disguised as snowballs at the "Rockerfella" mansion. Fun City In Ba'Dan, script by William Burroughs, art by S. Clay Wilson. As the Mind Reels, script and art by Art Spiegelman; a surreal soap opera. Dollboy, script and art by Bill Griffith; A ventriloquist's dummy is kidnapped. Stalin bio by Spain Rodriguez. The Adventures of Don Carlos Balmori, script and art by Kim Deitch; the story of a Mexican hoaxer. Saddle-stapled wraps.
Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. Light edge wear, fading to dust jacket. Previous price written on front dust jacket flap. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 172 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Blue pictorial stiff wrappers. Covers slightly sunned and lightly worn around the edges. Writings in ink on front cover. Nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Massachusetts, Little, Brown, and Company, na, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Biography of American artist William Morris Hunt. 219 pages with 16 black/white plates of Hunt's paintings. Cloth bound book is in good condition, some marks on the cover and corners slightly bumped. Some pages still uncut. Previous owner's name and date written in ink inside the cover.
Hardcover. New York, Abrams ComicArts, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Throughout his 25-year career, alternative cartoonist/screenwriter Daniel Clowes has always been ahead of artistic and cultural movements. Clowes has been praised for his emotionally compelling narratives that reimagine the ways that stories can be told in comics. The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist is the first monograph on this award-winning, New York Times-bestselling creator. It includes all of Clowes's best-known illustrations as well as rare and previously unpublished work, all reproduced from the original art.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Features concept art from the making of the film, including character studies and sculpture, color scripts, storyboards and more, alongside interviews and with the film's artists about the making of this adventurous animated film. 159 pages.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil on dust jacket covers. Clean, tight copy. Pictures throughout.
Hardcover. London, The Library Association, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. Ex-Lib with usually markings and stamping on end papers, copyright, etc. Light edgewear to cover boards, fray on spine and corners, otherwise good copy.
Hardcover. US, Dark Horse Books, 2nd, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. The culmination of more than fifteen years of photography by renowned photographer Greg Preston, this book is a living history of the men and women who have shaped the imaginations of countless millions of people around the world through their work in the fields of animated cartoons, comic books, comic strips and editorial cartooning. The list of more than two hundred artists includes such luminaries as Frank Miller, Al Hirschfeld, Joe Barbera, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Moebius, Walter and Louise Simonson and many more, all in photographs exclusive and shot expressly for this book.
Softcover. San Francisco, Golden Gate Publishing, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, comic book. Standard Format and Size. First Printing (75 cent cover price). Color illustrated covers with black/white interior art. Without page numbers. All work by R Crumb.