Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 126 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Thomas Eakins wrote and illustrated this drawing manual for students, based on his famous lectures at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. After his forced resignation in 1886, Eakins abandoned plans to publish the manual. The manuscript and illustrations remained in his studio, where they were recovered after the death of the artist's widow in 1988. Published here for the first time, the drawing manual offers readers a unique opportunity to meet Eakins in his own words.
Softcover. Santa Monica CA, Santa Monica Museum of Art, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages, softcover with color plates. A stage actress with the Parisian Comedie-Francaise; a Dadaist and New York bohemian who edited "The Blind Man" with Marcel Duchamp; a devoted follower of spiritual guru Jiddu Krishnamurti at Ojai; and a model for the character Rose in "Titanic" throughout her many incarnations, Beatrice Wood (1893-1998) continued to produce important work right up until her death at the age of 105. After her New York years as the "Mama of Dada, " Wood moved to Los Angeles, where she took up ceramics and was soon receiving international attention for her eccentric figural sculptures, vessels and goblets, glazed with her signature iridescent hues. "Beatrice Wood: Career Woman" offers a scholarly assessment of her remarkable life and work, with full-color plates, photographs and writings documenting the evolution of her work and establishing her many contributions to twentieth-century avant-garde art. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.
Softcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press/Electa , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Softcover in excellent, clean condition. Domenico Tiepolo, 1727-1804, the son of Giambattista, left a corpus of drawings which show him to be one of the talented Venetian artists of the 18th century. 176 drawings plus many photographs of details and of paintings.
Hardcover. gr, Editorial RM, 1st, 2009, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. With an all-black velvet cover and beautifully printed inside, Health and Efficiency is a sexy little book. The pieces are all derived from a pile of old nudist camp magazines he picked up in Brick Lane market in East London. In the original clippings nubile porcelain-white maidens pose puritanically next to ponds and lillies. But in Lakra's versions they have sailor tattoos and get skewered by monochrome skeletons and mugwumps.
Hardcover. GR, Editorial RM, 1st, 2009-07-31, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. With an all-black velvet cover and beautifully printed inside, Health and Efficiency is a sexy little book. The pieces are all derived from a pile of old nudist camp magazines he picked up in Brick Lane market in East London. In the original clippings nubile porcelain-white maidens pose puritanically next to ponds and lillies. But in Lakra's versions they have sailor tattoos and get skewered by monochrome skeletons and mugwumps.
Hardcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 171 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. In 2006, Janet Hamlin went to Guantanamo as a courtroom sketch artist to serve as a visual witness to the courtroom proceedings and provide worldwide media with artwork drawn during them. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. France, Editions Akileos, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. SIGNED BOOKPLATE laid in.
Hardcover. London, Random House UK, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. In the vein of the great Edward Gorey and Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are, an irresistible little book of monster drawings, all on office stationery. John Kenn Mortensen's pen is full of wonderfully creepy monsters which crawl onto sticky yellow note pads when darkness falls. Here we have collected some of the best monster drawings in a delectable hardback edition.
Softcover. US, Picture This Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. Volume 1: Drawings. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Volume One focuses on Kley's ink drawings, and reprints for the first time a substantial selection of his illustration work for children's books and adult genre fiction, a side of Kley's career previously unexplored in other collections. This volume also includes a wide sampling of Kley's cartoons and magazine work, with newly collected examples taken directly from a variety of rare sources such as "Jugend," "Simplicissimus," and the historic "Der Orchideengarten" (the world's first fantasy fiction magazine). In all, more than 300 Kley illustrations and cartoons fill this first volume.
Softcover. US, Picture This Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 148 pages. Volume 2: Paintings & sketches. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Volume Two breaks new ground by being the first book to present a large number of Kley's paintings and preparatory drawings, some reproduced directly from the original art. These color works reveal a heretofore rarely glimpsed pool of talent, and expand on the subject matter traditionally associated with the artist by including examples of his landscapes and industrial paintings. This volume's preparatory drawings are culled from the Library of Congress? untapped Kley archive, and show the artist working out concepts for book illustrations, reworking ink drawings into color paintings, and doodling for his own amusement. Approximately 150 drawings, many in color, appear in this volume.
Softcover. Rome, Libreria dello Stato, 1st, 1992-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 429 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Folio. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.
