cats

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 79 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Introductory essay by Lawrence Durrell. Includes 61 black and white photographs, many of which are some of his more iconic images.

Hardcover. NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, maroon cloth with gold lettering, 464 pages with 449 illustrations, including 320 color plates. The Mary Griggs Burke collection is the largest and most comprehensive outside Japan. The selections in this volume are arranged chronologically and includes astonishing and rare pieces. The collection provides an overview of the development of Japanese art over the centuries. A beautiful catalogue with excellent reproductions and extensive text. Like new condition. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. London, The Hayward Gallery, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Catalog to accompany Bridget Riley's exhibition Paintings and drawings 1951-71 at The Hayward Gallery, 20 July - 5 September 1971 organized by The Arts Council. Introduction and biographical note by Bryan Robertson. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, The Brooklyn Museum, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, numerous b&w illustrations throughout. Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum November 1972-February 1973. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Slight wear and rubbing around edges and spine, front cover lightly sunned, else a nice, tight copy.

Softcover. Hamburg CR, Galerie Scheffel GMBH, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 24 pages illustrated color photos with the sculptor's works. Essay by Manfred Fath. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadephia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Text in English with contributions by Carlos Basualdo, Erica F. Battle, Marco De Michelis, and Michael R. Taylor. Includes numerous illustrations, most in color. A very near fine copy in illustrated boards. Bruce Nauman (b 1941) has assembled a mesmerizing body of work that encompasses video, installation, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and neon. This work explores the interconnections among several specific themes that have recurred prominently throughout four decades of Nauman's work.

Softcover. Bellona IT, Centro Umanistico Incontri Internazionali, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Text in Italian. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, reprint, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated with Peggy Bacon's delightful drawings of the cat's adventures. Ex-lib with writing on inside front cover, light reside to rear endpapers. Clean interior.

Softcover. NY, Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 315 pages illustrated in color. This volume accompanies the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the innovative body of work by Chinese-born artist Cai Guo-Qiang--best known for his spectacular artworks using gunpowder and fireworks. It presents a chronological and thematic survey that charts the artist's creation of a distinctive visual and conceptual language across four mediums: drawings made from gunpowder fuses and explosive powders laid on paper and ignited; explosion events, documented by videos, photographs and preparatory drawings; large-scale installations; and social projects, wherein the artist works with local communities to create an art event or exhibition site, documented by photographs. Featuring works from the 1980s to the present, this volume illuminates Cai's significant formal and conceptual contributions to contemporary international art practices and social activism. Generously illustrated more than 368 pages, this volume includes essays by Alexandra Munroe, David Joselit, Miwon Kwon and Wang Hui--along with some 60 documented plate entries. Clean copy. Extra postage will be required if shipped overseas.

Hardcover. New York, Asia Society/Creative Time, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Accordion binding. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Commissioned to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Central Park, Cai's Light Cycle fireworks display lit the New York sky with a circle of explosions on a September night in 2003. This 24-page accordion book documents it all from planning to performance, executed by the famous Grucci fireworks family. Separating the book's hardbound cloth covers reveals a continuous folded sheet with reproductions of Cai's gunpowder drawings (made by burning scant gunpowder on paper) on one side and photographs of the event and text on the other. In an interview, the artist compares his drawings to "love-making" and explains some technical aspects of his displays, such as a computer chip in each explosive shell.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Price Stern Sloan, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. Color illustrations by author. The comic misadventures of a group of cats at summer camp.

Hardcover. Rockland ME, Farnsworth Art Museum, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 91 pages. Beautiful full-color illustrations throughout - several historical photographs of Nureyev. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, New York Review of Books, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue pictorial boards with red cloth spine. 188 pages, b&w drawings by V.H. Drummond. Reprint of a book first published in 1955. Children's book illustrator Ashley Wolff's copy with her signature on front fly leaf. Clean copy. No dust jacket issued.

Softcover. NY, Jaap Rietman, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages. Profusely illustrated in b&w. Essay by David Bourdon, with additional text by Barbara Rose. Designed by Richard S. Haymes. With a chronology, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the substantial catalogue published in conjunction with a 1978 circulating American Museum retrospective exhibition of sixteen sculptures and sculptural installations executed between 1959 and 1977 by minimal pioneer Carl Andre. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Darmstadt GR, Mathildenhohe, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages, illustrated in color, bright red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Exhibition catalog for a show that traveled to Los Angeles the next year. Text in German and English. No dust jacket.

Softcover. Hohenems AUS, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 38 pages, b&w illustrations. German text. Caroline Ramersdorfer was born in Lustenau, Vorarlberg, Austria in 1960. She lives and works in Wells, NY. Ramersdorfer carves slabs of marble to reveal complex interior spaces creating a variety of "views" and perceptions. This catalog from the International Sculpture Symposia in Hohenems, Austria. Name inside front cover. Artist's name and addresses pasted in rear endpapers.

Softcover. Washington D.C., The Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog, 127 pages, 74 B&W plates throughout. Edgewear to cover. Small blemish to front of wrapper. Otherwise a very clean and tight copy.

Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white illustrations throughout. At the age of 21, Gene Deitch discovered The Record Changer, a jazz fan magazine. Every jazz swinger in the '40s was called a "cat," so Gene Deitch created a cartoon feature titled "The Cat," which quickly became a fixture of the magazine. He also started drawing the covers, which graced almost every issue from 1945 to 1951. Deitch's stylistically virtuoso images exquisitely embodied the essence of the 1950s hipster, and was a visual paean to the joy of collecting records and appreciating jazz. The Cat on a Hot Thin Groove collects all of Deitch's Record Changer work in one gorgeous, coffee-table art book, with commentary and reminiscences by Deitch himself.

Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white illustrations throughout. At the age of 21, Gene Deitch discovered The Record Changer, a jazz fan magazine. Every jazz swinger in the '40s was called a "cat," so Gene Deitch created a cartoon feature titled "The Cat," which quickly became a fixture of the magazine. He also started drawing the covers, which graced almost every issue from 1945 to 1951. Deitch's stylistically virtuoso images exquisitely embodied the essence of the 1950s hipster, and was a visual paean to the joy of collecting records and appreciating jazz. The Cat on a Hot Thin Groove collects all of Deitch's Record Changer work in one gorgeous, coffee-table art book, with commentary and reminiscences by Deitch himself.

hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated, color and b&w illustrations by Aldren A. Watson. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Several blank pages with childrens markings, internally clean. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 3rd Printing, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 57 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ELIZABETH COATSWORTH AT BOTTOM OF FRONT ENDPAPER. Black & white illustrations by Lynd Ward. Winner of the Caldecott Medal in 1931. Front cover with areas of foxing to cover hinge and along right edge - approximately 3/4" from top to bottom. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Geoffrey Bles, 2nd pr., 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, lightly soiled dust jacket. Blue cloth covers with gilt stamping on spine. 172 pages with lovely pencil drawings of cats by Helen Headland. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped with orange lettering. 64 pages of b&w photos of kittens at play by Spillman, words by Paul Dehn. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 87 pages. B&w drawings by Bacon. Light rubbing to cover corners. Cloth covers with slight age fading. Clean, tight copy.