Hardcover. US, R W Elliott, limited, 1987-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 174 pages. Edition limited to 2500 copies. Light edgewear and rubbing to brown covers. Internally very good.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. San Francisco, Franklin Bowles Galleries, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog, 128 pages illustrated in color. Features over 150 works of art on paper by the famous Playboy illustrator.
Softcover. St. Paul MN, Minnesota Museum of Art, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages. Paintings; Drawings; Watercolors; Prints 1949 - 1975. 50 color and b&w illustrations.
Softcover. Paris, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beau, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes in a plain cardboard slipcase. 239, 105 pages, illustrated in color. FRENCH TEXT. An exhibition of sketches held at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; These works were winners of the one-day sketching competitions held there beginning in 1816; Contains works by Felix-Henry Auvray, Francois-Xavier Dupre, Gustave-Rodolphe-Clarence Boulanger, Andre Giroux, Theodore-Pierre-Nicolas Maillot, Horace Vernet, Henri Lehmann, and many others. Clean set.
Softcover. Utica NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. Illustrated in b&w and color. Published on the occasion of the multi-venue exhibition held from 1994-1996 featuring masterworks on paper by Copley, Kensett, Audubon, Blakelock, Bluemner, Storrs, Cadmus, Pollock, and many others. Clean copy.
Softcover. Burlington, VT, Lund Humphries , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy. Color illustrations throughout. London Transport Posters celebrates a century of outstanding graphic design commissioned by the Underground, London Transport, and its present-day successor, Transport for London. Drawing on newly researched sources in the archives of the London Transport Museum and Transport for London, the book discusses and illustrates the different styles and themes emerging from the posters over the last hundred years. It includes examples of over 250 posters from all periods and will be an invaluable reference book and visual resource for all those with an interest in 20th-century design.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 32 pages illustrated in a color cartoon style by David Goldin. INSCRIBED BY GOLDIN with a sketch of the cat and himself. In this ironic tale of beauty and the beholder, an anxious owner creates a flattering portrait of his missing cat, while the pet's rescuer takes an opposing view. As the owner races around town hanging "Lost Cat" posters, exclamation points of sweat shooting off his brow, he remarks that his affectionate pet "Loves to eat./ Shares your seat./ Snuggles tight around your feet." He doesn't know the cat has taken up residence at-where else?-"Le Cafe Chat Perdu," whose proprietor is at wits' end. "Swiped my dinner./ Knocked me flat./ Someone please/ COME GET THIS CAT!" . Funny stuff. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 262 pages, color and b&w illustrations. This is an excellent and scholarly book filled with incredible photos and descriptions of LCT's home, Laurelton Hall. The author has written a series of fine chapters that look at all aspects of this magnificent residence. What the fire at Laurelton destroyed, this book restores with words and photos.
Softcover. New York, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center/NYU, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with full color and black & white examples of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Light toning to edges. Gallery sheet with biographical information and list of other objects by Tiffany laid in. Clean, unmarked copy. Uncommon.
Softcover. Washington DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog. 108 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Gray pictorial stiff wrappers. Minor wear to edges and spine, else like new.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. Renowned as the world's leading female fashion photographer from the 1930s to the 1960s, Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989) was acclaimed for her fashion photographs, still lifes, and portraits.This book is the first comprehensive retrospective on this important photographer. In addition to her fashion images, the 200 photographs gathered here include Louise Dahl-Wolfe's experimental color work and black-and-white portraits of such luminaries as Mae West, Cecil Beaton, Josephine Baker, Christian Dior, Orson Welles, Isamu Noguchi, and others. In sum, they evoke a glamorous and unforgettable era.
Softcover. Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Art Museum, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog, 71 pages. 47 B&W full page plates & smaller plates throughout. Very slight fading to edges of wrapper. Otherwise a very clean and tight copy.
Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 89 pages. Illustrated by Zhenya Gay. Light soiling to contents page. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Stain to bottom corner of cover. Corners bumped. Dust jacket with chipping, creases. Small chunks missing top & bottom of spine. Brodart cover.
Softcover. Manchester VT, Southern Vermont Arts Center, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 66 pages, 14 color and b&w illustrations. A collection of paintings by Italian-American artist Luigi Lucioni (1900-1988). One of his most-known pieces, 'Farewell to the Birches,' appears on the cover. With essays by Stuart P. Embury and Robert L. McGrath. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Manchester VT, Southern Vermont Arts Center, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 66 pages, 14 color and b&w illustrations. A collection of paintings by Italian-American artist Luigi Lucioni (1900-1988). One of his most-known pieces, 'Farewell to the Birches,' appears on the cover. With essays by Stuart P. Embury and Robert L. McGrath. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 178 pages, color illustrations. Offers a look at the life and work of Luis Melendez, one of eighteenth-century Europe's greatest still-life painters. This catalogue details thirty of Luis Melendez's wonderful still-life paintings beautifully presented with new insights about Melendez's life, the everyday objects in his paintings, and the materials and methods he used in creating these works.
Softcover. Boston/Washington DC, David R. Godine/Corcoran Gallery, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 82 b&w photo-plates plus catalogue of exhibition, biographical notes, exhibitions/catalogues/reviews, general bibliography. One of 2000 softbound copies. Issued as a monograph and the catalogue to accompany a major retrospective exhibition. With an essay on the photographer by Alex Castro. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 366 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Blue cloth cover with small gilt illustration embossed to front, gilt lettering embossed to front and spine, 270 b&w plates, appendix of supplemental b&w plates of art pieces described in collection. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper, 2 small squares of tape residue to opposite endpaper, light foxing evident of front and rear endpapers, light wear to cover. This extensive catalog is one of the finest for the study of colonial and early American furniture, painting, and the decorative of arts of the period of 1720-1820.This beautifully printed volume, set in Monotype Bembo and with full-tone collotype illustrations, established a high visual standard for furniture catalogs.
Softcover. Hamilton NJ, Grounds for Sculpture, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages, profusely illustrated in color. Essay by Michael Brenson. Clean copy.