Softcover. London, The Trustees of the British Museum / British Museum Press Ltd., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 brilliant pages, laden with illustrations of Assyrian art and artifacts from The British Museum collection. 215 color and 33 black and white illustrations in addition to one map. Beautiful full-color cover with minor wear at corners only. Illustrated title page and half-title page. Crisp text pairs nicely with this rich visual collection. In very good condition overall.

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. This gorgeous volume was published in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition "Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861." Its 636 pages include a stunning array of prints and photographs. A painted overlook of New York City wraps around the front and back cover. The front cover has a small crease at the top left edge. On page 240, type is slightly out of register but remains readable.

Hardcover. Paris, Christie's Paris, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages, illustrated throughout in color. French text. Light wear to lower edge of spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Paris, Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages. Softcover. French text only. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper. Illustrated with beautiful full color and black & white examples of religious art and artifacts of Tibet and Nepal. Slight toning to page edges. 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.

Charlottesville VA, University of Virginia, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog illustrated in color, 266 pages. The Kluge-Ruhe Collections, now held by the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, is one of the largest and best-documented collections of Australian Aboriginal art outside Australia. Art from the Land focuses on the desert region and Arnhem Land, drawing on the many fine works in the collection and on the authors' detailed knowledge of the artists and their communities to illustrate the unique and complex nature of Australian Aboriginal artistic expression. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

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. Trumbull, CT, Greenwich Workshop Press Inc., 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Includes a bonus colored print with publishers note. Color illustrations throughout. A tight copy. James Bama is one of the best contemporary artists working today. His portraits - of people from the smallest child to the greatest hero - have garnered the respect and captured the imagination of art collectors and critics around the world. The Art of James Bama is a new, comprehensive collection of his finest work, showing real people of the new West recreating their history, and descendants of the Old West paying homage to their heritage. Bama's ability to convey their emotion gives his paintings a resonance like no other.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 472 pages, 480 images (80 in color). Exhibition catalog for a traveling exhibition. Black cloth covers in a bright dust jacket. A splendid overview of the artistic development of photography from its earliest days to the 1980s.

Softcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 123 pages plus appendix, bibliography, etc. B&w and color illustrations throughout. Mild soil to back cover, small marks on fore-edge. Light rubbing to spine. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 96 pages illustrations (some color), portrait. 23 color, 39 bw plates. The first significant look at the artwork of American modernist Arthur G. Dove (1880-1946). With a foreword by Duncan Phillips, and a lengthy illustrated essay by Wight. Includes a collections history, exhibitions history, and a sizable selected bibliography. Clean copy.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages. illustrated in b&w, some color. Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) was an American artist and educator. This monograph traces his life and work in nine chapters: Beginnings; Paris and Brittany; The Return; Japanese Currents; The Pratt Institute and the Launching of Composition; Ipswich and the World; Teachers College; and Conclusion. With extensive notes, bibliography, and 94 illustrations. Clean copy.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages. illustrated in b&w, some color. Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) was an American artist and educator. This monograph traces his life and work in nine chapters: Beginnings; Paris and Brittany; The Return; Japanese Currents; The Pratt Institute and the Launching of Composition; Ipswich and the World; Teachers College; and Conclusion. With extensive notes, bibliography, and 94 illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Spanierman Gallery, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. This book was published to go along with an exhibition of Dow's work that showcased the work of a leading figure in the development of American modernism.

Softcover. Boston, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 116 pages, 68 color, 14 b&w plates. Indochina Arts Project of the William Joiner Foundation. Essays by Quach Van Phong. Tran Viet Son, Lucy R Lippard and David Kunzle. Clean copy.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 123 pages, b&w illustrations, some color. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sun fading to dust jacket spine. Light foxing to top edge of text block. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Beardsley's work is looked at alongside the work of contemporaries such as Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm and W.B. Yeats and against the backdrop of the artistic, literary and social life of fin-de-siecle London, Dieppe and Paris. In addition to the drawings, the book includes examples of Beardsley's innovative book binding, prints and posters, revealing a gallery of portraits and photographs from that decadent period, the "Naughty Nineties." It also explores the diverse influences, such as ancient Greek vase painting and Japanese prints, upon which the young artist freely drew in the formation of his own style.

Softcover. Santa Fe Springs CA, Hathaway and Bowers, 1st, 1970-71, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nine softcover catalogs from the foremost dealer in antique music makers: Organs, pianinos, automatic harps, music boxes, etc. Catalogues No. 9 through 17, 1969-1971. All with b&w illustrations. Pages vary, 60-100. From a museum library with light stamping, small stickers on covers. Otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, Gagosian, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 316 pages. Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Gagosian, New York, in 2023, this striking illustrated catalog celebrates the centenary of the iconic photographer's birth. Over one hundred celebrated artists, designers, musicians, writers, curators, and figures from the world of fashion were asked to select a photograph by Avedon and elaborate on the ways in which both the image and artist have made an impact on their lives. Participants include Hilton Als, Naomi Campbell, Elton John, Spike Lee, Sally Mann, Polly Mellen, Kate Moss, Chloe Sevigny, Taryn Simon, Christy Turlington, and Jonas Wood."Avedon 100" celebrates Avedon's enduring influence on photography and makes clear his profound impression on visual culture worldwide. The book represents various periods from his oeuvre, including the widely known In the American West series, images of the social justice movement, classic portraiture, advertising, and fashion work. Includes a foreword by Larry Gagosian, texts by Derek Blasberg and Jake Skeets, and an essay by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. Red remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, OK Harris, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages, b&w illustrations. Essay and interview by Linda Chase. Works in marble by the Egyptian sculptor.

Softcover. New York, Museum for African Art, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 263 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Exhibition catalog, 9x12", color and b&w photographs of the art and culture of the Bamana people. Tight copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Softcover. NY, Janos Gat Gallery, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wraps, 30 pages, b&w illustrations. For an exhibition held Feb. 12 - March 23, 2002. The photographs in this catalog were taken from 1944-1945 by Barney Rosset, then a young American Army photographer. Rosset documented the Chinese Army in their pursuit of Japanese troops following the Battle of Henan-Hunan-Guangxi. The Japanese Army was pulling back from the Ichi-Go operation, the largest Japanese land campaign of the war, and Rosset joined Chinese troops at the deepest point of Japanese penetration (Kweiyang). After the war, Rosset became the proprietor of Grove Press, publishing authors often refused due to their controversial subject matter. Laid in are 2 identical postcards featuring the image on the cover of the catalog, Clean, bright copy, scarce.

Hardcover. Italy, Fabbri Editori, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 138 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Italian text. Color pictures throughout. Light wear to cover edges. Previous owner's bookplate on front end cover.