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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. West Port CT, Greenwood, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket shows standard wear with rubbing and chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Hardcover with illustrations to endpapers. Navy cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Profusely illustrated in full page, full color illustrations beautifully presented, including fold out illustrations. Dust jacket with only minor wear. SIGNED BY BOTH SENDAK AND KUSHNER on half-title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2nd printing, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Created by McSweeney's in celebration of their 11th anniversary, this book showcases the independent literary publisher's award-winning art and design across all its activities, including McSweeney's books, quarterly journals, Wholphin DVDs, and The Believer magazine. Hundreds of images - from napkin sketches to final objects - offer insights into McSweeney's creative process, and a narrative history in interviews explores the incidental, accidental, and deliberate ways they have helped transform the visual experience of reading. hundreds of photos and illustrations, and interviews with the staff and writers and artists such as Rick Moody, Sarah Vowell, John Hodgeman, Lawrence Weschler, Michael Chabon, Chris Ware, Ben Katchor, Charles Burns, and many more.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion/Disney Editions, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Light wear to edges of dust jacket, else like new. Beautiful & quite lavish book on the making of the Disney full length animated feature. Illustrated with 400 color & b&w drawings, sketches & artwork including an acetate overlay & storyboards.

Softcover. College Park MD, University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages, oblong softcover. 43 b&w illustrations. Catalogue of 174 exhibits. Forewords by Alain de Leiris and Marchal E. Landgren; biographies of and notes on 116 American cartoonists, with bibliographical references for each; chronology of the American comic strip, 1846-1971. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Getty Research Institute, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Art of the Defeat provides an unflinching look at the art scene in France during the German occupation. Black and white photographs throughout.

Hardcover. Milan Italy, Jaca Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 315 pages, color illustrations. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The Panza Collection has gathered together a critical assembly of the art of the 50s, 60s and 70s. This book traces the history of Giuseppe Panza''s life as an art collector and includes an illustrated section of works by various artists like Donald Judd, Robert Ryman, Louis Cane and many others. Color and black and white illustrations. Bound in original gray boards. Housed in white pictorial dust jacket.

Hardcover. Milano IT, Jaca Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 315 pages, color illustrations. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The Panza Collection has gathered together a critical assembly of the art of the 50s, 60s and 70s. This book traces the history of Giuseppe Panza''s life as an art collector and includes an illustrated section of works by various artists like Donald Judd, Robert Ryman, Louis Cane and many others. Color and black and white illustrations. Bound in original gray boards. Housed in white pictorial dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Ridge Press/Macmillan, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 251 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs. price clipped dust jacket shows standard wear. Clean, tight copy. Bil Baird, a master puppeteer of our time, recounts the history of his art, from its remotest yesterday to its bright and promising tomorrow. Along the way, he examines the famous and outrageous Mr. Punch, the raucous Karaghioz, the noble knights of the Orlando legend, the lovely shadow plays of Asia, the unique Bunraku puppets of Japan, and the exciting developments in today's puppetry around the world. To which we would like to add: There has never been any book to compare with this one. It remains the classic text on the history of puppetry around the world. It has dozens of amazing photographs, and a very lucid text written by one of the great master puppeteers of our time.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages, illustrated in color. Minor shelf-wear, else a very neat, clean, tight copy in excellent condition. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Design, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A tight copy. Over 125 color illustrations, memorabilia, plus a framable print in the back.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with pages and covers in pristine condition. Like new, in shrinkwrap. Rosenberg's essays on modern art.

Metuchen NJ, Scarecrow Press, 1st, 1991, Hardcover, 242 pages, b&w photos. Extensive interview with a veteran assistant director (who actually started out as a cameraman) whose career stretched over six decades, from 1918 to 1970. During the studio era he worked largely at Paramount and then 20th Century-Fox. Fun fact: He was also one of Clara Bow's boyfriends. No dust jacket issued.

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 306 pages, b&w illustrations. This book is an introduction to the history of work in general and of artisans in particular in Europe from 1300 to 1914. It focuses on many aspects of artisan culture, including economic and guild life, and discusses social, rebellious, ceremonial and leisure experience as well. Women, masters, journeymen, apprentices, and non-guild workers all receive substantial treatment, and the text is illuminated with fascinating illustrations. Mild crease to first 8 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Walker and Company, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 91 pages, with illustrations throughout. Minor corner wear and previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Charlottesville, VA, Virginia Historical Society/University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Lists hundreds of artists, both famous and largely unknown, who spent some or all of their careers in Virginia. Near fine condition; virtually no flaws except for very slight wear at one end of the spine.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages, illustrated throughout with 213 plates in color and b&w. Maroon cloth with white title to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new. The rich artistic and social history of the Arts and Crafts movement in California, as well as the highly collectible objects it produced. In a brief but intensely prolific period between about 1895 and 1930. Essays by Leslie Greene Bowman, Bruce Kamerling, Cheryl Robertson, Joseph A. Taylor, David C. Streatfield, Karen J. Weitze and Richard Guy Wilson.

Hardcover. New York, Golden Press, 1st US, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 462 pages. Hardcover. The fourth volume of the series 'The Arts of Mankind' edited by Andre Malraux and Georges Salles. Light foxing to preliminary pages, front and rear. Profusely illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. A massive volume on the highlights of Oceanic art. Part One reviews material conditions of Oceanian life, the social & religious systems, etc. Part Two is a Gazetteer of Styles with Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia & Polynesia grouped stylistically. Dust jacket with chipping, wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1sr, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright gold foil dust wrapper, 476 pages. The artist Francis Picabia -- notorious dandy, bon vivant, painter, poet, filmmaker, and polemicist -- has emerged as the Dadaist with postmodern appeal, and one of the most enigmatic forces behind the enigma that was Dada. In this first book in English to focus on Picabia's work in Paris during the Dada years, art historian and critic George Baker reimagines Dada through Picabia's eyes. Such reimagining involves a new account of the readymade -- Marcel Duchamp's anti-art invention, which opened fine art to mass culture and the commodity. But in Picabia's hands, Baker argues, the Dada readymade aimed to reinvent art rather than destroy it. Picabia's readymade opened art not just to the commodity, but to the larger world from which the commodity stems: the fluid sea of capital and money that transforms all objects and experiences in its wake. The book thus tells the story of a set of newly transformed artistic practices, claiming them for art history -- and naming them -- for the first time: Dada Drawing, Dada Painting, Dada Photography, Dada Abstraction, Dada Cinema, Dada Montage.Along the way, Baker describes a series of nearly forgotten objects and events, from the almost lunatic range of the Paris Dada "manifestations" to Picabia's polemical writings. Clean copy.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red card cover, with pages and covers in pristine condition. Like new, in shrinkwrap. Rosenberg's essays cover art's relationship with the media, pop art, art as thinking; Pollock's methods; Josph Cornell's boxes; Russian constructivism; big paintings; the artist's hand; action painting, Dada etc etc. First published in 1969.

Hardcover. NY, Jewish Opinion Publishing Corporation, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 285 pages+ portrait frontis. Original full cloth binding, edges browned. Original dust jacket, chipped, tanning. First Edition. Stephen S. Wise (1874-1949) was born in Budapest and as a child emigrated to New York, where he received his Jewish and secular education. He was ordained as a rabbi in the New Jewish Theological Seminary and went on to become a Reform rabbi and ardent Zionist and Anti-fascist. This book was published to mark Rabbi Wise's 70th birthday. his comments on Zionism, Hitlerism, the fate of the Jews - as WW2 was drawing to a close - were enormously influential.

Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. A survey that displays the variety of imagery, much of it developed anonymously in small studios, much of it taken by inspired amateurs, in early-twentieth-century America. Notes, List of Postcard Photographers Working Before 1930, Selected Bibliography. More than 200 fine-line duotones.