Art, Sculpture & Design
1732 Atwood, Margaret and Charles Pachter, eds The Journals of Susanna Moodie Houghton Mifflin 1997 0395880432 Hardcover First Edition Limited slipcased edition. Gilt illustrated paper over boards, cloth spine. No DJ as issued. As new. Unpaginated. $30 Add to Cart
11257 Barker, Clive Visions Of Heaven & Hell Rizzoli Intl Pubns 2005 0847827372 Hardcover 1st Edition First printing of the trade edition. Oversized quarto. Black cloth, gilt titles at front and spine. Pasted color plate to front, gilded edges, patterned color endsheets. No DJ as issued. Barker's paintings, with his commentary on them. Entire book printed on coated paper. List of plates included. Near fine with a couple of light scuffs to cloth. 352 pp. $65 Add to Cart
8074 Barr, Alfred H., Jr. Et al Paul Klee Museum of Modern Art NY 1941 Soft cover First Edition Catalogue from a traveling exhibition based on the Klee memorial exhibition at the Buchholz Gallery and elsewhere. Contains articles by Alfred Barr, James Johnson Sweeney and Julia and Lyonel Feininger. Twenty-three reproductions of Klee's work in B&W. A very good copy with owner bookplate to ffep that has come unglued, minor cover aging and soil. ca 36 pp. $45 Add to Cart
6968 Baskin, Lisa Unger Am I Not a Woman and A Sister (From Women: An Issue) Massachusetts Review 1972 Soft cover First Edition Offprint from the MR issue as titled above. B&W portraits by Baskin with accompanying historical texts by Susan B. Anthony, Sarah Wollstonecraft, Harriet Tubman and others. Near fine with one soil spot to cover. Rare. Unpaginated. $50 Add to Cart
1742 Bloch, E. Maurice The Paintings of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonne Univ. Press Missouri 1986 0826204619 Hardcover First Edition First printing. 23 color illus, 400 B& . Includes Chronology, Bibliography, Index. Fine, unread copy with minor aging to DJ. 396 pp. $65 Add to Cart
6785 Brown, Gayle L., Ed. The Dial: Arts and Letters in the 1920s Worcester Art Museum 1981 Soft cover First Edition Signed by Author(s) An anthology of writings from The Dial Magazine, 1920-1929. Prefaced by an introductory essay on Modernism by Michael True. Inscribed by True on title page and dated 3/24/81. Illustrated by B&W and color reproductions of some of The Dial's contributing artists, including Picasso, Gauguin, Munch, others. Near fine with one or two soil spots. 160 pp. $55 Add to Cart
1837 Brown, Milton W. Jacob Lawrence Dodd, Mead 1974 039606986X Hardcover First Edition First printing. Red cloth, gilt titles. Published by the Whitney Museum and distributed by Dodd, Mead. With an introductory essay by Milton Brown. Plates mostly B&W with 6 in color. Book soiled at top edge, aged at page margins. DJ aged, edge-curled, two closed tears to top edge of front panel. Price of $8.95 intact. 64 pp. $75 Add to Cart
1802 Cappellazo, Amy and Elizabeth Licata In Company: Robert Creeley's Collaborations Castellani Museum/Univ N. Carolina Pr 1999 0807848336 Soft Cover First Edition As new with remainder mark to bottom edge. 108 pp. $30 Add to Cart
10969 Carlin, John;Fineberg, Jonathan;Fineberg, Jonathan David Imagining America: Icons Of 20th-Century American Art Yale Univ Pr 2005 0300109970 Hardcover 1st Edition First printing. Illustrated boards, no DJ as issued. Illustrated color endsheets, printed on coated paper, art in color reproduction. The book is organized around three main themes: America's changing landscape, America's changing self/collective identity and understanding American media. Focuses on artists such as Andy Warhol, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg and others. Unread, as new.206 pp. $55 Add to Cart
10309 Cayzer, Elizabeth Changing Perceptions: Milestones in Twentieth-Century British Portraiture Sussex Academic Pr 1998 1898595305 Soft Cover 1st Edition Second printing. Artists included in this study are John Singer Sargent, Sir Stanley Spencer, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Augustus John, Sir John Lavery and Vanessa Bell, among others. Paintings reproduced mostly in color. Very good plus with slight shelfwear. 127 pp. $20 Add to Cart
3009 Cirker, Hayward and Blanche Cirker, eds The Golden Age of the Poster: 70 European and American Posters of the 1890s in Color Dover Publications 1971 Soft Cover Reprint Very good minus, with cover delaminated, rubbed, spotting to endsheets. Text block near fine. 70 pp. $12 Add to Cart
5228 Compton, Michael; Livingstone, Marco; Tilson, Joe Tilson W W Norton & Co Inc 1994 0500974101 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Eggshell cloth, black titles. B&W and color plates. Unread and near new in like DJ. 183 pp. $45 Add to Cart
9729 Corn, Wanda M. The Art of Andrew Wyeth Little Brown & Co 1975 0821206850 Soft cover Second Edition Oblong landscape quarto. Printed on coated matte-finish paper. Contains Bibliography and Index. Very good plus copy with some edgewear and curling to cover. 176 pp. $25 Add to Cart
10547 Cottino, Alberto Canaletto Art Books International 1996 1874044147 Soft Cover 1st Edition Text translated by Jeffrey Jennings. A useful study series, with paintings nicely reproduced in color, some information about the artist's life, where to view the paintings, anthology of comments about the artist, essential Bibliography. Unread, as new in pub's shrinkwrap. 64 pp. $15 Add to Cart
8633 Czarnecki, Joseph Last Traces: The Lost Art of Auschwitz Macmillan Pub Co 1989 0689120222 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Black cloth binding, gilt titles. Introduction by Chaim Potok. Art reproduced in B&W. A fine copy in like DJ with slight rubbing. 175 pp. $35 Add to Cart
5224 DePaulis, Julien Central Asian Art Confidential Concepts 2003 1904310419 Hardcover First Edition First printing. The art of the Islamic world. Color plates of architecture, artifacts and art. Unread, as new in like DJ. 255 pp. $45 Add to Cart
9726 Descharnes, Robert; Dali, Salvador Salvador Dali Harry N Abrams Inc 1976 0810902222 Hardcover First Edition Tweed cloth binding, gilt titles & facsimile signature to front board. With 199 reproductions, of which 52 are color plates, pasted in, some fold out. In heavy coated DJ with Illuminated Pleasures on the front. A near-fine copy in like DJ. 175 pp. $90 Add to Cart
6781 Dimand, Maurice Indian Miniatures Crown Publishers 1970 Soft cover First Edition No printing date given. The Folio Art Books series. Ten paintings reproduced in color on pasted plates. Period covers ca 1500-1700. Very good copy with wear to cover, tiny tear at top edge, back. 21 pp. $20 Add to Cart
8832 Finch, Christopher Robin Disney's Winnie the Pooh: A Celebration of the Silly Old Bear Hyperion Books 2000 0786863528 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Oblong folio. Illustrated paper binding in wraparound design with color titles and illustration printed on glassine DJ. Book printed on heavy semi-matte paper with over 200 illustrations; many in full color. Unread, as new. Scarce now. 176 pp. $100 Add to Cart
8606 Foster, Joseph K. The Posters of Picasso Grosset & Dunlap 1964 Hardcover 2nd Edition First printing thus - New Enlarged Edition. Red cloth binding over black boards, black titles and red signature stamping to front board.Very good with remainder stamp to top edge near spine, edge soil. text block fine. DJ very good minus with soil, stains and chipping to head of spine, a couple of tears at back panel. Price of $6.95 intact. Unpaginated. $95 Add to Cart
2960 Frank, Mary Sculpture, Prints and Drawings DeCordova/Dana 1988 0945506007 Soft Cover First Edition First printing. Color & B&W plates. Die cutting to front of wrap. Catalogues at back. As new. 80 pp. $30 Add to Cart
10113 Frebourg, Olivier Travel Posters Fitway Pub 2004 2752801017 Soft cover First Edition Die-cut book in the shape of an ocean liner. On coated paper, all graphics in color. Posters accompanied by relevant quotations from (mostly) French writers. Unread, as new. 96 pp. $15 Add to Cart
9925 Gelburd, Gail and Thelma Golden Romare Bearden in Black-and-White: Photomontage Projections 1964 Whitney Museum of Art 1997 Soft cover First Edition First edition. Quarto. Exhibition catalogue distributed by Harry N. Abrams. Montages in color and (mostly) sepiatone. Includes usual exhibition info at back. Unread, fine. 88 pp $40 Add to Cart
10297 Gifford, Denis, Ed. Christmas Comic Posters H.C. Blossom 1991 1872532578 Soft Cover 1st Edition Full-page reproductions in color with accompanying blurbs on the poster's history and origin. Posters date from the 1890s through the 1930s. Unread, as new. Unpaginated. $25 Add to Cart
9519 Gould, Bob (illus) Elric of Melnibone: A Portfolio By Two Man Horse Dark Eagle 1977 Soft cover First Edition Eight 13-1/4 X 10-5/8 plate illustrations with 8 pp. booklet in 13-1/2 X 11 folder. First plate signed and (set) numbered: 593/1000. An homage to the Elric series of sci-fi novels by Michael Moorcock. Plates as follows: I: "The Emperor and Cymoril"; II: "Yyrkoon"; III: "A Deliberate Treachery"; IV: "The Emperor Returned"; V: "The Emperor's Sorcery"; VI: "King Grome"; VII: "The Eagle Tower"; VIII: "Elric of Melnibone." Very good with some horizontal warpmarks to folder, rusting of staples on booklet, consequent rust marks to back (only) of Plate VIII. Very rare now. $295 Add to Cart
2958 Green, Christopher The European Avant-gardes: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Zwemmer 1995 0302006516 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Art in France and Western Europe, 1904 - c 1945. Full cloth binding, 97 full-page color plates. DJ. Includes over 40 artists from France, Spain, Italy, Britain and the Netherlands, with work by Braque, Ernst, Gris, Kupka, Leger, Picasso and Schwitters, Balla, Bomberg, Dali, Miro and Wadsworth. Unread, as new. 493 pp. $110 Add to Cart
4832 Harding, Anneliese John Lewis Krimmel: Genre Artist of the Early Republic Winterthur Museum 1996 0912724250 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Rust cloth, gilt titles. Plates in color & B&W. Includes bibliography & index. Unread, as new in like DJ. 268 pp. $90 Add to Cart
6753 Hayes, Bartlett Art in Transition: A Century of the Museum School Museum of Fine Arts 1977 Soft cover First Edition Catalogue from an exhibition at the MFA, Boston. B&W photos, arranged by decade. With notes. On coated paper. Very good with shelfwear to cover, spotting to top edge. 110 pp. $35 Add to Cart
9008 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum The Trustees 1978 0914660055 Hardcover First Edition Parchment spine over red cloth boards, gilt titles. Dissimilar photo endpapers. Not to be confused with other books of the same title, this book consists of eight photo-essays by various people, including: Rollin Van N. Hadley, Cornelius Vermeule, Charles Avery, Walter Denny, Everett Fahey and others. Chapter discussions cover the Museum's various collections. Illustrated in color and B&W with photos of the museum and its collection. Very good plus in very good plus DJ. 81 pp. $35 Add to Cart
5061 James, Anthony Language of the Heart Tuttle Pub 1994 1885203055 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Folio-sized book with full-page paintings (color) and accompanying poems by the author. Black cloth binding, coated paper. Unread copy with some shelfwear to DJ & a slight slant to spine from improper storage.104 pp. $30 Add to Cart
9817 James, Henry A Little Tour in France Joseph Pennell Grove Press 1987 1555841295 Hardcover First Edition First printing thus. Landscape quarto. Blue cloth binding, gilt titles, four-color stamped cloth inset to front panel, decorative endsheets. Entire book printed on coated paper. Includes 94 watercolors by Pennell, this being evidently their first color reproduction. Book very good plus/near fine with little wear. DJ in Mylar likewise VG+/near fine.256 pp. $30 Add to Cart
3007 Jones, James WWII: Graphic Art Ballantine Books 1976 0345251261 Soft Cover First Edition First pb printing. An illustrated history by the author of From Here to Eternity, with period art, cartoons, headlines, etc. Cover rubbed, hole-punched below price, minor edge soil. Text block fine. 275 pp. $25 Add to Cart
7612 Kaplan, Barry Jay, Ed. Love Was Cheap and Life Was High: Postcards from Paperback Cover Art of the 40s and 50s Collier Books 1990 0020339879 Soft cover First Edition First printing. Collection of 8 x 5-1/2 postcards containing mmpb cover art from the 40s and 50s, including covers by Avati, Gregg, Belarski, de Soto, others. Very good with rubbing and minor shelfwear to cover. ca 40 pp $20 Add to Cart
10596 Kelder, Diane The Great Book of French Impressionism Abbeville Press 1992 1558593365 Soft Cover 1st Edition Fourth printing. Pocket--sized in card wraps with flaps. Great museum companion, containing over 200 color reproductions of the French Impressionists, organized by painter. Very good plus with minor shelfwear. Unpaginated. $15 Add to Cart
1784 Kemenov, Vladimir Alexei Kravchenko (1889-1940) Aurora Publishers 1986 Hardcover First Edition Hardcover in slipcase. First printing. Green textured cloth binding, no DJ as issued. Color & B&W plates, two-color fold-out illustrations. Beautiful book with text in Russian. As new with minor shelfwear to slipcase. Extremely rare. 246 pp. $400 Add to Cart
11137 Ketchum, William C. Jr. Furniture 2 (Smithsonian Illus Library of Antiques) Smithsonian Institution 1981 Hardcover 1st Edition Red cloth over textured brown boards, gilt titles, illustrated endsheets. Prepared by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.Volume 2 covers Neoclassic to Present. Chapters include: Neoclassic Reformation, Eclectic Victorians, Arts & Crafts Movement, Art Nouveau, Modern Movement, Advice for Collectors. With 31 color plates and 98 B&W photos. Near fine in very good plus DJ with one tear at bottom front. 128 pp. $15 Add to Cart
8873 Kunstler, Mort;Doherty, M. Stephen;Commager, Henry Steele The American Spirit: Paintings by Mort Kunstler ; Text by Henry Steele Commager ; Essays by M. Stephen Doherty H.N. Abrams 1986 0810918382 Hardcover First Edition Signed by Author(s) Square folio. First edition. Black cloth binding, gilt titles, blindstamping to front board. Text by Henry Steele Commager, a biography by M. Stephen Doherty and a Foreword by Dr. Armand Hammer. Printed on coated paper. Flatsigned by Mort Kunstler on title page. A fine copy in like DJ with slight rubbing and shelfwear. 235 pp. $150 Add to Cart
7803 Langsner, Jules Man Ray1966 Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1966 Soft Cover First Edition Exhibition catalog. Includes introductory essay by the author, an autobiographical essay by Man Ray, chronology and bibliography. Work is reproduced in color and (mostly) B&W. Very good with minor soil & aging to cover. ca 150 pp. $45 Add to Cart
2945 Lewis, Samella S. and Ruth G. Waddy Black Artists on Art: Volume 1 Contemporary Crafts 1969 Soft Cover First Edition First pb printing. Contains work by many artists not often seen, such as Arthur Berry, John Williams Outerbridge, Dana Chandler, Della Brown Taylor, William Maxwell, David Mann, James Watkins, William Curtis and dozens of others. Includes an artist's statement and bios at back. (Mostly) B&W and color plates. Very good with rubbing to cover, stain at top and foreedge with text block mostly unaffected. 132 pp. $35 Add to Cart
10661 Lipshultz, Sandra Selected Works: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts Univ of Minnesota Pr 2002 0912964324 Soft Cover 1st Edition Third printing, 2001. A catalogue of the Institute's collection, arranged chronologically, with color and B&W photos accompanying a few paragraphs about the artwork. Includes paintings, sculpture, antiques. Unread, near fine on coated paper. 269 pp. $25 Add to Cart
1805 Mailer, Norman Picasso: Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography Atlantic Monthly 1995 0871136082 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Blue cloth spine over red boards, yellow titles. Biographical and interpretive text by Mailer, accompanied by more-than-100 B&W and color reproductions of the paintings on coated paper. Near new in like DJ with remainder mark to bottom edge. 400 pp. $20 Add to Cart
3583 Mallory, Michael Hanna-Barbera Cartoons Hugh Lauter Levin Associates 1998 0883631083 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Folio size with 75 full-color plates, foldout illustrations in beautiful color and on heavy coated paper.No DJ as issued. Cutout to front board with plastic window illustration depicting their well-known characters. Special chapters devoted to entire episodes. With a catalogue raisonne at back. Unread, as new. 239 pp. $175 Add to Cart
11448 Manker, Ernst People of Eight Seasons Wahlstrom & Widstrand 1972 Hardcover 1st Edition Red boards, black titles and design. Edition unclear. World copyright stated 1963, subsequently reprinted by various publishers over the next 8 years. A pictorial essay of the Laplanders, with photos and drawings of art and artifacts on multicolored heavy paper. Very good with edge soil, faint edge spotting. DJ likewise very good with shallow edge tears/wear, particularly at top back panel. 212 pp. $45 Add to Cart
10319 McCracken, Harold Portrait of the Old West McGraw Hill 1952 Hardcover 1st Edition Stated first edition. Oversized quarto. Green cloth binding, gilt titles & decoration to front. Foreword by W.G. Vail. A study of the major Western artists, including George Catlin, Frederic Remington, Thomas Moran, Charles Marion Russell, Friedrich Kurz, Albert Bierstadt, Ralph Albert Blakelock and others. Includes many color and B&W reproductions on coated paper in full- or half-page format. Also includes a biographical checklist of Western artists. Book very good plus with light spotting to top edge. DJ also very good with edgewear at spine-ends, a few very short tears, some erosion to fold-ends. 232 pp. $40 Add to Cart
489 Merton, Thomas Original Child Bomb: Points for Meditation... Emil Antonucci New Directions 1961 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Illustrated paper-covered boards, no DJ as issued. Book has been dropped; consequently binding paper split at back hinge. Also worn at edges, bumped at top foredge Binding, however, intact. Text block clean with bump at top foreedge. Rare. Unpaginated. $75 Add to Cart
11032 Metropolitan Museum of Art Greek Art of the Aegean Islands: An Exhibition/D0771P Metropolitan Museum of Art 1979 0870992163 Soft Cover 1st Edition Catalogue based on an exhibition at the Louvre in 1979, also shown at the Metropolitan. Art covers a broad chronology, from Early Bronze Age to the Classic Period of fifth century BC. Plates mostly in B&W with accompanying curator's commentary. Entire book printed on coated paper. Very good plus with minor shelfwear. Floor plan of the Metropolitan laid in. 238 pp. $15 Add to Cart
8030 Minor, Wendell; McCullough, David G.; Minor, Florence Friedmann Wendell Minor: Art for the Written Word Twenty-Five Years of Book Cover Art Harcourt 1995 0151956146 Hardcover First Edition Signed by Author(s) Ivory cloth spine, pale gray paper-covered boards. Introduction by David McCullough. Signed Collector's Edition with 100 color plates, square quarto. Signed by Minor on second leaf. Unread, as new in like DJ; still in pub's shrinkwrap. 154 pages. $85 Add to Cart
9926 Moffett, Kenworth Olitski: New Sculpture Museum of Fine Arts 1977 Soft First Edition Exhibition catalogue. Landscape quarto. B&W photos, interview with sculptor and exhibition info. Very good minus with spotting to cover and evidence of waterstain to top half of book. Paper is coated so the effect on the photographs is minimal. Rare. 42 pp. $35 Add to Cart
3191 Moore, Henry Mother and Child New American Library / Mentor 1966 Mass Market Paperback First Edition A Mentor-Unesco Art Book, MQ698 with cover price of .95. Stated first printing. MMPB size with color plates of Moore's work on coated paper. Contains a series of Moore's sculptures on this subject. With an Introduction by Herbert Read. Very good plus with no creases to spine but some corner wear, minor cover soil. Rare. 32 pp. $30 Add to Cart
8384 Morse, Peter Hokusai One Hundred Poets George Braziller 1989 0807612138 Hardcover First Edition Orange cloth, gilt titles. First edition (FP). Elongated folio (portrait). With 41 color plates and 70 B&W illus. Unread, as new in like DJ. 222 pp. $100 Add to Cart
10320 Museum of Fine Arts Boston Masterpieces from the Boston Museum Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1981 0878462023 Hardcover 1st Edition Oversized square quarto. Grey cloth pattern-stamped with MFA logo, gilt titles at spine. Includes 105 color photos of the stars of the MFA's collection at that time, in eye-popping color reproductions. Paintings, sculpture, objets d'art, etc. Accompanying text and blurbs in Zapf Chancery but nicely laid out. With an Introduction by Museum Director Jan Fontein. Unread, as new in like DJ with some pinpoint dents to front panel and one 1/2" tear at top back panel. Unpaginated. $50 Add to Cart
7885 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Centennial Acquisitions: Art Treasures for Tomorrow Museum of Fine Arts 1970 Soft cover First Edition Exhibition catalogue promoting the MFA centennial anniversary. Entirely printed on coated paper. Includes reproductions of paintings, drawings & sculpture. Mostly B&W plates, a few (20) in color. Arranged chronologically, from Ancient art to contemporary works. Near fine with very minor shelfwear & spots to top edge. 170 pp. $40 Add to Cart
8388 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Boston Museum Bulletin Vol 75 Museum of Fine Arts 1977 Soft cover In this issue: Dionysos: A Late Antique Tapestry and urartian Art in Boston: Two Bronze Belts and a Mirror. Very good with aging, shelfwear and a few spots to back cover. 56 pp. $20 Add to Cart
9169 Neigemont, Olga German Expressionists: The Blue Rider School Crown Publishers 1968 Soft cover First Edition Quarto. Features 10 artists, including Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Munter, August Macke, Lyonel Feininger, others. Pasted color plates. Very good in french wraps with cover soil. 28 pp. $20 Add to Cart
3962 Nesbett, Peter T. And Michelle DuBois, Eds. Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence Univ of Washington Pr 2001 0295979658 Soft Cover First Edition First pb printing. Beautiful, crisp color plates (< 300) mark this exhibition catalogue of of Lawrence's best-known works. As new . 336 pp. $55 Add to Cart
10140 Nesbitt, Peter T. And Michelle DuBois Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence Univ of Washington Pr 2001 0295979658 Soft cover First Edition Oversized quarto. Commentary by Richard J. Powell, Patricia Hills, Paul J. Karlstrom, Lowrey Stokes Sims, Elizabeth Steele & Leslie King-Hammond, Elizabeth Hutton Turner. Includes biographical data, Notes, Notes to Works in Exhibition, Bibliography. Book printed on coated paper, art mostly reproduced in color. Unread, as new. 336 pp. $75 Add to Cart
6779 New York Graphic Society Fine Art Reproductions - Old and Modern Masters New York Graphic Society 1972 08212048410 Hardcover First Edition Pictorial cloth binding, no DJ as issued. A comprehensive survey/catalogue of (mostly) Western painting with color reproductions.Book printed entirely on coated paper, errata pages pasted in at front, framing guide pasted in at back. Very good with spotting to top & foreedge, slight bump to front board at top foreedge, some soil to (white) cloth binding. Text block near fine. Chronology chart of Western painters, 1250-present laid in. 550 pp. $40 Add to Cart
6772 Nordness, Lee, and Allen S. Weller, Eds. Art USA Now (2 Vol set) Viking Press 1963 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Illustrated boards with pasted plates at spines. No DJs as issued. In paper-covered slipcase. Text on textured-finish half leaves with coated folded leaves containing art in alternating sequence. 102 artists represented, including Edward Hopper, Hans Hofman, Raphael Soyer, Philip Evergood, Julian Levi, Jack Tworkov, Robert Goodnough, Leon Golub, Larry Rivers, Robert Rauschenberg, Jack Youngerman. Books unread, near fine with minor peeling to pastes plates at spines. Slipcase very good with shelfwear and one split at top foreedge side. 713 total pp. $175 Add to Cart
1806 Norse, Anne Nishimura and Nobuo Tsuji Japanese Art in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MFA/Kodansha 1998 0878464646 Soft Cover First Edition First printing. Two volumes in DJs in softcover slipcase. One volume of text; one volume of plates. Includes Buddhist painting, sculpture, decorative arts and robes; Noh masks; ink painting; early Kano School painting; Rimpa. Unread, as new. $95 Add to Cart
2083 Ostrowski, Jan K. Land of the Winged Horsemen: Art in Poland, 1572-1764 ASI/Yale Univ. Press 1999 0300079184 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Folio. Exhibition catalogue of a travelling show at The Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore & Art Institute of Chicago. Displays more than 150 varied works of art celebrating Poland’s cross-cultural richness, set in the context of Polish history, geography, and culture. As new in like DJ. 380 pp. $65 Add to Cart
6085 Pemberton, John Insight and Artistry in African Divination Smithsonian Inst Pr 2000 1560988843 Soft Cover First Edition First pb printing. Contains 15 essays by scholars, illustrated with artworks and artifacts. Unread, as new. 209 pp. $20 Add to Cart
10296 Peters, Lisa N. John Henry Twachtman: An American Impressionist High Museum of Art 1999 1555951783 Hardcover 1st Edition Grey binding, gilt titles at spine and front. Oversized quarto. Stated first edition. From an exhibition at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Paintings reproduced in color, many full-page, with an in-depth essay on the artist's career by the author. Book near fine. DJ likewise near fine with one small dent to front. Scarce. 191 pp. $225 Add to Cart
10310 Pisano, Ronald G. William Merritt Chase Watson-Guptill Pubns 1986 0823057380 Soft Cover 1st Edition First printing. Square oversized quarto. A study of the American painter whose influences included Whistler and Japanese art. Paintings reproduced full-page and in color. Very good plus with some shelfwear. 88 pp. $20 Add to Cart
9837 Polsky, Richard I Sold Andy Warhol. (too soon) Other Press 2009 9781590513378 Soft cover First Edition Advance uncorrected softcover proof. Memoirs of the art world. Unread, as new. 268 pp. $20 Add to Cart
8565 Pomodoro, Arnaldo Sculpture 1960/1970 University of California 1970 Soft cover First Edition Constructionist art consisting of sculpture plates mounted on heavy cardboard to be assembled. In glossy white paper portfolio. Portfolio soiled, some creases/small tears. Plates fine. Unpaginated. $75 Add to Cart
7607 Porter, Katherine Anne A Christmas Story Ben Shahn Delacorte Press 1967 Hardcover First Edition Olive binding, gilt titles/decoration, illustrated endpapers by the artist. With line drawings throughout. Book very good with damp warping to endmatter. DJ also very good with sunning to spine, two short tears at bottom edge.Price of $2.95 intact. Unpaginated. $50 Add to Cart
2973 Poster, Amy G. Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of East Asian Art from New York Private Collections Japan Society/Harry Abrams 1999 0810963868 Hardcover First Edition Assumed first printing. Produced on the occasion of an exhibit at the Japan Society Gallery in NY. Green cloth, gilt titles. Includes paintings, calligraphy, sculpture, ceramics, and lacquerware. Color plates throughout. As new in like DJ in pub's shrinkwrap. 196 pp. $50 Add to Cart
8385 Poster, Amy G.; Smith, Henry D. Hiroshige : One Hundred Famous Views of Edo George Braziller 1986 0807611433 Hardcover First Edition Folio. Blue cloth, red titles & decoration to front board. First edition (FP). With 119 color plates. Unread, as new in like DJ. 256 pp. $100 Add to Cart
8845 Prendergast, Maurice Maurice Prendergast: Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook George Braziller 1987 0807611840 Hardcover First Edition Stated first edition. Oversized folio. Ivory cloth spine over faux-leather patterned black boards. In dark brown slipcase with printed titles and pasted color plate illustration. No DJ as issued. This is a high-quality production job with a line-screen printing of ca 450 lpi. The plates reproduce Prendergast's sketchbook in facsimile (front & back sides) on a light cover stock paper. Near fine with owner inscription to ffep. Slipcase also very good plus with shelfwear to back side. 44 pp. $125 Add to Cart
10525 Read, Sir Herbert Edward A Concise History of Modern Painting Praeger Publishers 1975 0275717305 Soft Cover Third Edition First printing thus. Enlarged, updated third edition with 500 plates in color. This classic study surveys modern art from Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism through Post-Abstract Expressionism. Contains Chapter Notes (Text References). Very good plus little- or unread copy with minor shelfwear to cover. 396 pp. $15 Add to Cart
9337 Segal, Lore and Leonard Baskin The Book of Adam to Moses Leonard Baskin Schocken Books 1989 0805209611 Soft cover First Edition First pb edition. Quarto. B&W illustrations by Baskin. Unread, as new. 115 pp. $20 Add to Cart
8910 Server, Lee Danger Is My Business: An Illustrated History of the Fabulous Pulp Magazines/1896-1953 Chronicle Books Llc 1993 0811803554 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Illustrated glossy boards, matching DJ. Printed on coated paper. Book unread, fine in like DJ with slight shelfwear. Evidencly rare. 144 pp. $145 Add to Cart
7621 Shahn, Ben A Partridge in a Pear Tree Museum of Modern Art NY/Doubleday 1964 Soft cover First Thus Reprint of 1951 edition. Staplebound. Very good plus in reddish-orange wrap with some edgewear and two 1/4" tears at bottom edge. Unpaginated. $25 Add to Cart
6788 Singer, Isaac Bashevis A Little Boy in Search of God: Mysticism in a Personal Light Ira Moskowitz Doubleday 1976 0385066538 Hardcover First Edition Stated first edition. Black cloth binding, gilt titles & decoration, color illustrated endpapers by Moskowitz. A personal essay about faith appropriate for readers of all ages. Book near fine. DJ chipped at top edge w/wrinkle-tear at back panel, edgewear at bottom. Price clipped. 209 pp. $50 Add to Cart
9784 Smith, Nancy Glidden Sunshine from Darkness: The Other Side of Outsider Art NARSAD Artworks 1997 0965795004 Hardcover First Edition Landscape quarto. Black linen binding, gilt titles to spine and front. The work of 18 artists afflicted with mental illness, including Ruth McDowell, Kevin Longini, Aaron Holliday, William Nguyen, Eric Petersen, Mark Bishop, Suzanne Rich, others. Paintings reproduced mostly in color, on coated paper. A near fine copy with boards slightly bowed outward. DJ also very good with minor shelfwear. 112 pp. $45 Add to Cart
8947 Sobotik, Kent 100 Paintings from the Boston Museum Museum of Fine Arts 1970 Soft cover First Edition Printed entirely on coated paper. A collection/survey of 100 of the best-loved/well-known paintings from the MFA with text by Sobotik and an introduction by Perry T. Rathbone, Museum Director. All of the paintings are reproduced in color, representing artists from the middle ages through the 20th century. Very good plus with top edge spotting, minor cover soil. 150 pp. $25 Add to Cart
9518 Spiegelman, Art Breakdowns Pantheon Books 2008 0375423958 Hardcover First Edition Signed by Author(s) First printing. Folio. Illustrated boards, no DJ as issued. Signed (w/squiggle) on dedication/cr page facing title page. Unread, as new. Unpaginated. $90 Add to Cart
9761 Spiegelman, Art Be a Nose! Three Sketchbooks McSweeneys Books 2009 1934781142 Hardcover First Thus Three separate books with the same title: one (reprinted) from 1979, from 1983 and from 2007. All hardcovers, no DJs as issued. Bound together with printed elasticized fabric band. As new in pub's shrinkwrap. $45 Add to Cart
1790 Strand, Mark, Ed. Hopper: Wirters on Art Edward Hopper Ecco Press 1995 0880013958 Soft Cover 1st Edition First printing. The former Poet Laureate examines 23 of Hopper's most significant works from an anesthetics perspective. As new with B&W photos of paintings. 65 pp. $15 Add to Cart
9613 Taylor, Judy Letters to Children from Beatrix Potter Frederick Warne & Co 1992 0723237778 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Red cloth, gilt titles. Quarto. Not simply a compendium of letters, this volume contains period photos of Potter, her illustrations & related ephemera, in color & B&W. Entire book printed on heavy matte finish paper. Book near fine with slight aging to top edge. DJ also near fine with minor rubbing. 239 pp. $35 Add to Cart
9162 The Whole Company of Heaven The Great East Window (of York Cathedral) The Whole Company of Heaven 1972 Soft cover Staplebound pamphlet, half-sheet. Contains a brief discussion of the window panels and fuill-page color reproductions of the panels. Spotted at back cover, creased at bottom foreedge. Rare. 12 pp. $20 Add to Cart
7997 Troyen, Carol; Pamela S. Tabbaa The Great Boston Collectors: Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1985 0878462481 Hardcover First Edition Grey cloth binding. Includes 94 plates in color, of works by Van Gogh, Delacroix, Guardi, Velasquez, Thomas Cole and many others. As new in like DJ, still in pub's shrinkwrap. 151 pp. $55 Add to Cart
9935 Turner, Elizabeth Hutton, Ed. Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series Rappahannock/Phillips 1993 0963612905 Hardcover First Edition Tan cloth, black titles and endsheets. Introductory essay by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., other essays by Lonnie G. Bunch III and Spencer R. Crew, Patricia Hills, Elizabeth Steele and Susana M. Halpine, Jeffrey C. Stewart, Diane Tepfer and Deborah Willis. Paintings reproduced in color. Book near new; DJ near fine with some rubbing. 172 pp. $135 Add to Cart
8908 Tyler, Ronnie C.;Tyler, Ron Prints of the West: Prints from the Library of Congress Fulcrum Pub 1994 1555911749 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Brown cloth binding, gilt titles. Plates in color and B&W. Book printed entirely on coated paper. Fine in near fine DJ with a "Library of Congress Classics" emblem to front panel. 197 pp. $45 Add to Cart
6774 Van Beuningen, Charles Stained Glass Windows St. Martin's/Academy Press 1972 Soft cover First Edition Folio. Contains 16 cull-color plates of cathedral stained glass windows from 1250 through 1483. Plates are pasted and on coated paper. Book very good minus owing to cheap newsprint that has become moderately spotted, and paper binding cover strip has torn at spine, although binding is still sound. Slight bump to top corner at foreedge. Plates are fine. Rare. Unpaginated. $65 Add to Cart
9785 Van Gogh, Vincent Als Mensch Unter Menschen Henschelverlag 1962 Hardcover Reprint Two volumes in slipcase. Both volumes bound in yellow linen with pasted titles plates to spine, ribbon bookmarks. No DJs. Text in German, art reproduced on coated sheets, bound in. Most plates B&W. In paper-covered slipcase with wraparound design (painting). Books very good/very good minus with titles plates covered by tape, some sunning to cloth at spine. Volume 2 cracked at rear hinge. Slipcase very good with rubbing and one tear at open edge. 426+499 pp. $35 Add to Cart
9937 Victoria and Albert Museum;Hamilton, Jean;Lambourne, Lionel British Watercolours in the Victoria and Albert Museum: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the National Collection Sotheby Parke Bernet 1980 0856671118 Hardcover First Edition Mustard cloth, gilt titles, orange topstain. Endsheets reproduce in color a Thomas Rowlandson watercolor. Thumbnails of paintings in B&W accompanied by pertinent statistics, brief statement of artist's identity. Indeces include Topographical, Sitters, Characters/Subjects. Printed on coated paper. Near new in like DJ. 455 pp. $85 Add to Cart
7901 Warhol, Andy Andy Warhol Pop Box: Fame, The Factory & The Father of American Pop Art Chronicle Books 2002 0811834786 Hardcover First Edition Paper-covered cardboard box. Contains twenty exact reproductions of invitations, letters from celebrities, photos, astrological charts and various artifacts, with an explanatory booklet. As new: still in shrinkwrap with tear to wrap. $60 Add to Cart
8383 Warhol, Andy Andy Warhol: Self-Portraits Hatje Cantz Pub 2004 3775713905 Hardcover First Edition Edition assumed. llustrated boards, matching DJ. Includes photos & drawings in color & B&W. Unread, and as new in like DJ. Still in pub's shrinkwrap. 120 pp. $50 Add to Cart
8573 Warhol, Andy Andy Warhol: Time Capsule 21 Dumont 2004 3832173838 Hardcover First Edition Assumed first printing. Board book. No DJ as issued. Illustrated in color & B&W. Unread, as new in pub's shrinkwrap with slight bump at bottom foreedge. 286 pp. $25 Add to Cart
2961 Watson, William The Arts of China To AD 900 Yale Univ. Press 0300059892 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Pelican History of Art series. Brown cloth, gilt titles. Hardcover in DJ in slipcase. Covers art. architecture and artifacts from the specified period. First in a three-volumes series, with plates in color & B&W. As new. 276 pp. $70 Add to Cart
9453 Wilber, Richard A Bestiary Alexander Calder Pantheon Books 1993 0679428755 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Folio. Black cloth, gilt titles and decoration to front board. Poems and prose poems by various writers with animal subjects, illustrated with line drawings by Calder. Book near new with shelfwear to bottoms of boards. Glassine DJ very good with minor edgewear. 75 pp. $45 Add to Cart
11352 Wilkin, Karen Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey Pomegranate/Brandywine River Museum 9780764948046 Hardcover 1st Edition Assumed first printing. Black cloth, blindstamp titles to spine. Exhibition catalogue, including plates in color and B&W of book illustrations, theatrical designs and costumes; watercolors, drawings and sketches. Unread, as new in pub's shrinkwrap. 124 pp. $75 Add to Cart
6765 Wood, Ron; German, Bill Ron Wood: The Works Harper & Row 1987 0060960981 Soft cover First Edition First pb printing. Paintings & drawings of Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, John Lennon & others. Very good with crease to back cover, bottom foreedge, minor edge soil. 122 pp. $20 Add to Cart
7994 Zafran, Eric M.; Zafran, Eric; Resendez, Sydney; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Rorhkopf, Katherine French Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Vol I: Artists Born Before 1790 Museum of Fine Arts Boston 1998 0878464611 Hardcover First Edition Navy cloth binding, gilt titles, light blue endpapers. 9-1/2 x 12". Book printed on coated paper. A catalogue, written over a period of seven years by one of the MFA curators. Plates in color & B&W, many full page. Good color reprod. Unread, as new in like DJ. 223 pp. $50 Add to Cart
10546 Zuffi, Stephano Carpaccio Art Books Intl Ltd 1996 1874044163 Soft Cover 1st Edition Text translated by Huw Evans. A useful study series, with paintings nicely reproduced in color, some information about the artist's life, where to view the paintings, anthology of comments about the artist, essential Bibliography. Unread, as new. 64 pp. $15 Add to Cart