Art

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Illustrated with never-before-seen photographs, cartoons, and drawings, Cartoon County brings the postwar American era alive, told through the relationship of a son to his father, an extraordinarily talented and generous man who had been trained by Norman Rockwell. Cartoon County gives us a glimpse into a very special community-and of an America that used to be.

Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps. Beautiful reproductions of paintings and drawings throughout, with 12 color plates. Pages are crisp and clean, binding is tight. 126 pages. Catalogue of the exhibition held March 28 to May 14, 1972, at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Softcover. NY, Bantam, 1st pbk., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages in color. Experience the Star Wars universe as never before in this stunning visual journey that carries you to the farthest reaches--and into the deepest mysteries--of George Lucas's cinematic masterpiece. Ralph McQuarrie, the legendary main concept artist for all three Star Wars films, and Kevin J. Anderson, the New York Times bestselling Star Wars author, present the ultimate voyage: a vivid and close-up look at the exotic worlds and remarkable inhabitants of the Star Wars universe. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Chartwell Books, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 448 pages, color illustrations throughout. Originally published as a hardcover in 2004. Errata slip laid in. Color illustrated wraps.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press/Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, 148 color plates. A landmark examination of iconic and provocative portraits by Warhol and Mapplethorpe, presented side by side and in depth for the first time.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. The poet John Ashbery wrote of Rudy Burckhardt in 1980: "Before there was an underground, there was Rudy Burckhardt. The genial, Swiss-born jack-of-all-trades and master of several has remained unsung for so long that he is practically a subterranean monument." Since that time Burckhardt's reputation has steadily grown - as photographer, filmmaker, and painter - beyond Manhattan's downtown community of artists in which he lived and worked. For six decades Rudy Burckhardt (1914-1999) was a discreet, but enduring, and ultimately important figure in New York's avant-garde art world. Author Phillip Lopate, a long-time friend of the photographer, provides an insightful and thought-provoking homage to the quiet brilliance of a national treasure. And the poet and curator, Vincent Katz, has contributed an essay further elaborating on Burckhardt's photographic achievement. Illustrated with almost three hundred photographs, Rudy Burckhardt presents the remarkable depth and range of the artist's work. The book will fascinate anyone interested in the New York art world and offers a revelation for all those interested in photography.

Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A collection of drawings by Tomi Ungerer on the themes of men, women, and sex. Unpaginated [112 pages]; 109 full-page b&w illustrations; 9.25 x 12.25 inches. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages, color plates throughout. Exhibition catalog, five scholarly essays. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. Introduction by Arthur C. Danto. 196 color and b/w illustrations, 56 of which first appeared in The New Yorker.

Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Light edgewear to wrappers. Color comics throughout. This volume finds Herriman flowering into the peak of his inventiveness, liberated at last from the constraints of his syndicate's chosen format. Gorgeous cartoons are augmented by rare bonus materials. This volume is one in a long-term plan to chronologically reprint the entirety of the 28-year run of Krazy Kat's breathtaking Sunday page, most of which has not seen print since originally running in newspapers 75 years ago. Each volume is painstakingly edited by the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum's Bill Blackbeard, the world's foremost authority on early 20th Century American comic strips, and designed by Jimmy Corrigan author Chris Ware. In addition to the 104 full-page black-and-white Sunday strips from 1929 and 1930 (Herriman did not use color until 1935), the book includes an introduction by Blackbeard and reproductions of rare Herriman ephemera from Ware's own extensive collection, as well as annotations and other notes by Ware and Blackbeard.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1997, Book: Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Faye Resnick on cover, '3001: The Final Odyssey' by Arthur C. Clarke, Clint Eastwood interview, 20 questions for Michael Jordan, article on Don King, Miss March Jennifer Mariam and more.

Hardcover. NY, Posters Auctions International, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 592 posters illustrated in color. Catalog for Nov. 13, 2005, Sale No. XLI. No dj issued.

Hardcover. Paris, Flammarion, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, folio. This original, illustrated monograph recounts haute couture designer Jean Patous charmed life and career during the apex of 20th-century glamour, and is drawn from extensive research into previously unpublished family archives. 250 color plates. Remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise tight, clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Penguin Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Large-format softcover. Black and white art by Burns throughout. Light edgewear to paper wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 231 pages, richly illustrated, primarily in color. This book is filled with gorgeous color illustrations. 1486 species illustrated, nomenclature edited by Douglas Kent. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Vendome Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. Beene by Beene is a journey through Geoffrey Beene's life in fashion, a 40-year exploration that was, by turns, visionary, witty, irreverent, iconic, and timeless. His work was of such powerful clarity, such complete complicity between form and function that it actually teaches us-as all works of art do-how to look. A defining American artist, Geoffrey Beene towers in his field.Pamela A. Parmal provides a chronological survey of Mr. Beene's career as a fashion designer and discusses the evolution of his work. Chapters focus on themes or influences-Woman, Body, Fabric, Comfort, Geometry, Sport, Culture-that were a constant source of inspiration to the designer. Beene won the attention and admiration of other artists, and here we see his work through the eyes of renowned photographers and illustrators, even filmmakers and choreographers.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. The Window in Photographs includes more than eighty color plates spanning the history of photography, all drawn from the J. Paul Getty Museum's permanent collection.

Softcover. US, BOOM! Studios, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, graphic novel Illustrated throughout in color. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Woodbury NY, Barron's , 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 90 pages, color illustrations. English language edition. Paintings of France and Holland by Dutch artist, Johan Barthold Jongkind [1819-1891]. A volume in the series, 'Les Carnets de dessins'. Clean copy.

Softcover. Overlook Books, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. The adorable squash-shaped character was so popular it immediately spawned the largest merchandising craze in the nation's history. In the words of Life magazine, the nation was "Shmoo-struck." The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo collects, for the first time in one volume, Capp's essential comic strips about the Shmoo. This is Al Capp and his incisive social criticism at its best.

Hardcover. London, Penguin Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. 390 pages, 192 bw plates at rear plus line diagrams and maps. No slipcase.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 4th pr., 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 314 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Oversized. Moderate wear to dust jacket, creasing to front fly leaf. Color images throughout. Moderate wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and repaired dust jacket. A collection of 200 Price cartoons, mostly from The New Yorker. 96 pages. Clean copy.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. Comics, graphic novels, and single panel cartoons have long flourished as an alternative medium. In recent years these forms of narrative illustration-artwork that tells its own story rather than supporting a text-have increasingly crossed over into mainstream popular culture. Pictorial storytelling now reaches the public through animated films (Spirited Away) and films with animated sequences (Kill Bill), while graphic novels win literary prizes and comic art hangs in art galleries. This delightful book explores the various uses of images with and without text in the work of over thirty artists from around the world.

Hardcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1wt, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages. full blue cloth, silver lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W and color photographs and reproductions. A visual tour of the great country English houses through the ages. Clean copy.

Softcover. Detroit MI, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 411 pages. Color frontispiece and b&w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Light soiling and wear to cover. Small sticker on spine. Else a tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 238 pages. Illustrated profusely in b&w and 16 plates in color. An exhibition sponsored by the government of the Republic of Greece and the Musee du Louvre. Metalwork, bronze, clay, marble: all manner of objects 4th millennium B.C. to 4th century B.C.

Softcover. New York, Four Walls Eight Windows, 3rd pr., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages, b&w art throughout. Coe's graphic tirade against animal abuse in our food chain. A nationally prominent, politically oriented artist offers an unsparingly critical view of the meat industry in scores of illustrations, documenting the skewing, flaying, dismembering, castrating, debeaking, electrocuting, and decapitating of animals.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Fraenkel Gallery, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Two volumes in slipcase. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The result of three years of work in California's Central Valley, Katy Grannan's new series The 99 features large-scale color portraits and black-and-white photographs. Grannan's recent photographs are set in the parched landscape and forgotten towns along Highway 99, including Modesto, Fresno and Bakersfield. In her intensely vivid color portraits, the artist works at midday when the sun is direct and the heat is unrelenting, presenting each individual, often simultaneously heroic and vulnerable, against stark, white backgrounds. In the black-and-white photographs, many of her subjects re-appear on Modesto's South 9th Street and along the banks of the Tuolumne River. Everyday rituals, small interactions and moments of beauty on the fringes of society are depicted in detail, conferring significance to what is often overlooked. This large-format, two-volume, slipcased monograph gathers this series for the first time.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wraps with $2 cover price, b&w art by Shelton. 32 pages.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 169 color plates. An introduction to the postmodern photographs of Allan Chasanoff, whose work interrogates and subverts the notion of photography as a truthful record of the real. From the 1960s onward, Allan Chasanoff (1936-2020) maintained a daily photographic practice, producing tens of thousands of images that pushed the limits of the medium and questioned its reliability as a document of reality. Preferring to experiment away from the art world, Chasanoff rarely exhibited his photographs, his art remaining unknown to all but a select circle of friends and collaborators. This catalogue is the first to survey his beguiling work. Monika Sziladi, Chasanoff's archivist, contributes an outline of the artists life and practice, tracing the development of his art from his early experiments with light, shadow, and color in his lens-shot photographs to his late-career foray into 3D printing, which he viewed as the latest frontier of photography. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. 190 illustrations, including 110 plates in full color. A fascinating dive into modern art, daring new forms, materials and colors to rule. Vintage Deco meets modern style. Book in very nice shape. Dust jacket whole and binding tight. Clean and crisp.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From its first issue in April, 1970, the National Lampoon blazed like a comet, defining comedy as we know it today. To create Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, former Lampoon illustrator Rick Meyerowitz selected the funniest material from the magazine and sought out the survivors of its first electrifying decade to gather their most revealing and outrageous stories. The result is a mind-boggling tour through the early days of an institution whose alumni left their fingerprints all over popular culture: Animal House, Caddyshack, Saturday Night Live, Ghostbusters, SCTV, Spinal Tap, In Living Color, Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons--even Sesame Street counts a few Lampooners among its ranks. 320 pages, mostly color.

Hardcover. New York, Mason/Charter, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 311 pages, illustrations throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 214 pages. A follow up of Truitt's journal "Daybook." The author continues the exploration of her life as an artist, a woman, and a mother, focusing on the constant interplay between daily activities and choices and the broader context of history and ideas. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover163 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to wrappers, with small crease to front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY/Beijing, Chambers Fine Arts, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover copy in black boards with the artists' name embossed in darker black on the front cover, in a bright red dust jacket, with some edge-wear. This is the most complete catalog of Lu Shengzhong's works to date. The catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the University at Albany Art Museum. Text In English and Chinese. Essays by a dozen scholars. Biographical sketch. 34 page illustrated chronology, records Lu Shengzhong's artworks from 1980 to 2005. Illustrated throughout in color, some black & white, vintage photographs. 11" high X 8" wide, 155 pages.

Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages with 52 color and 102 b&w plates. A unique portrait of the artist by an scholar, who draws on his personal experience of Bacon. A survey of his artistic development precedes critical studies of selected aspects of the artist and his work. Previously unpublished extracts of the author's conversations with Bacon are reproduced and followed by a brief account of Bacon's life.

Hardcover. NY, Matthew Marks Gallery, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, brown-grey boards with white lettering; 139 pages, richly illustrated, in color. Created on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York from September 11th through October 23, 2015. This catalogue focuses on the formative drawings that Anne Truitt (1921-2004) made while living in Tokyo from 1964 to 1967, a pivotal moment for her, both artistically and intellectually. Though she later destroyed the sculptures she produced there (all in aluminum, a material she ultimately found unsuited to her intentions), this process of discovery was essential to the clarification of her sculptural vision. The innovations she developed in Japan, many in the form of drawings, would profoundly inform her lifelong practice. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 2-color cartoons throughout by Marge. Marjorie Henderson Buell created the comic strip Little Lulu in 1935. A beautiful copy of this Little Lulu book with cartoons reprinted from THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. 8.25'' x 7''. Original pictorial boards. In original pictorial dust jacket (with this title listed last on rear flap). Dj with light wear, dust soil. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Silkworm Books/Buppha Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 430 pages with b&w and color plates. This comprehensive and attractive reference is divided into four parts: the historical and cultural background; the analysis of Northern Buddha images, including iconography, style, techniques, and dating; the types of Northern Buddha images; and associated Buddhist sculpture, such as footprints and mythical creatures. The Buddha images are classified by style and date, using those images with inscribed dates as the armature around which to cluster the undated statues. The images are analyzed in detail and placed in their historical, cultural, and religious context. Richly illustrated with photographs and line drawings, this volume is an indispensable reference and guide to Buddha images and other Buddhist sculpture of Northern Thailand. Clean copy.

Softcover. Rochester NY, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 50 pages. b&w illustrations. Decorative red/black endpapers. Floral patterned front endpapers. Very clean copy, small amount of wear evident around spine. Limited to 300 softcover copies. Clean.

Hardcover. Boston, MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages, profusely illustrated. From the 1890s through the turn of the century, there was a flourishing of new, imaginative art and craft throughout Europe that we now know as Art Nouveau. The Netherlands experienced an inventive variant of this art and design phenomenon, but until now it has been largely overshadowed by its counterparts in other countries, especially France. This richly illustrated book is the first in English to celebrate the Dutch contribution to Art Nouveau through a tour of more than 100 works on paper--posters, decorative calendars and illustrated books, as well as prints and drawings. These innovative works of graphic design reveal the progressive Dutch artists' conscious reaction against the past, their inspiration in natural forms and exotic cultures, and their embrace of the principle that art should transform everyday life. They also show how the New Art--Nieuwe Kunst in Dutch--coexisted and sometimes intertwined in the Netherlands with other artistic strands, including persistent realist trends, Symbolism and the emergence of modernism. Included here are early drawings by well-known artists Vincent van Gogh and Bart van der Leck, as well as new discoveries from Jan Toorop, Theo Nieuwenhuis, Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, Theo Hoytema, G. W. Dijsselhof and C. A. Lion Cachet. This beautifully illustrated book is the first in English to celebrate the Dutch contribution to Art Nouveau through a tour of over one hundred posters, decorative calendars, and illustrated books, as well as prints and drawings. With text by Clifford S. Ackley, one of the leading specialists on Dutch prints and drawings, Holland on Paper in the Age of Art Nouveau provides a fascinating and visually rewarding introduction to a rich and creative artistic era.

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics/Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 209 pages. Hardcover with slipcase. Illustrated with full color reproductions of classic Batman strips from 1943-1946. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Collects issues #21 through #25 of comic book "Adventures Into the Unknown" published by ACG from July to November 1951.

Softcover. NY, Bill Hodges Gallery, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages with color and b&w plates throughout. Includes the work of Norman Lewis, Charles Alston, Milton Avery, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthe, Edward Clark, Sam Gilliam, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Charles White, Kehinde Wiley, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and more.

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. This illustrated biography describes a trip taken by William de la M. Cary and two companions by steamboat on the Missouri River. 242 pages, b&w illustrations, 16 pages of color plates. SIGNED BY LADNER on the half-title page. Book tightly bound and in near fine condition. Dust jacket shows some rubbing and fading in areas.

Hardcover. US, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 116 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 4. 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy.