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Hardcover. San Diego, CA, IDW Publishing, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Satin ribbon marker. Includes the complete series written by Jack Williamson and with art by Lee Elias.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. In the vein of earlier comics-to-multimedia stars Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, Atlas Comics launched their own pulp hero in 1951, looking ahead to the futuristic year 2000. Across five issues of Space Squadron (and one of Space Worlds), headline talents including George Tuska, Werner Roth and Allen Bellman (with back-up features by Joe Maneely, Christopher Rule, George Klein and Vern Henkel) showed Captain Jet Dixon and his Space Squadron blasting into action, facing cosmic threats like "The Armada of Death," "The Space Demons," "Terror from the Deep," "The Temptress of Jupiter," and "The Midnight Horror."Come 1953, Hank Chapman and Joe Maneely gazed further into the future, envisioning the distant year 2075 and the adventures of Speed Carter, Spaceman. Scripted throughout by Chapman, Maneely launched and drew the first three issues before handing off one issue each to Mike Sekowsky, George Tuska and Bob Forgione, with back-up features by John Romita, Maneely, and Bill Savage. As other aspects of the Atlas line leaned into the peak of pre-Code horror, the Captain of the Space Sentinels and young cadet Johnny Day battled monstrous aliens with stories including "The Space Trap," "A Slaughter in Space," "Die, Spaceman, Die," and "The Thing in Outer Space." Unseen in 70 years, scanned in high resolution, restored to perfection and packaged as one extra-sized, beautiful hardcover volume, In the Days of the Rockets! will open a wormhole to the early cold-war four-color era of futuristic science fantasy.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 200 pages. Like a Velvet Glove... collects all 10 chapters of the serialized story Eightball. As Clay Loudermilk attempts to unravel the mysteries behind a snuff film, he finds himself involved with an increasingly bizarre cast of characters, including a pair of sadistic cops who carve a strange symbol into the heel of Clay's foot; a horny over-the-hill suburban woman whose sexual encounter with a mysterious water creature produced a grotesquely misshapen, but no less horny, mutant daughter; a dog with no orifices whatsoever (it has to be fed by injection); two ominous victims of extremely bad hair implants; a charismatic Manson-like cult leader who plans to kidnap a famous advice columnist and many more! This edition has a brand new cover, new title and end pages-plus: Clowes being the perfectionist that he is, there are tweaked and re-drawn panels that really make this a transcendent piece of storytelling art!

Hardcover. Germany, Prestel, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A thematic presentation of the groundbreaking and provocative art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, this volume offers a new appreciation of his tragic but highly influential career. From his early years spray painting the walls of lower Manhattan to his first solo show in 1982 and his untimely death at the age of 27 in 1988, Jean-Michel Basquiat has become a symbol of the 1980s New York art scene.

Softcover. San Diego CA, Smart Art Pr, 1st, 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes. Light shelf-wear, rubbing and sunning to wrappers. Text in English and Spanish. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 3 Mexican and 2 Spanish institutions, June 1998 - February 2000; notable for the interview of the collector, Tom Patchett, by Rugoff (volume 2) as well as the illustrative matter.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press , 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oatmeal buckram boards with brown lettering. No dj. 46 pages followed by 149 beautifully reproduced full-page b&w plates, then 3 pages of Index of Museums. Donatello, master of sculpture in both marble and bronze, one of the greatest of all Italian Renaissance artists, the greatest Florentine sculptor before Michelangelo. Clean copy. DUE TO SIZE, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Conran, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. John Brookes is one of the world's most respected master gardeners; his more than 1,200 designs have forced a major rethinking of what gardens can be. This first-ever illustrated retrospective of Brookes's career is fascinating reading both for its rich insight into his life, and for opening a wondrous new window onto the garden designs he created for private clients, many of which have never been publicly viewed. More than 50 of the best examples of his work are on display, highlighted by 170 color photographs. Also featured are his explorations in adding movement and dimension to garden design, thoughts on the special considerations for garden entrances, and his understanding of the cultural context of the "room outside."

Softcover. New York, Doubleday, 3rd pr., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover with Light edgewear to wrappers. Cartoons by Roz Chast. Cartoons use puns and the author's offbeat sense of humor to poke fun at human nature and modern life in the United States. Originally appeared 1978-1981 mostly in The New Yorker magazine.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. 160 pages with a collection of underground erotic comic strips, published in the 1930's - 1950's in America. Introductory essay by Art Spiegelman. Commentary by Richard Merkin. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. ADULT CONTENT..

Hardcover. London, SelfMadeHero, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 128 pages. In the mid-1970s, Klimowski's fearlessly original artwork caught the eye of leading Polish theatre and film companies, for whom he designed some of the period's most influential and iconic posters. The London-born artist, who moved to Poland at a time when many East Europeans dreamed of going West, went on to create posters for works by filmmakers and playwrights from Scorsese to Altman, Beckett to Brecht. Drawing on folk art, Polish Surrealism and the work of his mentor at the Warsaw Academy, Henryk Tomaszewski, Klimowski uses techniques including photomontage and linocut to create posters that are filled with metaphor, drama and originality. The Klimowski Poster Book compiles the best of his Polish work, while also tracing his career after his return to London, where he remains Emeritus Professor of Illustration at the Royal College of Art. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Collins Design, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 528 pages. 500 Essential Graphic Novels is an all-in-one guide to this exciting form of visual literature.Including more than 350 authors and 400 artists, this lush volume contains an essential mix of some of the finest visually-stunning stories of our time. From politically-charged non-fiction sagas to imaginative fantasy tales, this ultimate guide has something to satisfy everyone's taste. The first of its kind, this book focuses on each graphic novel separately, honing in on art technique, style and prose, plus an age rating system so parents will know what is suitable for their children. Chapters are divided by genre, complete with individual plot synopses and star-scaled reviews for each book, providing the reader with a concise and balanced understanding of today's best graphic novels.

Softcover. Yonkers NY, Hudson River Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled exhibition catalogue. Pictorial wraps, 32 pages, 37 illustrations (9 color). Lists 92 posters, magazine covers, book illustrations, sketches, etc. Foreword by Rick Beard.

Softcover. NY, The Brooklyn Museum, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, numerous b&w illustrations throughout. Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum November 1972-February 1973. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Slight wear and rubbing around edges and spine, front cover lightly sunned, else a nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Laurence King Publishers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 192 pages. A pictorial tour of unique loos of the world. No dj issued.

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 412 pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Fading to spine of laminated boards. Foxing to text block, otherwise clean and bright internally. Color pictures throughout.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages plus color wraps. Staple bound, $2.00 cover price. Color art by Selton inside- "The Idiots Abroad", part 1. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Book Palace Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 200 pages. Limited to 1000 copies. A history of the great adventure comic strip created by Hal Foster, exploring its origin, the coloring process and showcase samples from original artwork and the color proofs, many scanned at their actual size. The book features all the artists that followed Foster from John Cullen Murphy to Gary Gianni and the current artist Thomas Yeates, with samples of their work scanned from their original art boards. In addition we interview Cullen Murphy who wrote the script for many years after Foster retired, Meg Nash who colored the strip from 1991 until her father John Cullen Murphy retired in 2004, Mark Schultz the current writer and Scott Roberts the colorist since 2004.

Hardcover. New Haven CONNECTICUT, Yale University Press , 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 239 pages, 134 pages of text, 135 b&w illustrations, 26 color plates. A catalogue of 533 items by this important American artist. Near fine in a slipcase, still in shrinkwrap. Sun fade to spine. John Smibert (1688-1751) was the first portrait painter of distinction to attempt to carve out an existence in colonial America. This book by Richard Saunders is both a catalogue raisonne of Smibert's work and a discussion of his life and career. Saunders explores Smibert's early Scottish and London training as well as his travels to Italy; his portrait practice in London; his arrival in America and his stylistic development; the creation of The Bermuda Group, Smibert's masterpiece; and, finally, the business of portrait painting in Boston.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Alongside more than 172 of his drawings, cartoons, and caricatures--and in prose as spirited and wickedly pointed as his artwork--Edward Sorel gives us an unforgettable self-portrait: his poor Depression-era childhood in the Bronx (surrounded by loving Romanian immigrant grandparents and a clan of mostly left-leaning aunts and uncles); his first stabs at drawing when pneumonia kept him out of school at age eight; his time as a student at New York's famed High School of Music and Art; the scrappy early days of Push Pin Studios, founded with fellow Cooper Union alums Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast, which became the hottest design group of the 1960s; his two marriages and four children; and his many friends in New York's art and literary circles.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages. Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525-1569), generally considered the greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century, was described in 1604 by his earliest biographer as a supremely comic artist, few of whose works failed to elicit laughter. Today, however, we approach Bruegel's art as anything but a laughing matter. His paintings and drawings are thought to conceal profound allegories best illuminated with scholarly erudition. In this delightfully engaging book, Walter S. Gibson takes a new look at Bruegel, arguing that the artist was no erudite philosopher, but a man very much in the world, and that a significant part of his art is best appreciated in the context of humor. In his illuminating examination of the witty and amusing elements in Bruegel's paintings, prints, and drawings in relation to the sixteenth century European culture of laughter, Gibson reminds us exactly why Bruegel was one of the most original artists of his time. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton , 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth covers stamped in red and gilt. 450 pages, b&w illustrations. Ione Robinson (1910 - 1989) was an American artist, writer and socialite. She is most known for her reporting of the Mexican muralist movement. in the 1920s and early 30s she worked on Diego Rivera's murals at the National Palace in Mexico City. The first 3 pages with small holes to pages, the rest of text is clean. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, Zephyr Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Illustrated with nearly 100 color plates of various carousel animals, as well as other color and black/white photographs. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, dust jacket shows some rubbing and slight curling at the edges. Shows horses and menagerie animals carved out of wood for American and European carousels, traces the history of carousel rides, and looks at some prominent manufacturers.

Hardcover. NY, Metro Books, 1st, 2012, Hardcover, 256 pages. Rock on, with more than 500 classic music posters--many unseen for years! Organized chronologically from the 1950s to the present, this gallery of images from the very best illustrators in the genre captures the interplay of music and art, revealing how both evolved over the years. From gritty bar bands to the superstars, from the Fillmore to CBGBs, this is a remarkable visual journey. Includes interviews with key artists such as Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley of Family Dog; Michael English and Nigel Waymouth of Hapshash and the Coloured Coat; Roger Dean; Dave Little; and Emek. The posters capture the most famous names in music, from R&B to classic rock, metal, punk and rap, including: Muddy Waters, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, James Brown, the Who, Led Zeppelin, the Grateful Dead, Bowie, the Clash, the Sex Pistols, Springsteen, Pearl Jam, and more--plus cult favorites.. Features on significant music promoters and venues, including Chet Helms, Bill Graham, and CBGBs. Showcases a diverse range of design styles, from letterpress and DIY punk to the rise of computer graphics and the retro illustrations of the modern era.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear. An uncommon collection of Rockwell's art, focusing mostly on the illustrations he did for the Brown & Bigelow calendars over the years. Others reprinted from the Saturday Evening Post. Inscription on front leaf otherwise a clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Christie's, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wraps, 34 pages. BW & color illus. Issued in conjunction with an auction of Edward Hopper's painting "Blackwell's Island." Offers historical background with substantial text and archival and contemporary photographs Includes related works by fellow artists Robert Henri, Georgia O'Keeffe, George Wesley Bellows, and additional paintings by Hopper. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York, Coe Kerr Gallery & Wittenborn Art Books,, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout with 65 plates in color and b&w. White pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear and foxing to covers and spine, else a very nice, tight copy.

Softcover. Lebanon NJ, Vanguard, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. A study of the art of cartoonist Wally Wood. It includes Wood's "Fireball XL-5" designs as well as production art for his unfinished collaboration with "Fritz the Cat", "Wizards", "Lord of the Rings", and "Cool World" film-maker Ralph Bakshi. There is an interview with Wood, along with insights from his closest colleagues; Mad Associate Publisher Joe Orlando; "Star Wars" and EC artist, Al Williamson; and more. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st US, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 394 pages, b&w illustrations. The adventures of Tintin and his dog, Snowy, have captivated people worldwide since they first appeared as an insert in the Belgian Catholic newspaper Le Vintieme Siecle in 1929. Available for the first time in English, this insightful biography delves deep into the psyche of Tintin creator Georges Remi and his public persona Herge. Author of the critically acclaimed Tintin and the World of Herge and the last person to interview Remi, Benoit Peeters tells the complete story behind Herge's origins and shows how and why the nom de plume grew into a larger-than-Remi personality as Tintin's popularity exploded. Drawing on interviews and using recently uncovered primary sources for the first time, Peeters reveals Remi as a neurotic man who sought to escape the troubles of his past by allowing Herge's identity to subsume his own. As Tintin adventured, Herge lived out a romanticized version of life for Remi.

Hardcover. Louisville KY, Butler Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with wraparound title band. The book measures 13.25x10 inches and has 327 glossy, color and black and white pages. Frederick Hart (1943-1999) was surely among the most profoundly talented sculptors to live in our times. For his work on the Vietnam Memorial, the National Cathedral, and for his careful crafting of scores of more intimate pieces, Hart touched the human soul even as he dazzled the human mind. Art gallery sticker on front fly leaf otherwise clean, like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 315 pages, b&w illustrations. Spine slightly cocked. Pictorial dust jacket with light sunfading to spine; edge wear and light rubbing near extremities. Clean text.

Hardcover. St. Ann's Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 130 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This first monograph on Fee accompanies two major gallery exhibitions in California. Fee has done editorial photography for such publications as Vanity Fair and Entertainment Weekly, but this publication focuses on his fine arts work from the past ten years. Fee physically manipulates his photographs and negatives in the darkroom, adding toners and chemical stains that result in beautiful glows of bronze and blue. This effect adds to a sense of decay in his dark, iconographic imagery of America, featured in the photos that make up the first half of this book. Also included are collaborations between Fee and Beat sculptor George Herms.

Hardcover. UK, PS Art Books, 1st, 2011, 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 January 1951 - January 1952 (Issues 1 - 7). Witches Tales ran for 28 issues in the 1950s.

Hardcover. Ostfildern GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated paper-covered boards; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Paul Pfeiffer. 80 pages with 35 four-color plates and 2 black-and-white plates. Essays (in German and English) by Valeria Liebermann and Stefano Basilico. Conversation with the artist (in German and English) by Thomas Ruff. Includes a list of works, biography, list of awards, exhibition history and publications. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. Still wrapped in plastic. In great condition. Color photographs of Raimondi's artwork throughout. A nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. Tales exploring the supernatural featuring featuring Issues 12-18 from December 1952 to June 1953 of the ACG classic Forbidden Worlds. This third volume has been meticulously compiled from the original source material and painstakingly digitally restored.

Hardcover. New York , Rizzoli, 1st, 2008-10-14, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, profusely illustrated in color. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. In the current world of twentieth-century design collecting, the trend has shifted away from accessible, mass-manufactured modernist furniture and toward designs that were custom-made or produced in very limited editions, with emphasis on American studio design of the 1940s to the 1990s. In contrast to the mass-produced mid-century furniture by Knoll and Herman Miller, American studio designs of the same period focused on novel forms and exquisite craftsmanship. Ranging from the organic shapes of George Nakashima and Vladimir Kagan to metalworks by Paul Evans, these limited production designs were highly sought after in their days by original tastemakers and movie stars. In the last decade, a revival for these rare designs began with connoisseurs such as Tom Ford. Modern Americana is the first full survey of the designs of this prolific but forgotten period, bringing to life again the works of Samuel Marx, Billy Haines, Wendell Castle, T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Karl Springer, James Mont, and many others -- including J.B. Blunk, Michael Coffey, Wharton Esherick, Arthur Espenet Carpenter, Sam Maloof, Jack Rogers Hopkins, Paul Evans & Philip Lloyd Powell, Vladimir Kagan, George Nakashima, Silas Seandel, Charles Hollis Jones, Philip & Kevin LaVerne, Tommi Parzinger, Harvey Probber, Edward Wormley, John Dickinson, Arthur Elrod, and Paul Laszlo.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, yellow cloth covers with Pollock's signature stamped in black. 125 pages in color and b&w. About 20 pages of text by noted poet and playwright O'Hara, followed by over 80 reproductions, 16 in color. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 100 pages, colored paper over boards in lettered glassine wrapper. 10 3/4 x 9 1/4 " 27 pages of text, 89 illustrations - 12 in color. Introduction by Sheldon Reich. Lengthy essay by Larry Curry. Catalog lists 157 works. Selected bibliography. A significant exhibition. Glassine wrapper worn, frayed, book is clean, very good.

Hardcover. Clover Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 11 X 14". Reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs that were unavailable for previous books, this series is the ultimate edition of Caniff's masterpiece. We present the Sundays in an unmatched color fidelity and larger than they have ever before been reprinted. Vol. 1 collects all dailies and Sundays from the strip's beginning on October 22, 1934 through the end of 1935 in a deluxe 192 pages, 11" x 14", hardcover. "In the first few years of Terry and the Pirates, Milton Caniff invented the visual and textual language that defines the very vocabulary of all adventure and character-based comic art. It is the greatest adventure comic strip ever done--a genuine masterpiece of its artform."

Softcover. US, Picture This Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. Volume 1: Drawings. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Volume One focuses on Kley's ink drawings, and reprints for the first time a substantial selection of his illustration work for children's books and adult genre fiction, a side of Kley's career previously unexplored in other collections. This volume also includes a wide sampling of Kley's cartoons and magazine work, with newly collected examples taken directly from a variety of rare sources such as "Jugend," "Simplicissimus," and the historic "Der Orchideengarten" (the world's first fantasy fiction magazine). In all, more than 300 Kley illustrations and cartoons fill this first volume.

Hardcover. London, Art/Books, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with black decoration, 186 pages. A beautiful facsimile of the earliest English translation of Gauguin's frank and entertaining memoir, written just before he died, in which he reveals his most inner thoughts on art, life and love Unappreciated in his own lifetime, Paul Gauguin is now recognized as one of the giants of French post-Impressionism and a pioneer of early modernism. A rebel in both art and life, he rejected his bourgeois upbringing and comfortable stockbroker's job to devote his life to painting. Eventually, dismayed by the 'hypocrisy of civilization' and in search of a primitive idyll, he left his wife and children behind in Paris and took up residence in the South Seas, first in Tahiti and, later, in the Marquesas Islands. He would never return to Europe. In the final months of his life, he wrote this witty and revealing autobiographical memoir with the request that it be published upon his death. It first appeared in the original French in 1918, and was translated into English three years later. As his son Emile wrote in the preface, 'These journals are an illuminating self-portrait of a unique personality. They bring sharply into focus for me his goodness, his humor, his insurgent spirit, his clarity of vision, his inordinate hatred of hypocrisy and sham.' Wide-ranging and elliptical, these candid reflections reveal Gauguin's inner thoughts about many subjects, including frank views on his fellow artists back in Paris, his turbulent relationship with Van Gogh, and the charms of Polynesian women, while providing glimpses into his often far-from-idyllic life in the islands. This beautiful facsimile reproduces the first American translation of the journals, a rare limited edition privately published in New York in 1921 for a select group of subscribers. With full-page sketches by the artist, these entertaining and enlightening musings give us a unique insight into Gauguin the man and the artist. Clean copy.

Softcover. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. 40 color, 65 bw repros. photo. Issued in conjunction with a 1985 exhibition of Mary Cassatt's artwork. With an essay by Suzanne G. Lindsay. The illustrated catalogue presents 51 pieces, scattered throughout the text. A very well put-together catalogue.

Hardcover. NY, Skira Rizzoli, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. The first publication dedicated exclusively to Mark Rothko's art during the critical formative period of the 1940s. Examining the development and artistic exploration of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, this unprecedented volume presents the works of American artist Mark Rothko from the 1940s, a time when his most essential development as a painter occurred, dramatically and in a very compact space of time. During this period, Rothko moved from expressive figurative and surrealist canvases to more abstract multiform subjects and finally to his signature abstractions--luminous rectangles of color suspended in space. Richly illustrated with works by Rothko and his contemporaries, introduction by Todd Herman and essays by prominent Rothko scholars, this important new book deepens our understanding of Rothko's art during this vital period, and that of the mature works that emerged from it.

Hardcover. New York, Assouline Publishing, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Whenever the rich and famous are in Paris, they head for the city's most beautiful square, the Place Vendome. This evocatively written volume traces the square's history from its beginnings in the time of Louis XIV to its life in the twentieth century as Paris's center of fashion, jewelry, high finance, and art. From designers Chanel and Schiaparelli to European high society, Russian grand dukes, Indian maharajas, and celebrities from Lillie Langtry to Ernest Hemingway, a cast of extraordinary personalities have lent the Place Vendome an ineffable aura.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Bodleian Library, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. pictorial boards, 112 pages. This book celebrates the Bodleian Library's acquisition of Tom Phillips's archive of over 50,000 photographic postcards dating from the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which, thanks to the ever cheaper medium of photography, 'ordinary' people could afford to own their portraits. Each title in this series is thematically assembled and designed by the artist, the covers featuring a linked painting specially created for each title from Tom Phillips's signature work, A Humument. With an illuminating foreword by Eric Musgrave, 'Menswear' presents postcards of men in all manner of outfits, whether formal, practical or casual, dating from around 1900 up to c. 1949. Most of the subjects are posing for portraits, displaying both their individual style and an interpretation of the fashions of the time. The rich variety of accessories on display includes ties, gloves, pocket squares, walking sticks, canes, boutonnieres and spats. Clean copy.

Softcover. Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 151 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear, rubbing to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Phoenix AZ, Phoenix Art Museum, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 376 pages, illustrated in b&w, some color. Cover has sunning to areas, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. US, Harper, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 419 pages, photos in color and b&w. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Singapore, Asiapac Books, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover 121 pages. The infamous and powerful eunuchs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties come to life in this graphic novel. Illustrated in b&w line.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in a bright dust jacket. In this first biography of the great cartoonist, written with exclusive access to Addams's intimates and his private papers, we finally meet the man behind the famed cartoons and circling rumors. Here is his surprising childhood in New Jersey, the cartoon that offended the Nazis, the friend whose early death Addams long mourned. Here are his wives, the stories behind his most famous-and some of his most private-cartoons, and the Addams whom even his closest friends didn't know. With wit, humor, poignancy, and insight-enhanced by rare family photographs, classic and previously unpublished cartoons, and private drawings-Linda H. Davis paints an engaging and endearing portrait of a marvelous American original.