Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974. Reprint. Cloth. Clothbound quarto in dustwrapper and cardboard slipcase. Reprint edition. Includes 284 illustrations in color and gravure. A fine copy in clipped, but otherwise fine dustwrapper. Housed in a thick cardboard slipcase with printed belly band glued on. Very nice copy of this... More about The Way of the Brush; Painting Techniques of China and Japan
Malaysia: Southeast Asian Ceramics Society, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 150 pp. Illustrated mostly in color. Texts mostly in English by Peter Y. K. Lam, John Carswell and others. A very good hardbound copy in dustwrapper. More about A Ceramic Legacy of Asia's Maritime Trade; Song Dynasty Guangdong Wares and other 11th - 19th...
Japan: Kyoto Shoin International, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Unpaginated. Brief text in English and Japanese by Peter Schjeldahl. Illustrated with many full-page color photographs. Dance as painting. A near fine copy in illustrated boards. Issued without dustwrapper. More about 3 Years of The Ballet Stage
New York: Nicolas Publishing Co., 1936. First edition. Paperback. Tall quarto. Unpaginated. Program guide for the 1936 - 37 season for S. Hurok's Ballets Russes. Filled with photographs, advertisements and descriptions of coming events and the players involve. Covers worn. A good to very good copy in tall illustrated stapled wrappers. More about Col. W. de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo
No Place: Privately Printed, No date. First edition. Loose Sheets. Original watercolor portrait of British Prime Minister Bejamin Disraeli. Watercolor measures 22.5 x 15". Nicely framed under glass. SIGNED by the artist. Minor wear, else fine. More about Original Watercolor
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. Second printing. Cloth. Three clothbound quartos in illustrated hard slipcase. Volume One - Text, 367 pp; Volume Two - Catalogue, 388 pp, and Volume Three - Illustrations, unpaginated. All three volumes in handsome near fine condition in navy cloth bindings decorated and printed in... More about The Drawings of the Florentine Painters (Three Volumes
Southampton: The Parrish Art Museum, 1997. First edition. Paperback. Paperbound quarto. 143 pp. Text by Blaugrund. Illustrated in color and black and white. A near fine copy in bound illustrated wrappers. More about The Tenth Street Studio Building; Artist-Entrepreneurs from the Hudson River School to the...
London: William Heinemann, 1960. First edition. Cloth. Clothbound quarto. 181 pp. Illustrated with photographs and tipped on color plates. Quality biography on the great book illustrator Rackham. Prior owner inscription, else a most handsome very good to near fine copy in plum cloth covers with gilt lettering at spine and... More about Arthur Rackham; His Life and Work
London: Faber and Gwyer, 1926. First edition. Cloth. 4to. 127 numbered pp followed by XX full-page plates. Illustrated in black and white with tissue guards present. This is number 40 of only 106 special copies printed on English hand-made paper and SIGNED by the author. A very good copy in... More about A History of Caricature (Signed
New York and London: Reinhold Book Corp. 1968. Second printing. Hardcover. Small hardbound quarto. 127 pp. Illustrated with numerous black and white drawings and photos. Some heavy stains to front cover else a very good copy in dusstwrapper. For fans interested in "Op" Art. More about Optical Illutions and the Visual Arts
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971. First American edition. Cloth. 8vo. First American edition. 514 pp. With a small number of illustrations. Diaries and letters of the famed British painter who lived with Lytton Strachey for over seventeen years. Edited and with an introduction by her friend David Garnett... More about Carrington Letters & Extracts from her Diaries Chosen and with an Introduction by David Garnett
Sheldon, SC: Pixie Products, Inc., 1973. First American edition. Hardcover. Hardbound quarto. Issued without dustwrapper. First American edition. An unpaginated volume of cartoons created by Paterson all using a "bull" as metaphor. Illustrated in color. Only text is a brief introduction. A fine copy. More about The Bull Pen
Philadelphia: Sunshine Publishing Company, 1890. First edition. Cloth. Folio sized hardbound volume (over 14" tall) Containing twenty lithoed water-color engravings with illustrations on Wood by Eminent Artists. Idealized late 19th century images of white children of very young age. Some light age spotting to paper. Illustrated cloth covers are somewhat... More about Ideal Heads
Berkeley: University Art Museum, 1971. First edition. Paperback. Large square (11") paperbound quarto. 178 pp. Preface by James Cahill and with essays by Lucy Lo-hwa Yang, Patricia Berger, Elizabeth Fulder and others. Illustrated mostly in black and white. A very good copy with some expected light cover wear. More about The Restless Landscape: Chinese Painting of the Late Ming Period
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2000. First edition. Paperback. Two thick softbound quartos in thick printed cardboard slipcase. Illustrated in color and black and white. Volume One has 404 pp and Volume Two has 194 pp. This second volume is almost entirely text while the first volume has all the... More about The Orchid Pavilion Gathering - Chinese Painting from the University of Michigan Museum of Art...
Hong Kong: The Art Museum The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. First edition. Cloth. Large, thick clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 384 pp. Text in English and Chinese by Peter Y. K. Lam, Zhang Rong and Zhang Weiyong. With gorgeous full-page color photographs of this amazing collection of Chinese glass... More about Elegance and Radiance; Grandeur in Qing Glass The Andrew K. F. Lee Collection
New York: Viking Press, 1972. Second printing. Cloth. 8vo. Stated second printing. 467 pp. A comprehensive analysis of the music of these three great composers by an emminent American pianist. Mild spotting to top edge, else a handsome near fine clothbound book in dustwrapper. More about The Classical Style Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
No Place: RxArt, 2011. First edition. Paperback. Paperbound quarto. A very good copy in bound illustrated wrappers. The third volume (of four so far) of coloring books with drawings by contemporary artists too numerous to name. More about Between The Lines: A Coloring Book of Drawings by Contemporary Artists Volume 3
Prague: Plus / Albatros Media, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Hardbound quarto. Text in Czech and English. Book reproduces a sketchbook by Fuka. Prologue by Ivana Fukova. Essay by Jan Rous. Fine condition in tan boards with pictorial inset to front cover. Presumed not to have been issued with a dustwrapper... More about Denik 1952
New York and Cambridge: International Center of Photography and MIT Press, 1993. First edition. Cloth. Wide oblong quarto. 198 pp. Illustrated in color. Featuring texts by Charles Stainback, Timothy Druckery, Regina Cornwell and others. Artists featured include Jim Pomeroy, Carol Flax, Michael Brodsky and much more. Fine in fine dustwrapper. More about Iterations: The New Image
London, Paris and New York: The Studio, 1911. First edition. Cloth. Clothbound quarto. Inlaid gilt cover lettering and decoration. 246 pp. Lightly worn at spine tips. A very good unmarked example. Iluustrated in both color and black and white. More about Pen, Pencil and Chalk; A Series of Drawings by Contemporary European Artists
Ithica and London: Cornell University Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 286 pp. With numerous illustrations. A study of the state of visual arts in England in Blake's time. A fine copy in fine dustwrapper. A large and heavy book. More about The Counter-Arts Conspiracy; Art and Industry in the Age of Blake
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Two volume set of oversized books in slipcase. A Catalogue Raisonne of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. Both volumes in... More about Drawings From the CClark Art Institute (Two Volume Set
Boston: David R. Godine, 1990. First American edition. Cloth. Large clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 478 pp. This volume, compiled by Gill's nephew, contains Gill's complete oeuvre - from his religious subjects to his erotic fantasies. With hundreds of illustrations of the artist's engravings. Ever so slight shelfwear, else a fine... More about Eric Gill - The Engravings
New York: The Downtown Gallery, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Unpaginated. Introductory passage quoted from Gertrude Stein. Seventeen pages of text from the artist followed by 24 selections of Hart's drawings and etchings. Many pages still uncut. A handsome near fine copy in lightly used printed dustwrapper. More about George O. Pop Hart; Twenty-Four Selections From His Work
