Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1965. First edition. Paperback. Folio. Loose sheets laid into illustrated folio. Issue number 155 of the long-running art periodical Derriere Le Miroir. This issue with text and color illustrations on the Fondation Maeght itself. Text in French. 28 pp. Illustrated in brilliant color and black and white... More about Derriere Le Miroir 155 Fondation Maeght - Inauguration
Paris: Verve, 1940. First edition. Paperback. Folio. Issue number 7 of Vol. II of this mid-century magazine of fine art illustration. Text in French by Henri Malo. Stiff paper wrappers. A very good copy overall. Still well bound and clean inside. With 12 beautiful color illustrations. This copy still retains... More about Verve The French Review of Art Vol. II, Number 7; Les Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry - Le...
Milan: Arte Milano, 1973. First edition. Paperback. Very good copy of this Italian and English language art magazine focused primarily on the sculpture arts. Illustrated in color and b/w. Articles on Tony Smith, John Dowell, Glass Sculptures and more. More about Arte Milano Giugno 1973 Issue
Mansfield Centre: Martino Publishing, 2009. Reprint. Hardcover. 4to. 579 pp plus indexes at rear. A fine copy in illustrated boards. Reprint edition of this comprehensive art refernce book that was originally published in 1903. Issued without dustwrapper. A large and heavy volume. More about A Travers Cinq Siecles de Gravures 1350 - 1903
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1947. First edition. Cloth. Small clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 95 pp. A handsome very good plus copy in gray cloth binding in lightly chipped, but otherwise quite handsome dustwrapper with $2.50 price intact on the front flap. Book includes 134 plates. Nice copy. More about How To Make Pottery and Ceramic Sculpture; 20 Graded Projects
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
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...
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
London: Peter Owen, 1991. First UK edition. Hardcover. Hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 109 pp. Introduction by Margaret Crosland. Illustrated with black and white line drawings by Cocteau. A handsome near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. More about Erotica Drawings
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
