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Mexico: Editoria "Cultura", 1932. First Printing (NAP). Pamphlet. Good. Diego Rivera and Manual Alvarez Bravo. 7 3/4 in. x 5 in. Card covers, creased, edge-worn or edge-torn. Printed on cheap, brittle paper, now browned. Paper to spine split, folded over and/or chipped. Text block (neatly) detached from covers, awaiting professional reattachment. Black and white photographs of Diego Rivera's… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good Plus. Wide Quarto, 10.75 in. x 10 in., pp. 144. Illustrated withcolor and black and white plates drawings. Olive green cloth boards with white title to front and gilt title to spine. Light rubbing to dustjacket edges. Protected in mylar. Paul Cadmus lived most… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Quarto, 10.4 in. x 9.3 in., pp. ix, 166. Richly illustrated with color and black and white photographs of Balthus' art and life. Brown cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Protected in mylar. Balthus (born Balthasar Klossowski de Rola) (1908 -… Ler mais sobre este item

Tokyo, Japan: Toto Bunka, Co. Ltd. (Distributed by Tuttle), 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Good Plus Dustjackets. Six large folios (14 1/2 in. x 10 1/2 in.), in dustjacket, all housed in original corrugated boxes with lids with printed, pasted-on labels. Sage-green, cloth-covered boards with dark brown, white, and orange lettering and designs to front, and… Ler mais sobre este item

Lanham, MD: The Derrydale Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Quarto, 10.25 in. x 7.25 in., pp. x, 149. Signed by the author on the title page. Illustrated with color and black and white plates. Textured gray paper boards over brown spine. Gilt title to spine. Protected in mylar.

Portland, OR: Pacific Northwest College of Art, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Quarto, 10 in. x 9.5in., pp. 88. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Pictorial front cover with white title to front and spine. Light rubbing to edges. Laid in: Two advertising mailers: one promoting Gilkeys exhibit in Portland; the other… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Sotheby's, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Square octavo, 9.25 in., pp. 192. Wheat-color cloth boards with black title and angle design stamped in black to front. Black title to spine. Light soiling to boards, with corners lightly nudged. Black endpapers. Unmarked interior. Exhibition Catalog for the October 19 - December 8, 2017 selling exhibition put… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Plus. Small Folio, 12 in. x 9.5 in., pp. x, 357. Printed paper covers. Very light thumbing to bottom front corner. Unmarked interior. Laid in: 11 in. x 8.5 in. information sheet and site map form the Thomas Hart Benton Home & Studio in Jefferson Ciy,… Ler mais sobre este item

Seattle, WA: Marquand Books, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near FIne. Small folio, 12.25 in. x 12.5 in., pp. 334. Blach cloth boards with blind-stamped mandala design and silver tiotle to front. Silver title to spine. In the fall of 1899, Charles A.A. Dellschau (1830-1923), a retired butcher and who later worked in the Stelzig family… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: AMERICAN ARTISTS GROUP, 1943. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Very Good Plus in a Very Good Dustjacket.. Octavo.Light brown buckram-covered boards, with gilt and red lettering/design to spine. Loaded with black and white photographs and eight color images. Light shelfwear to dustjacket and some light shipping to top and bottom of spine (of dustjacket). "...an interpretive account… Ler mais sobre este item

London, England: Privately Printed for Mr. and Mrs. F.T. Davies, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hugh Thomson, Louis Wain. Small Quarto, 9.9 in. x 7.5 in., pp. 44. Rich blue morocco boards with gilt title and decorativestylized art nouveau fleur de lys design, and one raised band, to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Scuffing to edges of spine.… Ler mais sobre este item

San Francisco, CA: Paul Elder and Company, 1912. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Very Good. David Starr Jordan and Shimada Sekko. Brown, paper-covered boards (6 1/2 in. x 8 in.), with maroon lettering to front, with a pastedown vertical paper ribbon (2 in. x 8 in.) , ruled in maroon, featuring four of Eric's "beasts". Evidence of some minor… Ler mais sobre este item

Portland, OR: Triangular Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Quarto, 10.6 in. x 7.6 in., pp. 47. Limited edition: #161/1000. Blue cloth spine over natural paper boards. Black title with green design on paper label to front. Light fingerprint stain to front and to back boards. Unmarked interior. Barbara Tetenbaum has been creating limited edition artist… Ler mais sobre este item

Bern, Switzerland: Benteli Publishers, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus. 11.25 in. x 9.6 in. pp. 263. Orange cloth boards with black title to spine. Slight nudge to top front corner. Original sales sticker to back of dustjacket. This catalogue was oublished on the occasion of the exhibition of artist Kurt Schwitters. Foreward… Ler mais sobre este item

Eugene, OR: Fern Ridge Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near FIne. 11.5 in. x 10.25 in, pp. 100. Signed by the author in silver ink on the title page. Black cloth boards with gilt title and chinese script deign to front. Gilt title to spine. Unmarked. Protected in mylar. "Dan's experience with the eastern and… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Museum of Modern Art (M.O.M.A.), 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. Quarto. brick-colored cloth-covered boards (11 1/4 in. x 10 in.), with midnight-blue endpapers. A lavish production spearheaded by Ms. Castleman, then Chief Curator in the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at the Museum of Modern Art. 264 pages. 224 illustrations,… Ler mais sobre este item

Anchorage, Alaska: Anchorage Museum of History and a rt: Alaska Design Forum, 1996. Softcover. Very Good. Grey cardstock covers (9 in. x 6 in.) with a photograph of one of Mr. Goldsworthy's pieces to center. 15 color photos of his "extallations" The artist's "interest in the properties of cold and the process of working with the natural materials… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Atelier Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Quarto. 120 Illustrations (100 in full color). Inscribed by the collector Richard Wiseman on half-title page. (Another inscription below, as yet unidentified). 128 pp.

New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1979. 1st Edition(s). Hardcover. Near Fine in Good Plus Dustjacket. Quarto. Black cloth-covered boards with ever-so-slight rubbing to corners -- hardly noticeable. Decorated endpapers. Dustjacket shows some shelfwear and chipping, particular to spine caps. Groundbreaking work in Feminist art which "transforms the idea of the dinner party into a work of unprecedented beauty and… Ler mais sobre este item

Washington D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. Peter Max. Quarto, 11.8 in. x 8.2 in. Unpaginated. Illustrated with color and black and white art drawings and paintings. Color illustrated pictorial boards. Black title to white background on front and spine. Light rubbing to board edges. Top rear corner nudged. Pictorial endpapers. Unmarked interior. "What a beautiful… Ler mais sobre este item