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New York: American Art Galleries, 1909 fine. Subscriber copy no. 83 of an edition limited to 125 copies. folio, 268 pp. 37 full page photogravures, 13 partial page photogravures, 17 full page photographs. .... more information
Price: 125.00 USD
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Tokyo ?: 1963 Fine. 82 pp. Profusely illustrated incolor & b/w. .... more information
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Halasz Karoly . privat Adas . 1967 - 1993.
Budapest ?: Balassi Kiado, 1995 Fine. 8vo. 159 pp. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Bibliography, chronology. .... more information
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Non grata: art of the invisibles, performances 1998-2007.
Tallinn, Estonia: Academia Non Grata, 2007. Mint as issued.. 1 of 1000 copies. 4to. 367 pp. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. .... more information
Price: 250.00 USD
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Otterlo: Musee Kroller-Muller, 1955-1957 All issues are fine except serie, no.1. which has an old waterstain on the bottom of the front cover.. 9 separate issues.. 8vo's. various paginations. Profusely illustrated in black and white. .... more information
Price: 150.00 USD
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journaal van de nederlandse musea voor moderne kunst.
Otterlo,: Kroller-Muller Museum, 1961-1962 Fine. 3 issues. 8vo's, various paginations. Profusely illustrated in black and white. .... more information
Price: 40.00 USD
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[London]: Wyman and sons printers, Published at the office of The Chromolithograph, 1868-1869 Very good +. 4to. 354 pp. 62 mounted full page chromolithographs. .... more information
Price: 385.00 USD
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Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1977 fine. 4to. 178 pp. Profusely illustrated in color & b/w. Bibliography, chronology, Inventory of the Delaunay gift to France. .... more information
Price: 45.00 USD
Architectural Digest 11/91 Madonna NEW YORK ISSUE.
New York:: Architectural Digest Publications,, 1991. Near Fine. Architectural Digest November 1991. This magazine, in illustrated wrapper, is in NEAR FINE condition with minor wear on wrapper. 260 pages. Vol 48 No 12. The New York Issue: Features articles: "A Green Room at the Heart of the City" by Frances Fitzgerald (Central Park); "A Modernist Way with Historic New York Residences" by Charles T. Young; "The Mountains of Manhattan" by Brendan Gill --The Low Memorial Library; Cathedral of St. Johns the Devine; Cloisters; "Drue Heinz's Literary Lair": A Bookish Design by Architects Cicognani Kalli by Steven M.L. Aronson; "Come Back, Mrs. Brownette!" by Christopher Buckley; "The Frick Art.... more information
Price: 16.00 USD
Paintings from the Russian Museum Collection.
Leningrad:: Aurora Art Publishers,, 1975. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 4to. 390 pp. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Light foxing to fpd. Faint yellowing to rpd, fpd, and ffep. Wear and tears to edges of dj covers. Small price tag in Russian to spine. Spine is slightly rolled. Color illustrated reproductions of select paintings from the Russian Museum Collection. Alphabetical index in the end. Arranged from earliest to latest. Includes art by Anatoly Levitin, Alexey Yeriomin, and Vasily Perov. .... more information
Price: 24.00 USD
UNESCO., Very Good. 4to. 116pp. Light discoloration & rubbing to rear cover; light shelf wear to spine ends & cover corners. Restoration of Venice's architecture & art. Illustrated. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
Larousse Dictionary of Painters.
New York:: Larousse and Co.,, 1981. Very Good in Very Good dj. First edition. 4to. 467 pp. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped and worn. Light rubbing to covers of dj. Rear end page has stain to corner. Pages nice and clean, binding tight. Light sunning to edges of covers of dj. "There are more than 550 entries, each illustrated by at least one example of the artists work, giving an account of his life, a critical assessment of his achievement and details of where his paintings may be found." .... more information
Price: 30.00 USD
Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings.
Cambridge:: Harvard University Press,, 1919. Good. 4to. 356pp. Lightly rolled; slightly cocked; soiling to spine & covers; usual ex library marks; light shelf wear to cover edges especially cover corners. Previous owner's name & address to ffep. Binding tight. Byzantine, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Flemish, & English painting discussed w/ illustrated plates. .... more information
Price: 80.00 USD
Scientific American: An illustrated Journal of Art, Science, and Mechanics Volum 43.
New York:: Munn and Company,, 1905. Very Good - Good. Folio. 540 pp. Corners bumped and worn. Damp staining to bottom edge of book, to spine, and to parts of covers. Some pages are wrinkled. Light foxing to end pages, slightly to title page and to fore-edge. Soiling to covers. Pages are clean, binding tight. Issue from July 1, 1905 to December 30, 1905. .... more information
Price: 65.00 USD
Das Ratsel der Kelten vom Glauberg. Glaube-Mythos-Wirklichkeit.
Stuttgart: Konrad Theiss, 2002.., Very Good. First edition. Very good oversized softcover with illustrated covers. Slight wear to edges of covers with a minor amount of scufing to th covers. 344 pages with illustrations, glossary, bibliography, and index. text of this work on the ancient Celtic peoples and their art and culture is in German. .... more information
Price: 25.00 USD
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Kunstgewerbliche Schmuckformen für die Fläche. Monatshelfe für die Verzier. Kunst. Bd. VIII. H. 1/2.
[Plauen: Verlag Christian Stoll, Bucch, c. 1915] Small folio, new black cloth portfolio, portion of original front board with with mounted title sheet newly mounted into cut-out on front board. Thirty leaves of decorative images and patterns, brightly colored by stencils, mounted on black leaves, each with a small label at margin. Portfolio replaced, possibly lacking a text leaf; the colored plates stunningly fresh and bright. First Edition. This portfolio evidently comprises two parts of the eighth volume of this illustrated periodical of pictorial motifs that was issued in a total of 21 volumes between 1909 and 1939. The publisher.... more information
Price: 500.00 USD
CHARLESTON HOTEL. CHARLESTON S. C.
Phila.:: Art Press, Loughhead & Co.,, n.d. (early 1900's). Stapled illustrated blue paperwraps. Small 8vo.; 8pp., on glossy paper. Photo illus. A promotional brochure for the city & the hotel. Mentioned are the Chicora Golf Links and the U.S. Government's construction project, building the largest Naval Station and dry dock in the world. Very good. .... more information
Price: 75.00 USD
NEW ROCKLEDGE HOTEL, ROCKLEDGE, FLA., P.A. SHARES, PROP.
N.P.:: Troy Times Art Press,, n.d. (ca.1909). Biege paperwraps, bound with cord; illustration of a man on the back of an alligator on front wrap. 12mo. (folded in half vertically); (8pp.). Photo illus. Illustrated flaps from wrappers fold over the text. Hand stamped on front & rear wrap "Special rates to April 15, 1910. D.L. & W.H. Wood, Props." Not in SERVIES. No listing found on OCLC. Very good. .... more information
Price: 175.00 USD
St. Louis, (MO):: Wrought Iron Range Co.,, (1916). Combination cookbook and trade catalogue. 8vo. 168 pp. Illustrated. Includes descriptions of the company's kitchen appliances, testimonials as to their effectiveness, list of references, and 65 pages of recipes. Variations of this cook book were published by the company from the late 19th century; this edition not recorded on OCLC. Not in Cagle/Stafford or Brown. Original brown wrappers (rubbed and soiled, spine ends chipped), printed in red and black; stain through first few leaves, a good copy only. .... more information
Price: 75.00 USD
Art in Taxidermy [cover title].
Denver, CO:: Jonas Brothers (Welch-Haffner Printing Co., Denver),, (c1924). First edition. 4to. 31, (1) pp. Illustrated from photographs, line drawings, marginal vignettes. Illustrated guide to the Jonas Brothers' services. Caption title: "Taxidermy as an Art." Very good. Color decorated gray wrappers, stapled. (#4268) .... more information
Price: 125.00 USD
Northwest History in Art 1778 - 1963.
Tacoma [WA]:: Washington State Historical Society,, 1963. First edition. 10" x 7". [34pp.] Stapled illustrated wrappers. Fine condition. With an introduction by Bruce Le Roy. With reproductions of art works by Gustavus Sohon, James Alden, John Webber, Edmund T. Coleman, James Everett Stuart, Cleveland Rockwell, Benjamin Raborg, Raphael Coombs, W. Fife, and others. The subject matters include Pacific Northwest landscapes, Native Americans, forts, etc. .... more information
Price: 12.50 USD
Kyoto:: Nissha Printing Company, Ltd.,, 1982. 9.5" x 10". [105pp.] Bound in color illustrated paper wrappers, with the original printed glassine dust wrapper. This excellent work includes many full color illustrations of this beautiful Japanese museum. .... more information
Price: 12.00 USD
The Robie House. Frank Lloyd Wright.
(Palos Park, Illinois):: (The Prairie School Press),, 1968. 11" x 15". [27pp.] Illustrated stapled paperback. Some edge wear and a few spot of soiling. Overall a VG copy. This volume prints Wright's plans for the house he designed for Frederick C. Robie. The Robie House is considered one of the most important buildings in the history of American architecture. Designed in Wright's Oak Park studio in 1908 and completed in 1910, the building inspired an architectural revolution. Its sweeping horizontal lines, dramatic overhangs, stretches of art glass windows and open floor plan make it a quintessential Prairie style house. Although it was designed more than ninety years ago,.... more information
Price: 60.00 USD
London & Tel Aviv:: Lisson and Sommer Contemporary Art,, 2002. 7" x 8.75". [56pp.] Color illustrated hardcover boards. Nearly fine condition. Yaari's metaphorically charged pictures were made in Israel, Lithuania and Poland. Many of them have been subjected to subtle digital changes. The pictures are often dominated 'by a sense of stopping, watching and waiting'; everything about them seems temporary and fragile. The digital re-workings give his pictures an uncanny quality and hint at deeper themes of presence and absence, life and death. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
Aachen:: Edition R. de Bernardi,, 1993. 8.25" x 11.75". 112pp. Color illustrated hardback boards. Fine condition. With French and English language text on the Belgian artist and her art works. With many color and black & white illustrations from the artists paintings. .... more information
Price: 100.00 USD
Outdoor Sculpture of Rhode Island.
[No place]:: Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission,, 1999. 11" x 8.5". 83pp. Color illustrated paper wrappers. Near fine condition. This book includes numerous black & white illustrations of sculpture throughout the state of Rhode Island. With chapters on the creation of outdoor sculpture, preserving these works of art, RI art works on the National Register of Historic Places, an inventory, a key to sculptors, and a bibliography. .... more information
Price: 25.00 USD
Illustrated Catalogue Masterpieces in The Fujita Museum of Art. Volume I: Arts and Crafts.
Osaka:: Benrido & Co.,, 1954. 12" x 9.25". 88pp. Grey - green rice paper covered boards with gilt lettering in the original slipcase. Fine condition. The box is heavily worn and chipped. An illustrated catalogue of the the arts and crafts collection of Baron Fujita, Kosetse Denzaburo and his son, Kosetsu Heitaro. With sections on scroll paintings, decorative art objects, beads, architectural ornaments, vases and ewers, ceramics, furniture, and much more. With black & white and color plates, each with accompanying text in Japanese and English. One of only 1200 copies published. .... more information
Price: 65.00 USD
Rebecca Horn: Missing Full Moon.
Bath:: Artiste Gallery - Bath,, 1989. 11.25" x 8.25". 79pp. Paperback. Light edge wear, else fine condition. This is Artsite No. 22. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs of art installations. .... more information
Price: 35.00 USD
Seattle:: Privately Published,, 1977. 8" x 8". Approx. 62pp. plus appendix. Tan paperback. Slight fading on back cover, else fine condition. Illustrated with color photographs of "art objects representative of significant cultural periods of the Pacific Rim countries" collected over a ten year period by Rainier's World Banking Division staff. .... more information
Price: 15.00 USD
The Translation of Art: Essays on Chinese Painting and Poetry.
Seattle and London:: Centre for Translation Projects. The Chinese University of Hong Kong,, 1976. 10.75" x 8". 216pp. Tan cloth hardcover in dust wrapper. Fine condition. Dust jacket has some fading on the spine and light edge wear, else near fine condition. This is a RENDITIONS Special Art Issue. Illustrated with black and white and color photographs and facsimiles of works of art. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
1966. 11" x 8.5". 71pp. Paperback. Light general wear and rubbing, over all nice VG+ condition. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs of works of art by Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Tony DeLap, David Gray, Joe Goode, Craig Kaufman, Charles Mattox, John McCracken, Kenneth Price and Ed Ruscha. .... more information
Price: 75.00 USD
The New Vision : Photography Between the World Wars.
New York:: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,, 1989. 12.25" x 10". 318pp. Black cloth hardcover in dust wrapper. Fine condition. Dust jacket in fine condition. This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name made possible by the Ford Motor Company Collection shown at The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in 1989. Illustrated with over a hundred black and white photographs. .... more information
Price: 35.00 USD
San Francisco:: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco,, 1979. 11" x 8.5". 192pp. Illustrated paperback. Light general rubbing, else fine condition. An exhibition organized by the National Museum of Korea for museums in the United States. Illustrated with color plates, black and white photographs and a map. .... more information
Price: 15.00 USD
Norfolk, Virginia:: Chrysler Museum of Art,, 2002. 8.5" x 8.5". 47pp. Illustrated hardback. Fine condition. A lavishly color illustrated book that accompanied the Chrysler Museum exhibit. .... more information
Price: 22.50 USD
Buffalo, NY:: Association of Handicapped Artists, Inc.., 8.75" x 6". Approx. 26pp. Illustrated paperback. This is the thirteenth issue of an art calendar with reproductions of original art painted by mouth or foot by a number of artists. Illustrated in color. .... more information
Price: 5.00 USD
The RedClay [Red Clay] Survey. Sixth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Southern Art.
Huntsville, Alabama:: Huntsville Museum of Art,, 1998. 9" x 11". 74pp. Color illustrated wrappers. Near fine condition. With numerous color and black & white illustrations. Artists represented in this issue Gary Chapman, Ruth Weisberg, Gaela Erwin, Pam Longobardi, David Standifer, Kathleen Girdler Engler, Evan Levy, Roy Nydorf, Jere Allen, Harvey Arche de Estrada, Michael Barringer, Mary Beth Bellah, Richard Binger, Donne Bitner, Dorothy Brown, Ron Buffington, Bill Capshaw, Tom Chaffee, Cris Kocher, W. Robert Nix, and others. .... more information
Price: 50.00 USD
The Glory of the Golden Age: Dutch Art of the 17th Century - Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Art.
Amsterdam:: Waanders Publishers., 11.5" x 10". 366pp. Oatmeal colored cloth covered hardback with gilt spine lettering in dust wrapper. Fine condition. Top spine tip lightly bumped, else fine condition. Illustrated in color and black and white with exampled of art from the Rijkmuseum collection. .... more information
Price: 125.00 USD
Koln:: W. Girardet,, 1953. 11" x 8.25". [Appr. 45pp.] Spiral bound with heavy photo illustrated paper covers. VG+ condition, with a bit of general wear and use and an ownership inscription. With great black & white photographs of Koln, art works, noted citizens, etc. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
Leningrad:: Aurora Art Publishers,, 1974. 10.25" x 11.5". Appr. 200pp., plus supplement volume. Gray illustrated hardcover boards. Spine slightly rubbed and faded, else near fine condition; near fine supplement. In the original publisher's slipcase. Many of Sadovnikov's illustrations of St. Petersburg in this volume are large fold out plates. With text in English, French and Russian. .... more information
Price: 40.00 USD
Hyderabad:: Bodhi Art,, 2007. 13.25" x 8.5". 140pp. Illustrated wrappers. Fine condition. A good study of Nataraj Sharma's art done in collaboration with the Singapore Tyler Print Institute. Sharma's art interlaces politicaql dilemma, social statement and personal philosophy. With many illustrations of the artist's work as well as informative text. .... more information
Price: 35.00 USD
Compilation of Works of Art and Other Objects in the United States Capitol.
Washington, D. C.:: Government Printing Office,, 1965. 10.25" x 7.75". 427pp. Blue buckram with red spine label and gilt lettering. Light soiling on the first leaf, ownership inscription, very light rubbing to spine, else near fine condition. A detailed study of the sculpture and paintings at the capitol. Extensively illustrated with black & white photos. .... more information
Price: 17.50 USD
Seattle:: Center On Contemporary Art,, 1997. 11" x 8.5". 32pp. Glossy color illustrated paperback. Gift inscription, else near fine condition. A good study of the Pacific Northwest artist. With many color illustrations. .... more information
Price: 30.00 USD
Kiwa: Pacific Connections, Maori Art from Aotearoa.
Vancouver:: Spirit Wrestler Gallery,, 2003. 12" x 9". 34pp. Illustrated paperback. Spine tips are lightly bumped, light edge wear and rubbing, else VG+ condition. With color illustrations from the gallery exhibit. .... more information
Price: 30.00 USD
Vancouver, BC:: University of British Columbia Press,, 1975. First edition. 10" x 8". 47 pp. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Near fine condition. An overview of the Northwest Coast Native art of the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada with numerous color plates. .... more information
Price: 10.00 USD
Bellingham, Washington:: Whatcom Museum of History and Art ,, 1974. 9.25" x 8.5". 8pp. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Fine condition. With text by Anderson and by fellow painter William Cumming, a list of Anderson's paintings in the exhibition, black & white illustrations of the paintings, a short section of details about the artist's life and work, and a list of lenders to the exhibition. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
Mark Tobey. A Retrospective Exhibition From Northwest Collections.
Seattle:: Seattle Art Museum,, 1959. 11" x 8.5". 45pp. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Fine condition. Illustrated with black and white illustrations of Mark Tobey's paintings. With a foreword by Richard E. Fuller. .... more information
Price: 12.00 USD
Color Beauties of a Century of Progress. Chicago, 1933.
Chicago:: Exposition Publications and Novelties, Inc.,, 1933. 6.5" x 8.25". 32pp. Green illustrated stapled wrappers. Very light soiling, else fine condition. A beautifully produced booklet showing the various buildings on the grounds of the Century of Progress exposition. The colors in this booklet are extremely vibrant. many of the structures have a gorgeous art deco / streamlined design. .... more information
Price: 40.00 USD
William Ivey. An Exhibition of Paintings.
Seattle:: Seattle Art Museum,, 1975. 8.5" x 9". 47pp. Illustrated glossy wrappers. Spine lightly faded, else near fine condition. An exhibition catalogue for Seattle and Portland exhibits of the noted Pacific Northwest painter's work. With an essay by Virginia Wright and many color and black & white photo illustrations. .... more information
Price: 15.00 USD
[Oklahoma]:: Woolaroc Ranch,, No date; circa 1945. 9" x 7". 32pp. Stapled color illustrated wrappers. Near fine condition. A beautifully produced promotional booklet to the museum and ranch in Oklahoma. Nicely illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. With sections describing some of the museum's artifacts, Oklahoma wildlife, Indians / Native Americans, Oklahoma history, art works, founder Frank Phillips and his personal room, and more. .... more information
Price: 15.00 USD
San Francisco :: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,, 1998. 10.5" x 9". 79pp. Color illustrated wrappers. Mild soiling and rubbing, else near fine condition. With numerous illustrations showing photographs by Andre Kertesz, Dora Maar, Mathew Brady, Carleton Watkins, Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Paul Strand, Edward Steichen and others. .... more information
Price: 17.50 USD
