Search Results: Art from Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB

Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1983. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 55pp. Illustrated checklist of artist members, with photograph, biographical sketch and signature facsimile. Each artist includes samples of recent paintings or sculpture. In illustrated wraps.

Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1984. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., ~55pp. Illustrated checklist of artists, their photograph and biographical sketch. Paitings and sculptures. In illustrated wraps.

(Andreas and Andreas Verlagsbuchhandel, Salzburg, 1983). Thick Quarto. 988pp. German text. illustrated church history published in color with more than 1300 color images and church history lexicon. Bound in marron cloth lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt, a near fine copy in a very good pictorial dust jacket with a wrinkle along the upper edge.

New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Both volume housed in a very good slipcase with no previous owner's name or marks of any kind. These items were issued without dust jackets and were intended to be sold as a set since they capture the Americana concepts of Sloane's Early America.

New York: American Federation for the Arts, 1959. Very Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. Original Wraps. Limited. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 28 pp. 35 b&w plates after text, 1 color plate frontispiece, 1 in text.

Museum of Modern Art Mew York 1946. First Edition. 199 pages, bibliography, profusely illustrated in color by Miguel Covarrubias. Some edge wear and small closed tears.

National Gallery of Ireland Dublin 1974. First Edition. Original Paper Wrps. Very Good. Besides examples of major Irish art, there are brief biographies of the major Irish artists at the back of the book. 113p.

Manchester, VT: Hudson Hills Press, 2009. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Quarto. This is the first book to fully survey the achievements of Alan Gussow (1931-1997). Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 color plates. 378 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.

Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1974. Cloth. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). Cyrillic text. 238pp. Checklist of Russian portrait artist, with reproductions in color plates and black and white. Bibliography. Index. Bound in white cloth boards, with illustrated dust jacket. Library bar-code sticker on rear endpaper. Very Good/Very Good.

Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 480p. index. Profusely illustrated with a history of the arist who traveled with the American Fur Company in the 1830's and observed the frontier across the Rocky Mountains and all along the Oregon Trail.

New York/France: Maecenas Press-Random House, 1969. Limited Edition. Folio. # 1638 of 2500 numbered portfolios printed in France on Mandeure paper, signed in pencil on the titlepage by Salvadore Dali and includes 12 color woodcut remarque illustrations. One original color etching signed in the plate, contents loose as issued in gilt-lettered cloth chemise housed within a 1/4 morocco over beige cloth clamshell, spine lettering gilt, with bone and morocco clasp. As new in original inner portion of the original shipping box and wrapped in the original paper each with their corresponding numbers of this particular issue. A remarkabley beautiful copy.

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1986. Limited Edition. Small Folio. #5 in a limited edition of 20. Signed by the author. Illustrated by Joan Myers. xxi, 184pp. Pages 90-184 are photographs with titles. Half-leather spine, letters in gilt, with woven cloth boards and matching slipcase. Marbled endpapers. This special binding and slipcase are by Virginia Marquis. Book design by Emmy Ezell, typeset at the University of New Mexico Printing Plant in Goudy Old Style. Duo Tone plates were printed by offset lithography in Japan by Dai Nippon Printing, Ltd. Text was printed by Thomson-Shore, Inc. Books were bound by John H. Decker & Sons. Contains a 2-page map of Santa Fe Trail. An original palladium by Myers is laid in with its original tan card stock envelope: 10 1/2 X 8 1/2 inches, signed in pencil by Joan Myers in 1982. This beautiful collector's item is signed by author and artist, A gorgeous example of New Mexicofine books.

Swampscott, MA.; (1982): Edmund Newman, Inc.(printed in Spain). First Edition. Square Quarto. Signed and dated Chicago, 29, April 1983 by Alvar. 303pp., illustrated throughout with color art and drawings by Alvar. Bound in dark blue cloth pictorially stamped in silver, spine lettering silver. A fine bright copy in fine bright dust jacket.

New York: Kraushaar Galleries, 1976. Paper. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 9p. A fine exhibit with loan work from Mrs. John Sloan and others. Only the cover is in color but each painting lists in detail provenance and where previously exhibited. A small but nice Sloan item.

New York; (1982): Harry N. Abrams. First Edition. Folio. 405pp., illustrated in color and in black and white (some folding plates) This work reviews every aspect of the change in decorative arts from the medieval incluence seen in objects by the first settlers to the sleek interrnational style of modern times. Illustrtaed with more than four hundered illustrations whose detailed captions offer precise data on the production, provenance, and historical background of each item. And, with a comprehensive up to date bibliography and extensive index, and of inestimable value to the season collector, professional or amateur, to the student, and to every lover of American decorative arts.Bound in black cloth lettered and decorated in brown, spine lettering brown, in deocrative dust jacket.

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art / Harper & Row, 1981. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 176pp. Published in connection to an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, November 25, 1981. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w plates. Glossary. Bibliography. In silver printed black cloth; Illustrated dust jacket (price-clipped and moderate rubbing).

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Harry N Abrams Inc, 2000. Cloth/hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 305p. bibliography. The richest collection outside of Cyprus of Cypriot antiquities. Built up by General Luigi Palma di Cesnola as the first director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he acquired most of the art between 1879 and 1900 with works dating from 2500 B.C. to A.D. 300. Over 450 color images with map of the regions from which the art was acquired, this represents an essential item for a knowledge of the art of Cyprus in antiquity in all its forms.

Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler'schen, 1881. First Edition. Folio. Three-Quarter Vellum over clot,. lightly bowed. 59 pp. monograph on the sculptor, some foxing, notes. 30 photographic illustrations on 17 plates (by Martin Rommel in Stuttgart).

Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1971. First U.S. Edition. Cloth. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 580p. index; profusely illustrated with hundreds of representations of animals in art, still the most important work on the subject. Very Good/Very Good.

Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Antique Collectors Club Ltd, 1986. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 424p. One of the most important references on animal bronzes with 56 color illustrations and over 900 black and white photographs of major bronzes.