Art, Design & Architecture from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera

In 1951, James Drayer [1927-2017] graduated from Ohio State's School of Architecture with a degree in Landscape Architecture. These 100 drawings, from 1947-49, reflect the quality of his student work. ##### A combination of pen and ink, crayon, and watercolor – each approximately 8x11" in size. ##### About a third are landscape scenes – parks, trees, and parkways. The rest depict a wide variety… Read more about this item

Time, Inc., New York. Vol. V, No. 3, March 1932. 148 Pp. Soft Cover, 14" X 11 1/2". Rear cover painting of Jean Harlow toasting Lucky Strike cigarettes. One of the features of the magazine's early years were cover designs by leading artists of the day. Here, Diego Rivera (1885-1957), the prominent Mexican painter whose large frescoes helped establish the Mexican… Read more about this item

1st ed., small 4to, illustrated boards. 128 pp. Judy Chicago is an artist, author, feminist, and educator art has been widey exhibited in the United States as well as in Canada, and Europe. Kitty City is a book of blended art and writing about her and her husband's house full of cats. Each cat that Chicago ever had… Read more about this item

1st ed., 4to, illustrated stiff wrappers, plastic comb binding. Unpaginated. One of a series of annual volumes published in conjunction with an annual ball, and New York, Artists Equity Association. From the preface: "This is Volume 5 of Improvisations. First conceived in 1950 from an idea by Julio de Diego, Improvisations has been accepted as a novel and original medium by… Read more about this item

1st ed., small 4to. Hand-pulled silkscreen on cardboard covers, [52] pp. 15 color plates. Limited to 1000 copies. "Exhibition of works by one of the most outstanding representatives of Uruguayan painting, carried out under the auspices of Praxis International Art, from February 18 to April 3, 1993." Texts : Belgium Rodríguez. Bilingual English-Spanish edition. Presentation : João Clemente Baena Soares.

1st ed., small 4to. Hand-pulled silkscreen on cardboard covers with metal bolts, [48] pp. 15 color plates. Limited to 1000 copies. Appreciation by José Luis Cuevas; introduction, "Anverso y Reverso en la Obra de Ignacio Iturria / The Obverse and the Reverse in the Work of Ignacio Iturria" by Damián Bayón; title essay, "Soñar con los Ojos Abiertos / Dreaming… Read more about this item

York: Printed by A. Ward, and sold by J. Dodsley, T. Cadell, [et al.]. Good. Vintage rebinding. 1783. 1st thus. 1st edition of this translation; 4to, pp. [iii]-xix, [3], 213 [1 Errata sheet]; rebound in modern ¼ leather marbled boards to mat ch contemporary bindings. . modestly successful career as a painter but is best remembered f or… Read more about this item

Paris: : Chambre Syndicale des D’Art. Good. 1925. 1st ed.. Première Année 1925, Deuxième Année 1926-1927, Troisième Ann ée 1928-1929. First editions. All three years published. 4to [1 0”x12.5”], paper wrappers in printed dust-jackets. Unpaginate d, but approx.. 200 pp. each volume. The first volume is limited to printing of 2000 copies and the third volume… Read more about this item

Isaac Friedenwald, Lithographer & Printer, Baltimore. Poor [plates fine]. Pebbled cloth. 1888. 1st edition. Published by Isaac Friedenwald, Lithographer & Printer, Baltimore , 1888 . 88. . lettered in gilt on upper cover; a very good, sound and clean co py. . War under the Supervision of the Quartermaster General and Inspec tor General. Large 4to. Lithographic… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop. 1973. 1st ed.. 1st ed., limited to 300 copies. 8vo, illustrated boards, 48 pp. Illustrated with contemporary photographs and graphics - LA cemet eries up to the year 1885. Fine, without d/w -- as issued. .

NY: Harry N. Abrams in association with Bowles/Hopkins Publishing. Fine. 1980. 1st edition. 1st ed., 4to. Deluxe leatherbound edition, limited to 1200 signed and numbered copies in slipcase. Bragg (1931- 2017) was an Ameri can sculptor, painter, artist and author known best for his satir ical artwork. His work is displayed in numerous museums and exhib itions and won… Read more about this item

The Book Club of California, San Francisco. New. 1989. 1st edition. First edition; one of 450 copies. Edited with an Introduction by Norman Neuerberg. xl, 100 [1] pp. Oblong folio, cloth-backed deco rated paper-covered boards with printed paper label on spine, in publisher's plain white wrapper. Illustrations & plates from sket ches & paintings by Ford, a few… Read more about this item

Heian / Dohosha, South San Francisco . Fine.. 1979. 1st ed.. textiles, fabric, design . 1st ed. Folio, red cloth, 248 pp.; 236 color plates and15 in b/w of fabric designs -- plus bibliography. An Important publication on Peruvian textiles from a private collection. A fine copy in VG -near fine d/w and slipcase. The book itself… Read more about this item

Walt Disney Productions. Good. 1939. Concept drawing for the court jester, based upon real life actor Ned Sparks. Art is in black graphite with red and green details a nd highlights on thin manila paper. Numerous typed production not es. The film is a parody of Mother Goose nursery rhymes using car icatures of Hollywood celebrities of the 1930s.… Read more about this item

Mountrath Ireland/Los Angeles: The Dolmen Press/H. Keith Burns. 1983. Deluxe edition, limited to 250 numbered copies. 125 for distribut ion in Ireland, 125 for the U.S. Black cloth with gilt decoration s in black slipcase. This special edition, signed by Bowe, contai ns an extra suite of eight plates reproduced from Clarke's origin al drawings for "The Ancient Mariner." The… Read more about this item

Paris: F. Depech. 1821. 1st ed. [Costume] F. Depech / Hippolyte LeComte. ires de la Monarchie Francaise depuis 1200 jusquâa 1820 [Civil and Military Costumes of the French Monarchy from 1200 to 1820] An incomplete set of 80 lithographs depictingRobes and costumes worn by French aristocracy, clergy, and judiciary from the 13th - 19th centuries. From a series… Read more about this item

Banco de la Republica, Bogota - Colombia. 1944. 1st ed.. 1st ed., loose leaf with string tues, 50 color photographic plate s, three explanatory texts: El museo del oro, El oro de los indio s colombianos, El trabajo indigena del oro. First edition, in Spa nish, of a catalog of the collection of pre-Columbian gold artifa cts from indigenous cultures… Read more about this item

Paris: Adolphe Elahays. Fair. Hardcover. 1860. 1st. First edition, first printing. (1859 on title page; 1860 on front wrapper) . ound in. Color plates engraved on steel by Ch. COLIN after RAFFE T. . olored plates by Raffet. Text in French by Eugene Fieffe. The co lor plates show the uniforms of the various regiments of the… Read more about this item

New York, Brentano's . Good. 1905. 1st edition. Signed by Reinhardt and the Artist . Folio, cloth backed portfolio. Limited to 259 signed copies, 250 of which for sale. This copy no. 109. A memoir of Salzburg, told through twenty large b/w lithographs by Lucie Sayler. One page i ntro by theater and film producer Reinhardt, signed… Read more about this item

Paris: Editions Des Chroniques Du Jour. 1928. Small 4to, xxix, [3] p., 28 b/w lithographed plates, b/w ills. No . 556 of 560 copies. Good. Lightly shaken but fully intact, seve ral edge tears up to 1” in spine. Partially uncut. Original gla ssine d/w present but toned with most of spine absent and several smaller tears. Ex-libris… Read more about this item