Novels, Art from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Viking, 2002. 288 pages; 24 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, no dedication. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. A fictional portait of the Italian baroque painter, Artemisia Gentileschi. "Recently rediscovered by art historians, and one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan Company, 1958. Cloth, 197 pages; 21 cm. Translation of Gente al Babuino. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. A solid copy, lacking the DJ. "A present day boheme set in the chic squalor of the Roman artists' quarter with its restaurants, American bars, night clubs, sellers boutiques, galleries, pensions and tenements. The narrator, a journalist and… Read more about this item

New York: Atria Books, 2006. 306 pages; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Browning. "When the vision came, he was in the bathtub. So begins the madness of Louis Daguerre. In 1847, after a decade of using poisonous mercury vapors to cure his daguerreotype images, his mind is plagued by delusions. Believing the world will end within one year, Daguerre creates… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 2016. xiii, 318 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In 1916, Georgia O'Keeffe is a young, unknown art teacher when she travels to New York to meet Stieglitz, the famed photographer and art dealer, who has discovered O'Keeffe's work… Read more about this item

London: Paul Elek Limited; Bestseller Library, 1959. 223 pages; 19 cm. Translation of: La maja desnuda. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, expected browning. First thus. A novel based on the model of Goya's famous paintings.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Grove Press, 2000. xvi, 427 pages, [8] pages of plates, colour illustrations; 24 cm. Good+. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Stated First American Edition. Fine DJ. A novelised biography of the Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1652 or 1653).. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Fine. 8vo.

New York: Scribner; A Lisa Drew Book, 2003. 261 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. John Singer Sargent's scandalous painting of Mme X, exhibited in Paris, is the subject of this book. "The life of Virginie Gautreau, the notorious beauty of Madame X, John Singer Sargent's most famous and scandalous portrait,… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Sarah Crichton Books, 2016. 290 pages; 24 cm. SIGNED by the author on a literary society bookplate pasted onto the front free endpaper. A fine copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted as a master painter to the Guild of St. Luke's in Holland, the… Read more about this item

New York: Vintage Books, 1996. 128 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. 3 stories inspired by Matisse paintings. "These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between… Read more about this item

New York: Riverhead Books; Penguin, 2005. 211 pages; 20 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by the author on the flyleaf, no dedication. A fine copy of the first printing. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "A perfectly rendered short novel of suspense about a painter driven to extremes. An influential art critic in the early years of the twentieth… Read more about this item

New York: Scribner, 2001. 124 pages; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. "For thirty years, since the publication of his first novel Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its… Read more about this item

London: Stanley Paul & Co. [c. 1912] Cloth, 323 pages, frontispiece, plates; 23 cm. Top edge gilt. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light foxing, expected browning. Scarce.. Hardcover. Very Good/No DJ. 8vo.

New York: Washington Square Press, 2008. 290, [19] pages; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Denver: MacMurray & Beck, 1999. Cloth, 242 pages; 19 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Fine DJ. Inspired by Vermeer's painting.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 12mo.

New York: Viking, 2002. 288 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. A fictional portait of the Italian baroque painter, Artemisia Gentileschi. "Recently rediscovered by art historians, and one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era, Artemisia Gentileschi led a remarkably… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 1989. vii, 373 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition in the United States of America. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A novel based on the life of the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Viking Press; Penguin, 2005. 292 pages; 24 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, no dedication. A fine copy of the first printing. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "With her richly textured novels Susan Vreeland has offered pioneering portraits of the artist's life. Now, in a collection of profound wisdom and… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. 310 pages; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Square Fish; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. 180 pages; 20 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Remainder mark (ink dot)/top edge. "Juan de Pareja, the slave who prepares the paints and canvases of the artist Velazquez, describes his work with his master and the climate of Spanish court life." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Random House, 2004. 383 pages, map; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. "From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the… Read more about this item