Search Results: Art: Painting/Illustrators from pacaritambo books

Picador, 2014. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket Issued. Color photos of Rockwell's art; B&W era photos throughout. CONDITION: What makes this book "As NEW": Small remainder dot top edges. UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2014 Picador trade paperback (493 pages), first paperback edition, first printing. There is a color photo section showing Rockwell's art - many from the collection of director Steven Spiellberg. B&W era photos throughout. CONTENT: "Welcome to Rockwell Land," writes Deborah Solomon in the introduction to this spirited and authoritative biography of the painter who provided twentieth-century America with a defining image of itself. As the star illustrator of The Saturday Evening Post for nearly half a century, Norman Rockwell mingled fact and fiction in paintings that reflected the we-the-people, communitarian ideals of American democracy. Freckled Boy Scouts and their mutts, sprightly grandmothers, a young man… Read More

Meadows Museum/SMU Press, 2004. Exhibition Book Printing Unknown. Hardcover. New/New. Color photos throughout. CONDITION: NEW 2004 Meadows Museum/SMU Press hardcover (brown cloth boards) & dust jacket, Exhibition Book, no printing given. In shrink-wrap. Subtitle: Treasures of the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid. CONTENT: Exhibition at SMU's Meadows Museum. Essays by Karl Kilinski II, Jennifer Neils, Ann Steiner, Sarah Price, and Mr. Warden. At the heart of this study of the relationship between Greek vases and their decoration - and between the decoration and the function of the vase - is a very well presented catalogue of 43 Greek and Etruscan vases exhibited in the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid. Each entry comprises at least one colour photograph of the vase accompanied by a full description and discussion of the form of the vase, its function, date and historical context, and the design and meaning of its decoration. Arranged chronologically, the vases date from c.850 to the end… Read More

William Morrow, 2009. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. Maurice Sendak color illustrations. CONDITION: AS NEW - what makes this "as new"? - remainder mark bottom edges. UNREAD 2009 William Morrow large hardcover (deep blue or black boards with gold foil title) & dust jacket, first edition, second printing. All illustrations by Maurice Sendak. CONTENT: This refreshing gallery of illustrations, developed for a 2003 conference on Sendak, comes with an enthusiastic, expert docent. Maguire, a children's book authority and the author of Wicked (the basis for the hit musical), is an unabashed fan and friend, recounting his fortuitous first meeting with the maestro in 1977. Maguire arranges a bounty of favorite or rare illustrations into five playful and accessible essays. While constructing a "palace of muses" who influence Sendak, he offers wonderful side-by-side comparisons of Sendak's work and pieces by William Blake, Randolph Caldecott and Reginald Birch (a 1900 sketch of a boy in a wolf… Read More

Smithsonian Books, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Color photo section; B&W repros, charts, photos throughout. CONDITION: UNREAD 2004 Smithsonian Books hardcover (brown boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Color photo section. B&W reproductions, charts, photos throughout. CONTENT: Leonardo da Vinci was one of history's true geniuses, equally brilliant as an artist, scientist, and mathematician. Readers of The Da Vinci Code were given a glimpse of the mysterious connections between math, science, and Leonardo's art. Math and the Mona Lisa picks up where The Da Vinci Code left off, illuminating Leonardo's life and work to uncover connections that, until now, have been known only to scholars. Bülent Atalay, a distinguished scientist and artist, examines the science and mathematics that underlie Leonardo's work, paying special attention to the proportions, patterns, shapes, and symmetries that scientists and mathematicians have also identified in nature. Following… Read More

Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1968. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. Don Perceval photos and sketches. CONDITION: AS NEW - both DJ and Book. What makes this "AS NEW?" - the book has a signature on the title page which has nothing to do with either the Author nor Illustrator - but is from a named photography business in Ohio. Previous owner. Dust Jacket (in mylar cover) - has several very very small nics top edge and a small strange scratch on the front DJ panel. Hard to see - but there. So, AS NEW. UNREAD 1974 Northland Press hardcover (cloth boards), first edition, third printing. B&W sketches and drawings plus some color art. Don Perceval photos and sketches. CONTENT: Illustrated commentary on the earlier life of Navajo Indians. Includes both black and white sketches, along with full watercolor illustration. The drawings emerged as the product of 35 years of study and experience of the Navajo life. Book originally issued with illustrated dust jacket.… Read More

United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson, 2015. 1st Paperback Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Susan Herbert color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2015 Thames & Hudson large paperback, first PB edition, 2nd printing. The original was released in HB in 1996 and into paperback 2014. Simply beautiful color illustrations by Susan Herbert. CONTENT: For her latest book of cats in costume, Susan Herbert turns from masterpieces of the fine arts to the masterpieces of Shakespeare. Painting in her familiar and highly popular style, this imaginative artist presents an irresistible array of well-known characters in the great Shakespearean plays, from the tragic Romeo and Juliet, to the mischievous Titania; from the beautiful Cleopatra to the roguish Falstaff. In thirty-two entrancing paintings, Susan Herbert opens up an unsuspected world of Shakespeare interpreted by cats with all their winning ways. Her many devoted admirers will find this new collection full of the charm, humor and sensitivity of… Read More

Schocken Books, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket Issued. Mark Podwal color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Schocken Books small hardcover (pictorial boards), NO DJ issued, first edition, first printing. Haunting color illustrations by Mark Podwal. Introduction by Elisha Wiesel. NOTE: Although I don't think so, this edition may have had a dust jacket originally, but this release did not have one. CONTENT: Elie Wiesel's heartbreaking narrative poem about history, immortality, and the power of song, accompanied by magnificent full-color illustrations by award-winning artist Mark Podwal. Based on an actual event that occurred during World War II in Poland. It is the evening before the holiday of Purim, and the Nazis have given the ghetto's leaders twenty-four hours to turn over ten Jews to be hanged to "avenge" the deaths of the ten sons of Haman, the villain of the Purim story, which celebrates the triumph of the Jews of Persia over potential genocide some 2,400 years ago. If… Read More