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The Great American Pin-Up
by Martignette, Charles G. & Meisel, Louis K
Hohenzollernring: Taschen. 2011. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy in 'as new' condition. Illustrated with colour art reproductions & black and white photographs. Text in English, German and French. Includes an Index of Artists. This is a heavy book and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. 280 pages. A...
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A$70.00
American Painting History and Interpretation
by Barker, Virgil
New York: Bonanza Books. No Date, circa 1950. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners and spine faded. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Previous owner's blindstamp to half-title page. 717 pages. A scholarly and comprehensive work. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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A$45.00
Opener 23: Pam Lins: Denver Gold
by Ian Berry
Saratoga Springs, NY: The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, 2013. First edition. Hard cover. Published Saratoga Springs, NY: The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, 2013. 8vo., 64pp., illustrated with full color reproductions. Brooklyn-based artist Pam Lins explores the psychological and aesthetic potential of objects and images. Mixing a love of formal, modernist art with a madcap, idiosyncratic sensibility, Lin's work interrogates both itself and its engagement...
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A$193.68
American Craft June July 1991
by American Craft Council
NY: American Craft Council. 1991 First Edition Crafts and Art Magazine 96 pages Illustrated.Very good with light wear. See Photos mag bx 7
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A$15.49
THE RESPONSIVE EYE: Ralph T. Coe and the Collecting of American Indian Art
by Coe, Ralph T / Thaw, Eugene V / King, Jonathan / Ostrowitz, Judith
New Haven , Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. 1st. Edition , 2003 , Hardcover in the dust jacket and still in the publishers shrink wrap, 352 page book with color and black & white illustrations . Condition : NEW. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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A$23.24
Joseph Pennell's Liberty-Loan Poster. A Text-Book for Artists and Amateurs, Governments and Teachers and Printers, with Notes, an Introduction and Essay on the Poster by the Artist, Associate Chairman
by Pennell, Joseph
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1918. First edition. Hard cover in original pictorial cloth. Published Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1918. Small 4to., 7 1/4" x 10 1/8", unpaginated, illustrated with 9 plates chronicling the making of the war poster. Brown cloth with large paper cover inset. Light rub to the tips and spine ends. Fine. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. Small 4to.
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A$503.56
James Turrell Eclipse.
by TURRELL, James. With a text by Richard Bright and CD by Paul Schutze
London and Ostfildern, Germany: Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art and Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1999. First edition / First printing. Illustrated boards. Very fine in fine mylar dust jacket, with extremely light rubbing.
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A$154.94
Jasper Johns
by Crichton, Michael
Signed by artist. Jasper Johns has been called the greatest living American Artist. He is associated with Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Dada and pop art. Honors include the National Medal of Art and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His works have sold for the most by any living artist. This is the softcover exhibition catalogue from a 5 city tour (2 in the US) in 1978. Laid in is an invitation to the Members Preview of the exhibition where it mentions that the artist will be present. I really don't know...
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A$852.17
Notes in Hand
by Oldenburg, Claes
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1971. Pocket-size paperback reproducing 50 pages from the artist's notebooks, with some commentary, introduction, bibliography. As new in shrinkwrap, as pictured; minor wear to corners. . Paperback. As New. 4¼" by 5¾".
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A$38.74
A Portfolio of Drawings by William Dixon Based on the Novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs
by Dixon, William
Philadelphia: Oswald Train: Pubisher 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Chalker and Owings report a print run of 500 copies [but incorrectly describe the illustrations as laid in loose, given that every copy that I have seen has been bound as follows]. Very oversize [about 11.25" x 16.25"] gray pictorial wrappers, sadde-stapled, unpaginated [printed rectos only]. Collects a frontispiece pencil portrait of Edgar Rice Burroughs, 10 numbered plates based on his works; plus a 1 page commentary on the...
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A$30.99
Sloan's Constructive Architecture; A Guide to the Practical Builder and Mechanic. In Which Is Contained A Series Of Designs For Domes, Roofs And Spires, etc..
by Sloan, Samuel
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1866. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's cloth with front cover gilt decoration bright and clean. Very good. 148 pages. 30 x 24 cm. Sixty-six plates, most of which are colored lithographs, and one, a large fold-out [uncolored]. Glossary. Geometrical Definitions. The second edition is identical to the first, published in 1859. KARPEL B295. "Before this work appeared in 1859, the standards for carpentry and building construction were largely set by foreign...
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A$968.38
The Renaissance of Western Art
by Ward Johanna Walsh & James
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Mint,1974. Bound in brown leatherette. 144 pages of western art, filled with color full page plates. Very light edge wear, some bubbling to cloth covered boards, binding defect,, foot of spine lightly bumped. cl/over
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A$23.24
The Art of the Old West
by Rossi, Paul
Very light wear in like dust jacket. See photos bx95
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A$38.74
The Beauties of Modern Architecture
by Lafever, Minard
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary quarter black roan and midnight blue speckled boards Very good. Lafever, Minard. 139 pages in text. 27 x 18 cm. Forty-eight engraved plates. The rare first edition. This monograph consists of a section entitled "Architectural History" extracted from Elmes's DICTIONARY, a glossary of names and terms used in architecture from the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITTANICA, and a series of elegantly drawn and engraved designs for doors, windows, and...
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A$921.89
Jamie Wyeth
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and lightly worn at edges.. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0395291674 . Signed by Wyeth on the title page. Navy cloth titled in silver on spine. Biographical note, index of the 137 paintings and drawings. A book published to coincide with the first traveling retrospective exhibition of Wyeth's work. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 143 pages .
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A$232.41
A Life in Photography.
by Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973
Contents: Milwaukee: Apprenticeship in Painting and Photography; Europe: A New World Opens Up; New York: Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession; Introducing Modern Art to America; World War I and Voulangis; To Greece with the Duncan Isadorables; Fashion Photography and Fabric Designs; The Theater: Photographing the Reality Behind the Make-Believe; Introducing Naturalism into Advertising; On Portraits and Portraiture; New York, Connecticut, and Mexico; World War II: Adventures in the Pacific; The Museum of...
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John Singer Sargent
by Edmund Swinglehurst, John Singer Sargent
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. 4to., 9 1/2" x 12", 285pp., 171 color and 85 black and white illustrations. Minor foxing spots along top edge, else fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Fine. 4to.
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A$154.94
O'Keeffe: The Life of an American Legend
by Hogrefe, Jeffrey
"O'Keeffe: The Life of an American Legend" by Jeffrey Hogrefe. New York: Bantam Books, [1992]. pp. 376, Bibliography, Index. 43 b. & w. illus. Hardcover, quarter red cloth with grey boards and silver title on spine (corners square, spine slightly faded, interior clean & unmarked). dj., unclipped (couple marks on cover, nick at bottom of front cover, chipped at back cover edge, foxing on inside, small crease on back flap).
Very Good condition.
Size: 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" (24.5cm x 16.5cm).
Very Good condition.
Size: 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" (24.5cm x 16.5cm).
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A$39.70
Inness Landscapes
by Werner, Alfred
New York: Watson-Guptill Publications. 1977. Square Quarto Size [approx 26cm x 28cm]. Very Good condition. Spine lightly creased. Illustrated with colour plates. 87 pages. A comprehensive collection of the work o one of America's great landscape painters. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover.
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A$18.00
Brainard - Freeman Notebooks (Gegenshein Quarterly 1112, 1975)
by Brainard, Joe, and Herm Freeman (introductions by John Ashbery and Phil Demeyes, edited by Phil Smith)
New York: Gegenshein Quarterly, 1975. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. Reprints notebooks by two artists. Erratum card laid in. Unmarked copy, light soil.
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A$185.93
Jim Dine - Painted Monoprints (Alan Cristea Gallery, London 11 September - 12 October 2002)
by DINE, Jim
Alan Cristea Gallery, London, 2002. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. Large 4to. in colour printed stiff card covers, unpaginated, approx. 28pp, colour plates, etc __CONDITION : NEW copy. ... To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS
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A$55.47
Wondrous Strange: The Wyeth Tradition
by Bruni, Stephen T.; Betsy James Wyeth; Theodore F. Wolff; Christopher Crosman
Boston: Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown & Company, 1998. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. Cloth. 168 pages. Chapter with an essay devoted to each Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, and James Wyeth. Color plates throughout. Dust jacket has a small crease (1/4") at the upper fore-edge corner of the front panel.
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A$46.48
RAILROAD POSTCARD : In the Age of Steam
by Grant , Roger
Iowa: Iowa Press, 1994. Book. Illus. by Various Artist. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. 1st.Edition , 1st. Printing 1994 , Hardcover with a dust jacket , 208 page book.Illustrated with black and white photo postcards.A great railroad and postcard book and well illustrated . Condition : NEW Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
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A$23.24
Alison Brady
by Alison Brady
From the library of Brady's first NY gallerist, signed by the author. The gallerist was also a painter, and accordingly the cover shows traces of paint and dust. Otherwise a fine copy. Ships from Mexico City, always by Fedex, DHL or UPS. Siranda Librería Anticuaria - we specialize in rare and oop books on the arts, music and literature in many languages. Inquiries welcome
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A$433.83
