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Contemporary Chinese Painting


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Hardcover. London, England, Spring Books, 1st Edition, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 186 pages. Hardcover. Decorated cover boards. Red ribbon bookmark attached at spine. Some light tanning from age to edges. Dust jacket has some agewear (see image). Binding good. Spine straight. With the founding of the Peking Academy of Fine Arts in 1919, a most fruitful and original period of painting began in China, which today shows no sign of diminishing in power and inventiveness.

Record # 33436


Price: $38.00 

 

Contrary Farmer, The


Logsdon, Gene

Softcover. Post Mills, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. Brick boards with gilt titles to maroon cloth spine. Faint foxing to top edge. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. Previous owner's stamp to front flyleaf. Otherwise, clean & unmarked.

Record # 751202


Price: $15.00 

Contrasts in Form: Geometric Abstract Art 1910-80Dabrowski, Magdalena
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Contrasts in Form: Geometric Abstract Art 1910-80


Dabrowski, Magdalena

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. 158 illustrations (71 in color). Slight wear to dust jacket. Light bumping to top of spine. Clean inside.

Record # 30092


Price: $38.00 

Creating minds: an anatomy of creativity seen through the lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and GandhiGardner, Howard
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Creating minds: an anatomy of creativity seen through the lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi


Gardner, Howard

Hardcover. New York, BasicBooks, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. B&w photography throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468850


Price: $23.00 

 

Currier & Ives: America Imagined


F, LE BEAU BRYAN

Hardcover. US, Smithsonian, 1st, 2001-09-17, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 380 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463577


Price: $13.00 

 

Curtain Falls, The


Reed, Joseph

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. B&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Related articles laid in.

Record # 857383


Price: $25.00 

 

Dali Adventure 1943-1973, The: A Photo Album


Morse, , A. Reynolds and Eleanor R. Morse

Softcover. Cleveland, Ohio, The Salvador Dali Museum, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, illustrated throughout with b&w photographs of Salvador Dali, Gala and the authors. Oblong folio. White stiff wrappers. Light wear to covers and slight stain to spine, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 805653


Price: $19.00 

Dali: The PaintingsDali, Robert Descharnes Neret Gilles Salvador
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Dali: The Paintings


Dali, Robert Descharnes Neret Gilles Salvador

Hardcover. Los Angeles, TASCHEN America Llc, Reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 780 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge of textblock. An otherwise very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471807


Price: $38.00 

 

Dame Edith Evans - Ned's Girl


Forbes, Bryan

Boston, Little Brown , 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 296 pages including index. With some black and white photographs. Internally in good condition. Dust jacket has edgewear, creases, and small tears.

Record # 176358


Price: $15.00 

Dance With Demons - The Life of Jerome RobbinsLawrence, Greg
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Dance With Demons - The Life of Jerome Robbins


Lawrence, Greg

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 622 pages. Hardcover with black & white photographs throughout. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Clean, unmarked & tight copy.

Record # 750124


Price: $19.00 

 

Degas


Dunlop, Ian

Hardcover. New York, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 240 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear, rubbing to price-clipped dust jacket, stain on rear cover. Light foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451932


Price: $40.00 

 

DESIGN FOR LIVING. ALFRED LUNT AND LYNN FONTANNE. A Biography


Peters, Margot

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages. 62 Illustrations with captioned photographs. Light blue boards. Silver titled spine. Notes and Bibliography. Color pictorial dust jacket of Lunt and Fontaine. Nice copy.

Record # 220697


Price: $10.00 

Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes 1909-1929Pritchard (Editor), Jane
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Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes 1909-1929


Pritchard (Editor), Jane

Hardcover. London, V & A Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated in full color and black & white. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 612304


Price: $75.00 

 

Dictionary of American Artists: 19th and 20th Centuryr


McGlauflin, Alice Coe (editor)

Hardcover. Poughkeepsie, NY, Glenn Opitz / Apollo Book, reprint, 1982, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 372 pages. Reprint of Volume XXVI American Art Annual, 1929. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition. Book clean and well-bound except for one or two pages with underline in blue ink. Dust jacket shows minor edgewear. Clean jacket with illustrations of American flag and painter's palette.

Record # 806955


Price: $40.00 

 

Dietrich - Style and Substance


O'Connor, Patrick

NY, Dutton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Many black & white photos. A pictorial biography. 166 pages. Remainder line on bottom edge.

Record # 66638


Price: $38.00 

 

Divine Aretino, The


Cleugh, James

Hardcover. London, Anthony Blond Limited, 1st UK, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 263 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of a con artist and Court Jester from the Renaissance. Slight bowing to boards. Bumping to corners. Price-clipped. Moderate edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Mild age toning to top text block edge. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 951748


Price: $19.00 

 

Dome and the Rock, The - Structure in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens


Baird, James

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, First Edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Original dust jacket with sunfade to spine edge, light toning, price-clipped. Clean & unmarked text. Tight copy.

Record # 750811


Price: $19.00 

 

Domestic and Artistic Life of John Singleton Copley, The


Amory, Martha Babcock

Hardcover. Boston MA, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1st, 1882, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 478 pages, hardcover. Biography of noted British figure. Frontispiece intact. Top edge text block gilt intact as well. Mild rubbing and edgewear to boards. Unmarked. A bright and clean copy.

Record # 951681


Price: $31.00 

 

Domestic and Artistic Life of John Singleton Copley, The


Amory, Martha Babcock

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin & Co, 1st, 1882, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 478 pages. Previously owned by the Woodstock Library Association, with their original plates pasted on front end paper. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. In good condition for its age.

Record # 605247


Price: $13.00 

 

Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta: the Cone Collection


Richardson, Brenda

Softcover. Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. Color and b&w illustrations throughout. A beautifully illustrated study of the "Cone sisters" and their vast collection of modern art and antiques. Tiny bump to upper corner of spine, otherwise a very attractive and well preserved copy.

Record # 605267


Price: $29.00 

 

Drawings


Davis, Gene

Hardcover. New York, The Arts Publisher, Inc., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 155 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering to front and spine, color illustrated dust jacket, introduction by Gene Baro, 189 b&w plates, publication coincides with exhibition of artist's drawings "Thirty Years of Drawing" at the Brooklyn Museum. Very light markings to cloth cover, light wear to dust jacket; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 605435


Price: $32.00 

 

Drawn from Nature: The Botannical Art of Joseph Prestele and His Sons


Van Ravenswaay, Charles

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 357 pages. Letter from publishers laid in. Light edgewear.

Record # 801805


Price: $13.00 

 

Drawn from New England - Tasha Tudor - A Portrait in Words and Pictures


Tudor, Bethany

Hardcover. Cleveland, William Collins, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 96 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription at top of front endpaper. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Dust jacket with light wear along edges, fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612642


Price: $38.00 

Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne BurnsMargolick, David
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Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns


Margolick, David

Hardcover. US, Other Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages. B&w photographs throughout. Related article laid in. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466857


Price: $13.00 


  
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