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From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky


Spender, Matthew

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 417 pages, b&w photographs. Like new in a mylar protected dust jacket.

Record # 512717


Price: $13.00 

 

From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky


Spender, Matthew

Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 417 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Brown cover boards, red quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. Arshile Gorky was one of the most intriguing figures in modern art and was at the center of the New York art world in the twenties, thirties, and forties.

Record # 32177


Price: $25.00 

 

From Grieg to Brahms: Studies of Some Modern Composers and Their Art


Mason, Daniel Gregory

Hardcover. New York, NY, The Outlook Company, Second Printing, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt board, gilt embossed text block to cover & gilt titles to spine. Sunfade to spine, edges of cover board & top inch of the rear board. Previous owner's signature in faint pencil to fly leaf. Gilt top edge. Frontis illustration Brahms at the Piano, in bw protected with a tissue guard. Illustrations in bw at the beginning of each chapter, Grieg, Dvorak, Saint-Saens, Franck, Tschaikowsky, Brahms. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670154


Price: $23.00 

 

From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel: Parts 1 & 2: The Works of Rudyard Kipling, (Volumes 15 & 16)


Kipling, Rudyard

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, Reprint, 1899, Book: Very Good, Vol 15 (Part 1): 494 pages. 3 b/w plates with tissue guards. Vol 16 (Part 2): 553 pages. 3 b/w plates with tissue guards. Hardcovers. Deckled untrimmed edges. Early editions in the Scribner's series, bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt decoration and elephant and swastika sign (Kipling's trademark) on the front cover and title page, top edge gilt. Just a touch of age wear to spine and cover boards, fading, soil, chipping. Bindings tight. Lovely, clean copies from this collection.

Record # 31474


Price: $25.00 

 

G. P. A. Healy, American Artist: An Intimate Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century


De Mare, Marie

Hardcover. New York, David McKay Company, Inc, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages. 32 b&w plates. Biography of the man known as the "Painter of the Presidents". Green cloth. Red pictorial dust jacket, edge wear, some small tears and chipping to front cover. A nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 605494


Price: $29.00 

 

G. P. A. Healy, American Artist: An Intimate Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century


De Mare, Marie

Hardcover. New York, David McKay Company, Inc, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages. 32 b&w plates. Biography of the man known as the "Painter of the Presidents". Green cloth. Red pictorial dust jacket, edge wear, some small tears and chipping, in protective mylar cover. A nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 605495


Price: $29.00 

 

Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration


Uglow, Jenny

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 512 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471179


Price: $25.00 

 

Garbo - Her Story


Gronowicz, Antoni

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 7570


Price: $15.00 

 

Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work


Nordland, Gerald

Softcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE. Yellow covers with illustration, perfect binding, 95 large b&w plates. Very light rubbing to covers, upper edge slightly faded; otherwise a clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 401004


Price: $50.00 

 

General Tom Thumb and his Lady


Romaine, Mertie E.

Hardcover. Taunton, William S. Sullwold, 2nd, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 94 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 604416


Price: $13.00 

 

Genet - A Biography


White, Edmund

Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 728 pages. Hardcover. Canvas cloth boards with silver titles. Bright dust jacket with illustration in black & white and only marginal wear to edges. Black & white illustrations, tight binding, clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751359


Price: $25.00 

 

George Bellows - Painter of America


Morgan, Charles H.

Hardcover. NY, Reynal & Co., 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white, a few color plates. 342 pages

Record # 54387


Price: $30.00 

George Bellows : American ArtistOates, Joyce Carol

George Bellows : American Artist


Oates, Joyce Carol

Hardcover. New Jersey , The Ecco Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 69 pages. Cream cloth spine, with gilt titles, over mustard yellow boards. Pictorial dust jacket. Minor shelf-wear to jacket, else like new.

Record # 401438


Price: $18.00 

 

George Bellows: American Artist


Oates, Joyce Carol

Hardcover. US, Ecco Pr, 1st, 1995-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 70 pages, illustrations in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464128


Price: $15.00 

 

George Bellows: The Artist and His Lithographs


Myers, Jane, Linda Ayres

Hardcover. Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 202 pages. 187 b&w illustrations. List of print exhibitions, bibliography, index. Black cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket in very nice condition. Bright, clean copy with tight binding.

Record # 605077


Price: $32.00 

 

George Catlin and the Old Frontier


McCracken, Harold

NY, Dial, 1st , 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A Biography and Picture Gallery of the Dean of Indian Painters. 36 color plates, 130 in black & white. Dust jacket worn, chipped.

Record # 65349


Price: $50.00 

 

George Cooke, 1793-1849


Art, Georgia Museum of

Softcover. Georgia, University Press of North Georgia, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Softcover with light edgewear. Light scratches on back wrapper. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy. Color images throughout.

Record # 470780


Price: $31.00 

 

George Grose 1893-1959: Drawings/Water-Colors/Photos/Books


Grose, George

Softcover. unknown, Goethe Institute, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 15 pages. Exhibition catalog, estimated publication date of 1971. Red stapled covers with black graphic titles, essay by Walter Huder, biography, 3 tipped-in color plates, 1 b&w plate. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 806089


Price: $16.00 

 

George Grosz - His Life and Work


Schneede, Uwe M.

Hardcover. NY, Universe Books, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. in black & white, some color. 182 pages

Record # 56618


Price: $40.00 

 

George Meredith - His Life and Art in Anecdote and Criticism


Hammerton, J. A.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, John Grant, 2nd Revised, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 391 pages. Black & white illustrations. Front hinge weak. Light fraying at top and bottom of spine. Ex-library copy.

Record # 607748


Price: $18.00 

 

Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life


Robinson, Roxana

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 639 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. In good condition, clean inside and out, very small repair to dust cover at bottom of spine, but barely shows from outside.

Record # 30468


Price: $38.00 

 

Georgia O'Keeffe: the Wideness and Wonder of Her World


Gherman, Beverly

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1986, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 131 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Yellow cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Black pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to edges and spine, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606307


Price: $20.00 

 

Gilbert Stuart: A Biography


Mount, Charles Merrill

Hardcover. New York, WW Norton and Company, Inc., 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED by author. Inscription on front flyleaf dated May 11, 1964 (New York). 384 pages. Preface by Charles M. Mount. In 3 parts. B&W illustrations throughout. Overall tight and clean copy.

Record # 850483


Price: $50.00 

 

Gilbert Stuart


Whitely, William T.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Biography of painter Gilbert Stuart and his career in both Europe and the United States. 240 pages with 7 black/white full-page illustrations. Book is in very good condition, a few bumps/marks on the spine and back cover. Previous owner's name written in pencil inside the front cover.

Record # 805038


Price: $16.00 


  
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