Softcover. San Francisco, CA, Mercury House, First Edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with light wear to edges. Black & white illustrations by Sylvia Bloch throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st U.S.A, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket spine lightly yellowed from shelf wear. Otherwise very clean inside and out. From the font flap: "The art of book illustration is too often overlooked, rarely getting the attention that it deserves. Art historians, students of children's literature, librarians, teachers, and general readers will be pleased to find that Douglas Martin helps to fill this void. In The Telling Line, he focuses on fifteen significant modern illustrators: their backgrounds, influences, and techniques."
Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 217 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Deckled foreedge. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Tan cover boards, tan quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. In beautiful condition. Hofstadter shows us the artist in the act of being an artist - in the act of being a human being.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. 148 pages. Several pages with corner creases otherwise VG
Hardcover. Santa Fe, NM, Fenn Publishing Co., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 359 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some scratches and wear on jacket. Otherwise clean and tight copy. Sketches and color plates throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.
Hardcover. New York, G. Pau. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Introduction and commentaries by Joe DiMaggio. Volume 1: 1932 -1941. 400 pages. Volume 2: 1942 -1951. 400 pages. Both volumes contain beautiful black and white and color photographs and reproductions of news and magazine articles. Bound in navy cloth with gilt lettering on front covers and spine; marbled endpapers. In nice red slip case. Both Volumes and slip case are in very good condition.
hardcover. New York, Methuen, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Color and black & white artwork by Ricketts. Black & white photography. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.
Hardcover. Leeds, UK, Harewood House Trust, 1st, 1999, Dust Jacket: Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with visible wear to dust jacket edges. Some shelfwear and soiling to dust jacket covers. Otherwise a tight copy. Color illustrations throughout.
Softcover. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Light soil on fore edge. Internally tight.
Hardcover. New York, The Museum of Modern Art/Arno, Reprint, 1969, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 3 separate catalogs reprinted together. b&w illustrations throughout. Tan cloth boards. Dust jacket, minor edge wear, red stain to back cover. A very tight and crisp copy.
Hardcover. New York, Arno Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 57+82+95 pages. B&W illustrations throughout. Beautiful edition with three catalogues bound up in one: "John Quidor 1801-1881", "Eastman Johnson 1824-1906 - An American Genre Painter", and "Theodore Robinson 1852-1896". Dark red leatherette, gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket as issued. Minute staining to back cover, otherwise in very good condition.
Softcover. Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 gravures. Tiepolo heliogravure front flyleaf with tissue guard. 313 pages. Text in French. Very fragile. Tears to hinge paper covers. Paper browning.
NY, Farrar Straus & Cudahy , 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illustrations. Light edgewear and chipping to dust jacket.
hardcover. London, John Calder, 1st UK, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Transl. from Italian by Nora Wydenbuck. Color frontis, b&w Illustrations, 232 pgs.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Olympic Marketing Corp, 1st, June 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 104 pages plus 126 b&w and color plates. Light foxing to front of dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Blue Rider Press, 1st Edition, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 424 pages. Hardcover. Wine cloth boards with silver printed titles. Nickel sized bump to front board edge. Copious illustrations in full color & b/w throughout. Dust jacket with light wear, one small tear. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 pages, b&w illustrations. Black Cloth. gilt, green and orange lettering. corners square. Price clipped pictorial jacket is lightly chipped along extremities. Story of Toulouse Lautrec, 19th century French painter known for his candid renderings of Paris life, especially its nightlife.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages. 176 b&w and color plates, fold outs. Biography of Ernst Trova, self-taught painter and contemporary sculpture artist, known especially for his series entitled Falling Man. White cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt design on front, Very nice, clean and well preserved copy. Looks as good as new.
NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A pictorial biography of Elsie Leslie, America's 1st child star. Black & white photos. illust. 96 pages.
Hardcover. New York, Frederic C. Bell, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 153 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. An informal panorama of American fine printing and its practitioners. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Slight tear to upper spine dust jacket. Mild bumping to corners. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.
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