Softcover. Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with yellow tagboard covers, minor rubbing. Paper wrappers tight. Pages are glossy, clean and crisp. 23 b/w plates of American painting, from 1830 until 1949. Catalog is divided up by years and includes 59 listed works. Short essays on each time period of painting, as well as an introduction on the history of American painting. Record # 807663
Softcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 285 pages. Illustrated with primarily black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. Record # 609900
Hardcover. London, Max Parrish, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. 24 photogravure plates and 40 drawings in line. Facsimiles of authors' signatures on endpapers. Creasing, small tears, edgewear, soiling to dust jacket. Record # 510686
Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 2nd, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 292 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W tables, as well as some illustrations at chapter headers. This book presents a linguistic analysis of poetry through a series of literary essays which demonstrate the artistic progression of poetry through the decades. Previous owner's name is signed on the front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34543
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Both volumes combine for 1846 pages, plus 269 pages of notes and appendixes. Hardcovers. Maroon cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Bindings are solid. Contains over 100 B&W illustrations throughout. William Faulkner (1897-1962) remains the preeminent literary chronicler of the American South and a giant of American arts and letters. Creatively obsessed with problems of race, identity, power, politics, and family dynamics, he wrote novels, stories, and lectures that continue to shape our understanding of the region's promises and problems. His experiments and inventions in form and style have influenced generations of writers. This set of two novels is the quintessential resource on the Nobel laureate's life and work. These are large, heavy volumes, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copies. Record # 33951
Hardcover. New York, Antheneum Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 462 pages. Selected, with an introduction, by Daniel Catton Rich, prefatory essay by Lincoln Kirstein. Gray marbled boards with magenta cloth spine with gilt lettering, dust jacket, erratum slip included, 39 pages of b&w illustrations. Light wear and fading to dust jacket; overall a tight, clean copy. Record # 805298
Softcover. NY, Shelter Harbor Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains full-color photography and illustrations throughout. This book is a definitive look at how geometry changed the world of art forever. It follows the artists of the renaissance, whose search for perspective and visual depth led them to the study of geometry. This compelling volume uses engaging text, compelling historical accounts and beautiful illustrations to immerse readers in the fundamental renaissance forms which, although conceived over five-hundred years ago, still have the capacity to awe and inspire us with their beauty. Clean copy. Record # 34337
Softcover. New York, Grove Press, 3rd, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 640 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrapper edges. Record # 471169
Hardcover. NY, Harper Pop (Harper Collins Publishers), 1st thus, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages, hardcover. Pictorial boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains gorgeous full-color illustrations throughout. This book deftly interweaves video game analysis with the complex narratives of art, politics, and history. It positions video games as vital tools for understanding each other and ourselves. Clean copy. Record # 34302
Hardcover. Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 229 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some minor bumping to the bottom edge. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. In this strikingly beautiful book, leading Vermeer scholars examine the life and works of the seventeenth-century Dutch master, analyzing his evolution from a painter of religious and mythological images to an artist who explored the psychological nuances of human endeavor. This is a large-form book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Previous owner's inscription on front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33943
Hardcover. NY, The John Day Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 361 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in fair condition due to multiple chips and tears, and has been price clipped on the inside front flap. Cloth covers have some minor discoloration but are still in very good condition. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout, The first night spent in an American home by D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda was spent in that of Witter Bynner. Soon afterward, they went together to Mexico on a memorable visit, which this book records in rich detail. This memoir is not just about the Lawrences, but is about a whole era in the intellectual and artistic life of the American Southwest. Previous owner's paste-down and markings in blue pen are present on the first front and last rear end pages, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34215
1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 470 Pages, Hard Cover. Dust jacket has some aging, rubbing and small tares at the edges. Book itself is a tight and clean copy. Record # 2232117
Hardcover. New York , Norton, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages. B&W illustrations. Dust jacket with small tear to front cover and slight sun-fading to upper edge of spine. Clean, tight copy. Mary Berenson, a scholar of Italian Renaissance art, was the collaborator and wife of Bernard Berenson, whom she often assisted with his research, writing, lecturing, and business affairs Record # 302011
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Dana Estes & Company, Publishers, Illustrated Cabinet Edition, circa 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 393 pages volume 1, 492 pages volume 2, 425 pages volume 3, 495 pages volume 4, and 467 pages volume 5, hardcovers. Green cloth cover boards with gilt leaf embellishments have some edge wear and rubbing. Interior pages are clean and bright, with deckled outside edges and gilt top edges. Bindings are solid. Contains B&W photography and illustrations throughout. This set of art criticism features Ruskin's arguments on landscape painting, Turner, and nature. Due to the size and weight of the package, this 5-volume set is available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copies. Record # 34514
Softcover. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of works related to Jewish and black struggle in America. Record # 603632
Hardcover. Columbus, OH, Ohio State University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. White cloth, black lettering. Very good pictorial dust jacket is price clipped with faded spine. Record # 803587
Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 284 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains more than 100 B&W and full-color photographs and illustrations throughout. This wide-ranging book is the first to explore the visual culture of Russia over the entire span of Russian history, from ancient Kiev to contemporary, post-Soviet society. The book examines the ways that Russians have represented themselves visually and used visual images in social and political contexts. Expert contributors discuss images and objects from all over the Russian/Soviet empire, including consumer goods, architectural monuments, religious icons, portraits, news and art photography, popular prints, films, folk art, and more. Clean copy. Record # 33975
Hardcover. Boston, Twayne, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages, gilt titles on blue board, black & white frontispiece portrait of Creeley. Bright and clean copy. Record # 62390
Hardcover. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Universiy Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 308 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket flaps both were folded inwards, but are still in good condition. Cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Light foxing present on the top edge of the pages. Binding is solid. In "Screening the Text" T. Jefferson Kline argues that the French new wave's rebel stance is far more complex and problematic than critics usually acknowledge. Challenging conventional views of film and literature in postwar France, Kline explores the new wave's unconscious--even oedipal--obsession with the tradition it claimed to reject. Clean copy. Record # 33800
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st Edition, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs throughout. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Dust jacket design by John Fontana and author photo by Bernard Minoret, in 1950 with Jean Cocteau. Clean, unmarked copy. Record # 750134
Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 257 pages. Spine slightly slanted. Dust jacket with minor patch of de-lamination on upper edge of rear cover. Clean, tight copy. Record # 453951
Softcover. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 4th Pr., 1996, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages, soft cover. Green paper covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book opens with an illuminating discussion between Bloch and Adorno on the meaning of utopia; then presents 12 essays written between 1930 and 1973 on topics as diverse as aesthetic theory, genres such as music, painting, theater, film, opera, poetry, and the novel, popular culture in the form of fairy tales, detective stories, and dime novels. Previous owner's black ink markings are present on some interior pages throughout. Record # 34536
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 215 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has several ex-library stickers, with minor staining and light bumping. Black cloth covers and interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is slightly loose, due to a cracked front hinge. Contains full-color photography throughout. This book by two widely recognized specialists on Velazquez shows exactly how Spain's most famous painter realized his artistic vision. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. It is an ex-library book with the standard exterior markings, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34304
Softcover. London, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Reprint, 2024, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages, soft cover. Covers are in good condition, despite some minor edge wear. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. B&W photography throughout. This intellectual biography of outspoken public activist, professor, and architectural historian and critic Vincent Scully's life and career traces the formative moments in his thinking, mapping his relationships with a constellation of architects, artists, and cultural personalities of the past one hundred years. Previous owner's signature on front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33883
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