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World Encyclopedia of Cartoons, The


Horn, Maurice

Hardcover. New York, Chelsea House, 1st, 1980, Dust Jacket: Good, 676 pages. Yellow cloth covered boars and spine with blue lettering. Color illustrated dust jacket. Blue endpapers. More than 900 b&w and color cartoons. Minor wear to dust jacket, some rough edges, and small tear on top back edge. Slight foxing to page edges. Overall, excellent condition.

Record # 802947


Price: $26.00 

 

World of Art, The


Weiss, Paul

Softcover. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 193 pages; study of the issues at the center of art. In very good condition; a few light marks on the back cover.

Record # 401097


Price: $12.00 

Wreckage begins with W: cartoons of the Bush administrationDanziger, Jeff, Illust. by: Jeff Danziger
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Wreckage begins with W: cartoons of the Bush administration


Danziger, Jeff, Illust. by: Jeff Danziger

softcover . Hanover, N.H., Steerforth Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Extensive b&w illustrations by Danziger throughout. Slight curl to front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468994


Price: $38.00 

 

Writer's Brush, The : Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers


Friedmn, Donald

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Mid-List Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 457 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. With essays by William H. Gass and John Updike. Over 400 reproductions by more than 200 of the world's writers, arranged alphabetically. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Fading to dust jacket front. Light soling to bottom copy edge. Edgewear to dust jacket top edge. Corners lightly bumped. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951287


Price: $63.00 

 

Writer's Eye, A: Field Notes and Watercolors


Horgan, Paul

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Absolutely beautiful, pristine copy. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Looks nearly new and barely read. Presents 60 watercolors done as studies for three of Paul Horgan's books; drawings are accompanied by passages from his works and commentaries about the making of the paintings.

Record # 32293


Price: $15.00 

 

Writings on Early American Architecture: An Annotated List of Books and Articles on Architecture Constructed before 1860 in the Eastern Half of the United States.


Roos, Jr.,, Frank J.

Hardcover. Columbus, Ohio, The Ohio State University Press, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering, lettering is faded on spine, bumped edges and fraying along spine, smudge on back cover. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 852592


Price: $30.00 

 

Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: American Pewter

Softcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, Vol. 30, No. 3, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of the Yale University Art Gallery Pewter collection; b/w covers, minor rubbing and staining. Paper wrappers slightly worn but still tight. Pages clean and crisp. 55 b/w plates of pewter pieces, 200 items listed. Brief text on each piece accompanies each plate. Essay on pewter's history and craftsmanship in the U.S. 59 pages.

Record # 808469


Price: $16.00 

 

Yankee Glass - A History of Glassmaking in New Hampshire 1790-1886 with a brief History of the Yankee Bottle Club


Bemis, John F./Elizabeth T. Nelson/Arthur Nelson/David R. Proper

Hardcover. Keene , Yankee Bottle Club, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 76 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHORS ARTHUR NELSON AND ELIZABETH T. NELSON ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612960


Price: $38.00 

Yanks Paint Brits - From Benjamin West to Nelson Shanks, From King George III to The Princess of WalesFeld, Stuart P./Gregory Hedberg/Hirschl & Adler Galleries
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Yanks Paint Brits - From Benjamin West to Nelson Shanks, From King George III to The Princess of Wales


Feld, Stuart P./Gregory Hedberg/Hirschl & Adler Galleries

Softcover. New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Full color and black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613813


Price: $19.00 

 

Yemen: 3000 Years of Art and Civilisation in Arabia Felix


Daum, Werner

Softcover. Innsbruck, Pinguin-Verlag, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 483 pages. Softcover. Slight wear and creases on cover. Old inscriptions on title page. Otherwise tight copy.

Record # 2230467


Price: $88.00 

 

Young America: A Folk-Art History


Lipman, Jean, Elizabeth V. Warren, Robert Bishop

Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press/Museum of American Folk Art, 1st, 1986, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Bright cream cloth covers, red and blue stamped pictorial of eagle with flag and laurel, stamped titles to spine, laminate dust jacket completely illustrated in color, 293 illustrations including 207 in full color. Slight edgewear to dust jacket, covers extremely clean, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; an extremely clean, tight copy in excellent condition.

Record # 808302


Price: $30.00 

 

Young America: A Folk-Art History


Lipman, Jean

Hardcover. New York, 1st, September 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Folio. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 457667


Price: $31.00 

 

Zurbaran


Baticle, Jeannine/Yves Bottineau/Jonathan Brown/Alfonso E. Perez Sanchez

Softcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art , 1st, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Shallow crease with light curling to right edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610724


Price: $31.00 

 

Academy, The: Five Centuries of Grandeur and Misery from the Carracci to Mao Tse-Tung by: Hess (Ed.), Thomas

Hardcover. New York , Macmillan Company, 1st, 1967, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Art News Annual 33 co-edited with John Ashbery. Color and B/W photographs. Pages are clean, burgundy covers have some minor white spots. Dust jacket flaps are faded otherwise clean. Record # 802824
Price: $12.00 

 

Act of Optimism, An: Building Washington Cathedral by: Lewis, Deborah Hart

Softcover. Washington, D.C., The Octagon, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Light blue stapled covers with monotone illustration, introduction by Richard T. Feller, foreword by Herbert E. Striner, 7 full page b&w plates, checklist of objects on loan from Washington Cathedral, glossary. Record # 806403
Price: $12.00 

Albany Institute of History & Art: 200 Years of Collecting by: Editor: Anbinder, Paul
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Albany Institute of History & Art: 200 Years of Collecting by: Editor: Anbinder, Paul

Hardcover. NY, Hudson Hills Press, Inc., 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 332 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in good condition, with some minor staining and indentations on the rear. Red cloth covers underneath are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Beautiful full-color photography throughout. The Albany Institute is one of the nation's oldest cultural institutions, dating to 1791. This comprehensive overview of its American art and decorative-arts collections presents about 130 objects (of a total exceeding 20,000), each chosen for its national significance, artistic merit, and relevance to the Institute's mission: collecting and interpreting the art, history, and culture of New York State's Upper Hudson Valley from the late seventeenth century to the present. Chapters are devoted to Paintings and Drawings, Miniatures, Sculpture, Prints, Silver and Pewter Furniture, Stoves, Ceramics and Glass, Textiles, and Costumes. This is an oversize book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 33880
Price: $35.00 

 

Alias Olympia: A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model & Her Own Desire by: Lipton, Eunice

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar with minor rubbing. Record # 804118
Price: $12.00 

Alice Adams by: Tarkington, Booth, Illust. by: Brown, Arthur William
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Alice Adams by: Tarkington, Booth, Illust. by: Brown, Arthur William

Hardcover. Garden City NY, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 434 pages, hardcover. Red cloth covers are in good condition, with some fading around the spine. The binding is quite loose, but still contiguous. B&W illustrations throughout. Alice Adams, daughter of middle-class parents, wants desperately to belong with the people of so called 'high society' who live in her town. Ultimately, her ambitions are tempered by the realities of her situation, which she learns to accept with grace and style. Alice's resiliency of spirit makes her one of Booth Tarkington's most compelling characters. Previous owner's signature is on the front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33796
Price: $15.00 

 

All-Night Party - The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem 1913-1930 by: Barnet, Andrea

Softcover. Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages. Softcover. Clean, tight copy. Record # 612665
Price: $12.00 

Alphonse Mucha: Masterworks by: Ormiston, Rosalind
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Alphonse Mucha: Masterworks by: Ormiston, Rosalind

Hardcover. London, Flame Tree, reprint, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages, hardcover. Covers and interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Full color artwork throughout. This beautifully adorned reference book charts the life and work of an artist who epitomized Parisian life during the fin de siecle, showcasing his Art Nouveau masterpieces. Explore Mucha's many decorative panels and commercial posters, as well as his illustrations for books and magazines. The book takes an in-depth look at his changing artistic style and reveals his sources of inspiration. Features over 150 of Mucha's most important graphic works, from his 'Gismonda' poster of 1894, to his series of decorative panels from 1902, 'The Moon and the Stars.' Clean copy. Record # 33810
Price: $12.00 

 

America/200 by: Glen Falls Bicentennial Commission

Softcover. New York, Glen Falls Bicentennial Commission, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog, exhibition selected by Dr. Bates Lowry. White stapled covers with red titles and monotone illustration, illustrated plates throughout, introduction by A. Morton Raych. Light rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy. Record # 806173
Price: $12.00 

 

American Art from the Colonial and Federal Periods by: N/A

Softcover. New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., rep, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of 88 paintings and drawings by 40 artists. 104 pages with 93 illustrations (37 in color). A very good, clean copy. A few nicks around edges of front and back cover, small dent at the top of back cover. Record # 805365
Price: $12.00 

 

American Classics of the Nineteenth Century by: Carnegie Institute

Softcover. Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Institute, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. White stapled covers with color illustration, foreword by Gordon Bailey Washburn, 16 full page b&w plates, chronology. Light rubbing to covers; a clean, tight copy. Record # 805968
Price: $12.00 

 

American Landscape Tradition: A Study and Gallery of Paintings by: Czestochowski, Joseph

Softcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. Color and B/W prints of paintings by Thomas Cole, Winslow Homer, Thomas etc. Very clean. Record # 801930
Price: $12.00