Softcover. Los Angeles/Newport Beach, CA, Modernage, First Ltd., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY JOHN R. CORK ON TITLE PAGE. Photographs by John R. Cork. Softcover limited edition number 943 of 2000. Includes 50 full color plates. Front cover full-color photograph with white lettering. In very good condition, edgewear to cover and a few pages bent at the top right corner. Otherwise an excellent, clean copy.
Softcover. Malibu, California, 1st, 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 142 pages, illustrated in b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers with minor wear to spine, else like new.
Hardcover. Milan, Italy, Arti Grafiche Ricordi, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Printed on satin. This green satin-covered book holds 10 loose-leaf portraits and has its own brown cloth slipcase. In the slipcase, its size is 14" x 18". Issued w/out dj.
Hardcover. New York, Art in America, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover magazine format. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Features articles on: 'The River: Places and People', 'In the Museums', 'The Guggenheim International', 'Pedestrian Art', 'After Next, What?', 'Winslow Homer in New York State', 'Florine Stettheimer', 'Portrait of a Product', 'The Museum Explosion', 'Dealers-Eye View', and more. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York , Art in America Inc., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages, softcover, color illustrated wraps. B&w illustrations, some color. Special issue on The Artist Speaks, many portraits of American artists and their works. Crease to top corner of cover otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Softcover. New York , Art in America Inc., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages, softcover, color illustrated wraps. B&w illustrations, some color. Articles on Arnold Newman's artist portraits, Stuart Davis, Latin American art, A Folk Art Whodunit, rediscovering Copley's Corkscrew. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Atlanta, Georgia, Perry Communications, Inc, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages illustrated throughout with prints in color and b&w. Gray pictorial stiff wrappers with light wear to edges and spine, and small wrinkle to lower corner of front cover, else a very nice, clean, tight copy.
Softcover. 1st, June 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. Light markings on bottom edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum, unknown, 1970, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Exhibition catalog. 101 pages, color frontispiece portrait, and 41 plates, some in color. Gtay cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new. In shrinkwrap.
Softcover. New York , National Academy of Design, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Spine faded. Stain to top right cover corner and lightly on pages throughout. Else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, National Academy of Design, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalogue for an exhibition featuring self-portraits by American artists. 175 pages with 16 color plates, 56 black/white plates, and an additional 16 black/white illustrations. Very good condition, some fading to the front cover, light edge wear. Few pencil marks on the exhibition itinerary.
Hardcover. New York, Baker & Scribner, 1st, 1846, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 257 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations on steel (by artist only mentioned in Preface as Mr. Burt) with tissue guards throughout. Cover boards bound in dark brown leather, gilt title on spine, raised bands and embossed design on covers and spine. Some chipping to top and bottom of spine, as well as corners of covers. Tanning from age and foxing to pages and edges, but doesn't affect legibility of text or illustrations. Beautiful old volume. Biographical sketches of eight American painters.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 368 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Cream cloth with gild decoration to front cover. Gilt lettering to red leatherette spine. Dust jacket edge wear with tiny tear to bottom right edge, otherwise a very nice, clean and tight copy.
Softcover. New York, NY, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog, illustrated covers, clean. Staple wrappers and pages tight and clean, minor rubbing. 36 color plates, landscape and portrait paintings from American artists, with artist biographies at back. Lengthy introduction on American painting.
Hardcover. Charlottesville VA, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 553 pages, 348 full-page portraits in b&w. Includes a catalogue of 3,800 silhouettes by the artist. Very good in a crisp, unclipped dust jacket.
New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 715 pages. Black & white photography. Color and black & white portraits.
Softcover. Washington D.C. , Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, illustrated with 56 plates in b&w. Cream pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear ti edges and spine, slight discoloration to covers and top edge, else a very nice tight copy
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, Reprint, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Light sunfade to spine edge. Red top edge. Frontis illustration, Eric Gill, Self Portrait (1927), in black & white. Black & white illustrations throughout. Previous owner's stamp to front flyleaf. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 348 pages. 259 illustrations, including 152 plates in full color. Surveys the vast medium of watercolor through the 19th and early 20th centuries, displaying artist such as La Farge, Prendegrast, Wyeth, West, Marin, Homer, Sargent and many others. The first full scale book published documenting the outstanding collection of watercolor at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Blue cloth, dark blue lettering to spine and front cover. Beautiful pictorial dust jacket displaying Homer's "The Blue Boat". Like new.
Hardcover. London, Peter Owen, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black covers, gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. In great condition. Frank Hilton discusses the effect opium addiction had on Baudelaire's career as a poet and artist.
Softcover. Virginia, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Exhibition catalog. Stapled covers with b&w illustration, tipped-in color frontispiece, dozens of large b&w plates. Light rubbing to covers, color plate partially detached; overall a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Waltham, Massachusetts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages. Stiff textured light brown covers with blind stapled titles and folded flaps, acknowledgments and introductory essay titled "The Art of William Beckman and Gregory Gillespie" by Carl Belz, catalogue of the exhibition,16 color and b&w plates by each artist. Slight rubbing to covers, tiny brown marking to lower right edge of front cover, slight break to upper portion of spine; otherwise a very clean, tight copy in great condition.