Hardcover. Tokyo/ New York , Bijutsu Shuppan-sha/Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 554 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Very good in an excellent acetate dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Chicago, Richard Gray Library , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 20 pages, 31 b&w and color reproductions printed on shiny pages. Mixed media pieces with sculpture and paper from the "Looking in the Dark" exhibition. In very good condition. Clean and unmarked pages. In a yellow protective cover with red title. Some rubbing to outer cover.
Softcover. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. 126 drawings and photographs. 10 color plates. Includes critical commentary and comprehensive view of Shapiro's work. Slight wear on bottom corner of this artistic cover. Faint discoloration on front cover. Interior is near fine.
Hardcover. Minneapoilis MN, University of Minnesota Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages, illustrated mostly in b&w, several plates in color. Text translated from German by Desmond and Louise Clayton. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST ROOD on the front fly leaf. Dust jacket with two short closed tears.
Hardcover. Minneapolis MN, University of Minnesota Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages, illustrated with b&w photos, one color plate. Dust jacket with light rubbing, edgewear.
Hardcover. New York, Praeger, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 156 pages. Illustrated with color and black & white reproductions of paintings and works by John Sloan. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1977, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 127 pages. Brown cloth cover, color illustrated dust jacket, 100 plates in color and b&w, text by Diane Waldman. Book still in original skrink wrap.
Hardcover. New York , George Braziller, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, 40 color and 90 b&w illustrations. Out of the fantasies that enriched an often reclusive life, the enigmatic American artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) created a world of enchantment with his famed shadow boxes and collages. Using common objects like glasses, marbles, and mirrors, Cornell"s work evokes the strangeness of the familiar and the odd familiarity of the strange. Respected art historian and friend of the artist Diane Waldman probes the elusive imagery that marks Cornell"s work. Interviews with Cornell and his family and access to the artist"s papers inform her text. Bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear, repaired chip. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , G.P Putnam's Sons , reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover. 127 illustrations and 20 maps. Illustrated frontispiece and endpages. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, NY, ACA Galleries, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy, black, illustrated covers in great condition, only minor wear along the edges. Staple binding is tight, a few creases and some wear along the spine though. Pages are clean and crisp. Various b/w and color reproductions of artist's work throughout with a lot of textual description of the artist and her life. 28 pages.
Softcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 67 pages. Brown wrappers with color illustration to front cover, profusely illustrated with b&w figures, diagrams and illustrations, 5 pages of color illustrations, glossary. Light rubbing to cover; overall, a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. b&w photos throughout. Gray cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket with light edge wear, price clipped. A very nice, clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color. Some wear on binding, else a nice, clean copy.
Softcover. South Bend, IN, University of Notre Dame, 1st, c. 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of newly donated works in the Kress Collection has brown covers, with minor rubbing and marking. Staple wrappers are tight, with some discoloration around the staples. Pages are glossy, clean and crisp. 17 b/w photographic plates of works, all foreign, mainly paintings. Two very brief introductory essays.
Hardcover. Paris, Zodiaque, 2nd Ed., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages plus index. Color, b&w gravure photographs, plans of religious artifacts and sculpture of France. Text in French. Ribbon marker. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. Paris, Editions Charles Massin & Cie, 1st French, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Illustrated with primarily black & white photographs. Darkening to endpapers. Black calf leather with raised bands on spine. Title in gilt on spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, Calif., Harry N. Abrams, 1st, April 1, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages, illustrated throughout with 122 illustrations, 77 in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. Paris, Arthand, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 182 pages. 103 mostly black & white plates. Paper wrap around cover wrinkled and torn at top - approx. 1". Front and rear cover hinges weak. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. Paris, Arts Et Metiers Graphiques, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Text in French. 431 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Light grey cloth, no dust jacket. Minor soil to rear cover, else clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. White stapled wrappers with color illustration to front, foreword by Thomas W. Leavitt, essay by Nancy Neuman Press, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Very light rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight catalog.
Softcover. Yonkers, NY, Hudson River Museum, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 88 pages, illustrated throughout with photographs in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to spine, else very nice, clean copy.