Hardcover. New York, NY, Tudor Publishing Company, First US, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages. Red boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Original dust jacket with small chips, tears & toning, now protected with a plastic cover. Illustrations in black & white & light toning throughout. Deckled side edge. Tight binding, clean and unmarked.
Hardcover. London, The Phaidon Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages. 120 plates and 106 B&W text illustrations. Portrait frontispiece. Black pictorial cover with edgewear. Light brown cloth cover. Foxing to edges. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Art Directors Club, 1st , 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 171 pages. Introduction by Earnest Elmo Calkins. Brown cloth spine (lettering faded). Covers are paper covered boards. Color illust. by J.C. Leyendecker, Linn Ball, E.L. Blumenschein, others. Other artists with work in black & white: N.C. Nyeth, Jean Cornwell, John LaGatta, Wallace Morgan, Norman Rockwell. Dozens more. The illustrations make up the greater portion. The complete advertisements are all reproduced in black & white in the rear section. There is a small tear/gash to paper covers on front. Still overall VG. Light spotting to blank prelim. page.
Softcover. Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with white covers, b/w plate on front; some rubbing, minor marks. Staple wrappers tight, pages very stiff, clean and crisp. 17 b/w plates of portraiture sculpture, all contemporary but with varying subjects, styles, and media, and representing 17 separate artists. Preface discusses artistic movements in the U.S. and their influence on the pieces in the exhibition. Biographical notes on the artists at the back. 26 pages.
Softcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Exhibition catalog. Black covers with green and red graphic illustration, perfect binding, preface by Constance W. Glenn, introduction by Cecille Caterson, 22 full page color plates, complete catalogue, biographical notes on contributing artists. Light rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Rochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, This 93 page collection includes 61 artists of the Coggins collection and features 9 beautifully reproduced color plates in addition to 75 black and white photographs. Slight scratches on front and back cover. Interior in fine condition.
Softcover. Carlisle, MA, Brock & Company, 1st, 1999, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of selection from an art dealer's collection; gray covers with silver gilt writing, very minor stain on back. Paper wrappers. 22 color plates of paintings by American artists, with various subjects and in various styles. Half-page text on artist and work accompanies each plate. Short foreword on the collection. 48 pages. Tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. Glen Cove, NY, Stevenson Printing Co, na, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, INSCRIBED by Primitive artist Mike Falco on front end paper. Small closed tears, edgewear to dust jacket.
Softcover. Utica, NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 10 pages, illustrated with 7 b&w photographs. Gray staple covers with red lettering. Small crease to bottom right corner and minimal rubbing to covers. Pages clean and unmarked.
Softcover. Athens, GA, The Ohio University College of Fine Arts, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages, paperback. An exhibition organized by Trisolini Gallery at Ohio University. Fading and light soiling to wraps. Mild edgewear. Color plates throughout. Unmarked. A tight copy.
Softcover. Purchase, NY, Neuberger Museum, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Softcover with minor normal wear. Creasing to lower bottom corner, scuffing to back cover. Residue of sticker on upper back cover.
Softcover. Ithaca, NY, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Brown monotone illustrated stapled covers, brief text by Thomas W. Leavitt, black monotone frontispiece of artists's photograph on brown paper, 8 full page b&w plates, catalog, list of one-man exhibitions, awards and prizes and major commissions. Light rubbing to covers; overall a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, UK, Oxford University Press, First Edition, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 254 pages. Hardcover. Green boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with ex. lib. sticker to spine, dime sized chip to lower right corner, now protected with a plastic cover. Ex lib markings to endpapers. Wonderful illustrations in black & white throughout, over 85 plates. Clean inside and out.
Softcover. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. Pictorial stiff paper wrappers with minor wear to edges and spine, else like new.
Softcover. London, England, Zwemmer/Philip Wilson, 1st Paperback edition, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages. Softcover. Color illustrations throughout. Slight tanning at top of pages from age, otherwise pages clean, no marking. Wrapper very good, still glossy. Binding good. No foxing. A collection of the work of artists who use shock tactics in their art. The works chosen are eye-catching, to say the least.
Softcover. New York, Janet Marqusee Fine Arts, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 23 pages. 22 full color illustrations. Includes biographical descriptions of the various artists. In very good condition, some sunning and scratching to covers, otherwise a tight, clean catalog.
Softcover. New York , NBM/Amerotica, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 52 pages of color art by various artists. ADULT CONTENT. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The influence of Dada on the artists and poets of the American avant-garde. 283 pages, illustrated with over 90 black/white reproductions. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, no visible wear; dust jacket has very slight wear/creasing on some corners.
Softcover. Wilmington, DE, Delaware Art Museum, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 235 page catalog. Includes 167 artists. Numerous b&w and color illustrations, most of which are accompanied by biographical text on artist. Some wear on back cover. Else is very clean and good.
Softcover. Washington DC , Smithsonian Institution Press and Harry N. Abrams, 3rd Printing, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages. Softcover. Frontispiece, Johnny Wise, 1902, by Tad Dorgan. Coffee table size, full page, full color & b/w illustrations throughout. Anthology of numerous syndicates and individual comic artists from 1896 to mid 70's. Bright copy, clean and unmarked.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Full color and black & white photographs by Snowdon. Dust jacket price clipped and showing light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Autobiography of American modernist Marsden Hartley, edited and with an introduction by Susan Elizabeth Ryan. 246 pages with 45 black/white illustrations, including photographs and reproductions of Hartley's work. Book is in fine, like new condition, no visible defects or signs of wear.