Hardcover. New York, NY, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., First Edition, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Full page, full color illustrations throughout. Bright dust jacket with crisp edges, in very good condition. Tight binding, coffee table sized, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.
Softcover. Fresno, Press at the California State University, 1st Edition, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Softcover published on occasion of an exhibition of the same title organized by Fresno State at the Phebe Conley Gallery, Fresno, California, August 26 - October 9, 2009. Full page, full color & b/w illustrations throughout. Essays by Laura Meyer adn Faith Wilding. Bright, unmarked copy.
New York, Charles River Publishing, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 185 pages. 80 color photographs of work by artists Morgan, Cameron, Rugoff, Cruz and Siegel among others. Exhibition of a private collection. Shrinkwrapped.
New York, Charles River Publishing, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 185 pages. 80 color photographs of work by artists Morgan, Cameron, Rugoff, Cruz and Siegel among others. Exhibition of a private collection.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Lovejoy Press, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 494 pages, giant folio, 12" x 19", publisher's original raw silk cloth with white lettering silkscreened on front board and spine. Omitted plate by Gakutei tipped in at rear. Biographies and color illustrations by 74 master Japanese artists. Number 147 of 1050 copies. Beautiful condition.
Softcover. San Francisco, CA, Mercury House, First Edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with light wear to edges. Black & white illustrations by Sylvia Bloch throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.
softcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, reprint , 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. Extensive color illustrations by various artists throughout. Previous owners signature on front end paper. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st U.S.A, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket spine lightly yellowed from shelf wear. Otherwise very clean inside and out. From the font flap: "The art of book illustration is too often overlooked, rarely getting the attention that it deserves. Art historians, students of children's literature, librarians, teachers, and general readers will be pleased to find that Douglas Martin helps to fill this void. In The Telling Line, he focuses on fifteen significant modern illustrators: their backgrounds, influences, and techniques."
Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 217 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Deckled foreedge. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Tan cover boards, tan quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. In beautiful condition. Hofstadter shows us the artist in the act of being an artist - in the act of being a human being.
Softcover. New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of American watercolor artists. Artists included: Avery, Burchfield, Demuth, Dove, Homer, Hopper, Marin, Prendergast, Sargent, Wyeth. Foreword by Andrew J. Crispo. In good condition; binding slightly worn.
Softcover. New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of American watercolor artists. Artists included: Avery, Burchfield, Demuth, Dove, Homer, Hopper, Marin, Prendergast, Sargent, Wyeth. Foreword by Andrew J. Crispo. In good condition; binding slightly worn.
Softcover. Washington, DC, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 49 pages. Illustrated throughout in b&w and color. Light edge wear, discoloration on back cover; else a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Williamstown, MA, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalogue featuring the drawings, pastels, and watercolors of American artists such as Frank Benson, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Dewing, Childe Hassam, and Edmund Tarbell. Includes 20 black/white illustrations. Very good condition, no interior marks but slight discoloration on cover.
Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. A tight copy.
Hardcover. Santa Fe, NM, Fenn Publishing Co., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 359 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some scratches and wear on jacket. Otherwise clean and tight copy. Sketches and color plates throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 144 pages. Published to accompany exhibit. B/W illustrations throughout, Light wear and fading along spine and edges of boards. Some wear to dust jacket. Clean inside. A look at Dada & Surrealist inclusion of numbers and words into art.
Softcover. Bowdoin, President and Trustees of Bowdoin College, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 60 pages. Softcover exhibit catalog without dust jacket. Very small blemish on top right cover, otherwise normal wear. One of fifteen hundred copies printed. Illustrated with full page black & white reproductions.
New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Black & white photography. Color and black & white artwork by various artists.
Hardcover. New York, Panteon Bollingen Foundation Series, 2nd, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 278 pages. Bollingen Series XLVIII. Tipped-in color plates, b/w images throughout, gilt titles and decoration on spine, gilt decoration on front board. Blue top edge lightly faded. Some wear to dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean inside. Content: "...von Simson undertakes an interpretation of the Gothic cathedral as an image of supernatural reality".
Softcover. Boston, MA, Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 289 pages. Softcover, with minor wear to corner of upper spine and scratched section on back cover. Otherwise clean and tight copy. Members and associate members arranged alphabeticall; text also includes a chronology of major exhibitions; cover was designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
Softcover. Giverny, Maag Sources/Terra Foundation for the Arts, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, French text, 56 pages. A study of late 19th century photography and it's use as a tool for artists. Color and b&w plates. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Oakland, CA, The Oakland Museum, Art Museum, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with fully illustrated color covers; hardly any wear. Paper wrappers tight, pages clean and crisp. Transparent flyleaves with a flower design are also crisp. 34 plates, 4 in color, of artist's paintings inspired by and made during his time in Japan. 37 items listed. One b/w plate of artist is in the introduction, which discusses artist's connection to painting Japan and other artists' work on Japan. Brief text on artist's life at back, as well as chronology of this period in the artist's life. 48 pages.
Softcover. New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Stiff beige textured covers, perfect binding, 13 full page color plates to laminate papers, biographical notes on three featured artists. Slight rubbing to covers; else a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
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