Hardcover. Honolulu, HI, East-West Center Press, 1st thus, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 56 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in fair condition after repairs, due to multiple open and closed tears, with light staining. Brown cloth cover boards with embossed black Japanese text are significantly warped, but are otherwise in good condition. Interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains full-color illustrations throughout. This book presents Hiroshige's renowned woodblock prints of 53 small stations along the Tokaido, the national highway connecting Tokyo with Kyoto. It is a beautiful retrospective of Utagawa Hiroshige's artistry. Clean copy. Record # 34319
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1st thus, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 664 pages, hardcover. Brown cloth covers stamped with black text show significant edge wear and rubbing, with bumped corners. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid, but the hinges are tender. Contains B&W photography and illustrations throughout, with notes on the illustrations by Russell Sturgis. This book is a comprehensive, historically significant work documenting the evolution of American furniture styles, craftsmanship, and domestic interiors from the earliest 17th century settlements through the 19th century. It tracks how European styles transformed upon reaching early American homes. Clean copy. Record # 34614
Hardcover. NY, Greenwich House, 1st thus, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, green cloth covers with gilt text, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains more than 200 color illustrations, and some B&W illustrations throughout. This is a survey of works by French artists of the Impressionist movement, with a focus on Pissarro, Sisley, Manet, Morisot, Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 33957
Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 306 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in fair condition due to a few closed tears, significant chipping, and one long closed cut on the front. Red cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography and illustrations throughout. This book makes deeply penetrating examinations into the psychology of the artist and of artistic creativity. Anton Ehrenzweig was uniquely qualified in this, having great knowledge and understanding both of the most recent trends in art and of the most advanced psychological theory. Clean copy. Record # 34408
Softcover. Oxford, U.K., Phaidon House Ltd., Reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W and full-color illustrations throughout. This is the first book to make the glories of The Lindisfarne Gospels accessible to a wide public. The Lindisfarne Gospels is a manuscript that was produced in the Northumbrian island monastery of Lindisfarne at the end of the seventh century in honor of Saint Cuthbert, and is one of the world's foremost masterpieces of book painting, considered a treasure of Catholicism. All the essential illuminated pages are reproduced impeccably here in color from an entirely new and accurate set of photographs. Clean copy. Record # 34049
Softcover. Newark, New Jersey, The Newark Museum, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 27 pages. Museum exhibition catalog, volume 10, no. 3&4 - new series. White stapled covers with b&w illustration, featured essay "American Indian Material" in the Newark Museum by Edward Hunter Ross, 23 b&w plates with descriptive captions. A clean, tight copy. Record # 805979
Hardcover. NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in very good condition. Black cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition that ran September through December, 1989, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and then went on to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, and Houston. Foreword by Philippe de Montebello. Essays by Hambourg and Phillips. Includes 203 illustrations with 125 in color. Short inscription by previous owner on front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33691
Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, 393 and 381 pages, respectively. Covers are in very good condition considering their age, with just some minor rubbing to the spines. Uncut interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Top edges gilt. B&W illustrations throughout, including a beautiful frontispiece of Augustus Saint-Gaudens in each volume, a photo in volume 1 and an illustration in volume 2. This edition contains 2 different text fonts, one of which indicates biographical, and the other autobiographical writings. This is a scarcely available set on the life and works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), an American Beaux-Arts sculptor who is best known for his statues commemorating Abraham Lincoln and Union officers of the Civil War, including Robert Gould Shaw, William Tecumseh Sherman, and John Logan. These volumes were edited by his only child, Homer (1880-1953), an artist and museum administrator in his own right. These two larger volumes are available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Previous owner's stamp on inside front cover of both volumes, otherwise clean copies. Record # 33868
Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 344 pages, b&w illustrations. Unclipped, tight and clean copy. Seems to be an unread copy. Record # 2232122
Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 168 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has been price-clipped, and is in fair condition overall due to multiple closed tears and chips. Red cloth cover boards with a quarter black spine are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This book presents a survey of Civil War battle art, some of which is not published elsewhere. Contains six war-inspired poems by Walt Whitman. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34348
Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 168 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has been price-clipped, and is in fair condition overall due to multiple closed tears and chips. Red cloth cover boards with a quarter black spine are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This book presents a survey of Civil War battle art, some of which is not published elsewhere. Contains six war-inspired poems by Walt Whitman. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Previous owner's signature is present on the front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34397
Softcover. Millbrae, CA, Celestial Arts, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, soft cover, B&W illustrations and photos throughout. Minor wear but generally in good condition. Long before "turn on, tune in, drop out" became the credo of the American counterculture, Aldous Huxley was using mescaline and LSD in controlled, carefully documented experiments. Accounts of those psychedelic experiences, along with his interest in Eastern mystical religions, accompany the moving story of Aldous Huxley's later years with his wife, Laura. Huxley's fascination with the spiritual world remained with him throughout his life and never wavered through his final illness in 1963. THIS TIMELESS MOMENT takes the reader into the lively mind of one of the most profound thinkers of any generation. Previous owner's name on first front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33578
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 390 pages, color frontispiece and b&w illustrations. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Clean, tight copy. Record # 512248
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, unknown, unknown, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 85 pages. 43 illustrations including 17 plates in full color. Introduction to Mark Tobey, "old" master of American modern art. Publication year unknown, but possibly in association with German press around 1966. In nice condition. Record # 605105
Hardcover. London, Readex Microprint, reprint, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 331 pages, hardcover. Covers are significantly bumped near the spine. Interior pages are clean and bright, and the binding is solid. This is a reprint of an 1868 book, with original B&W illustrations throughout. In 1864, the Russian government granted permission to the Western Union Telegraph Company to make a survey for a possible telegraph line extending from British Columbia through what was then called Russian America (Alaska)... One of the participants was Frederick Whymper, a young English adventurer, writer, and artist, who joined the expedition and wrote Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, one of the earliest and best accounts of Alaska during the transition from a Russian to an American possession. Previous owner wrote two short notes on the inside back cover, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33785
Softcover. New York, Kennedy Galleries, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 46 pages. Very good pictorial wrappers. Black & white illustrations throughout. Record # 804445
Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. Livingston, MT, Scribners, Book Club, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, black & white illustrations, 192 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, light soil. previous owner's bookplate inside front cover, otherwise clean, very good. Record # 61905
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, brown cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W and full-color photography throughout. This book is a survey of the works of art by Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944). A pioneer of abstract painting, each of his pieces has been provided with an accompanying commentary by Thomas M. Messer. Contains 82 illustrations, including 40 color plates. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34301
Softcover. Paris, FR, Editions Verve, 1st, 1939, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, soft cover. Paper covers have some light edge wear, but are generally in good condition. Interior pages are clean and bright despite some minor foxing. Binding is quite loose and is in poor condition due to significant damage to the spine. A good candidate for rebinding. Contains B&W and full-color illustrations and photography throughout. This is a special double issue of the iconic French art journal, created for the New York's World's Fair, with original color lithograph covers of female nudes by Aristide Maillol. This is a large-format volume, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34371
Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.London ; Wolfeboro, N.H., The British Library Publishing Division, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 460527
Softcover. Philadelphia, The Victorian Society in America, 2nd, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. A pocket guide to 19th century museums, inns, restaurants, tours and historic sites. Blue pictorial stiff paper wrappers. Light wear, and slight rubbing to spine, else clean, tight copy. Record # 605626
Softcover. Texas/Colorado, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art/Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. White wrappers, with color illustration of Kuhn's "The Commissioners" to front, perfect binding, color frontispiece of "Bar Room Fight," foreword by Fred S. Bartlett, 33 full page b&w plates. Slight rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very neat, tight copy. Record # 807903
Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st , 1993, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 90 pages. 2-color cartoon illustrations by Barrett. No dust jacket issued. Some soil to front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 66902
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 169 pages, hardcover. Cloth covers have a few very minor stains on the rear, interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Full color illustrations throughout. This beautifully illustrated catalogue celebrates Homer's legacy at Prouts Neck, and documents the Portland Museum of Art's six-year conservation project to preserve the Winslow Homer Studio, the former carriage house in which Homer lived and worked. Photographs of the studio and site, never before open to the public, highlight views that are recognizable as the subjects of many of Homer's paintings. Essays by leading scholars examine his iconic masterpieces; his artistic development in Prouts Neck; the architecture of his studio; his relationship to French painting; and the full range of his marine paintings. Clean copy. Record # 33797
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