Greenwich, Ct, New York Graphic Society, 2nd, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 306 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with color and black & white photographs and drawings. Dust jacket shows wear and 3" tear on lower left corner (repaired), price clipped. Clear protective plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Columbus, OH, Columbus Museum of Art and Greater Columbus Arts Council, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with black covers, minor rubbing but in good condition. Staple wrappers show light wear, but are still tight. Pages clean, crisp, and glossy. Two introductory essays, 67 b/w plates from various American artists, meant to represent many different styles. One work per artist, complete listing of artists. 86 pages.
Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills, 1st, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 160 pages. 148 plates in full color. Describe the multitude of movements the 20th century has witnessed such as: Cubism. Minimalism, Surrealism, Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism. Texts by numerous contributors. Black cloth, pictorial dust jacket. A very clean, tight and well preserved copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor wear and chipping. Otherwise tight and clean copy, illustrated throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Quarto, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustration by George Stubbs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor smudging to top left corner dust jacket back. Otherwise very clean, unmarked copy. Color illustrations throughout. Tight copy.
Softcover. Williamstown, MA, President and Trustees of Williams College, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with gray covers that form a jacket. In great condition, with only minor fading on the spine. Paper binding is tight. Pages are glossy, clean and crisp. 36 color plates divided between the two artists. Oil painting, tempera painting, and mosaic style work is all represented. Biographical information on the two artists is included at the front.
Softcover. New York, Champellier Galleries, Inc, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. 41 illustrations, some in color. Pictorial stiff wrappers with light wear to edges and spine, otherwise a very nice, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1972, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 230 pages, illustrated throughout with 91 plates, including 46 in full color. Blue cloth with silver lettering to front and spine. White pictorial dust jacket. Minor wear to covers, else a beautiful copy. Like new.
Softcover. Vail CO, Vail Fine Art Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages, illustrated in color. Csoka was born in Hungary and was an established artist there before moving to America in the 30s with his new wife. A retrospective of his life and work. Clean, bright copy.
New York, Kennedy Galleries, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated throughout in b&w. Fold to corner of front cover; else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter Inc., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Presents the work of nine of today's figurative painters: Lennart Anderson, William Bailey, Jack Beal, Jane Freilicher, Alex Katz, Louisa Mattiasdottir, Philip Pearlstein, Wayne Thiebaud, and Neil Welliver. Forward by Robert Hughes. Faint age toning and spotting to text block. Edgewear and light rubbing to dust jacket. Mild shelf wear to boards. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.
Softcover. Wonkton, Maryland, Friar's Lantern Inc., 1st, 2000, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 440 pages, illustrated throughout b&w. Blue pictorial stiff wrappers. Minor wear to edges, else like new.
Softcover. Memphis, TN, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of the collection of Art Today works at Brooks Memorial Art Gallery; b/w covers with minor rubbing. Paper wrappers. 25 works in painting, print, sculpture, and architecture from various artists, each with text on artist. Introduction on contemporary art. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Utica, NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Brown covers with a few scratches and minor wear to the corners. A bit faded toward the spine, but spine and binding are in good condition. Pages clean and crisp. 24 b/w plates with 84 catalog listings. 40 pages.
Softcover. Utica, NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Brown covers with a few scratches on the front and minor wear to the edges. A bit faded toward the spine, but spine and binding are in good condition. Pages clean and crisp. 24 b/w plates with 84 catalog listings. 40 pages.
Hardcover. New York, Spanierman Gallery, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Illustrated with full color examples of works by Arthur Wesley Dow, and artists directly influenced by his work. Exhibition at Spanierman Gallery - November 9, 1999 - January 15, 2000. Narrow crease on inside flap of dust jacket.
Softcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of Arthur Wesley Dow's work. 159 pages of text and photographs: black & white. Text by Frederick C. Moffatt of the University of Tennessee. In very good condition.
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, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages, illustrated throughout color and b&w. Red gilt-titled cloth spine, brown boards. White pictorial dust jacket. Remaindermark to bottom edge, slight wear to covers, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
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.
Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, Frank S. Schwartz & Son, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with white covers, color plates on front and back. Very minor rubbing. Staple wrappers tight, pages clean and crisp. 37 plates, 9 in color including covers, of various styles of paintings from various artists, with a focus on landscape and still-life. Text on each artist with each plate.