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19th Century Paintings: Philadelphia Collection XV


Frank S. Schwartz & Son Philadelphia

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, Frank S. Schwartz & Son Philadelphia, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with illustrated color covers; some rubbing. Staple wrappers. 45 plates including covers, 19 color. Loose-leaf price list inside front cover. Text on each artist. Tight, clean copy.

Record # 808266


Price: $10.00 

20th Century PortraitsWheeler, Monroe

20th Century Portraits


Wheeler, Monroe

Softcover. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 148 pages. An examination of modern portraiture in painting, drawing, & sculpture of various artists. Softcover with slight edgewear. Staining to bottom of front wrapper. Shelf wear to front wrapper and sun fading to spine. Otherwise clean copy. Color and black & white illustrations throughout.

Record # 470862


Price: $15.00 

A Kind of RaptureBergman, Robert

A Kind of Rapture


Bergman, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Color photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471510


Price: $44.00 

 

A. B. Durand : 1796-1886


N/A

Softcover. Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages 49 b&w plates and 4 color plates, along with a catalog of works from the exhibit at the Montclair Art Museum from October 24 - November 28, 1971. Includes a biographical introduction. In very good condition, back cover shows rubbing and scratching wear.

Record # 805522


Price: $16.00 

 

Abraham Rattner: Watercolors


Rattner, Abraham

Softcover. New York, Kennedy Galleries, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Staple covers with b&w photographic illustration of artist's portrait, chronology, public collections,introduction by Martha Fleischman, 12 large full color plates, exhibition listing. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 805930


Price: $10.00 

 

Against All Hope: The Prison Memoirs of Armando Valladares


Valladares, Armando

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 380 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light shelfwear to dust jacket rear. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white portraits throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471230


Price: $15.00 

 

American Art from the Colonial and Federal Periods


N/A

Softcover. New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., rep, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of 88 paintings and drawings by 40 artists. 104 pages with 93 illustrations (37 in color). A very good, clean copy. A few nicks around edges of front and back cover, small dent at the top of back cover.

Record # 805365


Price: $11.00 

 

American Art Journal, The - 1986 - Volume XVIII - No. 1


La Farge, John/Gilbert Stuart

Softcover. New York, Kennedy Gallerys, Inc., 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Paperback. Illustrated with black & white reproductions and photographs. Feature articles: John La Farge's 'Portrait of the Painter' and the Use of Photography in his Work, Some Distant Relatives and American Cousins of Thomas Eakins's Children at Play, etc.

Record # 511379


Price: $13.00 

 

American Art Journal, The - 1986 - Volume XVIII - No. 4


Roosevelt, Franklin Delano/Winslow Homer/Andrew Jackson

Softcover. New York, Kennedy Gallerys, Inc., 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Paperback. Illustrated with black & white reproductions and photographs. Feature articles: Portraits of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Yankee Romance; The Comic Courtship Scene in Nineteenth-Century American Art, Winslow Homer's 'Thanksgiving Day-Hanging Up the Musket', etc.

Record # 511381


Price: $13.00 

 

American Art Treasures Discovered: A Community Adventure


Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences

Softcover. Morristown, NJ, Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with brown covers, color plate on front Discoloration on part of the front cover. Minor creases, staple wrappers tight. Pages are clean and crisp. Exhibition covers a range of American art, especially including portraits and landscapes, in realistic style. 107 b/w plates. Short introduction on the development of American painting.

Record # 807656


Price: $13.00 

 

American Art Treasures Discovered: A Community Adventure


Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences

Softcover. Morristown, NJ, Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with brown covers, color plate on front. Discoloration on small sections of front and back. Minor scratches and rubbing. Light creasing near spine, staple wrappers tight. Pages are clean, slightly bent at corner. Exhibition covers a range of American art, especially including portraits and landscapes, in realistic style. 107 b/w plates. Short introduction on the development of American painting.

Record # 807657


Price: $10.00 

 

American Arts of the 18th Century


Colby College Art Museum

Softcover. Waterville, ME, Colby College Art Museum, 1st, 1967, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Exhibition catalog, off-white paper jacket. Minor rubbing. Actual covers white, with no marks. Staple wrappers tight, pages clean and crisp. Catalog is divided into paintings, silver, furniture, prints, ceramics, textiles, and wallpaper, all from the 18th century. 150 items listed, 35 b/w plates, short introduction on the Museum and exhibition. 35 pages.

Record # 808060


Price: $8.00 

 

American Beauties: Women in Art and Litterature


Sullivan, Charles

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 159 pages. 99 illustrations, including 45 plates in full color. Red cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover. Red pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Record # 805323


Price: $10.00 

 

AMERICAN COLONIAL PORTRAITS 1700-1776


Saunders, Richard H.

Softcover. Washington City, 1st, November 17, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 342 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers. Spine faded. Price sticker on rear cover, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451142


Price: $30.00 

 

American Figure Painting 1950-1980


Styron, Thomas W.

Softcover. Norfolk, Virginia, The Chrysler Museum, 1st, 1980, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 116 page catalog from October 17-November 30, 1980, exhibition. Numerous black and white illustrations and 7 color plates. Beautiful color cover featuring "Coffee," by Richard Diebenkorn.

Record # 806575


Price: $80.00 

 

American Miniatures


Schwarz

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, Schwarz Gallery, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Green stapled wrappers, 11 color plates including illustration to wrappers, accompanying descriptions. Clean wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 807841


Price: $10.00 

 

American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art


Terra Museum of American Art

Softcover. Evanstown, Illinois, Terra Museum of American Art, 1sr, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Gray stapled wrappers, color plate to front wrapper, foreword by John Wilmerding, 13 large full color plates, text by Ronald McKnight Melvin, numerous b&w plates. Light rubbing to wrappers, right catalog edge slightly bent; overall, a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 807950


Price: $8.00 

American Paintings of the Eighteenth CenturyMiles, Ellen G.

American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century


Miles, Ellen G.

Hardcover. Washington, 1st, January 11, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 424 pages, b&w illustrations, 63 color plates, color frontispiece. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451339


Price: $200.00 

 

American Politicians: Photographs from 1843 to 1993


Kismaric, Susan

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages, 197 b&w photos. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 404432


Price: $20.00 

 

American Portrait, Landscape, Seascape, Still Life and Genre Paintings from 1770 to 1922


Kennedy Galleries

Softcover. New York, NY, Kennedy Galleries, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with black covers, color plate on front; minor rubbing. Pen inscription on title page. Paper wrappers. 60 color plates of paintings by 40 different artists. Short introduction on range of paintings. Tight, clean copy.

Record # 808369


Price: $8.00 

 

American Portrait, The: From the Death of Stuart to the Rise of Sargent


Hennessey, William J.

Softcover. Worcester, MA, Worcester Art Museum, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Off-white wrappers, perfect binding, 45 b&w plates with accompanying descriptions, catalogue of exhibition. Mild rubbing to wrappers, pages very crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight catalog.

Record # 807709


Price: $10.00 

 

American Portraits 1800 - 1850


Feigenbaum, Rita

Hardcover. Schenectady, New York, Union College Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 155 pages. "A Catalogue of Early Portraits in the Collections of Union College." Tan cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, color frontispiece, 25 b&w plates, 11 b&w figures, 12 chapters on 11 different artists in addition to chapter on anonymous painters. Light wear to dust jacket; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 605424


Price: $32.00 

 

American Portraits by John Singleton Copley


Copley, John Singleton

Softcover. New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Pale blue stapled covers with red titles, 7 color and 40 b&w full-age plates, essay by Stuart P. Feld, folded insert with acknowledgments to committee members and patrons included. Very mild rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 401037


Price: $19.00 

 

American Portraits in the Collection of the New York Historical Society


Society, New-York Historical

Hardcover. New Haven, 1st, November 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 2 volume set. 964 pages in total, b&w illustrations throughout. Rubbing, edge wear to dust jackets. Else very clean, tight copies.

Record # 451398


Price: $60.00 

 

American portraiture in the grand manner, 1720-1920


No Author

Softcover. Los Angeles, Calif., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 228 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear and rubbing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451137


Price: $20.00 

 

American Self Portraits 1670 - 1973


Van Devanter, Ann C. and Alfred V. Frankenstein, with Shirley S. Simpson

Softcover. Washington, D.C., International Exhibitions Foundation, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages. Exhibition catalog. Perfect binding, laminate wrappers with color illustration, 4 full-page color plates, 109 full-page b&w plates with accompanying descriptions. Light rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked, tight binding; a very neat, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 401471


Price: $20.00 

 

American Self Portraits, 1670-1973


Van DeVanter, Ann C. and Alfred V. Frankenstein

Softcover. Washington, D.C., International Exhibitions Foundation, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages. Exhibition catalog. White covers with color illustration and black titles to front, 4 full-page color frontispieces, preface by Annemarie H. Pope, acknowledgments, introduction and text by authors, upwards of 100 full page b&w plates with accompanying biographical essays on artists, alphabetical index of artists with biographical notes. Light rubbing to covers, very minor crease to top right corner and bottom edge of front cover; overall a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806423


Price: $25.00 

 

American Self Portraits, 1670-1973


Van DeVanter, Ann C. and Alfred V. Frankenstein

Softcover. Washington, D.C., International Exhibitions Foundation, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages. Exhibition catalog. White covers with color illustration and black titles to front, 4 full-page color frontispieces, preface by Annemarie H. Pope, acknowledgments, introduction and text by authors, upwards of 100 full page b&w plates with accompanying biographical essays on artists, alphabetical index of artists with biographical notes. Light rubbing to covers; overall a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806422


Price: $25.00 

 

American Self Portraits, 1670-1973


Van DeVanter, Ann C. and Alfred V. Frankenstein

Softcover. Washington, D.C., International Exhibitions Foundation, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages. Exhibition catalog. White covers with color illustration and black titles to front, 4 full-page color frontispieces, preface by Annemarie H. Pope, acknowledgments, introduction and text by authors, upwards of 100 full page b&w plates with accompanying biographical essays on artists, alphabetical index of artists with biographical notes. Light rubbing to covers, small tear to top of half-title page; overall a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806424


Price: $25.00 

 

American Tradition, The: Part 1, Paintings of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries


Kennedy Galleries

Softcover. New York, NY, Kennedy Galleries, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with black covers, some rubbing and marking. Pencil inscription on title page. Paper wrappers. 44 color plates of paintings from various artists. Biographic information on artists following this. Tight copy, clean interior.

Record # 808368


Price: $8.00 

 

Ancestral Records and Portraits: A Compilation from the Archives


Colonial

Softcover. Baltimore, reprint, June 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 volumes. 835 pages, total. B&w illustrations. Light blue paper wrappers. Light soiling on bottom edge. Else very clean, tight copies.

Record # 451209


Price: $80.00 

 

ANNALS OF AN ARTISTS LIFE, THE (3vols.)


Watts, M. S., George

Hardcover. New York, Hodder & Stoughton, unknown, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three Volumes. 329, 352, 329 uncut pages. Illustrated with 37 plates. Watts, George Frederic. 1817-1904. English painter and sculptor. Exhibited A Wounded Heron (1837); won prize (1842) for cartoon Caractacus; won British competition in oils (1847) with King Alfred; commissioned to fresco George and the Dragon in Hall of Poets of the Houses of Parliament (1848-53). Painted series of about 300 portraits of distinguished contemporaries (1864-95), including Garibaldi, Thiers, Guizot; painted symbolical pictures and moral allegories including Life' s Illusions (1849), Watchman, What of the Night (1880), Hope (1886), Love and Death (1877, 1896); as sculptor executed monuments including bronze equestrian statues of Hugo Lupus (1884) and Physical Energy (1904). Volume Three with one small spot along outer front hinge edge, this volume VG. Volumes One and Two Fine.

Record # 220695


Price: $32.00 

 

Antique Chinese Portraits


N/A

Hardcover. Milan, Italy, Arti Grafiche Ricordi, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Printed on satin. This green satin-covered book holds 10 loose-leaf portraits and has its own brown cloth slipcase. In the slipcase, its size is 14" x 18". Issued w/out dj.

Record # 803815


Price: $192.00 

 

Art in America - Volume 52 - Number Two - April 1961 - 'New York Issue"


Art in America

Hardcover. New York, Art in America, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover magazine format. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Features articles on: 'The River: Places and People', 'In the Museums', 'The Guggenheim International', 'Pedestrian Art', 'After Next, What?', 'Winslow Homer in New York State', 'Florine Stettheimer', 'Portrait of a Product', 'The Museum Explosion', 'Dealers-Eye View', and more. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612253


Price: $31.00 

 

Art in America: August-September 1965


Lipman (Ed.), Jean (Arnold Newman, Stuart Davis )

Softcover. New York , Art in America Inc., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages, softcover, color illustrated wraps. B&w illustrations, some color. Special issue on The Artist Speaks, many portraits of American artists and their works. Crease to top corner of cover otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 406806


Price: $15.00 

 

Art in America: June 1965


Lipman (Ed.), Jean (Arnold Newman, Stuart Davis )

Softcover. New York , Art in America Inc., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages, softcover, color illustrated wraps. B&w illustrations, some color. Articles on Arnold Newman's artist portraits, Stuart Davis, Latin American art, A Folk Art Whodunit, rediscovering Copley's Corkscrew. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 406805


Price: $15.00 

 

Art of Healing, The: Medicine and Science in American Art


Gerdst, William H.

Softcover. Atlanta, Georgia, Perry Communications, Inc, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages illustrated throughout with prints in color and b&w. Gray pictorial stiff wrappers with light wear to edges and spine, and small wrinkle to lower corner of front cover, else a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 805399


Price: $8.00 

 

Art of the Portrait, The: Masterpieces of European Portrait-Painting 1420-1670


Schneider, Norbert

Softcover. 1st, June 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. Light markings on bottom edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451331


Price: $20.00 

 

Arthur Ashe - Portrait in Motion


Ashe, Arthur/ with Frank Deford

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with 16 pages of black & white photographs. Slight wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 509696


Price: $8.00 

 

Artist Portrait: Soile Isokoski


Soile Isokoski

CD. 2002-11-11, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Case with minor wear and scuffing. Disc and booklet in excellent condition.

Record # 490254


Price: $19.00 

 

Artist was a Young Man, The: The Life Story of Peter Rindisbacher


Josephy, Alvin M.

Hardcover. Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum, unknown, 1970, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Exhibition catalog. 101 pages, color frontispiece portrait, and 41 plates, some in color. Gtay cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new. In shrinkwrap.

Record # 606010


Price: $32.00 

 

Artists By Themselves: Artists' Portraits from the National Academy of Design


National Academy of Design

Softcover. New York , National Academy of Design, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Spine faded. Stain to top right cover corner and lightly on pages throughout. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 809231


Price: $15.00 

 

Artists By Themselves: Artists' Portraits From the National Academy of Design


Quick, et. al., Michael

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.

Record # 805557


Price: $13.00 

 

Artists of America, The: A Series of Biographical Sketches of American Artists; with Portraits and Designs on Steel


Lester, C. Edwards

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.

Record # 31725


Price: $63.00 

 

Artists of the 19th Century: Philadelphia Collection 5


Schwartz, Robert D.

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, Frank S. Schwartz & Son, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog, yellow covers, color plates; minor sunning and a few scratches. Staple wrappers. Price list inside front cover. 43 plates, 13 in color, of paintings. Text on each artist. Tight, clean copy.

Record # 808323


Price: $10.00 

 

Arts in America, The: the Colonial Period


N/A

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 368 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Cream cloth with gild decoration to front cover. Gilt lettering to red leatherette spine. Dust jacket edge wear with tiny tear to bottom right edge, otherwise a very nice, clean and tight copy.

Record # 605191


Price: $19.00 

 

Aspects of America: The Land and the People 1810-1930


Kennedy Galleries

Softcover. New York, NY, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog, illustrated covers, clean. Staple wrappers and pages tight and clean, minor rubbing. 36 color plates, landscape and portrait paintings from American artists, with artist biographies at back. Lengthy introduction on American painting.

Record # 808248


Price: $13.00 

 

August F. Lundberg: A Retrospective Exhibition


Adams, Davidson Galleries

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Adam, Davidson Galleries, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 pages. White laminate wrappers, perfect binding, 15 color plates including illustration to front cover, 25 b&w plates, 3 photographic portraits of Lundbert, chronology, biographical essay. Mild rubbing to wrappers, previous owner's signature to top right corner of front endpaper, title page and following page detached from binding; otherwise a very clean, tight catalog.

Record # 807491


Price: $8.00 

 

Auguste Edouart's Silhouettes of Eminent Americans 1839-1844


Oliver, Andrew

Hardcover. Charlottesville VA, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 553 pages, 348 full-page portraits in b&w. Includes a catalogue of 3,800 silhouettes by the artist. Very good in a crisp, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 804912


Price: $51.00 

 

Augustus John - The New Biography


Holroyd, Michael

New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 715 pages. Black & white photography. Color and black & white portraits.

Record # 207884


Price: $30.00 

 

Augustus Saint - Gaudens


National Portrait Gallery, Washington D. C.

Softcover. Washington D.C. , Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, illustrated with 56 plates in b&w. Cream pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear ti edges and spine, slight discoloration to covers and top edge, else a very nice tight copy

Record # 401372


Price: $30.00 

 

Autobiography by Eric Gill


Gill, Eric

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, Reprint, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Light sunfade to spine edge. Red top edge. Frontis illustration, Eric Gill, Self Portrait (1927), in black & white. Black & white illustrations throughout. Previous owner's stamp to front flyleaf. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751210


Price: $19.00 

 

Awards in the Visual Arts 1: an exhibition of works by recipients of the first annual Awards in the Visual Arts Fellowships


National Museum of American Art

Softcover. Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 76 pages. Exhibition catalog. Black glossy wrappers with silver graphic design, perfect binding, foreword by Ted Potter, catalogue of the exhibition, 21 large color and b&w plates of artists' work and photographic portraits, catalogue of exhibition. Mild rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 807929


Price: $10.00 

Awash in Color: Homer, Sargent, and the Great American WatercolorReed, Sue Welsh & Carol Troyen

Awash in Color: Homer, Sargent, and the Great American Watercolor


Reed, Sue Welsh & Carol Troyen

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 348 pages. 259 illustrations, including 152 plates in full color. Surveys the vast medium of watercolor through the 19th and early 20th centuries, displaying artist such as La Farge, Prendegrast, Wyeth, West, Marin, Homer, Sargent and many others. The first full scale book published documenting the outstanding collection of watercolor at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Blue cloth, dark blue lettering to spine and front cover. Beautiful pictorial dust jacket displaying Homer's "The Blue Boat". Like new.

Record # 805292


Price: $96.00 

 

Bastiles of the Confederacy: A Reply to Jefferson Davis


Moran, Frank E., Illust. by: Frank Moran

Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, The Moran Family, 1st, 1890, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 201 pages. Hardcover. Privately printed original publication, printed by Moran's family. Text and illustrations by Author. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in maroon cloth, gilt title stamped on spine and with decoration on front cover. Some fraying to bottom of spine, a touch of chipping and rubbing to covers. B/w frontispiece plate (portrait of author). Edges and pages have tanning from age but doesn't affect text or illustrations. From title page: "Being a Narrative of the Treatment of the Union Prisoners in the Military Prisons of the South During the War of the Rebellion. From Official Records of the United states War Department, Reports by Committees of Congress, Captured Confederate Archives, and From Evidence Taken at the Trial of Captain Henry Wirz, in 1865, and From the Personal Experiences of the Author During Twenty Months Captivity in Six Military Prisons of the South. With a Review of the exchange Controversy."

Record # 31720


Price: $100.00 

 

Baudelaire in Chains: A Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict


Hilton, Frank

Hardcover. London, Peter Owen, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black covers, gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. In great condition. Frank Hilton discusses the effect opium addiction had on Baudelaire's career as a poet and artist.

Record # 31422


Price: $19.00 

 

Beardsley Limner and Some Contemporaries, The: Postrevolution Portraiture in New England, 1785-1805


Schloss, Christine Skeeles

Softcover. Virginia, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Exhibition catalog. Stapled covers with b&w illustration, tipped-in color frontispiece, dozens of large b&w plates. Light rubbing to covers, color plate partially detached; overall a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806648


Price: $13.00 

 

Beckman Gillespie


Beckman, William and Gregory Gillespie

Softcover. Waltham, Massachusetts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages. Stiff textured light brown covers with blind stapled titles and folded flaps, acknowledgments and introductory essay titled "The Art of William Beckman and Gregory Gillespie" by Carl Belz, catalogue of the exhibition,16 color and b&w plates by each artist. Slight rubbing to covers, tiny brown marking to lower right edge of front cover, slight break to upper portion of spine; otherwise a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 806163


Price: $64.00 

 

Beginner's Guide to Portrait Painting, The


Kershaw, David

Hardcover. 1st, August 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 80 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451924


Price: $12.00 

 

Bloomsbury Portraits: Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Their Circle


Shone, Richard

Softcover. US, Phaidon Press Limited, rep, 1994-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 463268


Price: $23.00 

 

Boudinot family portraits and possessions in the Art Museum, Princeton University


Backlin-Landman, Hedy

Softcover. Princeton, NJ, Art Museum, Princeton University, 1st, na, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Red stapled covers with b&w illustration, includes two articles by author reprinted from the publication Antiques, frontispiece, 35 b&w plates. Light wear to cover; otherwise a very tight, clean copy.

Record # 805509


Price: $10.00 

Brackman: His Art and TeachingBates, Kenneth

Brackman: His Art and Teaching


Bates, Kenneth

Hardcover. Noank, CT, Noank Publishing Studio, 1st Edition, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 88 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's stamp on title page. Color plates, b/w illustrations throughout. DJ has agewear, priceclipped. Pages/edges have some tanning from age, otherwise clean. Binding good. Spine straight. Red cloth decorated cover boards w/mylar cover under DJ. "Sturdy realism and a lyrical note of singular appeal meet as complementaries in Blackman's portraits, figures, and still-life paintings... an inspiring teacher... emphasizes the importance of sound construction and draughtmanship."

Record # 33549


Price: $23.00 

 

Brad '61 - Portrait Of The Artist As A Young


Hendra, Tony and Roy Lichtenstein

NY, Pantheon , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, An original romance by Hendra inspired by the paintings of Lichtenstein. Illustrated by 93 of those same Pop Art classic works in color.Hardcover, no dust jacket issued.

Record # 203685


Price: $30.00 

 

Brad '61 - Portrait Of The Artist As A Young


Hendra, Tony and Roy Lichtenstein

NY, Pantheon , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, An original romance by Hendra inspired by the paintings of Lichtenstein. Illustrated by 93 of those same Pop Art classic works in color.Hardcover, no dust jacket issued.

Record # 203684


Price: $30.00 

 

Brice Marden


Marden, Brice

Softcover. New York, Pace Gallery Publications, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Front cover completely illustrated with color photographic portrait of artist, perfect binding, 12 pages of b&w plates of artist's notes, 6 large full-page color plates of paintings, dozens of b&w plates of drawings. Very light rubbing to covers; a beautiful catalog in excellent condition.

Record # 806661


Price: $38.00 

Brief History of the Universalist Society of Hartland, Vermont - 1802-1902  - During its First Century with Biographical Sketches - Illustrated with Views and PortraitsDarling, Nancy

Brief History of the Universalist Society of Hartland, Vermont - 1802-1902 - During its First Century with Biographical Sketches - Illustrated with Views and Portraits


Darling, Nancy

Softcover. Castleton, Nancy Darling, 1st, 1902, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Diagonal crease at bottom right corner of front cover. Faint foxing to preliminary pages. Clean, unmarked.

Record # 613928


Price: $75.00 

 

Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, A


Huntsinger,, Laura & Edward Forbes & Alan Burroughs

Softcover. Cambridge, Ma, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Tan stiff wrappers. Front cover and spine slightly sunned, light wear to edges and spine, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Overall a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 605959


Price: $9.00 

 

Catalogue of the Charles H. Taylor Collection of Ship Portraits, A


Jenkins, Lawrence W.

Softcover. Salem, MA, Peabody Museum, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 36 pages illustrated throughout in b&w. Gray paper wrappers. Front cover lightly sunned, slight wear to edges, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 605963


Price: $11.00 

 

Cecil Beaton: A Retrospective


Beaton, Cecil, Illust. by: Cecil Beaton

Hardcover. Little, Brown, & Co., New York Graphic Society, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Retrospective on famed artist. Edited by Dr. David Mellor. With color and b&w plates throughout. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Light fading and foxing to front flyleaf. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951329


Price: $55.00 

 

Cecilia Beaux: Portrait of an Artist


Goodyear, Frank H.

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 126 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606417


Price: $70.00 

 

Cecilia Beaux: Portrait of an Artist


Goodyear, Frank H.

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 126 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, slight soiling to back cover, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606418


Price: $70.00 

 

Cecilia Beaux: Portrait of an Artist


Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Softcover. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages. Minor creasing in top right corner. B&W and color. Internally clean. Overall tight copy.

Record # 850349


Price: $60.00 

 

Character Sketches from Dickens


Matz (Ed.), B. W.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , David McKay, 1st US, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 30 color plates by Harold Copping. Torquoise cloth with gilt design, gilt dulled on spine. B&W frontispiece portrait of Dickens partially loose. Top edge gilt.

Record # 601721


Price: $60.00 

 

Charles Bridges and William Dering: Two Virginia Painters 1735-1750


Hood, Graham

Hardcover. Williamsburg, VA, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Pictorial frontboard. b&w and color illustrartions throughout. No dust jacket. Minimal color rubbing on edges of cover. In good condition.

Record # 605111


Price: $32.00 

 

Charles Willson Peale: Artist and Patriot


Briggs, Berta N.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., rep, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Biography of intriguing American painter Charles Willson Peale of the Revolutionary War period. 262 pages with 10 black/white reproductions of paintings. Cloth bound book is in very good condition, slight bumping to the ends of the spine, few spots on the top edges of pages but internal pages very clean. Dust jacket is in fair condition with some edge wear and rubbing.

Record # 805176


Price: $13.00 

 

Charles Willson Peale: Son of Liberty, Father of Art and Science


Plate, Robert

Hardcover. New York, David McKay Company, Inc., rep, 1967, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Biography of American portraitist Charles Willson Peale. 276 pages illustrated with 16 black/white reproductions of Peale's paintings. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, very clean copy. Dust jacket is in very good condition with some edge wear.

Record # 805178


Price: $10.00 

 

Checklist of the Permanent Collection


National Portrait Gallery

Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog, 54 pages. List of all portraits acquired by the gallery through June 30 1972. Slight edge wear to wrapper. Otherwise a tight and crisp copy.

Record # 850520


Price: $12.00 

 

Checklist of the Portraits in the Library of the American Antiquarian Society


Weis, Frederick L.

Softcover. Worcester MA, American Antiquarian Society, rep, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Reprinted from the proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for April 1946. 76 pages, includes 151 b&w photos of portraits. Includes an appendix with artists and subjects, donors, etc. Very good and clean copy. Some markings on front cover.

Record # 805362


Price: $11.00 

 

Chefs of The Times, The


Busico, Michalene, Illust. by: Tony Cenicola

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages. Black cloth boards, yellow lettering. Very good price clipped dust jacket. Chef portraits by Vincent Laforet. Food photographs by Tony Cenicola.

Record # 803669


Price: $10.00 

 

Christian Parlor Book, The - Devoted to Science, Literature, and Religion - Vol. VI


Thomas Cole, Jenny Lind, Walter Savage Landor

Hardcover. NY, George Pratt, 1st, 1850, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 b&w engraved plates. Articles on the Character of Thomas Cole (with a portrait and a sketch), Jenny Lind (with portrait), Danish sculptor Albert Thorvalsden (portrait), author Walter Savage Landor(portrait). 380 pages. Light foxing to pages. Black leather spine, cloth on rear board coming loose, minor tears.

Record # 601596


Price: $30.00 

 

Churchill: a Photographic Portrait


Gilbert, Martin

Hardcover. Boston MA, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 364 pages + index; light discoloration around edges, heavy edition with regular wear patterns on dust jacket, extremely small tear on dust jacket; edges of edition itself have tear spots in the cover; magnificent photographs on every page.

Record # 401512


Price: $15.00 

 

Clark G. Voohees 1871-1933


Voohees, Clark G.

Softcover. Old Lyme, Connecticut, Lyme Historical Society, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Exhibition catalog. Tan stapled covers with b&w photographic portrait of artists and black titles, foreword by Jeffrey W. Andersen, biographical essay by Barbara J. MacAdam, chronology, catalogue, 22 b&w figures throughout. Very slight rubbing to covers, previous seller's price sticker to upper right corner of front cover, slight age-discoloration to bottom edge of front; otherwise a very tight, clean copy in great condition.

Record # 806320


Price: $13.00 

 

Colonial & Federal Portraits at Bowdoin College


Sadik, Marvin S.

Softcover. Brunswick ME, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages, paperback. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Mild edgewear and rubbing to wraps. Moderate bumping to spine. Minor soiling to rear wraps. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951885


Price: $13.00 

 

Colonial and Federal Portraits at Bowdoin College


Sadik, Marvin S.

Hardcover. Brunswick, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 222 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Dust jacket with standard wear along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613653


Price: $19.00 

 

Commodore John Rodgers: Captain, Commodore, and Senior Officer of the American Navy 1773-1838, A Biography


Paullin, Charles Oscar

Hardcover. Cleveland, Ohio, The Arthur H. Clark Company, reprint, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 434 pages. Minor cover corner and spine edge wear. Gilt top edge and titles on spine. Tissue guard on frontispiece portrait of Commodore Rodgers. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852538


Price: $40.00 

 

Common Man Through the Centuries, The: A Book of Costume Drawings


Barsis, Max

Hardcover. New York, Frederick Ungar publishing, co, 3rd, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages, b&w drawings throughout. A very amusing portrait of the costumes, and everyday wear, of the people from the underside of history; peasants, soldiers, drunks, beggars and harlots. Dark red leatherette, gilt lettering to spine. Cream colored dust jacket somewhat smudged, otherwise a very nice, clean copy.

Record # 605153


Price: $19.00 

 

Company She Kept, The - A Revealing Portrait of Mary McCarthy


Grumbach, Doris

hardcover. NY, Cowrd McCann, 2n d pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 218 pages.

Record # 64502


Price: $25.00 

 

Conquest of Disease, The.


Rice, A.M., M.D., Thurman B.

Hardcover. New York , The Macmillan Company, 1st U.S., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 363 pages. Brown embossed cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine, minor wear to edges and corners, small stain on rear cover. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Some foxing on beginning pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean with b&w charts and graphs throughout. Frontispiece is a b&w portrait of John N. Hurty, M.D.

Record # 852684


Price: $25.00 

 

Daniel Quintero: Recent Paintings and Drawings


Marlborough Gallery

Softcover. New York, NY, Marlborough Gallery, Inc., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with illustrated covers; slight creases. Staple wrappers. 14 color plates of drawings and paintings, all male portraits in realistic style. Full listing of 31 works at beginning. 20 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 808382


Price: $11.00 

 

Dark Heart of Italy, The: An Incisive Portrait of Europe's Most Beautiful, Most Disconcerting Country


Jones, Tobias

Hardcover. New York, North Point, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Cream colored cover and white spine with gilt lettering. Color illustrated dust jacket.

Record # 603183


Price: $13.00 

 

David Livingstone and the Victorian Encounter with Africa


MacKenzie (Advisory Editor), John M., Joanna Skipwith (Project editor)

Softcover. London, national Portrait Gallery Publications, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. In good condition. A bit of light yellowing to fore edge and edges of pages. Does not effect text or illustrations. Pretty clean inside and out.

Record # 30772


Price: $19.00 

 

Decorative Arts and Paintings of the Colonies and New Republic 1740-1820, The


Childs Gallery

Softcover. Boston, MA, Childs Gallery, 1st, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of works from one gallery. Glossy white covers with color plates on front and back. Light scratches. Staple wrappers tight, pages glossy, clean and crisp. Numerous small b/w plates of paintings, furniture, and other decorative art related to colonies. Catalog is divided up by historical period or subject. Brief explanations of each work provide some historical information.

Record # 808175


Price: $12.00 

 

Decorative Arts and Paintings of the Colonies and New Republic 1740-1820, The


Childs Gallery

Softcover. Boston, MA, Childs Gallery, 1st, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of works from one gallery. Glossy white covers with color plates on front and back. Light scratches. Staple wrappers tight, pages glossy, clean and crisp. Numerous small b/w plates of paintings, furniture, and other decorative art related to colonies. Catalog is divided up by historical period or subject. Brief explanations of each work provide some historical information.

Record # 808174


Price: $12.00 

 

Discoveries of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr., Concerning the Influence of the English Mezzotint on Colonial Painting, The


Phillips (eds), John Marshall and Barbara N. Parker

Softcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red textured covers, slight rubbing and scratching, minor sunning. Paper wrappers tight, pages generally clean and crisp, with slight smudge on front flyleaf. Generous introduction on American colonial painting and English influence on this, as well as looking at Belknap's collection of paintings. 32 b/w plates from collection, with information on the mezzotint in each. 39 pages.

Record # 808406


Price: $30.00 

Dissident, TheFreudenberger, Nell

Dissident, The


Freudenberger, Nell

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 427 pages. Hardcover. Red gilt title on spine. Deckled foredge. White covers, still very clean. Dust jacket in good shape, covered in protective plastic. From the front flap: "Yuan Zhao, a celebrated Chinese performance artist and political dissident, has accepted a one year's artist's residency in Los Angeles. He is to be a Visiting Scholar at the St. Anselm's School for Girls, teaching advanced art, and hosted by one of the school's most devoted families: the wealthy if dysfunctional Traverses. ...a novel about secrets, love, and the shining chaos of everyday American life, The Dissident is a remarkable and surprising group portrait, done with a light, sure hand."

Record # 30507


Price: $19.00 

Dore's LondonDore, Gustave , Illust. by: Gustave Dore

Dore's London


Dore, Gustave , Illust. by: Gustave Dore

Hardcover. London, Chartwell Books, Inc., 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. Black and white illustrations and drawings. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468490


Price: $38.00 

 

Drawings from Maine Collections


Colby College Art Museum

Softcover. Waterville, Maine, Colby College Art Museum, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Gray covers with folded flaps and illustration of drawn portrait, perfect binding, foreword by James M. Carpenter, introduction by W. Mark Brady, 72 full-page b&w plates with accompanying descriptions. Slight rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 401013


Price: $20.00 

 

Early American Painting


Sherman, Frederic Fairchild

Hardcover. New York, The Century Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 289 pages, with 63 full page b&w plates. Text and pictures, discusses painters of the 18th and 19th centuries. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. Clean bright copy.

Record # 805194


Price: $16.00 

 

Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayons


Bolton, Theodore

Hardcover. Charleston, SC, Garnier & Co, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages. Edition limited to 500 copies, unabridged republication of the limited edition (325) originally published in 1923. Blue cloth cover with gilt titles to spine, 10 b&w plates; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 605445


Price: $13.00 

 

Early American Portraiture


Sherman, Frederic Fairchild

Hardcover. New York, Benjamin Blom, reprint, 1972, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 65 pages. Reissue of rare 1930 first edition. Brown cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, illustrated profusely with over 50 b&w plates. Copy still packaged in original shrinkwrap, never opened; in excellent condition.

Record # 806497


Price: $60.00 

 

Early Arts in the Genesee Valley: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries


Genesee Valley Council on the Arts

Softcover. Geneseo, NY, Genesee Valley Council on the Arts, 1st, 1974, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 158 page catalog that is number three in a series published by the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts. Includes numerous b&w illustrations of various portraits, landscape paintings, animal paintings, pieces of furniture, fabrics and stitching, and decorative pieces. There are text descriptions accompanying each piece of art. This is a catalog of an exhibition held by the Council about the social functions of the arts in the 18th and 19th centuries. In near fine condition, a very clean copy.

Record # 805519


Price: $13.00 

 

Elmer: Edwin Romanzo Elmer As I Knew Him


Elmer, Maud Valona

Softcover. Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog by relative of Elmer. Red stapled covers, 7 large b&w plates, laid-in postcard from Smith College featuring "Mourning Picture" by Elmer. Crisp, clean covers and pages; a neat, tight exhibition catalog.

Record # 401218


Price: $8.00 

 

English Icon: Elizabethan & Jacobean Portraiture, The


Strong, Roy

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 388 pages. Hardcover. Extensive listings and illustrations of over 360 works - featuring black & white and full color tipped-in plates. One fold-out. Previous owners name at top right corner of preliminary page. Light bump to top right corner of pages. Light wear to dust jacket corners and edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611841


Price: $125.00 

 

English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures


Noon, Patrick J.

Softcover. New Haven, 1st, January 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451914


Price: $25.00 

 

Essays of Richard Steele


Steele (Ed.), L.E.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., reprint, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages, b&w frontispiece portrait. Bound in three-quarter red leather with gilt rules, raised spine bands with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt, Golden Treasury Series. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.

Record # 402716


Price: $28.00 

 

Essex Institute Historical Collections, The: Vol. LXX, No. 4


the Essex Institute

Softcover. Salem, MA, The Essex Institute, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Quarterly catalog with gray covers, some sunning on edges, minor rubbing and edge wear. Paper wrappers. Several sections: first on cabinetmakers, second on portraits in the Essex Institute, and third on ship registries. A few b/w plates throughout, rest is text. Paginated from 323 to 459. Tight copy, clean interior.

Record # 808453


Price: $12.00 

 

Exhibition of Portraits by John Neagle


The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, final, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog, 158 pages. Between 125-137 B&W plates throughout. Some edgewear to wrapper and many small tears. Tanning and some small staining to wrapper. Otherwise a tight and clean interior.

Record # 850528


Price: $25.00 

 

Faces Since the 50's: A Generation of American Portraiture


Center Gallery, Bucknell University

Softcover. Lewisburg, PA, Bucknell University, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with glossy white covers, color plate on front; some rubbing, especially on front. Staple wrappers are tight, pages are clean and crisp. Previous owner sticker on very last page. 39 plates, 4 in color, of American portraiture in both painting and sculpture, from various artists. All work is recent but in numerous artistic styles. 57 items, by artist, listed at back. Text runs throughout and discusses some specific artists and portraiture in the 20th century U. S. 48 pages.

Record # 808462


Price: $26.00 

 

Facing the Light - Historic American Portrait Daguerreotypes


Pfister, Harold Francis

Softcover. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, First Edition, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 378 pages. Coffee table sized softcover with light wear to edges & light sunfade to spine. Profusely illustrated in black & white daguerreotypes throughout. Tight bindng & clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750949


Price: $25.00 

 

Figure in American Art 1764-1983, The; Other Worlds: Paintings by Colleen Browning; The Drawings of Elihu Vedder


Kennedy Galleries

Softcover. New York, NY, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with three exhibitions included. Red covers, minor rubbing. Paper wrappers tight; pages glossy, clean and crisp. 97 plates, 32 in color with those mainly in the first exhibition section. This section is figures in American painting, while the section exhibition section focuses on both figures and landscape painting, and the third exhibition is made up of drawings, many again of figures. Introduction to each section discusses the themes.

Record # 808246


Price: $11.00 

 

Fine Collection of Portrait Miniatures, A


Bernet, Sotheby Parke

Softcover. Zurich, Baur au Lac Hotel, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Auction catalog. 90 pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout. Color frontispiece. Inlaid estimate sheet. White pictorial cover with very slight wear. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850567


Price: $12.00 

 

FMR No. 13


Ricci (Ed.), Franco Maria

Paperback. NY, Franco Maria Ricci, 1st wraps, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Lavish Art magazine, color throughout. Articles on: the James Low Album of Thai paintings, the Palazzo Pisani Moretta in Venice, a pictorial tribute to the Model-T Ford, Persian portraiture of the 19th century, Audubon bird paintings.

Record # 69101


Price: $15.00 

 

FMR No. 18


Ricci (Ed.), Franco Maria

Paperback. NY, Franco Maria Ricci, 1st wraps, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Lavish Art magazine, color throughout. Articles on: portraits of Joshua Reynolds, posters featuring golf, a portfolio of automated gambling machines, the paintings of Tamara de Lemlpicka, a 17th centgury Genji scroll, fashion designer Pierre Balmain.

Record # 69097


Price: $15.00 

 

FMR No. 4


Ricci (Ed.), Franco Maria

Paperback. NY, Franco Maria Ricci, 1st wraps, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Lavish Art magazine, color throughout. Articles on: the English famIly portraits of Arthur Devis (1712-1787), the Indian portraits of Karl Bodmer, Alfa Romeo automobiles, Titian's The Flaying of Marsyas, art by Max Beckmann.

Record # 69123


Price: $15.00 

 

Four Seasons of Shaker Life, The


Wertkin, Gerald C.

Softcover. NY, Fireside, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, An intimate portrait of the Community at Sabbath Day Lake, Maine. Black & white color photos by Ann Chwatsky, 189 pages. Paperback Ed.

Record # 200154


Price: $15.00 

 

Frank W. Benson: 1862-1951


Hadlock , Wendell S. and Ernest S. Dodge

Softcover. Rockland, ME, The William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Musuem, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with beautifully illustrated blue and white cover. Minor rubbing and wear to the edges. Staple wrappers in good condition. Pages are clean, with a minor bend in upper corner. Artist's oil paintings, watercolors, prints, and drawings all included, with 7 b/w plates and separate listings for each type of work included in the exhibition. Short introduction essay at front.

Record # 807421


Price: $16.00 

Frans Hals (Library of Great Painters)Baard, H. P., Illust. by: FRANS HALS

Frans Hals (Library of Great Painters)


Baard, H. P., Illust. by: FRANS HALS

Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 167 pages. Hardcover. 119 illustrations by Frans Hals, with 49 in full color. Illustrated frontispiece. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Some odor. Slight soil to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468773


Price: $50.00 

 

From Howard to Nelson: Twelve Sailors.


Laughton, M. A. (ed.), John Knox

Hardcover. London, Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd., 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 476 pages. Black cloth cover with gilt lettering. Cloth on spine frayed and partially detached. Edges are bumped and frayed. Library sticker on front endpaper. Spine starting to crack at front endpaper. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Pages untrimmed. Inside is clean with b&w portraits and maps throughout.

Record # 852488


Price: $20.00 

 

Gabor Peterdi, Twenty-five Years of His Prints 1934-1959


Johnson, Una E.

Softcover. New York, Brooklyn Museum, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Bright yellow stapled textured wrappers, b&w photographic portrait as frontispiece, color tipped-in plate, catalog, profusely illustrated with b&w plates, chronology. Light rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very clean, tight catalog.

Record # 807865


Price: $38.00 

 

Gallery of Presidents, A


Pachter, Marc

Softcover. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution, Revised, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Pictorial stiff paper wrappers, with light wear to spine, otherwise like new.

Record # 605698


Price: $8.00 

 

Gallery of Presidents, A


Pachter, Marc

Softcover. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institute Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. 39 B&W portraits up through Jimmy Carter. pictorial cover with slight wear to edges. Frontispiece. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850318


Price: $12.00 

 

Genre Painting of Robert S. Sloan, The


Sloan, Robert S.

Softcover. Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Brown stapled covers, introduction by Thomas W. Leavitt, catalog of the exhibition,16 b&w and 2 full color plates. Rear cover at spine bent, top and right edge of front cover slightly discolored; overall a tight, clean copy.

Record # 806327


Price: $8.00 

 

George Bellows (1882-1925): Paintings, Drawings and Lithographs


Bellows, George

Softcover. New York, H. V. Allison Galleries, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Gray stapled covers with color illustration to front, introduction by Glenn C. Peck, 32 color and b&w plates with accompanying descriptions. Small section of front cover bottom edges slightly warped; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 401039


Price: $16.00 

 

George Bellows


Boswell, Jr., Peyton, Illust. by: George Bellows

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, rep, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Comprehensive account of the work of American painter George Bellows. 112 pages, features 8 color plates and 75 other black/white reproductions. Cloth bound book is in very good condition, slight wear to the edges of the spine and a few pencil marks on internal pages. Dust jacket shows some light soiling, rubbing near the spine and wear on the top of the spine.

Record # 804999


Price: $13.00 

 

George Caleb Bingham: River Portraitist


McDermott, John Francis

Hardcover. Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, xxviii+454 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Portrait of one of America's most admired and faithful genre painters, revealing 112 drawings in crayon depicting river life. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Price clipping. Pictorial dust jacket, edge wear, otherwise a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 605281


Price: $32.00 

 

George Catlin: Episodes From Life Among the Indians and Last Rambles


Ross, Marvin C.

Softcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 2nd, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, slight bump to bottom edge of slightly cocked spine, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 606156


Price: $8.00 

 

GEORGE LOGAN OF PHILADELPHIA


Tolles, Frederick B.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 362 pages. Illustrated with plates of prominent Logan associates. Color decorated end papers. Frontispiece portrait of George Logan by Gilbert Stuart. Logan, a Quaker, was friends with George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and most of the Founding Fathers. 8vo. Blue cloth. Portrait dust jacket has several repaired tears.

Record # 220689


Price: $8.00 

 

George Washington: The First Presidential Portrait


Washington, George, Illust. by: Illustrated

New York, Christies, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 50 pages. Color plates. Auction catalog for the sale of the John Ramage miniature portrait of Washington, painted in 1789.

Record # 302807


Price: $20.00 

 

Gerard Terburg


Michel, Emile

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de L'Art, 1st, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages. Half cloth marbled boards. A study of a 17th Century Dutch genre and portrait painter. Illustrated with drawings and engravings in black & white. (Text in French.) Ex-library copy with usual marking. Some pages age faded. Cover worn at edges. Chipped at top and bottom of spine. Minor adhesive residue at bottom left corner of front cover.

Record # 510065


Price: $10.00 

 

Gift of American Naive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, The: 48 Masterpieces


The Chrysler Museum at Norfolk

Softcover. Norfolk, VA, The Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog with white covers, minor rubbing and sunning; staple wrappers. 48 b/w plates, American painting, mainly portraits. Lengthy introduction on American naive painting. Clean, tight copy. 68 pages.

Record # 808251


Price: $15.00 

 

Gilbert Stuart - Portraits of the Young Republic 1755-1828


National Gallery of Art, Illust. by: Gilbert Stuart

Paperback. Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, 1st wraps, 1967, Book: Very Good, 115 pges. Paperback. Black & white portraits by Gilbert Stuart. Magazine cover with portrait by Gilbert Stuart laid in. Previous owner's signature on back of front cover.

Record # 204766


Price: $18.00 

 

Gilbert Stuart: Portraitist of the Young Republic 1755-1828


Museum of Art of Rhode Island School of Design & National Gallery of Art

Providence, Rhode Island, Museum of Art of Rhode Island School of Design, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition Catalog, 115 pages. 54 B&W plates throughout. Light edge wear to wrapper. Small amount of soiling to front wrapper. Otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Record # 401877


Price: $12.00 

 

Gilbert Stuart


McLanathan, Richard

New York, Abrams, 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages, 120 illustrations, 5l plates in color. Library of American Art Series.

Record # 303732


Price: $35.00 

 

Gilbert Stuart


McLanathan, Richard

Hardcover. New York , Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1986, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Light sunning to jacket spine, else like new.

Record # 401427


Price: $30.00 

 

Great American Artists: The Skowhegan Medal Recipients


Tompkins, Calvin

Hardcover. New York, Alpine Fine Arts Collection, Ltd/Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, 1st, 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Reference guide for contemporary American art and the recipients of the Skowhegan Medal. 132 pages, features illustrated entries for the 45 recipients, each including biographical notes and a portrait of the artist. 93 illustrations including 43 full-color plates. Foreword by John Whitney Payson and Mrs. Lawrence E. Brinn. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition with light bumping to the ends of the the spine. Dust jacket is in very good condition with very slight edge wear.

Record # 805394


Price: $19.00 

 

Great Composers, Great Artists


Buettner, Stewart

Hardcover. US, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 1st, 1992-10-22, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 172 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462925


Price: $19.00 

 

Hawthorne Retrospective


Chrysler, Walter P.

Softcover. Provincetown, RI, Chrysler Art Museum, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 72 pages, illustrated throughout with 89 plates in b&w. White pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to covers, spine discolored from the sun, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606138


Price: $26.00 

 

Homage to Thomas Eakins, Etc


Soyer, Raphael

Hardcover. South Brunswick, N.J., Thomas Yoseloff, Publisher, 2st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 183 pages. 75 color and b&w illustrations throughout. Green cloth, color slightly faded around edges. No dust jacket. Clean copy with tight binding.

Record # 605100


Price: $13.00 

 

Hudson Valley People - Albany to Yonkers 1700-1900


Faison, Jr., S. Lane/Sally Mills

Paperback. Poughkeepsie, Vassar College Art Gallery, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Black & white reproductions of portraits of prominent citizens from New York's Hudson Valley Region from 1700-1900. Exhibition catalog. Light wear to cover.

Record # 604459


Price: $10.00 

 

HUDSON VALLEY PEOPLE: Albany to Yonkers, 1700-1900


Faison, S. Lane and Sally Mills

Softcover. Poughkeepsie NY, Vassar College Art Gallery, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages, b&w illustrations. Softcover exhibition catalog with color wraps.

Record # 407710


Price: $13.00 

 

Iconologia


Baskin, Leonard

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 100 + black & white illust. 219 pages.

Record # 63219


Price: $36.00 

 

Icons and Idols - A Photographer's Chronicle of the Arts 1960-1995


Mitchell, Jack

New York, Amphoto, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 duotone photos of celebrity artists & performers. Foreward by Edward Albee

Record # 301956


Price: $35.00 

 

Idle Hours: Americans at Leisure, 1865-1914


Pisano, Ronald G.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1988, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 155 pages, 40 b&w photographs and 85 illustrations in full color. Light green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Blue pictorial dust jacket with white titles. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Record # 805332


Price: $22.00 

 

Images of America: The Painter's Eye, 1833-1925


Baekeland, Frederick

Softcover. Birmingham, Birmingham Museum of Art / University of Washington Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, This book of American paintings from the Baekeland collection at the Birmingham Museum of Art showcases important intellectual developments in the history of American art from 1833 to 1925. 160 pages with portraits and works of 62 artists. Portraits of artists are black and white. Works by artists are beautifully printed in full color. The cover is scratched. Edges worn slightly. "Baekeland Collection" written on cover. Interior in very good condition.

Record # 806441


Price: $12.00 

In My StairwellN/A

In My Stairwell


N/A

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International Publications Inc., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, black and white photographs of celebrities. Large folio with slipcase. Interview by Lou Reed and essay by Matthew Barney. Some peeling on slip case and remainder dot on botton edge of book. Otherwise a crisp and tight copy.

Record # 850025


Price: $70.00 

 

In the Minds and Hearts of the People: Prologue to the American Revolution 1760-1774


Miller, Lillian B.

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, This illustrated volume is a history that sets the stage for the American Revolution by presenting portraits and biographies of important figures and focusing on important political issues of the time. Includes 240 pages, with 22 color and 155 b&w illustrations. Newspaper review laid in front cover. Old price sticker on lower right corner of back cover. Crease across lower front cover, overall a very good clean copy.

Record # 805207


Price: $10.00 

 

Index of Pacific Northwest Portraits


Appleton, Marion B.

Hardcover. Seattle, Pacific Northwest Library Association, 1st, 1972, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 210 pages. Index of 12,000 portraits. Yellow cloth with black titles to spine, no dust jacket. Light bumping to lower corners, else like new.

Record # 606027


Price: $13.00 

 

Intimate Visions


Barth, Miles

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Light wear to edges of cover and dust jacket. Edited with an essay by Miles Barth. Introduction by Dorothy Norman. Preface by Edward Abrahams.

Record # 455586


Price: $30.00 

 

Italian Comedy, The - The Improvisation, Scenarios, Lives, Attributes, Portraits, and Masks of the Illustrious Characters of the Commedia dell' Arte


Duchartre, Pierre Louis

NY, John Day, 1st US, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Assumed 1st U.S. - with no additional printings. Over 200 black & white illustrations, color frontis. 331 pages. Transl. from French by Randolph Weaver. Previous owner's bookplate. Dust jacket chipped, worn, pieces missing from top & bottom of spine.

Record # 67099


Price: $41.00 

Italian Renaissance PortraitsN/A

Italian Renaissance Portraits


N/A

Softcover. New York, M. Knoedler and Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 22 pages, paperback. Loan exhibition for the benefit of Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association, New York. March 18 - April 6, 1940. Age toning and light fading to wraps. Slight soiling to wraps as well. With 21 black-and-white plates. Unmarked. A tight copy. [

Record # 951469


Price: $31.00 

 

J. Hall Pleasants, A Memorial Exhibition


N/A

Softcover. Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages. Catalog listing, with three b&w illustrations, a tribute to the late J. Hall Pleasants. Includes works by Joshua Johnston, the Peales, West, Kuhn, and others. Light blue staple covers. Clean pages, somewhat faded. Some fading along edges of staple covers, other wise a neat copy.

Record # 401238


Price: $8.00 

 

Jamie Wyeth


Wyeth, Jamie

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1980 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. 121 illustrations in full color. The first comprehensive publication of Jamie Wyeth's work. Contains many of his well known portraits of such subjects as John F. Kennedy, Lincoln Kirstein and Andy Warhol. Blue cloth. Minor tear to front cover of dust jacket, otherwise a very clean, tight and crisp copy.

Record # 605164


Price: $38.00 

 

Jane Paterson: An American Artist


Joseph, J. Jonathan

Hardcover. Boston, MA, J. Jonathan Joseph, 1st, 1981, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages. 24 duotone illustrations and 16 plates in full color. NUMBER 185 OF A LIMITED EDITION OF 750 COPIES! Includes frontispiece photo portrait of the artist and one of her essays entitled; "Why I Paint Flowers". Beautifully illustrating many of Peterson's "flower-portraits", as well as the prolific painting of her earlier years, representing an exiting artistic progression of a willfully independent and uniquely American artist's emerging style. Dark blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Pictorial dust jacket with protective mylar cover and a small tear to front cover. A very nice, clean and tight copy.

Record # 605243


Price: $960.00 

 

Jay Family Collection of Historical American Portraits, The


Christie's East

Softcover. New York, NY, Christie's East, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Auction catalog with glossy covers, red back and full color plate on front; minor scratching and rubbing. Staple wrappers, pages clean and crisp. 8 color plates of portrait paintings by American artists. Loose leaf page of 319 works with prices listed. Introduction to the Jay family as collectors, and text on each person in the portraits. Conditions of the auction and buyer information in front.

Record # 808494


Price: $22.00 

 

JEWELS FOR A CROWN. THE STORY OF THE CHAGALL WINDOWS


Freund, Miriam

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, Reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 64 pages. Illustrated with 13 plates of the Chagall windows in 6 colors. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt. Minor wear, price clipped, dust jacket. Front panel of jacket a color portrait of Marc Chagall working on one of his windows. Back panel of jacket a black and white portrait of Marc Chagall.

Record # 220670


Price: $19.00 

 

John Singelton Copley. American Portraits in Oil, Pastel and Miniature with Biographical Sketches


Parker, Barbara Neville

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 284 pages. 130 b&w plates. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Small edgewear otherwise in good condition. No dust jacket.

Record # 605082


Price: $32.00 

 

John Singer Sargent


Ratcliff, Carter

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 256 pages. 338 illustrations, including 113 plates in full color. Gives beautiful insight into the extravagant glamour of Sargent's society portraits, watercolors and Boston Murals. Folio. Purple cloth, gilt lettering to spine. previous owner's inscription on front edge paper. Very nice, clean and tight copy. Minor wrinkle to lower edge of dust jacket's spine, otherwise in near fine condition.

Record # 605161


Price: $102.00 

 

John Singer Sargent


Ratcliff, Carter

Hardcover. New York , Abbeville, 5th pr., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Oversized volume contains 113 large color plates and over 200 black-and-white illustrations which convey the extravagant glamour of his society portraits, the exuberance of his watercolors, the stately pomp of his Boston murals.

Record # 410566


Price: $50.00 

 

Joseph Hirsch: Recent Paintings


Joseph Hirsch/Kennedy Galleries

Softcover. New York, Joseph Hirsch/Kennedy Galleries, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated throughout in black and white. Some discoloration on wrapper, else a good, clean copy.

Record # 808748


Price: $12.00 

 

Journey to My Father: Isaac Bashevis Singer


Zamir, Israel

Hardcover. New York, Arcade Publishing, 1st Edition, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Green cover boards, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. A personal and moving portrait of one of this century's major writers, and an honest exploration of the often charged and complex relationship between father and son, and son and father.

Record # 32457


Price: $15.00 

 

Joyce Treiman: Paintings 1961-1972


La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art

Softcover. La Jolla, CA, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with fully illustrated front cover, white back; minor rubbing and creasing. Staple wrappers. Previous price inscription on title page. 18 plates, 6 in color, of artist's paintings of American culture and daily life. Introduction on artist's life and works. Tight, clean copy.

Record # 808476


Price: $10.00 

 

Kentucky Painter from the Frontier Era to the Great War, The


Jones, Arthur F., and Bruce Weber

Softcover. US, University of Kentucky Art Museum, na, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 page catalog of the January 25-March 15, 1981, exhibition at the University of Kentucky Art Museum. Numerous black and white illustrations. Five color plates. Crease on front and back cover. Rear interior pages exhibit crease as well but are clean overall.

Record # 806599


Price: $25.00 

 

Lady Lisa Lyon


Mapplethorpe, Robert

Paperback. New York , St. Martins, 1st wraps, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Text by Bruce Chatwin. B&W photos of lady body-builder Lyon by Mapplethorpe. Paperback Edition.

Record # 302956


Price: $21.00 

 

Lee Krasner: Paintings from the Late Fifties


Robert Miller Gallery

Softcover. New York, Robert Miller Gallery, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. White wrappers, perfect binding, front cover completely illustrated in color, b&w photographic portrait of Krasner as frontispiece, 15 full-page color plates, biographical notes. Very slight rubbing to wrappers, small crease to covers at lower inch of spine, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight catalog in great condition.

Record # 807904


Price: $26.00 

 

Lee Savage


Savage, Lee

Softcover. New York, Art & Design Galleries Ltd., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Photographic frontispiece of artist's portrait, white stapled covers 22 color and b&w plates. Letter from gallery associate director to catalogue's previous owner included. Light rubbing to covers; otherwise a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806025


Price: $10.00 

 

Leonardo: The Artist and the Man


Bramly, Serge

Softcover. London, England, Penguin Books, 1st paperback, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 493 pages. Softcover. Wrapper in good shape, no rips, not discolored. Binding tight. Pages clean. Edges have the slightest touch of tanning from age. Still clean copy, in very good condition. With the aid of Leonardo's own notebooks, together with accounts by contemporaries, Bramly has produced a comprehensive portrait of the life, work and times of the artist.

Record # 32234


Price: $15.00 

 

Les Artites Celebres - Gerard Terburg et sa Famille


Michel, Emile

Softcover. Paris, Librairie de L'Art, unk, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 71 pages. Study of 17th century Dutch genre and portrait painter. Original paperback bound in marbled boards with cloth spine. Black & white illustrations. Cover has edgewear. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. French text.

Record # 207511


Price: $20.00 

Life Cast: Behind the MaskShalit, Willa

Life Cast: Behind the Mask


Shalit, Willa

Hardcover. Hillsboro, Or., St. Martin's Press, 1st, October 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear, several small tears to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 452556


Price: $25.00 

 

Life of Abraham Lincoln, The


Arnold, Isaac N.

Hardcover. Chicago, A. C. McClurg & Co., 5th printing, 1891, Dust Jacket: None, 471 pages. B/W frontisportrait of Lincoln with tissue guard (guard is partially detached). Stain around edges of frontispiece page and very faintly at bottom of title page. Pages age toned and browned on edges. Some browning and discoloration of front inside cover and front flyleaf. Minor smudging and marking to read endpaper. Very faint water stain along bottom edge of pages. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Minor wear, marking, and scuffing. Light edgewear, and wear to top and bottom of spine. Corners are rubbed and bumped.

Record # 803244


Price: $40.00 

 

Life Portraits of John Quincy Adams, The


National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Stiff black covers with color illustration to front, perfect binding, introduction by Marvin Sadik, 43 b&w plates with accompanying descriptions, list of lost or unlocated portraits, biographies and alphabetical index of artists. Clipped article from the New York Times on exhibition included. Slight wear to cover edges; a tight, clean copy in great condition.

Record # 401007


Price: $15.00 

 

Literary Caricatures by David Levine from The New York Review of Books


Levine, David, Illust. by: David Levine

Softcover. New York, New York Review of Books, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Folder containing 15 loose leaves depicting caricatures of Frost, Norman Mailer, Edmund Wilson, Proust, Dorothy Thompson & Sinclair Lewis, Keats, Jean Genet, Faulkner, John Ruskin, Nathalie Sarraute, John O"Hara, Shelley, Oscar Wilde, Fitzgerald and Isadora Duncan. Folder is soiled and torn at spine, plates are near fine and ready to frame.

Record # 412314


Price: $31.00 

 

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Philosophers: Swedenborg


Hubbard, Elbert

Hardcover. East Aurora NY, Roycrofters Press, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft brown suede covers with gilt lettering, pages with deckle edges, frontispiece portrait, color text and initial decorations by the Roycroft artists. Ribbon marker.

Record # 404645


Price: $30.00 

 

Lives Shaped by the American Revolution, Portraits of a Boston Family: Speakman, Rowe, Inman, Linzee, Coffin & Amory


Falino, Jeannine

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museum, 1st, 2005, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 84 pages. Dark green cloth covers, silver titles, endpapers decorated with family trees, 20 b&w figures, 12 full-page color plates. Clean covers, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; an extremely clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 401377


Price: $30.00 

 

London Yankees, The : Portraits of American writers and artists in England, 1894-1914


Weintraub, Stanley

Hardcover. US, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1979-01-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 408 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with light sunning to spine. Faint foxing to top edge.

Record # 462509


Price: $10.00 

 

Man Ray's Paris Portraits, 1921-39


Baum, Timothy

Hardcover. Salvador Dali Museum, Incorporated, September 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 56 portraits taken in Paris from 1921-1939 by the artist. Very handsome book with clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 455471


Price: $25.00 

 

Martha Graham - Portrait of the Lady as an Artist


Leatherman, Leroy

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos by Martha Swope. dj with chipping, closed tears

Record # 52674


Price: $30.00 

 

Martin Buber - An Intimate Portrait


Hodes, Aubrey

Hardcover. Nyy, Viking, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages, including index.

Record # 175875


Price: $13.00 

 

Masters in Art, A Series of Illustrated Monographs: Copley


Masters in Art

Softcover. Boston, Bates and Guild Company, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 42 pages. Monthly periodical, dated December, 1904. Periodical features the work of John Singleton Copley, 10 full-page b&w plates of artist's work, profusely illustrated with b&w figures, biographical essay, Interesting advertisements throughout. Mild rubbing to covers and foxing to pages, front cover partially separated from page block at spine, though covers are still attached; a clean, tight copy in great condition for its age.

Record # 401046


Price: $40.00 

 

Max Beckmann: Paintings and Drawings


Clark, Margot, Illust. by: Max Beckmann

Softcover. New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalogue featuring 4 color and 8 black/white plates. Essay by Margot Clark. Very good condition, no interior marks but slight wear on the cover.

Record # 804640


Price: $8.00 

 

Memorials of Alfred Marshall


Pigou (ed.), A. C.

Softcover. New York, Kelley & Millman, Inc., 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 518 pages. Three parts, including memorial essays by various authors, selections from Marshall's writings, and selected letters by Marshall. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, 7 b&w plates of Marshall's portraits including frontispiece. Faded spine, previous owner's signature to top right corner of front endpaper, slight rubbing to covers, small 1" spine to inside of front hinge, light pencil markings to a few page, pages crisp and otherwise unmarked, clean boards; overall, a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 401195


Price: $100.00 

 

Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet


Crane, Nicholas

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 348 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A portrait of the genius cartographer. Very faint foxing to top text block. Mild rubbing to dust jacket, corners lightly bumped. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951349


Price: $24.00 

 

Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin - Autumn, 1976


Wyeth)(Andrew, Illust. by: Andrew Wyeth

Paperback. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art , 1st wraps , 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None , 192 pages. An issue devoted to Wyeth along with his drawings and watercolors, text from conversations with Thomas Hoving. Color, B&W illustrations.

Record # 302631


Price: $30.00 

 

Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate [Advertising Supplement to Variety-Promotion Brochure]


N/A

Softcover. New York, United Artists/Variety, N/A, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original Wraps Very Good Folio, 14 1/2" tall, stapled saddle-stitch, 16 duotone pages with one fold-out plus stiff illustrated wraps. A very good, clean, sturdy movie promotion piece of Michael Cimino's epic flop. A very good copy over all, covers lightly edge rubbed and with slight exterior soiling; interior clean and bright. Full page portraits of all the principles with opposing catch phrases. Front cover showing only the title, back cover credits.

Record # 412394


Price: $48.00 

 

Miniatures and Silhouettes


von Boehn, Max, (Translated by E. K. Walker)

Hardcover. London and Toronto, J. M. Dent & Sons LTD, Reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages. Green cloth with floral and gilt decor. Small tear top spine. Previous owner's sticker front end paper. Foxing throughout book. Frontis portrait.

Record # 220825


Price: $22.00 

 

Museum of Fine Arts, Second Edition: A Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Publication


Springfield Museum of Fine Arts

Softcover. Springfield, Massachusetts, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, 2nd edition, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Dark blue plastic stapled wrappers, silver titles, full-page color frontispiece of "Study for the Portrait of Ludwig August" by Eugene F. V. Delacroix, profusely illustrated with full color and b&w plates. Crease to bottom of front cover from bending, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight catalog.

Record # 807713


Price: $10.00 

 

Museum, The: Three Early New England Portraits in the Museum's Collection


Bishop, Edith

Softcover. Newark, NJ, The Newark Museum, Vol. 1, N. 1, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, First text in a series for the Newark Museum; b/w cover, plate on front, minor rubbing and sunning. Staple wrappers, some creases. 6 b/w plates of portraits and a landscape painting. Text on three specific portrait paintings. 16 pages. Tight, clean copy.

Record # 808559


Price: $15.00 

 

National Portrait Gallery: Permanent Collection Illustrated Checklist


Smithsonian Institution

Paperback. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 461 pages, paperback. An illustrated checklist of the National Portrait Gallery, cataloging acquisitions up to December 31, 1985. Mild rubbing and soiling to text block top and fore edge. Light rubbing to wraps. Black-and-white illustrations. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951350


Price: $31.00 

 

Native Americans: A Portrait : The Art and Travels of Charles Bird King, George Catlin, and Karl Bodmer


Moore, Jr. Robert J.

Hardcover. New York, Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Oversize hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Color and black & white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471255


Price: $38.00 

 

New Perspectives on Charles Willson Peale: A 250th Anniversary Celebration


Miller, Lillian B. (Ed.), David C. Ward (Ed.)

Hardcover. Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1st Edition, 1991, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 317 pages. Hardcover. Color frontispiece, over 100 illustrations in b/w throughout. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and bright, unmarked. This book is fresh out of its shrink wrap, immaculate. In beautiful condition. Several essays by various scholars all celebrating his life and work.

Record # 32240


Price: $19.00 

 

Niccolo's Smile - A Biography of Machiavelli


Viroli, Maurizio

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st Thus, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover. Bright dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket illustration by Santi di Tito, Portrait of Machiavelli, Florence, Italy. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750390


Price: $15.00 

 

Nicholas Hilliard


Auerbach, Erna

Hardcover. Boston, Boston Book & Art Shop, 1st US, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 352 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Black & white illustrations. Price clipped dust jacket worn with chippingalong edges, tape repaired tears. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 612461


Price: $38.00 

 

Nineteenth Century American Paintings at Bowdoin College


The Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Softcover. Brunswick, ME, The President and Trustees of Bowdoin College, 1st, 1974, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with red covers, clean except for minor sunning along spine. Staple wrappers tight; pages clean and crisp. 33 b/w plates of 19th century American painting, focusing on portraits and landscapes, newly made into a permanent collection at Bowdoin College. Information on artist and work accompanies each plate. 2 additional works listed at back without plates. Introduction on works and the college museum.

Record # 808196


Price: $8.00 

 

North American Indian Portraits: 120 Full-Color Plates from the McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians


Horan, James David

Softcover. 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated, illustrated throughout with 120 color portraits from The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery. Light edgewear and tanning to wrappers. Internally clean.

Record # 457699


Price: $25.00 

 

Notebook of John Smibert, The


Evans, Sir David, John Kerslake and Andrew Oliver

Hardcover. Boston, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1st, 1969, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 131 pages, illustrated with b&w plates from the portrait painter's notebook. An important record of his itinerary and sittings. INSCRIBED BY ANDREW OLIVER TO JOHN WILMERDING, art historian and author in year of publication. Rust color cloth with gilt lettering. Lacks dust jacket. Like new condition.

Record # 401453


Price: $50.00 

 

Of Passions and Tenderness: Portraits of Olga by Baron de Meyer


Anderson-Spivy, Alexandra

Hardcover. Marina del Rey, CA, Graystone Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Printing limited to 5000 copies. 113 pages. B&w and sepia photographs throughout. Sepia photo plate on front of ivory cloth cover. Light soiling and rubbing to back cover. Light edgewear to cover. Else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 852049


Price: $30.00 

 

Old Master Through Modern Prints - October 28, 2010 - Sale 2227


Swann Auction Galleries

Softcover. New York , Swann Auction Galleries, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover auction catalog. Lots 269-632, illustrated in color. No prices realized list. Clean, like new.

Record # 406924


Price: $19.00 

 

One Century: Wellesley Families Collect. An Exhibition Celebrating the Centennial of Wellesley College


Gaghart, Ann, Et Al

Softcover. Wellesley, MA, Wellesley College Museum, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout with 119 plates in b&w. Gray pictorial stiff wrappers. Minor wear to edges and spine, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606191


Price: $10.00 

 

One Hundred and Fifty Years of Portraiture in Western New York


The Burchfield Center

Softcover. Buffalo, NY, Buffalo State College Foundation, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with tan covers, gilt gold title; very minor rubbing and sunning. Staple wrappers tight, pages clean and crisp, very slightly sunned at edges. Loose leaf page of corrections to catalog inside front cover. 45 b/w plates of portraits, in painting and sculpture, by various artists. 143 items listed. Brief text on each item describing significance or providing information on the artist. Introduction on the exhibition. 37 pages.

Record # 808457


Price: $16.00 

 

One Hundred Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections in Washington, D.C.


Brown, Milton W.

Hardcover. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Exhibition catalog of American paintings. 240 pages; 100 examples; from colonial-era portraits by John Singleton Copley to contemporary abstractions by Richard Diebenkorn. Each work in full color and is accompanied by an analysis and brief biography of the artist. In very good condition; dust jacket has a few creases around corners.

Record # 806900


Price: $30.00 

 

Orchestra and Orchestral Music, The (The Music Lover's Library)


Henderson, W. J.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, First Edition, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Hardcover. Publisher's brick cloth covered boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf. Wonderful portraits in black & white throughout, featuring Beethoven, Nikisch, Haydn, Wagner, Lamoureux, Thomas, Richter and Berlioz. Some light toning to pages, clean pages, in very good condition for its age.

Record # 6670095


Price: $25.00 


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