softcover. New York, Plume, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 431 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Adhesive residue on rear. Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. Thames & Hudson, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Front cover of dust jacket with fading along edges - approximately 1" wide from top to bottom. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Porter Sargent, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth, gilt stamped titles. 333 pages plus 80 full page b&w plates. Index, bibliography, glossary. In a very good dust jacket with mild edgewear, spine lightly darkened. The 15 chapters present mosaics and their history, mostly focusing on the ancient, classical, and medieval worlds. The last 2 chapters consider post-renaissance and modern mosaics. Rear cloth board with light residue along edge otherwise clean, very good.
Softcover. New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 5000 copies printed. Quarto, 11" tall, 110 pages with four-color and B&W plates throughout, stiff illustrated wraps. Catalogue from the exhibition of 1968. Included is an introductory essay and the 775 works on view, each annotated, and many pictured. With examples of pottery (glazed and unglazed), carved stone, textiles, gold figures, copper and more. Charts showing chronology/regions and eras/regions are helpful in understanding the types of arts and when/where they were created. 22 color and 71 b&w plates; map end papers. Clean.
Hardcover. New York, MetroBooks, 1st, 1998, 176 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color photography throughout. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Illustrated title page. Gilt titles on spine. Some edge wear to dust jacket and top edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st Edition, 1924, Book: Very Good, 325 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with fraying to board edges & spine. Gilt titles to cover & top edge. Full page, black & white photographs throughout. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf and pages untrimmed. Foxing to preliminary pages and endpapers. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 193 pages. Illustrated throughout text with ancient Roman artifacts. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt. Color pictorial dust jacket. Record # 220589
Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. With 2 maps, 12 color and 84 black and white illustrations. The people of ancient Mesopotamia, who settled in the 'fertile crescent' between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers before the fourth millennium BC, laid the foundations of Western civilization. Gave way to many fundamental developments in human society,
Softcover. Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Foundation, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of the Kimbell Art Museum. 275 pages; color cover; mostly black & white plates; some color plates. Introduction by David M. Robb, Jr., chief curator of the museum. Art collection includes ancient, medieval, British, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, 20th Century, South Asian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, African, and Pre-Columbian art. In very good condition.
Softcover. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, 1st, 1973, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial, stapled wrappers. Exhibition commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum. 28 pp., b/w illustrations. Documents five basic categories: Asiatic; Ancient Near East and Classic; Western Art; 20th Century & Northwest Art; and Tribal Arts. Clean, tight copy. Record # 805908
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine, white cover boards and inside very clean. Dust jacket in good shape, covered in protective plastic. From the front flap: "The Tragedy of Arthur explores the tension between storytelling and truth-telling, the thirst for originality in all of our lives, and the act of literary mythmaking, both now and four centuries ago, as the two Arthurs -- Arthur the novelist and Arthur the ancient king -- play out their individual but strangely intertwined. ...Includes Shakespeare's (?) lost King Arthur play in its five-act entirety...."
Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 397 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped. Bound in black fabric with gilt title on spine and front cover. Other than a bit of foxing on top edge, clean inside. In very good condition. Published to accompany exhibit at art Institute of Chicago, October 10, 1992-January 3, 1993.
Hardcover. New York , Museum of Primitive Art, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 77 pages, 42 b&w plates. Three lectures given at The Museum of Primitive Art.
Hardcover. New York , Museum of Primitive Art, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 80 pages, 36 b&w plates, 2 color. Three lectures given at The Museum of Primitive Art.
Softcover. New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, in conjunction with Tulane University, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 171 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine.
Softcover. London, The Trustees of the British Museum / British Museum Press Ltd., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 brilliant pages, laden with illustrations of Assyrian art and artifacts from The British Museum collection. 215 color and 33 black and white illustrations in addition to one map. Beautiful full-color cover with minor wear at corners only. Illustrated title page and half-title page. Crisp text pairs nicely with this rich visual collection. In very good condition overall.
Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 284 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains more than 100 B&W and full-color photographs and illustrations throughout. This wide-ranging book is the first to explore the visual culture of Russia over the entire span of Russian history, from ancient Kiev to contemporary, post-Soviet society. The book examines the ways that Russians have represented themselves visually and used visual images in social and political contexts. Expert contributors discuss images and objects from all over the Russian/Soviet empire, including consumer goods, architectural monuments, religious icons, portraits, news and art photography, popular prints, films, folk art, and more. Clean copy. Record # 33975