NY: Abbeville, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 215 pp. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Bibliography. Index. Produced under the auspices of the Walker Art Center, Mildred Friedman, Editor. Ex-library. More about The 20th-Century Poster; Design of the Avant-Garde
London: John Lane, 1897. Beerbohm, Max. First edition. Hardcover. 53 pages. 16.5 x 13 cm. Number One of the Bodley Booklets printed by Will Bradley at the Wayside Press in Springfield, Mass. BOMBACE A16. Front cover of the pictorial wrappers chipped at edges with some loss. Interior clean, housed in... More about The Happy Hypocrite; A Fairy Tale For Tired Men
Paris: Librarie des Arts Decoratifs, 1960. First edition. Paperback. 16 pages in text. Folio, 30 x 23 cm. Fifty-two plates, a few in color loose as issued. Lithographs by major French artists -- Ingres, Daumier, Manet, Dore, Renoir, Lautrec, Bonnard, Matisse et al. More about La Lithographie Originale En France
NY: Arts Inc., 1960. Grosz, George. First edition. Hardcover. 166 pages. 28 x 22 cm. 114 reproductions, six in color. Introduction by Ruth Berenson and Norbert Muhlen. Bibliography. Grosz's essay illuminates his later, American period. More about George Grosz with an Essay by the Artist
Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 163 pp. 246 illustrations some in color. Catalogue of Selected Drawings. Checklist of the Weinbrenner Collection at the Univ. of Pennsylvania.Bibliography. Concordance of Inventory Numbers. Weinbrenner was the first internationally important German architect of the 19th Century. More about Friedrich Weinbrenner Architect of Kurlsruhe A Catalogue of the Drawings in the Architectural...
Np: Np, ca 1753. 30.3 x 24 cm. (plate size) with image 19 x 15 cm. Portrait of Elizabeth Canning in the witness box during her abduction trial which divided London during the 18th century, and remains an unsolved mystery. She was eventually convicted of perjury, transported to America, married... More about Canning Abduction Trial Hand-Colored Engraving
Paris: Editions de la Revue Blanche, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. 45 x 35 cm. One page Preface by Marcel Prevost, French novelist and women's rights advocate. Limited edition, copy 16 of 44 on Japan imperial paper. 18 color pochoir plates of contemporary actresses in their famous roles, including Sara Bernhardt... More about Nos Actrices
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1974. First edition. Boards. 97 pp. With fifty-six posters in black and white, sixteen in full-color, and seventeen text figures. Index. This monograph tracks the relationship between film making and the graphic arts which developed in the Soviet Union during the1920's. More about Revolutionary Soviet Film Posters
Paris: Editions Vialetay, 1956. Dufy, Raoul. Hardcover. 218 pages in text. Wood engravings by Jacques Beltrand. Twenty-four full-color illustrations in the text by Raoul Dufy, and a separate suite reproduced and housed in its own volume with each illustration on a single sheet. This fac-simile edition 23.5 x 30.4 cm... More about Vacances Forcees by Roland Dorgeles
NP: NP, ND. 21 x 16 inches, gouache on paper of Art Deco jewelry shop designed by R. Tailliard. More about Architectural Drawing Framed: Art Deco Design
NY: McGraw-Hill, 1974. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 315 pp. With essay on The Development of Poster Art by Carlo Arturo Quintavalle. Translated by Alfred and Bruni Mayor. Profusely illustrated with 450 illustrations, 250 in full-color. Bibliography. The color reproduction is particularly exquisite. More about The Poster in History
NY: October House, 1965. Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 30 pages in text. Introduction by Mervyn Levy. Eighty-four reproductions, and four color plates. Deadat 23 years of age, Gaudier-Brzeska is honored here on the 50th anniversary of his death. Ex-library. FREITAG 3302. More about Gaudier-Brzeska Drawing And Sculpture
NY: Vance Jordan Fine Art, 2000. First edition. Paperback. 94 pages. 11 x 9". Color and black and white plates. Works by American artiists. More about Fifty Works on Paper
NY: Abrams, 1960. Klee, Paul. First American edition. Boards. 177 pp. Fifty duo-tone and black and white plates. Catalogue of Works Produced. The forty-seven pages of text outline the different aspects of Klee's work, and the reproductions span nearly fifty years of his art. FREITAG 4845. More about Paul Klee Drawings
NY: Abrams, 1984. Chagall, Marc. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 210 pp. Translated from the German by Robert Erich Wolf. Forty-two full-color illustrations within a total of seventy-seven plates. Apart from the specific emotive and mystical Russian-Jewish themes, Chagall is discussed in context of the emerging art movements in Paris, especially... More about Marc Chagall Gouaches * Drawings * Watercolors
Munich: Prestel, 1991. First edition. Paperback. 31235 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Copiously illustrated: black and white and color plates. Bibliography. Index. Exhibition of 20th century book illustration held at the Bayrischen Staatsbibliothek, Munich, More about Papiergesange Buchkunst im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert
NP: ND. 15.5 x 39.5 inches. Two framed in glass and matted drawings by Rockwell Kent, both signed by him in pencil at lower right present ten characters from the original tale by Geoffrey Chaucer with some contention by critics that the Tale was incomplete at the time of Chaucer's... More about 10 Characters from The Canterbury Tales
Kyoto: Uchida Woodblock Printer, ca.1950. Hardcover. Four color woodblock prints, each 11 x 9 inches matted, in pictorial board portfolio -- (1) Taikenbyo Nitenmon Gate in Spring, (2) The Row of Cedar Trees in Summer, (3) Kegan-no-tuki Fall in Autumn, (4) Five-Storied Pagoda in Winter. More about "Four Seasons of Nikko"
London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 211 pp. Twenty-four pages of plates and more than sixty text figures. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Lamb writes, "This book brings under one cover the theoretical, contractual, and technical aspects of drawing for illustration." More about Drawing For Illustration
Pall Mall East, London: Colnaghi Sons. Two portraits drawn by Thomas Lawrence of his mother dated 1797, one colored, one lightly tinted. 38 x 30 cm. and 42 x 29. cm. respectively. The latter carries the penciled notation and description. Lawrence's reputation was well established by 1791 when he was... More about Two Trail drawings of his mother, Lucy Read Lawrence
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 376 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 117 of 150 (145 for sale). With 205 illustrations and four original etchings by the author, signed or initialed by the author. Lumsden describes the history and development of etching through... More about The Art Of Etching; A Complete & Fully Illustrated Description Of Etching, Drypoint,...
NY: Pantheon, 1943. Maillol, Aristide. First edition. Hardcover. 49 pages in text. Edited by John Rewald. 162 woodcuts in black, and red, and with additional illustrations within the text. Limited edition, one of 550. FREITAG 5907. LUCAS p166. An increasingly scarce and lovely work. Owner inscription and lettering on free front endpaper. More about The Woodcuts of Aristide Maillol
London: T. McLean, January 29, 1839. 28 x 33 cm. Black and white lithograph of a manacled prisoner led by three armed guards. More about A Deserter
NP: NP, ND. Archirtectural Drawing framed: 19 5/8 x 16 inches, watercolor and ink on paper. Small nicks to frame. More about French School: Design Proposal 20 Rue De La Charbonniere
New York: Abrams, 1957. Chagall, Marc. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 151 pp. 147 full page plates in black and white, as well as six pages of color plates. Bibliography. FREITAG 1577. More about Marc Chagall - The Graphic Work