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
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
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
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
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
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
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
NY: Harper & Row, 1980. Frankenthaler, Helen. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 144 pp. 187 black and white reproductions and sixteen in full color. Text by Karen Thomas. Biography. Select Bibliography. A catalogue raisonne with descriptions, commentaries on the prints, and Frankenthaler's working methods. FREITAG 3121. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
NY: Abrams, 1963. First American edition. Cloth. 24 pages in text. 33 x 30 cm, Sixteen watercolours which are detachable with two slip-in frames inside the back cover with the publisher's admonition that the plates may be better studied inside the frames. More
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
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
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
NY: Cynthera press, 1970. Maele, Martin Van. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated with more than forty full-page illustrations of some of Van Maele's most poignant, yet bizarre erotic drawings of the early 20th century. Selected Bibliography. Van Maele illustrated at least eight famous flagellation novels that were to become a staple... More
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
Berne: Herbert Lang, 1946. Masereel, Frans. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio, 47 x 30.5. Limited edition, copy XIV of 50 on papier marbe fin, signed in pencil by Masereel (from a total edition of 950). Masereel's graphic description of the horrors of war, dark as his images. Clean, crisp copy. More
New York: MOMA, 1954. Matisse, Henri. First edition. Wraps. 23 pages. 24 x 21 cm. Illustrated. Owner inscription front cover. More
NY: 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
NY: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1974. First edition. Paperback. 50 pp. Sale December 18-19, 1974. Illustrated in black and white. Printed price estimates laid-in. More
NY: Spanierman/Drawings, 1988. First edition. Paperback. Unpaginated, approx 140 pages. 24 x 26 cm. Abundantly illustrated mostly in color. More