New York: Abbeville, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 215 pges. 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
Boston: Boston Book & Art, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 96 pages. 115 color and blackand white plates. One of a series of books based on exhibitions by the Welsh Arts Council. Well illustrated and poignant. More
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
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
New York: 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 pages. 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
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
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
New York: M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., 1936. Forain, Jean-Louis. First edition. Hardcover. 67 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 293 of 500 printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Illustrated with reproductions of Forain's work. Almost as new condition. More
NP: NP, ND. 21 x 16 inches, gouache on paper of Art Deco jewelry shop designed by R. Tailliard. More
New York: 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
New York: 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
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1985. Grass, Gunther. Hardcover. 530 pages. 26.5 x 28 cm. The history of women and cooking is Grass's subject mater. Etchings by Gunther Grass: each image was printed from two plates. One flatback-ground plate was printed in a transparent green tint with the image overprinted..... 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. A few with sale prices of works featured tipped-in. More
New York: Abrams, 1960. Klee, Paul. First American edition. Boards. 177 pages. 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
New York: Abrams, 1984. Chagall, Marc. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 210 p[ages. 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..... More
Munich: Prestel, 1991. First edition. Paperback. 312 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. Test in German. More
London: Faber & Faber for the Aids Crisis Trust, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio, 33 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 212 of 250 for sale (of 300 total) signed by Hockney, Spender and twenty two contributors: Douglas Adams, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Patrick Leigh..... More
London: Cecil Palmer, 1924. Kauffer, E. McKnight. First edition. Hardcover. 190 pages. 31 x 23.5 cm. Voluminously illustrated in black and white and color, most are full-paged, many printed recto only. Kauffer points out "the modern Poster is still in its adolescence," and he also notes with examples, bad painters..... More
Bern: Verlag Kornfeld und Klipstein, 1970. Klee, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. 248 pages. 31 x 29.4 cm. Contains 123 black and white and color illustrations, list of his signatures and wood-cuts and engravings with German text plus bibliographic data for each entry. This Catalogue Raisonne printed on heavy glossy stock..... More
Bern: Verlag Kornfeld und Klipstein, 1963. Klee, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 31 x 29.4 cm. Contains 150 mostly black and white illustrations, list of his signatures and graphics with German text plus bibliographic data for each entry. This Catalogue Raisonne printed on heavy glossy stock. Most of the illustrations..... 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 pages. 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
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