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1.
Marin, Cheech.
Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge (First Edition).
New York: Bulfinch Press / Little Brown, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. [Book #118572]. (read more)
Price: $25.00
2.
Oldenburg, Claes (editor); Robert R. McElroy (photographs).
Store Days: Documents from The Store (1961) and the Ray Gun Theater (1962) (First Edition, with original ticket intact).
New York Villefranche-sur-mer and Frankfurt am Main: Something Else Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Laid in is the original printed blue ticket to the December 1961 opening of "The Store," in a tissue envelope affixed to the front flyleaf as issued. [Book #118524]. (read more)
Price: $425.00
3.
Rinhart, Floyd and Marion.
American Miniature Case Art (First Edition).
South Brunswick: AS Barnes and Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine in a Very Good, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket is lightly soiled with chipping to the crown and minor rubbing overall. [Book #117710]. (read more)
Price: $40.00
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[Robineau, Adelaide Alsop] Peg Weiss (editor).
Adelaide Alsop Robineau: Glory in Porcelain (First Edition).
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. One of 500 numbered copies, this being No. 134. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket and publisher's black cloth slipcase (moderately soiled and scuffed, Very Good overall). A superb reference for Robineau's porcelain work, with black-and-white and color plates throughout, and a detailed inventory of her work in public collections in the United States. An attractive copy, uncommon in the cloth edition. [Book #116213]. (read more)
Price: $185.00
5.
Herbert, Tony and Kathryn Huggins.
The Decorative Tile in Architecture and Interiors (Trade Softcover).
Phaidon, 2000. Trade softcover with dust jacket. Near Fine condition. [Book #115886]. (read more)
Price: $15.00
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Johnson, Michael.
Problem Solved: A Primer in Design and Communication (Trade Softcover).
Phaidon, 2004. Trade softcover. Fine condition. [Book #115883]. (read more)
Price: $15.00
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Smith, Patti.
The Coral Sea (Signed First Edition).
New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED by Patti Smith on the title page. A novel that is a metaphor for the early travels of Robert Mapplethorpe, to whom the author is paying tribute here. Photo-illustrated throughout with Mapplethorpe pieces. [Book #115869]. (read more)
Price: $50.00
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Mowl, Timothy.
Elizabethan and Jacobean Style (Softcover).
London: Phaidon, 2001. Softcover. Later printing. Fine in wrappers and a Fine dust jacket. [Book #115542]. (read more)
Price: $25.00
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Muller Brockmann, Josef and Shizuko Muller Brockmann.
History of the Poster (Softcover).
New York: Phaidon, 2004. Softcover. Later printing. Near Fine and unread in wrappers [Book #115541]. (read more)
Price: $20.00
10.
Berger, Warren .
Advertising Today (Softcover).
New York: Phaidon, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. First printing of the softcover edition, preceded by the 2001 hardcover edition. Near Fine and unread in an about Fine dust jacket. Wrapper and jacket show a small crease to the rear panel. [Book #115511]. (read more)
Price: $130.00
11.
Phillips, Barty.
Tapestry (Softcover).
London: Phaidon, 2000. Softcover. Later printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. [Book #115530]. (read more)
Price: $20.00
12.
Vergo, Peter.
That Divine Order: Music and the Visual Arts from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century (First Edition).
New York: Phaidon, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. [Book #115529]. (read more)
Price: $25.00
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Williams, Nancy.
More Paperwork: Exploring the Potential of Paper in Design and Architecture (First Edition).
New York: Phaidon, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. [Book #115522]. (read more)
Price: $20.00
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Williams, Nancy .
Paperwork: The Potential of Paper in Graphic Design (Softcover).
New York: Phaidon, 2004. Softcover. Later printing. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket. [Book #115518]. (read more)
Price: $25.00
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Johnston, Sona K. .
American Paintings 1750-1900: From the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art (Softcover).
Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. First printing of this edition. About Fine and unread in wrappers. [Book #115461]. (read more)
Price: $30.00
16.
Reeder, Ellen D.
Pandora (Softcover).
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. First printing of this edition. Fine and unread in wrappers. Small, neat owner notation at the top right corner of the front flyleaf. [Book #115458]. (read more)
Price: $180.00
17.
Eretz Israel Museum.
Maskit: A Local Fabric (Softcover).
Tel Aviv: Eretz Israel Museum, 2003. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Fine and unread in wrappers. Text in English and Hebrew. [Book #115439]. (read more)
Price: $45.00
18.
Hughes, Robert.
American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America (First Edition).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. First Softcover Edition, first printing. About fine in wrappers. [Book #115441]. (read more)
Price: $30.00
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Tinterow, Gary and Henri Loyrete .
Origins of Impressionism (Softcover).
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. First printing of this edition. Near Fine in wrappers. Small, neat owner notation at the top right corner of the half title page. [Book #115442]. (read more)
Price: $20.00
20.
Dawes, Nicholas M. (editor).
Lalique: A Century of Glass for a Modern World (Softcover).
East Hampton, NY: Designgroup / The Planning Corporation,1989. Softcover. Later printing. Near Fine in glossy wrappers. Small, neat owner notation at the top right corner of the front flyleaf. [Book #115374]. (read more)
Price: $20.00
21.
Elderberg, Martin; Paul Johnson.
Design 1935 - 1965 (Softcover).
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. First printing of this edition. Fine and unread in pictorial wrappers. [Book #115385]. (read more)
Price: $50.00
22.
Favier, Jean.
The World of Chartres (First Edition).
New York: Harry N: Abrams, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. First English Edition, first printing. Near Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. [Book #115395]. (read more)
Price: $20.00
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Hunter, Sam; John Jacobus.
Modern Art: Painting, Sculptre, Archiecture (Hardcover).
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1977. Hardcover. Second Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. [Book #115396]. (read more)
Price: $20.00
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Noel, William and Daniel Weiss.
The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Midieval Picture Bible (Softcover).
London: The Walters Art Museum / Third Millennium Publishing, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. First printing of this edition. Fine and unread in pictorial wrappers. Small, neat owner notation at the top right corner of the front flyleaf. [Book #115377]. (read more)
Price: $70.00
25.
von Habsburg, Geza.
Fabrge in America (Softcover).
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. First printing of this edition. Fine and unread in wrappers. [Book #115384]. (read more)
Price: $20.00
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Bohm, Florian.
KGID: Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (First Edition).
London: Phaidon, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. [Book #115334]. (read more)
Price: $35.00
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Bohm, Florian.
KGID: Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (Softcover).
London: Phaidon, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. First printing of this edition, preceded by the hardcover edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. [Book #115335]. (read more)
Price: $20.00
28.
Malek, Jaromir.
Egypt: 4000 Years of Art (First Edition).
London: Phaidon, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. [Book #115337]. (read more)
Price: $20.00
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[Currier and Ives] Rawls, Walton.
Currier & Ives' America (First Edition, inscribed by Walton Rawls).
New York: Abbeville Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. First Edition, first printing. INSCRIBED by the author to Saturday Evening Post reviewer John Barkham on the title page: "For John Barkham / with best wishes / Walton Rawls." Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. A deluxe, full-color monograph of Currier & Ives' best work, a pictorial chronicle of American life during the 1800s. [Book #114653]. (read more)
Price: $350.00
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[Picasso] Sabartes Jaime (critical survey).
Paintings and Drawings of Picasso (First Edition).
Paris: Bruan & Cie / New York: Tudor Publishing, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Publisher's tan cloth with titles in gray on the front board and spine. Near Fine lacking dust jacket. A bright, clean copy. [Book #114119]. (read more)
Price: $350.00
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Schama, Simon.
The Power of Art (First Edition).
London: Ecco / BBC, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Both book and jacket just a trifle shelf worn, else Fine. [Book #113947]. (read more)
Price: $40.00
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Geldzahler, Henry.
Pop Art 1955-70 (First Edition).
New York: Museum of Modern Art [MOMA], 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Near Fine, lightly edge-toned dust jacket. An attractive copy of an uncommon title. Monograph with black-and-white and color plates throughout. [Book #113928]. (read more)
Price: $35.00
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Mahsun, Carol Anne Runyon.
Pop Art and the Critics (First Edition).
Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Uncommon. [Book #113916]. (read more)
Price: $85.00
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[Picasso] Rubin, William (editor).
Picasso in the Colllection of the Museum of Modern Art (First Edition).
New York: The Museum of Modern Art [MOMA], 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Jacket spine evenly color-faded, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Uncommon in this condition. [Book #113927]. (read more)
Price: $45.00
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[Picasso] Sabartes, James.
Picasso: An Intimate Portrait (First Edition).
New York: Prentice Hall, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Jacket is moderately rubbed, with a single v-chip at the top left corner of the front panel, otherwise quite nice. A very presentable copy. [Book #113919]. (read more)
Price: $25.00
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[Picasso] Sweetman, David.
Picasso (First UK Edition).
London: Wayland, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket. [Book #113922]. (read more)
Price: $75.00
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[Pollock, Jackson] Naifeh, Steven and Gregory White Smith.
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga (First Edition).
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. [Book #113914]. (read more)
Price: $45.00
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[Rauschenberg, Robert] Tomkins, Calvin.
Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time (First Edition).
Garden City: Doubleday, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket. Considered by many to be the definitive biography of Rauschenberg, as it takes into account the context of his era, and the real ways in which that era was affected by his work. Extremely uncommon. [Book #113915]. (read more)
Price: $225.00
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Russell, John and Suzi Gablik.
Pop Art Redefined (First UK Edition).
London: Thames and Hudson, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. First UK Edition, first printing. Extremely faint tape shadows to the endpapers, light rubbing to boards, else Fine and unread in a Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Extremely uncommon in this condition. [Book #113926]. (read more)
Price: $125.00
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[Warhol, Andy] Bourdon, David.
Warhol (First Edition).
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. [Book #113912]. (read more)
Price: $25.00
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[di Bondone, Giotto] Schneider, Laurie (editor).
Giotto in Perspective (First Edition).
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine and unread in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Jacket has rubbing at the extremities, rear panel has faint small stains, faint dampstain to the verso at the heel, spine faded. A collection of interpretive essays on the Giotto. [Book #112823]. (read more)
Price: $50.00
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Gombrich, E. H. .
Meditations on a Hobby Horse and Other Essays on the Theory of Art (First UK Edition).
London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. First UK Edition, first printing. Light rubbing to the extremities and light bump to lower front right, else Near Fine and unread. Book has two dust jackets. The outer jacket is Very Good+ and has some tiny stains to the rear panel, rubbing at the spine ends, small chip front the lower front flap fold. The inner jacket is about Near Fine and markedly brighter, and has minor creasing at the spine ends and a similar chip, though less severe, at the lower front flap fold. [Book #112826]. (read more)
Price: $15.00
43.
Lippincott, Louise and Andreas Bluhm; Desmond Morris (foreword).
Fierce Friends: Artists and Animals, 1750 - 1900 (First Edition).
London: Merrell, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. [Book #112597]. (read more)
Price: $50.00
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[Cartier-Bresson, Henri] Russell, John (foreword); Jean Clair (introduction).
Line by Line: The Drawings of Henri Cartier-Bresson (First Edition).
New York and London: Thames and Hudson, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A monograph of Cartier-Bresson's line drawings, with 65 reporductions, 9 in color and 56 in duotone. List of plates and a list of related exhibitions at the rear. [Book #112503]. (read more)
Price: $35.00
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Douglas, Frederic H.; Irene D'Harnoncourt (text).
Indian Art of the United States (First Edition, Review Copy).
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. REVIEW COPY with publisher's material laid in. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Toning to spine of jacket with some nicking and a few very small chips to the extremities. 220 pages, numerous illustrations, includes a selected bibliography. [Book #112424]. (read more)
Price: $30.00
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Maffei, Andrea.
Toyo Ito: Works Projects Writings (Softcover).
Milan: Electa, 2006. Softcover. Reprint of the 2002 English language edition. Very Good + in self wrappers. Bump to spine crown and a few scuffs to the rear panel. 360 pages, 357 color illustrations with additional architectural drawings. Includes an index and a bibligraphy. [Book #112360]. (read more)
Price: $25.00
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Taylor, John Russell.
Bill Jacklin (First Edition).
New York: Phaidon, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. 240 pages,numerous color plates throughout. Includes a list of exhibitions and an index of works. [Book #112315]. (read more)
Price: $25.00
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Wolff, Laetitia.
Massin (First Edition).
New York: Phaidon, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. 216 pages, color illustrations throughout. Includes a chronology, notes, a list of works, a bibliography and an index. [Book #112320]. (read more)
Price: $45.00
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Phaidon Press Editors.
Area (Softcover).
New York: Phaidon, 2005. Softcover. Later printing. Near Fine in wrappers. An exhibition in book form of the shape of contemporary graphic design. Illustrated throughout. [Book #112309]. (read more)
Price: $20.00
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Pollock, Naomi.
Modern Japanese House (First Edition).
New York: Phaidon, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in illustrated paper covered boards without dust jacket as issued. 228 pages, with numerous color illustrations and architectural drawings. Includes a reading list and an index. [Book #112295]. (read more)
Price: $30.00
51.
Powell, Kenneth.
Richard Rogers: Complete Works - Volume 3 (First Edition).
New York: Phaidon, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. 320 pages, numerous illustrations throughout. Includes a list of works and an index. [Book #112306]. (read more)
Price: $50.00
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Von Moos, Stanislaus.
Max Huber (First Edition).
New York: Phaidon, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. 232 pages, illustrated throughout. Includes an index and notes. [Book #112288]. (read more)
Price: $45.00
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Deren, Maya.
An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (First Edition, inscribed by the publisher to D.S. Savage).
Yonkers, NY: Alicat Bookshop Press, 1946. First Edition. First Edition, first printing. This copy is INSCRIBED by the publisher Oscar Baradinsky (later Oscar Baron) to his friend the writer D.S. Savage. One of 750 copies, published in the Alicat Bookshop Press' Outcast series. An uncommon and key document in experimental cinema, published the same year Deren released Ritual in Transfigured Time. The Anthology Film Archive in New York, the ground floor of which is named after Ms. Deren as the "godmother of American avant-garde cinema," has published a massive ongoing series documenting Deren's work, from her Socialist origins to feminist filmmaking and theory. Very Good to Near Fine in saddle-stitched wrappers, with some toning to the edges of the front and rear panel. [Book #112222]. (read more)
Price: $1,250.00
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Collings, Mathew.
Ron Arad Talks to Matthew Collings (First Edition).
New York: Phaidon, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. 247 pages, color illustrations and drawings throughout. Includes an index, a bibliography and a chronology of works. [Book #112184]. (read more)
Price: $25.00
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Collings, Mathew.
Ron Arad Talks to Matthew Collings (First Edition).
New York: Phaidon, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. 247 pages, color illustrations and drawings throughout. Includes an index, a bibliography and a chronology of works. [Book #112185]. (read more)
Price: $25.00
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Bohm Florian (editor).
KGID: Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (First Edition).
New York: Phaidon, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Slight bump to spine ends of both book and jacket. [Book #112167]. (read more)
Price: $40.00
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Bouroullec, Erwan, Ronan Bouroullec.
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec (First Edition).
New York: Phaidon, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine and unread without dust jacket as issued. [Book #112151]. (read more)
Price: $35.00
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Myerson, Jeremy, Graham Vickers.
Rewind: Forty Years of Design and Advertising (First Edition).
New York: Phaidon, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Bump to corners of book. Jacket lightly wrinkled at the extremities with a hint of fading to the spine. 512 pages with numerous illustrations, includes a fact file and an index. [Book #112135]. (read more)
Price: $50.00
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Gombrich, E.H. and Richard Woodfield.
The Essential Gombrich (First Edition, softcover).
New York: Phaidon Press, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition, first printing (issued simultaneously in hardcover). Fine in wrappers with French flaps as issued. [Book #112022]. (read more)
Price: $20.00
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[Souto de Moura, Eduardo] Leoni, Giovanni with Antonio Esposito.
Eduardo Souto de Moura (First Edition).
New York: Phaidon Press, 2006 [2003]. First Edition. Softcover. First printing of this edition (previously issued in hardcover in 2003). Near Fine in wrappers with French flaps as issued. [Book #112025]. (read more)
Price: $25.00
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Warhol, Andy; Georg Frei and Neil Printz (editors).
The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 2 [02A and 02B]: Paintings and Sculpture 1964-1969 (First Edition, in two volumes).
London: Phaidon, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes in a single slipcase. First Edition, first printing. Both volumes Fine and unread in a Near Fine slipcase. A couple of small bumps to the slipcase corners, else Fine. The second volume of this well-reviewed and definitive reference to Warhol's massive output. This set documents the period known as 'The Factory Years, and includes well-known series such as "Thirteen Most Wanted Men," the box sculptures, Marilyn, Jackie O., and Flowers. The set also incorporates rare photographs of works and people inside The Factory, with archival photographs of gallery and museum Installations. 400 pages. [Book #111843]. (read more)
Price: $750.00
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Dixon, Tom; Estrada, Marie Helena; Keller, Pierre; Kim, Sang-kyu; Krzentowski, Didier; Lasky, Julie; Guedes, Guta Moura; Parkes, Brian; Picchi, Franchesca and Chieko Yoshiie (curators).
& Fork (First UK Edition).
London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. First UK Edition, first printing. Very Good+ with no dust jacket as issued. Brief wear at the extremities. A hefty look at 100 contemporary designers chosen by ten internationally respected figures in design, following the success of "Spoon." [Book #111707]. (read more)
Price: $50.00
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Editors of Architechture Design and Technology Press.
The Image of a Company (First UK Edition).
London: Architecture Design and Technology Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. First UK Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Very Good dust jacket. Some minor curling of the jacket at the extremities, and light rubbing. A contribution to the evaluation and cultural vision of corporate identity. [Book #111685]. (read more)
Price: $15.00
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Bullen, J. B.
Byzantium Rediscovered (First Edition).
New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. An exemplary study of Byzantium, covering art, politics, religion and literature. [Book #111602]. (read more)
Price: $20.00
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McQuiston, Liz.
Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women's Liberation and Beyond (First UK Edition).
London: Phaidon Press Ltd, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. First UK Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A study of women's liberation and the use of graphics and media in its advancement. [Book #111605]. (read more)
Price: $25.00
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Salmony, Alfred.
Artibus Asiae, Volume [Vol.] XIX, Pt. 1. Curat Editionem Alfred Salmony, Institute of Fine Arts - New York University (Inscribed by Salmony).
Ascona, Switzerland, 1956. Small Folio, wrappers. INSCRIBED, but not signed, by Salmony at the top of the front wrapper, thus: "To Prof. Hugh Benton (?) / With the respectful good wishes of the author." Very Good condition, with light wear at toning at the extremities of the wrapper. [Book #110776]. (read more)
Price: $75.00
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[Japanese Literature] Tanikawa, Tetsuo.
The Fate of the Arts (First Edition, inscribed in 1970).
Japan, ca. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. First Japanese edition. INSCRIBED by Tanikawa in Japanese to Sara Larkin on the front flyleaf, and dated 1970. Sara Larkin is a noted American artist who, after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, continued her education in Japan under the sponsorship of distinguished philosopher Tetsuo Tanikawa, advisor to the Emperor of Cultural Affairs and Preside nt of Osei University. Under his tutelage she became acquainted with Nobel Laureate Kawabata. She spent a year in Bangkok as well, studying Chinese art with artist Lui Shou-Kwan, and Lawrence Tam, the Director of the Hong Kong Museum. She also worked in Hong Kong as a gallery owner, consultant, and artists’ agent, and went on to become an associate at Sotherby, evaluating works of art for auction. About Fine in olive cloth with no dust jacket and gray paper-covered slipcase (Near Fine) as issued. [Book #110374]. (read more)
Price: $750.00
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Warnod, Janine.
Washboat Days: Montmarte, Picasso, and the Artists Revolution (First Edition).
Grossman, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. [Book #110154]. (read more)
Price: $25.00
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La Metafora Trovata (First Edition).
Rome [Roma]: Galleria Sperone, 1994. First Edition. First Edition, first printing, one of 1000 copies issued. Near Fine in self-wrappers. Color photographs throughout, text in Italian. [Book #110058]. (read more)
Price: $75.00
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The Thaw Collection: Master Drawings and New Acquisitions (First Edition).
Pierpoint Morgan Library, 1994. First Edition. First Edition, first printing. Trade softcover. Spine sunned, with a light sticker shadow near the crown, else in Near Fine condition. [Book #110064]. (read more)
Price: $15.00
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Cassiman, Bart (editor); Alicia Framis, Lin de Mol, Patricia Spoelder, Michael Nitschke (contributors).
Arte Habitable (First Edition, signed by the editor).
Amsterdam: Arte Habitable, 1995. First Edition. First Edition, first printing. Inscribed by editor (and art curator) Bart Cassiman on the half-title page, dated 1998, with his name-and-address stamp to the right of the inscription. Near Fine in trade-size wrappers (softcover) with a very light sticker shadow to the spine. [Book #110055]. (read more)
Price: $45.00
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Solomon, Holly and Alexandra Anderson.
Living with Art (First Edition, inscribed by Holly Solomon).
New York: Rizzoli, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. INSCRIBED by co-author Holly Solomon on the front flyleaf: "Sept 23, 95 / To -- and -- / with LOVE / Holly S." Very Good+ in a Near Fine dust jacket. Binding is somewhat cocked, else a bright, clean copy. [Book #110059]. (read more)
Price: $45.00
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Sicre, Jose Gomez.
Spanish Drawings XV-XIX Centuries (First Edition).
New York: The Hyperion Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Short closed tear to the jacket at the top rear, else Near Fine in a Near Fine, spine-toned dust jacket. Illustrated map endpapers, with 80 two-tone prints of Spanish masters (Velazquez, Murillo, el Greco, Ribera, Goya and others) throughout. An attractive copy. [Book #109982]. (read more)
Price: $25.00
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Lawler, Paul G. (editor), Herb Lubalin and George Lois (designers).
Thirty-Seventh [37th] Annual of Advertising and Editorial Art and Design (First Edition).
New York: The Art Directors Club of New York / Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Single scratch to the rear panel, else Fine lacking dust jacket in a Near Fine slipcase with light toning and rubbing to the edges. An attractive copy [Book #109850]. (read more)
Price: $50.00
75.
Clay, Mary E. (translator).
Expressiv: Centreal European Art Since 1960 (First Edition).
Vienna: Museum moderner Kunst, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. First American Edition, first printing. Near Fine condition with a spine roll and light dusting to the page edges. Text in German and English. [Book #109831]. (read more)
Price: $35.00
76.
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Kepes, György, P.J. Conkwright, W.A. Dwiggins, Edna Beilenson, Carl Purington Rollins, Donald Klopfer, Paul Rand, Merle Armitage, Walter Dorwin Teague, Samuel Chamberlain, Peter Beilenson, Herschel Levit, Lynd Ward, J. Donald Adams, and Philip H.
Graphic Forms: The Arts as Related to the Book (First Edition).
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine in an edge-toned, Near Fine dust jacket. Small, attractive bookplate at the front pastedown. A collection of essays on book arts, with an excellent photo-illustrated section at the rear. [Book #108218]. (read more)
Price: $85.00
77.
Morison, Stanley.
Letter Forms, Typographical and Scriptorial: Two Essays on the Their Classification, History, and Bibliography (First UK Edition).
London: Nattali and Maurice, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. First UK Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. [Book #108226]. (read more)
Price: $45.00
78.
Blythe, Blonde; Jasmine Becket-Griffith (foreword).
Big Eye Art: Resurrected and Transformed (First Edition).
Merrell, 2008. First Edition. Trade softcover. Quarto. First Edition, first printing. Fine in card wrappers with French flaps as issued. A history of big eye art, presented in monograph style and organized by artist. Profusely illustrated in color throughout. A wonderful production. [Book #108168]. (read more)
Price: $25.00
79.
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Sparrow, Walter Shaw.
A Book of Sporting Painters (First Edition).
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Very Good+ lacking dust jacket. Boards are soiled and lightly rubbed. [Book #107814]. (read more)
Price: $50.00
80.
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[Walters, William T.].
Collection of W.T. Walters 5 Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore 1888 (First Edition).
Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald, 1888. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition, presumed first printing. Very Good condition, perfect bound in brown paper wrappers with brown cloth spine. 1888 catalogue for the then private gallery of William T. Walters. 118 pages, including a list of artists represented. 303 entries divided into three sections titled, "Picture Gallery", "Water Colors and Designs", and "In the Hall". In 1874 William Walters began opening his collection, and the Mt.Vernon Place residence which housed it, to the public almost every spring. Henry Walters, continued the collection efforts and the public access begun by his father. This private collection would later become the core of what is now The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Book is worn along the edges with a thumbnail size chip to the top of the rear wrapper panel. Pages lightly age toned with a few showing offsetting where other papers had been lain in. Mild dampstain to the fore-edge not affecting text. [Book #107084]. (read more)
Price: $150.00
81.
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Varnedoe, Kirk and Adam Gopnik.
High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture (First Edition).
New York: Harry N Abrams / Museum of Modern Art [MOMA], 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Black cloth-covered boards with red exclamation point design to front board and red titles to spine. Published on the occasion of the exhibition which took place at MOMA in New York from October 7, 1990 to January 15, 1991, traveling to the Art Institute of Chicago, from March 20 to May 12, 1991 and to MOCA, Los Angeles from June 21 to September 15, 1991. 460 pages. 626 illustrations of which 193 are in full color. Includes notes to the text, extensive bibliography and a list of illustrations. [Book #106935]. (read more)
Price: $150.00
82.
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Occhiali Italiani (First Edition).
Italy: Anfao, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket, housed in a Near Fine black paper slipcase with informational bookmark as issued. A survey of the Italian eyeglass industry witha view toward both its national position in helping define iconic Italian fashion and its historically regional industrial foundation. Text in English. [Book #106309]. (read more)
Price: $45.00
83.
Von Bode, Wilhelm.
Die Kunst Der Fruhrenaissance in Italien (First Edition).
Berlin: Propylaen-Verlag, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Good+ lacking dust jacket. Discreet contemporary owner name to the front pastedown. Split at the crown and top of the rear hinge. Fraying to the extremities. Text in German with many plates, which remail bright. [Book #105332]. (read more)
Price: $35.00
84.
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Da Vinci, Leonardo (Irma A. Richter, translator).
Paragone: A Comparison of the Arts (First Edition).
London: Oxford University Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine lacking dust jacket. Offsetting to the flyleaves. Neat owner name written on the front flyleaf. Boards are rubbed at the extremities but otherwise clean and tight. [Book #105122]. (read more)
Price: $35.00
85.
Eichenberg, Fritz (editor).
Artist's Proof / A Journal of Printmaking, Volume VII (First Edition).
New York: Pratt Graphic Art Center,1967. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Book shows light lean; jacket shows light shelfwear. [Book #103600]. (read more)
Price: $20.00
86.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Bronzes and Other Metalwork and Sculpture: The Collection of Irwin Untermyer (First Edition).
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Book is lightly rubbed at spine ends and tips, and dusted at top page edges. Jacket shows laminate lift at folds, and light rubbing at spine ends. Includes 201 black and white figures, notes and comments, biographical notes, bibliography, and an index. 64 pages. [Book #103596]. (read more)
Price: $150.00
87.
The Annual of the American Institute of Graphic Arts .
Graphic Design USA: 15.
New York: Watson Guptill, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Jacket is edgeworn with several closed tears at rear panel and hinge folds, tips rubbed. Includes 300 color plates, 350 blck and white illustrations from the American Graphic Arts exhibition. 352 pages. [Book #102415]. (read more)
Price: $10.00
88.
Iguitian, Henrik.
Gallery Noah's Ark.
Yerevan: Modern Art Museum of Armenia. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Includes over 120 reproductions of work displayed in the Modern Art Museum of Armenia. A lovely book. [Book #102421]. (read more)
Price: $25.00
89.
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Ashmole, Bernard; Nicholas Yalouris.
Olympia: The Sculptures of the Temple of Zeus (First Edition) .
London: Phaidon, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Spine ends lightly bumped; jacket lightly shelfworn, rubbed at extremities. Includes over 200 black and white plates and a bibliography. 188 pages. [Book #102351]. (read more)
Price: $100.00
90.
Budde, Ludwig and Richard Nicholls.
Catalogue of Greek and Roman Sculpture.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. Book shows light lean; jacket chipped at spine ends. Includes 192 black and white plates, an index, and glossary. [Book #102348]. (read more)
Price: $35.00
91.
Eichenberg, Fritz (Editor).
Artist's Proof Volume VIII.
New York: Pratt Graphics Center, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Includes reports on international print activities, work by Jasper Johns and Frank Stella, and an original color serigraph by Steve Poleskie. [Book #102347]. (read more)
Price: $25.00
92.
Brookly Museum.
Seventeenth National Print Exhibition: June 1- Sept. 1, 1970.
New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1970. Softcover. Near Fine in pictorial wrappers. [Book #102338]. (read more)
Price: $15.00
93.
Meryon, C. .
Eaux-Fortes sur Paris (First Edition) .
New York: M. Knoedler & Company, Inc, 1935. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine in stapled wrappers. [Book #102336]. (read more)
Price: $20.00
94.
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Weihrauch, Hans R. .
Die Bildwerke in Bronze und in Anderen Metallen.
Munchen: Verlag F Bruckmann, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. White jacket shows light soil, light edge rubbing, and small nick mid-spine. Includes over 200 photographs. Text in German. [Book #102334]. (read more)
Price: $185.00
95.
Pauwels, Louis (editor).
Les Chefs: D'oeuvre de L'Epouvante (Hardcover).
Paris: les Ediions Planete, circa 1960s. Hardcover. Near Fine lacking dust jacket as issued. Text in French. [Book #102022]. (read more)
Price: $20.00
96.
Appel, Alfred, JR.
The Art of Celebration: Twentieth-Century Painting, Literature, Sculpture, Photography, and Jazz (Hardcover).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine with lightly bumped corner not affecting contents in a Fine dust jacket. [Book #101929]. (read more)
Price: $25.00
97.
Karshan, Donald H.
Language of the Print (First Edition).
New York: Chanticleer Press,1968. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Jacket toned and shelfworn at extremities. [Book #101946]. (read more)
Price: $15.00
98.
Maiuri, Amedeo; Stuart Gilbert (translation).
Roman Painting: Great Centuries of Painting.
Geneva: Skira, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket, in a cardboard slipcase. Includes bibliography, list of colorplates, and contents. 84 tipped-in plates. 154 pages. [Book #101948]. (read more)
Price: $75.00
99.
Man, Felix H.
Artists' Lithographs : A World History Frrom Senefelder to the Present Day (Hardcover).
New York: GP Putnam's Sons, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Book faxed at page edges, board edges rubbed. Jacket toned at extremities, long horizontal crease at top edge of rear panel. [Book #101950]. (read more)
Price: $35.00
100.
Baldassari, Anne; Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso (subject).
Bacon Picasso: The Life of Images (First Editions).
Paris: Flammarion, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. A lovely book that explores Picasso's influence on Bacon's work; includes 180 plates, and a selected bibliography. 239 pages. [Book #101440]. (read more)
Price: $40.00


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