Praha: Orbis Books, 1952. First Edition. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Czech text. 47, (112), ixpp. 112 plates (20 color). with essay on painter, followed by catalogue of plates. Bound in light green cloth boards, with title and cover device in gold. Interior clean; outer boards with..... More
New York: Phaidon Publishers, Inc., 1974. First Edition. some color plates, most in b/w 234 pgs. More
Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. First Edition. Quarto. 361p. index, bibliography, notes. "The ranching boom of the 1880s made the Texas Panhandle town of Tascosa known as 'the cowboy capital of the world." Here is a beautiful publishers edition with brown leather over cloth in the original binding..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press. Hardcover. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 480p. Index. Bibliographic references. A pristine copy in the original dust jacket painting of On the Cote d'Opale, Picardy. Though he died before reaching the age of 30, his works earned him honors at the Paris Academy..... More
Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico, 1965. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (Beginning wear to jacket and cover extremities.) Images of immense harmony, resonant with the art of Ancient Mexico, have been coaxed from the canvases of Martinez's paintings. Color and B/w reproductions. 35 pp. of text plus..... More
Billings, MT: Hoofprints, 1974. Pamphlet. Limited. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 24 pp. Autumn-Winter 1974 issue, two full-color reproductions, essay by artist's daughter. More
Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2005. First Printing. Square Folio. 258pp. 275 artworks in mostly color plates. Introduction. Biographies of artists. Bibliography. Index. Bound in black cloth boards, with illustrated dust jacket. More
Salt Lake City, UT; (1999): gibbs-Smith. First Edition. Quarto. First printing. The authors have collected and detailed the lives of the many and varied artists, photographers, sculptors, architects and craftspeople who have inhabited Utah at one time or another dating back to the 19th century. All names and biographies are..... More
Milano: Scalacromo, 1970. Cloth. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. unpaged--4 page English introduction, 30 leaves with 20 in color, work has list of his paintings in last two leaves--black lettering of his name both printed and facsimile autograph in red rich cloth--a scarce item which shows that only..... More
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1962. Wraps. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Color photos and accompanying text. Several gentle vertical creases. More
New York 1911: Duffield and Co., First Edition. Small Quarto. Illustrated with eight color plates by Maxfield Parrish each with tissue guard, bound in dark blue pictorial cloth with color illustrated paste-down with gilt frame and letter, spine gilt, pictorial endpapers, charming bookplate of previous owner, rear inner hinge just..... More
Eureka, CA: Interface, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. 132 pp. Signed by author. Sixteen full-page photos, illus. throughout. More
(Lausanne, Switzerland; 1968): Edita Lausanne. Small Quarto. [. [92] pages, French text. a rich collection of Park's poetry and photography. In his translation of Park's poetry, Jean Vogel has captured "C'est Amour", "To Alain", and "Tarde Azul (bleu crepuscule) along with the flowing photographs that accompany the poems. The preface..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964. First Edition. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 106pp. "Pascin was closely associated with the artists, musicians, and effervescent literati of the 1920's" More
New York: Duenewald Printing Corporation, 1941. Folio. 72p A relatively scarce item that was noted in the 1942 Educational News as "an outstanding anthology of artistic expression." These were pupils in the New York's junior high schools. The examples include more than watercolor but oil, charcoal, pen-and-ink drawing, pottery, sculpture..... More
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (London) by the Yale University Press, 1971. Quarto. Index. Besides many reproductions of his engravings and painting, the works of his contemporaries are also included. The definitive study of Hogarth by the scholar whose earlier work Hogarth's Graphic Works..... More
Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Antique Collectors Club Ltd, 1986. Hardcover. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 424p. One of the most important references on animal bronzes with 56 color illustrations and over 900 black and white photographs of major bronzes. More
Edmonton: Alberta Foundation for the Arts, 2008. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall/oblong. 399p. Profusely illustrated with his works in color. Roald Nasgaard in his work Abstract Patingin in Canada notes: "the endless variegations are so finely tuned and so unabashedly designed to give dizzingly and dazzingly complex..... More
Praze: S. V. U. Manes, 1940. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 4to., 77, (325)pp. Scholarly treaties on the art of Josef Navratil, with 325 panels (many are hand-mounted color plates). Bound in tan cloth boards. with green an black titles. More
(Barcelona, 1996): Ediciones Poligrafa. Quarto. 256p. index. Spanish language. One of the best surveys of his life and work. With 97 of his richest works in color all with notes in back that are guides to background, setting, etc. Bound in black cloth, spine lettering, corners lightly bumped, previous owner’s..... More
London: Sothebys, 1998. Original Paper Wrps. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 264p. index. bibliography. list of exhibitions.. The first major publication on the life and work of the Spanish painter Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida to appear in English. Besides the chronology of Sorolla's life, there are 66 paintings..... More
[New York, 1999): Apparition. Quarto. [60] leaves of plates, chiefly color illustrations. Under his own imprint, titled Apparition, Penn published this book gathering sixty years of private drawings and paintings, many of which were made using methods influenced by photography. Penn valued "drawing [as] a haven from the real world..... More
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1925. James McNeill Whistler. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). 454pp. Text. B&W plates. Index. Boound in yellow cloth spine and brown paper over boards; light brown dust jacket, with black title on spine and front cover (minimal chipping on spine and corners). Scarce in..... More
London at the Chiswick Press: G. Bell, 1895. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 125 copies. The present copy is #13. Uncut, xxv, 146 pages, index, profusely illustrated, errata slip bound in. Not only examples of major illustrators such as Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, Howard Pyle, as well as Whistler, Beardsley..... More
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1967. Maynard Dixon. First Edition. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 4to., (un-paginated, approx. 120pp.) Frontispiece by Ansel Adams. A beautiful collection of sketches, annotated and placed in chronological order. In brown cloth boards, with printed dust jacket (with plastic wrap)... More