Results for: Fine Arts
A Tribute to the Hubble Space Telescope: An Artist's View.
A collection of 14 color prints (14"x11") taken from original oil, watercolor and acrylic paintings, in a blue paper case (folio sized) with white text. Some rubbing along the edges of the case with a small tear along the upper edge of the front cover. The prints have white borders, so the actual images are about 12"x7". The images are: 1. Deployment-Bryn Bernard, 2. Space Telescope in Orbit-Paul Hudson, 3. HST Deployment-Neil Boyle, 4. Discovery at Sunset-Michael Carroll, 5. Imaging to the End of Space and Time-James Cunningham, 6. Cape Cactus Awaiting Discovery and Hubble-Brad Bennett, 7. Galileo Through Hubble and Beyond-Linda Draper, 8. Safe Home: The Wind Beneath the Wings-Linda Draper, 9. Ionized Streamers from Galaxy NGC-Lonny Schiff, 10. Space Telescope Assembly-John Solie, 11. Go for the Stars-P.A. Nisbet, 12. Dry Lake Landing-P.A. Nisbet, 13. Brilliant Little Blue Planet-Andreas Nottebohm, 14. To Extend Our Vision-Tom Newson.
Price: $45.00
Anton Chekhov: Documents, Photographs.
Moscow: 1984.
Possible first edition. Text of this work is in mainly in Cyrillic with some English although the essay appears to be only in Cyrillic. Very good quarto hardcover in brown cloth binding without dust jacket but in fair slipcase. Light wear to edges of boards with light water damage to back cover near heel of spine and lower corner. Slipcase has wear and rubbing with tears on opening edges and some water damage marks as well. Gift inscription on front free endpaper of book. 196 pages with illustrations. Special shipping rates for this work.
Price: $75.00
Art Directors' Index to Illustration, Graphics, & Design, #6.
Geneva: RotoVision, 1985.
Very good folio-sized (oversized) hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with some scuffing to covers. 504 pages with illustrations.
Price: $25.00
Camille Claudel & Rodin: Time Will Heal Everything.
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain.
Paris: musee Rodin, 2003.
Very good softcover. Light wear to edges of covers with minor scuffing. 80 pages with illustrations, endnotes, list of works displayed, list of works by author. A look at the impact of Camille Claudel on the art of Rodin.
Price: $60.00
The Mother Goddess in Italian Renaissance Art.
Balas, Edith.
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002..
First edition. Quarto-sized (oversized) hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to the edges of the boards . The dj has light wear to edges and corners, with light scuffing to covers. 214 pages with illustrations, footnotes, select bibliography, 2 appendices, and index. A look at the influence of ancient mystery religions, especially those of Cybele, on Renaissance art.
Price: $35.00
William Blake: Designs for Blair's Grave. Tuesday, May 2, 2006.
Bialler, Nancy, and George Wachter.
New York, NY: Sotheby's Inc., 2006.
Very good folio-sized hardcover in red glossy binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor scuffing to covers. 83 pages with illustrations. Special shipping costs for this work due to its size.
Price: $40.00
Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran, 16th-19th Centuries.
Bier, Carol, editor.
Washington DC: The Textile Museum, 1987.
Good quarto-sized (oversized) hardcover in good dust jacket. Wear and light rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Some twist to boards. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with many small tears and some minor chipping with scuffing to covers including small brown mark on back cover. 336 pages with chronology, maps, illustrations, notes, glossary, and bibliography.
Price: $100.00
Paris 1889 : American Artists at the Universal Exposition.
Blaugrund, Annette.
Philadelphia/New York: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts/Harry N. Abrams, 1989.
Very good quarto-sized softcover. Light wear to edges of covers with slight scuffing to covers. Bumping to head of spine. Clean, unmarked text. 304 pages with illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index.
Price: $25.00
Jeanloup Sieff.
Bonini, Giuseppe and Jeanloup Sieff.
Tokyo: Parco, 1987.
Very good softcover in clear plastic myl;ar dj with original narrow paper banner still around the cover. Some wear to edges and covers of book and paper band. Plastic cover slightly scuffed. Text primarily in Japanese, with short peices by Bonini and Sieff toward the end. A collection of black & white erotic photographs of women, from clothed to lingerie to nude. Masterful photography.
Price: $70.00
Fashion Illustration by Fashion Designers.
Borrelli, Laird.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2008.
Very good quarto-sized (oversized) hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to lower edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers with 2 light green marks on back cover. 192 pages with illustrations and list of contacts. A look at the art of fashion designers from Aitor Throup to Zang Toi.
Price: $20.00
Paul Serusier.
Boyle-Turner, Caroline.
Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983.
Revised thesis, 1980. Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards. Some light scuffing and smudges to covers. 297 pages with illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, and index. A look at the art of the post-Impressionist artist, Paul Serusier (1864-1927), a member of the Les Nabis group, associated with Paul Gauguin.
Price: $35.00
The Photographic Lens.
Brandt, Hans-Martin.
London & New York: The Focal Press, 1968.
Small quarto (a bit oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Name of former owner on flyleaf. Slight wear to foredge of pages, with light creases to some. 260 p. w/ illustrations, tables, index.
Price: $65.00
Lexicon der Christlichen Ikonographie. Funfter Band: Ikonographie der Heiligen Aaron bis Crescentianus von Rom. Volume V only.
Braunfels, Wolfgang, editor.
Rome, Freiburg, Basel, & Vienna: Herder, 1973..
First edition. Very good quarto hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing along the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. The dj has wear and rubbing along the edges with a few minor tears and some scuffing and slight scratching to the covers. 519 pages with illustrations. The text of this work on saints in art and icons is in German.
Price: $40.00
The Art of Margaret Willson.
Broderick, James A.; John Palmer Leeper; Mary Randolph Dinkins; Paolo Rizzi.
Venezia: Edizioni Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ravagnan, 1993.
Very good folio-sized (oversized) hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear to edges with some scuffing to covers. 142 pages with notes. A look at the art of Margaret Wilson.
Price: $25.00
Views of Rome.
Brooke, Steven. Essays by Bonna Daix Wescoat, John Varriano, and Malcolm Campbell.
New York, NY: Rizzoli International, 1995.
Very good quarto-sized (oversized) hardcover in very good dust jackjet. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has wear and rubbing to edges of covers with a few minor nicks and some light scuffing, light browning along edges, and faint scratches. 224 pages with illustrations and index.
Price: $20.00
Blickfanger : Franzosische Plakate um 1900 aus der Sammlung der Kunsthalle Bremen.
Buschhoff, Anne.
Bremen: 2000.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of covers with some scuffing and minor stainmark on lower edges of pages. Text is in German. 184 pages with illustrations and list of literature.
Price: $30.00
40 Miles of Bad Road...
Carol, David J., photography. Eassy by Anne Wilkes Tucker.
Chicago: Stephen Daiter Gallery Books, 2004.
Good rectangular hardcover in black cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with scuffing to covers. Unpaginated. Laid in are 3 notes from exhibition including a vita of David Carol, an ad for this book, and a letter from Stephen Daiter.
Price: $30.00
The Grosvenor Gallery : A Palace of Art in Victorian England.
Casteras, Susan P., and Colleen Denney, editors.
New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press, 1996.
Quarto-sized. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear along edges with some light scuffing to covers. Printer's stamps on front and free endpapers. Creasing on upper tips of few of the last pages. 210 pages with illustrations, color plates, notes, lists for exhibition, and index.
Price: $25.00
Nos Grotesques par Cham.
Cham. Arnauld de Vresse, Editeur.
Paris: Arnauld de Vresse, no date found (mid nineteenth )..
Fair work rebound in good octavo sized covers of stiff brown boards. Boards have some wear and rubbing to the edges with bumping to corners of the covers and some scuffing to the covers. Light bowing of boards. The work itself has wear and rubbing along the edges of some of the pages with browning, foxing and light soiling. Title page is soiled and wrinkled. Back page has have soiling and staining. One page appears to have been torn out and is not present. Another page has been professionally repaired. Pages are a bit stiff. Light penciling on the title page. Very scarce collection of political cartoons from France of the mid - late 19th century. Covers military, political and social caraicatures.
Price: $175.00
Hieronymus Bosch.
Charles de Tolnay.
New York, NY: Reynel and Company, 1966.
Folio-sized (oversized). Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has some wear along edges and light scuffing to covers. 424+ pages with illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, appendix of plates. A look at the life and art of the Dutch fifteenth century artist, Hieronymus Bosch.
Price: $50.00
Albert Eckhout : Pintor de Mauricio de Nassau no Brasil, 1637 / 1644.
Clarival do Prado Valladares and Luiz Emygadio de Mello Filho.
Rio de Janeiro: Livroarte Editora, 1981.
Folio-sized (oversized). Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges with a few minor nicks and some light scuffing to covers. 141 pages with illustrations, notes, and bibliography. A look at the art of Dutch artist Eckhout in Dutch Brazil. Text is in English and Portuguese..
Price: $50.00
Les Peintres de la Femme.
Claude Vento (Violette).
Paris, 1888..
First edition. Good quarto sized in wrappers. Some creasing and wear to edges of the covers. Creasing to the corners of the covers and browned. Signs of light waterstaining on the back cover's upper corner and upper corners of last pages. Foxing to edges of the pages with some spotting on the pages. Few pages are not separated at the tops. 419 pages with illustrations. Contains information on the art of J. J. Henner, Leon Bonnat, Charles Chaplin, Alexandre Cabanel, Prosper d'Epinay, Carolus-Duran, Jules Lefebvre, Gaston Saintpierre, Jules Machard, Jospeh Wencker. The text of this work is in French.
Price: $140.00
American Picturesque.
Conron, John.
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.
Quarto-sized (oversized). Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has some wear along edges and some scuffing to covers with a numbered tag taped to spine (not ex-library book however). Number written in red ink on front free endpaper's upper corner. 363 pages with illustrations, endnotes, selective bibliography, and index.
Price: $50.00
Between Dark and Dark.
Cooper, Thomas Joshua.
Edinburgh: Graeme Murray, 1985.
Oblong octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with slight bowing and minor roll to spine. Faint scuffing to covers. Unpaginated with illustrations/photographs. A collection of photographs by the noted American photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper (b. 1946).
Price: $95.00
In the American Grain : The Billboard Poetics of Charles Demuth.
Corn, Wanda M.
Poughkeepsie: Vassar College, 1991.
Very good softcover. Light wear to edges of covers with bump to head of spine and some slight scuffing to covers. Minor brackets in pencil and red ink in margins of text. 55 pages with endnotes and illustrations. A study of the art of Charles Demuth (d. 1935) perhaps bestknown for his watercolors.
Price: $45.00
Techniques of Kiln-Formed Glass.
Cummings, Keith.
London & Philadelphia: A. C. Black & the University of Pennsylvania, 1997.
Quarto (oversized). Some wear to edges and corners of dj, less so to boards. Some pages have a slight bit of soiling. 176 p. w/ many color and b&w illustrations, bibliography, index, and list of suppliers. There was a reviesed ed. of this work in 2002, but I do not know the extent of the revision.
Price: $30.00
L'Image de la Femme.
Dayot, Armand.
Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1899..
First edition. Good folio sized hardcover without dust jacket. Wear and rubbing to the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine and on the lower corners of the panels. Pages are lightly browned. Name of previous owner on front free endpaper. Half-title page to frontispiece are loose at bottom of binding. Pages 156-184 have very tip of corner removed/nibbled off. 397 pages with illustrations and notes on the portrayal of women in art from Antiquity to the nineteenth century. The text of this work is in French.
Price: $70.00
The Sensuous and the Sacred : Chola Bronzes From South India.
Dehejia, Vidya with essays by Richard H. Davis, R. Nagaswamy, and Karen Pechilis Prentiss.
Seattle: American Federation of Arts & University of Washington Press, 2002.
Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj. Corners slightly bumped. 255 p. w/ilustrations, glossary, appendices, select bibliography, index. A study of temple Bronzes from the Chola dynasty of South India, from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries. Examples include Hindu, Buddhist and Jain figures.
Price: $75.00
Dali in the Nude (Dali al Desnudo).
del Arco, Manuel. Antonio Cruz and Jon Berle translators.
St. Petersburg, FL: The Salvador Dali Museum, 1984.
Octavo (standard size) Limited edition 10/500. Some wear to edgs of dj, with one inch long closed tear at back cover. Sticker spotting on first flap of dj. sticker remnant on pastedown. Boards have light wear. 1 p. extends a couple mm out from rest of textblock. 178 p. w/n&w illustrations. A collection of interview transcripts with Dali.
Price: $35.00
Renegade Regionalists: The Modern Independence of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry.
Dennis, James M.
Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
Light wear and rubbing to edges of covers, light scuffing to covers. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked text. 279 pages with illustrations, endnotes, and index. A study of the modernist tendencies in the art work of "Regionalist" artists Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry.
Price: $18.00
