Ink on Paper 2: A Handbook of the Graphic Arts
New York: Harper & Row, 1972. Hard Cover.
Top edge faintly foxed.
374 pp. With black-and-white illustrations. 21 chapters covering every part of a printing operation. Includes a glossary of terms.
Art History
The Baburnama (The Folio Society)
London: The Folio Society, 2013. Reissue. Hard Cover.
First thus (Ford-Smith Folio 76 #1858). Includes publisher's slipcase. A few very minor scuffs to slipcase.
lviii, 540 pp. Translated, edited and annotated by Wheeler M. Thackston, preface to illustrations by J.P. Losty, introduction by Salman Rushdie. Color reproductions of historical illustrations.....
From the Mouth of the Dark Cave: Commemorative Sculpture of the Late Classic Maya
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. Large Hardcover.
A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
xv, 287 pp. "Argues that scenes found on late classic sculpture represent cave rituals performed by the Mayan elite and discusses the Mayan world view and the role caves played in it."
Les vitraux du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance dans le region lyonnaise et specialement dans l'ancien Diocese de Lyon
Paris: Henri Laurens, Editeur, 1911. Begule, Lucien. Limited Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition, limited to 300 copies. Rebound with leather spine over marbled boards, with original paper wrappers bound in, gilt titles and double rules, marbled endpapers. Binder's copy, bottom edge of front board a bit faded. Laid in is.....
Rebels on Eighth Street
New York: Atheneum, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Inscribed, signed, and dated by author on half-title page ('For Susan, With best wishes, Avis Berman, October 8, 2009'). Minor smudges to fore edge, with minor blemishes to margins of a couple pages.
xvi, 572 pp. Discusses Juliana Force's role.....
Modern Primitives: Masters of Naive Painting
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Cloth boards faintly toned. Large tear across front and rear of jacket, chip to jacket front.
290 pp. Color and black-and-white reproductions of paintings throughout. "Oto Bihalji-Merin was an acclaimed Yugoslav and Serbian writer, art historian, painter.....
The Tile Book
New York: Thames & Hudson / V&A Publishing / Victoria and Albert Museum, 2019. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A couple small abrasions on back cover. Binding tight and square, pages bright, clean, and unmarked.
303 pp. Introduction by Terry Bloxham. A dazzling visual history of ceramic tiles from.....
The Art of Faberge
Edison, New Jersey: The Wellfleet Press, 1996. Large Hardcover.
A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
191 pp. The ultimate tribute to the art and achievements of one of the world's great craftsmen. Superb illustrations reveal the range of Faberge's technical brilliance as well as provide samples of.....
The Madman's Gallery: The Strangest Paintings, Sculptures and Other Curiosities from the History of Art
London: Simon & Schuster, 2022. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Minimal wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
255, [1] pp. Enter The Madman's Gallery and discover an extraordinary exhibition of the greatest curiosities from the global history of art. Edward Brooke-Hitching, author of.....
Maya: Treasures of an Ancient Civilization
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985. Rome, Stuart. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Top corner faintly bruised.
240 pp. Includes 245 illustrations, 81 plates in full color. "Essays on Mayan culture, iconography, sculpture, ceramics, and architecture are accompanied by photographs."
Le Voyage d'Italie de Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1758) (Collection de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome 145)
Roma: Ecole Française de Roma, 1991. Large Hardcover.
Owner bookplate on front endpaper.
viii, 510 pp. 57 black-and-white plates. French text. A 1991 facsimile of the 18th century Italian travelogue, originally published in 1758. Edited by Christian Michel. Cochin was a French engraver, designer, writer, and art critic who worked.....
Picasso Posters
London: PRC Publishing Ltd., 2001. Reprint. Large Hardcover.
2004 reprint. Minor wear to corners, otherwise an excellent copy.
112 pp. Color reproductions of posters throughout. In a working life that spanned nearly eighty years, Picasso painted some of the archetypal images of modern art, including Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Guernica.....
Arts and Craft of South America
San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books, 1994. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. Top corner of rear cover creased.
160 pp. In this informative and spectacularly photographed volume, Mo Fini and Lucy Davies have drawn upon their extensive research into the traditional handicrafts of South America and the artisans who create.....
The World Around the Chinese Artist: Aspects of Realism in Chinese Painting
Ann Arbor, Michigan: LSA Checkpoint, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan, 1987. Large Softcover.
Signed by author on front flyleaf with inscription, "For Eleanor who endures as the Chinese would endure! With the authors love - Henderson July 22, 1988." Corners creased, page ridges foxed.
158.....
How to Read Erotic Art
New York: Abrams, 2011. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition - a paperback original. Text block bound in upside down relative to covers, otherwise a nice copy. Faint wrinkle to laminate on one edge, minor wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
390, [1] pp.....
Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers (Enlarged Edition)
Greens Farms, Conn. Modern Books and Crafts, Inc., 1974. Enlarged Edition. Hard Cover.
Enlarged edition. Some loss from jacket corners, jacket rubbed, edges foxed, ink name on front endpaper.
vi, 455 pp. Includes over 2,500 new listings of seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century American artists. "Mantle Fielding's "Dictionary of American.....
Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris
London / New York: Thames & Hudson / Pallant House Gallery, 2023. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Ink underlining and marginalia on just a few pages, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square.
272 pp. Color and black-and-white reproductions of paintings and drawings throughout. The first critical, illustrated.....
Studies in Connoisseurship: Chinese Paintings from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections in New York, Princeton and Washington, D.C.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987. Third American Edition. Large Hardcover.
1987 third edition.
xvi, 378 pp. A scholarly work of art history focusing on exhibitions of Chinese art that feature 41 works by 24 artists from the 14th to 20th centuries. Color frontispiece, black-and-white reproductions throughout text, with.....
The Museum as Experience: An Email Odyssey through Artists' and Collectors' Museums
. Brepols, 2020. Large Hardcover.
Still in original plastic wrap - an exceptional copy.
300 pp. The first general study of museums created by artists and/or collectors, The Museum as Experience provides fifteen case studies ranging from the turn of 1800 to the present and distributed across the globe. New.....
Genesee Conference Minutes, Official Journal, Two Volume Set: Genesee Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Official Minutes of the One Hundred Twenty-Seventh Session, Volume I [1], Quadrennium 1936-1940, with Proceedings of Lay Conference, First Methodist Episcopal Church, Olean, New York, September 30 - October 5 1936; Genesee Annual Conference of the Methodist Church, Official Minutes of the Fourth Session, Volume III [3], Quadrennium 1940-1944, Asbury Delaware Church, Buffalo, New York, June 11 - 14 1942
Olean/Buffalo, New York: Genesee Annual Conference of the Methodist (Episcopal) Church, 1936. Trade Paperback.
1/2 inch tear to spine base of first volume, minor wear to corners. Bindings tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
221; 368-542 pp. Black-and-white photographic portraits. Internal records of two western New York Methodist.....
The Politics of Museums (New Directions in Cultural Policy Research)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. First Edition. Hard Cover.
Top corner of front free endpaper torn out, ink underlining and marginalia on about fifteen pages, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square.
xi, 186 pp. This is the first book to examine how and why museums are political institutions.....
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Life of Michael Angelo, in Two Volumes [Michelangelo]
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1903. Michelangelo. Revised Edition. Hard Cover.
New edition with additions. Bookplate of Ethel A. Curlett on endpapers, pencil gift note to her on front flyleaf of volume 1, with her name in ink on flyleaf of volume 2. Jacket spines faded, minimal cosmetic wear. An.....
Swiss Medieval Tapestries
New York: The Studio Publications, Inc., 1947. First American Edition. Large Hardcover.
First American edition. Chips and tears to jacket spine and edges. Two fold-outs loose but included, some pages lightly foxed.
14, 10 pp. 10 color and black-and-white plates. The tapestries were produced in the region comprising Switzerland and.....
Typographic Milestones
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992. Large Softcover.
First printing. Minimal wear to corners.
v, [1], 146 pp. Profiles of 18 typographers who made significant contributions to the field, including oldies such as Gutenberg, Caxton, Caslon, Baskerville, Bodoni, and several moderns whose work - Times New Roman, Perpetua, Electra, etc......
Wave, Cloud, Pine: Traditional Patterns in Japanese Design
Tokyo: Pie Books, 2006. Trade Paperback.
Paper in jacket with belly band jacket. Spine creased, binding a bit shaken but holding.
397, [2] pp. Japanese text. This beautifully illustrated volume presents Japanese paintings, textiles, and traditional crafts which feature three highly significant motifs of Japanese culture: waves, clouds, and pines.....