New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Faint edge wear.
358 pp. A history of writing with a focus on the various styles of calligraphy across different cultures.
New York: Atheneum, 1969. Large Hardcover.
Tears to jacket edges, jacket edges rubbed, front jacket flap price-clipped. Boards soiled, ink gift note on front free endpaper, some pages lightly foxed.
xxi, 188 pp. In the many photographs magnificently reproduced in this collection, Andrews has captured the incredible range of the.....
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Bottom corner stained, covers lightly toned.
xii, 249 pp. The tension between two systems for understanding and picturing space, the concentric and the Cartesian, is regarded by the author as the key to composition in painting, sculpture and.....
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.
London: The Folio Society, 2013. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's slipcase. A few very minor scuffs to slipcase.
lviii, 540 pp. Color reproductions of historical illustrations, several regional maps precede text. This book presents the Persian Baburnama, a key primary source and the earliest record of Babur's memoirs. The translation.....
Manchester / Dover: Manchester University Press, 1984. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. Pencil name on half-title page.
xii, 225 pp. William Morris, (born March 24, 1834, Walthamstow, near London, England—died October 3, 1896, Hammersmith, near London), English designer, craftsman, poet, and early socialist, whose designs for furniture, fabrics, stained.....
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. Large Hardcover.
No jacket. Light stains on boards.
158 pp. Color photographs, two fold-out maps follow text. The vast Asian landmass, so often viewed as a monolith from outside, is, in fact, a complex region of cultural diversity and distinctive national traditions.....
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."
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey / New York: Prentice-Hall / Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1967. Large Hardcover.
Tear to jacket spine head, jacket corners bumped. Ink name on front free endpaper.
441 pp. "By a series of cross-sections of Classical civilization at different times, he clarifies the many currents and connections.....
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. Front hinge loose but easily repairable, bottom edge of front board a bit.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket lightly foxed. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper.
414 pp. A selection of unpublished writings, letters, diaries and journals from the most celebrated humanist and art historian of the early to mid-century 20th century; 1887-1958, Bernard Berenson. Selected.....
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. "Oto Bihalji-Merin was an acclaimed Yugoslav and Serbian writer, art historian, painter and art critic. In the aftermath of.....
Switzerland / New York: Skira / The World Publishing Company, 1970. Large Hardcover.
No publisher date (circa 1970s). Lacks slipcase. No jacket. Tear along spine head, corners rubbed.
238 pp. Tipped-in plates. Documentary notices; synoptic sequence of witness accounts by the painters, their friends, and the writers and critics of.....
New York: Edward Burlingame / Harper Collins, 1991. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Edges lightly foxed.
xvii, 439 pp. First published in France, Serge Bramly's acclaimed biography reveals Leonardo to be as complicated, seductive, and profoundly sympathetic as the figures he painted. Bramly spent five years gathering.....
New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2006. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Minor edge wear.
343 pp. After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western.....
Williamstown, Massachusetts: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2005. Large Softcover.
A very nice copy.
123 pp. Surrounded by 140 acres of expansive lawns, meadows, and walking trails in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute is home to exceptional collections of European and American.....
New York: Vantage Press, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket flap price-clipped.
xi, 77 pp. Dr. Casler bases his conclusions on the discovery of a single attribute shared by acknowledged works of art in all genres: "reconciliation of independently interesting opposing tendencies." Thus, an artist (again, encompassing all.....
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."
New York: Harper & Row, 1969. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Large Hardcover.
Book club edition. Light stain to bottom edge of front jacket panel, edges lightly foxed.
xviii, 359 pp. Numerous photographs & illustrations. "The impulses, ideas, discoveries and beliefs which have formed and nurtured Western civilisation since the collapse of.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1969. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Large Hardcover.
Book club edition. 1 inch closed tear on rear jacket corner, spine slightly cocked, top edge lightly foxed.
xviii, 359 pp. Numerous photographs & illustrations. "The impulses, ideas, discoveries and beliefs which have formed and nurtured Western civilisation since.....
Roma: Ecole Française de Roma, 1991. Reissue. 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.....
London / New York: Phaidon Press, Ltd. / Oxford University Press, 1948. Large Hardcover.
Jacket edges rubbed with some small tears, one inch by one inch chip to rear jacket panel, stain on jacket spine.
With 224 plates and details. Illustrated introduction. A history of Chinese painting ranging over 2000.....
New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1973. Large Hardcover.
Near fine volumes in a near fine publisher slipcase. General light wear.
Two volume set in publisher slipcase. Beautifully-designed volumes "The Artists' America" and "The Writers America" each depict the practice of that art in American from pre-colonial times until.....
New York: Thames & Hudson, 1998. First Edition. Large Softcover.
First edition. Wrapper edges worn.
96 pp. Describes how the monks of early Christian and medieval Ireland developed a distinctive artistic style for their manuscripts, and provides examples.
Kutztown, Pennsylvania: State Teachers College, 1947. Large Softcover.
Wrappers loose but included, ink name on front wrapper, tears along wrapper edges. Color Lancaster County postcard laid in.
Complete, includes all 30 plates in original decorative folder.