Illustrated Notebooks, 1917-1955
Dover Publications, February 1971. Paper Back. Quarto. {8 & 3/8' x 11 & 1/4'} Shelf worn. [117 pages + iv]. More
Art & Architecture
The Paintings of Rembrandt
The Phaidon Press / George Allen & Unwin Ltd. Hardcover. {7 & 3/4' x 10 & 3/4'} In heavily edgeworn jacket. Two large tears back jacket panel. Brownish-grey cloth covered boards wit brown lettering on spine and front paneling. Boards darkened at edges. Foxing textblock top edge and fore-edge. 630..... More
New York Deco
Rizzoli International Publications, October 1993. Soft Cover. More
New Spanish Table
Workman Publishing, November 2005. Oversize Softcover. 'Wine Spectator' declares: 'Spain is setting the pace in Europe today when it comes to wine and food.' 'The New Spanish Table' delivers the food of Spain in all its glory: a big, bold, 275-recipe collection--packed with gorgeous color photographs--that gets right to the..... More
Bresson on Bresson: Interviews, 1943-1983
New York Review Books, September 2023. Paper Back. Now in paperback, a collection of interviews with a French cinematic titan--covering subjects such as adaptation, the effects of capitalism on art, and the importance of intuition--selected from a period of four decades. Robert Bresson, the director of such cinematic masterpieces as..... More
The Book of A Hundred Hands
Bridgman Publishers, Inc., 1946. Hardcover. Fourth printing, 1946; Solid binding, very mildly warped at upper spine, tight hinges; Clean, sturdy green cloth boards w/ black lettering at front and spine, mildly edge-worn at top edge; Foxing present at paste-downs, end-pages and title page; All other pages appear clean and free..... More
Shepperton Studios: A Visual Celebration
Southbank Publishing, September 2005. First Edition. Cloth. Shepperton has been the home of maverick and independent film production for nearly 75 years. Owned by a succession of famous brothersthe Kordas, the Boultings, the Lees, and the Scottssome of the most successful films ever produced have been made here. "Billy Liar..... More
Lulu in Hollywood
Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Hardcover. Some edgewear. Book edges foxed; discoloration from removed sticker on front free endpaper. More
All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business
Ballantine Books, November 2022. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, and the stage. Now he shares his story for the first time in "a wonderful addition to a seminal career" (San Francisco Chronicle)..... More
All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business
Ballantine Books, November 2021. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, and the stage. Now he shares his story for the first time in "a wonderful addition to a seminal career" (San Francisco Chronicle), "infused..... More
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon
Harper Paperbacks, September 2023. Paper Back. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women, the first ever authorized biography of the most famous movie star of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Taylor. No celebrity rivals Elizabeth Taylor's glamour and guts or her level of fame..... More
After Mountains and Sea: Frankenthaler 1956-1959
Harry N. Abrams / Guggenheim Museum Publications, December 1998. First Edition. Cloth. In 1952, at the age of twenty-three, Helen Frankenthaler created her legendary painting Mountains and Sea. Comprised of translucent washes of thinned-down pigment embedded in unprimed canvas, this large-scale painting was the first in which she used her..... More
Story of the Armory Show
Abbeville Press, February 1988. Reprint. Hardcover. 2nd edition. {6' x 9'} In dustjacket with lightened spine and margins. Brown cloth covered boards with white lettering along spine and on front panel. Tan end papers front and back. Spots/foxing across top textblock edge. Red marker dot bottom edge. [349 pages]. More
Art and Life in Renaissance Venice
Harry N Abrams, March 1998. Paper Back. Through close examination of Renaissance paintings, drawings, book illustrations, and other art works, the author brings 14th and 15th century Venice alive. More
Seasons of Light
Rice Univ Pr, January 1988. Oversized Hardcover. More
Cy Twombly Untitled, 1970 Christie's
Christie's, 2014. Paper Back. Square quarto. {9 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/2'}[80 pages]. More
Masterpiece: Iconic Houses by Great Contemporary Architects
Images Publishing Group, October 2012. Oversized Hardcover. - Offers a tantalizing glimpse inside some of the world's most stylish houses Every great architect has an original vision. The ability of master architects to see the big picture, to create inclusive, responsive designs that embrace building, site, and interiors with subtlety..... More
ALFRED STIEGLITZ: PHOTOGRAPHER.
Museum of Fine Arts, January 1965. Reprint. Oversize Softcover. {10 & 1/2' x 11'} Tan cardstock cover with tanned spine edge and darkening of margins. Third printing. Heavy foxing of textblock top edge. {[30 pages + 62 full-page b&w plates}. More
Mary Cassatt, Oils and Pastels
National Gallery of Art / Watson-Guptill Publications, 1976. First Thus. Paper Back. This volume - illustrated with thirty-two full color plates and published in cooperation with the National Gallery of Art - displays the power and mastery of an artist who is only now beginning to receive the full recognition..... More
Scoring in Heaven: Gravestones and Cemetery Art of the American Sunbelt States
Aperture Book, January 2000. First Edition. Cloth. {}11 & 1/4 x 11 & 1/2' } In very good jacket. Purple cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Signed & inscribed by Virginia Warren Smith on title page. More
Charles Burchfields Journals: The Poetry of Place
SUNY Press, November 1992. Oversized Hardcover. The personal journals of Charles Burchfield reveal the unique vision and approach to life that established him as America's preeminent watercolorist and painter of nature. When he died in 1967 at the age of seventy-three, Burchfield had filled seventy-two bound notebooks with his personal..... More
Life of Paul Gauguin
Oxford, 1937. Hardcover. Endpapers toned; else a good ,solid copy. Jacket creased, frayed, sunned and chipped, but mostly extant. More
The Structure of Art -- Revised edition
George Braziller, June 1970. Reprint. Paper Back. {6 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/2'} 3rd printing. Revised edition. Heavy foxing & soiling to covers and interior pages, especially at margins. [195 pages]. More
Lightship: Jim Burns, Master of SF Illustration
Paper Tiger (UK), December 2000. Oversize Softcover. Science fiction imagery can open our minds to worlds. Jim Burns' intriguing illustration for The Ceremonies, which combines human figures with an evocative landscape, resonates powerfully with eerie lighting, unusual colors, beautifully characterized faces, and multiple narrative levels. Other fascinating works include the..... More
