New York Nocturnes: 85 After-Dark Photographs
Dover Publications, January 1982. Paper Back. Quarto. Mild toning/foxing cover verso and first & last page. 89 pages. More
Dover Publications, January 1982. Paper Back. Quarto. Mild toning/foxing cover verso and first & last page. 89 pages. More
powerHouse Books, November 2000. Oversized Hardcover. New York City, the 1960s: Inside a ramshackle studio known as The Factory, the post-war art world encountered the industrial revolution. For more than two years, Nat Finkelstein was on the scene, documenting the explosive emergence of Pop Art, a subversive spectacle created by..... More
West Coast Poetry Review, January 1975. Oversize Softcover. Square softcover; edges, corners and spine a bit worn and rubbed, but, still a very nice copy of a very scarce item. More
Charles F. Miller Publisher, December 1994. First Edition. Oversized Clothbound. Bound in pale blue cloth, lettered in silver along the spine. Mylar wrapped. More
Underwood Books, February 2018. Hardcover. {8 & 1/2 x 11 & 1/2'} In clean, bright, as new jacket. Red paper covered spine with stamped silver lettering. Grey paper covered boards with silver lettering upon front panel. [149 pages]. More
Benbella Books, November 2017. Trade Paperback. Jenna Fischer's Hollywood journey began at the age of 22 when she moved to Los Angeles from her hometown of St. Louis. With a theater degree in hand, she was determined, she was confident, she was ready to work hard. So, what could go..... More
Simon & Schuster, April 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. One of the New York Times Best True Crime of 2022 A "spellbinding, thriller-like" (Shelf Awareness) history about the invention of the motion picture and the mysterious, forgotten man behind it--detailing his life, work, disappearance, and legacy. The year is 1888, and..... More
Taschen, May 2016. Cloth. Only 20 paintings and eight drawings are confidently assigned to Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) but in their fantastical visions they have secured his place as one of the most cult artists in history. 500 years on from his death, his works continue to inspire..... More
Hill Street Press, June 2005. Hardcover. Jacket torn at top of spine. More
Oakville Galleries, January 1997. Soft Cover. More
FRAC des Pays de la Loire, January 2004. Trade Paperback. Quarto. More
MACBA, 1997. Soft Cover. Quarto in French Folds. More
Central European University Press, February 1995. Trade Paperback. Forgacs examines the development of the Bauhaus school of architecture and applied design by focusing on the idea of the Bauhaus, rather than on its artefacts. What gave this idea its extraordinary powers of survival? Founded in 1919, with the architect Walter..... More
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988. Cloth. Square octavo in dustjacket. Burgundy cloth with gold lettering along spine. Previous owner's name in ink ffep. [128 pages]. More
Chronicle Books (CA), November 1995. Soft Cover. More
Paris audiovisuel, January 1986. Soft Cover. Some shelf wear. French-folds. In French. More
Zephyr Press, June 1983. Hardcover. More
Mazzotta, January 1988. Hardcover. Quarto with pictorial boards and no jacket as issued. Mild bow to textblock; foxing end pages. More
Art Fund Gallery, January 1981. Stapled Soft Cover. Oblong 12mo. More
Praeger, January 1968. Trade Paperback. More
Harper & Row, June 1985. Reprint. Paper Back. A selection of texts by T.J. Clark, Michael Fried, Clement Greenberg and others debating the strengths and weaknesses of Modernist history. The book includes a resource for students interested in postwar American and European culture. {6' x 9 & 1/2'} Sun bleached..... More
Confederation Centre of the Arts, March 1993. Spiral Binding. More
Peacock Press/Bantam Books, January 1980. First Thus. Paper Back. First US edition, August, 1980. Large quarto. {9' x 11'} With user wear, small scuff marks & rubbing. [95 pages]. More
Databank Press, 1990. Reprint. Paper Back. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Self published with cardstock cover and black strip binding. (No text on spine). Signed & limited. #164/250. Signed & number of copies handwritten in blue ink on '5 x 2' bookplate affixed to title page. This is a...... More
The MIT Press, September 2007. Hardcover. Concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation, from the basics of "How to Draw a Line" to the complexities of color theory. This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks..... More
Oxford University Press, December 2007. Trade Paperback. About the Series: Oxford's Very Short Introductions offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects--from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, and Literary Theory to History. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume provides trenchant and provocative--yet always balanced..... More
Ungar, January 1983. Trade Paperback. More
Gibbs Smith Publishers, August 2005. Oversized Hardcover. More than 125 gorgeous photographs showcase the beauty of award-winning stonemason Lew French's work in eight different homes, illustrating how rounded fieldstone, gray slate, rough granite, and even curvy driftwood can be incorporated into stunning pieces of functional art. French provides charming narration..... More
Warner Books, August 1989. Oversized Hardcover. Bookplate. Minor shelfwear to book. Jacket has a closed tear near bottom of spine. Wrapped for future protection. More
National Palace Museum, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. Folio; (Eight & 1/2-inch x Eleven-inch); In pictorial cardboard slipcase in fine condition; Reddish-Orange cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Orange end pages.Original clear acrylic dust cover; 50 color plates & many more black & white illustrations. Text in English, Chinese and Japanese..... More
Faber & Faber, January 3rd, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. First U.S. edition in very good dustjacket. Uniform green cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Top corners front & back bumped. Foxing/dust stained top textblock edge & fore-edge. 4 color plates scattered through book, including frontispiece. 17 black &..... More
Arcadia Publishing (SC), May 2000. Trade Paperback. The early decades of the twentieth century were among the most vibrant for both New York City and the world of postcards. The 1898 consolidation of the city's five boroughs sparked a building boom that inspired a heightened awareness of the city's changing..... More
Arcadia Publishing (SC), July 2000. Trade Paperback. Times Square, celebrated as the crossroads of the world, begins at 42nd Street, America''s main stem. Times Square has a rich history as the center of American popular culture, embracing music, theater, and hospitality. Forty-second Street, once the northern boundary of commercial New..... More
ABRAMS, March 2003. Oversized Clothbound. Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) was one of the masters of 18th-century art. This stunning book, published to accompany a major international exhibition covering the artist's entire career, reveals the sheer range, quality, and originality of Gainsborough's work, from his engagingly naturalistic landscapes and touching images of..... More
Tate, May 2014. Paper Back. Creative Confession brings together three short critical texts written by Paul Klee (1879-1940), one of the most distinctive artists of the early 20th century. Reflective and often lyrical, the essays exemplify Klee's artistic thinking and his relationship with the creative process. Titled "Graphic Art" (published..... More
Brooklyn Museum Bookshop, January 2000. Oversize Softcover. More
Hammer Galleries, January 2004. Paper Back. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Clean & sound. [40 pages]. More
Jordon-Volpe Gallery, Inc., January 1994. First Edition. Paper Back. {9' x 11'} Moderate shelf wear. Bumped at top of spine with one-half inch tear. [155 pages]. More
Van Nostrand Reinhold, January 1974. Oversized Hardcover. Jacket clipped and somewhat edgeworn. Book free of any blemishes. More
Bantam Books, October 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. One of the last great movie stars, Ava Gardner said, 'If you don't tell your side of the story, it's likely to be too late, and then the self-appointed biographers step in adding to the inaccuracies, the inventions, and the abysmal lies that..... More
Yale University Press, February 1997. Paper Back. The ballets of George Balanchine are among the great theatrical achievements of the twentieth century. In this extraordinary book, a sensitive and longtime observer describes his experience with and reactions to Balanchine's choreography. Handsomely produced and lavishly illustrated with scenes from the ballets..... More
Intellect Ltd, November 2008. Hardcover. Increased public and academic interest in drawing and sketching, both traditional and digital, has allowed drawing research to emerge recently as a discipline in its own right. In light of this development, Writing on Drawing presents a collection of essays that reveal a provocative agenda..... More
Arlington House, 1973. First Edition. Cloth. {6 & 1/4 x 9 & 1/2'} In very good jacket with crease down middle of front cover panel. Burgundy cloth covered boards with stamped silver lettering along spine. Previous owner's name emblem blind stamped on half title page. [347 pages]. More
Crown Publishers, September 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio in chipped, torn, & damp stained dustjacket. Front flap is clipped. Dark green cloth covered spine with gold lettering. Teal paper covered boards. Faded at margins. Complete number string. Foxing. [159 pages]. More
Midnight Marquee Press, May 2010. Oversize Softcover. This issue, Midnight Marquee #77, offers two feature articles. One a "Forum/Against 'Em" analysis of the James Whale Universal classic The Invisible Man, with many arguing it remains the best film that Whale directed and features the best use of humor in classic..... More
University of Miami School of Architecture, January 1991. Oversize Softcover. A bit of cover wear and fading. Previous owner's name. More
Dover Publications, June 1985. Paper Back. Paul Gauguin fled what he called filthy Europe in 1891 to what he hoped would be an unspoiled paradise, Tahiti. He painted 66 magnificent can vases during the first two years he spent there and kept notes from which he later wrote Noa Noa..... More
Columbia Univ Pr, March 1985. Reprint. Paper Back. The Intimate Journals of Paul Gaugui, depicts the experiences of the French artist while living on a Polynesian island and discusses the culture of the natives of the island. Underlining and marginal markings. [139 pages]. More
Phaidon, January 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards w/ immaculate gilt at spine, mildly edge-worn w/ upper corners gently bumped; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket Very Good, mildly edge-worn, slightly sun-faded at spine; Jacket now housed in protective mylar to ensure furhter preservation;..... More
Holborn House/Sunshine Books Company, circa 1940s. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with heavy edgewear and creasing. British tan coloured cloth with brown lettering and brown tooled illustrations. 'Nudists' posing before a river on end pages front and back. Mild wear. Well cared for. Scarce. [163 pages]. More
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts / University of California, 1980. Paper Back. Quarto. Moderate shelf wear. [48 pages]. More
Bloomsbury Publishing, February 2024. Hardcover. "Very smart and entertaining . . . dishy-yet-earnest . . . Gefter shows why Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? hit the '60s like a torpedo."-NPR, Fresh Air "Raucous, unpredictable, wild, and affecting."-Entertainment Weekly An award-winning writer reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the provocative play, the..... More
Hatje Cantz, March 1995. Soft Cover. Quarto. Previous owner's name inked half title page. More
AFAA (1994), January 1994. Soft Cover. Softcover with french folds. Light cover scratching, but overall, very good condition. More
Assouline, October 2001. Hardcover. Gandhara was a historic region in the northwest of ancient India, currently Pakistan and Afghanistan, best known for its Greco-Buddhist school of sculpture. In its interpretation of Buddhist legends, the Gandhara school incorporated many motifs and techniques from classical Roman art while remaining Indian at its..... More
Wildside Press, December 2009. Trade Paperback. A guide to the repair and refinishing of furniture at home. More
Abbeville Press, May 1996. Oversized Hardcover. William Glackens was one of the most influential American painters in the first decades of the twentieth century. From his beginnings as a witty magazine artist-illustrator in Philadelphia and New York to his participation in the forward-thinking group of artists dubbed The Eight, Glackens..... More
Faber & Faber, December 2023. Paper Back. Nominated for 8 Academy Awards(R) including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay She's everything. He's just Ken. The exclusive screenplay of the film phenomenon by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach. *Featuring an exclusive introduction by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach and 8 pages..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 1995. Trade Paperback. Here is an absorbing biography of the English artist Dora Carrington, who called herself simply "Carrington". She was a woman who made a vivid impression on those she met--she was portrayed (or caricatured), for example, in novels by Wyndham Lewis, D...... More
Yale University Press, December 2007. Oversize Softcover. More
Espace Carole Brilaud, 2000. Soft Cover. More
Museum of Modern Art & Doubleday, January 1965. Cloth. Quarto in chipped, edgeworn jacket heavily browned along spine and margins. Quarter bound with black cloth spine with bold lettering and grey cloth covered boards. Previous owner's name inked front free end page. Previous dealer's stamp upper right corner of FFEP..... More
Prentice Hall, June 1981. Trade Paperback. Octavo with moderate shelf wear. Clean text. Blue on grey cover design. [466 pages]. More
Afterall Books, April 2008. Paper Back. A critical close-up of Warhol's famous film and its cultural impact In Andy Warhol's silent black-and-white movie, Blow Job (1964), a youth is filmed as he is apparently being given the sex act named in the title. The 35-minute film is accentuated by the..... More
George Braziller Inc., September 1994. First Edition. Oversized Clothbound. Brings together and illustrates a selection of Gilbert's (history of art, Yale U.) most important papers on Michelangelo. Following an overview of all of Michelangelo's work, the volume is divided into two parts. The first contains essays on Michelangelo's frescoes on..... More
Rutgers University Press, January 1987. Oversize Softcover. "[One] of the leading realist painters of the period to make his home... [in the Fort Lee area]... was George Overbury "Pop" Hart. Within a realistic, sometimes reportorial style, Hart was perhaps America's finest watercolorist, investigating life all over the world... as well..... More
G P Putnam's Sons, November 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. {6&3/8th' x 9&3/4'} In well worn jacket with large roughly torn & creased tear top of rear panel. Tan end pages with non-authorial inscription which fills 'entire page' with mostly one wandering line between words 'entire' and 'page'. Dust stains/foxing/soiling on..... More
John Wiley & Sons, November 1996. Oversize Softcover. An insightful analysis of the history of suburban development . . .and an exciting new approach to suburban planning YARD-STREET-PARK This book was devised to help designers, planners, and developers of suburban communities deliver on their traditional promise to offer "the best..... More
Yale University Press, September 1985. Oversized Hardcover. More
Yale University Press, September 1978. Oversized Hardcover. Top edge of cloth a bit worn and top edge of text block soiled. More
Yale University Press, September 1985. Soft Cover. More
Gerald Peters Gallery, January 2003. Paper Back. {11' x 8 & 1/2'} Oblong soft cover with light wear. [100 pages]. More
Cambridge University Press, December 2003. Paper Back. Television and movies, not libraries or scholarship, have made Charles Dickens the most important unread novelist in English. In addition to the millions of people already deploying the word "Dickensian" to describe their own and others' lives, many more who have never read..... More
Dover Publications, September 1994. Paper Back. In over 130 photographs and drawings, this superb book celebrates the architecture of Philadelphia's theaters from the candlelight era to the movie palaces of the 20th century. Moving from one landmark to another, it explores the vigorous, often controversial role theaters played in the..... More
Smithsonian Institution, January 0001. Hardcover. More
Gardners Books, January 2007. Hardcover. More
Landmark Books Intl, June 1978. Cloth. Octavo. UK edition in very good dustjacket. Maroon cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Numerous excellent black & white and color illustrations & photographs and maps. [201 pp.]. More
Warner Books. Trade Paperback. More
Grand Central Publishing, March 1989. Trade Paperback. Enter Hollywood's inner sanctums in this gosippy and honest book, named one the top 100 film books of all time by The Hollywood Reporter, by the Academy Award-winning screenwriter and bestselling author of The Primcess Bride. No one knows the writer's Hollywood more..... More
Harper, March 2024. Hardcover. "It's all here: the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for Post-it notes and flying saucers; the long tails of Dubuffet and Burroughs; the encounters with Madonna, Warhol, and one game-changer of a subway Johnny Walker Red poster. Brad..... More
Whitney Museum of American Art, January 1973. Soft Cover. Square quarto {10' x 10'} Mild edgewear and foxing/darkening. [142 pages]. More
Whitney Museum of American Art, January 1973. Reprint. Soft Cover. {10' x 10'} Shelfworn, edgeworn. [143 pages]. More
Ecco, April 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. The definitive biography of a fascinating and paradoxical figure, one of the most influential artists of his--or any--age To this day, mention the name "Andy Warhol" to almost anyone and you'll hear about his famous images of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. But though..... More
Bonanza Books, December 1988. Oversize Softcover. More
Random House Value Publishing, February 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. {9' x 11'} Quarto. In chipped, stained dustjacket. Flap is not clipped. Complete number string. Stated, First Edition. Cyan blue cloth covered spine with gold lettering. Ochre cloth covered boards. Turquoise blue end pages. Small sticker from Design and Cabinetry, Inc..... More
Royal Academy of Arts / Abrams, April 1988. First Thus. Paper Back. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Clean, bright, like new. [226 pages]. More
University of Georgia Press, January 1973. Hardcover. More
Center for Creative Photography / University of Arizona, December 1983. Paper Back. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Mild soiling & darkening of margins. Mild shelf wear. Two moderate large tan damp stains on rear cover, that bleed through to verso. {38 pages / 45 photographic plates with descriptions opposite}. More
Dover Publications, July 1992. Oversize Softcover. Over 100 of the best pieces from Gray s "Streetscape" column for The New York Times. Thoughtful, informative, readable reflections on a host of New York City sites and structures: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Washington Mews in Greenwich Village, Coliseum, Russian Tea Room, FDR..... More
Little Brown and Company, January 1982. Oversize Softcover. More
Lorrimer Publishing / Frederick Ungar, January 1986. Paper Back. Foxing & dust stains. 64 pages. More
Atlas Pr, October 1999. Paper Back. Writings of the Vienna Actionists Hermann Nitsch, et al. In the early sixties, the Vienna Actionists created a form of performance art which has since become legendary for the extreme violence of its expression. Their art centered on taboos, the "hidden" secrets of the..... More
Oxford Univ Pr (Sd), May 1980. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name. More
Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation, 1944. Soft Cover. {5' x 7 & 1/4'} Wrappers darkened. Flaking. Dust stained textblock edges. Sound with clean interiors. [384 pages]. More
Artisan Publishers, April 2004. Oversize Softcover. In the pre-Internet, pre-VCR--oh, go ahead, call them prehistoric--days of baby boomers' grade school, the high art of audiovisual classroom programming was the filmstrip. If you're old enough, you remember the darkened room, the hum of the projector, and the beeep that signaled the..... More
Hyperion Books, December 1991. Hardcover. Reclusive, celebrated, always fascinating, Marlon Brando, often considered the greatest living actor, reveals the many facets of his mythical personality in this in-depth interview. Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs, this provocative interview captures Brando being playful, philosophical, cynical--and surprisingly candid. More
Oxford University Press, November 2000. Trade Paperback. This innovative introduction examines the profession of the nineteenth-century American artist and audience reception of their work. Works of art by familiar names such as Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer are discussed in detail within the larger arena of visual culture, as are..... More
Grove Press, 1959. Soft Cover. In illustrated wrappers, with a printed glassine dust jacket that has one inch closed tear at top and small chip at bottom of spine. 39 plates. More