10 Plus 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters

New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1989. . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Replete with fine reproductions of these best works, and printed on high-gloss paper. Published by Harry N. Abrams and in both Russian and English. Full color reproductions throughout. Tall quarto format, at 170 pp., and including and index. Foreword and Acknowledgments by Gordon D. Smith, E.A. Carmean, Jr., and Marla Price, a Curator's statement by Marla Price, and then "10 x 10," by John E. Bowlt, and a final essay by Victor Missiano. Laid in is a note of errata.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 346818

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: art exhibition catalog|painters|gallery exhibition|painting|sculpture|Gordon D. Smith|E.A. Carmean, Jr.|Marla Price|John E. Bowlt|Victor Missiano

100 Years of California Sculpture

Oakland, California, The Oakland Museum, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Square 4to 9" - 11" tall. An unusually fine looking softcover copy, staple-bound, in square quarto format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the illustrated wraps. Price-sticker dot to front cover else virtually pristine. The Oakland Museum sponsored a show of California artists and California sculptors in 1982, with a Preface by Christina-Orr Cahill and then essays by Paul Tomidy, Harvey L. Jones, Terry St. John, and Christopher Knight, about California sculptors such as Robert Aitken, Jeremy Anderson, Alexander Archipenko, Robert Arneson, Larry Bell, Fletcher Benton, Wallace Berman, Alexander Calder, Christo, Claire Falkenstein, Viola Frey, Edward Kienholz, Tom Marioni, Bruce Nauman, Manuel Neri, Roland Reiss, Zygmund Sazevich, Douglas Tilden, William T. Wiley and Wilfrid Zogbaum. 48 pp. and replete with fine black-and-white reproductions of fine sculpture, printed on high-gloss paper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 349333

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: The Oakland Museum|California artists|California sculptors|Christina-Orr Cahill|Paul Tomidy|Harvey L. Jones|Terry St. John|Christopher Knight|Robert Aitken|Jeremy Anderson|Alexander Archipenko|Robert Arneson|Larry Bell|Fletcher Benton|Wallace Berman|Alexa

11 Los Angeles Artists: Altoon Bell Diebenkorn Harrison Hendler Irwin Mclaughlin Nauman Price Ruscha Wegman

London, The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, illustrated and pictorial, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Comprised of the exhibition of the 11 L.A. artists sponsored by the Hayward Gallery, 30 September-7 November 1971. Black-and-white and duotone and full-color, full-page reproductions. Unpaginated, but with captioned reproductions and artist biographies. Unpaginate, but roughly 45 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 345552

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Altoon|Bell|Diebenkorn|Harrison|Hendler|Irwin|McLaughlin|Nauman|Price|Ruscha |Wegman

Abstrakte Malerei Aus Amerika Und Europa - Abstract Painting of America and Europe

Klagenfurt / Wien, Galerie nächst (St. Stephan, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder) / Ritter Verlag, 1988. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Bilingual documentary history in English and German, showcasing the work of Brice Marden, Gerhard Richter, Helmut Federle, Robert Mangold, Robert Ryman and others. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the simple printed wraps, in gate-fold. Foreword by Rosemarie Schwarzwalder. Extensive documentation, interviews with and/or about the artists including with Donald Kuspit, Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter and others. [9], 10-230 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 351875

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: German language Brice Marden Gerhard Richter Helmut Federle Robert Mangold Robert Ryman

An American Sampler: Folk Art from the Shelburne Museum

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1987. . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A particularly broad survey of folk art, art brut, self-taught artists and naive art from the The Shelburne Museum, a nice-looking museum exhibit catalog with a Foreword by J. Carter Brown, and then contributions by Benjamin Mason, David Park Curry, Jane C. Nylander, Celia Oliver, Robert Shaw and others, with a heavy focus on trade signs, carvings, decoys, scrimshaw, trade figures, carousel animals, weather vanes, whirligigs, quilts and counterpaners. Very slight creasing to the front of the glossy pictorial wraps, else virtually pristine of interior. Hundreds of fine images in black-and-white and full color. [5], 6-211 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 349642

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: folk art|art brut|naive art|The Shelburne Museum|J. Carter Brown|Benjamin Mason|David Park Curry|Jane C. Nylander|Celia Oliver |Robert Shaw|trade signs|carvings|decoys|scrimshaw|trade figures|carousel animals|weather vanes|whirligigs|quilts|counterpaners

The American Letter-Writer, Mirror of Polite Behaviour; a Useful Guide in the Art of Letter-Writing, with Rules of Conduct for Both Sexes

New York, Philip J. Cozans, . . Hardcover. Size: 64mo 3" - 4. Sound advice to the would-be letter-writer, beginning with materials, necessity of using correct grammar, punctuation and spelling conventions, and then with examples galore of proper writing (between friends, between lovers, between parents and children, between siblings, and from would-be suitor to a suspected unfaithful betrothed. Publication date not evidenced but the copyright page (Fisher & Brother) verso of title page says 1851, thus perhaps a very early reprint of an influential title. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Rebound, incorporating original publisher's green cloth over new green cloth backstrip and headbands, endpapers. Original cloth is mottled and stained a bit, but blind-stamped designs remain evident at front cover and gilt lettering and designs to spine (two quill ink pens), ditto. Damp-staining to first two pages, moderately toned, else clean and unmarked of interior. Fine black-and-white engraving at frontis of a letter-writer, a fine publisher's vignette at title page of a letter-writing table. sections include: Letters of Relationship; Business Letters; Matrimony; Miscellaneous Letters; How to Act; and Miniature Epistles. Numerous example letters for each category. How to act section includes: Beauty of Sincerity; Conduct at Home; Gentility; Conduct at Church; Personal Characteristics; about Dress; About Visiting; Behavior at Meals; Conduct in the Street; Hints on Introduction; Ladies-How to be Gallant; Conduct in the Ball-Room; Marriage; Conversation, and Smoking. 256 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair

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Book number: 357206

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Philip J. Cozans letters letter-writing

The Antagonistic Link: Joaquin Torres-Garcia Theo Van Doesburg

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Inst. of Contemporary Art, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. . A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound in rich black cloth, with sharp and distinct white lettering to spine. Illustrated endpapers depicting real correspondence between the two artists Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear beyond rear panel sunning near spine, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Texts by Joaquin Torres-Garcia and Theo Van Doesburg themselves, translated by Donald Gardner, Nicoline Gatehouse, Ann Lacroix and Wendy Shaffer. Foreword by Eduardo Lipschutz-Villa (translated by David Macey). Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [5], 6-195 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Like New

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Book number: 345863

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Joaquin Torres-Garcia|Theo van Doesburg|letters|art history|artist monographs

Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Royal Commission on the War in South Africa

London, His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1902. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Extremely scarce in the field, comprising a volume of reports in the original, true First Edition state, published in London for the King and his subjects throughout the Commonwealth. Presented to him and to the Parliament by Command of His Majesty. Original publisher's printed blue wraps, a bit sunned and mildly soiled, chipped, worn, etc., but protected in a Mylar jacket. Some marginal markings, scattered, else still pretty clean and unmarked. 445 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 346238

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: The Boer War|The Transvaal War|English military history|South Africa

Les Aquarelles Du Prince de Joinville 1861 . 1862

Paris, Tallandier, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. Published in Paris by Jules Tallandier, 1964, in First Edition state and in an oblong format quarto format. Double-column French language text by André Maurois and General James Gavin. Illustrated with 20 color reproductions printed on high-gloss paper and with commentary opposite. Handsomely produced in a blue silk linen over boards, ruled along borders, gorgeous gilt lettering to front cover, to spine, spine being sunned to a purple, and then housed in a simple, structurally sound slip-case, also sunned to purple along the edges. François d'Orléans, a.k.a. Prince de Joinville, was born in 1818 and died in 1900, having been the third son of King Louis, famous for having conveyed the corpse of Napoleon and for painting at least 35 watercolors.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 345640

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Prince de Joinville|General McClellan|Andre Maurois|James Gavin|watercolors

The Art of the Japanese Print, Volume 7: Modern Prints I

Tokyo, Japan, Kodansha, Ltd., 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being only a single additional copy available. Brand-new, still in its original cardboard packing box, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. Sterling condition hardcover copy, massively heavy, oversized volume, bound handsomely in tan, heavy linen cloth boards, with sharp and distinct dark blue lettering to spine, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing neither shelf- nor edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Sumptuous dark blue (kanji lettering) and gilt (design) stamped into front cover. Illustrated endpapers in light blue and dark blue, front and rear. Many, many score black-and-white illustrations and several score tipped-in, too. Housed in slipcase covered in tan paper and with a gorgeous multi-color illustration affixed to front cover, with kanji character lettering in gilt. Comes in its own original cardboard packing case, worn and scuffed at one corner but structurally sound. Reproductions of lithographs, engravings, woodblock prints, and chromolithographs from such leading lights in Japanese art and culture as Suzuki Harunobu, Suzuki Haroshige, Kuninobu, Tosen, Masunobu, Mitsunobu, Komai Yoshinobu, Komatsuken, Minko, Ran-U, Shichu, Isoda Koryusai, Kitao Shigemasa, Ishikawa Toyomasa, Okabe Nangaku, Uchimasa, Utagawa Toyoharu and Utagawa Toyonobu. Else and withal, a gift-quality condition copy, lovely to look at and contemplate. vi [1], 1-39, 40-208 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . New

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Book number: 357135

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Japanese art history|Japanese culture|Japan|printmakers|printmaking|Suzuki Harushige|Kuninobu Tosen|Masunobu Mitsunobu|Komai Yoshinobu|Komatsuken Minko|Ran-U Shichu|Isoda Koryusai|Kitao Shigemasa|Ishikawa Toyomasa|Okabe Nangaku|Uchimasa Utagawa|Toyoharu|U

Autriche Suede Et Finlande: Les Nouvelles Frontieres Du Verre European / Osterreich, Schweden, Finnland: Die Neuen Grenzen Der Europaischen Glaskunst / Austria, Sweden, Finland: The New Frontiers of European Glass Art

Milano, Italy, Albert Skira, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Glossy, pictorial covers, in gate-fold, and with many score full color reproductions of glassware. Tri-lingual text, being English, German and French languages. Contributions to Elisabetta Margiotta Nervi, Gabriele Fuhr-Becker, Gunnel Holmer, Kaisa Koivisto, Uta Lauren, Harald Bath, Borje Akerblom. [8], 9-173 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 347264

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: French language|German language|design|art history|Elisabetta Margiotta Nervi|Gabriele Fuhr-Becker|Gunnel Holmer|Kaisa Koivisto|Uta Lauren|Harald Bath|Borje Akerblom

Bar Mitzvah: A Selection of Confirmation Speeches in Hebrew, Yiddish and English

New York, S. Druckerman, 1912. Second Revised and Enlarged Edit. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Moderate wear to and loss of printed paper label to front cover, but still readable. Bound in stiff but flexible boards, brick-red tape-backed, texts in Hebrew, Yiddish and English. Table of Contents in the rear show eight speeches in English, by Rabbi Elias L. Solomon, M. Goldman, Naphali Hertz Imber, A.D., San Bach, Benj. Lutick, Simon A. Neuhausen. Texts are clean and unmarked, though with a bit toning to endpapers.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Good

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Book number: 347140

Catalogue: Religion::Judaism

Keywords: Bar Mitzvah|Jewish history|Jewish culture|Judaica|Judaism|ritual

The Battle of Marathon Krentz, Peterpublished by , 2010

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, Yale Library of Military History. "For the Greeks and Romans the earth's farthest perimeter was a realm radically different from what they perceived as central and human. The alien qualities of these "edges of the earth" became the basis of a literary tradition that endured throughout antiquity and into the Renaissance, despite the growing challenges of emerging scientific perspectives. Here James Romm surveys this tradition, revealing that the Greeks, and to a somewhat lesser extent the Romans, saw geography not as a branch of physical science but as an important literary genre." Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xx [1], 2-230 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 357469

Catalogue: Ancient Greece and Rome

Keywords: Ancient Rome Ancient Greece Peter Krentz The Battle of Marathon James Romm

Books Illustrated by Painters and Sculptors from 1900

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Introduction by James M. Wells to this catalog of an exhibit held from September to November of 1980 by the Arts Club of Chicago. Simple printed wraps in square format, staplebound, clean and unmarked of interior. Unpaginated, but roughly 60 pp. of black-and-white illustrations of books illustrated by sculptors and painters in alphabetical order, beginning with Jean Arp to June Wayne, Ernst Kirchner to Pablo Picasso, including notes about choice of paper, binding, materials of construction.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 351959

Catalogue: Books and Bookbinding

Keywords: James M. Wells book illustration painters sculptors

7 Brasileiros E Seu Universo

Brasilia, Brazil, Departamento de Documentacao e Divulgacao, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Square 12mo 7" - 7. Portuguese language art exhibit catalog, quite scarce in the trade, bound in simple stiff card stock, black-and-white, with minor wear thereto, light foxing and soiling to first free endpaper, else quite fine of interior. Contributions by Clarival do Prado Valladares, Lelia Coelho Frota, Luis da Camara Cascudo, Luiz Felipe Baeta Neves, Luis Saia, Marcio Sampaio, Napoleao Figueiredo, Verissimo de Melo, Benedito and others. Black and white glossy wraps a bit abraded, beginning split to front top joint, a few dog-eared pages, else a clean and unmarked interior. 215 pp. including full index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Good

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Book number: 350462

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Clarival do Prado Valladares|Lelia Coelho Frota|Luis da Camara Cascudo|Luiz Felipe Baeta Neves|Luis Saia|Marcio Sampaio|Napoleao Figueiredo|Verissimo de Melo|Benedito