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Still Looking
by John Updike
John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and...
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Art Criticism Books & Ephemera
Journal of the Taliesin Fellows: Nos. 3-5, 7-11, 15, 19-22, 24. 1990-1999
by Los Angeles. Taliesin Fellows
Los Angeles: Taliesin Fellows, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine black board portfolio. 21.5 x 21.5 cm, and starting with Nos. 19: 8/1/2 x11 inches. Printed in black and red. Illustrated with photographs, plans and diagrams.
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$150.00
Shiraz Painting In The Sixteenth Century
by Guest, Grace Dunham
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Very good. 70 pages in text. 36 x 26 1/2 cm. Fifty plates plus illustrations in the text. Comprehensive Index. Fresh, clean copy, small scratches front and back cover.
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$45.00
Tura Paintings and Drawings Complete Edition
by Ruhmer, Eberhard
London: Phaidon, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Near fine. Tura, Cosimo. 184 pages. Folio, 104 plates, six in color. Index of Places. This catalogue comprises all the works of Tura which have been preserved, together with the lost works ascribed to him. FREITAG 9608. LUCAS p.197.
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$55.00
The Notebook of John Smibert With Essays by Sir David Evans, John Kerslake, and Andrew Oliver
by Smibert, John
Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. salmon cloth. Fine. 131 pages. With notes relating to Smibert's American Portraits by Andrew Oliver. Foreword by Stephen T. Riley.Index. FREITAG 9030. KARPEL H476. "This edition includes a facsimile and a transcript of the complete manuscript. The addition of an index...makes the publication even more useful.
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$45.00
The Elder Peter Bruegel
by Peter Bruegel; Aldous Huxley [essay]; Jean Videpoche [notes]
New York: Wiley, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good in mustard boards with previous owner's name on front endpaper.. Small quarto. 55 pp. First American edition. Illustrated. Lacking the dust jacket. Paper-covered boards. Chiefly plates throughout, six [6] [including frontispiece] in color.
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$65.00
Van Gogh
by Estienne, Charles
Geneva: Skira, 1953. Hardcover. Orig. beige linen cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper in fine slipcase. Gogh, Vincent van. 127 pages. Plethora of tipped-in color plates. Translated by S.J.C. Harrison. Chronological Survey. Bibliography. Index. "The Taste of Our Time" series, No. 2.
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$35.00
Caspar David Friedrich
by Hofmann, Werner
New York: Thames & Hudson, 2005. Hardcover. Orig. chocolate brown cloth decorated in blind. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Friedrich, Caspar David. 299 pages, 32 x 27 cm. 193 illustrations with 150 in color. A landscape painter of the 19th century within the framework of European romanticism. Chronology. Bibliography. List Of Illustrations.
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$85.00
Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series. Number Twelve
by [ART IN AUSTRALIA] URE SMITH, Sydney & GELLERT, Leon (editors)
Sydney: Art in Australia, 1925. First Edition. Of interest: 'La Poupee' (The Doll) full-page woodcut printed in scarlet by Thea Proctor; 'Hans Heysen's Flower Pieces' by Lionel Lindsay with tipped colour plate; 'The Ornithologist of Cobbitty', seven page story illustrated by the author, Hardy Wilson; 'Sidney Thompson' by Howard Ashton with colour plate; 'Will Ashton' by Lionel Lindsay with colour plate; two page article on Sydney bookbinder, Wal. Taylor, illustrated with two pages of plates; 'Daryl...
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Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series Number 19
by [ART IN AUSTRALIA] URE SMITH, Sydney & GELLERT, Leon (editors)
Sydney: Art in Australia, 1927. Of interest: Adrian Lawlor on art critics and criticism. William Moore on new additions to the Sydney gallery. Article on Fred Leist portraits, four plates. Plates of sculptures by Rainer Hoff, George Lambert, Paul Montford and others. Small quarto, original printed wrappers, tipped colour plates, full-page black & white images; a very good copy.
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$33.07
ARIZONA HIGHWAYS : October 1981, Volume 57, No 10
by Avey, Gary (Editor)
Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Dept of Transportation, 1981. Volume 57, No 10, October 1981 . Soft Cover/Magazine. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy w/trace rubs to spine. Oct 1981 Issue. COVER ART: "Betatakin ruin, Navajp Nat'l Monument", photo, David Muench. This Oct 1981 issue examines the past (300 BC to AD 1450) of the Hohokam, Mogollon, and the Anasazi peoples. The essays are: The First Southwesterns (Carl Hodge); On the Road to Ruins (Maggie Wilson); and, Old Riddles, New Tools (Carl Hodge).
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$14.50
Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century; An American Anthology
by (no author)
New York: Museum of American Folk Art/Chronicle Books, 1998. Bound in self-wraps; illustrated in color; 256pp.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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$35.00
ARIZONA HIGHWAYS : SPECIAL LAKE POWELL EDITION : April 1982, Volume 58, No 4
by Avey, Gary (Editor)
Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Dept of Transportation, 1982. Volume 58, No 4, April 1982 . Soft Cover/Magazine. New/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Vintage 1982 Edition, Vol 58, No. 4. Stapled softcover/NF w/trace shelfwear. COVER ART: "Lake Powell", photo, Jerry Jacka. This April 1982 issue is the story of Lake Powell --- 2nd largest (behind Lake Mead in terms of size) artificial reservoir, planned by US Bureau of Reclamation in the 1940's to 1950's, completed in 1964. Named for naturalist...
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$24.50
Picasso's War: The Destruction of Guernica, And The Masterpiece That Changed The World
by Martin, Russell
New York: Dutton, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good./Very Good.. 274p.
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$12.00
The Reenchantment of Art
by Suzi Gablik
New York, NY: Thames & Hudson. Very Good-. 1995. Reprint. Paperback. 0500276897 . Highlighting present to two pages. Very Good overall condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; 191 pages .
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$17.95
Picasso
by Arles. Musee Reattu
Arles: Musee Reattu, 1971. First edition. Paperback. Fifty-seven drawings incolor and black and white. Orig. white wrappers. Fine. Picasso, Pablo. 112 pages.
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$20.00
Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series Number 17
by [ART IN AUSTRALIA] URE SMITH, Sydney & GELLERT, Leon (editors)
Sydney: Art in Australia, 1926. First Edition. Special issue 'A New Vision of the Australian Landscape' combining short stories and poetic works with tipped colour plates by Elioth Gruner, George Lambert, John D. Moore, Norman Lloyd, Roi de Mestre, Blamire Young and C. Lloyd Jones. Several woodcut vignettes by Margaret Preston. Small quarto, original printed wrappers, tipped colour plates, full-page black & white images; gentle foxing, fore-edge a little wormed, a very good copy nonetheless.
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$49.60
Art In The Early Church
by Lowrie, Walter
New York: Pantheon, 1947. First edition. Orig. black cloth. Near fine. 268 pages in text. 153 black and whiteplates. Bibliography. Index to Text and Illustrations. Chronological Table. CHAMBERLAIN 531. "Based on the author's earlier work, `Monuments Of The Early Church,' but does not entirely supersede the first work....." LUCAS p32.
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$30.00
Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Eighth Number
by [ART IN AUSTRALIA] URE SMITH, Sydney & GELLERT, Leon (editors)
Sydney: Angus & Roberston Ltd, 1921. First Edition. Of interest: an elusive watercolour by Richard Parkes Bonnington in the Mitchell Library; report by Blamire Young with a tipped colour late of the painting; 'The Japanese Outlook on Western Art' by A.L. Sadler, six pages; tipped colour plates by Hans Heysen and Sir John Longstaff; four full-page caricatures by George Finey with one page of text; Edith Fry on Fred. Leist, illustrated; open forum on tariffs on Australian artworks, contributors include...
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$46.30
Twelve American Masterpieces
by NY. Spanierman Gallery
New York: Spanierman Gallery, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 95 pages. 33 x 25 cm. Black and white and color plates.
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$20.00
The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Jim and Ron
by Dine, Jim & Ron Padgett
New York: Grossman, 1970. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Dine, Jim. Approximately 120 pages in text with poems by Ron Padgett and illustrations in black and white by Jim Dine. The first edition of 30 copies published by Cape Galliard Press, London was signed and numbered by Padgett and Dine, and contained an original signed print. Nice copy of an engaging artist's book. Owner inscription.
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$65.00
Piranesi As Architect And Designer
by Wilton-Ely, John
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 186 pages. 30 x 23 cm. More than 165 plates, seven in color. Co-published by the Morgan Library, written by a noted Piranesi scholar. As new copy in publisher's shrink wrapped protective plastic.
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$75.00
Temples Anciens Et Modernes; Ou Observations Historiques Et Critiques Sur Les Plus Celebres Monumens D'Architecture Grecques Et Gothique
by Avril, Louis, Abbe Mai
London & Paris: Chez Musier, 1774. First edition. Hardcover. Modern brown cloth and marbled boards. Fine. 347 [3] pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Seven engraved plates, foldouts, including the Pantheon, the Basilica of Saint Paul, Santa Sophia at Constantinople, Saint Peters and the Coliseum. The author, a sometime Jesuit, published this work under the pseudonym M.L.M. John Soane translated this work in its entirety in 1806 [see; RIBA, Early Printed Books, I, 165]. CICOGNARA 679. "...ma con moltissima eleganta...
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$725.00
Guy Pene du Bois Painter Of Modern Life
by Fahlman, Betsy
New York: The Quantuck Lane Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 176 pages. 32 x 25 cm. One of America's most stylish painters in the second quarter of the 20th century captured with sophistication. He spent part of his career in France. Host of color plates. Chronology. Selected Bibliography. Index.
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$40.00
I'd Rather Dye Laughing, a Personal Experience
by Neel, Jean M
New Castle: Self-published, 1984. Book. Illus. by Betsy Dillon. Very Good. Stapled Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. sun fade to edges of covers. 43pp..
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$15.00
