Fabulous Blanco - Antonio Blanco His Life His Works His Dreams by Blanco, Antonio & Dhaimeler, D. H. ( Editor ) - 1991

Bali: Blanco Fine Art Foundation, 1991. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed By Artist. 1st Edition. 225mm x 295mm. Covers have light general wear plus some age-toning to front. Spine not creased. Inscribed by Blanco to former owners on title page with a sketch below. 137pp.

Signed: Blanco Fine Arts Foundation. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in dust jacket. White boards, gilt text, pristine. First printing of first edition. Number 158 of a 633 limited series numbered and SIGNED by Antonio Blanco, the noted Catalan artist, in Bali, Sept.15, 1990. Book is As New, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners, illustrated endpapers. Protected, unclipped, dust jacket is fresh and bright, with a manufacturing crease in laminate cover. Illustrated throughout with Blanco's art including illustrations to selected poems. Text is in English, French, and Japanese. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 137 pages; Signed by Author .

Bali & Jakarta: Duta Fine Arts Foundation, 1990. The best monograph on the work of this modern Catalan artist (1912-1999), profusely illustrated in color. WITH A SIGNED COLOR SELF-PORTRAIT IN PROFILE BY THE ARTIST ON THE TITLE-PAGE. Large 4to. Original wraps. FINE AND BRIGHT, LIKE NEW.

7 pics-NOT XLIB; clean & sharp with light shelf wear & a few very light spots to exterior; spine uncreased; binding tight; pages clean

Innsbruch Felizian Rauch [?], 1936, hardcover. No publication date given: 1936? -- Black-and-white reproductions of the art done when she was 5 to 15 years old. Texts in GERMAN, English and French. 143 pages, 9.5x11 inches. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good minus (cover has soil, spine lettering rubbed, but pages are clean and bright).

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good minus. Hardback with Dust Jacket which has some edge wear, small rip, faint price on back

This fine, 2nd edition of David Hockney's 'alphabet' drawings with short poems and essays by various authors (Joyce Carol Oates, Arthur Miller, John Updike, Iris Murdock, Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, etc.) was an AIDS fundraiser. The book is in fine condition with no flaws and the Dust Jacket has only a small crease on the front dust jacket bottom and the inside front panel price clipped (see photos.) Priced to sell!
All proceeds benefit The Friends of the San Anselmo Library. No expedited shipping outside of the United States.

NEAR FINE Limited edition (1000 copies printed). Gray cloth exteriors with blue lettering and his signature dog on the cover. No dustjacket. Light shelfwear to cover corners and edges. Crisp, clean, unmarked interior pages. Satire. 287 pages, 9.5" X 12.25X X 1.5" John T. McCutcheon was an American political cartoonist, war correspondent, combat artist, and author . This covers the full breadth of his career, and reproduces his newspaper work from a 40 year career, including his Pulitzer Prize winning cartoon from 1931 "a Wise Economist Asks a Question". Includes some of his earliest work in the Purdue university paper "Debris" and stories, cartoons, and reporting from The Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Daily News, the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Cosmopolitan, as well as sketches from the Art Institute of Chicago. Political cartoons (no index and some pages with multiples), probably more illustrations than pages.

Freddy And Mr. Camphor. By Walter R. Brooks. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Used. Good Condition/No Dust jacket included. Alfred A. Knopf 1944 Stated First Edition. A solid copy. Spine is sunned. Please see our photos. Summary: In Freddy and Mr. Camphor, Freddy is in need of a change and finds an opportunity for one as a caretaker on Mr. Camphor's houseboat. Of course, things never go as Freddy expects and a series of strange, amusing, and sometimes alarming adventures ensue. Please also see our Freddy The Pig catalogue.

Ruth Krauss. The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers First Edition. States 1945 on the title page. QUITE RARE. EXLIB. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something (the basis of knowledge)" Not an easy find.

Messenger, Norman: Making Faces By Norman Messenger. Doring Kindersley Publishers, Ltd., 1992. ISBN9780863189975. LARGE FORMAT. 8 ¼ X 14. Summary: Starting with eight basic characters, Norman Messenger offers the possibility of making an astonishing variety of different faces in this fascinating contemplation of human uniqueness. By mixing and matching foreheads, eyes, noses, mouths and chins, thousands of individual faces can be created. A stimulating and amazing book. 65,000 different combinations are available. WOW. For all ages. USED. VG CONDITION.

This book is new. Never opened or used. Excellent condition. This book is dedicated to the memory of two departed friends- Helen L. Card and E. Walter Latendorf.
"In the words of the authors: They devoted themselves to the advancement of American Illustration as a great art. Their like will never be seen again."

N. Nomura & Co., Ltd., 1986. Book. Like New. Boxed Set. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A hardcover book and a softcover book in a cloth-covered box, all in like-new condition. Clamshell box is covered in natural-covered linen with brown lettering to spine and brown facsimile signature on top. Hardcover with three-quarter charcoal-gray cloth with blue marbled (faux) boards; no text other than a tipped-in plate with title, etc. in English; pages are facsimile reproductions of the sketched art--b&w and color of Leda and Swan; no title on binding. Softcover is staplebound with blue cardstock cover with title etc. in English on front; approx. 27 pages; b&w photo frontispiece of artist; 7 plates of art; text in Japanese. Books are about 9-1/2" by 6-1/4". Box is 10-1/2" by 6-3/4"..