PICASSO Women; Cannes and Mougins, 1954-1963 by Parmelin, Helene - 1967

Paris & Amsterdam: Editions Cercle D'Art & Harry Abrams. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Color Plates tipped in; 2 color lithographs; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 203 pages; [1964] Editions Cercle D'Art & Harry Abrams. Stout oversize, square format HC/DJ. 1st editioon thus in English translation. A clean and handsome copy which includes the like size Introductory Comments booklet by Milton S. Fox laid in at front. Binding snug; contents very neat. Dust jacket generally bright and neat with light shelf rubbing to edges and shallow fray and nicks to crown of spine panel and mild toning to spine edge. Superficial shelf soiling to rear jacket panel. Light toning to endpages. Beige linen cloth with color title design from painted lettering design by Picasso. Includes 2 Picasso lithographs - one smaller and tipped in and the other full page and bound in as a leaf. Lavishly illustrated with color plates tipped in. Very nice copy… Read More

Paris and Amsterdam:: Editions Cercle d'Art; Harry N. Abrams,, no date.. publisher's cloth printed in colors, in dust jacket.. An unworn copy with a slight dampstain at an upper corner and a slightly tanned spine; tight and sound in a jacket with a faint tan backstrip and a chip at the top. . Large 4to,. Illustrated in color, including tipped-in color plates.. With a Preface by Douglas Cooper. Additional postage applicable for this heavy volume.

1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Editions Cercle D'Art, S. A., Paris and Harry N. Abrams, Amsterdam, Pubs., 1964; text by Helene Parmelin; Preface by Douglas Cooper; English translation by Humphrey Hare; fine condition with a near fine dust jacket: minor soil stains to jacket; includes '

Amsterdam: Editions Cercle d'Art and Harry N. Abrams, 1964. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 11 x 12in. 199pp. Publisher's cloth boards. Color plates. One of the few publications with which Picasso was directly involved, even designing letters specifically for the text. NEAR FINE in Very Good dust jacket in the scarce Very Good wrap-around band. The book itself with marginal shelf rubbing of the extremities, a corner of the front paste-down with slight lift (looks like a very minor publisher flaw), else Fine/As New. The dust jacket and wrap-around band show only hints of shelf rubbing of the extremities and very light toning, otherwise remain complete, bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.

Paris and Amsterdam: Cercle d'Art / Harry N. Abrams N.V.. First edition. Cloth. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. Large 4to, 199 pp., frontis., tipped-in color plates. Includes one small original color lithograph, tipped in, and one bound-in original b/w lithograph, as issued. A separately printed staplebound pamphlet, "Picasso: Women: Introductory Comments" by Milton S. Fox, is laid in. Spine slightly pulled at head, page edges slightly tanned. Jacket a bit sunned, edgeworn. Laid-in pamphlet is rubbed at spine.

Paris/Amsterdam: Editions Cercle d'Art, S.A./Harry N. Abrams, N.V., 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. As new. 203p. An oversize hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket, including the wraparound band. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is fully intact, just a bit tanned on the spine and mildly crinkled and rubbed along the edges. The wraparound is fully intact. A beautiful copy of this scarce book, filled with tipped-in color plates. Comes with the large staplebound booklet of introductory comments by Milton S. Fox. Measures approx. 12,25" x 11.25

PARIS/AMSTERDAM: Editions Cercle D' Art/Harry N. Abrams. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1964. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in very good+ dust jacket. (199pp. ) (11 1/4" X 12") (Lacks the wrap-around belly band. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. 1'-inch tear at head of front panel of jacket. A few shorter tears and light creasing at base of rear cover. ) The stapled pictorial paperback insert "Picasso: Women" with introductory comments by Milton S. Fox laid-in. Full color illustrations tipped-in. ; 11 1/4" X 12"; 199 pages .

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"..