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Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1970. Produced on the 100th anniversary of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Private Press: Museum of Fine Arts; Boston, MA; 1970 8vo size trade paperback; 151 heavyweight glossy pages with 100 color plates. Each plate includes a detailed written description. "The one hundred plates published here comprise the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 20 to July 26, 1970." Introduction by Perry T Rathbone, Director Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Some of the artists included are: Duccio Di Buoninsegna Rogier Van Der Weyden Titian Antonio Canale (Canaletto) Peter Paul Rubens Edgar Degas Alfred Sisley Joseph Blackburn Winsow Homer Franz Kline Jean-Honore Fragonard Rembrandt Van Rijn Lucas Van Leyden Ex-library with typical treatments, many blacked out; covers have been laminated and have light wear, page margins are tanned. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover.… Read More

Lot of 11 Art & Antiques Magazines 1999-2002 All magazines have glossy pages with regular columns, color photographs and advertisements throughout. All are previously read issues with edgewear, labels on front cover and very light handling wear unless otherwise described. We've listed a few of the articles or columns in each issue below. 1. September 1999: 160 pages. Contents include: David Linley's New Classic Furniture Textile Twins: Thomas and Peter Tarantino Profile: General Roberto Conforti Crease on front cover. 2. October 1999: 160 pages. Contents include: Sculptor Frederick Hart - His Last Interview Tibetian Furniture Profile: Cozy Baker There is some adhesive residue on back cover. 3. December 1999: 144 pages. Contents include: Top Emerging Artists Exciting Penthouse Art Collection Scottsdale's Hot Art Market Profile: David Rago 4. February 2000: 120 pages. Contents include: Cradle of Inspiration Hacienda Katanchel Visual Poetry There are several small creases… Read More

Naples, Florida: Martin Gordon Inc. Illustrated jacket and only one black and white print inside. Estimated couple hundred pages in this unnumbered text listing item after item auctioned off during the years along with details including their estimate and selling price. A handy reference for the collector or investor. Bright, white pages in great condition. (Not an art book or book of prints.) No extra shipping charges for this heavy volume if sent via US Media Mail. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefit charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Lucien Goldschmidt, 1969. Catalogue No. 35 8vo size staple bound softcover; unpaginated - about 42 glossy pages with black and white illustrations and descriptions, totalling the 123 pieces in this exhibition. The illustrations on front and back cover and cyan colored. The exhibition took place from October 2-28, 1969. Covers have light wear and the bottom corner of cover and pages is lightly bent. Note on our photographs: they do not show the address of the gallery. . Stapled. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Northfield, IL: DBI Books, 1977. Some wear to covers and tanned page margins in this vintage reproduction of (Monkey Ward) Montgomery Ward 1894-1895 catalog. From ornate pianos and organs to the best rolled plate necklaces and bracelets to exquisitely detailed stoves represented by vintage illustrations. Hoes, hinges, handguns, hats, toys, lockets, tools to waterproof horse covers. This reproduction catalog is certainly a snapshot in time and may be a helpful too to costume and set designers. Page number written on back cover; price sticker on side. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Dover Publications, 1995. 4to size softcover; 73 pages with black and white photographs and illustrations. From back cover: "This innovative book - among the first to combine the art of origami with making polyhedra-based models - shows papercrafters how to create over 60 different polyhedra from origami units. Comprised of modules made of single sheets of paper, the figures offer model builders and math students alike a stimulating entree into the world of three-dimensional geometric origami. In very good condition with edgewear and a very small crease on top of back cover. . Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Switzerland: RotoVision SA, 1994. 4to size white clothbound hardcover with black title and logo on front cover and illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers; 560 heavyweight, glossy pages including index. Filled with full color photographs. Features award winning advertising, editorial design, graphic design, photography and illustration. Includes everything from posters to advertisements to book jackets. Table of contents includes: Exhibition Judges Advertising Editorial Design Graphic Design Photography and Illustration Special features on: Alan Fletcher, Norman Rockwell, Ikko Tanaka; Rochelle Udell and Andy Warhol. A wonderful source of inspiration to graphic artists and advertising copywriters alike. Wear to dust jacket including chipping at top and bottom of spine. Initials written on front inside jacket flap and title page. This item weighs more than 7 pounds boxed. No extra shipping if sent via US Media Mail. Very expensive to ship overseas. Thanks for shopping with… Read More

New York: American Machinist & Automated Manufacturing, 1987. Red leatherette with gilt borders and titles. 152 glossy pages with black and white cartoons. We're also including an envelope we found tucked into the book with other cartoons cut from American Machinist going back to the 1960s. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980. 4to black clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 187 pages profusely illustrated with 202 photographic illustrations, many full page. A production of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in association with Berger-Levrault, Paris for a 1980 exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From dust jacket: "The work of one hundred photographers, from 1848 to 1900 was selected to give both the public and the experts their first glimpse of some of the finest photographs of the nineteenth century. In spite of the spectacularly high quality of their production, only a few of these photographers - such as Felix Nader and Gustave Le Gray - are known to scholars...Whether familiar or unknown, they have left us a legacy of images documenting famous men and great events through a variety of approaches that ranges from studio to countryside and techniques that vary from daguerreotypes to honey-based collodion plates." Dust jacket has some flaws: half inch… Read More

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977. Introduction by Kurt Weitzmann Texts by Margaret English Frazer Based on the catalogue to the exhibition Age of Spirituality Private Press: Metropolitan Museum of Art (MOMA); New York; 1977 4to size staple-bound softcover; 96 pages with illustrated covers and color and black and white illustrations Edgewear and some rubbing wear to covers. Top corner of front cover and fep look like they have been handled with a wet fingertip. Penciled brackets on page 2, 3, 5, 6, 9 and marginalia on pages 2 and 9. . Stapled. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Private Press.

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1992. 243 heavy weight glossy pages with color illustrations. Slight wear to tips and light crease at top front corner. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase price benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Company, 1952. Ex-library with typical treaments. No jacket but flap from jacket is tucked into book. From flap: "...over 750 illustrations of leading ornamental art of the past 500 years...in a single volume, in chronological order, the origin and fantastic development of designs in some of the main groups of applied ornaments...title pages, frontispieces, initials, monograms, alphabets, type flowers, lace books; rare drawings; peasant art; broadsides, bookmarks, calligraphy, heraldic devices, seals and stamps...allegoric cartouches, tattoos..." much more. Red cloth with silver titles. Worn corners and head and heel of spine. 256 pages with color and black and white illustrations. Sunned spine. We noted pencilled check marks at the top of some pages. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long… Read More

New Hampshire: American Arts Media, 2009. Contents include: American Masterworks; John James Audubon's Aviary; John & Susan Horseman Collection; California Watercolors 1930-1950: the Hilbert Collection; Paintings & Illustrations by Wanda Gag; Olin Travis; Modernists New Mexico; The Eight and American Modernisms; Pennsylvania's New Deal Post Office Murals; Regionalism, Modernism & the Midwest. 144 glossy pages with color illustrations. Very slight wear to covers. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Magazine. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

New York: T. Spencer Hutson & Company, 1929. First printing A statement in the book says that 75 copies of this volume were printed and contain an original print, of which 70 were offered for sale. This printing is not that limited edition. 4to size hardcover; contains 11 prints, unnumbered pages, about 30. Printed on ivory colored laid paper with black and white etchings tipped in. The reverso is blank and the prints are suitable for framing if desired. Various sizes etchings are laid in averaging about 8.5 inches. Each etching is clearly marked in small type with the word REPRO. Beneath the etching in what appears to be tiny penciled handwriting, is the title of the etching and who owned it (at the time) the book was printed. With an Appreciation by James C. McGuire, underneath that is a brief biography of the artist. (Frederick) Childe Hassam (1859 - 1935) was a prolific American Impressionist artist with more than 3,000 etchings, lithographs and paintings to his credit. Ex-library… Read More

New York: Schocken Books, 1950. 178 heavy weight glossy pages. Black and white photographs and map of archeological interest. Brown cloth with bright gilt titles on cover, slightly faded on spine. Pencilled price on fep. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: Art et Industrie, 1964. In French. Wear to exterior spine including two half in tears. Bumped corners. 396 heavy, glossy pages with black and white and color prints. Stamped "review copy." No extra shipping charges if sent by US Media Mail. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

4to size softcover; 95 pages with 73 black and white plates Introduction by Philip Rhys Adams, Director, Cincinnati Art Museum Note: our photographs may be close-ups or cropped images of the original artwork. Edgewear, light wear and light soil on back cover; several small creases on cover. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Bourdelle, Antoine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Horizon Press, 1962. 8vo size green clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 144 pages with 41 black and white illustrations of Gorky's artwork and 4 color illustrations on glossy stock. From dust jacket: In this model kind of study of an artist, the author ... presents this pioneer of the new American painting in a masterly blending of biographical portrait and penetrating interpretation. (The author's) perspective is the struggle for identity by the young Armenian immigrant, as involved in the very process of choosing his name, his self-submission to a succession of masters, his transforming friendships with other immigrant painters, until he arrives at the unique style and erotic imagery of his last period." Jacket has minor chipping notably at head and heel and top; we noted ink underlining, brackets or marginalia on at least 28 pages. Fep has discolored area at top and owner's name. . Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Macmillan, 1957. Stated First Printing With a Preface by Lloyd Goodrich and an Introduction by Meyer Schapiro Whitney Museum of Art/Macmillan Company; New York; 1957 4to size green clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 159 glossy pages with black and white illustrations throughout. From jacket: "Arshile Gorky...outstanding modern painter - a man who opened a path for the avant-garde of our day and who achieved, in his own art, a last brilliant flowering of extraordinary power and beauty... This "wild and tender" personality of Gorky - in Andre Breton's words - emerges vividly in this sensitive biography by his pupil and close friend, Ethel K. Schwabacher. It is, in the best sense, an intimate biography, revealing the mercurial temperament, the intense emotional crises, the theatrical exaggerations and the true heroism of the man. But it is more than that, it is also a fascinating record of Gorky's poetic and brilliant talk about art, of his methods of paining, or… Read More

Hingham, MA: Pierce Galleries, Inc., 2003. 204 heavyweight, glossy pages with color illustrations. From back: "An informative guide through the secretive art world; How to build a great art collection and investment portfolio; How to successfully gift, donate, loan and estate plan; Learning how to identify, examine and judge quality; Art world intrigue and scandal - the inside scoop; Cyberspace hazards and e-scams - buyer beware; Candid facts about forgers, fakes and fraud; Stolen art - thieves trafficking and recovery; Dealers, agents, appraisers, authenticators and experts; Greed, glamor (sic) and the art of the deal; Misrepresentations, recasts & reproductions; Auction contracts, fees and shady dealings; Warranties and verbal promises - who to trust; Security systems, fire alarms and self-defense; American painters' auction world records; The top 10 American paintings sold at auction." Light edgewear and slight curl to corners. We noted pink highlighting on at least three… Read More