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Mark Rothko
by Jeffrey; Novak, Barbara; O'doherty, Brian; Gage, John; Rosenthal, Mark; Mancusi-Ungaro, Carol Weiss

The Avant-Garde In Russia, 1910-1930
by Stephanie; Tuchman, Maurice; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Barron
Art by Period Books & Ephemera

Paintings from Private Collections - A 25th Anniversary Exhibition
by Barr, Alfred H. ; Jr
New York: Museum of Modern Art. Good+. 1955. First Edition. Paperback. 24 pages; Contents clean and secure in original printed white wrappers. Contents include Introduction by Barr, Catalogue of the Exhibition, and Bibliography. Not illustrated. Small note in ink on front wrapper "Art Museums"; lower outer corner bumped, light dust soiling; otherwise very good condition. Inside front cover label for "The American Library London" Fifty-one painters are represented in the...
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DAQUIN - Identites Textiles No. 3 4 Novembre 1983 - 8 Mars 1984
by Daquin, Pierre ; Jean Coural ; Michel Thomas
Beauvais: Gallerie Nationale de la Tapisserie et d'Art Textile. Near Fine. 1983. Paperback. 36 pages; Clean and tight in original pictorial wrappers. Exhibition catalogue. Illustrated with photographs of dozens of Daquin's textile works. OCLC: 32106356; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .
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$14.94

The Musee National du Moyen Age: Thermes de Cluny, Paris
by Huchard, Viviane (Chief Curator)
Paris: Fondation Paribas, Reunion des Musees Nationaux. 1999. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good+ condition - Card Wraps. Illustrated with Colour photographs. English translation by Margaret Clarke. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 126 pages. . Reprint. Softcover.
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A$20.00

The English Country Town
by Quiney, Anthony and Morrison, Robin
London: Thames and Hudson, 1987. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from gentle bumping to top corner tip) with dustjacket which has a closed tear and a little wear to spine head and tail. A large format volume of 192 pages. 320 colour photographs. 1 map. Medieval spires rising over bustling market places; half-timbered Elizabethan inns next to Georgian town halls; a busy high street with views over quiet countryside: these are some of the images conjured up by the phrase'an English country...
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£10.00

The Great Theatres of London
by Bergan, Ronald
London: Prion, 1987. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 200 pages. Illustrated throughout. Foreword by Anthony Hopkins. The remarkable diversity of entertainment on offer and the incomparable gifts of English actors are internationally renowned, but it is in the buildings themselves that the long rich history of the theatre is to be found. From the imposing classical grandeur of Drury Lane to the functional modernism of the National Theatre, poised on the edge of the...
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Richard Prince
by Spector, Nancy
New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2007. 371 pp. Quarto. Original pictorial printed boards. Photographic endpapers. Copiously illustrated with black and white and colour illustrations. A fine clean tight copy A wonderful exhibition catalogue beautifully produced and illustrated. The exhibit was put on in New York, and Minneapolis in the States and traveled to the Serpentine Gallery in London. Uncommon in the hard cover edition. 2007
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CA$250.00

Exhibition Drawings and Watercolors by Walt Kuhn April 23 through May 12, 1962
by New York. Maynard Walker Gallery
New York: Maynard Walker Gallery, 1962. First edition. Paperback. Orig. tan printed wrappers. Very good. Kuhn, Walt. 10 pages. Eleven illustrations. Drawings and watercolors date from 1928 to shortly before his death in1949. These works by Kuhn were never previously exhibited. They were shown for the first time in 1960 at the Cincinnati Museum. This was the second exhibition and the first in New York. With a typed price list signed by Maynard Walker, and laid-in hand-written note from Richard K....
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$75.00

The World of Watteau 1684-1721
by Schneider, Pierre and the Editors of Time-Life Books
Alexandria (VA): Time-Life Books, 1977. Fourth Printing - Revised. Hardcover. Near Fine/With No Dust-jacket As Issued. "Dark Brown Quarto Leatherette and Tan Board Covers; Pictorial Endpapers; 4to; illustrated in black-and-white and color; indexed; 192 pages; with a Very Good + Slipcase; one of 28 volumes in the Time-Life Library of Art series. Slipcase has pastedown of "Detail from Mezzetin" " 2.71#; P5;
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$13.25

A.M. Cassandre
by Mouron, Henri
New York: Rizzoli, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 314 pages. 28 x 25 cm. 398 illustrations, ninety in color. Written by his son, this monograph presents Cassandre's manipulation of typography and image -- including work for the theater, the great typsetters of the time, as well as the posters.
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$200.00

Cymbeline
by Gill, Eric (Illustrator)
London: J.M. Dent, 1935. Hardcover. Orig. decorated, crimsoncloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 178 pages. Edited by M.R. Ridley. The New Temple Shakespeare. With title-page, half-title binding, and jacket designs by Eric Gill. Teg.
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$30.00

Exhibition -- XXth CENTURY ARTISTS October 3 to November 5 1960 The Sidney Janis Gallery
by Sidney Janis Gallery
New York: Sydney Janis Gallery. Very Good. 1960. First Edition. Paperback. 20 pages; Clean and secure in original glossy wrappers; some wear at spine and a scrape at top of front wrapper. OCLC 461586952 Artists represented include: Arp, Brancusi, Braque, Brauner, deStael, Dubuffet, Ernst, Giacometti, Gleizes, Gris, Jawl, Ensky, Kandinsky, Klee, Leger, Magritte, Metzinger, Miron, Mondrian, Picabia, Picasso, Schwitters, Severini, Torres-Garcia, Vivin, Vlaminck (FAUVE) .
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$14.94

Aspects Of Art In France Delacroix to Picasso
by R.S. Johnson Fine Art
Chicago: R. S. Johnson Fine Art, 2001. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 74 pages. 10 1/2 x 8 1/2". 34 color plates, each with provenance and detailed description.
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$15.00

Jean Dubuffet - A Retrospective (Waddington Galleries, London 5 - 29 October 1983)
by DUBUFFET, Jean
Waddington Galleries, London, 1983. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. Square 4to in colour printed stiff card covers, 56pp, plates in colour and b/w, etc __CONDITION : An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread and unmarked copy. ... __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS
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£46.64

HANS HOFMANN - Paintings on Paper From the 1940s
by Hofmann, Hans
New York: Andre Emmerich Gallery. Fine. 1990. First Edition. Paperback. Clean and tight in original red wrappers with white lettering. Black & white frontispiece photograph of the artist in studio and eight (8) brilliant colour full page plates printed on high quality glossy photographic stock. Hans Hofmann (1880 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. Hofmann's art work is distinguished by a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and...
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Members of the Penwith Society of Arts. August 1964.
by PENWITH SOCIETY
Saint Ives.: The Penwith Society of Aarts., 1964. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo. Original paper wrappers. membership list with extensive documentation. Covers thumbed and darkened, label of the Nicholas Tresilian, gallery owner and television producer.
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£28.00

OVERZICHT VAN DE ACTIVITEITEN / APERCU DES ACTIVITES 10.2003 - 10.2004
by Cahen-Delhaye, Anne
Koninklijke Musea & Musees Royaux d'Art. Near Fine. 2005. Paperback. 115 pages; Quarto volume in original stiff pictorial wrappers. Illustrated throughout. Text in German and French. Wonderful photograph of a tatooed man on front cover. OCLC: 488669272; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .
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$14.94

Drawings For The Iliad
by Baskin, Leonard (Illustrator)
New York: Delphic Arts, 1963. Hardcover. Fine in fine modern cloth and board portfolio. Baskin, Leonard. Sixty black and white lithographs 26 1/4 x 20 inches each plate numbered in blind at plate bottom on Fabriano paper in an edition of ninety by the Meridian Gravure Company. Apparently an extra suite of plates not issued with a portfolio, all plates clean, bright and fresh. BASKIN 32. BROOK 29. FERN 448-450.
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$1950.00

Jedd Garet
by Pincus-Witten, Robert
Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark brown cloth lettered in black. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 167 pages. 33 x 26.5 cm. Mostly color plates printed recto only on high gloss stock. Laid in the invitation to his exhibition at the Robert Miller Gallery in New York, March 29 through April 23, 1983.
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$35.00
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An American Museum in Britain [includes typed letter signed by Ian McCallum, Director]
by Munsing, Stefan
London: Museums Journal. Near Fine. 1961. Paperback. Offprint from Museums Journal Vol. 61, No. 3 December 1961; 8 pages; Contents clean and unmarked in original self wrappers. This offprint contain an asticle by Stefan Munsing on the American Museum in Britain - Claverton House in Bath. Included is a typed letter on American Museum in Britain letterhead to Munsing from the museum's director Ian McCallun (signed) thanking Munsing for his help in organizing an American Costume exhibition. The...
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At Taliesin" Newspaper Columns by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship 1934-1937
by Henning, Randolph C (Compiler)
Carbondale: Souther Illinois Univ. Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 322 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Host of illustrations. Of the 285 columns written, 112 are included here. Index. As new copy.
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$30.00

New Paintings by Richard Anuszkiewicz Opening Wednesday 4-7, February 10 to March 6, 1971 at Janis, 6 W 57, NY
by Anuszkiewicz, Richard ; Sidney Janis Gallery
New York: Sidney Janis Gallery. Very Good. 1971. First Edition. Paperback. 14 pages; Clean and secure in original glossy black wrappers with die-cut to front wrapper revealing a detail of a red and black painting of concentric squares. A couple rubbed spots on front wrapper. OCLC 198060964 Richard Joseph Anuszkiewicz (1930 2020) was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Anuszkiewicz was born in Erie, PA to Polish immigrant parents. He first studied art under Joseph Plavcan,...
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CONTEMPORARY YUGOSLAV PAINTING AND SCULPTURE 28 April - 28 May 1961 Tate Gallery
by Krzisnik, Zoran ; (Introduction)
London: The Arts Council. Very Good+. 1961. First Edition. Paperback. Clean and secure in original decorative wrappers. OCLC 460321903 Introduction by Zoran Krzisnik. 31 full page illustrations; each opposite a brief artist biography. Exhibition also travelled to Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry; Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull; and Brighton Art Gallery. .
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$19.94

ALTERNATIVY TAPISERIE Ceske a Slovenske 28.2 - 31.2.1991
by Kybalova, Ludmila
Brno: Unie výtvarných umelcu. Near Fine. 1991. Paperback. 40 pages; Clean and tight in original printed wrappers. Blindstamp of former owner on tp and last page. Profusely illustrated with monochrome photographs of the exhibition pieces. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .
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$10.94

XXe Siecle Nouvelle Series * XXX1 Annee * No. 33 * December 1969
by Paris. Societe Internationale D'Art XXe Siecle
Paris: XXe Siecle, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards. Fine. Approx. 180 pages. 31 x 25 cm. Two full page original lithographs: d'Esteve (collage) and Capogrossi -- both in color and the latter is double-paged. Plus. a plethora of black and white and color plates. Articles on Manzu, Calder, Leger et al. Text in French. Bright, very clean copy.
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$250.00

ARTHUR GIBBONS - New Sculpture April 19 - May 19 , 1984
by Arthur Gibbons, Will Ameringer
New York: Andre Emmerich Gallery. Near Fine. 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Clean and tight in original blue glossy wrappers. Illustrated with six colour and five b&w full page plates. .
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$9.94