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African Art Books & Ephemera
Daumier The Man and the Artist
by Sadleir, Michael (on Honore Daumier)
London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1924 limited ed. (700 copies). vii, 40pp of text & 91 plates. t.e.g. brown cloth 4to w/gilt titles: about Good [cover cloth is worn @ extremities; few pp. show some darkening in the margins; plates illustrating the work of the artist are untroubled; a complete & tight copy] An enormous sized study of the life and work of French painter and caricaturist Honore Daumier (1808-79).
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$35.00
Anish Kapoor
by Bhabha, Homi K. and Tazzi, Pier Luigi
Hayward Gallery & University of California Press. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 1853321788 . Clean hardback tightly bound in pictorial boards with white titles, boards bumped at top corners and rubbed at bottom corners, no inscriptions. 120 pages, illustrations in the text, bibliography .
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£10.00
David O. Selznicks Hollywood 2 Aufl
by Haver R
Muenchen: Rogner + Bernhard, 1983. Gebunden mit Schutzumschlag DIN A4
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€56.00
Scale Wood-Craft, Number 7, Winter 1987
by West, Richard C., Editor
Brookfield, Connecticut: Harbor Press, Inc., 1987. First printing. Vintage paperback. Good +/No jacket. 72 pages, subscription cards intact, illustrated with black and white photographs and diagrams. Articles include "The Genius of Ivan Collins," "The Works of Pat and Noel Thomas," "Hand Powered Tools," "Plans and Patterns" and more. Yellow illustrated wraps with black and white titles on front cover, two staple binding. Light edge wear to cover, a little...
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$10.00
Riflessioni Italiane: Recent Paintings
by Kelley, William w/artist's profile by Gerrit Henry
New York: Walter Wickiser Gallery. 2002 1st ed. 55pp. illus. hardback 4to in laminated pictorial boards: Fine/no dj [couple of tiny corner bumps; else F] A high quality production featuring color plates of two dozen of the artist's Italian paintings depicting scenes in Florence and the surrounding Tuscan countryside.
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$25.00
Fine Embellishment Techniques
by Conlon, Jane
Newtown, Connecticut: The Taunton Press, Inc., 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 170 pages with index, illustrated with color photographs and black and white and color drawings and diagrams. Using classic embellishment techniques from the 1920s through the 1940s, adapted for today's styles. Red quarter cloth over blue boards with silver titles on spine. Very light edge wear, minor spotting, interior pages bright, gift inscription on title page, binding tight. Illustrated dust jacket...
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$5.00
Pastoral Dreams
by Schorsch, Anita
New York: Universe Books, 1977 1st ed. 71pp. illus. paperback sq 8vo: Very Good+ in a Good+ unusual paperback dj that is price-clipped with some top edge chipping. Literary bits about sheep with handsome illustrations.
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$9.95
Art & Lifestyle
by Neiman, LeRoy
New York: Felicie Publishers, 1974 1st ed. 285pp. illus. beige cloth folio: Good/no dj [some age darkening of light colored cloth covers; spine crack of heavy volume mid-text not really affecting book’s integrity; else a clean & complete copy] A big, colorful retrospective volume of the work of American sports artist Neiman (1921-2012), published during his heyday of working for Playboy magazine.
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$25.00
Charles Ortega
by Peire, Cristine A
Italy: Arti grafiche Giorgi & Gambi. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean, tightly bound larger format book with a gift inscription in French signed & dated by Charles Ortega on the front endpaper, and there is also a large pen & ink drawing by him on the front pastedown, but no other inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is worn at the corners. 84 pages + 33 colour & b/w plates, notes. Text in French, English, German, Italian...
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£25.00
On the Road to Rome: An Artist's Year in Italy
by McLoughlin, Marlene
London: Pavilion Books, 1995 1st ed. unpaginated illustrated hardback oblong 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj.
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$15.00
Drawing and painting fantasy beasts: bring to life the creatures and monsters of other realms
by Walker, Kevin
David & Charles. Fine. 2007. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0715327925 . Clean and tightly bound paperback, no inscriptions, spine uncreased, appears unread. 128 pages, illustrations in the text, index .
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£8.00
Alice Starmore's Book of Fair Isle Knitting
by Starmore, Alice
Newtown, Connecticut: The Taunton Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 199 pages with index, illustrated with more than 250 drawings, photographs and charts. A complete workshop on the art of colorwork Fair Isle knitting, by a recognized master of the craft. Gray cloth binding with white titles on the spine, decorative end papers. Very little wear to cover, titles bright, interior pages bright and clean, binding tight. Illustrated red dust jacket with white titles has a couple of...
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$35.00
How to Make 2X4 Furniture for Indoors and Outdoors
by The Family Workshop
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 128 pages, illustrated with color plates and black and white drawings and diagrams. How to make handsome, solid-wood furniture with basic tools and no advanced skills. Quarter brown cloth over tan boards with gilt titles on spine, tan end papers. Very light edge wear, minor bumping of corners, slight spotting, interior pages bright, binding tight. Illustrated white dust jacket with orange and black titles on front cover...
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$3.00
The Anstey Weston Guide to Textile Terms
by Weston, H. Anstey T
London: Weston Publishing Limited, 1999. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Unpaginated, arranged in sections with index, terms and an appendix of trade names and abbreviations. An accessible introduction to textile terminology for the student and professional in fashion, textile and related industries.Black boards with white titles on front cover and spine. Book looks nearly new with light wear at edges, interior pages bright and clean, binding tight. Matching black jacket with white titles is a...
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$5.00
The painter and his materials
by Mills, John
The Artist Publishing Company Ltd.. Good. 1960. First Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback original, no inscriptions, spine sunned but uncreased, appears little used. 56 pages .
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£6.00
The Polymer Clay Techiques Book
by Heaser, Sue
Cincinnati, Ohio: North Light Books, 1999. Not stated. Paperback. Very Good/No jacket. 128 pages with index, illustrated with color photographs. A guide to the wealth of creative possibilities that polymer clay has to offer. White wraps with colorful titles on front cover and white titles on spine. Light edge wear, minor scratches, interior pages bright, binding tight. Trade paperback. Measures 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches.
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$10.00
Russell Drysdale
by Dutton, Geoffrey
Thames & Hudson Ltd. Fair in Good dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 0500180989 . Reading copy, an ex library hardback with the usual stamps & stickers, no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which has a little loss of laminate at the top & bottom edges. 216 pages, 144 illustrations, including 28 in colour, bibliography, index .
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£10.00
The Complete Photographer, Issue 1 to Issue 6
by Morgan, Willard D., Editor
New York: National Educational Alliance, Inc., 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/No jacket. Six copies of Volume I bound into a handsome brown wrapper with embossed titles and a camera illustration on front cover. A complete guide to amateur and professional photography. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Each magazine has original red illustrated cover with white titles. Light wear to binder, edge wear along spine, boards curved, top of spine bumped in, minor spotting, a little bumping...
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$60.00
African Textiles
by The Newark Museum
San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1994. Not stated. Paperback. Very Good/No jacket. Unpaginated, a collection of beautiful postcards in color, suitable for framing or mailing. All present and attached. Colorful illustrated wraps with white titles on front cover and spine. Remains of old sticker on front cover, light edge wear, light scuffing of back cover, interior pages bright and clean, binding tight. Trade paperback, measures 7 x 5 inches.
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$12.00
John Marin Drawings 1886-1951
by Reich, Sheldon (on John Marin)
University of Utah Press, 1969. 120pp. illus. black cloth oblong sm 4to: Very Good/no dj [some top edge foxing; few back cover scuffs; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A Retrospective Exhibition Honoring John Marin's Centennial. Organized by the University of Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
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$15.00
Corsets and Crinolines
by Waugh, Nora
London: B.T.Batsford Ltd., 1954. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. The jacket is all there, no chips, just a little toned. The book itself is also very good, the blue cloth covers with title in gilt fine. Inside the endpapers and preliminary pages a little offset because of the highly acidic paper, otherwise clean throughout. This survey of women's undergarments begins with the 16th century and ends in the mid 1920's. Illustrated in black & white with 115 drawings...
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$175.00
Monograph Stane Jagodic
by Jagodic Stane
Zagreb: Globus, 1989. Gebunden mit Schutzumschlag Abb. 26x31 cm
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€54.00
ART: Boy At Mirror
by Rockwell, Norman
Mass Mutual Life Insurance, 1959. Book. A print after Rockwell's original pencil drawing, printed by Mass Mutual in the 1950's but also printed in a 1959 issue of Saturday Evening Post. A VERY GOOD COPY, 11" X 14", unframed..
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$15.00
Lampes
by Licetus
18x32cm Druckgroesse des Originalkupferstichs CLXXX.Pl.a la 224.pag. T.V. Tome V 180 Leicht gebraeunt
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€100.00
The Complete Photographer, Issue 25 to Issue 30
by Morgan, Willard D., Editor
New York: National Educational Alliance, Inc., 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/No jacket. Six copies of Volume V bound into a handsome brown wrapper with embossed titles and a camera illustration on front cover. A complete guide to amateur and professional photography. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Each magazine has original red illustrated cover with white titles. Light wear to binder, edge wear along spine, boards a little curved, top of spine bumped in, minor spotting, a...
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$60.00
