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A Distanced Land: The Photographs of John Pfahl
by Pfahl, John
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. 1st, olive cloth, oblong sm. 4to, vg (small stain on the front board; boards lightly bowed) in a vg- dj (edges worn, especially at spine head and bottom front corner; small chip to bottom front corner). Oblong 4to, 204 pp. incl. 106 color plates of fascinating photographs.
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$50.00
Another Day in Paradise
by Attwood, Mark
Albuquerque: Mark Attwood, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+. 1st and only edition: "This book is no. 41 in a limited edition of 50. Printed from linocuts on Rives heavyweight paper, using a Dufa flat-bed offset press." On the next page, preceding the title page: "Another Day in Paradise is a collection of images by a group of people from different countries and backgrounds. Artists, printers, students, curators, a director and a doctor participated. Each person was invited to...
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$2,000.00$1,700.00
Victor Higgins: An American Master
by Porter, Dean A
Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Victor Higgins. 1st, a square 4to, blue cloth, nf in vg+ dj (short tear at top of spine). 304 pp. incl. index; 130 color plates. A beautiful book and a real treasure. SIGNED on the title page by Porter and dated 4.30.91; later someone has added a caricature of a man in a sportsman's cap, which may be portraying Higgins. It is dated 16 April 2000, not in Porter's hand.
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$160.00$136.00
American Craft June July 1991
by American Craft Council
NY: American Craft Council. 1991 First Edition Crafts and Art Magazine 96 pages Illustrated.Very good with light wear. See Photos mag bx 7
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$10.00
Gail and Zachariah Rieke: Found Objects in an Open World
by Brandauer, Aline Chipman with Summer Carnahan
Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. Exhibition Catalog, exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico from July 16, 1999-January 23, 2000; INSCRIBED by 'Gail' Rieke on title page; square 8vo, stitched book housed in paper fold-out; vg (toning; edgeworn; nick to bottom stitched end) with a vg- fold-out carton (toning; edges bumped, worn, and creased; inch tear to bottom edge of rear panel); 47pp.
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$40.00
Cowboys and Images: The Watercolors of William Matthews
by Matthews, William
San Francisco: Chronicle, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. William Matthews. Foreword by William Kittredge. 1st, sm. sq. folio in black cloth, vg (cocked) in vg (rubbed) dj. 134 pp., all color.
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$45.00
James Turrell Eclipse.
by TURRELL, James. With a text by Richard Bright and CD by Paul Schutze
London and Ostfildern, Germany: Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art and Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1999. First edition / First printing. Illustrated boards. Very fine in fine mylar dust jacket, with extremely light rubbing.
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$100.00
Taos Artists and Their Patrons 1898-1950
by Porter, Dean A., Teresa Hays Ebie & Suzan Campbell et al
Snite Museum, U of Notre Dame, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition, no additional printings; SIGNED on the title page by Porter, Campbell, and contributor Robert White; beige cloth, lg. sq. 4to; vg+ (light bump to spine head and top corners) in vg+ dj (edgewear; bump to top front corner). 400 pp. incl. index.
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$500.00$425.00
Notes in Hand
by Oldenburg, Claes
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1971. Pocket-size paperback reproducing 50 pages from the artist's notebooks, with some commentary, introduction, bibliography. As new in shrinkwrap, as pictured; minor wear to corners. . Paperback. As New. 4¼" by 5¾".
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$25.00
A Portfolio of Drawings by William Dixon Based on the Novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs
by Dixon, William
Philadelphia: Oswald Train: Pubisher 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Chalker and Owings report a print run of 500 copies [but incorrectly describe the illustrations as laid in loose, given that every copy that I have seen has been bound as follows]. Very oversize [about 11.25" x 16.25"] gray pictorial wrappers, sadde-stapled, unpaginated [printed rectos only]. Collects a frontispiece pencil portrait of Edgar Rice Burroughs, 10 numbered plates based on his works; plus a 1 page commentary on the...
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$20.00
Sloan's Constructive Architecture; A Guide to the Practical Builder and Mechanic. In Which Is Contained A Series Of Designs For Domes, Roofs And Spires, etc..
by Sloan, Samuel
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1866. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's cloth with front cover gilt decoration bright and clean. Very good. 148 pages. 30 x 24 cm. Sixty-six plates, most of which are colored lithographs, and one, a large fold-out [uncolored]. Glossary. Geometrical Definitions. The second edition is identical to the first, published in 1859. KARPEL B295. "Before this work appeared in 1859, the standards for carpentry and building construction were largely set by foreign...
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$625.00
The Renaissance of Western Art
by Ward Johanna Walsh & James
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Mint,1974. Bound in brown leatherette. 144 pages of western art, filled with color full page plates. Very light edge wear, some bubbling to cloth covered boards, binding defect,, foot of spine lightly bumped. cl/over
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$15.00
The Art of the Old West
by Rossi, Paul
Very light wear in like dust jacket. See photos bx95
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$25.00
View Finder: Mark Klett, Photography, and the Reinvention of Landscape
by Fox, William L
Albuquerque: UNM, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Mark Klett photos. 1st, 4to, white cloth, vg (cocked; shelfworn) in vg dj (edgeworn). 309 pp.
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$60.00
The Beauties of Modern Architecture
by Lafever, Minard
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary quarter black roan and midnight blue speckled boards Very good. Lafever, Minard. 139 pages in text. 27 x 18 cm. Forty-eight engraved plates. The rare first edition. This monograph consists of a section entitled "Architectural History" extracted from Elmes's DICTIONARY, a glossary of names and terms used in architecture from the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITTANICA, and a series of elegantly drawn and engraved designs for doors, windows, and...
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$595.00
Eight Bears: A Biography of E.W. Deming
by Lamb, Thomas G
Okla. City: Griffin, 1978. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. E.W. Deming. 1st, brown boards, nf in vg+ price-cl. dj w/ a little edgewear at top. In a near fine red cloth-covered slipcase. 145 pp. incl. index. This is #199 of 200 copies SIGNED by Lamb on a special bookplate affixed to the front pastedown; it is also SIGNED by Jeff Dyles, who contributed 'A Bibliographic Checklist' at p. 133.
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$120.00$102.00
Art And Life In America
by Oliver W Larkin
Rinehart, 1949. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1949. 547 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. The clipped dust jacket has heavy edge...
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$31.45
Clinton Adams: A retrospective Exhibition of Lithographs
by Coke, Van Deren (interview)
Albuquerque: UNM, 1973. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good+. Clinton Adams. A sm. 4to softcover booklet of 32 pp., vg+.
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$35.00
AMERICAN PAINTERS
by G. W. Sheldon
New York: D. Appleton, 1879. Hardcover. Good +. 9 x 11 in. Cloth boards. Numerous engraved plates. Condition is GOOD+ ; front hinge tender but holding. Covers clean, corners and spine ends worn. Some marks on ffep, text bright and unmarked. Art. Stax.
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$35.00
Ando en Cueros: I Walk Stark-naked
by Waldrum, H. Joe
Bosque, N.M.: Chinaberry Press, 1994. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Limited Edition, one of 2000 hardcover copies published; square folio, orange cloth; vg (boards bowing; mark and spot on front board; spine ends and corners rubbed and lightly bumped; corners rubbed; spot on rfep; dent to rear pastedown) in vg clear mylar dj (edgeworn; panels scratched and worn); 138pp. Please be aware that shipping this item internationally will require additional postage.
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$60.00
Norman Rockwell, Illustrator
by Guptill, Arthur L
USA: Watson-Guptil Publications, 1970. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Seventh Printing of Third Edition, 1972. Hardcover Quarto AS NEW with a VG Dust Jacket. Preface by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Biographical Introduction by Jack Alexander. The art of a preeminent American 20th Century artist, 437 illustrations, 43 in color, plus 250 covers for The Saturday Evening Post ( read by all in 1900 mid-century in America) done over a period of thirty years,...
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$15.01
De Grazia: The University of Arizona Museum of Art
by Steadman, William E. (Introduction)
Tucson: University of Arizona Museum of Art, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. De Grazia. 'Introduction, Illustrations, and Bibliography'; folio, blue cloth; vg (cocked; black mark on front board; darkening to pastedowns; light wrinkling to last page and rfep) in vg+ dj (light wear to corners).
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$15.00
Infinite Light
by Turrell, James
Scottsdale, Ariz.: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine. A beautifully designed, remarkable folio, in black hardcovers that open to reveal 4 pockets, each containing an accordion-fold booklet and color photos (very fine prints, 14 in all). The first is an introduction, with a 'frontis' photo of the artist, the booklet SIGNED by him. The other three concern various art installations, and are titled 'The Light in Our Dreams', 'Path to the...
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$1,200.00$1,020.00
Heaven's Window: A Journey through Northern New Mexico
by Wallis, Michael
Portland, OR: Graphic Arts Center, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Jack Parsons photos. 1st, sm. sq. 4to, black cloth, nf in vg+ dj. 120 pp. SIGNED by author & photographer on the half-title.
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$60.00
Alison Brady
by Alison Brady
From the library of Brady's first NY gallerist, signed by the author. The gallerist was also a painter, and accordingly the cover shows traces of paint and dust. Otherwise a fine copy. Ships from Mexico City, always by Fedex, DHL or UPS. Siranda Librería Anticuaria - we specialize in rare and oop books on the arts, music and literature in many languages. Inquiries welcome
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$280.00
