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Art and Artists of Indiana
by Burnett, Mary Q
Evansville, Ind: Whipporwill Publications / Unigraphic, 1981. Reprint. Hardbound. VG- (slight foxing on upper block edges, bumping to corners, interior surfaces are clean.). Blue buckram, gilt letters on spine & front cover,. xvi, 448 pp. 81 bw plates. A standard, but rare reference work on the artists from Indiana. Packed with good information. Includes specific chapters on New Harmony, George Winter, Jacob Cox, John Love, William M. Chase, The Hoosier Group, Wilhelmina Seegmiller, The Richmond...
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$50.00
Saul Steinberg
by ROSENBERG, Harold
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in wrappers. Paperback, owners name, rubbed at spine ends and corners, cover lightly soiled and browned, tear at lower spine, clean text. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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$20.00
Patron's Supplement, Number 30
New York, New York: Associated American Artists, n.d.. Softcover. G. Covers are detached, show some aging and edge wear. Otherwise contents are clean.. BW stapled wraps. 19 pp. 17 BW illustrations. A catalog for patrons of Associated American Artists, "presenting a new group of original signed Etchings and Lithographs at only five dollars each."
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$35.00
Portraits of Women: Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of St. John's Guild and the Orthopaedic Hospital
by Coffin, William A
New York: National Academy of Design, 1894. ORIGINAL; NOT A REPRINT. Softcover. VG- contents, clean and tight; a hint of age toning to page edges; covers lightly age-soiled, name in fountain pen ink at top right corner of front cover, spine age toned, light chipping to edges, and front cover beginning to tear at lower spine (tape repaired). Grey paper wraps with black lettering. Illustrated adverisement on back cover. 106 pp. + 16 pp.; advertising card set in at rear. No catalogue illustrations....
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$150.00
Gallery of Living Art
by Gallatin, A.E. and Jacques Mauny
Paris: Horizons de France under the artistic direction of De Maximilien Vox, 1930. Softbound. Good- Cover and spine have pulled away from the text block because of dried glue, foil covering of spine has thinned and flaked along the bends. Silver foil wraps with blue cellophane colored circular cut-out on front cover and orange cellophane sheet after last page (no rear cover cut-out however). 44 bw plates. Title page is followed by a four-page essay by Gallatin, followed by an essay on The Gallery of...
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$600.00
Gathered and Preserved
by Flynt, Suzanne L., Susan McGowan and Amelia F. Miller
Deerfield, MA: Pocumtock Valley Memorial Association, 1991. Paperback. VG- light fading to spine.. Glossy rose and color-illustrated wraps with black lettering. 55 pp. Color and BW illustrations.
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$28.00
The Ancient Shape of Man
by Hawkins, John Eric;Messenger, Shari;Benyousky, Nate
Graphic Ways Pub, 2002. Square folio. Stated first edition Grey cloth binding, gilt titles. Printed on 80lb coated cover stock. B&W photos illustrate design in nature, with accompanying poetry by Nate Benyousky and Shari Messenger. Book unread, fine. DJ has slight shelfwear. 107 pp.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Book.
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$85.00
The Artist Sees Differently: Essays Based upon the Philosophy of a Collection in the Making (2-volume set)
by Phillips, Duncan
New York City: E. Weyhe, 1931. Hardcover. G+ (May have gallery bookplate; a few scuffs to covers; perhaps minor dings or tears to head and heel of spines; otherwise only lightly aged overall.). 2 vols. Gray paper boards, maroon cloth spines with black title blocks. Volume 1 = 146 pages, 3 color and 4 bw plates. Volume 2 = unpaginated and contains 245 bw plates on pp. The complete two-volume set of essays and supporting illustrations as assembled by American art critic and collector Duncan Phillips...
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$50.00
Paintings from the collection of CBT (Connecticut Bank and Trust Company)
by Ellis, Candy (Curator)
CBT, 1985. VG. Color pictorial wraps. (52) pp., 49 color plates. Catalogue lists 49 works by as many artists. Publication date is assigned based on text.
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$32.00
Society of Illustrators 37th annual exhibition
by Society of Illustrators
New York: Society of Illustrators, 1939. Softcover. VG-, general wear around wrap and spine edges. Red and B&W illustrated wraps. Profusely illustrated in B&W. Unpaginated. Includes list of pictures for sale. Published to accompany an exhibition which took place April 13-May 6, 1939, Grand Central, Fifth Avenue Galleries, Fifth Avenue at 51st Street, New York.
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$40.00
Archives of American Art Journal, Volume 15, Number 4, 1975
by Cummings, Paul (editor)
New York: Archives of American Art, 1975. 1st . Soft cover. Fine. <p>Contents: William Zorach's Reclining Figures by Roberta K. Tutbell; Sibyl Moholy-Nagy: A Complete Life by Judith Paine.</p>
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$20.00
Crossing Over, Changing Places: An Exhibition of Collaborative Print Projects and Paperworks
by Farmer, Jane M
Riverdale, Md: Pyramid Atlantic, 1992. Softcover. VG. Slight wear to edges or corners.. Color-illustrated wraps. 173 pp. BW & color illustrations. Issued in conjunction with several exhibitions featuring artists, printers, and papermakers in New Brunswick, NJ; New York City; Philadelphia; and Riverdale, Maryland. Includes artist bios and a wide selection of artwork produced.
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$25.00
The Philadelphia Museum Bulletin: Portfolio of French Painting
by Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1938. Paperback. G+. Heavy tanning to covers, as well as edge wear such as small rips and creases. Pages aged in color. May contain minor marginalia.. White stapled wraps with BW illustration. [14] pp. 13 BW illustrations. Volume XXXII, No. 174, January 1938.
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$25.00
Artistic America, Tiffany Glass, and Art Nouveau
by Bing, Samuel and Robert Koch
Cambridge: THE MIT Press, 1970. Paperback. VG- light corner and edge wear.. Silver wraps with color-illustration and lettering in brown and turquoise. xiv, 258 pp. Mainly BW illustrations. Contents: Artistic America, Louis C. Tiffany's Coloured Glass Work, L' Art Nouveau from The Architectural Record, L'Art Nouveau translated by Irene Sargent from The Craftsman.
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$38.00
The Art of the Sister Chapel: Exemplary Women, Visionary Creators, and Feminist Collaboration
by Hottle, Andrew D
Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2014. Hardcover. Fine/VG- (Dj has light shelf wear). Black boards with silver lettering. Glossy blue dj with color photographic image. 297 pp. with 16 color plates; numerous bw figures, numbered by chapter. The Sister Chapel (1974-78) was an important collaborative installation that materialized at the height of the women's art movement. Conceived by Ilise Greenstein as a nonhierarchical, secular commemoration of female role models, The Sister Chapel...
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$85.00
Sport in American Art
by Edgell, G.H
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1944. Paperback. VG. Green stapled wraps with yellow lettering. 40 pp. BW illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition from October 10 through December 10, 1944.
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$30.00
Wyeth at Kuerners
by Betsy James Wyeth; Andrew Wyeth [Painter]
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Dust jacket with light edgewear, including small tear to top edge and a samll hole near spine. Page edges with lihght spotting. Otherwise clean and intact throughout. First Printing.
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$38.56
The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent
by Atil, Esin
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. 1st . Hardcover. As New/Fine.
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$35.00
52nd Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture
by Chicago, IL: Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 30, 1941 to Jan. 4, 1942
1941. Softbound. VG, exlib writing on cover, wear to spine, some notations inside. Red wraps. [36] pp. 25 bw plates. Introduction by Daniel Catton Rich; biographical notes on prize-winning artists; catalogue is alphabetical by artist and includes prices -- 222 paintings and 54 sculptures. Newspaper article glued onto ffep has dark glue marks showing through on reverse side of page.
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$40.00
The Prints of Rockwell Kent: Catalogue Raisonne
by Jones, Dan Burne;Kent, Rockwell
Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1975. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1975, first printing. Folio, 9 3/4" x 13". xx+219 pp., illustrated with over 300 reproductions printed on laid paper. Gold cloth with gilt titles and cover emboss, black and gold Rockwell Kent paper inlay, pictorial patterned end papers. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with mild creasing and short, closed tear along the top edge.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio....
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$195.00
Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Paintings, London, 16th May, 1988
by _________________
London: Sotheby's, 1988. 1st . Soft cover. Fine. lacking prices realized. <p>379 lots in the auction.</p>
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$15.00
Early American Paintings: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
by Morgan, John Hill (foreword)
Brooklyn: Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1917. 1st . Hardcover. Near Fine. #445 of 500 copies; small spots of light mottling, pages unopened. <p>The catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 3 - March 12, 1917. 140 paintings are described and illustrated.</p>
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$60.00
Saul Steinberg
by Rosenberg, Harold
New York: Knopf, 1978. First paperback edition. Paperback. Near Fine. This large format paperback accompanied a major retrospective of Steinberg's drawings and collages at the Whitney Museum. 256pp. with hundreds of black and white illustrations and 64 color plates with some fold-outs, including variations of his famous New Yorker covers.
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$35.00
Cambios: The Spirit of Transformation in Spanish Colonial Art
by Palmer, Gabrielle and Donna Pierce
Albuquerque, NM: Santa Barbara Museum of Art / University of New Mexico Press, 1992. Hardcover. VG/VG-. Some tanning on page edges, but otherwise clean interior. Dust jacket shows shelf wear.. Black cloth with gray lettering on spine. Black dust jacket with color illustration, blue and red lettering. 149 pp. 119 color plates and additional bw illustrations. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition representing the art and decorative arts of Mexico and South America produced during the Vice-regal...
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$50.00
