Search Results: Titles starting with O from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Viking Press, 1983. xii, 402 pages, [18] pages of plates, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket with light edgewear. "Kennedy's O Albany is in part the non-fictional stories he covered in his novels, Legs and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. Kennedy retells the exploits of the bootlegger Jack 'Legs' Diamond, the bungled 1933 kidnapping of John O'Connell, Jr., heir to the Albany Democratic machine and explores the Albany of his past, including its demographics and vanished neighborhoods." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: North Point Press; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. xvii, 281 pages, illustrations, map; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First American Edition. "Traces the steps of six women--author Fanny Trollope, actress Fanny Kemble, economist Harriet Martineau, homesteader Rebecca Burlend, traveler Isabella Bird, and novelist Catherine Hubback--who came to America in the nineteenth century to start new lives." - Publisher.. 1st.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Santa Barbara, CA: Center for Portuguese Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1995. 500 pages; 23 cm..Publications of the Center for Portuguese Studies; 9. Texts in Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish. Near fine. Tight, clean text. Tail edge lightly soiled. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Washington D.C. and New York: National Gallery of Art; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000. Cloth, 143 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 9 to July 9, 2000, and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, N.M., July 29 to October 29, 2000. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with corner creasing/front flap protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Hailed as one of America's most innovative artists, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) created works on paper throughout her long career. More than fifty of her most stunning charcoals, pastels, and watercolors are presented in this catalogue, which accompanies the exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Bantam Books, 1992. xiii, 376 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "One of this century's most beloved and celebrated artists, Georgia O'Keeffe transmitted her most intimate feelings onto her canvases. But the details of her private life were zealously guarded, leaving the world to wonder: What was the inspiration, and the impetus, for her sexually charged flower paintings? What was the nature of her relationship with her much older husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz? Why did she lie about her past and hide herself from her public? Journalist and author Jeffrey Hogrefe discloses the answers to these questions and more in O'Keeffe, a richly detailed biography that illuminates much of the mystery and intrigue that surround Georgia O'Keeffe, and finally reveals the real woman behind the legend. Hogrefe's encounter with the ninety-three-year-old artist and with Juan Hamilton,… Read More

Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989. 376 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. Corner crease/back cover. Another copy available. CONTENTS: The background and the early reviews; The woman in the photographs; Georgia O'Keeffe, American; A period of adjustment; Matters of fact and matters of opinion; Across the final surface; Conclusion; O'Keeffe and her work: selected commentary, 1916-1929; Contributors to the criticism.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

New York: Doubleday; Nan A. Talese, 1991. x, 546 pages, [40] pages of plates, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to boards.Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Almost 24 years his junior, Georgia O'Keeffe became for Alfred Stieglitz a near icon of American art--as well as his wife. In a marvelous, multileveled biography, Benita Eisler traces the epic and stormy relationship of these incomparable artists, from their consuming ambition to their sexual experimentation." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989. 376 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small corner crease/back cover. CONTENTS: The background and the early reviews; The woman in the photographs; Georgia O'Keeffe, American; A period of adjustment; Matters of fact and matters of opinion; Across the final surface; Conclusion; O'Keeffe and her work: selected commentary, 1916-1929; Contributors to the criticism.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1992. x, 546 pages, [40] pages of plates, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Good+. Firm binding, with one slight spine crease. Clean inside copy. Age toning. First paperback edition. Another copy available. "Almost 24 years his junior, Georgia O'Keeffe became for Alfred Stieglitz a near icon of American art--as well as his wife. In a marvelous, multileveled biography, Benita Eisler traces the epic and stormy relationship of these incomparable artists, from their consuming ambition to their sexual experimentation." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

New York: Bantam Books, 1992. xiii, 376 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown, age toning. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Another copy available. "One of this century's most beloved and celebrated artists, Georgia O'Keeffe transmitted her most intimate feelings onto her canvases. But the details of her private life were zealously guarded, leaving the world to wonder: What was the inspiration, and the impetus, for her sexually charged flower paintings? What was the nature of her relationship with her much older husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz? Why did she lie about her past and hide herself from her public? Journalist and author Jeffrey Hogrefe discloses the answers to these questions and more in O'Keeffe, a richly detailed biography that illuminates much of the mystery and intrigue that surround Georgia O'Keeffe, and finally reveals the real woman behind the legend. Hogrefe's encounter with the… Read More

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1992. x, 546 pages, [40] pages of plates, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "Almost 24 years his junior, Georgia O'Keeffe became for Alfred Stieglitz a near icon of American art--as well as his wife. In a marvelous, multileveled biography, Benita Eisler traces the epic and stormy relationship of these incomparable artists, from their consuming ambition to their sexual experimentation." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Doubleday; Nan A. Talese, 1991. x, 546 pages, [40] pages of plates, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket price-clipped on the front flap & partly sunned.. "Almost 24 years his junior, Georgia O'Keeffe became for Alfred Stieglitz a near icon of American art--as well as his wife. In a marvelous, multileveled biography, Benita Eisler traces the epic and stormy relationship of these incomparable artists, from their consuming ambition to their sexual experimentation." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

London and Cambridge, MA: Whitechapel Art Gallery; MIT Press, 2016. 271 pages; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. A fine copy of the first printing. "The socio-cultural impact of Andy Warhol painter, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, publisher, TV personality, socialite, graphic artist, collector, illustrator, rock impresario, photographer, model and author is incalculable. A pioneer in virtually every media in which he worked from his unmistakeable blotted-line advertising illustrations in the 1950s; to photography-based paintings of car wrecks and movie stars in the 1960s; to pre-Stonewall cult films that dared to explore sexually provocative subjects; to his re-invention of the celebrity magazine in the 1970s with Interview Andy Warhol also influenced such contemporary staples as reality TV, computer art and the rock-gig light show. As the inventor of the Polaroid selfie and master of the tweet-like short epithet (It's so nice to be invited to your own house by the person who's renting it you… Read More

Santa Barbara, CA: Easton Press, 1996. 65 pages, illustrations, portraits; 22 cm. Edition of 2000 copies. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Superficial dampstain/back cover. Age toning. California landscape painters from the Santa Barbara region.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Oak Park, IL: Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation, 1988. 48 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Designed and edited by John G. Thorpe. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Guidebook.

Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984. Cloth, xix, 270 pages, [9 pages of plates], illustrations; 23 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover."People of Oberammergau have re ceived highest praise for their fidelity through 350 years. But Friedman asks questions that must be addressed: 'Can the traditional text be reconciled with the Gospels? Does the play generate harmful, stereotypic images of Jews? Is the Passion truly a "hymn of reconciliation" or is it, as Nietzsche said of Wagner's Meistersinger, a "lance against civilization'? / Saul Friedman is Professor of Near East and Jewish History at Youngstown State University." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Emil Fackenheim; New Testament roots of Christian anti-Semitism, by Judson Shaver; The way to Oberammergau; The origins of the Passion; The Daisenberger Passion; Guidelines rejected: a… Read More

Buffalo, NY: Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 1992. 20 pages, illustrations; 29 x 12 cm. Exhibition held November 7 to December 12, 1992. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's blind stamp, otherwise unmarked. Exhibition of works by Elizabeth Berdann, and twelve others. LGBTQ.. 1st.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 271 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dogeared a couple of times. Dust jacket with light edgewear. "At first it appears that nothing could be easier than seeing. We just focus our eyes and take in whatever is before us. This ability seems detached, efficient, and rational - as if the eyes are competent machines telling us everything about the world without distorting it in any way. But those ideas are just illusions, Elkins argues, and he suggests that seeing is undependable, inconsistent, and caught up in the threads of the unconscious. Blindness is not the opposite of vision, but its constant companion, and even the foundation of seeing itself. Elkins asks about objects that are too violent, too sexually charged, or too beautiful to look at directly. When we see a naked body, we either stare lasciviously or look away in embarrassment: in those moments our eyes are not ours to command. Bodies, Elkins says, are among the fundamental things that… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967. Cloth, 250 pages; 22 cm. Topstained black. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Stated First Printing. Dust jacket, with moderate edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. An excellent collection of articles by Brian O'Doherty, with perceptive writings on Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

Newport Beach, CA: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1990. 1 volume (unpaged), illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Published for the exhibition OBJECTives: The new sculpture at the Newport Harbor Art Museum, April 8- to June 24, 1990. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Includes: Grenville Davey, Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Annette Lemieux, Juan Munoz, Julian Opie, and Haim Steinbach.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.