Art

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart [1969], 1st edition. (Square 4to) 191pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by the author. Photograph, 195 black and white and color illustrations by the author, chronology, index. The dust jacket has minor edgewear, a 2-inch dampstain to the bottom of the spine, and a stain to the bottom edge. Introduction by Robert Fulford. Text by Robert Fulford. Locale: Toronto. (Art--Canada, Drawing).

SKETCH Of Presidents Head, HAND SIGNED at bottom by BILL CLINTON.. The autograph is not a facsimile, preprint, copy or otherwise. ,approx 7 3/4 X 10 1/2 in. SIGNATURE GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC, B/W Sketch drawn by another person. Signed by Author. First Edition. Unbound.

Montfermeil, France: Recherche et Expression - Jack Renaud, 1977. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-/Good. Francois Desnoyer. Scarce biography of this fine French artist, very little known in the US, with many paintings reproduced in color or b&w. French text. 1st, #352/1000 (1/1000 in the trade edition). 4to, blue cloth stamped vivid orange, vg- (cocked, corners bumped) in good-only dj with the edges quite tattered and heavily chipped. INSCRIBED (in French) by Souza Desnoyer on the half-title. 359 pp. Also including a pamphlet from an exhibition at Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. in London, 'Francois Desnoyer: Paintings and Drawings', dated October 1955 (English text). It has 8 paintings reproduced in b&w and is INSCRIBED by the artist, Francois (in French) on the half-title.

NY: Rizzoli, 1992. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good+. Richard Diebenkorn. 1st, softcover 4to, vg+; strip of sunning visible at top of rear cover, with light soiling. 13 color plates on thick paper.

LONDON, GEORGE RAINBIRD, 1957. LIMITED EDITION OF 150 COPIES, THIS BEING NUMBER 29. SIGNED BY AUGUSTUS JOHN AND LORD DAVID CECIL. FOLIO, HALF VELLUM OVER BROWN BOARDS, BOUND BY ZAEHNSDORF OF LONDON, PLATES PRINTED IN PHOTO-OFFSET BY VAN LEER OF AMSTERDAM. A VERY NICE COPY CONTAINED IN THE ORIGINAL STAINED AND GRUBBY SLIPCASE.

Venezia: Presso Giovanni Battista Sgava, 1648. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume one. [64], 406, [1]p. With some pagination errors. Contemporary full vellum with lettering in ink on the spine, sprinkled edges. Engraved title, frontispiece of the author and twenty inserted plates with copper engraved portraits. Initials, head-pieces and tail-pieces. Gamba mentions that the most sought after copies are the ones with the inserted plates, like this copy. About Ridolfi, he states: "... la presente opera lo palesa scrittore giudizioso ne' precetti dell'arte, chiaro ed esatto nelle descrizioni, e rare volta pecca in fatto di lingua... " An in-depth look at the life and works of painters such as Andrea Mantegna, Giorgione, Vittore Carpaccio, Palma il vecchio, Lorenzo Lotto, Tiziano Vecellio, Jacopo da Ponte da Bassano, and numerous others. Includes tables with the names of the Greek and Roman painters cited, of the lives of the various painters described, of their works and their locations. Light toning to… Read More

Glued binding. Audience General/trade. 300 p
2nd edition

London: Cassell, 1998. First edition thus. First English edition (UK). Trade softcover. Published London: Cassell, 1998, first printing. Large 8vo. wrappers, 6 1/4" x 9 1/4", xvii+200pp., illustrated with b/w and color plates. Near very fine, crisp, tight.. 1st. Soft Cover. Near Very Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

1813 Picture of Isle of Wight England Geography MAP Illustrated Landscapes Cooke

A beautifully illustrated early 19th-century history of the Isle of Wight. This work includes 36 impressive, full-page engravings from William Bernard Cooke – views of the island, natural landscapes, architecture and castles, as well as a double-page map of the island itself. The illustrations are interspersed throughout detailed descriptions and history of the island.
Item number: #12193
Price: $499
COOKE, William Bernard
A new picture of the Isle of Wight : illustrated with thirty-six plates of the most beautiful and interesting views throughout the island, in imitation of the original sketches, drawn and engraved
Southampton : Printed by and for T. Baker, and for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1813.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
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xiv, 158, [4]
o 37 engraved plates
· Provenance: Bookplate – George Coventry
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George William Coventry, 8th Earl of Coventry (1784 – 1843), styled… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 252 pages. Condition Fine Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated First edition 2012. Nice illustrated boards with white embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Quarter cloth over pictorial cloth. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Signed by Jonathan Levine on title page.Widely revered as the artists' gallerist, Jonathan Levine has nourished a much needed alternative viewpoint within the stilted New York art market. In the pages of Delusional, readers will discover the fascinating backstory that brought this punk kid from Trenton to the hallowed gallery walls of Chelsea. LeVine began his career in the arts publishing a fanzine in the 1980s and then curating shows at diverse venues in the 90s. By the turn of the millennium, LeVine had opened up Tin Man Alley, his own gallery located in New Hope, and then Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Jonathan LeVine… Read More

Very good complete suite of 21 aquatint views of Paris in the years of the Bourbon Restoration.Lively collection of Parisian scenes showing the sights (parks, bridges, catacombs, morgue, swimming pool, etc.), the people (tradesmen, famous characters, itinerant merchants, street performers) and events (festivals, military rituals, religious processions). A good selection of post-Napoleonic costume too.First published in parts in oblong folio with the title A Tour of Paris in 1822, this is the first collected edition with letterpress and the title A Tour Through Paris. Plates dated 1822 and 1824.The illustrations are unsigned but accredited to the French artist Victor Auver. Four plates previously appeared in Richard Brinsley Peake's The characteristic costume of France, (1816): Itinerants on the Boulevards, Street Characters (as Water Carriers), The Catacombs and La Morgue.The plates depict: Distribution of wine on the morning of St. Louis; The voitures (coach-drivers) of Versailles; The blind man… Read More

Helsinki: Suomenlinna / Sveaborg, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Original stiff paper wrappers. Black & white illustrations and plates. Catalog accompanying the exhibition of works by Bjornn Roth, Dieter Roth, Gudmundur Kristjansson, Jon Gunner Árnason, Kristjan Gudmundsson, Rurí and Solveig Magnusdottir at the Nordiskt Konstcentrum in Sveaborg, Helsinki. Replica in enlarged format of the seven original separate booklets previously published by Dieter Roth's Verlag. First edition thus. In near fine condition. 334 pp., 31 x 22 cm. .

San Francisco, CA: The Walt Disney Family Foundation Press, 2018. Hardcover. Fine in Fine DJ. Unclipped DJ shows slight curling at top edge. Edges of binding show minor rubbing. Else Fine / As New. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Vence: Pierre Chave, 1972. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Loose sheets in illustrated wrappers. In light blue cloth chemise with dark blue cover illustration and spine lettering. Lacking the slipcase. Illustrated with 34 original lithographs and two vignettes by Max Ernst. HC copy of the regular French edition of 217 copies (there were also 98 copies with an extra suite). Printed on Velin d'Arches. Singed in pencil by Max Erst and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes. 95 (i) pp., 39 x 29 cm. Light stain on frontcover chemise, occasional light offsetting to text pages. Lithographs in very fine condition. .

Finely detailed naturalist lithographs collection. Vintage, complete set of six, in mint condition, hand-signed and numbered. "The Butterfly Series" by Carl Brenders (1973), The Exotic Group, Mill Pond Press, Florida (1993). Limited edition #42/290, with certificates of authenticity.
Internationally celebrated Belgian artist celebrates the diversity, beauty, wonder, and pollinating potential of Lepidoptera with his signature nature and wildlife realism. The works begin in pencil sketches and are developed via a mixed-media technique with watercolor and gouache.
The collection is printed on an offset lithographic press on museum-quality, acid-free, pH-neutral, coated paper, and the films were destroyed. Each is signed in-plate and hand-signed and numbered by the artist.
Paper size: 13-1/4" x 11"
Image size: 10" x 7-3/4"
The series is no longer available from the publisher, and these images do not exist in previous states or other editions.
The Exotic Group (1980) consists of:
-Kaiser-I-Hind Butterfly… Read More