Kansas City: Attezarf, 1969. Later cover with $2.50 price and alternate artwork from the earlier printing sold at $2. Side-stapled paper covers; unpaginated. Covers a bit edgeworn with some smudging and light foxing, but no chips or tears. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. First issue of Frazetta's self-published... More about Frazetta No. 1
Adriane Tomine. First Edition. Paperback. Berkeley: Optic Nerve, 1993. First Edition. Signed by author without inscription on inside front cover. Side-stapled printed paper card covers; 20pp. Covers clean and crisp with only very faint signs of shelfwear. Pages unmarked. Penultimate issue of Tomine’s seven self-published Optic Nerve mini-comics before... More about Optic Nerve: Issue 6
New York: Modern Library, ca. 1930. Binding number five, with Rockwell Kent endpapers, placing this edition around 1929/1930 [Toledano p. 24]. Number 42 in the series. Dustjacket shows 95 cent price and lists 159 titles in the series; book in flexible red balloon cloth. 35p +64 black and white reproductions... More about The Art of Aubrey Beardsley
First Edition. Hardcover. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. First Edition. Octavo (11" x 8.75"); xv, 139p +80p plates. Printed turquoise dustjacket over black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows a few light scratches and smudges to face, but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square. binding... More about Hume and the Heroic Portrait: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Imagery
De Luxe Edition. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1969. De Luxe Edition, numbered 198 of 300 copies. Signed by both Jackson and Getlein twice--once without inscription on full title, then again each with a brief inscription to prior owner on half title. Oblong octavo (8.5" x 10.75"); 98pp. Full calf with... More about Harry Jackson
Hardcover. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. First Edition with no additional printings listed. Imperial Octavo (11.5" x 8.75"); xvi, 467p. Illustrated dustjacket over brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket very lightly edgeworn but with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards square with a light bump at... More about American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I
First Edition. Paris: Henri Laurens, 1927. Octavo; 168pp. Black and white plates. Rebound in colored paper over textured black cloth with leather title card to spine. Library stamp to half-title, but no other library markings present. Spine is faded. Binding is sound. Pages toned and a tad brittle, but unmarked... More about L'Art Negre: L'Art Animiste Des Noirs D'Afrique
Hardcover. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011. Quarto (12.5"x9.5"); 192pp. 132 illustrations and 114 in color. Pictorial paper over boards. Some rubbing on the edges and corners, bottom edge is bumped. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. More about Painting on Paper: Josef Albers in America
First Edition. Hardcover. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago/Tate Modern/Yale University Press, 2012. Stated First Edition. Quarto (9.75"x12.25"); 368pp. Pictorial paper over boards with red cloth binding on spine and lettering stamped in black. Cover has only minor rubbing on corners and a slight roll to spine, but no scratches..... More about Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Panache Press at Random House, 1988. Stated First Edition. Folio (12.25" x 9.25"); 184p. Cardboard boards with orange cloth spine. Covers show a few light creases with bumping to corners and spine ends. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More about Pre-Pop Warhol
First Edition. Hardcover. Wellesley: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, 1997. First Edition of 4000 copies. Folio (14.25" x 9"); 247p. Illustrated translucent dustjacket over blue cloth boards with blindstamped patter and bronze lettering. Jacket rippled with light edgewear, but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are clean with front board... More about Inspiring Reform: Boston's Arts and Crafts Movement
Hardcover. Los Angeles; Fowler Museum of Cultural History / University of California, 1992. Quarto (11.25"x9"); 190pp. Pictorial dust jacket. Black cloth binding with lettering stamped in red on spine and illustration stamped in red on cover. Dust jacket has some sunning and is slightly rubbed on one edge, but appears... More about Threads of Identity: Maya Costume of the 1960s in Highland Guatemala
Mary Frank. First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992. First Thus. SIGNED by both author and illustrator without inscriptions on front free endpaper. Quarto (10" x 10.5"); 120p. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Illustrated dustjacket over dark green cloth with black lettering. Jacket very lightly edgeworn but with... More about Shadows of Africa
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Stuart, Tabori & Chang, 2014. First edition with complete number line. Quarto (11.25"x10"); 223pp. Pictorial dust jacket with original $50 price. Pictorial paper over boards. Dust jacket has some minor edge wear, but no tears or chips. There is a 2-inch water spot on the... More about Unconventional & Unexpected: American Quilts Below the Radar, 1950-2000
First Edition. Softcover. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1989. First edition. Signed without inscription on title page by Roland Freeman, the exhibit curator. Oblong quarto; 32pp. Black and white pictorial paper wraps with staple binding. Cover has edgewear on spine, a few light gray marks on front and a very small... More about Stand By Me: African American Expressive Culture in Philadelphia
Hardcover. London: Phaidon, 2018. Quarto (12.25"x9.75"); 375pp. Blue, red, green and gray dust jacket with lettering in black. Bright red paper over boards with lettering stamped in black on spine and cover. Dust jacket has only minor shelfwear, no tears or chips. Corners are square and not bumped. Binding is... More about Ellsworth Kelly
First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. First English Translation. SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75"); x, 131p. Illustrated dustjacket over black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows a very light bump at head of spine, but is... More about Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages