Category: Art

Signed & inscribed by the author. Quarto, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 176 pp. Near-Fine, with bumped corners. From Introduction: You are indeed fortunate to have in your possession this book representing the intellectual processes, life interpretation and sensitivity of Artist William (Rak) Rakocy. My introduction to Rak goes back many years. I feel capable of doing an objective analysis of this man and artist. He was born in Youngstown, Ohio on April 14, 1924. His beginnings are impressive. His obvious ability, interest, and talent were apparent very early...
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The Letters of Michelangelo. Translated from the original Tuscan, Edited & Annotated in Two Volumes by E. H. Ramsden. Volume One: 1496-1534. Volume Two: 1537-1563.

By: Ramsden, E. H. [Michelangelo].

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1963.:

Seller ID: 3368bd

Two volumes. Quarto, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xx + 317 pp; xii + 338 pp. Fine; in original, torn glassine wrappers; in original, torn slipcase.
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American Art Nouveau Glass.

By: Revi, Albert Christian.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ashville: Thomas Nelson, [1972]. Second Printing.:

Seller ID: 13415scs

Quarto, cloth (hardcover), 476 pp. Color plates, photos, illus. Very Good in a slightly chipped dust jacket.
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Robert Moskowitz.

By: Rifkin, Ned.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Copublished by Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., [1989].:

Seller ID: 70080s

First Edition. Folio, black cloth (hardcover), silver letters and decoration to upper cover, 208 pp. With 95 illus., 67 full-color plates. Fine (As New), in a Near-Fine dust jacket with very slight edgewear. Based on a major retrospective exhibition, this is the first book to survey the whole range of Moskowitz's career to date, reproducing over sixty of his works in color. Ned Rifkin, Chief Curator for Exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, provides a full biographical and critical commentary, and the book also contains an illuminating interview with the artist by Lind...
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Sea Painters of Britain: From Constable to Brangwyn.

By: Roe, F. Gordon.; F.S.A., F.R. Hihst S.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Leigh-on-Sea: F. lewis, Publsihers, Limited, 1948.:

Seller ID: ess2945

Royal octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, 70 pp + 47 Plates. One of 500. Very Good, with fading to spine and edgewear. Illustrated with full-color and b&w plates.
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Dali.

By: Romero, Luis.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell, (1979). First American Edition.:

Seller ID: 1962gls

Square folio, illustrated red boards (hardcover), 357 pp. Color plates, b&w plates, photos. Near-Fine in a dust jacket with small tape-repairs and some wrinkling at the spine extremities.
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Art of the Aisan Mountains: A Group of Paintings, Sculptures and Objects from Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim and Tibet, Lent by Museums and Private Collections. December 17, 1968 through January 24, 1969.

By: Ross, Mrs. John B.; Chairman.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Miami, Florida: The Miami Art Center.:

Seller ID: qms561

Square octavo, paperbound (stiff, color illus. brown wrappers, stapled), 68 pp. Near-Fine, with slight rubbing along edges.
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Evergreen Review Reader, 1957-1967: A Ten-Year Anthology.

By: Rosset, Barney, ed.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Grove Press, (1968). First Edition.:

Seller ID: 1964gls

Quarto, cloth, [viii] + [785] + [vi] pp. Includes, A Beast's Repast: Salvador Dali, pp. 493-500. Very Good with dust jacket.
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Visions from a White Mountain Palette: The Life and Times of Charles A. Hunt, Madison's White Mountain Painter.

By: Rubb, Roy.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Portsmouth, NH: Peter E. Randall Publisher LLC, 2008. First Edition, Numbered Copy #162.:

Seller ID: qms499

Signed by the Author on title; Signed & Inscribed by the Author on Dedication page. Large octavo, hardcover (red cloth), gilt letters, 89 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From jacket: ...As a museum docent, Bubb began to research the obscure artist, uncovering his life in Nashua, New Harmpshire, and his ties to Madison families. In his search the author learned about many more paintings, found a number of old photographs related to the artist and his family and, as much as possible, answered the question [who was Charles A. Hunt?]... In preparing this book, Roy Bubb rese...
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Scholten: Japanese Art. Delicate Divide: The Art of the Japanese Screen, March-April 2001.

By: Scholten, Rene; President.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York: Scholten Japanese Art, 2001.:

Seller ID: 14156kms

Quarto, grey cloth (hardcover), silver letters & decoration to upper cover, slick pages, full-color fold-out illustrations, 58 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket.
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Oh! Fickle Taste. Or, Objectivity in Art. With a Preface by Rene Huyghe.

By: Selignman, Germain.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Bond Wheelwright Company, Publishers, 1952. First Edition.:

Seller ID: 70422s

Octavo, black cloth & brown illus. boards (hardcover), gilt letters, slick pages, xx, 180 pp. Former-owner signature; otherwise, Fine in a Very Good-, edgeworn dust jacket. This challenging book by an author who has lived and worked in the art world for his entire life raises fundamental questions with which sensitive people in all fields should deal. Although chiefly concerned with standards and origins of taste in art, Mr. Seligman's keen understanding of how judgments are made -- and of how judgments should be better made -- points the way toward new and fresh evaluations and real rather...
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I Remember America.

By: Sloane, Eric.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1975.:

Seller ID: 4257s

Bicentennial Edition. Oblong folio, green & white cloth, 184 pp. Very Good+ with light foxing to endpapers, in a like dust jacket with edgewear. Now in a majestic, outsized volume, Sloane presents an autobiography, a recollection, an album of stunning artwork, a passionate remembrance of the American landscape, and an outspoken defense of our threatened natural heritage...The paintings in this book make a complete art show, which is expected to tour the country as a vivid reminder of our natural heritage.'
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Art Treasures of Turkey, circulated by the Smithsonian Institution, 1966-1968.

By: Smithsonian Institution.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1966.:

Seller ID: 28365a

1st edition. Square octavo, softbound, xiv, 120, [95] pp. Plates, illus. Very Good.
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Contemporary Painters.

By: Soby, James Thrall.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Museum of Modern Art/Simon and Schuster, (1948).:

Seller ID: 1972gls

First Edition. Limited edition of 2,500. Octavo, flexible boards, 154 pp. Photos. Very Good; spine darkened.
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Salvador Dali: Paintings, Drawings, Prints.

By: Soby, James Thrall.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1941). First Edition. Limited edition of 10,000.:

Seller ID: 1973gls

Square octavo, olive boards (hardcover), 87 pp. Color plates, illus. Very Good, some rubbing along spine and scuffing along lower edge.
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Sotheby's Aboriginal Art: Melbourne 24 June 2002.

By: Sotheby's.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Armadale VIC: Sotheby's Australia Pty Ltd, 2002.:

Seller ID: 6842s

Quarto, softbound, color-illus. covers, 232 pp. Fine (As New). Glossy pages, full-color photos.
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Gertrude Stein on Picasso. Edited by Edward Burns. Afterword by Leon Katz and Edward Burns.

By: Stein, Gertrude.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Liveright, (1970). First edition.:

Seller ID: 5594fd

Square quarto, brown cloth (hardcover), 122, [xvi] pp. Color plates, illus., photos. Included in the book are Stein's essays: Picasso (1909), If I Told Him (1923), Picsso (1938), and bits of her notebooks. Very Good in a spine-faded and chipped dust jacket.
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American Historical Prints: Early Views of American Cities, Etc., from the Phelps Stokes and Other Collections.

By: Stokes, I. N. and Daniel C. Haskell.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York: New York Public Library, 1933. Reprinted with additional and corrections from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library.:

Seller ID: 4571bd

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), 235 pp, 118 plates, the majority of which depict two views per plate. Fine with the 14-page Index to Illustrations in the Catalogue of the Stokes Collection laid-in.
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Category: Art