Category: Art

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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Picasso. The Instituto de Credito Oficial Collection.

By: Suite, Vollard.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Madrid: Turespana, 1993. First Edition in English.

Seller ID: qms596

Quarto, paperbound (stiff, illus. wrappers), 79 pp + 100 plates. Near-Fine, with slightly creased spine.
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Indian Summer: A Mem-sahib in India and Sind. With Illustrations from the Author's Drawings and a Foreword by Sir Sidney Ridley, ICS.

By: Swayne-Thomas, April.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: London: New English Library, [1981].

Seller ID: 4719s

Quarto, (hardcover), burgundy cloth, gilt letters, glossy pages, full-color plates and illus., 175 pp. Fine, in a like (though price-clipped) dust jacket. ÔFor eight years during and after the Second World War India was April Swayne-Thomas's second home...Later, April and Geoffrey left India for five years...but they returned and passed three years in Sind, now part of Pakistan. Their experiences and adventures of that time provide the material for Part Two of this book. All of the illustrations, some of them studies for larger works such as murals, are taken from the drawings made by the...
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Chinese Paper-Cuts. [Text in five languages].

By: The Art Service Department, Union of Chinese Artists.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: The Art Service Department, Union of Chinese Artists, 1956.

Seller ID: els2872

Twenty silhouettes + texts, bound in slipcase (Oriental style folding case, with bone clasps). Near-Fine, with light foxing (age darkened spotting). Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art among the Chinese people. Throughout China's provinces, cities, and particularly the vast countryside, a great variety of paper-cuts can be seen almost anywhere. In each region they have their own characteristic style. Those around Weisein, Hopei Province, are famed for their simplicity; while those around Chaochow, Kwangtung Province, are admired for their vitality. Those of Nanking and Yangehow are ...
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Spirit and Ritual: The Morse Collection of Ancient Chinese Art.

By: Thorp, Robert L. and Virginia Bower.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, [1982]. First Edition.

Seller ID: 13421scs

Quarto, softbound, 91 pp. Color photos, b&w photos. Near-Fine.
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Reds, Reds, Copper Reds.

By: Tichane, Robert.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Painted Post, NY: The New York State Institute for Glaze Research, [1985]. First Edition.

Seller ID: 13423scs

Octavo, red cloth, xi, 306 pp. Illus. Very Good.
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Special Exhibition: Flowers. 10 October - 19 November, 1995: Tokyo National Museum.

By: Tokyo National Museum.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Tokyo National Museu, (1995).

Seller ID: qms556

Quarto, softbound (stiff, slick, full-color illus. wrappers), xx + 358 pp. Complete text in English and Japanese. Fine (As New).
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The Works of Alfred Stevens, Sculptor, Painters, Designer, in the Tate Gallery. With an Introduction and Descriptive Catalogue of Classified Works by Kenneth Romney Towndrow, and a Foreword by John Rothenstein.

By: Towndrow, Kenneth Romney.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London: By Order of the Trustees of the Tate Gallery, 1950.

Seller ID: 70117s

First Edition. Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), xxii, 138 pp. Color plates, b & w plates, illus. Former-owner bookplate; otherwise Near-Fine.
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Naturescapes.

By: Tse, Terrence Lun.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio: North Light Books, (2010).

Seller ID: 51585bd

Quarto, paperbound (slick, full-color illustrated stiff wrappers), 127 pp. Fine (As New). From lower cover: With Terrence Lun Tse's absolutely innovative, thoroughly enjoyable approach, even a first-time painter can create soft and dreamy, quick and easy landscapes, flowers and nature scenes. Naturescapes shows you how -- using ordinary household sponges, acrylic paints, and materials direct from nature herself. The techniques in this book are fast and fun. Sponge painting eliminates the need for expensive brushes and tedious brushwork, while spray painting around artful arrangements of ...
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Boris Vallejo's 3D Magic. Images Created by Al. E. Barber. Foreword by Boris Vallejo.

By: Vallejo, Boris.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1995. First Edition, As Stated.

Seller ID: 17822scs

Oblong quarto, hardcover (slick, full-color illus. boards), [56] pp. Fine, in a Very Good+, full-color illus. dust jacket. From jacket: Come enter the amazing art of Boris Vallejo! Stare deeply into his extraordinary images and be transported to a multi-dimensional world where sea creatures leap off of the page and body parts float through space...
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Ulrica Hydman Vallien. [Signed].

By: Vallien, Ulrica Hydman. [Kamras, Borge; Lay Out].

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Sweden: Galleri Kamras, in Limited Edition of 1500.

Seller ID: 9754gcs

Square octavo, paperbound (black cardstock wrappers with snake illustration wrapping around binding, unpaginated. Signed and inscribed by Ulrica on title page. Near-Fine.
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Homage to Salvador Dali: Special Issue of the XXe Siecle Review. Translations by Joan Marie Weiss Davidson.

By: Volboudt, Pierre, et al.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books, (1980).

Seller ID: 1974gls

Folio, red boards (hardcover), 160 pp. Color plates, b&w plates, photos. Fine in dust jacket.
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Surrealism.

By: Waldberg, Patrick.

Price: $8.50

Publisher: London: Thomes and Hudson, (1978). World of Art Library.

Seller ID: 1975gls

Octavo, softbound, 128 pp. Eight color plates, 189 b&w plates, illus. Near-Fine.
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The Sculpture of Polynesia. The Art Institute of Chicago: November 17 to December 31, 1967; The Museum of PRimitive Art, New York: February 14 to May 14, 1968.

By: Wardwell, Allen.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1967.

Seller ID: vas818

Royal octavo, softbound (slick white full-color photo. illus. wrappers), 100 pp. Very Good, with edgewear.
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Andy Warhol: Art from Art. Edited by Jorg Schellmann.

By: Warhol, Andy.

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York: Edition Schellmann, Koln, [1994].

Seller ID: 70425s

Quarto, gray cloth, (hardcover), slick full-color illus. pages, 95 pp. Fine, in like dust jacket. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Andy Warhol Art from Art: Unique screenprints, drawings, and collages 1963-86. Contents: A Guest Performance on the Painters' Olympus (Laszlo Glozer); Catalogue and Illustrations; Leonardo, Mona Lisa; De Chirico; Tischbein, Goethe; Munch; Details of Renaissance Paintings; Piero della Franceca, St. Apollonia; Cranach; Picasso; Matisse; Raphael, Sistine Madonna; Leonardo, The Last Supper; Source Paintings.
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Leon Gaspard. [With: The Sketches of Leon Gaspard and Afterthought laid-in].

By: Waters, Frank.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, MCMLXIV. First Edition.

Seller ID: 159md

Folio, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 114 pp. Near-Fine, with neat former-owner stamp; in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Leon Gaspard is not just the story of Leon Gaspard the painter. This story colorfully recaptures all the adventures and delightful highlights of the man who was known and loved in his native Russia, the capitals of Europe, and throughout the American Southwest which was his home for forty years. Leon Gaspard was born in Russia in 1882, and died in Taos, New Mexico early in 1964. During his life he spanned incredible times and spaces...
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The Havemeyers: Impressionism Comes to America.

By: Weitzenhoffer, Frances.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., (1986). First Edition.

Seller ID: 2337gls

Royal octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 288 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: The Havemeyers: Impressionism Comes to America is a rollicking, behind-the-scenes account of taste in 19th-century America, of beautiful paintings bought and sold, and of the collecting activities of an extraordinary couple, Louisine and H. O. Havemeyer. Theirs was a household name for the manufacture of sugar, that pleasant commodity that was also very big business; but their fame grew equally from their lifelong joy in the pursuit of art. The story begins when Lo...
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