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By: N/A
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Vydavnytstvo Akademii Nauk Ukrains'koi RSR: 1961
Seller ID: 1846677
Some discoloration on bottom half of rear board, front & end matter lightly foxed. 1961 Large Hardcover. 108 pp., 193 color and black & white plates. Ukrainian text. Shevchenko was a Ukrainian poet and artist, whose literary work is considered the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature and language, and a driving force behind Ukrainian national consciousness. View more info
![Image for A Book of Famous and Beautiful Chinese Ladies from all Antiquities [Accordion Book with Hand-Painted Portraits on Silk]](/assets/images/product/1854595.jpg)
By: N/A
Price: $200.00
Publisher: S.N.:
Seller ID: 1854595
Minor loss from edges of title label on front board. Wooden boards, carved Chinese character within a circle on front board, along with paper title label. A collection of ten color portraits of Chinese ladies handpainted on silk, mounted on sturdier backing paper, and bound in the accordion style popular for such publications of Eastern art. Each portrait captioned with a brief biographical sketch in both Chinese and English. Subjects include: Chang Li Hua; Mu-Lan; Wu Ch... View more info
![Image for Forty Etchings on Copper, Reproduced from the Most Noted Examples of Modern Art and Photographs of English Landscapes. Series I [1].](/assets/images/product/2083653.jpg)
By: N/A
Price: $125.00
Publisher: The Osborne & Murphy Company, Art Publishers, Red Oak:
Seller ID: 2083653
Boards faintly soiled, front hinge just beginning to weaken, portion of front free endpaper removed, front flyleaf creased. All image pages excellent with no marks, foxing, stains, or toning. Forty half-tone images photographically reproduced from original photographs, and copper plate etchings by various artists. In 1888, two enterprising young men, Edmond Osborne and Thomas D. Murphy, purchased a woodcut of the Montgomery County Courthouse that was under construction a... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Eureka Press: 1957
Seller ID: 2202896
Faint one inch stain to front wrapper, page corners lightly dog-eared. 1957 Spiral-Bound Softcover. 123 pp. While the chapters which follow are useful for individual study, they were expressly designed for use in informal group discussion. The writers raise issues, examine problems in contemporary art which have caused clashes of ideas, and explore conflicting ways of seeing and thinking. ...The four people who wrote these chapters brought to them four different points o... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: L.C. Page & Company: 1904
Seller ID: 2199664
Early reprint. Spine toned. 1904 Hard Cover. ix, 389 pp. 8vo. Blue-grey cloth, gilt titles, decoration & rules, gilt top page ridge. A survey of the famous gallery which focuses on the Golden Age of painting in Italy. View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Argonaut Book Shop:
Seller ID: 1532477
Lightly rubbed. 37 pp. Catalog of Frederic Remington material put out by Argonaut Book Shop. The Argonaut Book Shop was founded in 1941 in the middle of the financial district of San Francisco by Robert D. Haines. The Argonaut was a founding member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America and is also a member of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. For the last thirty-five years the shop’s proprietor has been Robert D. Haines, Jr. A numb... View more info
By: Armstrong, Rolf
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Leslie-Judge Co.: 1920
Seller ID: 2173018
1920 Print. 7 1/2 x 11, matted to 12 x 15 1/2. A head and shoulders portrait of a smiling young woman by the artist known for his pin-ups. Leslie-Judge Co., the publisher of this print, was in business from the early 20th century until 1921. View more info
By: Back, George; Houston, C. Stuart; MacLaren, I.S.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press: 1994
Seller ID: 2273165
First edition. Faint stain to page base, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1994 Hard Cover. xxviii, 403, [1] pp. Back's journal is particularly valuable because it is the only one that records the entire expedition; Franklin himself relied on it for his own published account of the journey. Both the journal and Back's earlier notes have been edited by Houston, who provides an introduction and extensive annotations, as well as synopses of the frank comments regarding the... View more info
By: Bailey, Colin J. (Exhibition and Catalogue)
Price: $5.00
Publisher: University of Birmingham: 1983
Seller ID: 1306290
Nice bright copy. 1983 Soft Cover. 78 pp. This is the largest exhibition of 19th-century German drawings and watercolours ever to be held in this country outside London and the first major exhibition of its kind since 1968, when 150 drawings from the Kunstmuseum in Dusseldorf and the Kunsthalle in Hamburg were shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In Great Britain the Ashmolean Museum's collection of German 19th-century drawings is unique, both numerically a... View more info
![Image for Cote, Sculpteur Sur Bois (Memoires de la Societe Royale du Canada, Troisieme Series - 1942, Tome XXXVI [36]) [Jean-Baptiste Côté]](/assets/images/product/2276905.jpg)
By: Barbeau, Marius
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Imprime Pour La Societe Royale Du Canada: 1942
Seller ID: 2276905
Letter press invitation laid in, reading 'DaLiLa vous prie de venir Manger La Galette des Rois. 6 Janvier 1943, A 9 heures P.M., 260 MacLaren, R.S.V.P.'). This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., whose wife Hella owned quite a few books by Marius Barbeau, several with notes from the author to her, indicating the two were either good friends or colleagues who worked closely together. 1942 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by... View more info
![Image for Louis Jobin, Statuaire (1845-1928) (Memoires de la Societe Royale du Canada, Troisieme Series - 1943, Tome XXXVII [37])](/assets/images/product/2276907.jpg)
By: Barbeau, Marius
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Imprime Pour La Societe Royale Du Canada: 1943
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276907
Inscribed and signed to Hella Sachs by author on front wrapper. This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Edges faintly creased. 1943 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. 17-23, [1] pp. French text. A brief study of the career of a Canadian sculptor. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and celebration of the traditions ... View more info
By: Bassano; Seiferheld Master Drawings
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Seiferheld Master Drawings: 1961
Seller ID: 1527369
Lightly rubbed. 1961 Stapled Binding. 45 pp. A catalog from an exhibition featuring drawings by members of the famous Bassano family of Renaissance artists. View more info
By: Bateman, Robert; Derry, Ramsay
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Random House: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2267905
First edition. Lightly rubbed. 1985 Large Hardcover. Showcasing his message of environmental protection, this testament to Robert Bateman's important work as an artist and conservationist features early paintings, most of which have never before been collected. Alongside the images, the artist comments on the pictures, offering the reader detailed explanations of how he uses art to relay meaning and beauty from the worlds of nature and wildlife. Also providing the differ... View more info
By: Bazin, Germain
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Editions Cercle D'Art: 1958
Seller ID: 1529913
No jacket. Gilt titles on spine mostly rubbed away. 1958 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 258 pp. 13 x 10. Text in French. Numerous illustrations & color plates. The State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums of the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, c... View more info
By: Bazin, Germain
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York Graphic Society: 1956
Seller ID: 2199985
No jacket, boards toned, pages toned. 1956 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 21 pp. Colored plates follow text. 54 illustrations with 46 in color. A look at Italian paintings found in the Louvre's collection.Keywords: LOUVRE FRANCE ITALIAN PAINTING ART ARTISTS View more info
By: Bertram, Anthony
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1928
Seller ID: 2266621
No jacket, no publisher date (Introduction dated 1928), pencil name on front endpaper, pencil note on rear paste-down endpaper, pages faintly toned. xvi, 238 pp. Sir Peter Paul Rubens (/?ru?b?nz/;[1] Dutch: [?ryb?(n)s]; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist. He is considered the most influential artist of Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens' highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popul... View more info
By: Bishop, Richard E.; Prestrud, Earl; Williams, Russ
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Brown & Bigelow: 1948
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author. Signed by illustrator
Seller ID: 2262387
First edition, one of an unnumbered limitation. Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. Ink gift note on half-title page ('To Harold E. Pierson, Dear Harold, Your company at our third deer hunt dinner here at 'R' House has indeed been a pleasure. Lena and Bruce E. Renard, 11/30/49'), list of guests who attended the dinner on following blank. 1948 Full-Leather. 282 pp. A collection of color and black-and-white reproductions from Richard E. Bishop's painti... View more info
By: Blackman, Charles; Amadio, Nadine
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Reed: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2261081
First edition. Includes publisher's slipcase. Ink gift note on front endpaper, jacket spine lightly toned, slipcase lightly rubbed. 1982 Large Hardcover. 143, [1] pp. A collection of drawings inspired by travels to Paris, drawn by the painter of the Antipodean school in Australia, most well-known for his Alice in Wonderland series. Paris Dreaming is both an entertainment and a celebration of Paris -- city of dreams and imagination, and all things to all men. It is also a... View more info
By: Blake, Robin
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2195548
First edition. Jacket spine slightly faded. 2000 Hard Cover. xii, 435 pp. This superb new biography provides the fullest narrative of Van Dyck's life and personality to appear in English. Commonly pigeonholed as a follower of Rubens or as the court painter of the Stuarts, Van Dyck here appears not only as a remarkably individual portraitist but as a fully rounded baroque artist of memorable power. Robin Blake brings together discoveries about Van Dyck's life and work tha... View more info
By: Bosch, Hieronymus; Dixon, Laurinda
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Phaidon: 2003
Seller ID: 2273346
Top edge lightly stained. 2003 Trade Paperback. Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516), one of the major artists of the Northern Renaissance, had a seemingly inexhaustible imagination. Known as the creator of disturbing demons and spectacular hellscapes, he also painted the Garden of Earthly Delights, where gleeful naked youths feast on giant strawberries. Little is known of Bosch's life and his art has remained enigmatic, variously interpreted as the hallucinations of a madman or... View more info
By: Bramly, Serge; Reynolds, Sian
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Edward Burlingame / Harper Collins: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2276302
First edition. Jacket very faintly toned. Ink name on front endpaper. 1991 Hard Cover. xvii, 439 pp. First published in France, Serge Bramly's acclaimed biography reveals Leonardo to be as complicated, seductive, and profoundly sympathetic as the figures he painted. Bramly spent five years gathering evidence to reconstruct the artist's life--from his early years as an illegitimate child to his death in the arms of the King of France. Includes color and black-and-white im... View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Galahad Books: 2004
Seller ID: 2277494
Lightly rubbed. 2004 Large Hardcover. Norman Rockwell’s works have always enchanted America with their clear-eyed and humorous picture of life in the country’s heartland: here are the very best of them, from the Saturday Evening Post covers to The Four Freedoms, a series of paintings done during World War II. View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271604
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Small sticker on jacket rear. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 135 pp. In a trio of stories--all inspired by a particular Matisse painting--the ordinary events of everyday life are stripped away to reveal the extraordinary pain, desire, joy, and creativity of human existence. By the author of Possession. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: The Stephen Greene Press: 1982
Seller ID: 2278002
Jacket edges rubbed with a few minor tears. 1982 Hard Cover. 192 pp. Collects traditional recipes from the author's family for main courses, breads, candies, vegetables, and other dishes suitable for a variety of holidays and parties. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc.: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2041250
First edition, not lower quality Beaux Arts reprint. Includes publisher's slipcase. An exceptional copy.Fine. 1998 Large Hardcover. 240 pp. Red cloth, gilt titles, all edges gilt, illustrated slipcase with dark green ribbon pull. A collection of prose, poems, carols, and art related to the virgin birth and the celebration of Christmas. Includes contributions by: St. Luke; Ben Jonson; Henry Van Dyke; John Milton; Nahum Tate; Axel Hambraeus; St. Matthew; William Carlos Wil... View more info
By: Cellini, Benvenuto; Symonds, J. Addington
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Black's Reader Service Company: 1927
Seller ID: 2202907
No date (circa 1927), No jacket. A very nice copy. 403 pp. The classic autobiography by the Italian Renaissance goldsmith, painter, sculptor, soldier, and musician, still considered the most important memoir of the era. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Spring Books: 1965
Seller ID: 2276126
Edge wear and small smudge to jacket. 1965 Large Hardcover. Color plates of Cezanne's work with biographical background and artistic appraisal. View more info
By: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Walsh, Henry C.
Price: $350.00
Publisher: Henry Altemus: 1889
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2272322
Loss of gilt from spine titles and illustrator name on front board, corners exposed, minor tide mark to base of front endpapers, front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1889 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio. 1889 reissue of the edition first published in 1876 by Harper. Numerous full-page engravings by Gustave Dore. A visually striking edition of the famous nautical poem known for its (oft-misquoted) lines: Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink. First publish... View more info
By: Craven, Thomas
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1939
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2275800
First edition. Includes publisher's slipcase. Slight signs of rust to spiral rings, boards slightly faded, small owner bookplate on front flyleaf. 1939 Spiral-Bound Hardcover. 100 captioned plates by American artists such as Thomas Benton, William Gropper, Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh, and Boardman Robinson. View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Chronicle Books: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2275622
First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped. 2003 Large Hardcover. 63 pp. Send children on a search for tiny details hidden in full-color reproductions of some of the world's most celebrated works of art. Lift-the-flap keys reveal the solutions to each puzzle and the fascinating stories behind the works that helped art develop throughout the ages. View more info
