Category: Art & Design

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The Monotype Recorder Commemorating an Exhibition of Lettering and Type Designs by Eric Gill, Held at Monotype House, London in October 1958

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, The Monotype Corporation Limited : 1958

Seller ID: 004729

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

22 pages; Extensive essays and numerous reproductions. Also, loosely laid-in is a brochure, Photographs of the Gill Exhibition at Monotype House. Toning to the front and back covers, back lightly soiled; clean throughout; tight binding.
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The Painter as Historian. Mythological, Religious, Secular: Paintings of the XV to XIX Centuries

By: Anonymous

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Wildenstein : 1962

Seller ID: 003788

ISBN: no

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Good

69 pages; 42 b&w plates. Preceding the plates an essay on each places the painting (i.e. the subject of the painting) in its historical context. The exhibition was for the benefit of two French-American organizations. Wrappers worn and soiled; clean throughout within; lengthwise fold down the middle of the catalogue.
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Vienna Secessionist Works of Art

By: Anonymous

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Sotheby's : 1986

Seller ID: 004432

ISBN: no

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

134 lots, each with a handnoted price. Auction date, October 11, 1986. Catalogue No. 5495 "WIEN".
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Paul Mellon's Legacy: A Passion for British Art

By: Anonymous (Christie's)

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Yale Center for British Art : 2007

Seller ID: 004130

ISBN: no

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

23 pages; 9 color illustrations, b&w photo of Mr. Mellon. On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Yale Center Center for British Art and remembering its founder. This small volume is an appreciation of the association with Mellon and a brief survey of his life and the Center's collection.
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Visões do Rio na coleção GEYER

By: Anonymous (Geyer)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Rio de Janeiro, Museo Imperial : 2000

Seller ID: 005104

ISBN: no

Binding: Stiff Card Pictorial Wrappers

Condition: Fine

18 color cards reproducing as many Geyer's paintings - postcards - bound in color card wrappers. Souvenir of the exhibition which displayed 173 of Geyer's works which focused on the river. Easily detached from the binding.
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Arts & Crafts in Britain and America

By: Anscombe, Isabelle; Charlotte Gere

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company : 1983

Seller ID: 004417

ISBN-13: 9780442208080

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

232 pages; 334 illustrations, including 60 color. A thorough survey of the designers and manufacturers of the furniture, stained glass, pottery, metalwork, textiles from the inception of the movement to its decline. Clean throughout; as new.
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MIRÓ, The Experience of Seeing. Late Works, 1963-1981

By: Aparicio, Carmen Fernández; Belén Galán Martin; [et al]

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Seattle Art Museum w/ Museo Nacional Central de Arts Reina Sofia : 2014

Seller ID: 005168

ISBN-13: 9780300204797

Binding: Pictorial Paper Boards

Condition: Fine

104 pages; numerous full-page color illustrations. A section of text includes conversation with a "militant young filmaker " of Miró's time, anit-Franco, who encountered Miró. Clean and bright throughout.
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The Expressionist Landscape: North American Modernist Painting, 1920-1947

By: Appelhof, Ruth Stevens; Cumbee Wilson; Barbara Haskell; Jeffrey R. Hayes

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art : 1988

Seller ID: 004524

ISBN-13: 9780295966915

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

216 pages; 132 illustrations, color and b&w; Checklist of 95 paintings; Bibliography is extensive. The artists: Avery; Bloch; Bluemner; Burchfield; Carr; Dove; Harris; Hartley; Jonson; Maurer; Marin;mNeel; O'Keefffe; Tobey; Weber; Weston; Zorach. Clean and bright throughout; light bend to the top corner pages 150-end; covers rubbed.
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Churches of France (Fifty-One Reproductions of Etchings and Drawings)

By: Arms, Dorothy Noyes (Text); John Taylor Arms (Fifty-One Reproductions of Etchings and Drawings)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company : 1929

Seller ID: 002348

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

179 pages. Spine faded with light wear to the head and foot; boards lightly soiled.
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The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts (The New Version)

By: Arnheim, Rudolf

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1988

Seller ID: 005307

ISBN-13: 9780520062429

Binding: Pictorial Wrappers (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

239 pages; more than 150 b&w illustrations. Bibliography; Index. "What determines the overall organization of visual form in works of painting, sculpture, and architecture?" The book, helpful to the viewer as well as the artist. Clean throughout; tight binding.
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An Egyptian Bestiary / The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

By: Arnold, Dorothea

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art : 1995

Seller ID: 001867

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good.

64 pages; profusely illustrated in color. The Met's zoo, includes a relative of William, the mascot blue hippo.; Bibliography. MMA Bulletin Spring 1995. Some underlining, but neat; likely a scholar, or a docent.
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An Exhibition of Modern Japanese Calligraphy Specially Organized for U.S. Display

By: Asano, Hiromu (translator)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Tokyo, Asahi Shimbun Publishing Co. : 1963

Seller ID: 000291

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Good.

56 pages. Exhibition catalogue of works of 26 contemporary Japanese calligraphers. Entries include identification of the ideographs, the literal meaning and acrediting the text. Often includes the calligrapher's comments. Photo portraits of the calligraphers.
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High Art and Low Life: The Studio and the Fin de Siecle

By: Ashwin, Clive; Peter Rose; Lionl Lambourne; Bill North; [et al]

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Washiington, D.C., The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation : 1993

Seller ID: 004071

ISBN: 0039-4114

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

144 pages; numerous illustrations, b&w and color. Incorporates the Catalogue to the Exhibition, High Art and Low Life: The Studio and the Arts of the 1890s. Previous owners small label on page 1, otherwise fine throughout.
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Dialogue with Nature: Landscape and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America

By: Asleson, Robyn; Barbara Moore

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art : 1985

Seller ID: 004248

ISBN-13: 9780886750190

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

48 pages; color illustrations. "... the connections between art, literature and thought which characterized this period of intense cultural development and evolving national identity."
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Art of the Arab World

By: Atil, Esin

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution : 1975

Seller ID: 002111

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

154 pages; 80 objects, including ceramics, glass, brass, manuscripts, bindings, jewelry illustrated in color. The wrappers, which wrap around with a flap, simulate a leather binding, item no. 80, from the 14th century. A very attractive book, unusually designed.
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The Age of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent

By: Atil, Esin

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art : 1987

Seller ID: 002152

ISBN-13: 9780894680984

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

356 pages; 210 items illustrated in color, additional b&w and color illustrations; 4 appendices; glossary, bibliography; concordance; index. Wrappers toned at the edges; clean and tight within.
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William Merritt Chase: Summers at Shinnecock 1891-1902

By: Atkinson, D. Scott; Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Washington, National Gallery of Art : 1987

Seller ID: 003902

ISBN-13: 9780894681035

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

95 pages; 24 full page color plates; 38 black and white text illustrations. J. Carter Brown in the Foreword says, "The landscapes and interiors that WMC painted in the 1890s during his summers at Shinnecock, on eastern Long Island, are his finest single achievement, and some of the most purely beautiful and thoroughly delightful pictures painted in late nineteenth-century America." Clean and tight except for previous owner's name on front free endpaper.
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Manuscript Painting at the Court of France - the Fourteenth Century (1310-1380)

By: Avril, Francois

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, George Braziller : 1978

Seller ID: 001476

ISBN-13: 9780807608791

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

120 pages; 40 color plates; b&w text illustrations.Clean and tight.
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El Greco / The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

By: Baetjer, Katherine; [et al]

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art : 1981

Seller ID: 001812

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good.

48 pages. Well illustrated in color and in b&w. The Museum's Summer 1981 Bulletin. Much of the text is in large print. Clean and tight.
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Dictionary of American Art

By: Baigell, Mathew

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row : 1982

Seller ID: 005258

ISBN-13: 9780064332545

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

390 pages. Numerous essays on dozens of art genres. Artists' biographies. Alot between two covers. Clean and tight throughout except for previous owner's name on front fly.
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Category: Art & Design