Art, Graphic Design, Commercial Art from JWMah

Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1975. (CAD) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, small crease to upper corner of cover, Very Good used copy. Wraps, no page numbers [77]pp, colour reproductions of paintings, B&W portraits of the artists. Antonio Maia; Arcangelo Ianelli;Ivan Freitas; Joao Camara; Osmar Dillon; Paulo Roberto Leal; Rubim Valentim; Rubens Gerchman; Tomie Ohtake; Yutake Toyota. The text… Read more about this item

Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1983. (CAD) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, spine cfeases, there is a triangular piece about 0.5 x 075" missing from the lower corner of the front cover, thus Good only used copy. Wraps, 440pp, mostly B&W photos and reproductions augmented with some colour materials. This was the inaugural exhibition of the new Vancouver Art Gallery… Read more about this item

Greenwich CT: New York Graphic Society, 1967. (USA) Presued 1st American edition. No marking, solid Very Good in price-clipped Good only dust jacket withchip to head of spine and crease to front flap fold; DJ is in mylar sleeve. Green cloth, 327pp. 28 colour plates; 177 B&W photos. This book is on the life and works of Manzu, largely self-a=taught,… Read more about this item

Point Roberts WA: Hartley & Marks, Publishers., 1991. (USA) Presumed 1st edition. There is a small 3-digit number to the corner of the end paper, no other markings, Near Fine in Good only dust jacket with minor edge faults and small tear to head of spine panel; DJ is in mylar sleeve. Black cloth, xviii, 180pp, index, B&… Read more about this item

United Kingdom: Imperial War Museum, 2018. (UK) Presumed 1st edition, No markings, Fine, as New; no dust jacket as published. Photo boards, 205pp, colour photos throughout of the intallation of the poppies at different locales. Of the countless commemorations of the centennial of World War I, the most striking and unforgettable was surely an art installation at the Tower of… Read more about this item

Toronto: Penguin Studio / Madison Press Book, 1996. (CAD) 1st printing of the first edition. Three line owner's inscription to the corner of the endpaper which has been obliterated with white-out, no other markings, thus about Fine in unclipped Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing to panel gloss. Charcoal boards, 192pp. Gorgeous colour reproductions of paintings… Read more about this item

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart / National Gallery of Canada, 1995. (CAD) Presumed 1st hardcover edition. No markings, Fine in unclipped about Fine dust jackdt with a tiny tear to the top edge of the front panel near the spine edge. Green boards, 375pp, index. This book reproduces all 179 paintings that make up the exhibition---with more than… Read more about this item

Toronto / Vancouver: Merritt Publishing Company, 1980. (CAD) Presued 1st edition. SIGNED BY ARTIST " Andre Bieler, 1981", no other markings, hint of spine slant, otherwise Very Good in Very Good (-) dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to head of spine of Dj and 1/2" closed tear and small crease to bottom edge of front panel; Dj is… Read more about this item

Paris / Geneve: Edita Lausanne, 1967. (FR) Presumed 1st edition, No markings, Fine in Good (-) only dust jacket with edge chips and tears with repairs verso with magic tape; Dj is in mylar sleeve. Hardcover cloth, [284]pp, index, 90 tipped-in colour illustrations with 388 B&W illustrations. This is a great book on the French sculptor with the text entirely… Read more about this item

Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2010. (CAD) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published. Boards, 128pp, B&W and colour photos of video installations and photographic installations. Fiona Tan is a visual artist primarily known for her photography, film and video art installations. Her work is known for its skillful craftsmanship and emotional intensity, which often… Read more about this item

Milano: Mudima, 2005. (ITL) Presumed 1st edition No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published. Hardcover, 246pp, reporductions of paintings in colour, B&W photos. The text is in Italian and in English. Since being featured in the 2003 Venice Biennale, Papetti emerged as one of the most important Italian painters today. Papetti is a self-taught artist. His most noticeable… Read more about this item

NY: Park Lane, 1974. (USA) 3rd printing of the first American edition. No markings Fine in unclipped Very Good dust jacket with a 1/2" tear to the bottom corner of the front flap. Hardcover, patterned end papers, 398pp, 410 colour photos and illus.This is an excellent book on the Vatican buildings and palaces including the Borgia apartments, the library and… Read more about this item

NY: Watson-Guptill, 1983. 4th printing of the First edition No markings, Fine in price-clipped Very Good dust jacket with 1/2" closed tear to bottom edge of front panel. This is a useful book on watercolor technqiue where a leading realist painter demonstrates "impossible" watercolor techniqes for portraits, figures and landscapes. Silverman uses unorthodox painting methods to expand… Read more about this item

Cheshire CT: Graphics Press, 1998. (USA) 7th printinf of the first edition, 1998. No markings, Fine in Very Good dust jacket with a couple of small edge tears. Hardcover, 197pp, index, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics. Tufte was a profession at Yale where he taught statistical evidence and information design.… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, just a hint of rubbing to foot of spine, otherwise Fine in Good dust jacket with slight rubbing to edges of black dust jacket. Umber cloth, 142pp, maps, B&W photos of locales, 34 full-colour tipped in plates. John Kenneth Galbraith once said he accepted the post of Ambassador to… Read more about this item

North Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 1982. (CAD) Stated first edition, No markings, slight toning of page edges, otherwsie Fine in price-clipped Fine dust jacket. Dark blue leatherette hardcover, 151pp, colour photos. Galpin has photographed 82 works from 8 major Arctic artistic centres as well as Greenland and several smaller communities. A lovely book on Inuit stone sculpture. A heavy book… Read more about this item

London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1998. (UK) Presumed 1st eidtion, No markings, there is a crease to the base of the spine Very Good. Wraps, [110]pp, colour reproductions of paintings, the fold-outs are in excellent order. (2.5 JM HOJ 304/6. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue.

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1962. (UK) Presumed 1st edition.Owner's name to end paper, no other markings, Near Fine in unclipped Near Fine just jacket in mylar sleeve. Cloth hardcover, ; xviii, 287 pages, 96 leaves of B&W photo plates. This is volume 7 of The Oxford history of English art and is a history of art in the… Read more about this item

Cambridge / London: The MIT Press, 2007. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 408pp, index, colour and B&W photos and illus. The book starts of with Maureen Sherlock's horrendous account of the deaths of 200 yound women in the New York factory fire From the jacket: The Object of Labor explores the personal,… Read more about this item

Koln: Konemann, 1998. (GER) 3rd printing. No markings, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Boards, 503pp, index, mostly colour photos and illus. The text is in English. A heavy oversize book. (7.0 JM HOZ 403/b6. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Bednorz, Achim. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".