Search Results: Art from Lippincott Books

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Good-. 124 pp. Blind-stamped black cloth, spine title stamped in white. In scarce dustjacket: clear with printing in white. With illustrated endpapers. The book is profusely illustrated with b&w photos. Interviews with Henry Moore, Reg Butler, Kenneth Armitage, Lynn Chadwick, Barbara Hepworth; with newspaper clipping about Hepworth laid in. From the Library of Francis Merritt, the founder and first Director of Haystack Mountain School of Arts and Crafts.

Cincinnati Art Museum, 1987. First Edition . Soft cover. VG. 4to. 108 pp. Softcover. With 33 color plates and 41 figures. Duveneck was an American portrait painter. He studiied in Munich where he learned a dark, realistic and direct style of painting. Duveneck's startling new and different paintings were part of a new art movement. Henry James called him "the unsuspected genius." He opened a school in Munich, and later in America. VG

New York, No Date: Van Nostrand Reinhold. SIGNED . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Folio. 272 pp. Published to coincide with a national traveling exhibit of fabric works selected by the authors. Includes notes, bibliography, biographies and index. Illustrated with black & white and color photographs. Presented by Larsen to Francis Merritt, and his wife Pris. Merritt was the founder and first Director of Haystack Mountain School of Arts and Crafts. Inscribed on ffep, " To the ones I love most, Jack Larsen". Lower edges foxed, else near fine, dust jacket creased and frayed along upper edge. May require extra postage if shipped internationally.

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. 169 pp with index, bibliography. Rust cloth with silver title on spine, pictorial endpapers. 16 color plates, 216 half-tones and line cuts. Dustjacket is not price-clipped, has edge wear and a white, scuffed line across the front. VG+/Good+

Augusta, Maine No Date: Department of Arts and Humanities, University of Maine at Augusta. First Edition . Paper Wrappers. Fine. 58 pp. circa 2004. Color plates. "Philip Carlo Paratore brings science and art together in a unique and personal way,..." Keith Steward Thomson President, The Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia.

Scranton, Pennsylvania: William Morrow & Company, 1993. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 160 pp. 99 full-color plates with additional color details from the plates. Lovell, a two-time winner of the National Academy of Western Arts Prix de West, also provided art work for the Civil War Series by Ken Burns.

Kensington NSW; n.d.: Bay Books. Hardcover. Good+/Good+. 216 pp. With bibliography, list of plates, and index of artists. Lavendar cloth, title stamped in white in front board and spine. Descriptions of nearly 100 Australian artists followed by at least one of their works in color. Edges of boards sunned; dustjacket has edge wear. Overseas customers please request a shipping quote; the book will ship at cost.

Seattle/Portland: Epicenter Press/Graphic Arts Center, 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 80 pp. Richly illustrated with Van Zyle's paintings, a personal narrative with each one. Near Fine in VG+ dust jacket

Philadelphia: Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Fine. unpaginated. Brown cloth, red morocco label with title in gilt tipped in to front panel, marbled endpapers. One of 1250 copies. Published on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the founding of the city, this edition reproduces 27 color plates from the original 1800 edition, opposite which are black & white photographs of the same site taken in 1960 & 1982. 2 maps, facsimile list of subscribers, references, and related pictures.

N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 1966. First American Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Georges Braque. 71 pp. Translated from the French by Robert Fitzgerald with reproductions of 4 of the 12 color etchings prepared by Braque for his 80th birthday, and used in the original 1963 French edition. This bilingual edition includes the text in French followed by the English translation and a bibliographical note. With original brown slipcase in 2 pieces. Slipcase could be repaired to about very good condition.

West Southport, Maine: Ruth Rhoads Lepper, 1952. First Edition . Spiral Bound. Very Good. Spiral bound, oblong with stiff cardboard wrappers. Artist's drawing of region on front cover and 51 beautiful pen and ink drawings. Very Good.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. xii, 387 pp. Oblong quarto. With 180 illustrations: 167 in color: paintings and details of paintings. With essays by J.G. Links, Michael Levy, Francis Haskell, Alessandro Bettagno, and Viola Pemberton-Pigott. The book accompanied the first exhibition of his work to be held in America. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

Quebec: Musee De La Civilization De Quebec, 1997. First Edition. Limited/ Signed . Stiff Paper Wraps. Fine. 36 pages. One of an edition of 500. Catalogue of an exhibit of his collaborative works.

New York: Winchester Press, 1969. First Edition. Limited/ Signed . Paper Wrappers. Fine. No. 839 of a limited edition of 1,000, signed on the limitation page by Milton C. Weiler. Introduction by Ed Zern, foreword by William J. Mackey, Jr. 24 full color plates of decoys. Each plate is laid in beside a letterpress description of the decoy's maker. The sewn portfolio is laced into publisher's stiff paper wrappers with brown ribbon. Green paper wrappers with title gilt on front. Slipcase with paper label on front has a few faint stains, and the green paper covering has uniform but slight fading on front panel. Portfolio is fine, in a very good slipcase.

Seaforth, Australia: Craftsman House, 1987. First Edition, Limited . Hard Cover with Slipcase. Near Fine. 131, [2] pp. Number 37 in an edition of 100, signed in limitation page by Lanceley. With 36 color plates and 24 black and white figures. Introduction by Robert Hughes and transcript of a William Wright interview with Lanceley. Includes bibliography and biographical chronology. Bound in cloth printed in a Lanceley design of primary colors on natural ground. Very good slipcase in scarlet cloth. Oversize book: overseas customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.

Northampton, Massachusetts: Kitchen Sink Press, 1990. Stated First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 95 pp. Art Spiegelman contributed the forward for the book, and he wrote: " Visually, Polly and Her Pals is a happy pop synthesis of Art Deco, Futurism, Surrealism, Dada and Pure Cartoon. Polly is one great comic strip. Your eyes can dance to it." Reproductions of full page cartoons, many pages include Sterrett's top-strip Dot & Dash.

Munchen: Hirmer Verlag Munchen, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 120 pp. 124 plates, many in color. Text in GERMAN. Light blue cloth, gilt spine. Corners bumped else VG; previous owner's inscription on ffep. In VG dust jacket with slight wear to top of spine, light soiling at bottom of spine of the jacket. Oversize book may require extra postage. VG+/VG

Bielefeld: Karl Kerber Verlag, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 350 pp. Text in English and in German. Dark red cloth. Prolificly illustrated with photographs.

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 190, [2] pp. Introduction by Theodore E Stebbins, Jr; contributions by David Park Curry, Efrat Adler Porat, and Deanna M Griffin. Green cloth, titles stamped in copper. Checklist of the Exhibition, bibliograhy, index. 46 color plates and many in b&w.

Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1964. First Edition . Hardcover. GVG. 400 pp. Includes 8 color plates and 316 black and white plates. With bibliography and index of names. Gift inscription to previous owner in German on ffep. Water- stain on front board has not penetrated to the text, otherwise a very clean copy. Oversize book: overseas customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.