Search Results: Monographs from Royoung bookseller, Inc.

Naples, Florida: Martin Gordon Inc, Nd. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. white cloth front cover lettered in gilt. Near fine in nicked dust wrapper. Picasso, Pablo. Unpaginated. 28.5 x 22 cm. 14017 entries, and Prints Listed By Catalogue Raisonne.

New York: Rizzoli, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 314 pages. 28 x 25 cm. 398 illustrations, ninety in color. Written by his son, this monograph presents Cassandre's manipulation of typography and image -- including work for the theater, the great typsetters of the time, as well as the posters.

New York: Abrams, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Rattner, Abraham. 235 pages. 212 illustrations, with fifty tipped-in color plates. Bibliography. Monograph on one of America's leading Expressionist painters.

Berlin: Amsler & Ruthhardt, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. full vellum, spine and cover lettered in gilt. Fine. Van Ostade, Adriaen. 5 pages in text. 37 x 29 cm, Limited edition, copy 7 of 16. Fifty plates. Van Ostade, a painter and etcher was a pupil of Frans Hals. Best known for his good humored scenes of peasant life, depicting their carousing and brawling. Clean and bright throughout, all plates with wide margins.

New York: Grossman, 1970. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Dine, Jim. Approximately 120 pages in text with poems by Ron Padgett and illustrations in black and white by Jim Dine. The first edition of 30 copies published by Cape Galliard Press, London was signed and numbered by Padgett and Dine, and contained an original signed print. Nice copy of an engaging artist's book. Owner inscription.

NY: Independent Curators, 1993. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. 63 pages. 28 x 23 cm. Illustrated in black and white. Biographical references.

Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1977. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Kuniyoshi, Utagawa. 32 pages. Twelve full-color reproductions. Woodblock prints from a prolific and inventive ukiyo-e artist. His satire remains alive and humane today.

NY: Spanierman/Drawings, 1988. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. Unpaginated, approx 140 pages. 24 x 26 cm. Abundantly illustrated mostly in color. Price list with Sold items noted.

New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1999. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. Approx 48 pages. 8 1/2 x 11". Approx. 40 color plates.

New York: Cythera Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper. Rowlandson, Thomas. 39 pages in text. 31 x 24 cm. Introduction by Gert Schiff. 50 color plates. The erotic drawings, some of which were done for the Prince Regent bears witness to Rowlandson's temperament and the temper of the times.

Firenze: Sansoni, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth lettered in gilt. Near fine. Pisani. 87 pages in text, 163 illustrations. Index of Names. Index of Places. Text in Italian. FREITAG 591. LUCAS p78.

Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1980. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth. Near fine. Castagno, Andrea del. 224 pages. 134 plates and twenty-four text figures. Bibliography. Index of Works by Location. General Index. The first full study of Castagno to appear in English. FREITAG 1465.

NY: Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light brown cloth. Fine. 64 pages. 11 1/2 x 9". Color plates.

London: Country Life, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Aeg. Very good. 2 vols. Adam, Robert & James. Approximately 15" x 12"; 636 illustrations, photographs and drawings to scale. Spiers Index of Drawings inThe Soane Collection. Index of Clients' Names. General Index. An important work, magnificently illustrated. COLVIN p31. "...contains a catalogue of the principal works of the drawings in Sir John Soane's Museum and illustrates all the principal works of the brothers Adam. FREITAG 36. Front cover raised bust in gilt. Bookplates front pastedown, ex-library -- spine stickers removed, small ink handstamped number front pastedowns, versos of title pages and bottom edge of one rear blank. Intrerior contents clean, bindings firm, backstrips chipped at extremities.

London: Lund Humphries, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper. Wren, Christopher. 244 pages. 27 x 22 cm. Black and white illustrations and diagrams. Catalogue Raisonne. A note on the Wren drawings. Abstract of the Wren Library. Bibliography. The dating of Wren's works has been fraught with error, and the author in this monograph has presented an intelligent chronology of dates of those works only which can be attributed to him. Index. Owner inscription. FREITAG 10352. LUCAS p203.

Monaco: Marlborough Monaco, 2003. First edition. Paperback. Orig. printed stiff wrappers. Fine. 32 pages. 11 1/2 x 10". 13 color plates.

Hebron & Philadelphia: Feather and Good & American Philosophical Society, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth rubbed at extremities. Very good in worn dust wrappers. 2 vols. Peale, Charles Wilson. 293 & 468 pages. 8vo, 23 x 16 cm. Twenty-six and forty-five illustrations, respectively. Index in each volume. Extensive bibliography Vol. II. In his early career Peale was a portrait painter, soldier and politician, and in later life turned his attention to the establishment of a museum of natural history. Franklin encouraged his project; Jefferson befriended and promoted it. KARPEL H416-H417. "...these volumes remain the standard work on Peale." Vol. I, a signed presentation copy.

Chicago: R. S. Johnson Fine Art, 2001. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 74 pages. 10 1/2 x 8 1/2". 34 color plates, each with provenance and detailed description.

New York: Viking, 1967. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper. Rodin, Auguste. 283 pages. 31 x 26 cm. Profusely illustrated: black and white and tipped-in color plates. Bibliography. Index. FREITAG 8296.

Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated beige silk over boards. Very good. Pascin, Jules. 83 pages. 31 x 24 cm. Thirty-five illustrations, six are full-page hand-colored, and one, a double-page plate. Limited edition, copy 276 of 310 on Old Stratford Paper published by the Pan-Presse [60 copies on Japan Paper, and 250 on Old Stratford]. Covers soiled, backstrip respined in matching silk, last three blanks dampstained at fore-edge and head, text and plates bright and clean.