American Art
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Mutts
by Patrick McDonnell
The fun and mischievous daily adventures of head mutt Earl and his kitty chum, Mooch, take center stage in Patrick McDonnell's Mutts collection, A Little Look-See. As with McDonnell's previous collections, the always-adorable Mooch and Earl can be counted on for hearty laughs and endearing moments as they share their pets'-eye views when "their peoples" are not around. In A Little Look-See, we learn through Earl and Mooch that yes, animals do practice those irresistible expressions that melt our hearts,...
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American Art Books & Ephemera
Joseph Cornell: box constructions and collages
by Cornell, Joseph
West Palm Beach: Norton Museum of Art, 1997. Wood box 7" x 4¾" x 1½, printed label on sliding lid, containing 45 mostly color postcards of Cornell's work, together with five 3- or 4-fold text inserts.
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NZ$97.88
A Life in Photography.
by Steichen, Edward
New York, Doubleday, 1963. 4°, 142 Bl., 249 s/w u. wenige farb. Abb., OLwd. m OU., OU lädiert (Fehlstellen) hinterlegt, Buch in gutem Zustand. Erstausabe. 010
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NZ$111.25
View. Through the eyes of poets. Charles Henri Ford, editor. Series I, No. 1 - Series VII, No. 3, October 1940 - Spring 1947 (all published), lacking 2 issues: Series I, Nos. 3 and 4/5.
by View
New York, 1940-1947.. Prof. illus. Format varies: Series I in tabloid folio; Series II in sm. 4to.; Series III-VII in lrg. 4to. Series I in self-wraps.; Series II-VII in dec. wraps. Special issues are devoted to Surrealism, Ernst, Tchelitchew/Tanguy, Vertigo, and Marcel Duchamp (designed by the artist). Among the many literary and art reviews which sprang up in the United States during the last war, it was certainly View which--although never in any way an official organ of the...
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NZ$11,064.30
American Craft June July 1991
by American Craft Council
NY: American Craft Council. 1991 First Edition Crafts and Art Magazine 96 pages Illustrated.Very good with light wear. See Photos mag bx 7
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NZ$17.02
Roarr : Calder's Circus
by Maira Kalman
Whitney Museum of American Art, 1992. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NZ$12.31
America, Guests Who Came to Dinner (and Stayed) #30 Miniature.
by Terry, Evelyn Patricia
Milwuakee, Wisconsin:: Evelyn Patricia Terry,, 2021.. Series Variant, each unique. 3 x 3"; 6 panels including book boards. Miniature altered book. Materials: intaglio prints, screen prints, pastel, thread, artist's hair, permanent ink. Includes collage and handwritten text. Signed by the arist. A miniature version of Terry's original serires "America, Guests Who Came to Dinner (and Stayed)." Evelyn Patricia Terry: "'America, Guests Who Came to Dinner (and...
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NZ$1,361.76
James Turrell Eclipse.
by TURRELL, James. With a text by Richard Bright and CD by Paul Schutze
London and Ostfildern, Germany: Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art and Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1999. First edition / First printing. Illustrated boards. Very fine in fine mylar dust jacket, with extremely light rubbing.
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NZ$170.22
City of Industry
by MacGilvary, Norwood Hodge
Pittsburg, PA: Providence Art Club, 1938 8 by 10 inches, oil on canvas board, 10 by 12 inches framed. Signed by Norwood MacGilvary near bottom left corner. Board edges rubbed, else very good condition.
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NZ$2,638.41
Notes in Hand
by Oldenburg, Claes
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1971. Pocket-size paperback reproducing 50 pages from the artist's notebooks, with some commentary, introduction, bibliography. As new in shrinkwrap, as pictured; minor wear to corners. . Paperback. As New. 4¼" by 5¾".
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NZ$42.56
A Portfolio of Drawings by William Dixon Based on the Novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs
by Dixon, William
Philadelphia: Oswald Train: Pubisher 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Chalker and Owings report a print run of 500 copies [but incorrectly describe the illustrations as laid in loose, given that every copy that I have seen has been bound as follows]. Very oversize [about 11.25" x 16.25"] gray pictorial wrappers, sadde-stapled, unpaginated [printed rectos only]. Collects a frontispiece pencil portrait of Edgar Rice Burroughs, 10 numbered plates based on his works; plus a 1 page commentary on the...
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NZ$34.04
Sloan's Constructive Architecture; A Guide to the Practical Builder and Mechanic. In Which Is Contained A Series Of Designs For Domes, Roofs And Spires, etc..
by Sloan, Samuel
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1866. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's cloth with front cover gilt decoration bright and clean. Very good. 148 pages. 30 x 24 cm. Sixty-six plates, most of which are colored lithographs, and one, a large fold-out [uncolored]. Glossary. Geometrical Definitions. The second edition is identical to the first, published in 1859. KARPEL B295. "Before this work appeared in 1859, the standards for carpentry and building construction were largely set by foreign...
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NZ$1,063.88
The Renaissance of Western Art
by Ward Johanna Walsh & James
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Mint,1974. Bound in brown leatherette. 144 pages of western art, filled with color full page plates. Very light edge wear, some bubbling to cloth covered boards, binding defect,, foot of spine lightly bumped. cl/over
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NZ$25.53
The Art of the Old West
by Rossi, Paul
Very light wear in like dust jacket. See photos bx95
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NZ$42.56
Something Coming: Apocalyptic Expectation and Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Painting
by Husch, Gail E
University Press of New England, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. An interdisciplinary analysis of the role of religion in antebellum art. 305p. 64 figures and 11 plates. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Artists include Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Pritchard Rossiter, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Benjamin West, etc.
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NZ$32.34
The Beauties of Modern Architecture
by Lafever, Minard
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary quarter black roan and midnight blue speckled boards Very good. Lafever, Minard. 139 pages in text. 27 x 18 cm. Forty-eight engraved plates. The rare first edition. This monograph consists of a section entitled "Architectural History" extracted from Elmes's DICTIONARY, a glossary of names and terms used in architecture from the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITTANICA, and a series of elegantly drawn and engraved designs for doors, windows, and...
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NZ$1,012.81
Louise Bourgeois. Nothing to remember!
by Bourgeois, Louise
Gottingen: Steidl Hauser & Wirth, 2008. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Bound in beige cloth with red/brown lettering. Reprint of the portfolio "Nothing to remember" set no. 3 of 6 sets made between 2004 and 2006 and consisting of colored images and text on top of hand-drawn music manuscript paper. Reproduced here with color plates and Louise Bourgeois' handwriting. 62 pp. Oblong 39,8 x 28,3 cm. A very fine copy. .
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NZ$911.90
Art And Life In America
by Oliver W Larkin
Rinehart, 1949. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1949. 547 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. The clipped dust jacket has heavy edge...
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NZ$53.32
The Eye and the Heart : Watercolors of John Stuart Ingle
by John Sandford
Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated, 1988. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NZ$17.65
AMERICAN PAINTERS
by G. W. Sheldon
New York: D. Appleton, 1879. Hardcover. Good +. 9 x 11 in. Cloth boards. Numerous engraved plates. Condition is GOOD+ ; front hinge tender but holding. Covers clean, corners and spine ends worn. Some marks on ffep, text bright and unmarked. Art. Stax.
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NZ$59.58
Bronzes of the American West
by Patricia Janis Broder
Abrams, Inc., 1973. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NZ$20.63
Norman Rockwell, Illustrator
by Guptill, Arthur L
USA: Watson-Guptil Publications, 1970. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Seventh Printing of Third Edition, 1972. Hardcover Quarto AS NEW with a VG Dust Jacket. Preface by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Biographical Introduction by Jack Alexander. The art of a preeminent American 20th Century artist, 437 illustrations, 43 in color, plus 250 covers for The Saturday Evening Post ( read by all in 1900 mid-century in America) done over a period of thirty years,...
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NZ$25.55
Fragile Connections (2011).
by Armstrong, Sara Garden
New York:: Sara Garden Armstrong,, 2011.. Edition of 40. 11" x 4.5" (27.94 x 11.43cm); 18 pages. Interior pages of digital prints on translucent paper and Japanese paper. Bound in transparency film and metallic board. Signed and numbered by the artist Jon Coffelt, Sara Garden Armstrong Threads and Layers: "Inkjet-printed pages of the artist's work are juxtaposed with her photographs. words are layered throughout on both tanslucent and opaque pages. As the pages are turned, images and...
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NZ$204.26
Isabel Toledo
by Valerie Steele, Patricia Mears
* Inscribed and SIGNED by Isabel and Ruben Toledo on title page, with doodle of model. * Book cover shows moderate wear at end caps, one bumped corner - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new. * Jacket shows modest edge/ shelf wear, one small taped tear. * Proceeds benefit Friends of the Pleasant Hill Library. * "Honest and reliable service - every book hand-packaged with care." One of the most exciting fashion designers in the United States, Cuban-born Isabel Toledo has been honored with a...
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NZ$851.10
American Painting History and Interpretation
by Barker, Virgil
New York: Bonanza Books. No Date, circa 1950. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners and spine faded. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Previous owner's blindstamp to half-title page. 717 pages. A scholarly and comprehensive work. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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NZ$50.07
Alison Brady
by Alison Brady
From the library of Brady's first NY gallerist, signed by the author. The gallerist was also a painter, and accordingly the cover shows traces of paint and dust. Otherwise a fine copy. Ships from Mexico City, always by Fedex, DHL or UPS. Siranda Librería Anticuaria - we specialize in rare and oop books on the arts, music and literature in many languages. Inquiries welcome
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NZ$476.62
