Search Results: Authors starting with H from Ultramarine Books

New York: W.W. Norton, 2000. 108 pages. Hacker's ninth collection of poems. "A deeply thoughtful travelogue through this awful century, through cancer, through two great cities, and through love and loss.". First Edition. quarter-cloth and paper boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

South Hadley, Massachusetts: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 1983. 57 pages; 24 works illustrated in color or b&w. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 8vo. Exhibition Catalogue.

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1957. 240 pages; 178 illustrations, including 48 color. Painting, sculpture and prints are each separately surveyed through each successive stage of style development. Clean throughout, nearly fine; minor fadfing and wear to the dustjacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue.

New York: Universe / Ira Spanierman Gallery, 1987. 88 pages; b&w text illustrations; full-page photo-portrait of the artist; 19 full-page color plates with catalogue entries. Three essays: Gloucester and its role as an art center; the phases of Twachtman's career; Twachtman's work as compared to other contemporary Gloucester artists. Most reproductions are Gloucester harbor scenes. Printed Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue.

New York: White Whale Press, 2000. 119 pages; b&w illustrations by the author. Fifty-plus years as a scuptor: "It is my belief that the value of sculpture comes from the power as an art to clarify the processes and expressions of life." Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper.. Inscribed by the author. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Illus. by author. 4to.

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. 356 pages; 193 reproduced photographs all b&w . A terrific historic document in text and photographs of the transformation of the West. Jackson, who worked for the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, "was acclaimed in the nineteenth century as the world's most famous landscape photographer." Wide-open landscapes, individual Native Americans and their tented villages, railroads in the mountains, workmen along rivers. A terrific book. Clean throughout; tight binding.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers (softcover). Fine. Oblong 4to.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995. 272 pages; 97 full-page plates; 103 text illustrations; the Catalogue offers full commentary for each plate. The exhibition was held at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris before traveling to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. A biography of Félix Tournachon, Nadar, and examination of his work and its legacy. His portraits beautifully reveal the individual and the dress of the period. There is a scratch on the back panel of the cover.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994. 318 pages; more than 160 images. European and American photography from the rich Ford Motor Collection that has been given to The Metropolitan. Endnotes, Bibliography.. First Paperback Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue.

London: Seeley & Co., Limited, 1891. Vol. 22; pp. vi; 260; xxvi. Full leather binding with gilt ruling on boards and spine; endpapers and page edges marbled. 36 full-page tissue guarded plates, including frontispiece, after artists such as Velazquez, Vermeer, Guercino, Hals, Turner and others; all on heavy stock. Numerous b&w text illustrations; more than 50 essays on diverse artistic topics: The Present State of the Fine Arts in France; St. Ignatius Loyola and the Early Jesuits; Johannes Vermeer of Delft; The Salons of Baudelaire. Endpapers partly open in front, the binding is firm. Occasional mild foxing to the plate stock; margins of that stock are darkened. Spine edges, bands and corners are rubbed.. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 14" x 10".

London: Seeley & Co., 1891. pp. vi; 260; xxvi. Numerous illustrations, including many full-page, on heavy stock with tissue guards. Full blue leather with gilt tooling worn at edges and corners; the spine with gilt titles and tooling and with five raised bands. Marbled endpapers and page edges. The book is filled not only with art commentary but it weaves, also, history and other notes. Some contents: Wiliam Hunt; Johannes Vermmer of Delft; The Present State of the Fine Arts in France; The Masters of Wood Engraving; The Lago di Garda; The Company of St. Luke, Florence; St. Ignatius Loyola and the Early Jesuits; Cleaning a Fresco.. Full Leather. Very Good. 13.75" x 10".

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1912. 459 pages; 12 plates of etchings by various artists, including the author. Each etching has a glassine overleaf with red text, which explains the etching process in some detail. A second glassine protects the etching. Binding is tight; boards only mild wear at edges; gilt titles and decoration on the backing lightly faded. Top edges gilt. Handsome volume.. Green Cloth. Very Good/No dutjacket. thick 8vo.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. 206 pages; the products of dozens of artists, more tha 150, illustrated in color. Artwork of tools, with tools, tools; painting, sculpture, prints, photographs. Artists' biographies follow the illustrations. Clean and tight; nearly fine condition.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to.

London: Penguin, 1990. 610 pages; illustrations. "... the best available grounding in its huge subject." Occasional underlining; tight binding.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Good. 8vo.

New York: Penguin, 1984. 608 pages; 307 illustrations. Tight binding; generally clean; occasional light underlining.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. thick 8vo.

London: Paul Hamlyn Ltd., 1967. 39 pages + 48 color plates. A selection from The Colour Library of Art. A survey of Van Gogh's life and work; includes a biography and excerpts from Van Gogh's letters.. Cloth. Very Good/Dustjacket chipped.. Large 4to.

London: Tate Publishing, 2012. 224 pages; 137 illustrations. Bacon's artistic reaction to living with the rise of Fascism, Hitler, World War II, polarisation following the end of the war. Bacon's use of Fascist photography as base for his art. Clean throughout; tight binding.. Black paper boards. Fine/Fine. 9.75" x 7.5".

London: Paul Mitchell Limited, 1992. 18 pages; color illustrated. Reprint from December 1992 Tableau Fine Arts Magazine bound in stiff card wraps; front panel faded unevenly.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Slim folio.

New York: Harper & Row, 1978. 304 pages; full-page color plates of each of the 61 species that are fully described as to distribution, migration, habitat, appearance, and behavior. Introductory chapters deal with problems and features of the classification, distribution, and behavior of the heron family. "... the book a work of art as well as an authoritative monograph." Small remainder mark on the top edge.. 1st U.S Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Folio.

New York: G. Schirmer For the Acquirement of Agility, Independence, Strength, and Perfect Evenness in the Fingers, as well as Suppleness of the Wrist. Vol. 1071 of Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics. This is Book 1 of Hanon, exercises 1-20.. Printed Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 12" x 9".

New York: Clarkson Potter / Publishers, 2005. 96 pages. Numerous recipes: hand-formed, sliced, piped bar, cutout, fancy decorated, various gingerbread with tips, ingredient sources, templates, etc. As new.. First Edition. Decorated paper boards. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Ben Fink, Photographs. Square 8vo.