Vienna: Burgverlag, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 103 (1)pp. Tan quarter cloth over black paper board with a multicolored modernist graphic paper label mounted on the front cover. Gilt lettering on the front cover, black on spine. Decorative endpapers in black and yellow. Cover design by Hansi Reismayer. A...... More
Munich: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 163pp. Original gray cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, in original illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine. ""In Claude's work, Nature stands eternally revealed." Thus Goethe expressed his admiration for the most celebrated landscape painter in the history of art..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. x (iii), 166pp., xxx plates. Original rose cloth with gilt lettering on spine, in original illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine. Publisher's device on title page. Decorative initials. "Covering the whole period from the fourteenth to the end of the..... More
Paris: Editions Albert Morance, [nd]. Hardcover. Octavo. Portfolio of green cloth over illustrated paper boards with ties. 48 pp. text, 48 plates. A lovely little portfolio of Delacroix's work from 1817-1827 from the Louvre. Text in French. 48 loose plates with 81 b&w images. Very good condition. More
New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, LTD., 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. 320pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over blue buckram. An account of abstract art from 1890, the year of van Gogh's death, to 1918 and Malevich's "White Square on a White Background," a period that saw the blossoming of..... More
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art in Association with The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Lrg. 4to. xi,556pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dust jacket. Color frontispiece. "Strehlke's introduction sheds new light on Johnson's collecting and traces the history of the acquisition, conservation, and..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 349 pp. Brown cloth with red lettering on front cover and spine in original pictorial dj. Thick blue decorative endpapers. Book is magnificently illustrated from cover to cover with b/w and color facsimiles of the art work of Raphael Soyer..... More
London: Longman's, Green, and Co., 1892. New Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. xvi. 398pp. xv. 462pp. Gilt embossed, decorated olive cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Head and tail of spine, corners bumped and worn. Beveled edges. Scuffing to covers. Gilt top edge. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Hinges starting. Bookplate..... More
Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, (2005). Hardcover. Quarto. 296pp. Blue cloth with blind-stamped title on cover and spine in original color illustrated dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with color & b/w photographic reproductions of art work by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Pablo Picasso. The paintings depict scenes from brothels..... More
México: Joaquín Martínez, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 1/3000. Folio. XXII, [2]pp (text), unpaginated pages of color plates, [10]pp (Index). Original illustrated dust-jacket over tan cloth with brown lettering on spine and front cover. Frontispiece portrait of the painter. Remarkable work containing a selection of the artist's work executed between 1944..... More
China: Xianggang: Shang wu yin shu guan you xian gong si, 2007. Di 1 ban. Hardcover. 4to. [30],258pp. Illustrated glossy paper-covered boards in matching slipcase. Minor bumping to fore-edge of slipcase. Illustrated title-page. Delightful catalogue profusely illustrated with color reproductions of paintings by Chinese artists from Yangzhou covering 1368 through..... More
Buenos Aires: Eudeba, n.d. Softcover. 8vo. 47(1)pp. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Musical record in pocket to inside of front wrapper. Two empty plastic pockets at rear. Biography of renowned Argentine artist, Quinquela Martin (see below). With some color reproductions of his paintings and b/w photographs of his life throughout. Age wear..... More
Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 348pp. Original pigeon blue cloth with white lettering on cover and spine, in original color illustrated dustjacket. Tipped-in color frontispiece. Title page printed in red and black. A catalogue raisonné of the paintings 1900–1906. Catalogue compiled with the collaboration..... More
NP: Peter Ritzer, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. original glossy white paper-covered boards with black facsimile signature on cover. Collection of four pastel studies and twenty one oil paintings of delicate, feathery landscapes by Peter Ritzer reproduced full page with captions and in color; tissue guards. Due to the..... More
Dubai: Akkadia Press, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original white paper-covered boards with black lettering on cover and spine. Catalog for the extraordinary exhibition of work by Peter Halley and Pietro Roccasalva, two widely shown artists. The catalog opens with a Leonardo da Vinci quote printed across inside front..... More
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1934. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 301pp. Uncut. Half leather over green buckram, with gold lettering on spine. Original wrappers bound in. Decorative head- and tailpieces. Fascinating work in which the author describes the various painting exhibitions in Paris between 1879 and 1881. Some edge wear on binding..... More
New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, Ltd, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 252pp. Original pictorial dust-jacket over dark blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. Frontispiece. Publisher's logo on title page. Remarkable work being a tribute to Frederic Cozzens, one of America's greatest marine artists. Like nearly every other great..... More
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1907. Reprint of Second edition. Hardcover. Sm. 8vo. xxiii. 484pp. Blue cloth boards over vellum spine with gilt lettered title label in leather. Head and tail of spine bowed. Age wearing throughout. Gilt top edge. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Bookplate of previous owner to endpaper..... More
Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1976. Reprint. Hardcover. Folio. (9) 213 (1)pp., 170 plates. Original red cloth with gilt lettering and illustration on spine, in illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine. Burgundy endpapers. Color frontispiece. "Affectionately known by everyone in any way connected with Japanese art as..... More
New York: Frederick Keppel, 1906. Softcover. 12mo. Original wrappers. 6 pamphlets per series in individual slipcase. Minor age rubbing throughout. Every pamphlet is illustrated with several b/w annotated images. Collection of essays and commentaries on art. Overall, in good condition. More
München: Moderne Galerie Otto Stangl, 1949. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 36pp. Original illustrated white wraps with black lettering on cover. Catalog for the traveling exhibition (1949–1950) of the works of Franz Marc, including Stuttgart, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Hamburg, Bremen, Köln, Göttingen, with the initial exhibition at the "Moderne Galerie Otto..... More
NP: Published by the author, ND. Limited Second edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XII, 13-240pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over brown cloth with paste-down on front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Limitation page signed and numbered by Jack Lewis. Color frontispiece. Decorative title page. Remarkable collection of watercolor paintings by American artist Jack Lewis depicting..... More
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. XIII, [3], 268, [4]pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers over cloth spine and paper covered boards. Gold lettering on spine. Color frontispiece. Title page in red and black lettering. Exquisite work on the life and works of the..... More
Baden-Baden: Woldemar Klein Verlag, 1947. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 23 (1)pp., 32 plates. Original illustrated white wraps with gray and black lettering on cover. Organized by the Cultural Council of Baden-Baden in cooperation with the Cultural association for Democratic Renewal, Berlin, Freiburg Museums, the publisher Woldemar Klein, and Michel Francois..... More
Berlin: Akademie der Künste, 1937. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 51pp., 30 plates. Original illustrated light green wraps with black lettering on cover. Organized by the French government in cooperation with the Preußische Akademie der Künste in Berlin under the patronage of Hermann Göring and French Ambassador André Francois-Poncet. Rigid review..... More