Los Angeles: Municipal Art Gallery Barnsdall Park, 1972. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original color-illustrated stiff gray wraps with white lettering. Text pages printed to gray, handmade paper, photographs to glossy white paper. "Optical and cerebral emphases have long merged in Feitelson's abstractions which magically produce harmony out of deliberate..... More
Bad Nauheim, Germany: Information Centers Branch, Fine Arts Section, 1950. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. Unpaginated, 48pp. Original illustrated stapled wraps with black and gray lettering on cover. Introduction by Will Grohmann. Catalog of the exhibition featuring works by Alexander Camaro, Karl Hartung, Bernhard Heiliger,Karl Hofer, Max Kaus, Juro Kubicek, Max..... More
Rome: Ausonia, 1939. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 39, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Scarce and remarkable study on da Vinci's painting, "The Adoration of the Magi." In 1481, Leonardo was given the commission by the Augustinian monks of San Donato a Scopeto in Florence, but departed for Milan the following year..... More
Hardcover. Elephant Folio. 27pp., xviii of xxx plates, two mounted into text pages. Original brown cloth clamshell box with gilt lettering on cover. "In these pictures, filled with the flavor of fairy tales, where reality becomes dream, and dream reality. one perceives your femininity so intuitive and yet so intelligent..... More
Paris: Edition Nilsson, 1927. First edition. Softcover. 4to. 82pp. Still wraps in original dust wrapper with pictorial paste-down. Frontispiece of b/w reproduction of a photograph of the Saint-Francois church. Les Tresors D'Art D'Italie. Collection Dirigee par Federico Hermanin Superintendant des Galeries de Rome. Art and architecture of Assise la Ville..... More
Beverly Hills: Modern Institute of Art, 1948. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. Unpaginated. Original tan stiff wraps with blue green lettering on cover. Catalog for the exhibition Modern Artists in Transition at the Modern Institute of Art, from February 13 to March 28 1948. Includes the list of Trustees, paintings exhibited..... More
Berlin: Paul Neff Verlag, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xiii,296,[4],pp. Tan cloth with orange lettering on cover and spine. Some discoloration to binding. A catalog of listings of paintings that were auctioned off in Europe and America in 1930. Text in German. Binding in good, interior in very good condition..... More
New York: Phaidon Press, 2012. Second edition. Hardcover. Large Quarto. 592pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over red paper covered boards. " The Art Book presents an informative A-Z guide to the greatest painters, photographers and sculptors from medieval times to the present day. It debunk art-historical classifications by throwing together brilliant..... More
Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, (1991). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 248pp. Blind-stamped light green cloth with original color illustrated dust jacket. Profusely illustrated work on the "Weimarer Malerschule" (Weimar Painter School). In 1860, Count Carl Alexander von Sachsen-Weimar und Eisenach founded the "Großherzoglich Sächsische Kunstschule" in Weimar leading to the 'creation'..... More
Milwaukee: Privately Printed, 1972. Hardcover. Octavo. Linen covered boards. Illustrated dust jacket. pp. 173. Illustrated throughout with 195 b/w reproductions of oil portraits, along with text about the sitters. Joseph Cummings Chase was hired by the War Department to paint portraits of officers and enlisted men who performed extraordinary feats..... More
Paris: Povolozky, 1926. Limited Edition. Softcover. 1/2015 copies. 8vo. 122pp., followed by 48 plates. Illustrated wrappers with blue and orange lettering and b/w paste-on to front wrapper. Frontispiece. Great work on "pathological impressionism". Illustrated with 48 full-page and 20 in-text [five of which are paste-ons] b/w reproductions of works by..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Square Octavo. Unpaginated text, 96 plates. Original illustrated dustjacket over yellow paper-covered boards with black lettering on cover and spine. Illustrated title page. "This book contains 96 halftone illustrations of paintings and sculptures by 68 members of the San Francisco Art..... More
Alhambra, CA: Private Press of C F Braun, 1963. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. [n.p.] Half blue Morocco over marbleized boards with plastic protector. Head and tail f spine, edges and corners bumped and rubbed. With the bookplate of Bruce Bryan, the noted author and long time curator of the Southwest Museum..... More
Pomona: Los Angeles County Fair, 1950. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original decorative wraps with white and red lettering on cover. "In this exhibition it is possible to see not only paintings and sculpture by great artists of the period which began with the French Revolution, but how each new..... More
Buenos Aires: Republica Argentina, 1944. First edition. Softcover. 4to. 207,[1],pp. Original color illustrated wraps. Illustrated with color reproductions of paintings, b/w woodcuts, plus many photographic b/w reproductions of various artwork as well as advertisements. Two black and white original woodcuts are tipped-in on cardstock, one by Manuel rueda Mediavilla. Some..... More
Toledo, Ohio: Toledo Museum of Art, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxx, 163 (1)pp. Original gray quarter cloth over gray paper-covered boards with gilt ruling and lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece photograph of Gainsborough's Lady Petre. Photo-illustrated title page depicting museum designed by the architects Green, Wicks..... More
New York: Phaidon Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Large Quarto. 158 (2)pp. Original pictorial dustjacket over black paper-covered boards with b/w lettering on cover and spine. Pigeon blue endpapers. Comprehensive and up-to-date monograph of American artist Chris Johanson. Illustrated with color reproductions of his idiosyncratic paintings, drawings and sculptural installations..... More
Great Britain: The Walpole Society, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 316,[48]pp. Half blue cloth over blue paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Issued only to subscribers. Topics mentioned area memoir of John Francis, oil paintings of Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Allan Ramsay's rise and reputation and the rebuilding of Comb..... More
Great Britain: The Walpole Society, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 153,[55]pp. Half blue cloth over blue paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Issued only to subscribers. Topics mentioned are John Guillim's Book "A Heraldic Painter's Vade Mecum", William Gipin's "'Unfinished Business': The Thames Tour (1764)" and A Cozens Album..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999. Hardcover. Small folio. (xii), 596pp. Illustrated green dust jacket, white lettering on front cover and spine. Grey cloth boards with blue lettering on spine. "This volume unites groundbreaking texts by eminent American and European scholars with the most complete visual presentation ever of Ingres's..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1969). First printing. Hardcover. Sq. 4to. 324pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original dj. Wear to head and tail of spine. Corners rubbed. Head of spine slightly frayed. 2" and 1/2" piece of dj missing at head of spine. 2 small pieces..... More
Wien: Gerlach U. Wiedling, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Sextodecimo, 42(1)pp. 104 plates. Original white silk with gilt-stamped emblem on cover. Frontispiece; portrait of mayor Richard Schmitz. Tribute to the 50th Anniversary of the Historical Museum in Vienna with a text by Oskar Katann. Profusely illustrated with 104 sepia-toned reproductions of..... More
Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1920. Slevogt, Max. Hardcover. 8vo. 180pp. Illustrated boards in original illustrated dj. Minor spotting to boards. Foxing to dj not affecting illustrations. Minor chipping to head and tail of dj spine. Signed to Alfred Scharff by the author on front endpaper. Frontispiece. Text profusely illustrated with fine..... More
Berlin: Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, 1909. First edition. Softcover. 4to. 40pp. of text followed by 40pp. of plates. Decorated tan wrappers. Age wear throughout wrappers. Some discoloration and staining. Small chip to head of spine missing. A catalogue of the auction held in Berlin in 1909, including Dutch masters such as..... More
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. 319pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original dj. Fascinating account of Fine Art in Canada. Magnificently illustrated with 35 color and many b/w reproductions of paintings. Dj price clipped with creasing on top. In English. Very good condition. More