Illustration: A Visual History
First edition. 272 pages. Roughly 9 by 12 inches. Profusely illustrated, mostly in color. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $60
First edition. 272 pages. Roughly 9 by 12 inches. Profusely illustrated, mostly in color. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $60
The poster for a notable exhibition of French Surrealists in Czechoslovakia held during the Prague Spring, a brief window of time in 1969 when the political grip of the Soviet Union loosened in Czechoslovakia. Recent scholarship has placed this exhibit in the context of the global Surrealist movement. Krzysztof Fijalkowsk.....
Price: $2,500
First Edition. A color photo monograph on one of the masterpieces of Japanese architecture. Over 200 illustrations; 192 in color. 267 pages. 10-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches. Translated from the Japanese. First US edition. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Boards slightly splayed (bowed out).
Price: $300
First Edition. A curious volume reproducing amateur clown paintings from the collections of actor Diane Keaton and gallerist Robert Berman. With essays by comedians on clowns, including contributions by Woody Allen, Dan Aykroyd, Roseanne Barr, Dick Van Dyke, John Waters, and Robin Williams (to include just last names beginning A–B.....
Price: $650
First Edition. 398 pages. 7-1/4 by 10-1/2 inches. A monograph of tsuba, the guards on Japanese swords. The book includes 20 full-page color plate, each protected with a tissue guard, and 298 black-and-white photographs, most two to a page. The captions are in Japanese only. The remainder of the book, about.....
Price: $150
First Edition. Contemporary artists reimagine the popup book, with paper engineering by Bruce Foster. "Many of these techniques had never been done before," said Foster. "So each one was challenging in its own way." Published in an edition of 4000 copies in a purple, cloth-covered case. First edition (now out.....
Price: $500
The first major retrospective and biography of the author-artist best-known for Where the Wild Things Are. With 261 illustrations including 94 full-color plates and what is billed as an "original Sendak pop-up" (but which is really a pull-the-flap illustration). Mounted to p. 81 is a tiny strip book (four leaves).....
Price: $300
First Edition. Reproductions of the artist's nude figure work. 40 pages, all reproductions in full color, most are full page. 11-3/4 by 15-3/4 inches. Published in an edition of 350 copies. First edition (first printing). A fine copy, spiral-bound in paper covers (wrappers). Inscribed on the front cover by the.....
Price: $125
A poster for the first major exhibition of Surrealist art held in the UK since the 1936 show at the Burlington Galleries. It ran from April 24 to May 20, 1967, the year after the death of André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, André Breton, and before the social protests.....
Price: $400
First Edition. All ten volumes in the "spines" series, also called "a series of essays on aspects of books and publishing." Ed Marquand is a book artist based in Seattle and Tieton, Washington, who makes editions of books for artists and museums and, from time to time, produces his own.....
Price: $750
First Edition. 168 pages, including a color plate at the front. 8-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches. One of 800 hardcover copies. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $125
First Edition. A full-color collection of Meulen's photomontage and cartoon covers for the magazine Humo. This is one of 175 numbered copies (the printed colophon is corrected in pencil from 200 to 175) with an original serigraph (silkscreen) illustration signed and numbered by the artist. Text in Dutch. 212, [9].....
Price: $200
First Edition. A wonderful example of psychedelic art by Nicole Claveloux to accompany a story by Monreal about Alala, a young woman who can travel into her television set and change the programs. Illustrated in full color. Roughly 10-3/4 inches square. Claveloux is an artist and cartoonist. First US edition.....
Price: $100
First Edition. A monograph of geometrical works, most printed in two colors, as well as text-based abstractions, based on the poems of Sappho. Levi-Montalcini (1909–2000) was a noted Italian artist who began exhibiting her work in the 1930s; in the 1950s, she explored Concretism, to which the works in this.....
Price: $250
First Edition. "There has been no better nor more beautiful book on herbs in modern times." —Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin. This book, beautifully illustrated with original woodblock prints, includes descriptions by Muenscher and Rice of 250 common and exotic plants and hints on how to recognize, grow, harvest, and prepare.....
Price: $400
First Edition. Volume 19 in the Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art. 156 pages. Illustrated with 141 black-and-white illustrations. Translated from the Japanese. First US edition (stated). Near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $30
First British edition. The British edition of Yoko Ono's conceptual art book, first published in 1964 in Japan, which mostly consists of instructions for performances or individual actions ("Carry a bag of peas. Leave a pea wherever you go"). Many of the pieces cannot (yet) be performed: "Prescribe pills for.....
Price: $2,500
Four fragments of a large, shattered Chinese vase, each initialled "Y.O." and dated " '06", from a performance of Yoko Ono's fluxus work, Promise Piece (first performed at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, London, 1966, and included in Grapefruit). This variation concluded the memorial for Korean American video artist Nam June.....
Price: $7,500
First Edition. A full-color survey of Parkes' work, with sections devoted to paintings, drawings, stone lithographs (prints), and sculptures. 239 pages. 12 by 11-3/8 inches. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $150
First Edition. A full-color survey of Parkes' work, with sections devoted to painting and stone lithography (prints). 215 pages. 12 by 11-1/4 inches. Published in an edition of 5000 copies. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy in a fine dust jacket. This is one of a limited number.....
Price: $300
A poster advertising subscriptions to a post-war periodical, Le Surréalisme révolutionnaire, which successfully published just a single issue. The poster is a two-color lithograph measuring 18-5/8 by 24-7/8 inches, with an applied label with a brief chronology of Surrealism culminating in the publication of this journal. According to Yale's Beinecke.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. A collection of nine small chapbooks of photocopies of found images selected by Bern Porter. The sheets were bound by Johnny Brewton with a title page / colophon leaf, a stiff sheet for structure, a found paper leaf as the cover, and a translucent sheet printed with the.....
Price: $400
First Edition. A thirty-year survey of paintings by the Italian comic book artist behind Corto Maltese. Illustrated with perhaps 1,000 color reproductions. This is the less-common hardcover version; it was issued simultaneously in paperback. Text in Italian, French, and English. Essays by Patrizia Zanotti and Thierry Thomas. 455 pages. 11-1/4.....
Price: $250
First Edition. A survey of artwork by the Italian comic book artist behind Corto Maltese. Illustrated with perhaps 1,000 images, mostly in color. This is the less-common hardcover version; it was issued simultaneously in paperback. Text in Italian, French, and English. Essays by Patrizia Zanotti and Thierry Thomas. 415 pages.....
Price: $85
A set of 27 cabinet cards measuring 6-3/8 by 4-1/4 (16.2 by 10.8 cm), with images slightly smaller. The sepia-tone albumen photographs depict architectural scenes in Paris and the surrounding areas. The images, most titled in the negative and a few on the mount, include Place de la Concorde; Chateau.....
Price: $1,000