An original pen-and-ink line drawing illustration of a man in a top hat about to step off of a cliff while a bird chirps at him. The image may have been published in a magazine. 6-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches on a 9-1/8 by 11-1/2 inch Whatman's water colour sketching board.....

First Edition. A collection of images from Clement's invented world, a place of large public spaces and fanciful animals. [36] pages; mostly full-page color reproductions with captions in German, Japanese, English, Russian, and French. With a laid-in Republique Tralalaise visa sheet laid in, signed by Clement as "le secretaire provisoire.".....

A suite of 45 wood engravings plus an engraved title sheet used to illustrate an edition of Goethe's poetic retelling of the story of Reynard the Fox. Klemm, a German artist born in Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad, Czech Republic), was well-known for his animals and ideally suited to illustrate this moral.....

First Edition. A postcard reprinting Vonnegut's design for an Absolut Vodka ad campaign in the mid-1990s. This is one of 40 copies signed by Vonnegut on the front and numbered on the back. Early in his writing career, Vonnegut worked in advertising and considered a career in the fine arts.....

First Edition. One of 26 copies of this fine press edition of the letter Vonnegut wrote to his parents on May 29, 1945 informing them he is no longer missing in action and recounting his capture and escape from behind enemy lines. These events formed the basis of the novel.....

First Edition. An illustrated survey of the Zap cartoonist's work, including paintings, drawings, comic art, and comix. Williams was a Zap cartoonist. 96 pages (16 in color). 8-1/4 by 10-7/8 inches. First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). A near fine copy with some creasing to the.....

First Edition. One of 400 hardcover copies signed and numbered on a bookplate mounted to the inside front cover. This is an illustrated monograph of Williams's paintings, including 36 pages of color plates. Williams was a Zap cartoonist. 96 pages. 8-5/8 by 11 inches. First edition (first printing). A near.....

In Histoire d’oublier (“A Story of Forgetting”), Emilia Faure (1924–?) constructs a tactile meditation on memory and erasure. The work unfolds across 26 hand-assembled fascicles, enclosed within the modified covers of Louis Dimier’s 1926 "Histoire de la peinture française ...1627 à 1690." Faure deliberately incorporates the history of French art.....

First Edition. A short bibliography and short biography of Bernhardt Wall, a commercial artist who designed thousands of postcards and published limited edition books composed almost entirely of his own etchings. This is a much expanded (both in word-count and size) of a miniature book with a similar name published.....

First Edition. An iconic (at least in Europe) imagining of Jimi Hendrix in a series of psychedelic worlds and landscapes; ten color images plus three black-and-white sheets. This Hendrix portfolio is an extended riff on the art Moebius (pseudonym of Jean Giraud) did for the 1975 French release of Are.....

First Edition. A signed, limited edition catalog presenting the complete Disney character oil paintings created by the legendary "good duck artist" in his later career. This essential reference illustrates Barks' first 122 paintings of Disney characters, begun in his seventies after decades of anonymously writing and illustrating Donald Duck comics.....

First edition. A presentation copy of this survey of the work of the great Japanese architect. This book is compiled from works published in Japanese, including Reality and Creation, Technology and Humanity, and Architecture and the City. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white halftone photographs accompanied by Tange's annotations in English, French.....

First Edition. One of 250 copies of this exhibition catalog accompanied by a numbered offset lithograph of Wu Zuoren's dust jacket illustration. The book presents 71 paintings illustrated in full color,with descriptive text on the facing page and about 80 more works of Chinese painting from the 1980s, reproduced in.....