London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1931. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: viii, 144; 49 color plates and 34 figures tipped to heavy stock. This book gives detailed instructions in the use of pastels, showing preliminary sketches as well as finished works in full color. Chapters include flower studies, landscapes, figures, animals, still-life, etc. 11" x 8.5". (more information)

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NY: Harper, 1951. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. pp: xiv, 180, index; 146 illus from photographs, two color plates. 10" x 7.5". (more information)

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NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1959. First Edition. Original cloth. Very Good/Good. 192pp, index; color frontis, b&w illustrations. This style, dominant from 1895 to 1905, was featured in a 1960 MOMA exhibition on Art Nouveau in the graphic & decorative arts. 9.5" x 8.5". (more information)

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NY: Kennedy Graphics, 1970. First Edition. Original wraps. Fine. Ben Shahn. Unpaginated; 24 lithographs in black and gold. Comprises 24 lithographs by Ben Shahn, printed in black & gold, each opposite a page of illuminated Hebrew text. This is #72 of 240 copies. The lithographs are protected by a portfolio of handmade paper, laid into a clamshell buckram case with gilt-morocco cover label; and in the original mailing carton. This was Ben Shahn's last completed work. 16.5" x 18". (more information)

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NY Wien American 1995., 1995. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial paper covers and contents in fine condition. 9" x 11" unpaginated. Illustrated by lithos and photos in text. First Edition. Binding is original wraps. (more information)

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London, 1966. Reprint. Original Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 63pp; 16 plates. Symons (1865-1945), an English "decadent" poet and critic, edited "The Savoy". Beardsley worked for "The Savoy" after he was fired from "The Yellow Book". Here, Symons assesses AB's art and describes personal experiences with him. 8.75" x 5.75". (more information)

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NY Curt Valentin 1952., 1952. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Spine label chipped, covers of insert foxed, else very good. 6.5" x 10.25" two volumes pp: (11+90) The spine label has a few letters chipped away. The paper covers of the introductory text are lightly foxed. Limited to 1200 copies. This copy is from the library of Ben Shahn, with his notation on the cover of the text volume: "Whose sketch-book is this? . or this?". Illustrated by approx 90 pages of sketches. First Edition. Binding is cloth + wraps. (more information)

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Cairo, Egypt: Costa Tsoumas, 1969. First Edition. Original wraps. Fine. 24pp. Describes 17 objects loaned for this exhibition at the Semiramis Hotel, Cairo, 4-30 April 1969. Laid in are two simple, printed maps to the Center for Egyptian Civilization Studies and to the Couvent des Peres Dominicains. 9.25" x 6.75". (more information)

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San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959. Later printing. Original wraps. Very Good. pp: (vi), 25. Watts looks at Zen Buddhism and its relationship with art and the American Beat movement. 8" x 5.5". (more information)

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Germantown, PA: Site and Relic Society, 1913. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Small ink mark on paper cover. 15pp. Germantown claims credit for the first oil painting in America, a portrait of Kelpius by the brush of Dr. Christopher Witt. Later artists discussed here include Charles Wilson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, George B. Wood, Joseph Pennell, Violet Oakley, and others. 10" x 7". (more information)

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