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Stuttgart , Germany: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1964. Book. Illus. by Hap Grieshaber. Very Fine. Hardcover. 1st.ed. only 1964 , Hardcover with an paper illusted dust cover with a 28 page text catalogue laid in a pocket in the back cover with an introd. essay ,Bio. Chronology, notes, and list of illustrations ,murals , portfolios , and graphic illustrations, 75 plates full page and double page of wood cuts,by Grieshaber from the 1930s to 1963 including 10 repod. in color and 13 original lithographs ,some color with some double paged foldouts. Text in German , A very scarce book on this artist . Condition : Very Fine / DJ is Fine with very small closed rips at the edges. and some light shelf rubs. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Milano: Giuseppe Bernardoni, 1853. Second Edition. Hardcover. Dark red half-morocco, leather label stamped in gilt to front cover, ornate gilt spine, marbled edges and marbled endpapers. A description of the architecture of the Carthusian monastery of Pavia. Seventy copper engravings, eight of which are double spreads. Heavy wear to corners and along the spine on front panel, stains to fore and top edge (not affecting the plates), scattered foxing throughout. A good copy. ; Folio.

Paris: Citabelles & Mazenod, 1988. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Paris: Citabelles & Mazenod, 1988. Thick folio, 10 1/4" x 12 5/8", 619pp., over 1,000 illustrations in color and b/w. Text in French. White cloth with brown titles and color cover inset, pictorial endpapers. Fine, bright copy in near fine dust jacket with a small closed tear at the crown. . Hard. Fine/Near Fine. Folio.

San Francisco, CA: Beach Books Texts & Documents, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good-. 8-1/2 x 11 Wraps; First Edition; 48pp; Handling wear to covers, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Inscribed & Signed by Author. Collection of 42 arresting black & white collages by little-known Beat figure active in the 1950s and 1960s who collaborated with and was associated with William Burroughs. According to his friend, Jan Herman, Mustill "declined to play the 'art game.' He shunned publicity and guarded his privacy at any cost. Less curmudgeon than extreme dissenter, he resembled William S. Burroughs in this respect: Nothing pleased him more than reaming out the human race. His compositions stop you dead with their viciousness, not to mention their technical perfection and satirical intent." Introduction by Claude Pelieu.

1983, FIRST EDITION, WITH SLIPCASE. CLEAN, TIGHT, UNMARKED. INTERIOR IS EXCELLENT. WATER STAIN ON SLIP CASE AND CLOTH COVER.

New York: Abbeville Press [0-89659-657-5] 1986, 1st edition. (Folio hardcover) 171pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. In near fine cloth slipcase. Color illustrations, chronology, list of exhibitions, list of collections, bibliography, index. Light scrapes on the dust jacket spine. Art of Fernando Botero. (Art, Sculpture).

A beautiful Dutch whaling scene in watercolour. It shows five large Dutch ships, five smaller rowboats, four whales on the surface being harpooned by the sailors in the rowboats, and two bears in the foreground in the lower right corner. The bears are no doubt supposed to be polar bears, but the artist made them look more like brown bears. While the drawing is signed in black ink in the lower right corner, virtually nothing is known about the artist, except his or her name from the signature: "H. C. Tuyssen(?)".The present scene was inspired by and/or adapted from a famous set of Dutch whaling prints (ca. 1720/25) by Sieuwert van der Meulen and Adolf van der Laen. The initial composition of the scene with the bears on the ice in the foreground reminds us of the print titled "Seylen in 't ys, en soeken na de walvis” (sailing through the ice, and searching for the whale), but it is not a direct copy. The artist seems to have combined parts of three or four prints from the set, to include more ships,… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [0-15-139995-6] 1971. (4to in slipcase) 356, 365pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. White cloth with titles in red in a near fine red cloth slipcase. Each volume with red and white ribbon page markers, black & white and color photographs and illustrations (some fold-outs. Book about Henri Matisse. (Art).

New York: Abrams, 2016 Signed on the title page by Lawrence Weschler, Weschler has added the adage: To see things clear & dear. Additionally signed in both cursive and block letters by Ramiro Gomez, who has added: Thank you. First edition / First printing. Aqua blue boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.

1834 George Cruikshank Sketch Book ART 100s+ Cartoon Caricatures Illustrated RARE

George Cruikshank was one of England's best and most notable 19th-century caricaturists and book illustrators. His caricature-like illustrations appeared throughout the 19th-century including this 1834 edition of "My Sketch Book". Cruikshank shares hundreds of small cartoon figures – political satires, Omnibus cartoons, cracks at Napoleon, high society, and much more!

Item number: #21704
Price: $499

CRUIKSHANK, George

My sketch book

London: Pub. For the artist by Charles Tilt, 1834.

Details:
• Collation: Complete with all pages
o 37 leaves
• Language: English
• Binding: Softcover; tight and secure
• Size: ~8.75in X 13in (22.5cm x 33cm)

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Kyoto Shoin Co., Ltd., Japan, 1977 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Japanese and English text.; Hardcover (cloth without dust jacket - as issued) in slipcase with carton box.; 23 x 32 cm; 3.5 Kg; Colour illustrations throughout, each with caption in Japanese and English.; Used with signs of wear on the card box. Signs of wear on the hardcover cloth and slipcase. The characters on the spine of the slipcase spine and also on the spines of the hardcover cloth are faded. Interior in very good condition.; HARD TO FIND.; Two volume set comprising Color Section (217 pages) and Monochrome Section (238 pages).; With texts by the noted ceramic scholar Masahiko Kawahara, this two-volume publication illustrates a vast selection of Ko-sometsuke ('old blue and white') porcelain presented in 934 catalogue entries. A thorough introduction in Japanese and English outlines the most relevant features of this porcelain ware produced in China for the Japanese market during the late Ming dynasty (1368-1644),… Read More

This is a folding portfolio made of navy board with gray title labels on the cover and spine. Includes a 24-page booklet and 72 loose b&w plates (complete) containing reproductions of Klee's drawings between 1921 and 1930. Published by Curt Valentin Gallery, with an essay by Will Grohmann. Printed in the summer of 1944 in an edition of 700 copies by the Meriden Gravure Company.
The deckle edge booklet features Grohmann's essay and a list of the 72 plates. The booklet contains light tanning on edges and one folded corner, some b&w plates also have light tanning at edges. The portfolio spine, front and rear cover edges are faded, also with scuffing and some marks. Otherwise, a remarkable collectible portfolio of work by Klee in great shape. "The drawings reproduced in this volume are examples of Klee's intuition, his creative inventiveness and his mastery of technique. They permit a glimpse into the workshop of an indefatigable and inehaustible artist," according to Grohmann.
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Dussel Verlag. Dusseldorf. 1913. FIRST EDITION. 4to (11.2 x 7.8 inches). 2pp text, in German, forward by Friedrich Diesel. Complete with 21 fine full page wood cut engravings showing Aufseeser's remarkable Modernist style, akin to a tapestry pattern using puzzle shapes to form the image. A bright, tight near fine copy in publishers grey paper covered boards with black line illustration and lettering to front board, the rear left plain. Grey cloth spine with minor rubbing and wear to top and bottom. Neat two line inscription on front blank endpaper but overall a lovely example of this, the artist's very rare first book. An interesting set of illustrations by the influential designer and artist Aufseeser (1880-1940), an important figure in the development of the modernism movement. A rare book. Only five physial copies listed on Worldcat, 3 in German Libraries and two in the USA, at Princeton and The New York Public Library.

New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition / First Printing. Black cloth spine, black and white printed boards, with a lenticular (hologram-like) black and silver illustration glued to the front board. Near fine. Issued without dust jacket, clear archival jacket supplied. Pop-ups, fold-outs, attached items and black-and-white photographs. Balloon has melted and fused two pages, also slightly coloring adjacent pages. Tear-out sheet is gone, all other objects are present and in fine condition: a pop-up castle, a fold-out accordion, a pop-up airplane, spring-mounted Chelsea Girls disc, a dodecahedron paper sculpture, Lou Reed flexi-disc is detached but is present, Rainbow nose with overlays, a pop-up Hunt's Tomato Paste can.

Philip Wilson Publishers, London for Sotheby's Publications, 1986 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket in slipcase).; 28 x 39 cm; 17 Kg.; 1381 pages with 5,000 black-and-white and colour illustrations, including 200 large-size colour plates.; 3 volumes comprising: Volume 1-Yuan and Ming Dynasty, Celadon Wares; Volume 2-Yuan and Ming Dynasty Porcelains; Volume 3-Qing Dynasty Porcelains.; Used books with signs of wear on the slipcases, dust jackets and on the interior.; OUT OF PRINT SCARCE REFERENCE CATALOGUE. LIMITED EDITION OF 1500 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 819.; The Topkapi Saray Museum collection of Chinese Ceramics is one of the largest and most important in the whole world, yet comparatively little of it has ever been published. The wares assembled here present a continuous review of porcelains made for export from the 13th century to the 19th century which, in its range of styles and designs, is without equal in any other surviving… Read More