Category: Art

My Lovely Katarina

Price: $8.00

Publisher: A. L. Verlag : 1905

Seller ID: 21670

Binding: Non-Book

Condition: Very Good

Postcard; Antique postcard, 3.5 x 5.5 inches, b/w real photo of lovely lass with a ribbon (or sash) between her teeth. ; Front is imprinted AL 3405/6. Divided back states Printed in Germany and has four lines for address. ; Very light edgewear. No marks or writing.
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Catalog of the Palestinian Folklore Museum, A

By: Abdul-Jabbar, Naji

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Palestinian Folklore & Social Research Committee : 1990

Seller ID: 20975

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

228 pages; ARABIC throughout except intro in Arabic and English. Large oblong softcover, 228 glossy pages, over 700 artifacts shown in photos and described, about half in full color. ; Wonderful guidebook to Museum of Palestinian Folklore in Al-Birah, West Bank, Israel. : Topics include: bowls, spoons, textiles, farm equipment, lamps, musical instruments, pottery, clothing, jewelry, tools, much more. ; Bump to heel, minor edgewear. No marks. Binding tight. Quite scarce.
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Kathe Mou Palmos Eise Su : My Heart Ever Beats

By: Atlas

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Atlas : 1906

Seller ID: 21586

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fair

Standard 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Color tinted real photo. ; Front imprinted NGP VII. Undivided back imprinted: Atlas, 25 New Madison St, New York, postcard printed circa1906. US 1c stamp canceled 1914.; We have graded this item Fair. Very light edgewear but three creases visible. Message in Greek and address (Clarion, Pennsylvania) penned on reverse in old ink. Scarce.
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City-States of the Maya : Art and Architecture

By: Benson, Elizabeth P.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Rocky Mountain Institute : 1986

Seller ID: 22324

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

171 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; White softcover, 171 glossy pages, footnotes, bibliographies, 5 chapters by noted experts, 13 b/w maps and site plans including 1 fold-out, 80 b/w diagrams, 14 b/w photos, 25 photos in full color, with captions. ; Edited by Elizabeth P. Benson. Foreword by Michael D. Coe. Chapters are: Earlystates in the Maya lowlands: Edzna and El Mirador, by Ray T. Matheny. Tikal, by Peter D. Harrison. Copan, by Mary Ellen Miller. Architectural development and political history at Palenque, by Linda Schele. Uxmal, by Jeff KarlKowalski. ; First and possibly only volume from this ins...
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Mi Alma Te Adora

By: Blanco

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Blanco : 1908

Seller ID: 21574

Binding: Non-Book

Condition: Good+

Postcard; Standard postcard 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Real photo tinted brightly in orange and pink. Caption: Mi Alma te Adora (My soul loves you) ; Divided back, imprinted Po st Car d, Correspondence, Address Only, Made in Mexico. ; Light edgewear. No marks or writing. Scarce.
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Moderne Deutsche Gebrauchs Exlibris, mit 400 Abbildungen, das : The Modern German Artistic Bookplate, with 400 Illustrations

By: Braungart, Richard

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Franz Hanfstaengl : 1922

Seller ID: 24333

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

128 pages; 8vo (9.5") 25 cm; GERMAN text throughout, in plain type, with a few illustrations having Fraktur script. Hardcover, gray decorated cloth, top edge inked blue, 101 + 3 pages + 24 glossy unnumbered plates, total 128 pages, index, 90 b/w illustrations on plates, 310 illustrations in text, total 400 strikingly beautiful illustrations of antique b/w German bookplates of the 1800s to 1922, with artist's names. Art Nouveau predominates. ; Cover design by Fritz Wittlinger. Bookplates in this volume are decorated with all manner of graphic art including coats of arms, human figures, fabulous...
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Mimbres Painted Pottery : A School of America Research Book

By: Brody, J. J.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press : 1980

Seller ID: 23558

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket

253 pages; 4to (10.25") 26 cm; ENGLISH text. Hardcover, beige cloth, brown endpapers, [xxiv] + 253 pages, index, bibliography, endnotes, 3 maps, 19 diagrams of vessel shapes, several tables including chronological table of prehistoric cultures of southwestern North America, appendix of collection data, 182 artifacts shown in b/w photos, 16 color photos on glossy plates. ; Amazingly sophisticated painted pottery from about 250 BCE to about 1150 CE, from southwestern New Mexico, with detailed analysis of the Swarts Ruin. ; No defects to book apart from textblock sagging a little under its own we...
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Art of Drawing Heads and Hands, The

By: Brooks, Walter

Price: $8.00

Publisher: M. Grumbacher : 1966

Seller ID: 24324

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

48 pages; Folio (12.5") 32 cm; Tall softcover, 48 pages, brief glossary, tons of monochrome and b/w illustrations. ; Drawings by Lorence Bjorklund and Victor Kalin. ; Topics include: Proportions of the skull. Planes of the head. Eyes. Ears. Noses. Lips. Hair. Shading. Charcoal. Pencil. Felt tip. Dry brush. Wash. Sketching. Understatement. Old and young subjects. Open and closed hands. Fingernails. More. ; Book is solid and intact but has small area of discoloration at crown and a few spots to covers. ; Grumbacher Library Book B Series; Vol. 371
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Arctic, the : Photography and Text by Fred Bruemmer

By: Bruemmer, Fred

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Quadrangle Books : 1973

Seller ID: 22341

ISBN-13: 9780888900210

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

226 pages; 4to (10.5") 27 cm; Large oblong hardcover in slipcase, 12.25 x 10.5 inches, white boards, 226 pages, endpaper maps, bibliography, 155 amazing b/w photos, 77 stunning photos in full color. Includes index of locations with exact coordinates. ; Artistic yet documentary photos of arctic landscapes, seascapes, bears and walrus and other wildlife, flora, small buildings, small boats, and of course the people who live and hunt there, from photographer who lived for six months with last nomadic Inuit tribe. ; Published in New York by Quadrangle Books, an imprint of the New York Times Book C...
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Antoni Chodorowski : Nic Takiego

By: Chodorowska, Zofia; Illustrated by Antoni Chodorowski

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Galeria Humoru i Satyry : 1999

Seller ID: 20471

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

88 pages; 4to (11.75") 30 cm; POLISH text throughout. Tall white softcover, 88 unnumbered pages, over 200 b/w line illustrations, including cariacatures, political cartoons, topical art, etc, most with captions. ; Foreword by Marek Wojciech Chmurzynski. Biographical note by Jan Polak. Published in conjunction with posthumous exhibition at Gallery of Humor and Satire, Wloclawek, Poland, 1999.; Light edgewear only. No other defects. Quite scarce.
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Old Gods and Young Heroes : The Pearlman Collection of Maya Ceramics

By: Coe, Michael D.; Illustrated by Justin Kerr

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Israel Museum : 1982

Seller ID: 22308

ISBN-13: 9780295959702

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

128 pages; 8vo (9.5") 25 cm; Large oblong hardcover, black cloth, red lettering, 128 glossy pages, red endpapers, brief bibliography, b/w map of Mesoamerica, 92 b/w photos and diagrams, 22 color photos, with detailed captions. ; Exhibition catalog from Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1982. Edited by Elizabeth P. Benson. Photos by Justin Kerr, including many rollout photos showing entire surface of one vase. Forewords by Teddy Kollek and Edwin Pearlman. Appendix on Maya culture and hieroglyphs by Elizabeth P. Benson and Dan Eban. ; Book shows only a touch of shelfwear. No marks or major defects. Jack...
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Gaminerie : La Cinematheque Canadienne Flip Book

By: Cohl, Emile; Illustrated by Emile Cohl

Price: $54.00

Publisher: Cinematheque Canadienne; : 1967

Seller ID: 18725

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

124 pages; 64mo (2.5") 7 cm; Small oblong softcover, yellow textured covers, side-stapled binding, about 124 unnumbered pages, about 60 b/w photos. Includes page about flip books and page about artist, in parallel English and French. ; An authentic flip book: flip the pages rapidly and the images create a movie. ; One of a series of twelve flip books published by La Cinémathèque Canadienne in honor of the World Retrospective of Animation Cinema, 1967. ; Emile Cohl (1857-1938) was a French artist and caricaturist, known as Father of the Animated Cartoon; he was part of the Incoherent Movement a...
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Artist's Vision, An

By: Coleman, Sue

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Icy Publications : 1990

Seller ID: 22339

ISBN-13: 9780969641421

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

128 pages; 4to (10") 27 cm; Large oblong hardcover, just under 12 x 10 inches, gray boards, 128 glossy pages, bibliography, map, numerous b/w drawings, 34 full-page full-color watercolor paintings with artist's commentary. ; Paintings, drawings and text by Sue Coleman, well-known Vancouver Island artist. Photos by Trevor Mills. Copyright 1989. This is 2nd printing, 1990. ; Stunning yet delicate artwork featuring realistic local animals (eagles, bears, loons, seals, wolves, etc) mixed with Native American artifacts (symbols, totems, totem poles) of the Northwest Coast region. ; No defects to bo...
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Inuit Games and Contests : The Clifford E. Lee Collection of Prints

By: Collinson, Helen, with George Swinton

Price: $21.00

Publisher: University of Alberta : 1978

Seller ID: 23315

ISBN-13: 9780888649973

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

76 pages; 12mo (7.75") 20 cm; Oblong white softcover, 76 glossy pages, 2 bibliographies, small map, appendix giving brief bios of artists and symbols of each Inuit print-making village, 59 artworks shown, 31 in full color. ; Wonderful artworks depicting Inuit (Eskimo) games, contests and sports including ball games, dancing, drumming, gymnastics, juggling, skipping, wrestling, etc. ; Covers very lightly sunned, with a few small spots, small sticker on rear with product code and original retailprice.
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Weegee : Naked New York

By: Coplans, John; Illustrated by Weegee

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Te Neues Publishing Company : 1997

Seller ID: 23434

ISBN-13: 9783823821229

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

80 pages; 8vo (8.75") 22 cm; Hardcover, black boards, 80 high-gloss pages, brief chronology, bibliography, endnotes, 41 amazing duotone (b/w) photos, many full-spread, depicting raw life in 1930s-1940s New York City. ; Photos by Weegee (Arthur Fellig) "a forceful photographer with a unique style."
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Stone Magic of the Ancients : Petroglyphs, Shamanic Shrine Sites and Ancient Rituals

By: Cunkle, James R, and Markus A. Jacquemain

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Golden West Publishers : 1995

Seller ID: 22130

ISBN-13: 9781885590046

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

192 pages; 4to (10") 27 cm; Tall softcover, 92 pages, index, bibliography, over 700 b/w photos and diagrams. ; Mystical and story elements of ancient rock art of New Mexico and Arizona, including cosmology, hunting, healing, protection, divination, prayer, death, ghosts, anthropomorphic figures, much more. ; Light edgewear.
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Thinking of You Dear

By: Cyko

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Ansco : 1908

Seller ID: 21672

Binding: Non-Book

Condition: Very Good+

Postcard; Antique postcard, 3.5 x 5.5 inches, b/w real photo of thoughtful young lady. ; Divided back. Cyko logo. ; Very minor wear to tips. Item is unused but back has three small spots.
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Dorset 81 : Cape Dorset Graphics Annual 1981

By: Danter, Sylvia L. and Avram Isaacs

Price: $18.00

Publisher: M. F. Feheley Publishers : 1981

Seller ID: 23307

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

80 pages; 8vo (8.25") 21 cm; Oblong green softcover, 9.5 x 8.25 inches, 24 x 21 cm, 80 glossy pages, endnotes, 119 stunning original works of art, many in full color. ; Photos by Terry Ryan and Jimmy Manning. ; Artistic lithographs and etchings by Inuit (Eskimo) artists of Cape Dorset, Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada. ; Only a touch of edgewear. ; 3 items laid in: 1) 1981 Cape Dorset Fall Print Collection, 2 pages, 2copies. 2) 1981 Cape Dorset Artist Biographies, 7 pgs, 2copies. 3) 1981 Cape Dorset Dealer List, 2 pgs.
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Dorset 80 : Cape Dorset Graphics Annual 1980

By: Danter, Sylvia L. with Virginia J. Watt and Patricia Ryan

Price: $18.00

Publisher: M. F. Feheley Publishers : 1980

Seller ID: 23306

ISBN-13: 9780919880214

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

84 pages; 8vo (8.25") 21 cm; Oblong gray softcover, 9.5 x 8.25 inches, 24 x 21 cm, 84 glossy pages, list of expositions and collections, endnotes, 122 stunning original works of art, many in full color. ; Photos by Terry Ryan. ; Artistic lithographs by Inuit (Eskimo) artists of Cape Dorset, Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada. ; No wear, no defects. ; 2 items laid in: 1) Dorset 80, promotional leaflet for this book, with many small b/w illus. Art of the Inuit, flyer for Art Gallery of Windsor.
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Korczak, Storyteller in Stone : A Capsule Biography of the Crazy Horse Sculptor, 5e, 5th Edition

By: De Wall, Robb

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Korczak's Heritage : 2000

Seller ID: 23956

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

80 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Softcover, 80 pages, many appendixes, 4 color photos on covers, 3 b/w drawings, 42 b/w photos. ; Copyright 1983. This is 5th Revised Edition, 2000. Additional chapters by Joseph Swastek. ; History, biography, eulogy, testimony and appeal for famous and still uncompleted monumental sculpture of Crazy Horse, leader of the Sioux, designed and begun by Korczak Ziolkowski as a commentary on and protest against Mount Rushmore. ; Only a touch of shelfwear. (Amazonbuyers please note: our cover does not match their image)
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Category: Art