A few light scuff marks on the covers. Brown leatherette with gilt. 99 pages featuring 16 color plates of Kenneth Wyatt's art with accompanying writing from Charles L. Allen, in the form of personal interpretation, and religious and inspirational quotes form others. Dr. Charles L. Allen was the former pastor of First United Methodist Church in Houston and the author of numerous best-selling books about Christianity. Inscribed and signed by Allen on the front free endpaper to the previous owner of the book. View More...
A few light marks to the front cover, else Fine. Spiral-bound, 107 unnumbered pages featuring Norman Baxter's line drawings that commemorate America's Bicentennial. Houston's Bank of the Southwest commissioned Baxter, of Baxter + Korge, Inc., to produce this collection of drawings that convey America's rich heritage. View More...
Volume I (of four). Just a trace of shelf wear. Solid, clean copy. Signed and numbered (1641) by Charles Beckendorf to the previous owner (his name included). Pages are not numbered, but more than one hundred. Every page contains a sketch or color painting of Texas scenes, from wildlife and the environment to ranch and town scenes. From the artist's introductory message: "If there is a message to be conveyed through these books, I would like it to be that there are so many parts of Texas that should be enjoyed and must be preserved." View More...
Jacket has a couple of tiny holes near the front flap fold and a small chip at the head of the spine. Protected now in a new Mylar cover. The work of artist Robert Goodnough is presented here with more than 65 photographs, 12 in full color. Contents also include a critical essay and commentary by Kenworth Moffett, Notes, Chronology, Public Collections, One-Man Exhibitions, Group Exhibitions, Selected Bibliography, Photographic Credits, and Index. 107 pages. View More...
Vertical crease in the middle of the entire booklet. Reprinted from Biennial Report, Board of Curators, Louisiana State Museum, January 1924. 15 pages in stapled, brown wrappers. Cline writes a brief introductory history of art in New Orleans dating back to 1840 and continues with the founding of museums and important collections. For this pamphlet, questionnaires were sent to artists who had lived and worked in New Orleans in recent years (relative to 1924) to obtain information about them and their art. The directory is incomplete as some artists failed to reply. On a side note of historical... View More...
Fusion of jazz and blues lyrics with beautiful illustrations printed in five colors to include a special gold ink. Lyricists/poets include Fats Waller, Gus Kahn, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Ruth Brown, Sammy Cahn, and Willie Dixon. View More...
Light wear to jacket. Signed by the artist Dunbar on the front free endpaper. 132 pages of examples of the young Texas artist's work, which has landed her on Oprah, ABC's World News Tonight, PBS, and many other regional and national broadcasts. An amazing young talent adept in three distinct styles: French Impressionism, American Expressionism, and Abstract. Oversized book that will require extra postage for expedited and international delivery. View More...
About fine in dust jacket that has a few edge tears at the head of the spine. In original, matching slipcase from the publisher. Text in Spanish and English. 317 pages with 355 plates. Oversized book that will require extra postage if expedited or international delivery is desired. View More...
Brown cloth with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Large book, 10 by 11 inches oblong. Only a partial jacket, the front panel and part of the spine, which has been placed at the back of the book inside the rear cover. This book reproduces the documental paintings of Salvador, Bahia in 19th-century Brazil by Diogenes Reboucas and was planned and designed for the Norberto Odebrecht Construction Corporation in a limited, private edition, not available to the market. Text in both English and Portuguese. English translation by Barbara Valladares. Preface by Thales de Azevedo, Introduction by Pe... View More...
Light shelf wear and foxing to the boards. Edge wear, chipping, and rubbing to the dust jacket. Twenty-three pages of essays comprise an introduction to the Hernando Lemaitre (1924-1970) and his work: 1) Las últimas acuarelas de Hernando Lemaitre. Exposición póstuma. Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá. Julio 1.1973, por Galaor Carbonell; 2) Imagen de Hernando Lemaitre, por Ramiro de la Espriella; 3) La luz de Hernando Lemaitre, en Cartagena, por Fabio Lozano Simonelli; 4) Homenaje a Hernando Lemaitre, por Alejandro Obregon; and 5) Retrato a mano alzada de Hernando Lemaitre Román, por Ramón de Zu... View More...
Trace of edge wear, barely visible, to the jacket. 96 pages of the artist's paintings and poetry. "Art is a direct link and language to the whisperings of the soul." Eighty-nine paintings, each included with a poem by the artist. View More...
Mild shelf wear to book, faint soil to top edge of page block. Previous owner bookplate inside front cover. The dust jacket is edge-worn with chips and small tears. Protected now in a new Mylar archival sleeve. 350 pages with Appendices, Bibliography, and Index. 48 color plates and 204 black-and-white illustrations represent Kane's art work from trips to the American West and Northwest in 1845 and 1846-1848 "to preserve for posterity a record of the Indian chieftains, the customs of the tribes and the lands where they lived before change made such a record impossible." View More...
Oversized, green cloth with gilt, about fine. The dust jacket has wear at the spine ends and corners. Protected now in a Mylar archival sleeve. 112 pages with Foreword by John Palmer Leeper, essay by William A. Owens (Big Thicket Patterns), and a section of plates from artist Michael Frary, which comprises most of the book (about 80 pages). View More...
Front board bows out very slightly. Previous owner name printed on top-edge of pages in red ink. A limited edition of 3,000 copies combining selected verse from poet Carlos Pellicer with illustrations from watercolorist Miguel Angel Gomez Ventura. Conception, design, and selection of poetry and watercolors by Jose Rodriguez Castro. Text in Spanish, 70 pages. Oversized book that will require additional postage for expedited and international delivery. View More...
The head of the spine has been bumped, resulting in a small tear, otherwise the book is about fine. Sixty-four numbered pages, most of which contain full-page, color illustrations of Sacal's sculptures. A brief bio of the artist and description of his art precedes the many pages of photographs. A nice inscription from the artist in Spanish: "Para mis queridos hijos, Rafa y Alice, en compania de mis adorados nietos, les deceo una vida llena de felicidades y grandes logros." Signed SACAL and dated 25/09/03. View More...
Reprint of the 1955 first edition, as this edition lists a zip code for the publisher (zip codes started in 1963), but the publication date for this printing is not indicated. The book has a bit of shelf wear and wear to the top edge, a tiny mark or stain to the fore-edge of the page block, and a trace of foxing to the endpapers. Light rub to the dust jacket, front panel, and several scratches to the rear panel. 445 pages, including List of All Known Works, Biographical Summaries, Bibliography, and Index. 600 illustrations, including 34 plates in full color. This is an oversized book that will... View More...
Gift inscription on the title page, otherwise fine in dust jacket with just a trace of edge wear, 112 pages with more than 140 of Smith's best paintings, drawings, and sketches of military and civilian aircraft. Smith was an engineer for Douglas Aircraft Company designing many successful tactical aircraft. He later transitioned from designing them to painting them and earned a reputation as one of the finest aviation artists of all time. View More...
Oversized, heavy volume that will require additional postage for expedited and international delivery. About fine with a touch of wear at the extremities and some rubbing wear on the rear panel of the dust jacket. 378 pages, with 119 full-color and 112 black-and-white illustrations. Story of the life and art of the prolific artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). From Library Journal: "With this anthology of excerpts from letters, diaries, critical reviews, and other published writings of the time, leading Whistler scholar Spencer here does a great service to anyone interested in th... View More...
Foxing to the fore-edge and top-edge of the book and most of the jacket. Clean interior. A Mylar sleeve now protects the jacket. 294 pages with Index. This biography of Remington offers a study of the complex relationship between the artist and the American West, focusing on the artist's imagination and how it expressed itself. View More...
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