New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First edition. Inscribed. Inscribed to author Nathaniel Benchley and his wife, “For Marg and Nathaniel with love, Chas Addams, New York, 1960.” Addams designed the jacket to Benchley’s children’s book The Visitors (1965). Read More about Black Maria
Price: $950
Vienna: produced by the studio of Brüder Nedomansky, 1902. Sumptuous German Presentation Testimonial, 1902. An extremely attractive and well-produced artifact. The layout of the text is impeccable, the lettering faultless, while the binding was intended to be a showpiece, and succeeds. UNIQUE. Read More about A testimonial, hand-lettered in German in black, gold, red and silver inks, presented to...
Price: $2,500
[New York: Printed by the Forest Press], May, 1909. First edition. INSCRIBED. This is the first book published on Tryon (1849-1925), who was a protégé of Detroit Arts patron Charles Lang Freer. Freer hired Caffin to write this book and promote the sales of Tyron's paintings Inscribed "To George Breed..... Read More about The Art of Dwight W. Tryon: an Appreciation
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Budapest: 1890-1900. Anti-Semitic Hungarian Caricatures. Pasted on the first page of this intriguing album is the cover of a 1900 art exhibition and the page listing this artist, his Budapest address, and the number of his exhibition entry. The drawings are carefully and competently executed, and are mostly of middle-class..... Read More about Album of 89 original pen and ink drawings, probably used as the illustrations to captioned...
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Paris: Hachette, 1898. First edition. One of the great modern, comprehensive books by the painter and traveller, Vuillier (1844-1915). Read More about La Danse
Price: $900
A well-painted and appealing portrait by the French artist (1800-1857). Exhibited: Paris, 1889, Le Gout Nouveau, No. 49. New York, 1979, Shepherd Gallery, Nineteenth Century French and Other Continental Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches No. 37... Read More about Study for Coiffure et Bijou
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N.p: November 7, 1947. The letter reads: “Gentlemen: In consideration of the publicity to be given to me and which may arise herefrom, my consent is hereby irrevocably given to you, your assignees and licensees, and to the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, Inc., and its subscribers and licensees, to..... Read More about Typed letter signed (“Marlene Dietrich”) to the News Syndicate Co., Inc. of New York City...
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London: William Heinemann, 1902. New edition edited by Armstrong (first published 1891, expanded 1898). Zaehnsdorf Exhibition Binding. Dobson's magisterial biography. Part II consists of a Bibliography of Books relating to Hogarth, as well as Catalogues of Paintings and of Prints. Here in a superb, monumental Zaehnsdorf binding. Read More about William Hogarth. With an Introduction on Hogarth's workmanship by Sir Walter Armstrong
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James Montgomery Flagg. Charcoal Portrait by James Montgomery Flagg. A strong portrait, a little larger than life size, of a dark haired young woman, in profile looking right, her shoulders bare, wearing an ornament on a ribbon around her neck. The subject is attractive, but the artist has not idealized..... Read More about A FINE BLACK AND RED CHARCOAL RENDERING OF THE HEAD AND SHOULDERS OF A YOUNG WOMAN, signed...
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[N.p.]: 1904. Harcourt, C. V. (fl. 1900s). Original Harcourt Illustration. Published in J. F. M. Carter, Deane Polworth Royalist, London, Seeley and Co. Ltd., 1905. Read More about “The two girls went down through the field”
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Buenos Aires: (Francisco A. Colombos), 1944. One of only 10 Roman numbered copies on Whatman. ONE OF 10. The text is an extract from "Traivalleurs de la mer." Read More about La Pieuvre
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Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1894. First edition. First edition of Little Eyolf. Read More about Lille Eyolf. Skuespil i tre akter
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New York: Privately Printed, 1912. One of only 7 copies on Roman Vellum privately printed by Frederic Fairchild Sherman. One of 7 on Vellum. Martin, born Albany, N.Y. in 1836. "His early work followed the conventional lines of the Hudson River School, and he was the first to break away..... Read More about Homer Martin: Poet in Landscape
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Moby Dick. This illustration was drawn for use in the last chapter of Moby Dick (Chapter 135) Lewis Mumford: No one else has come so close to the spirit of Melville and Melville's character as Robinson has. His pictures would remain as precious evidence..... Read More about Original gouache of “Caught in the Line” from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, published by the...
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Paris: L. Hébert, Librairie-Éditeur, 1882. Nouvelle édition. Read More about Oeuvres Complète... Précédée de L'Histoire de la Vie de Molière par Voltaire
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n.p: Ca. mid-50s. De Miskey, Julian. ORIGINAL NEW YORKER MAGAZINE COVER CONCEPTUAL. Original watercolor cover conception, prepared for evaluation by the magazine's art editor. Writing in The New Yorker of December 15, 1997, Lee Lorenz, the magazine's art editor from 1973-93 and subsequently cartoon editor, noted: “Julian De Miskey, the..... Read More about Original conceptual for THE NEW YORKER magazine cover, signed with artist's initial M
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May 13, 1931. Jules Pascin. A sketch of four figures appears on the reverse. A lovely pen and ink drawing typical of Pascin's lively, gestural style. Read More about Figures by a Rocky Cliff
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New York: Curt Valentin, 1955. First American edition. WITH 3 ORIGINAL JOHN PIPER LITHOGRAPHS. LAID IN IS A PIECE OF CLOTH DESIGNED BY PIPER. Read More about John Piper. Paintings, Drawings & Theatre Designs 1932-1954, arranged and with an...
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New York: Published by E. Weyhe, 1919. Fine Ruzicka Wood Engraving. A fine and early work by the celebrated book artist, designer, calligrapher, and type designer, who was instrumental in the survival of the woodcut as a medium for book illustration. Read More about "East River, Evening"
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London: The New Age Press, 1908. First editions. Three States of Binding. Read More about The Sanity of Art: an Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate
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New York: June 4, 1947. Read More about Portrait photograph of Virgil Thomson
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New York: Appleton, n.d. [ca. 1880]. Fine set of the superb engravings after Turner, and among the finest work of the finest of British steel engravers of the period. Read More about The Turner Gallery
Price: $900
Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, in association with the Seattle Art Museum, 1986. First edition. Inscribed to Bob Blackburn. This copy is inscribed boldy by Lawrence on the title page to his friend and fellow black Harlem artist: "To: - Bob Blackburn - much respect! Jake 1987." At..... Read More about Jacob Lawrence American Painter
Price: $500
