New York: Crown Publishing Group, 1987. 8vo. 174 pages. Color and black-and-white photographs. Cloth-backed printed boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Signed by author on title-page. "Novelist Jane Smiley offers an affectionate, informative group portrait of the 15 craftsmen and women in the Catskill Mountains towns where their native arts and...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. 8vo. 414 pages. Cloth-backed printed boards. FIRST EDITION. Signed by author on title-page. "In this wonderfully written and masterfully plotted novel, Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, offers us a wickedly funny comedy that is also a darkly poignant slice...
New York: WM. H. Wise & Co., 1926. 8vo. 555 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "The story of Elbert Hubbard, the founder of Roycroft, one of the most successful artistic enterprises of the Arts and Crafts era" (the publisher).
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Oblong 8vo. 240 pages. Illustrations and photographs. Boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "Filled with surprising insights and astonishing details, and as playful and humorous as it is erudite, Michel Pastoureau's Green is an entertaining lesson about the way our visual perceptions are modified by culture...
Editions Du Chene, 2011. Folio. 280 pages. Color photographs. Printed boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "Helene Farnault, art specialist in France, and photographer Alexis Lecomte gather in this book portraits of more than 30 masters and craftsmen. Far from being simply the guardians of a rare or exceptional know-how, these...
Milan: Silvana, 2013. 4to. 255 pages. Color photographs. Pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. "The joint presentation of the works of these two historical figures of European contemporary art on the evening of their career is exceptional, after their only meeting in Milan in 1962" (the publisher, translated).
Cologne: Wienand Verlag, 2014. 4to. 103 pages. Boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "Michael Raedecker occupies his own unique position within the field of contemporary painting: essentially dedicated to figuration, he replaces the concrete surroundings of his motifs with fields of color. His houses, plants, and laundry pieces can be understood...
New York: Phaidon, 2015. 4to. 296 pages. Illustrations and photographs. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "Created in close collaboration with JR, this book includes all bodies of his work, his collaborations with other artists and institutions such as the New York Ballet and previously unpublished behind-the-scenes documentation of his studios in...
Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2010. In German. Oblong 4to. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "[This] album was made in the 1780s by the Zimmerpolier Balthasar Kornelius Koch and shows, through its additive presentation, important aspects of the bourgeois life of that time in Augsburg - an invaluable cultural-historical source" (the publisher, translated).
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1990. Folio. 144 pages. Color and black-and-white photographs. Pictorial wrappers; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "Through exquisite photographs by many celebrated fashion photographers, Richard Martin and Harold Koda explore the evolution of the swimsuit from the voluminous bathing costume it was at the turn of the...
New York: The Dial Press, 1965. 8vo. 270 pages. Cloth-backed printed boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.
New York: Collectif, 2008. In French. 4to. 189 pages. Color photographs. Pictorial wrappers; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2014. 4to. 351 pages. Color photographs. Pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "From no frills ("The Modest") to ornate ("The Exceptionalist"), Karch and Robertson examine the selected collections according to personality type. [This] book showcases 16 different collecting personalities, each with its own chapter, featuring...
London: Zwemmer, 1994. 4to. 298 pages. Color photographs. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "The Private Trade in Chinese Export porcelain, as distinct from East India Company trade, has hitherto scarcely been recoginised as a subject in its own right. And yet the officers and supercargoes of the Hon. East India...
Berlin: Lannoo Publishers, 2014. 4to. 304 pages. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "Few artists have been as versatile as Henry van de Velde (1863-1957). Trained initially as a painter, he then developed as an architect, interior designer, designer and art advisor. He created a highly impressive oeuvre; with his furniture, silverware...
Berlin: Gestalten, 2014. 4to. 256 pages. Photographs and illustrations. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "Original and unconventional visual identities from the world of eating, drinking, and hospitality. The hot topics of eating and drinking are spawning a range of small, creative companies with innovative concepts. These enterprises are making their own...
New York: Gestalten, 2011. 4to. 160 pages. Color photographs. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "This first monograph not only presents Julien Vallee's commissioned work for clients such as the New York Times, MTV, AOL, and Computer Arts, but also includes a selection of personal projects. Each book includes a unique log-in...
London: British Museum Press, 2014. 4to. 312 pages. Illustrations and photographs. Boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. A book filled with amazing pieces of Chinese art, specifically from the Ming dynasty.
New York: Collier Books, 1975. 4to. 221 pages. Black-and-white photographs. Pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. A collection of photographs of high profile people from the 1920s and 1930s.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. 4to. 246 pages. Illustrations and photographs. Cloth-backed printed boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "A tour of the 90 Brooklyn neighbourhoods identifying the boundaries of each one through a neighbourhood profile and street map. There is an essay on the history and character of each...
New York: Abrams, 2014. Folio. 159 pages. Illustrations and photographs. Printed boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "The American decorator Elsie de Wolfe (1858-1950) was the international set's preeminent hostess in Paris during the interwar years. She had a legendary villa in Versailles, where in the late 1930s she held two...
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2002. 4to. 264 pages. Illustrations and photographs. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "This splendid celebration of the illustrated book as an art form begins with remarkable works produced in France by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Gauguin at the end of the 19th century...
New York and Boston: Pierpoint Morgan Library/David R. Godine, 1973. Folio. 192 pages. Black-and-white illustrations and photographs. Pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library from 11 September to 2 December 1973.
Berlin: 032c, 2016. 4to. 296 pages. Color photographs. Cloth-backed pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. With a section designed by Kanye West, photographs by Willy Vanderperre, and much more. 032c magazine is a bi-annual, English-language contemporary culture magazine that covers art, fashion, and politics.
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1967. 8vo. 134 pages. Illustrations and photographs. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "Masks have always beeen a golden key to his land of make-believe and in his latest book Micheal Grater offers a special gift to every child" (dust jacket flap).