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Southern California Artists 1890 - 1940
Laguna Bea: Laguna Beach Museum of Art, 1979. Paper. Illustrated wrappers, 22 cm, 216 pp, color and black & white plates throughout. Exhibition catalog. A very good copy but for a pair of diagonal creases to front cover. Scarce. Very Good. More
Vija Celmins
Phaidon Press Limited, 2004. Soft cover. Jacket spine is sunned, but legibility is not impacted. Jacket edges are slightly worn. Upper jacket edge is torn along spine. Cover edges are worn Text block is lightly stained, but readability is not affected. Front and back binding glue is exposed. Front free..... More
Literary San Francisco: A Pictorial History from Its Beginnings to the Present Day
City Lights Books, 1980. Hard cover. Signed by the authors on front endpaper. Jacket is foxed on inside and out, with small open tears on corners and edges. Cover is foxed and bumped at top of spine, and bumped on corners. Binding is tight. Edges of first and last..... More
Spirit Mountain: An Anthology of Yuman Story and Song
Sun Tracks and the University of Arizona Press, 1984. Soft cover. Cover corners are slightly creased. Binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked. More
John Covert: Rediscovered
Palmer Museum of Art, 2003. Soft cover. Cover is rubbed with creasing and closed tears along spine. Binding is tight. White sticker on top left corner and discard stamp on bottom right corner of front endpaper. Inside is otherwise clean and unmarked. More
Sublime Space and Visionary Worlds: Built Environments of Vernacular Artists
Princeton Architectural Press, 2007. Soft cover. Cover edges are worn. Top and bottom edges are lightly stained, but legibility is not affected. First page has residue from previous seller's price sticker. Bottom corners of first few pages are folded. Inside is unmarked. More
Art and Education at Black Mountain College 1933-1956
The Rocky Mount Arts and Crafts Center, 1978. Soft cover. Exhibition catalogue on the brief but culturally impactful operation of Black Mountain College. Staple bound. Near fine. More
Paul Cadmus
Rizzoli, 1984. Soft cover. Spine and cover are tanned, but legibility is not affected. Cover edges are worn. Inside edges are tanned. Text block and inside edges are tanned, but readability is not impacted. Inside is unmarked. More
Lisette Model
National Gallery of Canada, 1990. Soft cover. Cover corners are lightly worn. Spine is creased, but binding is secure. Inside is clean and unmarked. More
Light is the Theme: Louis I. Kahn and the Kimbell Art Museum, Comments on Architecture
Kimbell Art Museum, 2011. Soft cover. Book is in excellent conditions with no visible flaws whatsoever apart from some light handling wear. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked. More
The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the1980s
Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1990. Soft cover. Cover is worn, especially along edges. Upper front cover corner is folded. Bottom of fore edge is rubbed, but legibility is not affected. Front binding glue is exposed. Inside is unmarked..... More
Lyn Brockway, Harry Jacobus, and Jess: The Romantic Paintings
Palo Alto Cultural Center; Wiegand Gallery, 1990. Soft cover. 700 copies printed on the occasion of a joint exhibition presented by the Palo Alto Cultural Center and the Wiegand Gallery from May 20 to July 14. 1990. Inscribed by Jess on front page. Front cover is clean, but back..... More
Marcel Duchamp
Paragraphic Books, 1959. Softcover. First American edition. Covers are worn and corners are creased. Spine is foxed, but legible. End papers have mild foxing. Title page has a sticker and name of previous owner in ink, not covering text. The first couple pages have mild creasing, but pages are..... More
California Light: The Watercolors of Rollin Pickford
The Press at CSU Fresno, 1998. Hard cover. Cloth, 25 cm, 287 pp, 167 color illustrations. Inscribed and signed by Rollin Pickford on title page. Jacket is worn along edges. Cover corners are worn and lightly bumped. Spine is shaken, but binding is secure. Inside is clean, bright..... More
The Art of Reflection: Women Artists' Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century
Columbia University Press, 1996. Soft cover. Cover is slightly worn, particularly along edges, Upper front cover corner is gently folded. Inside is clean and unmarked. More
Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community
E. P. Dutton 7 Co., 1972. Hard cover. First edition. Jacket is rubbed. Edges of jacket are worn, chipped, and creased. Top and fore edges of text block are foxed, visible on some pages, but not affecting legibility. Pages are otherwise unmarked. More
Capp Street Project, 1991-1993
Capp Street Project, 1993. Hard cover. Small scuff on bottom edge of spine. Spine tape is starting to peel from bottom corner on back cover, but binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked. More
Swimming Underground: My years in the Warhol Factory
Journey Editions, 1995. Soft cover. Cover is lightly yellowed and worn along edges. Some small spots on front cover. Bottom edges of spine is bumped, binding is tight. Edges of text block are lightly yellowed. Inside is clean and unmarked. More
The California Style: California Watercolor Aritsts 1925 - 1955.
Beverly Hi: Hillcrest Press, 1985. Hardcover. Cloth, 24 cm, 264 pages, 200 color illustrations. Signed and inscribed by the author on title page as well as artist Lee Blair on p. 28. Very good in price-clipped dustjacket. More
Andy Warhol Film Factory
London: British Film Institute, 1989. Hard cover. Jacket is lightly worn, creased and tanned on edges, but images and text are clear and legible. Binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked. More
The Space Between
Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002. Hard cover. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition "Michal Rovner: The Space Between" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, from July 11 to October 13, 2002. Cover corners are lightly worn. Pages are clean and unmarked. More
The Ethics of Reading
Columbia University Press, 1987. Softcover. More
Contemporary American Photography: Part I
Gallery Min, 1986. Soft cover. First edition. Bilingual edition in English and Japanese. Published on the occasion of three exhibitions at Gallery Min in Tokyo, Japan from May 10 to August 5, 1986. Cover is lightly soiled and worn along edges. Small stains on top edge of text..... More
Murals by American Painters and Photographers
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1932. Soft cover. Cover is stained and worn, but text is legible. Spine is cracked, but all pages are secure. Pages are tanned and foxed, but images and text are visible and legible. More