Kunst

Walt Kuhn: an imaginary history of the west.

Center, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

np, Colorado Springs Fine Arts, (1964). VG lg sz PB. Color painting on ft cover. Gallery stamp to back cover, some soiling.

Andy Warhol 1928-1987: commerce into art.

Honnef, Klaus, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

London, Taschen, (2000). VG lg sz PB. Some of his most famous art work plus some biographical info. "Contradictions seem to have been his life's elixir, the veiling. of biographical and other personal facts the means he used to create a mystery around himself. He had been trai...

Gauguin.

Goldwater, Robert, · 1983 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Abrams, (1983). VG in VG DJ. Gauguin said he "painted and dreamed at the same time", in his work a strain of mysticism. Goldwater gives an absorbing. introduction to Gauguin's life and work, the struggles of the young artist in Rouen and Paris.

Augustus John: volume 2: the years of experience.

Holroyd, Michael, · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

London, Heinemann, (1971). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Signed by author. Tumultous years of experiment and discovery before WWI. As King of British Bohemia, John held court in. the Cafe Royal and in the Dorset and Hampshire countryside. Laid in article on John as a prodigious progeny...

Ingres.

Picon, Gaetan, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert, · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Skira/Rizzoli, (1991). 1st PB ed. VG lg sz PB. One of the foremost French painters and draftsmen of the 19th century, Ingres proved to be a great classicist and master of. line and form in the mainstream of European art. A handsomely illustrated study, eminent French autho...

A Guide to the Collecting and Care of Original Prints.

Zigrosser, Carl and Christa M. Gaehde, · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

NY, Crown, (1973). 7th ptg. G PB. Sponsored by The Print Council of America. Few splotches on cover.

The Mural Project.

Wright, Peter and John Armor, selected and with an introduction by, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Santa Barbara, Reverie Press, 1989. 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. During the years 1941-42, Ansel Adams was employed by the U.S. Dept of Interior to take a series of photos in the Western. national parks as part of the Mural Project, a series of decorative murals created for the Dept's...

Model Railroad Photography.

Garrison, Paul, · 1981 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Summit, PA, TAB Books Inc., (1981). 1st ed. VG. Gray binding, gold design and lettering.

Van Gogh: the complete paintings: part I Etten, April 1881 - Paris, February 1888.

Walther, Ingo F. and Rainer Metzger, English translation Michael Hulse, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Koln, Taschen, (2002). VG. Book begins with a description of the chairs Van Gogh painted, his and Gauguin's, where they discussed art. Remainder mark.

The Bite of the Print.

Getlein, Frank and Dorothy, · 1963 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Bramhall House, (1963). 1st ptg thus. VG in G DJ. Satire and irony in woodcuts, engravings, etchings and lithographs. Many of the best printmakers in the history of. art have depicted the world with a jaundiced eye and caustic hand. The authors contend that the technique o...

Dali on Modern Art: the cuckolds of antiquated modern art.

Dali, Salvador, translated by Haakon M. Chevalier, · 1957 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Dial, 1957. G. Dali's unique view of modern art. Tan binding (soiled), black binding, facsimile signature of Dali in black on ft cover.

Raphael.

Valsecchi, Marco, · 1962 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Abrams, (1962). VG PB.

Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings and Moulin Rouge.

Gassiot-Talabot, Gerald and Julien, Edouard, · 1966 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Tudor Pub Co, (1966 & 1958). 2 VG small sized PBs.

Chagall.

Schmidt, Georg, · 0 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Paris, Fernand Hazan. VG PB. Small sized pictorial book with glasine wrapper (edge wear).

Chinese Art from the Beginning to the T'ang Dynasty I and Ming and Ch'ing Period IV.

Keim, Jean A., · 1961 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Tudor Pub Co, (1961). 2 G small PBs. Pictorial cover, both have a scrape on ft cover where price sticker removed.

Frederic Remington's Own West.

Remington, Frederic, edited and with an introduction by Harold McCracken, · 1960 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Promontory Press, (1960). VG in G DJ. Remington's vivid and realistic writings with more than 100 of his drawings. Theodore Roosevelt wrote to him, "You come closer. to the real thing with the pen than any other man in the Western business." Eyewitness accounts of his expe...

A Treasury of Art Masterpieces from the Renaissance to the Present Day.

Craven, Thomas, edited by, foreword by Harry B. Wehle, · 1939 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1939). 2nd ptg. Fair. Black binding, red title block with gilt lettering. Back cover mottled, edge wear, damp stain to last third of book.

Monet Peintures (in French).

Peintures du Musee du Louvre, · 1950 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Paris, Les Editions du Chene, 1950. G. 17 tipped in color plates plus color plate on ft cover intact, disbound, binding edges tanned, 11" x 18".

Posters of the Nineteen-Twenties.

Rickards, Maurice, · 1968 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Walker & Co, (1968). VG in G DJ. The real atmosphere of the with-it swinging 1920s. Well-known favorites as well as long-neglected gems from American, British. and European sources. DJ tanned on edges, few edge tears.

Photographers of the Frontier West: their lives and their works.

Andrews, Ralph W., · 1965 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Seattle, Superior Pub Co, (1965). 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Andrews has brought out of hiding new pictures of the West to prove that not all the daring men of the western mountains,. deserts and tundras were desperados with six guns. Real heros were the early photographers with clum...