Degas: The Complete Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes.
NY: Viking, [1975]. Folio. Hardbound in dust jacket. First American edition. Foreword by John Rewald. Illustrated throughout. Small patch of light offsetting to endpapers, else fine. More
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Twentieth-Century Graphics.
NY: Praeger, [1971]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First American edition. Illustrated throughout. Some toning to endpapers, else fine in dust jacket with a couple of purple lines to flaps from former jacket protector. More
Marriage Certificate from the Temple of Man.
Venice: Temple of Man, n.d. Single sheet folded to make four pages with text printed on the inner pages only. Prints a substantive text that begins: "We are here together on this day, because you have asked me to sanctify your love into marriage in accordance with the traditions of..... More
Jean Cocteau and the French Scene.
NY: Abbeville Press, [1984]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Very fine (tiny sticker shadow to front free endpaper). More
Futurist Manifestos.
NY: Viking, [1973]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First American edition. Illustrated with photographs. Published as part of the "Documents of 20th-Century Art" series. Fine in dust jacket with a tiny nick. More
The Europe of the Capitals 1600-1700.
[Geneva]: Skira, [1964]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition in English. Profusely illustrated throughout. Fine in dust jacket with a touch of yellowing to top of back panel. More
Original untitled engraving.
n.p.:n.p., [1938]. Globular abstract shapes in green printed against a tan background. Issued in the French art magazine XXe Siecle No. 4, Christmas 1938, but here offered separately. Fine in its original state with the edges untrimmed and the publisher's staple holes to left edge (12.5" x 9.75"). More
Felicien Rops.
London: Academy Editions, [1972]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First British edition (preceding the American). Profusely illustrated throughout with the artist's 19th Century erotic engravings. Bump to top of spine, else fine. More
Narrative Art.
NY: Macmillan, 1970. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Profusely illustrated throughout. Published as Art News Annual XXXVI. Fine. More
The Avant-Garde.
NY: Macmillan, 1968. 4to. Hardbound, issued without a dust jacket. First edition. Published as Art News Annual No. 34. Traces the development of the avant-garde from 19th Centrury France, through Dada, to Pop Art. Profusely illustrated. Very fine. More
Richard Lindner.
NY: Abrams, [1969]. Square 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Profusely illustrated including many tipped-in color plates. Fine (barely perceptible blue line from former jacket protector to back panel of dj). More
Remapping Tales of Desire: Writing Across the Abyss.
Santa Monica: Side Street Press, [1992]. Pamphlet. First edition. Catalog for Atkinson's "Tales of Desire" exhibition. Illustrated with her drawings and antique engravings. Fine. More
Picasso and Photography: The Dark Mirror.
NY: Flammarion/ Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 1997. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First American edition. Studies the effect of photography on Picasso's work and his use of it in his work. Fine. More
Nadar Warhol: Paris New York.
LA: J. Paul Getty Museum, [1999]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Compares the work of Nadar and Warhol and how they documented the notable people of their respective eras. Profusely illustrated. Published on the occasion of an exhibition. Very fine. Below the published price:. More
Di-Faced tenner, a 10 pound note designed by Banksy featuring Princess Diana.
n.p.:n.p., [2004]. Very realistic, colorful note created by Banksy with a portrait of Princess Diana on the front and the motto: "I Promise to Pay the Bearer on Demand the Ultimate Price." The back features Darwin's image and the statement: "Trust No One." These were handed out at the preview..... More
Drawing Restraint Volume IV.
NY: JMc & GHB editions, 2007. Hardbound in cloth-covered boards. First edition. One of 50 numbered copies signed by Barney. Profusely illustrated throughout. As new in publisher's slipcase (barely perceptible tiny blemish to slipcase). A handsome production. More
Three Generations of Twentieth-Century Art: The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
NY: Museum of Modern Art, [1972]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Foreword by Alfred Barr. Introduction by William Rubin. Profusely illustrated. Fine in dust jacket with a closed tear to front panel and a crease to back flap. More
The Art of Calligraphy in Modern China.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Profusely illustrated. As new. More
A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics.
NY: Smithsonian Institution Press/Abrams, [1981]. Small 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Fine in dust jacket with a couple of small, internally tape-repaired tears to front flap fold. More
Documents 2.
Germany: Cantz Verlag, 1996. An art magazine from Germany this issue largely devoted to cinema. Essays by Grafe, Daney, Sokurov, Jost, et al. Illustrated with photographs. German/English text. Very near fine. More
Oversize postcard invitation for the preview of the "Heads" group exhibition at the Mokotoff Gallery in NYC, 1986.
NY: Mokotoff Gallery, 1986. Exhibiting artists included Basquiat, Haring, Wojnarowicz, Borofsky, Baumgardner, Baechler, and many others. Stamped and addressed to artist Melissa Meyer. Scarce ephemera from this show very much reflective of the NYC avant-garde of the '80s. Fine (5.5" x 7.5"). More
Jean Michel Basquiat: Il campo vicino l'altra strada.
Rome: Galleria Diacono, 1982. 8vo. Single sheet of tan, wove card stock printed in red letterpress, folded to make four pages. The very first catalog, and the first monograph, published on the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, featuring an extensive text by Mario Diacono. The exhibition displayed a single major work... More
Announcement card for the 1987 ''Logos'' group show at the Anne Plumb Gallery in NYC.
NY: Anne Plumb Gallery, 1987. Organized by Steven Harvey, the show ran from Dec. 19th, 1987 to Jan. 23rd, 1988 and included work by Basquiat, Kounellis, Broodthaers, Nauman and Byars. Printed in black on gray stock. Stamped and sent through the mail. Near fine. More
''Food For The Soup Kitchens,'' Fashion Moda Poster, 1983.
NY: Privately published, 1983. Basquiat created a special drawing for the poster to publicize the "Food for the Soup Kitchens" benefit exhibition held in 1983 at Fashion Moda in the Bronx and the Store for Art and Architecture in downtown NYC. The bottom portion of the poster lists the participating... More
Handbill announcing the ''Times Square Show'' where Basquiat was discovered, 1980.
n.p.:n.p., [1980]. Handbill for an alternative group show featuring "Art, Politics, Performance & Film." The "exhibition documented the convergence of punk/no wave, wild style, conceptual street work, radical feminism, gay liberation and the burgeoning neo-expressionism that would set the agenda for the dynamic New York art world of the early..... More