Art Collection Books

Norman Rockwell Illustrator

by Arthur L. Guptill

eighth printing, 1975

hardcover-  interior excellent condition -

dustjacket shows some wear

no markings

208 pages

$4.95 plus media mail shipping

Norman Rockwell’s Americana ABC

by Arthur L. Guptill

Dell Publishing, 1975

hardcover-  fair condition -

one page is taped and last credits page is dog-eared

no dustjacket no markings

58 pages

$1.95 plus media mail shipping

Winslow Homer: America’s Old Master

by Linda Hyman

Doubleday, 1973

paperback,  good condition -

dustjacket has tiny tear on back cover

98 pages

$7.95 plus media mail shipping

Anonymous Was A Woman - A Celebration in Words and Images of Traditional American Art - And the Women Who Made It

by Mirra Bank

St. Martin’s Griffin, 1995

softcover

128 pages, new condition

$4.95 plus media mail shipping

The Saturday Evening Post Norman Rockwell Memory Album - The Best of Norman Rockwell from the Archives of the Curtis Publishing Company

softcover - magazine format - 1979

fair condition - small top area of page 61 taped

142 pages

$2.95 plus media mail shipping

American Art in American Museums

Abrams Appointment Diary 1988

hardcover spiral-bound

two pages have pencil entries

beautiful photos of American art

$1.95 plus media mail shipping

Pennsylvania Dutch American Folk Art

by Henry J. Kauffman

Dover Publications,

Revised and Enlarged edition, 1964

softcover -  interior good condition -

cover shows some wear

no markings

146 pages

$4.95 plus media mail shipping

Drawings of the Masters - French Impressionists

A Selection of Drawings of the French 19th Century

edited by Ira Moskowitz

Shorewood Publishers, 1962

hardcover-  fair condition -

first page - evidence os sticker residue

binding is slightly separated

no dustjacket -  no markings- good interior pages

cover has some scuff marks

140 pages

$6.95 plus media mail shipping

The Horizon Book of the Arts of Russia

editors of Horizon Magazine

American Heritage Publishing Company, 1970

hardcover -  good condition

first edition

382 pages

$8.95 plus media mail shipping

Time-Life - Great Ages of Man - Renaissance

John R. Hale and Editors of Time-Life

Time-Life Books, 1965

used hardcover -  very good condition

192 pages

$3.50 plus media mail shipping

Masters of Italian Arts - Michelangelo

Gabriele Bartz and Eberhard Konig

Konneman, 1998

used hardcover - 

very good interior pages condition

cover has 1-inch imperfection -recessed area

dust jacket is torn and scuffed

138 pages

$3.50 plus media mail shipping

Russian Icons - Forty-Eight Paintings

in Full Cover

Tamara Talbot Rice

Marboro Books, 1963

used hardcover - good interior pages

dust jacket shows wear

48 pages

$6.95 plus media mail shipping

American Country - Folk Art

Time-Life Books

Time-Life Books, 1990

used hardcover - good condition

176 pages

$3.95 plus media mail shipping

Cubism and Twentieth-Century Art

by Robert Rosenblum

Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966

used paperback - good condition

cover is taped in upper area of the spine

328 pages

$6.95 plus media mail shipping

The Great American Artists Series - Winslow Homer

by Lloyd Goodrich

George Brazilier, 1959 - first edition

used paperback - good condition

cover shows some yellowing from age

and a half-circle marking

80 b&w illustrations, 16 color

127 pages

$7.95 plus media mail shipping

50 Norman Rockwell Favorites

by Christopher Finch

Crown Publishers, 1977

large poster size prints suitable for framing

14.9  x 11.7 x 0.4 inches

used paperback - very good condition

104 pages   

our price: $10.50  plus media mail shipping

An Illustrated Handbook of Art History

by Frank J. Roos, Jr.

withdrawn library book

Macmillan, 1949

spiral bound hardcover shows wear

304 pages

$3.95 plus media mail shipping

Abbeville Library of Art - The Louvre

by Michel Laclotte

Abbeville Press, 1980

used paperback - good condition

112 pages   

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History of Art

by H.W. Janson

Prentice-Hall, 1967

used vintage hardcover - good condition

name of former owner mar

572  pages   

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The Horizon Book of the Arts of China

by editors of Horizon Magazine

American Heritage Publishing, 1969

used hardcover - good condition

former library book - no dust jacket

383 pages   

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Indian Art of the United States

by Frederic H. Douglas and Rene D’Harnoncourt

Museum of Modern Art, 1941

used hardcover - good condition

former owner’s name in pencil on first page

203 pages

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Mattie Lou O’Kelley - Folk Artist

by Mattie Lou O’Kelley

Introduction by Robert Bishop

Little, Brown & Company, 1989

hardcover - good condition

remainder red dot on bottom of book

84 pages

$4.95 plus media mail shipping

The Day Our World Changed - Children’s Art of 9/11

by Robin F. Goodman, Ph.D. & Andrea Henderson Fahnestock

Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2002

good condition, hardcover

former library book with library stamps & circulation pocket - no other markings or highlighting

plastic protective covering

clean, crisp pages - 128 pages

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Art - The Image of the West

by Julie Braun-Vogelstein

Pantheon, 1952

First Edition stated

hardcover,  245 pages

like new condition - no writing or highlighting

pages are clean and crisp

our price:   $6.95 plus media mail shipping

Islamic Metalwork In The Freer Gallery of Art

by Esin Atil, W.T. Chase, Paul Jett

Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986

softcover, 273 pages

former library book - library stamps & pocket

very good condition

no notes or highlighting- clean, crisp pages

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Important Art Nouveau & Art Deco

Works of Art & Paperweights

Sotheby Parke Bernet,

Public Auction, March 29-3, 1979

softcover, 854 lots described with many photos

good condition - cover has some creases as shown in photo

our price:   $7.95 plus media mail shipping

History of German Art

Painting - Sculpture - Architecture

by Gottfried Lindemann

Praeger Publishers,  1971

former library book with mylar protective cover

and library bookplate and circulation pocket

over dustjacket

hardcover, 232 pages

excellent condition - all pages are clean and crisp

$8.95 plus media mail shipping

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

2013 National Catalog

Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, 2013

softcover, 144 pages

excellent copy

$3.50 plus media mail shipping

John Held, Jr. - Illustrator of the Jazz Age

by Shelley Armitage

Syracuse University Press, 1987

First Edition stated

softcover, 221 pages

very good condition

corners of book are slightly bumped

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Structures of the Modern World 1850-1900

Art - Ideas -  History

by Nello Ponente

translated from the Italian by James Emmons

Skira

The World Publishing Company, 1965

hardcover, 212 pages, good condition

over 65 beautiful full-color plates have been printed separately and tipped-in

two double-fold illustrations

no markings - very good condition

mylar covering over dustjacket

our price:   $16.95 plus media mail shipping

Traditional African Designs

by Gregory Mirow

Dover Publications, 1997

softcover, like new condition

48  pages

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Michelangelo - Six Lectures

by Johannes Wilde

Oxford Studies in the History of Art and Architecture

Clarendon Press, 1978

vintage softcover - good condition

four pages have underlining

194 pages

$7.95 plus media mail shipping

America’s Folk Art - Treasures of American Folk Arts and Crafts in Distinguished Museums and Collections

edited by Robert L. Polley

Country Beautiful Corporation, 1971

hardcover,  very good condition -

no dustjacket

192 pages

$6.95 plus media mail shipping

The Basics of Folk Art

By Jerry & Jo Sonja Jansen

Jo Sonja’s Folk Art Studio, Inc., 1981

vintage softcover, 96 pages

interior pages - good condition

cover shows slight wear

$6.95 plus media mail shipping

Scenes of American Life - Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

by Elizabeth Prelinger

Watson-Guptill Publications, 2001

Smithsonian Institution

First Printing stated

softcover, 112 pages

like new condition

stunning illustrations

$8.95 plus media mail shipping

Artists of Grand Rapids, 1840-1980

A Cooperative Exhibition - The Grand Rapids Art Museum and The Grand Rapids Public Museum - Sept. 14 - Nov. 30, 1981

by J. Gray Sweeney with contributions by Sylvia Krissoff

softcover, 131 pages

very good condition - clean and crisp pages

bottom left corner of front cover has a white mark as shown in photo

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The Norman Rockwell Storybook

Told by Jan Wahl

Windmill Books, 1969

vintage hardcover, 48 pages

very good condition - clean and crisp pages

dustjacket shows slight discoloration and slight wear as shown in photo

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Baroque

by Hermann Bauer and Andreas Prater

Taschen, 2006

softcover, 96 pages

like new condition

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Renaissance

by Manfred Wundram

Taschen, 2006

softcover, 96 pages

like new condition

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The Art of the Old South - Painting, Sculpture, Architecture & Products of Craftsmen 1560-1860

by Jessie Poesch

Harrison House, 1989

oversized hardcover, 384 pages

like new condition

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Vermont - Art of the State

The Spirit of America

Text by Suzanne Mantell

Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1998

hardcover, 96 pages

dustjacket priced clipped

excellent condition

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Illinois - Art of the State

The Spirit of America

Text by Joanne Trestrail

Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1999

hardcover, 96 pages

good condition

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Wisconsin - Art of the State

The Spirit of America

Text by Joanne Trestrail

Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2001

hardcover, 96 pages

excellent condition

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Washington - Art of the State

The Spirit of America

Text by Nancy Friedman

Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1999

hardcover, 96 pages

good condition

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Norman Rockwell - My Adventures as an Illustrator by Norman Rockwell

by Norman Rockwell

as told to Thomas Rockwell

Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960

First Edition stated

hardcover-  very good condition -

dustjacket shows some wear

no markings or writing on pages

448 pages

includes three old Norman Rockwell newspaper clippings and a Yankee Magazine story

$28.95 plus media mail shipping

Griffin & Sabine - An Extraordinary Correspondence

written and illustrated by Nick Bantock

Chronicle Books, 1991

hardcover, 48 pages

First novel in the The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy. It contains a series of removable letters, postcards between two main characters.

like new condition

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Sabine’s Notebook  - In Which The Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Continues

written and illustrated by Nick Bantock

Chronicle Books, 1992

hardcover, 48 pages

Second novel in the The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy. It contains a series of removable letters, postcards between two main characters.

like new condition

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Norman Rockwell - 332 Magazine Covers

by Christopher Finch

A Tiny Folio - Abbeville Press Publishers, 1990

small hardcover, 308 pages

like new condition

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Winslow Homer

American Artist: His Word and His Work

by Albert Ten Eyck Gardner

with 36 full-color plates and over 196 black-and-white reproductions

Bramhall House, 1961

hardcover, 263 pages

good condition

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping

Fifteen Books Amphigorey

by Edward Gorey

G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975

softcover, 192 pages

good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Amphigorey Also

by Edward Gorey

Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1983

softcover, 256 pages

good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Melanie Trede and Lorenz Bichler

oversized illustrated cloth hardcover, 294 pages

Taschen, 2009

text in English, French, and German

stunning color plates throughout book

very good condition

our price:   $24.95 plus media mail shipping

Yugoslav Naive Art

80 Self-taught artists speak about themselves and their work

by Nebojsa Tomasevic

Review- Belgrade

oversized hardcover - 392 pages

very good condition

beautiful color illustrations

our price:   $32.95 plus media mail shipping

Treasures of American Folk Art from the Abby Aldridch Rockefeller Folk Art Center

by Beatrix T. Rumford and Carolyn J. Weekley

Little, Brown, and Company, 1989

oversized vintage softcover - 224 pages

good condition

beautiful color illustrations

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The World of Copley 1738-1815

by Alfred Frankenstein and Editors of Time-Life Books, 1970

vintage hardcover in slipcase - 192 pages

good condition

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Pinacoteca Ambrosiana

by Gina Pischel Fraschini

Gallerie E Musei Del Mondo, 1957

vintage hardcover, 110 pages

in Italian

good condition

$5.95 plus media mail shipping