Kingfishers & Queens by Waanders, Hans - 1987

Holland: Tekstwerken in de Oopenbare Ruimte en Portfolio Peninsula and Van Abbemuseum, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No D/J. 10x8x0.

7 pics-NOT XLIB; clean & sharp with light shelf wear & a few very light spots to exterior; spine uncreased; binding tight; pages clean

This book is in very good condition. There is minor wear on the dust cover and little to no wear at all on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. The pages are white, crisp and free of any markings. "Perhaps because it seems so close in time to our own experience, many art lovers feel a special kinship with the turn of the century. We speak of fin-de siecle artists almost as if we know them, and a large body of scholarly work exists covering nearly every conceivable aspect of the late nineteenth-century philosophy, sociology, and art. Given that, it is a rare and remarkable opportunity when one finds something new and unknown about the late 1800's, a privilege we at the Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Service are pleased to share with everyone who reads this book and visits the exhibition Art Nouveau Bing...." - Foreword from Art Nouveau Bing: Paris Style 1900

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good minus. Hardback with Dust Jacket which has some edge wear, small rip, faint price on back

Innsbruch Felizian Rauch [?], 1936, hardcover. No publication date given: 1936? -- Black-and-white reproductions of the art done when she was 5 to 15 years old. Texts in GERMAN, English and French. 143 pages, 9.5x11 inches. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good minus (cover has soil, spine lettering rubbed, but pages are clean and bright).

New Haven and New York: Yale University Press and the Jewish Museum, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) is one of the greatest - and most misunderstood - artists of the twentieth century. His incisive portraits, erotically charged nudes, beautiful drawings, and primitivistic sculpture have been admired for decades. Modigliani's work, however, has typically been examined in the limited context of his so-called bohemian, anti-intellectual lifestyle. This groundbreaking book revises this approach toward Modigliani's art, presenting a convincing revisionist examination of the unique historical, social, religious, and cultural significance of his oeuvre.  No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve..

This fine, 2nd edition of David Hockney's 'alphabet' drawings with short poems and essays by various authors (Joyce Carol Oates, Arthur Miller, John Updike, Iris Murdock, Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, etc.) was an AIDS fundraiser. The book is in fine condition with no flaws and the Dust Jacket has only a small crease on the front dust jacket bottom and the inside front panel price clipped (see photos.) Priced to sell!
All proceeds benefit The Friends of the San Anselmo Library. No expedited shipping outside of the United States.

Freddy And Mr. Camphor. By Walter R. Brooks. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Used. Good Condition/No Dust jacket included. Alfred A. Knopf 1944 Stated First Edition. A solid copy. Spine is sunned. Please see our photos. Summary: In Freddy and Mr. Camphor, Freddy is in need of a change and finds an opportunity for one as a caretaker on Mr. Camphor's houseboat. Of course, things never go as Freddy expects and a series of strange, amusing, and sometimes alarming adventures ensue. Please also see our Freddy The Pig catalogue.

Ruth Krauss. The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers First Edition. States 1945 on the title page. QUITE RARE. EXLIB. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something (the basis of knowledge)" Not an easy find.

Messenger, Norman: Making Faces By Norman Messenger. Doring Kindersley Publishers, Ltd., 1992. ISBN9780863189975. LARGE FORMAT. 8 ¼ X 14. Summary: Starting with eight basic characters, Norman Messenger offers the possibility of making an astonishing variety of different faces in this fascinating contemplation of human uniqueness. By mixing and matching foreheads, eyes, noses, mouths and chins, thousands of individual faces can be created. A stimulating and amazing book. 65,000 different combinations are available. WOW. For all ages. USED. VG CONDITION.

NEAR FINE Limited edition (1000 copies printed). Gray cloth exteriors with blue lettering and his signature dog on the cover. No dustjacket. Light shelfwear to cover corners and edges. Crisp, clean, unmarked interior pages. Satire. 287 pages, 9.5" X 12.25X X 1.5" John T. McCutcheon was an American political cartoonist, war correspondent, combat artist, and author . This covers the full breadth of his career, and reproduces his newspaper work from a 40 year career, including his Pulitzer Prize winning cartoon from 1931 "a Wise Economist Asks a Question". Includes some of his earliest work in the Purdue university paper "Debris" and stories, cartoons, and reporting from The Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Daily News, the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Cosmopolitan, as well as sketches from the Art Institute of Chicago. Political cartoons (no index and some pages with multiples), probably more illustrations than pages.